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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...
...lawsuit charges the University, Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem, former Dunster House senior tutor Suzi Naiburg and Dunster House premedical advisor David B. Lombard with negligent acts that directly resulted in the 1995 death of Trang Phuong...
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...
Nearly three years after the tragic Dunster House murder-suicide, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against the University yesterday...