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The six defendants were among 16 students who sat in the reception room of Mass Hall for five hours on May 2, demanding a meeting with President Bok to discuss their proposals for the DuBois Institute.
The chairman of the DuBois Institute Advisory Board had refused to meet with DISC leaders until last Wednesday, when he invited DISC spokesmen to an advisory board press conference.
Twenty members of the DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC) last night unanimously approved a statement accusing the administration of "selective prosecution" in singling out for possible disciplinary action six of the 16 students who occupied Massachusetts Hall last month.
Two hundred DISC supporters marched outside Mass Hall May 2 while the 16 students remained inside for five hours in a protest against the planning of the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research.
We believe that the major sources of conflict [between President Bok and the DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC)] are the gradual redefinition of the nature of the Institute, and the gradual exclusion of students from even a modicum of input into the planning and eventual governing of the Institute.