Students at Virginia Tech say there are racial issues on campus that are not being addressed. Monday night, they worked to draw attention to the topic.

More than 100 students gathered at Burruss Hall, where many administration offices are, and then marched through campus to Torgersen Hall, where the Board of Visitors meets.

It was to loudly say they don't tolerate white supremacy on campus.

Chants of, "No Nazis, No KKK, No Fascist GTA," were heard as the students marched.

Mary Haugh, a Junior at Virginia Tech, said of the racial issue, "I look around and I see my student demographic, and you can tell immediately that there is a discrepancy between students based on race."

The primary concern, the protestors said, surrounded a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mark Neuhoff, who students said posted white supremacist material on Facebook..

Lauren Malhotra is a Senior at Virginia Tech and co-organized the protest.

She said, "White supremacy is an inherently violent ideology. There just can't be a place for that in this university if we want to be safe, if we want to be healthy, if we want to be focused on the well-being of students."

Virginia Tech President Tim Sands said in October about this issue, "Our Principles of Community reject all forms of prejudice and discrimination and value human diversity. Yet, our Principles of Community and the U.S. Constitution also recognize the importance of free expression."

Monday, Wyatt Reed, who is not a student but lives in Blacksburg, said, "They're sending the message that white supremacy is totally acceptable and completely fine for, not just students but apparently teachers now. I think that's absolutely disgusting, it's morally reprehensible."

The students chanted next to the building the Board of Visitors was meeting in, "Choose a side B.O.V., us or white supremacy!"

They said they want a change in policies against hate speech and crimes, student control over the faculty ethics committee, and more funding for the counseling center. First, however, they want Neuhoff removed from campus.

But not everyone agreed with the protestors. Virginia Tech Senior Caleb Candeto was in the crowd and said Neuhoff's social media posts are Constitutionally protected.

"I see zero race problem on Virginia Tech's campus right now," he said. "I think that, honestly, they're blowing it up, they're trying to get attention, they're trying to create problems here. But honestly, I don't see any problems here, for the most part."

Neuhoff was reached out to Monday night for a response to the protest.

He said in an email, "If I understand correctly, the march was protesting "white supremacy." "White supremacy" is a nonexistent problem at Tech and so the march was a farce. As I have done nothing wrong there is no reason to "remove me from campus." The English department monitors its GTAs, including me, and they also make us show our grading to our mentors to continually improve our skills as instructors. If there was a problem, the department would know about it, and I wouldn't be teaching. There isn't a problem, because I am a fair teacher.

"Nevertheless, because there are so many hateful, bigoted people on the campus who insist on causing an uproar despite the facts, I've decided not to teach next semester. I want to emphasize that I was not forced not to teach next semester, but that there's a better opportunity for me that will hopefully allow people to quiet down. I made this voluntary decision to spare the university any further criticism that they are "protecting white supremacists" (an absolutely stupid notion) and allay the fears that a "white supremacist is grading the papers of persons of color!" (another absolutely stupid notion). I'm not a white supremacist and my wife is Asian, give me a break."

He went on in another email to say the decision to not return to instructing was made long before Monday night's protest.

He said will still be at Virginia Tech, but not as a teacher. He plans to do something else for the department and will still graduate on time, as

a graduate student.

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