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2 The Rambler October 4. 2001
How do you unwind after
a stressful day?
Holly Woffenden
Freshman
Prelaw
'I relax after a stressful day by lis-
tening to music and sleeping."
Matthew Jackson
Senior
Psychology
"When I go home to unwind I just-
sit down and play playstation."
Susan Robertson
Senior
Introdisciplinary Studies
"After a stressful day, I like to go
home and watch Friends on TV and
sit back and watch my baby."
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Eddie Holmes
Junior
Music Theater
"When my day is over and 1 get
time to relax, I like to sit down
with a good book, read a little bit,
and then get as much sleep as I can
before the next day starts."
Marco Guzman
Junior
Undecided
'1 go running for a couple of miles
or listen to classical music."
Michelle Russell
Freshman
Accounting
"1 like to relax by lying on the
couch, or in bed, and watch TV. I
try not to think about all those
stressful things of the day."
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Head to head: students square off
It's a peculiar thing, the way I
feel about this great tragedy. I
feel numb with a strange sadness
mingled with aggravation.
Top that off with a sprinkle of
mild confusion.
The Twin Towers have fallen
from a terrorist attack and thou-
sands have died.
I see a lesson the American
people must learn.
The spiritually mature should
be wise enough to understand that
glory of all types, forms and fash-
ions remains payable to God.
With the World Trade Center
ranking among the best icons that
represent America, the Lord
allowed the nation to experience
great humility.
As a nation, how often do we
truly converge under one voice to
give glory to the Lord?
Not often enough.
Many of us practice counting
our blessings on the personal
level.
I propose the same thing be
done on the national level as well.
I look forward to the nation's
leaders continually bowing down
as one in humility to the Lord.
We as a nation have been vic-
timized!
We have been given a black
eye, a bloody nose and have been
robbed!
We have been robbed of the
gold ring on the nation's finger.
The black eye represents the
injured.
The bloody nose represents
the dead. Each life lost is a drop
of blood on the pavement.
And finally, the robbery: the
Twin Towers have been destroyed.
Indeed they were the ring on
America's finger.
As you approached
Manhattan by land, sea, or air, the
Towers commanded your atten-
tion.
The wrath of the nation has
been kindled in a way that I don't
imagine it has ever been.
I can only speculate a new
kind of fear in the terrorists'
hearts.
I believe that we as a nation
will spare no expense in hunting
down and destroying these crimi- i\
nals. /
But I'm also apprehensive
because the destruction of th<^
World Trade Center appears to
have been the prelude event to ,
this world plunging into a new \
era.
I encourage all to take heart
and to hold fast to those things
that are most important because
there are no guarantees in this
world.
Any of us could easily be a
victim of a random terrorist
attack.
For the spiritually mature, I
encourage you to continue prayil
for our nation and the world.
Pray also for the peace of
Israel as it is written in Psalm
125.
It's been suggested that vari-
ous terrorist groups view America
as Israel's defenders.
If this is true, and if those
responsible for destroying the
Twin Towers subscribe to this
belief, there would be no question
in my mind that this nation is
indirectly involved in an eternal
struggle for the Holy Land,
For this, I encourage all to
pray.
Soon the sun will rise on a
new day for America, and a beau-
tiful flower will bloom where the
Towers once stood.
The sun will shine on this
new flower and the world will
know that terrorism cannot
remove the blessing that has been
established on this country from
the heavens!
Terence Graham
Class of 2000
t W
Since the terroristic attacks
that leveled the World Trade
Center towers and ripped through
the Pentagon, the people of this
nation have been bombarded with
j powerful emotions.
We have mourned our dead;
kwe have exalted our heroic; we
pave raged against our unpunished
nemy; and we have dealt with
our own vulnerability. In recogniz-
ing these feelings of confusion, I
am in agreement with you.
There are two points with
which I disagree—your desire that
we "converge under one voice to
jfve glory to the Lord" and your
^contention that "the Lord allowed
the nation to experience great
humility."
You state, "Many of us prac-
tice counting our blessings."
Personally, I am a strong believer
in giving thanks to God. I thank
1 Him for the blessings of my life:
^my three beautiful children, my
pontinued good health, and my
jest friend.
I also thank Him for the mun-
dane, like each time my jeep starts
or gets me from Point A to Point
jB without requiring a tow truck.
However, the minute our
"Thank You" sessions with God
become a government controlled
program, we cease to live in the
very nation you want us to thank
Him for.
It is when we, as individuals,
choose to collectively pray or
ffer thanks that we're at our best,
Fnot when "the nation's leaders
[continually bow down as one in
j humility to the Lord."
i have a problem with your
I statement, "With the World Trade
Center ranking among the best
icons that represent America, the
Lord allowed the nation to experi
ence great humility."
In one of the most memorable
^humanities class I sat through, Jeff
Walter, chair of the music depart-
ment, challenged students to
consider the meaning of a Roger
Waters' song "What God Wants."
The lyrics read (in part), "God
wants goodness/ God wants light/
God wants mayhem/ God wants a
clean fight/ What God wants God
gets God help us all."
Since that session, I have
tried my best to rise to that chal-
lenge.
Throughout time, wars have
been fought and lives have been
taken by people with the convic-
tion they were fighting on God's
side.
Did the hijackers do what
they did believing it was some
divinely inspired crusade?
I heard a pastor attempting to
reassure his congregation by say-
ing the events of Sept. 11 were not
"God's way of punishing
Americans for our pursuit of
wealth." Those words didn't reas-
sure me. They made me want to
respond in a manner appropriate
to my 12-year old..."Duh!"
God gave us free will. He
doesn't sit in some huge puppet
theater looking down on us,
pulling strings when He needs a
laugh or a tear.
Because a group of terrorists
made a decision to hijack some
planes and strike a blow against
our nation, thousands lost their
lives. For that, we should weep.
Osama bin Laden made a
choice to commit his life to level-
ing as much destruction at
America as possible. For that, we
should retaliate.
Firefighters and rescue work-
ers made the decision to put their
lives in jeopardy to help the help-
less. For that, we should hail their
heroics.
But I don't believe that the
Lord "allowed" this to happen as
part of a lesson we must learn, a
weapon in a Holy War or a
method of bringing our nation to
its knees in collective prayer.
Donna Haney is a graduate stu-
dent in the M.Ed, program and staff
writer for The Rambler.
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