Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year residents of Cicero, a Chicago-area community notorious for its racism, called the police to report that a black man was impersonating a police officer, wearing a police uniform and driving a squad car. That was patrolman Wesley Scott, the town's first and only black policeman. Almost ! daily, he endures racial insults and humiliation, not only from the people he has sworn to protect but also from some of his fellow officers upon whom his life may depend...
...Klansmen in the picture asked. Another replied, "I'm going to kill Wesley." Across the bottom was written "The Ku Klux Klan is going to kill you." Recalls Scott: "A few of the guys were shaking their heads, but a lot of the guys were laughing." Scott did not report the incident to his superiors, one of whom was among those laughing. Stephen Zalas, deputy superintendent of the Cicero police, said he was unaware of the incident. "Rookies do put up with some harassment," he said. "Some of it might be in bad taste...
While many of the programs reaching the finals involved direct humanitarian aid, six of the winners focused on more efficient public service, according to K-School reports. The Computer-Assisted Report Entry system of the St. Louis police, for example, uses computers to reduce the time necessary for filing police reports by 80 percent...
While Ken Lee says the council should vote one way or another on the recently released Young Report on procedures for Board of Overseers' nominations, Lockwood already condemns the report as "conduct unbecoming of the Harvard administration...
...economics concentrator says his experience as vice-chairman and his role on the freedom of speech committee make him qualified to hold the top job. The council approved the free speech committee's report, which proposed guidelines for controversial campus speaking events this fall. A student-faculty committee chaired by Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, which numbers Ken Lee among its members, will this fall propose formal guidelines to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...