University Students End Six-Day Sit-In
About 150 students emerged from a University of Massachusetts building they occupied for six days demanding greater minority enrollment and more campus funding. “United we fought, together we did this,” Maurice Caston-Powe, president of the Student Government Assn., told 300 students outside the Goodell Building in Amherst. UMass officials, who negotiated all night with the students, said they were in “basic agreement” with most of the demands, including a 4% increase in minority enrollment, to 20%, and more financial aid.
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