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![Messages to those affected by the 9/11 attacks featured on the bottom of the front page of The Union St. Journals Sep. 20, 2001 issue. Due to the long turnaround time of a high school newspaper, students were unable to feature more stories on 9/11 in the September issue, but filled the front page of the Oct, 18, 2001 issue (below) with 9/11-related articles. For teachers, supporting students – and figuring out how to manage their own emotions – was difficult. We were instructed that counselors would be available should anyone need to talk. It felt like a surreal kind of dream, math teacher Jim Padavic said. Once they [the Twin Towers] fell, there was a helplessness and sadness and disbelief that this could happen in America. The visuals of firemen and policemen volunteering to enter the towers to help followed by the collapse of the towers was gut-wrenching.](https://unionstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_2701-240x150.jpg)
![For many Creek students, self defense in a fight seems like a realistic option; however, Creek deans say self defense is rarely applicable. “Really, in the 11 years [I’ve been a dean], even going back to middle school, I feel like theres always an opportunity to avoid a situation like that,” dean Brock Felchle said. Nonetheless, students continue to say they would defend themselves or a friend despite the consequences. “If someone was trying to hurt someone close to me, I wouldn’t want to stand for that,” sophomore Muhammad Aweys said.](https://unionstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_3367-240x150.jpeg)
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