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...pacification of students easier. One bill, the Ohio Campus Disorders Act, requires that an outside referee be appointed by the Regents of every State University with the advice of the local Bar Association. This referee would hear disciplinary cases of students arrested for-not convicted of-any felony or misdemeanor. He has the unrestricted right to expel or suspend students brought before...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: I.F. Stone: Exposing Kent State | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

Though a number of schools will make individual exceptions for maternity leave, most expect women to meet the same requirements as men within the same time period. The result is that they are often forced to choose between family life and a career. Other institutions regard maternity as a misdemeanor and require new mothers to return to class within two to ten days after childbirth. The alternative is to withdraw for a semester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Bars Against Women | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...reduces the possession or use of narcotics from a felony to a misdemeanor and allows for probation, parole, or dismissal of charges at the discretion of a judge, Maximum penalty cannot exceed one year's imprisonment on the first offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drug Abuse Measure Enacted by President | 10/28/1970 | See Source »

...know to have been convicted of any criminal offense after that date "which under the laws of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would constitute a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or a felony...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Harvard to Make Partial Reports On Protesters to Pennsylvania | 8/11/1970 | See Source »

...things with Police Chief Aldo Ballarini. A third gentleman of Verona, the magistrate, saw it all quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1970 | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

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