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Carter, who would have been a junior next fall, was probably on academic probation last year, because academically troubled students are usually warned a year before the school dismisses them, according to Greg Feldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald.
Under university policy, Carter could apply for readmission after a year's absence, Feldberg said, adding that students must pass seven courses a year to be stay off probation.
Lawyers are often seen not as guardians of the law but as sophisticated manipulators who profit from rule beating. Even the ethics counsel for the 313,000-member American Bar Association, Lisa Milord, concedes that all too many lawyers "are looking out for their own interests rather than the integrity...
Still more disturbing is that these debased arguments in defense of the protestors inexcusable tactics find a sympathetic ear among many members of the faculty and administration, who are therefore reluctant to punish them. This is what accounts for the fact that it has for some time been impossible to...
It is true, as you note in your article on the attempt to make prison sentences more uniform ((LAW, April 27)), that a 10% increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation...