Cornell students on Friday engaged in May Day protests across campus, marching from the Arts Quad to a street intersection where students proceeded to sit in the road for over an hour. There students and faculty took turns delivering short speeches and tirades covering a range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following: systematic...
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Mayday, Mayday: Student Protesters Take Stage at Cornell President’s Farewell Party, Jazz Band Plays On
Update: Video now available here. Approximately 50 student protesters marched into Barton Hall Friday afternoon to disrupt Cornell President David Skorton’s farewell party. The protesters marched across the gymnasium floor–filled with over 500 students, employees, and locals–waving signs and chanting various slogans, until ultimately settling upon the stage where a four-piece jazz band was playing...
