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...arrest of a former University library worker as the infamous Widener slasher has focused attention on Harvard's decision not to require background checks for many of its lower level employees...
Between 1991 and 1992, the slasher left notes threatening violence if anyone tried to stop him from mutilating books. One note left at Harvard said he would continue cutting out the insides of books "until the voices tell me to stop...
University Librarian Sidney Verba '53 yesterday estimated the damage caused by the slasher at hundreds of thousands of dollars, but other library officials said a more accurate figure is "several million...
Harvard spent more than $50,000 on the surveillance system between 1991 and 1992 in its effort to catch the slasher. The University police stationed officers in the Widener stacks 24 hours a day and required all students and faculty entering the stacks to sign...
Marios V. Broustas contributed to the reporting of this story.CrimsonAnne Marie L. EberThis was one of the books destroyed by the Widener book slasher. Police say he is 42-year-old Arlington resident Stephen L. Womack...