As more than 100 community members silently filed into Alice Millar Chapel for the vigil Thursday evening, they were each handed a candle to honor Ukrainians lost in the war. Within minutes, Communication Prof. and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Kent Brooks began playing the piano. Organizers then played a Ukrainian song traditionally played.
McCormick sophomore Sonya Voloboi couldn’t focus in her class Thursday afternoon after Russia invaded Ukraine. She said she was in a state of panic, tearing up as her professor lectured about differential equations. After finding out some students were going to a protest at Chicago’s Ukrainian village, she left class early and hopped in an.