Acting on their wish to denounce the creation of a “hate group” on campus, D.C.-based non-profit Center for Community Change developed their very own Change.Org petition geared towards stopping the establishment of the proposed White Student Union.
Their petition, which calls for 1,200 supporters to sign, is a request for newly appointed University President Maravene Loeschke to intervene, bringing to a halt the formation of the White Student Union. According to Alesia Lucas, one of the group’s members, the petition was “set up so that each time someone signed a petition, the President’s office would get an email about it, so even if the president doesn’t know about these petitions already, her secretary definitely does.” Though the Center for Community Change is not associated with Towson University, Lucas believes that since her group “supports low-income people of color in D.C.,” the proposed White student Union’s message would deeply conflict with what they stand for.
