TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Following the lethal mass capturing at Florida State College weeks in the past, college students flip a web page over the weekend, as they flip their tassels heading into the subsequent part of their lives.
Commencement weekend was about celebrating the subsequent chapter in these college students’ lives, in addition to reflecting on the tragedy that simply occurred just a few weeks in the past.
A historic weekend at Florida State College, this 12 months’s graduating class is the most important in FSU’s historical past. College students walked the stage, turned their tassels, and celebrated with family members as they now put together to embark on a brand new journey.
“There is no different group of those who needed to undergo what you needed to. You might be robust,” mentioned Richard McCullough, FSU President.
Commencement weekend comes two weeks after the devastating campus capturing that killed two and injured six others, a few of them college students at FSU.
“The tragic act of mindless violence was laborious to know. We misplaced Robert Morales, a devoted FSU worker, Tiru Chabba a customer from South Carolina, a number of individuals have been injured and lots of have been shaken,” mentioned McCullough.
Ever because the devasting incident, the Seminole neighborhood has united, holding vigils, leaning on each other for help, and therapeutic collectively.
“We misplaced members of our FSU household, we’re nonetheless mourning, we’re nonetheless therapeutic. Within the days and weeks that adopted I’ve seen one thing really outstanding, I’ve seen college students checking in on each other, reaching out once they want help, I’ve seen strangers and neighborhood members attending vigils, and members and employees holding area for our neighborhood. In our hardest moments, we select to face collectively. That’s what ‘unconquered’ means,” mentioned Jackson Boisvert, Pupil Physique President.
Unconqured, a phrase that college students now say has taken a a lot deeper that means up to now a number of weeks.
College students and members of the FSU neighborhood left this weekend with their heads held excessive, taking with them years’ price of reminiscences and classes realized.
