Word: assaultive
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...disgusted to learn that I.J.T. members have been known to physically assault students for drinking, flirting or kissing on campus. Any group that uses thuggery should be banned and the culprits penalized. A university campus should be a place that encourages free speech. If students want to wear the veil, then so be it, and if they do not, then they must be accommodated as well. But in my view, Pakistan is becoming more liberal, especially on college campuses. All my friends and family who live there paint a picture that is very different from the society I left barely...
...this talk about throwdowns and we didn’t even mention the most wild assault of the weekend—Columbia head coach Norries Wilson’s verbal tirade following his team’s shutout loss at Penn. The Man made the big guy apologize (free speech is out, don’tcha know?), but he must have lit a fire under this Lions team, whose defense is hands down the best unit on the field...
...reason why [a student] couldn’t be chosen.”A CIVICS LESSONTechrosette Leng ’07 says she was selected and served in Cambridge last April on a four-day trial that resulted in the defendant’s conviction for sexual assault and battery.Leng says she missed all of her classes on the first day of the trial, but subsequent days were shortened to alleviate the burden on serving jurors.She says she thought jury duty was a great experience. “I am a government concentrator and I thought it was really cool...
...last year’s decline in the number of sexual offenses, saying that it could also suggest underreporting of incidents.“There was a decrease, but it’s not as substantial as it seems,” he said. “Sexual assault is severely underreported on college campuses.”In addition, the number of total crimes dropped to 528 in 2005 from 597 in 2004—a 12 percent decrease—and from 655 in 2003; the number of burglaries dropped from...
...year-old Delaware man, received a sentence of five years for negligent homicide as punishment for beating a 77-year-old neighbor to death after his five-year old daughter accused the man of touching her inappropriately. A medical exam of the child showed no sign of the assault. Maybe the dead man did it, maybe he didn't. In either case, does anyone believe Fontanez would have gotten off so easily if the lethal beating had been a result of road rage...