Letter to the Editor:

What will you do to end the silence?

BY GREG ROBINSON Guest Writer

On April 20th, students and faculty gathered at 10 a.m. in the morning at the Student Diversity O ce to begin the day of silence. Students such as myself, who are a part of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community, faulty and allies, went 5 1/2 hours without speaking to represent the bullying that goes unnoticed in the LGBT community. Attending Cabrini College, I have realized that this day has been done in the past and has had a great turn out. In the past few years it has lost its meaning here and has lost the student’s interest. at is what we are trying to change here and now.

Stephanie Reed, RJ Carroll, Allie Jeter, John Eddings and I gave ourselves a little over two weeks to plan this huge day. We meet back to back throughout the weeks and discussed new ideas how to make this day bigger and better. Going around taking photos of student and faculty members with tape across their mouths was how we portrayed the message we wanted to send to the school and the community, which is that you have to do something to end the silence. With over 50 students and faculty pictures taken, the message was posted around the school with their face, duck tape on their mouths and the words on it, “I’m Silent” made an impact like no other.

is year we also added the close-pin story. e close-pin story was introduced so that students, faulty and sta can tell their story or someone else’s story on a handkerchief to be hung up for everyone to see. is year we had four colors, yellow which stood for the color of surviving bullying, white standing for the color of being an ally, red standing for the color of struggle with yourself or knowing someone who is struggling with being themselves, and black the color of lost and losing someone to bullying, or suicide related to bullying. Doing the clothes-pin