November 3, 2006
Volume 93, Issue 8
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Hungarians protest violence Page 3
Bones found at Ground Zero reopen 9/11 wounds
New discovery of remains hits home for victims' relatives
By Ben Dedman | staff writer he said, "the worst day of my life." mains that range from small frag-
For the families of victims of Sept, ments to identifiable bones nearly a
O n the morning of Sept. 11, 11, 2001, the wounds of the trag- foot long. The remains were found
2001, Neil Haarmann, fa- edy were reopened on Oct. 20, when alongside wallets, watches and other
ther of Guilford sophomore construction workers at Ground personal effects in an abandoned
Landry Haarmann, experienced Zero found dozens of human re- manhole beneath a service road,
first-h^d what the
rest of the nation
watched on television.
On his way to
work, Mr. Haarmann
rode a train from his
home in New Jersey
into the subway sta
tion that used to be in
the World Trade Cen
ter. At 8:40 a.m., he
left the World Trade
Center, walking north
towards his office.
Two minutes later,
on the comer of Liberty
Street and Broadway,
he looked up to see
an airplane crash into
the first tower, where
his cousin worked
on the 98th floor.
Later that morning,
he stood two blocks
away when tiie first
tower fell, showering
him with ash. It was.
CNN
Recent excavations at Ground Zero have yielded several hundred bone fragments that had not
BEEN PREVIOUSLY DISCOVERED.
Of the 2,749 victims from
the World Trade Center, 40 per
cent were never identified.
When New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg initially said that constmc-
tiononthe World TradeCentermemo-
rial site would not be halted,
the families of tire unidenti
fied victims became outraged.
On Oct. 27, a week after the
remains were foimd, Bloom
berg made another statement,
saying that the dty will renew
their searches of Ground Zero,
evenexpandingbeyondthel6-
acre World Trade Center site.
Mr. Haarman's fam
ily later recovered remains
of his cousin, and they were
buried during a memorial
service last Sept. 11, exactly
five years after his death.
"The families of (Sept.
11) have an awful lot of say
in this area," Mr. Haarmann
said. "It would be a crime
not to take every measure to
identify these people. "There
were a lot of people in those
two buildings that I knew.
I don't know how many of
them have been identified."
Continued on page 6
Dana Ghosts
Two Guilfordian reporters
investigated the rumors of
ghosts residing in Dana Audi
torium.
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Faculty Talk
Timothy Kircher, professor
of history, gave a talk on Oct.
25 about early Renaissance
humanism and presented an
overview of his recent book,
"Adventures through the 14th
Century Italian Renaissance."
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Football Win
Guilford's gridiron is show
ing steady improvement in
the wake of administrative
changes to revitalize the pro
gram, as evidenced by the re
cent win against Bridgewater,
which is ranked seventh in the
nation.
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Cafeteria uses eggs from battery cages
despite promise to go cage-free
By Juliana Janisch | staff writer
T
rado, has raised concerns about the use of
battery-cage eggs in Guilford's cafeteria:
he use of tiny, barren-wire enclosures "When I was there, vegans and vegetarians
called battery cages is standard in to- did not have very many choices," Berry said,
day's egg factories, the source of the "I thought that they were missing out on the
Guilford cafeteria's
eggs.
About 95 percent
of the 300 million lay
ing hens are confined
in these cages, unable
to engage in many of
their natural behav
iors including stretch
ing their wings, turn
ing around without
touching other birds,
nesting, dust bathing,
perching and forag
ing.
Laying hens suffer
from a number of wel
fare concerns due to
ALL-CREATURES.ORG
An increasing number of colleges are no
LONGER PURCHASING EGGS FROM CAGED HENS.
opportunity of using
cage-free eggs."
Battery cages typi
cally allow each hen
only 61 square inches
of floor space, less
than the area of a let
ter-sized sheet of pa
per. According to the
HSUS, battery cages
for laying hens have
been proven to cause
extreme frustration,
particularly when
the hen wants to lay
an egg. Lack of nest
ing opportunity is
said to be the source
living in overcrowded battery cages. Cages of caged hens' frustration.
cause higher occurrences of foot disorders,
osteoporosis, uterine prolapse and fractures
during depopulation.
Colin Berry '01, director of the Humane
Society of the United States (HSUS) in Colo-
'I've been to a cage-free farm," Berry
said. "Thousands of birds have nesting box
es and can walk all over the floor. You're not
Continued on page 2
Opinion: ’Tuzzy math” puts Iraq war’s civilian
death toll at over 600,000
By Ben Dedman | staff writer A common reason used to defend the
Iraq invasion has been Saddam Hussein's
R esearchers from Johns Hopkins Uni- persecution and mass murder of certain re-
versity have released a report claiming Ugious and ethnic groups. Iraq has changed
that more than 600,000 civilians have since then. Now, with an American influence
died violently because of the U.S. war in Iraq, of anti-discriminatory values, Iraq has be-
The report claims that the death rate come an equal-opportunity slaughterhouse,
in Iraq has tripled since the war began in
2003, causing an average of 500 fatalities a Continued on page 6
day, or 15,000 deaths a month.
If the figures are correct,
then the U.S. has sparked a
humanitarian crisis equal in
scale to the current Darfur
situation, and could poten
tially even surpass Rwanda
within a year and a half.
These are serious allegations.
Unlike the Rwanda and
Darfur conflicts, however,
the Iraq violence is not being
committed by any one group
exclusively against another.
Gunshots are the number-one
cause of death in the statis
tics, and when you include
car bombs, air strikes, behead
ings and riots, the violence is
both diverse and extensive.
CNN
Greeting soldiers aboard the flight home from Iraq, Bush
EXPRESSES HIS APOLOGIES FOR THE FUZZY IRAQ DEATH COUNTS.