Several undergraduate student groups on the Homewood campus will present a Hopkins 9/11 Memorial Vigil at 7 p.m., on Sunday, Sept. 11. The event honoring the victims of the 2001 terror attacks will take place on the Keyser Quadrangle.

The vigil will feature two towers of light, representing the World Trade Center towers in New York City, and a moment of silence followed by the lighting of hundreds of candles on the flag-draped quad. Elected officials as well as representatives from Operation Tribute to Freedom, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Bunting Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center are scheduled to speak.

The event is co-sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, College Republicans, College Democrats, the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium, the Foreign Affairs Symposium, JHU Student Council, the Office of Student Life, Skytech Lighting and the HSA Programming Collaboration Committee.

"The collective memory of 9/11 unites us all," said event organizer Marc Goldwein, a junior and a Foundation for the Defense of Democracies fellow. "We were brought together in tragedy, and now we must remember the victims of this terrible act and honor the heroes of that grave day."

The students will be collecting canned goods for care packages for troops overseas. For more information, contact Goldwein at 610-574-8004, or marc@goldwein.net.

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