There is “No Place for Hate” at Jesuit High School. From left: Jesuit science teacher Lori Fasone, who also is coordinator of diversity, juniors Kolby Weber and Andre Nguyen, and Ms. Lindsay Baach Friedmann of the Anti-Defamation League.

For the second consecutive year, the Anti-Defamation League has designated Jesuit as a “NO Place for HATE” high school.

Lindsay Baach Friedmann, project director for the the ADL’s No Place for Hate initiative, presented the school with a banner recognizing the accomplishment at morning assembly on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014.

“I want to thank you, the students of Jesuit High School, for owning your responsibility to be allies and leading the way to effect positive change in attitudes towards each other.”

The Anti-Defamation League was founded more than 100 years ago with the sole mission of securing justice and fair treatment for all.

Accepting the banner for Jesuit were Mrs. Lori Fasone, who is the school’s coordinator of diversity, and juniors Kolby Weber and Andre Nguyen.

Nguyen spoke to his fellow Blue Jays about a recent visit with an African-American World War II veteran, who was told that he and his fellow soldiers couldn’t drink from a water fountain in Tennessee because of the color of their skin. Nguyen also discussed meeting with a group of holocaust survivors.

Based on his meetings, Ngyuen asked his classmates to remember the following messages:

“Pulling someone down will never help you reach the top.”

“Speak loudly because your silence is your acceptance.”

“We are all born equal. There are no White Jays or Black Jays, Latino Jays, or Asian Jays. There is only one type of Jay out there, and that is what we are together as a whole…Blue Jays.”