The coalition passed around a petition and Smith said 33 signatures were collected yesterday, for a total of 443 signatures collected since Friday.

“As members of the Harvard community, we are concerned with the many incidents over the past year that demonstrate a lack of leadership from your administration on important issues of diversity in the faculty, administration and curriculum,” the petition reads.

The coalition may attempt to present this petition to the Corporation this afternoon during a “teach-in” that it plans to hold at 1 p.m. outside Loeb House, where the Corporation holds its regularly scheduled meetings.

Tomorrow night, the coalition will hold a meeting in Adams House to plan further action.

Another Approach

This weekend’s rallies represented a more organized manifestation of the current of discontent over Summers’ perceived role in West’s departure for Princeton.

On Friday night at Eleganza—the annual fashion show and event sponsored by the Black Community Action and Student Theater (BlackCAST)—members of the mock a capella group “The Callblacks,” performed a version of the Will Smith song “Summertime” called “Summerstime.”

The audience laughed and applauded as the performers, clad in orange—the school color of Princeton, where West will teach next year—sang and rapped revised lyrics to the song, including the refrain, “Summers, Summers time, time to get those darkies back in line.”

But the mood of the audience shifted when some members of the group began smearing black makeup on their faces, and one member of the group began imitating a slave driver.

The members of the group declined to comment about their performance.

—Staff writer Kate L. Rakoczy can be reached at rakoczy@fas.harvard.edu.