And the summer program is just plain dangerous,
run by faculty members who have little idea what
they're doing. I arrived at Hyde in the middle of
Summer School (as it was then called) in 1976 and
ran away from the regular year the following
January '77. There was no Conn. campus at the
time, only Bath.
I remember when my watch group was on the
maritime portion of the wilderness thing we were
rowing around in the middle of Penobscot Bay
when the Coast Guard came alongside the "safety
boat" (so named because the faculty could motor
themselves off to safety) and told them that a
tropical storm was incoming. The faculty actually
resisted diverting us off the water! They did so
only after the Coasties threatened to arrest them.
Anyway, life at Hyde is like walking on eggshells
constantly. For the most trivial offense one
could be put on "24 hour work crew". Fear of
"two-four" pervaded everything. Two-four was the
punishment for having a "bad attitude",failing to
snitch or saying anything negitive about Hyde.
this consisted of digging your own grave and
filling it back in over and over or mindlessly
carrying logs back and forth between piles of logs.
I would advise your friend to resist going.
Also if he gets sent anyway and wants to share
here or on another board to post anon to avoid
being put on two-four for a long time.
If we choose to violate the rights of the innocent in order to discover and act against the guilty, then we have transformed our country into a police state and abandoned one of the fundamental tenants of a free society. In order to win the war on drugs, we must not sacrifice the life of the Constitution in the battle.
--US District Judge H. Lee Sarokin
