Word: ryan
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Cheyney C. Ryan, a former co-chairman of Harvard SDS, was found guilty on two counts of "criminal trespass"-and punished for each with a one-month prison term and a $100 fine. But the significance of the conviction far outweighs the punishment imposed on Ryan and whatever legal injustices which that punishment may have involved. Its greater importance lies in the effect it will have on those who find it necessary and justified to challenge Harvard's political commitments in a manner that exceeds the limits of "acceptable" dissent...
...Ryan and 15 other students were suspended from Harvard last December after they and about 50 other SDS demonstrators had forcibly held Dean May in his office to demand that the University immediately promote all "painters' helpers" to full painter status. At the time of the suspensions, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities attached another sanction to the punishment: the students could not appear anywhere on campus during their terms of absence without receiving permission beforehand, or they would face legal prosecution. CRR members argued that this additional rule-a long-standing statute for all students required to leave Harvard...
...case of the 16 students, the rule lay dormant until mid-July, when Harvard, in the person of Archibald Cox, swore out complaints against four of them, including Ryan, for trespass at Harvard during the national student strike last May. At the time, many SDS members contended that the Harvard Administration had deliberately waited until the student body had departed from Cambridge before filing legal charges. Cox responded, then and again last week in court, that there was no premeditated delay; the deans and the CRR had spent much of May and June prosecuting dozens of students for the obstructive...
...University had ever succeeded in finding the evidence necessary to convict Ryan, they certainly weren't showing it last week. Setting aside the accusation that Ryan was present at the May 11 demonstration, which he acknowledged in court, Harvard produced no conclusive proof that Ryan was also trespassing at Harvard on May 8. The sole evidence was the testimony of David A. Harnett, director of the Office of Advanced Standing, who said that he saw Ryan at University Hall on the morning of May 8, talking with a group of students. Harnett was so uninformed about the events of that...
...Rebecca Scott '71, a member of the Strike Steering Committee, testified at the trial, "It was clear that what was happening at University Hall was not just a bunch of people milling around, but an organized demonstration." And in addition to her testimony, two members of SDS testified that Ryan could not have been at the protest that morning because he was attending a meeting of the group in Boston at the time...