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WEDNESDAY,SEPT.12,2001
CAMPUS
National attacks result in delayed city mail services
The apparent terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have delayed mail service in the Lawrence and Kansas City areas, said Peggy Palmer, public service administrator for Academic Technology Services.
Palmer sent a University-wide e-mail at 11:35 a.m. yesterday.
"Due to the recent terrorist attacks, outgoing mail will be metered and picked up as usual, but it will not leave Kansas City," the e-mail stated, "incoming mail may also be affected, but we are not sure to what extent."
Nancy Brune, office specialist at ATS said the delay was the result of the closing of Kansas City area post offices and the grounding of all planes.
Palmer said the University would be updated as soon as her office knew more.
Courtney Craigmile and Paul Smith
The Source Hip Hop Magazine Tour that was planned for today has been canceled. Chandra Dunbar, programs adviser for the Kansas and Burge unions, said the crew was stuck in New York City because of the grounding of all flights.
Magazine's tour canceled refunds available at SUA
"None of the artists or production crew can get out," she said.
Dunbar said students who already purchased tickets could bring their tickets and KUIDs to the Student Union Activities box office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union for refunds. There are no plans right now to reschedule the event.
— Brooke Hesler
Local blood supply adequate after attacks on East Coast
The Lawrence Red Cross is not planning any special blood drives in response to the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., said Jane Blocher, Red Cross official.
She said the Lawrence Community Blood Center had already been inundated with blood donors, but it would be best if donors waited until the Red Cross's scheduled blood drive began Oct. 1.
Blocher said donated blood couldn't be sent to the East Coast until planes were allowed to fly again.
"Any blood from future drives will be used in an effort to replace what was used," she said.
Danny Phillips
University dance troupe plans tribute to musician, actress
The UNITY Hip-Hop Dance Troupe will perform a tribute to late R&B singer Aaliiyah at 12:20 p.m. today at Wescoe Beach.
Ashley Love, Kansas City, Kan., junior and troupe president, said Aaliyah's death last month in a plane crash affected her and other members. She said they performed at least one of Aaliyah's songs once a year.
The troupe is also using the performance called "10 Minutes of Funk: Phase IV" to attract new members, Love said. She said the fall performance was a tradition.
New York begins massive rescue effort
The Associated Press
Crews began heading into ground zero of the terrorist attack to search for survivors and recover bodies. The downtown area was cordoned off and a huge, grisly rescue effort was under way. Gov. George Pataki mobilized the National Guard to help, and hundreds of volunteers and medical workers converged on triage centers, offering services and blood.
NEW YORK — As night fell, the city moved past the nightmarish scenes of people on fire jumping from buildings and braced itself for more pain — picking through the rubble for the dead and the injured.
One man caught under the rubble used his cell phone to reach family in Pennsylvania with a plea for help.
"She received a call from him saying he was still trapped
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under the World Trade Center. He gave specific directions and said he was there along with two New York City sergeants," said Brian Jones, 911 coordinator in Allgeheny County. He would not give their names, but said the message was passed to New York authorities.
National Guard member Angelo Otchy encountered a series of grisly discoveries while searching for survivors. "I must have come across body parts by the thousands," said Otchy, 26. "I came across a lady, she didn't remember her name. Her face was covered in blood."
Among the dead were the Rev. Michael Judge, a Franciscan priest who served as a Fire Department chaplain, and three other high-ranking fire officials. One of them, Ray Downing, went to Oklahoma
City with a group of New York City firefighters to help out following the terrorist attack there.
President Bush told the nation that thousands of lives were ended, though the final tally could take weeks. Some 50,000 worked at the trade center, with thousands more who visited each day. A firefighters' union official estimated 200 firefighters may have died, and dozens of police officers were believed missing.
He said that after the first building collapsed, surviving firefighters passed cell phones around to tell their loved ones they were alive.
"This is going to hurt," said Jack Gerber, a 43-year-old Brooklyn firefighter. "A lot of guys got killed today."
Barbara Kalvig hurried with a car full of colleagues from the
New York Veterinarians Hospital to lend a hand at a triage center opened up by the city's Board of Health.
"We closed the hospital and brought a bunch of doctors and nurses," Kalvig said. "We just drove as far as we could."
Hundreds of volunteers with medical, military or nursing experience formed ad-hoc crews to accept blood donations and take care of minor injuries as truckloads of medical supplies flooded in.
Craig Senzon, 29, a neurologist volunteering at the triage center said the experience was horrific.
"We felt a heaviness inside us that none of us have ever felt before," Senzon said.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said some 1,500 "walking wounded" were at a mobile hospital in New Jersey's Liberty State Park, near the Statue
A few blocks away from the World Trade Center, about 120 doctors and people with medical training traveled in a convoy of pickup trucks, ambulances, a dump truck and SUVs toward the wreckage. Their job: To find survivors and try to save them.
Nila Perez, 37, who was waiting to donate blood at the triage center after being evacuated earlier in the day from Wall Street, said, "I was going to walk home, but I felt like I had to do something."
Among them was Andrew Gray, a 26-year-old New Yorker with rescue worker experience. Gray had been told he'd be helping burn victims.
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Bush grieves with nation, vows revenge for attacks
The Associated Prese
WASHINGTON — A grim faced President Bush mourned the deaths of thousands of Americans in yesterday's atrocities and vowed to avenge their killings.
"Today, our nation saw evil," he said.
"Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom, came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts."
In his first prime-time Oval Office address, Bush said the United States would retaliate against "those behind these evil acts," and any country that harbored them.
U. S. officials privately said they suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden,protected by the Afghan government, was behind the tragedies.The Afghan government has rejected the accusations.
The United States received no warning of the attacks on the Pentagon and New York's
World Trade Center towers, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said.
Bush spoke from the Oval Office just hours after bouncing between Florida and air bases in Louisiana and Nebraska for security reasons. He began his day in Sarasota, Fla., where he intended to talk about education. The remarks were scrapped and Bush headed to Louisiana. Fighter jets and decoy helicopters accompanied his evening flight to Washington and the White House.
He made a brief statement from a conference room at a Louisiana military base, assuring Americans that he was in regular contact with his command post in Washington: Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the White House national security team.
He then boarded Air Force One at 1:30 p.m. EDT for a secret destination that turned
out to be Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, home to the U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nuclear weapons.
Until three years ago, the Strategic Command also housed the so-called doomsday plane that had been specially equipped to serve as a flying White House in the event of nuclear war.
White House officials were sensitive to any appearance that Bush was not at the helm.
Fleischer said Bush wanted to be in Washington, where Cheney led the crisis operations center at the White House, but "he understands that at a time like this, caution must be taken" with his location.
With smoke still pouring out of rubble in Washington and New York City, Bush said, "These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."
Bush spoke for less than five minutes from the desk
that Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy used before him. Beside the door, a Teleprompter operator fed Bush the words that he and his speechwriters hastened to write just an hour earlier.
He stumbled a couple of times even as he strove to maintain a commanding air. An American flag and one with the presidential seal were put behind him for the somber occasion.
Bush said the government offices deserted after yesterday would open today.
He asked the nation to pray for the families of the victims and quoted the Book of Psalms, "And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me."
The Oval Office address was his third statement on the tragedy.
On Capitol Hill, first lady Laura Bush, who was going to make her debut testifying before the Senate on education, tried to soothe the nation.
"Parents need to reassure their children everywhere in our country that they're safe," she said, grim-faced, as she and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., announced their hearing was postponed.
Mrs. Bush and a handful of aides were whisked by motorcade to a secret location away from the White House, which had been evacuated but for the small corps of foreign policy advisers who staffed the basement Situation Room.
Fleischer said the President's 19-year-old daughters, Barbara at Yale University and Jenna at the University of Texas, were also moved to secure locations.
ON THE RECORD
An 18-year-old University of Kansas student reported burglary, theft and criminal damage in McCollin Hall between 10 and 11:45 a.m. Monday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A Genuine Draft light fixture and cellular phone were stolen, valued at $140.
An 18-year-old KU student reported an accidental vehicle fire in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall parking lot between 5:45 and 5:50 p.m. Monday.
A 21-year-old KU student reported theft in the East Burge Union parking lot between 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. Monday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Several textbooks, a backpack and a graphing calculator were stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $520.
The fire started under the hood of a vehicle caused by an electrical problem. Two other vehicles nearby were damaged. The damages were valued at $11,000.
A 26-year-old KU student reported the theft of 39 personal checks between midnight Aug. 26 and 6 p.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The checks were valued at $39.
ON CAMPUS
A 20-year-old KU student reported damage to and theft from his vehicle in the 1000 block of Illinois Street between 1:30 and 9 a.m. Monday, Lawrence police said. Damage to a vehicle door lock was $1,300. Stolen items were valued at $110.
KU Diabetics Organization (KUDO) will play host to a "meet and greet" at 7 p.m. today at the Casablanca Cafe at 23rd and Louisiana streets. Contact Catherine Teel at 312-9285.
Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) will meet at 8 p.m. today in 100 Staufer-Flint Hall. Contact Kara Ryckman at kryckman@ku.edu.
TIARA Interest Group of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc., a multicultural sorority, will have a ladies' informational session at 8 p.m. today at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Urge Room. Contact Veronica Medina at (913) 481-7952 or at verm@ku.edu.
ICTHUS will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353.
KU Amnesty International will sponsor a "Birthday for Leonard Peltier" from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today in South Park (at the gazebo). Contact Karen Keith at 749-7491.
Circle K International will meet tonight at 7 p.m. on the fourth flour lobby of the Kansas Union. Contact Shondell Lister at 838-3405.
O. A.K.S. Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
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