TO THE EDITOR:
I was walking to class today among hundreds of other students like myself, and I came across a huge, strategically placed display of posters supposedly protesting against abortion.
They contained the most gruesome, unnerving photos of holocaust victims, lynchings and dead children that I have ever seen. Upon viewing these images, I had a panic attack in the middle of the quad and missed my class. This is a violation of the basic rights of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in that we should be able to walk to class without being bombarded by violent, triggering images.
It terrifies and infuriates me that this group is allowed to force students to view such brutality as they walk to their classes. I acknowledge that this organization has the right to exercise freedom of speech and expression; however, just as these rights cannot be used to justify verbal acts of racism or misogyny, they cannot be used to justify the terrorizing of the mental health of our students.
Olivia Nieto Rickenbach
First-year
