Word: probationer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The issue lay dormant until last December, when I became aware of a controversy at the nearby University of Lowell. My cartoon had run in the school paper, The Connector, and had provoked a now-familiar outcry. According to a front-page story in the February 12, 1991 Los Angeles...
Of course, there are limits to fair punishment for relatively mild violations of University rules. The students should not be expelled for a sit-in. But lesser penalties including probation and suspension may be justified. In the end, we suspect that such penalties and the press coverage that would follow...
After a series of missed deadlines and threatening letters from the Freshman Dean's Office, I was curtly informed by the QRR office that I would now be on academic probation, and would have to either take the course offered by the QRR office next fall, or take a makeup...
In most cases, ignorance of the law is no excuse. But the U.S. Supreme Court made a rare exception last week, when it ruled that individuals may not be convicted of federal criminal tax violations if they sincerely believe they are exempt from income tax laws. The 6-to-2...
The board contends that Arthur Young, which later merged with Ernst & Whinney, improperly allowed the thrift to show a pretax profit in 1987 by violating generally accepted accounting principles. The firm, which severed its ties to Lincoln in 1988, denies this. Possible penalties include loss or suspension of license, or...