Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Subcommittee has developed some positive information concerning the suffering of a large segment of humanity here in South Viet Nam [Oct. 20]. However, your article does not clearly identify the patients who are "sleeping on corridor floors, or two or three to a bed" in our hospitals, and might imply that the bulk of the patients are in the hospitals with war wounds. In fact, a great preponderance of our patients have preventable communicable diseases-typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague, hepatitis, malaria and other such conditions-that are the result of environmental health problems...
...then argued that the Board should accept my judgment that other men were in fact present in the corridor. I told the Board that my judgment was based on 1) my personal knowledge of the deep concern over the war which many of these men felt and the consequent probability that they had in fact participated in the obstruction; 2) the strong impression to the same effect which the Master and I had received from the meeting Monday morning; and 3) the petition signed by those men which stated their belief that they shared responsibility for obstructing Mr. Leavitt...
...throughout these proceedings for two reasons: 1) I was in the unaccustomed position of urging disciplinary action for students because they desired it and against my personal wishes; and 2) uncertainty was introduced by the lack of direct statements from the men involved as to their presence in the corridor. If it had been clear prior to Tuesday that such statements would be accepted, I would certainly have attempted to secure them instead of resting on my own judgment...
Because I felt forced to rely on imperfect evidence, it is entirely possible that men have been found to have obstructed Mr. Leavitt who were not present in the corridor and who did not intend to claim presence. The reverse is also possible...
...student is entitled to appeal any Board decision if new evidence is available. For students found, on the evidence of my judgment alone, to have participated in the obstruction of Mr. Leavitt, a statement that he was not in the corridor while Mr. Leavitt was imprisoned in M-102 would constitute new evidence. Conversely, any student not found to have participated in the obstruction of Mr. Leavitt, who was in fact in the corridor when Mr. Leavitt was in M-102, may, if he so desires, submit a statement to that effect to the Board for the purpose of reopening...