Cornell Students Hold ‘Cry In’ Over Trump Victory
Posted: November 13, 2016 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Politics | Tags: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Asian Americans, Buffalo State College, Charter school, Cheerleading, Chicago Cubs, Christmas, Cleveland Indians, Donald Trump, Ohio, Starbucks, Student Leave a comment
Student: ‘I’m quite terrified, honestly.’
The Cornell Daily Sun reports that students hosted a “Cry In” on the quad Wednesday in the wake of the presidential election results.
“I’m quite terrified, honestly,” one student told the campus newspaper as she took part in the event. “It’s saying that people are really given into fear-mongering. They are willing to put people down based on their identity just so that they would feel vindicated that they would be getting rid of ‘Crooked Hillary.’”
Another participant told the Sun many are in “shock” as she sipped on a Starbucks coffee cup, sitting cross-legged in the institution’s Ho Plaza.
“I am concerned how this is validating the behavior of a lot of people,” she said.
As the event took place, students — roughly 20 or so, according to the Sun’s video — wrote their reactions and emotions on poster boards with colored markers, or with chalk on the ground. A chilly day on the Ithaca campus, at one point the demonstrators huddled together as what appeared to be a barista brought them warm drinks…(read more)
Source: The College Fix
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