In Remembrance.....

[Purple Reign]

Just a thought. Tragedy struck a university with whom we share letters. For the remainder of this basketball season, how about using the letters NIU, when speaking of our Panthers. Perhaps that will help remind all of us to keep basketball in perspective.

I'm hopeful that we remember the Northern Illinois University family at our game tomorrow.


PR

[panthertrack]

Re: In Remembrance.....

Just a thought. Tragedy struck a university with whom we share letters. For the remainder of this basketball season, how about using the letters NIU, when speaking of our Panthers. Perhaps that will help remind all of us to keep basketball in perspective.

I'm hopeful that we remember the Northern Illinois University family at our game tomorrow.


PR

This event is tragic, but if you think calling UNI by the wrong order of letters is going to bring any comfort to anyone involved, I think you're misguided.

Say a prayer, but I think referring to UNI as anything but "UNI," is a little bit overboard.

[TH1974]

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This event is tragic, but if you think calling UNI by the wrong order of letters is going to bring any comfort to anyone involved, I think you're misguided.

Say a prayer, but I think referring to UNI as anything but "UNI," is a little bit overboard.

Agreed....

[panthertrack]

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I thjink what Reign is suggesting is very similar to everyone putting a VT logo on their respective uniforms last year. Maybe put an NIU logo somewhere on the basketball uniform in rememberance.

His idea was an outward heartfelt gesture. Nothing I pray may assuage the anguish of their bereavement. We just want to show a little UNI-ty with another NIU. Is that so bad?

I don't like it. I didn't like every college wearing VT logos, either.

Do we wear badges for every person who dies every day in America? Tragic things happen. Death is part of life.

It's a bad thing that it happened. But to put reminders all over is just prolonging the healing process. Let them be.

[Purple Reign]

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I didn't realize we had so many cynical people in our fan base. No one said, "prolong the pain" or "put on a ribbon for everyone". We're talking about a university that's not that different from our own. We show respect to those lost, bring a little perspective to how we love UNI and be thankful we have the campus and community that we have and pray that something like that never happens here and that's it. We're not talking about an around the clock vigil. Wow. I guess we'll just turn a blind eye.

I work at a college (not UNI) and we had parents on campus today. Guess what their number one concern was? Student safety. I was in a parent session and there were 5 separate questions on our emergeny procedures. So, what happened at VT or NIU effects all people on campuses, thinking about going to a campus or that may be on a campus in the future.

That's enough about that. Sorry for the tangent.

I, for one, appreciate your thoughts.

PR

[speechpanther]

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I don't like it. I didn't like every college wearing VT logos, either.

Do we wear badges for every person who dies every day in America? Tragic things happen. Death is part of life.

It's a bad thing that it happened. But to put reminders all over is just prolonging the healing process. Let them be.

I actually agree with this, but maybe for a little different reason.

I think our current media environment too often tries to mooch off of the tragedies of others and make them our own. I too get annoyed with the crapload of ribbons and remembrances that appear nationwide after what truthfully is a LOCAL tragedy.

Now I understand why people at other campuses should use these tragedies as a wake-up call, and I understand why parents are concerned for their own children. However, many of these "memorials" and steps taken to honor the dead do nothing more than to sensationalize a tragedy and interfere with the healing process. I know that, god forbid, if I went through something like NIU and VT have in the last year, the last thing I would want is for everybody to constantly remind me about it. Remember, VT did their best to kick visitors off their campus once students returned to classes.

If you truly care about the tragedy, take the steps you can take to help prevent it at your own school. Say prayers if you are so inclined. And then get out of the way.

[Newsbreaker]

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I agree with speech. It's one thing when it happens to an institution with which you have a significant relationship (I'm thinking along the lines of the Marshall football accident, and WVU offering to play their last game for them and wearing their name on their helmets the next year) but when it's some school with which you share little, it strikes me more as a 'look at hour empathetic we are' as opposed to wanting to do something.

If we want to do something...put in effort to improve UNI's own emergency response initiatives.

[MGLD Panther]

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I don't like it. I didn't like every college wearing VT logos, either.

Do we wear badges for every person who dies every day in America? Tragic things happen. Death is part of life.

It's a bad thing that it happened. But to put reminders all over is just prolonging the healing process. Let them be.

This site was awesome when you disappeared for a while!!! I hope for the sake of our society that you work in a one room janitor closet and don't deal with ANY public. You are one negetive . Hopefully when I read "transferred panther" it means you transfered to somewhere in Europe. You scare me dawg because you seem like you are a VERY unhappy person.

[TH1974]

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This site was awesome when you disappeared for a while!!! I hope for the sake of our society that you work in a one room janitor closet and don't deal with ANY public. You are one negetive . Hopefully when I read "transferred panther" it means you transfered to somewhere in Europe. You scare me dawg because you seem like you are a VERY unhappy person.

There's not much more negative than this post. Dawg.

[Newsbreaker]

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Track's post was a lot of things, but it wasn't really "negative" other than not being in favor of an idea.

Case in point again...express an 'unpopular' feeling around here, and "I hope you (move to Europe/work in a closet)...this place was better without you."

[TH1974]

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I just saw a story on KWWL that UNI students are starting Facebook tribute pages to NIU and posting the NIU logo on a black ribbon because they feel this tragedy hits close to home feeling that it's a similar school. It's nice to see the compassion and perspective from current UNI students. It's a nice small gesture that gives students a place to post their feelings. I think that's the spirit of the initial post in this thread.

As lame as all that is, it's nothing compared to referring to UNI as 'NIU' as a tribute.

[Newsbreaker]

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News...apparently Reign's first post was "unpopular" and got ripped after one reply. Are you going to call that poster out for being down on an "unpopular" opinion?

You're not that dense, 2317, you know what that was a horrible comparison. Track disagreed with the suggestion that Reign proposed. He didn't tell Reign that he wished he wasn't affiliated with the University, he didn't tell Reign that he hoped he lived far away, he didn't tell Reign to leave the board. He simply disagreed and moved on. Some of you would do well to follow that example.

[panthertrack]

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This site was awesome when you disappeared for a while!!! I hope for the sake of our society that you work in a one room janitor closet and don't deal with ANY public. You are one negetive . Hopefully when I read "transferred panther" it means you transfered to somewhere in Europe. You scare me dawg because you seem like you are a VERY unhappy person.

I...uh...

[UNIPNTHR]

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I just saw a story on KWWL that UNI students are starting Facebook tribute pages to NIU and posting the NIU logo on a black ribbon because they feel this tragedy hits close to home feeling that it's a similar school. It's nice to see the compassion and perspective from current UNI students. It's a nice small gesture that gives students a place to post their feelings. I think that's the spirit of the initial post in this thread.

I recently saw a Facebook group that promised if 200 members joined, two young gentleman would attempt to consume 10,000 calories in one day.

[TH1974]

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I recently saw a Facebook group that promised if 200 members joined, two young gentleman would attempt to consume 10,000 calories in one day.

And what better tribute to the dead NIU students could there possibly be? We're all bloated Huskies today!