With few exceptions, white students roacted with apathy to the strike. Second-year MBA students began taking final exams last Friday. First-year students exams will begin on Saturday.
Two petitions circulated among white students yesterday and got more than 200 signatures combined. The moderate petition called for verbal support of the strike, a meaningful Faculty and Administration response, and no reprisals against striking students.
The stronger petition, signed by at least 50 students, called for a strike of white students to support the Afro strike in order to devote time towards improving Business School attitudes and policies toward blacks.
Robert Barrett, a first-year MBA student, said, "It's my impression that very very few white students are supporting the strike in any real way. I'm sorry it had to happen this time of the year [exam time] because it's hurting their efforts."
At 1 p. m. today. Afro is sponsoring an open meeting in front of Baker Library with Thomas Atkins, Boston's one black City Councillor, as the keynote speaker.
The Business School student association will hold a 2 p. m. mass meeting today to hear two special committees report back on the charges of Business School racism.