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Harvard University provided Sinedu Tadesse '96 with inadequate advising and medical support, Melanie Thernstrom '87 alleges in her new book about the 1995 Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven, scheduled to hit bookstores Monday...
Tadesse stabbed and killed her sleeping roommate, Trang P.Ho '96, in their Dunster House suite on May 28, 1995, shortly before hanging herself in their bathroom...
...After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in the New Yorker last June...
...University's contention was only one in a series of confrontations between Thernstrom and Harvard. After the publication of her New Yorker piece, Dunster House Master Karel Liam accused Thernstrom of abusing her status as a Harvard insider to obtain information...
Numerous University officials--including Dunster House affiliates and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles who did not return a fax--declined to comment, many citing the fact that they had not had a chance to read the book...