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Community Members Join Protests at IHS

By EVA G.

The recent rallies and protests at IHS attracted Cornell and Ithaca College students as well as community members. Many of these visitors complained that they were not well received. Some of these protesters violated the school’s visitor policy, provoking the IHS administration to begin monitoring visitors more carefully.

Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a senior at Cornell and an IHS alumna, explained that on October 1, the day of the protest, she and five or six of her classmates from Cornell walked down Gun Hill after their classes and went directly to the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Administration Building without passing through the main office, where visitors normally sign in.

Lumumba-Kasongo stated that, as both an alumna and a member of the community, she had felt obligated to be at IHS. “Cornell and IHS are connected. Events at one affect the other,” she said.

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