Word: firings
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Last year, some students doused their boats in flammable liquids, such as nail polish, and the Cambridge Fire Department was summoned when onlookers thought the Weld Boathouse was on fire...
Alleging that there is something “unsafe” about burning a floating celebratory monument in a public water supply is bogus, and the administration knows it. Who is Dean Dingman to stop chemistry from happening by refusing to let water put out fire? Furthermore, it is a blatant violation of students’ rights to station police cordons around the river like we’re animals in a zoo, or convicts in a prison, or irresponsible teenagers who could potentially harm our fellow citizens by lighting things on fire in public spaces...
...added that, along with two of his female blockmates, he looked up safe burning methods online, built a boat out of newspaper, set it on fire, and dropped it into the Charles from Weeks Footbridge, where it “was extinguished quickly...
...party ultimately decided not to light their floating creation on fire due to safety concerns, though they inscribed it with the names of Houses they feared would claim them—Mather, Dunster, Cabot, and Winthrop—and drew flames around them...
...really strongly, attacking both on defense and offense,” Matera said. “That was something we were looking to do. I think the last game we came out more on our heels and they set the tempo, so we were looking to come out on fire...