One year ago this week, college students around the country were united in prayer and support for fellow students suffering from shocking acts of violence. As when a brother is hurt or a sister slain, university students cried out as a family against the attack at Virginia Tech. Groups appeared online with courageous words of unity and strength among the collective body of higher education, students standing together with their peers. No longer rivals, colleges throughout the nation rose up to encourage a suffering campus.
University staff all over shuddered at the thought, “could it happen here?” As new emergency plans, evacuation routes, and alert systems have emerged and tightened over the past year, let us hope that the response of teams of campus professionals can prevent another painful memory. Let us hope that with wisdom we may foresee danger, and that the good within us will overcome disaster. We remember.
-Teresa Bagamery Clark
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