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...administration and recent events, it seems that the College’s new attitude is more and more reminiscent of the cantankerous and unreasonable Dean Wormer from “Animal House,” who was ready to put wayward fraternities on “double-secret probation?? without cause. The Crimson was far from a Delta House-esque nest of iniquity and hazing, but the fact that we are frequently being treated as such makes me think that the College is wasting time and resources in policing innocent events that many participants rate as some...
Disciplinary probation??during which the College closely monitors student behavior—ranks next, with 28 percent of students in the last five years who went before the Ad Board receiving this decision...
Bowden jumped, and by February, 2005, she and fewer than 20 others joined the ranks. Still, she reminds herself, she and the other newcomers are still firefighters on probation??she shortens it to “FFOP.” They won’t lose the “OP” until this fall...
According to Sherman, the initial plea agreement would have given Vaghar a 30-day jail sentence suspended for two years—meaning that she would be on probation for two years, and only serve jail time if she violated her probation??on the condition that she be evaluated for alcohol, drug, and mental health issues, pay full restitution to all of the alleged victims, and plead guilty to every offense...
According to a 2002 U.S. Justice Department report, 6.7 million people in the U.S. were under “correctional supervision”—prison, jail, parole or probation??nearly four times as many people as in 1980. It is estimated that, on any day, upwards of one-third of black men in their twenties face this reality. With black women as the fastest growing prison population in the United States, perhaps similar statistics may not be too far behind. Our politicians speak of the success of the need to be “tough...