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Tragedy
takes toll on campus
The
terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center has
directly touched the UB campus.
A co-op student from India who is
getting his master's in computer science and the adult
sons of a business school professor were still among
the missing days after the destruction of New York's
World Trade Center.
UB, with more than half of its students
coming from overseas, felt some other effects. Some
international students were afraid to leave campus for
fear of retaliation. There was one instance where students
going to a grocery store were called names.
At a campus meeting and interfaith
prayer service, thoughts and prayers turned to the victims
in the UB family and to all those others and their families.
The hundreds gathered at the meeting
were reminded to rise above the violence of the terrorists.
No religion condones this, a Muslim minister reminded
the group, noting that violence keeps the gates of afterlife
closed.
President Neil Salonen noted that
the students and faculty were able to celebrate their
diversity in accepting one another as caring, thoughtful
people. He urged everyone not to give up on respecting
others. He said each person should take their own steps
within themselves to break the chain of violence.
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