Vol. 127, No. 103 Wednesday, February 28, 2018
OPINION
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Prospective CSU students not penalized for activism By Emma Iannacone @EmmaIannacone
Students and supporters make hearts with their hand while they participate in a student walk out in Old Town Square to call out national gun reform following the Parkland Shooting. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN
High school students advocate for gun reform in walk out By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith
Students from Poudre School District marched out of their classrooms to Old Town Square Tuesday afternoon to advocate for gun reform in the United States following the mass shooting at Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School Feb. 14. Once they reached the Square, the group engaged in 17 minutes of silence, one minute for each of the 17 victims in the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. Volunteers rotated signs with each of the victims’ pictures, names and
ages and held each sign up for a minute at a time. Afterwards, the organizers had everyone in the crowd try to meet 17 new people. Students in attendance represented each high school in the Poudre School District, though most were from Rocky Mountain High School, Polaris Expeditionary Learning School and Poudre High School, where the main organizers were from. Students also travelled from Loveland and Windsor to participate. According to Polaris student
Leif Olsen, almost the entire school participated in the walkout. “Everybody but like five people are here,” Olsen said. “It’s a big school movement, a lot of the teachers can’t legally be involved, but they’re in full support.” Allie Holton, a junior at Poudre High School and an organizer of the event, said she hopes to create a movement. “We are trying to get some sort of change so kids stop dying,” Holton said. “We’ve had our spots taken over. The movie theatre: shootings. Concerts: shootings. Schools: shootings. There’s no safe
place, across the country, that we can all go. Teenagers deserve to feel safe. Teachers deserve to feel safe. Our parents deserve to be able to send their kids to school and not wonder if they’re going to come home.” Holton marched at the front, leading participants for the more than two miles to Old Town with her megaphone. Poudre High School Junior Aly Pillard emphasized how much of a group effort the event was. “It was a huge team effort,” Pillard said. “Each one of us played see GUN REFORM on page 4 >>
Colorado State University announced that admissions decisions for prospective students will not be affected for those engaging in activism in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting. In a tweet sent out Feb. 24, the Office of Admissions wrote that prospective students “can rest assured that disciplinary action as a result of lawful, peaceful student activism will not impact (their) admission decision.” CSU is one of seven Colorado colleges and universities, alongside University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado School of Mines and University of Denver, to announce that if an applicant’s participation in peaceful protests resulted in disciplinary action, it would not be taken into account during admission reviews. “CSU like many institutions - chose to share the university’s position on Twitter where much of the conversation around these issues is happening,” wrote Mike Hooker, CSU’s director of public affairs and communications, in an email to the Collegian. The tweet from CSU’s Office of Admissions was prompted by a request from the National Association for College Admission Counseling to clarify how member institutions would respond to disciplinary action for high school students engaging in political protest and how it may factor into the admission see ACTIVISM on page 4 >>