Word: trespassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard brought charges of criminal trespass Thursday against John Berg, who was separated from the University for two years for his part in the seizure of University Hall last April...
Though the substance of the resolutions will not satisfy all members of the Faculty, the motions should be acceptable to the great majority. Some Faculty members fear that a vote supporting the Moratorium would trespass on the right of students who want to attend classes. But the resolution now before the Faculty would do no such thing. No Faculty member would be committed by his vote to cancelling his class. On the other hand, the Faculty would have given its support to a peaceful demonstration of disgust at current government policies on the war. Whether or not the resolution passes...
Several states have passed laws aimed at keeping nonstudent agitators off campus. The legislatures of Colorado, Oklahoma, Maryland and Tennessee have approved bills that apply private trespass rules to public campuses, or otherwise control the presence of nonstudents. Tennessee's law makes it a felony for nonstudents to enter school property "to incite, participate in, aid or assist a riot." Possible penalty: five years in the state penitentiary...
...Judge M. Edward Viola found all but four of the 174 University Hall demonstrators guilty of criminal trespass. Viola gave each of the convicted trespassers a $20 fine; 140 of them said they would appeal. Viola freed two students who said they were arrested outside the Hall and postponed judgment on two others who had not entered the Hall until several hours after Dean Ford's warning about criminal trespass charges...
...Yard at noon, about 250 students occupied University Hall and evicted--some times forcibly--the deans who had offices here. At 4 p.m., Dean Ford ordered the Yard closed and told the students inside the hall that if they did not leave in 15 minutes they would face criminal trespass charges. President Pusey met with deans from the various Faculties throughout the afternoon and night but announced no possible action against the demonstrators. Moderate students from the HUC, the HRPC, and the SFAC scheduled a mass meeting to consider a response...