A stand of support
At the head of the lineHundreds of MIT community members lined Vassar Street at 2:50 p.m. Monday to observe a moment of silence on the one-week anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. People linked arms to form a human chain that started outside the Stata Center — at a growing memorial marking the site where Officer Sean Collier was shot Thursday night — and stretched toward the MIT Police headquarters, more than a mile away. Jennifer Earls, a prehealth advisor in MIT’s Global Education and Career Development Center, stood at the start of the line, holding a yearbook open to Collier’s picture. Earls graduated with Collier from Wilmington High School in 2004. She remembers Collier as a caring and generous friend.“A good friend of ours lost his leg in a severe car accident this past summer, and Sean donated a significant amount of money to help support their medical bills,”...