On August 4, Nadine Jawad, a
Ford junior at the University of
Michigan, received a text on the
lawn of Magdalen’s campus at the
University of Oxford, holding her
phone in one hand and playing
with a piece of grass in the other.
“God, my phone is blowing up
because of that stabbing,” she said.
“It’s like, I’m fine, mom.”
The incident happened earlier
that day in London, a city an hour
and a half from Oxford by bus. The
perpetrator had knifed victims
indiscriminately
near
Russell
Square. Among the five injured,
one woman — an American tourist
— was killed.
Darlene
Horton,
64,
was
traveling with her husband who
was teaching abroad when she was
killed.
Other American students on the
lawn, sitting next to her, started
checking their phones too,
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AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
The School of Music, Theatre, & Dance hosted a noontime carillion recital in
remembrance of 9/11 at Burton Memorial Tower on Sunday.
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American flags placed by the Young Americans for Freedom mark the 15th
anniversary of 9/11 on the Diag on Sunday.
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Members of the ROTC stand guard at the flagpole on the Diag on Sunday.
Fifteen years later, Sara
Frost, School of Music, Theatre
& Dance senior and New York
native, remembers being picked
up by her father just two hours
after her first day of first grade
began, on September 11, 2001.
Frost was in Manhattan
on 9/11 when the al-Qaeda
terrorist group coordinated a
series of attacks by hijacking
passenger airlines — two of
which hit and later collapsed
the World Trade Center North
and South Towers in New York
City.
Confused and unsure of what
was happening, Frost and her
father went to a local market on
their way home.
“I have a stark memory of
just rows and rows and rows of
empty shelves, which was kind
of crazy — it was only probably
about three hours after the
planes hit, they hit about 9:30 in
the morning — and already the
shelves were just bare,” Frost
said. “In terms of imagery,
that’s something that, just
empty shelves, has stuck with
me because no one knew what
was going on.”
Two thousand nine hundred
seventy-seven people died as a
result of the attacks, including
18 alumni of the University of
Michigan.
“Even those of us who
are new here, recalling our
experience of the national
trauma in other parts of the
country, now share in the
collective bereavement of the
University of Michigan family,”
said then-University President
Mary Sue Coleman at a 2002
ceremony honoring the victims.
Though
the
attacks
happened when most current
University
undergraduates
were in elementary school, the
events still have a lasting impact
— for some, personally, and for
others, as part of broader shifts
in public perception.
“That day has always stayed
really fresh and really kind of
visceral in my mind,” Frost said.
“Even though I was so young,
the images that one associates,
it’s just really right there at the
forefront of my brain, especially
today.”
Beyond the personal, one of
the bigger impacts of that day
was on public opinion.
Following
the
attacks,
University researchers from
the Institute of Social Research
found in their “How Americans
Respond”
survey
that
half
of
respondents
were
more
trusting of the government
in late 2001 than just one
year earlier, helping create
attitudes reflective of increased
patriotism
and
community
among fellow citizens as well.
“The HAR survey results
Fifteen years later, effects of 9/11 still
apparent for University students
Lasting impacts remain in public perception
See SEPTEMBER, Page 7A
JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Editor
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Remembering September 11
fifteen years later
Illustration and Design: Ava Weiner
Italy | 39
855
number of students that went
abroad during 2015-16 school year
501
number of students that
studied abroad in Europe
Spain | 149
United Kingdom | 86
France | 76
Denmark | 40
Germany | 31
Czech Republic | 27
Netherlands | 26
Belgium | 13
Sweden | 8
“Even though I
was so young, the
images that one
associates, it’s just
really right there
at the forefront
of my brain,
especially today.”
Thoughts from campus: SEE PAGE 2A
2,977 flags line the Diag: SEE PAGE 2A
Bell Tower concert: SEE PAGE 3A
Source: Center for Global and Intercultural Study