May 21, 1999
Berkeley Ends Hunger Strike With Promise to Hire More Ethnic-Studies Professors
The ethnic-studies department at the University of California at Berkeley will finally get a chance to hire some faculty members, after a month-long protest ended with administrators agreeing to nearly all of the students' demands.
The protest, marked by a hunger strike and 129 arrests, ended when Berkeley administrators said they would bolster the department's faculty and create a research center. They
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