Host to throngs of Harvard law students and professors looking to relax for a drink at day's end, the Temple Bar serves those who serve justice.
But according to about a dozen members of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA), the bar served them Tuesday before last with rudeness and disrespect.
Angered by a 25-minute wait to be seated, Susan Perng, a former co-chair of the group, authored a five-paragraph e-mail message recounting what had happened. She suggested a boycott.
Within two days, Perng's e-mail turned into an official communiqu of APALSA. Campus publications were notified. Law school student groups--including the student government--were ready to call for a boycott of their own.
But now, several members of APALSA have questioned the real cause of the charges--whether they stem from bad service or from mere politics.
"They've already been tried, committed and executed," Roger Severino, an APALSA member and first-year law student, said of Temple Bar. "It's a high-tech lynching."
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