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...light small boats on fire on the eve of Housing Day in hope of securing a desired House placement. This year, however, Cambridge and Harvard police aggressively shut down the ritual. Several boats of more outlandish construction may have merited intervention, but the overall crackdown carried out by HUPD was excessive. It seems incredible that a few flimsy craft, doomed to sail a few feet and then crumple in flames, posed a real safety threat. Obviously, students cannot be allowed to endanger themselves and others with reckless behavior, but a degree of trust must be maintained between authorities and those...
...allegations, received through a confidential compliance hotline, regard events that occurred two years ago and were passed onto the University’s internal auditors, according to a joint statement issued by HUPD spokesman
Steven G. Catalano and University spokesman John D. Longbrake. According to The Boston Globe, which first reported the allegations last week, HUPD Associate Director-Chief of Police Kevin Regan had misused his Harvard-issued gas card and vehicle in 2007 on a personal trip to South Dakota for a motorcycle rally...
...addition, HUPD Police Chief Francis “Bud” Riley had allegedly been using his HUPD cruiser on weekend trips to Vermont, where he, too, was misusing his Harvard-issued gas card, according to the Globe...
Catalano and Longbrake declined to comment further on the auditors’ review or the specifics of the allegations, but did write in the joint statement that “the use of take home HUPD vehicles for individuals who are on call 24 hours a day is authorized by the University and HUPD in order to best maintain the safety and security of the students, faculty, staff, and neighbors of campus...