Sunday, April 21, 2013

Suspect's University

-"Boston Bombings; Students at Suspect's Campus Express Shock, Relief"
-Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times
-April 21, 2013
-http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-boston-bombings-umass-students-20130421,0,7176563.story
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, the university where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man suspected of being the bomber at the Boston Marathon, was enrolled. When the university was notified that he was the suspect, they evacuated the school knowing he was enrolled there, but was reopened after he had been captured. A school that used to be loud and talkative, was now shy and scared. The lives of these students will no longer be the same, especially for those who had him in their class, or maybe even sat next to him and talked to him on a daily basis, or even if he lived in the same dormitory as they did. Two students who lived in the same dormitory were rudely awakened by a fire alarm, and went to live with their family, considering they were not allowed into their dorms whatsoever. All they wanted was to have life back to the way it was and to finish the semester as quickly and calmly as possible. The school wants to be as comforting to the students as possible. Being a witness to this large of an event must have been extremely traumatizing for the students.

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