The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/black_students_united/)
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.”
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.
The Greek Tri-Council demanded that Cornell expel any perpetrators involved in the Collegetown assault of a black student on Friday.
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.
“[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.
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.