{"id":2098,"date":"1990-10-29T04:07:37","date_gmt":"1990-10-29T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:36:59","slug":"unity-supporters-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1990\/10\/29\/unity-supporters-march\/","title":{"rendered":"UNITY supporters march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 29, 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNITY supporters march<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Approximately 200 students in support of the UNITY protest marched across campus at 12:15 \u00a0p.m. to urge the administration to create a multicultural center for Smith\u2019s cultural organizations. The marchers started at protester-occupied College Hall and went across campus to the Quad via Elm Street before coming back. They briefly stopped outside of President Dunn\u2019s home, as well as in front of the Faculty Center to make sure their chants were heard there. As they ended their demonstration, students circled a yellow pup tent on Seelye Hall\u2019s lawn, with student leaders holding up signs that asked, \u201cIs this our multicultural center?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Union-News (Springfield) article on the march can be found here (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.30.-Smith-students-vow-to-march-until-minority-center-planned-2.jpg\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.10.30.-Smith-students-vow-to-march-until-minority-center-planned-2-1.jpg\">2<\/a>).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 1990 UNITY supporters march Approximately 200 students in support of the UNITY protest [&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":[102,87,54,119,64,78,73,62,47,104],"class_list":["post-2098","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-nosotras-laso","tag-smith-african-students-association-sasa","tag-south-asian-students-association-of-smith-ekta","tag-student-protests","tag-unity","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}