A protest over fossil-fuel investments ran out of steam when Harvard University police arrested a student blocking an entrance to the building housing President Drew Faust’s office.

Brett A. Roche ’15, a member of the environmental activist group Divest Harvard, was arrested by Harvard University Police around 7 a.m. Thursday morning for blocking an entrance to Massachusetts Hall, home to the offices of University President Drew G. Faust and members of the central administration.

Roche had been guarding the door throughout the night as part of Divest Harvard’s Day of Action to demand an open meeting with the Harvard Corporation on the issue of divestment.

Before 6 a.m., eight students rotated shifts so that at least two were present for the blockade at all times. At 6 a.m., more supporters arrived, including environmental activist Bob Massie and Harvard’s Quaker Chaplain John Bach, to physically take part in the protest.

Unlike on Wednesday, when the student protesters blockaded only the main entrance to the building and police said they did not consider the protesters disruptive because other entrances to the building remained accessible, they began blocking all three entrances to Massachusetts Hall starting at 6 a.m. on Thursday morning.

According to Divest Harvard member Benjamin Franta, a graduate student in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, when Faust’s senior special assistant, Lars Madsen, was hindered from entering the building when he arrived for work around 7 a.m., HUPD asked Roche to step aside. When he refused, the officers proceeded to arrest him.

The remaining protesters continued the blockade for about an hour before disbanding. Franta said that the University police controlled the Massachusetts Hall door after the arrest, so individuals were then able to enter and exit freely.