Word: monitors
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Before last Friday, few if any students were aware of the Harvard University Police Department’s (HUPD) use of over 200 video cameras to monitor public areas on campus, including the Yard. While we applaud HUPD’s efforts to keep students safe, we are troubled by the secrecy surrounding video surveillance on campus. HUPD has a responsibility to discuss security with its constituents as long as that discussion does not jeopardize the goal of keeping students safe. HUPD maintains that these cameras are used to protect students from crime—and not to catch students...
...Officers can change the video feeds to monitor campus hot spots. This particular week in April is World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week, so Catalano said HUPD has focused on the animal facility, in case activists incite a protest...
...still old fashioned,” he said. “I still like to see campus police officers spend more time on foot, where they get to spend more time on campus. If you’ve got that many cameras, how many people do you need to monitor them? Suppose we had fewer cameras but more people out on the street...
...While we closely monitor how gay rights are granted and taken away, we pay almost no attention to the fact that stepparents are in the same legal limbo. Despite being ubiquitous, step-relationships are rarely recognized by the law. In most states, stepparents are considered "legal strangers" even if they have cared for and supported a stepchild for years. They have almost no official responsibility and barely any rights...
...included a requirement that there be a report to the Faculty Council in three years,” 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the council’s vice-chair, said. “My sense was that we need to continue to monitor this...