In its third meeting of the semester, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) convened in Mills Hall on Wednesday night with Senior Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs Jim Hoppe.

BSG President Eisa Rafat ’25 began the meeting with public comment, which centered on the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment and its subsequent aftermath.

Several audience members spoke out about what they felt was mistreatment from the administration and inaction from BSG in holding the administration accountable. Multiple meeting attendees advocated for BSG to send a statement to the student body clarifying what happened in the encampment as well as how administration is conducting the disciplinary process.

One audience member addressed these concerns and urged BSG to release a statement.

Timothy Ignacio ’26, the junior class president, noted that BSG as a whole has not yet been asked to vote on a statement regarding the encampment.

“I think it was just the executive committee [who discussed the statement], because none of us were asked to vote on that,” Ignacio said.

Nyla Danzy ’27, chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, reported that the committee intends to release a statement soon and is taking the time to meet with people and thoughtfully consider its response.

“I was [in Smith] at the beginning of encampment. I was not at the end. I didn’t know what was happening,” Danzy said. “From my perspective, and from my committee’s perspective,… we couldn’t put out a factual statement because we didn’t have the facts. So, I thought … that a delayed response would be better than a quick, less thought-out response.”

In response to an audience question about the recent rise in white supremacist threats in Maine, discussed at last week’s BSG meeting, Danzy also said that she wanted to put out a statement about attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) before the encampment.

“I shouldn’t have to be afraid about my name being attached to DEI because of our federal administration,” Danzy said. “I want to put out a statement about that. I just haven’t had time to put out statements about all of these situations happening at once, but I do want you to know that I see you.”

From there, Rafat thanked the audience members for their comments and called a vote that placed the meeting in executive session, which was not open to the public.