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Georgetown law students demand space to cryby Jeremiah Poff, Education Reporter | February 02, 2022
A group of students at Georgetown University Law Center demanded a space to cry and have catered food while staging a sit-in protest to promote the firing of embattled professor Ilya Shapiro.
William Treanor, the dean of the law school, met with the students during their protest Tuesday and promised the school would reimburse them for any food they had delivered to the sit-in.
“I don’t know what it would look like, but if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go? Because we’re at a point where students are coming out of class to go to the bathroom to cry,” one student protester said.
“It is really hard to walk out of class or a meeting in tears, and you should always have a place on campus where you can go ... reach out to me anytime — anytime — and we will find you space,” dean of students Mitch Bailin replied.
The student protest came together after Shapiro had been placed on administrative leave following a tweet critical of President Joe Biden’s announcement he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
Shapiro had endorsed D.C. Circuit Court Judge Sri Srinivasan for the lifetime appointment but said that because of Biden’s announcement, the nominee would be “a lesser black woman.”
Shapiro says he expects to be cleared from any wrongdoing.
Treanor said the comments from the students were “really helpful” and said it was “particularly painful” for the controversy to “be at the start of Black History Month,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The outlet also reported the student protesters demanded Treanor send an email reminding white students they were only there because of slavery and “this is something that these people need to be reminded of.”
Georgetown University did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/georgetown-law-students-demand-space-to-cry
