{"id":2078,"date":"1990-04-26T02:50:28","date_gmt":"1990-04-26T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:34:16","slug":"black-students-alliance-bsa-unanimously-votes-to-reclaim-mwangi-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1990\/04\/26\/black-students-alliance-bsa-unanimously-votes-to-reclaim-mwangi-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) unanimously votes to reclaim Mwangi Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 26, 1990<\/span><\/p>\n

Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) unanimously votes to reclaim Mwangi Center<\/span><\/p>\n

After loaning the Mwangi Cultural Center out to the other cultural organizations for seven years, the members of the Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) unanimously voted to reclaim the center. The decision to loan out the space had been made through another unanimous vote in May \u00a01983, but it was never expected to be a permanent arrangement. Rather, the BSA had agreed to loan space in the Mwangi Center to other cultural organizations for a three-year trial period while the other organizations secured space of their own. Now, four years after the end of that trial period, the BSA was taking back its center. Students from the Asian Students\u2019 Association (ASA) and other cultural organizations expressed some support for BSA\u2019s decision but also consternation at an administration that was unwilling to give them space of their own.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The full Sophian article on the Mwangi Center reclamation can be found<\/span><\/i> here<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A Sophian letter to the editor on the reclamation can be found<\/span><\/i> here<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\n
\n

[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 26, 1990 Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) unanimously votes to reclaim Mwangi Center After loaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,87,54,119,64,25,78,73,62],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-102","tag-asian-students-association-asa","tag-black-students-alliance","tag-international-students-organization-iso","tag-korean-american-students-of-smith-kass","tag-mwangi","tag-nosotras-laso","tag-smith-african-students-association-sasa","tag-south-asian-students-association-of-smith-ekta","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}