To the Quinnipiac University Family: Saturday night, like many of you, I went to bed mourning the loss of twenty innocent souls in a mass shooting in El Paso, filled with sadness for the victims and families, and shaken in my faith in the essential nature of humankind. Sunday morning, I woke to the news out of Dayton of nine more deaths at the hands of a gunman, and there were more shootings in Chicago this weekend. Last week it was Gilroy. These are evil acts of violence, heinous attacks against a race or ethnicity, a religion, a gender, a national origin, a sexual orientation, or an individual. Hate showed its face in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas and Orlando and Charleston and in too many places before and after. In painful times like these, we turn to one another for answers, for … [Read more...]