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Despite the widespread publicity for the report, the reaction within the red brick walls of the University appears to be lukewarm...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Do Students Need More Oversight? | 3/10/1990 | See Source »

...brick Hampden jail is a microcosm of the nation's correctional crisis. Constructed when Grover Cleveland was President, it handles offenders with sentences of up to 30 months, many of them for violent crimes. For years Massachusetts prisons have been among the most overcrowded in the country, recently housing 15,000 inmates in space built for 10,000. New facilities lag far behind demand. In 1989 alone, the number of Massachusetts inmates increased by 820. Simply to stay even, the state would have to construct a new large facility every year, an impossible objective. Since 1983 Massachusetts has committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheriff Strikes Back | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard is the voice of the PC" but unfortunately, the only voice that seems to get acted upon at Harvard is the voice of the author's self-named "PW." Plotz's charge of "PC totalitarianism" is a blatant misrepresentation of the dominant traditionalism that exudes out of every brick at Harvard. When push comes to shove, Harvard protects its own--and "its own" is white, upper middle-class, heterosexual and male...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Views on PC Ideology | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...door neighbor was charged for having six tacks in his ceiling. Fifty bucks. Another dormmate was slapped with a $275 bill for things like hanging a picture on a nail that was pounded in before she came to Harvard. Several suites were charged $20 for having scotch tape on brick. My entry alone owes Harvard more than $1000 in "room misuse" fees...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Tacks Reform | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

...still can't figure out how scotch tape can damage a brick wall...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Tacks Reform | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

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