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Clare Cotton, B.U.'s vice-president for Public Affairs, testified Wednesday afternoon that he had seen Ostrow at the front of the demonstration but that he had not seen him physically stopping anyone who wanted to pass the blockade...
...Ostrow agreed to those stipulations, but defended his participation in the demonstration on the grounds that non-violent opposition to the U.S. military did not impair any legitimately authorized university activity...
...Ostrow said that B.U. was prosecuting him and four other students only because of their political stance...
...Ostrow's mother, who was permitted to observe the hearing, interrupted the proceedings to defend her son's political involvement. Ostrow has been a non-violent political activist since high school, his mother said...
Murray Levin, professor of History at B.U., testified that Ostrow probably could not hear university orders for the demonstrators to disperse from his vantage point in the demonstrations...