The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/protest/)
The attendees of the rally responded to impassioned statements with snaps and yells of agreement, chanting “Stand up and fight back!” and “Hey ho ho Cavanaugh has come to go!”
Cornell student Radu Pârvulescu said he was beaten and arrested following his participation in a peaceful protest in Bucharest against corruption in the Romanian government on Aug. 10.
Chai led the demonstration Saturday morning after a clash with a professor earlier in the week, where the professor allegedly questioned her choice of clothing for a trial run of her thesis presentation on rehabilitation for displaced people and refugees.
Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American studies, Princeton University, joined Prof. Edward E. Baptist, history, in a panel to examine the state of protest politics in the 21st century as a mode of enacting social change.
Protesters and speakers criticized the Cornell Republicans for offering Cheney a platform to speak on Tuesday and expressed anger over the former vice president’s role in the Iraq War.
More than 50 Cornell students joined a protest by the Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine in support of Gazans protesting at the border of the Gaza Strip and Israel.
A protest that broke out during a lecture required the speaker, Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to be escorted out of the room by Cornell University Police Department officers on Monday.
Prominent lawyer David Buckel law ’87 set himself on fire in a “suicide protest” in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Cornellians and Ithaca residents took part in the nationwide March for Our Lives protest on Saturday to speak out against gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida mass school shooting.
The dissent at Cornell appears to be part of an international protest by Chinese students studying overseas who have distributed similar pamphlets in at least twelve different universities around the world.