Word: fagin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 26, Penn's Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution asking Fagin not to suspend the harassment code until Penn "develop[s] and enact[s] alternative and comprehensive plans to deal with the lack of respect on our campus...
...Claire Fagin, the interim president, is reevaluating Part II of the code, which forbids any "verbal or symbolic behavior" that "insults or demeans [a] person on the basis of his or her race, color, ethnicity, or national origin by the use of slurs, epithets, hate words, demeaning jokes, or derogatory stereotypes...
...Penn, one student group, the Human Rights League, is circulating a petition and letter that urges Penn not to suspend Part II of its code. The group plans to show the petition and letters to Fagin next week...
Lest one worry about the possibility of future acts of destruction, Interim President Claire Fagin and Interim Provost Marvin Lazerson stated, "We will respond vigorously to any future violations." In light of the "vigor" involved in the adjudication of this incident, I doubt that too many potential paperphobics are losing sleep over the threat...
...product of a criminal subculture, Wills had a perfect pedigree in pilfering. Abandoned as a child, he was raised by a foster family that included two car-thieving brothers before becoming the Artful Dodger to the Fagin of Bucks County. After his arrest (and before fleeing), Wills told the FBI that he learned much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes...