Posted on 09/20/2017 12:06:15 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
More than 300 students marched with Black Students United to Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday afternoon and are occupying the building at Cornell University after delivering a list of demands to the University’s president Martha Pollack.
The protest follows the arrest of a Cornell student on Friday who police charged with assault after a black student said he was punched by a group of white men who had called him the N-word in Collegetown.
The group’s 12 demands to Cornell include requiring coursework on “privilege and power,” hiring additional mental health personnel of color, and permanently banning the Psi Upsilon fraternity from campus and converting its building into a cultural center for black students.
More than 300 students marched with Black Students United to Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday afternoon and are occupying the building at Cornell University after delivering a list of demands to the University’s president Martha Pollack.
The protest follows the arrest of a Cornell student on Friday who police charged with assault after a black student said he was punched by a group of white men who had called him the N-word in Collegetown.
The group’s 12 demands to Cornell include requiring coursework on “privilege and power,” hiring additional mental health personnel of color, and permanently banning the Psi Upsilon fraternity from campus and converting its building into a cultural center for black students.
Delmar Fears ’19, a co-chair of BSU, said her mother graduated from Cornell in 1973 and told her on the phone that she is propelling the same movement students were a part of 45 years ago.
“Her daughter is fighting the same fight that she had to fight,” Fears said. “There is an act of racial violence happening on campus again.”
Fears and Celestin met with Pollack on Wednesday morning to discuss BSU’s demands, and both co-chairs said the meeting was positive and that Pollack appears to genuinely want to work with the group on its list.
Pollack, when she was handed the list of demands by students in Day Hall on Wednesday, said she would work with BSU to “do everything we can to rid this campus of racism.”
“I can’t promise there will never be another racist incident,” she said. This is a scourge across the country.”
The dean of students, Vijay Pendakur, and several additional staff members are inside Willard Straight Hall with the protesters. The University provided water and BSU is in contact with members of the administration and Cornell Police, they said.
Imani Luckey ’19, a BSU political action chair, looked over the crowd of students on the floor of the building and said into a microphone, “this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen since my start at Cornell.”
After silently marching up to the third floor of Day Hall, the administration building, and delivering the list of demands to Pollack, hundreds of students marched to the nearby building and are now sitting on the floor chanting, singing and doing homework.
“Get settled, get water, get hydrated,” Celestin said when students first entered the building behind a BSU banner. “This is your space right now.”
The occupation is scheduled to end at about 4 p.m.
How many of these “students” are actually paying for their own tuition?
Even if this actually occurred .. and I have serious doubts based on such past "occurrences" .. what is there to show that the offending whites were college students? If they're adult townspeople, why is the college getting involved? If the police already arrested one suspect, it sounds like the town is handling it to whatever extent is necessary.
Take names - no one should accidentally have to hire a snowflake...
It’s rather refreshing to see a very liberal administration get b-slapped. They bend over time and time again and still get nailed.
Turn off water and electricity. Introduce tear gas. Have water canons ready to assist eyewash upon exit of vermin from building.
Good. The colleges trained the BLM crowd to demand things they don’t deserve from Whitey. The colleges got what they deserve.
Evidence is racist.
To be fair, one of the arrested suspects is a white student.
Cornell students find the guts to burn the entire university down.
This is what tear gas, pepper spray and batons are for.
Obviously, facts are meaningless to these protestors. At some point, even some left-leaning parents are not going to pay for their kids to go to these schools that are becoming completely overcome and run by snowflakes and cowards. Until that happens, the protestors are being empowered by their successes at getting the schools to meet their demands.
Kindergartners all....
If you own a businesx you really really want to hire these people when they graduate - right? Probably show up the first week with a list of demands...
If you own a businesx you really really want to hire these people when they graduate - right? Probably show up the first week with a list of demands...
Turn on the heater...full blast. Shut off the water.
What..... they called him a nobody!!??
Evidence shmevidence.. Who needs it!
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