Blacks, Whitlock Meet On Roxbury

Representatives of the Harvard administration yesterday met with protesting members of the Roxbury community, along with Harvard Afro and SDS members. They discussed in heated fashion, two proposals of the Roxbury-based New Urban League of Boston:

* Transfer of control of Harvard's present Roxbury-oriented programs from Harvard faculty to relevant community based groups.

* Reallocation of $100 million of Harvard's endowment from current investments to low-interest loans to the Black United Front of Boston.

The Black representatives expressed extreme disappointment at the results of the meeting, in which the administration was represented by Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for governmental affairs, and by Mayo A. Shattuck, deputy treasurer of the Corporation.

"It didn't go anywhere," said Leslie F. Griffin '70, president of Afro. "The Corporation sent us their messengers, that's all. We want a real meeting."

Discussion was initiated by Bryant Rollins of the New Urban League, who set the tone by saying that the most important issue was community control of whatever Roxbury involvement Harvard proposes.

Whitlock replied that Harvard was already in the process of turning over control of most of its Roxbury projects. A committee of ten faculty members has been meeting to determine appropriate procedures for this transfer, he said. Rollins argued that the control would then be transferred to the Blacks already involved with the projects. He implied that this would be unacceptable to the Roxbury groups he represented.