Word: punish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university argues that the board of regents did not cut funding to punish the newspaper, but rather because many students asked for a choice in funding...
Faculty members have repeatedly expressed concern that informing student. about the details of how any particular complaint is resolved gives the student power to punish the professor further by publicizing the case in the national media...
...Cohen and the Crimson aware of the power of the press? Or more importantly are they so well versed in the facts of this particular case that they can reasonably see fit to punish and re-punish the man whenever they or their source desire? Does Mr. Cohen see himself as judge and jury in every case of sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is indeed an issue that bears crucially on the future of women in the academic world. It is newsworthy. The particular incident which occurred last fall is not; it is old news...
Once victims consider it necessary to file suits and bring subsidiary charges to punish perpetrators adequately, the idea of "punishment to fit the crime" has blurred beyond recognition. If Herrin begins to think he's being punished not because he killed Bonnie Garland but because funeral and medical costs were high, the already much-debated effect of a jail term on future actions will be further confused...
...struggle with the courts to put Herrin in jail may explain and even excuse their desire to hit him as hard as they can. But it would be a shame if the sympathy they deserve obscured the perception that lies behind their suit, that a criminal penalty somehow cannot punish "enough." It's all very well for murderers to have to foot the bill for funerals they caused, but that's not one of the hardier deterrents to a crime of passion...