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...college be prosecuted when violent students on its campus force public officials to grant their demands? Last week New York's upstate Hobart College, the first U.S. college indicted for a criminal offense in the recent wave of campus disruption, stood trial for being "reckless" in just such a situation. The result may set a new legal limit on how far town can punish gown...
...charges grew out of a messy night last June, when Ontario County Sheriff Ray O. Morrow arrested three suspected drug users on the Hobart campus in Geneva, N.Y. About 500 angry students blocked the paths of two police cruisers, deflating tires and ripping off an aerial. What irked them was the presence of the sheriff's tipster, Thomas ("Tommy the Traveler") Tongyai. Masquerading as a radical, Tongyai had supposedly encouraged violence at several campuses before the raid blew his cover as Sheriff Morrow's agent (TIME, June...
...believe that there is a point concerning the Hobart College incidents in Geneva, N.Y. that was not mentioned in your article about "Tommy the Traveler...
Following the "on-campus marijuana bust" that you report, several groups of Hobart College students exited from their dorms and captured a police car and police officers who were involved in arresting several students found to be in possession of marijuana. The police and students then came to a mutual agreement whereby the arrested students would be allowed to go free if the police car and police officers were returned. The exchange of prisoners took place, and peace returned to Geneva...
There are many people in Geneva who are not students at Hobart College, but individuals known as residents, taxpayers, voters, etc. As a person raised in Geneva, I was taught by its schools and in our home that capturing police cars and police officers were no-nos and that there were things called laws against that sort of thing. I wonder how many of the some 17,000 people who choose to make their home in Geneva wonder if there isn't a separate group of laws applying to Hobart College...