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...Cambridge Historical Commission member Frank Shirley, who participated in the 1999-2000 landmark study, voted against the new study. He said that it was not wise for the commission to initiate a new study, given the history of the matter...
...because some of my friends felt the need to emphatically justify the police reaction to me. While the incident itself may not have been racially motivated, there are undercurrents of race in the discussion, and the more we dance around them, the more we inhibit our ability to have frank conversations as one student community. In ignoring these issues, we demonstrate a—perhaps sometimes well-meant—cultural insensitivity. That many students refuse to openly acknowledge potentially racial aspects to this discussion, and yet touch fleetingly on race when they poke fun at the culture...
...playing time for the Crimson, John was selected by the White Sox in the 47th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft following a junior season in which he went 1-for-9. Meanwhile, Zachary U. Farkes, the all-time Harvard home run leader, and Frank J. Herrmann, the ace of the pitching staff, both members of the Class of 2006, went undrafted that spring and were forced to sign free-agent contracts...
Neither Fred Frank, president of Frank Productions, nor city officials would comment on just how much the city has paid to tame the event - officials said audit reports would take weeks to finalize. But taxpayers from Madison to Green Bay have been footing much of the costs for the police and cleanup over the past tumultuous years. George Twigg, a public information officer for Madison's mayor, says the city expects to get at least $200,000 in ticket sales, which he says will help ease the financial burden. Tickets cost $5 if purchased early and $7 for those...
...alternative is we bring in the laissez-faire Halloween celebration of the past, which is unacceptable," Twigg says. Dave Maynard, vice president of Frank Productions agrees. "How do we reduce the debt to taxpayers? Just giving people something to do is a big part of it." Not that the event didn't have its share of rowdiness this year, with 126 arrests. But that is a big drop from...