"I trust [UHS] a little bit more on the side of anonymity than I did before," the student says.
A Matter Of Discretion
"We can't have a parent call looking for their child and have us in the dark about where the student is, when the University itself has been involved in hospitalizing the student," Lewis wrote in an e-mail.
But even then, UHS informs administrators inconsistently.
Susan W. Stern, a UHS nurse practitioner, says the decision to contact the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO) or a senior tutor is actually left to the discretion of the nurse on call.
"We do things by the individual," she says. "We look at how long the person has been at the University, to see whether drinking is a problem or a one-time thing."
She says no firm guidelines exist on whether or not administrators are notified.
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