During her recent campaign trail in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stopped by Medgar Evers College to hold a town hall meeting discussing women's issues.

Her visit to the Medgar Evers College campus took most of the campus by complete surprise; no one knew she was coming. Those who had prior knowledge of the event did not inform the campus at all. Some people heard about it a few hours prior on News 12, a local news station in Brooklyn. Others heard from other people off campus who happened to be watching the news, or stumbled upon it on the internet. Either way, for some reason, the town hall meeting at Medgar Evers College had a "hush, hush" quality about it, despite several news outlets being present.

Many students, faculty, and other people from Medgar Evers College were not able to get in to see the town hall. I was lucky enough to have heard about it early enough to make a beeline for the Carroll street campus building where it was held. I was one of the last people to get in. "I found out an hour before, and then after waiting for two hours in the cold, I left," said one anonymous faculty member. "Definitely something is wrong with this picture; how is it I teach at Medgar Evers College and I couldn't get in?" Many people were later told the town hall meeting was not "a Medgar function," despite it taking place on the Medgar Evers College campus. Basically, Yvette Clarke, and the other Brooklyn public officials who helped to organize the town hall on Hillary's behalf, rented out Medgar Evers College without inviting the campus to be a part of the experience.

The line seemed to be mix of some students of MEC, press that didn't know they didn't have to wait on line, and most of all, members of the community not necessarily affiliated with MEC. Many people knew each other on the line, but as for as I could tell, Medgar students were few and far between. There were also a few protesters, seemingly of Haitian descent. They halfheartedly chanted that Hillary's decisions have led to the state which Haiti is in currently. There were only a few, maybe five or six, and they were not fully active in their protests.

Of course, everyone who was able to enter the town hall was searched by Secret Service, but they weren't quite as widespread as the Bernie rally in the Bronx. They were perfectly respectful.

The event was held in the gymnasium. There was material placed on the floor that spanned the entire room, most likely to protect the many video cameras present. There was also a small podium toward the back where Mrs. Clinton and other speakers would be speaking, I assumed. There were certain areas designated with chairs that certain people sat in; they were the people from Hillary's camp and a few of the Medgar faculty (some of the President's cabinet, a few professors, and a few members of the student body government). I find it interesting that a few members of the student body and faculty were given "special privilege" to have assigned seating, while the rest of the campus was not even informed the event was occurring, but I digress.

A few people spoke prior to Mrs. Clinton. Most of it entailed their absolute confidence in what Mrs. Clinton represents, and that she will adequately represent women if she becomes President. Some of these speakers were Brooklyn-elected officials, while some of them represented organizations. I also noticed that the music playing during breaks was definitely geared towards women. There were "girl-power anthems," dance music, etc. It must be a stratagem to have music that speaks to the audience you are addressing, as Bernie Sanders did the same thing during his rally.

Mrs. Clinton came out to speak about 20 to 30 minutes after the last speaker; the crowd roared when they saw her. A man kept screaming, "Hillary, I love you!" Overall, the crowd was very happy to receive her. I will say that Hillary looked very good in person. I also liked what she had to say about women's issues, particularly about helping women and people of color with small businesses. Hillary is a great speaker, and by the end of it, the crowd was even happier than when she came in.

After the rally, two reporters came to me and asked what my take was on the town hall. I told them what I thought, and they seemed satisfied. Then I left, also feeling satisfied, but also not-so-satisfied. I have no problem with Hillary, but I have a problem with the way this meeting was held. How can a potential presidential candidate hold an event on a given campus, but is not directly addressing the campus? It is a slap in the face to the student body when someone like Hillary Clinton comes to your school, but is not talking to you. I watched a student say at the door to the rally, "So, if I show my ID, can I come to the rally? It is my school and I feel like I can't go," and the response given to him by some woman, not affiliated with college, was "Why should you get to go? What makes you think you're special?" Well, damn it, he is special! It IS his school the event is taking place in. If this was another school, would students not be given priority there as well? If the town hall was held at Columbia, Harvard, or another CUNY school with a stronger reputation, like Hunter College, would the students still have to fight to get in?

Ultimately, the student body wasn't informed until the day of, and some people STILL didn't know the day after. This calls to question, why exactly did Hillary Clinton come to Medgar Evers College, where the ratio of female to male students is 3:1, and hold a town hall about women's issues? Because it surely wasn't for us students. We didn't even know about it.