Bryan Mercer & Tina Musa

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7 November: Having had their demands rejected, five students begin hunger strike

8: Rally on Low Plaza draws 80 students. Barnard political science professor Dennis Dalton begins fasting in support

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9: First meeting between student negotiators and the administration

10: 150 community members and students rally and march to president Bollinger’s house. Hunger striker Aretha Choi (BC ‘10) is taken to St. Luke’s

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12: Senior Exec VP Kasdin refuses to meet strikers. Another VP, Maxine Griffiths, agrees to meet

13: Two more students join strike. Planned meetings fail to materialize

14: Engineering Student Council releases statement opposed to the hunger strike. Two strikers are threatened at first with forced medical withdrawal unless they resume eating but after protests the administration backs down. Administration agree to demands regarding Major Cultures and extension of the Office of Multicultural Affairs

15: Two students cease striking. Administration refuses to consider demands related to expansion

16: The Coalition to Preserve Community, a West Harlem community group, publicly urges strikers to find alternative ways of applying pressure. All students cease striking