After days of on-campus protests, students at Occidental college occupied an administrative building, eating delivery pizza and huddling in sleeping bags. If their demands are not met by Friday, they will call for President Jonathan Veitch’s resignation, according to the LA Times. 
 
 That scenario seems likely. 
 
 “We simply can’t meet every demand on that list,” President Veitch told students on Nov. 12. “But I can tell you that I will honor the conversation. I do not cling to this job. I’m happy to resign.” 
 
 The 14 demands include the creation of a fully-funded black studies program, an increase tenured faculty of color by 20% and more diversity training for faculty and students. 
 
 The actions follow a flurry of student protests nationwide, including at Ithaca College and Yale University, sparked by protests that forced the president and chancellor at the University of Missouri to resign. Last week, the dean of students at Claremont McKenna stepped down after a campus protests and hunger strikes. 
 
 Besides the 14 demands, Oxy’s student-run Black Liberation Front offered “15 reasons to impeach Veitch.” The list alleges that Veitch turned his back and walked away after a student spoke out against racism and rape culture on campus. Under his presidency, the demands say, the percentage of students of color dropped from 50% to 37%, and Oxy dropped from No. 1 in campus ethic diversity among liberal arts colleges in the 1998 US News & World Report rankings to No. 13 in the most recent ranking. 
 
 Oxy’s faculty and administration have proven receptive to student action by allowing students to sleep in the building. 
 
 “We’re not going to shut anything down,” Marty Sharky, the school’s vice president of communications, told the Los Angeles Times. “They’ve been conscientious and respectful. They’ll be able to stay 24 hours a day.” 
 
 “We’re occupying all the hallways,” a student told LA Weekly. “The staff is just walking over students.” ||||| The wave of diversity protests that started at the University of Missouri and reached Claremont McKenna College, where top administrators were forced out of their offices, has now reached President Obama's alma mater, Occidental College in Eagle Rock. 
 
 Students are staging a sit-in at the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center, and they plan to be there until at least Friday. The occupation is being organized by the Black Student Alliance. 
 
 "We're aligning ourselves with the national movement," said student protester Olani Ewunnet. 
 
 Claremont McKenna dean of students Mary Spellman stepped down last week after protesters decried her response to demands that the school do a better job of dealing with minorities who feel marginalized on campus. She said in an email that the institution must do a better job of dealing with students who "don’t fit our CMC mold." 
 
 Earlier in the week, the president of the University of Missouri system, Timothy M. Wolfe, resigned following protests and complaints over the Columbia campus' response to racial epithets aimed at the student body president. Players on the school's football team threatened to stay off the field unless Wolfe stepped down. 
 
 Students at Occidental began their occupation Monday afternoon. Among other things, they're demanding that college president Jonathan Veitch resign. 
 
 Organizers said in a statement that "black students and other students of color face ... various forms of violence — physical, emotional and discursive — ... every day at the hands of this institution." 
 
 "Marginalization of students of color, especially black students, is a systemic issue,” said sophomore Zawadia LeFang. 
 
 Students' demands include the creation of a black studies major, hiring more minority faculty members, more funding for minority student groups and diversity training for faculty and students. 
 
 "The deadline is this Friday," Ewunnet told us. "We have 14 demands. If that does not happen we are not negotiating in any way, and we'll occupy until his [Veitch's] resignation." 
 
 She says about 400 students were participating in the sit-in overnight. They dined on delivery pizza and kept warm with sleeping bags brought to them by other students, Ewunnet said. 
 
 "We're occupying all the hallways," she said. "The staff is just walking over students." 
 
 The school has been accommodating so far. 
 
 "We're currently reviewing the list of demands," said Jim Tranquada, Occidental's director of communications. "We want to publicly applaud the spirit and effort of these students because the issues that they're dealing with are critically important ones. We always encourage students to speak out, and we welcome the opportunity to dialogue with them." 
 
 That's awful nice, isn't it? 
 
 "That's pretty much the Oxy way," Tranquada said. "These are our students." ||||| University of California-Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi says she won't resign despite outrage over her handling of campus officers' blasting pepper spray into the faces of students protesting Friday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. 
 
 "I really feel confident at this point the university needs me," Katehi said today on "Good Morning America." "There are so many critical issues to be addressed and we really need to start the healing process and move forward." 
 
 Calls for Katehi's resignation have come fast and furious from both students and faculty since the incident, video of which shows as many as 20 students, all seated throughout the protest, were hit at close range by pepper spray. Two of the protesters were taken to the hospital. Ten people were arrested, nine of them students. 
 
 The chancellor's office confirmed to ABC News that UC officials will announce later today they have placed campus police chief Annette Spicuzza on administrative leave. Chief Spicuzza was on the scene when the pepper spray incident occurred. 
 
 Campus police, who wore riot gear during the standoff, were ordered to dismantle the UC-Davis Occupy encampment because camping on college grounds is officially forbidden. 
 
 "The situation that was building up was becoming a concern for us, the members of the community," Katehi said on "GMA." "The decision was not to disperse the students but to dismantle the equipment for the encampment, and there was an effort for many, many days." 
 
 The UC-Davis faculty association called for Katehi's resignation Saturday, writing in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership." 
 
 Admitting that the university she leads is at a "critical position," Katehi said she is willing to work with all sides. 
 
 "I'm working with the greater faculty body," she said. "I really want to work with members of our community, the staff and the faculty to take our institution out of this crisis." 
 
 Katehi has said she next plans to meet with demonstrators today at their general assembly. 
 
 Questioned on "GMA" that the situation in which pepper spray was used did not appear to be violent, Katehi responded, "Exactly." 
 
 She said, however, that her priority, and that of the university's, is to protect the students. 
 
 "It was a difficult situation for the campus to really strive to make sure the students are safe," she said. "The biggest, most critical issue is the safety of the students who are using the campus, the facilities, who really want to learn in this environment." 
 
 Katehi's statements follow a weekend of damage-control for both her and the university as the incident reverberated across the nation. 
 
 The school placed two of the campus police officers identified on video using the pepper spray on administrative leave. 
 
 Katehi held a teleconference Saturday and released a statement in which she said she takes "full responsibility for the incident." 
 
 She also announced she would form a task force to probe events surrounding the arrests, and then accelerated its timetable, setting a deadline from 90 days to 30 days for the task force to issue its report. 
 
 Katehi said the task force will be chosen this week, and will include faculty, students and staff. 
 
 "This video is horrible," Katehi told "GMA." "It really shows a face for the university that we don't have. It's really critical for us to understand what happened and to try to make the appropriate corrections so this doesn't happen again." 
 
 After the UC-Davis Occupy was disassembled Friday, students resumed their protest Saturday with an evening rally on the roughly 31,000-student campus. 
 
 Local media reported that Katehi remained in a media room for more than two hours after her news conference Saturday as protesters waited outside. She reportedly took a back exit to her waiting SUV, walking past a three-block-long group of students who, in a coordinated effort, remained silent. 
 
 ABC News' Alyssa Newcomb, Katti Gray and Dean Schabner contributed to this report. ||||| NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Yale University faculty member who sparked protests when she said students should be free to push boundaries with Halloween costumes, even to the point of offense, resigned from her teaching position, the school announced Monday. 
 
 Erika Christakis chose not to continue teaching in the spring semester, the university said on its website. 
 
 "Her teaching is highly valued and she is welcome to resume teaching anytime at Yale, where freedom of expression and academic inquiry are the paramount principle and practice," the school said. 
 
 Christakis came under attack in October for her response to a request from the Intercultural Affairs Committee that students avoid wearing racially insensitive costumes, such as Native American headgear, turbans or blackface. She wrote in an email to students living in the residence hall where she's an administrator that they should be able to wear any costume they want. 
 
 "Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious, a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?" she wrote. "American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition." 
 
 The email was one of several incidents on campus that prompted hundreds of students and faculty members to march in protest on Nov. 9 of what they see as racial insensitivity at the Ivy League school. 
 
 The school also has been dealing with criticism over a residential hall named after John Calhoun, a prominent slave-owning politician, questions about how minorities are treated on campus and allegations that a woman was turned away from a fraternity party because she was not white. 
 
 After the march, dozens of faculty members contributed to an open letter showing support for Christakis, who taught courses on child development and psychology. 
 
 "I have great respect and affection for my students, but I worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems," Christakis said in an email to The Washington Post.
– The latest higher education campus to see protests over racial issues: California's Occidental College, where whites make up 50.6% of the student body and minority students say the campus climate is inhospitable. Students have been protesting over diversity issues, with a list of demands including more programming and resources for "black and other marginalized students," a "fully funded and staffed Black Studies program," and more tenured faculty of color. As of Monday, students were occupying the college's administrative building, insisting that if those demands are not met, President Jonathan Veitch resign, the Los Angeles Times reports. Students are upset at how the administration has handled race-related complaints, and they say that during a demonstration last week that included a march to Veitch's home, Veitch left when students started talking about how administrators have handled sexual assault allegations. An associate VP at the school says Veitch simply "realized his presence there was no longer being constructive." As for this week's occupation, "We're not going to shut anything down," he says. "They've been conscientious and respectful. They'll be able to stay 24 hours a day." School officials are reviewing the students' demands, he adds, and a chief diversity position in the administration is already planned. But, per USA Today, during last week's protest, Veitch told students, "We simply can’t meet every demand on that list. But I can tell you that I will honor the conversation. I do not cling to this job. I’m happy to resign." One protester tells LA Weekly that if demands are not met by Friday, "we'll occupy until his [Veitch's] resignation." She says as many as 400 students are taking part, eating delivery pizza and sleeping in sleeping bags. "We're occupying all the hallways. The staff is just walking over students." Similar protests have led to officials stepping down at Mizzou and Claremont McKenna, and protests are also happening at Ithaca, Yale, and other schools.