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...loyal and devoted alumnus of Harvard College I am shocked and appalled by your handling of the recent disorders at University Hall. We had all hoped that the lessons of Berkeley and Columbia would be carefully studied by your own wiser and more understanding administration. Surely you and Dean Ford--whom I knew well and admired during my undergraduate years at Lowell House--must have realized that by bringing in the Cambridge Police, bloody violence and mayhem would result, the entire issue would escalate to national proportions and only further radicalization of the hitherto moderate student majority would immediately occur...
According to Gentry, his resignation had nothing to do with recent events at Harvard. "In fact, this is an exciting period, and Harvard will be a bigger and better place because of it," he said...
...IMMUNITY SQUEEZE: In recent years, some local and federal prosecutors have begun to grant immunity from prosecution to an increasing number of criminals-whether they want it or not-to make them break their oath of omerta and talk. Normally, any witness can refuse to talk on the grounds that his answer may incriminate him. But the Fifth Amendment only permits a man to remain silent if his words might be used against him in criminal court; there is no constitutional guarantee to absolute silence. Thus, if a man refuses to talk after a grand jury agrees to remove...
Yesterday, Whitlock and other Harvard officials refused to say whether Harvard would reconsider its stand on a temporary Patriot's home in Harvard Stadium if the legislature adopted a concrete plan for a new stadium, but recent statements by Boston Mayor Kevin White and BRA Director Hale Champion indicate that the University might take a new look at the situation after the legislature has acted...
Smith said that he felt the University Hall sit-in and subsequent events might also have had a small negative effect on the Radcliffe yield. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, director of Harvard Admissions, said that recent events seem to have had no effect on the yield at Harvard...