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.
What did that chapter of Psi U allegedly do to cause this? The article doesn’t say.
I’m guessing most of these students are majoring in things that, if they’re lucky, will qualify them for academia, not actual work.
Everybody has cameras on their phones but they never catch the evil doers in act.
Or, when they do get something on video they leave the last part that tells a different story.
Let’s see...$40,000/yr or so to attend?
300 students with a collective IQ of nil.
Eliminating the “studies” majors would put a lot of this rabble back in their moms’basements where they belong. Real curricula wouldn’t leave time for these kinds of tantrums.
This is exactly the same play book from the 60s. The pansy administrations will listen and heed as many demands as they can and cave in across the board.
A smart administration would say you have five minutes to leave the facility and at that point we begin CS gas.
If you look at it from the perspective that the students are the customer and the school is proprietor then the “demands” are legitimate. Customers can demand what they want for their money.
Vicious canines.
“Is there any actual evidence that this happened?”
Probably not but I’m sure the attackers will be accused of wearing Trump shirts and MAGA hats.
>>At first glance, sounds like another fraudulent “racism” charge. There are so many, hard to keep track.
A useful resource:
Even that is far from complete.
“do everything we can to rid this campus of racism.” Fools. In the minds of the radical “students,” that can never happen.
I would almost bet my mortgage that this is a false charge. Groups of white guys don’t just jump innocent people of any color. I will say the “victim” is lying.
Brings back old memories. I know this dates me, but I was there the first time black students took over Willard Straight Hall (1969). They were armed at the time, and it got pretty tense.
After that, we had group seminars to discuss making the University more “relevant”. And we were all offered to take Pass/Fail on our courses that Spring. I wanted my grades - I knew Pass/Fail would not look great on my transcript.
Cornell was important for me - not for what I learned, but how I learned to deal with the Left. And it solidified my conservative beliefs.
I don’t believe it either. White boys just don’t tend to be fighters. And Cornell students using the nword? Nah. Didn’t happen.
What a bunch of BS! Let them occupy some of the suspension bridges and then toss them over the railings to the rocks below. End of complaints! Useless people now and useless people in the future. They really are in a different world.
Worked with them at Cornell in the fifties and racism was so bad we ate at the same tables with them. HA!
As part of salaries paid to employees at the School of Hotel Administration (Statler Hotel then), we were given our lunches and students who were waitresses/waiters in the various dining rooms and the kitchen help all had the same privilege/benefit. We all ate and visited with one another and that was that!
Then one day 50+ years later, obozo happened to the country and changed the landscape forever!
“”They live in New York and expect jobs there.””
Wrong assumption - they come from all over the same as at all universities...
Wasn’t that time more to do with the Vietnam war than with blacks complaining about everything under the sun?
I still have friends in Ithaca from high school days and I simply cannot fathom that they believe in this liberal crap...In those days, we weren’t liberal or conservative but they believe and support whatever any of the students in the area complain about - either at Cornell or Ithaca College. Sickening. Political discussions are a thing of the past with them!
All over one (very likely false) accusation.
No, to solve the problem, just dismiss them for disrupting the school and take away all their scholarships.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/cornell-university
Average cost, including room and board? $70,000 a year. And I would bet none of the protestors are in real majors (Engineering, math, biology/premed, computer science, etc.). Instead, they would be in:
- Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies
- Communication
- English Language and Literature
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Comparative Literature
- History
- General Studies
- Film/Cinema Studies
I cannot imagine spending $280,000 for one of these fluff degrees.
[Note: I see nothing wrong with a history degree for a military officer or for a few other real careers, but (1) I would not pay extra for the Ivy League credential to then slap on a single gold bar for O-1 pay, and (2) none of the protesting losers are likely to do anything patriotic in their lives, let alone serve America in our military.]
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