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...suspension had "a chilling effect" in Whitman Hall, where she was living that year, she says: "Twelve or fifteen people in my dorm got letters of warning; I got thrown out. So I was an object lesson to them. It was saying to all the other people, if you take the next step, this is what will happen...
...time Jonathan M. Harris '69 took a dean by the arm and led him to the door of University Hall, he was already prominent in SDS and "high on the Committee of Fifteen's hit list," in his words. The committee assigned Harris, along with 15 other students present that day, the penalty of "separation from the University." The punishment denied him a degree only a few days before Commencement...
...Harris had no intention of departing the Yard so swiftly, and he got a job that summer as a porter carrying luggage for summer school students. An administrator caught sight of him, and reported him to the Committee of Fifteen...
Soon after Harris received an admonitory letter on the Committee of Fifteen letterhead, advising him, "We have been informed that you have already disregarded that notice, which information, if confirmed, jeopardizes your prospects for readmission...
John T. Berlow has a "71" after his name in the alumni directory, but he never did get his degree. After carrying James Thomas, former dean of freshmen, out the doors of University Hall, Berlow was promptly dismissed by the Committee of Fifteen. His removal of the dean was "totally non-violent," he says--unlike his own eviction from the building at the hands of state troopers--but the administration was taking no chances on Berlow. When he applied for readmission two years later, permission to return was denied...