Two teenagers were sentenced yesterday to maximum jail terms of 60 days and fines of $50 each for taking part, along with 18 other youths, in the stoning of the Ner Israel Rabbinical College here, in which windows of a dormitory building were smashed and doors damaged. The college had been the target of other attacks by youth gangs during the past year. The 100 students housed in the college dormitory remained inside the building under orders, to avoid a repetition of an incident a week ago when two students were whipped with automobile antennas.
In sentencing the youths, who were identified as Haywood Matthews, 17, and Barry Watson, 16, Judge Robert I. Hammerman declared: “In this particular case, I wish the maximum sentence were more. I have no illusions that these people are responsible enough that this will guarantee an end to this,” he said of the gang.
The Ner Israel Rabbinical College recently acquired a 50-acre tract of land upon which a new campus will be built at a cost of $3,500,000.
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