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...case has also brought to light town-gown tensions given Pring-Wilson’s Harvard affiliation and Colono’s working-class background...
...Putting aside issues of racial tensions and town-gown relations, the incident at Duke (or, in a sense, the lack of an incident) says a lot about the sensationalizing of sexual assault cases today. So many facets of society have become so hypersensitive to such matters that we seem to be losing our ability to discern between legitimate issues of sexual violence and overblown or exaggerated circumstances. To be sure, crimes of sexual assault such as rape are very serious matters. But so too is an accusation of rape...
...good news both for Harvard and for our students.” “Harvard is starting to play a very meaningful role in the lives of Cambridge students,” he said. “I think it’s another big step in improving town-gown relations,” School Committee member Nancy Walser said, who wrote about the initiative on her blog. Fowler-Finn first initiated discussions about the possibility of admitting CRLS students to the College when he assumed his position as superintendent in August 2003. “What...
...Mount Auburn Street. Beantown’s infamously “r”-averse brogue is conspicuously absent here on campus. This slight difference in inflection underscores a vast cultural schism between those affiliated with Harvard and Boston’s locals—a divide that dampens town-gown relations and could hamper the University’s plans to expand into Allston...
Tragically, this is just the sort of irrational opposition Harvard is bound to face as it marches into Allston. As a University, we will need to bridge the town-gown cultural divide if we wish to minimize the number of impediments politicos such as Galvin will surely impose. Banishing the letter “r” from campus is a sure-fire way to start...