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...everyone who stood in Tercentenary Theater four years ago has the pleasure of standing there again today. My classmates, Sarah Theresa Craig; Harvard Clarence Nabrit Stephens; Deshaun Raymond Hill; and David L. Okrent graduated from life too early. For me and many of my peers, their tragic deaths were a first experience with mortality. Experiencing their loss helped me to realize that while I may have entered college an eager-eyed teenager, I exit, an adult...
...Daniel Okrent...
...suicide is for students and administrators to convince themselves that any suicide is an aberration that suicide happens only to mal-adjusted loners. But this attitude is the problem. Suicides happen to athletes like Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, and musicians like Katherine L. Tucker '94. They happen to David Okrent '99, Benjamin R. Hanson '97-'98, Jason D. Altom and Ansgar Hansen '97. Suicides are ordinary events that happen to ordinary people. To brand suicides, suicidal tendencies or feelings of depression as inherently abnormal and to ostracize their occurrence from the mainstream the way one removes a malignant tumor reinforces...
...entry he blasted into the record books, the way 1961 is associated with Roger Maris. No such luck. But we felt that his tale served as a sweet antidote to the big story of the year, so you can read in this issue Joel Stein's intimate profile, Dan Okrent's appreciation and a touching salute by his endearing pacer Sammy Sosa...
...Daniel Okrent is the author of three books about baseball