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...when the Allston Burr Senior Tutor system was instituted. The Board expanded to almost twice its original size, and the advisory Chapter, along with the Senior Tutors, became part of it. Once a small strict group of old-time administrators, the reorganized Board became both younger and more lenient...
...general, however, there seems little doubt that the Board tends to be more lenient than it is rumored to be. "The instinct now, is not to fire--cases are skillfully and compassionately covered," Monro says. Dean Watson even goes so far as to say that "If I were in trouble, I would put my case in the hands of the Administrative Board with confidence." But in the dining halls one hears a different story--tales of innumerable students who have been kicked out for having a girl in their room a few minutes after parietals ended. Real horror shows...
Plagiarism is another kind of case which the Board takes very seriously, and is one of the few crimes which the Board explicitly insists upon reviewing. But many members say that the Board has become more lenient even in these cases over the last few years. Before, whenever there was even a hint of plagairism, a boy would be fired immediately, while now, if he is a freshman, considerations such as whether he knew what he was doing are often taken into account. A great deal depends on whether the plagiarism was intentional and the length of the plagiarized passage...
...faced with the same lack of tools to measure the success of what they are trying to do. Each day in a municipal criminal court hundreds of decisions are made to drop some cases without prosecution, to accept pleas of guilty in other cases in return for relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether to arrest in the first...
...reported that a juror told him: "Until the state provides a public defender, I will let everyone go free." Statistically, the judges thought that only 2% of the cases tried were "very difficult" for juries to handle; only 9% of the verdicts seemed to them "without merit." The most lenient juries for serious crimes are found in small, Midwestern towns; the most harsh in medium-sized Eastern cities...