Word: added
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior adviser didn't know any of us. She thought we were irresponsible," says Glendon Abel III '89, one of the eight freshman involved in last May's computer case. The Ad Board at first required the students to withdraw for having programmed the University computer to print out, "This computer test sucks" during the Quantitative Reasoning exam. The students appealed in person, which they said proabably played a key role in helping them reduce their sentences to probation...
...Leverett House sophomores voiced similar complaints last February after they were required to withdraw for series of pranks which culminated in a small fire. They said their senior tutor had not represented them and their case fairly to the Ad Board...
Despite student complaints, the Ad Board has only been overruled by the whole faculty once, in the winter of 1968. The Ad Board, by a narrow vote of 8-7, had required five students to withdraw for staging a sit-in at a faculty meeting where ROTC was being discussed. The faculty voted to suspend the sentence. One administrator explained at the time, "The action proposed by the Board was more severe than the faculty wanted...
Immediately after the incident, the faculty voted to take the protesters' cases out of the hands of the Ad Board and created an ad hoc student-faculty committee to hear those cases and formulate a plan for a new, permanent committee to hear similar cases...
Although Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the radical group which led the occupation, attacked the ad hoc committee as illegitimate, it won praises from many in the Harvard community for imposing mild punishments on all but a few of the University Hall protesters...