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...School Dean of Students Mary Upton withheld the registration packets of two students to insure that they came to her office for a conference about their role in the demonstration, said the students...
...students, who started this semester before the 350th celebration began, said that they did not believe the conference was meant to intimidate them or prohibit them from enrolling, but only to ensure that Upton would have a chance speak with them...
Wilson McLeod, a second-year law student, said that Upton had seen him on television and had confused another McLeod, who was quoted as having participated in the blockade with him. Once McLeod explained to Upton that he had been supporting the blocakde, but not participating in it, she said that he would not be disciplined...
...Upton also says her reasons for calling Raskin in were legitimate. "If people are willing to be quoted in the paper," they are accountable for it, she says. "I have some First Amendment rights...
Raskin adds, however, that Upton's action could have chilling consequences on other students. "I thought that Dean Upton was calling me in on a personal basis and not on an institution basis. But I think that she has to realize that she has an institutional responbsibility and her actions are perceived as institutional actions," he says...