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...five-year jail terms for violating a law of doubtful constitutionality. Or witness what seems to radicals?and many others?to be a systematic police slaughter of Black Panther leaders. They point to John Mitchell's wiretapping policies, preventive-detention program and no-knock raiding techniques. They see harsh drug laws as political instruments by which Middle America means to destroy dissent and counterculture. In Danville, Va., last July, an 80-year-old judge sentenced a 20-year-old student to 20 years for possession of marijuana...
...Master von Stade. The students had not met in the interim and came prepared with nothing more than a favorable inclination towards the general concept of coed living. Master von Stade came with the announced intention of not allowing Mather House to go coed this year. Nothing nearly as harsh as a confrontation ensued. Master von Stade denied that anvone knew if the majority of students wanted coed housing, added a few statistical and male clitist arguments, and the meeting was over. So much for coed housing...
...Farnsworth said that the current laws classifying marijuana with hard narcotics were "unreasonable, harsh, unrealistic, and damaging to the fight against drug abuse...
...appeared unlikely last night that the subcommittee would invoke harsh penalties, particularly since Christmas vacation begins next week. But subcommittee members declined to speculate about what steps they might take today...
This same administrative style which had served Harvard so well during earlier years proved to have serious deficiencies when confronted with the demands of the past year. The harsh new issues facing the University and the sharp divisions they created among the Faculty made it imperative for that body to begin groping for a new style of leadership-a style better equipped to recognize political realities to accept them, and to mediate them without endangering the essential scholarly functions of a university...