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Dean Glimp and Harry P. Kerr, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House have attempted to clear up some of the confusion that has resulted from yesterday's disclosures about Administrative Board recommendations to punish students involved in the Dow sit...
...form of official disciplinary action on the part of the Administrative Board, less severe than probation. And what was involved with the fellows who were admonished in this instance was a variety of things. All of them had handed in their student identification cards in sympathy with the sit-in. Some of them never even knew what was going on in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, had no idea that force was being used against an individual. Some of them were in fact picketing outside in an orderly way, which is one of the ways we hope students will express their dissent...
Participants in the Mallinckrodt sit-in seem to have reacted to their punishment with the same measure of relief and distaste shared by many members of the Faculty. The probation of 74 students will probably have the effect desired by the Administrative Board: deterring at least for a time, civil disobedience demonstrations on campus...
Officials who talked with the demonstrators the afternoon of the sit-in did not spell out how seriously the University regarded the situation; they could not. They did not define the University's policy on such demonstrations; it had none. Nor could they in any way indicate who--if anyone--would be held responsible, or what penalties were involved. They did not know...
Probation is a proper penalty for demonstrators who go beyond limits set by the University. But those limits were not defined at the time of last week's sit-in. Nor was the University equipped to make a measured, equitable response. Justice may at times be arbitrary, but it presumes at the very least that procedures are folowed which aim to avoid arbitrary results. The Faculty was given to understand that those students placed on probation were on the scene in Mallinckrodt. For some students, that was not the case...