In the days following the September 11 attacks, members of the campus community filled the "Wall of Expression" with poetry, artwork, prayers and other expressions of grief, hope, frustration and anger.

Hundreds paused before the wall each day to read and reflect.

"I can remember being on campus and everyone would stop and read them," said family and consumer sciences senior Katie Myers. "I stopped continuously."

Now, the "Wall of Expression" lies unseen in a facilities management storage room.

The panels were removed from campus and put into storage in October 2001 because "it was just time," said Veda Kowalski, associate dean of students.

Kowalski said the response to the wall after 9/11 was overwhelming.

"It gave students the opportunity to express what they were feeling at the time," she said.

Kowalski said there are no plans to display the wall again, mainly because there haven't been requests to do so.

As the walls collect dust in a storage closet, students have their own ideas about what should be done with them.

"It might be interesting to display it in a museum to look back and see what people were thinking," Myers said.

Emily Adams, a journalism junior, said she liked to read comments on the wall to see if others felt the same way she was feeling.

"I think they should be displayed again, especially on the anniversary," she said.

Junior Matt Barreira said bringing out the wall panels on the anniversary would make people remember how hard it was.

"It's easy to forget, but it's not good to forget," he said.

Luke Wootton, an education sophomore, said he appreciated the artistic value of the wall and thinks the panels should be put on permanent display as a constant reminder of how people felt after the attacks.

"It was basically an art gallery on campus," he said.

Wootton said blank panels like those used for the "Wall of Expression" should be set up on campus more often to allow students to visually express themselves.

"There's always issues that need to be expressed," he said.

Others think the wall should just remain a memory.

"I think it was perfectly appropriate for the time, but I think now we have to move forward as a community and look toward the future," said dance senior Renee Blakeley.

Blakeley said while she remembers reading many hopeful comments on the wall, she also saw a lot of negative and angry remarks that she thinks may have made some people feel worse about what happened.

As words like "revenge" and "anarchy" mingled with messages of "love" and "peace," some worried the wall panels were becoming more controversial than helpful.

While chemistry senior Dan Feeney thought the wall was a good way for students to express themselves, he didn't agree with some of the words he saw.

"I'm not an angry person," he said.

Kowalski said there were concerns expressed about some of the wall's content because it was unregulated.

But she added that the purpose of the panels was to allow everyone to freely express themselves without fear of suppression.

Kowalski said she would like to hear from students about what they think should be done with the walls in the future.