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...object of a good birth-control program, says Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is to see to it that those women who do not want to get pregnant, don't. Harvard's low-keyed decentralized program which offers the information without blitzing students with its presence, suits Wacker fine, because, he says, for the most part UHS accomplishes the objective. "Yale has a very active program of sex-counseling on campus; ours is not as vigorous," Wacker says. "But there is no higher rate of unwanted pregnancy, though, here...
...there is one point that everyone involved with Harvard's birth control program agrees on, it's that there is no method available today that will satisfy all. "Contraception at present means a choice among a number of inadequate methods," says Wacker. The chief birth control couselor, Ann Bisbee '62, assistant to the director, says the service at UHS "is integrated into a woman's medical care. What we try to tell them is that there are no perfect methods. We try to tell them the facts...
...Warren O. Wacker, director of the University Health Services said yesterday that Harvard doctors have no written policy governing Valium and Librium prescriptions, but that "they don't throw it around...
However, Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services, said yesterday that there has been "no increase in the anxiety level of Harvard students...
...Wacker said that the "popular" belief is that the anxiety level of college students is rising, but there is "no evidence of this in Harvard students." "In fact, it's probably on the decline," he added...