Word: posterer
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...wanted poster issued last week by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the suspected robber of Matthews Hall has been discredited and disgraced by a fabricated redesign. The altered version of the poster includes a caricature of a black male in place of the original police sketch and mocks the criminal's alias as "Afro-American...
...infamous parody appeared in the Lampoon, we might have laughed. But given that this poster may cause real harm to the community, we must condemn the forgery of this official security measure...
...parody of official documents in a manner which attempts to imitate their purpose is a dangerous act which does not, and should not, qualify for such constitutional protections. Such forgery undermines the ability of Harvard students to identify real bulletins and damages the credibility of the HUPD. The poster in question is realistic enough that it could provide reasonable confusion as to the identity of a potentially dangerous criminal and therefore impair the HUPD investigation. We urge removal of all fake posters and assert that they have no right to be hanging in public...
Johnson said he did not know how or when the altered poster appeared. He said that he first learned about it when contacted yesterday by The Crimson...
Chief Johnson said that the original poster had been circulated at a meeting with officials from the Freshman Dean's Office when the string of break-ins at Matthews was discussed. The sign subsequently was photocopied and distributed across campus...