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On the grass in front of University Hall yesterday evening, a gathering of over 40 students commemorated the tragic death of over 40 different students a week prior, the result of smoke inhalation and candle-inflicted burns.
“One week ago, a brave group of students gathered to protest the deaths of 40 workers in a garment factory fire,” said the one remaining Student Labor Alliance member Gabrielle Rastin, whose face bore several bruises from the bleacher collapse at the previous day’s anti-Adidas demonstration. “We commemorate their sacrifice today by honoring their tradition of lighting commemorative candles, holding them aloft, and eventually dropping them into the dry grass when the hot wax burns our hands.”
The demonstrators then raised their candles in the air for the traditional 10 minutes of silence, wincing slightly as the wax began to drip.
