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Since the CRR began what has turned into a five-month saga, other disciplinary bodies have judged and levied decisions for cases involving their students in one incident. It took the Law School's Administrative Board three weeks to give 10 law students official slaps on the wrist for their participation in a sit-in last April. The Graduate School of Education quietly took care of one student in much the same manner last spring...
When 10 Law School students were given official slaps on the wrist for their participation in an anti-apartheid sit-in last April, campus activists breathed a sigh of relief. The sit-in had been orderly, and the school's Administrative Board had quietly and expeditiously levied the mildest form of discipline...
Consumer groups were outraged with the light fine, calling it "a slap on the wrist." Said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Public Citizen Health Research Group: "We believe the company intentionally withheld information from the FDA and there should have been a felony charge. Their top ) executive could have been fined $150,000 and spent 45 years in jail." Last week's action ended the Government's case against Lilly. But the firm cannot put Oraflex behind it since scores of civil suits in the U.S. and Britain must still be resolved...
...Soviet Union, McKee was given a six-month work release sentence for making a false statement. She described the crime as "all technical violations," like driving 60 m.p.h. in 55 m.p.h. zones. "There's been little fear of heavy sentences. It's more often a slap on the wrist," says Robert McDiarmid, a Santa Clara County private investigator who handles high-tech security for industry...
Congressional critics chastised the Navy after the decision, calling it business as usual in dealing with large defense contractors. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire told the Senate, "Small contractors who are caught committing questionable or wrongful acts are pinned to the wall. Larger companies typically are slapped on the wrist at most." Michigan Democrat John Dingell, who chaired the House subcommittee that unearthed the gifts to Rickover, said the General Dynamics decision reflected the differences between large and small contractors. The little ones, he said, do not have the U.S. "as hostages...