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Wesleyan Student Activists Swarm Football Game, Support Need-Blind
Student protesters used the huge numbers of people tailgating at and watching the homecoming football game against Amherst on Saturday afternoon as a captive audience to chant, "We don't care how much you earn! Everyone deserves to learn!"
Editor's Note: This just in from our friends at Wesleyan University's student-run blog, Wesleying.org. If you attended today's huge Wesleyan University Cardinals vs. Amherst College Lord Jeffs, you may have been surprised at what took place toward the end of the game. Here's an explanation.
Around 3 P.M. today, between the third and fourth quarter of the homecoming football game against Amherst, a shouting band of roughly 45 or 50 Wesleyan University student activists swarmed the sidelines nearest Foss chanting and carrying a red-and-black banner proclaiming “DIVER$ITY UNIVER$ITY?”
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Beginning outside Fayerweather and marching across towards Olin, the group chanted “We don’t care how much you earn! Everyone deserves to learn!” in support of need-blind admissions. Halfway across, the students cued the pep band and led the crowd in a rendition of the Wesleyan Fight Song.
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