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...interview yesterday, Downing said he had asked Lifshey whether his demonstration "was...sanctioned by the dean's office." Downing said he then told Lifshey to wait outside the Science Center until a police sergeant could come and talk with him "to find out what the situation...
...addition to considering court action, Lifshey has asked the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) to investigate Downing's action. Julia L. Shaffner '90, CLUH's president, said the group would probably "make a bit of a fuss about [the incident]," and might "go to the administration to try to get some guidelines drawn up on free speech in a public context on campus...
...Lifshey called the incident one in a series of "questionable civil rights abuses by the powers that be" in connection with the Alternative Junior Parents Weekend...
Ellen Hatfield Towne, assistant dean of students, said yesterday that students must obtain the permission of her office before distributing litera- ture. She said that, as far as she knew,Lifshey and the four or five other students withhim did not have Epps's permission to leaflet...
Demonstrations without leaflets "would fallunder free speech," Towne said. "My guess is thatit would be permissible, but if passers-by feelthreatened by that kind of behavior [Lifshey'sdemonstration], that's where someone might stepin." Towne added that she did not know the contextof Downing's action...