Racial tensions are growing at the University of Kansas with a call for three top Student Senate leaders to resign and a recent graduate initiating a hunger strike.

The Senate's Student Executive Committee is demanding that Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon step down.

The committee claimed Pringle and George did not 'stand in solidarity with their black peers and proclaim that Black Lives Matter' during a forum on race last week.

The University of Kansas Student Executive Committee is demanding that Student Body President Jessie Pringle (left) and Vice President Zach George (right) resign from their positions by next week

The calls for resignation came after student group Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk took over the town hall to present a list of diversity demands for the university, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.

The Senate's Student Executive Committee also demanded Chief of Staff Adam Moon step down

Demands included hiring a director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs by next month, mandatory 'intense inclusion and belonging training' for all students, staff and administration, increased diversity in hiring and increasing the percentage of underrepresented students on campus.

The Student Executive Committee pledged its support for the 15 listed demands as it asked the full Senate to take up impeachment measures if the three student leaders refused to resign.

'Black students do not feel that the Student Senate provides adequate representation, funding and support for their needs,' the committee wrote after registering a 6-3 'no confidence' vote for Pringle, George and Moon.

Senate Vice President Shegufta Huma, a member of the committee, said the vote was in part due to the fact the three leaders were reluctant to support the diversity demands.

'This is part of a larger pattern and some much bigger issues that the Senate has been dealing with in terms of our relationship with marginalized communities at KU,' she said.

The three leaders released a statement Saturday, saying they plan to continue serving and professing support for minority groups.

'Black lives matter. Black lives matter at the University of Kansas,' they wrote in the statement.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who moderated the town hall forum, said in a message to campus that her administration will be sharing information 'early next week' about how the school will move forward on the issue of racism.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a message to campus that her administration will be sharing information 'early next week' about how the school will move forward on the issue of racism

Meanwhile, John Cowan, a white 2014 University of Kansas graduate, began a hunger strike on campus Friday morning in solidarity with KU student group movements.

Cowan said he would either 'die or go to the hospital' if the demands set out by Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk were not met or if the university did not issue a plan of action.

The move was similar to a graduate student's hunger strike led at the University of Missouri before the resignations of University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.

'I'm kind of at an advantage because of my white privilege,' Cowan said.

'So my suffering is self-inflicted. Others don't have that choice, it's inflicted upon them.'