A professor on the committee handed her a photograph and asked if the face was hers. It was: she stood by a crowd of students holding a sit-in sponsored by the Revolutionary Youth Movement, a political group that opposed her own. She says she had walked by to observe the sit-in, and played no part in it.

After that one encounter with the CRR, she had no desire to return. So it wasn't until later that she heard from her tutor--who attended one of her later hearings--that Wheeler's cousin, a graduate student resident adviser, had testified against her.

A demonstration outside Holyoke Center that Wheeler participated in later in the spring, sealed her fate. The protesters were wearing paper bags with Dean Ernest R. May's face sketched on the front. May began walking up to students and lifting masks, including hers, Wheeler recalls. The CRR subsequently suspended her.

Wheeler left Harvard in the spring of 1970, in the middle of Commencement, without a degree. Her plans to go into social work were stalled--she could not begin graduate studies without a B.A.

Two years later, when she had given up on social work and wound up teaching in the Boston public school system, she received a letter from the CRR. It said the University might grant her a degree if she wrote them a letter, outlining in detail her activities since leaving Harvard and showing the CRR that she had been conducting herself in a way that indicated "good character." She did, and received her degree.

Janet Wheeler is a pseudonym for a member of the class of '70 who asked not to be identified in this article.