Posted on 12/15/2016 5:11:25 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Cornell University is investigating a report that the president of Cornell Republicans was attacked just after Donald Trump's election.
The evening after the election, sophomore Olivia Corn, president of Cornell University College Republicans, said she was shoved to the ground while leaving a meeting and heading to her dorm room.
"Out of nowhere I was on my phone and looking at my email and out of nowhere I felt two hands grab my shoulders and just sort of threw me to the ground, and they were yelling 'Fuck you racist bitch, you support a racist party,'" Corn said.
She said the attacker ran away after the incident, and she did not see his or her face. She reported the incident to Cornell police the next day.
John Carberry, senior director of media relations at Cornell, confirmed Wednesday that the university is investigating Corn's case. No suspects have been identified in connection with the case yet, Carberry said. The university also said there have been no other similar complaints reported since Nov. 8.
Corn said this was not the first time she has been harassed for her political stance. Corn and Cornell University College Republicans have been in the spotlight a few times this year in local and national media, which Corn said has made her easily identifiable on campus.
"People yell in my face all the time. I get random messages telling me what I should and should not be doing on Facebook, in my email," Corn said. "I've had a history of people not liking me so much."
After Corn was quoted in a Cornell Daily Sun article in May saying she would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, she said she received death threats.
Though Corn said she was uninjured, the attack has left her feeling nervous to walk around campus alone. She now carries an alarm with her.
"It definitely scared me," Corn said. "I'm afraid to walk by myself at night anymore. ... I don't feel that safe or comfortable anymore. I didn't have that alarm for a day and I realized how scared I was to walk without it."
Corn said she has been surprised she has received so much "flak," as she considers herself a moderate Republican, who is pro-gay marriage, pro-choice and does not deny climate change.
Corn is home in Manhattan for winter break, and said she feels more comfortable coming forward with her story now that the semester is over and she's not on campus.
Despite the incident, Corn said she will continue to serve as president of Cornell Republicans.
“Unless carrying an “alarm” “
There’s some kind of new keychain alarm that is insanely loud. Brings attention right away. Some lady used one to scare off a car jacker.
One family included Purdue and Baylor on their list. However, this was also influenced by majors their children planned to pursue.
Ditto here, born and raised in the heart of San Francisco. I was wondering the same thing about why she wasn’t aware of her surroundings and checking the phone.
I worry that my grandchildren might become indoctrinated, though they are all still children. So far they have shown no signs of absorbing the decadence, even though they have had some serious decadents as teachers (I've had to explain a few things to them).
One of my granddaughters telephoned me from California to tell me how happy she was that Trump was elected.
Another one, pleased that Trump had won, said to me, shaking his head as if in disbelief: "Hillary was under investigation by the FBI!" (I hadn't told him that.)
Why would a conservative desire to study at this institution, in this town?
So why does she believe she is a Republican? Probably a hoax. Doesn’t ring true.
Hey, she'd be at home in most of the GOP Congressional and Senate offices.
Probably hoping to work for Paul Ryan.
Courageous young woman. I hope it steels her resolve.
Thanks for the information. I’ll look up and order two for my daughters (and one for the nervous around guns Missus). Nice Christmas complement to the CCW courses I got for the girls earlier this year. :-)
Trust me, as a former member of the Cornell University College Republicans (I left the group after a semester 25+years ago), the story rings true. She thinks she is a Republican because, inspite of her views, she is still undoubtedly far to the right of most of the people on campus, especially those who are at all politically active.
I saw Phyliis Schafly speak there years ago, but after Coulter’s time. I wasn’t aware until seeing your post that Coulter was an alumna.
Because it’s an Ivy League University and greatly enhances her potential to get into law school I would assume.
I agree. You are lucky. Unfortunately some young people are too impressionable and easily influenced by peers or above all wanting to be cool. We have friends who had three children. Two turned out great, but one did not and got involved with the wrong crowd.
Why would a conservative desire to study at this institution, in this town?
If you grow up in fly-over country and haven’tgotten out much, you may not fathom just how liberal Ithaca is—I picked Cornell because it was located in a relatively small town, and thought that small towns would inherently be reasonably conservative. It took a week or two to realize that it was basically a displaced neighborhood of Boston and NYC and that people from those cities (and for that matter from the whole NE) were basically from another universe.
My experience was in pre-internet days., but I’m inclined to think that a greater access to information has just about been offset by a decline in the ability to anayze information.
It was a really fun place to display the Stars and Bars—ironically alongside the Oregon State Flag, which has as the state motto “the Union” emblazoned on it. I wonder if I could get away with that now.
And one could find some really bright professors at Cornell and learn a fair bit from them.
That said, if I had it to do over again, I’m sure I would opt to make a different set of “mistakes.”
“My experience was in pre-internet days., but I’m inclined to think that a greater access to information has just about been offset by a decline in the ability to anayze information.”
Well expressed idea. I concur. We are buried in “information,” without regard to the quality or accuracy of same.
I am not seeing the discernment, from among the competing “informations.”
I will be 69 years old next March, and took my first computer class in Fall 1965.
The early days of the internet were fabulous. Genealogy wss basically for free, hobby status. Now everywhere you turn, money is demanded for lower, and lower quality information.
My neice and nephew recently graduated from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff—liberal but in a Western way.
She is now at DeMoines Univerisity in medical school. Her parents visited various schools with her, in selecting.
They are quite at peace, with this midwest location, coming from SoCal.
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