Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reforms come in the wake of last fall's scandal involving then-Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94 who admitted to rigging the social committee chair election. According to council members, the social chair election was the only contest in which one person counted the ballots. Prabhu resigned after the incident...
...Attorney General, the department remains the only Cabinet-level agency without an appointed leader. The person who is eventually chosen as the new chief of federal law enforcement will be handed a full plate of problems that extend back a decade. Among them: the continuing Iran-contra probe, the scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and lingering questions over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have in recent years...
...victim of the B.N.L. scandal was Marianne Gasior, who blew the whistle on the Pennsylvania company she worked for, called Kennametal, when she learned that it was shipping sophisticated machine tools that could be used in weapons manufacture to companies controlled by Iraq. Some of the equipment was purchased with a B.N.L. letter of credit. Kennametal denies any wrongdoing. Gasior says that when she tried to report the sale to Justice Department officials, she was alternately ignored and badgered by prosecutors investigating the case until she finally took her complaint to Congress. Says Gasior: "Justice refused...
Beys assumes control of a council trying to regain its respect after a vote tampering scandal last fall. He is the subject of cautious scrutiny by a number of council members, who say his leaderhip may take either of two distinctive paths. On the one hand, Beys this past semester supported a number of small, service oriented projects...
Hopefully, these so called scandals will be no more damaging than youthful marijuana smoking. After Douglas Ginsberg's nomination to the Supreme Court was withdrawn because he had smoked pot years earlier, a host of public figures admitted to one-time marijuana experimentation. Senator Al Gore '69 was among them, and his ascendancy to the vice presidency (as well as non-inhaler Clinton's election) is proof that the scandal has lost its potency...