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...wake of a Harvard junior’s recent allegations that a Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant beat him up, another charge of improper conduct against officers from the same Brighton police station has emerged: UMass-Boston undergraduate Matthew E. Cole and his lawyer, John Swomley, say they are preparing to file charges against BPD in response to a black eye Cole allegedly suffered in a police raid of a party at his home...
Cole, 24, was arrested the morning of Aug. 18 with each of his four roommates for “keeping a disorderly house” and “disturbing the peace.” They were taken to the Brighton station together in a BPD paddy wagon. Cole alleges that he got a black eye because officers purposely “slammed the gas pedal like we were on a drag strip and later slammed the brake,” causing him to be thrown around in the back with the other prisoners...
Every so often, prisoners from local jails call in to the station using an original method: they call collect, and make their request in the few seconds of time normally allotted for the caller’s name, hanging up before the DJ has the chance to accept...
...says. “What we play is underground, obscure: Punk, Hard Core, Indie Rock, ... The prisoners tend to think older, more traditional Heavy Metal. There is a difference between what they want and what we play, but we’re the only music station that accepts requests and is easy to call...
...sexy-voiced female DJ, Thalia S. Field ‘03, who is also a Crimson executive, has her own explanation. “Many of the people who make requests are very strange,” she says. “It’s a great radio station, but what we play appeals to a certain type of person. Like noise music.” Noise music? “Recordings of ordinary sounds, like jackhammers. The movement started in the 1930s with Pierre Henri, who composed musique concrète,” she explains. Though...