This was a busy week on campus. Historian David McCullough was in Oxford on Monday night, giving a lecture entitled "Leadership and the History You Don't Know."
On Tuesday, archaeologist James Russell gave an Archaeological Institute of America lecture called "Chasing a Roman Soldier."
On Wednesday a representative of Feminists for Life spoke out on behalf of the unborn and their mothers.
On Wednesday and Thursday there was also a miniconference on the legacy of Lincoln, Darwin, and Poe, with historian Daniel Walker Howe as a keynote speaker.
Then on Friday there was a conference celebrating the creation of the new Statistics Department, with a number of alumni reminiscing about their time at Miami and reporting on how they've used their training in statistics and mathematics in their careers.
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One detail that I'll always remember about September 11, 2001, is that it was a Tuesday.
I know it was a Tuesday because the Gideons, the folks who place Bibles in hotel rooms and elsewhere, were on campus that day, handing students tiny green King James Verson New Testaments. The Gideons always visit Miami University on a Tuesday, exactly eight days after Labor Day.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I stopped to say hello to one of the Gideons as I walked across the campus on my way to work, and he was the one who told me about the terrorist attacks that were occurring.
Life in a college town has very regular rhythms. The same things happen year after year, on a predictable schedule. I take some comfort in that predictably.
Since today is eight days after Labor Day, I knew the Gideons would be on campus again. In preparation, I packed one of the tiny green New Testaments in my briefcase. That way when I walked past them I could show them that I had a copy already, and they would not feel obliged to hand me another one.
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