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Some students blame not only inadequate counseling but also unsupportive campus environments for undergraduate mental-health problems. At Columbia, students complain about days-long waits for counseling appointments. One sophomore, who saw a fellow student, Andrea Melendez, fall eight stories to her death last month, was unable to do homework afterward. Yet he was denied an extension for a major paper due the next day. "I was told I'd had two weeks to work on it," he told TIME. In a recent editorial, the Columbia Daily Spectator demanded greater sensitivity for students' needs. "Students receive psychological support from...
...writers, it is trickier to provide the results that the career-minded student craves. A creative writer might graduate with only a sharper sense of just how hard it is to write professionally. Some students suck it up and meet the challenge. Others look around wildly for someone to blame, and the teacher is often the closest person at hand...
...Some students blame not only inadequate counseling but also unsupportive campus environments for undergraduate mental-health problems. At Columbia, students complain about days-long waits for counseling appointments. One sophomore, who saw a fellow student, Andrea Melendez, fall eight stories to her death last month, was unable to do homework afterward. Yet he was denied an extension for a major paper due the next day. "I was told I'd had two weeks to work on it," he told Time. In a recent editorial, the Columbia Daily Spectator demanded greater sensitivity for students' needs. "Students receive psychological support from...
...agency's myriad shortcomings, some, including Mark Miller, feel it would be a mistake to underestimate the interest within the agency in changing conditions for detainees. "I'd be inclined to take them very seriously" on this issue, Miller says. And while Meissner shoulders a great deal of the blame for recent INS failings, even some of the agency's fiercest critics credit her with focusing attention on the agency's faults and problems - rather than glossing over them, which is what her predecessors tended to do. When she steps down in January, Meissner, who submitted her pro forma resignation...
...Institute of Medicine, that have been unable to sustain a causal link between exposure to depleted uranium and various ailments suffered by U.S. personnel who served in the Gulf. After all, from a political point of view, the Pentagon would prefer to resolve the issue, since the military gets blamed as long as the mystery remains. Judging by their response to Gulf War Syndrome, it's safe to assume that the U.S. military won't deny that there may be a problem; they're simply not prepared to blame the problem on depleted-uranium weapons in the absence of stronger...