Parker declined to comment to The Crimson.
The four students were formally charged with violating the Rights and Responsibilities section of the law school catalog, found in Appendix A of the book.
The Ad Board seemed to focus on a clause in the section that reads, “Interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities must be regarded as unacceptable obstruction of the essential processes of the University.”
“I think the issue is interference, not prevention,” Parker said during the hearing.
The Ad Board hired an investigator, Law School Senior Reference Librarian Janet C. Katz, to gather evidence for the hearing—which included transcripts of conversations with individuals involved in the sit-in.
Katz transcribed her conversations with 12 staff members of Mass. Hall, occasionally reading from their “testimonies” during the hearing, and at other times making generalizations to the board about the staff members’ experience during the sit-in.
She emphasized the “egregious behavior” of the students towards the support staff in the building.
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