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...survey revealed additional differences among the six universities, including some opportunities for credit for meals missed. Brown, the university with the most lenient requirements among those schools examined, gives students $2.55 in credit for missed dining hall opportunities. Brown students can then use the credit to purchase food at university-run snack bars, offering items ranging from hamburgers to candy bars...
Fortunately, there are indications that Harvard's opposition to the restriction may produce an exemption of some sort. At the least it may yield a lenient interpretation allowing the Ivies to continue their current procedures without completely mitigating an otherwise well-intentioned attempt to rein in unscrupulous alums of more high-powered athletic schools...
...advice of all aides--planned a massive outdoor rock festival in a state park 20 miles outside the city. More than 30,000 youths attended the concert, titled "Vortex I", for which the state provided bands, and eating and medical facilities. State police were ordered to be especially lenient to avoid confrontation. The festival took place without incident, as did the convention in Portland. What became known as "The governor's pot party" failed to harm McCall's bid for re-election...
...beset American prisons from the beginning. But those manifest failures along the way were only specifically disappointing, not generally disillusioning. A spasm of violence at a particular prison, epidemic madness at another, each was explained away as a technical error: the cellblock configuration was wrong, the recreation policy too lenient. One who saw through to the inherent failure was Alexis de Tocqueville, whose famous 1831 tour of the U.S. was, first of all, a survey of American prisons. "Nowhere was this system of imprisonment crowned with the hoped-for success," he wrote. "It never effected the reformation of the prisoners...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...