In response to recent the campus incidents involving racist and antisemitic slurs and the noose hung outside a faculty member's door, five Columbia and Barnard students are fasting until the administration recognizes the urgent need for reform. To see the hunger striker's blog, go to http://cu-strike.blogspot.com/An academic environment that allows for such explicit acts of hatred among the people considered to be the brightest of the country, tomorrow's leaders, is frankly, terrifying. Knowledge is power. Students at this great university should be exposed to more than just the Western canon, also known as Columbia's core curriculum. The ethnic studies department was gained through efforts of student activism in 1996(at the time 700 universities in the U.S. had ethnic studies programs and Columbia, which had none, required six semesters of Western civilization). But the program, understaffed and underfunded, is struggling; Columbia's promise, unkept.
The other issue of concern is Columbia's expansion into Harlem, called the Manhattanville Project, which will displace thousands of underprivileged Harlem residents while also leaving hundreds, if not thousands, jobless. This ongoing process of gentrification is not to be ignored. If you are interested in signing the petition for change, please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/kwzchen/petition.html
As LEDA Scholars, and as the future leaders of this nation, we should never forget the value and importance of diversity and how even the best curricula may need reevaluation to better represent and serve the academic community. And frankly, a safe academic atmosphere for ALL students should be any university's main concern.
-Jesssica Salinas
LEDA Scholar Co-hort I
Barnard College 2010
P.S.: I'd like to note that Dennis Dalton, Professor of Political Science at Barnard and a Gandhian scholar, has joined the hunger strike in solidarity with the strikers and the demands.
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