After the reading of the demands was finished a few minutes after noon, a speaker shouted, "It is time for us to tell the Corporation now by action what we've been telling them all fall by words and action." Chanting "Fight, Fight," more than 100 members of the crowd surged into University Hall.

At 12:15, several demonstrators barred Deans Glimp, Watson, and Archie C. Epps from entering the reception room of the Dean of Students' office. John C. Berg, 5-GSAS, one of the demonstration leaders and a member of the Progressive Labor Party, shouted, "We're going to have to throw some people out."

Between 12:25 and 12:35, Watson, Epps, Freshman Dean F. Skiddy von Stade, Freshman Senior Advisors James E. Thomas, Christopher Wadsworth, W. C. Burrris Young, and two photographers were ejected from the main reception room.

Most of the administrators put up at least token resistance, and Epps resisted strongly. All, however, were shoved out of the building. Thomas was carried out bodily, slung over the back of a demonstrator. As Thomas was carried out, Berg grabbed his head, and Thomas's glasses fell to the floor. Other demonstrators returned them to him.

Ford and Glimp, who had been conferring in Ford's office on the second floor, came downstairs and addressed the demonstrators. When a student unconnected with the demonstration was forcibly prevented from entering the building, Ford said, "I hope it's clear to you all that you're obstructing the free passage of members of this community." After getting their coats and arguing with demonstrators, Ford and Glimp left.

As the administrators were ejected, the demonstrators began chaining shut the doors to the building, though they later reopened two, and allowed anyone who did not appear to be an administrator to enter.

Several of those occupying the building rearranged the letters on the hall directory to read:

"Liberated Area . . . Che Guevara Hall . . . Fight Racism . . . Get out of Vietnam . . . Power to the People . . . Lieutenant Fraud . . . Smash Imperialism . . ROTC Must Go . . . Amen."

At 1:30 nearly 300 demonstrators gathered in the Faculty lounge on the second floor of University Hall to discuss tactics and rally support.

Open discussions, chaired by Richard E. Hyland '69-3, lasted all afternoon. By 3 p.m. groups were organized to go to all the Harvard Houses and Radcliffe dorms to gather more people. A rally back at University Hall was tentatively planned for 5:30 p.m.

tA 6 p.m., the meeting voted not to destroy file cabinets.

After an hour of debate the demonstrators voted unanmiously to exclude all non-Harvard press from this and subsequent meetings, and to hold press conferences outside the building. Reporters from the CRIMSON and WHRB were permitted to remain by a vote of about 3 to 1.

"The press should be excluded completely. They distort everything we do," Carl D. Offner 1G said. "We can make our position well known by ourselves."

One student suggested that certain members of the press, screened for their sympathy with the demonstrators, be allowed to stay. "This shouldn't be a political test," Eugene H. Jenness '69 answered. "But even the most honest reporting will be distorted. We should try to keep the Administration from finding out what goes on here -- we only lose by giving out information that we don't want public."

The vote to exclude non-Harvard reporters came at 2:30 p.m., but no steps were taken at that time to carry out the decision.