Hundreds of members of the Union community participated in a candlelight vigil outside the Nott Memorial Tuesday to offer prayers and support to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where 33 people were killed Monday.
“As part of the undergraduate student culture in America, many Union students were strongly impacted by the tragedy that occurred at Virginia Tech. As part of a small community, it is easy for us to band together to show our support to fellow students at other institutions,” said Brian Gulack, president of the Student Forum, which coordinated the vigil with Interfaith Chaplain Viki Brooks-McDonald.
Among those who spoke was Director of Residential Life Todd Clark, a 1995 graduate of Virginia Tech.
Brooks-McDonald encourages faculty, staff and students to send cards and letters to the Blacksburg, Va., campus as a way of “communicating our care campus to campus.”