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While You Were Away... A Summer Passed Through Harvard

"Older people are impressed by the young and want to look more like them and accept their currency, which I think is unwarranted," Pusey stated.

Pusev said that students "seem to feel that if the heart is right, everything will flow from that. They denigrate the role of reason."

When Pusey called students "self-centered" and detailed a number of "hopeful" developments on campus, he met criticism from Joseph Rhodes Jr., a Junior Fellow at Harvard who is a member of the Commission.

Rhodes-whom Vice President Spiro T. Agnew had earlier sought to dislodge from the Commission-said that he was disappointed by Pusey's testimony. "Harvard has gone through a lot of personal changes. I'm concerned that he did not seem aware of them," Rhodes said.

Rhodes asked Pusey if he had any "regrets or second thoughts" about calling in police, to end the occupation of University Hall during April 1969. Pusey replied that he did not consider the question "strictly relevant."

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When William W. Scranton, chairman of the Commission, replied that he thought it was, Pusey said, "If we were back in that situation, I would do it that way again."

Broken Ground

Construction began in June for the University's $24 million Science Center and is expected to last at least three years. According to Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean for Resources and Planning, the Center will satisfy Harvard's science needs "until the year 2000."

The Center itself-designed by Luis Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design-will cost $17.6 million, and will house virtually all the undergraduate activities of the eight Harvard Science departments. A service plant will cost $6.6 million.

Construction site is north of the Yard next to Memorial Hall.

Four Face Arrest

A Cambridge court issued warrants in July for the arrest of four suspended Harvard students accused of criminal trespass for participating in demonstrations on campus early in May.

Each is charged with criminal trespass, punishable by up to $100 fines and 30 days in jail. The four are: Thomas R. Bailey '73, Emily T. Huntington '70, Cheyney C. Ryan '70, and Daniel P. Veach '70. All are members of SDS.

To date, none of the four has been arrested.

The four were charged with trespass at one or both of two demonstrations: one, an obstructive picket at University Hall demanding full pay for striking Harvard employees and the other an obstructive picket which attempted to prevent members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities from entering Holyoke Center.

Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's chief demonstration troubleshooter, filed the charges after consulting with administrators. He said at the time that if any other suspended students were at the demonstration, he "would presume" that they would be charged as well.

Huntington said that if arrested the four would present a political defense. "We're going to try the court and the University for their racism."

Gifts Fall Short

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