Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four days later, Lee wrote another letter to The Crimson. This time he said that "toning down [his original] letter" was necessary because "I believe that I overjudged the severity of the reprimand...
...wrote a letter to The Crimson decrying the "injustice" of the Ad Board's decision, calling the Anderson reprimand "the University's latest attempt to stifle campus activism." He was enraged by what he called "the chilling of rightful and desirable student dissent...
After talking to the individuals involved following an article in the Harvard Law Record, I believe that I overjudged the severity of a reprimand. To the extent that this changes some of my pre-assumptions, I felt compelled to write again...
What I know now of a reprimand makes it easier for me to believe that the Ad Board made some attempt to be "reasonable" and "fair." I still do not and cannot agree with its decisions, which I still consider very much unwarranted. I tried very hard in my first letter to convey my sense of the motivation of the students involved--that were it not for their extraordinary compassion and empathy, they would not be in their present position. This is especially true in Jennifer Granholme's case. Jennifer voluntarily involved herself in the hearings in order that Mike...
...withdraw my references to the "severe" nature of a reprimand, and my implication that the Ad Board may be seeking to chill legitimate dissent as well as curtail improper conduct. I still maintain that the punishments handed out were undeserved, and in Jennifer's case, clearly unjust. Jinku Lee Harvard Law School