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Former Eliot House resident G. Oliver Koppell '62 is now a prominent New York attorney, who has served as state Attorney General.
"It is not a particularly happy association," Koppell says of Kaczynski, his former classmate and fellow Eliot House resident.
But Koppell says he was not completely surprised upon learning that the suspect in the bombing spree is a Harvard graduate.
"Harvard attracts bright, capable, intelligent people of all kinds," Koppell says. "Unfortunately, some people use their intellect in negative ways."
"There is some truth to the idea of the Quad culture. It's the case of classic martyrdom," Koppell says. "We've all been oppressed by being exiled to the Quad, so we bond. We are bumming that we're here, but we make the best of it."