Seven Faculty members have issued a letter to top University administrators discouraging disciplinary probation or any other substantive disciplinary action against the student activists. A group of House Masters also sent a letter of support for the student protesters.

'We expect the students' position to be examined by the Ad Board, but we don't expect the Ad Board to take any draconian action," said Eliot House Master Lino Pertile.

The Faculty letter specifically discouraged administrators from even putting the students on probation.

"We are proposing that the Administrative Board take no disciplinary action above the symbolic level of a warning or admonishment, and that there be no indication of disciplinary action on any student's official record," the Faculty letter said.

The letter praised the PSLM members for having brought the issue of low-paid Harvard employees to the forefront of campus discussion.

"The students' actions have not only reopened the debate; they have transformed it," the Faculty members wrote.

Bradley S. Epps, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Richard G. Heck, professor of Philosophy, Michael Herzfeld, professor of Anthropology, Christine M. Korsgaard, professor of Philosophy, Juliet B. Schor, senior lecturer in Women's Studies, Richard F. Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin, and Bert R. Vaux, assistant professor of Linguistics, signed the letter.