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Discuss “Speaking out with quiet voices”

Last Wednesday was the quietest day of the year at 4000 schools across the country. Not because of a natural disaster or a national holiday, the silence was a result of the 500,000 students who participated in the 10th annual national Day of Silence.

The day was one of the largest student-led movements in American history, according to an April 26 press release by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.

However, Wednesday wasn’t the only day last week in which student organizations chose to highlight minority issues on campus. The event coincided with a SALSA-sponsored lecture on immigration last Tuesday and Hillel’s name-reading of Holocaust victims in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week.

ALLIES, the organization that arranged...

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