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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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

