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September 10, 2004 > Opinion > Students should stop for 9/11, especially seniors

Students should stop for 9/11, especially seniors

By The Rice Thresher Editorial Staff | Thresher Editorial Staff

It has been three years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and for members of the senior class, tomorrow will bring memories of Rice’s response to the tragedy. As new college students, we were less than one month removed from the comforts of home at a time when family was especially important. Even for life-long Texans with no connections to New York, Washington, D.C., or Pennsylvania, the attacks were sobering and overwhelming. The campus came together to support those who were affected because they were far from home, because they had friends in one of the cities, because they knew someone whose parents were there or because they had lost a family member. We all went through it and went through it together. Directly affected or not, we have common memories of that morning and its aftermath. Since then we have observed memorial services, vigils, blood drives and remembrances of the one- and two-year anniversaries. Because there will be little formal observance of the anniversary of the attacks on campus this year, students will commemorate 9/11 individually. We hope that the campus community will prove as supportive an environment tomorrow as it was three years ago, and that students will have the chance to reflect on 9/11.

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