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University Press • Wednesday, September 12, 2001 • Page 3
Local refineries
increase security
in wake of
terrorism
Jenny Achilles
UP entertainment editor
“We are taking all of the appropriate security
measures at all of our offices,” Kathleen Jackson,
public affairs manager for Exxon-Mobil, said.
Officials have heightened security around all
of their facilities, she said.
Exxon-Mobil is in communication with offi-
cials at Lamar and in the Beaumont and Jefferson
County areas. Communicating with Lamar is a
top priority for Exxon-Mobil, she said.
Patty Riddlebarger, spokesperson for
Entergy, said Entergy has a “heightened level of
f awareness at all of (its) facilities.”
The company is monitoring events, she said.
Vicki Derese, community relations represen-
" tative for Chevron-Phillips Chemical Co., said,
“We have heightened our security measures.”
At the plant, vehicles are checked as they
enter and exit, she said. No one is allowed to enter
without an appointment or prior knowledge of an
employee.
Area plants are in communication with one
another to ensure consistency in their security
measures, she said. The Southeast Texas Plant
Manager’s Forum is a network created so that
area managers can communicate through that
channel, if necessary, she said.
STUDENT-VISITOR REACTIONS
I'm scared this is going to cause a
whole national war. I don’t know
what to think.
Andy Holmes
Orange sophomore
We were on break at McDonald's
and some guy told us. I have fami-
ly up there. I don’t understand. It’s
crazy.
Veronica Odom
Vidor freshman
I heard about it this morning. I
can’t even begin to imagine the
people on the airplane that hit one
tower.
John Freeman
Port Neches freshman
The audacity that someone would
have to actually bomb the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon just
shocks me. I never thought that I
would see something like this hap-
pen. This is definitely a very tragic
situation.
Jorge Gonzalez
Staff Sgt., U.S. Army recruiter
UPTara Smith
Students stop and watch television coverage of the attack in the Setzer Student Center.
Reactions-
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could see the buildings and the chaos around them
from his room fewer than 30 blocks from the col-
lapsed Trade Center towers.
“I can see clouds of smoke outside my window,”
he said. “People are on their cell phones and crying.”
A source within one of the nation’s airlines
spoke with a University Press reporter about the
subject on a condition of anonymity.
He reiterated that the FAA had grounded all
flights due to depart all U.S. airports after the
attacks. He said that he is not sure when flights will
be allowed to take off again.
“It may be a few days before flights will
resume,” he said. “But I think public pressure may
force them to fly again.”
He also explained how a plane can fly into the
Pentagon.
“The Pentagon is not a restricted area,” he said.
“You fly over the Pentagon when going to National
Airport (in Washington).”
In Brighton, England, Tuesday, Sam Coughlan,
50 miles south of London, said he found out about
the attacks on the United States right after they hap-
pened, approximately 2 p.m. English time.
“I was in my car listening to the radio when I
found out about it,” he said. “I felt absolute horror.
It’s unbelievable that anyone is can be that evil.”
Coughlan said that the London Stock Exchange
and most large businesses in England closed upon
news of the attacks.
All flights to the United States from England —
and the rest of Europe — were canceled.
He also expressed sadness for all the victims of
the attacks.
“This was a shock and horror to us here in
England,” he said.
Campus-
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to watch the news coverage on a big screen
television.
“It was important for me not to lecture my
students this morning, but for all of us to come
here (Mirabeau’s) and hold class here,” she
said. “This is clearly something that we, as
Americans, have never experienced,” she said.
“I have told my students that they will never
forget this. That is why it is so important, as
Americans, that we come here (Mirabeau’s).
It is also important that we have unity:
“It was an attack on humanity,” Davis
said. “What actions should the government
take? I don’t know because it is going to be
difficult to first identify where the attack came
from. But I think that the American people
clearly have to think in terms of not allowing
this to happen.
“Congress — where are they? We should-
n’t know. The amazing thing is that the whole
country is staying together. That is cool.”
Bruce Drury, professor of political sci-
ence, had a different reaction Tuesday to the
terrorist attack on the country.
“Both this and Pearl Harbor scared the
hell out of American people. But Pearl
Harbor was way over there, and this is the
financial capital of the country and the politi-
cal capital of the country. So it is much closer
to home.
“We don’t know who did it. Terrorism
often has two objectives — one is damage,
vendication of something, but more often than
not it is to send a message. Lenin called ter-
rorism ‘propaganda of the deed.’ Propaganda
is most often verbal, but propaganda of the
deed is that a significant act may have a far
greater impact than any words you might have
uttered. If that’s the case, they’re trying to
send a message to American society. And they
do it by picking three, four, five very visible
targets.”
Drury said that he feels although Houston
is the hub of the oil industry in America and
all of the world, it is not likely that the city will
be terrorized.
“They’ve sent the message,” he said.
“And it has gotten through loud and clear.
Certainly the American people are listening at
this point. They don’t really need to send
another one.
“We are a society that believes in the rule
of law, and when tragedy happens, in response
you try to apply laws,” Drury said. “Terrorism
is very difficult to defend against —■- especially
in a free society. There have been some other
attacks of lesser note, but this time they fig-
ured out how to do it and do it right.
“So we’ll find out, we hope, who did it.
We will use probably a tremendous amount of
pressure against countries who may be
defending these folks — probably even select-
ed military attacks. None of that is going to
satisfy anyone.
“I think that this is it for now. But,
nonetheless, people are going to be scared.
People, instead of working, are talking about
this. It greatly disrupts society, and it will
result in more severe protective measures. But
life will go on. Our military power has not
been damaged, and our economic power has
not been damaged to a great extent. What
really has been hurt is our sense of security.
People are going to be worried, but you can-
not allow that to stop normal life.”
Oney Fitzpatrick, chairman and associate
professor of psychology, says he is concerned
with the panic and shock that the victims of
the terrorism are experiencing.
“I’ve got some people that I know per-
sonally who work down there (New York),
and obviously there is concern for their safety.
I think the bigger question though is what the
psyche of the country is going to be. All of the
worst things that you could think possible are
now possible because of what’s happened
today. Obviously there is going to be a lot of
anger, and people are going to be looking for
ways to vent that anger. So, as a citizen, I am
concerned about what this could potentially
lead in to.”
Fitzpatrick says that he feels America will
survive this blow to its security.
“It has brought this country, at least for
now, to a standstill,” he said. “Have they
brought us to our knees? Well, I don’t think
that’s the case, but I do believe that they have
gotten our attention. They are trying to lure us
into some sort of confrontation. That is worri-
some.”
Stuart Wright, professor of sociology, says
he feels that this moment was a turning point
in American history.
“This one strikes right at the heart of the
political establishment,” Wright said.
“The world has changed today for all of
us.”
Wright says he feels that the terrorist
attack will result in higher security at airports,
changes in immigration policies and height-
ened military security.
Baseball suspends schedule for first time since FDR death
NEW YORK (AP) -
Major league baseball post-
poned its entire schedule of
15 games Tuesday night fol-
lowing terrorist attacks in
New York and Washington.
It was the first time since
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s death in 1945 that
baseball wiped out a whole
day of regular-season play
because of a national tragedy.
“In the interest of security
and out of a sense of deep
mourning for the national
tragedy that has occurred
today, all major league base-
ball games for today have
been canceled,” baseball com-
missioner Bud Selig said.
He also called off the
owners’ quarterly meeting
that was set to start Tuesday.
He did not make any deci-
sions about Wednesday’s
games.
“I will continue to moni-
tor the situation and a daily
basis and make ongoing deci-
sions accordingly,” Selig said.
“My deepest sympathy and
prayers go out to the families
and victims of this horren-
dous series of events.”
It was only the fourth
time the major leagues post-
poned an entire day’s sched-
ule, aside from labor strife or
weather, according Scot
Mondore of the National
A
Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum.
The others were Aug. 2,
1923, when President Warren
G. Harding died; June 6,1944,
when Allied forces invaded
France in World War II; and
April 14,1945, two days after
the death of President Roose-
velt.
Yankee Stadium, perhaps
the building that most sym-
bolizes American sports, was
evacuated within 90 minutes
of the first attacks on the
World Trade Center.
Government officials
increased security outside the
78-year-old ballpark, located
in the South Bronx, more
than 10 miles from the World
Trade Center.
“The ballpark is ringed
with police,” Yankees spokes-
man Rick Cerrone said after
leaving his office.
The NFL was still decid-
ing whether to postpone this
weekend’s schedule.
“Regarding Sunday’s
games, we will make no deci-
sion today,” league spokes-
man Joe Browne said. “We’ll
gather information and speak
to several parties within the
next 24 to 48 hours.”
The PGA Tour canceled
Thursday’s starts of the
World Golf Championship
and two other tournaments.
Commissioner Tim
Finch-em said the American
Express Championship in St.
Louis, featuring Tiger Woods
and top players from tours
around the world, would
begin Friday with 36 holes.
“This is a sad, sad day in
America,” Woods said after
playing a practice round,
which he began about two
hours before the initial attack.
The Tampa Bay Classic
will open with 18 holes each
on Friday and Saturday and a
36-hole conclusion. The same
schedule has been applied to
the Buy.com Tour event in
Oregon.
The Senior Tour will
remain on schedule, with a
54-hole event that starts
Friday in North Carolina.
With air traffic stopped
across the country, several
golfers were unable to get to
St. Louis. Among those
stranded were PGA champi-
on David Toms, Phil
Mickelson and Davis Love
III.
The Swiss-based Interna-
tional Olympic Com-mittee
expressed a “profound sense
of shock and disbelief” at the
attacks.
IOC president Jacques
Rogge expressed “deepest
sympathy” to the families of
the victims and sent letters of
condolence to President
Bush, the U.S. Olympic
Committee and the Salt Lake
City Organizing Committee.
The 2002 Winter Olym-
pics are to be held in Salt
Lake City in February.
The NCAA said confer-
ences and schools have the
authority to determine
whether to play college foot-
ball games this weekend as
well as hold other events.
The governing body said
it will assist college presidents
and conference commission-
ers in making decisions.
“The games themselves
are insignificant in the face of
what has happened today,”
NCAA president Cedric
Dempsey said.
“Our focus is entirely on
the safety of student-athletes,
athletics personnel and fans.”
NASCAR also was moni-
toring the situation before
making any decision on
Sunday’s New Hampshire 300,
spokesman John Griffin said.
Baseball’s minor leagues
— their regular seasons over
— postponed postseason
games in all nine leagues that
were to play Tuesday.
“Out of respect to the
families and friends of those
people who lost their lives or
were injured in today’s tragic
events, we have postponed all
)
playoff games scheduled for
tonight in the United States,”
said Mike Moore, president
of the National Association of
Professional Baseball
Leagues, the governing body
for the minors.
The International, Pacific
Coast, Eastern, Southern,
Texas, California, Florida
State, Midwest and South
Atlantic leagues were affected.
The stadium of one of
minor league baseball team,
the independent Newark
Bears, has a view of the lower
Manhattan skyline, where
smoke filled the air after the
World Trade Center was
destroyed.
Major League Soccer
postponed all four games that
had been Scheduled for
Wednesday night.
In Columbus, Ohio, the
U.S. Women’s Cup double-
header at Crew Stadium
involving the United States
against Japan and Germany
vs. China was postponed.
In hockey, the Toronto
Maple Leafs postponed their
trip to Newfoundland after
Canadian airports grounded
all outgoing flights.
The Leafs were to travel
to Newfound-land for train-
ing camp but decided to work
out Wednes-day in Toronto.
Eric Lindros and the New
York Rangers were set to
open training camp at
Madison Square Garden on
Wednesday.
“Eric called at 11 a.m.
and he said everyone was
fine,” Lindros’ father, Carl
Lindros, told The Canadian
Press.
“He was supposed to be
downtown (in New York) to
do a TV show but that was
canceled.”
In Germany, players on
the Nuremberg Ice Tigers
hockey team, which has
Americans Paul Stanton,
Chris Luongo and David
Emmaunder under contract,
voted against playing a game
Tuesday against the Revier
Loewens Oberhausen because
of the attacks.
In Nyon, Switzerland, the
Union of European Football
Associations said this week’s
games will take place as
scheduled. UEFA chief exec-
utive Gerhard Aigner said
there would be a minute’s
silence at all games out of
respect for the victims
A Wednesday news con-
ference scheduled for the
Felix Trinidad-Bernard Hop-
kins fight was canceled.
The fight remained
scheduled for Saturday night
at Madison Square Garden in
New York.
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