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Steven Allen Butler, 28, a Houston shoeshine man, faced a grim future. Butler, already on probation for an indecency conviction involving a seven-year-old girl, confronted a possible life sentence for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old neighbor. Last week a Texas judge approved Butler's request to be surgically castrated rather than go to prison. The victim's family, who knows Butler, approved of castration to spare the girl from testifying at a trial...
...incident. At the present trial, jurors are identified only by number and are sequestered in an undisclosed location guarded by federal marshals. Even so, Judge I. Leo Glasser replaced two of them last week with alternates after they asked to be excused. One was reported to have made the request because his girlfriend complained of being frightened...
...currently seeking to extend his leave, and he's filing discrimination charges with the U.S. Department of Education. His request for an extension inspired a group of law students, the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), to sue the school for failing to provide a sufficiently diverse environment...
...process of improving race relations is an imperfect one in which celebration for one may mean offense for another. Imperfect though it may be, it is a learning process as well, one which encourages discussion as a means of understanding each other. In approving BSA's grant request for the "Rap and its Influence of the Liberation Struggle" project, we endorsed the intent to explore the influence of rap in our multicultural environment. Galper calls this "irresponsible," but in fact we would have been irresponsible to do otherwise. Muneer Ahmad '93 Natosha Reid '93 Co-Chairs, Harvard Foundation Student Advisory...
...Derrick A. Bell Jr. recently announced his decision to ask the University for one more year of unpaid leave. Bell went on leave in April 1990, threatening not to return until the Law School hired a Black woman. President Neil L. Rudenstine said last week that Bell's request could not be granted...