{"id":2085,"date":"1990-10-24T03:37:12","date_gmt":"1990-10-24T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:35:27","slug":"cultural-orgs-send-memo-about-space-issue-protest-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1990\/10\/24\/cultural-orgs-send-memo-about-space-issue-protest-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural orgs send memo about space issue, protest plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 24, 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cultural orgs send memo about space issue, protest plans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) reclaimed the Mwangi Cultural Center and insufficient accommodations were made by the administration for the other displaced cultural organizations, all of the cultural organizations decided to hold a rally and sit-in in protest. The cultural organizations sent a campus-wide memo asking for community support in resolving the space issue and demanding that all of Lilly Hall, which currently housed both the Mwangi Center and a multitude of administrative offices, be granted to the cultural organizations. They also planned a press conference for that Friday, sent press releases to the media, and reached out to students at other colleges for support. President Dunn said in an interview with the Sophian that the administration already had an architectural plan in the works, although she was not specific about where space would be allocated from. She expressed concern that the protests would damage the College\u2019s image and \u201cmake us look like we have racial warfare.\u201d The protest\u2019s date coincided with the trustees\u2019 fall meeting at Smith.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the cultural organizations\u2019 planning can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.25.-Cultural-Organizations-Plan-Rally-and-Sit-In-1-e1538925801197.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.25.-Cultural-Organizations-Plan-Rally-and-Sit-In-6-e1538925808464.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 6<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophian letters to the editor can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.25.-Opinion-Page-If-You-Cant-Be-Heard-Talking-Yell-7-e1538925786955.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.25.-Opinion-Page-Space-Difficulties-Call-For-Negotiation-Not-Media-Blitz-7-e1538925794243.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24, 1990 Cultural orgs send memo about space issue, protest plans After the Black [&hellip;]<\/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":[102,87,54,119,64,25,78,73,62,104],"class_list":["post-2085","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","tag-unity","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","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=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}