three students who were in both demonstrations and who stayed on Dec. 11 after the temporary suspensions were required to withdraw for two terms-with the sentence suspended;
two students who were at both demonstrations and had a prior disciplinary record were required to withdraw for three terms-with the sentence suspended.
The only other major disciplinary action the Committee has undertaken-dealing with 25 students charged with obstructing Dean May at a demonstration on Nov. 19-led to more serious punishments.
Last month the Committee ordered 16 students involved in that demonstration to leave Harvard for periods of up to two years.
Although the statement released yesterday does not directly compare the November and December demonstrations, Wilson said last night that there were several reasons for milder sentences in the more recent case.
"The (December) occupations were wrong in terms of illegal presence, but they were not otherwise wrong in terms of violence or harassments," he said.
"We did have to bear in mind the context in which the events of December took place," Wilson added. "Important issues were being discussed; negotiations had started and been interrupted. This cannot be taken as an excuse, but it must be seen as part of the context."
The black students from the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) who occupied the building demanded that 20 per cent of the workers on Harvard construction sites be from minority groups.
The Dec. 5 demonstration ended when OBU agreed to further negotiations with the University's representative-Archibald Cox. Samuel Williston Professor of Law. The next demonstration came after those negotiations broke down.
Since then, the University has appointed a new negotiator-Clifford Alexander '55-but the issue is still not settled.
The Committee did not release the names of any of the students involved, but notified them all by letters sent out over the last two days.
The decisions come at the end of the Committee's standard hearing procedure. After May filed charges against the 46 students, they were asked to attend hearings before three-member panels-each comprised of two men from the Faculty or an Administrative Board, plus one student.
OBU members formally boycotted the hearings, and held their own public hearings against the University early this month. But Wilson said yesterday that about six students had come to their hearings.
After the hearing panels completed their findings on each student, the full Committee met to decide on each case. Under committee rules, any student dissatisfied with his punishment may appeal for reconsideration. The Committee, however, does not have to grant the appeal.
After the decisions in the Nov. 19 case, several students issued a mass appeal for reconsideration, which the Committee denied. But Wilson said that the Committee has accepted several individual requests. In at least one case, the student convinced the Committee not to discipline him.
The evidence used against students included both films of the occupation and eyewitness testimony from officials in the building.
Wilson denied that Dean May had been "intentionally selective" in filing charges against students in the building. "It is some times hard to tell from the pictures," he said. "I have seen absolutely no evidence of selectivity on the Dean's part."