Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 2002-09-11 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (2002). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 2915. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/2915 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE XAVIER UNIVERSITY 88thyear, issue 3 week o/SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 www.xu.edu/newswirel Worl<f seeks normalcy after attacks BY JOHN DORSCHNER attacks would give impetus for the You could see the fires." Knight Ridder Newspapers Bush Administration's drive to de­ The night after the attacks, she The numbers are astonishing. velop the oil reserves in Alaska's cowered under her bed in a Brook­ On a sunny September morning wildlife refuges. That move col­ lyn apartment. "For days,,I was a year ago, 19 terrorists killed 3,000 lapsed in April when the Senate re­ just nuts!' She went to hospitals, people by attacking the very sym~ ·. jected the drilling. seeking co-workers. She didn't bols ofAmerican fmancial and mili­ Others were concerned that or­ find them. tary might. Instirance.companies are dinary crimes would be ignored as Ground Zero has gone from a paying at least $40 billion for the _the FBr concentrated on terrorislll, smoldetjng moun<;i oftwisted st~el . New York destruction. The federal and, indeed, for the last months of and corpses to New Yor''s biggest government so far has spent another 2001, the FBI referred fewer cases tourist attraction. $82 billion for a foreign war on ter­ . Thousands come to the site rorism, homeland security and New each day. They look somberly and York recovery. The economy was ''If it}going to silently .into. the cavernous hole hit hard for many billions more, par­ where dozens of workmen still are ticularly the airline and tourism in­ happen, it} going to busy cleaning up the site. They dustries. snap photos, then they cross the · And yet in dozens of interviews happen. You can't spend street to the iron fence that sur­ across the country, one theme your life worrying. " rounds St. Paul's Chapel. keeps popping up - resilience. There, on scribbled bed sheets That's true even in the places that - Fiona Carr and T-shirts and ballcaps and suffered the most, New York and scraps of paper are thousands of Washington. tributes to those who died. "Things are more or less return­ Experts still debate how much ing to normal," says Paul Mauro, a for prosecution. But by March, the . the attacks hurt business overall.· Manhattan police officer. "There's number ofreferrals for such crimes "The surprise is that there hasn't still a slight edge ofuncertainty, but as drug dealing and bank robbery been a much larger impact," says New Yorkers are a pretty resilient was backto nonnal, according to a Ken Goldstein, an economist with lot." Syracuse University tracking analy­ the Conference Board, which In the days after the Sept. 11 at­ sis. tracks financial trends. tacks, many said that our security, For those directly involved, of Sometimes the hardship may our psyche; 'our· economy and our course, the tragedy goes· on-·and be ·as ::?imple as overcoining our · very way of life were going to not just in New York and Washing­ own fears. change radically and permanently. ton. Last November, National Some even wondered if a fearful Many who had near misses are Guard troops were stationed on populac~ would abandon our big­ also.struggling-people like Laura the Golden Gate Bridge near San gest cities. Maynard, who escaped from the Francisco to guard against a ru­ A year later, there is no doubt 104th floor of the trade center's mored terrorist attack. Immedi­ many things have changed. But South Tower, but whose life has yet ately after Sept. 11, pedestrians PHOTOS COURTESY OF CORBIS Be RElITERS many things have not. to return to ·anything approaching · were prohibited from crossing it. Americans witnessed the birth of a new breed of Rightafter the attacks, for ex­ normality. Adrian Barrow, 40, an adver­ patriotism after tpe attacks of September 11. ample, inquiries about enlisting in An employee of the insurance · tising executive who lives in Yet he crosses the bridge almost Explained Fiona Carr, a tourist the military doubled. The fervor was company Aon, Maynard stepped nearby Mill Valley, is aware of daily, as do many others. Last fromAustralia: "Ifit's going to J:iap­ short-lived, says the Pentagon. En­ out of the elevator moments after what could happen. "I can't help month, the parking lot by the bridge pen, it's going to happen. You can't listment and re-enlistment remained American Flight 11 slammed into the but suspect that if someo·ne was crowded with tour buses and spend your life worrying." at normal levels. North Tower. wanted to make a statement, it cars of people waiting to walk the Environmentalists worried the "One of our windows blew out. would be ~perfect target," he said. bridge. · War on terrorism, national progress hard to measure. RICHARD WHITTLE , But U.S. officials remain uncer­ above the surface of the water, and just how far the cancer has spread survive, possibly even thrive, even MICHELLE MITIEJ.STADT tain if al-Qaida mastennfud Osama then there's a great deal going on or where it might manifest itself without its infamous founder is one The Dallas Morning News bin Laden is a live or dead. And that's below the surface," he muses. again. reason FBI, CIA and ~ther officials Nearly a ·year after ·the World while'al-Qaida·clearly has·been dam; "There's ai1awful'lotwe don't s'ee~" ·· ~·You dort 't takeit down tlieway say-thefr' f6cus· is" on 'the'liiiri.dful of Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, aged, government officials and pri­ That makes measuring progress you might kill a poisonous snake, high-level operatives who could the largest criminal probe in FBI his­ vate analysts warn the organization in this war more difficult than in a by chopping off the head," assume the bin Laden mantle. tory and a military campaign in Af- · could reconstitute itself - and re­ conventional conflict, where battle Wolfowitz said. "It's more like· an "We're after all of them," said ghanistan costing billions, gauging tains the ability to launch more at­ lines visibly ebb and flow. infection in the body. You have to Gen. Richard Myers, chainnan ofthe progress in the war against terror­ tacks. For all that, another way to think go after the pockets of infection all Joint Chiefs ofStaff. ism remains dlfficult. One way to think about the en­ about terronsm is like a cancer, and over the place.;' The message al-Qaida has taken The U.S.-led military campaign emy in the war on terrorism "is like while the initial "surgery" - the Af­ Counterterrorism experts a lso is that "they can SurVive the worst made way for a government eager an iceberg," says Defense Secretary ghan campaign- may have re­ say al-Qaida doesn't .need bin the United States is willing to throw to help the United States consoli- · Donald Rumsfeld. moved the most threatening "tu­ Laden to continue its mission. at them," Lind said. "They were hurt date its gains against the terrorists. "There's a certain amount of it mor," no one can clearly ·diagnose The reality that al-Qaida would by it, but they certainly weren't de­ stroyed by it." ©2002. THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE - NEWS: OP-ED: SPORTS: DIVERSIONS: 1 N~:~ 1d~~~.~R~~::l['.'i~;;;t§4~;~122• Xavier tries to mend Controversy surrounds Mens soccer shuts out Swimfan sinks 1ld:vert:ls:l:D (513) 745-3561 fences at council meeting 'war on terrorism ' Western Michigan ~~~'(f![;.::;:·':::~ksi~'l)74s+3fao: B:litar-m-oD.ef 1s13) 745-3607 PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGB 10 PAGB 14 2 week o/SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 .CAMPUS NEWS THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE lll111.UMf~mN4JBRIEFS Elizabeth Boneau, Editor Not same ~Id song· and dance News Room: 745-3122 BY COLIN MCDERMOIT ~~=~112!!!1,!~!,lL,,,y~.~"'".," Contributing Writer Xavier University's music min­ . Jane Goodall istry is changing the musical as­ pect of Mass in an attempt to veer comes to Cintas from a traditional service into some- ·· thing more profound and inclusive. Biologist and animal behaviorist This initiative was begun by Scot Jane Goodall, best known for Buzza, Xavier's liturgical music di­ her work with chimpanzees, will rector, when he. was hired last year. be speaking on Wednesday, "We're still in the process oftry­ Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cintas ing to figure out what we want to ·. Center. The event will benefit do. The whole music piece, when I the Cincinnati Zoo and arrived, was all, about sip.gjng IJice .. Botanical Garden and Cincinnati music in Mass - which is kind of Museum Center. Reserved superficial and shallow," explained seating is available for $5-$40. B~. Tickets are available at the · Buzza believes his job includes Cintas Center Ticket Office or at discovering what peoples' needs www.cintas.xu.edu or through and expectations are for Mass, and TicketMaster at ( 513) 562-4949 in some way accounting for that or at www.ticketmaster.com. For with his contributions. To form a more information about the Jane better idea uf what those needs Goodall Institute and its PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMPUS MINISTRY might be, last spring Campus Min­ Worshippers at the 10 p.m.