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JUST one month ago the Law School's Administrative Board announced its decisions on the cases of five black law students who had participated in the OBU building seizures last December and (in one case) the SDS sit-in at Dean May's office in November. The Law School had approached these cases with a certain amount of trepidation and reluctance, partly because they were its first encounter with political "crimes" and partly because the "crimes" had occurred over in the Yard, a place that can seem remote-and even inconsequential-from the vantage point of Langdell Hall...
...students and faculty, these events were in no way inevitable. When the Ad Board first pressed charges against the five black students, the Harvard Black Law Student Association issued a statement branding the Board an "apparent kangaroo court" whose hearings constituted a "quasi-judicial lynching." Claiming that the OBU trial of January 13 was "the only tribunal [it could] acknowledge as legitimate," the HBLSA said it considered the hearings "a farce." But after the hearings were over (none of the five defendants attended) and the decisions announced, the black students indicated that they had no intention of making an issue...
...Caucus of SDS, which has had rocky relations in the past for espousing anti-black nationalist positions. But it was the severity of Pilkington's suspension that spurred white students into action, and throughout the controversy, the white students opposed the faculty's attempts to discuss the punishments while OBU took no official position...
...radical students weighed the same factors in their speeches, and asserted that the University's decision to sign two contracts requiring 19-23 per cent minority workers on construction sites vindicated the OBU protests. Morcover, they said, the demonstrations, including the sit-in in Dean May's office, were "relatively minor interruption (s) of the University's order." Rather than creating a precedent, they said, a dismissal of the cases would be a very specific response to a specific protest. The students also argued that the Administration's lack of responsiveness forced OBU into taking such actions. "Had OBU acquiesced...
With that disruption began a hectic week of meetings and discussions ranging from the content of OBU's demands to the proper procedures for disciplining students for political violations...