Word: sidewalkers
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...Sidewalk chalk is the first weapon of student voice across the country; on many college campuses, it’s difficult to find a virgin square of asphalt. Colorful riots of amateur images, murals laid down on their side, document the vibrancy of student life. At one corner, they may advertise an upcoming event, at another, a protest, and at still another, a whimsically encoded maxim...
...like an umbrella. With its deadly metal spikes spreading around at eye-level from an enormously cumbersome circumference, the umbrella is perfectly designed for destruction. Part ninja shuriken, part medieval buckler, and part retiarius’s net, the umbrella is a deadly tool in the hands of the sidewalk bumbler...
...average Cambridge sidewalk is infamous for its inability to comfortably accommodate two people walking abreast. Add a four-foot circle around each person and you have an impassable wall of nylon and steel. In the rain, stepping over the curb becomes an impossibility, and phalanxes of overstressed and rushed Harvard students clump up on sidewalks, knotted up by umbrellas. Cambridge’s Puritan planners simply didn’t have umbrellas in mind when they were laying out the cobblestones, but we insist on jamming the streets with them anyhow...
...Officers dispatched to a report of an individual walking on the sidewalk with a laceration on their head. Officers arrived and spoke to the individual. A field interview was conducted and the individual was run for warrants with negative results. The individual was then transported via ambulance to a medical facility...
Last spring, a black teenager was arrested and taken to jail for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk just outside the Yale campus. Perrotti, who suspected “police misconduct” and called the arrest “clearly a case of racial profiling,” said she was denied access to certain information because of the offender?...