Counseling Needs Improving

The tragic deaths of Harvard students Trang Ho and Sinedu Tadesse on May 28 not only shocked the Cambridge community, but the entire nation.

While Harvard prides itself on having counseling services availableto those who seek them, how many counselors are trained to understand the problems of students from different cultural backgrounds?

Children of some cultures are taught in their early age to endure and persevere and not to 'hang out dirty laundry' or 'toot their own horn.'

Harvard needs to re-examine its coounseling program and learn to reach out to students at the first sign of conflict. Let this be a wake-up call. Julia H. Low   Cambridge, MA