General Studies Lounge - ARCHIVE 2006-2011

Dear GS friends,

Last evening the GSSC, in a historic vote, unanimously approved a Resolution (click here to read) calling on Columbia to open the doors of the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) to the students of GS.

Previously, the OMA has been officially open only for CC/SEAS students and GS students were administered to on a case-by-case basis.

This evening, in a document handed to the hunger-striker negotiation team, (the hunger-strikers have issued a similar demand concerning the inclusion of GS into the OMA) the following has been committed to from Dean Colombo (CC), Dean Quigley (CC) and Vice-President Nicholas Dirks:

My friends - this represents a significant victory for GS students as we continue to build further campus bonds with our fellow students. GS is unequivocally the most diverse School at Columbia, and as of this evening, Columbia University has decided to acknowledge that fact with
real-world commitments.

Although details are still to follow, this victory represents the push for parity that has been started by and fought so valiantly by prior GSSC members including Susannah Karlssonand Gabby Breen; and those GS students who have been involved as negotiators and representatives for the hunger-strikers - (Angelines Moncha Alba Mata and Sam
Rennebohm).

GS has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last decade, and today's victory brings us one step closer to building our School into the finest college of its kind in the world.

To learn more about the Office of Multicultural Affairs and what it can offer you, please visit them at

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/multicultural/.

From the OMA website:

Forever Yours,

niko

ps - to read more about the hunger strikers and the issues they represent, please visit:
www.cu-strike.blogspot.com