Finally, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, called the Bulletin to find out who owned the copyright to Kilson's article. Steiner said that the black students had asked him who owned the article and he called simply to respond to their question. He also said that he wanted to make sure that no misstatements were made about the University if Harvard owned the copyright.

Kilson responded with anger to these Administration moves. In a complaint filed with the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and the Commission of Inquiry May 28, he alleged that these actions by Steiner, Schmidt and Leonard (who Kilson said also made inquiries about the ownership of the copyright) represented "a patent violation of my intellectual rights and thus transgressed the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities," which governs intellectual relationships at Harvard.

Kilson charged that the actions "amounted to a form of intellectual coercion inasmuch as the purpose was to harass, limit, or suppress publication by me of a version of my Bulletin articles in The New York Times Magazine."

Kilson said he did not file charges against Bethell because Bethell had apologized to him.

It is not clear if there is any precedent for discipling administrators who do not hold an appointment in one of the faculties of the University and at this writing officials are still unsure what body will hear Kilson's complaint.

Kilson considers the dispute a major issue and he has called it the Bok Administration's "Watergate." Ironically, the head of the University Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, will probably be unable to participate in the hearing on the matter, because he is in Washington helping to investigate the real Watergate affair as a member of the staff of Archiblad Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law and the attorney general's special prosecutor.