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What eludes U.S. penology (from the Latin poena, meaning pain) is the basic recipe of effective punishment: speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing...
Just as sure as presidential candidates crop up every four years, so is Cartoonist Walt Kelly sure to needle them in his comic strip, Pogo. He is off to a fast start this year. During the New Hampshire primary campaign, he sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires...
TODAY'S meeting, however, is a beginning. It is a start towards what Debbie Batts, RUS President, sees as responsible cooperation between the administration and students on problems of concern to both. This is how the Trustees should see it, too; Miss Batts' is not an unreasonable vision. It is definitely not an attempt by a group of power-hungry Miss Mitties to take over the College, as Miss Batts and her very sober co-officers have stressed over and over again...
Kirby Wilcox has filled in erratically at goal, but will probably start the first game in the nets for Harvard...
...There are still a lot of things that have to be worked out before we start travelling," Coach Bruce Munro said, "and we're really going to have to work this week to make up for lost time...