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...nearly a decade, Hillel has been commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day by joining Jewish communities around the world in publicly reading aloud the names of individual Holocaust victims. While we agree reciting the names of endangered species and stories of domestic violence so shortly after memorializing the six million Jewish martyrs of World War II in many ways cheapens all three events, this does not necessarily detract from the positive impact on the campus community...
...nearly a decade, Hillel has been commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day by joining Jewish communities around the world in publicly reading aloud the names of individual Holocaust victims. While we agree reciting the names of endangered species and stories of domestic violence so shortly after memorializing the six million Jewish martyrs of World War II in many ways cheapens all three events, this does not necessarily detract from the positive impact on the campus community...
...knows he'll miss sitting around in the afternoon with him, eating and talking about ideas like Ayn Rand's objectivism, which sees man as a "heroic being" whose happiness is the purpose of his life. He'll miss their disturbed fiction (in one creative-writing class, Brown read aloud Harris' violent memoir about leaping over logs and battling aliens in his backyard at age five; Dylan wrote something about Satan opening a day-care center in hell). And he'll miss the reverse-snob solidarity that develops among people who feel both shunned by and more intelligent than...
...their creative-writing class too, was a poetic sensibility, "dark and sad. Their poems were always about plants dying and the sun burning out. Whenever I heard them, I would just plug my ears because I can't stand stuff like that." Dylan rarely read his work aloud, she says, but Eric "was very talkative. He was a really good writer. He would help me cheat sometimes, pass me answers in tests and stuff." Though she is African American, she never sensed the racism that spilled out against Isaiah Shoels during the massacre. Maybe that day they were role playing...
...only people assuming any kind of recognizable parental responsibility for the shootings in Colorado are some of the parents of the victims. In his anguish, Michael Shoels, father of 18-year-old Isaiah, wonders aloud if there is anything he might have done to get between his son and the killers. But, no, Mr. Shoels, it's not your fault. You did your job. You knew him well. Your son knew that life isn't a video game. He was in the library working on a research paper when he was killed...