"I'm sure we will be spending many hourstalking about this. I'm sure we will be attendingto this," said Winthrop House Master Paul D.Hanson, Lamont professor of divinity. "[Students]all live under a lot of stress."
Hanson said house masters have contactedUniversity Health Services (UHS) Director Dr.David S. Rosenthal '59 and Dr. Randolph CatlinJr., UHS director of mental health services, toprovide mental health counseling services forstudents and parents.
The fourth-floor resident of Hentryway said hehad recently met Ho and knew who Tadesse was.
"It's incredibly shocking," he said. "It's thelast thing you'd expect from someone who seemedfriendly and not at all the person you'd imagineto be involved in a crime."
Originally, radio wires reported that up to sixpeople had been stabbed, but it appears that onlythree people were involved.
"It's a horrible thing and it really hasn't hitme yet just how bad it is," Doherty said. "Justseems like an odd thing to happen early in themorning. You'd think if there were some sort ofdispute it would happen late at night."
Residents of Dunster's G-, H- and I-entrywayswere barred for several hours from entering otherentryways, and access to the entryways was limitedto Dunster residents.
"I was told to avoid tracking through the bloodin the courtyard and was told it was the blood ofthe only survivor" by police, Dunster residentArthur N. Dobelis '96 said.
Efforts to reach Ho's family in Medford andTadesse's family in Addis Ababa were unsuccessful.
Most of the H-entryway residents interviewedthis morning said they did not know Tadesse or Ho,or knew them only by face.
But Moon Duchin '97, a J-entryway resident,said she knew both women. "Both seemed quiet andnice and I was very surprised when I found out,"she said. She said she heard about the killingbefore learning the identities of the studentsinvolved.
Todd F. Braunstein, Marios V. Broustas,Susan A. Chen, Valerie J. MacMillan and Douglas M.Pravda contributed to the reporting of thisstory.