Harvard University Police Department in and upon all property owned or controlled by Harvard University. Additionally, all officers hold commissions as deputy sheriffs for Middlesex County and Suffolk County, which gives them powers of arrest throughout Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, where Harvard has facilities. The HUPD has been the target of requests for greater transparency in the records it keeps or publishes about its officers’ actions. This culminated in "The Harvard Crimson v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al." in 2003 where the Harvard student daily newspaper filed suit against HUPD in Massachusetts Superior Court. The case was ultimately transferred to the
The Harvard Salient The Harvard Salient The Harvard Salient is the conservative student newspaper at Harvard University. The "Harvard Salient" was founded in 1981, during a movement of conservative newspapers established in the Ivy League during the beginnings of the Reagan administration. It publishes biweekly. It has often started heated campus debates, often owing to the "Back Page" feature, which features parodies of Harvard's politically correct culture. Past editors include the "Wall Street Journal"s Naomi Schaefer Riley, the critic and "The New York Times" columnist Ross Douthat, "Commentary" contributor Kevin Shapiro, University of Virginia law professor Caleb Nelson, Claremont McKenna College Professor Charles