Word: currier
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Much of the Black community at Harvard followed the events regarding the Currier House incident. The four students who shattered the glass window were required to withdraw for one year, as was the student who made the first phone call containing a racial slur, while his roommate received disciplinary probation "vice severe" for placing the second call. The punishments meted out to the students who confessed to the three aspects of the incident were deemed fair enough...
Finally, the greater consequence of the Ad Board's recent decision is to ignore the threatening racial nature of the Currier House incident. Williams shared a room with Jack Patterson, the student who placed the first call, stating, "Negro hit squad strikes again," and who subsequently had to withdraw for one year. Even though Williams did not specifically use the term "Negro" in his phone call, the two calls had the similar effect of inciting fear in the individual victim. We fail to see justification for the Ad Board's division of the three actions in terms of the racial...
...want something fun, something witty and easy to read like the New Yorker, as opposed to something deep or philosophical," said Michael S. Krivan '90, the Currier House resident who is organizing the journal...
Approximately fifteen residents of Currier, North, and Cabot Houses met this week to organize the new journal, which they are considering calling "The Out of Town News and Literary Review...
...supposed to create an identity for the Quad and be something we can be proud of," said Kay S. Moffett '90, a Currier resident who suggested that one article be entitled "20 Reasons to Come to the Quad." Moffett said that it is unfair that the Quad is the butt of some jokes and the guinea pig for arts experiments...