(The following are excerpts from the press conference held by President Pusey, Dean Glimp and Dean Ford after Tuesday's faculty meeting. The transcript of the conference was provided through the courtesy of WHRB.)

GLIMP: The motion we placed before the Faculty was that the Faculty endorse the actions taken by the Administrative Board today.... The Administrative Board had considered 246 cases of individual students involved in the physical obstruction of Dr. Leavitt in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory.

The action came out in these numbers: Seventy-one students were placed on probation until June 1, 1968 for disciplinary reasons, for contributing to the forceful obstruction of an individual. Three students were placed on probation until February 1, 1968 for disciplinary reasons for presence at a disturbance in connection with the forceful obstruction of an individual. There were in each of these three cases very strong special circumstances or mitigating involvement or attitudes. One hundred and seventy-one students were admonished for disciplinary reasons for misuse of a student identification card in connection with the forceful obstruction of an individual. In one case we took no action.

QUESTION: Dean Glimp, could you explain what admonished means?

GLIMP: Admonishment is a form of official disciplinary action on the part of the Administrative Board, less severe than probation. And what was involved with the fellows who were admonished in this instance was a variety of things. All of them had handed in their student identification cards in sympathy with the sit-in. Some of them never even knew what was going on in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, had no idea that force was being used against an individual. Some of them were in fact picketing outside in an orderly way, which is one of the ways we hope students will express their dissent.

Some of them perhaps, but we weren't going to take action unless we knew for sure that a student was involved in the forcible obstruction of Dr. Leavitt, some of them may have been in the area of the hallway where he was prevented from leaving the room....

QUESTION: Has Harvard's policy changed or is this warning for future demonstrations?

PUSEY: I don't quite understand the thrust of the question. The policy hasn't changed. The students are free to demonstrate in an orderly fashion. The only issue is the use of force.

QUESTION: How will these students know when they have reached that point?

PUSEY: Well, I guess somebody, what was the story they said, when somebody's fists hits the other fellow's face, why that's force, I guess. Now we're not talking about fists and faces but I think there comes a time when the line between no force and force vanishes.

QUESTION: President Pusey, these students right after the demonstration gave a list of demands themselves to the University: No CIA recruiters should be allowed to come in; no Dow Cemical....

PUSEY: (interrupting) Well, that, from our point of view, that's simply a non-document. It has no status at all....

QUESTION: President Pusey, is it possible that the Harvard policy with regard to recruitment on campus will be reviewed?

PUSEY: Well, let me state something else and leave some of this to the Deans. In the Faculty Meeting, I would say no one, there were no speeches urging a more severe penalty. There were a good many speeches urging a milder or really no penalty at all, but simply a kind of warning. The action of the Administrative Board was supported by at least five to one of the people present.

After that action was taken there were several moving speeches about the difficulty, let's say, or the breach that has come between students and Faculty and lamenting that there was so much misunderstanding and a hope that we could find ways to talk more patiently at greater length to reach some basic understanding about what are really involved in issues of this kind.