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...Harry P. Kerr, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House, sent the following letter to each of the Dudley men who were placed on probation for their part in the Dow demonstration. The letter, which was cleared by Deans Glimp and Ford before being mailed, explains Kerr's reasons for asking the Administrative Board to punish those Dudley men who signed statements demanding equal responsibility. Similar statements had been ignored by other Senior Tutors...
...following paragraphs are excerpted from the letters which Senior Tutors sent to students who participated in the Dow demonstration...
...individuals and interfere with their movement or their discussions, is an unjustified interference with their freedom, with that of the University, and that of students and faculty who wish to converse with them or to hear them. Most students, including many who engaged in the sit-in against the Dow Cemical representative, do recognize this. To them and to others, the University wants to make clear by this letter that it will not tolerate infringement on the right of movement, no matter what numbers of students may be involved (or involve themselves) nor what the morality invoked in support...
...much graver danger growing out of the Dow debate is that discipline will be the University's first, last and only reaction. A genuinely democratic three-way committee-with its student contingent chosen by students--would be a small but meanigful complement to last week's harsh punishment...
...have heard enough silly comparisons of the Dow sit-in to the actions of McCarthy in the 50's to call for some comment. I believe it is a recognized principle of democracy that government, because of its vastly greater power, must be subject to greater restraints than the private citizen. There can be no reasonable comparison between the power of a group of students to restrict a man's movements for several hours and the power of a Senate Committee to ruin a man for life. There was, for a time during the 50's, a real danger that...