It may be even harder to find the time to watch. Several students say Harvard life doesn't allow for daytime TV watching.

"I have no time at all," says Coventry Edwards-Pitt '98.

"I've forgotten about it since I came here," adds Ivan Velasco Jr. '98. "If I can get to a TV, maybe I'll pay attention."

'Waste of Time'

Like too much ice cream or, say, orange juice, students say they have lost their appetite for news dispatches on the Simpson case.

"I'm kind of sick of it," says Andrea Bellino '98. "It's on 24 [hours a day], seven days a week."

Denise B. Augustine '92, a tutor in Adams House, says she hopes coverage will subside once the actual trial begins.

"I hope they take the cameras out of the courtroom," Augustine says. "It's a waste of time."

Augustine says she opposes having the cameras because they detract from other television programs and because publicity is inappropriate in any court case.

Several students say they were troubled by the quality and focus of the media coverage. David C. Olsen '98 says recent TV and newspaper portrayals have distorted the image of Simpson. "He's being idolized for a crime," he says.

Damien Rios '95 says the Simpson coverage has taken time away from more significant issues.

"I'm trying to avoid following the case," Rios says. "It has detracted from other important stories."

Similar feelings of disgust with the media are common not only among students but also with the local public Victoria Russell '66, a physician from Milton who returned to the U.S. Saturday after spending six weeks in France, says she appreciated her distance from the events.

"I've just spent six weeks looking at the sky, eating delicious food, and speaking French," Russell said as she walked through Harvard Square yesterday. "I was free from that garbage."

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