Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over, but it has already prompted troublesome questions about U.S. justice. For one, the new federal antiriot statute on which the charges are based may itself be unconstitutional. Last week U.S. District Judge Julius J. Hoffman raised a whole new set of volatile issues. Incensed at Black Panther Bobby Scale, the defiant defendant whom Hoffman had ordered gagged and manacled to his chair, the 74-year-old judge suddenly declared a mistrial for Seale and found him guilty on 16 charges of contempt of court. Without much further ado, Hoffman sentenced Seale to three months in prison on each count...
Three times, Hoffman asked Seale to be seated; then he called a luncheon recess. After reconvening the court, the judge solemnly read off what he called only the "most flagrant" examples of Scale's misconduct. When he announced that Scale's case would be "severed" from the others, Seale blurted out: "Hey, what are you trying to pull now?" When told that he would be brought to trial again in April, Seale replied: "I demand an immediate trial right...
...Illinois. In that case, the high court ruled that a man who faces a substantial sentence (six months in federal trials) on a contempt charge has a right to have his case heard by a jury. As critics saw it, Hoffman thought he could avoid the jury requirement in Scale's case by handing down 16 separate sentences-none of them as long as six months...
...matter what happens with these proposals for next semester, coed housing will probably become a large-scale reality within the next two years. A Faculty subcommittee chaired by Jerome Kagan, is investigating all aspects of coed housing before and after the merger goes through. They will make recommendations on how many houses should go coed, the ratios of men to women in coed housing, and many other detailed aspects of coed housing. Kagan will present a preliminary report to the Faculty in December or February...
...already proposed to assure its speedy committee approval before going with the other two to what should be an easy approval by the Faculty. The exchanges backers stress that these are experimental exchanges, not in any way binding for future years. They also feel that these small-scale exchange will point out any unforeseen problems in coed housing which could be remedied before coeducation is started on a large scale after the merger...