Fordham University students and alumni took to the streets last week to demand change in how the Bronx Jesuit school approaches multiculturalism and how it handles acts of racism and bias.

More than 150 students walked out of the Rose Hill campus on Thursday evening, March 9, after a series of hateful messages were reported at Rose Hill and the school’s Lincoln Center Campus.

Taking a page from the Occupy Wall Street movement, students used the “public microphone,” where the crowd repeats what a speaker is saying, to demand that the school’s administration re-examine its current policies on investigating and reporting bias incidents.

“We demand that the Fordham administration reexamine the inadequate protocol to address incidents of bias and sexual violence,” said student Patrice Edwards. “We want an anonymous bias reporting system.”

Edwards, an African-American student, said she also sought racial-sensitivity training for security as well as an open dialogue among students, staff and faculty regarding race, gender and sexual orientation. Students also want additional funding for the school’s Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs and a more diverse administration.

“They (Fordham University) need to put in place policies that deal with racism as hate crimes,” said Beverly Roberts of the Parkchester branch of the NAACP.

Roberts told the Fordham students, “We will continue to support you and whenever you’re having a rally, we will be here to show you the NAACP supports the students of Fordham University.”

Students held their rally a day after meeting with Fr. Joseph McShane, the president of Fordham University. McShane has said the school has reached out to the NYPD’s bias crime unit.

The rally was held in response to a handful of recent incidents. On Feb. 7, a senior reported a racist message was written on her dorm room’s front door. On March 2, a similar hateful message was scratched into a large piece of sheet rock. Two weeks ago, an anti-gay message was found at the school’s Lincoln Center Campus.