Word: bursars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard v. Lehigh football game. The coupons for every other game announce, in p.c. gender-neutral language, that students must present the signed coupon "with a Harvard identification card." The Lehigh game, for some reason, was open only to those with a coupon "signed by the owner, with his bursar's card...
...Police claim they are "blinded" by a flash from a Crimson photographer's camera as they make an arrest. Officers seize bursar's cards from the photographer, as well as a reporter. The officers, one of whom is wearing sunglasses, say that their safety is jeopardized when they cannot see properly. One officer suggests that the arrest should not be of interest to Harvard students. Another says that 40 to 50 percent of the homeless are armed...
...night of the party, the studentscomplied with a first request to turn their musicdown, but when McGee asked the students to turnthe music off around 2 a.m., Pierce argued thatCollege rules allowed him to keep the music on ata low level. When the argument grew heated, McGeeconfiscated Pierce's bursar's card and left...
...Dixiecrats in Congress, racist punks have taken aim at minority and gay students. As Ms. Armstrong and Ms. Braxton wrote, "For many Black students at Harvard, every day involves a test of one's tolerance of racial harassment, from the Black male who must constantly produce his bursar's card for the HUPD, to the Black female who must suffer repeated abuses of racial slurs and sexual innuendo." And Harvard's racist arrogance is well known in this city. Last year eight Black teenagers filed a $2 million civil suit against Harvard police after campus cops threatened them...
...message to Black students says that their safety is of lesser importance than the politics of football. For many Black students at Harvard, every day involves a test of one's tolerance of racial harassment, from the Black male student who must constantly produce his bursar's card for HUPD, to the Black female student who must suffer the repeated abuses of racial slurs and sexual innuendo. The recent developments in the Currier House incident merely serve to confirm Black students' suspicions that the University would not issue serious punishments to curb such incorrigible behavior...