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When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...
...stopping suspects on the basis of race, and ordered officers to record the race of people they stop. But two weeks later, Cincinnati's streets were littered with the familiar iconography of failure: fiery Dumpsters, splintered storefronts and citizens sitting on the curb, weeping from tear gas. Police in riot gear ringed city hall, and Mayor Charlie Luken appeared on TV--shaken and anxious--to announce a strict curfew. While many American cities wrestle with the same slippery problems, Cincinnati had become a model of racial injustice...
...take a little quiz: a black a) homeless woman b) street vendor or c) teenager, armed with a) a screwdriver b) a wallet or c) nothing at all, is killed by cops under circumstances that are a) questionable b) grounds for murder charges or c) the cause of a riot...
When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...
...starting with the less than sunny atmosphere. The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting...