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Peace Pigs. To cope with the dramatically different campus of today, university police chiefs try to weed out authoritarian types among their men who may provoke more trouble than they control. Berkeley's top cop, William Beall, frankly admits that he looks for "Peace Corps" types who can assure the students that "we are less likely to escalate the situation." And Don Schwartzmiller, security chief of Kent State's force, makes sure he knows what his officers will do "if they're called pigs by youngsters who mean it." Says Schwartzmiller: "Their reactions have to be under...
...least 67 students out of the 200 picketing University Hall on May 11 are scheduled for CRR hearings beginning today. It should be evident that trying to weed out such a large number of students, or at least frighten them into fewer or no future political demonstrations, is an attempt doomed to failure...
Strict Construction. The new challenge was launched three years ago by Frederick Walz, an elderly New York lawyer who is so reclusive that he refuses to be photographed and conducted his entire case by mail and phone calls. To become a landowner, Walz bought .0146 of a weed-choked acre on Staten Island. When the city billed him for taxes of $5.24 on the lot's $100 value, he filed a suit to prevent New York from granting tax exemptions to churches, claiming that the city was using part of his money to support them. He was a Christian...
While one of the Post interviewers explained the questions were designed to weed out weak-willed reporters, in at least one case a radical answer led to the Post to turn an applicant down...
...looks real enough: a pot of common weed, thin and green. But this pot is not common or even really a weed. It is plastic marijuana, a perfect replica of the real thing, minus the taste, the smell and any sensory ups or downs. Only Cannabis Sativa Inc., which merchandises the fake plant, expects to get high on its effects...