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This admittedly is the stuff television movies are made of--sordid romance, good-looking co-eds and one dead girl. It is also the stuff of best-selling paper-backs. Pocket Books was thinking the same thing when it offered Melanie R. Thernstrom '87 the largest advance in publishing history for a story that began as the author's senior thesis. $375,000 for one unpublished author's attempt to come to terms with her best friend's disappearance and grisly death, and the trials that followed...
...chronicling this story, author Thernstrom lost a cherished friendship with the Lee family. She was also criticized in the press for publishing the work in its current form. The story of how the book came to be, for many, reads as follows: A murder is comitted. A family greives. A friend grieves, investigates, writes and sells 400 pages of recollected family conversations, letters and grief for a sizeable...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom says that the Light study relies too much on undergraduate perceptions of what constitutes good teaching...
...This study takes as a measure of good teaching student responses...Some of my colleagues would be skeptical of this," says Thernstrom...
...Thernstrom says that there is a trade-off between having faculty regularly monitor student progress, as the study suggests, and treating undergraduates as adults...