Activism among college students is the highest it has been in more than 50 years, according to a 2015 report – and Syracuse University is no exception.
Bea Gonzalez can recall the scene vividly: the protests, the marches, the signs, the chants – all of it.
Call-and-response chants rang out in front of Hendricks Chapel at 2 p.m. on Friday.
Freezing temperatures, some flurries and even SUNY-ESF’s graduation ceremony could not stop a group of Syracuse University students from making their voices heard on Friday. Nearly 50 students, representing a variety of races and ethnicities, gathered in front of Hendricks Chapel at 2 p.m. to protest the lack of grand jury indictments in recent police officer brutality cases.