Jewett encouraged students to express theirconcerns to him, and said he had spoken with onestudent already this semester.

But Ted G. Rose '94 and Perspective PresidentJesse M. Furman '94, who organized the revival ofthe defunct Dunster Students for Free Expression,said students are still scared to voice theiropinions.

"A few people came up to me and said they wouldlike to attend the meeting [to discuss free speechin Dunster], but they were afraid about doingthat," Rose said.

Rose, a former Dunster House UndergraduateCouncil representative and Crimson sportsexecutive, said about 10 people told him they wereafraid to speak out on the tutor conflict.

Dunster Students for Free Expression wasoriginally formed two years ago when Liem did notrenew a resident tutor's contract after the tutorexpressed disapproval for a kosher toaster inDunster House.

In a telephone interview yesterday, William Lisaid he told tutors he was sorry for the letter's"bad timing" and the negative reaction it caused,but he defended the decision to send it.

"I think that we were harassed all last year bythese tutors," Li said, adding he received anumber of crank phone calls. "Because theUniversity did not put a check on [theharassment], we tried to see how we could protectourselves against further shenanigans."

But Li, who is co-chair of Dunster's pre-medadvisory committee with his brother Vincent, saidhe never considered actually filing alawsuit--that he was seeking legal advice--andtold the tutors as much at last week's meetingwith Jewett.

Jewett said tutors had "mixed" reactions to themeeting.

"Some issues were not satisfactorily resolvedfor everybody," Jewett said. "Not all issues weresolved in everyone's mind."

Li said most of the tutors felt they could movepast their personal conflicts