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Much like the stands at all-too-many Harvard sporting events, last night's open meeting in Emerson Hall, which was designed to foster communication between the student body and the NCAA Self-Study steering committee, was barren...
...coterie of close friends who were in constant contact with Dorris in recent months saw a different side of the man--and cannot believe he was a child abuser. According to Douglas Foster, director of school affairs for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Dorris was a "relatively cheerful, even-keeled, generous, outgoing person," whose anguish stemmed directly from recent events--the end of his marriage and the sex-abuse allegations. "Michael saw taking his own life as a rational way out," said Jeanne Friedman, a fund raiser in Berkeley who was close to Dorris...
Dorris had made an earlier suicide attempt on Good Friday, ingesting pills and alcohol at a cottage on the farm he and Erdrich used to share in Cornish, New Hampshire. At that moment, his friend Foster called. During the conversation, Dorris said he had "activated the kit," and he then passed out. Foster alerted state police, who broke in and saved Dorris' life. After that, the author checked into a psychiatric facility. For a brief while, his friend Coughlin, who spoke to him many times a day, felt hopeful that Dorris was on the mend. He even talked excitedly about...
Shouted slogans elicit reactions of disgust--not exactly the best image for a group trying to foster social change. So as I walked in the other direction from the demonstration, I wondered why those protesting were opting to spend part of their busy Harvard lives standing around screaming. If Harvard were somehow blatantly ignoring the facts of the diversity situation by aggressively and repeatedly under-hiring minorities, then maybe then their sore throats would be justified. Instead, the diversity coalition threw away its potentially great influence...
...with its capability, it must try harder to present itself as an organized body of dedicated students; it must pay less attention to politics and more attention to its self-stated activist goals: "to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies...to foster and coordinate campus-wide social activities...to promote and fund student groups and organizations...and finally, to serve as a campus-wide forum for the expression and exchange of student ideas and opinions...