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Bridges said she was surprised when she entered the classroom and found her teacher sitting alone surrounded by empty desks...
Bridges described the traumatic experience of receiving death threats and not being allowed to leave the classroom during the school...
...simply no space available. With careful planning, not only will Harvard find a place to put the scholars it attracts, but the space itself may attract scholars to Harvard. Especially in the sciences, new labs will help the University to compete with other top-tier institutions. These new classroom and laboratory facilities will directly benefit students, who will no longer be lotteried out of courses—or forced to meet in local churches—because of space constraints...
...having quality athletic programs is rightly one of the University’s priorities, and in order to have these programs, Harvard must recruit athletes. Instead of drastically reducing the number of recruits, the athletic directors should realize that most of a college education takes place inside the classroom, and should therefore recommend raising the minimum admissions standard...
None of this is to say the nuns weren't capable of abuse in their own way. They could be cruelly punishing in the classroom, wielding a mean ruler, taping a mouth shut--although they were generally punished harshly for such aberrations. Priests, guilty of far worse transgressions, were handled with kid gloves. The all-male power structure of the church employed the worst tactics of its secular counterparts: silencing victims, covering up crimes, shifting bad priests around like fungible account executives. Think if Father John Geoghan had been Sister Johanna Geoghan. Would she have been recycled from parish...