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Tragedies
celebrating 100 years of journalism
monday, november 25, 2013
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9/11
North Park plane crash
9/12/01
9/26/78
by Leonardo Castaneda The San Diego State community was as shocked by the attacks on the World Trade Center as the rest of the world. Immediately following the tragic events in San Diego the recovery began. The Daily Aztec reported there was counseling available on campus for students. Several opinion columns and student interviews reflected the divide that gripped the nation in coming days and weeks. Some called for moderation and warned against violent retaliation. Others called for swift and forceful retaliation against whomever was responsable for the deadly attacks of 9/11. Almost every anniversary after 9/11 was commemorated by The Daily Aztec. The coverage changed with each subsequent year and the sense of unity that immediately followed that day always remained.
by Leonardo Castaneda On Sept. 25, 1978 a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane crashed into a light plane over San Diego. The crash in North Park killed 142 people, including one San Diego State student. What was at the time the worst aviation accident in U.S. history rattled the SDSU community. SDSU students recalled watching the plane crash and destruction that followed. The coverage of these events eventually won The San Diego Evening Tribune a 1979 Pulitzer Prize. However, The Daily Aztec’s coverage showed a key element of college reporting. It made a city-wide crisis relatable and understandable for SDSU’s college students.
Shooting deaths at SDSU 8/15/96
by Leonardo Castaneda On Aug. 15, 1996 graduate student Frederick Martin Davidson shot and killed three engineering professors on campus, Chen Liang, Constantinos Lyrintzis and Preston Lowrey III. Davidson believed the professors, and the entire engineering department, were working against him. He came upon them when they were gathered in a classroom discussing another student’s work. Davidson opened fire and within minutes SDSU Police Department officers had arrived but it was too late. The days and weeks that followed were filled with an overwhelming sense of community and unity by the San Diego State community. Memorials were held honoring the fallen faculty members where hundreds of students, staff and faculty members gathered. As one faculty member put it, it was not a time for pointing fingers but for coming together.
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Timeline1913-2013 1996
January
The first The Daily Aztec website launches.
2008
5/6/2008
Operation Sudden Fall by the DEA leads to the arrest of 33 students.
2012
4/19/2012
The Dalai Lama visits SDSU for a lecture on ethics and compassion.
2013
11/26/2013
The Daily Aztec celebrates 100 years of SDSU news.