My first two emails received today were headed: "Disaster Area" and
"Tragedy Today", one from a friend and student who saw the second World
Trade Center tower collapse as he walked down Fifth Avenue toward our
university building (a few miles north of ground zero), the other from the
university president outlining the logistics of business not at all as usual.
I thought I'd send this message to the list to say that I stayed home this
morning, a half hour north of the city center, and I wish that others close
to me had done the same, but all seem OK so far. Unfortunately, there have
been many thousands of people who will already have died here today and
many others elsewhere. We won't know for a few days what the emotional
reaction is going to be here and across the U.S. It won't be good, and it
could be dangerous.
I need to take a walk.
JAY.
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JAY L. LEMKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
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