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Aggielife: How Muslims' lives have changed • Page 3A Opinion: Lessons taken from tragedy • Page 5B
THE BATTALION
Volume 109 • Issue 9*14 pages
www.thebalt.coni
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Aggies
reflect on
terrorist
attacks
By Sarah Szuminski
THE BATTALION
New York City has become an icon of
our country’s unity and the date Sept. 11
will never again be spoken without the
remembrance of the day our country faced
one of its greatest tragedies.
On the one-year anniversary of the
attacks of Sept. 11, students at A&M join
Americans across the nation in mourning the
loss of fellow citizens and remembering the
tragic events of a day that will live in history.
“This is the event that has defined our
generation,” said freshman journalism major
Analisa Gisin. “(Americans] don’t feel as
different because we all went through it; we
all shared the same feelings that day.”
Though America received a devastating
loss last year, citizens have emerged with
a renewed sense of patriotism and the
government with a dedicated mission to
defeat terrorism,
“We must remember a central lesson of
the tragedy,” President George W. Bush
said in a radio address on Saturday, Sept.
7. “Our homeland is vulnerable to attack,
and we must do everything in our power
to protect it.”
Cultural geographer and associate pro
fessor in the Department of Geography,
Jonathan Smith, said the World Trade
Center was targeted as a symbolic attack on
American identity.
Smith said it is common in human histo
ry for groups in conflict to seek to destroy
symbolic landscape, such as the Twin
Towers and the Pentagon.
“It’s a way of attacking a culture,” Smith
said. “[Terrorists] have imposed a permanent
psychological effect that won’t go away.”
Students at A&M experienced shock in
the morning one year ago when they
received news of the tragedy.
“I never thought [terrorists] would attack
civilians,” senior renewable natural resources
Kurt Roedel said. “It wasn't an attack on
America, it was an attack on humanity.”
MSC Council President Barry
Hammond remembers seeing students com
forting each other in the Flagroom.
“(The attack] shattered the feeling of
comfort for each American ” Hammond said,
“but it also brought a sense of togetherness.”
Junior computer engineering major Idan
Anis has been studying at A&M since he
came to the United States from his home in
Israel two years ago. Anis said he had no
doubt when he heard news of the first crash
that it was a terrorist action, because terror
ism is a more familiar occurrence in Israel.
American friends of Anis came to him
with questions about what was going on.
Anis said he was surprised by many stu
dents’ lack of knowledge about other
nations and societies.
See Anniversary on page 7A
Campus
activities
honor
Sept. 11
By Tanya Nading
THE BATTALION
With the first anniversary of the World
Trade Center attacks upon us, students,
faculty and staff at Texas A&M will com
memorate the anniversary with day-long
activities of remembrance.
At 8:45 a.m.. Sept. 11, 2001, a hijacked
passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11
out of Boston, Mass, crashed into the north
tower of the World Trade Center, setting
off a chain of events that left U.S. citizens
in a state of shock and terror.
At 9:03 a.m, a second hijacked airliner.
United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston,
crashed into the south tower of the World
Trade Center.
Following a national moment of
silence, Albritton Tower will begin the bell
tolling from 7:47 to 8:05 a.m. to com
memorate the beginning of the attacks.
“Texas A&M is an institution that is
known for it’s patriotism, which was evi
dent with the red, white and blue out at
the first football game after the attacks,”
said Lane Stephenson, deputy director of
University Relations. “It’s appropriate to
have a series of meaningful events for
Sept. 11. The day will be packed and
filled with them from one end of the
campus to another.”
At 8:45 a.m. the International Order
of Fire Chiefs will conduct a ceremony
at the George "Bush Presidential Library
and Museum.
There will be a performance by the
Singing Cadets, the “5-5-5” Bell Call and
“Last Call” on the radio for those who died.
Written messages from former
President George Bush and State Senator
Steve Ogden will be read; and remarks
will be given by State Representative Fred
Brown and Kemble Bennet, the director of
the Texas Engineering Extension Service.
Morning activities at the Bush Museum
See Activities on page 2A
Ags killed in WTC remembered in exhibit
By Melissa Sullivan
THE BATTALION
Jimmy Nevill Storey, Class of
1965, was on the 99th floor of the
North Tower of the World Trade
Center when American Airlines
Fight 11 struck at 8:45 a.m. on the
morning of Sept. 11,2001.
Lee Alan Adler, Class of 1984,
was on the 103rd floor of the
North Tower when the same STOREY
doomed flight hit.
Lt. Col. Jerry Don Dickerson, Class of 1992,
was stationed at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
At 9:43 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 smashed
into the building.
AH three Aggies will be honored
in a ceremony featuring incoming
Corps Commandant Lt. Gen. John
Van Alstyne and a special exhibit at
the Sanders Corps Center today at
10:30 a.m.
Storey, from Katy, Texas, was a
senior vice president in the
Houston office of Marsh Inc., a
risk and insurance firm that is an operating unit of
Marsh & McLennan Cos. He is a graduate of the
DICKERSON
Lowry Mays College of Business and a member of
the Coips of Cadets. He often trav
eled to New York City for business
and was attending a meeting when
the jetliners struck the towers.
“He was kind of thrown from
boy to man real fast, but he handled
it well,” Storey’s mother, Iva Dell
DeStefano, told the Bryan-College
Station Eagle. “He was a very devot
ed son land] a very, very good father
to his children. It’ll leave a big hole in his family.”
ADLER
See Honorees on page 7A
Area schools help
remember fallen
pilot with quilt
By Tanya Nading
THE BATTALION
With hopes of supporting
their country, 100 fourth and
fifth graders from the Bryan-
College Station area submitted
drawings for a quilt honoring
the memory of a pilot lost in the
Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.
Two members of the National
Society of Collegiate Scholars
(NSCS) chapter for Texas A&M
University will travel to the
United States Naval Academy on
Sept. 13 to present the quilt to the
family of Capt. Charles “Chic"
Burlingame III, a former naval
officer and one of the pilots from
the hijacked airplanes.
“I feel honored and privi
leged that I am able to represent
our chapter on behalf of a proj
ect that has so much signifi
cance to our country,” said
Eddie Dutton, president of the
Texas A&M NSCS chapter and
junior geography major. “Just
the thought of being part of this
makes me feel that in some
small way I have done some
thing for my country and possi
bly help a grieving family.”
The service project, called
“Helping is Healing,” was cre
ated by the headquarters of
NSCS office in Washington
D.C., the Points of Light
Foundation and the U.S.
Government to honor those
who were killed in the attacks.
The Texas A&M chapter was
assigned Burlingame, a decorat
ed former U.S. Naval officer and
pilot of American Airlines
Flight 77, the flight that crashed
RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
Jeremy Wasser of the Congregation Beth Shalom sings for an
audience at the 9/11 Memorial Service held at Peace Lutheran
Church. The service had seven churches from the Brazos Valley par
ticipate including Jewish, Christian and Muslim.
into the Pentagon during the
Sept. 1 1 attacks.
Burlingame was a Top Gun
Pilot for the U.S. Navy, flying
the F-4 Phantom for eight years.
He was killed one day before his
52nd birthday.
“We had a meeting with the
NSCS and were told that each
chapter would be assigned a vic
tim of the Sept. 1 1 attacks,” said
Jeremy Jones, director of serv
ice for the NSCS chapter and a
junior political science and
English major. “I offered to take
charge of the project and the
idea of a quilt was suggested
and we ran with it.”
The project was allotted one
month of time for completion.
See Quilt on page 2A
Nationwide terror alert
raised to higher level
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration raised the
nationwide terror alert to its second highest level, closed nine U.S.
embassies overseas and heightened security at federal buildings and
landmarks in America as new intelligence warned of car bombings,
suicide attacks and other strikes linked to the Sept. 11 anniversary.
Americans were urged Tuesday to be alert but unbowed — go to
work, to school and on trips — despite specific threats against U.S.
interests abroad and less credible concerns that terrorists might
attack America again.
“The threats that we have heard recently remind us of the pattern
of threats we heard prior to September the 1 lth v ” President Bush
said on the eve of the anniversary. “We have no specific threat to
America, but we’re taking everything seriously.”
Security precautions in the nation’s capital rivaled measures
taken immediately after last year’s attacks. For example. Vice
President Dick Cheney canceled a Tuesday night speech and was
taken to a secret location to protect the presidential line of succes
sion in case of an attack.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered that live anti-air
craft missiles be stationed near launchers that had been deployed
around Washington for a training exercise.
Across the country, access was restricted to public places and
events. Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, announcing security measures at
the state capitol, told residents, “You should probably bring your
driver’s license” to the building.
Local police were on edge. They urged residents to report any
See Alert on page 7A