March 1969. Since last semester, a group of students at the City College of New York have been handing out a flyer entitled “The Five Demands.” On February 6 they presented a draft of it to CCNY President Buell Gallagher; their demands for changing CCNY and CUNY at large included: (1) a “school of Third World Studies”; (2) a separate freshman orientation for Black and Puerto Rican students; (3) that SEEK students participate in “setting guidelines for the SEEK program, including the hiring and firing of personnel”; (4) “that the racial composition of the entering freshman class be racially reflective of the high school population” of New York City schools; and (5) that “all education majors be required to take Black and Puerto Rican history and the Spanish language.”
