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.
Their Hotel Management school is one of the best in the country.
The graduates do quite well.
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I intentionally left that off my list of fluff majors as I went down their list, but (okay I was negligent) I went from memory on typical majors Cornell would have that lead to decent jobs after graduation. I agree with you on hotel management and other business degrees - good point.
John Greenwood ’20, the 19-year-old Cornell student charged with two misdemeanors following an altercation in Collegetown in which a black Cornell junior said he was punched and called the N-word, apologized on Wednesday for using “unacceptable and inappropriate language.”
Hm.... I wonder what started the whole thing.
A black student arrived home in the early hours of Friday morning when he found a group of students near his driveway arguing with his housemates, he said. As he was trying to get them to leave, he said, someone called out a racial epithet. He confronted them, and four or five of them turned on him and started punching him in the face.
Well.
This is one case where it sounds like the account is accurate.
However, I still think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion by the students on campus.
I sure hope they take it as seriously when the roles are reversed.
They fear those more than anything. Which is why dogs were one of the first things BLM demanded to be banned during Ferguson.
They are still not allowed to do crowd control with this new bunch.
They are like a shark running through a swarm of herring...
Apparently the president of the chapter had been in involved in something earlier causing for the suspension of chapter. The house has been unoccupied for a period of time going through renovations. This unsubstantiated charge was enough for politically correct national office to suspend chapter indefinitely turn house over for a diversity training center.
Google it. Nice looking house. What a waste.
Customers can demand what they want for their money.
I agree with you. However, barring any written contract they can demand whatever they want. It doesn’t mean they should get it.
University systems in the U.S. are worse than public schools. They are far more expensive and really, I believe, only operating to keep themselves fed with money. I doubt that more than 30% of “educators” care what happens to a student once they “graduate”.
However, barring any written contract they can demand whatever they want. It doesn’t mean they should get it.
They can ask for stuff, demanding it paints a picture of the toddler in the grocery store laying on the floor, screaming and flailing her arms because mom won’t buy her a candy bar.
And in my personal subculture, that is the right way to a smart bottom. And it guarantees I will not honor your “demands”. ;-)
Ah the great circle theory demonstrated once again. When will the guns make the scene. Will the president sit down and have a coke with the students like the good old days?
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