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...David Potter, vice-president for student services and administration, decided Jan 20 that CIA recruiters may not interview students on campus except in their private rooms, cancelling 10 interviews...
...Court nullified all 40 death-penalty statutes and the sentences of 629 death-row inmates, declaring that judges and juries had intolerably wide discretion to impose death or not. This lack of standards made the death sentence "freakishly imposed" on "a capriciously selected random handful" of murderers, wrote Justice Potter Stewart. "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." Within a few years, 37 state legislatures had passed statutes designed especially to meet the court's objections...
...capital sentences. Then, in 1972, came the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling: in Furman vs. Georgia, the court decided that state laws permitted judges and juries so much leeway in prescribing death that the sentence as applied was arbitrary, and thus unconstitutional. Capital punishment, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was "freakishly imposed" on a "capriciously selected random handful" of murderers. However, in three simultaneous 1976 decisions, the court clarified its views on the subject, most significantly by declaring that the death penalty is not unconstitutional per se. Today all 37 states with capital punishment on the books have laws...
BROWN 62, COLUMBIA 38--Lion quarterback John Witkowski passes for 400 yards and four touchdowns against the porous Bruno secondary. Meanwhile, Bruin quarterback Joe Potter does whatever he down well pleases against the Columbia defense, for which porous is an improvement...
Margolis also had an outstanding game against Brown, needing no Halloween costume to send shivers down the spines of Bruin QB Joe Potter. On one notable play in the first half, Potter dropped back to pass, and the protection looked adequate. All of a sudden, he glanced over his left shoulder and saw Margolis, all alone, coming with nostrils flaring. Potter panicked, as he did much of the afternoon, and just let the ball go. The pass hopped, skipped and jumped its way to an incompletion...