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Students who receive probation from the Administrative Board no longer must petition to remain active in extracurricular activities, members of the Board said this week.
Under reformed rules for the College's chief disciplinary body, probation is a very serious warning which places students under severe risk of being asked to withdraw. Students will only be forced to quit extracurriculars if the Board believes participation affects the problem.
In a country where convicted murderers are sentenced to an average of 20 years, Bakker's punishment seemed excessive and arbitrary to many people. "Before some judges, Bakker might have gotten off with little more than probation," said a federal judge, who declined to be identified.
Johnson points to a case last year as an example of the widespread problems with fake ID's at Harvard. In February, a first-year student was charged with mass production of driver's licenses. He received three years probation and was ordered to pay $1000 in court costs after...
But in Georgia, experts say 35% of boot-camp graduates are back in prison within three years, roughly the same rate as for those paroled from the general prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation...