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During the ECAC coaches’ conference call, Mazzoleni said many expressed a desire to avoid a “knee-jerk reaction...
...from a lack of centralization and file sharing to a troubling dearth of funds. But it is the first problem that is most pressing; right now, students are prone to get lost between disparate campus organizations providing everything from counseling to medical attention, and many choose to avoid the confusing web of institutions altogether. The College’s mental health task force, created last December to address the rising number of concerns on campus, must make effective centralization of the system the starting point for any plan to improve mental healthcare on campus...
...replete with a central office available to direct students to the proper organization and assist in coordination. This should not be difficult to do; the University already created a similar central office last spring—the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. There are many reasons students avoid seeking treatment, such as the stigma attached to it and the difficulty in recognizing mental problems. Harvard should not let bureaucratic incompetence give its students another reason to avoid treatment. Centralize the system first. Then move on to less fundamental problems...
...Kane said the College would be able to avoid similarly low response rates. Before coming to Harvard this September, Kane served for six years as registrar at Yale, which shifted to online course evaluations during the 2002-2003 academic year and enjoyed an 87 percent response rate. Harvard’s current system earns a 70 percent response rate, CUE officials said...
According to Mahan, city officials are loathe to step up safety precautions in the Common because they do not want to admit that the symbolic heart of Cambridge has grown unsafe. Meanwhile, University officials—in an effort to avoid a town-gown confrontation—downplay the Common’s dangers...