Traveling almost as fast was the news that Cornell’s administrators had quickly capitulated to the demands of the black militants, rather than risk a bloody confrontation. Under duress, the university’s president had promised to accelerate plans to establish an independent black studies program at Cornell, as well as to investigate the burning of a cross outside a building in which several black female students lived. And to the deep consternation of many conservative faculty members and students on campus, the president also agreed to grant full amnesty to the protesters, some of whom were
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