Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for Administration, said he expects further action this winter.

The mammoth 35-story plant would cover a two-block area and provide steam, electricity and chilled water for air conditioning at roughly half the price currently charged by Boston Edison.

Mass Hall Decisions

Just as the summer began, less than a week after the last Spring term exams, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) came to a decision on two controversial cases.

On June 7 the CRR and two other University disciplinary bodies ruled that none of the 34 black students who participated in the week-long occupation of Massachusetts Hall last April will be required to withdraw from the University.

In simultaneous announcements, the CRR and the disciplinary committees of the Law School and the Divinity School said that special circumstances surrounding the occupation ruled out strong punishment.

The 34 students had occupied Mass Hall from April 20 to April 26 to protest the University's decision to retain its 700,000 shares of Gulf Oil Corporation Stock. The students had demanded that Harvard sell the shares because of Gulf's involvement in the Portuguese colony of Angola.

The CRR-which decided the cases of the 32 occupiers studying under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--unanimously voted to give suspended requirements to withdraw for one term to all of the students. The only effect of the sanction is to give each of the students a record of disciplinary action, thus making stronger penalties more likely in the event of future offenses.

The CRR decided against a tougher sanction even though it unanimously ruled that the occupation was a violation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. "Building occupation has been deemed and still remains an unacceptable form of protest," the decision said.

However, the CRR cited several special circumstances--including the non-violent nature of the occupation and the lack of previous disciplinary records for any of the students--which it said prompted the decision of the committee against more severe punishment.

Responding to the decision two days later, President Bok said that "a" number of problems" have arisen because of the mildness of the punishments.

Although Bok did not clearly condemn the decision, he said: "A particularly serious problem is whether the orderly functioning of the University is adequately protected by a apparent precedent that building seizures, however prolonged, will not result in substantial disciplinary action if no violence to persons or property occurs and the persons involved have no prior disciplinary record."

Bok concluded by calling for a "careful consideration by the University's faculties" of the disciplinary problems.

In a veritable whirlwind of activity, the CRR came to another decision a week later. This time the decision was more severe.

The committee voted to require Bonnie E. Blustein '72, a long-time SDS member, to withdraw from the University three days before she was scheduled to graduate.