Sunday, May 29th 2005
Patriot in the News
The Sacramento Bee has a great piece on how 9/11 affected the lives of our most recent graduates. It’s framed by a profile of Kelly Coyne, our editor-in-chief for the 2004-2005 school year. Read the whole thing [Bugmenot]. Here’s a bit:
Kelly Coyne, like most of us, remembers exactly where she was when news of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, shook the world - and woke her up….
“I remember waking up because you heard all the phones ringing down the hall; all the moms were calling,” she says. She and other students on her floor crowded into the room of a student who had a TV. “We saw the second plane hit the building on live TV,” she says quietly. “It was really scary.”
On that day, Coyne became a member of the “Class of 9/11,” the group of students whose start of college was shadowed by the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Four years later, Coyne and many others in the class are graduating.
And a little more:
“I think 9/11 put the focus on service,” says Linda Hughes, program manager for the Internship and Career Center of the University of California, Davis.
Shortly after the attacks, there was an increase - about a doubling, Hughes says - in participation in the center’s Human Corps Community Service Program. The levels of participation have remained fairly high, though often inspired by different catastrophes, including the Asian tsunami last December.
Back in 2001, Coyne was moved to action and displays of patriotism by 9/11, particularly because so much campus reaction was openly critical of the United States.
