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URI Hosts Prom for LGBT+ High School Students

John Cronin

The Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Rhode Island hosted a Mermaid Prom for about a dozen other-than-heterosexual high school students earlier this week.

One of the students who attended the event on the South Kingston campus is a 17-year-old boy who identifies himself as "pan-sexual," according to the Providence Journal.

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George Kelling, 83, Developer Of “Broken Windows” Theory, Dies In NH

Bill Gnade

After Rudolph Guiliani became mayor of New York City in 1993, he credited "Broken Windows theory" for helping him clean up the city's notorious graffiti and vandalism, and in significantly reducing the city's crime rate. That theory has also been praised in helping reduce crime and other street problems around the country, and even in the Netherlands.

Broken Windows theory was co-developed by George Kelling, who died this week at home in Hanover, NH. He was 83.

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