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What makes this trespass on self possible is the fact that a man's life today is largely defined and described by written records, many of which remain potentially available to outsiders. Schools take careful note of his intelligence and keep a detailed record of his academic achievement. His doctors have files on his health; his psychiatrist, if he has one, takes notes on his inner turmoil, his secret fears. Banks, credit-card companies and the Internal Revenue Service know almost everything about his income and financial status. Once he has ever served in the military or worked...
...administrators obtained warrants for the demonstrators last Monday. Twenty three were charged with two counts of trespass, for being in the building on two days. The remaining six were charged with a single count of trespass. The remaining six were charged with a single count of trespass. In addition, one M. I. T. student was charged with assault, and two other students were charged with disrupting classes...
Johnson announced yesterday that he would seek warrants on all non- M.I.T. students identified during the occupation. A statement issued Saturday said that the Institute would charge various demonstrators with trespass, breaking and entering, and theft and publication of university files...
Neither rationale is convincing. The threat of a criminal trespass charge will hardly stop anyone from assulating a Harvard dean. Denying a student the right to register is itself a harsh punishment since it guarantees entry into Nixon's army raffle. More importantly. in keeping Berg and the other separated students off the campus with criminal sanction, the Committee of Fifteen is threatening values as important to the Harvard community as the safety of its members...
...protest against the Cambridge Project. Professor Wilson has argued that Berg's presence at the University Hall protest was singled out from his other appearances on campus only because the evidence necessary to sustain a charge was most easily assembled there. Nonetheless, by choosing to charge Berg with trespass at a political demonstration, the Committee has made it appear that it is less interested in enforcing an academic penalty than in putting a damper on radical politics on campus...