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...Former assistant dean Virginia L. Mackay-Smith ’78 said that Moses often provided advice to those in need...
Moses was not reluctant to take a role in the intellectual life of the College. A graduate of Princeton, the future dean earned a doctoral degree in English from Cornell in 1968, and would garner teaching experience at Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Virginia before coming to Harvard, where he lectured in English in the midst of his tenure as dean of freshmen. The love of language did not leave...
...year has passed since April 16, 2007, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage that left 33 of his classmates and faculty dead. In this time of reflection, sharp and painful memories from this tragedy have sparked calls for change from both sides of the gun-control debate: Pro-gun-control students have objected to the laws that allowed Cho access to a gun in the first place, and anti-gun-control advocates—including 25,000 members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus— argue that students could have stopped...
...students can, for at least four years of their lives, study and grow without worrying about the peril of the outside world. Guns on campus, however, bring that very danger into the midst of a student’s living environment. In the aftermath of great terror like the Virginia Tech massacre, not only is heightened fear expected, but so too is the potential for hatred and vigilante retribution. Rather than succumb to such emotions, we can instead respect the memory of the dead by concentrating on healing...