Word: bork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the Lowell House resident's mail was a letter addressed to Mr. Robert Bork, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, which was not meant for him but for another Robert Bork who has never resided in Cambridge...
...Bork said the letter is the first of its type he has received but added that he expects more to follow. Bork said so many people have asked if he is related to the judge that he is "tired of adding a disclaimer" to his name...
...letter, which was typewritten, continued to say that its writer, Rene Wisecarver of Laceyville, Pa., did not know much about Bork, but she wanted to know "what constitutes your personal code...
Wisecarver said she decided to write to Bork because "he's kind of quiet." She said she supports his nomination and does not understand what all the fuss is about...
...Pennsylvania teenager said she sent the letter to Harvard on the advice of a teacher. "I went asking around teachers what [Bork's] address was, and one [teacher] said he had been a professor at Harvard," Wisecarver said. Justice Bork was actually a law professor at Yale University before beingappointed to the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington...