Word: graffiti
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...consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...
...went down there one night when I could no longer concentrate on my reading--I felt like I was practically going insane," said a sophomore graffiti writer who wishes to remain anonymous for this article. "I needed to be alone, and the only place I could go was the bathroom, and by fate, I somehow ended up in that wonderful stall. What amazes me so much is the raw honestly of the writings. It's a place where things are understood, where you can express those things you only think when the Harvard world goes away for a moment...
...uniqueness of this Harvard-born graffiti is that it extends beyond simple recounts of traumatic, salad bar sagas. Students in this community engage in a dialogue, responding to the prose written by their fellow partners in crime. A debate spanning the left corner discusses the difficulty of not becoming disillusioned with learning solely as a result of intense workloads. A contingent on the top right argues over women's worth--or seemingly lack thereof...
...graffiti artists and their comrades harbor no regrets for using the bathroom wall to fulfill their needs in the here...
...next thing I guess was graffiti on my door. I keep a little pad on my door, if people want to leave me notes. Someone had written something foul on it. I was like, 'Okay, that's upsetting.' So I kept them, reported it to the Masters of the house, who told the community at-large and enlisted the House Council to start some student initiatives to address issues of homophobia, tolerance, et cetera, et cetera. There was the Mather House Creed, which some people had problems with because it didn't address the issue directly. It was a 'Mather...