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...president took an unexpected three months leave of absence, an attempted bank robbery ended in a Harvard Square shootout, the University revoked the acceptance of Gina Grant after learning she had killed her mother and an undergraduate brutally murdered her roommate before hanging herself on the day after final exams ended...
...Gina Grant's Recission
...April, Harvard rescinded the earlyactionadmittance of Gina Grant after learning that shehad killed her mother...
...national brouhaha erupted over Harvard's decision to rescind its offer of admission to Gina Grant, when it was discovered that she had murdered her mother; Harvard was oftentimes cast as not trusting in the juvenile justice system to reform offenders, hypocritically defending the system but doing nothing to practice what it preached. A helicopter crashed into a University boathouse. A freak virus sent hundreds of freshman to UHS. Harvard Medical School Professor John Mack claimed that aliens from outer space were kidnapping and sexually abusing humans. Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz joined the O.J. Simpson circus as part...
This same media plays up a story like Gina Grant's, which perfectly sets in opposition an elite institution like Harvard and an ideal victim--abused by her mother and reformed by the justice system--only to demonize the elite, only to channel the jeers of millions of ordinary American sympathizers in a strike against an institution which they do not know, but can confidently criticize nonetheless. These are the knocks of the real world at Harvard's door...