Posted on 05/26/2025 6:41:53 PM PDT by george76
Three activists banned from campus for three years
A professor was among several climate protesters who during commencement defaced the statue of Andrew Dickson White, one of Cornell University’s founders, as a message to stop the school’s “fossil fuel complicity.”
Early Saturday morning, the group Cornell on Fire, a “coalition of Cornellians and community members calling for a just and comprehensive university-wide response to the climate emergency,” put a blindfold over White’s face along with a poster protesting Cornell’s association with the fossil fuel industry, The Cornell Daily Sun reports.
According to a press release from the group, Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island co-organized the protest, along with “collaborators” Fossil Free Cornell and TIAA-Divest.
Upon arrival at the statue protest, university police cited the activists for trespassing and “failure to present a permit to display posters on the statue.”
Three of the climate demonstrators ended up being declared “persona non grata,” meaning they’re banned from “Cornell properties” for the next three years.
Cornell on Fire chose graduation day for the protest “because they wanted to emphasize the climate change crisis that is ‘pivotal’ for the future of the class of 2025.”
Among the group’s participants was bethany ojalehto mays (non-capitalization in the original) whose faculty page states was “on leave” in 2021-2022, but the Sun calls “former professor.”
They should have been shot on the spot.
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fossil fuel? like bringing back the hula hoop after it is out of fashion..........................
Refuse students who participated in the event their degrees. As far as the former “indoctrinator”, remove him from society and put him behind bars after paying for damages.
Cornell University, located in Ithaca, NY has been a leftist bastion for a long time.
Ithaca is a rabid town. One reason is that they know that they are losers in the scheme of things in New York and the Nation.
Upstate NY shows up in the conservative column. But the cities are leftist.
I would say that the folks in Ithaca are Commie bastards.
They are so behind in today’s news that they are still holding on to “Climate change??”
LOSERS!
“Cornell on Fire”?
LOL...what are they using to light that fire? Coal? Oil? Natural Gas?
Cornell used to be quite the formidable school in the hard sciences.
Probably still is, just overshadowed by all this woke crap.
Time to close these indoctrination centers.
He was a White guy. It doesn't matter to the progressives that he was one of them, before it was cool to be one of them.
"Andrew D. White (1832-1918), historian, diplomat, and first president of Cornell University, advocated such progressive causes as equal rights for women and the removal of religious sectarianism from higher education. In this important work, which spawned a great deal of controversy at its appearance, White exhaustively documents the battle between science and religion in matters of creation versus evolution, the geocentric versus the heliocentric universe, and the "fall of man" versus anthropology. The struggle of science over outmoded medieval concepts is still emerging. Even a century after its publication, White's great work has much to teach us about the dangerous effects of religious doctrinalism on education and moral growth."
Description of White, A. D., A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: The Truth Shall Make You Free
People like that need to be kept away from the rest of society.
A Lunar Penal Colony might work.
But they luuuuuuv Rockefeller.
Carbon propaganda. CO2 is plant food.
They should be sentenced to live through an upstate NY winter without heat or electricity. Then let them question fossil fuel complicity.
True.. CO2 is plant food.
This statute defacing tells me that Cornell is like all those other elite schools; turning into factories stamping out leftnicks like flower pots. Like flower pots, they are empty minded fools set to bash the Democratic heritage that has made America so great. They have become pots to grow Marxism.
I’ll be in that area in a couple of weeks..you know what they say about high above Cayuga’s waters..
Even normal Americans are catching on to Climate Change "hoax".
Al Gore wrote a book about it 30 years ago.
Greta has moved on. She's protesting the war in Gaza instead.
A few more Kent States back in the day might’ve ended the rise of far left campus activism.
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