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The new constitution also establishes a Judicial Board "to impose penalties...and take other action it regards as necessary" in matters of student discipline. The nine-member Board, with five administrators and four students, will have the power to impose social probation, but will not be able "to require students...
To broaden their contacts with La Porte's youth, the Marists-all of whom have master's degrees-were given permission to serve as substitute teachers in the public high school. The only conditions made were that they not wear Roman collars and habits in class, and that...
Long ago we marched to Washington and the Pentagon with Norman Mailer and Dr. Spock. And there was blood on our heads. And we sat. up all night on the steps. And we were alone. And long ago we sat down in Mallinckrodt Hall and held a little old man...
There is no question that probation can be more effective than prison. In one experiment by the California Youth Authority, convicted juvenile delinquents were immediately returned to their homes or foster homes, where parole officers grouped them according to their special characteristics and then provided intensive treatment - tutoring, psychotherapy, occasional...
Crucial to such reform is a more rational definition of criminal behavior. For example, half of all county-jail inmates are in for drunkenness-something far better treated at public-health detoxification centers. In mass arrests of small drug pushers, police mainly cut supplies and raise prices, which addicts then...