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Still, while The Salient avoids directing its ire at members of the GLBT community themselves, its hostility to the BGLTSA, presumably as a consequence of the latter’s lefty leanings, is overt: an ad for The Salient asks, “Do you cringe involuntarily at acronyms like SLAM, BGLTSA and PETA...
...administrators cannot be accused of basing these conclusions on a lack of evidence. In order to return to Harvard after a leave of absence, students are required to submit a petition to the Ad Board explaining why they are ready to come back. If they have been screened by University Health Services (UHS), they are also required to interview with staff from the health services before reentering. In addition, senior tutors and counselors have personal relationships with the students who choose to take time...
Paul Barreira, director of behavioral health and academic counseling at UHS, agrees that time off can be beneficial, but he wonders whether it is universally good for every student. Perhaps some, when talking to administrators, or petitioning the Ad Board for readmission, feel pressure to paint their experience in a rosy light. “Do students even tell us the honest truth when they come back?” he asks. “I mean, I don’t even know, do they just tell us what we want to hear...
...some cases, the separation from Harvard’s resources becomes a serious concern for administrators. Some required withdrawals, mandated by the Ad Board when students break disciplinary codes or fail to meet minimum academic standards, leave members of the Board concerned, says Kargere. “Every year there are heart-wrenching cases where we’re aware, as a board, of the very difficult circumstances students have at home,” says Kargere, who has served on the Ad Board for the past four years. “Those are tough cases.” Sometimes...
...addition to being a voting member of the Ad Board, as a senior tutor, Kargere serves as a liaison between students in his house and the Ad Board, a representative advocating for their welfare. He emphasizes, however, that at the end of the Board’s Tuesday night meetings, Harvard is a school, not a caregiver. “This is an academic institution—there’s only so much that an academic institution can be expected to do,” he says. “We have to base our decision on the infraction...