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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 13,2001
ISSUE 14 VOLUME 112
Newspapers hard to find on campus after attack
By Eve Lamborn
Kansan staff writer
Sara Rubin approached the student newspaper readership machines at the Kansas Union with her KUID in hand, ready to retrieve a copy of The New York Times.
Instead, she found the machines empty.
The bins that usually hold copies of The New York Times, Lawrence Journal-World, The Kansas City Star and USA Today were empty across campus yesterday. Except for several copies of USA Today, Templin residence hall, Dole Human Development Center and Green Hall were without their usual stacks of papers.
"I usually get The New York Times online, but on a day like today, you really want a hard copy," said Rubin, Elgin, Ill., senior.
Students scrambled to get newspapers recounting the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Copies of the Kansan were also hard to find. Tom Eblen, general manager of the Kansan, said 11,500 copies of the paper were printed, but by 4 p.m., all distribution bins were empty.
Justin Mills, student body president and Lansing senior, said copies of The New York Times were normally flown in from Chicago. Because the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all airplanes yesterday, the papers were brought in by truck. They arrived on campus before 10 a.m.
Mills said the papers went quickly when they became available.
"We had people swarming for them, and they were literally gone in under a minute." Mills said.
Dan Uehling, Lawrence freshman, also tried to get a copy of The New York Times from a newspaper machine on campus but found all the papers already taken.
Katie McClaflin, Ark City senior, reads The New York Times every Wednesday during lunch, but she did not get her usual copy yesterday.
"Since no one can fly anywhere, I'm not surprised," she said.
The University receives fewer copies of The New York Times than the other papers in the Readership Program, but even the other papers were popular.
The Lawrence Journal-World printed 7,000 copies of a special edition to its regular paper, and those were gone by mid-morning, said Shirley Cleek, a receptionist at the paper. The last time the Lawrence Journal-World printed a special edition to the paper was 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
The Kansas City Star also initially printed 50,000 copies of a 16-page special edition yesterday afternoon. The headline read, "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK." When those copies sold out, the paper printed an additional 20,000 copies, which also sold out, said Miriam Pepper, a Kansas City Star readers' representative.
Pepper said another 10,000 copies of the special section were being printed and sold for $5.00 each. She said all proceeds from those sales will go to the Red Cross.
The last special edition of the paper came out when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.
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International students cautioned
Letter suggests limiting public movements avoiding clubs
By J. R. Mendoza Kansan staff writer
A letter sent to Jayhawker Towers residents encouraged international students to limit off-campus movements in the wake of terrorist attacks in the United States.
Joe Potts, director of International Student and Scholar Services, wrote the letter, which was distributed in Tower A yesterday.
'When such events occur, it is difficult
to predict how people will react," Potts wrote in the one-page letter. "If there is a belief or discovery that persons from other countries were involved in these events, some individuals may express feelings of anger or retaliation toward persons they believe to be foreign, regardless of national origin."
Saeed Alqarm, Bel-qarn, Saudi Arabia, freshman, said he didn't notice any angry looks and wasn't being harassed.
"Everything is cool," he said. "I'm just worried about my family here in Lawrence."
Khaled Al-Anazi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, freshman, said he was worried about possible threats to Muslims this Friday which is a holy day.
Potts' letter emphasized that there were campus offices, such as Counseling and Psychological Services on the second floor of Watkins Health Center, to help students.
The letter also encouraged students to contact their families to let them know they were OK.
"For the next few days we encourage you to limit your movements off-campus," the letter says. "You should especially avoid bars and nightclubs. However, incidents could occur in any public place, so please keep this in mind before you move around the community. Though we truly do not expect any problems, it is wise not to draw attention to yourself as an international student during such situations."
"I would follow those directions just to be cautious," Zhang said. "But I don't expect anything bad to happen to students."
Diana Carlin, dean of the graduate school and international programs, said the letter Potts wrote was a necessary precaution.
Junfeng Zhang, Wuhan, China, graduate student, lives in Tower A and said he appreciated that Potts wrote the letter.
"Our responsibility is to protect students," she said. "People out there react inappropriately. It's unfortunate we have to do these things."
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Kendra Fisher, left, Wichita junior, and Liz Godfrey, Littleton, Colo., junior, grieve and pray during a candlelight vigil. Last night's vigil at Danforth Chapel, 1405 Jay hawk Blvd., attracted dozens mourning the lives lost in Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Student hangs on to hope for missing friend
Officials: Terrorists also targeted White House. Air Force One
By Brooke Hesler Kansan campus editor
In the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, Rachel Sherman still doesn't know whether a family friend is dead or alive.
Sherman, Buffalo Grove, Ill., junior, said her friend was working in the World Trade Center at the time of Tuesday's terrorist attack. She said she didn't want his name used because she didn't have permission from his family.
"Everybody is still really hopeful," she said.
Sherman said her friend called his wife from his cell phone after the first plane crashed into the building. She said he told her he was fine and he was going to leave the building.
Sherman said he called again after the second plane hit and asked his wife to call 911 because he was stuck in the building and couldn't get through on the phone line.
Shortly after the last call, the building collapsed, Sherman said. His family hasn't heard from him since.
Amid the grim accounting of the dead and injured from the airborne onslaught that toppled the World Trade Center and blasted the Pentagon, authorities said yesterday they believed the terrorists had had other targets — the White House and Air Force One.
"We had specific credible information that both were intended terrorist targets, and that the plane that hit the Pentagon may have been headed for the White
House," said Sean McCormack, spokesman for President Bush's National Security Council.
Yesterday morning, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said there were 41 known deaths so far and 1,700 known injuries. He said 259 uniformed officers, including police and firefighters, remained unaccounted for.
"The best estimate we can make is that there will be a few thousand (victims) left in each building," he said.
SEE ATTACK PAGE 7A
Consumers get pumped about filling tanks fast
Stovall to investigate vendors who violate price gouging laws
By Michelle Burhenn Kansan staff writer
Carslined up for blocks Tuesday in anticipation of higher gas prices after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
Bryan Alonzo, Mission freshman, said he thought he was cheated when he heard the prices wouldn't continue to increase. He waited 20 minutes in line at a gas station after he read a sign in his residence hall encouraging residents to fill
A Conoco station, at 23rd and Haskell streets was charging $5.62 a gallon for unleaded gasoline at about 5 p.m. Tuesday. A day later the price dropped to $1.62.
their tanks.
"I thought it was outrageous, because I couldn't see why that would happen," he said. "I wasn't going to pay $30 for gas though."
At 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Amoco, Presta Phillips 66 and Citgo gas stations, all on 9th and Iowa streets, had lines that went back to 15th and Iowa streets. In other areas, lines exceeded 20 cars. Gas prices at those stations
ranged from $1.59 to $1.71.
Ben Clevenger, assistant manager of Presta Phillips 66, said he didn't anticipate the rush to the gas pumps before he clocked in at work Tuesday afternoon.
SEE GAS PAGE 3A
for a related commentary see page 4A
INSIDETODAY
COMING IN TOMORROW S KANSAN
WORLD NEWS ...2A
SPORTS ...8A
WEATHER ...6B
CROSSWORD ...6B
NEWS: Islamic scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im speaks at the University.
SPORTS: The woman who pressed charges against Mario Kinsey and Reggie Duncan talks.
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