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." ||||| Kevin Tidmarsh | Nov. 11, 2015, 8:02 p.m. 
 
 A crowd of students congregated outside Claremont McKenna College’s Hub Grill during Dean of Students Mary Spellman’s office hours at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 11, to protest the CMC administration’s treatment of marginalized students. The students waiting at the Hub were soon met by the protest's organizers, who read aloud a series of testimonies of discrimination from students of color and queer students at CMC, and then presented their demands to Spellman and CMC President Hiram Chodosh. 
 
 Many students carried signs that mentioned the “CMC mold" in reference to an email Spellman sent to Lisette Espinosa CM ‘15 that infuriated many students of marginalized identities. Although it was not part of the of the protest organizers’ original demands, students at the protest also called for Spellman to be removed from her position. 
 
 “[W]e are working on how we can better serve students, especially those who don’t fit our CMC mold,” read Spellman’s response to Espinosa, who had sent Spellman and other CMC administrators her Oct. 23 TSL op-ed about her experience feeling unwelcome at CMC as a low-income woman of color. This phrase quickly became a rallying cry for CMC students who had experienced discrimination and intolerance on campus and felt frustrated and ignored by the administration. 
 
 
 
 Students wait for CMC President Hiram Chodosh to speak outside CMC's Hub. Alex Smith • The Student Life 
 
 This morning, the campus groups organizing the protest released an open letter detailing, among other things, "a list of aggressions towards students of marginalized identities in the past two years," four of which specifically mention the dean of students office. 
 
 Although Spellman’s reference to a “CMC mold” and backlash over racially insensitive Halloween costumes helped to galvanize the protest, most of the demands that the protesters made today were not new. In fact, the campus group CMCers of Color presented a set of proposed actions to Chodosh in April of this year containing the same demands made today, as documented in the student groups' letter. 
 
 “This isn’t a new conversation,” Michaiah Young CM ’18, one of the protesters, said. “People have been feeling this way for years now.” 
 
 The actions proposed included hiring a diversity chair in the dean of students office, increasing funding for multicultural clubs, increasing diversity among faculty and staff, and founding a resource center and mentorship program for students of color. 
 
 Seven months later, most of these goals had not been met, although Chodosh committed at today’s protest to create both a temporary and permanent resource center. Chodosh said in an interview with TSL and the CMC Forum that CMC has authorized diversity positions in both the dean of students and the dean of faculty offices, although the hiring processes for each of these positions has not yet begun, and that he intended to address the rest of the students’ demands. 
 
 In the same interview, Chodosh did not confirm whether he was considering firing Spellman but said that Vice President for Student Affairs Jefferson Huang had placed her under institutional review. 
 
 Taylor Lemmons CM ’17 announced in an open letter about an hour before the protest that she intended to go on a hunger strike until Spellman had vacated her position. Zain el-Jazara CM '16 soon joined the hunger strike. 
 
 “With the pursuit of cultivating and maintaining an inclusive environment at CMC, I believe that Dean Spellman should resign as Dean of Students, due to her insensitive comments, her inaction in supporting marginalized students at Claremont McKenna College, and the fact that her actions, independent of any isolated incident, reflect her inability to truly understands the students at CMC,” Lemmons wrote. 
 
 Spellman addressed what she meant by the “CMC mold” at the demonstration and in an email to community members this morning. 
 
 “Please know my intention was to affirm the feelings and experiences expressed in the article and to provide support,” she wrote in the email with the subject line “apology.” 
 
 
 
 CMC Dean of Students Mary Spellman speaks next to a protester. Liam Brooks • The Student Life 
 
 Spellman announced no intent to resign her position at the protest. She only spoke occasionally when students addressed her, and one participant at the event said that she saw Spellman’s eyes closed, as if she were sleeping. Spellman offered no response to this allegation. 
 
 Spellman’s sister, Julie Spellman Sweet CM ’89, currently sits on CMC’s board of trustees. 
 
 “I will reiterate: I am committed, as I have always been, to support students of all backgrounds, of all needs and interests, and I will work to continue to change the institution,” Spellman said at the protest. While she was saying this, students called out “false” from the crowd. 
 
 Chodosh confirmed a permanent programming space to support campus climate, including “identity, diversity, and free speech,” in an email sent to students 20 minutes before the protest and in an interview with TSL and the CMC Forum before the protest. However, following pressure from the protesters, Chodosh also committed to the implementation of a temporary space to be created this semester. 
 
 The letter from CMCers of Color stated that “issues of shared governance” prevented the resource center from being established despite being told over the summer with a “95 percent certainty” that a temporary space would be established this fall. However, it was not implemented because a space could not be found, according to Chodosh. A basement room had been found for the center, but the administrators in charge of planning the space did not believe it was suitable. 
 
 The students present at the protest called out Chodosh for his lack of action regarding the firing of Spellman and for not taking action on CMCers of Color’s demands. 
 
 “You stand here like a man in front of me and tell me you can’t afford a space for us to feel safe?” el-Jazara, one of the hunger strikers, said to Chodosh at the protest. 
 
 Students from CMCers of Color, the Brothers and Sisters Alliance (BSA), the Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA), the Asian Pacific American Mentoring Program (APAM), and GenU, an organization for low-income and first-generation college students, marched to the Hub before Spellman's office hours began. Students from other schools in the Claremont consortium also came to show their support for CMC students of color. 
 
 “I was just thinking, I see my fellow brothers and sisters of color crying,” said Ashley Land PO ’16, one of the students calling for Spellman’s resignation at the protest. “When they started crying, that got to me, and I was like, ‘No, this is not OK.’ In what world does someone who’s an employee of the college, who’s a part of the dean of students office, want to email a student and say, ‘You don’t fit here.’ That’s how I feel about the email. I feel like that’s an automatic firing.” 
 
 This protest came at a time when students across the 5Cs have expressed their solidarity with students of color at the University of Missouri, which has seen threats to the safety of Black students after Black activist groups, saying that school leaders did not properly deal with racism on their campus, forced the resignation of the university’s president and chancellor. 
 
 “We’re all going through this at the same time because this generation is waking up and ready to act,” Young said. “It’s different at the other schools, but it’s all related in that social media has been great in helping us communicate with each other.” ||||| 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.
– Another college official has resigned in the wake of racial tension, this time in California. Mary Spellman, dean of students at Claremont McKenna College, stepped down Thursday, after sending an email that sparked an uproar last month, the Los Angeles Times reports. But the larger brouhaha started in April, when around 30 students of color wrote to the college's president to complain about feeling uncomfortable on campus. Just 4% of undergraduates at the school are black, 8% are mixed race, 10% are Asian-American, 12% are Latino, and 43% are white. The students listed incidents such as racial slurs, vandalism, and mockery on campus, and accused administrators of trying to silence their complaints. Then, last month, one Latina student wrote an op-ed in which she discussed feeling uncomfortable at the school, and Spellman responded with a letter promising to assist students "who don't fit our CMC mold." Cue outrage. Spellman's email sparked more protests, including a hunger strike by two students, and the university did a review of her office. She apologized but ultimately stepped down anyway. "I believe [stepping down] is the best way to gain closure of a controversy that has divided the student body and disrupted the mission of this fine institution," she wrote in her resignation email. The student protest leaders say they're not done; they want more diverse faculty and staff and more funding for multicultural clubs, among other things. In addition to similar protests at Mizzou, the Times notes that students at New York's Ithaca College are also calling for the president to resign because he allegedly has not addressed racial problems on campus; the New York Times reports that students at Yale and UCLA have also been protesting in recent weeks over campus racial tensions.