After the election

With the latest post-election madness that is going around on campus, JMC faculty has been doing a great job on trying to explain to how the outcome came to be. The 201 Freshmen lecture, which was held after the election, was used as a roundtable in which many JMC professors participated and was basically a debriefing on the events that happened the previous nights. They all did a great job of keeping the conversation non-partisan. They also had their office hours open to talking to us students about what we were feeling. 

There were many groups around campus that were also offering a safe place to students who has mixed feelings about the election outcomes. Such places included Black Student Alliance (BSA), Cultura de Las Razas Unidas (CRU), North American Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO), Asian Pacific American Student Organization (APASO). Other groups aside from the cultural ones also offered a safe place to express their thoughts such as LBGTQ+ Resource Center and many different religious groups. 

On November 10th, many of these of groups got together to form a rally at the famous Rock on campus to show that hate will not be tolerated on this campus. They had many student leadersspeak and remind any students that there were many, many safe places on campus to talk about how you are feeling. After this rally, the groups proceeded to lead the massive amounts of students on a march that went along Farm Lane to Grand River and continued on Beal Street until the students reached the Administration Building. Throughout the entire march, the students tried to keep the message clear that this was an anti-hate rally. It was kept peaceful while the entire event lasted from 5:30 to roughly 8pm. 

Overall this campus has been doing a great job of combating hate within the student body and promoting love instead. There have been many resources made available to the students here. Thankfully in the months to come these resources will continue to be there for students to express their feelings without feeling judged no matter their political affiliations.

Chantal 

Freshman 

IR