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 universitys plantation house. Although Jim Clements, the universitys 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/