In an interview yesterday, he said he looks back on the period as one that was "very, very hard."
The Liems' handling of the incident was criticized by Melanie R. Thernstrom '87, a former resident tutor whose parents are both Harvard professors, in her 1997 book, Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder.
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Thernstrom wrote that Liem--who was the academic advisor to both students--was "much more adept at dealing with dead sea-life than with human problems."
She wrote that the University considered "the unprecedented move" of firing the Liems.
At the time, Liem called the book inaccurate.
"It was a terrible humanistic challenge. I think such tragedies can occur anywhere, but I am very sad it had to happen at Dunster," he said.