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None of these events was made public at the time. But last October, Peter Murtagh, a reporter for the Irish Times, talked to Tully, who had successfully appealed his transfer, and published details of the attempted coverup. That produced an anonymous tip that the police, on the orders of Haughey's Fianna Fail government, were tapping the telephones of journalists. Murtagh followed up the story and found that Doherty, in an effort to stem embarrassing reports about internal party squabbles, had placed bugs on the phones of two of Dublin's top political reporters. It was also discovered...
...FIRST HOUR of Harvard's September orientation for transfer students, the announcement that on-campus housing would never become available, regardless of the circumstances, sent a perceptible shock wave through the 50-odd students sitting expectantly in a classroom on the second floor of Harvard Hall. It was an unusual welcome to the College...
Harvard's decision to take transfer students off the priority list for on-campus housing--a list they were on in previous years--did not come out of the blue. A series of warnings on the preliminary and final transfer applications, and in the letter of acceptance, detailed the College's reluctance to furnish housing. But after conversations and correspondence with the transfer admissions and housing offices, most students appear to have arrived at Harvard with the impression that, as in the past, transfers could eventually be considered for any vacancies that might occur in the Houses. Certainly, the expectation...
Since then, the bitterness and anger of many disappointed transfer students has produced a couple of newspaper articles, a series of letters to the administration, a group of Dudley House student council representatives committed to reversing the present policy, a good deal of student sympathy and not much else. Pointing to the statements contained in the applications and the acceptance letters, and discounting conversations on the telephone, the administration--which, it should be noted, is sitting in judgment on its own case--has a distinct advantage over the transfer students. Written evidence, not spoken conversation and implied encouragement, carries...
Students who participated in the most recent transfer process differed in their views of its possible biases...