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Kendall Michaels was disturbed by years of anti-Semitic incidents she witnessed as a student at the University of Iowa.
She and other Jewish students recall being asked where their horns are, being afraid after a local Jewish student organization was vandalized during a Shabbat dinner, and, in Michaels case, seeing a fellow student s Snapchat story with a swastika and the caption I hate all Jews.
This school year, Michaels decided to turn to her peers for help in making the campus more welcoming for Jewish students. She found allies in the student government, and they came up with a plan to add a representative on that body who could advocate for the university s roughly 600 Jewish students.