VU Press publishes unique text on Holocaust

Joint effort results in free distribution to high school

by David Glasgow

Ask any history teacher about the challenge of making decades-old events relevant to today's students, and you're likely to get an earful. If the events are those that made up the Holocaust of the 1940s, the challenge is even more daunting.

But if students are made to see that what took place in Nazi Germany 60 years ago is happening today in areas throughout the world, the chances are that this oft-told story will have new relevance and meaning. That is the approach taken by a team of university scholars and high school teachers who have written the first book to systematically tie teaching high school students about the Nazi genocide of Jews to an analysis of the recent genocides in Armenia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda.

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Vanderbilt remembers Sept. 11 with memorials, music and messages of hope

by Jessica Howard

From a solemn flag-lowering ceremony to hanging heartfelt messages on a "Remembrance Tree," the Vanderbilt community found many ways to pay tribute to those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of last year.

The University coordinated "A Day of Hope and Remembrance," offering the public several free events to reflect upon the one-year anniversary of the attacks.

The day's events began early in the morning as students and other members of the Vanderbilt community gathered quietly on Alumni Lawn. Musicians from the Blair School of Music played Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" as a representative from each of the nation's military services marched toward the flagpole while a crowd of nearly 500 stood in silence. The flag was lowered to half-staff as the bell in Kirkland Hall tolled at 7:46 a.m., the moment the first plane struck Tower One of the World Trade Center one year ago.

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