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www.chronicle.duke.edu Vol. 97, N0.17
Back to action The volleyball team made up its previously canceled match versus East
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Bush urges Americans to prepare for war By TODD PURDUM
Vice President Dick Cheney offered chilling new details Sunday, WASHINGTON President saying that Bush had authorized Bush and his senior advisers told military pilots to intercept and Americans on Sunday to prepare shoot down any commercial airlinfor a new kind of global war that er that tried to penetrate airspace could last for years, require un- over Washington after the attacks conventional means, and test the on the Pentagon and World Trade Center towers. The Pentagon patience ofthe public and its leaders alike. scrambled fighter jets to track a “This is a new kind of evil,” hijacked jetliner headed toward Bush said at the White House Washington, but the plane after returning from a weekend crashed in Pennsylvania, possibly war council with senior aides at after a struggle between passenCamp David, “and we understand, gers and the hijackers. and the American people are beOfficials said that Ronald Reagan National Airport, just across ginning to understand, this crusade, this war on terrorism, is the Potomac River in Virginia, going to take a while, and the would not reopen soon, and some American people must be patient.” suggested that it be permanently “We will rid the world of the closed to commercial air traffic evil-doers,” Bush said, adding a because its flight paths cross moment later, “They have roused within seconds ofvirtually all important government buildings a mighty giant, and make no misand monuments. take about it, we’re determined.” Speaking on “Meet the Press” In his first public remarks See ATTACKS on page 12 Psince Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, New York Times News Service
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH makes a statement upon returning to the White House Sunday from a presidential retreat at Camp David,
Alumnus escapes burning building Crown suffers severe injuries By DREW KLEIN The Chronicle
CANDLES adorn the Chapel Quadrangle at a vigil following the forum Sunday night.
Duke hosts forum on healing Scott McMillan, a Durham resident who was employed by Midway Airlines until last week, was one of the first audience members to speak at last nights forum at Page Auditorium. He talked about his 12-year-old son, and said that often his son is wrong. He talked about how his son might defy him and that often, he feels the need to hit him, in the name ofjustice. “He’s wrong. He needs to be taught a lesson,” McMillan said, before adding his wife always manages to reassure him it’s not the best answer. The metaphor did not go unnoticed by nearly 200 members ofthe Duke community as they gathered for yet another forum on Tuesday’s events and the ensuing ;
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fallout, even as President George W. Bush increasingly talks of war and retaliation. The discussion was organized by William Chafe, dean of faculty of arts and sciences. It followed several others, including those held at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the School ofLaw, the Divinity School and the School of Medicine. Last night’s discussion was followed by a candlelight vigil outside the Chapel steps, sponsored by the Muslim Student Association. “We are a community in mourning,” Chafe said. “We’ve lost our sense of confidence that the world is one we can control.” Mourning was a theme Sunday night as Chafe and a panel of 10 faculty members and students, including
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By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
One thing’s for sure about players on the men’s lacrosse team: They refuse to admit defeat. That description certainly applies to Keat Crown, a captain of the 2000 men’s lacrosse team, who successfully made his way down from high atop the World Trade Center on Tuesday before its tragic collapse. Despite broken bones and deep lacerations sustained on the way down, Crown emerged from the building alive and was moved several times before ending up in a Manhattan hospital. Crown was working on the 106th floor of the South tower, the second building to be struck in Tuesday’s attacks, for AON Keat Crown Risk Management, an insurance company. His office was only four floors from the top of the tower, around 1300 feet above the ground. When he and his colleagues saw and heard the impact ofAmerican Airlines Flight 11 on the North tower, they immediately headed for the stairs. When they arrived on the 78th floor, an area where employees would normally switch from one elevator bank to another, they were told to return to their offices. Crown, however, continued to descend the stairs, but was still above the impact point of the second plane when it hit. When Crown reached a point in the stairwell that had been demolished by an elevator, he jumped down an unknown distance and was able to land with only minor injuries where the stairwell was still useable. At that point, he made his way to the bottom ofthe building and emerged only minutes before the structure on page
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State education officials say that even though North Carolina’s SAT scores might seem low, the state continues to make progress in education. See page 7