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.
City of Evil bump
These last few years I’m sure reading the word “demand” a lot. Who, exactly do these people think they are and why do they believe they are entitled to what they are demanding.
I wish that some college president, somewhere, would tell the protesting students to take their demands, put them where the sun doesn’t shine, and grow the hell up.
Unfortunately, I don’t think this will happen anytime soon.
Tear gas. Rifles.
At first glance, sounds like another fraudulent “racism” charge. There are so many, hard to keep track.
Is there any actual evidence that this happened?
Cut the power and water.
Sorry, I don’t believe the assault charge even a little bit.
My money is on it never happened.
Who would want to employ anyone with an Ivy League degree? These students are nut jobs.
Really reads like another false claim.
Kick their ignorant silly academic major no standards *sses out.
Now.
Else they graduate and find out that no matter what they think about white privilege, smart privilege will make sure the only jobs they’ll be able to get and keep will be for democrat office holders, university HR collections of vermin, and ESPN slots.
National PSI U closed the fraternity. Turning it over to diversity center.
These students are fore doomed. They live in New York and expect jobs there.
This actually happened at Ohio State. The occupiers were told to leave by a certain time or be expelled. They left.
This reads as satire so I’m guessing it’s probably true. They weren’t very “woke” to have forted themselves in Straight Hall to issue demands. Bad semiotics. Appealing to a Pollack. Bad semiotics. Demanding more mental health practitioners of color. Hilarious, but still bad semiotics. It’s just bad semiotics all the way down. What’s a radical semiotician to do with such a reality?
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