Word: probationer
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Everybody in the college community-including staff members-vote for the undergraduate judicial committee, which has one faculty member sitting with it. All student disciplinary problems come before this committee which has the power to recommend that a girl be expelled or put on probation.
In the face of the evidence of the "disintegrating influence of money-mad athletics," Judge Streit could not find it in his heart to be hard on the players. Alex Groza, Ralph Beard (both All-America) and Dale Barnstable, who had split $3,500 for fixing two games, were put...
The administration, further, tried "for ten days ... to hush up the case. Only the pressure of ... students at Harvard and pretests from thousands of people in our country and throughout the world forced it to take the weak action of putting the students on probation."
After two students were put on probation, the H.L.U., "seizing on this concession of the administration, was successfully able to kill off the petition."
No defendant under 25 is considered for the operation, because up to that age, his voice and other secondary sex characteristics might change too drastically. Only when all these conditions are met does Judge Turrentine order the operation (surgical removal of both testicles). It has been performed in 60 cases...