A welcoming committee of 60 Law School students turned out Wednesday to protest the first meeting of a January term civil rights course, which they said should be taught be a full-time minority professor.

As about 25 of the 45 students enrolled in the class filed by, demonstrators held signs asking "Which Side are You On," "How Long, Harvard." and other slogans urging enrolled students to boycott the class.

The course first drew protest last summer, when the Law School announced that Julius Chambers, a Black attorney, and Jack Greenberg, a white civil-rights lawyer, would co-instruct the course as visiting professors.

After picketing the course, the protestors went to the office of Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49, and read a list of affirmative action proposals.

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As exam period for undergraduates nears, the professors received some grades of their own this week with the release of a report which ranked graduate schools across the country.

Harvard scored high in the sciences, ranking first in the nation in Zoology, and second to MIT in Biochemistry Harvard also got best-department-in-the country designations for Classics, Philosophy, and Spanish, in the survey conducted by the National Research Council.

"We take these results very seriously." James S. Ackerman, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, and said this week." The moment these surveys come out. I leap for them and see how out team looks to the rest of the country."

It at first you don't succeed in getting permission to operate your massive energy plant, try, try again, seems to be the motto at Harvard these days. The University this week won state permission to again resume testing of the controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP).

The University will try to determine if the $250 million plant's diesel exhaust system poses cancer risks to the surrounding community. The tests represent the latest snag in the University's six year-long attempts to begin operating the plant.

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The annals of American film will be enriched this summer by another major motion picture set on the Harvard campus. Orion Pictures film crews filmed the campus during freshman week for the upcoming movie Class, starring Jacqueline Bisset. The interior scenes of the movie, which will trace the lives of two Harvard-bound men, were filmed at Northwestern University.