The State - News from June 2, 1989

Disciplinary charges have been filed against 50 protesters who occupied the office of Stanford University President Donald Kennedy on May 15. The demonstrators were demanding more minority faculty and reforms in ethnic studies programs. Kennedy has said the takeover of his office was “clearly a violation of university policies.” The filings are the largest campus disciplinary proceeding since 78 students were charged for occupying a campus building during an anti-war demonstration in 1969. About 40 protesters and their families criticized the university’s action at a news conference. “It’s hypocrisy,” said Elsa Tsutaoka of the Asian American Students Assn. “We’re being charged and prosecuted when they don’t charge people who deface posters and hold Ku Klux Klan-like demonstrations.”