Day 8 highlights included a meeting between students and concerned faculty. The faculty concluded that students demands should be promptly addressed out of fairness. They pledged to call for a meeting with the Administration to express thier concerns, as scholars and as concerned Columbians. Local 241 endorsed our efforts yesterday. Students are realizing how much power we actually have.
Support is high and the momentum is with definetly on our side after the rally.
We held up traffic for nearly half an hour, chanting and just appreciating our own numbers. I think many students that hadn't previously understood that they could change things came to that conclusion after seeing such a powerful action taken by such a diverse, united, and focused group. The success of the rally was tempered somewhat by the hospitalization of Heather Starr, a senior from Barnard who was participating in the hunger strike. She will recover fully but we do not expect her to return to the strike anytime soon. The adminstration has yet to apporach the students to discuss a possible resolution.