Poster Policy

More than a week after Harvard policemen allegedly lose down posters of a Law school gay and lesbian students group from bulletin boards, the department last week changed its policy for monitoring posters.

Last Wednesday, Mary D. Up to, dean of students at the Law School, received a memo from Harvard Police, according to Benjamin H. Schatz '81, chairman of the Harvard Law School Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal issues. "In the future, when they receive complaints, they will refer them to the Law School," Schatz said yesterday.

The change stems from an incident which took place two weeks ago, when Schatz and another law student were posting fliers advertising an upcoming gay and lesbian law students event.

Three Harvard policemen, saying they were responding to an anonymous complaint, confronted the two students and took down their bursar's card numbers.

"Someone didn't like the wording," Schatz said a policeman told him. In addition, the name of the student group was not written on the poster as required throughout the University.

Later that afternoon student said they saw Harvard policemen running though the Law School halls, tearing down the posters.

Upon last week placed a notice in the weekly Law School Advisor, telling students not to tear down posters. But she refused to admonish the Police Department saying that this was a police affair.