After walking the yard, I went to the library and hand-wrote a flyer: IF YOU ARE ANGRY ABOUT RODNEY KING AND LATASHA HARLINS, MEET ME IN FRONT OF THE MAIN DINING HALL TOMORROW AT 12PM. Then I went to visit with one of my favorite office ladies in the admissions building and asked her to make a few copies. She made them but told me if I didn’t have them stamped by the dean’s office, then they would just pull them down. I marched to the dean’s office, where I got a song and dance about preapproval and paperwork. I took my fliers and headed back to the dorm, remembering one of my elders’ advice:
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