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Mohandas Gandhi used the hunger strike. Union organizer Cesar Chavez used the hunger strike. Last Friday, a few members of Harvard's Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) joined this moral crew, skipping the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services in an effort to protest the absence of ethnic studies courses at Harvard...
...ESAC's day-long fast was supposed to show support for serious protesters at Northwestern University who fasted for several weeks to call for an Asian American Studies Program. But the incongruity of Gandhi fasting to shock Hindus and Muslims into ending ethnic slaughter and a dozen college students fasting to get jobs for a few professors should lead many to question what was really happening on the Widener steps...
While dressed in black with white armbands to symbolize unity, students plan to carry signs, answer questions from passers-by and possibly gather signatures for a petition, said Julie C. Suk `97, a member of ESAC and managing editor of Perspective...
...Princeton, 17 students staged a 36-hour sit-in beginning last Thursday in front of the president's office, according to ESAC e-mail reports. They remained until the administra- tion agreed to hire between four and seven newfaculty members for the Asian and Latino studiesprograms. Princeton also agreed to expand thecollection of library books in the fields of Asianand Latino studies...
...ignored every other aspect of ethnicstudies besides African-American studies," Suksaid. The ESAC supports course and faculty forAsian, Chicano and Native American Studies, Suksaid