Five protesters left the building during the noon rally, 47 hours and 17 minutes after the protest began.
The departing protesters-a Tufts undergraduate, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, a Harvard graduate student and two Harvard undergraduates-said they plan to continue their protest outside.
"We're taking this occupation to Harvard Yard," shouted Paul E. Lachelier to the cheers of fellow protesters.
In a significant escalation of the occupation, several dozen students camped out in the Yard last night in eight tents spread out in front of Mass. Hall.
Although PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean '02 says PSLM is not "actively escalating" the situation within the building itself, HUPD officers and administrators say University workers inside Mass. Hall are feeling increasingly harassed by the protestors. After coming into work as normal yesterday, the Mass. Hall receptionist left yesterday afternoon after protestors made it impossible for her to continue her work.
One secretary was compared to a "Nazi" according to University Vice President Paul S. Grogan.
Meanwhile, first-year residents of Mass. Hall-part of a small counter-protest movement in the Yard-hung signs from their dorm windows urging PSLM to end the protest.
-Daniela J. Lamas contributed to the reporting of this article.
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