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Who Are Those Kids in University Hall?

A Study of Students Who Took a Building

IF YOU are a white-junior living off campus, concentrating in English or Social Relations and coming from the Eastern United States, an alumnus of a private school not holding a scholarship at Harvard, you probably would have been a clubbie 25 years ago.

Today, these are the marks of the archetypal student arrested in University Hall last Spring, according to a computer study of 118 persons disciplined for the takeover.

Compiled by a Faculty member after the Spring events, the study also shows that Cliffies participated in the protest on a slightly greater scale than Harvard students. Thirty-two of the 118 (or 27.1 per cent) were in University Hall the night of the police bust. This compares with a 4:1 ratio of men to women undergraduates in the University.

Between 200 and 400 students were inside the occupied building on the afternoon of the takeover April 9 and through the night. When the police arrived at 5 a. m. the next day, less than 150 persons had remained inside. About 100 students linked arms and sat on the steps to non-violently bar the police entrance.

The survey covers 118 of the 138 students who were disciplined, Percentages in it are accurate to two per cent.

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A breakdown of the study follows:

Male-Female Ratio

protesters college

men: 86 4,779

women: 32 1,235

total: 118 6,014

Harvard Class

'68 3

'69 15

'70 17

'71 29

'72 20

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