2016-09-12 by The Michigan Daily

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Monday, September 12, 2016

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Remembering September 11 fifteen years later

Illustration and Design: Ava Weiner

Thoughts from campus: SEE PAGE 2A

2,977 flags line the Diag: SEE PAGE 2A

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Members of the ROTC stand guard at the flagpole on the Diag on Sunday.

Bell Tower concert: SEE PAGE 3A

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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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The School of Music, Theatre, & Dance hosted a noontime carillion recital in remembrance of 9/11 at Burton Memorial Tower on Sunday.

Terrorism abroad has not discouraged students from travel abroad programs

Fifteen years later, effects of 9/11 still apparent for University students

Summer attacks influence international experiences

Lasting impacts remain in public perception

JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Editor

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

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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,

number of students that went abroad during 2015-16 school year

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, See ABROAD, Page 7A

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ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

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

“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.” 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 See SEPTEMBER, Page 7A

Knighted Behind another strong offensive showing, the Michigan football team cruised to a 51-14 win over Central Florida, improving to 2-0 this season.

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NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A ARTS......................5A

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