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...have been quietly encouraged by faculty members-are intended to disrupt Dow's current campus recruiting efforts. Despite the campaign of harassment, however, the company is running at about the same pace as last year in signing up graduating students. At Harvard last week Dow Lab Director Frederick Leavitt was barricaded for seven hours in a conference room by 250 students demanding that Harvard officials ban him from the campus. University officials instead picked up the I.D. cards of the protesting students, pondered whether to punish them...
...Dudley House, 37 students were placed on probation. Harry P. Kerr, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House, said yesterday that only five of those were identified by him or Master Thomas E. Crooks '49. One other student wrote a letter to Kerr confessing he had forcibly obstrcted Fred Leavitt, and 31 more were probated because they signed a petition stating "we were all equally responsible for obstructing Dr. Leavitt...
Petitions similar to the Dudley letter were circulated in all the Houses, but they all used the phrase "responsibility for the demonstration" instead of "responsible for obstructing Dr. Leavitt." Several senior tutors said last night they did not consider these petitions as evidence that the signers were obstructing Leavitt...
...tutors in Leverett and Eliot said that no student turned in a letter saying "I was obstructing Dr. Leavitt." Senior tutors in other Houses could not be reached for comment...
Glimp disagreed, pointing out that the alleged crime was not "immediate," and that "the issue is the thing to raise, rather than to physically take it out on Mr. Leavitt. [the Dow recruiter...