Following the initial shock of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, members of the University community have begun reaching out to help survivors and others devastated by the attacks.
The McCosh Counseling Center has been open 24 hours a day since Tuesday to provide support for students upset by the terrorist attacks, said director Marvin Geller.
The first students trickled into McCosh for counseling at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday — while the events of the terrorist attacks were still going on — and more students have been coming in as they learn more information and the initial sadness changes to anger, Geller said.
Geller said the counseling center has been reaching out to the campus community. For example, members of the counseling staff went to the residential colleges and spoke to RAs and have been available for group discussions at Frist.
In addition to the efforts of the counseling center, students have taken it upon themselves to promote emotional healing on campus.
"The community is managing this in a thoughtful way," Geller said of his experience so far.
The SVC fielded more than 200 emails requesting information about the blood drive and set up a transportation service to the Princeton Medical Center for volunteers to give blood, but the hospital was overwhelmed with volunteers, SVC organizer Kate Redman said.
"The response [to the attacks] has been wonderful. A lot of people care," Redman said. "Everyone has been wanting to do something."
The eating clubs have also contributed to the relief effort. Inter-Club Council president Cindy Drakeman '02 said in an e-mail, "I think that the most important thing the clubs can do and are doing is to provide a comfortable, familiar place for friends to help each other through this turmoil."
University Cottage Club president Graves Tompkins '02 agreed, "I think everyone in the community wants to assist in whatever way they can," he said.
"As an organization with 160 members, we wanted to come together and make a financial contribution to the ongoing rescue and relief efforts," he added, mentioning that Cottage began a Red Cross drive on Wednesday.
Charter Club president Lindsay Michelotti '02 said in an e-mail that Charter is sponsoring a club-wide donation drive to raise money to aid the rescue and relief efforts.
The club's graduate board has agreed to match at least 50 percent of what undergraduate officers collect from members. The money would most likely be used to prepare hot and cold food for rescue-volunteers, Michelotti said.
Around noon on the day of the attacks, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life set up a "one stop shop" center in the lower level of Frist "to help coordinate services and information in response to the tragic events," according to Vice President of Campus Life Janet Dickerson. The center was established around noon on the day of the attacks, Dickerson said.
The center, which has phone lines, computers and CNN video projected into the room, is staffed by people from the administration and human resources and there have been over 100 graduate and undergraduate volunteers.
The center provided information about University operations and locations of the blood drives and the status of specific people who were victims in the attack.
Like the counseling center, the information center has been getting more calls by the hour as people find out about the service and want to learn more information, said Special Projects Manager for Campus Life Jessie Washington who has been coordinating the information center.
"If they don't know where to turn for information, this is the place to go," Dickerson said.
Dickerson added that the center has been aiding faculty and graduate students with transportation needs to arrive on campus.
The campus will be holding a memorial service on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the chapel, in another effort to help the University heal as a community.
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