The writer confronts the "criticisms that are often hurled at student organizers: that we're too aggressive, that the administration is trying it's best" (Fraas 684). Fraas says that what they are doing is not personal against Smith, but they are "a product of the ideologies we have been taught to believe are common sense" (Fraas 685). By including this, the writer is using pathos to tell the audience that they will be with them in what they believe in, and that what they should do. Fraas at that point recounts the anecdote about how, "this year, a trans woman [...] was accepted and is now a student here (at Smith). Once at Smith [...] she urged them to accept the gender supplement proposal" (Fraas 685). The writer incorporates this story, using pathos, in the