Word: berlow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard v. John T. Berlow...
...John T. Berlow has a "71" after his name in the alumni directory, but he never did get his degree. After carrying James Thomas, former dean of freshmen, out the doors of University Hall, Berlow was promptly dismissed by the Committee of Fifteen. His removal of the dean was "totally non-violent," he says--unlike his own eviction from the building at the hands of state troopers--but the administration was taking no chances on Berlow. When he applied for readmission two years later, permission to return was denied...
...while Berlow worked in a factory, drove a truck, and tried to convince Harvard that he should finish his undergraduate degree program. Giving up, finally, he finished his B.A. at Boston University, switching from his Harvard concentration--political science--to music. He now works in an MIT laboratory, developing computer systems for children...
...Berlow never considered appearing before the Committee of Fifteen when he was summoned: "The position of most students at the time was that they were out to get us." Because he did not attend his hearing, Berlow knows little of the committee's internal proceedings. He and other students did, however, know by word-of-mouth the names of those who presented testimony against them. Deans were not the only ones. "A number of students were known to be informants," Berlow says...
...most part Berlow did not spend much time thinking about the CRR, because its goal--the preservation of correct and respectful behavior--seemed irrelevant in light of events in the world outside. "The war," he concluded then and concludes now, "was a hell of a lot more important than behaving in a gentlemanly manner...