M. I. T. Demonstrators' Sentences Lengthened

The Superior Court yesterday doubled the sentences of two persons convicted under an 1854 law for disrupting M. I. T. during a demonstration last January. The mother of one was sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of court.

Peter Bohmer, an instructor in Soc Sci 125, and Geoarge Katsiaficas were convicted in district court last month of disrupting the activities of a university after they entered two M. I. T. classrooms. Each received two one-month sentences, to be served concurrently.

They appealed the convictions to Superior Court, where yesterday they were again found guilty. But the judge made their sentences consecutive so that each will now have to spend two months in jail.

When Katsiaficas's mother stood up in court to protest that her son was not a criminal the judge sentenced her to ten days in jail for contempt. She is now in Charles Street Jail.