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Students and faculty have planned two events to mark the first anniversary of the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Student leaders have designed a nondenominational service to be held Sept. 11 in Ira Allen Chapel. ROTC students will raise the flag outside Ira Allen to full staff at dawn. At 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, they will lower the flag to half-staff and fire a single volley in remembrance of those who have served this country. At that time, the chapel bells will toll for one minute. The service will begin at 8:47 a.m. Students, faculty and staff who wish to participate should gather at Ira Allen by 8:30 a.m.

The service will include music, silent reflection and comments by President Daniel Mark Fogel; Jon Badaracco, SGA president; and Unitarian minister Roddy ONeil Cleary. At 10:30 am., the bells will toll again to commemorate the collapse of the second tower. The chapel will be available all day for personal reflection.

President Fogel has asked faculty to exercise both compassion and discretion on behalf of their students who would like to attend the service. Provost John Bramley has asked faculty to shift any examinations or major assignments planned for that day to other class meetings and for supervisors to make all feasible provisions for interested staff to attend the service on university time.

Faculty members in Area and International Studies have planned a panel discussion for Sept. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m., in Memorial Lounge, Waterman.

The panel, The September 11th Attack: What To Do One Year Later, will comprise two Middle East Studies authorities and one specialist in American foreign policy: Gregory Gause, associate professor of political science and chair of the Middle East Studies Program; Robert Kaufman, associate professor of political science; and Bogac Ergene, assistant professor of history. Kevin McKenna, professor of Russian and director of the Area and International Studies Program, will moderate the discussion.

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