Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the administration is to blame for the anxiety surrounding rooming...
...night. (Perhaps Dean Lewis is unaware that many students' schedules require them to travel home from the Yard late at night; for instance, my fall tutorial ended at 10.30 p.m.) If Dean Lewis did not intend to hold the student responsible for what happened to her, that is, to blame the victim, I find it deeply regrettable that the official who determines and embodies Harvard policy on undergraduate life should have so little sensitivity to how his remarks might be interpreted...
...case, Dean Lewis seems remarkably blase about the incident. It seems to me that there are many other things "one could say" about it, perhaps concerning Harvard's commitment to campus safety and certainly concerning efforts to apprehend the assailant, who is to blame and who deserves Lewis' censure. -Katherine L. Dunlop '97, Member, Harvard Alliance for Safety Training and Education (HASTE); Participant, Battered Women's Advocacy Project Harvard Law School...
What really scares people jumping to lay blame on this first-year is the precedent he may set. If everyone thought they'd send messages to their 6,000 closest friends at once, the system would surely collapse. The framing of this nonevent as an "outrage" is meant to deter others from exercising similar capabilities. The threats of Ad Board action, the juvenile graffiti, the pontifications of administrators at the various Harvard computer committees are all out of proportion to the actual offense. They're putting on a show to ward off potential violators...
...longer present obstacles to handling mass e-mailings, I wonder how many people will express such outrage or call for Ad Board action or scrawl stupid things on doors. By then, mass e-mailings will be just another daily nuisance of life. And no one will pin the blame on someone like Daniel Simon...