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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...
...ever seen. As 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...
...list addresses and telephone numbers in Cambridge or Boston and have made no effort to duck police since July places in doubt the official explanation that there has been no deliberate delay in pursuing the arrests. And the fact that police seized Ryan not at home but at an SDS office in Boston-other SDS members as well as Ryan himself claim that he had not been there at all during the preceding month-suggests that the authorities were aware of Ryan's whereabouts and activities...
...because it would be politically expedient to pack the four ex-students off to jail, not in a group, but one by one? Was the time (the beginning of the Fall term) and place of Ryan's arrest calculated to intimidate the Harvard student body in general and the SDS office staff in particular? No one can say for sure. "You think we're going to tell you or anyone else what we're doing?" Centrella said as he declined to comment on the particulars of the case. And so the tactics and purposes of the Cambridge police remain...