“Since that meeting the Forum has not been complying with this understanding,” Kidd wrote yesterday.

“I urge you to resume contact with me so that we can come to some understanding about your activities,” she added.

But Gould-Wartofsky said that “it was [Kidd] who cut off communication until today.”

In a March 24 e-mail to Gould-Wartofsky, Kidd wrote that Jessica L. Tibbits, the administrative coordinator for student activities, “will contact you to find a time for us to meet after spring break.”

“It’s terrible that we didn’t hear back from her,” Gould-Wartofsky said last night.

Kidd could not be reached by phone last night to confirm or deny Gould-Wartofsky’s charge, and she did not respond to several e-mail messages.

SHOWDOWN AT THE SCIENCE CENTER

In a phone interview yesterday, Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano would not reveal the department’s plan for handling the protest.

“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on staffing levels or patrol procedures,” he said.

“If the police ask us to disperse, that’s going to be up for everyone who attends to decide what they will do,” Gould-Wartofsky said. “We don’t want to be disruptive. We want to have a peaceful protest.”

—Staff writer Daniel J. Hemel can be reached at hemel@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.