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MR. RICHARD R. FLETCHER PRESENT

Under very extensive questioning, Mr. Fletcher reported a great many details, often reading
from his notes made at the time of interviews with various participants in the episode of Sunday
afternoon, April 4th. He stated in reply to questions that the penalties recommended by him had
been given very extensive consideration by himself and his advisors, with all factors carefully
weighed. He emphasized that his recommendation of expulsion for Mr. Walker had been based not on
any suspicion of unreported conduct by Mr. Walker, but on facts admitted by Walker himself (1)
Walker was 24 years old, (2) He was a former student, (3) He had nearly two years' experience and
responsibility in the Army, (4) Everything in his record in the University demonstrated that he
was a very poor student, and (5) He had abandoned a teen-aged girl, a guest of the University, whose
host and protector he was for the afternoon, in an apartment to which he had taken her, under
disreputable circumstances highly injurious to the good name of the University and to all of its
personnel connected with the affair

Mr. Fletcher withdrew

Mr. Walker, under further questioning, admitted to various facts heard earlier by the Board,
including his knowledge of the events of Sunday morning