On December 5, about 100 blacks also occupied University Hall, but they entered the building before any University officials-including May-had arrived for work.

Although the group locked and barricaded the building from the inside, May. Archibald Cox professor of Law and L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, were later allowed to enter for discussions of the blacks' demands. The blacks left the building after reaching a tentative four-point agreement with Cox, who was acting as the University's representative, covering several aspects of the dispute over Harvard's hiring practices.

Again last Thursday, about 90 members of OBU occupied University Hall, and, briefly, the Faculty Club and the Gund Hall construction site on Quincy street-in support of their demands.

Again, May was not in the building at the time, and the blacks did not physically obstruct him when he returned, although they did lock him out of his office. Several other administrators and some Faculty members were allowed to remain in the building throughout. At the Faculty Club, the blacks asked several professors, Club employees, and guests to leave the building, and many did.

Observers reported no incidents of violence against any person or harassment of any University officials during the OBU demonstrations. The Faculty Club's assistant manager told one reporter that the OBU demonstrators "weren't rude, they were just to the point,"

An undetermined number of blacks were "temporarily suspended" by May Thursday afternoon after they refused to leave University Hall.

The Rights Committee-which has not yet formally received any complanints from May in the OBU caseshas not decided how it will regard the two recent demonstrations.

"All the members of the committee," according to its statement Monday, regard actions which abrogate an individual's personal rights, and especially those which provide a physical threat to his person," as intolerable in a University community.

The Committee did not, however, say that "an obstructive demonstration. . . apart from the element of force or violence," was necessarily equally intolerable; its report says only that such a demonstration "can substantially impede the work of members of the University and contribute to a general atmosphere of intimidation."

The committee, therefore, must decide how seriously it regards mere participation in the OBU demonstrations before it can agree on regular discipline for the blacks who occupied University Hall.