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From the 'looks of the committee's formal letter listing his charges--"the Bill of Particulars," Liberman calls it now--it appeared to him that the committee had already found him guilty. A few weeks later it did, formally, and Liberman was forced to leave Harvard. Shortly after, he was drafted and on his way to Vietnam...
Other than the invitation to attend his hearing, Liberman knew nothing of the status of his case until June 1969, when the decision was announced at a press conference. He then received a letter, dismissing him and advising him not to show his face around campus. So the Group I, National Science Foundation Scholarship winner headed...
When he returned, MIT offered to honor his scholarship and allow Liberman to enroll in a doctoral program in linguistics, although he lacked an undergraduate degree. He received his Ph.D. there and now works in Bell Laboratories in Chatham, New Jersey...
...Liberman, the details of the offenses the committee charged him with seemed trivial. "The issue to all of us wasn't that we had done it, but whether it was right. And they weren't prepared to argue that with us," he says...
Speaking in favor of continuing the boycott, Liberman describes placing students on the CRR as a way of "getting students to do it to themselves." The only students who he can imagine wanting to sit on the CRR, he says, are those interested "in the kind of experience they can put on their resume...