Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Monday’s dead-of-the-night act of defiance at Cornell University, carried out by a handful of students, reflects the outrage reverberating around campus — and also, in its scale, the fear many hold about the consequences of speaking out.

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