Thursday, September 13, 2001

Campus activities resume with reflection on terrorist attacks
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

With a day to ponder the severity of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, students seemed depressed and in surreal disbelief as campus activities resumed Wednesday morning, said Meagan Mullin, a sophomore pre-major.

Caleb Williams/SKIFF STAFF Molly Beuerman, a freshman physical therapy major, places a rose in Frog Fountain after the prayer vigil Tuesday.

“The first time I saw the plane hit the World Trade Center, I didn’t think it was real,” she said. “But after the news played the footage over and over, I realized thousands of people just died. I think people are realizing that what happened is something that we will remember forever and tell our children about.”

Faculty, staff and students across TCU had different ways of reacting to Tuesday’s attacks.

“Some people in my class were making jokes about what happened and it really upset me,” said Lee Taylor Evans, a junior art history major. “I don’t think they realized what a huge deal this is for our country.”

Ken Stevens, a history professor, said he briefly talked about the events in his classes, but he did not dwell on them. He said the situation is something Americans have to learn to endure, and it shouldn’t stop students from their everyday business.

Other professors incorporated the events into their lectures. Blake Hestir, assistant philosophy professor, and Nadia Lahutsky, religion professor, both said their lesson plans were related to the attacks.

Hestir said his lecture was connected, but he didn’t want to put too much emphasis on what happened because his students had different attitudes.

Piper Huddleston
k.p.huddleston@student.tcu.edu