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...Ostrow's case, B.U. was trying a student retroactively under B.U.'s new Provisional Student Disciplinary Code passed last April 20. Under that code, Ostrow had no power to subpoena witnesses. His prosecutor, judge and jury were all appointed, directly or indirectly, by B.U. President John R. Silber. Had Ostrow been found guilty, he could have appealed only to Silber...
Students do not waive their civil rights when they pay tuition to a college. Student and Faculty letters to Silber from other schools, letters of protest or even of inquiry, will help protect these students' rights until the code is toppled...
...Provisional Student Disciplinary Code, enacted last April 20 by a committee appointed by B.U. President John R. Silber, gives the president power to appoint the hearing examiner, the prosecutor, and the panel which selects the jurors. The president also represents the last avenue of appeal...
Under the code, B.U. President John R. Silber appoints the hearing examiner, the chief investigator, the administration's prosecutor, and the panel charged with choosing members for each three-person jury...
...because B.U.'s faculty lacks the power and cohesiveness necessary to determine the fate of a B.U. president, the president -- with a discipline code -- can retain both defense contract research and the less genteel forms of military support. Silber, with control over B.U.'s purse strings, does not need the faculty to legitimize his position. But although Bok now seems to believe that the protest over ROTC would not threaten the Faculty's research, only the Faculty could bring Harvard ROTC back...