Students ran back home to pick up sleeping bags, blankets and pillows, while others remained clustered around the main atrium of the HUB, munching on donated pizzas and amassing other food on communal tables. Joe Brier Students in the HUB hold their hands together in prayer. In the village, there was dancing and singing and free-styling and laughing. Students of different races prayed, exchanged hugs, studied the Bible and even tried to study their textbooks. Early yesterday morning, a ritual emerged.
Common blood flows through common veins and common eyes all see the same. . . .
Richards, like many, tried to fit in some naps between the hourly prayers throughout the night. After black student leaders took control of the event, Mazzaferro stayed on. Brian Jara, a lecturer in women's studies, brought pillows and blankets for Mazzaferro and others early yesterday, but decided not to spend the whole night. Camped out by the HUB information desk, Mazzaferro noticed how representatives from campus groups seemed to occupy different corners of the student union building. At the foot of the main staircase, someone had strategically attached new words to the HUB-Robeson Center dedication plaque in the floor.