“I was embarrassed to be a policeman on that field seeing what I had to see,” said Evans in November.
Apparently Evans did not approve of students who chose to answer the call of nature not in the port-a-potties, but on the Ivy walls of the top-ranked Harvard Business School.
THE ILLEGAL SOUND OF MUSIC
APRIL 2005
This year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit against hundreds of college students nationwide to crack down on copyright infringement. A dozen Harvard affiliates, mostly graduate students, grooved their way into legal trouble for sharing an average of 2,300 mp3 files apiece. This was the year the music died.
HARVARD HATE CRIME
APRIL 2005
Galo Garcia III ’05 was struck in the head and chest on Bow Street early on April 30, 2005, when he confronted a man who had just called him a “faggot Jew.”
Garcia’s quick-thinking friends called HUPD and the police made it to the scene in time to catch the attackers. Though police did not make any arrests at the time of the incident, Garcia said that he is set on seeing the attackers prosecuted. “They were trying to negotiate with me out of court, and I didn’t want to negotiate with them,” Garcia said.
Four days after the assault, 200 people turned out in front of the Science Center to rally against hate crimes and show their support for Garcia. He has recovered from the assault.
%*IT HAPPENS
APRIL 2005
For Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman, Ph.D. may very well stand for piled higher and deeper. The Rockport, Mass., resident was accused of stealing over 100 cubic yards of manure from town property on April 1. Weitzman, who will return to court on June 27, was charged with larceny under $250, trespassing with a motor vehicle, and destruction of property.
But Weitzman said he didn’t realize there was a problem. “The property was completely unposted. There was no indication that anyone put any value on [the manure],” Weitzman said. “I had been told by someone working at a nearby stable that it was okay to take it.”
The widespread publicity surprised Weitzman, too. “I guess it must be a man-bites-dog story. It’s kind of a blue collar situation with a Harvard professor,” he said. “I think that accounts for the interest in it.”
—Staff writer Jonathan P. Abel can be reached at abel@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Jenifer L. Steinhardt can be reached at steinhar@fas.harvard.edu.