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ELIZABETH MAHAN | STEPHANIE ROBLEDO change on campus. REPORTER | NEWS EDITOR “[I attended the March for Peace] because ednesday, Oct.14 students and faculty there’s some changes that need to be made to members rallied together to march our environment. I feel like there’s a lot of raacross campus, holding signs and cial insensitivities that goes on a daily basis chanting three words “Black Lives Matter.” To around here, and I’m not saying it’s intentional, promote peace, MOSAIC Peer Educators invited sometimes it’s just people don’t know,” Iris Buall student organizations to stand in solidarity chanan, biochemistry junior, said. “I will say for innocent Black lives lost to injustice. that we got a lot of growing to do here, a lot “I [have] wanted to do this event since the of growing. I haven’t really seen any changes summertime when I was completely overbeing made. I know for a fact that I’ve had my whelmed along with the world at the death of George Floyd, so as a Peer Educator, I really made it adamant that we need to march, and I wanted to be the one to lead it, because I care about fellow Black lives. I care about justice, so I didn’t care when we did it, but it needed to be done,” Keza Muvunyi, mass communication junior, said. “I wanted to be the one leading it just to give other MSU students the option to stand with me because I know on social media it’s easy to protest or easy to show your support, but walking and chanting, and doing all that is even better. It gives you the feeling of ‘I’m here. I’m fighting for you, and I showed up for you.’ There’s nothing better than when someone shows up for you right? So I wanted to show up on behalf of all Black people, so that’s why I created it. I wanted to show up for Black people, and I wanted to give MSU students the opportunity to show up for Black people.” To make her speech more personal, Munvunyi concluded by prompting audience members to imagine if their loved ones were the next innocent lives lost to injustice, as a call to action. It’s a call to action that some students have already taken on such as nursing freshman, Amani Augustine, who attended the event in support of her people. “It’s important to me because obviously I’m a Black student on this cam- Students chant “say her name” as they march for th pus, and this has been an important issue for me throughout my whole life growing fair share of racial profiling and indifferences, up in a Black area. It’s important to me to stay so we got growing to do, we got a lot of work to connected to my roots and also just show supdo. We just need to do better.” port for my people, because [we] live with this As students call for change on campus, MOevery single day, so it’s important to get the SAIC Cross-Cultural Center Director Cammie message out. I feel like this is something that Dean agrees that there hasn’t been enough time I personally can do, because I’m not in politics or anything like that now, so this is something to enact it but also acknowledges the initiative that I can do to help out my people,” Augustine of students for starting these conversations. “We haven’t had enough time to really enact said. change on campus when it comes to policies, While some students attended the March For Peace to stay connected with their roots, procedures, the names on buildings, whatever others attended because they wanted to see a the case might be...I think the efforts of the stu-
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PHOTO BY BRIDGET REILLY | THE WICHITAN
Students walk down Nocona Trail for the March for Peace event, Oct. 14.
PHOTO BY BRIDGET REILLY | THE WICHITAN
Students walk to Sunwatcher Plaza for the March for Peace event held by MOSAIC Cross Culture Center, Oct. 14.
