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...students instinctively comply. When an officer asks “May I come in?” many students seem to ignore or forget the possibility of answering “no.” This may be because many students are unsure whether HUPD officers even need a warrant to conduct searches on University property. According to Wesley Oliver, Climenko fellow and Thayer lecturer at Harvard Law School, officers do need a warrant—and we agree that HUPD, as a deputized police force, ought to be subject to the same constitutional limits under which public police must...
...retain when they move into college dormitories and just how far their fourth amendment search-and-seizure rights go to protect them.One of the DeWolfe defendants in the marijuana case told The Crimson earlier this year that before receiving consent, police told him that they did not need a warrant to search his room. And in light of the search of Walleck’s room, HUPD launched an internal investigation into the actions of the detective, which concluded that the officer acted within protocol.But experts in civil rights and criminal law suggest that consent can be tainted if officers...
...violation of that constitutional right. The Act’s renewal is not the only recent invasion of citizens’ privacy in the name of fighting terror that gives us pause. In the fall, the Bush administration came under fire when it was found to have authorized secret warrant-free wiretapping of Americans. In 2004, a proposal made its way through the Department of Education policy chain to establish a government database to keep track of everything from academic records to sports teams. Supposedly designed to better track students’ progress and help improve educational developments, the plan...
...BALCO case for two years and broke the news of Bonds? original grand jury testimony, look like they?ve built a fairly airtight case, as they?ve based their account on interviews with more than 200 people, memos detailing witness interviews with federal agents, audio tapes, BALCO search warrant affidavits, and other documented evidence. The authors also show that Bonds is a boor, as he allegedly threatened to kill his mistress Bell. It?s disarming, but sadly, again not all that surprising...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed his hope that Harvard will quickly move to examine the issue of divestment from Sudan-linked companies that remain in its portfolio. “My view is that the kinds of involvements that were present in the case of PetroChina provided sufficient warrant for divestiture, and I just haven’t looked into the precise situation of other companies in sufficient detail to know whether they’re present or not,” Summers said yesterday. “But I hope that will be done in very short order...