Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While many students were happily ensconced on their Spring vacations, Cambridge police swooped down on a Leverett House sophomore's room last Sunday night in the second drug bust by outside authorities ever carried out in a Harvard dormitory. The first occurred at Radcliffe last March...
...invasion force became a thoroughly disorganized society. Perhaps even more debilitating was the threat, real or imagined, of a Government bust. A sort of Castroesque paranoia set in; the "Alcatraz Security Force,"complete with special jackets and a "training" room off limits to outsiders, for a time was rude and overweening even to sympathizers sincerely trying to help. Though supposedly prohibited, drugs and alcohol became staples of island life. Petty jealousies simmered and bloody brawls exploded. One Indian artist tried to set up a studio only to be burned out by several of his estranged comrades...
...current marijuana legislation is not a joke. Dope laws are used selectively to punish political "criminals" like John Sinclair, a White Panther leader who has been locked away for several years on a very minor marijuana offense. The New York Times reports the suicide during a bust of an Alabama student who faced jail on a second marijuana offense. Sitting in our dorms it is often difficult to remember that thousands of other Americans are sitting in jail for committing the "crime" of getting stoned with their friends...
...manufacturers have received a few complaining letters, including one that scolded: "You cannot rank the Republic and this person together." Nonetheless, BB's bust is expected to become a priority item in mayors' budgets-after this week's municipal elections are over. In return for lending her figure to France, Bardot has been given one of the busts and has mounted it over...
Harvard also requested a temporary restraining order from Middlesex County's Superior Court and after it was issued, pointed out that the County judge might decide to bust if Harvard remained inactive...