Students have been conducting sit-ins, boycotts, and protests in response to racist attacks at Syracuse University
“I’m disgusted by the recent rash of hateful language found scrawled on the walls at Syracuse University, where students from around the world are drawn each year in the pursuit of higher learning,” Cuomo said in a news release on Monday . “These types of hateful and bigoted actions seek to splinter and segregate our communities, and they have no place in New York — period.”
On Tuesday, federal authorities descended upon the campus, searching for whomever spread a racist manifesto on Monday . The manifesto, an anti-Muslim essay circulated by the person accused of murdering worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March, was posted online late Monday night to a Greek life forum. Then, it was airdropped to students inside a school library.
The University has suspended all social activities at fraternities, but most activists and students say that just isn’t enough. Students began protesting the university’s response — they were scared, the hallways were empty, and there was a feeling of panic among students and faculty alike, Chandler Plante, a third-year magazine journalism major told the
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