Word: asks
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...ask everyone to cooperate with the police and staff in the hours ahead,” the House Masters wrote. “We will apprise everyone of further developments...
...answered “yes,” “no,” or “I’m not sure” to a single question that made no reference to the crucial controversy over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prohibits openly gay individuals from joining the military...
...poll could easily have distinguished between absolute opposition to ROTC’s official recognition and principled conditional support by adding a fourth option: “Yes, I support official recognition, but only after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” But the question and available responses were likely framed under the false assumption that no such distinction exists. Shortly before the poll’s release, Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president emeritus of the HRC, denied the claim that DADT constituted legitimate grounds for Harvard?...
...emergency” text message by almost 15 minutes. Most tellingly, when the first text message finally arrived at 5:45 p.m., it was both factually inaccurate and truncated: “Report of shooting near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St. Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi [sic].” In the era of Twitter, it seems little to ask that those in charge of emergency SMS should know the number of characters that fit in one message. For the record...
...yesterday described a period of confusion immediately following the incident, during which a variety of sources provided inconsistent or insufficient information. The first University emergency text message alert, sent to subscribers nearly an hour after the shooting, was cut off by word-capacity constraints, reading: “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi—” Kirkland resident Gladisley Sanchez ’09 said she was unsure when she could leave her room. The text message, she said, was unclear and the first e-mailed communications from the university were “cryptic...