The news of the shanties' demise provoked campus-wide uproar and received immediate censure from President McLaughlin. Ten out of the twelve individuals involved were affiliated with "The Review", leading to the paper being blamed for the incident. Charges of racism were levied against its editors because the demolition had occurred the evening after Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Student activists barricaded themselves in the President's office with demands that the Dean of the College issue a public repudiation of the paper and host teach-ins about racial tolerance. In response, the administration canceled classes on the following Friday and filed disciplinary charges against the twelve perpetrators. After an internal judicial review found them all guilty of violating the school's Code of Conduct and selectively suspended the ten who wrote for "The Dartmouth Review", concerns about the apparent bias of the proceedings and witness tampering led to national outrage and calls for a retrial. With help from New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey and Governor John Sununu, the ten students successfully appealed the findings of the panel and were able to remain enrolled at the College.