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...more pleasant [if you do].”“This is who I’ve been since 13—precocious,” he said.But after a CEB-organized Pep Rally featuring the popular remix-artist Girl Talk came to a premature end due to crowd control issues this November, no amount of precocity could forestall the backlash from frustrated concert-goers.Gossip Geek, an anonymous Harvard blog, declared Schwartz’s political campaign over after the debacle, in a headline reading: “Girl Talk Rocks Campus for Five Minutes, Tells Us that Everything...
...Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana, Greg Bright said he witnessed one prisoner jump out of line and stab another prisoner in the neck. And everyone kept walking. Bright, who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in 1976 and spent the subsequent 27 years in prison, spoke before a crowd of undergraduates as part of Voices of Innocence, an event organized by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates to commemorate the 60th anniversary of human rights’ universal declaration.Bright, in addition to two other exonerated prisoners who spoke during the event, said they were angry about the lost time they...
...just hours after the killing of Andreas-Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Police say Grigoropoulos was among a gang of youths who attacked them while on patrol, though the exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear. The 37-year-old officer who shot Grigoropoulos says he fired warning shots to disperse a crowd, though witnesses charge that he pointed his gun at the young boy and discharged it once. Prosecutors have charged the officer with manslaughter, and his 31-year-old partner with abetting him. The coroner's report was inconclusive, though a ballistics test may determine whether the bullet was fired...
Once a crush begins, it's very hard to reverse the flow. So it's essential that event organizers preserve enough space anywhere the crowd may flow. At Hillsborough Stadium in the U.K. in 1989, a terrace became packed with fans, causing a railing to give way. In all, 96 people died. On the terrace, there were 8.4 people per square meter, according to studies of photographs taken before the railing collapsed...
...department is planning another meeting with stores for mid-December to share crowd-management strategies and try to prevent future fiascos. So far, Mulvey says, Wal-Mart has been very cooperative in the investigation into Damour's death. "We will continue to work with local law enforcement officials so that together we can implement even stronger safety measures going forward," Mullany, the Wal-Mart executive, said in a statement...