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‘The reasons for student misbehavior are complex, she said. “We don’t get blank slates. It’s the nature of the population of where they are in they’re developmental spectrum.”’

The local newspaper grapples with the amazingly violent University of Massachusetts student body.

The dean helps the reporter understand this profoundly complex problem: Why do so many of the young men the school has admitted destroy neighborhoods and physically attack the police? It’s in their nature. Look to the developmental spectrum. It’s all part of the price of doing business for the university. Boys will be boys, and we admit them knowing they can’t help where they are on the spectrum.

Margaret Soltan, October 13, 2012 3:41AM
Posted in: STUDENTS

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