A video taken by a student in Erika López Prater’s art-history class offers a different account of how the adjunct professor cautioned students in an online lecture. Her PowerPoint displayed a preview image of the Prophet for approximately two minutes before López Prater started a warning for Muslim students. Speaking to The Oracle and Sahan Journal, students from the class shared new details about how the incident affected them.

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Anika Besst is a senior at Hamline University pursuing double majors in journalism (with an emphasis of social justice) and theater arts. She is the editor-in-chief of Hamline’s student newspaper, The Oracle, where she has worked in the News section for three years. She graduated from Coon Rapids High School in 2019 and has been studying at Hamline since.