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...Student advocacy coincided with statewide political concern again, with the laudable efforts of those supporting reform to the CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) system. CORI currently allows for the felonies and misdemeanors of released offenders to be available far too long after the offense, prohibiting these citizens from reentering an honest occupation. This results in the re-arrest of over two thirds of releasees within just three years. Gov. Patrick also developed praiseworthy policy solutions to address this problem, authoring the CORI reform bill that, if passed, would lower the sealing of felony records from 15 years to just...
...CORI reform shows, protecting the citizens of Massachusetts is a worthy goal, but one whose initial steps can be misguided. The Safe Homes initiative—started this year by the Boston Police Department—involved police teams working with community committees to search for and remove any firearms owned by minors at the permission of the adults of the household. While the intentions of this initiative were salutary, it is essential that awareness of the optional nature of the searches is widespread, and that the officers’ primary intention upon entering the house is to remove firearms...
...online student referendum called by Petersen, 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduate votes cast were in favor of the proposal, and on June 6, Interim President Derek C. Bok announced that a University-wide calendar reform had been approved by Harvard’s governing boards. Petersen told The Crimson last year, “The undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council identified a problem and sought to address it, and the governing boards took our concerns seriously...
...Today, Harvard Hillel holds two of its largest annual ceremonies, the Reform services for Rosh Hashanah and for Yom Kippur, in Memorial Church...
...reality, though, is that the parents of Dujiangyan are unlikely to prevail. Sophie Richardson, a Human Rights Watch lawyer specializing in legal reform in China, says that the government has refused to renew the licenses of two prominent civil rights lawyers who offered to represent Tibetans in the wake of the violence in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March. "They don't allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death...