commended both junior Anna Gardener,a primary organizer of the gun control protest and teach-in, and the student groups who hosted the speaker, IC Republicans and Young Americans for Liberty.

Pringle also said the administration met with the student groups who hosted the speaker prior to Pratt visiting campusand said she believes the entire experience served as a learning opportunity for them.

“They had not done their homework necessarily on who the speaker was until we sat with them and said, ‘Are you aware of whom and what the speaker is about?’ and it was a very interesting learning moment, I think, for those students as well,” Pringle said.

Senior Caleb Slater, president of IC Republicans, said in an interview with The Ithacan that his organization had extensive discussions about bringing Prattalumni and current students to give people a chance to further express their opinions.

Rachel Fomalhaut, chair of the Contingent Faculty Union and lecturer in the Department of Writing, also presented at the meeting, discussing the PFL law, a New York State law that will take effect Jan. 1, 2018.

The law guarantees paid family leave to most private-sector employees except educators, which the college is exempt from covering under the law, as previously reported by The Ithacan.The council plans to invite Brian Dickens, vice president of Human Resources, to speak at the next meeting about cost estimates if the college were to provide benefits covered under the Paid Family Leave law for faculty.

Swensen said that Dickens told him that the college is going to have its own alternative program