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...life I have had problems with this society," he wrote in his suicide note. "I feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what he did." And then he copied...
...boss at the psychiatric research center in Prague, blames the deaths on the Palach mystique. "I think the people are solving their own problems and are only dressing them up as something more," he says. "Were it not for Palach, many of them would have probably tried to commit suicide by other methods." But the acts of Adamec and his followers may also have been a curiously Czech response to troubled times. "People don't take to the streets to fight," says Josef Nesvadba, a prominent Czech author and retired psychoanalyst. "They go home and turn...
...Corporation’s decision to commit such a large sum of money to science construction in Cambridge has led some professors to speculate that higher powers might intend to keep sciences on this side of the river...
...easily overlooked—in the police log on page five of this issue of The Crimson, another Harvard student was allegedly subjected to an “indecent assault” this weekend. These incidents are ever-present, and each is its own argument for why Harvard must commit to changing its atmosphere and stepping up its commitment to survivor services. The Leaning Committee has a chance to improve the atmosphere on campus and the treatment for those who have suffered sexual trauma. It cannot afford to waste that opportunity...
...Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) to measure student learning. Since MCAS was first administered in 1998, it has spawned a very vigorous, sustained debate. Initially, the debate was healthy and constructive, but now it has become distraction. We can continue to argue about measuring sticks, or we can commit ourselves to solving the fundamental, underlying problem: inequality in education...