We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

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Can anyone here try to get into the student mind that does something like this?

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"I never thought I'd see something like this in my generation, " says Sosa, the grad student.

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"When it comes to attacks like this, American people can relate to the word 'terrorism, '" one student told the teacher, according to him.

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Mr. Kelley, a former Navy chief master who is now a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, said he had never seen carnage like this.

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"You need to be smart about how you spend money for a game like this, " said David Harris, Iowa State's senior associate athletic director for student services.

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There are professionals who make a living putting together conferences like this, yet all of it was done through the efforts of Ankur and a whole cadre of student volunteers.

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Student anger seemed to focus on gas companies like Exxon Mobil and the profits they're reaping in this era of high oil prices.

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