“Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go!” “No justice, no peace!” “I can’t breathe!” And so went the chants from around 150 Cornell students and faculty as a ‘Black Lives Matter’ demonstration, sponsored by Cornell’s Black Students United, marched through the Arts Quad and onto Ho Plaza Friday afternoon. The event...
Students littered into Duffield Hall this afternoon to stage a 15-minute die-in followed by several minutes of chanting slogans like “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot.” The event was organized by Cornell’s chapter of the the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Approximately 150 students partook in the die-in, which lasted specifically 15 minutes...
The photo above shows one of two columns in front of Goldwinsmith Hall on the Arts Quad that were each spray-painted with the words “I Can’t Breathe” eleven times. The photo was posted early Monday morning on the public Facebook group called “Overheard at Cornell,” in which anyone can post quotes or pictures of things...
Last Tuesday Cornell and Ithaca College students, locals, children, the elderly, and professional protesters gathered for a vigil and protest for Michael Brown and the events transpiring in Ferguson. It ended up becoming a chaotic occupation of two street intersections, with some protesters nearly assaulting Review correspondents on scene. This Thursday evening, much of the...
According to an article in today’s issue of the Cornell Daily Sun, last Tuesday’s Ferguson-related protest in downtown Ithaca that shut down two intersections was peaceful. The headline of the article, authored by Zoe Ferguson, is “Route 13 Closed During Peaceful Ferguson Protest in Ithaca.” I started to wonder: Was the protest indeed peaceful, and what does...
What began as a peaceful vigil on Tuesday evening for Michael Brown quickly devolved into a confrontational, cacophonous protest after familiar faces Kat Yang-Stevens, Amanda Lickers, and company showed up. Using their professional protesting expertise, they rallied up most of the vigil attendees into joining them in taking over two street intersections, challenging policemen and...
On Thursday, Nov. 20 Cornell’s Africana Center hosted a speakers panel entitled “Resisting Domination: Theory to Action, Action to Theory.” The panel consisted of six speakers unaffiliated with Cornell, academia, government, or the private sector, but who all had extensive experience in that very vaguely defined occupation known as “activism.” The moderator of the panel...
Welcome back alumni and esteemed trustees of the university, for this weekend is Homecoming Weekend. As you tour the campus, reminiscing about the good times and the bad, make sure to stroll through Ho Plaza. A group of left-wing students, of whom only Daniel Marshall and Michael Mintz could be identified by name, spent the...
It was recently brought to my attention that students on campus have accused the Review of refusing to publish our videos of various events. This just goes to show just how desperate some students on campus are to attack the Review, but rather than criticize our content instead choose to make ridiculous claims. It is neither our...