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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
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Number of people
killed in the attack
at Pearl Harbor,
Dec. 7, 1941
2,300
19 ships sank
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places to sleep
on campus
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week off
before OSU
OPINION
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one day after
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Volume 108 • Issue 14
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This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil. Good will prevail.
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—- 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.