Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the connection is in goals. All the incidents described here have to do with things people did with the intention of achieving noble ends: Steven Rosenfeld wanted to become a doctor; the leaders of the student security patrol wanted to protect fellow students; and President Bok's advisers to make him more effective...
...distinctions might have appeared to be unimportant. If, for instance, security patrol members were working long hours, it must not have seemed wrong for them to pay themselves appropriately even it meant cutting corners a little. If Robin Schmidt's advice would have helped Bok, it must have seemed unimportant whether that advice dealt, with matters of substance or purely of style and appearance...
...Student Security Patrol was organized three years ago in the hope that students could be hired to augment the University's security and fire prevention programs by walking late-night routes in and around Harvard buildings...
...administrators' confidence in the program appeared well-justified, as the demand for the patrol's services by different University offices boosted the patrol's size from 14 to 114 this spring...
...came as a shock to most everyone when three student members of the patrol circulated a letter in February accusing the top student administrators of the patrol of engaging in financial abuses bordering on criminality...