In response to yesterday's shootings at a Connecticut elementary school and stabbings outside a school in Chenpeng Village, China, there will be a vigil on Low Steps at 10 p.m. tonight.
Here are a few quotes from attendees:
Katherine Luricella, BC’15 said, “I think it’s easy to want to give up on people and the world. It’s just really important and good to commemorate people that we—or at least I didn’t know.”
Rabbi Yonah Hain of the Office of University Chaplain said, “The contrast to me is so striking, because it’s the holiday season. It’s really shocking and saddening to be burning candles and saying prayers for reasons that are entirely different.”
“Looking around campus and the city, you just never know who’s been affected. Just be kind. It won’t rebuild what’s been lost, a really small thing can make a profound difference.” Peyton Bell, CC‘13 and co-organizer of the vigil.
Maggie Belshe, BC’15, also said that people should be more kind to one another. “These kinds of things derive from pain. Compassion can be a preventative force.”
