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HURSDAYSEPTEMBER 13, 2001 Texas A&M University 2 SECTIONS • 24 PAGES Celebrating 125 Years managed Bering E lit of the ity Systei of f\ 1 thi e terronst and Wi tod to a i this aftei first page 33 (a.m.),^ go at l:2S;i a member c the Hoastoc ; t doesn’t p>: as to be dep rom Easter* military other searr > visiting •chool ikert; itions to hti iase Sartr th the % 'epartmen!. t P of firefip ersey. Rr and Virgin:; ily 5 u as in Cc'..- 12 a COUTs I lapse. ; today's eve scv. Yort * (the bomb-. Murrafa Fti ned, both, •nfire (coix md this hr e said. one of j ,|SS 1>C'X. nd is “trrt rdous etnr )r. G. Kr •r of the :ension Sr mg for thr out." her. TX-U r. said teat ,‘ath asy-J higher six g the Ne» .1 Fire # cm merer . the focus- »r said, “li' psyche, h* ure their 1 ' front ler nent ary peesiA; has aled on ns ^ other P art " for^ >m , * sumroe/. sh sp° ke , 'in' 11,0 „» ’ ide jU# on w i "'"‘‘iJerf an,S ' ,e & i et targ ei plot it uvvait- of: NEWS IN BRIEF Former A&M System regent Wisenbaker died Wednesday Btoyce E. Wisenbaker, Class of 1939 and a former Te<as A&M University System regent, died We dnesday in Tyler. /""Im sen baker was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 1973 and was the first person to serve as presi dent of both The Association of Former Students and the 12th M.m Foundation. Fie was instrumental in creating Trie Association’s Century Club, the primary source of undesignated funds. ^Wisenbaker also estab lished A&M's Presidential Endowed Scholarship Program in 1968, funding the first scholarship in h|pnor of the late University President J. Earl Rudder. Today, there are more than 750 of these scholarships. ■He served 18 years on the A&M System Board of Regents, from 1979 to 1997. In the mid-1980s, Wisenbaker endowed a chair and two permanently endowed graduate fellow ships in the Look College of Engineering. In 1987, A&M’s engineering research building was named in his honor. I Funeral services for Wisenbaker are scheduled for Friday in Tyler. PUBLIC EYE f.YJ. Number of people killed in the attack at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 2,300 19 ships sank TODAY mssm Page 13 Sleep tight students find the best ways and places to sleep on campus Ags take week off before OSU OPINION Page 15 Another day • Reflections from around the country one day after the attacks WEATHER TODAY V -v TOMORROW H 1 . v.cofl HIGH 91° F LOW 67® F HIGH 92° F LOW 68® F FORECASTS COURTESY OF www.weathermanted.com SERVING THE TEXAS A&M COMMUNITY SINCE 1893 Volume 108 • Issue 14 College Station, Texas www.thebatt.com This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil. Good will prevail. » —- President George W. Bush DAY Stars and stripes AP PHOTO • THOMAS E. FRANKLIN AP PHOTO • CHARLES KRUPA Top: An American flag is draped over the Wellborn Road skywalk as Bryan-College Station residents and students make their way to work and school Wednesday morning. One day after the events in New York City and Washington, D.C., signs that the community’s thoughts are with the victims of Tuesday’s attacks are abundant. Above: Smoke rises from lower Manhattan after the destruction of buildings at the World Trade Center in New York early Wednesday morning. Left: Firefighters raise a flag at the World Trade Center in New York Tuesday as work at the site continues after hijackers crashed two jet liners into the center. Bush: Terrorist attacks were ‘acts of war’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday condemned terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as “acts of war,” and said he would ask Congress for money to help in the recovery and protect the nation’s security. “This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil. But good will prevail,” the president said. He said the nation was prepared to spend “whatever it takes.” Bush spoke as administra tion officials said evidence in Tuesday’s fearsome attacks pointed to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, harbored in Afghanistan. And while Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested earlier in the day that no military response was imminent. Bush said, “We will rally the world” in the war on terrorism, fought now on American soil. Congress returned to the Capitol, and federal agencies reopened their doors for the first time since Tuesday’s parallel attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital. Bush, in the Oval Office shortly after sunrise, invited senior lawmakers to the White House for a national display of unity. His spokesman, Ari Fleischer, spoke words meant to soothe. “We believe the perpe trators have executed their plan and therefore the risks are sig nificantly reduced,” he said. A mile or so from where he spoke, search and rescue teams worked in the remains of the portion of the Pentagon that col lapsed Tuesday, hit by a hijacked jetliner. Officials said they doubted they would find any additional survivors, and said the number of deaths could reach into the hundreds. That would pale in compari son to the carnage in New York, where two more hijacked planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The buildings collapsed, with thou sands feared lost. In a day-after scare, employ ees at the Agriculture Department’s main building See Attacks on page 2. International students report fear, assaults By Justin Smith THE BATTALION International students at Texas A&M reported verbal assaults and fear of retaliation from fellow students at a meet ing Wednesday night at University apartments. After Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the students who gathered at the meeting said they feared their nationalities have put them in danger. The University Police Department (UPD) has increased security around the University apartments. Several students at the meet ing said they had been harassed by other Aggies. “I was walking on campus today and I could just feel people staring at me,” said an unidentified woman. “At one point, a man actu ally said that ‘We will get y’all back,’ followed with a racial slur.” Several students said they are afraid because many different countries have been mentioned during television broadcasts as possibly having had something to do with the attacks. “[The media] brings up coun tries that have no involvement,” said one Iranian student, who chose to not reveal his name. See Students on page 6. Ags organize peace march By Sommer Bunce THE BATTALION Texas A&M students will gather on the front steps of the Academic Building at 5 p.m. to unite in a peace march led by Student Body President Schuyler Houser and International Student Association President Archana Ramaswamy. Students will march in honor of the lives lost in Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. and to “denounce terrorism and show we are standing behind America,” said Laura Click, chair of L.T. Jordan, a Memorial Student Center committee that deals with See March on page 8. White House was targeted for attack WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Air Force One, two potent symbols of the American presidency, were targets of Tuesday’s suicide bombers, government officials said. Sketching a scenario that is normally the stuff of Hollywood thrillers, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer cited “real and credible information” that the hijacked airplane that slammed into the Pentagon was originally intended to hit the White House. Air Force One, which was with Bush in Florida at the time of the attacks, also was in the terrorists’ sights, Fleischer said Wednesday. “That also is one of the reasons why Air Force One did not come back to Andrews (Air Force Base, Md.) where some people may have thought it would.” He refused to say what kind of attack might have been aimed at the presidential jet. Asked if evidence pointed to an assassination plot that went awry, Fleischer said he would tell reporters only what he knew about the prospective targets, “and I think you can draw your own conclusions.” The astonishing disclosure came seven years to the day after a Maryland man with a history of mental illness crashed a stolen light plane against the south side of the White House, an act that showed 5^ White House on page 8.