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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (650)	3/17/2000 11:56:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Here we need the opinion of a woman, preferably a woman who keeps or has kept a diary. I kept a diary once, in high school. My own experience--and I suspect it's shared by many--is that you start out with great enthusiasm, writing long entries every day, and gradually become bored. By the end you're just puting in factual one-liners once a week or so, and then you stop. that might have happened with Suzanne, who, after all was especially busy in that moment of her senior year. There may have been very few entries from the month or so leading up to her death, and none may have been pertinent. We need to know how intimate woman get in them. I'd say that depends on the woman in question, and on why she's keeping the diary. If they were seeing a married man or doing something they shouldn't, might a diary be used like a confessional, i.e. an outlet for "guilt"? Newsflash: most women, especially young women, don't feel particularly "guilty" about having affairs with married men. Are women likely to "censor" their diaries for fear someone "unauthorized" might read them? Probably not all that likely. BUT many youg woman--I've known a number--have vague literary aspirations, and very definitely write with a view to future publication, should they become as successful and famous as we all imagine we'll become when we're that age. So she might have avoided mentioning anything that she thought might reflect badly on herself.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (650)	3/17/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

For me to get past square one on any secret scenario I need to feel that a) woman are at least somewhat likely to self-censor what they write in their diaries, and b) Suzanne was not the type to share intimate details of her life in her diary, with friends, or with family. I may be wrong, but I get the impression Suzanne was not someone who internalized things. My impression of her is that she was a pretty straightforward and direct person. I wonder, though, to what extent she confided in friends. I'd have expected to hear a great many more "personal" stories from them: about her boyfriend, about her interests, plans, and free-time activities. Who were her friends, for that matter? We've had contributions from Peter Stein and another guy, both of them from Germany. Most women have at least a few very close female friends. Where are they? As for her parents: as you very well know, at that age there's a LOT you don't tell your folks. Why did she live alone off campus? That does seem to me odd, as I've said before.