BSA Asks Police for More Security

The Black Students' Association (BSA) asked the University Police in a meeting last night to increase security for students because of recent incidents of racial violence in Cambridge.

BSA passed a resolution asking for increased police patrols, especially Friday and Saturday nights, when most of the incidents have occurred, Eugene J. Green '80, president of BSA, said Sunday.

The resolution also calls for expanding the service of the Harvard Police Escort Service, and for meetings with police and students about self-defense during an attack.

Students at the meeting related a story of a black student who had large darts thrown at him while he was walking past Winthrop House a few weekends ago.

Another student said he looked into a party at a House dining hall last semester, and non-Harvard people insulted him with racial slurs and held a broken bottle to his face.

BSA approved another resolution calling for students "to refrain from violent confrontations except in cases of self-defense." Enforcement should be left to the proper authorities, a BSA member said.

Last weekend one student was threatened while walking by Father's Six. Charles E. King '80, a BSA member, said.