Hope for Tomorrow: In Memory of September 11,
2001
Hope is the heart that has compassion.
Joy is all hands joined together.
Love is the light that frees all people.
Now is the time for peace.
Joan Kelley ’00
The following is a list of events at Pine Manor College
memorializing 9/11. You are welcome to participate in any of these
events as they fit around your regularly scheduled classes and commitments.
Please remember that all regularly scheduled classes and activities
will be held.
- 8:30 a.m.
The flag is lowered to half-staff
Anyone who wishes to use this as a moment of reflection is invited
to be present as the flag is lowered.
Beginning at Noon and continuing throughout the day:
Tables will be set up in the Campus Center throughout the afternoon.
The Pine Manor College Community is invited to use the available
art supplies and participate as your schedule permits.
- Make a flag from your country of origin to be posted around
the Ashby Campus Center Atrium
- Make a paper lantern that will be used to hold the candles at
a vigil to be held in the evening. Campus Center Atrium
- Sign the banner that declares: "We Support a Hate-free
School and Community." At the end of the day we will hang
this banner from the Campus Center balcony. Campus Center Atrium
- "A message to the world" - write a message of peace
and hope to the world on any of the three maps displayed throughout
campus. There will be a map in the Ashby Campus Center, one in
the Ferry Administration Building and one in Halden Hall.
- Revolving "Hot topics" - Campus Center Meditation
Room
All members of the Pine Manor College Community are invited to
share their ideas and opinions. Feel free to stop in for all or
any portion of these conversations, as your schedule permits.
- 1:00 p.m.
Nationalism/Patriotism: Unifying of Divisive
- 2:00 p.m.
Thoughts on the University of North Carolina @Chapel Hill choosing
the Qu'ran as the school-wide required reading
- 3:00 p.m.
Racial/ethnic profiling: Security or loss of Civil Liberties.
- 5:30 p.m.
Gather in the Ashby Campus Center Atrium for a community "moment
of silence".
Candlelight vigil to the Circle (in front of the Ferry Administration
Building)
- 7:00 p.m.
Community Discussion - Presidents' Dining Room
September 11, reflecting on a year of events, politics and policies:
some assessment of the first year of the "war on terrorism"
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