Perspectives
J-School students remember 9/11, five years later
BERKELEY – Essays by four Berkeley undergrads recalling different aspects of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are featured in a collection called "9/11: Five Years Later" on the opinion pages of Monday's San Francisco Chronicle.
The students — Huan Ly, Christopher Tapia, Ryan Schultheis and Laura Pryor — are working and studying in Washington, D.C. this semester as part of the UC Washington Center's internship program. Their essays were written for Susan Rasky's opinon-writing class, Walter Lippmann Meets The Blog. Rasky, a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism, is teaching at the UC Washington Center this semester.
The essays:
- What changed that day, by Huan Ly, a senior political science major
- Connections made, finally, by Ryan Schultheis, a senior political science major
- The day that brought the fences, by Christopher Tapia, a senior political science and ethnic studies major
- A Japanese-American perspective, by Laura Pryor, a junior Middle Eastern and urban studies major (essay appears only on SFGate.com)