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Frank and Sneider express great concern for the reputations of alleged perpetrators; however, laws on rape and the adjudication of rape cases have historically been consistent in their protection of the perpetrator and their suspicions of the survivor...
...would like to express our strong objection to the letter by Martin L. Kilson, Thomson professor of government, which appeared in the April 27 Crimson...
...going to meet with the master to express our strong disapproval, demand that he change his position, and ask [him] to specify his reasons [for dismissing Ignatiev]," said organizer Adam K. Goodheart...
White opinion, like black, also is divided -- even among policemen. Like other whites, hardly any cops will say flat-out that they approve of the verdict, or of the conduct of the policemen who were acquitted. Some, however, do express relief and opine that the public got a distorted impression of what happened from the tape. There was -- there must have been -- other evidence that led the jury to acquit. "The trial was much more than 81 seconds of tape," says Houston burglary sergeant Doug Elder. "The media and politicians took the tape and indicted, tried and convicted those officers...
...lead some to excuse almost any behavior on the part of the police who are supposedly protecting them against it. That leads to verdicts like the acquittal of King's beaters, which touch off riots like those last week, which further intensify white fear. Scholars of both races express this apprehension. Says Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Afro-American studies at Harvard: "That ((King)) jury was more afraid of the potential of being mugged by some hypothetical black male than it was of the abuse of the Constitution, of civil rights." Jim Sleeper, author of the book The Closest...