On Monday, hundreds of Hopkinton High School parents were alerted via email of an "extremely troubling act" that stripped this suburban school of its "sense of safety" and provoked police involvement.
Harvard University will bargain with a newly formed union representing graduate students, the school's president said.
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard, opposed the creation of a union before a majority of graduate students voted to unionize earlier this month. But now that the union is a done deal, university officials will negotiate with it, she said.