What was painted on the B.U.C.K.S. side of the bridge with the black face crying white tears - it's really hard for a person to say that's not racially motivated.

The representatives from various community groups really pleased me.

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are students, we need to study. We are students, we are liable to be attacked. ... leave that job to the police.

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very influential people within the black community and sat us all down in one room and just had us talk about it, and the black T-shirt idea came out of that because it's very simple - it's very effective, ... And from that, [the message] just spread outward.