The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 14, 2001, Image 1
Rescuers find no survivors
Alex Pena walks along 6th Avenue holding a poster with
pictures and a description of his brother Angel Pena, 46,
who worked at the World Trade Center, photo by peter tobia/krt
CAMPUS
More than 4,700
remain missing
in World Trade
Center rubble
BY LARRY MCSHANE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK —The gruesome
search through the graveyard of
the World Trade Center yielded
no survivors as the death toll
mounted Thursday, and hopes
dimmed for more than 4,700 miss
ing souls. President Bush
promised to visit New York to
“hug and cry” with its shaken cit
izens.
Two days after the trade cen
ter was hit and destroyed by two
hijacked passenger planes,
swirling dust kept visibility lim
ited and sanitation trucks waged
a losing fight against the residue
of the blast. Hundreds of family
members searched for any sign
of their loved ones.
Tens of thousands of residents
still could not return to their
homes in a closed-off lower Man
hattan. Nerves were frayed by
bomb scares and false alarms,
both in New York and in Wash
ington,
Even a small semblance of nor
malcy was yanked away: Airline
flights at the New York area’s
three busy airports began for the
first time since Tuesday but were
abruptly halted. Police said a
man was arrested at Kennedy
airport after trying to slip past
security with a false pilot’s iden
tification.
The city also brought in 30,000
body bags for pieces of human re
mains.
“Even scary movies do not
happen like this,” said Enver
Kesti, 42, a pizza chef who re
turned to clean up a gourmet
shop that once sat in the towers’
shadows.
Bush declared Friday, the day
of his New York visit, a “na
tional day of prayer and re
membrance.”
He asked Americans to
spend their lunch breaks tak
ing part in services at their cho
sen places of worship, White
House spokesman Ari Fleisch
er said.
The president praised New
Yorkers for showing “the com
passion of America and the brav
ery of America.”
New York was not alone in
counting its missing and dead.
The Pentagon said 126 people in
the building were killed in Tues
day’s plane attack. Seventy bod
ies had been recovered.
Add the 4,763 missing report
ed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
plus the 266 passengers and crew
members who died aboard the
planes that hit the trade center,
the Pentagon and a field south
east of Pittsburgh, and the total
dead in Tuesday’s carnage could
be more than 5,000.
That would be higher than the
death toll from Pearl Harbor and
the Titanic combined. A total of
2,390 Americans died at Pearl
Harbor nearly 60 years ago, and
the sinking of the Titanic claimed
1,500 lives.
Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz told reporters at
the Pentagon that the U.S. re
sponse to the attacks that
wrought these horrors would
“unfold over time.”
“One thing that is clear is you
don’t do it with just a single mili
tary strike, no matter how dra
matic,” Wolfowitz said.
In Congress, a bipartisan
coalition worked on approving
two measures: an emergency
anti-terrorism package that could
cost $20 billion, and support for
the use of force by Bush against
those responsible.
Up to 50 people were Involved
in the attack, the Justice Depart
♦ ATTACK, SEE PACE 3
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Col. Tom Stott woke up Tues
day morning trying to decide
whether he should go to work at
his Pentagon office — little did he
know his office wouldn't be there.
Stott, father of USC graduate
student Nick Stott, decided to take
the day off and “do some things
around the house," a choice his
son attributed to divine interven
tion.
"I was at work when I found
out what happened," Nick Stott
said. “I saw that the Pentagon got
hit, so I called him because it was
actually his office that got hit. It
took me about an hour to get
through the phone lines, and
when I finally got a hold of him he
said, ‘I wasn’t there, but my office
is completely decimated.’”
Nick is one of many USC stu
dents who were in some way af
fected by the attacks on the
World Trade Center in New York
and the Pentagon in Washington,
D.C.
Sarah Ritch, sister of third-year
student Emma Ritch, was on a
flight to New York out of the
♦ FAMILIES, SEE PAGE 3
CANCELED
• EVENTS
♦ Saturday’s football game
♦ Parent’s Weekend
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Tragedy
comes
home
to USC
Father of USC
student barely
escapes attack
on Pentagon
BY ADAM BEAM
Til K GAMECOCK
,
Blood bank
information
Call 540-1214 if you're
interested in giving blood.
Call 251-6000 for general
information and appointments
Contact numbers
for missing people
AMERICAN AIRLINES:
(800) 245-0999
UNITED AIRLINES:
(800) 932-8555
THE PENTAGON:
To check on the status of loved
ones who worked at the
Pentagon, please use the
following numbers:
ARMY: 1-800-984-8523
AIR FORCE: 1-800-253-9276
.NAVY AND MARINES: 1-877
663-6772
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PARKER. SEAN WALLER AND KAREN YIP
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HOW TO FIND,
GIVE HELP
Grief counseling
THE USC COUNSELING AND
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CENTER is offering grief
counseling at 900 Assembly St
Walk-ins are welcome, or you
can call 777-5223 to set up an
appointment. Although no
specific counseling groups have
been set up, the center intends
to create one soon.
INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE
King Hippo conies < Sporting events
to Columbia canceled
Band to play at Elbow Room Williams-Brice Stadium will be
tonight ♦ PAGE 6 empty on Saturday ♦ PAGE 9
WEATHER
Today Tomorrow
Sunny, Sunny,
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Director Brandon Ray read
“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Au
den, and Ford read John F.
Kennedy's speech from the day
Martin Luther King Jr. was as
sassinated.
Senators are encouraging
students to donate blood. The
Senate contacted the Red Cross
to request a blood drive at the
USC campus, but there were
not enough volunteers to staff
such a drive because many oth
er Columbia residents have
been giving blood at the Red
Cross. To schedule an appoint
ment to donate blood, call (800)
GIVE-LIFE.
“If you do one thing - donate
money, donate blood -- then you
have helped,” Ford said. He
said USC and other colleges
and universities need to show a
strong front by continuing with
events and normal living. Ford
said students and other Amer
icans should “never give an in
dication to bow down.”
Senators emphasized using
the Carolinian Creed to deal
with the aftermath of Tues
day’s attacks and especially to
discourage bigotry.
Some who attended the
Wednesday meeting read en
couraging passages, including
Psalm 23. Multicultural Affairs
relief fund. It might also sell
ribbons to make money for the
fund.
Senators have made a ban
ner that will be displayed on
Greene Street through Monday
and then sent to the relief fUnd.
Students are encouraged to
stop by and sign the banner to
show their support for the vic
tims.
SG Vice President Nithya
Bala said she hopes kindness
will win against terrorists.
Ford said he hopes strangers
will help strangers, enemies
will become friends and Amer
icans will help other Ameri
cans in this time of need.
BY MEGHAN MCNAIR
T1IK GAMECOCK
Student senators recom
• mended Wednesday that USC
erase class records for Tuesday
and collect donations to aid vic
tims after Tuesday's attack on
the country.
Corey Ford, student govern
ment president, recommended
to USC President John Palms,
Provost Jerry Odom and Asso
ciate Provost Don Greiner that
all class attendance records for
Tuesday, the day of the terror
ist attacks, be wiped out.
SG is collecting donations at
various campus locations for a
University reaches out
Students sign a banner, created by members of Student Government, In support of the victims of Tuesday’s
terrorist attacks In New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, photo by anqela dusenbury
STUDENTS SHOW SUPPORT
USG’S PAST
SEPTEMBER 18,1968: History
professor Thomas Terrill began
teaching “The Negro in
American History,” the first
African-American history and
culture course at the University.
Parent's Weekend, originally
scheduled to start today, was can
celed Thursday because of Tues
day's attack on the nation and the
cancellation of Saturday's football
game. * *
The weekend's activities were
planned by the Office of Student and
Parent Programs. Its director, Rick
Gant, along with Russell House Di
rector Carmela Carr and Student
Life Director Jerry Brewer, decided
Thursday to cancel all the events
associated with the weekend. Carr
estimated Thursday that she, Gant
and Brewer had about 600 families
to call and inform of the change in
plans.
They have also posted a mes
sage on USC's home page notify
ing parents and students of the
change and will try to e-mail as
many families as possible.
Carr said phones are their
“main mode of notification,” and
they were mainly leaving messages
with parents and students. Partici
pants can call 1-800-878-6752 to find
out more information as well.
They decided to cancel the ac
tivities as soon as they learned
Thursday morning the football
game against Bowling Green Uni
versity would be canceled. Carr
♦ WEEKEND, SEE PAGE 3
University
cancels
Parent’s
Weekend
Events called off
because of attack
and cancellation
of football game
BY MARY HARTNEY
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