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Like many other university presidents, Pusey was much concerned with fund raising. In 1956 he launched a successful campaign to raise the then unprecedented sum of $82.5 million for new professorships, faculty salaries and scholarships. By 1968 he had increased the university's endowment to $1 billion. But these were...
Despite RID's ominous undertones of A Clockwork Orange, most inmates speak highly of the program. "I feel better about myself than I have since I was in the service," says Russell Thomason, 22, who entered Parchman after violating probation on a drug charge.
"We would hope they find it a distasteful experience," says Parchman Superintendent Donald Cabana. "Distasteful enough that they don't want to come back to prison." Of the more than 300 felons who have graduated from the 15-month-old program, only eight have returned to prison, a rate 35...
He turned out to be John MacDougall, 25, a part-time engineer at a satellite transmission facility in Ocala, Fla., and owner of a home-dish dealership whose business had been hurt by scrambling. MacDougall pleaded guilty to the unauthorized transmission of an interfering signal. If a plea- bargain arrangement...
Last year, for example, one week after the day-long SASC sit-in at the Harvard Corporation's headquarters at 17 Quincy St., Kashani invited the South African consulate general to address a closed meeting of conservative at Lowell House. A mob of students, including many SASC members, blockaded Lowell...