Dean May and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee of Six, then went over to a meeting of the Council of Deans at the Law School with two proposals that came out of the meeting: that the University take no action at night, and that all precautions be taken to avoid violence.

Before the meeting broke up, Richard W. Hausler '72, student member of the Subcommittee of Six, was sent to University Hall to find out whether the occupiers would agree to be removed non-violently. Hausler said upon his return that leaders in the building would not guarantee to avoid violence if police were sent in.

The building take-overs follow the announcement yesterday of a breakdown in negotiations between OBU and the administration on the question of Harvard hiring practices for black workers and the painters' helpers controversy.

The primary source of disagreement lies in the black students' demands for a 20 per cent quota of black workers on all Harvard construction projects.

The University yesterday called the demand illegally discriminatory and out of proportion to the 9.3 per cent non-white population listed for Boston and Cambridge in the 1960 census. Harvard does not have the power to demand a quota, the University added, because it cannot interfere with the practice of outside contractors on projects already underway.

Start at Gund

About 8 a. m., about 100 black students marched through the Yard to the construction site for Gund Hall of the Graduate School of Design behind Mem Hall.

Carrying two-way radios and chains, the students entered the site and locked gates to workmen arriving in the morning. Workmen were asked to go home and left peacefully after checking with the construction supervisor.

Around 9 a. m., about 60 students raced down Quincy Street, blocking traffic, and went into the Faculty Club through the back door, surprising a sprinkling of Faculty members who were eating breakfast and about 15 employees who had come to work.

The students told Faculty members, employees, and eight guests staying at the club to leave.

"They weren't rude, they were just to the point," Richard J. Silveria, assistant manager of the club, said.

At 11:15 a. m., Mark D. Smith, spokesman for OBU and one of the students named in May's suspension order, emerged from the building to read a statement to the press on the front steps of the club.

"OBU has moved from the Gund Hall construction site to occupy the Faculty Dining Club, a place where Harvard Faculty members relax in leisure and comfort and dine in elegance ignoring the fact that black people are suffering at the hands of Harvard's Racist Policies," he said.

Smith returned to the building without answering questions. About ten minutes later, the students filed out the back door of the club. Many held scarfs or coats over their heads to conceal their identity.

After leaving the Faculty Club at noon, the students ran through the Yard and converged on University Hall. All doors were locked.

The students, numbering between 50 and 70, gathered near the basement door where they unsuccessfully tried to break through the window with a chain. One student then climbed onto the railing beside the door and, grabbing the Ivy vines on the wall, kicked the window in and unlocked the door.