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Berg became politicized at another campus--he joined his first political demonstration in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin. He came to Harvard a year later and joined SDS...
Lowry Hemphill '72 helped escort the deans out of University Hall that April and her face appeared in the photographs taken on the building's steps. But unlike the older students involved in removing the deans--students with a record of prominence and leadership in SDS--Hemphill was "an unknown freshman," and she believes that had something to do with her comparatively light sentence. The Committee of Fifteen handed her a "warning," then dismissed three students for the same wrongdoing...
...time Jonathan M. Harris '69 took a dean by the arm and led him to the door of University Hall, he was already prominent in SDS and "high on the Committee of Fifteen's hit list," in his words. The committee assigned Harris, along with 15 other students present that day, the penalty of "separation from the University." The punishment denied him a degree only a few days before Commencement...
From what Harris could make out, the CRR seemed to operate on two levels. On the surface, Harris says, it simply matched the penalty with the offense. But beneath that, the CRR--or rather the administration behind it--seemed to single out the recognized SDS leaders. Of the 400 demonstrators in University Hall, they alone got slapped with the dismissals and suspensions. "In theory," Harris says, "you had broken a rule and therefore had to be expelled. But in practice, they didn't care about the rules...
While working on his dissertation at MIT, Liberman ventured into the Yard one quiet fall day in 1972, and met a friend for lunch in the Dudley House cafeteria in Lehman Hall, once the center for many SDS sessions...