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...remaining in Cambridge all summer after his graduation to finish up the casework. "Why did I want to be on the committee? Well, I guess I sympathized with what the students were doing and I figured I was a strong person and wouldn't be intimidated." Fernandez believes he helped to modify some of the disciplinary action: "A lot more than three students would have been dismissed if it weren't for the students who sat on the committee...
Because he spoke out for these students, Fernandez contends, he played a saving role on a committee where few of the Faculty members--as far as Fernandez could tell--seemed particularly concerned with the welfare of the undergraduates. "The conservative [Faculty] on the committee were looking out for their own good," Fernandez recalls. "Their own good" included aspirations like gaining tenure or a name as candidate for the University presidency, he adds...
...Fernandez often disapproved not only of the Faculty members' motives, but of their decisions. The committee, for example, would conclude that someone had committed "an assault," if "they had a picture showing that the student touched a dean's arm, which I didn't quite agree with...
...hopelessly outnumbered in this belief, Fernandez could only sit and watch as Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor and the University prosecutor for the committee, would show pictures and the professors would "decide whether or not the person was touching a dean...
...Fernandez still argues that it was better to sit on the committee than to boycott: "If you don't involve yourself in the process, the Faculty can say, look, we gave you a chance." The committee's practices might become fairer if students were equally represented on the disciplinary body, but Fernandez warns that students should not expect this to happen: "You won't ever get it. People in a position of power aren't going to give...