UF students will unite tonight at a candlelight vigil to honor the lives impacted by Sept. 11.
Nine campus cultural organizations will be hosting the vigil and panel.
The panel will include representatives from the South Asian-American, Muslim-American, Sikh-American and Arab-American communities.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. in Turlington L007 for the panel, which will be followed by a candlelight vigil on Turlington Plaza at 8:15 p.m.
Various student-led groups within the university are taking part in the night of remembrance.
Maulin Patel, president of Delta Epsilon Psi, which is co-sponsoring the event, said when he heard about the panel, he knew he couldn’t pass it up.
“As a South Asian-interest fraternity on campus, this topic really hits home for us,” Patel, a 19-year-old UF biological engineering junior, said.
As the first of its kind, the event will help educate and bring to light the various experiences of the Middle-Eastern and South Asian-American communities after Sept. 11, Sameer Saboungi, a 20-year-old UF international studies junior and president of UF’s Arab Students’ Association, wrote in an email.
“In order to bring unity, awareness, tolerance and appreciation of each other, we must understand each others’ stories,” he said.
[A version of this story ran on page 1 on 9/11/2014 under the headline "Student organizations to hold 9/11 candlelight vigil"]
