University’s ‘Organization of Historically Oppressed Students’ demands new multicultural center

A group at California State University Long Beach called the “Organization of Historically Oppressed Students” protested last week at the school president’s office to demand a new multicultural resource center.

According to The Daily Forty-Niner, “dozens of students” and members of the California Faculty Association eventually got a meeting with President Jane Close Conoley to hash out plans for a new six-story facility which “provides equity for students of historically oppressed communities.”

Currently, plans are for existing student cultural centers to locate to the basement of the campus library. The OHOS said in a statement that a move to “the most hidden depths of the campus is visually and physically unsettling” and cited concerns over asbestos.