April 12, 2002

A Scholarship That Honors a Murderer

To the Editor:

Your piece on Wheeling Jesuit University misses the point (Give & Take, March 8). If Declan J. Hurley had committed a random murder, it is unlikely that the university would have found it appropriate to accept his family's donation. Instead, this was a classic murder-suicide committed in the context of domestic violence. This sort of violence is minimized by ignorant people because the perpetrator is perceived to be the victim of his own weaknesses, jealousy, or

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