Over the past few days, details about the Marathon bombings have continued to emerge, culminating in Friday's wild manhunt. Various outlets have recently started to talk about "responses." The Boston Globe, in its Tuesday editorial, called for the city of Boston to "Confront the worst of human nature...strive to live up to its best." Moving forward, what do you think is the proper response to this series of events?

Prof. Jytte Klausen (POL)

Large parts of Boston and its surrounding areas are recovering from the shock of having 14,000 armed police and soldiers on the streets trying to capture a 19 year old. Cries for revenge are inevitable, yet I trust that people will also feel sorrow for this kid who followed his older brother into an unspeakable crime. He can do no more harm. The FBI has, in a matter of days, gone from being lauded for a heroic effort to becoming the scapegoat for what happened. We were hit from a blind angle. The reality is that zero-risk counter terrorism policing is not possible. The costs to civil liberties are staggering. That said, a measured self-examination about why the older brother was cleared after a six-month investigation in 2011, when the usual indicators of radicalization were present, is required. It is important to learn where things went wrong in terms of prevention and yet also be on guard against overreaction.

Professor Jytte Klausen is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation.

Rick Sawyer

It has been hard for me to be part of the mainstream reaction and response. My thoughts have been caught up in a very personalized way in a way that comes from what I am ... a dean of students. I was present at the Marathon finish and I know that my daughter might have run right past one of the bombs. That thought makes me very angry. My daughter, the runner, has an additional layer of feelings that we, those who were not in the Marathon, can't experience. As a dean, the nightmare that this was is multiplied in knowing that one of the bombers was a college student. I am still processing that. My thoughts have been with my colleagues at his college; with his college friends; with the faculty who had him in class. How does hate trump what we on campuses are so intentional about-teaching, learning, supporting, engaging and fulfilling the promise of success. As the hours have gone by since Friday night, I have come to realize that maybe taking this thing so personally is not mine to own alone. I have a feeling we all, especially we here in Boston, we all took this very, very personally.

Rick Sawyer is the Vice President for Student Affairs and?Dean of Student Life at Brandeis.

Emily Duggan '15

After the necessary safety precautions are taken, those who can, should address the children in our lives. These are times that age each of us. For some children, this is their first experience of such disillusionment. But these are teaching times. An orchestra of explosions play across the planet with heartbreaking regularity. How do we act-if behind the bulletproof vest of our particular privileges-toward expanding safety? How do we teach our children to live through this-and come out the other side hyperconscious of their role in such a society? We teach them to breathe. We hold them tightly but eventually let them go. We trust, blindly. We orate. We art. We legislate. We have some hard talks about what safety means, and we turn to each other: we see therapists. We act as therapists. We accept this awakening to our vulnerability as a call to strength. We start with the children.

Emily Duggan grew up in Boston and is a member of Bad Grammer improv and Boris' Kitchen sketch comedy.

Andrew Wingens '14

I can't help but think that for that one Friday, the terrorists had won. We allowed the manhunt to shut down one of the nation's oldest and largest metropolises. And now, we must move forward with a sense of normalcy and get back to our lives. Equally important to healing, though, is that we must remain true to our American values. Despite all the evil acts of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we must afford him the same civil liberties we give to other citizens-a Miranda warning, a lawyer and a fair trial by jury. These procedural rights given to all citizens are what makes America exceptional. If we allow the terrorist to create a precedent of the government evading civil liberties then we will have lost even more than what Tsarnaev has taken from us. At this point, procedural rights would in no way jeopardize our safety, and they are too important to be ignored. So give the terrorist a lawyer. That's what makes America great.

Andrew Wingens is the senior editor of the Justice.