– Heights, May 27, 2021 –
The president of Boston College Republicans, Thomas Sarrouf, spoke at a Climate Justice of Boston College (CJBC) protest in response to the administration’s handling of racial, gender, LGBTQ+, and environmental issues on campus—which he said was too many issues.
“Here we have a number of angry warriors fighting a crusade against the administration, for what exactly?” Sarrouf, Lynch ’22, said. “The email said you could protest anything. Honestly, what? When you protest everything, you end up protesting nothing, and you undercut the moral force of any argument that you’d give at any real injustice.”
The May 7 protest on the Quad centered around student speeches and came after an off-campus protest advertised—but not officially hosted, according to club leaders—by CJBC, was canceled on May 3.
On May 3, Associate Vice President for Student Engagement and Formation Tom Mogan emailed leaders of CJBC early in the day, writing that the organization’s University-sponsored status could be revoked if it moved forward with the demonstration.
All events sponsored by student organizations must be approved by the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), Mogan wrote in the email. He also wrote that off-campus events would not be approved by OSI due to concerns surrounding COVID-19.
Audrey Kang, CJBC vice president and MCAS ’22, said at the May 7 protest that the administration is often uncooperative with CJBC.
“What I want to talk about specifically, once again, right from the heart, is the administration’s inability to work with us,” Kang said. “Now this can apply to every single issue on campus [that] gets shut down at every corner. And I think it comes to this point where you don’t know what there is left to do.” Read More / Image by Aneesa Wermers
Victor Stefanescu 