It was supposed to be a silent protest, but for the second week in a row, outraged students made their voices heard loud and clear at Friday’s meeting of the controversial Pacifica Forum.
About 300 students from across the campus community — student unions, Greek Life, the ASUO, the Survival Center, the Women’s Center — showed up at the meeting to protest the forum. In recent months, the forum has been roundly denounced throughout Eugene for hosting what critics call bigoted, hateful and pro-Nazi messages.
Students began assembling in the first floor of the EMU at about 2:30 p.m. to coordinate a march and construct protest signs.
Many in the crowd said the forum was a threat to student safety, especially after last week’s meeting where a forum member made a sexually suggestive comment to a female student.
Read more in Tuesday’s Emerald.
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Hundreds protest Pacifica Forum
January 15, 2010
Ivar Vong
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