Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...origin of the letters is not known but several campus organizations including The Harvard Independent and Harvard Lampoon categorically denied any connection with the prank...
Unfortunately, they've chosen the wrong bar. A place as popular as the Heartbreak Hotel gets plenty of prank calls, bomb threats among them. So when a would-be terrorist (Daniel Von Bargen) calls to makes his demands, owner Jeff Burgess (Dan Welch) is nonchalant. "Sorry," he quips, "we don't take bomb threats over the phone...
This outrage comes during a time when the Harvard community is experiencing a series of prank phone calls insulting Asian Americans. The Crimson reported (March 7) that the phrase "fuck you, Korean bitch" was repeatedly used during these phone calls. The severity of such harassment has warranted a police investigation...
...press further aggravates this problem when it misrepresents its sources of information and, therefore, misleads its readers. People reading the front-page article in The Crimson about prank calls may have been led to believe that the AAA "has not heard about the calls and has no plans to address the issue...
...HARVARD community itself is far from immune from these senseless hate crimes. Recently, a slur against Chinese Americans was found on the Lamont Poetry Board, and prank callers have attacked non-Asians and Asians alike, hurling racial slurs like "Korean bitch...