"I think it'll work," one worker said as he marched. "It's worked in the past."
As the sun set and the wind began to pick up, Offner urged the onlookers not to leave despite the increasingly inclement weather.
"We need to help protect the students inside who are taking a major risk for a piece of justice in our community," she said, eliciting cheers from the audience.
"It's terrible that it has come to this," she said. "These are terrible problems and we're committed to staying out here to fix them."
In an attempt to link the groups of protesters outside and inside the building, Offner hooked her cell phone up to a microphone so that Molly C. McOwen '02 could speak to the assembled crowd.
As she spoke, McOwen stood in the front window of Mass. Hall and waved wildly at the onlookers.
"Our voices are hoarse and sore but it makes us feel so much more empowered to hear you guys out there," she said.
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