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Coeds? Really, Herald?
By adamg on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 9:19am
The Herald headlines: Coed tied to killing fights graduation ban.
The story also mentions "a second coed." Well, at least they didn't refer to them as "leggy" or "gamine" or anything, so progress marches on.
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Maybe if the story had been written by a coreporter
it would have read differently? Also, where are the coeditors?
And where do coeditors shop?
The Coop, of course!
Herald way behind on this story
Besides the retrograde language (at least they didn't call the students "Cliffies"), the Herald also failed to report that the expelled student has gone public with her complaint against Harvard:
Boston Globe: Student says Harvard is wrongly linking her to campus murder
New York Post: HARVARD GAL SLAY PROBE (but subhead is BRAINY B'KLYN CO-ED EYED AS ACCOMPLICE)
The expelled student is apparently NOT the girlfriend of the accused killer.
Was she expelled?
I got the impression that she was banned from campus and graduation.
Expulsion and restraining orders are two different things.
There may be some justification for keeping her away during the investigation, such as hiding evidence and interfering with witnesses. Not walking through the final ceremonies doesn't mean that she isn't getting her diploma - the university would have to have decided that she was going to receive her diploma months ago.
months ago?
They couldn't decide that 'months ago', because someone could always fail a class her final term and therefore not meet graduation requirements. Final exams ended just last Friday.
The Harvard Crimson could probably clarify the issue you bring up, but unfortunately I think they have stopped publishing for the term.
Of course they do
Graduation is typically based on completion of requirements as of the end of the first term of senior year. Students have to file paperwork, and rarely need the last term courses to make the requirements. In any case, seniors used to be able to skip finals, and she could still have taken her finals off campus - of course she nor her lawyers would tell us that, and Harvard won't discuss it for privacy reasons.
I still haven't seen anything that says that she isn't getting her degree, and she had already finished some of her classes anyway. Notice how carefully the lawyers are wording this - she's banned from campus, possibly due to the DA's concerns that she might tamper with evidence or witnesses. Her lawyers want you to think she's forfeiting her degree, but read their statements carefully: they depend on the sympathy of those who equate walking through graduation with actually graduating, and restraining orders with expulsion.
My money is on the DAs office pushing Harvard to keep her off campus, rightly or wrongly. Harvard doesn't usually move that fast, and may have been unwilling to see it go to a court order.
Oddly enough
The fourth hit I get on Google Image Search for "coeds" (with SafeSearch on) is a group photo at MIT.
I think they were joking with Californians.
(Googling for "coeds" is NSFW, BTW.)
Doesn't take much
to get people's panties in a bunch here, does it?