Randall Gets Compensation For Student Riot Injuries

Ex-University Police Chief Alvin R. Randall will collect $520 from the University as compensation for injuries received in a student riot a year ago last May.

The Middlesex Superior Court ruled Randall lost his $90-a-week job last March because of poor health steaming from his injuries. After he lost the job, Randall filed for compensation under the Workman's Compensation Act. The University contested his claim, saying that technically he was not a workman.

When the Industrial Accident Board classified him as a workman, Superior Court Judge Vincent Brogna awarded the settlement. His decision called upon the University to pay Randall $32.50 a week for the six months since the time of his dismissal.

The Board based its classification of Randall as a workman upon the nature of his duties. It defined one of them as "to quell disturbances, which requires muscular brawn."