It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel
Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.
Joan Wong for The Chronicle The Review May 28, 2021
Power in the U.S. flows through the gates of the Ivy League and a very small tier of other top universities. These institutions set and sanction the boundaries of knowledge, including what kinds of political and social views are welcomed in prestige cultural spaces. This has long been the case. In 1805, for example, Unitarianism won a real degree of respectability when Harvard, then a Calvinist institution, appointed the Unitarian Henry Ware to the Hollis chair, long the most prestigious endowed chair in the country. Last year, in a 21st-century version of the Ware affair, conservatives won when Harvard’s president and provost overruled the faculty and turned away the economist Gabriel Zucman, whose renown rests in large part on his empirical work s
California rapist who spent 21 years on the run after failing to register as a sex offender is caught by cops in Florida after he applied for a fishing license
David Swenson, 53, was arrested after Hernando County Sheriff s Office received information about a sex offender who was possibly living in Spring Hill
Police discovered Swenson was an absconded sex offender from California who had active warrants there for failing to register as a sex offender in 2000
He was convicted of rape and another sex offense in 1989, but failed to register after his release in 1993
Detectives learned that Swenson was living under the name Kevin Crowley with his wife and recently used that alias to obtain a fishing license
SPRING HILL, Fla.
Investigators in Florida have arrested a 53-year-old sex offender, a fugitive from California who had been living under a false identity for 21 years.
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office announced that it received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Tuesday about a sex offender who was possibly living in Spring Hill.
Sheriff’s officials immediately began investigating and learned that David Swenson, 53, was an “absconded sex offender” from California. He had active warrants there for failing to register as a sex offender in 2000.
Detectives also learned that Swenson was living with his wife under the name Kevin Crowley, the sheriff’s statement said. They used various databases to discover that he had recently used the name Kevin Crowley to obtain a fishing license. The two vehicles, a camper, and a boat at his home in Spring Hill were all registered to Crowley’s wife, the statement said.
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Detectives also learned that Swenson was living with his wife under the name Kevin Crowley, the sheriff s statement said. They used various databases to discover that he had recently used the name Kevin Crowley to obtain a fishing license. The two vehicles, a camper, and a boat at his home in Spring Hill were all registered to Crowley s wife, the statement said.
Sheriff s deputies had a previous encounter with the man, when they were called to the home in 2009, and found him hiding in the attic. He provided them with his false name, Crowley, and was issued a notice to appear in court, but the case was dropped due to a pre-trial diversion.