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NSCDS students line Green Bay Road in protest
Jacqueline Glosniak
Contributing Editor
In a showing of solidarity
with millions of students
nationwide protesting
gun violence exactly
one month after the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas
High School shooting in
Parkland, Fla., dozens of
students and staff members
from North Shore Country
Day School paraded from
behind the classroom walls
to the front of the Winnetka
campus earlier today to
participate in the National
School Walkout event.
At 10 a.m., Middle and
Upper School students
marched in silence to the
east end of campus on
Green Bay Road, hoisting
signs above their heads
displaying messages including
“Stop killing
our generation,” “Never
again,” “Am I next” and
“Enough.”
Following 17 minutes
spent in silence to honor
the 14 students and three
staff members killed in
last month’s massacre,
students shouted chants
for gun reform and safer
schools as local spectators
gathered nearby and
drivers slowed down and
beeped to express support.
In a press release issued
by the school on Tuesday,
administrators at North
Shore Country Day School
acknowledged the walkout
was entirely voluntary and
excused students to participate
in the event.
Glencoe resident Jed
Graboys, a junior who
helped spearhead the walkout
with the Community
Service Club, said he and
several students had been
planning for the school to
participate in a walkout
immediately after the national
movement day was
announced a few weeks
ago. He said in the days
leading up to the walkout,
students held postermaking
activities and the
Community Service Club
led a presentation on why
the protest was necessary.
“Every day, policymakers
make decisions that they
think are the best for our
country, and we as children,
our generation, is unheard,”
Graboys said. “But now, it’s
our time to speak. Now, it’s
our time to demand change,
demand reform and what
we want, and we have to
take that opportunity. We
have to use the platform
we’ve been given and we
have to use that platform
to demand a better country,
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A student holds a sign as drivers passing by beep
their horns March 14, in part of the National School
Walkout movement protesting for legislative change for
gun laws and school safety. JACQUELINE GLOSNIAK/22ND
CENTURY MEDIA
‘Standing together and showing their support’
Loyola students
host walkout to call
for change
Michael Wojtychiw
Sports Editor
On Wednesday, March
14, Loyola Academy, like
many school across the
nation, took part in the
National School Walkout
to bring attention to a unified
call for change in the
way our country addresses
school safety, gun violence
and adolescent mental
health.
At 10 a.m., students who
wished to participate had
two options.
The first option was going
to the football field,
where, when entering the
field, the band would play
“An American Elegy,”
Frank Ticheli’s 1999 musical
composition dedicated
to those who lost their lives
at Columbine High School.
Each student participating
was given an orange name
Assistant Principal Charles Heintz (from left to right),
sophomore Ethan Torain and junior Sophia D’Agostino
read the names of each Parkland victim in the pressbox
of the Loyola football stadium Wednesday, March 14, in
Wilmette. Diane Smutney/Loyola Academy
tag with the name and age
of one of the 17 victims
from last month’s Parkland,
Fla. massacre. After everyone
entered the stadium,
students stood together
around the track and shared
a time of quiet reflection as
the football clock counted
down from 17 minutes.
Each minute, the name and
age of one of the Parkland
shooting victims was read
aloud and the Loyola choir
closed in song.
“The process (of the
walkout) started when the
administration got wind
that students were starting
to band together and do
something about what happened
in Parkland,” junior
Sophia D’Agostino said.
“The weekend after Valentine’s
Day, I, and I think
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Regina walkout promotes
just and peaceful community
Eric DeGrechie
Managing Editor
For Regina Dominican
students Gillian King and
Beth Gillespie, sitting idle
following last month’s
mass shooting in Parkland,
Fla., was just not an option.
“I started seeing people
talking about walking
out on social media and
I thought we have to do
this,” Gillespie said. “As
students, we see school
shootings a lot, but what
we see after is inaction and
apathy to the problem. We
as students have to take this
into our own hands or nothing
will get done.”
King, a senior from Lake
Forest, and Gillespie, a junior
from Chicago, led the
planning of Regina’s participation
in the National
School Walkout Day on
March 14 at the school. The
student-driven exercise began
at 10 a.m. and lasted
for 17 minutes, one minute
for each person killed at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School on Feb. 14.
“The first reaction from
the school when we talked
about doing something was
an undoubtable yes. There
was a lot of talk about exactly
what could be done,”
King said. “Walkouts are
very important for change
and solidarity. We also
wanted to something to put
pressure on Congress.”
Students were dismissed
from class to participate in
four events occurring simultaneously.
In the cafeteria,
students wrote letters
to Congress. In the chapel,
students prayed, reflected
and lit memorial candles.
In the gymnasium, students
signed cards of support for
members of the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High
School communities.
In addition, students
gathered outside on the
Panther Patio, where they
discussed what they were
feeling about the day and
held a moment of silence.
Following the shooting
last month in Florida, students
wore red to school in
honor of the fallen students.
The success of that initiative
helped set the stage for
Wednesday’s, March 14,
events.
“Gillian and Beth put
their passion for this issue at
the forefront. One thing that
always amazes me about
our Regina girls is their
confidence and drive,” said
Eleanor Rich, an enrollment
and recruitment associate at
Regina. “They have an ability
to really put themselves
out there and do something
different. They speak their
minds, state their opinions,
but also have that respected
by the other girls in the
school.”