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...mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people didn't seem to treat him with much dignity by calling him Mike. Replied DiSalle: "If your people had called you Mike, you might still be King." -By Roger Rosenblatt...
...Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, was hesitant about discussing his past association with that disciplinary body: "Ah, yes, I guess. What does CRR stand for again?" At the time, Rosenblatt says he remembers thinking that the University should not have to resort to such a quasi-legal, formalized process...
...first, I felt like most of the Faculty did at the time--that you didn't need a resolution of rights and responsibilities." Rosenblatt says that back then he envisioned a "Quaker-meeting style" solution to the disciplinary problem, but adds, "Now, I don't think that is so anymore." Rosenblatt believes now that students would benefit from having a mechanism already set up to deal with political demonstrations, rather than waiting for the Faculty to devise one in the heat of the moment as it did in 1969. Perhaps now is a good, "more serene time" to sit down...
...mechanism certainly should include students, Rosenblatt says. Other Faculty members are less sure. Schwartz agrees that "from the students' political point of view, it is better for them to know what is going on." But he is careful to add, "I am not that radical that I believe students should be represented in equal numbers...
...done for me, I went home; they had to face the students in the dorm." Wilson recalls that one student on the Committee of Fifteen placed himself in the care of University Health Services for psychological trauma, which Wilson says was caused by ostracism from fellow students. Rosenblatt concurs: "They were seen as a kind of ghetto police...