Auraria Campus students staged a walk out over the confirmation of U.S. education secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday February 7, 2017.

“Out of the Tivoli and into the streets.”

This was one of the chants that rang throughout the Tivoli Student Union, Tuesday afternoon as roughly two dozen Auraria Campus students participated in a student walk out following Betsy DeVos’ confirmation as the 11th U.S. secretary of education.

In an effort to build a community of students who believe that everyone should have access to education, challenge privatization, and oppose actions of the current United States government, Coby Wiksellar a senior at UCD and member of Casa Mayan, explains why the group was there.

Dayna L. Himot aka Dénouement is a staff writer at Metrosphere, Met Media DIME Project Manager, and Met Radio’s resident house and techno DJ. A product of the late eighties and early nineties underground club scene, she considers herself a die hard New Englander. In reality she prides herself in the cultural climate of wherever she is. Her passion for social documentation via sound, prose, and experience was spurred at a young age. With two sons in high school, she now is a junior at MSU Denver minoring in French with a concentration in social documentary journalism.