Our Vital Struggle-Personal Narrative

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On Thursday February the twenty fifth during the tear down of our second stage show Our Vital Struggle, I witnessed Jim Jenkins verbally accost a student. He yelled “Turn that fucking music down” at our sound board operator Marissa Walker. This drove her into the closet where I found her hiding obviously terrified. When I began to talk to Mr. Jenkins he then began to yell at me¸ at which point I asked him into the hall way and told him that it was not acceptable to yell at or bully students and that he needed to calm down or leave. At that point the stage manager came out and ejected Mr. Jenkins because he had scared Marissa walker to tears.

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