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By Bev Bryan Thursday, after the terror attacks, somthing remarkable happened here. On Wednesday, Polity (headed by Natalie Hodgeson), SPAB, the Latin American Student Organization, and The Inter- Fraternity/Sorority Council came together on short notice with the student clubs and organizations to put together an ecumeni- cal candlelight vigil for the next day. SAC food services, NorthFork Bank, the campus organization Educasians (short for Educating Asians) and the Interfaith Center all rushed to lend their support. The next evening an unprecedented num- ber of students stood with each other in front of a temporary stage outside of the SAC and let their grief and hope show. Students who were deeply affected by the tragedy shared their feelings and some sang. Members of our religious communi- ty- Muslim Chaplain Nadim Sanaa, Hillel's Rabbi Topek and a number of representa- tives of Christian groups on campus spoke about peace and led us in prayer. We read with Rabbi Topek: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall not fear." One woman sang "His Eye is on the Sparrow". We all sang "Amazing Grace" and repeated "salaam", the Arabic tered and blew out as strangers lit and re- and when they held them up it showed lit eachothers candles. It was nice. At the you", said Amy Hunter, captain of the fountain participants sang "The Star Stony Brook Dance Team who attended the Spangled Banner", "The National Anthem" vigil with the rest of the team. and recited the "Pledge of Allegiance". "I had the opportunity to get up on the After that, those assembled were expect- fountain and I thought: My God, I think the ed to disperse, but no one wanted to leave. closest thing to this I've ever seen was the Instead the members of the crowd sponta- protest against the meal plan," said CSA neously raised their candles above their vice president Mike Bernardin who helped heads, holding them there for some time. It to organize the event. He described the was a moment of rare quiet and beauty. vigil as a sign of unity and solidarity Many candles were left burning on the rim among the students. "You rarely see all of the fountain as an impromptu memorial. clubs and organizations work together on "At the end, when everyone held up something", he observed. It was a rare their candles, it showed how much people show of concern on all accounts. 150 stu- cared. You think that people don't care dents signed up to donate blood and many anymore, but so many people gave up their more wrote messages of good will on a time to be there especially on a Thursday. large tapestry that can be seen in the main That's supposed to be the party night. You lobby of the SAC. can't get anyone to do anything on word for peace, after Chaplain Sanaa. When everyone spoke together it was very loud. The number of students at the vigil was estimated at 1600. "It was very impressive; it was quite moving in fact.", said Vice President of Student Affairs Fred Preston of the event's turn out. All stu- dents and members of the administration who spoke that night expressed candid amazement at the sheer size of the crowd. The event made the front page of the Three Village Herald The event required a lot of candles. Fortunately, the event organizers received an overwhelming response to their requests for donations of them. Local churches like Bethel AME, Caroline Church of Bradenton and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Smithtown all donated in surprising amounts. In a mat- ter of hours that Wednesday, night stu-- dents collected easily over 900 small white candles. After the presentational part of the vigil ended, everyone lit their candles and carried them to the fountain singing "Let Page 2 ~aa~P~z~EZ~pPP~Pn~,~,~,~___.,~,.,~ _~~_____~___~~ ~ 1>TW By Daniel Hofer

Robin Quivers is a moron. Usually her counterpart Howard Stem gets the credit for that, but one morning I was listening to the radio, and she proved her idiocy to me. She agreed with developer Larry Silverstein and the "all- knowing" moneyman Donald Trump that the World Trade Center should be rebuilt. My father used to work on the 86th floor of World Trade Center Two. Don't worry, his company moved out about two years ago. I've been inside that buildings many times since I was little. The towers were the coolest things in the city when I was a child. I remember being right in front of them, or even a few blocks away, and having to stretch my neck and look almost all the way up to see the top. The buildings were amazingly tall. The lobby was very open and elegant. In the center, banks of elevators would take people to work. When elevator doors would open, large gusts of wind would blast out. To get to the 86th floor, my father and I would have to take two elevators. The first elevator was an express to one of the building's "sky-lobbies." The sky-lobby had more sets of ele- vators to take passengers to their desired floors. J always hated the speed of the elevators because the air pressure would wreck my ears. The 86th floor may not be the top of the building, but it was damn high. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the World Trade center is what I think before. This was an attack not just on our country, place, ana no matter now mucn security we nave up made the building so interesting. I recall spending but also on our home. We feel what has happened there, something can slip by it easier than so much time looking out the window and especial- much harder than other people across the nation. on the ground. ly down at the city below. Everything was so small, What happened here cannot happen again. Trump in all his arrogance says we should but so detailed. It was hard to believe what I saw Listening to the radio last week I found I build a bigger building this time. I really shouldn't was not a model. had the same thoughts as Howard Stem. First of bash this guy because it's common knowledge that One day, on the way to work with my dad all, who would go back into these buildings? he's an idiot. But really, are we trying to get attacked I noticed the towers extended all the way into the Many companies have already bought office space again? Why don't we put a friggan sign on the thing low cloud cover. That was the worst day for a in other areas and are not planning to go back. No saying, "Hit me?" We were lucky that these build- view of the ground in his office. From top to bot- one I know would work there. I would never go ings collapsed on themselves, and not on other tom the window was plain white. At one point in back in a building built there. Charles Schumer, buildings in the area. We may not be as the day, my father needed to give something to one of our senators, says we should rebuild and lucky a second time. someone downstairs so I went with him. This put a monument in remembrance of those who lost Building a second Trade Center is almost man's office was at the same level as the cloud their lives. Up until I heard that, I thought like saying it never happened. Images can be easily cover. The window was mostly white, but just Schumer was an intelligent person. Imagine going doctored in this age. Some one could say that it near the bottom, the cloud ended in a clear line arid to work everyday involved passing a memorial to never happened. If there are people who deny the I could almost see the streets. those who died before you. It's like saying, "Hey, holocaust happened (and I assure you there are), The building was a typical office building- your next!" If I worked there I think I would end anyone could deny these attacks happened. I think bright, clean and quiet. Typing, paper shuffling up in a padded room. a memorial in the spot where the buildings were is and other office noises could be heard over the Someone smart might think that building more than appropriate. A memorial showing how quite noise of the air vents. In real quite places like another World Trade Center is only going to cause large these buildings were and how devastating the the bathroom, a person could actually hear the terrorists to want to knock it down again. Ms. attack was. Something to show that what happened building creaking in the wind. That freaked me, Quivers in her infinite wisdom says if people went was real. It appears all these moneymen see is a but my dad assured me that big buildings had to be back into the buildings after the 1993 bombings, they financial loss in the tragedy. The desire to put up built like that to stay up. would go back if we rebuilt it. Maybe people went new a building makes it seem like they just want to The day the buildings fell, a piece of my back the first time because they knew it was safe. make back money where they lost it. What we owe childhood went with it. The scenes we saw on TV There was no way to get a bomb in the building with to our grandchildren is not a new building, but a were not from a movie. People were running on the the new security measures. Crashing planes into memorial to what has happened and to what we same streets I was walking down just a few weeks buildings is a much bigger deal. The air is a big have seen in our lifetime.

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Executive Editor Editorial: Presenc JaIaH IIassnu Manaoin Editor Absence Isaac Pi aum Following a very sober walk and nowhere Associate Editor through downtown Manhattan last I was s Katie Sinott week, I was overcome with a feeling dents were a Business Manager of emptiness. Although pedestrians Manhattan, t] Diana Post are currently allowed surprisingly whelmed witi News Editor close to "ground zero," and I was able gency persor Bev Bryan Asst. News to view the rubble of the fallen towers other people. Wendy Fuchberg from across the street, this scene was was no one; c Features Editor not the jarring one. I was more than ple silently lo Daniel Hofer prepared for it by nearly two weeks of photographin Photo Editor self-inflicted news footage. What the sides of caught me off-guard was the atmos- professional Arts Editor phere of the rest of lower Manhattan. shooting the Adam Kearney During the summer months, I were photogr Koppey Editre live in Staten Island and work on ple photogr ; ? There Production Mnqr. Murray St. As such, the walk up and were pc ?1 down Broadway and its neighboring they weren'1 Ombudsman streets is a familiar one, but down- clearing cr< Glenn Given town has been left as I've never seen weren't any. 1 it before. an odd, unfar The vigorous power-washing of Walking the buildings and several days of rain the evening r have reduced most of the dust to gray was alone, e: BootKevinCavangT streaks down the windows. There are police officer CQanors, NagmiEdwadsCis fliers up everywhere with pictures of worker. It I GenaiShariGoldsiR Gihbeany, 1hilip Giandin,Rogae people who are still missing, or of the house you g: HanisanAngeksKHatide, "black box" voice recorders officials you sell it, w are looking for. I had heard about all the life re BianUbfeEl, vhgs these things and I expected them, and resembling ti what was surprising and disconcert- middle of th( ing was that there were almost no in impossibly other people around. American fla{ CraigSdMange; ChrisSo When I'd walk to work in the Everyw] QChrisSaowiDbbe morning there were hundreds of thou- was a Pulitze SarahStuve,HilaryVida, sands of people around walking, sell- graph waitin RcbetWV\bng ing, honking, yelling and generally ferry ride hoi slowing me down. And the tourists, I and tried to r L The Stony Brook Press is published fortnightly hate the tourists. Manhattan is a pret- be looking to during the academic year and twice during ty small place, geographically. What buildings. Re the summer intersession by The Stony Brook Press, a student run and student funded makes it seem so huge is the time it convenient d non-profit organization. The opinions usually takes to get anywhere, now it photos on the expressed in letters and viewpoints do not necessarily reflect those of the staff. seems like all the people have forgot- Living i Advertising policy does not necessarily ten how to walk quickly, because even to the Statue reflect editorial policy. For more informa- tion on advertising and deadlines call when they weren't pushing through State Buildin (631)632-6451. Staff meetings are held the crowds that should have been took them all Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. First'copy free. For additional copies contact Business there, they were all walking like car- realize that I Manager. toon zombies, with blank expressions and I feel like The Stony Brook Press Suites 060 & 061 Student Union SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3200 (631) 632-6451 Voice (631) 632-4137 Fax e-mail: [email protected] www_.sremsqorry Page 4 We Will Tell All of This to Our Children ______One Day By Andrea Leeson J,

So, I don't usually write things for attacks, or watching from streets nearby, who I cried. I fell to my knees and I cried, praying newspapers and right now I don't think I need had to run from gray, unexplainable clouds of whenever I caught my breath for "all those peo- to push any opinions or political theories on any buildings, has suffered an extreme trauma. And ple, all those people." And I cried. part of the public. But, see, I have this need to those of us watching at home, we have suffered The newscasters foretold that tomorrow, connect with people now, to see them, to hear this trauma less, but still strongly, and it is September 12th, would bring a new, unrecog- them, and to at least sense them among all this unseen when or how we will heal. nizable city. It did. What world is this that I've darkness of debris of ruined lives, hopes, coun- I was next to the destruction of the "site" woken up in? I didn't know and I am still tries, and illusions. Basically, I just need to talk; today. I watched cranes, emergency vehicles, unsure. My best friend Robyn calls. She says, I need to get this shit out; I need to get rid of police people and boys who looked much like "Andrea... Andrea, what is this world?" And I this. And in this recent collision of so many dif- kids at Stony Brook, but dressed in military was desperate for answers. My grandmother ferent voices: media, family, friends, professors, fatigues. Downtown without any cars became calls. She says that she's old, she doesn't under- well, I guess I just need someone to hear me. an odd sort of forest of barren buildings, where stand. She thinks that maybe she is too old to Things have changed. Nothing will ever I wandered and wondered. I sat in the middle make sense of these things any more. She tells be the same. I said to my boyfriend today, after of downtown streets and absorbed the empti- me that she doesn't know anymore... she just an oddly unemotional walk past "ground zero," ness of it all. My boyfriend stopped and asked doesn't know. I remember days though, when that we will tell all of this to our children one a cop, "where are all the people?" The cop she shared over-protective silly grandma warn- day. And I am struck by how trite this is... how looked at both of us, "maybe they're all afraid." ings, like, "When you go into Manhattan make typical. But it's common for a reason. Wounds, And I smiled at some police officers as they sure you don't stand too close to the buildings." or scars in our individual histories are made all walked by, and was immediately surprised by I smile right now at this memory. I smile. My the time. But it is these gaping, swollen injuries the signs of allegiance I was showing them. For little sister's high school is having fundraisers to our collective histories that surround and me it has been years of rallies in New York and and car washes. My mother talks late into the invade us the most. Philadelphia against police brutality, years of evenings on the phone with hurting and con- We are sensing the meaning of our exis- black and brown friends being abused, years of fused friends. Every other house on my block tence during this horror, and we, as young peo- activism, and when face to face with them, pre- has placed American flags across suburban ple and New Yorkers, have a strong, confusing tending they are not there. But these feelings laws. I call my family and sometimes they talk attachment to a thing once intangible. History were not for today and not for right now. I had of normal, daily occurrences, and I tell them was, until September 11th, an idea, a concept... to show them that in these times we are that I love them. And as I write this, I think of an unreal tale or hazy photograph of our absolutely in this together. In these times, all John Lennon yet another time since the disaster. elders... times we must learn about, but have we need is peace. I was not the only one. I saw "Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing not experienced. But here we are; we are in it. It many people and police officers just chatting, through my open ears... limitless, undying is now. Basically, a generation with nothing to and laughing together; even a policeman with love.., it calls me on and across the universe... fight for, here we are, alive during something his arm around a confused, sad old lady. It nothing's gonna change my world." more than amazingly important. And how are seems our first instinct is to love. Maybe we can So here I am now, sharing memories with we a part of all of this? Some of us walked a try this. friends of those lost. We wonder about the state walk across the George Washington Bridge that The past days have confused my feelings of peace in the world. I write slogans on visible aerial cameras will engrave into our conscious- about the ness as something more like an ocean of people, attack. I am or a pulsating creature that was New Yorkers, mixed up with wandering quickly away, and slowly towards political theo- home. Some of us watched on our televisions, ries, policies of listened to radios, rushed home after a nine-to- peace I always five to hug our families. I sat staring at the sky, favor, and the asking too many questions... unbelievably glad despair of to be home. friends who For hours I sat before the television in the have lost shelter of this Indian summer, air-conditioning someone. Two and soft blankets. I watched as lives dropped to planes crash- escape into pools of brick and heaven. I made ing and col- my phone calls- my voice searching through lapsing the suffocating, tangled phone lines and cries of World Trade others. And something hurt that morning... Center quickly some ache that I want to call my country, that I became a sur- want to call my people. But what is a country? real, unbeliev- What are "my" people? We are all each other. able event. I And I want to love everyone. This sounds became almost absurd; people laugh at the simplicity of it. But like a detached whose world is this? I am selfish... how can this movie viewer. be my world? Perhaps this is I have been afraid of my feelings since this a defense mechanism against pain. Or perhaps places like, work for peace, or, love is the drug, happened. I have been aching for all of us, but this is simply and truly too unfathomable to or, it's ok to hurt. Maybe this is to help others. felt guilty for my sadness, because like others believe. I am now surrounded by guesses about It is probably just to help myself. We share who said to me in the urgent phone calls made the future, and wonders about what this exactly memories of the two buildings and their impor- immediately after the attack, I have not lost any- means to the world, the economy, the environ- tance and beauty that we took for granted. It one. But of course, not everyone said this, and ment, Long Island, insurance rates, the poor used to be that if you stood between and under- as predicted, many I know have lost someone. people, the big businesses. So to find the heart, neath the two buildings in the middle of the Many friends are suffering. But it is ok for all of the truth of my feelings, I think back to the very plaza, you could look up and the towers would us to feel the ache; it is human and we have moment when I found out what had happened. appear to bend into each other, to surround you. been Traumatized. People who are robbed or This moment was clean of all outside influence, And if you spread your arms out to them, turn attacked or raped, they are traumatized. They of any defense mechanisms or what-if scenarios your face towards the sky, open-mouthed and have suffered trauma and the damage is incal- that can continue into forever. This was my one smiling, and spin around and around, you will culable and unpredictable. And people who emotion of clear truth. My mother called our become silly and dizzy as they seem to spin watch others get attacked, murdered, raped, house to ask me if "I believed what was going with you. You will become silly and dizzywith they are traumatized as well. Everyone in the on out there." I asked what she meant, and then the beauty of it all.

Page 5 Chronoowgy of the Attack, its Greater Human Imoact By Dustin Herlich I

That fateful Tuesday morning like many, I towers saw and felt. My own mother stood on the stadium that night? It all eventually trickles down. awoke a little late and rushed out to my8:20 class. roof of her school, and with her class, watched the That is the goal of terrorism. Lookatthe airlines. The class was chemistry lab, and at about 10:30 the towers fall.Antherfriend watched it allunfold from Even after they were allowedto flyagain, people did girl at the lab desk in front of me got a call on her cell the bus window. A neighbor of mine in the area was not want to flyIt's sad to see that happening. phone. Apparently her friend was stuck in traffic able to see peoplejumping from thebuilding. Seeing As time goes on, people are star to geton because "someone had blown up the world trade cen- things like this usually have a profound effect on peo- with their lives, but slowly. Many are stillhaunted by ter". She promptly left class, and most of us were left ple, and several of the aforementioned are showing the images of what they saw and have nightmars, with the feeling that this was some sort of sick joke. signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. One friend trouble concentrating at school, or at work, and still Lab continued. At 12:30, Iwas returning to my dorm who attends NYU was just blocks away from the inci- you have thatgeneral feeling of mass consin some- and noticed the campus was unusually empty. When dent, and was able to hear and see most of it. Some of times. People are not going out to eat as much, and I got inside my building, I saw people crowded these people are in so much shock; they don't even are always jittery. One woman said that when some- around the office of the RA's. The TV was on, and realize they are in shock. Even a week after the attack! one on the train dropped a book she was carrying. that's when it hit me that it was actually true. I It was around 9:30 pm that I learned that everyone jumped from the noise. Others are still try- watched the video of thick black smoke for several many members of the armed forces were told to get ing to cope with the loss of a loved one. How many minutes and then I ran upstairs. Panic started to creep ready to go to war. Strange, how CNN and others more will need to die in this alleged "war on terror- its way in as I realized how many people I knew not only reported that they were calling up troops sever- ism" that our alleged president has thrown us into only in the city, but in the area. This was to be just the al days after the attacks, but I know of reservists who now? beginning of a nightmare that lasted for almost a were activated that night. Many of our armed forces Whatever is to be next, all we know is that it week, and not just for me, but for thousands and personnel are not happy with what has been going does not look too pretty. So many concentrate on the thousands across the nation, and even some across on. Not all of them really want to fight. Many think numbers of dead, but we forget the numbers of living the world. that some groups of our own United States popula- who now have to live with what we lost. Think how The immediate response of many on cam- tion are being unfairly targeted. As Private Andrew the man feels who trained these pilots? I don't think pus apparently was to try and call home. Getting out- Moss stated "The use of force at this point is necessary he's too happy. Thankfully, initial instances of vio- side lines was not happening. During the day, people in the fact that terrorists cannot perpetuate these lence seem to be subsiding largely, but there are still had left me voice mail messages saying they were ok, actions against us. However, people do not need to pointless attacks on foreigners, and often on those that but then there is always the message such as the one I unfairly target Muslim Americans. People need to are not even of Arab descent, butare merely mistaken received from a friend: "Jen's mom works in the trust the armed forces, and have faith that we will for an Arab. Case in point, the Indian man who was World Trade Center, and now I can't get in touch with punish those responsible." While clearly some form beaten to death in Texas. Then again, what do you either of them". Just about the only way many had to of retaliation is favored by almost all Americans, few want from a state that has both George W Bush to communicate with the outside world was through the feel ready for out and out war. This author included. boast about as well as drive through liquor stores. internet. Having high speed access was all that In the days that followed, there was a mix- All we can do now and wait. And thank our enabled me to find some people. As I was looking for ture of fear, confusion and worry that will probably lucky stars that college students can't be drafted. We internet broadcasts and pictures I was bombarded persist to some degree for maybe weeks to come. might have an army of over one million professional with e-mails of friends and relatives from around the Each day people awoke to find out who might have soldiers, but president primate felt the need to tell the globe asking if I was ok. Yes, physically I was, but if I been found, and who they knew was still missing. American people that this will take the toll of many knew where my friends were, I'd be a whole lot bet- Reports of the capture of some who might have gone lives, sacrifices, and may take more time than any pre- ter...... on to further terrorist acts only made some people's vious military action. It does not sound like fun to All through that night and into most of the conditions worse. One friend of mine wants to walk me. As each day passes, they get closer to rebuilding next day, the initial panic of people trying to find around wearing a gas mask because she is afraid they the Pentagon and cleaning up the city. People are friends and loved was massive. With everything released anthrax into the air. Her case may sound going back to school, work and church, but with mod- from hotlines to e-mail lists, the prospect of finding extreme, but it's unfortunately not all that uncom- ifications. Many places of worship require photo ID some people seemed daunting at best. Eventually, as mon. It's the toll on people's emotions, more than the and students of Stuyvesant High school are now the days wore on, more and more people were human life toll that terrorists are after. Each day, more required to attend class at Brooklyn Technical High accounted for. As time went on though, less and less and more people ask: "when will it end?" School. It's all these changes that add up to a new era. people were notified that their loved ones were still Since the attacks on that fateful Tuesday What is really to come, no one knows. But one thing alive. It slowly became more of "we've identified your morning, much has happened. Each person is trying is for certain, no one alive during this time will ever husband's body". This was the case for neighbors of to cope in his or her own way. Some are by ignoring forget what happened, nor will they ever see their my family. The likelihood being that he, like many it, others are still in denial. What is happening is that lives the same way as before. From the abolishment others, attempted to go back into the building to save slowly, more and more are affected. Now that the of curb side check in, to the loss of an integral part of lives. The tragic irony that resulted was that his was sports games were cancelled, what happenned to the our skyline, the world, especially this nation, and this claimed instead. Of course, you also hear the hero pay of the guy who was going to sell hot dogs in the state, will never be the same. stories about the man who carried a woman with crutches down 70 or so floors and they both got out. Or the man who slid down almost 90 floors, and emerged alive. There are also horror stories about escape, such as one friend whose mother was outside on a cigarette break and watched the plane hit one build- ing, thankfully, not hers. Dodging ruble and flaming debris, she ran upstairs to her floor, gathered some personal belongings, and tried to convince co-work- ers to leave with her. Unfortunately, the mistake was made inside the building to announce that people should remain inside. Thankfully, she ignored this warning. Soon after leaving the building, her build- ing was struck. Her story during these times is not unique. Others, tell tales of how an uncle "who is never ever late to work was late for the first time ever, and the first plane hit his floor". Or the countless other stories of "my bus was late" and "I was down- stairs getting coffee and a bagel". Along with these near miss stories of "I was supposed to make a delivery in the area, but the prod- ucts to be delivered never came in," there are the sto- ries of what people around the area who could see the Page 6 ByTGeohege Mo Need For Dissent By George Monbiot (reprinted from the Guardian of London)

If Osama Bin Laden did not exist, it would America is, he maintained, "a beacon of hope for state categorically that Tuesday's terrorism was a be necessary to invent him. For the past four years, the world's poor and dispossessed and for all those dreadful act, irrespective of provenance. But the his name has been invoked whenever a US presi- who believe in freedom of thought and deed." right can't bring itself to make the same statement dent has sought to increase the defense budget or These believers would presumably include the about Israel's new invasions of Palestine, or the wriggle out of arms control treaties. He has been families of the Iraqi's killed by the sanctions Britain sanctions in Iraq, or the US-backed terror in East used to justify even President Bush's missile and the US have imposed, the peasants murdered Timor, or the carpet bombing of Cambodia. It's defence program, though neither he nor his associ- by Bush's proxy war in Colombia, and the tens of critical faculties have long been suspended and ates are known to possess anything approaching millions living under despotic regimes in the now, it demands, we must suspend ours too. ballistic missile technology. Now he has become Middle East, sustained and sponsored by the US. Retaining the ability to discriminate the personification of evil required to launch a cru- William Shawcross concluded by suggest- between good acts and bad acts will become ever sade for good: the face behind the faceless terror. ing that "We are all Americans now," an echo of harder over the next few months, as new conflicts The closer you look, the weaker the case Pinochet's maxim that "We are all Chileans now," and paradoxes challenge our preconceptions. It against Bin Laden becomes. While the terrorists by which he meant that no cultural distinctions may be that a convincing case against Bin Laden who inflicted Tuesday's dreadful wound may have would be tolerated and no indigenous land rights is assembled, whereupon his forced extradition been inspired by Bin Laden, there is, as yet, no evi- recognized. Shawcross appeared to suggest that would be justified. But, unless we wish to help dence that they were instructed by him. Bin those who question American power are the ene- George Bush use barbarism to defend the "civi- Laden's presumed guilt appears to rest on the mies of democracy. It's a different way of formu- lization" he claims to represent, we must distin- supposition that he is the sort of man who would lating the warning voiced by members of the Bush guish between extradition and extermination. have done it. His culpability, however, is irrele- administration: "If you're not with us, you're Tuesday's terror may have signaled the vant: his usefulness to Western governments lies in against us." beginning of the end of globalization. The reces- his power to terrify. When billions of pounds of The Daily Telegraph has set aside part of sion it has doubtless helped to precipitate, cou- military spending are at stake, rogue states and ter- its leader column for a directory of "useful idiot," pled with a new and understandable fear among rorist warlords become assets precisely by which it means those who oppose major mili- many Americans of engagement with the outside because they are liabilities. tary intervention. Perhaps the roll of honor will world, could lead to a reactionary protectionism By using Bin Laden as an excuse for soon include families of some of the victims, who in the US, which is likely to provoke similar demanding new military spending, weapons man- seem to be rather more capable of restraint and responses on this side of the Atlantic. We will, in ufacturers in America and Britain have enhanced forgiveness than the leading writers of the these circumstances, have to be careful not to cel- his iconic status among the disgruntled. His influ- rightwing press. Mark Newton-Carter, whose ebrate the demise of corporate globalization, if it ence, in other words, has been nurtured by the brother appears to have died in the terrorist out- merely gives way to something even worse. very industry which claims to possess the means of rage, told one of the Sunday newspapers "I think The governments of Britain and America stamping him out. This is not the only way in Bush should be caged at the moment. He is a are using the disaster in New York to reinforce the which the new terrorismcrisis has been exacerbat- loose cannon. He is building up his forces getting very policies which have helped to cause the ed by corporate power. The lax airport security, ready for a military strike. That is not the problem: building up the power of the defence which enabled the hijackers to smuggle weapons answer." Gandhi said "An eye for an eye makes industry, preparing to launch campaigns of the on to the planes was, for example, the result of cor- the whole world blind," and never a truer word kind which inevitably kill civilians, licensing porate lobbying against the stricter controls the was spoken. But when the right is on the ram- covert action. Corporations are securing new government had proposed. page, victims as well as perpetrators are tram- resources to invest in instability. Racists are Now Tuesday's horror is being used by pled. attacking Arabs and Muslims and blaming liberal corporations to establish the preconditions for an 'Mark Twain once observed that "there asylum policies for terrorism. As a result of the even deadlier brand of terror. This week, while the are some natures which never grow large enough horror on Tuesday, the right in all its forms is world's collective back is turned, Tony Blair to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until flourishing, and we are shrinking. But we must intends to allow the mixed oxide plant at Sellafield they have inquired into the politics or the nation- not be cowed. Dissent is most necessary just when to start operating. The decision would have been ality of the man who did it." The left is able to it is hardest to voice. front-page news at any other time. Now it's likely to be all but invisible. The plant's opera- tion, long demanded by the nuclear industry and resisted by almost everyone else, will lead to a massive proliferation of plutonium, and a high probability that some of it will find its way into the hands of terrorists. Like Ariel Haron, in other words, Blair is using the reeling world's shock to pursue policies which would be unac- ceptable at any other time. For these reasons and many others, opposition has seldom been more necessary. But it has seldom been more vulnerable. The right is seizing the political space which has opened up where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. Civil liberties are suddenly negotiable. The US seems prepared to lift its ban on extra- judicial executions carried out abroad by its own agents. The CIA might be permitted to employ human rights abusers once more, which will doubtless mean training and funding a whole new generation of Bin Ladens. The British gov- ernment is considering the introduction of identity cards. Radical dissenters in Britain have already been identified as terrorists by the Terrorism Act 2000. Now we're likely to be treated as such. The authoritarianism which has long been lurking in advanced capitalism has start- ed to surface. In these pages yesterday, William Shawcross - Rupert Murdoch's courteous biog- rapher - articulated the new orthodoxy: Page 7 _o _Fight at Union Party By OZ

On Saturday, September 8, 2001 there was a large incident at the student union on campus. The fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, along with the Student Planning Activity Board (SPAB), held a an event at the union where live music and non-alcoholic refreshments were provided. Many eye wit- ness accounts were taken by the Press along with an interview with Doug Little, Deputy Chief of Campus Police, and Fred Preston, Vice President of Student Affairs. People came from all over the United States as well as from many places abroad to attend this event. The Press spoke with people who drove from Ohio and California, and a group who had flew in from St. Martin. There were also many students as well as local citizens who attended this affair. This is probably why there were three separate security enities hired: the SPA secu- rity, the Stonybrook Campus Police (run by Doug Little) and CSS, (making it VERY dis- organized and quite an insalubrious party.) After all, Stonybrook University does care about the well being of it's students and the surrounding community. Even with all of the security present, a fignt enaea up breaking out ana an inno- 'inaergaraen graduation ceremony Decause on me grounu \see picturt/. vviitv• picocu cent bystander, as well as a party involved in there were a disputes as to which people had about the fight, Doug Little said that someone that fight, was injured. There was quite a few arrived first. had a small cut on their lip and was not exam- contributing factors to the series of violent The press office, located in the union ined by the ambulance crew because the events that took place that night. itself, was very close to the action. We wit- injury was so minor. The press spoke with Most people who were milling around nessed a woman being taken out from the Barry (Css staff) who said that the person outside the union had been denied entrance front entrance on a stretcher to an ambulance who left the bloodstain outside had blood even though they had bought tickets in with an ice pack on her eyes and jaw, her face running from his nose and mouth and WAS in advance. This is a problem that almost every- covered in blood. According to every eye wit- fact examined by the ambulance crew that one we spoke with at the scene mentioned. ness we spoke to, and CSS, she was pushed The event was supposed to run from TIME to into a railing face first by one of the two peo- TIME but ended at approximately lam. The ple involved in the fight. Doug Little played Press was told it was shut down due to "secu- this off as being "heat exaustion." rity concerns" by the CSS staff. Also upon further investigation we The Press also spoke to quite a num- found quite a sizeable (appx. 2ft. square) ber of people who said that they had arrived bloodstain on the ground no more than ten at the union almost an hour BEFORE any feet from the back entrance of the union (see security staff was to be seen because they picture) which Doug little did not know about were looking to purchase tickets for the affair. (being as informed as he is about everything When security finally decided to show up on campus that has to do with our safety.) It there were already a large number of people looked as if enough blood had been lost to outside. Security then tried to get the crowd warrant a separate ambulance call. The press of people to form lines to buy tickets. The estimated that about a half pint of blood was ensuing chaos was more maddening than a had arrived. He was also nice enough to give us his version of what happened that night. His account matched up with the majority of the eye witness accounts that night. He said that a fight broke out inside the union and after an innocent bystander ended up getting injured, the fight leaked outside the back of the union. By the time that any security reached the back of the union someone who was involved in the fight inside had been assaulted and his attacker had fled the scene. Doug Little did not have much infor- mation on this issue and he would not let the Press look over the actual police reports taken that night. He also said that when something like this happens on campus, people do not usually press charges. He also said that if people do not press charges then it does not go into the statistics that you see about vio- lent acts on campus. So in all honesty you are not seeing the entire truth when you read the campus safety pamphlet. Fred Preston said that there are not many incidences of violence on the Stony Brook campus, but we here at the Press wonder where he gets his informa- tion from. By MarkSmagine Armstrong A the InapppriateSongsp p

Yes, it's probably about time radio stations floor.") at.. Green Day, "Brain Stew" finally stopped playing "Stairway to heaven." But "From the very beginning, 'Bodies' was au.. Guns N' Roses, "Knockin' on Heaven's this might not be the best way to do it. never about anything more than the kids mosh- Door" Clear Channel Communications, the ing," says Wind-up spokesman Steve Karas in a av.. Happenings, "See You in September" country's largest radio network, is raising eye- statement. "We can obviously understand people's aw.. Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe" brows after one of its station's program directors concerns, and we're very sympathetic, but the ax.. Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World" created a list of potentially inappropriate songs in meaning of the song still is as it was in the begin- ay.. Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My the wake of last week's devastating attacks on the ning, which is really a cry for togetherness." Brother" World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Here is the complete list of "lyrically inappropri- az.. Buddy Holly & the Crickets, "That'll Be Led Zeppelin, John Lennon's "Imagine," ate" songs being banned from the Day" Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner," AC/DC's "Highway to several U.S. radio stations in the wake of the ba.. Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve" Hell" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" attacks. bb.. Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young" wereamong more than 150 songs deemed "lyrical- bc.. Elton John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," ly inappropriate" following last Tuesday's tragedy. "Rocket Man" The list also includes everything from the classics a.. AC/DC, "Shot Down in Flames," "Shoot bd.. Judas Priest, "Some Heads Are Gonna (Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and Louis to Thrill," "Dirty Deeds," Roll" Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World") to recent "Highway to Hell," "Safe in New York be.. Kansas, "Dust in the Wind" releases (System of a Down's "Chop Suey!"). City," "TNT," "Hell's Bells" bf.. Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move" Then there's the downright goofy, as the b.. Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City" bg.. Kor, "Falling Away From Me" list suggests such un-American songs like the c.. Alice In Chains, "Rooster," "Sea of Sorrow," bh.. Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away" Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" and Bobby "Down in a Hole," bi.. Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven" Darin's "Mack the Knife." "Them Bone" bj.. John Lennon, "Imagine" While rumors initially floated that the list d.. Alien Ant Farm, "Smooth Criminal" bk.. Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire" was a corporate mandate, or a cruel hoax, the radio e.. Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of this Place" bl.. Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff" conglomerate insists that a program director creat- f.. Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful bm.. Local H, "Bound for the Floor" ed and distributed the list to its 1,100 stations, World" bn.. Los Bravos, "Black Is Black" ncluding KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and Z100-FM in g.. Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian" bo.. Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone" New York. h.. Barenaked Ladies, "Falling for the First bp.. Dave Matthews Band, "Crash into Me" "Given the environment, a Clear Channel Time" bq.. Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live and Let program director took it upon himself to identify a i.. Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me" Die" number of songs that certain markets or individu- j.. Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot," "Sabotage" br.. Barry McGuire, "Eve Of Destruction" als may find insensitive today," the company said k.. Beatles, "A Day in the Life," "Lucy in fhe bs.. Don McLean, "American Pie" in a statement. "This was not a mandate, nor was Sky with Diamonds," bt.. Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner" the list generated out of the corporate radio offices. "Ticket to Ride," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" bu.. Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive," It was a grassroots effort that was apparently cir- 1.. Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," S"Sweating Bullets" culated among program directors." "Love Is aBattlefield" bv.. John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down," Not all Clear Channel stations are paying m.. Black Sabbath, "War Pigs," "Sabbath "I'm on Fire" attention to the list. For instance, New York's Z100 Bloody Sabbath," "SuicideSolution" bw.. Martha & the Vandellas, "Nowhere to has been playing many of the tunes, while Q104 n.. Blood, Sweat & Tears, "And When I Die" Run," "Dancing in the Streets" has noted that "inappropriate" songs like "New o.. Blue Oyster Cult, "Bumin' for You" bx.. Metallica, "Seek and Destroy," "Harvester York, New York" and "Imagine" were some of the p.. Boston, "Smokin'" Or Sorrow," "Enter most requested of the week. q.. Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst that Could Sandman," "Fade to Black" Some songs, however, do evoke difficult Happen" by.. Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" images from last week's tragedy. It's not hard to see r.. Arthur Brown, "Fire" bz.. Mudvayne, "Death Blooms" a connection to songs like Peter, Paul and Mary's s.. Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes" ca.. Rick Nelson, "Travelin' Man" "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" or AC/DC's "Safe in New t.. Bush, "Speed Kills" cb.. Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red York City." u.. Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her" Balloons" As expected, free-speech activists are v.. Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces" cc.. Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole" expressing concern that the list was even passed w.. Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times" cd.. Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" around. While Clear Channel insists it did not x.. The Clash, "Rock the Casbah" ce.. Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died" "endorse or squash" the list's distribution, First y.. Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" cf.. John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire" Amendment watchdogs say it's problematic--espe- z.. Sam Cooke, "Wonderful World"' cg.. Peter & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces," "A cially if you consider that Clear Channel owns one aa.. Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Travelin' World Without Love" out of every 10 stations in the U.S. Band" ch.. Peter, Paul, & Mary, "Blowin' in the "It's very dangerous," says Nina Crowley, ab.. Cult, "Fire Woman" Wind," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" director of MassMic, a music free-speech organiza- ac.. Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife" ci.. Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'" tion. "I understand they're pulling certain violent ad.. Skeeter Davis, "End of the World" cj.. Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell," "Mother" songs. But you put out a list of songs like this, and ae.. Neil Diamond, "America" ck..P.O.D., "Boom" the next thing you know someone's pulling the af.. Dio, "Holy Diver" cl.. Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in albums off the shelves in Wal-Mart. ag.. Doors, "The End" Disguise" "There are some very absurd connections," ah.. Drifters, "On Broadway" cm.. Pretenders, "My City Was Gone" she adds. "'Walk Like an Egyptian'? You really ai.. Drowning Pool, "Bodies" cn.. Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust," gotta stretch it to get that." aj.. Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "Killer Queen" Most upsetting, Crowley says, is the inclu- ak.. Everclear, "Santa Monica" co.. Rage Against the Machine, all songs sion of "all songs by Rage Against the Machine" on al.. Shelly Fabares, "Johnny Angel" cp.. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane," the list. "That's a political stand against what Rage am.. Filter, "Hey Man, Nice Shot" "Under the Bridge" Against the Machine has to say," she warns. an.. Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly" cq.. R.E.M., "It's the End of the World as We Meanwhile, at least one record label has ao.. Fuel, "Bad Day" KnowIt" responded to the "objectionable" list. Wind-up ap.. Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling" cr.. Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday" Records is disputing that its single "Bodies," by the aq.. Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb on cs.. Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, "Devil band Drowning Pool, was deemied potentially Me" with the Blue Dress" objectionable. (The song made the list presumably ar.. Godsmack, "Bad Religion" for its chanting chorus, "Let the bodies hit the as.. Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky" Cont. OnPage 16 Page 9 The Flight of Old Glor By Dustin Herlich L. J

As well we should, many Americans night must have a light on it. In light of pub- the last few days have taken to flying lic ignorance, and these times, it has been American flags. I personally have one above agreed to let most of this slide in the eyes of my door to my suite, and I have various the law. In many ways, I agree, but with all American symbols hanging in my room. the flags Newsday printed for us, shouldn't Among which include my National Eagle we have also gotten a guideline as to how to Scout association patch. This patch proudly properly fly the flag? As Americans, is it not displays our colors, with an eagle superim- our responsibility to know things like this? posed onto it. Through my time in this orga- In most foreign nations, citizens are made nization, one of the things I learned was the well aware of such regulations, and actually proper way to fly the American flag. Being abide by them. out and about recently, I have seen some Again, don't get me wrong; I love things that really do not do justice to our that they are trying to fly the flag at all; I'm nation's colors. just surprised no one has come out before Walking to class the other day, I was this to say that flags are not being flown cor- proud to see the SAC building displayingthe rectly. For instance, why do some banks not colors. I'm glad to see the colors flying, but know that the president asked us to fly flags I must agree, it is important, especially in a flying them backwards is not so great. The at half staff for the next few days? Maybe time of crisis to have the symbols of our nation protocols for flying a flag out a window say they should not be giving out tickets now, as best represented as possible. that the side of the flag facing the general pub- but why not at least tell people what they On a good note however, it is good to lic must be the correct side, which means hav- ought to be doing? see how many dorm windows are doors ing the stars on the left hand side. If you were Within maybe two seconds, I was able (including mine) are showing our colors. in the SAC, you would be looking at the cor- to find a web page relating to this topic. It While many may call me a propaganda spread- rect side, but it should be the other way was the first link I clicked on after typing in ing pig for wanting to see as many flags as around. This was eventually corrected, but "flag flying rules" in a search engine. This possible, I'm trying to ignore that, and see the why was it not done correctly the first time? Is site clearly illustrates, as well as describes the posting of flags as not a call for war or any- it that hard to just check what you are doing proper flag procedures. The web site is as fol- thing like that, I see it as a way to show we before you do it? lows: www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html care about what happened on September 11, Continuing my tour of campus, I . The site even mentions such things as where 2001. You don't have to love every single noticed that the Marine Science center has a flags must be flown at all times, etc. It's not detail of American life to support the common flag as well, but theirs is propped up using a that hard to find this information all over the cause right now, which I feel to be simply recycle bin, presumably with garbage still in it. internet, as well as printed resources. In fact, showing these coward terrorists that we are As Kevin, a fellow environmental science stu- I'm willing to bet that our own library has not afraid, and we will overcome, and eventu- dent put it "this is personally offensive. They information on this. I wonder, did any of the ally find you and destroy you. I would ven- have the flag propped up using a recycle bin." staff, in particular, history professors mention ture to say that no matter your political or Driving around the Island, one not the improper flags, such as the one at the national loyalties, you would have to agree only sees flags which are flying backwards, SAC? I only know of one student who said that terrorism is wrong, no? but upside down. This is great if you are on a anything to those who originally placed the Many of you are still asking "why shipwreck. Flying the flag upside-down is an flag in the window. should I care about the flag of a nation that has international symbol of distress. In more mod- Ordinarily, I would not write an article an unintelligent primate as its leader?" The ern times however, this has actually become a about this, but people asked me to, and I keep answer is that while some of us might not be somewhat accepted method of flying a flag my word. In a time of crisis for the United currently proud of our nation, how pathetic do when no flagpole is available. Again, I'm glad States, I can understand how those who such we really need to look to the rest of the world. If to see a flag rather then none at all, but is it as veterans can see their flag as a symbol of the we can't even hang a flag the right way, how are that hard to get it right? pride they have in having served their nation. we supposed to do anything? That my friends, It's actually a law that a flag flown at As such, these people would like to see their is an entirely different matter altogether... By "BieAllaSuh, God, W hatel r... By "BigBlueSuperJew" Phil Grandin A man once said, "One may not kill women, Last Tuesday, children, nor men who do not fight, nor destroy the "Pearl Harbor" was on the trees which bear fruit." Do you think that the guy lips of thousands. If the who said this would support crashing a plane into oncoming months keep the World Trade Center in a "Jihad against likening Arabs to Japanese Americans"? in the '40s, we, as a nation, In the last week, I've seen Osama bin are in trouble. Like the Laden's face a lot of places. Near Wall St, it was plas- Japanese sixty years ago, tered to a bull's rear end, in Texas, his face is on tar- the Muslim community in gets in shooting ranges, and, the other day, on a the United States, is isolat- "Wanted: Dead or Alive" poster. Great! I love it! I ed, apart from the normal think Osama should burn in Hell, And suffer. A lot. run of society. For the sole Over and over. For a long time. And then we should reason ofdifference has come do all this medieval-style punishment to he who is the natural human reaction responsible for September 11th a second and third offrar. time, just to make sure that he got the point. "We need to reach In fact, let's destroy all of al-Qaeda (bin out to Muslims," says Sister Laden's terrorist organization) while we're at it! Sanaa of the Stony Brook Punish the m***** f*****s-but leave the innocents out Muslim Students' of this, just like the Bible, or the Torah, or the Koran Association "see what the says. Yeah, just like Islam says - you know, Islam, a have to say... and pray that Middle-Eastern religion, that has a god of peace and the world becomes more love, as well as condemns people like bin Laden. educated." Like all other Al-Qaeda labeled the people in the World Americans, the eight mil- Trade Center on September 11th unfit for life, the lion Muslims in this nation scum of the Earth solely on the fact that they are reacted to the World Trade American. So why is it that there are some of us out Center destruction with there who are brand Muslims and Arab-Americans horror, fear, pain, and iment I• r Ir •_ d . as "terrorist-kin" or worthless "sand coons" and shock. How much you want to bet that Muslims died is doing a pretty good job of razing anyway. Not "towel-heads;" unfit to be American? When did our in that disaster? These are Americans, and more even the Americans could find something to blow culture sink to the level of bin Laden? It's even hit our importantly, people. up in Afghanistan. own campus, much verbal harassment of Stony Who are these people that so many of us Once America goes to destroy Osama bin Brook Muslims, and a few unconfirmed physical are so very ready to "bomb into the stone age?" Just Laden, or al-Qaeda, or the Taliban government, every incidences, which has, unfortunately, made our some crazy, zealous Arabs. In the last couple weeks, American-Christian, Jew, Taoist, Muslim, etc-will walk-service necessary for some of us. the word "war," in respect to Afghanistan has been be behind their nation. In the wake of a catastrophes, On a university campus, incidents such as used far too many times. America is ready to throw all one can do is find a solution, not a scapegoat. Our the above go far beyond uncalled for, or immature, their own in with a mysterious group halfway country is built upon unity from all of its citizenship, straight to downright sickening. We accept acts of stu- around the world known as the Taliban. It is the and America would be doing no less than the terror- pidity in the world because there are stupid people in Taliban, as Osama bin Laden, who show the worst ists' dream if we fell upon the Islam world in retribu- the world. I was under the impression that universi- side of Islam, which has come to be known to tion. The writer, whom was quoted at the beginning ties were gathering places of intellect. Americans as the norm. There is no one outside of of this article, as well below, is the prophet, There are a billion of them out there - that's this fundamentalist, fringe group-Muslim or no- Mohammed. just as many Muslims in the world as Christians... or that does not condemn the Taliban's interpretation Chinese. I'm positive that anyone reading this article of shariah, or "divine law." Heck, even Iran "Ifyou kill one innocent, it is as f you killed all of thinks Jesus had a few good points and/or likes denounces the Taliban-yeah, Iran, the ultra-funda- mankind; Chinese food. This proves that any following of a bil- mentalist country we haven't talked to since the f you save once innocent, it is as ifyou saved all mankind" lion must have some merit. Carter era. That which the Soviets did not destroy in

By Dustin Herlich

you are training both at the same time. One gone, but we hope that this club will be here to stay advantage of Kumdo practice is that it has impli- for a long period of time. Many of the members Kumdo. The ancient art of sword fighting cations for life out of the Dojang (training hall). such as myself have been practicing for some time, has now come to Stony Brook University. Kumdo These include the virtues of respect, honesty, loy- while others are completely new to the sport. One translated from Korean to English means "the way alty, concentration, focus, dedication, and overall thing that all Kumdo practitioners agree on is that of the sword". While normally one thinks of mar- good sportsmanship. Through Kumdo practice Kumdo is a safe, fun, exciting and challenging tial arts, and images of Jet Li and Jackie Chan come one seeks not only to become the best competitor sport. The best way to understand Kumdo, and to mind, Kumdo is decidedly different. Kumdo is possible, the practitioner is also developing his or what it's like is to come down and actually watch an art comprised entirely of the use of the sword, herself as a person. Through Kumdo practice, you or participate in a class. with no punches, kicks or throws. learn to be a better person. Kumdo itself is non-denominational and Kumdo developed as a sport based on the One advantage of Kumdo over other arts open to anyone. Advancement and skill comes battle field techniques of the ancient Asian war- is that chance of injury is slim. Wearing armor mostly at your own pace and ability. No prior riors. Kumdo is more commonly known as its when you spar protects you well. Many say a martial arts experience is required. At Stony name in Japanese-kendo. Kumdo is currently down side is that it is not a self defense art, but it Brook, the club has a web site: taught in most nations around the world, with does not have to be to be useful, and enjoyable. http:: //www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/Kumdo/ many federations coming into being, namely the Kumdo is a better aerobic workout then many more information is also available by contacting World Kumdo association, and in the US there is other self defense arts I have studied, and it is more the club using the e-mail address the United States Kumdo federation. At Stony fun. There is emphasis on cooperation between [email protected] brook, our club's team will be competing in tour- school members; students of Kumdo are not sim- On it is a brief synopsis of Kumdo, and the club's naments around the country, namely the world ply interested in their own personal achievements. mission. The first meeting will be Sunday tournament each summer. Achievements of the school and other team mem- th September 9 . The practice of Kumdo is demanding bers count just as much. both mentally and physically, as during practice, Kumdo at Stony Brook has come and Page 11 ______I______·__I C___C_ I _C __ International By Dustin Herlich Reach Cleanup

The weekend of September 14th and also a beach cleanup day, and my fellow 15th was scheduled to be the time of the inter- divers had done an excellent job picking national beach cleanup. One would think that the beach clean. I was only able to find a due to the events occurring before the few bottles, a piece of a fishing rod, and cleanup, that most of the New York City sites an old padlock. The larger items such as would have cancelled the effort. Maybe so, tires had already been removed. Upon but thankfully not at the beach where I went. surfacing, I was still thanked by the This was a great day not only to help the envi- owner of Almost Paradise. He agreed ronment, but also to get my mind off the that every little bit counts. tragedy that had just passed. After peeling myself out of The international beach cleanup is almost 100 pounds of gear, it was time to exactly what the name implies. People all over tally up my "catch" and record it on data the world, all at the same time clean up beach- sheets provided by the American littoral es. My little piece of beach was Beach 9th society, who sponsor the event. My items Street, in Far Rockaway. People came and collected were recorded, a picture was were given clipboards as well as plastic bags, taken with me holding them, and they and were sent on a treasure hunt for every- were promptly placed in a dumpster. thing from cigarette butts to beer bottles. Hopefully this trash won't wind up being Unfortunately, I could not be given any plastic dumped back into the ocean. This beach bags, or clip boards. Why? Because I was part cleanup provides a valuable service to of a select few people who actually clean up beaches all across the world, and few UNDER water. I am a certified advanced beaches need it done as badly as those diver, and Beach 9th Street is known to divers right here in New York. as "almost paradise" A privately owned little In my seventy two minutes under strip of beach reserved for divers, and a select water, I was able to see more life then one few others in the community. would think lives in the waters here. It That day, we had to arrive early in makes you want to protect these crea- order to make the correct dive. Currents run tures even more. From lobsters to fluke, fast underwater there, and it can be rather they all live right under our noses, in the dangerous to not dive during the exact waters that we must learn to take better moments of high and low tide- commonly care of. People should learn to be more referred to as "slack tide" Upon entering the conscious of the things they throw away, water at 7:30 am, I was greeted by the usual and where they throw them. After your marine life; Crabs, mussels, sponges, coral beach parties, do you bother throwing and a myriad of other marine creatures, those bottles away in trash cans? Or do including several tropical fish which come up you assume they make nice houses for fish? ana it is nela usually arouna tne same time each year. For more information, you can hop with the gulf stream waters. Poking around, I Do you realize that cans don't even rust away onto the World Wide Web at: was somewhat disappointed to find few bot- in the ocean? Aluminum is largely unaffected http://www.scubaparadise.com/events and tles, discarded boots, etc. The day before was by sea water. I've pulled up cans and bottles http://www.alsnyc.org/home.html from as far back as 5 years ago. When you If you take the time next year to par- fish, and your line gets snagged and snaps off, ticipate, this really is an activity worth your do you know what happens to all that extra while. It has let me meet people with a simi- line and hooks? I've got a collection of about lar interest in the environment, and it shows 20 pounds of lead from sinkers. just another way Americans can come togeth- The beach cleanup is more then just a er to work for the common good. Besides, I way for divers to log bottom-time. It's a way got free lunch that day, and that alone almost for divers and non-divers alike to really do made it worth it. something about the place in which they live, I hope to see more people on beaches and to feel good about what they did. And all over the area next year, and I hope that this weekend, it was a great way for people to people will learn to pick up trash they see at find something to do other than grieve at the times, not just once a year. Clean beaches news. From where we were, you could not all are something we take for granted in this see any indication of what had happened, and nation. Let's start realizing what goes into it was just fine that way. and let's all pitch in to The beach cleanup is an annual event, keeping them clean, make sure they stay clean The Greatest City in the World By Robert Gilheaney J

Florece Hickey liked to walk down Department. The details of that are unimpor- Maple Avenue in Bethpage. She is a small friend- tant here. Brian Hickey was also part of a ly woman who always had a smile on her face. Queens Fire Department. He volunteers for She was always nice to me when I was a small overtime duty after the terrorist attack on the child. Our families were and continue to be World Trade Center. Brian Hickey is missing. friendly. The Hichey's had two sons and three Over 200 fire firefigheters have been missing daughters. since the attack. Plus over 5400 other people Brian Hickey was one of the Hickey sons. are listed as missing. No missing person has Brian was active in the Bethpage Volunteer Fire been found alive since the September 11 Department; he became the Chief of the bombing. Mrs. Hickey's other son Ray was mv a- Canr tnnlo- him a rmnllp ILY gLE7...... I.. .. Q . p... " I m Fat Fei Long Style of years ago. The story of Brian Hickey and the Hickey family is wreck you quick, into the just one story in over 5400 personal ergency room stories that can be told of this mon- strous attack. Over 200 fire fighters rushed into the WTC to rescue peo- Shien Kyaku is ple. Thousands of people died and deadly like because they showed up for work on time. Geisha New York City was attacked. Everything has changed since September 11th. Everyone knows the Arcade someone or knows of someone who your whack fightingstyle has been killed, or missing. The Missing are presumed dead. a louse you -f St Vincent's hospital staff were distressed that they haven't had the casualties come to them in the numbers they anticipated. A small number of people survive long enough to make it to the hos- pital. I New Yorkers have shown the :'AZ / mon-*sat world what it is to be a New Yorker. We are collectively digging out. Volunteers have shown up at 6-11 "Ground Zero" to the point that 1 _1 " , . .. . 3 I i people are being turnea away. Mayor %'.us'. Inee ippaiec weecvILI uuILaLneu y puopiec Guiliani, Police Commissioner who were moved to help. The move by New Bernard Karik, and Fire Commissioner Yorkers to dig out, look for survivors, and give ool Thomas Von Essen all should be com- blood was fast and somber. I was never more p mended for the heroic job they did in proud to be a New Yorker then now. New York jannes the aftermath of this tragedy. Tons of City is the Greatest City in the world, with the o. supplies were delivered by the Red best people in the world. butt- ickins

ement Union Lilding Page 13 rom Fan Boy to Art Snob art By Glenn "Squirrel" Given

Last issue I bored you with a lengthly biog- ing. We can determine the sequence of comic sequence raphy of my comic appreciation. Let us agree that moments both through layout patterns and visual 1. The diachronic (instant, stable, with out sequence) neither you nor I wish to delve further into the similarity of these moments. Like if we see two pan- meaning of the Text A (or B) details of my geekish livelihood. els that look similar we can safely assume that they 2. The diachronic meaning of the Image A (or B) I suggest that, perhaps, the comic book is a are related and in some sort of sequence. While this 3. The diachronic meaning of Moment A which is the form of art. That it is not a style of literature or illus- may not hold true in every occasion, it is a possibili- combination of Text A (or B) with Image A (or B tration (though it doubtlessly includes as pectS of ty that allows for the malleability of the comic respectively) these forms) nor is it merely a hybrid of the two. sequence. 4. The synchronic (over time, in sequence, changed) Instead, the comic format is a medium that, while The other divergence from text that the meaning of Text A and Text B possessing attributes of other artistic mediurns, gen- comic format makes is in the multiple axis of mean- 5. The synchronic meaning of Image A and Image B erates.. interactions between the Work and the ing. In text, we decode meaning along two axis. First 6. The synchronic meaning of Moment A with Audience that do not come naturally to other medi- we understand the meaning of the single word by its Moment B urns. It is these interactions, being naturall to the difference from other possible words that could have comic format at t allow the comic format to become taken its place; we can call this the diachronic mean- One could also make a case that additional a distinct artistic medium. ing. Secondly we understand an additional meaning meaning is found in the interplay of Text A with One can think of this much in the vvay that (the synchronic meaning) of this word by it's context Image B or any combination of these components. Film is different from Theatre, Photography and in the sequence (the adjectives that act upon it and Perhaps that is a bit of a stretch. Literature even though it possess many attrilbutes of modify it's meaning, its place as subject or predicate, First lets address the primary complaint those artistic forms. etc.). Quite simply the Comic uses a similar axis only that I have heard concerning this formalization. The foundation of this claim is as follows. it is applied to more components. Here the meaning What happens when you have a moment in We read a comic in a way that is distinctly dlifferent (diachronic) is more than the simple contrast a comic that doesn't contain both text and image. For from any other type of reading (media consump- between which word/image is being employed example panels with only text or with "silent" tion). While we do follow a culturally ingrairned pat- among all possible words/image, it is also a contrast images. Where do we get that added level of tern when we read (right to left, top to bottoan here- of the employed image/word and the correspond- diachronic meaning that we talked about above. after referred to as English Standard) this is not the ing word/image or lack thereof. So the multitude of Well my initial response, and the one which essence of "read" that I am getting at. AIthough components upon which the pattern is used actually may not seem intuitive, is that the added level of immediately we can see that many a connic will changes the pattern itself. contrast is still present. In the case of a pure text or eschew this reading pattern by altering the layout. In While a comic may often follow a similar to image moment in a comic we still diachronically I I I a traditional text the linear relations Their are various signs being employed by the below comic. And while it is telling a simple action (the gunfighter between components (i.e. word order in shoots the vampire guy) it is doing so in an elegant but complex way that would take many sentences of text to sentences and overall layout of the page) describe. follows the English Standard pattern. Our knowledge of this pattern and its rules We discern meaning from the many components involved in the sequence as well as from their combinations. Text (grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.) A is decoded to be an onomonopoetic sound of a gun. Image A is decoded as an undead gun fighter (it's a bit of allow us to decode meaning fromthe oth- a stretch i know). Moment A is decod- I..- erwise arbitrary signs on thepage. ea.ad tohueex rtcie ..... - - - I MomentA L --- .,- - - - Moment B I .. -.- .-. . I think I have gotten a bit into the undead gunfigh deep end. Lemme break it down, simple- a gun. The prima style. ing we search f( A comic is a story told in static found in the words and static images. It's is not animat- between Momer ed or spoken. These words and images are Moment B. We a) paired with each other (or stand-alone) this search seek to form distinct instants (single frames, tion for notions ( moments) b) these moments are juxta- ity and spatial r( posed with other moments in order to cre- actions and obj ate a sequence. can also add fu Although this will later prove to ear sequence be a poor analogy, imagine it like this. A texts and images moment in a comic is a compound word ther decode mea like Bathroom (Bath + Room) except In a sent instead of being a combination of two say that "Blm Bl words it is a combination of a piece of text is in dialogue (a letter, word, sentence, etc.) and an "oorfh!" and th image. These combine to form a moment: A (the gunfight the smallest relevant unit in the comic dialogue with sequence. Now much like a sentence puts (the wounded words in sequence to get greater meaning In addition we (as does the paragraph put sentences, the remember that Nv story: paragraphs) the Comic puts these is in dialogt moments in sequence to achieve the same Moment B result effect. illusion of linear This is where the paths diverge and change thoueh. Barring visual, or lavout, oriented ee~aseas~ea~aemp·ara~e~wss~·~-~wra~~~rs~ -. _------~ ------9~ _- _-I~- poetry, writing strictly adheres to a specific pattern English Standard pattern in order to create the sense contrast that component against all possibilities of (for most of us the English Standard) that allows us of narrative linearity, we do not decode meaning substitution and against the companion component. to discern meaning from it. When writing ignores from this sequence in the same way as we do in read- In that case we are comparing the component to the this pattern, we become confused. Much like the ing. First, we must remember that a comic is not sim- absence of a component (which can be seen as one of word search puzzles in the newspaper. Mecaning is ply words telling a story. It is also not a novel with the possibilities of iteration of any component). so closely tied in to the pattern we use to dec:ode the accompanying pictures. It is a complex juxtaposition While this comparison may bring no added meaning signs of text that even slight alterations in this pat- of images with text, text with text and images with it is still one that is made by virtue of the comic form. tern can disrupt the process of determining mean- images employed to convey a story (or whatever). If it still doesn't jive so well reserve your ing. This multi-stable nature allows for the decoding of objections until my next installment which will con- A Comic is not so stringently bounci to this meaning along multiple axis (rather than the strict sist of my attempt to place the image in a comic as pattern. While it often employs this pattern I(specifi- linearity of text only). In a single sequence of two equivilant and interchangable with the word. cally in a single moments text-segments) it can images (with corresponding text), we can have mul- ignore it completely and still retain an axis of mean- tiple meanings. We can decode from this simple

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ct.. Saliva, "Click Click Boom" do.. 3 Doors Down, "Duck and Run" that until that day, cu.. Santana, "Evil Ways" dp.. 311, "Down" the dream of lasting peace world citizenship, cv.. Savage Garden, "Crash and Burn" dq.. Tool, "Intolerance" the rule of international morality cw.. Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over dr.. Tramps, "Disco Inferno" will remaining but a fleeting illusion, to be Troubled Water" ds.. U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" pursued cx.. Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York" dt.. Van Halen, "Jump," "Dancing in the but never attained... cy.. Slipknot, "Left Behind," "Wait and Streets" now everywhere is war... Bleed" du.. J. Frank Wilson, "Last Kiss" and until the ignoble cz.. Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet with dv.. Yager & Evans, "In the Year 2525" and unhappy regime that hold our broth- Butterfly Wings" dw.. Youngbloods, "Get Together" ers in Chiapas da.. Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside dx.. The Zombies, "She's Not There" and Palestine, Congo World," "Fell on Black Days," sub-human bondage "Black Hole Sun" Comments from someone bezond the grave: have been totaled, utterly destroyed.... db.. Bruce Springsteen, "I'm on Fire," "Goin' well everywhere is war... Down," "War" Until the philosophy war in the east... dc.. Edwin Starr, "War" which hold one race superior war in the west... dd.. Steam, "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey" and another inferior war up north... de.. Cat Stevens, "Peace Train," "Morning is finally and permanently discredited and war down south... Has Broken" abandoned war... df.. Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Bang Baby," everywhere is war... rumors of a war... "Dead and Bloated" it's a war.. and until that day dg.. Sugar Ray, "Fly" that until there're no longer first class and the African continent dh.. Surfaris, "Wipeout" second class will not know peace di.. System of a Down, "Chop Suey!" citizens of any nation. we Africans will fight dj.. Talking Heads, "Burning Down the until the color of a man's skin, we find it necessary House" is of no more significance than the color of and we know we shall win dk.. James Taylor, "Fire and Rain" his eyes... as we are confident dl.. Temple of the Dog, "Say Hello to it's a war.. in the victory, Heaven" that until the basic human rights... of good over evil.... dm.. Third Eye Blind, "Jumper" are equally guaranteed to all, without regard -War- dn.. Three Degrees, "When Will I See You to race Bob Marley Again" it's a war... OPEN M I C. POETR\ , MUSIC

Sat. Oct 13th at 1 p.m., at the Unitarian Fellowship FjICA in Stony Brook. (on Nicholls Rd. Carrol Spooner, of the committe to save PACIFICA Between 347 and Robert Knight, award-winning journalist; purged by 2 5 A) WBAI managment and Black Journalist Award recipient.

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Page 16 y Thilld and ThA Fckd By Adam Kearney

-Stony Brook University, September pact disks, and an audio recorder. Doug Little they could have hidden anything in there. If 11th. In synchrony with the World Trade Center wanted to make it very clear that this incident you feel that you are in danger, immediately disaster, approximately 150 students and faculty "Was not a bomb threat" and "We are glad we remove yourself from the sidewalk, seat your- were evacuated out of the Union building received a call of that nature from a concerned self with your head pointed downwards because of a concern that a bomb may have been member of the community." The scare only last- between your knees, and passionately recite planted outside of the front entrance. An ed for a little over an hour. "God Bless America" until help arrives. In this unidentified pedestrian had passed by the One student commented "I was sitting state nothing can go wrong. entrance of the Union multiple times that morn- on the couch watching the second tower collapse When driving, make it your business to ing and grew concerned by the suspicious and on television when a cop came into the room and avoid major metropolitan areas, bridges, tun- prolonged presence of unclaimed luggage that said there was a bomb in the building and we nels, interstate highways, and any building displayed foreign airline tickets. They had been had to go outside. I wondered what idiot would with the word "federal" in it. If you become abandoned near the bus-stop. His perception of bomb Stony Brook? So we went out and saw convinced that the car tailgating you is being danger obviously heightened by the attack of there were some packages underneath the driven by a bloodthirsty terrorist be sure not to mere minutes before, he quickly dialed the Stony Bridge with international stamps on them. The call for help on your cell phone. Pull over to the Brook Police Department and reported his suspi- bomb squad showed up a couple of minutes shoulder of the road as quickly and calmly as cions. later and discovered they were filled with cloth- possible, adjust your radio to a local jazz sta- "We're doing something right," said ing." tion, and try your best to rationalize to yourself Deputy Chief Doug Little of the SBPD. His This behavior is typical of paranoia that an international terrorist organization is department responded immediately and made and Americans have good reason to be para- not trying to murder you personally. sure that there was no one in the building that noid, thus we can expect more of these types of When at work, do not entertain suspi- could be injured by a potential explosion. The situations to occur. In order to avoid the notion cions of your boss secretly plotting the down- area surrounding the luggage was closed away that there are heavily armed and suicidal reli- fall of the free world. He is a potential victim of and onlookers were pushed back as far as possi- gious freaks in a close proximity to you who these unknown evildoers just like the rest of us. ble. Chief Little also stated that "We have a pro- want nothing more from their lives than to end If all else fails and you become completely con- cedure for how to handle situations of this yours, I have devised some methods by which vinced that you are the sole target of an upcom- nature," and that part of that procedure was to you can assure yourself safety from these peo- ing attack that may occur at any minute, then I "...try to get them to disperse completely." The ple and their jihad of death. First make sure really don't know what to suggest except to officers, after scanning the packages and posi- you understand the implications of the fact that stay at home and stop watching the news.. tively identifying the presence of metal, decided any object you observe may have been tam- The bomb scare, however, was a neces- to call in the Bomb Squad of the Suffolk County pered with by those who are trying to kill you. sary preventative measure in light of the Police Department. The Squad brought in spe- When walking to class, be sure to avoid anyone national tragedy. To plant disguised explosive cially trained dogs to sniff out the presence of you do not immediately recognize, especially devices at universities across the country explosive chemicals. Nothing that may have those who come running in your direction with would have been extremely effective at keeping indicated that the packages contained explosives oddly arranged cylinders strapped to their bod- our nation in fear. Fortunately for us, this was was detected. ies. only a false alarm, but it is a good idea to keep The valise and the bags that accompa- It is also in your best interest to stay in mind that we are not completely safe; it nied it were reported to contain clothing, com- away from all sewage drains and mailboxes, for keeps us alert.

'' I I I · Free Speech is endangered m ByRob Gilheaney

They even tried to promote an alternative leader that we do agree with. We feel that Politically Free Speech is endangered. Hideous attacks for Black America to counter King. David Incorrect is an invaluable political talk show. It on the world trade center have put our civil liber- Garrows excellent book, "The FBI and Martin has the best range of opinions of any political talk ties on the hit list. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Luther King," should be required reading. show on the networks by far policies are being put in place that will erode our Martin Luther King was just one victim of the The need to get and protect free speech and freedoms. The moves are made to protect us. We abuse. The FBI's was running a counter intelli- alternative sources of information is important all feel more vulnerable because of what hap- gence program against any American Activist now more then ever. We don't want a return to pened on September 11. who was exercising their rights. The FBI called the situation of the Gulf War where Journalists The FBI and the CIA are being given powers this program COINTELPRO. Other targets of were forced into reporting out of Pools where to spy on and investigate suspicious people as a COINTELPRO were the Black Panthers, the they got fed information and the Press operated response to what happened. There were real YIPPY's, the Poor people campaign SDS and the as a propaganda mill. During the Gulf war, good reasons for the public to want to "untie the Anti-Vietnam war movement. There is plenty of WBAI FM was an invaluable source of informa- hands" of law enforcement. Keep in mind that documentation of this. The CIA had a program tion. Uncensored, the essence of free speech, and history tells us this kind of unchecked power by similar to COINTELPRO called Operation CAOS. an open exchange of information, WBAI Radio is the power elite will lead to abuses. In the past, the Senator Frank Church headed the congressional part of a relatively small national network of sta- CIA has worked to undermine democracies in hearing on rights violations, the Church tions called the Pacifica network. For the past two Iran, Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to Committee findings years there has been a coup d'etat at the station; name a few places. In those horrendous cam- Abuses like this are going to happen if we long time programmers and valuable journalists paigns thousands of people got killed In Chile, rush to the understandable reaction to make these have been purged from the station. The Pacifica the elected President, Salvador Alliande, was changes. Keep in mind they WILL abuse these Network was started 50 years go by pacifists and overthrown by the CIA. Alliande was murdered new powers. It's just a matter of time. labor organizers. It is in the process of being along with thousands in the Santiago stadiums. When the country is getting pumped up for war, stolen by corporate vultures and the right wing of Popular political folk singer Victor Jara had his calls for censorship get way out of control. Bill the Democratic Party. tongue cut out. For the next 18 years a vicious fas- Mahr, host of Politically Incorrect has come under The Pacifica Campaign is organized to take cist dictator, Pinochat, and his brutal military fire. Bill Mahr has strong opinions, and comes back the network. The campaign is headed by ruled Chile. across as someone who shoots from the hip. He Juan Gonzalez, who resigned on the air from his On the home front, the FBI harassed and dis- made an off the cuff remark that it was cowardly program "Democracy Now", over the rupted legitimate activists and their organiza- to 'lob' missiles at Bin Laden's terrorist training Shenanigans of the Management. To find out tions. This was done in spite of the fact that all sites after the bombings of the U.S. embassies in more about the battle to save WBAI, go to the they were doing was exercising their basic right. Kenya and Tanzania. Some people were rather Unitarian Fellowship on Nicolls Rd, Saturday of free speech and political association. pissed at that. Bill Mahr later explained himself to October 13 at 1pm Martin Luther King was a target of J. Edger clarify what he ment. There have been calls to The battle for free speech and civil liberties Hoover's FBI. They wire-taped him, tried to com- pull Politically Incorrect off the air. Disney, who takes many forms and the struggle is always a promise his marriage, and spread innuendo and owns ABC, has been threatening to censor Bill good fight. When the nation wants to go to war rumor about him for the purpose of discrediting Mahr. That would be outrageous. Bill Mahr said and nationalism is being whipped up. The battle him and to neutralize him as a political leader. lots of things that we don't agree with and lots is just that much harder. But more imperative.. Page 17 _II~ ~I_~______C _ Ill-~I~V------~-P-~l--~ll*l~-IIY-·~-·-P-NIIII~~·· --~--~·--P-~-·-l~----YII·RI---~·~ICI-~Y·

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"De profundis clamabi ad te, Domine! Dona nobis viewpoints ... against the Muslims! At that time, I sus- informed and, at the very least, wishing their circle, pacem..." pect, lack of our their state, and their nation well in time of trouble. technical trinkets saved us from retaliatory devasta- Consider these samples from my e-mail Thus reads a snippet from the Roman Catholic tion. basket: liturgy from which Iborrowed my title. At this time in Nor must we forget that there are "heartland" The events of this day cause every thinking American history, it seems more than usually appro- reactions as well. As a nation, we feel challenged to person to stop their daily lives and to ponder deeply priate. determine how we wish to respond to all of this. the larger questions of life. We search for not, only the Approximately 292 hours and 50 minutes ago, Naturally, the diversity of people composing the meaning of life, but the purpose of our individual and life on Planet Earth changed. Now, the presence of nation has given us a predictable diversity of expres- collective experience as we have created it- and we change is itself the only thing that will never change, sions. Some felt troubled; a good many lost family look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate but this change was rather drastic and far more than members or dear friends in the maelstrom ... persons ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will usually sudden,thanks to the playthings of the high- having qualities that make most of us wonder "Why? never treat each other this way again. tech Information Age. It was remarkably costly in a Why him? Why her?" Ladies stormed, men cried. Our opportunity now is to demonstrate at good many different ways ... and the appalling mon- Memories were brought up ... Vietnam, Pearl Harbor, the highest level our most extraordinary thought etary loss was probably the least of these. It was rude. FDR's "day that shall live in infamy," Oklahoma City, about who we really are. It was crude. And it was extremely effective, notwith- on and on ... offered as parallels, as metaphors of the A central teaching of Conversations with God standing that it was only 75% successful. Incomprehensible. Almost no one has been exempt: is: What you wish to experience, provide for another. And what was that effect? At present, there is teenagers, retirees, rich, poor, black, white, and every- Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experi- no clear or definite-... let alone final ... answer to that. one in between has been affected, emotionally and to ence in your own life and in the world. Then see if Two hundred ninety-three hours is not enough time varying extents practically as well. The stuff there is another for whom you may be the for anything more than short-term effects of such of blockbuster movies was upon us; but this time, it source of that. mayhem to manifest. About the long term, all we can wasn't entertainment. This time, someone really did If you wish to experience peace, provide peace say at present is that far more profound change shall drive airliners carrying some two-hundred-odd for another. surely ensue ... abundantly if not profusely. human beings into the sides of massive buildings. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause Officially, the United States of America has America was shocked. Looking over her shoulder another to know that they are safe. declared war on the rest of the world. But it is not war (what was left of it), so was the world. If you wish to better understand seemingly as we have known war in the past. This is not war But there has been a brighter side, too. Those incomprehensible things, help another to better upon a nation, but upon a human attitude ... a philo- who, like me, use e-mail would certainly bear out my understand. sophical viewpoint that is specifically designed to observation that this reflector of human cultures has If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, affect human beings and our life experience. Is it reli- exposed a rallying together in spirit. Oddly yet fit- seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. gious? Indeed ... at least many times. Yet that is not the tingly enough, the first intimation of this was the col- Those others are waiting for you now. They are point, because the religion cited does not condone the lection of electronic marvels by which we were so looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for action done in its name. Therefore, it is a question of quickly informed: the media went into maximum strength, for understanding, and for non-academic philosophy. overdrive, giving us splendid coverage from many assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to Unofficially, one faction in the nation has points of view 24/7 ... 24 you for love. declared war on another part, which has declared hours a day for about a week. The heavy emphasis on This is the moment of your ministry This is the peace on the rest of the world. Examples work best personal reactions served very much to tie the nation time of teaching. What you teach at this time, through here: anyone recognizably Muslim or Arab has been together just when one might think it most likely to go your every word and action right now, will remain as at risk of the modem equivalent of lynchmobs ... no the other way. At least in my experience, there was indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those matter that they were at least as appalled over what less intrusion on victims' privacy, and more expres- whose lives you touch, both now, and for years to was done in the name of their religion as those who sion of thoughtful, benevolent come. call themselves Christians. Perhaps the Christians for- perspectives. What emerged was that most people We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At get the horrors committed in their own name seven or cared. Albeit they had less idea of what to do about this hour. In this moment. eight centuries ago by those of equally extremist any particular thing in the news, they were keeping