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...student, Inati Ntshanga '95, charged police last spring with racial harassment in a December, 1992 arrest. Ntshanga, who is Black, was arrested for trespassing in the basement of Matthews Hall when he was working for Harvard Student Agencies--his key was named the burglary tool...
...knew my father best from the times I spent with him in our basement, watching sports on the television...
...creak down the thirteen or fourteen steps of the basement staircase, and he'd recognize "Thunderfoot" from the size-eleven heaviness of my movements, calling out that nickname to reintroduce me again to his world. I'd grab my own blanket from the closet at the back of the room, and he'd make sure I had socks on my feet before he'd allow me to stay; after that, I was free to plop myself into one of the upholstered chairs nearer the television, or perhaps settle for the carpeting in front of the coffee table...
...point he got on the AA wagon for about a year, long enough for us to see colorings of the lion he once was--and then he left. Got sick of interventions, intrusions into his personal space. Just up the road, fifteen minutes away, but the peculiarity of the basement--that appropriate mixture of darkness, cold and smoke--was gone forever...
Another woman came into his picture, came to live with him, eventually married him. We had to sell our house; problems with the child support payments, that sort of thing. (Does it matter now why?) What mattered to me were the memories left behind in that house, especially that basement, and especially those times spent with Dad. Yeah, they were dreadful...but they were all I had, really, by which to remember him in the last years of his life...