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Harvard creative writing teachers this week continued to grapple with the implications of the shootings at Virginia Tech—which were perpetrated by an English major whose disturbed mind first became known to university officials through the creative writing classroom...
...English professors and administrators here, this part of last week’s tragic story has brought a time of reflection. But they insisted that the repercussions of the massacre will not alter how they teach, nor lead them to instate formal rules on how to deal with students who submit particularly violent work...
...think, in fact, it would not be helpful to have some kind of formulaic checklist that one would look for,” English department chair James T. Engell said, “because, as I’ve said, every case is unique...
...fort for some period of time. Trash pits, for example, yielded fragments of an Indian reed mat as well as shell beads favored by the Indians and the type of stone tool that they would have used to drill them. The Indian artifacts were found mixed in with English ones in an undisturbed layer of soil and in greater concentrations than have ever been found in Virginia Indian villages. That, and the fact that the Indians bothered to carry tools like the stone drills into the fort, has led archaeologists to think the Indians spent significant amounts of time there...
...beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians were even issued silver or copper badges that allowed them safe passage while conducting business with the foreigners...