Hundreds Walk Out in Protest of Ithaca College President (next domino to fall)

The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | November 11, 2015 | Tyler Alicea, Sofia Hu and Joon Lee

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Hundreds of students, faculty and staff members, flooded Ithaca College’s academic quad Wednesday afternoon protesting I.C. President Tom Rochon and his handling of racial incidents on campus and in solidarity with campuses including University of Missouri and Yale University.

Urging a vote of no confidence, protesters gathered following a month of racial tensions sparked by a number of incidents occurring since the start of the academic year. At approximately 1 p.m., students began to gather. Within 30 minutes, hundreds of students had flooded Ithaca College’s Academic Quad.

A number of students spoke against the administration, naming Rochon the leader and perpetuator of “a broken system” that pretends that I.C. is diverse.

“We have no desire to work with this broken system,” a student said into the microphone.

Following student speeches, the crowd of protesters walked across the quad, guided by student leaders and shouting, “Tom Rochon. No Confidence.”

After students spread and laid down on the wet pavement, they fell silent for 20 minutes at 2 p.m. The eerie silence was broken at 2:20 p.m. as hundreds streamed back towards Freedom Rock in front of the student center.

“We have power,” students chanted, in a roar that filled the quad.

Students also circulated papers titled “The Case Against Tom Rochon,” which list seven grievances against him, ranging from “his disregard for minority community members” to “his questionable ethics.”

“When asked to propose solutions, Rochon fails as a former scholar to conduct even the most basic research by drawing on eight years of reports and recommendations that involved countless hours of work by students, faculty and staff, or by accessing the many demands that have been addressed to him and gone unanswered,” the paper reads.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[cherry]

its karma....karma for the stinking privileged academia who have lambasted the working and middle class and any religious people for decades...

now they are getting the ship thrown their way...

Free speech?....no such thing apparently...

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Looking through that facebook was stomach churning. I expect the black students to make all their comments regarding perceived racism, but all the pathetic white people adding comments is disgusting.

What the hell is wrong with people? The whole white guilt nonsense is on par with the damages inflicted by PC crap. Why don’t they just head out to a foreign land so they can be the minority, then they can truly ‘relate’ and find the answers they seek. Insufferable little f*wits.

[Vanders9]

I think that if I were at the university I'd be expelled in short order. The incidents, as far as I can see, amount to objections to the words "savage", "preps" and "crooks"...all taken wildly out of context.

This is the ultimate end of a concentration on identity politics. Students (and staff too) are now so exquisitely sensitive that almost anything can be interpreted as an affront to their own identity. Personally, I'd say that having to language-police myself every day, tiptoeing on eggshells to avoid instant social condemnation and hostility, is a more pernicious form of oppression than anything they are objecting to.

[Vanders9]

Thats actually kind of the problem. Student politics are dominated by Humanities and arts students, because they are the only ones with the time to be involved. STEM studies are HARD - they certainly have more set hours and much higher drop out rates.

[Vanders9]

Oh there is one job they would be very good at. Community organiser. And that’s kind of the point of all this.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Yes, declare the college closed for the semester. Padlock the doors and send everyone home.

[b4its2late]

Saw that. Bunch of whinny liberal skulls full of mush.