ABSTRACT
Hayakawa’s real situation only worsened in the next weeks. He ordered the campus closed one week early for Christmas, an action that would have been rebuked under the previous president. When the campus reopened on January 6, 1969, it was engulfed by a new strike, this time by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) local. Six weeks later the AFT announced a settlement, and on March 20 the TWLF declared the strike over. Under Hayakawa, the first College of Ethnic Studies was established, including a black studies department. One hundred twenty-eight new slots were opened for EOP students. Looking back, a dean of undergraduate studies, Joseph White, who was African American, reflected that “the machinery of the college is not set up to deal with black demands, it is set up to deal with white reality. We will never return to normal. More education has gone on since the strike started than the six years I went to school here.”24
