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NONFICTION: Dorothy Day, William D. Miller ∙ The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin ∙Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson ∙ Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage, Geoffrey Skelton ∙Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate ∙Uncivil Liberties, Calvin Trillin
Such a narrow vocational focus understandably has some thoughtful elders worried. Says Garland Richmond, associate dean of Emory University in Atlanta: "I think this need for certification and emphasis on a diploma and transcript has kept them from really enjoying college which is one of the most exciting experiences in life." Comments Roger Lehecka dean of students at Columbia: "These young people feel they must make career decisions immediately or be left out. This element of panic is unhealthy. They're making premature decisions." Northwestern Associate Provost John Margolis wishes for "a bit more willingness to try out unconventional...
...Bonnie Garland: A Question...
...Christian Brothers and attending class at a nearby university. In June 1978 he was finally convicted, not of murder but of first-degree manslaughter. He has now served almost half of a prison sentence of eight years, four months. In the words of Bonnie's father, Attorney Paul Garland, "Richard Herrin has successfully got away with murder...
...Meyer after he had spent three years in a medium-security prison, he insists: "I think I've served enough time to compensate." Others would side with the prosecution, among them Gaylin. Arguing against canny insanity pleas, and for moral responsibility, he concludes: "The killing of Bonnie Garland, first by Richard Herrin and then again by a legal and cultural process . . . endangers us all. In our compassion for the criminal, we must remain vigilant in defense of the social for the sake of those innocents living and yet extreme unborn." - By Michael Demarest