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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14,2001
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ISSUE 15 VOLUME 112
'Look both ways Rock Chalk's 53rd theme
By Jeremy Clarkson Kansan staff writer
Remember what your parents told you before going to the Rock Chalk Revue this year.
The show will have you looking both ways.
The 65 people in attendance applauded last night at the Kansas Union when executive directors announced the theme "Look Both Ways."
This year marks the 53rd annual revue.
Angela Agustin, executive director, said the revue was a philanthropy project for the United Way.
"The main focus of Rock Chalk Revue is community service." she said.
Augustin said 11 groups, each made up of two living organizations, will vie for a spot in the March performance at the Lied Center. The top five groups will be chosen in November.
Agustin said she was excited to watch as each show evolved during the next few months.
Before announcing the theme, members from each group drew a number, which would determine the order in which each group received first choice in music, ideas and songs, said Grant Jones, Prairie Village senior and Rock Chalk director for his group. Phi Delta Theta and Chi Omega.
Jones said he had been a part of the revue for the past three years and considered it an amazing experience.
"I think it's one of the best things the University has," he said. After the theme was announced, Jones said he was excited about it and about drawing first priority.
For the first time in the revue's history, an all-female cast will make un one of the groups.
Crissa Seymour, Leawood junior and Kappa Kappa Gamma member, said her house was partnered with Pi Beta Phi.
Although the group drew last priority, she is excited about this year's theme.
"I think it's really broad." Seymour said.
Chris Dakhl, Rock Chalk director for Phi Psi and Alpha Chi Omega, said he'd been anticipating the theme and was ready to begin working.
"I think it gives us a lot of options to look both ways," Dakhil said. "You can do a lot with the theme."
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Chancellor promotes faculty discussions about tragedy
By J. R. Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Calling Tuesday's terrorist attacks a colossally evil act against democracy, Chancellor Robert Hemeney yesterday urged about 300 University faculty and staff to reflect and discuss what happened with themselves and students and to take a role in the response.
Hemenway, speaking at Faculty and Staff Convocation 2001, said in an e-mail before the address that he refocused his speech to initiate conversation about Tuesday's events in New York and Washington, D.C.
"The ways we normally measure a university seems less important than how a university responds to an international crisis," Hemenway said. "Every year certain events test campus. Sometimes it's local, sometimes it's national. KU finds itself confronted by a catastrophe of history. Our students have their own day of infamy. Theirs is the worst of all."
Hemenway said a faceless enemy that attacked the United States shattered the country's sense of security and took its innocence. But he said that it was still important to continue classes.
"It's essential that we carry on." Hemenway said. "Holding class is not meant to ignore the chaos and tragedy. The statement speaks loudly that the University can continue to function."
He said the University could respond in different ways to the crisis. He said its role was to be a repository of meaning, an agent of discovery and to model democracy.
He urged the staff to avoid blaming people of other ethnicities for the attacks.
"We must avoid the ethnic trap," he said. "It's not a time for hate. It's a time for love and respect for human beings."
He said faculty could help students deal with the tragedy by opening up discussion about the attacks, offering their offices and homes to students and to confront moral issues involved.
Joe Potts, director of International Student and Scholar Services, said faculty members had offered their homes to international students.
Other faculty sought to clarify Islam, and raised concern about study abroad students.
Faculty and students can speak to Hemenway from 9 to 11 a.m. today in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
Remembrance service at noon to feature local leaders, prayer for victims
Some classes canceled today
By Jeremy Clarkson Kansan staff writer
Classes at the University of Kansas will be canceled from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today so students, faculty and staff can attend a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service at noon at the Lied Center, Chancellor Robert Hemenwav said.
The citywide, nondenominational event coincides with the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, announced yesterday by President Bush and endorsed by Gov. Bill Graves.
Some of the speakers at the service will include:
Hemenwa; State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence;
Lawrence Mayor Mike Rundle; Ann Gardner, chairwoman of the board of directors of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce; and Tim Miller, chairman of religious studies. Musicians from the School of Fine Arts will perform, and the carillon bells in the Campanile will be plaved at noon.
Mary Jane Dunlap, public information writer for University Relations, said canceling classes was rare. This is the first time classes have been canceled at the University for reasons other than weather since April 5, 1988, when classes were canceled after the men's basketball team won the NCAA national championship. Campus will remain open all day today.
Steve Horn, Salina senior, said he was surprised to find out that classes had been canceled.
"I figured if they had canceled classes, it would've been canceled on Wednesday or Thursday." Horn said.
He said it was important that students move on with their daily routines, but the interruption of classes was a good opportunity for students to remember the victims.
Remembrance service
Where: Lied Center
What: University officials canceled classes today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. so students, faculty and staff can attend a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service for the victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Where: Land Center
When: Noon
"I think it's pretty cool we can get a little break from class," Moilanen said. "But its pretty tragic what we're getting the break for."
Marc Moilanen, Fort Leavenworth sophomore, said that canceling class during the service was a good idea.
Aftermath of attacks
— Staff writer J.R. Mendoza contributed to this story.
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The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The gruesome search through the graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors as the death toll mounted yesterday, and hopes dimmed for more than 4,700 missing souls. President Bush promised to visit New York to "hug and cry" with its shaken citizens.
Two days after the trade center was hit and destroyed by two hijacked passenger planes, swirling dust kept visibility limited and sanitation trucks waged a losing fight against the residue of the blast. Hundreds of family members searched for any sign of their loved ones.
Tens of thousands of residents still could not return to their homes in a closed-off lower Manhattan. Nerves were frayed by bomb scares and false alarms, both in New York and in Washington, D.C.
Even a small semblance of normalcy was yanked away; Airline flights at the New York area's three busy airports began for the first time since Tuesday but were abruptly halted. Police said a man was arrested at Kennedy airport after trying to slip past security with a false pilot's identification.
The city also brought in 30,000 body bags for pieces of human remains.
"Even scary movies do not happen like this," said Enver Kesti, 42, a pizza chef who returned to cleanup a gourmet shop that once sat in the towers' shadows.
New York was not alone in counting its missing and dead. The Pentagon said 126 people in the building were killed in Tuesday's plane attack. Seventy bodies had been recovered.
Add the 4,763 missing reported by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, plus the 266 passengers and crew members who died aboard the planes that hit the trade center, the Pentagon and a field southeast of Pittsburgh, and the total dead in Tuesday's carriage could be more than 5.000.
That would be higher than the death toll from Pearl Harbor and the Titanic combined. A total of 2,390 Americans died at Pearl Harbor nearly 60 years ago, and the sinking of the Titanic claimed 1,500 lives.
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Topeka graduate student Kevin Dobbs holds his young son, Finn, as they gaze over Memorial Stadium from the interior of the Campanile. They gathered with about 1,000 other mourners in a vigil last night remembering the dead and injured in Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Man arrested for fake pilot's ID in New York
The Associated Press
NEWYORK—A man who tried to use a false pilot's identification to get past security was arrested yesterday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, police said.
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Speaking at a briefing about the World Trade Center disaster, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik also said five or six people.
The region's three major airports—Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, N.J. — were opened briefly for the first time since Tuesday's disaster and then abruptly closed. Kerik did not indicate whether the closings were related
some of them Arab nationals, were detained at the city's airports for questioning by the FBI and the Joint Terrorist Task Force.
to the arrest or detentions.
MIAMI — Three men spowed anti-American sentiments in a bar and talked of impending bloodshed the night before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a Daytona Beach strip club manager interviewed by the FBI said yesterday.
"We're going to try to catch the people who are making these threats, and the governor suggested we make an example of them," he said.
In a city clearly rattled two days after the attacks, more than 90 false bomb threats were investigated in Manhattan before noon, said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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