Notrhwest Students On Hunger Strike (fwd)
Zheng Wang (W-Zheng@BGU.EDU)
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:12:32 -0500
>> _From: Yahua Yu <yyu@u.washington.edu> 4/22/95
>>
>> A hunger strike was organized by Asian American Advisory Board at
>> Northwest University to protest that the University has refused four times
>> to consider of a proposal to set up a research center of Asian culture.
>>
>> At Northwest, required courses are offered to the undergraduates in the
>> areas of African, Latino, European studies, and areas such as woman studies,
>> but none is related to Asian cultures. On the other hand, Asian students
>> take up a 20% of the undergraduate enrollment, but have no opportunity to
>> study they own culture at Northwest. Nor do other groups of American
>> students. In 1991, the Asian American Advisory Board at the campus set up a
>> special task force consisting of Asian studies experts and professors. They
>> presented a proposal to the university asking to set up an Asian studies
>> curriculum. But their proposal has been declined four times since then.
>>
>> On April 7, the Asian American Advisory Board called a hunger-strike
>> protest to let more people know the situation. The protest has been
>> supported by several hundred students, and by Black Student Committee,
>> Southern Asian Student Committee, etc. The event has been reported by
>> several major newspapers in the Chicago area. By 4/21/95 Friday, several
>> participating students have been very weak, and sent to hospital for
>> treatment. But the university authorities has made no response to this
>> protest, and no contact has been made to the students.
>>
>> The Asian American Advisory Board has asked all Chinese students from other
>> campuses to support, and donate, if any, to the students of this protest.
>> Now the situation is very serious because the students' health is in danger.
>> Their hunger protest enters the seventh day now.
>>
>> Contact phone:
>> Jennifer Banzon
>> 708-733-0744
>>
>> Asian American Advisory Board
>> 2321 Sheridan Rd., # 407
>> Evanston, IL 60201
>>
>>
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