Monday, September 9, 2002

34 Colleges Announce Events to Mark the Anniversary of September 11 Students will distribute commemorative ribbons at Ashland University, in Ohio, throughout the day on Wednesday; Peter W. Schramm, of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, will give a lecture titled "Fighting for Freedom's Home." Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary, along with the Christian Reformed Church in North America, will hold a "Service of Remembrance and Hope in Solidarity With a Suffering World" on Wednesday. A former military chaplain and church employee, Herm Keizer, who joined volunteers at the Pentagon on the day of the attacks, will speak. Case Western Reserve University has constructed a temporary memorial wall where students and faculty members can gather to share their thoughts on the tragedies. A moment of silence and peace ceremony will be held there on Wednesday morning, following a broadcast of Mozart's "Requiem" Mass as part of the worldwide Rolling Requiem observance. Cazenovia College on Wednesday will hold an interdisciplinary conference titled "The Day Our World Changed: Perspectives on 9/11." Speakers will include politicians, business managers, grief counselors, and artists. Bagpipers will call students and faculty members to a candlelight remembrance ceremony at the College of Wooster, in Ohio, on Wednesday afternoon. Panel discussions will be held later in the evening. At Colorado College, Hanan Ashrawi, a spokeswoman for Palestinian causes, and Gideon Doron, chairman of the political-science department at Tel Aviv University, will be the keynote speakers at a three-day symposium, beginning Thursday, on "September 11: One Year Later." The college will hold an interfaith service on Wednesday. Crichton College will hold a chapel service featuring prayer, a video presentation, and a lecture by Frank Wallace, a flight-operations official with FedEx, on how the attacks affected his role as a pilot. Remembrance ceremonies at DePaul University will include a candlelight vigil on Tuesday evening and a chapel service on Wednesday. Local officials will join students and faculty and staff members of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday for a ceremony of reflection, with choral music and a candlelighting. At Fitchburg State College, students and faculty members will help unfurl a 60-foot-long American flag and then help members of the Fitchburg Fire Department release doves and lay a commemorative wreath. Gregory Newbold, a Marine Corps lieutenant general, and Wayne A. Downing, a retired Army general, will speak at ceremonies on Wednesday at Hampden-Sydney College. The day's events will begin with a performance of Mozart's "Requiem" Mass by the college glee club. Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York will unveil a plaque and dedicate a memorial tree in honor all those lost in the World Trade Center attacks, including four members of the college community. Pete Hamill, an author and syndicated columnist, will be among the speakers at a ceremony on Wednesday at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Mr. Hamill has written for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Esquire. Arun Gandhi, a grandson of the legendary pacifist Mohandas K. Gandhi, will speak at a candlelight vigil on Tuesday at Johnson & Wales University at Denver. In addition to holding observances on Wednesday, Lesley University is exhibiting artwork inspired by September 11 throughout the month. The works on display were created by professors, students, community workers, and therapists. Commemorative events at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus on Wednesday will include a performance of Mozart's "Requiem" Mass and a reading of the names of the student and 12 alumni and 1 student who died in the attacks. Events at Miami University, in Ohio, include a commemorative service, an evening forum, and a candlelight vigil. Empty chairs and an honor guard on a lawn in front of Roudebush Hall will commemorate the four alumni who died in the attacks. Montserrat College of Art will sponsor a lunchtime presentation by a Massachusetts search-and-rescue team about its work at ground zero; poetry readings and a candlelight vigil will be held on Wednesday evening. New Jersey City University will hold its annual convocation on Wednesday. Robert Pinsky, a former U.S. poet laureate, will give the first reading of "9/11," a poem commissioned by The Washington Post. A ceremony at Oregon Health & Science University on Wednesday will include the tolling of a historic schoolhouse bell in memory of those who died in the attacks. At Samford University, an alumnus, John Pruitt, a U.S. Navy captain whose Pentagon office was damaged in the attacks, will speak on Tuesday. Observances on Wednesday will include the dedication of flagpoles installed in memory of the attacks at the request of the student government. Events on Wednesday at Trinity College, in Washington, D.C., include a service for prayer and reflections, student gatherings, and a candlelight vigil. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ceremonies on Wednesday morning will be interspersed with tollings of a campus bell to mark the times of the attacks and in honor firefighters and other victims of the attacks. The keynote speaker at an evening program will be Rajmohan Gandhi, director of the university's Global Crossroads Living and Learning Community and a grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi. At the University of Kansas, bells will toll on Wednesday morning to mark the times of the attacks, and again in the evening to call university and community members to a candlelight vigil. Students, faculty members, and local police, fire, and National Guard personnel will gather for a remembrance ceremony on Wednesday at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. People who attend in uniform will hold placards bearing the names of those killed in the attacks. James Moeser, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will lead an outdoor convocation on Wednesday in memory of the six alumni who died in the attacks. A volunteer fair and a candlelight vigil will be held later in the day. Students and faculty members at the University of Tampa throughout the week are wearing wristbands with the names of the victims of the attacks. Panels and speeches are planned on Friday. At the University of the South, Katherine Avery, a graduate who coordinated volunteer services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in New York City, after the attacks, will speak today. Prayer services and a faculty-panel discussion on "A Liberal-Arts Perspective of a Post-September 11 World" will be held on Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will hold a candlelight procession on Tuesday and is encouraging moments of reflection on Wednesday. Classes will go on as scheduled to emphasize a return to normalcy, with renewed strength and unity. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, ceremonies on Wednesday include a carillon concert and the tolling of a campus bell to mark the times of the attacks. Panels are scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday, and on Wednesday evening, the university chancellor, John Wiley, will join students and faculty members in a candlelight procession to the State Capitol. At Vincennes University, State Rep. John R. Gregg, the speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and a Vincennes alumnus, will deliver a "message of hope" during a ceremony on Wednesday. A municipal police honor guard will present the colors. Weber State University will hold a two-mile freedom walk on Wednesday, followed by a concert and a candlelight vigil. At Yale University, faculty-led discussions and commemorative concerts will take place, along with a campuswide minute of silence, the ringing of the Harkness Tower bells, and a candlelight ceremony. Compiled by Rob Siegel * * * Join an online discussion of how the attacks have affected academe in Colloquy. Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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