University Student Protests Mandate With Grapefruit ‘Mask’ One Day, Bucket on His Head Another

Kamil Bachouchi, a student at Wilfrid Laurier University, is protesting the school's mandatory masking policy in class by wearing a hollowed-out grapefruit. Courtesy of Kamil Bachouchi

Kamil Bachouchi, a 21-year-old philosophy student at Wilfrid Laurier University, showed up to class on Nov. 15 wearing a “mask”—or rather, a hollowed-out grapefruit.

It covered his nose and mouth, complying with the mandatory mask policy put in place for the fall university term. This is just the latest way Bachouchi, who plans to go to law school, is peacefully protesting an educational environment in which, he says, students “aren’t allowed to think or debate,” but are forced into “compliance.”