Kusum Desai/The Daily Cougar

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Students watch the unfolding tragedy on a small television set up inside the University Center.

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At UH yesterday, no doubt like every other place in the United States, one topic of discussion held sway -- the multi-targeted terrorist attack that took untold lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Yesterday's events brought a shift from the norm, to say the least. As I walked through my living room yesterday on the way to class, my friends sat wide-eyed around a television screen showing black smoke billowing from the World Trade Center. My first class consisted not of the usual lecture, but of standing in front of a TV looking on in shock as the towers collapsed and the Pentagon caught on fire.

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The soccer match against Southeastern Louisiana originally scheduled for Tuesday has been rescheduled for today at 3 p.m. This change is due to unexpected travel delays by Southeastern Louisiana.