Some Washington University students, like seniors Yaala Muller and Sarah Nesbitt, are not taking the actions of Donald Trump’s presidency sitting down.

The pair organized a student call-in this past week, encouraging fellow students to contact their representatives on key issues. In the first half hour alone of unofficially tabling in the Danforth University Center on Monday, five people had made 30 calls, Nesbitt said, and there have been too many to keep track of since.

Muller and Nesbitt put together a guide, that included scripts, for calling senators and representatives on the issues of Betsy DeVos’ nomination for secretary of education, Jeff Sessions’ nomination for attorney general, the border wall, Trump’s recent executive order on immigration and refugee support, the Affordable Care Act, the Dakota Access Pipeline and taxpayer funding for abortion.

“Following everything that President Trump has been doing and getting angry about it, I was thinking about how important protests are—and how important it is to show up by the numbers and express that—but also about other ways we can express our concerns and push our elected officials to act according to the interests of their constituents, and one of those ways in our great American democracy is to call our elected officials,” Muller said. “We have a ton of students at this school, and we should mobilize them to call our representatives.”

Muller, a resident adviser at Washington University, noted that some of her residents have discussed feeling uncomfortable with other forms of political action.

“People are saying ‘I don’t feel comfortable protesting,’ and I understand. So, if you’re not protesting, what else can you do? In our democracy, [calling] is the most basic thing you can do,” Muller said.

Nesbitt said that she and Muller put this project together on Sunday night in order to show legislators that the student protestors in the streets are the same ones going to the polls.

“Hopefully, there’s a better chance people will listen. And also, we will get to engage more people who don’t feel that it’s their place to engage in specific ways, but we need to have their voices,” Nesbitt said. “This is about all of us. We need strength in numbers; that’s the only thing we have right now…We find solace in solidarity, and we’re bringing that to other people.”

2016 Washington University graduate Kate Needham, currently working with the Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University, called her Kansas City, Mo. and Missouri representatives Senator Roy Blunt, Senator Claire McCaskill and Representative Emanuel Cleaver about the immigration executive order.

“I’m really opposed to the President’s immigration ban; I think it scapegoats Muslim refugees, unfairly blocks legal residents from re-entry and makes us less safe from terrorism rather than more safe,” Needham said. “I’ve never called a representative before, but I think this is a really serious situation and so bizarrely executed by the administration that there could be room to convince conservative senators to oppose it, as [Lindsey] Graham and [John] McCain did.”

Sydney Curtis, a sophomore from North Carolina, has been calling her Republican senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr to ask that they vote against the DeVos nomination.

“I definitely care a lot, specifically about the Department of Education, because I love public schools, and knowing that my senators are going to vote along party lines against the best interest of their constituents makes me very angry. And I have heard calling them is the [thing] that annoys them most so I thought I would go for that,” Curtis said.

Jackson Hammond, a 2016 graduate who now works for an Indiana senator as a legislative correspondent, has been answering calls and writing return letters. He described the past several weeks as “hectic.”

“For DeVos alone, we’re at over 15,000 phone calls and emails on the subject. The phones literally do not stop ringing in our office,” Hammond said. “Our staff assistants, who among other things primarily answer the phones, really don’t put the phones down for nine hours straight.”

Senior Eliana Goldstein, a resident of Boulder, Colo., called Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner to ask them to oppose Trump’s immigration ban.

“Communicating with senators and representatives is what makes our democracy work, at least in theory. I especially wanted to leave messages for Gardner to remind him that he represents a constituency of more than just Republicans, and that he has a responsibility to at least listen to what all Coloradans have to say—not just the ones who share his personal ideological views,” Goldstein said.

She added that it felt important to her to feel politically engaged, even if she wasn’t sure that it would have a real effect.

“I don’t think I’m alone in feeling helpless and unheard right now, and making those calls feels like a positive action, even if they don’t change Gardner’s vote. Yelling into the void is better than not yelling at all, you know?” Goldstein said.