Word: obu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first meeting yesterday afternoon of the ten-member "implementation committee" -set up during the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) seizure of University Hall last week to discuss OBU demands-left OBU spokesmen optimistic about a satisfactory resolution of the painter's helper demand...
...OBU has demanded that Harvard abolish the category of "painter's helper," and raise the wages of present helpers to that of painters...
Miss Ballantine, the former chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination: Washington, a lecturer in Afro-American Studies: and Bell, a lecturer at the Law School, are also OBU's members on the committee to evaluate the painters helpers...
Both Lee and Wiggins said they had not heard of this request. Hall, who is also on the Steering Committee of OBU, refused to coment...
...OBU seized University Hall Friday and occupied the building for six hours. The implementation committee meeting, which will be held in Larsen Hall 103, was proposed by the administration December 2, prior to the sit-in. OBU's representatives were named on Friday...