Boston University Student Activists Protest Trump, BU Fossil Fuel Holdings

BOSTON — Days after Republican Donald Trump was sworn-in as president, about 30 student activists at Boston University walked out of class to rally against the incoming administration's approach to climate change and to convince university trustees to divest all fossil fuel holdings from the school's $1.6 billion endowment.

"This is a national day of action, there are thousands of students walking out all over the country in an active resistance to demand divestment from their administrations," sophomore Masha Vernik, secretary of the activist group Divest BU, told students via a megaphone outside of the George Sherman Union student center. "As time goes on I know that this resistance might become a little more difficult, as a result of increased oppression from above or increased police militarization, but we can't stop — we have to keep going."