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...gnawed nails. Admissions officers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a handcrafted boomerang and a Monopoly game with the names of the properties changed to campus sites. At Stanford, a would-be freshman submitted an oil painting of the admissions officers; another delivered a life preserver with a plea attached: I HOPE THIS KEEPS MY NAME AFLOAT IN THE POOL OF APPLICANTS. "We get baked goods. We get balloons," says Daniel Walls, dean of admissions at Emory University. "Students even camp out under counselors' windows...
Wayne Clark had earlier plead "not guilty" to charges of larceny of a license, possesion of a stolen license and breaking and entering in the daytime, but changed his plea on Friday...
Clark's change of plea was the result of an agreement his attorney reached with the District Attorney's Office. Clark agreed to plead guilty on condition that he receive a sentence of two years and eight months at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller Zobel '53 explained to Clark that he was waiving his rights to trial before a judge or jury by entering a guilty plea. The defendant said he was making his decision freely and willingly and acknowledged to Zobel that he committed the crimes...
Zobel, who heard the plea Friday, postponed sentencing to a later date. Should the judge find the sentence too light, Clark will have the opportunity to change his plea back to not guilty...