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Faculty CRR members reject student charges that the committee targeted the political leadership of SDS, rather than uniformly assigning penalties to undergraduates on the basis of the actual rules they broke. "No, there is no truth to this," Wilson says. "They said this at the time; they said the CRR was targeting certain people. They said that to me as they threatened me [as he walked into the CRR hearings]. But to this day, I don't know who the officers of SDS were...
...SDS had adopted a creative counter-strategy--it ran its own delegates in House elections, and if they won, they promptly resigned. When Dudley House held its election, it came down to a runoff between Fernandez and an SDS member. Fernandez won, and headed for the final hurdle to becoming a member--the green marble lottery...
...Faculty committee members also recruited Fernandez for some security guard work. "I'm five-foot ten, but look a lot taller with the Afro, and I look like I lift weights," he says. So the committee placed Fernandez outside the doors of Holyoke Center, barring the way when SDS attempted to storm the building...
After his release from prison, Berg drove a laundry truck and worked as a clerk until, three years later, Harvard readmitted him to finish his dissertation. Though the University had dismissed him, he returned to the Yard to work with SDS in organizing students, attempting especially to draw attention to what he saw as sexism and racism in Harvard's employment practices...
...often, they remember that several students would break the same rule, all would have their pictures taken, but only a few would get kicked out of school by the committee. That select few, they say, always seemed to correspond to the political leadership of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS...