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- <text id=92TT1213>
- <title>
- June 01, 1992: Teacher's Pets
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 01, 1992 RIO:Coming Together to Save the Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 27
- MISCELLANY
- Teacher's Pets
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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