An inside look of President's Hall, crowded with AFAM protesters
The dark, gothic arches of SHU’s Presidents Hall carry the reverb of chattering student voices. Junior Nyasia Griffin, an allied health and nursing major with a concentration in social behavioral science and the president of SHU's Black Student Union, stands on the Hall's carpeted stairs, listing off the phone numbers of the various leadership offices on campus to a live Instagram video feed. She’s encouraging students' parents to call them and demand the AFAM program be protected, that the parents “pay too much [tuition] for this to be going on”. The Hall itself is illuminated in part by a stained-glass portrait of the Virgin. The students are preparing to sleep here another night.