An unidentified group of teenagers assaulted and robbed a Harvard sophomore Saturday night in the Law School parking lot.
Douglas G. Carlston '69 of Kirkland House reported that the gang stopped him shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday as he crossed the parking area between Austin Hall and Littauer Center while returning from Hilles Library.
The gang, some 8 to 12 youths, shouted "There's a Harvie; let's get him," and then surrounded him, Carlston said. After repeatedly insulting him, some three or four of the group took the lead in beating him, while the other members looked on.
Took Watch
According to Carlston, his assailants struck him, pushed him to the ground, and then kicked him. The youths then tore a watch from his wrist, though they did not try to steal his wallet.
Left bleeding and semiconscious after the beating, Carlston said that he stumbled from the parking lot into the Mallinckrodt lobby, where a fellow student called the University police.
Carlston is currently recovering from severe facial lacerations in Stillman Infirmary.
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