Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparation for a second full year of operation, the organizers of the freshman prefect program have selected nearly twice as many upperclassmen to advise proctor groups as this year, the Freshman Dean's Office announced last week...
...increase [in the number of prefects] appears to be due to a large growth in the number of students applying for the prefect job," said Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses...
...heroin trade to the U.S. Until last week he was one of the 112 in absentia defendants in the mammoth Mafia trial now going on in Palermo. He is charged, among other things, with having ordered 90 murders, including the 1982 slaying of General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the former prefect of Palermo. Greco, who has been in hiding since 1982, is already under a life sentence for ordering the 1983 murder of a Palermo magistrate. His capture represents yet another sharp blow to the Mafia's image of invincibility...
...Europe. Drugs have filled the Sicilian clans' coffers with billions of dollars and have been the focus of Sicilian gang wars that have killed at least 300 since 1981. The new drug Mafia has also gunned down several high-ranking Italian security officials, including General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo who was assassinated in September 1982. Dalla Chiesa's murder resulted in a spate of new laws that led directly to the current trial. Some of those on the losing side of the gang war turned to the police for protection; 30 of them are scheduled to testify...
Still, there are some drinks left to be refilled. Jewett must face future crowding in the houses, a scandal-ridden freshman prefect system, the enforcement and fallout from a new alcohol policy, and the oh-too-complicated shuttle bus system. These are all problems that will take more than an ever-present smiling countenance and a cool, soft-spoken demeanor to solve...