Yesterday, in the aftermath of the explosions that went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, The Daily Aztec’s Features Editor, Lauren Yap, started a trending hashtag on Twitter, #SDSUlovesBoston. Yap said she did this to send a message to the victims in Boston that there was an entire community on the other side of the country thinking about them. With the help of fellow JMS junior David Frerker, there’s even a page tied to the hashtag accepting donations, which has collected approximately $400. While the primary recipient of this money—which Yap hopes to total as much as $5,000—will go to the Red Cross, she and Frerker also want to allocate some of the money to one victim in particular who is in greater need of support.

Yap started this to show that in times of crises, people will band together and prove their true human nature by supporting one another. We commend one of The Daily Aztec’s finest in going above and beyond in this tragedy.