Ft Wayne, IN - Nearly 1,500 students and staff packed a Taylor University chapel Thursday, sobbing and singing hymns hours after a tractor-trailer rig plowed into a university van (pictured at right) returning from a trip to Fort Wayne. Another crowd of more than 300 students attended a memorial in Eicher Student Commons on Taylor’s Fort Wayne campus, according to a report in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

By Donald L. Hughes

On April 26, 1986, alarm bells rang inside Unit #4 of the nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine, which was then part of the USSR. There was confusion; workers at first did not know what was happening. Soon it became clear that they had a runaway nuclear reaction underway, and a meltdown was imminent.