UCSB Students Confront the Isla Vista Murders
Each segment of the UCSB-Isla Vista community grieved the dead and wounded in its own way. My experience is that everyone was grieving. Essentially every single person with whom I spoke was traumatized. Some knew the victims better than everyone else, and experienced an especially horrible personal loss. But I don't know anyone who didn't feel that they had been threatened by, and in some way barely survived, an assault on the entire community to which they variously belong. The students organized memorials on their own. They built shrines at the shooting sites that got continuous traffic, held a candlelight vigil in Storke Plaza for several thousand on Saturday, May 24th. All week, candlelight vigils for the victims appeared everywhere: at other UC campuses ( UCB , UCD , UCI , UCLA , UCR , UCSC UCSD ), and at universities from Corvallis Oregon to Granada Spain . UCSB students also organized a paddle-out from the beach below Isla Vista ...