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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-17-2001 The BG News September 17, 2001 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 17, 2001" (2001). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6836. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6836 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Green State University MONDAY September 17, 2001 SECOND PLACES: PARTLY CLOUDY Women's and men's HIGH 72 I LOW 50 cross country finish VOLUME 92 ISSUE 16 strong; PAGE 5 ily independent student press bgnews.com U. Penn student rushes to NYC scene Volunteer squad from Springfield, N.J. served as a staging area for volun- the last eight months as a first them eye wash to help combat hearing reports of more survivors Klapper said he saw the attack teers and rescue workers. responder, has training in CPR, the dusi in the air. and buildings in danger of col- shares journey and felt compelled to go join the "It was almost surreal because first aid and defibrillation. He had "Our eyes were burning like lapsing, he plans lo return Friday through World Springfield volunteer rescue crew there was all this destruction, but worked at the sights of car crash- you wouldn't believe," he said. to continue helping. Trade Center relief he had worked with before — nobody was coming in," Klapper es and other emergencies before, When I'd shine my pen light "When I was leaving |New and do what he could to help. said. "Then I realized nobody but nothing like the scene in through the air, I'd see small par- York] Ihere was a big line of New "As soon as I saw it, I got all my coming to the hospital means lower Manhattan Tuesday. ticles flying around everywhere." Yorkers with signs saying Thank by Caroline (lube U-WIRE stuff and ran down to the train nobody's coming." "There were shoes all over the Klapper described the experi- You' and cheering us on," station," said Klapper, originally After only half an hour giving PHILADEI.PHIA — Before he place, parts of clothing," he said. ence as frustrating. Klapper said. "It felt really good had even seen Ihe dramatic from Brooklyn. first aid at Chelsea Pier, he joined "The hardest things to see were "It was a lot of standing because you don't gel a pat on footage of the World Trade Center When he got to 30th Street six firefighters from the fire trucks that were burned around." he said. "At times we the back while you're down collapsing, University of Station, he was unable to board a Massachusetts to head to the out and the police cars with parts were picking up rubble, but they there." Pennsylvania freshman Malt train to New York but managed to front lines — the World Trade of the towers on them." were mostly letting the heavy Though the New York area Klapper had already rushed out get rides with various police offi- Center itself. He worked into the night, aid- machinery in." seems to be staffed for the next the door, on his way to offer his cers and other officials to Chelsea Klapper, who has worked with ing other rescue workers by treat- Klapper left New York several weeks, aid is still needed services as part of a volunteer Piers, a nearby location that the Springfield First Aid Squad for ing minor injuries and giving Wednesday, but he said thai since in the Washington area. "What we're going to do is take some limited but harsh PENTAGON Dad action against relatively small groups of people" misses DONALD SNOW, STUDENT last call by Matt Duffy U-WIRE Small BERKELEY, Calif. — Former California football and baseball player Brent Woodall last spoke with his father shortly after the scale first hijacked plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. war "1 get up early and watch CNHt', every morning," lohn Woodall said from his home in Li lolla, Calif., Thursday. "(Brent) called predicted and said, 'Are you seeing this? They're saying someone flew a by Ph*p A. Sitton U-WIRE plane into the tower.' I was think ing, 'What yahoo would be flying TUSCAUK)SA. Ala. — The low enough to fly a plane into a extremity and effectiveness of the building?' I wasn't thinking it was terrorist plan against America and a terrorist attack." its citizens has left many wonder- The call came at 5:45 a.m., ing what sort of retaliation mea- while Brent's mother Mary was sures will be taken. They want to walking the dogs. After speaking know if the United States will go to to his son, lohn Woodall got in the war, and if so. what conflict it shower and did not hear the enters is to take. phone when Brent called again. According to some University A stock trader for Keefe, of Alabama professors, however, Bruyette & Woods, Brent Woodall. we will not be entering a war in was working on the 89th floor of Ihe traditional and usual sense of the South Tower, the second lower the word. hit by a hijacked plane. Woodall, "We're not going 10 war in any 31, called back to California again normal sense of thai lenn." said and left a message on his parents' Donald Snow, a political science answering machine. professor and expert in interna- "He called again when I was in tional conflicts. "We're not going the shower and said, We're get- lo declare war on another state, so ling the hell out of here. I lere's my thai term is misleading. What wife's cell phone number, call we're going lo do is take some her.' That's the lasl I heard from limited but harsh action against relatively small groups of people." him." It seems unlikely that a full- Later, Brenl Woodall called his wife Tracy, telling her thai he was scale it11!11.11 > assault will lake having trouble getting a dooi place. Snow said. Actions like open on the 87th floor. bombing runs and the use of spe- "Even if they got it open, I can't cialized forces are thought to be imagine getting through the much more probable. smoke and the heal," lohn "Carrying out bombing actions Woodafl said. "(Bui) people did is really the only thing you can do get out. I'm trying not to speculate on such short notice." Snow said. and hope for the best." "Ground actions would probably Brent Woodall is now one of the be more effective, bin they would 4,763 victims still missing take too much time to put togeth- John Woodall said workers res- er." cued from the rubble Thursday an History department chairman employee who worked at the Howard Jones emphasized the Assu..al«l Press Photo same firm as his son. The invest- importance of ground troops in CLEANUP: Workers in a construction basket cut away metal from the roof of the damaged section of the Pentagon, Sunday, ment company had offices on the any military operation. Sept. 16,2001. 88th and 89th floors of the "How we try to root out these South Tower. people will depend on ihe rela- tionships we have with neighbor- ing countries," lones said. "But the first objective would be lo try to get a ground crew in these coun- tries to see if we can capture Ihe U.Arizona Muslims concerned about racism after attack person (who planned this)." by Marianne Green "I fear that people phone calls made, said Sgt. look at me differently because I threatening the restaurant, but lones questioned how effective U-WIRE Marco Balboa of ihe Tucson am Muslim," said Talal Al-nassar, took it as a "friendly warning." bombing a poor country would TUCSON. Ariz. — Muslims in are going to look Police Department. He reported a computer engineering sopho- "We closed the restaurant be, were it found lo be ihe perpe- the University of Arizona com- at me differently lhal people have called in claim- more. early, but not because of the trators' base of operations. munity fear the terrorist attacks ing they have been threatened Those working at nearby (phone) call — because we felt "I would say that bombing on America will result in racism because I am due to their nationality, though restaurants said they have also we should pay our condolences doesn't win wars. It's got lo be the against Ihem and wish to remind Muslim."' no specific nationality was men- experienced due lo the attacks. to those who lost their lives," said special forces on Ihe ground who fellow students thai their religion tioned in those reports. Sinbad's, a Middle Eastern Khaled Bamyeh, the kitchen will be decisive factors," lones does not support these acts. TALALAL-NASSAR. STUDENT "We definitely have received restaurant owned and operated manager at Sinbad's. said. Authorities are speculating more calls than usual for by Muslims located at 810 E. Bamyeh added that he hopes "One news report pointed out that the terrorists who attacked Reports of violence against threats," Balboa said. University Blvd., received a that the Tucson community wiU that Afghanistan is barely beyond the WoM Trade Center and the Arab-Americans have filtered Back on campus, Muslim stu- phone call Tuesday afternoon not blame the Muslims for the the Stone Age.