More than 300 students marched with Black Students United to Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday afternoon and occupied the building at Cornell University for hours 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. 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. “Get settled, get water, get hydrated,” Celestin said when students first entered the building behind a BSU banner.

Source: Daily Sun September 20, 2017 18:33 UTC