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...years the Journal was locked in an acrimonious conflict with popular Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier. The paper's extensive coverage of Father James Groppi's open-housing marches in 1967 and 1968 blurred the mayor's liberal image. When the Journal later criticized the concentration of all Milwaukee's model-cities strategy inside the mayor's circle, Maier proposed antitrust legislation against the Journal Co.'s news empire (it also owns the city's other daily, the morning Sentinel, plus radio, TV and rural cable stations). Yet the paper endorsed...
Like 80% of Journal-backed candidates, Maier won. But the paper's heavy influence on Milwaukee voting patterns cannot be explained away by its monopolistic hold on the city. It has a long tradition of fair-minded coverage (a recent Journal-commissioned poll found that 60% of its readers feel that the paper is balanced. The remainder were evenly split between those who find it pro-Democrat and those who find it pro-Republican). Editor Dick Leonard insists that his reporters keep daily tab on all issues affecting Milwaukee. So close is its monitoring of local government that...
...Hill and Maier like to call the student patrol the "eyes and ears of the police;" the idea is that the student guards look out for things the police should know about and by doing mostly unskilled police work, give the real police time to concentrate on more difficult tasks. The student guards find broken locks and fire exits, lock and unlock buildings, and report building damage and serious crimes. "They are," Hill says, "taking non-police functions away from the police. And when they're off duty, they're just as suspicious as ever. Police go home after work...
...asked Hill and Maier if they considered the student security patrol really necessary, if the student guards really make a big contribution to stopping major crimes, fires and floods, and if Harvard is getting its money's worth out of the program...
...University profits from the program in several ways," Maier said. "It enriches the student population--more than half the guards are on financial aid--as well as fulfilling security functions. Before the patrol began there was a two-to-one ratio between crimes in dormitories and in administrative areas. Now it's one-to-two. We've driven crime into the fringe areas...