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That's how I experienced the accident. However, my account is nothing like what's been reported in The Crimson. The headlines of the stories alone have been irresponsible: Sophia A. van Wingerden's August 4th article, "Passengers Escape; PBH Bus Aflame," and its inside blurb, "PBH Bus Bursts into Flames" are erroneous and sensational. Again, the same writer in August 7's issue wrote another story, entitled "University Has No Leads in PBH Shuttle Bus Fire," whose inside blurb read "PBH Van Explosion," To set the record straight, the bus which caught on fire last Friday was neither...
...facts of the accident is the Facilities and Maintenance Shuttle garage where J. Carter Vincent took a picture of the bus which looks infinitely more shocking now than when its last passengers left it. Both Ms. van Wingerden's articles, and the editorial piece, "Harvard, Have You Forgotten About PBH?" written by Jeffrey S. Nordhaus (August 7), contain numerous factual errors, which demonstrate the irresponsibility of The Crimson's reporting. In van Wingerden's articles she repeatedly gives the reader the impression that passengers only escaped from the bus seconds before it became a flaming inferno. Van Wingerden writes that...
Lord knows, when Harvard officials discuss the pre-professional stereotype of their students, they point to PBH with justifiable pride. So how can they now pretend that the student group is just another Cambridge neighbor having some equipment problems...
Instead, thus 351-year-old monolithic institution would rather duck behind a group of 20-year-old students with noble intentions, and let them take the heat for their problems. If Harvard is going to continue to interract with PBH, it must take responsibility for the organization's mistakes, as well...
Harvard must first actively work to effect a more strictly enforced safety policy at PBH. If PBH cannot enforce its own laws, then it cannot drive children. The Harvard administration is in a position to work with Harvard students to ensure that they are able to make such changes at a time when their credibility is being fundamentally questioned...