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...combat indifference in the U.K., Bragg helped form Red Wedge, a loose coalition of various music-makers and comics that has toured Great Britain in support of the Labour Party. Along with groups like the Housemartins, Style Council and the Blow Monkeys, Bragg traveled in the Red Wedge Battle Bus doing benefit shows, press conferences and general rabble-rousing in order to stir up the youth vote. Not quite the entourage of your typical rock star...
That's how I experienced the accident. However, my account is nothing like what's been reported in The Crimson. The headlines of the stories alone have been irresponsible: Sophia A. van Wingerden's August 4th article, "Passengers Escape; PBH Bus Aflame," and its inside blurb, "PBH Bus Bursts into Flames" are erroneous and sensational. Again, the same writer in August 7's issue wrote another story, entitled "University Has No Leads in PBH Shuttle Bus Fire," whose inside blurb read "PBH Van Explosion," To set the record straight, the bus which caught on fire last Friday was neither...
Apparently the closest Crimson staffers have gotten to the facts of the accident is the Facilities and Maintenance Shuttle garage where J. Carter Vincent took a picture of the bus which looks infinitely more shocking now than when its last passengers left it. Both Ms. van Wingerden's articles, and the editorial piece, "Harvard, Have You Forgotten About PBH?" written by Jeffrey S. Nordhaus (August 7), contain numerous factual errors, which demonstrate the irresponsibility of The Crimson's reporting. In van Wingerden's articles she repeatedly gives the reader the impression that passengers only escaped from the bus seconds before...
...existing PBHA policy; it is not something condoned by PBHA. In any event, one child in the front seat of the van with a seat belt on could have struck the driver's arm in the very same manner as the child in the Keylatch accident did, and the bus probably would have still flipped over, overloaded or not. Overcrowding of vehicles is wrong, yet the accident could happen at any time to anyone, transporting others in automobiles...
Nordhaus believes that PBHA's credibility is being "fundamentally questioned" because of the accidents. I don't believe this is true. All of PBHA's summer camp programs are currently operating, including Keylatch and my own. Friday, after our accident, the kids eagerly and willingly boarded another shuttle bus to return home. The parents we serve are equally supportive of our efforts. After we visited each home Friday to explain the accident, parents let their children get on another shuttle bus to go to the movie theater...