Blacks' Dinner Starts Rumors

White students were not barred from a Malcolm X Day celebration last night but were encouraged to leave, according to blacks in attendance.

The event--held in Quincy House Dining Hall--was sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center in remembrance of the slain black leader.

Rumors that whites had been excluded were circulating last evening.

Harvard Stephens '73, one of the coordinators of the affair and a resident of Quincy House, denied the rumors, saying that "no one was barred from coming in." He indicated, however, that whites were asked to leave the dining hall. Douglas E. Harris '72 and Stephen C. Pitts '74, both of Mather House, were present at the event and both agreed.

A sign posted outside the dining hall, which Stephens indicated had been placed there by the House Office, read "Members of the House who do not wish to attend this dinner are asked to eat at either Leverett, Lowell, Mather, or Adams."

"Some whites left and some remained," said Pitts.