9/11 commemorations on the IU campuses

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IU Bloomington
The Choral Department of the IU School of Music is inviting members of the campus and the Bloomington music community to join in a public worldwide commemoration of Sept. 11 by singing Mozart's Requiem. The event is part of the worldwide commemoration of all those lost and those who helped others on Sept. 11, 2001. Performances of Mozart's Requiem will be held in every time zone.

The Bloomington local effort will begin at 8:46 a.m. in Recital Hall of Merrill Hall on the IU Bloomington campus. Singers wishing to participate should be in Recital Hall at 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 11).

No music will be provided at the hall. Singers owning scores should bring their own music. Music students who do not own scores may check out scores from the Music Library, beginning Tuesday (Sept. 10), as long as there are some available. Scores will not be available to check out on Wednesday. Those who do not own or have access to scores may download or print from the Web a free public domain score at www.cpdl.org. Acrobat Reader is required to download the score. At the Web site, do a search for "Mozart" and "Requiem" and the page will open. Each movement should be downloaded individually.

The Recital Hall balcony initially will be reserved for listeners, but priority will be given to those intending to sing. Several informal rehearsals for those wishing to learn the notes for the piece will be scheduled around the school during the course of the day on Monday and Tuesday. Call 812 855-9846 for more information. Everyone is welcome to come and sing.

Later in the day, the campus will hold a remembrance ceremony at 4 p.m. at Showalter Fountain near the IU Auditorium, to reflect upon the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the aftermath. As part of the ceremony, three IU students will be awarded 9/11 scholarships. The scholarships are funded by money raised through the IU Student Foundation and will be presented to memorialize those with ties to IU who were victims of the terrorist attacks.
The ceremony will include music by the IU School of Music and the African American Arts Institute. Readings and remarks will be provided by faculty and student representatives. IU President Myles Brand and Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm also will address the gathering. Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez and Brian O'Neill, president of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, are scheduled to attend.

"It is important for us to come together as a campus and a community to share our thoughts about these tragic, life-changing events," Brand said. "Our students, faculty and staff joined in a shared sense of humanity and purpose in the days and weeks following Sept. 11. We intend to renew that spirit on this anniversary."

The remembrance ceremony will be only one of many campus and community events that will be held. Among those events will be a School of Education Webcast of a previously taped panel discussion, from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m., chaired by University Dean Gerardo Gonzalez, on the implications of 9/11 for education; and a student-led discussion on world issues after 9/11 to be held at 7 p.m. at the Neal Marshall Center. A candlelight march from places around the community will converge at Dunn Meadow at 8 p.m.

Classes will be held as scheduled on Sept.11. Faculty members are being encouraged to accommodate students who wish to participate in the 4 p.m. ceremony and to incorporate discussions and activities related to the anniversary into their classrooms that day.
A listing of campus and community events surrounding the 9/11 anniversary: http://www.iub.edu/news/sept11.html#campus

IU East
IU East students will share their reflections at a ceremony Wednesday (Sept. 11) at 7 p.m. on the patio of Whitewater Hall. The campus will be lit with 700 luminaries throughout the walkways of campus that evening.

A writing contest sponsored by the IU East Pioneer Press and the Journal of Student Writing has gathered student fiction, poetry, personal reflection and visual art commemorating Sept. 11, 2001. All students who have submitted work will be recognized, and the outstanding submission in each category will be announced at the ceremony. Outstanding submissions will be read and those receiving honorable mention will be available in a booklet at the ceremony.

The ceremony, which is organized by Student LEADERS, will include a memorial tree planting and comments from IU East Chancellor David Fulton.

IU Kokomo
IU Kokomo will host a full day of commemorative activities marking the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States Wednesday. The public is invited to attend all events. The observance will begin at 7:46 a.m. local time in Kresge Auditorium with a live feed of television network coverage of the national ceremony in New York City. (The start time marks the precise moment in 2001 when terrorists crashed the first hijacked plane into a World Trade Center tower in New York City.) The feed will conclude at 9:30 a.m.

At 9:45 a.m., a memorial service will be held at the campus flagpole, in front of the Main Building. Honored guests will include representatives of the Kokomo Fire and Police departments, and the Howard County Sheriff’s Department. David Britton will play Taps and Hope Oakes will play the bagpipes. George Ray Goudy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 1152, will present a 21-gun salute to victims of the attack.

Kokomo Mayor James Trobaugh will present a Sept. 11 anniversary proclamation at 2:30 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium. The mayor’s remarks will be followed by a panel discussion exploring issues related to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Scheduled panelists include John Krull, executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, and IU Kokomo faculty members Allen Maxwell and Kasem Kasem. Sue Sciame-Giesecke, interim dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, will moderate the discussion.

A highlight of the day’s events will be two showings of the Oscar-nominated documentary film Promises, scheduled at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. Promises follows seven children living in Jerusalem--some Jewish, some Palestinian–between 1997 and 2000. The film demonstrates how deeply rooted the problems of the Middle East have become and how the broken promises of peace negotiations have crushed the innocence of childhood.

"The organizing committee decided not to go with (a film) directly about Sept. 11," said Amy Graban, assistant professor of communication arts and one of the organizers of the commemoration. "We would like to create a dialogue (about living in times of conflict)." Organizers have scheduled the 106-minute film in a two-hour time block so that audiences can participate in an informal discussion after each showing.

Promises is distributed through the Promises Film Project, a non-profit organization committed to furthering the Middle East peace process through the power of film. "Most of the time when they give the rights to show ‘Promises,’ it is to organizations who are working toward conflict resolution and the peace process," Graban said. "That’s the mood and context that we’re trying to present this in." IU Kokomo is leasing exclusive rights to show the film for the first time in Kokomo, Graban said. Promises has aired on the PBS series P.O.V., but it has not appeared in local theaters, nor is it available on video. The film has dialogue in English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Kasem chairs the IU Kokomo commemoration organizing committee. Other committee members are Penny Cass, dean of the School of Nursing program; Sarah Hawkins, director of student development and campus life; Cathy Hightower, director of alumni relations; Herb Miller, professor emeritus; and Mike Sandy, president of the student body. For additional information, call Hightower at 765-455-9413.

IPFW
What were you doing last Sept. 11, 2001?
That’s a question many people will be asking Wednesday on the IPFW campus. In a joint effort, IPFW and NBC 33 will present a live interactive program, America Remembers: A Local Perspective, from 5:30-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the Walb Student Union Ballroom.
Kathy Baugh, news director at local NBC-affiliate Channel 33, said a panel of local experts will provide a live forum to address 9/11 issues, which include homeland security, airline/airport security, Muslim relations and issues concerning religion, faith and patriotism.
IPFW Chancellor Michael Wartell will be on the panel to answer questions about homeland security.

Baugh says the format of the program will include a moderator who will address a subject and introduce a preproduced story or videotape element from an NBC Channel 33 News or NBC network reporter. The moderator will then pose questions to the panel. Questions will also be taken via the Internet and from the audience. Questions may be sent to Baugh by E-mail to feedback@nbc33.com.

Members of the audience will be able to write down questions and turn them in before going into the ballroom. The ballroom will open to the public at 4:30 p.m. Free parking will be available in all lot and garage spaces, except for those spaces designated for faculty and staff. For more information, contact Susan Alderman at 260-481-6165.

IU Northwest
Faculty, staff, students and the community are invited to gather around the flag pole in front of Hawthorn Hall at 8:30 a.m. for a moment of silence and the lowering of the flag to half staff. Those on the campus in the evening are invited to gather at the same location at 5:30 p.m. for a moment of silence and the raising of the flag.:

Faculty, staff, students and the community are welcome to sit in on the classes listed below:

Wednesday (Sept. 11) from 5:30-8:30 p.m.: The Introduction to Microeconomics class will discuss economic changes after 9/11. Hawthorn Hall 400 - S. Bhatia.

Wednesday (Sept. 11) from 6:30-9:15 p.m.: Human Behavior and Social Environment class
will discuss trauma and crisis intervention. Tamarack Hall 60 - M. Arnd-Caddigan.

Wednesday (Sept. 11) at 7 p.m.: Applied Marketing and Research class will discuss changes in advertising after 9/11 (recommended for graduate students only).
Hawthorn Hall 219 - C. Milbourne.

Thursday (Sept. 12) from 8:30-11 a.m.: Elementary Social Studies Methods class will discuss the use of editorial/political cartoons to study and understand9/11. Raintree Hall 151 - D. Holliday.

Thursday (Sept. 12) from 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.: Introduction to Business class will discuss the effects of 9/11 on business. Hawthorn Hall 410 - J. Guziewicz.

Thursday (Sept. 12) from 1-2:15 p.m.: History of Terrorism class will have a day of reflection and information about 9/11. Raintree Hall 215 - M.Andrejevich (please note, class is at capacity; visitors are welcome but will have to stand).

Thursday (Sept. 12) from 2:30-3:45 p.m.: Introduction to Mass Communication class will have a day of reflection and information about 9/11. Raintree Hall 223 - M. Andrejevich (please note, class is at capacity; visitors are welcome but will have to stand).

A patriotic quilt in remembrance of Sept. 11 is on display at the IU Northwest Art Gallery. In addition, the campus has reserved Conference Center Room 110 on Sept. 11 for meditation and reflection.

IUPUI
Because no single time has been designated as a national moment of silence, IUPUI Chancellor Bepko is encouraging students, staff and faculty on the Indianapolis campus to observe a minute of silence at noon Wednesday (Sept. 11). Other times could have been chosen, but the selection of noon will enable most members of the campus community to participate.

A special bus stop and three designated shuttle buses will be designated on Sept. 11 to transport members of the IUPUI community to Conseco Fieldhouse to participate in the city-wide blood drive. From 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., three buses decorated in red, white and blue will pick up people on New York Street, just east of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs' drive, near the Fountain at Wood Plaza (a special tent will be used to designate the bus stop). The buses will run continually between the IUPUI campus and Conseco Fieldhouse, transporting people interested in donating blood. IUPUI Parking Services is a primary supporter of the outreach initiative. For more information about the city-wide blood drive, go to: http://www.indygov.org/mayor/indyremembers/sept11.htm

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery will present a public address on non-violent conflict resolution from 7:30-9 p.m. in Lecture Hall 100. What kind of people are we going to be in face of terrorism? The monks will address this issue, and present their views from the perspectives of Tibetan Buddhism.

Additionally, several student organizations are planning an interfaith prayer service that will be conducted from 12:15-12:30 p.m. at the fountain adjacent to University Library. The Student Design Organization will host a “creative expression” from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., in which students will produce watercolor memorials in front of University College. At 1 p.m., a regularly scheduled class from the IUPUI School of Music will explore how popular music has responded to the events of Sept. 11. This class will meet in the lower level of University College and will be open to the public.A monthly series of educational forums also is being developed to educate and inform the campus community about issues related to the tragedy. These forums, to be scheduled throughout the fall, will follow the theme: “A Year Later: Continuing to Make Meaning Out of Tragedy.”

IU South Bend
Students, faculty and staff at IU South Bend are planning a candlelight vigil, the dedication of a peace pole and four lunchtime conversations as a four-day memorial to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. All events are open to the public.

The candlelight vigil is scheduled at 6:30- 7 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 11) on the Schurz Library Plaza. The vigil will feature prayers and reflections by Rabbi Steven Leapman, the Rev. Charles Lavely, Imam Mohammad Sirajuddin and the Rev. Tina Velthuizen. The ceremony also will feature a lighting of candles and dedication of a peace pole by IU South Bend students. The peace pole is a 10-foot tall, six-sided wooden pole with the words "May Peace Prevail on Earth" painted onto the pole in 12 languages.

The IU South Bend peace pole will feature the verse in the Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Potawatomi, Serbo-Croation, Spanish and Swahili languages. The pole will be located near the library and will be surrounded by a garden of native Indiana plants.

The lunchtime conversations will be from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday through Thursday (Sept. 9 12) in the cafeteria. Parking is available at Esther and Hildreth streets. Those attending may bring their lunch or purchase one at the cafeteria.. The conversations begin Monday (Sept. 9) with a discussion on student responses to the attacks. Facilitated by Charlotte Pfeifer, director of student and community relations, the panel will include student government leaders, ROTC students and international students.On Tuesday ( Sept. 10), "Terrorism and the Middle East" will be the topic of conversation. Linda Chen, professor of political science, and Rebecca Torstrick, professor of anthropology, will lead the discussion.

The discussion on Wednesday (Sept. 11) will explore the issues of "Civil Liberties/Domestic Policies." Political scientists Elizabeth Bennion and John Lewis will lead the talk on how Sept. 11 has affected civil liberties and how domestic policies have changed.
On Thursday (Sept. 12), the final conversation will focus on "Coping with Life after Sept. 11." The discussion on coping and stress will be lead by Bruce Cook, director of the IU South Bend Counseling Center.

IU Southeast
At 12:15 p.m., IU's New Albany campus will conduct a memorial service.

A representative of the Christian Student Fellowship will speak and Taps will be played on trumpet as the American flag is raised. The Floyd Central High School color guard, directed by Dick Joslin, will also participate in the program. A moment of silence will be observed and the pledge of allegiance will be recited.

Scheduled to attend the program are New Albany Police Chief David Graves, Floyd County Sheriff Randy Hubbard and Maj. Frank Becht of the New Albany Fire Department, along with other firefighters and police officers.

For more information, contact IU Southeast's Office of Campus Life at 812-941-2333.