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CRR Suspends 7 Students For Obstructive Picketing

The statement also said that certain students charged with both the obstructive picketing and the CFIA disruption were not informed of their punishmentsfor the earlier CFIA incident until after May 11. The decisions in these cases, therefore, were "somewhat more lenlent" than would usually be the case with students having prior disciplinary records.

The punishments were meted out as follows:

seven requirements to withdraw until February 1971, to students with prior disciplinary infractions who "personally blocked" officials. These students can be readmitted only by majority vote of the committee.

If readmitted, they will be placed under suspended requirements to withdraw for the remainder of their stay at Harvard. Any further misconduct will activate the requirement to leave for one more term.

seven suspended requirements to withdraw for one or two terms, to students with no prior record who were "personally involved in denying access to the building (by, or example, standing together on the steps at the time an officer sought passage up those steps)."

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Any misconduct during the remainder of their Harvard careers will result in their being required to leave the University.

three suspended requirements to withdraw for one term, to picketers with a prior record who did not participate in particular obstructions. They must remain under this sanction for one year.

nineteen warnings to picketers with no prior records. Their punishments will be graver in the event of subsequent misconduct.

three admonitions to students with no prior records "whose participation in the obstruction was brief and marginal. or was marked by other mitigating circumstances,"

five dismissals of charges for lack of sufficient evidence.

two withdrawals of charges by the complainant, Dean May.

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