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The College's chief disciplinary body voted two weeks ago to place William S. Pierce '88 on probation for one year for talking back to Quincy House Senior Tutor Mary McGee last month after she asked him to turn off the music at a party in his room.
In the same session, the board also voted to place Pierce's roommate Alexander Shustorovich '88 on probation for a semester for getting into a shouting match with a policeman whom McGee sent to their room on the same night.
The board granted their request and, after reviewing the case on Tuesday, voted to reduce Pierce's term of probation to the rest of the semester and to admonish Shustorovich without further punishment.
"We are somewhat more likely to change theduration of a term of probation," Marquand said."We are less likely to [change a decision]requiring a student to withdraw because we makethat decision with such care."
The Harvard Spartacus Youth Club agrees with Kyra C. Armstrong '89 and Shannah V. Braxton '88 of the Black Students Association that, "The University has issued a dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The...