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Died. Orlando Wilson, 72, criminologist and former Chicago police chief; of a stroke; in Poway, Calif. Wilson was dean of criminology at Berkeley when Mayor Richard Daley drafted him to reform a police department charged with corruption and inefficiency. Wilson created a special 200-man squad to crack down on police malfeasance, increased street patrols, reduced paper work and otherwise upgraded the force before retiring...
...course, calling for greater social justice, a plea that is often met by the firm cry of "permissiveness." Berkeley Criminologist Jerry Skolnick observes, "It is like a symbolic battle-between those who want to appear tough and those who want to appear soft." What works is what matters. Northwestern's Inbau, for instance, favors stiffened sentences and reduction of technical legal defenses, but also points out that some potentially effective "soft" approaches have not been tried-notably, enforced gun-control laws and elimination of police responsibility for some "victimless" crimes like gambling and vice. Inbau credits the Administration with...
...entirely facetiously, Berkeley Political Science Professor Paul Seabury points out in a Commentary article that there is "blatant inequity" in the fact that only two of the 38 faculty members in his department are Republicans. His observation is not an argument for the imposition of political quotas on a faculty; it is really an illustration of the difficulty of organizing any complex group by the application of quotas...
...reducing its enrollment almost by half. Harvard's enrollment for its Master of Divinity program is also down. Yale Divinity School has had its university subsidy cut from $300,000 a year to $30,000, mandating the school's recent merger with the well-endowed (though ailing) Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven...
...Berkeley, Calif...