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An event I didn’t expect was when a student claimed that the lights hanging in the Radnor common room made her uncomfortable. I was not expecting this because I come from a town that consists of a majority of Jewish people and I’ve never encountered someone who was offended by the presence of lights. Also, I see lights everywhere around the holiday season so I assume that everyone was okay with it. Reading this part opened my mind a bit. It goes to show that we must be sensitive to every issue no matter how trivial the issue may seem although many times people slip as as Nkechi did as she was trying to make the space as homey as possible.