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CRR Panels Hear Charges Against 11 More Students

John H Petrey '72 denied earlier Saturday an Administration charge of "repeatedly clapping his hands and shouting." He claimed that his occasional claps and shouts were responses to specific events on stage and were not attempts to disrupt the "Counter Teach-In."

A witness testified that Petrey had participated in a chant to "Let the Assholes Speak" when Archibald Cox '34 was speaking. Noting that Cox was also trying to quiet the crowd, Countryman asked the witness if "you normally refer to the people you agree with as assholes."

Leroy G. Wade, Jr., resident tutor in North House, defended Ralph J. Coates '71 on Friday. Laszlo Pasztor '73, who lives on the same floor of Comstock Hall as Coates, had brought charges against him.

Wade introduced evidence that Coates had not acted disruptively at the "Counter Teach-In" and that he had joined a chant to "Let the Butchers Speak." A Comstock resident called as a witness testified to pre-existing antagonism between Pasztor and Coates.

Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, rebuked a CRR panel Friday night after being informed just before the hearing of a student he was prepared to defend that his SJP accuser-Daniel J. Pipes '71-had dropped the charges because of insufficient evidence.

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Dershowitz accused the CRR of failing to obey Paragraph 4 of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which requires it to determine that there is "probable cause" for a complaint before proceeding with a hearing.

If the Committee had looked at the evidence before the case, Dershowitz said. it would have been "impossible for [it] to make a determination that probable cause to proceed ... existed." This, he added, would have spared him and his client-Martin H. Goodman '71-" extremely costly and wasteful expenditures of time."

But CRR chairman Donald G. Anderson told Dershowitz that "probable cause" as discussed in the Resolution is different from the legal definition, and that the CRR hears all plausible complaints.

Dershowitz also complained that the hearing, scheduled for 7 p. m., had not actually begun until 7:29 p. m. But Anderson said that "that is not the fault of the Committee: it's the fault of all the previous defendants whose hearings ran on until it was too late to keep up with our schedule."

A member of the CRIMSON faced a CRR panel Saturday morning on charges of disruption brought by Rosen. Three witnesses testified that he had shouted only in response to specific events on stage, and testimony was introduced which showed that he had opposed disruption of the "Counter Teach-In."

Charles H. Perkins '74, also charged by Rosen, told a panel on Friday that he had argued against disruption before the "Counter Teach-In," and a witness supported his testimony. Perkins said that he would not have been so vocal in Sanders had there been another form of protest-like turning backs on the speakers-which he could have joined.

The UPI film showed him holding up a "Murderers" sign and chanting.

Amy C. Brodkey '71 denied Friday night charges of disruption filed against her by SJP co-chairman Arthur N. Waldron '71. She and four witnesses testified that she had been talking with people in Sanders at the times Waldron said she was "clapping and shouting."

Brodkey told the CRR panel that Waldron had grabbed a script out of her hand the night before the "Counter Teach-In" while she was participating in an antiwar skit in the Adams House Dining Room.

While Brodkey's hearing was taking place in Room 10-B of Holyoke Center, three University officers were testifying against Gilbert L. Bagot '73 before another CRR panel in Room 10-A.

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