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...Queen said his attention to the bartending course resulted from a complaint lodged by the parents of a secondary-school student enrolled in the Summer School. The parents objected to the large banner with which HSA advertised the course in Harvard Yard during Summer School move-in. HSA’s promotion of alcohol to an audience including many minors, they wrote in an e-mail to Queen, was inappropriate...
...Queen said he felt the lone complaint carried the weight of many...
...parent took the trouble to send us a letter, but we’re assuming that there were others offended by it as well—the silent majority, as it were,” Queen said. “Since we have 1000 high school students attending, the largest constituency of the Summer School, we agree with the parents...
...said that Queen had seen the banner in question and approved it before it was displayed...
...Queen said that the advertisement itself was not ultimately that important in his decision, citing instead a philosophical incompatibility between the Summer School and the bartending course...