White Ivy League Student Arrested, Fraternity Chapter Closed After Racially-Charged Attack

Source: BuzzFeed News

A white student affiliated with the Psi Upsilon fraternity was arrested after allegedly beating a black student. Police are investigating "any racially biased motivation" in the attack.

Posted on September 20, 2017, at 9:24 p.m.

Michelle Broder Van Dyke
BuzzFeed News Reporter

A 19-year-old Cornell University student, who is white, was arrested Friday for allegedly beating a black student and calling him the n-word in a possible hate crime.

The black student attending the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, who has not been identified, told police that he arrived home to his off-campus residence in the early morning Friday to find a group of students near his driveway arguing with his housemates, according to the student newspaper the Cornell Daily Sun.

The student said he was trying to get the group to leave, when the n-word was uttered by one of the students. He confronted the student, and a group of four or five people started punching him in the face.

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John Greenwood, the undergraduate student who allegedly used the racial slur, was arrested on Friday and charged with one count of assault in the third degree, which is a misdemeanor, but further charges are pending, according to police. It was not clear whether the other students allegedly involved would be charged.

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