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Last month, as we all know, a student was put on probation by the Administrative Board for the shocking crime of making a prank call to Room 13. If a permanent blot on your transcript can result from pretending to be a first-year during a two-minute utterly inoffensive prank call, we shudder to think what will happen to the three unlucky Matherites...
...Harvard community) Ad Boarded me. My case was heard by the Ad Board (composed of the various deans and Harvard administrators), and I was put on probation. As a result, my permanent transcript was sullied (in Harvard's first disciplinary action against me), I was forced to stop writing "Prank Files" or risk leaving Harvard and my family was contacted by the administration. I was irked and wrote an editorial in The Crimson denouncing the Ad Board's decision on October 21, as everything I had done was legal and not related to academics...
...Board that influenced its decision (no) and arguing that this was not an issue of freedom of the press. I would argue with Zeller's conclusion that this sordid affair has nothing to do with freedom of the press (I would not have been Ad Boarded had the "Prank Files" not been published), but I agree with him that the primary issue should be the legitimacy of the punishment...
According to Kirtley, a University employee from the Bureau of Study Council Ad Boarded him for the prank call to Room 13 a few days after the column ran. When the Ad Board met, Kirtley was placed on disciplinary probation. Kirtley's parents received a letter, and his transcript now proclaims that he was on probation during the first semester of his senior year...
Indeed, the hysteria that Kirtley, Kelleher and Sozinho are inciting about the adminstration's violation of the freedom of the press is largely specious. Kirtley was not Ad Boarded for writing a column. On the contrary, he was Ad Boarded for making a prank phone call. In other words, the Ad Board does not only consider prank phone calls made for publication a violation of University rules but all such phone calls. If I had been sitting around making prank phone calls for fun and someone reported me, I too would be punished although I never had any intent...