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...plight of Harvard undergraduate Emeka Ezera, arrested in the Park Street station for allegedly snatching a purse the night before while he was actually researching a paper with the staff of Lamont Library deserves our attention and support. The Harvard community should and must rally around one of its own in a time of financial and emotional need. Boston's court system and police force must be made to realize that there is some accountability for mistaken identity...
HOUSTON--A faculty council report at Rice University two weeks ago declared that "it is a practical impossibility for an assistant professor to support a family on a Rice salary," and that "that the plight of associate professors at Rice is, if anything, even more grim...
...that a fair trial before the military tribunal is a contradiction in terms. The trial has been postponed several times, because the KMT regime is waiting to size up this country's responses. As a student from Taiwan, I express my gratitude to The Crimson's concern over the plight of a Taiwanes alumna, and my admiration for Jablin's objective and penetrating report in the face of the KMT regime's propaganda. [name withheld for the safety of myself and my family in Taiwan...
Formosa Magazine printed 45,000 copies of its first issue and doubled its circulation in three months, according to a newsletter from the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Taiwan (ICDHRT), an organization with offices in Seattle, Wash., and Japan which attempts to publicize the plight of political dissidents in Taiwan. With the increase in circulation, however, came an increase in attacks, both verbal and physical, against the publication from enraged private citizens. Opposition members suspect that Taiwan's secret police agencies, the Taiwan Garrison Command and the Investigation Bureau, sanctioned the abuses...
...lunatic. Looking wildly around as he speaks, waving his hands madly or clenching his fists in manic frustration, he is the Evel Kneivel of activism, a man who has performed daring stunts in the name of social causes. He fasted for 40 days to call attention to the plight of the elderly in Hartford, Conn., he walked from Hartford to Washington to debate a fuel bill for the poor before Congress, he sloshed along the shores of Rhode Island all the way to Greenwich to protest the private ownership of beaches. Coll even ran for President in 1972, sharing...