The separation between the two races was mostapparent in dining halls, where black and whitestudents would sit at separate tables.

"There was a discomfort in crossing cultures,"says Morse, who is white.

"People made an effort, but there was tension;there was an awkwardness," Pazstor says.

And while the intention for racial integrationwas apparent, implementing it was much moredifficult.

"Although people believed that we had to do abetter job with race relations, everyone wasstymied because there was so much tension amongus," Sykes says.

On the heels of the civil rights movement ofthe '60s, many black students were attempting tocreate an identity within the class.

"It was a time when it was the rise of theblack power movement," Schneider says. "There wasa very strong sense of trying to establish a[black] identity."

Ritchie says she continuously felt isolated and"different."

"I got tired of answering peoples' questionsabout why my hair looked the way it looked. Themore liberal people may have sought me out becausethey wanted a 'black friend,'" she adds.

"It is hard to go through life having toconstantly explain yourself and not necessarily beyourself," she says.

Social Life

Along with the confrontation of racialproblems, a small-scale sexual revolution wastaking place within the College, and alcohol anddrugs were staples of the social scene.

Besides the mixers, parties and Brattle Theatermovies, nude bathing at the Adams House Pool was aregular event.

But though the 1973 yearbook shows pictures ofnaked students making out, promiscuity was neveroverwhelming.

Mitchell says that while the sexual revolutiondid hit Harvard, it was not a huge force oncampus.