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Community learns of, mourns losses By Ellen.Bombela @iowastatedaily.com About 50 students, administrators, faculty and community members gathered Monday evening in the Campanile Room at the Memorial Union for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The event started with a brief speech from Brad Freihoefer, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services. Freihoefer explained what the goal of the evening was. “We planned this event not as a presentation where we talk to you, but as a community dialogue where we can mourn together and work together to make our community safer for, and more inclusive of, trans people,” Freihoefer said. “Tonight we will memorialize individuals who lost their
lives because of anti-transgender violence.” Clare Lemke, Student Service specialist, then gave a brief speech about a few ground rules for the evening. Some of the ground rules Lemke talked about included selfcare, respecting and believing each other and avoiding misgendering and outing. After the initial speeches were given, the audience was broken up into small groups. Each small group was given a card with a name of a transgender that was murdered within the past year. The cards included the personal stories of victims, including information about them, their murder and other information. Groups were then asked to volunteer to share their victim’s story with the large group, and their feelings they had after learning more
about the person. After the discussion ended, the memorial portion of the event began. About 80 names of those who had been murdered within the past year were read off by volunteers, along with their cause of death and location. The reading of the names was followed by a moment of silence. To end the event, small groups were asked to come up with ways they could take action to help support transgender people and end the violence against them. Some of the groups’ ideas included spreading awareness, having positive media, educating people about transgender people and creating safe spaces. “I don’t have a lot of education about gender issues,” said Andy Hittenmiller, junior in sociology, after the event. “I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. The information
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A student listens to a small group discussion at the Trans Day of Remembrance event in the Memorial Union. The event took place to mourn lost lives.
provided tonight and everything just makes me think that the issue is even bigger than what is pro-
vided here. It feels like this is just the tip of the iceberg about how many things are under-reported.”
Students share sympathy
ISU community members gather in support of Mizzou By Ashley.Green @iowastatedaily.com
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owa State’s multicultural groups joined forces inside Beardshear Hall on Monday afternoon to show their support of the students at the University of Missouri in the ISU Supports Mizzou protest. The Black Graduate Student Association, Black Student Alliance, African Students Association and the Latino Graduate Student Association were among the groups present. This was done in support of the AfricanAmerican students at the University of Missouri who have faced continuous discrimination. Recent events at the university have prompted Tim Wolfe, system president, to resign. More than 100 students, faculty and others gathered in the main entrance of Beardshear to listen to those who have felt oppression at Iowa State similar to feelings at Mizzou. Beginning in September, racial incidents at the University of Missouri have prompted students to organize and protest. It all started with a Facebook post by Payton Head, Missouri Student Association president. The widespread post described a group of young people yelling racial slurs at Head, and his frustration with bigotry at Mizzou. Tension at Mizzou continued to build throughout the semester, including: a homecoming incident involving a drunken white man insulting a group of protesting students, who then continued to protest by blocking former president Wolfe’s car to get his attention; three “Racism Lives Here” rallies; a list of eight demands that included the removal of Wolfe as president and an increase in African-American faculty and staff; a graduate student’s hun-
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Students, staff and community members meet for a rally Monday evening in Beardshear Hall. The rally was to show solidarity with the students protesting racism at the University of Missouri, and called for action and reform from the ISU administration.
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