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...There is no good reason to punish transfer students by making them satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement by the end of their first semester. All that does is create unnecessary pressure and, as one student put it, "makes me feel like I'm taking an extra course." Let them have a full year, as the first-years do, as long as they pass the test by graduation...
...aftermath of the Civil War was a painful time for both Black and white residents in the South. Northern politicians eagerly used all of the resources they had at their disposal to punish and humiliate the losers. They ignored the fact that most of the vanquished Southern people were not rich plantation owners and secessionist politicians. Many were poor but proud farmers who worked the land, just as generations of slaves had done since before the founding of Harvard...
...Right-wing assassins in South Africa have found a brutal, high-tech way to punish their enemies: send them a booby-trapped tape player. On Feb. 15, such a Walkman-type device took the life of Bheki Mlangeni, a human-rights lawyer. The real target of the deadly package was Dirk Coetzee, a former policeman who now supports the African National Congress and lives in exile in Zambia. Coetzee testified last summer that former colleagues on the South African police force were behind the hit-squad deaths of several A.N.C. activists. The parcel bomb was sent to Coetzee in Lusaka...
...LOOK at Hann's record shows that the Disciplinary Board has previously attempted to reform him politically as well as punish his delinquency. In 1989 the board found Hann guilty of making a racial epithet to a Black student in a bar, and forced him to attend a race relations workshop in addition to the requisite alcohol abuse counseling. Hann's bigoted attitude could certainly be improved, but it is not the Disciplinary Board's place...
...hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have been to punish Hann only for his rowdiness, not his opinions...