By Ava Pulisciano  On December 14, 2012, twenty-six people were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A twenty-year-old man, who went to Sandy Hook years before, carried three guns into the school where approximately seven hundred students were present. He shot and killed twenty students, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. Four of the adults killed were Southern Connecticut State University alumni. When law enforcement officers approached, the man shot and killed himself in a classroom. This traumatic event has left parents and teachers along with the town of Newtown and the nation at large devastated. To honor the SCSU alumni lives that were taken this day and in dedication to social justice movements, a memorial monument was put on Southern’s campus called the “Remembrance Garden.” The idea for the Remembrance Garden became originated in the spring of 2013. Co-chairman Bill Faraclas, an SCSU Professor in Public Health, led this effort and began visi...