Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wedlock replies that such comparisons are unfair, arguing that there are vast differences in culture and attitudes toward crime and punishment between the United States and other countries. The U.S. leads the rest of the world in all crime, not just murder. and always had because of these attitudes. One of the major differences, he says, is that prison terms in other countries have always been more certain and lengthy than in the United States...
...unfair to single out one per former in what is a superlative cast...
Evans says he can't recall a single article on the successes of black students here during that period. Negative publicity like the Kilson piece, he claims, has cast black students here in an unfair light, and has seriously hurt recruiting efforts aimed at minorities...
...unfair, I can see how having to travel from Hilles to William James in under seven minutes would require some fast moving, but at the same time, residents of Radcliffe are expected to do this daily. And this kind of travelling is fine if you have two hours between classes for lunch, but for those living at Radcliffe who have what amounts to fifty minutes for lunch, the bias against them is phenomenal, as it is becoming increasingly hard to find a Harvard House in which to eat lunch. Eliot, Adams, and Lowell have been closed to unaccompanied non-residents...
...selective enforcement of these broad rules that makes them unfair; students who invite friends up or keep a pet in their room usually don't get into any trouble, but occasionally an overzealous proctor writing letters for students' files about how a student "violated the rules." Under the files law, you can now see these letters, but you can't have them removed, even though the proctor or dean acted without a full investigation and the Ad board refused to consider the case...