A Statement of the Disciplinary Decision Relative to the Occupation of the Administration Building on May 14, 1969
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This is a document written by John J. Costello, the Dean of Students of Springfield College, titled, "A Statement of the Disciplinary Decision Relative to the Occupation of the Administration Building." It is dated June 5, 1969. The document outlines the punishment recommended by the Dean and Faculty Hearing Committee to the 25 students who took over the Administration Building on campus. This included being put on probation and work service. Materials contained within this scrapbook were removed from the original physical scrapbook due to preservation issues. Most documents were originally glued to the pages of the scrapbook, but the glue was failing and the documents were becoming loose and were falling out of the scrapbook. Documents may already have lost their original order and/or may have been lost due to this damage. The damage was getting worse with every use. Therefore, to protect the documents and to facilitate use of the documents, the documents were remove. The documents were left in the order that they were found at the time of removal.
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