Word: trang
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...eventful year ended on a tragic note when,on May 28, Sinedu Tadesse '96 fatally stabbed herDunster House roommate, Trang P. Ho '96, 45 timesand then took her own life by hanging herself inthe shower...
...papers filed Wednesday in Middlesex County Superior Court, the University denied that it is legally liable for the death of Trang Phuong Ho '96, according to University attorney Allan A. Ryan...
Harvard may soon be nearing a day of reckoning. On Feb. 18, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University...
Whether Harvard was legally responsible for the murder is a difficult question that can only be answered in a court of law. Unfortunately for the University, however, no legal maneuvering can release Harvard from its moral responsibility for Trang Ho's death, if not Sinedu Tadesse's suicide...
Here's hoping the family of Trang Phuong Ho wins its lawsuit against the University. Few organizations in the world respond better to economic incentives than Harvard, and if the University could use some prodding in any one direction, it is in its attitude toward providing its students with a safety net of advising staff...