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...extraordinarily arbitrary nature of this decision is obvious. Students were singled out with only the most casual regard to the degree of their involvement in the sit-in. While strongly defending what they called Leavitt's freedom of movement, the University has ignored a basic axiom of civil liberties: that the law be applied equally...
...presence on campus of recruiters from a napalm manufacturer. They made their point in a way that no petition or rally on the steps of Memorial Church could have. They initiated an intensity of discussion that no milder from of protest could have. They did not hold Dr. Leavitt all night--only seven hours in the afternoon. They did not assault him. They did nothing to require the use of outside police force. To impose upon a randomly selected group of these protestors the hardship of probation for the rest of the academic year can only be characterized...
...protester then asked that the demonstration stick to its original "limited objective." But when the protesters got back to the Dow issue, they decided to raise the price of Leavitt's freedom. He had to promise not only that he would not return, but also that his company would never recruit again at Harvard. Some-one pointed out that Leavitt was not empowered to make company policy on the spot. This bothered the protesters only until someone else observed, "He can use the telephone, can't he? Have him call Dow and get a decision...
...gradually occurred to some demodnstrators that they might be sitting-in for weeks waiting for this final demand to be met. And a lot of people began to feel guilty about the way Leavitt had been handled. And as one demonstrator put it, "The issues had gotten a bit confused." Dean Glimp promised that the Faculty would consider "the issue you have raised here," i.e., whether some civilian or military groups should be excluded from the campus...
Calm and cogent arguments from a couple of tutors provided the necessary nudge and then the students voted to release Leavitt. Leavitt walked quickly when he got out of Mallinckrodt. Two blocks away, at the far end of William James, Dean Glimp felt obliged to point out that they had not been followed