Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the punishment was too harsh, the Administrative Board's procedure was the most fair and scrupulous possible under the circumstances. To some extent the Board had to be arbitrary: because the bursars' cards of resisters, picketers, and sympathizers alike were all turned over en masse, it was impossible for University officers and senior tutors to identify all the students who imprisoned the Dow representative. In addition, the students who were identified were given the chance to explain the exact nature of their involvement in the demonstration...
...deserved the same punishment. Therefore they denied the very basis of the punishment--physical obstruction--and refused to clear themselves even if not directly involved. By insisting on the collective moral strength of their cause, some demonstrators precluded any cooperation with a Board that was bent on being fair to everyone concerned...
Scrupulously Fair. Mississippi alone can bring murder charges against any or all of the 18, but it has not so far. "We'll have to study the evidence from the trial," commented District Attorney William Johnson Jr. State attorneys claimed that the Government's carefully gathered evidence-mostly amassed by the F.B.I.-was "a complete surprise" to them, although federal officials say they offered it long ago to Governor Paul Johnson...
...Johnson likes to say. And so most tourists believe; they are content to play at the tables in hopes of beating the odds, fully aware that they favor the house. If the players lose-and most do-they can go away at least feeling that they have had a fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked dice-the second casino in a month to be shut down for running a rigged crap game...
...night it became clear that most of the demonstrators were willing to risk injury and imprisonment because they wanted to impress the Government, the world, and themselves with the depth of their conviction that the U.S. must get out of Vietnam. They had to prove that they weren't fair-weather protestors, that there were front-line casualties in the anti-war as well as in the war, and that they were not the cowards many of the less subtle pro-war advocates accuse them of being...