Word: kirkland
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...irony of Dean Hammonds’s timing notwithstanding, it is commendable that President Faust went to Kirkland on Monday evening to reassure students. That night, she was visible and accountable. And yet we clearly need to reform the emergency contact systems,so that only accurate information is disseminated and such information minimizes fear and stress. In the same light, the administration must use those principles of openness and honesty to reform the way it involves students in decision-making beyond public safety crises, particularly when these decisions affect students’ lives at Harvard. Only through dialogue...
...Students in the vicinity of Kirkland who heard the gunshots on Monday afternoon freaked out—and understandably so. Most of them stayed indoors and rushed to contact friends and e-mail lists about the shooting. From the Black Students Association to the Harvard Salient, rumors of the shooting spread like wildfire. Some e-mails claimed the shooting had happened outside of the Bee Club, others that more than one person had been seen collapsing from gunshot wounds on Mt. Auburn Street. Predictably, there was more misinformation than information...
...Despite the avalanche of acronyms, when an emergency materialized on Monday, chaos and fear spread through e-mail lists for an hour while all the above systems remained silent. The Kirkland master’s e-mail to his House residents beat the university’s “emergency” text message by almost 15 minutes. Most tellingly, when the first text message finally arrived at 5:45 p.m., it was both factually inaccurate and truncated: “Report of shooting near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St. Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi...
...DeFrancesco. The CPD believes that the robbery is an isolated incident, DeFrancesco said. No police log entry was yet available from the CPD documenting the alleged crime. At this time there is no reason to believe that the armed robbery is related to a shooting that occurred yesterday in Kirkland House, according to Catalano. This year, the Harvard student community has received e-mail advisories about six robberies or attempted robberies that have occurred since August 2008. HUPD was dispatched for 14 robberies last school year, three of which occurred on Harvard’s Cambridge campus, according...
...after the fatal shooting of a man in the Kirkland House Annex, students are returning to their exams amid lingering concerns over the initial University response to an incident that sent a wave of concern across campus. Kirkland students interviewed by The Crimson yesterday described a period of confusion immediately following the incident, during which a variety of sources provided inconsistent or insufficient information. The first University emergency text message alert, sent to subscribers nearly an hour after the shooting, was cut off by word-capacity constraints, reading: “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi?...