Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crews was to have the enormous cameraman block me with his equipment, or try to distract me in some way, while the others ran past. They grew more creative as the week ran on, while the crowds swelled. At around 9 p.m. on Thursday night, the Chicago Fire Marshal decided that there were too many people on the floor. However, this was an arena, there were no real doors, only portals, so the marshal decided to have the students physically block the path by making human barricades...
...article itself reads like a pat on the back for racial harmony. The author, David A. Fahrenthold '00, started off with the lead, "Although last week's senior class marshal election yielded two black first marshals for only the second time in University history, the most remarkable aspect of that result seems to be that it is not remarkable at all." What follows is a litany of quotations from the first marshals, other marshals, others who ran for marshal, former black marshals, and Harvard administrators all saying that personality not race was the driving force behind the election of Allison...
...article was not the article itself, but the premise behind it. Sure, it's great that all those interviewed said they voted based on personality but the article, in its lead, seemed to expect something different. Recall that the author began by stating "Although last week's senior class marshal election yielded two black first marshals," and concluded essentially by saying that no one was bothered by that fact. But many readers wondered why The Crimson would have expected anything different...
...election represents a beacon of racial harmony. Here's a better lead of my own creation along those lines, "Despite the fact that in the United States black churches are being burned at an alarming rate, at least for Harvard undergraduates race didn't matter in the recent class marshal elections...
Many seemed to agree with fourth marshal Kevin C. Scott '97, who said personality, not ethnicity, was the driving factor behind the election results...