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...Dunster House Opera, "Don Giovanni,"didn't go on, Thomas O. Schoenwaelder '99-'00would have been personally responsible...
...Schneider '99 is a member of the Undergraduate council representing Dunster House...
Harvard may soon be nearing a day of reckoning. On Feb. 18, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University...
...Dunster murder-suicide is only the most famous example of the University's neglect of its students. Many of us don't even know our adviser's name; most are only dimly aware of the proctor or tutor who lives downstairs. These "advisers" don't make much effort to change the status quo. Instead of a cute quote in a House facebook about how they are "always available to help," tutors must actively seek out their assigned students, meet with them for meals and personally invite them to study breaks...
After reading about the wrongful death suit by Thao Phuong Ho against the University and three Dunster House administrators, several questions came to mind about both the targets of the suit and the justifications...