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Volume 34 Issue 3
The University Of North Carolina At Asheville
September 13, 2001
Terrorists Attadc N.Y.C., Then Penta^n
SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
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COURTESY OF CNN
The images taken from amateur
video show the second plane
crashing into the World Trade
Center tower in New York City.
Rescue workers continue to search for survi
vors after terrorist attacks in New York City
Keith Crornweil
News Editor
Lana Coffey
Staff Reporter
Rescue workers continue to
search for survivors at the World
Trade Center, after rwo hijacked
planes crashed into the twin tow
ers Sept. 11.
New York Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani said bulldozers have been
brought in to clear away the rubble
in order to make rescue efforts
easier.
“Ongoing fires and damaged
buildings could hamper rescue ef
forts, but those efforts were con
tinuing” said the mayor.
Almost 300 emergency person
nel in New York, including 78
missing police officers and 200
firefighters, are among the
casualities in the attack.
Officials have said that an exact
number of dead may not be known
for weeks. However, President
Bush suggested how high the death
toll may rise when he said “thou
sands of lives were suddenly ended
by evil, despicable acts of terror.”
The disaster began to unfold at
8:48 a.m., when American Air
lines Flight 11, carrying 92 people
from Boston, MA to Los Angeles,
CA, crashed into the North Tower
of the World Trade Center, the
landmark glass-and-steel complex
at the southern tip of Manhattan
that provided office space for
50,000 workers, according to The
Washington Post.
Twenty minutes later, another
plane, United Airlines Flight 175,
a Boeing 767 headed from Boston
to Los Angeles with 56 passengers,
seven flight attendants and two pi
lots, crashed into the other tower.
Shortly after the attack on the
World Trade Center, American
Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757
carrying a total of64 people, crashed
into Washington, D.C.’s Penta
gon building, sending it into flames.
White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer and Secretary of State
Colin Powell said there was reason
to believe Flight 77 was intended
to strike the White House, and that
Air Force One was also a target.
They refused to elaborate on the
“credible information” that led to
that statement.
After the attack on the Pentagon,
around 10 a.m., the first World
Trade Center tower collapsed.
Thirty minutes later, the other
tower fell, sending hundreds run
ning for their lives.
“I saw bodies falling out of the
World Trade Center. Oh, God,”
said Elizabeth Belleau, while in
tears. They were" jumping, falling,
(among the) glass and smoke.”
One witness told CBS News he
could see no bodies, “only parts of
bodies.” When asked how many,
he said “much, much too many.”
Another witness said it looked
like something out of a movie.
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This graphic shows the flight path of the hijacked flights out of
Boston, Newark and Dulles airports that were used in terrorist attacks
against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Sept. 11.
near Shanksville, PA. Federal Avia
tion Administration officials said
United Airlines Flight 93 was hi
jacked from a Newark, NJ airport en
route to San Francisco, CA, and all
passengers and crew, totaling45, were
dead.
A passenger from Flight 93 called
her husband from the plane. Barbara
Olson supposedly told her husband
the terrorists were armed only with
knives and cardboard cutters, ac
cording to CNN.
The hijackings occurred during
one of the busiest times of day in
airports. Also, all planes were fly
ing to the West Coast, so they were
See TERRORIST Page 8
UNCA students mourn after terrorist attack
Sarah Wilkins
Senior Reporter
Over 600 students and other
members of the UNCA commu-
nit)’ gathered Sept. 12 at an Inter
faith Prayer Service held in re
sponse to the terrorist attacks in
New York City and Washington,
D.C. UNCA canceled afternoon
classes so students and faculty
could meet and discuss the trag
edy.
“People going through a lot of
pain can see that they’re not
alone,” said Erin Farmer, a senior
Management major and senior
senator of the Student Govern
ment Association. “I think the
service really helped with that.”
Several students said the general
reaction to the attacks is shock,
followed by anger and feelings of
retaliation.
“Everybody has the same reac
tion; it’s just shock and amaze
ment,” said Mateusc Pucilowski,
an undeclared freshman. The tele
vision coverage “looks just like a
movie; it looks like ‘I ndependence
Day.’”
“You can tell there’s a lot of
anger,” said Kelly Genoba, a jun
ior History and Education major.
The enormity of the disaster
“never really kicked in until 1 had
watched it for a couple of hours (on
IV), and realized that this is really
true. This is really happening.”
At the service, some members of
the audience said they felt scared,
confused, numb, helpless and sad.
UNCA has counseling services
available on campus for students,
faculty and staff, according to Mar
garet Weshner, director of the coun
seling center, located in Weizenblatt
Hall.
Although some counselors spent
part of Sept. 11 and 12th in the
HighsmithCenter offering their ser
vices to students, Weshner said most
students are depending on each other
for comfort.
“What we noticed (on campus) was
students really turning to each other,”
said Weshner. “It’s a horrible thing
for everybody to deal with.”
UNCA presented a variety of reli
gious perspectives at the event held
in Lipinsky Hall, including the
Catholic, Buddhist, Baptist, Jewish
and Unitarian beliefs.
“I thought it was spiritually moti
vating, seeing all these different reli
gions” communicating to students,
said Genoba. “You can just see how
this brings people together. It was a
very powerful lecture.”
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Communily Helps
Terrorist Victims
Rae Stephens
Staff Reporter
Ed Fickle
Staff Reporter
UNCA students and Asheville
residents are pouring out in enor
mous numbers to donate blood
in response to the horrible trag
edies in New York and Washing
ton D.C. The Asheville/Moun
tain Area Red
Cross chapter
has been
working al
most nonstop
since the ter
rorist attacks
occurred
Sept. 11.
“We have
had so many
UNCA stu
dents come
and donate,”
said Joyce
Brooks, Di
rector ofVol-
unteers and
Public Rela
tions at the
Asheville/
Mountain
Area Red
Cross chap
ter. “It was
just phenomenal, the outpour
ing. It’s very humbling to know
that our young people are getting
out to support all of this, but we
need [them] to come back.”
Within six hours, more than
700,000 people volunteered to give
blood across the nation at American
Red Cross locations. American Red
Cross sent approximately 3200 units
(pints) of red blood cells to Wash
ington D.C. and New York City
yesterday.
The response in Asheville was
equally impressive. Over 500 people
showed up to give blood Sept. 11 at
the donation center on Merrimon
Avenue, according to Brooks. With
just the regular staff on hand, the
Red Cross was
not able to pro
cess everyone
that wished to
donate blood.
“It was a mad
house (on Tues
day), today we
are so orga
nized... The
good news about
what happened
yesterday was,
when folks de
cided they
couldn’t stick
around and wait,
a lot of them
made appoint
ments for today
and tomorrow,”
said Brooks. “As
a result of that,
we had 130
people scheduled
for today, and 160 people for tomor
row... but we are accepting a few
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DREA JACKSON/STAFE PHOTOGRAPHER
Tracy Smith, a 1992 UNCA
graduate, gives blood on Sept. 12
at the American Red Cross off
Merrimon Avenue in Asheville.
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