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...more serous objection to OBU's demands is the contention that agreeing to the OBU demand would be dishonest since the University does not control the hiring of workers, black or white on construction projects and since there simply aren't enough minority group workers in the area with the requisite skills. The answer to the University's fears about finding enough workers is simple enough: it can call OBU's bluff and wait. If the required number of construction hands don't appear, it won't be the University's fault. On the other hand, if the workers...
...TRUE that Harvard does not control the hiring of construction workers, but this problem alone does not justify the University's reservations about agreeing to the OBU demand. The Administration could agree in-principle to the Black students request, make a public statement of the problems the University faces in fulfilling it, and then appeal for OBU's help in finding strategies for achieving their joint purpose. This approach would go far toward eliminating the breach of trust which in large part explains the rapid breakdown of negotiations after last Friday's occupation...
Militant demonstrations are not the most desirable methods for achieving reforms in University practices, but the Administration has it in its power to make such forms of protest unnecessary. It should agree to the OBU demands and begin working seriously to support the efforts of minority group people to gain their just place in American society...
...ordered the suspensions of nearly 100 members and supporters of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) while the group was still in University Hall Thursday afternoon. He named five OBU leaders and warned the other students in the building that they would face similar penalties...
...Thursday, OBU occupied University Hall for four and one-half hours in support of these demands. The group left the building after the University obtained a court injunction against the demonstration...