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- THE WEEK, Page 27MISCELLANYTeacher's Pets
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- 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.
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