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Uchenna C. Nwosu '64 said that he and Femi Okurounmu '63, a graduate student at M.I.T., refused to leave the cafeteria because the manager insisted on serving them on a dirty tray. When the students complained about the tray, the manager, according to Nwosu, told them "You don't get such good things in your home country...
...students continued to seek a clean tray and argued that they were members of the public and entitled to good service. According to Nwosu, the manager retorted, "You don't belong to the public." The manager then withdrew the tray, Nwosu said, and told the students he would serve them only on the tray already offered them...
Disappointment in the Federal government arose partly from a comparison with the government's prompt action in the University of Mississippi crisis last fall. Typical of many students' feelings were those of Uchenna C. Nwosu '64, who felt that the Administration had "shown some determination" in the Mississippi case but was not doing so now. The lack of real action now, he felt, made it unclear whether Kennedy's earlier acts had been sincere or merely "political opportunism to win liberal and Negro votes...