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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
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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
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“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
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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
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PHOTO BY ERIC MENCHER/KRT CAMPUS
The New York City skyline, from lower Manhattan to the Statue of Liberty, on Sept. 10, 2002.
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