July 28, 2000

Pomona Professor Goes on a Hunger Strike to Protest His Tenure Denial

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

In a last-ditch effort to save his job, a professor who says he was denied tenure at Pomona College because of racial discrimination went on a hunger strike early this month.

Stanley O. Gaines Jr., who worked as an assistant professor of psychology and black studies at Pomona until his contract ran out on June 30, hopes to pressure the administration into reopening his tenure case. Mr. Gaines, who is black, argues that the tenure decision was tainted by racial

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