Students and a professor walked out of class March 14 in support of gun control along with thousands across the country.
One month ago, on Feb. 14, a former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida entered the campus and began shooting students with an assault rifle.
A group of students held a moment of silence for the victims of the masacre, one minute for each victim around the owl fountain in the Campus Center Mall.
Following the 17-minute silent memorial students returned to their classes.
Lisa Telesca, an English professor at Citrus, gave students a twenty minute break from class with the option of joining others for the walkout.
Communications professor Meg O’neil said her entire class walked out to participate, except for one international student.
O’Neil asked her students to write their reason for participating after they returned to class.
“I didn’t see many people outside of other classes but I am glad there was at least some level of support,” Tannan Luzzo said.
There were about 40 Citrus college students that protested. Easily a hundred students marched out of classes at Rio Hondo college and Mt. SAC.
Glendora High school senior, Ethan Hermosillo, said “hundreds” of students walked out.
