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...attorney decides there is not enough evidence to prosecute, the University has an obligation bordering on a civic duty to make the same judgment unless evidence otherwise is presented. Of course, admission (or readmission) to a college is not of the same thread as freedom from incarceration or other punishment. This difference gives Harvard the ability to punish students for offenses that are not illegal (usually under the catch-all definition of “conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student”) but the University certainly lacks the moral legitimacy to define a non-rapist as a rapist...
...should limit itself to one central demand: the University should not offer any modicum of impunity to convicted rapists and sexual offenders. On the other hand, the adherence to a set of University rules in the face of legal exoneration doesn’t do much to punish rapists and does even less to enhance the credibility of an already dubious school discipline system...
...October effort to punish those network media outlets perceived as straying too far from the administration’s message (i.e., covering the lack of progress in Iraq), Bush courted regional media sources. At the time, the Washington Post cited media analysts who speculated the move amounted to “shopping for softer questioning.” Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, admitted to the Post that the Bush administration did in fact view local media and regional broadcasts as “less analytical and more reporting,” but the emphasis on unsophisticated, uncomplicated...
Orfield also derided the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” initiative, saying that in demanding that all schools progress equally, the program will punish segregated schools that lag behind...
...change bad habits; up to October, 5,035 fines were issued, compared to 3,818 for all of last year. In Japan, an $84 fine for car accidents caused by mobile phones has netted only 120 offenders a year. So police are reportedly planning stricter laws for 2004, to punish offenders on sight. In July, Italy increased fines to $83 and added a five-point deduction from an offender's license. In 2002-03 there were 330,384 fines; in the first month under the new law, just 106 tickets were issued. In June, Vietnam made handheld phoning a fineable...