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...first of four persons arrested Oct. 31 in disturbances surrounding the trespass trial of Cheyney Ryan comes to trial today at 9 a.m. in Middlesex County Third District Court...
Sedgwick's trial came just one week after the conviction of former Harvard student Cheyney Ryan before the same judge on charges of trespassing during SDS demonstrations at Harvard last...
...When Judge Viola had the courtroom cleared, Cheyney's witnesses were dragged from the witness seats; the Harvard witnesses, Deans May and Williamson and Archibald Cox, were allowed to stay. Plainclothesmen inside punched and shoved a number of the spectators, and when the latter started calling for the Harvard representatives to come out, police produced clubs and beat students out of the courthouse and down several streets...
...David Harnett's testimony consisted of two assertions: that on Friday morning, May 8, a large number of students were milling around University Hall, so unorganized that he declined to call it a demonstration; and that he saw Cheyney among those students at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Two students testified that at these times two complete chains of students with linked arms were circling the building, and two others described a meeting they attended with Cheyney which lasted past noon on Friday. Twenty other persons could have sworn to the latter point, 250 to the former. Harnett...
...Cheyney affirmed in his summation that he demonstrated at Harvard on Monday, May 11, because fighting imperialism and racism can only succeed if we undertake concrete struggles against such institutions as ROTC and the CFIA and such practices as racist and sexist pay differentials. His sentence came as no surprise. The CRIMSON's article failed to convey the essence of the situation because it did not mention any of these specific instances of Harvard's exercising its power in the courts to accomplish its political ends: the preservation of the status quo for the benefit...