Amid a year of activism on campus for both racial minorities and undocumented students, more than 200 students gathered Friday to commemorate the  43rd anniversary of the Willard Straight Hall Takeover.

Forty-two years after the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, opponents of the proposed administrative restructuring of the Africana Center say Day Hall has still not learned to listen to Cornell’s African-American community.

Judah Bellin '12 addresses the changing role of the university president and how President Skorton fits into that.

Judah Bellin ’12 voices his opinion on the issues behind the Africana Studies and Research Center’s restructuring within the University.

In April 1969, 80 African American students took over the Straight to protest the lack of minority rights, spurred by a culmination of events along with the tensions of the time period with the tumultuousness of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. In commemoration of the Straight Takeover’s 40th anniversary, The Sun hosted a panel on Saturday with people involved or affected by the event in order to discuss the history and its ramifications.