Word: pressing
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Releasing a the names of jurors after a trial is over allows members of the press to contact those vested with this enormous power to get a first-hand account of the jury's impressions and deliberations. Airing this sort of information will help the public at large reach a verdict on whether the courts have done justice in any particular case...
...been raped to go public with her story and there is no reason to silence someone because they choose to exercise there legal right to go to court. Ordering the woman and her attorney to refrain from discussing the case violates their rights and those of the press and the public, who depend on their perspectives to gain a complete understanding of the court proceedings...
Though advance publicity may make it a bit more difficult for the court to find an impartial jury to hear the case, press reports are hardly "polluting the minds" of those who read them, as defense attorneys in the case have maintained. Press coverage allows the public to judge the severity of the problem of sexual violence among college students and gives those who might commit such violence notice their actions could have grave consequences...
Last time the Harvard men's hockey team played Cornell, Crimson forward Ted Drury disappointedly watched from the press...
...statement, presented to the Council by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, recognized that students "have the right to mount orderly demonstrations, pickets and other actions in order to press for certain policies of actions," but stated that "coercive sit-ins or takeovers of buildings" were prohibited...