Attack on black Cornell Univ. student under investigation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 1:46 pm, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University plans to form a task force to address what its president calls "persistent problems of bigotry and intolerance" at the Ivy League school in the wake of the beating of a black student.

Authorities in Ithaca say they're looking into whether last week's attack against the student was racially motivated. An earlier incident targeting a Latino organization on campus also raised concerns among Cornell officials.

Ithaca Police Department officers responded early Friday morning to a fight in the city's Collegetown neighborhood near the campus, officials said. Police said they arrested a 19-year-old white man and charged him with assault. His name hasn't been released. Cornell officials said he's a student at the university.
 
The student who was attacked told The New York Times he came home to find a group of students outside his off-campus house arguing with his housemates. The student said someone used a racial epithet against him before he was beaten by several people.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Attack-on-black-Cornell-Univ-student-under-12209353.php

[stuffmatters]

1. Cornell is probably the most liberal of the Ivy League schools, but those jock fraternities

probably still as racist, Republican as they were in 1969. I'm remembering the DU, Psi U, SAE coalition of hateful idiots that formed overnight to "take back" our student union from the Black students. An overwhelming number d Cornell students then surrounded the building to defend and support our classmates against this gang of asshole jocks.
BTW they were all Chicken Hawks to boot.