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After the hearing, I turned up a photograph of the demonstration at the CRIMSON. It showed Fink standing about five feet away from the door. The people in front of the door had their arms linked and this chain of people extended all the way to Fink, but did not include him. It appeared that Fink's testimony was correct. He was present at the demonstration but he did not intend to obstruct anyone; he stood away from the door and did not link arms...
...Committee members had left Cambridge. He offered to show the photograph to the Committee members still in town to see what their reactions would be. It seemed that we were back to the wet string again. I had doubts about the forcefulness of Wilson's advocacy in Fink's favor, but under the circumstances, I accepted his terms...
...Committee members in town was Donald Anderson, whom you will remember was one of the signers of the complaint against Fink. I met Anderson in the street a few days after I spoke to Wilson and asked him if he had seen the photo. He told me that "Mr. Wilson showed me the photograph briefly this morning and said he thought there were little grounds for appeal." At the time I did not point out that saying "there were little grounds for appeal" was perhaps not the best way of introducing evidence. I also did not ask Anderson...
Anderson (you will recall once again that he is one of the complainants in this case) told me when I saw him once again that the Committee had based its original decision on three possible levels of guilt in the incident for which Fink was charged. First, it considered those people with their arms linked in front of the doors; second, those close to this
group; and third, those in the surrounding area. It gave different punishments to each group. Fink was in the second group, and the Committee deemed this serious enough to warrant suspension...