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Granted, the Ad Board is not the KGB, and it is unlikely that miscarriages of justice occur so readily. But by all accounts, something is quite wrong with the punishment handed out in the case at hand. The facts are as follows: John Burnham, a football recruit from Washington, D.C., was taken to the D.U. one Saturday in February. He argued with Sean Hansen '95, after which time Burnham left the club. He returned to the club to confront Hansen, and a fist fight erupted. It is not clear how the fight began--almost everyone at the scene was drunk...
...will be argued that the sample cases do not provide hard and fast rules as to the magnitude of punishments. Every case has its own complications and mitigating circumstances. But it seems in this case that the special conditions should have made the punishment more severe. Burnham suffered more than cuts and bruises; he needed surgery to repair a serious fracture to his eye and says he still suffers from double vision. And he was a prospective student, a guest of the College. This situation was no longer a purely internal affair--it tarnishes Harvard's image before the eyes...
...minutes later, Burnham returned to the club--admittedly with a mind to confront club member Sean Hansen '95--and claims to have been assaulted by at least five club members. According to one football player, "everyone went at him and he got the living daylights kicked the shit...
...club members claimed to have been defending themselves from harm by assaulting Burnham, who was easily overwhelmed. The D.U. members clearly did more than what was necessary to force Burnham to leave the club...
...John Burnham plans to withdraw his application to Harvard, and hopes to attend some other Ivy League school. His beatings should leave a bad taste in the mouths of all football recruits, whose cushy treatment has finally hit a snag. We recommend two courses of action for the University: 1) a careful examination of the recruiting program, since it is clear that football team members can no longer take care of their own and 2) an end to the persistent coddling of students who commit serious offenses...