Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news event breaks. But, judging from the experiences of the staffers who worked on this week's cover story, journalists are no luckier when they gamble than anyone else. For example, before New York Correspondent John Tompkins began interviewing lottery directors, betting officials and sources on organized crime, he invested $1 in a New York State lottery ticket -the first he had ever bought. He won $2, with which he promptly bought two more tickets. One of those won him another $2. Feeling lucky, Tompkins took a third plunge-and came up emptyhanded...
That happy atmosphere runs into some rough going at times, though. Last October saw a number of residents voice concern about a "lack of security" in what the University has long considered a high crime area. The University's long-standing contention that the area near Harvard and Ware Streets is unsafe for women students--which until this year served as an excuse for keeping the Union Dorms single-sex--prompted over 60 students to sign a petition requesting the installation of iron bars on the buildings first floor windows...
...block emergency fire exists. Life returned to normal "after we realized there aren't a bunch of murderers and rapists hanging around under the windows," says Raymond, a first-floor resident who signed the petition. In fact, University police statistics indicate the area does not have an unusually high crime rate, and there have been no incidents similar to last year's mugging of two Pennypacker residents weaving their way home after a night at Father's Six. Ward, a woman who felt secure enough to live in Pennypacker in the all-male days, dismisses the students' petition...
...protests focused attention on Claverly crime but were not necessarily an indication that Claverly had more crime than other areas, Kahn said...
Kahn said the Harvard Police are working on computer displays that will locate high crime areas using dots on a map to represent incidents. The police reevaluate the deployment of officers every three months to compensate for shifting crime patterns, he added...