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Such a lofty statement might, at first glance, seem to have little to do with everyday collegiate life. But the brutal beating of a high-school football recruit at the D.U. Club several weeks ago is a lens through which we can examine the nature of the College's justice system and its relationship to the final clubs...
Granted, the Ad Board is not the KGB, and it is unlikely that miscarriages of justice occur so readily. But by all accounts, something is quite wrong with the punishment handed out in the case at hand. The facts are as follows: John Burnham, a football recruit from Washington, D.C., was taken to the D.U. one Saturday in February. He argued with Sean Hansen '95, after which time Burnham left the club. He returned to the club to confront Hansen, and a fist fight erupted. It is not clear how the fight began--almost everyone at the scene was drunk...
Louis I. Kane '53, the president of the D.U.'s graduate board, said last month that Dingman had told him two students had been put on disciplinary probation for their involvement in an incident in which a high school football recruit was allegedly beaten at the club...
When he was first elected president of the Overseers last year, Hesburgh emphasized the need to recruit faculty of the highest caliber, as well as to guarantee that all students can afford a Harvard education...
...Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed the officers would supplement their wages with detail work, which they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more...