Word: houten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edmund Perry was fatally wounded by a white New York police officer, Lee Van Houten, 24, whose two-year record on the force was unblemished. Last week amid a storm of community outrage and accusations of police misconduct and racism, a Manhattan grand jury cleared Van Houten of any wrongdoing. The panel also charged Perry's older brother, Jonah, 19, a second-year engineering student at Cornell University, with assault and attempted robbery in the scuffle with Van Houten that resulted in Edmund's death. Neither Edmund nor Jonah, who had also gone to a tony prep school (Westminster...
More than 30 alarms have gone off at the new dormitories so far this quarter, as opposed to only 17 for all of autumn quarter, said Jan Van Houten, director of Governor's Corner...