I bounced around campus all day and was fortunate enough to talk to a lot of genuine people. I came to realize there was more to this story than the university residents understood I decided it was my responsibility to uncover the motives and consequences entailed so that everyone would be able to see this situation from the perspectives of those intimately effected, and not make judgments based solely on things “they’ve heard”. While on my trip back to my dorm I had a little time to digest the morning’s events. At this time in the day I didn’t have any plan with my investigations aside from mere curiosity, so I can’t directly quote the professor I spoke with but our interaction really got my mind turning. To my good fortune, she turned out to be a chair of an academic department.

I approached the first person I could safely get to and asked her if she was faculty. This was, after all, a very important thing that was transpiring… and admittedly I had no real idea who stood for what, or why. A news van was already resting on the scene to the left was a small group of students holding supporting signs, and community members across the road with signs of support as well. Feeling quite unattached to the situation, I arrived at the scene I observed the classic circle of frustrated proletariats marching and chanting while thrusting huge painted signs into the air.

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