Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's a typical call for the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). Nine out of ten days, in fact, will go by without any real "action" around the University, and recent statistics show that the incidence of property and violent crime on Harvard property has declined significantly. And there have been other changes, as well. New leadership and increased input into the decision-making system have eased the pentup tension of the policeman who last year, still recuperating from the David L. Gorski and Steven Hall administration, claimed morale was at an all-time...
...dilemma of this University is that you can't police the Harvard area without going onto Cambridge streets and Cambridge's jurisdiction, as opposed to other colleges, where the campus is closed and confined," Shannon says. The apparent rise in violent crime in the Cambridge area appears to account for the overall crime increase registered on the Harvard police computer, because the incidence of crime on Harvard property registers a decline on the same set of statistics...
...such community activities, the Panthers won $500,000 in government grants (and the attention of government auditors, who found a number of instances of sloppiness and mismanagement). Even in the midst of these good works, however, there were some violent incidents that seemed to lead back to the Panthers. The ugliest was the murder of Betty Van Patten, 45, the Panthers' earnest white bookkeeper, who in 1975 was found floating in San Francisco Bay with her head bashed in. There were rumors that she might have made enemies by questioning irregularities in party ledgers, but the case has never...
...vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air," wrote Oscar Wilde. In the California prison system, for years one of the most violent in the U.S., something quite different has taken root: Transcendental Meditation. At Folsom Prison, a state-run storehouse for repeat offenders, more than 250 inmates over the past three years have stopped hating and hitting each other to sit quietly and think their mantras. Encouraged by Folsom's example, authorities at San Quentin ("the Q") and Deuel Vocational Institution have opened their doors to TM programs. The state parole board has asked...
...once, he tries to show what else he can do as an actor. As it turns out, he can be quite funny. There are some hilarious bits in which he fends off real and imagined enemies on New York's mean streets; his performance takes on a violent comic vitality that only rarely spreads to his direction and writing. Like the rest of the film, the star is at his worst when he lays on calculated doses of sentiment and sensitivity; at such times, Stallone seems more in touch with imagined demands of the box office than...