Racism on Campus

The seeds of intellectual racism have found fertile ground on 36 acres in Morningside Heights these past few years. Columbia has established itself as a prominent site in the recent emergence of the thinking man's brand of bigotry, a phenomenon that has swelled on college campuses around the United States.

Six students will begin a hunger strike at noon tomorrow which they plan to continue until the University responds to several demands, including stronger administrative responses to bias incidents, alterations of the proposed Manhattanville expansion plan, and increased resources for ethnic studies.

We participated in the protests of 1968, and we are dismayed and angry but not surprised about the recent noose incident.