Professor Kissinger is alive and well in Washington

The Administration announced its charges three weeks later: it had found evidence against nine students. Members of SJP brought charges against thirteen students, three of whom had already been charged by the Administration. While the CRR prepared to hear the cases, SJP announced plans for another teach-in for May 3.

A week later, the teach-in was cancelled. SJP charged that it felt that it could not hold the teach-in because Harvard would not protect it from disruption. SJP co-chairman Laszlo Pasztor '73 charged administrators with "malice" and further charged that the Administration had made it impossible to hold the teach-in because it refused to provide police to check bursar's cards and confiscate bullhorns at the entrance to Sanders Theatre. Cox replied that the issue had never been raised. Some observers felt that SJP's failure to recruit speakers-only one had agreed to appear-might have been the actual reason for the cancellation.

The last chapter in the Teach-in story for this year was written June 2, when the CRR announced the results of its deliberations. Of the 23 accused, the Committee convicted nine: four of these were required to withdraw from the University, three were given of these were required to withdraw and two were given warnings. Ten were acquitted. The University had drawn its line, but it had not produced the disciplinary bloodbath that its earlier statement had hinted at.

But one item remains ominously outstanding on the Teach-in ledger. Cox had hinted that action might be taken against an "unnamed Faculty member" and said that if he felt it was necessary he would bypass the new Faculty discipline procedures being hammered out by the Faculty and take the case directly to the Corporation. He took no action during the Spring.

Many observers speculated that the Faculty member might be Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, a member of the Progressive Labor Party. There was no way of knowing where the case would go in the months ahead.