Black Group Chooses Delegates For Talks With Administration

A group of black Harvard students has formed an "ad hoc negotiating committee" to talk to the administration about issues of concern to black students. The committee will also supervise meetings starting Tuesday night in all the Harvard houses, at Radcliffe, and in the Yard, to discuss with whites the problems of black students at Harvard and the effect on blacks of Martin Luther King's death.

The committee, formed yesterday at a meeting called by the Association of African and Afro-American Students but open to all blacks, plans to speak with President Pusey, but no definite appointment has been set. They will discuss, among other things, a modified version of the four requests made by Afro last Tuesday.

President Pusey had previously said he would not act on Afro's four requests--a chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black faculty members, and more black students. Afro called yesterday's meeting in response to Pusey's statement.

At that meeting, attended by about 60 students, two-thirds of whom belong to Afro, ten representatives were chosen for what will soon become a 15-man committee to deal with the administration. Eight of the ten selected are Afro members, including Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Afro President. The remaining five places will be filled, probably with Cliffies and nonmembers of Afro, at a meeting later this week, since many blacks did not show up at yesterday's meeting.

"We want to get a complete spectrum of the black community, in a group legitimized by the black community, to speak with the administration," said Charles J. Hamilton Jr. '69, a member of the committee. Black students were afraid that the administration might decide to discuss its views with individual students who are not representative of the black community, Hamilton said. He added that he "couldn't have chosen a more diverse and a more representative group" than the ten students elected yesterday.

Other committee members chosen are: Robert L. Hall '69, Sewayan G. Kironde IV '71, Elvin Montgomery Jr. '68, Wesley E. Profit '69, Walugambe Sumanguru, John D. Tyson '69, and Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68.