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According to the self-proclaimed historian of the Russian bells, resident tutor Luis A. Campos ’99, students were a bit more creative when the Russian bells were originally installed in the 1930s. Using Charles R. Crane—of Crane toilet fame and the man who donated the bells to Harvard—as inspiration, Lowellians organized a simultaneous house-wide flushing to protest the ringing of the bells...
...following this period of hostility, some students began to accept and embrace the bells, and eventually formed the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers during the 1950s to ensure that they would be rung on an active basis, a tradition that is still practiced to this...
...think God or the highest being of any religion would condone such acts of unspeakable horror against the most innocent among us, our children. Sarah de Roos Rheinfelden, Germany Killing children is despicable; however, it's time to pause and take stock of the situation in Chechnya. The Russian government must reach accommodation with moderate Chechens and look for ways to grant the territory some meaningful autonomy, even if it is under the umbrella of the Russian Federation. Moreover, to hold extremists in check, governments across the world must learn to be receptive to diverse viewpoints. Alienation and suppression...
Pring-Wilson, a native of Colorado, was in his final year of a graduate program at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the time of the murder...
...embittered adults, following the example of those who took their childhood away. Elise Furlan Ithaca, New York, U.S. Your report on Beslan was headlined "Slaughter of the Innocents." Any indiscriminate mass murder is a slaughter of innocents. The guilty people are those who instigated the killings. In this case, Russian President Vladimir Putin is guilty for actions that have made desperate the Chechens and others who seek independence from Russia. As long as violence is seen as the only way to negotiate - in Russia, the Middle East or anywhere else - more innocents will die. François Borel...