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...question voiced in the most recent Radcliffe Quarterly, which features a discussion on race at Harvard-Radcliffe. The panelists included author Abigail Thernstrom, who feels that blacks, and liberals in general, are entirely too pessimistic about the issue of race in America. She argues that statistics on the progress of blacks prove that the "we still have a long ways to go" attitude is unfounded. Things have changed, and in a few years, with blacks being educated at higher levels and in greater numbers, this will be even more evident than it already is. According to her, there aren...
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...
...result of the recent suicide of LeverettHouse resident Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, who wassuffering from depression, Harvard mental healthservices have once again attracted attention. Evenmore basic than Thernstrom's concern--whatservices are available to whom--is the difficultycampus authorities and students themselves seem tohave in defining just what depression...
...Thernstrom adds that the counselor possessed only a doctorate of education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education rather than a medical degree...
...Thernstrom writes that Tadesse had been seeing a UHS counselor since her first year but he had never prescribed medication for her and only saw her on "a limited basis...