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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...
...monitored Tadesse's situation and progress after having knowledge that she was troubled." Yet the defendants were not the people in her life who would be most able to accomplish this. Realistically, the people who had the best ability and the best opportunities to realize the dangers posed by Sinedu Tadesse's mental state would have been her mental health counselor and Ho. Yet no suit has been brought against the counselor, a professional trained to recognize and treat such problems and therefore directly responsible for negligence. And as ugly as it sounds, Tadesse's victim bears responsibility as well...
...junior biology concentrator at the time of her death, was stabbed 45 times by her roommate, Sinedu Tadesse '96, on the morning of May 28, 1995. After fatally wounding Ho and injuring 26 year-old visitor Thao Nguyen, Tadesse hanged herself in the shower of her Dunster H-21 suite...
...Since Sinedu Tadesse '96 murdered her roommate,Trang P. Ho '96 and subsequent investigationsindicated Tadesse was severely depressed,University Health Services (UHS) have been underscrutiny. In her recently published book,Halfway Heaven, former Harvard tutorMelanie R. Thernstrom '86 placed much of the blamefor Tadesse's failure to receive adequatetreatment on the Harvard advising and healthservice systems...