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This summer, Doubleday published the bookHalfway Heaven: Diary of a HarvardMurder--written by former Harvard writinginstructor Melanie Thernstrom '87--whichchallenged Harvard's advising system and chargedthe University with "calculated efforts towhitewash [its role in] the story...
Huppe critiqued Thernstrom's book shortly afterits release...
...Thernstrom is a skilled storyteller;however, much of her version of the eventssurrounding this tragedy is at odds with thefacts," he said...
...Thernstrom said "the book is all factuallycorrect," calling her work "very carefullyresearched and documented...
Since I am not in a position to question Thernstrom's statistical measures on the economic and educational advancement of blacks, the progress of black Americans is something I can gauge only by my own experiences. I sit here, a student at Harvard, the product of two parents who have yet to earn college degrees. It is likely that the job offers I might receive as a Harvard graduate will have starting salaries well over the combined income of my mother and father, who together supported a family of five. From this perspective, Thernstrom's argument appears to be legitimate...