Several BSA members who attended the meeting said they were frustrated because Mansfield did not support his claims with evidence.
Some members also said they were bothered by Mansfield's continuous reference to the BSA membership as "you people."
While Williams and Gayle said the meeting was "very civilized," one BSA member said there were periodic snickers at some of Mansfield's statements.
"He said some pretty surprising things," the student said.
Williams and Gayle said the meeting, which was closed to the press at Mansfield's request and restricted to BSA members, will be the last step the BSA takes in responding to Mansfield.
In the past week, the BSA has met with several University administrators and staged a sit-in at one of Mansfield's government classes. The BSA also called upon President Neil L. Rudenstine to issue a public statement regarding Mansfield's statements.
Rudenstine, on Thursday, publicly denied Mansfield's statements linking grade inflation to the increase in black students at Harvard in the 1970's, while defending freedom of speech.
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