ITHACA, N.Y. – Life has been hell this year for Olivia Corn, president of Cornell University College Republicans.

“I was actually assaulted on campus for being a Republican,” she told The Tab.

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The evening after the 2016 election the sophomore said she was shoved to the ground as she walked to her dorm from a meeting on campus, and she filed a complaint with Cornell University Police the next day.

“Out of nowhere I was on my phone and looking at my email and out of nowhere I felt two hands grab my shoulders and just sort of threw me to the ground, and they were yelling ‘F**k you racist bitch, you support a racist party,’” Corn told the Ithaca Voice.

Corn wasn’t injured in the ordeal, but said it capped off a semester of harassment brought on by her role as the head of the college republicans during a volatile election year. The Cornell University College Republicans endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson – and Corn is a moderate pro-choice and pro-gay marriage conservative – but many at the university apparently equate any Republican to racism and hate.

Corn said her group’s decision to host Rick Santorum on campus, and her comments to the Cornell Daily Sun that she’d vote for Trump over Clinton, sent her classmates into a rage.

“I had people come up and scream in my face about” Santorum, she said. “I had people calling me fascist, racist, saying I should quit, that I was a disgrace to women.”

And things only got worse after Trump’s historic election victory.

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“When Trump was elected, it was a very hostile environment for me on my campus, and that was something I wasn’t thrilled about,” the history major said. “Friends of mine would come back and tell me they herd things like: ‘I’m gonna throw acid in her face.’”

Others told her she is “a xenophobic piece of trash, said that I’m a disgrace, that my job is to vote for a female because I’m a female,” Corn said.

“People said horrible things to me online, like ‘I devalue the degree of the university,’ people were ashamed I was representing the conservative voice on campus,” she said. “And these things get to you. I’m not going to lie, I went home and cried.”

Cornell University spokesman John Carberry issued a statement to The Tab that confirmed university police are investigating Corn’s attack, though there are no leads in the case.

“On the afternoon of Nov. 10, a female student reported that a physical harassment incident occurred on campus the previous evening. Cornell University Police began a criminal investigation, and assisted the student in filing a report with our Title IX coordinator and a Bias Incident Report with our Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity. The Cornell University Police investigation is ongoing,” he wrote.

“The safety of our students, as well as freedom of speech and academic expression, are an essential part of the Cornell educational experience and the University unequivocally condemns this type of behavior.”

Corn told The Ithaca Voice she waited to discuss the recent attack publicly until she was home safe in Manhattan for winter break, and said she’s now taking more precautions to protect her safety on campus.

“It definitely scared me,” Corn said. “I’m afraid to walk by myself at night anymore. … I don’t feel that safe or comfortable anymore. I didn’t have that alarm for a day and I realized how scared I was to walk without it.”