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La Herencia Latina

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Latin American Business Association

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Latino Law Students Association (LaLSA)

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40 Washington Square South, Rm. 110
LaLSA supports Latino students and provides opportunities for NYU School of Law students to be a part of and serve the wider Latino community.

Latter-Day Saint Students Association

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Le Cercle Francais

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LUCHA (Latinos Unidos Con Honor y Amistad)

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OFFICES/SERVICES SPOTLIGHT

Office of Residential Education - Residential International Student Engagement (RISE)
Sponsored by the Office of Residential Education, RISE is a new initiative connecting international students with the NYU and NYC communities, while providing support and resources for a smooth transition to the United States.

Student Occupation

On May 4th, 1970, several groups of "strikers" occupied the Loeb Student Center. The following day, strike groups also took over Warren Weaver Hall and Kimball Hall, the former building containing a $3.5 million dollar computer owned by the Atomic Energy Commission and leased by NYU. The "liberated" buildings became "Strike Student Centers" or "Communes," and a strike coordinating committee set forth its demands to the University. Holding the computer as a hostage, the strikers demanded ransom money of $100,000 from the University to be used as bail money for imprisoned Black Panthers. While NYU President Hester attempted to obtain a court injunction to remove the strikers as quickly as possible, the students, in control of the University Print Shop in Kimball Hall, printed and distributed manifestoes calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and enjoining fellow NYU students to join their "injunction party" and "make revolutionary love in the streets." Strikers evacuated Warren Weaver Hall on May 7, but set off the fuse to a bomb device before departing. University staff managed to douse the fuse just seconds before it would have destroyed the computer. After 17 days of high tension, University officials succeeded in removing the strikers from all occupied buildings.