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...Harvard often means having to say goodbye.Leaving Harvard to study abroad was perhaps the single best decision of my undergraduate career. Not only did going to France give me a better grasp of the French language and culture—replete with champagne and encounters with the French police??€”but also it gave me an appreciation for Harvard that I would not have experienced otherwise. I missed the intellectual vigor, the faculty, house life, and most of all my friends back in Cambridge. One doesn’t have to study abroad, however, to gain perspective or experience...
According to the advisory, the male undergraduate—whose name was not released by police??€”was walking down JFK Street when he saw the suspect smoking a cigarette and gesturing with his hands. As the victim approached, the suspect demanded his wallet and pulled out a knife...
...University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds points out, bringing battlefield tactics to the bedroom blurs the line between "soldiers" and "police." Soldiers are trained for "killing people and breaking things," which is incompatible with the police??€™s (theoretical) commitment to maintaining law and order with as little violence as necessary. When the police are breaking down doors as if Boston were Baghdad, it gets hard to distinguish the armed forces from the public servants...
...barrage of media coverage and scrutiny descended upon Harvard’s former football captain this summer, fueling a domestic assault case where the victim urged prosecutors to drop charges, and friends, teammates—and the victim herself—rejected police??€™s version of the events.Yet, the prosecution charged ahead.Last Wednesday, just two days before the case was scheduled for trial, Cambridge District Court Judge George R. Sprague ’60 dismissed it, against the objections of the prosecutor. After months of speculation and rumor, it was finally over.On the cusp of graduation, the class...
This incident, combined with the Boston Police??€™s recent effort to reinstate the Prohibition at this year’s Harvard-Yale football game—and the overwhelming uproar of student indignation that followed—led me to ponder the culture of binge drinking that, make no mistake about it, is alive and well in the Ivy League...