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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even initiatives from the top routinely meet with rejection or stagnation. The University has become expert at resisting pressure of any kind from any quarter, maintaining its defenses against siege. As Harvard passes its 350th year, those who preside over it seem increasingly concerned with preserving it in its present state for the 400th...
During the early years of the Ad Board, students who were caught breaking rules were summoned to University Hall, where one of a bevy of assistant deans would hear their side of the story and then present the case to the entire body. Students frequently complained that they had not previously met the deans who dealt with them...
Students were provided additional personal input into the process when the Ad Board added and appeals function in the early 1970s. If the Ad Board agreed to hear an appeal, students were permitted to appear before the Board to present their own case...
...Minnesota, where alternative sentencing has become well established since the 1978 passage of a law that limits new sentences to ensure that prison capacity is not exceeded by the total number of inmates. The crime rate has not increased, supporters boast. Other states remain far more hesitant. Still, the present pressures may yet bring a day when the correctional possibilities will be so varied and so widely used that prison will seem the "alternative" form of punishment...
Boren said the Senate Intelligence Committee report reveals that Reagan met a number of times with North, then a deputy on the National Security Council staff, generally with others present...