Originally posted by PA 3L SVT:
The mayor of Philadelphia came on the radio at noon and said the following: "Do not come into Philadelphia today, unless it is absolutely necessary or you are emergency personnel. If you are here and don't need to be, go home now."
I had class at Temple that evening but didn't go. Like I could concentrate on a lecture about finite state machines that evening. School was never officially cancelled but many professors cancelled class on their own. The mayor's words were all I needed, and I wanted to be at home that evening.
Of course, my prof (who is Vietnamese) held class, collected homework, and assigned new homework. All but two students in the class (me and another guy) were foreign Pakistani, Indian, or Chinese nationals, and they all showed up.
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm no racist, but I had trouble accepting this group of people treating Sept 11, 2001 as just another day at school. I no longer attend Temple University, and that was a big reason why.
FYI - Villanova didn't respond much differently. I had an 11:15 AM class on the 11th and not only was it not cancelled, they took attendance, and after a few brief words of concern said "We'll try to incorporate this into today's material."
F'ing BS...I couldn't believe that. I had to cease watching live news coverage of the largest terrorist attack in US history to attend an all-important session of 'Engineering and the Human Context'.
And they never did get around to incorporating anything that day, as you might have imagined.
