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...guards while their white peers are not subjected to such scrutiny,” Counter wrote.Counter told The Boston Globe that in 2004 he was stopped by HUPD in Harvard Yard and that the officers threatened to arrest him when he could not produce identification. The officers then entered Thayer Hall to ask students about his identity, The Globe reported. Timothy D. Turner ‘09, the president of the Black Students Association, said that while did not believe that HUPD officers were intentionally targeting black students, he welcomes the review as a step toward creating a friendlier campus...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Faces Race Probe | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...residents of Thayer Hall reported that an unidentified male stole a laptop and a television from a room in Thayer on Wednesday night, according to an e-mail sent by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The burglar entered the victim’s walk-through double through the room’s unlocked door at around 11:20 p.m., according to the victim’s roommate Haili E. Muse ’11. Muse said that the burglar then asked her for a person whose name she did not recognize. “I got really freaked...

Author: By Kevin C. Leu and Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Unidentified Man Robs Thayer Room | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Last year, my hall in Thayer had a bulletin board with a map of the United States labeled “Where We Are From.” Attached to the map were pieces of orange paper with the names of all the hall’s residents. The coasts were covered in these little slips: San Franciscans crowded into the Pacific Ocean; Manhattanites spilled over into New Jersey. In between the orange masses was a wide expanse of empty map with three exceptions: single slips on Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Aside from Florida and Texas, the Southern states...

Author: By Caroline A. Bleeke | Title: Don’t Coddle the Coasts | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Thayer map is not an exact representation of the Harvard student body, but it does reflect the trends. According to admissions data published in the Harvard University Gazette, 44 percent of the class of 2011 is from the Northeast (New England and mid-Atlantic regions), 20 percent is from the West, 16 percent is from the South, and 11 percent is from the Midwest (the rest are international). These numbers hardly match up with the actual population distribution in the U.S. As reported by the Census Bureau in 2005, only 18 percent of the population lives in the Northeast...

Author: By Caroline A. Bleeke | Title: Don’t Coddle the Coasts | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Ideally, the Thayer map will one day be more than two orange coasts with space in between. But for that to happen, Harvard needs to step up efforts to do away with prejudices that often dominate college application decisions...

Author: By Caroline A. Bleeke | Title: Don’t Coddle the Coasts | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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