Latino Hunger Strike Continues at UCSB
Nine members of a Latino student group at UC Santa Barbara continued a week-old hunger strike to protest fee hikes and press other demands at the school.
The strikers, who began going without food April 27, want UCSB to establish a community center for low-income families, enlarge the school’s Chicano studies department, recruit and retain more Latino students and observe the boycott of grapes by the United Farm Workers union.
The students also want to save a campus building that houses Latino student organizations from demolition to make way for library expansion.
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