Word: trespassing
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...first of four persons arrested Oct. 31 in disturbances surrounding the trespass trial of Cheyney Ryan comes to trial today at 9 a.m. in Middlesex County Third District Court...
Cheyney C. Ryan, a former co-chairman of Harvard SDS, was found guilty on two counts of "criminal trespass"-and punished for each with a one-month prison term and a $100 fine. But the significance of the conviction far outweighs the punishment imposed on Ryan and whatever legal injustices which that punishment may have involved. Its greater importance lies in the effect it will have on those who find it necessary and justified to challenge Harvard's political commitments in a manner that exceeds the limits of "acceptable" dissent...
...case of the 16 students, the rule lay dormant until mid-July, when Harvard, in the person of Archibald Cox, swore out complaints against four of them, including Ryan, for trespass at Harvard during the national student strike last May. At the time, many SDS members contended that the Harvard Administration had deliberately waited until the student body had departed from Cambridge before filing legal charges. Cox responded, then and again last week in court, that there was no premeditated delay; the deans and the CRR had spent much of May and June prosecuting dozens of students for the obstructive...
...away with the testimony of Ryan's witnesses. But there was another subject of testimony-none of it directly related to the question of whether Ryan was actually present at Harvard-that proved very damaging to the University. That was Ryan's claim that Harvard enforces or ignores the "trespass" rule as it wishes. To document his claim, Ryan questioned Harnett about a lengthy discussion the two had had in Leverett House during the period of the strike. When asked by Ryan why he failed to report his presence on campus at that time, Harnett responded that their talk...
...Members of the Harvard administration, led by Archibald Cox, made it clear that the grounds of the trespass complaint against Cheyney were political. They stated that no one knew any firm criteria for the permissible reappearance of an expelled student on campus: that previous visits by Cheyney and others had been acceptable; and therefore that it was his participation in a political struggle which had to be punished...