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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DEFINING A DECADE
Students and faculty reflect on how our lives and country have changed
Our parents talk about where they were when Kennedy was shot. Our grandparents remember the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approach, personal accounts of that day are how our generation will attach itself to that historic event. The three experiences of the following students show a range of reactions that day and how that incident affected the people they were 10 years ago as well as the people they are today.
MORGAN SAID
KAYLA OVERBEY
CLAIRE MCINERNY
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KRISTIN DECKER
One state away in Aurora, Colo., Kristin Decker, graduate student lab staffer, watched live as the second tower crumbled.
"It was dead silence, just total shock;
Decker
Decker said. "There were little mumblings here and there about what was going on but we were all ... glued to the TV"
Decker remembers her
HARRISON SWART7
focus shifting from the chaos around her to concern for her family.
"My brother was in the National Guard ... and he was on call," Decker said. "We weren't sure if he was going to be called up to serve or not."
Harrison Swartz, a graduate teaching assistant in Spanish, said that as he walked into class as a high school sophomore on Sept. 11, 2001, he thought it was going to be "a beautiful day" outside.
"There were clear blue skies," Swartz said. It was a weird juxtaposition. It would've been an awesome day, but there was weird stuff going on in the world."
When the Swartz's Lawrence High School principal announced that a plane hit the World Trade Center and the U.S. was under attack, that mood changed, according to Swartz.
"We watched the towers collapse and, essentially, everyone was watching people die on live TV," Swartz said. "We were zombies stuck to the television."
Flliott
DORICE ELLIOTT
a study-abroad program.
For Dorice Williams Elliott, associate professor of English. the news brought more distant complications. Her daughter was in Europe with
"They were on lockdown in a castle in the Netherlands," she said.
The program had to rewrite procedures before the students were released. Elliott explained.
As awareness spread about the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the plane in Pennsylvania," the scope just kept getting wider", Elliott said. "There was this unfolding."
Elliott was in her home in Lawrence when her husband called her with the news.
"It created very bizarre emotions to see it happening live," she said.
She remembers feeling the uncertainty that the attacks created.
"That's what terrorism is about ... a feeling of helplessness, a sense of loss of control."
WHITNEY SUTTON
to extend their trip a few days to sightsee. They planned to fly back to Kansas City the morning of Sept. 11. The two ended up leaving Sunday night because plane tickets Monday were
Sutton, a junior from Overland Park, was in fifth grade on Sept. 11, 2001. She was in New York City the weekend before that attacks to audition for the Prince and the Pauper tour. Because she and her mom were busy the whole weekend with auditions, they wanted
too expensive.
Sutton
"In the morning, driving to school, I said 'I can't believe I'm in Kansas, I wish I was back in New York. My mom turned on the radio and within 10 seconds the first airplane had hit." Sutton said.
Because her mom had already called her out of school that day, everyone thought Sutton was traveling that morning.
"When I walked into school, three teachers ran up to me with tears in their eyes," Sutton said. "Now, obviously, I wouldn't be able to believe I had just been there. I didn't understand why the whole country was freaking out, or that something like that had never happened before."
As a non-traditional student, now 27. Smith was a senior in high school at Lawrence Free State the morning of Sept. 11 and remembers the day much differently than Sutton.
ROBIN SMITH
"I was walking out of my English class and this kid I knew ran up to me, grabbed my shoulders and yelled. 'We're being attacked! They've bombed New York, they've bombed Washington D.C.' There was a lot of
Smith
confusion, but I went to my next class and we turned on the radio and were listening to a certain reporter describing that a second plane
is coming We acti-
is coming. We actually listened as the reporter watched the second plane hit the second building, Smith said. "I distinctly remember seeing very shocked expressions on everyone's faces. Everyone was trying to process everything that was happening. It became very clear this is something that is truly extraordinary and we abandoned class to go down to the film room and watch the news on a projection. It didn't quite hit home because it felt so surreal. There was so much uncertainty about what the scope and scale of what things were."
LEXIE MANSFIELD
After the attack on the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, the
rest of the country didn't know where the terror would stop. Lexie Mansfield, a junior from Chicago, remembers the unknown panic in her hometown that morning. It was her first day of fifth grade, but Mansfield did not attend classes that day.
"One of the teachers came in and told me my mom wanted to pick my brother and me up, so I thought there was something weird going on." Mansfield said. "She brought us back
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Mansfield's mom, who worked in the Sears Tower at the time, was
at the time, was evacuated from the
building out of fear that the attacks would continue in downtown Chicago.
"There was a Jot on the news about the Board of Trade and the Sears Tower because that was the equivalent to the Twint Towers in Chicago," Mansfield said.
Being only 11 years old at the time, Mansheld did not realize the impact of that day until she was older.
"It was such a profound thing we were living in this moment and it was this huge thing in history that we were a part of."
Edited by Sarah Champ and Jason Bennett
TEN YEARS OF RESTORATION
For the second year in a row students and community members gathered at the Campanile for a canal light visit to honor 9/11 victims. During a speech, then-Chancellor Robert Hemenway encouraged those gathered to "contemplate, grieve, ponder, not just what it means to be
September 14, 2009
In New York City, nearly 5,000 people remained missing on Sept. 13, and tens of thousands of evacuated New Yorkers were still unable to return home. Classes at the University were canceled for two hours so students, faculty and staff could "attend a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service at noon at the Lied Center." The night before, nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Campanile for acandlelight vigil to honor victims of the attacks. In another move of respect, the Big 12 athletic directors decided on afternoon of the 13th to cancel all weekend events, including Kansas scheduled home football game against Wyoming.
Kansas football is still a year or two away from doing any kind of damage in whatever conference it will be in, but a 2-0 start that includes an early upset could do wonders for a young team looking to firmly remove that rearview mirror from its perch.
Humanitarian Bowl. Last week in their opener, they put up 49 points against Army, a touchdown more than Kansas scored against FCS opponent McNeese State. Its top two running backs each averaged 9.9 and 7.3 yards per carry, and their quarterback, senior Chandler Harnish, threw for five touchdowns. So yeah, Northern Illinois is good. Good enough; for Vegas oddsmakers to make them nearly a touchdown favorite in Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Offensive coordinator Chuck Long said the big plays that were present Saturday were missing from the offense last season.
JORDAN WEBB
Sophomore quarterback
Kansas ran the same amount of plays as McNeese State on Saturday, had the ball for nearly ten minutes less, and scored 18 more points than its opponent.
"I think the other thing that's going to be important for us is making sure that we have a 2-to-1 ratio when it comes to big plays," Gill said. "I'm talking about 20 yards or more that we need to be 2-to-1 ratio as far as our big plays in our favor versus them with the plus 20 yards."
sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb averaged more than 20 yards a completion, including three touchdown passes that were all more than 25 yards.
"Big plays are huge in college football," Long said. "It's very
Coach Turner Gill and his staff would like to see a similar effort from their team this Saturday against Northern Illinois.
opened the second possession with a 30-yard run. The freshmen running backs added playmaking capabilities as well. Darrian Miller averaged 4.8 yards a carry and Tony Pierson averaged 14.6 yards a carry.
"We feel like we have a running game that is built for explosive plays," Webb said. "We can get the 70 and 60 holders out of the running game just as easy as the passing game."
Even though the run-game is full of playmakers, the receivers are without one of their top players. Senior Daymond
"When you look at steady offenses like that in the past, they are traditionally run-play action pass teams and a lot of times they get open," receivers coach David Beaty said. "They don't have a whole lot of passes in the game, but a lot of times they count for big points. That's the direction our offense is headed in."
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— Edited by Jennifer DiDonato
Freshman receiver JaCorey Shepherd, who caught three passes for 107 yards and two touchdowns in his Kansas debut, will replace Patterson with his 4.5 speed.
The newfound, ground-heavy attack is far away from the spread offense Mark Mangino ran, but that doesn't mean that a more balanced style won't provide just as many opposing, defense-killing, scoring opportunities.
Sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb hands the ball to freshman running back Darrion Miller. "We did exactly what we wanted to do. We ran the ball and as quarterbacks and receivers we made the plays that we needed to and that's the team we need to be," Webb said.
Falkenstein to announce Legends of the PhoR game
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Legends of the Phlog game
That familiar Max Falkenstein draw will
return before college basketball season
even begins.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Falkenstein and his iconic voice will join Dave Armstrong in broadcasting the Legends of the Phog alumni game at 4 p.m. on Sept. 24 at Allen Fieldhouse. The
game is now officially sold out, according to Kansas Athletics.
Brian Hami and Bud Stallworth will announce for the Jayhawk Radio Network, which will broadcast the game to the state — KCSP (610 Sports) in Kansas City, WIBW (580 AM) in Topeka and KLWN (1320 AM) in Lawrence.
Max Rothman