The poor little flowers had their safe space invaded, oh the humanity !
Students freak out because someone chalked trump slogans on campus: Emory university president says students are scared and 'in pain'
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Students freak out because someone chalked trump slogans on campus: Emory university president says students are scared and 'in pain'
- President Jim Wagner said students viewed graffiti as intimidating
- Officials arranged a meeting for those offended to address concerns
- University organizations also offered counselling to those affected
- The editor of the student newspaper said some students 'felt victimized'
- A freshman said she 'feared for life' and thought it was a 'KKK rally'
- But some website commentators have told the students to grow up
- The university has roughly a 50:50 ratio of white to minority students
- Republican frontrunner won the Georgia primary earlier this month
Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.
Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their 'safe space' was violated when the messages of 'hate' appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
One student even said she 'feared for her life' as she thought a 'KKK rally' was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn't walk alone.
Jim Wagner, president of the 19th century establishment, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the scrawling as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result.
He set up an investigation after members of the student government wrote to him and slammed the university's response, prompting a meeting that was shrouded in protests.
Now administrators at the university, which has roughly a 50:50 ratio of white to minority students, want to track down those responsible for the controversial markings.
They have admitted they went against the university's 'values regarding diversity'.
But some commentators on the university's student newspaper website told those affected by the so-called 'hateful' graffiti to grow up and accused them of being babies.
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