Word: fifteene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of fifteen to twenty Moratorium staffers, veterans of the 1968 McCarthy and Kennedy Presidential campaigns, and representatives of liberal Massachusetts political organizations met last Thursday evening at the Institute of Polities to approve a letter inviting more than 300 anti-war leaders across the country to join in such an effort...
Yesterday, five members of the Committee-all but one of the special "subcommittee of six" of the Committee of Fifteen-took turns waiting in the basement of Grays Hall, where University officials met during the morning, to consult with May if he decided to invoke his powers of "temporary suspension...
Last spring the Committee of Fifteen, exercising similar powers, separated five students and required another eight to withdraw for a semester or a year for their roles in the occupation of University Hall last April. In addition, the Committee recommended that the Faculty "dismiss" three others-a more severe punishment which the Faculty approved-require 20 to withdraw (but suspended their sentences) and put 99 students under warnings...
...event, the Faculty has never approved the terms of the Committee of Fifteen's newly invented punishment of "separation." Years ago, when the Faculty devised the penalty of requiring a student to withdraw, they did include the requirement that he be away from the College for several terms. But it is highly unlikely that the Faculty ever meant to make it a criminal act for a withdrawn student to reappear on campus. Without express Faculty approval, the Committee of Fifteen should have been awfully wary in using a criminal penalty to enforce Berg's academic exile...
...most threatening part of the Committee's decision to prosecute Berg is that it limits the right of faculty and students to bring guests to the campus-both for demonstrations and for discussion and meetings. As the Committee of Fifteen now interprets its decision of last April, no student separated or dismissed last spring can visit Harvard-even if invited by a student or Faculty member-unless he secures permission from the Committee. Although there is no question of the University's right to determine who may register for classes, neither the University nor any committee should have the power...