English majors, graduate students, and faculty join protest demanding Villanova take action on climate change

Carrying signs saying, "There is No Planet B" and "What I Stand For Is What I Stand On," Villanova English majors, graduate students, and faculty joined the international climate change walk-out on Friday. After chants and speeches, including one by English major Gracie Stagliano, a group of about 150 students, faculty, and local residents marched from the Oreo to Tolentine Hall to deliver their two demands to Father Peter Donohue: that Villanova pledge to move the date for making the campus carbon neutral up to 2030, and that the university enter into a power purchase for renewable energy contract by 2020. Read the Main Line Times report of the protest here.

English major Corina Scott (holding the sign on the right) leads the climate change march