I am very sorry to hear what happened to your good friend. This is not an isolated incident. I missed the story about the woman who killed herself and her roommate.

The pressure at Harvard is incredible. Everyone entering there is at the top of his or her class and at the top of their game and Harvard grades on a curve. Saying that women who graduate from that pressure cooker are somehow not quite up to scratch does not make logical sense.

This is why a female President of Harvard makes sense because that will sharpen the issues and smoke out the boys-will-be-boys attitudes than many men have.

And yet, for all its failing, I look at the video that documents the 350th anniversary of the founding and sob my eyes out for what the school was and still could be. I hope the Fellows see fit to turn the corner before Harvard becomes a fossil.