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Looking back Members of the Duke community consider how the campus has changed since the Sept. 11 attacks. See supplement inside
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One year later, nation remembers tragedy By JANNY SCOTT
New York Times News Service
One year after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killed 3,025 people, plunging the United States into war and a suddenly fearsome future, the country marks the anniversary of Sept. 11 today in countless public ceremonies and private moments, expressions of patriotism and what for some is a deep desire to turn the page. Even as new intelligence information and threats of terrorism reminiscent of ones detected a year earlier prompted President George W. Bush’s administration Tuesday to put the country on high alert, Americans are going ahead with plans for memorial services, bagpipe processions, peace vigils, prayer services, tree plantings and commemorations of every imaginable sort. From ground zero to the Southern California coastline, bells will toll, candles will burn, doves will wing their way skyward. Surfers will paddle out into the Pacific at dawn and drop trade center ashes. There will be cannon volleys and 21-gun salutes and choirs singing Mozart’s “Requiem” from one time zone to the next in a “rolling requiem” circling the globe. In New York City, the daylong observance includes a citywide moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., when the first plane hit the trade center, and church bells will toll at 10:29 a.m., when the second tower collapsed. Relatives of many of the 2,801 trade center victims will carry roses onto the site. Bush will address the country from Ellis Island at 9 p.m. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging everyone to light a candle at 7:12 p.m., sundown. At the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., more than 13,000 people are expected to turn out for a memorial ceremony at the Phoenix Project construction site, where workers are still repairing the section of a building that was damaged. There, too, will be a moment of silence, as well as the national anthem, a recitation of See ANNIVERSARY on page 7
NEW YORK CITY FIREFIGHTER Sean O’Malley hangs flags in memory of six members of his company who died in the attacks
University plans somber tone for campus day of remembrance By WHITNEY BECKETT and ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
One year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shook the nation and brought life at Duke to a sudden halt, the University will commemorate the anniversary with a day filled with academic and spiritual events, all with a somber and respectful tone. Last year’s events have impacted almost all aspects oflife on campus, which The Chronicle today details in
an enclosed supplement. From bioterrorism research to blood donations, the University’s last year has bared the scars ofSept. 11. Despite the changes, however, a quiet sense of normalcy has returned to life and work at Duke. Just as classes continued throughout Sept. 11 last year, they
will remain uninterrupted today, with professors enSee CAMPUS REMEMBERS on page 12
Bowles, Dole cruise to victory in Senate primaries By RUTH CARLITZ and JOSH NIMOCKS The Chronicle
The U.S. Senate primaries and Durham County elections held few surprises Tuesday night, with the Senate race’s front-runners boasting decisive victories and mostly incumbents winning the Democratic nominations for the five county commissioner seats. Elizabeth Dole, Woman’s College ’5B, won the Republican nomination for the Senate with more than 80 percent of the vote. Erskine Bowles defeated Dan Blue, Law ’73, for the Democratic nomination with a plurality of just under 50 percent. Former Durham City Council member Mary Jacobs was the only challenger to capture the Democratic nominationfor a seat on the Durham County Board of Commissioners, along with all four incumbents running for reelection. “This is certainly a great victory for Mrs. Dole,” said Mary Brown Brewer, a campaign spokesperson. “It speaks to the strong grassroots campaign she has run across the state.” Dole will go on to face Bowles, who was the Democratic primary front-runner, in November. The highly contested nature of the primary might hinder the Democratic party’s chances in the general election, said Jeff Gnecco, Law ’O3, who has been working on the Bowles campaign as co-chair of the Durham County Political Committee. But he said he felt that Democrats would pull together, and praised Bowles for running a positive campaign. “He promised on the first day of his campaign irflp Iinside
Divinity School faculty members discusse at a forum 7Uesc jay how Christians have reacted over the year since the terrorist attacks. See page 3
that he wouldn’t say a single bad thing about the other candidates, and he hasn’t,” Gnecco said. Mayor Bill Bell, a Democrat, also said he expected to see a unified party as the race moves to its final stage. “All candidates have pledged to support the winner. [There’s] nothing to be gained by going separate ways,” he said. “I think nationally, North Carolina is going to get a lot ofattention.” In Durham County’s elections, four of the five current County Commissioners—Joe Bowser, Philip Cousin, Becky Heron and Ellen Reckhow—won in the Democratic primary and will move on to the general election in November with Jacobs. No Republicans ran in the primary, so the results will most likely be mirrored in the general election, although five Libertarian candidates are also running. Bowser said the biggest issue facing the county will be dealing with the state’s budget cuts. “Finances will be at the top of the list with what the state has been doing to us,” Bowser said. He cited economic development as another issue, saying the county should focus on developing the inner city while cutting back on development on the city’s outskirts. “I think that area [near the Streets at Southpoint mall] has been maxed out.” Heron agreed with Bowser that budget cuts will be the focus ofattention for the county, with $9 million in taxes withheld by the state. She also said the commis-
The low-carbohydrate Atkins diet proved to be an effective weight loss method in a Medical Center study, but doctors are still hesitant to recommend it. See page 4
See PRIMARIES on page 8 The football team plans to name a room in the new Yoh Football Center after Rob Lenoir, a former player who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. See page 9