After day of fear, UCLA students grapple with resuming classes, feeling 'normal' again
UCLA
quickly announced plans to hold most classes as scheduled on Thursday,
the day after a murder-suicide in which two people died. But as
thousands of rattled UCLA students gathered their belongings — and
bearings — after a terrifying morning of hiding in restrooms, texting
loved ones and attempting to barricade classroom doors from a gunman,
the thought of resuming business as usual seemed impossible.
“I have to go back to the same area where the shooting happened tomorrow, I have to go back to the same area where I was in lockdown tomorrow. It’s just not going to feel the same,” Catherine Lowe, a freshman studying biology, said Wednesday. “I can’t focus, I’m supposed to write an essay due on Friday, and I can’t focus on anything right now because I’m in shock.”
“Two people died here today,” she said, her voice trailing off.
Lowe had been at a professor’s office hours Wednesday when cellphones buzzed to life across campus with alerts of a possible shooting.
“I have to go back to the same area where the shooting happened tomorrow, I have to go back to the same area where I was in lockdown tomorrow. It’s just not going to feel the same,” Catherine Lowe, a freshman studying biology, said Wednesday. “I can’t focus, I’m supposed to write an essay due on Friday, and I can’t focus on anything right now because I’m in shock.”
“Two people died here today,” she said, her voice trailing off.
Lowe had been at a professor’s office hours Wednesday when cellphones buzzed to life across campus with alerts of a possible shooting.
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