Candlelight vigil occurs despite weather

“Do not let the rain deter you,” read the blitz from Palaeo­pi­tus to cam­pus, and stu­dents ap­par­ently lis­tened – there was quite a turnout for the 6 p.m. vigil held last night in protest of slurs writ­ten on the win­dows of a Fa­hey-Mc­Clane com­mon room. De­spite the down­pour of rain, dozens of stu­dents and fac­ulty lit their can­dles at Col­lis and made their way across the Green to show sol­i­dar­ity against the dis­crim­i­na­tory re­marks.

My can­dle, which ini­tially wouldn’t light, bravely held out through the rain, the mo­ment of si­lence and the five min­utes of dis­cus­sion of com­mu­nity. Two Palaeo­pi­tus mem­bers thanked the stu­dents, staff, Pres­i­dent Kim and Dean John­son for at­tend­ing the vigil, and asked those pre­sent to per­sist in the task of being their bet­ter selves in the face of in­tol­er­ance.