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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Broadway rebounds from Hens defeat New ,national tragedy, Hampshire, 49-36, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE Volume 128, Issue 12 www.review.udel.edu Tuesday. October 9, 200 I America bombs military targets, airdrops food BY SARA FUNAIOCK nation. Taliban officials said the first wave of The humanitarian aid is meant to NationaVSrate News Editor Support for the military strikes was mixed strikes did not kill bin Laden or Tali ban leader underscore the Bush administration's message American and British forces unleashed air around the world and at home, the Assoicated Mullah Mohammed Omar. that the strikes are meant to harm terrorists, not attacks Sunday against military targets and Press reported. Kandahar, hometown of Omar and the ordinary Afghans. suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden's training Taliban, saw strikes·on its airfield and military "To say that these attacks are in any way camps inside Afghanistan Sunday in U.S. TARGETING AIRFIELDS, CAMPS command centers as well as the compound against Afghanistan or the Afghani people is retaliation of the Sept 11 . attacks, the The first U.S. strikes in where Omar lives. flat wrong," he said. Associated Press reported. Afghanistan were focused on Strikes also landed in and The military also dropped leaflets and made The military strikes also included military targets such as S Ed"t • I around Kabul, Afghanistan's radio broadcasts into Afghanistan to explain humanitarian aid from the United States in the airfields and command ee I 0r1a ' war-shattered capital and site of the U.S. action, he said. - form of a food drops for the Afghani people, centers. page AS one of the country's largest The drops will be focused on areas inside the Associated Press reported. Defense Secretary Donald airfields. Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said, not To the nation, President George W. Bush H. Rumsfeld said Sunday that '-------------' refugee camps in Pakistan and otht;r border said, "The battle is now joined on many one goal was to destroy any aircraft or anti- U.S. INCLUDES FOOD AIRDROPS countries. fronts." He also acknowledged that Americans aircraft weapons in the hands of the ruling The U.S. military strikes Sunday in The packages are designed to flutter to the fear the terrorists will strike again. Taliban militia or the al-Qaida terrorist Afghanistan included airdrops of food, ground rather than drop straight down to Underscoring this possibility, the network it shelters. Other targets include medicine and other humanitarian supplies. minimize the possibility they could hit and Associated Press reported that Vice President several of the two dozen terrorist training Rumsfeld said plans called for two C-17 injure someone. TilE REVIEW /File photo Dick Cheney was removed from his official camps run by al-Qaida, the Taliban or groups cargo planes to drop 37,500 food packets to Taliban officials said the U.S. and British residence to a secret, safer location Sunday as aligned with them. ·starving Afghans on the first day of airstrikes. airstrikes did not kill Osama bin Laden. security precautions were taken throughout the see OFFICIALS page A6 Bob unable to Bioterrorism schedule concert. ·threat sparks BY TRJSTAN SPINSKI obstacles SCPAB faces when Staff Reporter preparation · trying to book a band. No headlining entertainers will Sicilia said the Bob Carpenter grace the stage at the Bob Center must cater to a family BY BENJAMIN SCHNEIDER Carpenter Center this semester, audience as well as students, since · S!Off Reporter said Senior Jennifer Stiles, vice taxpayers contributed millions to The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks heightened president of major events for the the center's construction. already existing concerns regarding U.S. Student Center's Pr gramming He said recent events include the readiness for handling bioterrorist attacks, Advisory Board. Harlem Globetrotters, Sesame officials said. Stiles said scheduling Street and the circus, all of which Terri Rebmann, infectious disease specialist complications between touring are immensely successful. at the St. l!.ouis University center for the study entertainers and open time slots at "It's the right demographics for of bioterrorism and emerging infections said the Bob Carpenter Center stumped these shows," Sicilia said. "We're she is convinced of the legitimacy of SCPAB on bringing in a major act. still performing a service to our bioterrorism. ' · "We've been trying to get alumni with families." "I think it's not a matter of if, but when," someone since June, but everything Stiles said another problem in Rebmann said. falls through," Stiles said. "Now booking a band is the seating at the Roseanne Pack, spokeswoman for the it's too late in the semester." Bob Carpenter Center. Delaware Emergency Management Agency, Stiles said SCPAB asked "A lot of bands want open floor," said enormous reserves . of antibiotics, Lifehouse to play at the Bob Stiles said. "People aren't in their including those necessary to fight anthrax, are Carpenter Center, but the band' s seats and the crowd can get into it. located throughout the country in the National open dates clashed But the Bob doesn't Pharmaceutical Stockpile. with already r-----------------~ allow open floor." Supplies could be shipped to an emergency scheduled events. See.editorial, Sicilia said the rule location in 12 hours, she said. lf necessary, a Domenick Sicilia, is for safety. push package can deliver supplies in six director of the Bob page AS "We are liable," he 1HE REVIEW/Courtesy of Scott Munsie hours. Carpenter Center, , said. "We want a safe The windows of the West Christiana Tower lit up with red, white and blue lights Heidi Truschel-Light, public information said he regretted not environment with a Sunday night to form an American flag in honor of those killed in Sept. 11 's attacks. officer for the Delaware Department of Health· being able to accommodate manageable level of risk." and Social Services, said the department Lifehouse, as its available date Sicilia said another problem is prepared an Emergency Action Plans coincided with basketball practice. the rapid change of popular document, including instructions for more "It's a sports convocation performers. Lighting a national spirit than 17 possible disease scenarios. center," Sicilia said. "Our first goal "It's here today, gone tomorrow," In addition to these precautionary measures, is sports. Our second is Sicilia said. "It's difficult to catch Pack said, the fairly low population of convocation - concerts, shows them when they're popular." BY ANNIE HRYCAK Staff Reporter Delaware could be a d_eterrent from a possible and forums." Sicilia said this poses a financial bioterrorist attack. Sicilia said it is difficult to threat to promoters, as ticket sales Students dressed in peacoats and Delaware "There's not an ·incredible threat to balance bas ketball games and dictate profits. He said low ticket sweatshirts braved the ·cold as they watched an Delaware residents at this time," she said. practices with student. alumni and sales from various performers such American flag made out of light bulbs shine Rebmann said the most important action for community demands for as Carrot Top and David Spade left through the windows of the West Tower people to take is to make sure local public entertainment. his department in a tight spot, since Sunday night. health programs are receiving enough funding. "Space becomes very critical," the center must make enough The idea for the flag came from Jim She said public health centers would be the Sicilia said. money to cover the overhead costs Tweedy, an area director for Laird Campus, first pla-ces where emergency treatment is Stiles said the situation can be of running the facility. and Anne Marie· Buschiazzo, complex needed in the event of a bioterrorist attack, but frustrating. "Our only goal is to break even," coordinator for Residence Life. many of these programs are not prepared for "The Bob Carpenter Center gives Sicilia said. Members of Res ide nce ~ife, including such an event. us a few days to work with," Stiles He said the Bob Carpenter Center seniors Kristen Governale, Mike Suarez, Lori "Public health is under-funded," she said. said. "There's not a lot of room for no lo nger promotes shows, and Phillips, B.J. Carey and Zakia Reeves, worked "They have no money and no people. • negotiation." instead rents the facility out to diligently for two weeks to create a way to THE REVIEW/ Leslie Lloyd "Most public health people right now don:'t Stiles said the lack of available SCPAB and other sponsors. show patriotism in light of Sept. II 's events. Sophomores Kerrie Brand (left) and know what to do [in such a situation] because space and time s lots and the In recent years, events at the Bob Melissa Nadel helped create the flag from there's no money to educate them." scarcity of bands who are willing to Carpenter Center included Bill see FLAG page A 7 their lOth floor room in the Towers. Pack said health personnel from various play at a small venue for less areas of the state trained last month for the money are just a few of the initial see MANll..OW page A5 possibility of an outbreak, among other scenarios, but she suggested organizations still remain cautious. "We don't have a crystal ball," she said. -Redding symposium highlights desegregation "Unfortunately some things are beyond our imagination. "We' re going to stand our ground and get BY COLLEEN LAVERY documentaries and formerly served in . unconstitutional. Senior News Editor ready for whatever comes our way, and pray the Georgia State Legislature.