March 19: King Collins and four members of his group were convicted on a variety of charges stemming from their disruption of a Soc Rel 153 class. Collins was sentenced to two years in jail for assault and battery; the others got six months to a year plus fines of $20-$50.
March 20: The Financial Aid Office finally announced that nine students on probation for the Paine Hall demonstration would have their scholarships cut by $200-$500, with the cut to be covered by loans. More than 150 students marched on Holyoke Center to protest the decision. They spoke with Dean Peterson, who told them that the scholarship committee was short of money and had to choose between continuing the scholarships for the students on pro and giving the money to needy new students.
James Q. Wilson spoke at an Ed School panel and chided the University for it apathetic response to Wilson's report on Harvard-Cambridge relations.
March 21: The Med School announced that it had accepted 20 black students for its class of 1973 and that it expected nearly all of the 20 to attend. Only one black student was in the class of 72.
John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, said that he would deliver the 1969 Godkin Lectures on television, switching from the traditional practice of live speeches to Harvard audiences.
March 23: Richard Nixon urged colleges to enforce existing laws for cutting off aid to student protestors, but he said that the Federal government would not intervene to impose order on troubled campuses. Harvard administrators pointed out that no students had ever lost aid because of the Federal provisions, and predicted that Nixon's statement signified no real shift from Johnson administration policies.
March 24: The 19 Cliffies who chose to organize a panel on University issues rather than go on probation for the Paine Hall sit-in held their panel discussion. Although the Radcliffe Judicial Board had asked the girls to talk about University governance, most of the discussion centered on ROTC and whether or not it should stay at Harvard.
The Cambridge City Manager announced he had set up a special task force-- including representatives from Harvard and M.I.T.--to work on solution to the city's shortage of low-income housing.
March 25: President Pusey spoke to a closed meeting of the SFAC, but only after weathering an invasion of 150 students protesting ROTC's continued presence at Harvard. The students left the Winthrop House Common Room after demanding that Pusey get rid of ROTC, and Pusey then told SFAC members about the Corporation's negotiations with the Pentagon and about his own views on the relation between the University and the government.
The Soc Rel department avoided any direct decision on the future of Soc Rel 148 and 149, but it set up guidelines for approving sectionmen for the courses. Under the new plan, all sectionmen would have to be certified by the department's Committee on Undergraduate Instruction.
March 26: The president of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Princeton spoke with Pentagon officials and said that Ivy League schools were eager to work with the Pentagon to keep ROTC units on their campuses.
Henrietta Blueye, finally back in Cambridge after her Hungarian prison term, said that she suffered no physical punishment but that life in Hungary and its prisons was "emotionally terrifying."
March 27: The Law School's committee investigating grade reform said that there was virtually no chance that a pass-fail system could be started by next Fall. Students replied by calling the committee report "insulting, inane, and frivolous."
In the last of his three Godkin Lectures, John Gardner attacked radical dissenters. Because of unrestrained student demonstrations, "protest has become a disorderly game for 12-year-olds," Gardner said.
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