PORTE: No, but the important thing for us to make clear is that the meeting is not open to reporters from the Harvard CRIMSON. If you wish to bring as your advisor someone who happens to be a reporter, that's your decision in this case, but the principle to us is very important that these meetings not be open to CRIMSON reporters...

HAUSLER: That anybody who is a reporter cannot just walk into your hearing as a reporter. It seems to me that this isn't such a case and that Mr. Sheppard has brought his advisor-reporter and that...

WILSON: The three of us probably have slightly different views of what is at issue and what should be done. My tentative reaction is that I don't think we ought to try to settle it among ourselves. My impression is that it is precisely issues of this sort that constitute major precedents in government that determine their actions and the action of successive bodies. We did work out an agreement with the full Committee that to my understanding did not clearly embrace the present case though I can see how it can be construed to.

HAUSLER: What's different about this case from the previous one?

WILSON: Because in the other case the person said, "I am coming as his advisor and in addition I intend to report for the CRIMSON" [unclear]. Now we could let it drift at that but if there is any serious difficulty, the thing to do, it seems to me, is to postpone the hearing and go back to the Committee and come back again.

PORTE: We shouldn't waste his time arguing about this.

HAUSLER: Can't we just accept the [unclear] and let it drift? It seems that we have the exact same situation here whether or not these people are describing it differently from the way Margolin and Hollander described it, it's precisely the same situation. I don't really see the...

WILSON: How do you feel, Joel?

PORTE: I think in terms of substance, I think you're right; however, there is another issue at issue: the tape recorder.

WILSON: Well, let's dispose of the first issue first.

PORTE: If Mr. Sheppard has brought this man as his advisor...

WILSON: If he's brought him at his invitation, we probably can't insist too strenuously that he stand up and use the word "advisor."

ANDERSON: We are free to change our procedures in the future and ask the advisor to certify that he is an advisor.

HAUSLER: Following our previous procedure, would we then get our own tape recorder?

WILSON: Oh yes, I think if Mr....um...if we have a reporter here, we have to have our own tape recorder. That was the decision of the Committee and we certainly can't change that.