Word: frug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most recent Harvard-affiliated murder victim killed near campus appears to be Mary Joe Frug...
...Frug, a fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute was fatally stabbed in Cambridge's Brattle St. neighborhood on April 4, 1991 as she walked to a nearby store to buy groceries...
...scandals threatened, then temporarily dissolved the community's most important invisible commodity, trust. Partisan fighting had grown personal, often petty, projecting a somber mood on a usually eager and vibrant student body. To make matters worse, Mary Joe Frug, a law professor at the New England School of Law and the wife of a Harvard professor, was murdered on April 4, 1991, the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination...
...husband, Professor Gerald Frug, asked the Harvard Law Review to publish Mary's last work posthumously. Due to questionable stile and a few profanities, the piece was only published after serious and heated debate...
Many saw these internal conflicts at the Review as a reflection of the political infighting that was a way of life. Conservatives who had opposed publishing the piece unedited fought back, exhibiting appalling judgement. On the anniversary of Frug's death, they published a savage parody of her article in the "Revue" issue. No student was ever disciplined--administrators cited the First Amendment. More problematic to most observers was the environment which would spawn such insensitivity. Liberals charged that teaching methods, unchanged since the past century, were to blame...