This report presents the results of a survey which was undertaken in order to develop an understanding of the University of Arkansas' environment as experienced by black students. It assessed the students' causes for leaving the university during their freshman year. Thirty-four black students who had attended school in the Fall of 1976 did not return to the University in the Spring of 1977. All of these students were contacted and 17 of the students participated in the survey. The survey included questions from various sources. Students were questioned to determine: (1) what items represented problems (a rating of the severity of the problems which they encountered as students was used), and (2) what items represented problems which caused them to leave the university with a ranking of these items. Following the rating of each item, respondents were asked to pick the 10 most important items in causing them to leave the university and to rank these 10 in the order of their importance. Results indicated that the major problem areas which emerged were quite similar to, and in many cases the same as, those problem areas which were ranked as the most important causes of dropout. In both methods of assessment students expressed a deep sense of alienation. The major focus of that alienation occurred in the classroom and with teachers. (Author/AM)