OtorillIl Onehundred iBn ea 0 ofedt/ralfreedo NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwwmichigandaily.com Friday September 14, 2001 " " ..a . C3 4t 1 Football game vs. WMU is called off By Raphael Goodstein Daily Sports Editor The Michigan Athletic Depart- ment yesterday announced that tomorrow's home football game against Western Michigan will not be played. There was no immediate makeup- date, and if the two teams can not find a time to reschedule the game, the game will be canceled. Michigan has not postponed a football game since Nov. 23, 1963, the day after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Numerous other campus events have also been canceled, including today's fifth annual Fun Run with University President Lee Bollinger, this weekend's Law School reunion and all events planned for this week- end's Michigan Basketball Reunion. Updated information on addi- tional cancellations is available at www.umich.edu. Yesterday's decision to cancel the football game came one day after the seniors on the team voted to play. But ultimately, the Athletic Depart- ment decided that it was too soon. "Coach Carr got the senior lead- ership together yesterday to see what they wanted to do, and they decided that playing would be the best way to show that terrorism will not dictate how we do things," Athletic Director Bill Martin said. "We are sensitive, however, to the concerns we have heard from those who feel a strong need to sig- nal our respect in the most public way we have available to us." The cancellation marks the beginning of heightened safety pre- cautions for Michigan sporting events. Martin would not say specifically what changes will be made except that Michigan Stadi- um will no longer be open to the public except on game days. Although each home football game brings in about $3.5 million from ticket sales, there is the possi- bility that tomorrow's game will not be rescheduled because West- ern already has games scheduled on both of Michigan's bye weeks. In addition, the Athletic Depart- ment is reluctant to play after the Ohio State game, which is typically the last game of the season. Rescheduling after Ohio State "is a possibility, but we really want to avoid scheduling after Ohio State and we want our kids to focus- on studies before finals and the bowl trip," Martin said. All games involving Big Ten teams are off this weekend, although the conference did not officially tell its members to cancel them. "Every institution in the Big Ten made up its own mind," Martin said. The Big 12, Southeastern, Atlantic Coast, Big East and Pac- 10 conferences all cleared this weekend's schedules. A total of 54 games involving Division I-A teams were postponed this weekend and four more were canceled. The games that definitely won't be made up later in the sea- son are Navy at Northwestern, Bowling Green at South Carolina, Marshall at TCU and Appalachian State at Troy State. The NFL canceled this week's games as well. "We know each university has struggled to return to normalcy as one concrete symbol that terrorism does not prevail," Bollinger said in a written statement. "Michigan Sta- dium will remain dark this Satur- day as we pay tribute to all those lives missing and lost in this week's tragic events, some of whom we are learning to be our friends, rela- tives, colleagues, and alumni." Bollinger was back in Ann Arbor yesterday after being strand- ed in New York City during Tues- day's attacks on the city, University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. He was in New York along with University Musical Society Direc- tor Ken Fischer to discuss the Uni-. versity's relationship with the a rica' 4,-.. - , -'a 'W " 4 SAM HOLLENSHEAD/Daily Firefighters scour debris yesterday around the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center used to stand in lower Manhattan. New York City has about 30,000 body bags on hand to hold pieces from the wreckage. As of yesterday, more than Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had a list with the names of more than 4,700 people still missing. 4,763 people reported ming; Bush visits Ground ero NEW YORK (AP) - The ghastly toll of the terrorist attack on In a call to Giuliani and New York Go the nation's largest city came into focus yesterday, as more than he looked forward to thanking New Yor 4,700 people were reported missing in the devastation of the World play, for the world to see, of the comp Trade Center. President Bush said he would visit New York and bravery of America." thank its people for exhibiting "the bravery of America." The president will find a reeling metr The grim process of combing tons and tons of rubble went on. city has been sealed off, as emergency Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the city had some 30,000 body with the unprecedented destruction. bags available to hold the pieces taken from the wreckage, and Work was slowed by hellish bursts o parts of 70 bodies had been recovered. There were just 94 con- the last standing section of one of the t firmed dead; 30 or fewer had been identified. And 4,763 people had jets. been reported missing. The rescue efforts were once again "It could turn out we recover fewer than that; it could be more," infrastructure in lower Manhattan. The t Giuliani said. "We don't know the answer." One Liberty Plaza, near the Trade Cent Bush said he would visit New York today, and declared it a forced the evacuation of some rescue w "national day of prayer and remembrance." He asked Americans to At one point authorities said five Fire spend their lunch breaks taking part in services at their chosen had been extricated from the rubble, places of worship, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. today ov. George Pataki, Bush said kers who "made a huge dis- passion of America and the opolis. A vast section of the workers struggled to cope f flame and the collapse of towers taken out by suicide n hindered by the battered top 10 floors of the 53-story ter site, began buckling and orkers yesterday afternoon. Department rescue workers two days after they were See BODIES, Page 7 More terrorists might still be at large WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. investi- gators pressed yesterday to identify ter- rorist collaborators who may still be in a position to strike more Americans, and agents located critical "black boxes" from two of Tuesday's hijacked planes. Four U.S. officials, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity, told The Associated Press that authorities are investigating the possibility that some terrorists involved with Tuesday's plots are still at large., Five men who tried to board a plane yesterday in New York were being ques- tioned, officials said. One of the men had a false pilot's identification. The five were identified as the same men who had tried to board a plane around the time of Tues- day's hijackings, but were turned away. The FBI sent the airline industry a list of 52 people wanted for questioning. Air- lines were asked to alert agents if any of the individuals were spotted. The FBI searched the country and abroad for possible suspects who had recent flight training, ties to the hijackers or their backers, or attempted to enter the See INVESTIGATION, Page 7 AP PHOTO Rescuers pull a man out of the rubble yesterday, more than two days since attacks by terrorists in New York sent the World Trade Center crumbling down. -4. 1 I Students assist ho By Rachel Green Daily Staff Reporter organize to nor victims While rescue workers sift through debris in New York and Washington, student groups at the University are doing their part to help victims and their families hundreds of miles away. An e-mail message circulating worldwide asks people to light candles on their doorsteps today at 7 p.m. and observe a moment of silence for those who died in Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Here on campus, the School of Music is host- ing a convocation today at 8 p.m. in Hill Audito- rium. The concert is open to the public, and anyone who can read sheet music is invited to students who wish to fly home to their families. Engineering Senior Jabreel Lockhart said he and friend Nook Dubose, a U-M alum, left Tues- day night's vigil on the Diag thinking of ways to promote unity and compassion on campus. "We decided to design T-shirts for students that promote community and solidarity," he Lockhart said. T-shirts will be available on the Diag, with pro- ceeds benefiting charities, Lockhart said. Tues- day's attacks against two American landmarks have motivated many students to donate time, money and energy to aid the relief effort. Money from the shirts, which cost $10, will be donated to United Way and the September 11 Fund. v.. - . --......' -