That Harvard provide a women's center to serve the needs of women of the Boston area;

That Harvard give us full use of this building, with full facilities (heat, plumbing, electricity), until it is necessary to tear it down in order to break ground for the Riverside low-income housing.

At this point rumors of an impending police bust were already circulating, although no University officials would make any statements or predictions.

Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci appeared at the door of the building

Sunday afternoon and expressed concern over the lack of heat inside. "Whether they were right or wrong in taking over the building the health and welfare of some people is at stake here," he said.

The following day. Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law and University troubleshooter, said, "The University has no intention of allowing the occupants of the Architectural Technology Workshop to remain there. We are currently considering the most effective means of requiring occupants to leave if they do not leave voluntarily."

Cox declined to elaborate, but said, "I am very opposed to negotiating with outsiders who have unlawfully taken possession of a University building."

Meanwhile, the women inside the building were bracing for a long stay. Despite elaborate security precautions-the women posted 24-hour rotating guard duty at both front and back entrances and at an upstairs window-most of the energy inside was directed toward remaking the building into an actual women's center.

All walls were brightly painted and covered with slogans-"Power to the Imagination," "I am a lesbian and I am beautiful"-while food was cooked and music played. On the walls of one room set aside as a day-care center the ceiling was covered with suns, the walls with stripes, and the windows with stars.

Although morale within the Center was high, and solidarity a major goal throughout the week, the action drew some sharp criticism from women both within and without the building.

"I really feel that this whole thing is manipulative," one Radcliffe student said. "It's like a group of people went in there, then thought up their demands and said 'new you have to support us." Many other women complained that an intangible leadership had somehow chosen the building.

Early in the week several straight women who visited the Center complained of tensions between them and certain of the gay women there. Most of the straight women actually spending time in the building, however, spoke of the presence of gay women as one of the most positive aspects of the occupation.

"Gayness has become a political decision as well as a personal issue," one of them explained. "Gayness is a way of relating to the sexually and emotionally exploitative nature of our society.... At the Center, it feels like there is no such thing as gayness-there are just a lot of women who love one another."

Some Radcliffe students objected that 'the women are defending the action on a completely emotional basis." And one Radcliffe House resident said. "Most people here have enough doubts about one aspect of it or another-either gay relationships or the tactic, or the question of whether Harvard should provide a center-so that not many people can support it completely."

However, a supporting rally at Harvard Tuesday drew over 250 people, and petitions supporting the occupation-delivered Tuesday to Dean Dunlop-gathered many signatures.