Show Lying Student Struggles To Fit In At Tufts By Stephen Kraus The Yale Ya Daily News When Gina Grant arrived at Tufts University this fall she received less than a warn warm welcome Flyers accusing Tufts of admitting admitting admitting admit admit- ting killers to the class of 1999 greeted Grant who pleaded no contest contest contest con con- test to bludgeoning her mother with a candlestick five years ago The Tufts captured the nations nation's attention last spring when Harvard University officials rescinded their offer of admission after they found Grant had lied on her application about her past ft Grant who graduated with honors from Boston's Cambridge Ringe and Latin School has settled into a single room in an dormitory at Tufts She declined to be inter inter- viewed Colin Delaney the Tufts junior who posted the fliers at the start of school said Grants Grant's enrollment at Tufts shows ethical irresponsibility on the part of the university's admissions admissions admissions office I think the admission decision indicates that the university does not believe that there should be a mor moral moral moral al and ethical requirement to attend Tufts said Delaney the editor of Tufts' Tufts student-run student conservative newspaper the Primary Source Tufts spokeswoman Rosemarie Van Camp said the university admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted Grant as a 1 fully qualified candidate candidate candidate candi candi- date in the admissions process last spring before Harvard rescinded its offer It is our view that having paid her debt to society she should not be denied the opportunity of pursuing a college degree Van Camp said We aim to do all that we can to help her achieve this goal We are after all a ajust ajust ajust just and fair society and Tufts is a caring and forgiving institution Any other decision would have been ethical anti-ethical to our fundamental values and beliefs she added I think the University accepted Gina because it was a politically correct correct correct cor cor- move Delaney said Tufts wanted to get some good press doing exactly what Harvard wouldn't doThe do The fliers themselves attracted media attention igniting national debate over Grants Grant's matriculation All three major networks aired live footage of the opening day events on Tufts' Tufts campus and Delaney appeared on CNN and ABC Tufts 1 sophomore Stacey Delich said she blames Delaney for the media circus that invaded the cam cam- pus I know Colin and others at the Primary Source did it all for attention attention attention atten atten- tion said Delich who is news editor of the Tufts Observer The problem that I have is that she lied to Harvard Grossman said |