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[Editor’s note: In June, Raymond Clark was sentenced to 44 years in prison for the 2009 murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le. I remember the murder well, in part because of the gruesome facts of the case but also because my daughter was about to go off to college. Le’s body was found stuffed inside the wall of a lab building where Clark worked the day she was to be married. If women couldn’t be safe at Yale, I wondered anxiously, where could they be safe? This week Le’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Yale, accusing the university of not only failing to protect their daughter but female students. English professor Margaret Soltan at Inside Higher Ed recalls the spirit of Le and the mood that September shortly after her murder.--Mona]
She writes:
The academic year has just begun, which makes this death especially painful. There is a piety we feel about the renewal of university life after the summer. The campus teems withall the power/ That being changed can give, as Philip Larkin, describing just-married couples, puts it in his poem, The Whitsun Weddings. It teems with people getting on with their lives seriously, excitedly.
