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...Student Advisory Committee (SAC), the IOP's governing body made up of 35 students and chaired by Geoffrey C. Rapp '97, re-elected Kent B. McNellie '99 to Harvard Political Union Chair and Jeffrey P. Yarbro '99 to Study Groups Committee Chair...
Their troubles with their children no doubt added to the marital burden. Abel died in a car accident in 1991, and their other two adopted children, Jeffrey, now around 25, and Madeline, 21, also struggled with fetal-alcohol problems and eventually became estranged from Dorris and Erdrich. "I don't think I was by any means the best parent my children could have found," Dorris acknowledged last month during a reading in Washington...
...Erdrich and Dorris pressed attempted-theft charges against Jeffrey, who had been working at odd jobs around the country, and was living in Denver. The charges stemmed from a rambling, five-page letter he wrote from the Denver County Jail, where he was awaiting prosecution on misdemeanor charges of beating his girlfriend. He wrote, "Think about what we put up with as helpless children. You beat us senseless, you terrorized us, you made us walk on eggshells, we feared you, and then Louise comes onto the picture. Instead of stopping his abuse, she kicks in." He blamed his own troubles...
Lisa Wayne, the public defender who represented Jeffrey at the ensuing trials, contends that the letter, as well as letters written by Dorris to his son over the course of 10 years, is evidence that Dorris abused his children. She portrays the charges as an attempt by Dorris "to shut [Jeffrey] up." But according to people close to the couple, Jeffrey so frightened them that they essentially went into hiding, first in Montana, then in Minneapolis, where they moved in 1993 and where Erdrich and Dorris, on leave from Dartmouth, continued their writing. Their location, says a friend...
...April 7]. He sounded good, offering hope for the future and requiring morality and kindness toward others. That is what is frightening about counterfeits--they look and sound like the real thing. We should all question whether our religious leaders have done anything to justify their claim to authority. JEFFREY M. KEY Fullerton, California...