Budget cut and demands

The Ithacan’s reporting from April 10, 1970 states that the financial cuts in the budget were only proposed at the time, not implemented, and that while the EOP was one of the programs targeted, funding would also depend on state and federal aid.

The ALS presented 12 demands to the administration. These demands consisted of creating a new budget to meet the financial needs of the EOP; making EOP executive board and general body the sole body in charge of federal, state and local funds; increasing EOP staff; increasing EOP recruitment; making all EOP students free from the threat of academic probation in their first year; removing of loans for first-year students and minimal loans for upperclassmen; installing a Black studies program; housing facilities for the ALS; enlarging the space for EOP and Black Affairs department; removing the out-of-state ban on EOP, establishing a fund for the reconstruction of the Southside Center, and making two vans available for transportation from and to Cornell University’s Africana Studies Center.