Chris Griffith, Dean of Graduate Student Life at Stanford, shared the following at Chabad at Stanford’s memorial service for Amir, March 29, 2004.
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I did not know Amir, but I work for Stanford, and I respond to crises, so I got the first call about Amir and communicated it. But over the last few days – working with Amir’s advisor; Dean at School of Ed, I have a sense of him; I was struck by the kind of community he was able to create and nurture around him. When I talked to his roommate, to whom he had been randomly assigned, he was quite devastated and said, “He was the only roommate I ever got along with” – and he’s a 4th year PHD student…