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While the College has recently made much news in the tabloids with the acceptance and subsequent rejection of a killer and even more recently with the bizarre murder-suicide at Dunster House, an important administrative change has been hidden amidst the tumult. Over the course of the past few decades, the Harvard administration has succeeded in incrementally destroying the housing system. The houses are where we eat and sleep, where we make many of our closest friends, what we consider our little home within the sprawling academic empire around us. This year, the destruction has been completed; the decision...
Even when tragedy intervenes, it seems distant.Two weeks ago in Dunster House, a junior stabbedher roommate and killed herself. A local TVstation reported, inaccurately, that "all thestudents in Dunster House were... shocked." Infact, many of us quickly went on with our livesand packed up our books and clothes. "I didn'tknow them, and it doesn't affect me at all," afriend in the house confessed to me. "It feelslike it's happening...
...hallmark of the Harvard-Radcliffeexperience." As a student body, we've lived morein the real world than the people my folks went toschool with did. But on campus we stick to ourown. Quincy House has an enormous Asian-Americanpopulation. Many gay students say they only feelcomfortable in Adams and Dunster Houses. Whitesgravitate towards the river houses, and anoverwhelming percentage of Black students live inthe Quad...
...College has been shaken by the events in Dunster House, but it has also been compelled to undergo serious self-examination. Hopefully, increased student and administration concern for problems of stress and interpersonal relations will help to prevent tragedy from transpiring again...
...wrong to imply that Harvard's counseling services (or lack thereof) were in any way responsible for the Dunster House tragedy...