Word: kirklands
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) arrested Joshua M. Elster '00 on Saturday, Jan. 31, from his Kirkland House room on three counts of rape and two counts of assault and battery. He was released on $10,000 cash bail and later indicted by a grand jury in Cambridge on the five original counts and an additional count of indecent assault and battery which refers to the sexual nature of the offense with which he has been charged. Elster's case is now in the pre-trial stages in the Superior Court. The next court date is scheduled for September...
This week's rape and assault allegations against Kirkland House sophomore Joshua M. Elster have shocked the Harvard community. Whether or not the allegations prove true, Elster's arrest has served as a catalyst for overdue discussions about the prevalence of rape and date rape on campus and it has exposed the University's ability--whether intentional or not--to suppress sensitive, yet public information...
...University has also been negligent in its silence. Kirkland House did not hold a meeting after students saw Elster arrested Saturday afternoon. House administrators should have, at the very least, made an effort to quell rumors about the incident by giving its students the facts of the situation...Regardless of the outcome of this case...the College should mount an awareness campaign about rape on campus and, like many other colleges, hold mandatory information sessions on date rape for all students...
...year, most people would eat in Winthrop, Kirkland, Adams, and Lowell," Pytka said. "[Those Houses] are closer...and the food is better...
...Kirkland, Eliot, Adams and Mather Houses hadparticularly high rates of participation over theeight other Houses...