Monday night during the annual Festival of Holiday Lights celebration, better known as Luminaries, more than 60 Elon students and staff members held a silent protest of the grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male in Ferguson, Mo.

"We were angry. We were frustrated that this continually happens and immediately we started thinking, 'What can we do? We need to do something. What can we do here on campus?'" sophomore Kennedy Ojimadu said.

Ojimadu joined junior Jonathan Glover and five other students to start organizing Monday night's protest.

"We walked out with about 30 people. We walked back in with about 60," Glover said.

Many participants wore black and held signs with phrases like "Black Lives Matter," "It Could Be Me" and "Stand for Justice." In the middle of the protest was a large banner reading "Who's Next?"

"It's not just people of color who feel this way: it's all kinds of people who feel and realize this is a problem in our country and want to voice that on our campus," Ojimadu said.

The protestors walked out of the Carlton building around 6:50 p.m., after the Festival of Lights started. They stood on the lawn between the Alamance building and Haggard Ave., silently lighting candles and holding their signs, before moving across the street to stand in front of the Moseley Center, as the holiday lights turned on.

More students and staff left the luminaries celebration to join the protest, including University Chaplain Jan Fuller.

"I wanted to acknowledge that whatever was being done was important and valuable and that I want to honor it," Fuller said. "So I came down to see what it was and then I saw a sign that said 'Stand With Us' and I thought, 'Yeah, I want to do that.' So I found a hole and I stood in it."

The protest lasted roughly one hour and protestors were almost completely silent the whole time.

This movement followed the Campus Conversation on the Ferguson Decision held earlier Monday night in the Lakeside meeting room, where the Elon community was encouraged to share their thoughts on the events happening in Ferguson.

Leaders of Monday night's protest said more events protesting the injustice in Ferguson are still to come.

"It's not something that we are going to let go. It's not something that is just going to fall by the wayside," Glover said.

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