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"[Our senior adviser didn't know any of us. She thought we were irresponsible," says Glendon Abel III '89, one of the eight freshman involved in last May's computer case. The Ad Board at first required the students to withdraw for having programmed the University computer to print out...
The deliberations, which carried over the summer, resulted in 10 students put on probation. Eleven were admonished and the charges were dropped in four cases.
The sit-in had become a popular student protest weapon by the 1970s. In 1972,32 Black undergraduates staged a six day occupation of Massachusetts Hall to protest Harvard's refusal to sell $700 million of Gulf Oil stock despite the company's involvement in Angola. All of the protesters...
The experience of Ron Rusich, 29, a house painter in Mobile, was typical. In 1984 he received a 15-year sentence for burglary. But an intensive probation scheme used in his state since 1982 eventually sent him back outside, and back to work, under strict supervision. A 10 p.m.-to...
If the goal is a society with fewer criminals, then firm judgments are even harder to draw. Criminology is a dispiriting science. Its practitioners commonly caution that no criminal sanction, no matter how strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does...