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Even the much-maligned Section 215 of the Act, which authorizes the surveillance of library records and bookstore purchases, is more palpable when one learns that the domestic law enforcement version of this tool helped in the 1998 conviction of “Unabomber” Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62. Regardless, alarmists’ fears of this section might be assuaged by the fact that not a single library warrant has been issued under...
...implications of this would be staggering. Neither team has finished ahead of Harvard since 1996. For some perspective, President Clinton was still serving his first term in the White House that year, Kerri Strug made her famous vault on a bum ankle in Atlanta and Ted Kaczynski ’62 was arrested...
...Chase’s analysis, Kaczynski went wrong as a result of the Gen Ed curriculum, the brainchild of Harvard President James B. Conant in the 1950s. As with today’s Core, the program was devoted to educating students in a variety of academic areas, but unlike the Core, Chase argues, the Gen Ed curriculum had particularly deleterious effects...
Chase wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that lecturers were known for a rabidly “anti-technology message” and a “despairing depiction of the sinister forces that lie beneath the surface of civilization.” Kaczynski, only 16 years old when he entered Harvard, was particularly susceptible to these messages because he was exceptionally bright and extraordinarily conscientious Chase says...
...Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men” subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly began to experience emotional distress [and] to develop his anti-technology views” and “started having fantasies about taking revenge against a society...