Perhaps no event better displayed Pusey's detachment from the students than his response to the demonstrators.

"He might have thought it was a demonstration of will to bring in the police, but tactically, it was nutty," Fallows says. "Nothing was more guaranteed to make martyrs of those inside and to solidify the opposition against [the administration]."

He says the bust only made radical students more recalcitrant.

"Nothing so energized, motivated and also infuriated students of the period than the idea of police coming in with something other than a minimum of force," Fallows says.

"No other universities took similar actions," Fallows says. "Almost all tried to wait the students out and defuse the situation. While the logic of sending in the police was in one sense unassailable, it was a tragedy for almost everyone involved. It raised an already inflamed situation an order of magnitude in intensity."

Regardless of his opinion, Fallows had to ensure that Crimson coverage continued throughout the crisis.

And on the morning of April 10, 1969, when police went into University Hall to remove demonstrators, Fallows stood in Harvard Yard with a reporter's notebook in hand, uncharacteristically pinch-hitting as a reporter from his executive position.

As The Crimson staff scrambled to assemble stories about the takeover, Fallows was caught in a familiar but difficult predicament--how to objectively cover the events with writers known for their far-left leanings.

The paper had been losing credibility in the eyes of the administration with its far-left slanted stories--and the University Hall coverage made the administration's criticisms more vehement.

"The change [of The Crimson from the paper of record] had been ongoing, a general fraying of nerves between the paper and Harvard's administration," Fallows said. "Relations between The Crimson and the administration had become quite strained."

The Crimson's position as the only student run newspaper on campus made the nature of its coverage all the more worrisome for Fallows.

"The people in the administration who were most upset thought the paper's entire staff were members of Viet Cong," he says.

As he sought ways to appease the administration, Fallows says that, in retrospect, he over-compensated.

"In retrospect, I think I was too concerned with trying to smooth things over [with the administration]," he says.

"I didn't like the idea that the paper that I temporarily was in charge of was being seen with such hostility by so many administrators," Fallows says. "I tried, perhaps harder than I should have, to 'make nice.'"