Word: heraldic
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...HARVARD HOOLIGANS,” blared the Boston Herald on its Nov. 22 front page, two days after the lamest and tamest Harvard-Yale tailgate since 1944, when there was no fucking tailgate. (It’s true! We may have coddled high-ranking Nazis in the 1930s, but when World War II rolled around, our boys were on the front lines—or, err, somewhere near the front lines. We’d heard about those front lines, that’s for sure...
Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers. In the aftermath of the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the Boston Herald (among others) sensationalized that the tailgate had been a raucous mess, with arrests, drugs and unsafe drinking aplenty. But these reports were remarkably misleading and sometimes blatantly inaccurate. The various articles all focus on a private party in Allston—unrelated to the tailgates at all. “The police go to the door and there is no respect,” Captain William Evans, Boston Police Department (BPD) commander of the Brighton-Allston district, remarked...
This year’s tailgate doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it has acquired. The Boston Herald and BPD alike contended that 2004 marked new heights of drunken debauchery at the Harvard-Yale Game. But what they failed to see was the safety net underlying the celebration and the detailed planning that made this year’s tailgate the safest effort yet. Besides easily fixable problems like bathrooms and entrance lines, the problem with this year’s tailgate seems confined to particular individuals and their personal attitudes—be it consuming to dangerous...
...Marks, membership was an affirmation of her previous work as well as an encouraging herald to her future. “It definitely gave me inspiration in terms of my graduate school application...Harvard doesn’t give much positive confirmation of what you’re doing, it’s such a competitive school, and I tend to feel that I’m not doing all that exceptionally well,” she said...
Bennett, 45, has a rich background in foreign reporting, an interest he said was first piqued by a dinner in Winthrop House. While running the Harvard chapter of Amnesty International, he hosted Buenos Aires Herald Editor Robert Cox for dinner, and Cox told Bennett and his roommates about the detainment of reporters during the years of the “disappearances” in Argentina. After leaving dinner, Bennett aid, he knew he had to go to Latin America as a journalist...