{"id":1767,"date":"1996-11-18T04:34:48","date_gmt":"1996-11-18T04:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2018-10-19T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T01:39:08","slug":"open-mic-against-hate-crimes-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1996\/11\/18\/open-mic-against-hate-crimes-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Open mic against hate crimes held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 18, 1996<\/p>\n<p>Open mic against hate crimes held<\/p>\n<p><i>Comstock House organized an open mic to address the anti-gay message and drawing found on a resident\u2019s dry-erase board. Over 200 people gathered on the steps of Comstock House at 9 p.m., where Comstock\u2019s head resident Brennan Bruss \u201897 made an official house statement to start the night off. In her statement, Bruss referred to the racist drawing in Wilson House the previous month as an additional reason to \u201cwork to resolve this issue as a house and as a community.\u201d After the resident who owned the dry-erase board and Dean of the College Maureen Mahoney had spoken, many other students stepped up to the open mic to address what had happened, some reading poetry or journal entries.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The full Sophian article on the open mic can be found here (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1996.11.21.-Smith-Community-Rallies-to-Confront-Hate-Crimes-1.jpg\"><i>1<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1996.11.21.-Smith-Community-Rallies-to-Confront-Hate-Crimes-2.jpg\"><i>2<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 18, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 18, 1996 Open mic against hate crimes held Comstock House organized an open mic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[74,49],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-74","tag-student-voices","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}