Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...linemates, sophomores Kiirsten Suurkask and Tara Dunn, both of whom can play center and wing. Although they did not get a chance to pad their stats on the nation's best power-play unit, they both displayed excellent passing and stickhandling skills and should not have a problem assuming more responsibilities in the offensive zone next season...
...suicide of Chang H. Jo '00 before spring break is very painful and the impulse to blame Harvard's indifferent support network is strong. This institutional critique, however, masks the deeper attitudinal problem that isolates suicides as fringe events committed by disturbed persons. By refusing to acknowledge just how ordinary suicides and their victims are, we--administrators and students--make their occurrence more likely...
...criticism, however, is not primarily institutional. Harvard can and must do better, and not just over the next few weeks. The flawed support network is merely a symptom of a deeper attitudinal problem that both we and the university carry...
...knee-jerk reaction to 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...
...glory, the race against the chemist Linus Pauling for the Nobel Prize that DNA would surely bring--got bad reviews from the (relatively) genteel Crick. He didn't recall anyone mentioning a Nobel Prize. "My impression was that we were just, you know, mad keen to solve the problem," he later said. But whatever their aims, Watson and Crick shared an attraction to DNA, and when they wound up in the same University of Cambridge lab, they bonded...