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...College administration, meanwhile, has decided to wash their hands of the matter. Last April, the Undergraduate Council proposed a Harvard College Book Information System to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, which promptly shut it down. According to former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, speaking to The Crimson last spring, “I didn’t think that I could financially support an effort that was in some ways in opposition to the Harvard Coop.” This near-fetishistic protectionism, which the new College administration apparently still espouses, is befuddling...
...Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71 was and has remained a fantastic adviser and professor during his time as dean. There is no question that he sincerely cares about the students at the College and has always gone out of his way to help those in need. But though we should recognize these qualities, the discontent of those who left his administration and the hush-hush manner in which their feelings have been expressed call into question the effectiveness of his tenure...
...Vatican quickly fired back this week. John Paul's longtime doctor Renato Buzzonetti, who now monitors Pope Benedict XVI, said that doctors and John Paul himself all acted to stave off death. "His treatment was never interrupted," Buzzonetti told the Rome daily La Repubblica. "Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken." He added that a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope's death when he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids. Buzzonetti did not specifically respond to Pavanelli's claim that John Paul needed a tube weeks, not days, before he eventually died...
...polemics come just as the Vatican again weighed in on euthanasia. The Church's doctrinal office released a one-page document, approved by Benedict, that denounced the cutting off of food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness. This reaffirmed John Paul's stance in 2004 during the battle over ending artificial feeding for the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, who was later taken off her feeding tube and died...