Word: rashness
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...City Licensing Board shut down MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity after first-year pledge Scott Kreuger died from alcohol poisoning at one of the fraternity's parties. Every since, the news media has given MIT fraternity antics national attention. That attention is currently being lavished on a recent rash of stupidly self-destructive stunts...
...suite has a sign on the back of their door that reads, "Lock the door. There have been a rash of burglaries lately. Do you want your things stolen...
...security ? in part to quell students? fears of violence, but also to calm parental nerves. So maybe it?s not such a surprise that many students feel safe: Surveillance cameras, metal detectors and daily pat-downs do tend to create a high-security atmosphere. In addition, despite the rash of school shootings, fights and other disturbances in schools are down by between 20 and 30 percent, figures that reflect a general decline in violence. And then there is the matter of a strong economy; good times tend to infect the national psyche with a pervasive sense of well-being. Nothing...
Locks are never going to solve this crime rash--no, plague--this crime plague that is sweeping campus. We have to go to the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is that here near Boston, we are not in small-town Wisconsin. So I have a recommendation for us all: Let's move the whole University to small-town Wisconsin. That way we can all sleep soundly, regardless of whether or not we take the time to lock our doors...
Students on the fourth and fifth floors said they are scared by the rash of break-ins, adding that they are becoming suspicious of their fellow students...