Junior Eshawn Rawlley, Communications Director of GW Students For Barack Obama and Vice President of the GW Indian Students Association, addresses the vandalism that took place in the CD/CR office last week.

Despite our recent struggles with hate crime, I remain convinced that our community is an inclusive one, in which people of all threads can be interwoven. Let’s commit ourselves to mending the tears in our own patchwork quilt. Because as long as intolerance serves as an impediment towards a more tolerant society, we must continue to stand united as a community, firm in our resistance of hate wherever we see it and in whatever form it takes.

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