Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ackermann termed the city's response thus for to the allegations of police misconduct "intolerable," and openly criticized Corcoran for not being quicker in initiating actions on behalf of the city...
...play--e.g., grabbing the writing arm of another student--is sent to the penalty box for five minutes, during which time he may do no writing. If a violator draws blood, he incurs a ten minute penalty. If he takes a swing at a proctor, he draws an exam misconduct and is expelled from the hall, his exam book being turned in at that point...
Similarly, in its application of the Third Statute concerning grave misconduct, the Corporation has found that the Dean's actions circumventing the decisions of the School's admissions committee were, while "outside normal precedent," understandable in light of abnormal conditions and circumstances. In other words, when the Statutes are applied to administrators, anything goes so long as circumstances agree...
...seems perfectly reasonable that those whose misconduct compels us to send (them) to a house of correction should not again be let loose on society until they shall have made some indication of amended character. Instead of being sentenced, therefore, to confinement for a certain fixed period, they should be sentenced to earn, at a certain specified employment, such a sum of money as may be judged sufficient to preserve them on their release...and orderly, decent, and submissive behavior should...be enforced, under the penalty of a prolongation of their confinement...
...these last two prejudices that lie at the core of the passage quoted above. It is the criminal's "misconduct" that "compels us to send" him to an institution for personal correction. The criminal, now a convict, is to be interred in the institution until he displays a willingness to accept the profit motive and the work ethic in personal practice. In effect, regardless of his acceptance of society's complicity in crime as a theory, the author of this passage rejected the notion in practice. He was and is not alone...