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...Perhaps, Wacker suggests, "you have to be around here for a while to believe that the records we keep are really confidential...
...most prominent Harvard agencies for students seeking therapy are the UHS mental health services and the Bureau of Study Counsel, a Linden Street frame house which offers counseling for academic problems. Often, Wacker points out, such problems actually have their roots in more complicated emotional difficulties, and one function of the Bureau is to refer such cases...
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...