LESLIE GRIFFIN 70 (right), president of AAAS, speaks to students as the Faculty votes on the group's demands for an Afro-American studies department and a cultural center. Alumni say the crusade was just one aspect of the Black movement at Harvard. 1ROTCleader of the Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) led 300 students to the house of PresidentNathan M. Pusey '28 and tacked a list of sixdemands on his locked door.

The demands called for the University toabolish ROTC on campus, replace ROTC scholarshipsHarvard funds, restore scholarships to studentswho has lost them after participating in anearlier demonstration and, in three demandsunrelated to the war, treat working-classCantabrigans fairly.

That same night, SDS members considered thepossibility of attacking University Hall buteventually decided against it.

But the next day, 100 radical SDS membersstormed University Hall to publicize theirdemands. The number of protesters swelled to 450as more SDS members joined them. The studentsexpelled all administrators and prepared for along night.

Calling in the Riot Force

The takeover ended when President Nathan M.Pusey '28, in an unprecedented action, had 400Boston and suburban police officers break up theprotest.

Dressed in riot gear, the police officersbarreled through groups of students that hadsurrounded the building.

Students in University Hall joined hands in anattempts to block the entrances, but the policeknocked back the protesters with billy clubs,beginning a sweeping attack that many latercondemned as a police riot.

The Crimson reported that police officers threwmany students down the steps of University Hall.

Hyland, who chaired the meetings inside thebuilding, "was driven into the room screaming withtroopers clubbing his body."

"I'm not sure that was necessary," Hyland saisin a recent interview.

By the end, more than 300 students had beenarrested and 75 were injured.

"It was a very surreal experience to spend thenight in University Hall and all these light bluehelmets coming in at six in the morning," saysTheodore Sedgwick '71, a protester in thebuilding.

Moderate students condemned the police action,and 2,000 students met in Memorial Hall thatmorning, calling for a three-day College-widestrike.

"It was done in such a brutal way that's whatsparked the strike," Hyland says.

Many liberal members of the Faculty criticizedPusey's actions. The Faculty voted almostunanimously to drop criminal charges against thestudents and set up a committee to "investigatethe causes of the crisis."