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...administration is trying Ostrow retroactively under a disciplinary code muscled through in April by B.U. PresidentJohn Silber. The code aims to avoid such embarrassments as Ostrow's earlier acquittal and to forestall future protest over recruiting and ROTC...
...Faculty Senate Council on April 5 called upon Silber to establish "an interim system for the hearing and determination...of charges of alleged misconduct against students and members of the faculty of the university." The Council's resolution requested an "alternative to exclusive reliance upon injunctive or relief from the courts or police intervention." Second-rate Westerns used to call this "taking the law into your own hands." Roughly translated: Liberal courts are not always effective for social control...
...took a Silber-appointed committee only 12 days to produce a code that would make Chiang Kai-Shek or Nguyen Van Thieu green with envy. Silber appointed the drafting committee. Silber will appoint the hearing examiner. Silber will appoint the committee which, in turn, has power to appoint the judicial committees, or panels of jurors. Of course, defendants will be entitled to appeal the jury's decision. The appeal will be heard by "the president of the University or a party or review body designated by him." On April 25, as B.U. classes were ending, the students...
...Silber's handling of the code -- like his secret poll on ROTC after school ended last Spring -- reveals a president-faculty relationship totally alien to the experience of Harvard. Harvard's Faculty is the President's most prestigious and politically most significant constituency. Had Nathan Pusey not crossed the Faculty on ROTC in 1969, Derek Bok might now still be dean of the Law School...
Despite protests from faculty angered by Silber's tactics, B.U.'s administration has already requested an application to reestablish an army ROTC unit...