Police Arrest Men Outside Leverett

Harvard police arrested two youths at Leverett House early yesterday morning after a student noticed that one of the men seemed to be wearing a leather jacket he had reported stolen the week before.

Cambridge resident Thomas W. Jackson, 18, was charged with receiving stolen property and trespassing, said Harvard Police Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse. Morse declined to identify the other man arrested, saying that he might be a juvenile.

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Jackson was arraigned yesterday before Cambridge District Court Judge Arthur Sherman '50 and released without bail, according to court records.

Morse said the two men are being investigated in connection with other larcenies from Harvard buildings.

"We're looking into them--you know," he said.

The Leverett student, who said he reported his jacket stolen on Thursday, attributed the pair's actions to "stupidity."

"They asked me to be let in, and I noticed that one of them had my jacket on," he said in an interview yesterday evening. "So I let them in and I called the police."

The student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said his efforts to contact police were frustrated briefly because the Centrex phone in front of McKinlock Hall was out of order. He said he ran around the corner to another Leverett House phone, from which he was able to alert the police.

As police questioned the suspects inside a Leverett House entry, at least one of them offered several names and dates of birth.

At one point, the officers and the suspects apparently realized they recognized each other. An officer asked one man if he had not seen him at Holworthy Hall the other night. When the suspect nodded and responded, "Oh, yeah," the officers turned him around and handcuffed him. Chinese Pro-Democracy Fundraiser Questioned

Posters promoting a fundraising dance for Beijing's pro-democracy students have raised some questions about the sponsors' plans for the allocation of ticket proceeds.

Notices about the November 1 dance, which read "Some Proceeds to Benefit the Students in Beijing," have been distributed by the Harvard and Radcliffe Chinese Students Association and Harvard Students for a Democratic China, a new campus activist group supporting the student democratic movement in China.

According to the two Boston College students who are helping to organize the event, Robert W. Vanech and Rafael de la Cierra, the dance is a way for Boston students to provide financial support for the democratic movement in China.

Vanech said that student organizations will receive a 15 percent sales commission on the tickets they sell. After paying for the dance's expenses, R & R Enterprises--the name Vanech and de la Cierra have adopted as the event's sponsors--will donate half of the remaining money to the students in Beijing and will keep the other half as profit, Vanech said.

But many students yesterday said that people would be more likely to attend the event if more money were slated to go to China.

"I think that many more people would feel better about going to the dance if as much money was going to China as possible," said Eugene Kaji '84, a Cabot House tutor who was president of the Asian American Association as an undergraduate. "The way the dance is being advertised and the ambiguity of the phrase `some proceeds' causes a lot of skepticism among the students."