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THE WEEK, Page 27MISCELLANYTeacher's Pets
The syllabus for Professor Michael Petrik's criminal-justice
class at New York's Nassau County Community College promised a
course on "alternatives to prison." Little did his students know
how far he'd go to teach his lessons. The professor, 30,
confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a
medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say
Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and
robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then
drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked"
that the professor had helped in the escape. At week's end
Petrik was behind bars, facing a seven-year prison term with no
sabbaticals, and one of the jailbirds had been caught. Give the
prof an F.