{"id":383,"date":"2012-04-29T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/?page_id=383"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:12:15","slug":"sit-in-november-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/sit-in-november-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2008 Sit-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_3425-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-581\" title=\"IMG_3425 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_3425-copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>On November 4 2008, Colby students, staff, and faculty participated in a sit-in in Pulver Pavilion. The participants of the sit-in had a series of demands for the Student Programming Board, the administration, and also other students. This sit-in was a response to racially and culturally insensitive incidents that occurred during the fall of 2008. Some of the demands of this sit-in included student leaders participating on Campus Conversations on Race, an annual address from the President on how race, gender, sexuality, and class affects the Colby community, and a revision and update of the College diversity requirement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Digest Posts from November 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/FYI.pdf\">FYI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/Halloween-at-Colby.pdf\">Halloween at Colby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/Continuing-Efforts-towards-a-Multicultural-Campus.pdf\">Continuing Efforts towards a Multicultural Campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2012\/04\/Our-Community.pdf\">Our Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Echo Articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Colby-Echo-Wednesday-November-12-2008-1.pdf\">&#8220;Sit In challenges community to act and listen&#8221; &#8211; The Colby Echo | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Colby-Echo-Wednesday-November-12-2008-3.pdf\">&#8220;Controversial&nbsp;Event sparks discussion of long-standing issues&#8221; &#8211; The Colby Echo | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Colby-Echo-Wednesday-November-12-2008-4.pdf\">&#8220;Diversifying the bubble&#8221; &#8211; The Colby Echo | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"box_count\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"45\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/sit-in-november-2008\/\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4 2008, Colby students, staff, and faculty participated in a sit-in in Pulver Pavilion. The participants of the sit-in had a series of demands for the Student Programming Board, the administration, and also other students. This sit-in was a response to racially and culturally insensitive incidents that occurred during the fall of 2008. Some of the demands of this sit-in included student leaders participating on Campus Conversations on Race, an annual address from the President on how race, gender, sexuality, and class affects the Colby community, and a&#8230; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/sit-in-november-2008\/\">Read more&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3165,"featured_media":0,"parent":648,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383\/revisions\/1221"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}