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The post on Black Students' United's Facebook page that seeks to clarify their controversial demand was posted on Thursday.
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Black Students United Responds to Controversy Over Demand

By Girisha Arora | October 13, 2017

The BSU demand, which was not retracted or changed in the statement, called on the Cornell admissions office to increase the presence of “underrepresented Black students.”

Led by Black Students United co-chair Delmar Fears '19, center, hundreds of students marched from Day Hall to Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, responding in part to the reported assault of a black student.
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Black Cornell Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall After Delivering Demands to President Pollack

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | September 20, 2017

Hundreds of black students marched into Willard Straight Hall 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.

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Collegetown Assault

Greek Tri-Council Demands Perpetrators of ‘Psi Upsilon Incident’ Be Expelled

By John Yoon | September 20, 2017

The Greek Tri-Council demanded that Cornell expel any perpetrators involved in the Collegetown assault of a black student on Friday.

Black Students United gather a rally for DACA students in September. Following the assault of a black student in Collegetown, Black Student organizations from schools in the Ivy League have voiced solidarity for BSU.
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Ivies Stand With Black Students United at Cornell After Assault

By Anna Delwiche | September 19, 2017

The Harvard Black Students Association, the Black Student Union at Brown and the Black Student Alliance of Yale University all posted statements of solidarity.

Black Students United is encouraging students to wear black in support on Tuesday and said the group will be “interrupting” Tuesday’s University Assembly meeting.
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BSU Calls for Cornell Students to Wear Black, Rally at University Assembly Meeting on Tuesday

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | September 18, 2017

Black Students United is encouraging students to wear black in support on Tuesday and said the group will be “interrupting” Tuesday’s University Assembly meeting.

Five Cornell students will be spending eight weeks in the summer in Tanoso, Ghana through a service-learning program with the nonprofit Voices of African Mothers and the Africana Studies Department.
Africana Center

Cornell Recognizes Original Africana Center Following Black Students United Demand

By John Yoon | September 12, 2016

“[This conversation] is an important and positive part of history, because it reminds us if things like that don’t happen, I might not be here,” Acree said.

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BSU and Hillel Discuss Cultural Implications of Exodus Stories

By Christine Ryu | March 31, 2008

Two prominent student organizations gathered yesterday to compare what seemed like two very different stories: the American antislavery movement and the Old Testament-era Jewish flight from Egypt.

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