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...announcing that Ryan was guilty of being at Harvard on May 8, Judge Viola conveniently did 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...
...also eliminate all on-campus defense and counter-insurgency research. Ryan attempted to show that the political outlook of the protest-rather than his personal presence-was what the University had found so objectionable, and he put several students on the stand in order to drive home the point. Viola overruled all such testimony...
...these bases, Ryan-who conducted his own defense-sought to argue his case within the framework of Harvard's social and political commitments, instead of adhering to the narrower criteria on which Harvard and Viola were determined to judge him. He did not attempt to exonerate himself in any strictly legal sense; he freely acknowledged that he was demonstrating on May 11, and his argument concerning the May 8 picket line was intended to demonstrate Harvard's motives in prosecuting him as well as his own innocence. And as long as he refused to speak in Viola's legal jargon...
...listen to John Cale's viola careen into its nauseating twisted frenzy at the end of the old Velvet Underground song "Heroin," it may be somewhat hard to believe that Cale is still alive. More than any other American rock group, the Velvet Underground seemed to be toying with the kind of violent apocalyptic energy which could ultimately consume itself. In fact, Cale survived the Velvet Underground, and has now produced, by himself, one of the few important albums of this dismal year of rock and roll. And perhaps Cale's survival qualifies him to say something about...
During his summation, Ryan remarked, "Since the Harvard administration has run this trial from the word go, I have no doubt that the judge will believe what the Harvard administration says." Shortly afterward, Viola had the courtroom cleared...