Aug. 21, 2002

Contact: Todd Cohen, University Relations, (785) 864-8858.

KU to commemorate Sept. 11 attack victims with bells, vigil at Campanile

LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas will mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and remember the victims by tolling bells and holding a twilight candlelight vigil beneath the Campanile for the entire campus and surrounding community.

The Campanile bells will toll at 7:48 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, to note the local time when American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Tolling will mark the successive attacks -- the second attack on the WTC, the plane crash in Pennsylvania and the attack on the Pentagon -- at 8:03, 8:43 and 9:10 a.m.

At 7:48 p.m., the bells will toll again to invite the campus and community to an 8 p.m. candlelight vigil at the Campanile on Memorial Drive. A vigil was held at the Campanile on Sept. 13, 2001, which President George Bush had designated as a national day of prayer and remembrance.

Danforth Chapel will be open during the day for the public to visit and reflect.

More than 2,800 people were killed in the terrorist attacks.