Posted on 11/11/2015 11:57:50 AM PST by abb
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.â€
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.â€
“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.
The entire University system hates us and now THEIR OWN will destoy them.
I HOPE THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE...!!
This is PROGRESS.
Yea, me neither.
ping
Yes - the leftist Universities have invited this kind of intolerance, taught it, incubated it... and now they will be hoisted on their own petards.
The City of Evil?
Yup.
Apparently the I.C. students know all the answers. Thus, there is no longer any point to operating Ithaca College. Let them go out into the real world and find real jobs.
Will there ever be enough POPCORN..?
Deeply concerning, indeed....
(Furrowed brow, stroking beard I dont have)
I cannot imagine a single student attending there who is not already a confirmed Social Justice Warrior.
They are eating their own.
Night of the Long Knives.
this is just amazing to watch. These kids have been taught this and think they are going to have a better life because of this evil white man cr8p. they will never have better lives because of this. They are cr4pping in their own beds.
We will be lucky to have 3rd world status at this rate. Just horrible.....nobody is standing up to this.
I hope UC Berkeley and Harvard are next..!!
That should have immediately resulted in his "voluntary expulsion".
Gosh, who do I root for here: Communist group A or Communist group B?
This is one of the regrets I have about not being a billionaire. Other than using my wealth as a means to piss off progressives by building massive section 8 housing and filling them with the biggest low lifes I can find while sprinkling a wal mart or two in huge white liberal enclaves like marthas vinyard, I would also like to build a system of universities that take no government money and offer unquestionably the best real classical education possible, where students that act like monkeys, get expelled and/or arrested
You need to understand how and what the Left intends in its use of the concept of "Diversity".
With any luck the snake will eat its tail until it is sated.
Apparently the president there is too comfortable with corporate America and insufficiently alarmed about climate change. All this makes him racist toward the ALANA people, whoever they might be.
Good. Have at it. Let them all be the instruments of their own destruction.
I think everyone there IS high.
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