on the record

Globalization doesn't change the fundamental forms of class and privilege. In a world of new technologies, the same old animosities rule."

Bruce Barry, associate professor of management, on the inability of globalization and technology to defray political tensions in the world

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept. 12

We can't let them win. If we don't get [the liver] to this person, they'll have killed someone else."

Dr. Ravi Chari, Vanderbilt Medical Center surgeon, rallying his transplant team as they raced to get a donor liver to a baby in Houston Sept. 11 in the hours following the terrorist attacks

The Tennessean, Sept. 14

"The need to connect is intense. While the network TV stations blather, the Internet carries the news and connects the masses in a true interactive sob."

Donna Hoffman, professor of management, on why so many rushed to the Internet in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

The New York Times, Sept. 12

"In a time of crisis and intensified national unity, there's always a danger that cultural work may become a lower priority. But there's also the real prospect for a heightened sense of the value of our cultural heritage, which is so much a part of what we want to defend."

Bill Ivey, outgoing chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who will join the Vanderbilt faculty in January, on his expectations for the arts and related funding as the nation gears for war

The San Francisco Gate, Sept. 18

"I had to see it and take it all in."

Joe Noorigian, Vanderbilt senior from the New York City area, on why he made the 14-hour bus trip home with fellow students to see the damage done by the Sept. 11 attacks

The Tennessean, Sept. 17

"In general, young people are very idealistic. They're looking forward to things being what they want them to be and can make them be. ... This is a sudden confrontation of idealism and horrible reality."

Nicholas Sieveking, director of the Psychological and Counseling Center, on the effect the attack on America may have on students

The Tennessean, Sept. 14

""This may be the worst day, but it also may be the place where we learn that living is a dance with death. You and I are invited to live through it, together, and move back closer together. And remember the words, that history is an arc, but it does bend toward justice."

Becca Stevens, chaplain at St. Augustine's Chapel at Vanderbilt

The Tennessean, Sept. 13

compiled by Kara Furlong