Cox issued a statement Friday afternoon explaining his reasons for dropping complaints against Kilbreth and Pennington. In the statement, Cox said that when he filed the trespassing complaint against Kilbreth, he was unaware that Kilbreth had received his Harvard degree.

Cox also said that at the time he filed criminal charges against Pennington, "information from the Dean's Office indicated that the defendant was not a registered student."

When he discovered that Pennington was a registered student, Cox said he offered to drop charges if Pennington would "acknowledge that he was subject to the CRR's disciplinary authority."

Cox claimed that Pennington did acknowledge the CRR's authority just before the trial began.

Both Kilbreth and Pennington attacked Cox's statement. Pennington said Friday night that he never told Cox that he was subject to the discipline of the CRR.

"I told Cox that I was a registered student and would not claim otherwise," Pennington said. "But I also told him that the CRR was an illegitimate body which had no jurisdiction over me."

The CRR has not yet finished hearing the last of 21 cases of students accused of helping disrupt the "Counter Teach-in," The hearing of Peter Levy '71, which began last Wednesday and continued on Friday, continues again at 5 p. m. today.