Word: ostrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip Ostrow, a Boston University senior and a member of SDS, was acquitted at B.U. last week of impairing university-authorized Marine recruiting last March...
...Ostrow's trial--despite his acquittal--was unfair. He and four other students are being tried in connection with three demonstrations last Spring under a disciplinary code which defies every reasonable conception of due process...
...Ostrow's case, B.U. was trying a student retroactively under B.U.'s new Provisional Student Disciplinary Code passed last April 20. Under that code, Ostrow had no power to subpoena witnesses. His prosecutor, judge and jury were all appointed, directly or indirectly, by B.U. President John R. Silber. Had Ostrow been found guilty, he could have appealed only to Silber...
...prosecutor claimed last week that B.U. adheres more closely to the dictates of due process than any other private university. But Ostrow and the four other defendants were informed last summer that they were expelled from B.U., even before they were told of the charges against them. None of them has any power to call to account the administrator who expelled them groundlessly. None can even compel his testimony at the hearings...
Kenneth Watson, B.U.'s associate counsel and its representative at Ostrow's hearing, said Thursday he was disappointed with "the heavy, heavy burden of proof" which B.U. must bear in proving its case...