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...third former student-Carl D. Offner, a third-year graduate student dismissed for his part in the seizure of University Hall-has been sentenced to four months in the state House of Correction for grabbing Watson's elbow during the occupation. Offner is now appealing his conviction...
Your article on Thursday about the Faculty's withholding of the M.A. from Mr. Offner did not do justice to the injustice of the case, because you did not underscore the critical factor: Mr. Offner had long since completed requirements for that degree before last April. According to Dean Elder, he would in fact have received it had he applied for it in June 1967 or on four subsequent occasions...
...suggestion of the Faculty motion that such an action should apply retroactively to a degree voted by the Mathematics Department, and the Administrative Board of the Graduate School, acting, as Dean Elder stated, in the absence of any rule, seems to me outrageous and very probably illegal. Mr. Offner's behavior in University Hall is irrelevant to this consideration...
Several Faculty members are reported to feel that Offner should be awarded his degree even if the Faculty later decides to clarify the rules-to prevent similar action in the future...
...Offner said last night, "It just goes to show that in our fight for the working people, the Corporation isn't going to grant any small favors...