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...Thernstrom, a former English department faculty member and Adams House non-resident tutor, alleges that the University also attempted to whitewash the tragedy, and "to protect and promote its distinguished reputation at the cost of its own student body," according to an advance copy of the book obtained by The Crimson this week...
...After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in the New Yorker last June...
...Thernstrom further alleges that the University tightly controlled information and interviews through its news office to ensure this position went unchallenged...
Though early yesterday the University refused to comment on the book, it later issued a brief statement challenging Thernstrom's account...
...Thernstrom is a skilled storyteller; however, much of her version of the events surrounding this tragedy is at odds with the facts," said University spokesperson Alex Huppe...