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www.dailygamecock.com WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2002__ ' **£*£ IN YOUR OPINION What has * changed the most since Sept. 11,2001? “The country j has a greater j unity with one another and works harder toward one single goal: Protect the nation TEDDY CLARK SECOND-YEAR CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT “I think people have come together a lot more.” | UEAN EMMERTON SECOND-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING “There’s a new sense of patriotism and k camaraderie. It was always there, but it got reinvigorated. When you lose that many _ __I- XL puupic — pcupic umi are close to you - it makes you think of the family you have here and makes you love them all the more.” AISHA WASHINGTON FIFTH-YEAR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT # “More unity amongst everyone. You see more people trying to help out now. More secure when you go places.” QUIANA BUTLER THIRD-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT The Americans’ pride in the U.S. People seem to be proud to be MiiicMUctn, anu uerore Sept. 11 last year, we were just here. Pride was less obvious.” SUE KENNEDY FOURTH-YEAR SPANISH STUDENT I-- - Index Comics 11 Crossword 11 Classifieds 14 » Horoscopes 11 Letters to the Editor 9 Online Poll 8 Weather TODAY High 93 Low 65 1 TOMORROW — Holiday would diminish Sept. 11 ADAM bDAM GAMECOCKUDESK@HOTMAIL.COM Don’t be seduced by idea of something nice. Conversations with my girl friend usually don’t include top ics of universal significance; usu ally they consist of some kind of Country music artist or a Reese Witherspoon movie. But on this occasion, she really got me think ing. She told me that when one of her friends learned her birthday was Sept. 14, the friend exclaimed: “Oh my gosh, that’s three days af ter Sept. 11! How do you feel about that?” When the friend said her birth day was in May, my girlfriend dramatically responded: “Oh my gosh, that’s eight months after ♦ BEAM, SEE PAGE 4 Quiet tributes will remember fallen heroes Names of dead will be one of few sounds at 9/11 ceremonies BY SARA KUGLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - The nation will remember last Sept. 11 mostly in silence, with few sounds, oth er than bells tolling, military jets roaring in tribute, and the reading of victims’ names. At the World Trade Center, destoyed by two of the four hi jacked jetliners, family mem bers and dignitaries will read the names of the 2,801 dead and missing Wednesday morning, an hour-and-a-half recitation to begin and end with moments of silence and include readings of the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address. The city’s remembrance was to begin with a moment of si lence at 8:46 a.m., when the first plane hit the trade center — and end just before 10:30 a.m., when PHOTO BY MERI SIMON/KRT CAMPUS A crowd along Church Street, in lower Manhattan, tries to get a glimpse of Ground Zero. the second tower collapsed. Cities across the country are set to fall silent for moments in the morning and throughout the day. In Los Angeles, houses of worship were asked to ring bells at 5:46 a.m., followed by a mo ment of silence. ♦ ANNIVERSARY, SEE PAGE 4 | Search for life j in the rubble USCgraduate speaks about his role in the Ground Zero rlennun BY ALLYSON BIRD THE GAMECOCK Thousands of rescue work ers witnessed the end of count less hours of cleanup work when the last piece of debris was removed from Ground Zero in May, and alumnus Bruce Davis was one of them. As acting chief of earth sci ence applications at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Davis shared his Ground Zero experiences with USC yesterday at the semester’s first Geography Colloquium. Davis got his master’s in geography and his doctorate in geographic infor mation processing from USC. Davis’ applications for re mote sensing, or getting data about the earth’s surface from a distance, were put to use in the New York City cleanup. On Sept. 19, Davis arrived at Ground Zero to use his technology, which up un til then had been used on dis aster work, such as cleanups for Hurricanes Andrew and Floyd and the Mississippi and Missouri floods. JL. At the site, Davis was working for the state of New York, where, he said, “you didn’t fly over the debris, un less you were with the Office for Technology.” Davis initially collected geographical data and dis tributed it to federal rescue workers and answered their questions about remote sen sors. He said the workers were often not responsive to suggestions, such as a 24 hour watch camera from ad jacent buildings. “If you made a recommendation that they didn’t like, you didn’t ask twice,” he said. “In many cases, their boss was missing and presumed to be dead.” NASA became essential to the Ground Zero efforts to find locations where teams could stage rescues. Every response worker wore a global position ing system to enter coordinates for people they found, but often, they discovered only pieces. “If they found a body part, they’d write ‘part’ and draw an arrow,” Davis said. ♦GROUNDZERO, SEEPAGES Inside ♦ THE MIX Jump, Little Children talks to The Gamecock about the band’s career and new DVD. Page 10 ♦ THE MIX The Nickelodeon will show a series of short films ' that show Sept. 11 from different angles. Page 10 ♦ SPORTS Former USC j shortstop Drew Meyer adjusts to the minor leagues. Page 12 ♦ SPORTS Women’s soccer is J ready to take on Clemson. Page 13 J PHOTO BY ERIC MENCHER/KRT CAMPUS The New York City skyline, from lower Manhattan to the Statue of Liberty, on Sept. 10, 2002. * <■ 1