Police Haven't Enforced Warrants For Arrest of Suspended Students

Police have yet to act on warrants for the arrest of three suspended Harvard students- all members of SDS- who are changed with appearing on campus in demonstrations during last May's national student strike.

A fourth ex-student Cheyncy C. Ryan '70- was arrested at an SDS office in Boston last Friday, two-and-a-half months after the issuing of the warrants. Arraigned Saturday on two counts of criminal trespass, he faces two months in jail and a $200 fine when his trial begins in Cambridge District Court Oct. 30.

The authority in charge of the case- Cambridge detective Fidele Centrella- explained that police had been looking for the four ex-students since the appearance of the warrants last July. He declined to say how police had found Ryan at Boston's SDS office.

"I hadn't been at SDS headquarters in a month," Ryan said.

"Ridiculous"

"It's absolutely ridiculous," Daniel P. Veach '70, one of the three ex-students not yet arrested, said of Centrella's claim that police have been seeking him. He said he has been living "above ground" in Cambridge for the past two months.

Emily T. Huntington '70, another of the three, said that she has made no effort to duck the police. Suggesting that authorities may have deliberately refrained from making the three other arrests, she added, "It might be easier for them to prosecute us if they take us one by one."

All four are charged with having appeared at one or more demonstrations on campus last May: obstructive picket lines around University Hall which demanded full pay for Harvard employees striking against the war, and another picket which temporarily blocked members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities from entering their hearing rooms in Holyoke Center.

They had all been suspended after an obstructive sit-in last November. At the time of their punishment, Harvard warned them that they would face Iegal sanctions if they reappeared anywhere on campus.