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Who Are Those Kids in University Hall?

A Study of Students Who Took a Building

Mathematics 5

History 3

Economics 2

Philosophy 2

Music 2

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Biology 2

Anthropology 2

Physics 0

Chemistry 0

Engineering 0

Geology 0

(This is just a sampling of major concentrations. Students with double-majors are included in the closest field, hence History and Lit students are included as English majors. These double majors, however, account for a minimal number of students. Freshmen are not included because they had not declared a concentration at the time. A computer check was not run on Radcliffe students.)

Although specific statistics are not available, the study shows that the protesters came largely from the Eastern states, with a large number from New York and Massachusetts. That area least represented among the students was the South. The geographical distribution of students as a whole also shows a large number of students coming from the Eastern region.

Of the 118 studied, only one was black. The percentage of black students in the college averages slightly under 5 per cent, but varies with each class. Although the number of blacks actively involved in the occupation last Spring was miniscule, it would be a mistake to con??? that blacks are reluctant to take radical action. In December, over 125 blacks students in the Organization for Black Unity seized University Hall for five hours to protest Harvard hiring practices.

THE results of the survey reinforce critics of the Harvard radical movement who call it "elitist" and unrepresentative of teh blacks and poor white which the movement supports.

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