Word: punishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...
...fuel the global jitters further, the images of recent violence lingered. A hijacking in Athens. An airport bombing in Frankfurt. A luggage explosion in Tokyo. A plane crash off the Irish coast. In the aftermath of so much tragedy, governments struggled to identify the causes and find and punish those responsible, while tightening security on the ground and in the air to prevent recurrences...
Although students are intended to constitute half of the 13-member committee, they boycotted the CRR almost since its inception in 1969 until 1980, when the College stopped inviting them to serve. Students then and now have charged that the committee can punish student protesters for political dissent without appeal to a higher body...
...court was neither called back to life to punish students after a 1978 building takeover nor to try them for heckling U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38 at a speech last year. As far as Faculty legislation is concerned, these incidents certainly warranted CRR action. However, the University probably did not reinstitute the court after those two events because activists did not have an organized backing at the time...
...Administrative Board already exists as a disciplinary body. However, the College does not punish activists under this board because it would have to suffer more blame for its actions. Harvard takes full responsibility for Ad Board punishments because it is made up completely of administrators and senior tutors. But under CRR actions, responsibility is partially shifted from the University because students are intended to make up half the court. This makes it seem like activists get punished because their peers, rather than their elders, disapprove of their activity...