In a scene reminiscent of the turbulent 1960’s, a black student group at the University of California Santa Cruz successfully occupied the main campus building until its demands were met by the school administration.
The African/Black Student Alliance updated its approach, calling the building takeover a “reclamation,” and issuing demands for immediate response while threatening additional demands.
For three days the group occupied Kerr Hall until Chancellor George Blumenthal agreed to their demands. As a result, all black and Caribbean-identified students now have a four-year housing guarantee to live in the Rosa Parks African American Themed House. The building’s lounge will be reopened, the exterior will be painted in “Pan-Afrikan” colors of red, green and black, and all UC Santa Cruz incoming students will be forced to undergo mandatory diversity competency training.
Find out what further demands the group has and the university’s rationale for giving in on the next page.
Expel them all, students don’t make demands.
Break out the tazers, dogs,rubber bullets. Then jail for taking hostility towards school.
tear gas them
Dr Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave. For this University to give into their demands is going to lead into problems with other underprivileged students. Revoke their scholarships or whatever, there are many underprivileged student who would love an education and not make demands of a college. Or better yet, the remainder of the student body should apply for a transfer to other local colleges and leave this college to the dissenters and there would be no funding for their demands. Who in the hell do they think they are. You want privileges, than work for them like everyone else… especially if you are on a scholarship, you are getting a free education that maybe you do not deserve. Get a life and if you are not a US Citizen then maybe your visa should be revoked.
This is ridiculous
Did they really think that by caving on their first demands that that would be the end of it? What idiots! By the way, taking over a building is NOT protesting! That is terrorism.
I agree. They have definetly proven their incompetance.
Or WHAT? YOU’LL get a job?
Just putting it out there, maybe we should refer to this group as the EBOLA Alliance.
They need to clean out that rats nest!