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Home: Kirkland House and East Lansing, Michigan...
NCAA POLL 1. Maine (24) 25-2-6 293 2. Michigan (6) 23-5-1 276 3. Boston U. 22-6-3 234 4. Colorado College 25-9-0 216 5. New Hampshire 21-7-3 154 6. Bowling Green 18-10-2 113 7. Denver 20-11-1 108 8. Minnesota 18-11-3 82 9. Michigan St. 17-10-3 76 10. Clarkson...
JAKE BAKER DOESN'T look like the kind of guy who would tie a woman by her hair to a ceiling fan. The slight (5 ft. 6 in., 125 lbs.), quiet, bespectacled sophomore at the University of Michigan is described by classmates as gentle, conscientious and introverted. His high school librarian, his 4-H adviser, the mother of the children for whom he baby-sat in Boardman, Ohio, all stand ready to attest to his moral fitness. At the university, where he majors in linguistics, he maintained a 3.2 average. Until two weeks ago, he'd never been accused...
...Arbor campus, opinion on Baker is divided. "If he's a threat, I'd rather have this taken care of quickly," says senior Kathryn Jesudowich. The Michigan Student Assembly, on the other hand, issued a resolution condemning the university. Then on Thursday, half an hour before his disciplinary hearing was set to begin, fbi agents arrested Baker under a federal statute that prohibits interstate transmission of a threat to kidnap or injure...
Unfortunately for Baker, the Michigan campus is well versed in the latest academic debate over where sexual fantasy turns into sexual abuse. Catharine MacKinnon, author of Only Words and a professor at the law school, is the nation's foremost proponent of the theory that writing and reading pornography are in themselves acts of violence; that consumers of it end up, depending on their "chosen sphere of operation," raping, abusing or discriminating against women. MacKinnon immediately seized on Baker's case. "What he wrote constitutes libel, sexual harassment and is a violation of privacy," she says. "We need...