For Yale, new chapter opens in Jovin case
Administrators hope to ‘bring comfort’ to family, friends in continuing media frenzy
Nine years ago, the life of Suzanne Jovin ’99 ended tragically, but the University’s public-affairs struggle in handling the aftermath had just begun.
University administrators said they have never wavered on their stance on Jovin’s murder — that the primary objective is solving the case in order to bring comfort to family and friends. Deputy University Secretary Martha Highsmith said the focus has always been solving the crime.
A decade later, remembering Suzanne Jovin
What a coincidence, or maybe not. Yale inferentially accused Van de Velde of complicity in the murder by suspending his classes without even an apparent shred of evidence against him. An admisnitrator bny the name of David Brodhead made this decision. This, of course, was a dry run, a try-out on the road, for what the same Brodhead later did at Duke, suspending not only the lacrosse players accused of rape, but the entire lacrosse team's season, again, despite early and potent evidence that there was no rape at all. Practice makes perfect.