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C.R. Gazette
5/2/73
Chicanos at U. of I. List 10 Demands
Special to The Gazette
IOWA CITY -- A small number of Chicano students at the University of Iowa presented University President Willard Boyd with a list of 10 demands Tuesday.
The peaceful picketing and meeting with Boyd were geared toward establishing a "Chicano Studies Department" at the university.
As Boyd met with the students inside Jessup hall approximately a dozen placard carrying demonstrators picketed the main entrance to the U. of I. administrative offices.
Boyd said he felt the 90-minute meeting was "useful and informative" but spokesman for the Chicano Indian-American student union expressed disappointment that Boyd had not immediately supported their demands.
Those demands, in addition to establishing a Chicano studies department, include the university boycotting lettuce in university dining rooms. Other demands were for "intensive recruiting of more Chicano students and Chicano faculty members."
After the closed door meeting, Boyd said the university is currently engaged "in an affirmative action program which certainly includes Chicanos." He stressed however, that while the university wishes to improve the ratio of minority groups, and women, the university was not about to engage in "reverse discrimination." On the question of the lettuce boycott issue, Boyd said he had not personally eaten such lettuce in almost a year but that he was "not prepared to impose such a decision on other members of the university community."

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C.R. Gazette 5/2/73 Chicanos at U. of I. List 10 Demands Special to The Gazette IOWA CITY -- A small number of Chicano students at the University of Iowa presented University President Willard Boyd with a list of 10 demands Tuesday. The peaceful picketing and meeting with Boyd were geared toward establishing a "Chicano Studies Department" at the university. As Boyd met with the students inside Jessup hall approximately a dozen placard carrying demonstrators picketed the main entrance to the U. of I. administrative offices. Boyd said he felt the 90-minute meeting was "useful and informative" but spokesman for the Chicano Indian-American student union expressed disappointment that Boyd had not immediately supported their demands. Those demands, in addition to establishing a Chicano studies department, include the university boycotting lettuce in university dining rooms. Other demands were for "intensive recruiting of more Chicano students and Chicano faculty members." After the closed door meeting, Boyd said the university is currently engaged "in an affirmative action program which certainly includes Chicanos." He stressed however, that while the university wishes to improve the ratio of minority groups, and women, the university was not about to engage in "reverse discrimination." On the question of the lettuce boycott issue, Boyd said he had not personally eaten such lettuce in almost a year but that he was "not prepared to impose such a decision on other members of the university community."