Hundreds Walk Out in Protest of Ithaca College President (next domino to fall)

The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | November 11, 2015 | Tyler Alicea, Sofia Hu and Joon Lee

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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.”

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.”

“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.

[Psalm 144]

C. The mutual annihilation of A and B.

[GraceG]

[ The entire University system hates us and now THEIR OWN will destoy them.

I HOPE THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE...!!

This is PROGRESS. ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

It can start in colleges.....

I am glad the populace is well armed in this country.

[Ken H]

This is PROGRESS.

And you can't stand in the way of progress!

[ColdOne]

LOL....what university is Napalitano head of???? Now that would be sweet to watch.

[DiogenesLamp]

Hundreds Walk Out in Protest of Ithaca College President (next domino to fall)

Take them all down! University Presidents have lived by the politically correct sword, now they all need to die by the politically correct sword.

Make the Jacobins live up to their own demands! Hoist them by their own petard!

These D@mn socialist revolutionaries never seem to grasp that the revolution will always eat it's own.

[outpostinmass2]

http://cornellsun.com/2015/11/08/racial-tensions-build-among-ithaca-college-students-administration/

Has anyone read the “incidents” that have upset the children?

[DiogenesLamp]

and now they will be hoisted on their own petards.

Exactly the words I chose.

[samtheman]

when he showed a black BB gun, he said he would shoot anyone he saw with one on campus

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Well it is beyond stupid for a cop to say he would shoot anyone, presumably on sight, just for carrying a weapon.

But for the life of me, I don’t see the significance of the COLOR OF THE BB GUN.

Am I missing something.

[Theodore R.]

They called it c. 1966 the “Cultural Revolution” in China. Something about a “Gang of Four”???

[Fresh Wind]

Far above Cayuga’s waters
There’s an awful smell
Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters
Others say Cornell

[Ken H]

Will there ever be enough POPCORN..?

[gaijin]

Just leave bio, comp sci, engineering and biz alone and go full Khmer Rouge on all the rest, guillotines and Agrarian Paradise Labor Camps.

[Ray76]

Here are their complaints

http://theithacan.org/opinion/open-letter-the-case-against-tom-rochon/

[Navy Patriot]

The bright side of this is that student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

We can re institute debtors prison and mandatory prison work gang participation or conscription in the new bayonet infantry.

[dragnet2]

Yeah, I too want this to happen across all these campuses. Let them have a slice of what they created. Lets let their feigned contrived racism chants turn the entire system into total chaos. Fire them all!

[wideawake]

A little research shows what the "racial incidents" on campus were:

(1) An Ithaca College rent-a-cop was asked what would be done about racial profiling on campus and he said there wasn't any. His denial of the existence of profiling was considered racist.

(2) At an alumni dinner event a minority alumna speaker said that she had a "savage hunger" for success. Two other white alumni speakers made reference to her savage hunger, and that was considered racial "code."

(3) A fraternity held a Preps and Thugs party, and the name and theme was considered to also be racial "code."

I'm not kidding. These were the injustices that form the basis of the protest.

[gaijin]

Janet Napolitano from DHS now heads up the Univeristy of California.

[Ray76]

The complaints and demands are made by “People of Color”

http://theithacan.org/news/students-circulate-document-against-rochon-at-family-weekend/

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ithica College athletes play in the Empire 8, NCAA Division III. NO scholarship athletes thus no appreciable monies from athletics program. These students may not have as much leverage as a "big-time" college.

[tioga]

Wow, I am a half hour away......this is hitting close to home.