Clemson sit-in at Sikes begins Day 3

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By Mike Eads

CLEMSON — Student protesters still want action from Clemson University President Jim Clements and his leadership team to improve the racial climate on campus.

Thursday's trespassing arrests of five students doesn't appear to have dissuaded the roughly 40 students who took over the Sikes Hall lobby again this morning.

"We'll stay here all weekend if we have to if we don't get any action," said Sherman Jones, one of the protest organizers ...

http://www.independentmail.com/news/clemson-sit-in-at-sikes-begins-day-3-308a5209-b8d0-46de-e053-0100007ffc3f-375868361.html

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1. Five Arrested in Clemson University Racism Protests

MATT VASILOGAMBROS 10:39 AM ET

Five students were arrested at Clemson University Thursday night, following sit-ins protesting racism on the South Carolina college campus. They were charged with trespassing after refusing to leave one of the buildings on campus before it closed at 5:30 p.m.

Clemson made national news Monday when students discovered bananas hanging from a sign on campus commemorating black history. The sign displayed the university’s plantation house. Although Jim Clements, the university’s president, in a campus-wide email called the action “hurtful, disrespectful, unacceptable,” and later released a three-page memo on improving inclusion, students demanded more ...

... a campus activist group .. released a statement with seven grievances and seven demands for the university. These included a new multicultural center and changing the names of buildings named after controversial figures, such as Benjamin Tillman, the white supremacist and former senator ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/04/clemson-university-arrests/478455/