Word: lawns
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...century happens to fall on a Saturday, right after the Fourth of July. In fact, when Wal-Mart saw how popular the day was, it decided to host a contest where seven couples will win an all-expenses-paid wedding held in their closest Wal-Mart Super Center lawn and garden area...
...with the full authorization of the three House “masters” in the Quad, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) sponsored an early-afternoon picnic and field day on the Quad lawn. Simultaneously, a number of their non-black fellow students exchanged e-mails expressing annoyance about the students allegedly damaging the lawn and doubt that they were Harvard students with a right to be there in the first place. Then, one of the complainants called the police. That a student gathering of a similar nature...
Thus, after May 12, BMF and ABHW noted that the police had not been called on the noisy and largely white crowd that, without official permission, had convened “Quad Day”—a similar event on the same lawn during reading period. Some non-black students have argued, counterfactually, that the police were called simply because BMF and ABHW were making excessive noise during reading period. In fact, according to Harvard University Police Chief Francis Riley, the initial telephone complaint specifically identified the picnickers as non-Harvard affiliates, and that was the original official...
Like the black students’ gathering, Quad Day made noise during reading period. Unlike the later gathering of black students, however, the white students at Quad Day had done so on a weekday, had reportedly engaged in illegal public drinking, and had muddied a significant portion of the lawn while playing “slip-and-slide.” In a dramatic indication of the double standard at play, Quad Day and the damage to the lawn were reportedly photographed and celebrated on a Facebook profile of the very student who later initiated the email complaints about...
Nine hundred bright-eyed Harvard Business School (HBS) graduates of the Class of 2007 blanketed the lawn in front of Baker Library yesterday as American Express Company Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault took the stage, exhorting them to maintain a moral compass as they work to become leaders in the business world. A Harvard Law School graduate, Chenault—well known for the leadership he exhibited in 2001 when the American Express tower was damaged by debris from the collapsing World Trade Center—was selected by the four members of the Student Class Day Committee...