Glavin's conduct warrants rebuke

   
   
   
   
   In the Year in Review, the article on the Committee Against
   Apartheid's protests ["CAA intensifies call for divestment," Feb. 1]
   mentioned the charges that Campus Police Chief Anne P. Glavin brought
   to the Committee on Discipline against Ronald W. Francis PhD '90 and
   Steven D. Penn G. 
   
   The article omitted the fact that Glavin brought those charges just
   after the April protests, more than a month after the events of which
   Francis and Penn were accused. In all probability, she pressed the
   charges as harassment for their political activities. 
   
   As the article noted, the COD found Francis and Penn innocent of all
   charges. Several officers were able to testify that the two were not
   guilty. 
   
   The police had ample photographic evidence against the charges. The
   Tech published a front-page photo clearly indicating that the charges
   were false. 
   
   Last fall, a lecturer in the architecture department was dismissed for
   using the work of her students without appropriate attribution.
   Glavin's offenses are far worse. Lying and pressing false charges are
   utterly incompatible with the mission of a
   police force to investigate and fight crime. 
   
   Glavin has demonstrated a lack of the moral qualities essential to any
   police officer, let alone a police chief. Her continued presence here
   as chief of police is an abomination. She should be fired, and
   permanently disqualified from working in the criminal justice field. 
   
   John Morrison G
   
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