A few short minutes before midnight on December 10, hundreds of Harvard undergraduates gathered in the center of Harvard’s campus to partake in a semiannual tradition called Primal Scream. This year the tradition, which involves students taking a naked lap through campus in order to relieve end-of-semester stress, was interrupted by a much smaller group of undergraduates who asked for four a half minutes of silence from their peers to demonstrate Harvard’s solidarity with Michael Brown. In this HPRgument, four students voice their opinions on the efficacy of the demonstration, and the meaning of the conversation that followed.
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