This is definitely the Pi Phi house of the Vermont Beta cteahpr at 369 S. Prospect St. This house was designed by First Lady Grace Coolidge, and, despite a new path and the relocation of the Greek letters, looks identical to this picture. I will have to check our archives to see if we have this gem!

, I sent the following email to the retorper whose name appears at the bottom of the article. I hope I accurately summed up the argument. -A sore spot among many of us in the community of responsible gun owners is that quite often, due to construction of language, the blame seems to be placed on the gun, an inanimate object, rather than where it rightfully belongs: on the person who negligently discharged that firearm, or by extension the adult who allowed the gun to come into the child's possession. Phrasing like a gun that accidentally fired or when it went off, both of which were used in your story which appeared in the Washington Post on 5/24, make it seem as if the gun discharged of its own free will, and absolves the humans involved of their responsibility and their negligence.While guns throughout history have been known to fire on their own, these occurrences have been in the most infrequent and remote circumstances. As such, I would feel comfortable betting not only every penny I have, but every penny you have, and every penny belonging to everyone who read your story, that the only reason that child is dead is because someone had their finger on the trigger when they shouldn't have. The responsibility lies not with the gun that went off, but with the person who had their finger on the trigger and, since that person was a minor child and not the owner, with the adult who allowed that gun to fall into the child's possession. Language that suggests otherwise ascribes abilities to the gun that it does not have, and makes the gun an object to be feared simply because it exists, rather than a tool about which one should be educated so as to understand the proper handling and use of that tool. In this it is no different than any other implement such as a knife, a hammer, or a chainsaw.For the record, I was made aware of your story via a post on a gun blog that I frequent, the title for which I appropriated for the subject line of this email. If you're interested, that post can be found at: