Word: wacker
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While Room 13 often passes the night with no complaint more serious than a lousy grade on a paper, Wacker credits the service with keeping the College's suicide rate as low as it has been: a total of 10 during Wacker's 11-year term with UHS (three of which came in his first year). No Harvard undergraduate has committed suicide since an incident during the 1980-81 school year, and no suicide has taken place on campus since 1975, Wacker says...
...Room 13 has really helped get people in to see someone in trouble, who otherwise might not have talked to anybody. They've often enticed callers to seek help," Wacker says...
...many opportunities for unhappiness during the first year at Harvard, Wacker suggests that freshmen are making the transition from high school with greater ease than they were when he joined UHS in 1971. When he joined the health services, Wacker recalls, freshmen visited the mental health department most frequently of all four classes; the rate declined each year, with senior year the lowest...
...Today, Wacker says, the statistics are exactly the reverse: freshmen are the least common class to seek psychological help, and seniors are the most common. Wacker offers two possible explanations for this flip-flop: the increasing uncertainty of finding a desirable job or place in graduate school on the senior end, and improved secondary-school counseling on the freshman...
...There are still problems peculiar to incoming freshmen," Wacker says. "It's still a very difficult transition. But I think most freshmen eventually weather it very well...