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September 22, 2017

Cornell University Black Students Protest Racist Incidents on Campus
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And hundreds of black students marched into Cornell University's Willard
Straight Hall on Wednesday afternoon and occupied the building for
several hours after delivering a list of demands to the university's
president in a protest reminiscent of the 1969 takeover of the same
building. More than 300 marchers, led by Black Students United, silently
climbed three flights of stairs in Day Hall and handed a list of demands
to President Martha Pollack, who had met with BSU earlier in the day.
The protesters, the majority of whom were black and most of whom were
people of color, were responding in part to the assault on Friday of a
black Cornell student who said a group of white men called him the
N-word and bloodied him by repeatedly punching him in the face in
Collegetown. Two weeks prior to the occupation, a resident of the Latino
Living Center reported hearing chants of "build a wall" from a nearby
fraternity, Zeta Psi.