The efforts lead by activist group Concerned Student 1950 at MU have influenced a movement at Ithaca College in upstate New York. Students organized a walkout in an effort to recognize the struggles that students of color face and to organize efforts to force Ithaca College president Tom Rochon to give up his position as head of the university.
Taken from the Solidarity Walk Out at Ithaca College @POCatIC_ @ABC @MTV @nytimes @cnnbrk pic.twitter.com/jUhJjkbr7o
— Grace (@GTrep22) November 11, 2015
Protesters gathered at Ithaca’s Freedom Rock at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, then proceeded to lay on the ground in an act of defiance for 20 minutes, demonstrating the students’ discontent with Rochon’s lackluster responses to student issues.
Protestors at @IthacaCollege are now laying in silence for 20 minutes. pic.twitter.com/UFj18m87i7
— WICB News Team (@WICBNews) November 11, 2015
Students at #IthacaCollege stage walkout to urge Pres. Tom Rochon to step down. #POCatIC https://t.co/hA0FjNiGme pic.twitter.com/Hx5FG5yqZF
— 14850 Today (@14850today) November 11, 2015
However, Ithaca College isn’t the only university influenced by the domino effect of racial activism prompted by MU. Using the hashtag #ConcernedStudent1950, colleges around the nation are expressing their support for the movement.
To the students of color at Mizzou. We, the students of color at Wesleyan stand with you in solidarity.
— Samuel Medrano (@samuelmedran0) November 11, 2015
To the students of color at Mizzou, we, students of color at @Stanford Univ, stand w/ you in solidarity. To those who would threaten (cont.)
— Miribel Tran (@miribelxtran) November 11, 2015
Proud of @VCU students who stand in solidarity with #Mizzou !
— Shane G/Boston Brand (@DCWorldDeadman) November 11, 2015
to the students of color at mizzou and yale, i, a student ally at uchicago, stand with you in support & solidarity #concernedstudent1950
— Eleanor Carpenter (@ellybean13) November 11, 2015
Thank you to everyone who came out today as we supported @MizzouLBC #weareone #BUstandswithMU pic.twitter.com/oix6ZC15fv
— hailey❤️ (@haileykens) October 7, 2015
#HUStandsforMU pic.twitter.com/uXdwKyKSXp
— dav (@SirDaaav) November 11, 2015
It's time to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Mizzou. #ND4MIZZOU #ItsTimeND pic.twitter.com/Fye99tfv6J
— It's Time ND (@ItsTimeND) November 11, 2015
To the students of color at Mizzou, we, black students and students of color at Occidental College, stand with you in solidarity.
— dayja_vuuh (@YouHaveDayjaVu) November 11, 2015
To the students of colour at Mizzou & friends at Yale, we, students of colour at Columbia stand with you in solidarity.
— pretty yung thang (@yojordyn) November 11, 2015
To Mizzou students, we, students at Harvard, stand in solidarity. To those who threaten their safety, we are watching. #ConcernedStudent1950
— Blake McGhghy (@bamcghghy) November 11, 2015
#vcustandswithmizzou #Mizzou pic.twitter.com/MTIdDh7sGf
— Sandy Hill (@RiqiEman) November 11, 2015
#IowaSupportsMizzou #ConceredStudent1950 We must love and support each other! We have NOTHING to lose but our chains pic.twitter.com/nzx7CWboN2
— alexiskimberly (@__HeyItsLEX) November 11, 2015
Students at Yale University are also siding with the efforts of Concerned Student 1950 after race relations have also been called into question on the Ivy League campus. After the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity allegedly held a “White Girls Only” party, and a mass email was sent to students discouraging them from policing offensive halloween costumes, tension has been steadily reaching a tipping point that has evolved into marches and protests.
The Ethos Political Action Committee at Wellesley College sent out a mass email to students in light of the credible threats that were made over social media.
“To #ConcernedStudent1950, in response to your courageous organizing of Black students at the University of Missouri, we, the Black community at Wellesley, extend ourselves in gratitude and solidarity,” The email said. “We recognize and identify with your struggle to cultivate a space of inclusion at an institution that was not built for you, but was built on your backs. Our hearts are heavy with the knowledge that it took Black members of the football team refusal to play, Jonathan Butler compromising his body through a hunger strike, and media attention for the members of the administration to respond to your concerns.”
The email also recognized that students issues regarding racism on campus is not limited to MU, and admitted that Wellesley has also been unresponsive to racial issues facing their students, and called upon the university to alter its attitudes towards students of color.
To the students of color at Mizzou, we, students of color @ Yale stand with you in solidarity. #ConcernedStudent1950 #InSolidarityWithMizzou
— Katerra Logan (@K_Logan7) November 11, 2015
To the students of color at Mizzou, we, student allies at Yale, stand with you in solidarity.
— Sarah Ludwin-Peery (@sarahroselp) November 11, 2015
Students at Yale stand in solidarity with students at Mizzou. pic.twitter.com/qmjit0SxYA
— Hal Dockins (@HalDockins) November 11, 2015
RT @Nikki_T: To the students of color at #Mizzou, we, students of color at #Yale stand with you pic.twitter.com/OpLWPJT6p5
— jamalbryant (@jamalhbryant) November 11, 2015
