How Nicholls State is becoming a hotbed of protest today

Last weekend, the campus College Republicans chalked pro-Trump messages on the sidewalk. Such as:




Anti-Trump students had a meltdown. Over chalk. On a sidewalk. Here is a parade of fragile students speaking out at an extended student government meeting, all of them outraged that other students expressed a political opinion — support for the re-election of the President of the United States — that caused them anxiety. I’ve cued the video to the first speaker. There’s a long line of them:

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The president of Nicholls responded:



The president sat through a long meeting in which student after student said, in various ways, that the expression of support for Donald Trump was illegitimate, and ought not to have been heard on campus, because it upsets people.

One student worker at a university office decided that she was going to go on a strike in protest of the fact that Republican students who had received death threats were accompanied to class by police officers for their protection:



THEY FIRED HER!!!!! Awesome, Dr. Perry!

But the protests shut down Little Colonels Academy, the on campus daycare. Because they could not guarantee the safety of the little kids. Because of chalk images on sidewalk.

Thibodeaux isn't the Bay Area, or Portland, or even New Orleans. Its a fairly conservative place.