Students Continue Takeover of Pomona College Building

Students alleging racism in faculty hiring at the Claremont Colleges continued to occupy Alexander Hall, the administration building at Pomona College on Tuesday, while negotiating with college presidents.

The students, calling themselves Liberation Through Education, blocked off the administrative offices Monday and began a series of teach-ins and marches to push their demands, including a call for increased emphasis on minority hiring at the five colleges.

The students and administrators traded a series of demands and responses as part of the negotiating effort. College officials, who had set a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for the students to leave Alexander Hall, then extended that deadline to midnight.

Andrew Antwih, one of the student negotiators, said progress was being made in resolving the issues.

Pomona College President Peter W. Stanley said, “The colleges and the demonstrators are really remarkably close on the central issues and have been from the beginning.”