Students display dignity despite tragedy

This Saturday, Purdue should have made its parents proud.

The first football game of the season, just a week and a half after the tragic assault on America on Sept. 11, was a success.

The players on the field won, but the students and their parents in the stands for Parent's Weekend won too, displaying their love for their University and their country.

While there were increased security measures in case of an attack on Ross-Ade Stadium, and a week marked by chaotic and frequent bomb threats, the game was happily uneventful.

It is fitting that after a national crisis, Purdue students should demonstrate their maturity and dignity in front of their parents. We were shaken, but we have started to heal.

It was a return to normalcy and, though difficult, is a sign that we are moving forward. We have seen tragedy, yes, but it has not permanently scarred us.

We have been witnesses to things our parents never wanted us to have to see, and we showed them we are okay.

Nationwide, sports and entertainment have returned to the country, in defiance of the assault.

The world is looking to our generation, though, to see who will next represent our country. Purdue students, future leaders of our democracy, have held up under scrutiny and chaos.

Saturday we acted like the adults we are becoming in front of many of the adults who put us in a position to excel.

And we didn't let them down.

n Editorial Board: Keith Thomas, Tom McHenry, Erica Sagon, Matt Poston, John Wakefield, Shawn McGann.

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