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...Tuesday September the eleventh will no doubt be the formative experience of our college lives—before the year had officially begun, we had already learned more about our country and ourselves than we could have learned from the year’s coursework. The events of September 11th and the following weeks changed the way Harvard students, like all college students, see the world. The way we view America and its actions abroad will be forever altered. We all shed our naivete, and we began to recognize our own vulnerability...
Whispers and worried looks haunted Sever Hall. Its heavy doors opened and closed for thousands of students finding their way to registration packets containing information that would have seemed important a few hours earlier. The effects of September 11th forced Harvard students to become more aware of the world outside Johnston Gate and beyond our own two sandy coasts. As students craved a better understanding of the mentality of our enemies and continued in the search for veritas, enrollment for courses about international conflict and about the Middle East swelled from previous years. The Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department...
...favor of force. The Institute of Politics (IOP) found in its annual Campus Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service survey that 79 percent of students favored military action. While college students have traditionally been more trusting in diplomacy than the nation as a whole, in the wake of September 11th, the gap had shrunk. According to the IOP and an ABC news poll, 76 percent of college students supported military action against nations that assist or sponsor terrorism—close to the 87 percent of the general population that felt the same...
...times—to help the victims of the attacks in person. An outpouring of support for relief efforts by college students came from across the nation. An IOP survey reported that “71% of college students have given blood, volunteered time, or donated money to September 11th relief efforts.” This number dwarfed the 59.5 percent who reported in the IOP’s April 2001 survey that they had been “involved in a community service activity during the past twelve months.” The events of September 11th forced college...
Today, the Class of 2002 graduates from Harvard College as the warm air of a June afternoon glides gently through Tercentenary Theatre. The senior year of these proud graduates may have been scarred—but was not ruined—by post-September 11th concerns. Day-to-day life changed little from years past; Harvard students were not called to serve their country as they were during Vietnam. The year, thankfully, saw no attacks on Boston or Harvard—16 percent of the Crimson survey respondents feared that Harvard might be the target of a large-scale terrorist...