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...Negroes will enter the law school of Duke University at Durham, N.C., this fall, and one will enter its divinity school, ending a prohibition in effect for 123 years. But Duke still excludes Negro undergraduates...
...Durham Miller, a graduate student in world politics, has announced an organizational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday in Emerson H for students interested in meeting regularly to discuss problems, theories and prospects of the cold...
...year-old British-devised M'Naghten Rule, under which the accused must stand trial and face punishment if 1) he knew what he was doing when he did it and 2) knew right from wrong. Modern psychiatry's major try at an improvement is the Durham Rule,* under which the accused is spared trial and possible punishment if, at the time of the crime, he was suffering from a "mental disease or mental defect," and the crime was the "product" of that condition...
Last week Maine's Governor John H. Reed signed a bill that made his state the first to adopt the Durham Rule. Ironically, pioneer New England Psychiatrist Isaac Ray, while living in Maine, proposed an almost identical rule in 1838-five years before the House of Lords laid down the vexed M'Naghten Rule. New Hampshire adopted Dr. Ray's rule in 1870. The Durham Rule is the Ray Rule in up-to-date language...
...chief merit claimed for the new rule is that it forces judges and jurors to recognize various kinds of neuroses and psychoses and then to decide whether the disease helped cause the crime. More lawbreakers may thus escape criminal punishment; in Washington, D.C., since the Durham Rule was introduced, the rate of successful pleas of mental illness has increased sharply, and one in four is successful...