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About 175 members of the Organization for Black Unity left University Hall at 2:30 p.m. yesterday after occupying the building for six hours. The students-all black-left the building to the sound of beating war drums after OBU president Phillip Lee, a third-year Law student, signed an agreement with Archibald Cox, professor of Law and University spokesman...
Griffin and Phillip N. Lee, a third-year law student and president of OBU, addressed a crowd of about 100 people in the Yard, then led the group to the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall construction site on Quincy Street...
There, Griffin told the group that OBU will ask Harvard to stop construction at such sites "if the issue reaches an impasse...
...Earlier at the rally, Griffin said that OBU objected to the Administration's proposal that the Contractors' Association of Boston (CAB) review the qualificationsof the painters' helpers, because the University's first position had been that no outside groups would be contacted in settling the dispute. "First they told us that there would be no outsiders, then they proposed bringing in CAB." Griffin said. "We can't accept that...
...OBU, a group representing black students at the College and the Graduate Schools and some black workers in the University, has become the official bargaining agent for the Afro demands, Stephen A. Burrell, a second-year business school student and member of OBU, said last night. "OBU now speaks for Afro." he said. "We are handling the issue because the construction sites are mostly on the graduate school campuses...