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...University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest,” said a statement released by Harvard last night. “Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...
...review of video footage from the event found several inconsistencies in the police report filed after their arrest, including an incorrect order of events and misquotations of the comments the students yelled. According to the students, they were also not given a warning before they were removed from the forum, which would represent a breach of free speech guidelines approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Tanjeloff ’08 and David M. Galkowski ’08, and their business plan for Check My Radar, a new take on social networking Web sites, walked away with the grand prize in a competition held this semester by the newly-formed Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF).HCEF will link the winners of their 2007 Startup Plan Competition and Summer Fellowship Program to an early-stage investor who will provide up to $10,000 to cover the team’s expenses while they develop their business.Tanjeloff and Galkowski, who were honored for their...
...reduce air pollution. The study, conducted by a professor and two post-doctoral fellows at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used satellite data to examine the effects of a three-day limit on vehicle traffic in Beijing during the November 2006 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. By removing about 800,000 of Beijing’s nearly three million vehicles from the road during the conference—and pushing people to make greater use of busses and subways—officials cut the city’s concentration of a certain...
Last Thursday, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III spoke at the Forum at the Kennedy School of Government. As required by Forum policy, his remarks were to be followed by a question and answer period in which audience members would have the opportunity to pose unfiltered questions to him. Four Harvard College students, acting in coordination, sequentially interrupted his remarks and disrupted the event. They were escorted from the Forum and arrested...