Michigan State University reopened campus buildings for classes Monday for the first time since two students were shot and killed on campus nearly a year ago.
Muffins and hot chocolate were being served at the front entrance of Berkey Hall. Therapy dogs and counselors were also available for students and faculty who wanted to talk.
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“I think it's great that they have everything here for us, and obviously they've made it a little bit better,” sophomore Evan Koleski told the Lansing State Journal. Told. “It was weird coming back because I had classes that semester, but I think it’s a good thing.”
People visit the Berkey Hall Memorial on February 20, 2023, the day Michigan State University students return to class for the first time since the February 13, 2023 mass shooting in East Lansing, Michigan. A gunman shot and killed eight students on campus. He killed three people at MSU, two of them at Burkey Hall. (Photo by Bill Priano/Getty Images)
Ariel Anderson and Alexandria Varner were murdered on February 13 last year during a night class at Berkey Hall. Another student, Brian Fraser, was also shot and killed in another building. Five more students were injured by the gunman, who committed suicide several miles away after hours of manhunt.
Classes have resumed at Berkey Hall, but the room where the violence occurred has been sealed off. Staff offices reopened for the fall semester.
“Personally, I think it's a little inappropriate to open Berkey Hall less than a year after the incident occurred,” junior Andrew Nguyen told The Detroit News as he approached the building.
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Berkey Hall is home to the College of Social Sciences, the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, and the Department of Sociology.
