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...Harvard is going to do a better job than the City Council, it might begin instead by enforcing its own overnight alternate-side parking. Continued higher fines and crackdowns may eventually cause students simply not to register their cars with the University, since only cars with the little red sticker rate the special treatment. The other means of having fewer student cars, prohibiting them, contradicts a long standing University principle and would seriously inconvenience commuters and students from distant states...
When a student registers his car with the University he must agree to "obey all City and State parking regulations," leaving himself open to both Cambridge and University ticketing. In practice, however, students whose cars show the proper sticker receive only the more expensive University tickets for overnight violations...
Years of this routine had passed without the slightest trouble until Williams tried to sell an old history book to a local book merchant. The astute salesman noticed the library sticker and reported him to the librarian who called Williams in later. However, the University police did not arrive at the office in time to end the thief's career...
Today, all the books are back in Widener, each containing a sticker on the inside cover telling of Williams' fate: two years at hard labor...
University Police Captain Matthew H. Toohey also warned that students would be liable to a fine of $10 for not registering their automobiles by today or for not displaying the registration sticker by Monday...