Word: plunkett
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...Last year, President Rudenstine stressed that students take advantage of the office hours provided,” David J. Plunkett ’04 said...
...don’t know how receptive [Summers will] be to implementing a living wage,” Plunkett said. “But I think he was happy to talk with us and was honest with his feelings...
...interpreters, Richmond said, Mesa made a 3 1/2-hr. video statement: he had walked into Varner's room, noticed a paring knife under his microwave and slashed him to death before stealing his checkbook. He also confessed (according to a police affidavit) to "choking, beating and kicking" Plunkett "until he was sure that he was dead." Asked Mesa's mood at the time of the confession, Richmond testified, "He said he was glad he was telling us because the Gallaudet community was in an uproar and he felt bad about that...
This would have been news to the D.C. police, who were unaware of Mesa's record and apparently fixated on Minch until the second murder. In April, officers told the Washington Post that when Minch confessed to hitting Plunkett, the head detective stopped the interview cold, arrested him and erroneously told other police Minch had confessed to the killing. Meanwhile the detectives failed to notice that Plunkett's wallet was missing and that someone had used his debit card after he died. They had failed to run a routine check on Mesa's school records, even though...
...cruelly dashed promise of Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner and the horrible loss to their families remain an open wound. Then there is Thomas Minch, fully exonerated of any guilt, who has sued the D.C. police for $2 million and has thus far not answered the university's invitation to return to campus. And there is the still raw sensibility surrounding the school's gay community. Perhaps the most hopeful sign is that Mesa's girlfriend, whom the police cleared of any complicity in the murders, is planning to return to Gallaudet in the fall...