Students rallied next to USC's Tommy Trojan on Thursday to protest the university's decision to ban this year's valedictorian from delivering her commencement speech.'One of the most gifted girls I have ever met,' student Kaiser Kuresi said. 'This university is trying to silence her.'Earlier this week, USC decided to bar the biomedical engineering major Asna Tabassum, who is Muslim, from speaking because of security concerns.
Senior Sabrina Jahan, who is also Jewish, said she has received threats, harassed and received backlash after USC's decision. 'We wouldn't want to give this platform and the highest honor for our university to someone who not only defies the university's values and fails to exemplify those values but actively promotes that kind of hate speech,' she said. Jahan added that she feels less safe at USC.
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