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...sophomore-year roommate, Jeffrey C. Olkin '90, says that Starr reported the Dunster violations casually, without considering the possible effects, and that he felt remorseful afterwards...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Starr and his friends say that he has written to companies for years: protesting red-dyed M&Ms out of health concerns, challenging the itemization of his phone bills, sending away for free merchandise. And no one had ever gotten angry before...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Starr had led a placid, quiet life at Harvard. He worked on statistics assignments--he is the Statistics Department's only undergraduate concentrator--and hung out with his friends...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard, I've got close friends, but in terms of extracurriculars, I didn't do much," he says. Starr says he had time on his hands, and felt that corresponding with corporations was a way to become involved in issues important...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...When Starr arrived at Harvard, he was full of idealistic dreams of improving the world, he says. "I wanted to major in political science so that I could fix all the problems of the world," he says. But he found government courses difficult and uninteresting...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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