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Exactly what the University should do is unclear and most seem to be waiting for clear direction from Bok. Some, like Herrnstein, call for strict written guidelines which will make it easy for the University to swiftly punish offenders. But others, like Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, warn against overly specific regulations which might force the University into an awkward position. People like Shattuck and Owens favor broader statements, in the vein of the Constitution, which would give the University more flexibility in handling future incidents...
...would highly intelligent men in positions of authority misuse that authority for sexual purposes, and with the frequency the evidence is beginning to reveal? This is the baffling underside of the controversies--at Harvard and elsewhere--over how to punish offenders. An administrator who argues, as Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky did two years ago, that the nature of the punishment meted out to a convicted sexual harasser should not be revealed to the harassment victim is expressing something deeper than just paternalistic bias. To some extent, he is also implying that harassment is somehow "natural"--a weakness which...
...United Auto Workers argues that if quotas are lifted, the Japanese share of the U.S. market will jump from about 22% to 40%. By the union's count, 200,000 American jobs would be lost. Says U.A.W. President Owen Bieber: "Brock apparently wants to punish the workers for the greed of their bosses...
...however, laws tailored to punish high-tech criminals are beginning to make their way onto the books. The Massachusetts legislature is considering a model measure, prepared with the help of local computer experts, that spells out crimes in precise technical terms and calls for tough penalties: for example, $5,000 fines and up to a year in jail for hackers who crack security codes just for the fun of it, triple damages for persons found guilty of malicious tampering. The California legislature is considering a bill that would strengthen its pioneering computer-crime law, enacted in 1979, by stiffening penalties...
Statistics show capital punishment does not deter crime. What use, then, does it hope to fulfill? Criminals don't learn lessons from being killed. Killing a criminal doesn't bring back his victim. Perhaps its purpose is not to punish a criminal's guilt but to satisfy society's lust for revenge. The late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in his autobiography, "Capital punishment is barbaric...its only value is the organism of delight it produces in the public...