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Much has already been written in the past 24 hours about the accusations that Mitt Romney was a teenage tyrant at the Cranbrook School.
Former classmates say he bullied a gay student, John Lauber, pinning him to the ground and cutting his bleached blond hair.
Still lingering is the candidate’s explanation that he doesn’t remember any of it.
That episode, the subject of The Washington Post’s front-page story on Thursday, has been the biggest topic of conversation in the political world for the past two days.
“As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors,” the paper reported.
The experience was so traumatic that Lauber, who died in 2004, told a classmate in the mid-1990s, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then,” according to the Post.
Thomas Buford, a retired lawyer who was one of Romney’s classmates, told the paper, “To this day it troubles me.”
Phillip Maxwell, another student who was there, told ABC News that “when you see somebody who is simply different taken down that way and is terrified and you see that look in their eye, you never forget it.”
Romney, apparently, did forget it.
“I don’t recall the incident myself, but I’ve seen the reports and I’m not going to argue with that,” Romney said in a Fox News interview on Thursday.
It might seem incredible that an episode of bullying that was remembered by so many other people in the room has been forgotten by the Republican candidate for president.
But the science of memory retention suggests that Romney would remember parading his classmates into a room with Lauber to clip his hair, if the experience were significant enough for Romney himself.
“One would think that such an action, if it did occur, would be laden with strong emotions, making it less likely that he would not remember it,” said Steven Lynn, a psychology professor at Binghamton University whose area of expertise is human memory.
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Former classmates say he bullied a gay student, John Lauber, pinning him to the ground and cutting his bleached blond hair.
Still lingering is the candidate’s explanation that he doesn’t remember any of it.
That episode, the subject of The Washington Post’s front-page story on Thursday, has been the biggest topic of conversation in the political world for the past two days.
“As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors,” the paper reported.
The experience was so traumatic that Lauber, who died in 2004, told a classmate in the mid-1990s, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then,” according to the Post.
Thomas Buford, a retired lawyer who was one of Romney’s classmates, told the paper, “To this day it troubles me.”
Phillip Maxwell, another student who was there, told ABC News that “when you see somebody who is simply different taken down that way and is terrified and you see that look in their eye, you never forget it.”
Romney, apparently, did forget it.
“I don’t recall the incident myself, but I’ve seen the reports and I’m not going to argue with that,” Romney said in a Fox News interview on Thursday.
It might seem incredible that an episode of bullying that was remembered by so many other people in the room has been forgotten by the Republican candidate for president.
But the science of memory retention suggests that Romney would remember parading his classmates into a room with Lauber to clip his hair, if the experience were significant enough for Romney himself.
“One would think that such an action, if it did occur, would be laden with strong emotions, making it less likely that he would not remember it,” said Steven Lynn, a psychology professor at Binghamton University whose area of expertise is human memory.
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