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In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 photo, Sarita Smith speaks during the "Faith and Politics" class at Emory University in Atlanta. The day after Donald Trump had won the presidency, graduate students talked of being shocked and wounded, fearful and horrified. (AP Photo/Rebecca Breyer)
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 photo, Kathryn Stanley tears up while speaking at Robert Franklin's class on faith and politics at Emory University in Atlanta. Earlier that day, after the presidential election, she sobbed alongside her junior high school students even as she urged them to maintain hope in the face of their fears, and that night she cried again as she spoke to her classmates. (AP Photo/Rebecca Breyer)
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 photo, Robert Franklin, a Laney Professor of Moral Leadership at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, speaks during his "Faith and Politics" course at Emory University in Atlanta. The course requires students to volunteer with a political campaign, keep of journal of their experiences and turn in a final paper proposing strategies for healing the divided nation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Breyer)
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Illustration on radical students at University of Wisconsin at Madison by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Sal Miwa, of the Japan-America Society of Hawaii, center, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the Ehime Maru Memorial, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. The memorial is dedicated to the victims of a 2001 collision off the coast of Hawaii between the Ehime Maru, a fisheries training vessel, and a U.S. naval submarine. Several were killed, including four high school students, in the accidental collision. Shinzo Abe arrived in Hawaii on Monday to recognize the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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Maryland head coach DJ Durkin runs onto the field before the Quick Lane Bowl NCAA college football game against Boston College, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, lays a wreath at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. The memorial is dedicated to the victims of a 2001 collision off the coast of Hawaii between the Ehime Maru, a fisheries training vessel, and a U.S. naval submarine. Several were killed, including four high school students, in the accidental collision. Shinzo Abe arrived in Hawaii on Monday to recognize the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second from left, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, second from right, and Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda, right, bow at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. The memorial is dedicated to the victims of a 2001 collision off the coast of Hawaii between the Ehime Maru, a fisheries training vessel, and a U.S. naval submarine. Several were killed, including four high school students, in the accidental collision. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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George Ciccariello-Maher, formerly an associate professor of political science at Drexel University, tweeted on Dec. 25, 2016, that he wished for a "white genocide." On January 1, 2018, Mr. Ciccariello-Maher announced he had been hired by New York University as a visiting scholar at the school's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. (MSNBC screenshot) **FILE**
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FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, the only school building sits empty as the last day of school was unexpectedly cancelled in Dietrich, Idaho. The cancellation was announced amid the small community struggle with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The presidential election, racial tensions and police shootings all made the biggest headlines throughout Idaho in 2016. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador both campaigned for Donald Trump, and by the end of the year rumors were flying that both men were in the running to be in Trump's administration. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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FILE - In this photo taken Thursday, May 26, 2016, a sign welcomes residents and visitors to the tiny town in Dietrich, Idaho. The small community is struggling with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The allegations of racist taunts and physical abuse suffered by the teen were revealed this month when the family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Dietrich School District. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, buildings at St. George's School sit on a hill in Middletown, R.I. Dozens of former students at the school said they were abused by staff and fellow students at the Middletown school as far back as the 1970s and as recently as 2004. It was among the state's top stories in 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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FILE -- In this Jan. 5, 2016 file photo, Anne Scott, center, of Charlottesville, Va., and Katie Wales Lovkay, right, of Granby, Conn., both who attended St. George's School from 1977-1980, participate in a news conference in Boston as attorney Eric MacLeish, left, listens. Dozens of former students at the school said they were abused by staff and fellow students at the Middletown school as far back as the 1970s and as recently as 2004. It was among the state's top stories in 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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FILE - In this Feb 7, 2015, file photo, Tulare Union High School's Ashley Alcantar wears a mascot T-shirt and makes a "U" sign after scoring the correct answer in a quiz in Porterville, Calif. California public schools will be barred from using the Redskins name for sports teams and mascots under AB30 by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, ending the use of a term that American Indians regard as offensive. (Chieko Hara/The Porterville Recorder via AP)
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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, police stand outside Mountain View High School after several students were stabbed inside the high school, in Orem, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police said stabbed five of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, students Albany Cox, right, and Holly Hilton leave Mountain View High School where several students were stabbed, in Orem, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police said stabbed several of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer directs students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. Police said a 15-year-old brought two guns to school and fired a round into a classroom ceiling before his parents arrived and disarmed him, likely preventing bloodshed. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Savannah Valaria, right, one of 24 Huntley High School students serving in hands-on residencies, works in the pharmacy at Centegra Hospital-Huntley, Ill. The residency gives students insight into the profession and practical experience that goes beyond what they could learn in textbooks. Valeria never expected learning about filing and filling pharmacy prescriptions would be so interesting. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Savannah Valaria, one of 24 Huntley High School students serving in hands-on residencies, works in the pharmacy at Centegra Hospital-Huntley, Ill. The residency gives students insight into the profession and practical experience that goes beyond what they could learn in textbooks. Valeria never expected learning about filing and filling pharmacy prescriptions would be so interesting. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Harpal Singh, one of 24 Huntley High School students serving in hands-on residencies, works at Centegra Hospital-Huntley, Ill. The residency, Singh said, gives him insight into the profession and practical experience that goes beyond what he could learn in textbooks. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
