Harvard University students occupy administration building.

Some 500 Harvard students occupy University Hall in Harvard Yard. The students, many members of the Workers Student Alliance caucus of SDS, are protesting the presence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps program on campus and other university policies and are ejected early the next morning by state troopers and local police. But the arrest of some 200 of the protesters and their threatened expulsion by the university prompts a two-week strike by students and faculty. The strike ends when the university agrees to a list of demands that includes ending ROTC program, creation of an Afro-American Studies department, and better treatment of tenants in university-owned property in Cambridge and on Mission Hill in Boston.