Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 9-20-2001 The thI acan, 2001-09-20 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-09-20" (2001). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 5. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/5 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. VOL. 69, No. 4 THURSDAY ITHACA, N.Y. SEPTEMBER 20, 2001 24 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Students Tragedy inspires "action speak out Campus works for peace to provide aid SY KELLI B. GRANT for relief effort Staff Writer College community mem­ BY KELLI B. GRANT bers began to speak out for Staff Writer peace this week, stressing that the United States needs to In the aftennath of the Sept. 11 consider the reasons behind the attacks on the World Trade Center Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before and the Pentagon, the Ithaca Col­ deciding on a course of action. lege community has dealt with the -, More than 100 students, fac­ tragedy through memorial events ulty and staff voiced their feel­ and contributions to the relief effort ings during an open forum To join in the National Day of Tuesday at noon in Textor 103. Prayer and Remembrance de­ Speakers brought up topics clared by President George W. including biased American Bush, the college canceled classes mainstream media coverage, and closed most offices during the anti-war sentiments and possi­ noon hour Friday. ble reasons behind the attacks. During that time, several Towersfferraces Area Coor­ thousand members of the college dinator Zach Newswanger said community filled the Academic some peoples' reactions to the at­ Quad for a prayer service, featur­ tacks scare him. He said the ing addresses by President Peggy events had been building up R. Williams and the college from past actions, and people have chaplains. just not been recognizing that. "This is not a time for a rush "I think we dug the hole we to judgment and outbursts of re­ put ourselves in," Newswanger taliation," Williams said. "It is a said. _ time to refrain from cowardly acts Sophomore Joseph Rockhill of hatred." KRISTIN SAMPIERE/THE ITHACAN said he viewed the attacks as a Professor Raquib Zaman, busi­ JUNIORS MATTHEW FARANDA, left, and Kevin Besig display an American flag at the college's cere­ direct challenge to the United ness administration, who leads a mony in honor of the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance Friday in the Academic Quad. States' status as the leading weekly Islamic prayer service economic and military power in every Friday in Muller Chapel, per­ hoff, coordinator of community power to help others." the world. formed a traditional benediction to service and leadership develop­ Last weekend, 14 dining hall RED CROSS "People get upset at the conclude the ceremony. ment, said the surge of blood staff members traveled to Bing­ way we spend, the way we do Meanwhile, many organiza­ donors has already filled all 180 hamton and made 5,000 sand­ Make monetary donations at: things," he said. "That's one of tions around campus have sprung appointments for the college's wiches for New York City relief • Ithaca Agway the reasons why what hap­ into.action, either donating mon­ Oct. 9 drive. workers. • Fleet Bank pened, happened." ey or lending aid in more direct Mohlenhoff encouraged inter­ /:)odexho, the college's food • Beyond the Wall Senior Jesse Crane-Seeber ways. ested donors to check for off-cam­ service provider and an international • Jo-Ann Fabrics said he is afraid the U.S. military INVOLVED, a student organi­ pus blood drives by calling the Red corporation, had 46 employees • Farmer's Market response to the terrorist acts will zation promoting participation in Cross at 273-1900. who worked at the World Trade • Patisserie 3 result in a loss of civil liberties • NY City Warehouse campus events and activities, col­ "Now, more than ever, we need Center. Of those, two are missing for the country's citizens. • Greenstar lected $1,535.95 for the Disaster a steady stream of donors making and many others are injured. I'm not a fan of terrorism, • Hal's Deli Relief Fund and distributed 2,500 [their] way to upcoming blood dri­ Ithaca College Dining Services •P&C but I'm not a fan of fascism ei­ white ribbons. ves," sh.e said. "If Tuesday's Director Gene Wescott said Sodex­ •Wegrnans ther," he said. "It's a scary time Members of the college com­ tragedy has ... positively affect[ed] ho called him asked for help. • Ithaca High School to be different. It's a dangerous munity have also been eager to do­ us in any way, it has increased our "Damn yes, we can help!" • Boynton Middle School See RALLY, Page 2 nate blood. Deborah Mohlen- desire to do anything within our Wescott responded to the request. Sister of senior missing and official online survivor lists. 11 to be with his family in.Philadel­ Alumnus also dies Financial Aid Director Larry phia He said his family held out hope Chambers said five students have because they believed Johanna in terrorist attack taken emergency loans offered might not actually have made it to through his office to return home work that day. She had been sick with BY KELLI B. GRANT and be with their families. food poisoning, and her roommates Staff Writer However, senior John Sigmund told family members she had left late is the only member of the college around 8:20 a.m. for work. In the wake of last week's at­ community to lose an immediate "Her roommates didn''t want her tacks on the United States, the sis­ family member, Public Information to go to work [sick]," Sigmund said. ter of a senior at the college is Director Dave Maley said. "But she did because she was that among the missing. His sister, Johanna, was an em­ committed, that dedicated. She lit­ The Office of Alumni Relations ployee at Fred Alger Management erally would have been arriving as has also reported Derek J. Statke­ on the 93rd floor of the World Trade it happened." vicus '93 died, while three addi­ Center. Sigmund returned to campus tional alumni, Thomas J. Collins Sigmund remembers hearing Monday but still has received no '86, Claribel Cruz Hernandez '94 news of the attacks on his car radio. word about his sister. The family and Ronald Ruben '87 continue to "It seems absurd now, but I im­ gave personal items for DNA be reported as missing. mediately tried to call my sister at samples to authorities, he said. The college posted a list of sur­ her office," he said. "Then I called "We really are still waiting," he · ·. COURTESY OF John SIGMUND viving alumni at www.ithaca.edu. my parents, and they told me the sit­ said. "It's still a recovery mission, SENIOR JohnSIGMUND stands on the Brooklyn Bridge In July with Confirmations were made by uation didn't look good." but we have come to grips with the his sister, Johanna, who remains missing after-the Sept. 11 attack. family members, friends, survivors Sigmund left campus early Sept. fact that she's probably dead." INSIDE ACCENT ••• 11 CLASSIFIED ••• 17 COMICS ••• 16 OPINION ••• 8 SPORTS ••• 19 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2001 Nationa.l and International News German police identify key organizer VICTIMS REMEMBERED Hamburg police say they think a 26-year-old German­ born student who reportedly left Germany for Pakistan on Sept. 2 was a key figure in the conspiracy behind last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Sahid Bahaji, who was a roommate of two people believed to have been among the hijackers of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, handled many of the logistical arrangements for the hijackers, including rentmg apartments and applying for U.S. visas, Hamburg police say. "(Bahaji) might be the brains behind this operation here," said a German law enforcement official with knowledge of that country's investigation of the attacks. "We think he was responsible for logistics." But German authorities have not yet linked the Hamburg cell to Osama bin Laden, the wealthy Islamic militant U.S. authorities consider the prime suspect in the attacks. Strategists stress wisdom in retaliation As Americans calculate how to vent their wrath over last week's terrorist attacks, defense strategists around the world are offering time-tested advice for going after the perpetrators and deterring security broadsides in the future: MANDI WRIGHT/DETROIT FREE PRESS Stop. Look. Listen. VISITORS SPEND a moment of silence at a makeshift memorial Tuesday morning set up in Union Square, Stop and make sure the targets to be destroyed are both New York City, to remember victims of the World Trade Center attacks. appropriate and reachable with minimal "collateral dam­ age," in order to avoid the killing of innocent civilians that would incense the Islamic world. People re-evaluate feelings about flying At least 75 people are now in custody on immigra­ Look for allies to show the breadth and depth of the tion charges as part of the investigation of the attacks, world's condemnation of fanatic murder, especially in un­ Frankie Grady is unsure how she'll feel the next time officials said Tuesday.