Meredith
March 20, 2002
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Volume XVIU, Issuei9’p./
From Ground Zero:
Perspectives from the people who were there when the towers came down
and are back on the sixth-month anniversay to honor the memory of
those who perished, celebrate the rebuilding of New York,
Q Last Monday
marked the six-
month anniversary
of Sept. 11, a time
to honor and
remember.
Lea Wri50N
staff Reporter
GROUND ZERO, NEW
YORK CITY--Richard Bell
is an ordinary broker. He
walked into the Wwld TYade
Center every day. On Sept.
11. he was on the second
story of the first building, get
ting a cup of coffee when he
heard what he thought was a
simple kitchen explosion.
He took his time as he
walked outside, but suddenly
a plane—the second of
the two that hit the Twin
Towers—seemed to come
from nowhere, colliding into
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Volunteer workers have been working for six months to clear the rubble at Ground Zero.
Staff Photo By Lisa Wilson
the building right in front of
him.
In disbelief, he dropped the
coffee and ran to Battery Park
with half a million other peo
ple. When he and^fellow run
ners reached the lake in the
park, the impact of the second
building imploding blew 200
of them directly into the water.
Most survived, however
one man had a hean attack
right there.
“I remember it so vividly,”
Bell recalled, “There were
people jumping from the
building—chaos.”
From there, look through
Bell’s eyes toward the mount
of rubble as tall as a forty-
story building where two mag
nificent towers stood
TOWER LIGHT
continued
on page three
Faculty laptops nabbed over break
Q speculated theft
of laptops on cam
pus prompts faculty
and students to be
on guard.
Tanesha Williams
Staff Welter
upon arriving on campus
Monday rooming, a few
Meredith faculty found their
laptops missing.
Suzanne Britt, professor of
English at Meredith, was one-
such professor
“I remembered seeing it
there on Friday,” recalled
Britt.
Earlier that day, Britt
received an email from Eloise
Grathwohl alerting faculty
members that Dr. Robin
Colby’s computer had been
stolen over the weekend as
well.
“I came in around ten
o’clock, and I discovered
things were amiss. There
were noticeable things differ
ent. My first assumption was
that Technology Services took
it.” said Colby.
After Colby realized that
her computer was missing, she
sent her student worker
Courtney Harris to Technology
Services to check things out.
Technology Services
suggested that the computer
had been stolen.
Colby finds these thefts to
be very unsettling. She is
doing what she can to make
sure others know.
“I’m passing the word along
and suggesting that students be
more careful,” said Colby.
Similarly, Harris is also
bothered by the situation.
“I was kind of surprised. I
really thought that it would
n’t be a problem. I thought
that a professor could leave
his or her computer and not
worry about it,” said Harris.
Although these thefts are
alarming, most faculty are
trying to keep a
positive attitude.
“Fortunately, I don’t do
my grades on Excel,” said
Britt. “I do them the old
fashioned way. Nothing else
in my office was disturbed,
even though there was a
printer and a radio.”
Britt tried to look at the sit*
uation positively.
“I had a lot more fi’ee time
without the computer,” she
said.
Britt went on to say that
Barbara McKay, the
departmental assistant for the
English, history and politics
departments, was “shocked
and amazed” with how calm
Britt was about the situation.
THEFT
continued
on page three
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