Word: currierized
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Drugs on campus. We all know that drugs do exist at Harvard. Every day, they are bought, sold and used by some of the nation's finest college students. This reality was confirmed on April 10 when two Currier House seniors, Stephen V. David '96 and William A. Blankenship '96, were arrested for allegedly possessing marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD and "ecstasy" with intent to distribute. The Crimson gave the arrests top-story coverage in both the April 12 and April 16 editions of the paper. Both stories were written by Laura C. Semerjian...
Furthermore, this reader accused The Crimson of creating news through its own sensationalism. She pointed out that Currier residents were not even aware of the arrests when questioned for the April 12 article, yet four days later, The Crimson titled its article "Currier Shocked by Drug Arrests." Of course, the students would not have been shocked at all if The Crimson had not itself created the reaction to the arrests of Blankenship and David. Given that Blankenship and David had not yet been convicted of any crimes, she argued, these two stories were insensitive to the two students and their...
After reading the charges leveled against Blankenship and David, my first reaction was to pity them. Currier House is within 1,000 feet of the Peabody Elementary School on Linnaean St., and, as a result, the two students were charged with intention to distribute within a school zone. Surely, I thought, these students were victims of circumstance. They were selling drugs, but they weren't selling drugs to children. They just happened to be near an elementary school...
After debating whether to pay the money to have the University mediate the dispute, the Eliot House Committee passed a proposal on Sunday to pay $94.50, or half the sum of money demanded by Currier...
...Currier House Committee accepted Eliot's compromise at a meeting on Monday...