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...release. Punishment was supposedly going to fit the criminal, not the crime. But quite apart from the difficulties of achieving any rehabilitation, the discretion involved gave authorities irresistible power to manipulate convict behavior. It was "one of the more exquisite forms of torture," concluded one study. The virtually uniform bitterness of "indeterminated" prisoners has helped convince experts that a complete about-face is now necessary...
...vegetarianism, communal living, free love and the redistribution of wealth. Bisexuality as well as homosexuality intrigued him, and he championed women's rights. When war was still glamorized, he raged: "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform; he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder...
Nonetheless, the rules force schools and colleges to make some increase in spending on women's sports. HEW regional directors will require "necessary" funding for girls' teams and will be looking for rough equality in travel and uniform allowances, training facilities and coaching. The rule on athletic scholarships is even vaguer: there must be "reasonable opportunities" for women to receive as much aid as men based on the level of participation in school sports...
Douglas S. Gardner, associate registrar, says that the $3500 files operation which enabled students to view their record for about 20 minutes "ran smoothly." But after such an effort to get "a uniform approach" in the handling of confidential materials, he was a little surprised that by the end of the year, only 325 University students had chosen to take a look...
...system. Without any formalized standards to guide them, one simply hopes that the judges possess at least a modicum of fairness. In the "democratic" or "common-man" version of meritocracy, one can be less dependent on the judges' individual qualities, since by means of uniform tests and other impersonal criteria the question of who wins and who loses becomes much less a matter of any one person's whim. The meritocratic competition, if it works right, represents an efficient system for society to allocate its resources to those who are best able to do its work...