In the second protest in fewer than two weeks, about 10 demonstrators gathered yesterday morning at Johnston Gate to voice their objections to the renovations of the Great Hall in the Harvard Union.

"Preserve the Union," shouted Michael Adams, a professional preservationist from New York City who had chained himself to the gate of the Union in protest on Feb. 17.

These words did not fall upon deaf ears, with students having classes in or near the yard complaining to Adams throughout the protest.

"I think its stupid," said Amy Retzinger '95. "I am trying to study but I can't because he has been screaming. It makes the cause looks stupid."

One faculty member teaching in nearby Harvard Hall asked Adams to desist his loud vocal protest because he said it was disturbing his class.

Adams responded by shouting, "Your class being interrupted for one hour is nothing compared to what students all over the world will lose."

Two Harvard police officers were on the scene throughout the entire three hour protest.

Also among the protesters were H. A. Crosby Forbes '50, secretary for the Committee to Save the Great Hall of the Harvard Union, Richard S. Chafee '54-'56 and Laurence O. McKinney '66.

Members of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) were also present for part of the protest.

Local architectural designer and critic Phillip Arcidi and Adams' friend Iten Fales, the wife of a Harvard alumnus and teaching fellow, joined the other protesters in distributing copies of an editorial which ran in the Boston Globe on Monday and a letter to the editor by Alex Huppe, Harvard's director of public affairs, which ran yesterday.

The Globe's editorial criticized Harvard's decision to divide the Great Hall, while Huppe's response said the University is making "something useful and better out of unused space."

According to Fales, more than 2,500 fliers were distributed during the protest, which took place from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

"I expected more people," Fales said. "A lot of people are interested, but they have other fish to fry."

Arcidi said he is encouraged by the editorial and letter in the Globe.

"I expected more people," Fales said. "A lot of people are interested, but they have other fish to fry."

Arcidi said he is encouraged by the editorial and letter in the Globe.