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...writing in regard to the article published in The Crimson on Feb. 21 about the Administrative (Ad) Board which every once in a while meets and decides the fate of naughty students. Who sits on this committee we don't know. All I know from friends who have stood before it is that it is all white. Even it's rulings are secret. Each year only a list of violations and penalties is published with no names or descriptions of the offenses...
Thus shrouded in secrecy and echoing days past, the Ad Board hands down its decisions. With no college students on the board, people who haven't been students in generations are judging the fate of our peers. This committee views under-age drinking as warranting probation and smoking marijuana as warranting withdrawal. Do these things twice, and you may never see Harvard again...
...members of the Ad Board fail to realize that Harvard--despite how much they might dislike the idea--is no longer in the 1950s. Because the penalties the Ad Board assesses are so harsh, the rulings it hands down are a patchwork of different penalties and it is only the unlucky--not the most guilty--who get punished...
Nesson that an Ad Board meeting would have focused on the "wrong side" of the issue, emphasizing First Amendment rights to free expression instead of responsibility and restraint in journalism...
Friedman said that in the next issue of the Record, Fenno would examine the Ad Board and its power to deal with free speech issues