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...hundred students rallied at Memorial Church on April 9 and then rushed toward the Center for International Affairs (CFIA). They disrupted a Visiting Committee meeting in a second-floor seminar room. As CFIA and Visiting Committee members left the building and scattered, demonstrators followed CFIA director Robert R. Bowie. They obstructed his car in Mallinckrodt parking lot and blocked a taxi cab Bowie tried to take at the Harvard Square Klosk. Later, he decided to charge 20 students with violating the Faculty resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
Hearsay testimony, meaningless photographs, and blatant selectivity characterized the evidence in the cases which Bowie presented last weekend before the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The prosecution typically began with "live testimony" about the noisy and boisterons nature of the April 9 CFIA demonstration-but, in more than half the cases, those prosecution witnesses who testified did not claim they actually saw the defendant at the protest...
...taken by Gazette photographer Rick Stafford and an unnamed University photographer were the sole incriminating evidence. The photographs usually showed the accused student in a pensive, dispassionate mood far away from the center of action. Bowie signed only three sets of charges: presence on the second floor of the CFIA. blocking his car in the Mallinckrodt parking lot, and obstructing his taxi cab at the Harvard Square kiosk. However, his two prosecution lawyers submitted as evidence photographs of students at Memorial Church before the CFIA demonstration and in the Cambridge Common after the protest fizzled...
Though vigorously denied. selectivity in pressing charges was glaringly apparent. At Dean Sheppard's hearng. Alan Heimert "declined to accept" Mem Church photos as evidence and therefore only one photograph of Sheppard remained, showing him on the second floor of the CFIA. Sheppard's first witness was "Paul Gross" (a pseudonym), who identified himself in the photograph as standing on the second floor of the CFIA right next to Sheppard. Bowie had not pressed charges against "Gross...
Bowie's flimsy cases will probably result in very light sentences or perhaps a wholesale dismissal of the charges. The CFIA policy on demonstrations is unclear. After the Weatherman attack last fall. the Center even welcomed a militant NAC tour through the building. Last week, the CFIA gave a friendly response to those who milled in. It seems that the CFIA attitude toward demonstrations would only confuse a reasonable...