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
Academic regalia of Harvard University no violation of this rule. The cap and gown will be retained in the evening, unless removed to facilitate dancing. An acceptable variant was full formal dress, white tie, but without the coat, the gown being worn in its place. Today, formal morning dress including top hats, and often gloves and canes, is worn by officials at Commencement who are not wearing gowns. Academic dress at Harvard is most often worn at a Commencement, as well as on Class Day, and for Harvard University graduands, academic dress is required for admittance to the Commencement ceremony. Before the 1950s, tradition also