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...involvement here for two reasons. One is that, theoretically. Harvard property is under the jurisdiction of the Harvard police; the other stems from a passage in the General Laws known as Section 120, Chapter 266- the same one that applied at the University Hall bust- that outlines "trespass after notice" on private property. In other words, the Cambridge police cannot enter a Harvard dormitory or evict students from a Harvard building without first being called in by the Harvard administration. Even then, in the case of a building occupation, they cannot act until a Harvard official orders the students...
Each defendant has been charged with two counts of criminal trespass resulting from participation in a two-day occupation protesting the expulsion of the student body president and the continuance of war research on campus. If convicted, each faces a penalty of up to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine...
Lewis Kampf. a professor of Humanities at M. I. T. charged with trespass, said yesterday that the trial would be "educational for those under the illusion that M. I. T. has room for everybody." He denied that he was guilty since "there were hundreds" of other faculty members in the building at one time or another. "They just decided for obvious reasons to pick on me," added Kampf, who has been active in other student protests. Others charged include Michael Ansara '68. Miles Rapoport '70 and Robin Hahnel...
...defendant who wished to remain annonymous said yesterday that he regretted the occupation of the office, but felt it was a case of "justifiable trespass" since "we have tried all other recourse at M. I. T. and they didn't work...
...Twain anticipated the "crickit" problem when he first published Huckleberry Finn in 1884. In a prefatory notice he warned that persons attempting to find either motive, moral or plot in the novel would be respectively prosecuted, banished or shot. It was like a carrot farmer putting up a no-trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott...