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An unidentified man ran into the boathouse shouting, "Fire! Fire! Get out of the building," alerting the six women of the blaze, Natali A. Roe '81, a team member, said yesterday.
Let me anticipate the two inevitable criticisms of this view: first, "you can't blame the victim": secondly, "the college should take a more active role in alerting students to potential dangers."
"Anything that we can use in alerting people to danger--detectors, or a little boy running through the streets with a whistle--can help save lives," Regan said, adding, "The fire chief has smoke detectors in his house."
Third, Berkovitz asserts that the demand for ethnic studies is another overreaction. But in our much-vaunted Core Curriculum, and in this entire University, where are the histories, cultures and perspectives of Blacks, Chicanos, Boricuans, Latin Americans, Asian American, Native Americans and women given adequate (or even cursory) attention? This...
So perhaps the size, sweep and nature of the FBI operation made early publication inevitable. (Rosenthal even deplores the name Abscam, which is short for Arab scam: "I wouldn't like it if the FBI had a Jewscam.") But there's still something disquieting about the way the...