Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree with many of the sentiments expressed by Edward G. Smith '97 on acquaintance rape (Opinion, Feb. 23), although I feel the likening of rape to murder is indefensibly extreme. Where I disagree with him most pointedly, however, is in his dismissal of the debate over The Crimson's coverage of the arrest of Joshua M. Elster '00. Smith claims that this debate is "misdirected," taking our attention away from the issue of campus rape itself, which he seems to feel is the only real problem to come to light following Elster's arrest...
Harvard may soon be nearing a day of reckoning. On Feb. 18, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University...
Whether Harvard was legally responsible for the murder is a difficult question that can only be answered in a court of law. Unfortunately for the University, however, no legal maneuvering can release Harvard from its moral responsibility for Trang Ho's death, if not Sinedu Tadesse's suicide...
...meal dining plan that encourages us to eat, and libraries that close at 1 a.m. to encourage us to sleep. But when it comes to advising and emotional support, we are suddenly treated as independent adults with no need for any kind of help. The week of the murder, Tadesse missed three of her four final exams. Shouldn't a tutor have noticed...
...Dunster murder-suicide is only the most famous example of the University's neglect of its students. Many of us don't even know our adviser's name; most are only dimly aware of the proctor or tutor who lives downstairs. These "advisers" don't make much effort to change the status quo. Instead of a cute quote in a House facebook about how they are "always available to help," tutors must actively seek out their assigned students, meet with them for meals and personally invite them to study breaks...