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Similarly, the letter to the 119 supporters of sit-in participants, some activists charge, "contravenes everything we've been taught about...
When 10 Law School students were given official slaps on the wrist for their participation in an anti-apartheid sit-in last April, campus activists breathed a sigh of relief. The sit-in had been orderly, and the school's Administrative Board had quietly and expeditiously levied the mildest form of discipline...
...unlike at the College, where a controversial Vietnam War-era committee is still conducting hearings on undergraduate participants, it appeared that law students would return this fall with the sit-in and warnings only a distant memory...
...addition, the Ad Board has stirred criticism for sending letters to about 120 Law students who last spring pledged solidarity with the 10 protesters sitting inside the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards. The 119 had asked that they receive the same punishment as the 10 sit-in participants. And the Law School's response, said Law School Ad Board chairman Frank E.A. Sander '48, asks the 119 to "tell us more so we can determine whether you deserve the same punishment...
Sander said the Ad Board took into account that "people might be arguably confused about what is a permissable way of voicing their protest" when it levied the mildest form of sanction on sit-in participants last May. The warning, he said, was to make clear to protesters that forcible entry and refusal to leave upon request were "clearly inappropriate...