On Sept. 14, 2001:
A candlelight vigil mourned the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks while a panel of faculty discussed the United States' options moving forward. At the panel, Watson Institute Research Professor Nina Tannenwald, now a lecturer in political science, cautioned against a course of action that involved "flattening Afghanistan."
On Sept. 14, 1981:
It was the day before the first day of school. The Sept. 15, 1981, Herald reported that for the first time since the program began in 1975, white students were allowed to participate in Third World Transition Week, now called the Third World Transition Program. None did. First-year Alexis Egan '85, who moved in the day before, painted "a Sunkist-colored mural" on her wall and spread out a rug the color and texture of "Astroturf." Headphones for a Sony Walkman were advertised for $29. Campus policeman Al Phillips told The Herald that "‘everything's running smoothly so fah,' as car horns honked furiously around him outside the West Quad" — now known as Keeney Quadrangle.
On Sept. 14, 1971:
West Quad opened Bronson and Jameson Houses to co-ed living for the first time. Female students remarked on the hastily painted "WO-" additions to bathroom doors but were otherwise pleased with the new living arrangements. Dean of Academic Counseling Barrett Hazeltine, now professor emeritus of engineering, advised first-years to "strongly consider exercising the Satisfactory/No Credit option" while exploring the New Curriculum, which was at that point only one year old.
