The demonstrators then left University Hall and rallied outside to plan further action. BSFA met separately and suggested that SDS go back into the building and hold a non-obstructive sit-in. Some BSFA members went to Holyoke Center, where they and Afro representatives met with Wiggins and other administrators.
The SDS members re-entered University Hall and sat-in at the reception room at the deans' offices. Administrators vacated their offices throughout the afternoon, and secretaries were sent home at 2:30 p. m.
Dean Watson and Samuel R. Williamson Jr., a part-time assistant to May, were asked to leave. Watson was told by Jared Israel 67, "We want you to leave." Watson left almost at once to chants of "Don't touch his elbow!" -a reference to Watson's allegation that Carl Offer had assualted him during the take-over of University Hall last April.
While SDS was sitting-in at an almost deserted University Hall, Willie Washington '73, a BFSA spokesman, announced that his organization had just voted to dissolve itself and to try to work within Afro.
At 4:20 p. m., May came back to University Hall to address demonstrators. He told them "the University intends at present to deal with this obstructive demonstration as an internal disciplinary matter." He informed the students that if they remained after hearing the warning they would be subject to "increasingly grave penalties."
The demonstrators left at 5 p. m., chanting. "Smash racism! Promote the helpers!"
At this time, Deans Ford. May, and Watson were meeting at University police headquarters in the basement of Grays with the Subcommittee of Six (three students and three Faculty members) and Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law-an unofficial advisor to President Pusey.
May said he had consulted with the Subcommittee of Six before issuing the second warning. The Subcommittee is supposed to be consulted in cases where temporary suspensions might be invoked. The Subcommittee yesterday recommended no temporary suspensions.
The meeting in Grays also considered contingency plans-for example, whether to issue temporary suspensions if the sit-in continued through the night.
As May left Grays at 5 p. m., the demonstrators followed him from Grays Hall to Holyoke Center and then through the Square.
Chanting loudly, they trailed May until he entered Apthorp House, the Adams House Master's Residence. They then dispersed.