One hundred eleven years ofeditonalfreedm NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 www.mchigandaily.com Thursday October 11, 2001 -*f ~ 4t 1 c,1 One month later September 11, 2001 Time passes by, but lives remain changed I By Ted Borden and Shannon Pettyplece Daily Staff Reporters One month ago today, at 8:48 a.m., University students found themselves and all other Amen- cans in a different world. In the hours following that time, when hijacked airliners reduced New York's World Trade Center to rubble and sliced into the Penta- gon, taking thousands of lives. In that month, students have been forced to reevaluate long-held opinions and beliefs on a number of issues both political and personal: "Seeing as it is my freshman year, the attacks U.S. I made everything harder. I just wanted to go home after everything happened," said LSA freshman Stephanie Fleno. "The attacks united everyone and they made me proud to be an American and a New Yorker." Many share this sense of patriotism and have found new ways to express it. "I'm a lot more patriotic. I never would have thought of buying a flag, and now I have one stuck on my car," said Business junior Lauren Katz. The effects of Sept. 11 can be seen not only in the flags flying from windows across campus but also in the .support many are showing for Presi- dent Bush at this traditionally liberal institution. "I was really disappointed when he won, but 1 its now, I feel good about having him in the White House. I take comfort in the people supporting him, such as (Secretary of State Colin) Powell and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfield," said LSA senior Beth Kibort. LSA junior Sameer Hossain said the president has responded well to an unprecedented position. "He didn't have much time to show his char- acteristics, but as soon as it happened, he took a very big role and I've been impressed. It's the hardest thing any president of the United States has ever had to do and I've been satisfied," Hos- sain said. Despite supporting Bush's policies on terror- ism, many were not convinced by his statement that airline travel is a safe mode of transporta- tion. "My parents flew out a few weeks ago to Seattle, and I feel like I'm the parent in this situa- tion where I want them to call as soon as they get there," Katz said. "Normally I wouldn't do some- thing like that. I've got a knot in my stomach because I know they are going to have to fly back." Yet some students feel the tragedy has improved previously relaxed security standards. "I've traveled several times since everything happened and I feel safer going through security. These were changes that were necessary," Kibort said. Nevertheless, students recognize the historical and international impact of the past month's events. "I feel that this happens in other countries every day and we don't even think about it," said RC sophomore Sarah Tasman. "But it finally happens to us and we get knocked off our high horse. Never before has an event of even remote similarity affected every aspect of our daily lives." As the months go on and normalcy returns, many students believe the events will always be as poignant as they were this past month. "I will remember that day for the rest of my life. I think for our generation, that day will be like the day Kennedy was assassinated," said Nicholson. hardest on day 4 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - In the biggest attack so far against Kabul, U.S. jets pounded the Afghan capital yesterday, and explosions thundered around a Taliban military academy, artillery units and suspected terrorist training camps. Buildings miles away shook with the fury of the attack. With the United States claiming air supremacy in its campaign to root out Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, American jets roamed across the skies for more than two hours, seeking out targets on the fringes of this war- ruined city of 1 million. U.S. aircraft returned to the skies over this city early today pounding sites near the airport. In two sorties, jets fired at least 11 heavy-detonation projectiles. They lit' up the night sky. Flames surged skyward. Taliban gun- ners returned fire with anti-aircraft weapons. Thick clouds of black smoke rose from the direction of the airport. The private Afghan Islamic Press in Pakistan said U.S. jets and missiles also attacked the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the second time in a day and a Taliban military base at Shamshaad, about four miles from the Pakistani border. A U.S. official in Washington, meanwhile, said two adult male rela- tives of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were killed in bombing strikes Sunday on the leader's home in Kandahar in the south of the country. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, also said a senior Taliban officer was reported killed in strikes near Mazar-e-Sharif in the north. Before the latest bombardment began after sunset, the United Nations reported that Taliban loyalists have been beating up Afghans working with U.N.-affiliated aid agencies, apparently taking aim at one of the only Western symbols remaining in the country. The barrage on Kabul yesterday night appeared to be the longest and biggest yet in the 4-day-old U.S.-led air campaign. Warplanes fired missiles in rapid succession while Taliban gun- ners unleashed furious, but futile bar- rages of anti-aircraft fire at the jets flying beyond their range. Taliban mobile air defense units cruised through the city, firing at the planes. Powerful explosions could be heard around Kabul airport in the north of the city and to the west in the direction of Rishkore and Kargah - both areas See WAR, Page 7A AP PHOTO An.F-14crew member gives the thumbs-up signs as he lands safely on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Arabian Sea yesterday. The Enterprise is one of the many U.S. ships involved in the attacks in Afghanistan. Visa moratorium plan abandoned By April Effort For the Daily Rodolfo Altamirano, director of the University's International Center, said he breathed a sigh of relief when California Sen. Dianne Feinstein abandoned her plan for a six-month moratorium on student visas after receiving strong opposition from the American Coun- cil of Education. He wasn't the only one holding his breath. Many international students would have been affected by this moratorium, including Edin, a second-year inter- national graduate student who requested his last name not be printed. "I'm still angry at the fact that we have to fight prej- udices in a place were they are not even suppose to exist," Edin said. He said that if passed, the plan would have severely affected him, people he knows and the University. Feinstein, a Democrat, tabled her plan last Friday and has no plans to revive it any time soon. Altamirano said that if it had passed, the University would have been affected in many ways. "These students bring a rich intellectual and cultur- al resource," Altamirano said. Altamirano also said he did agree with one aspect of Feinstein's plan - an Internet database that Immi- gration and Naturalization Services would use to monitor international students. Yoshihiro Nishizawa, a lawyer and research scholar from Japan, said there would be more justification for a six-month suspension rather than a database. See VISAS, Page 7A Master's in carillon offered only at U' By Caey Ehrlich For the Daily SNRE partnership OK'd By Tyler Boersen Daily Staff Reporter A plan to build a partnership between the School of Natural. Resources and the College of Litera- ture, Arts and Sciences passed anoth- er hurdle last week when University President Lee Bollinger approved budgets allowing implementation of a new environmental studies program within LSA. The plan, which still needs to be approved by the University Board of Regents, would phase out the under- graduate school at SNRE and create programs in environmental policy and environmental science in LSA, while involving the faculty of both colleges. "The Program on the Environment is an undergraduate program that will be offered as an equal partnership between LSA and SNRE," said LSA Dean Shirley Neuman. "This means that faculty from SNRE will partici- pate fully with those in LSA in offer- ing the courses, and that there will be an Advisory Comnittee with equal representation from LSA and SNRE." See SNRE, Page 7A Although most University stu- dents have never met campanolo- gy Prof. Margo Halsted, nearly all are quite familiar with her work. Halsted plays an instrument called the carillon that allows her to produce music using a bell weighing 12 tons: inside the Bur- ton Memorial Tower on Central Campus. The largest of the 55 bells in the tower is the third heaviest in the world and large enough to fit a kindergarten class inside. "I have the best job at the Uni- versity. It's so fun to have people come up to play and watch it," Halsted said. "The carillon is very versatile. You can place the melody anywhere you want. It's fun to play because you use your whole body." DAVID ROCKHIND/Daily Campanology Prof. Margo Halsted plays the carillon in the Bell Tower. Hasted directs the only carillon graduate program in the country. ate program in the country. Only one student, Jeremy Chesman, has earned a master's degree in the program under the direction of Halsted, and there are currently no graduate students in the pro- gram. Chesman is now studying the carillon in Belgium on a grant from the Belgian American Edu- cational Foundation. Although there are no students in the caril- lon program at present, students have opted to take a class on the 12 students at the University and not all are music majors. "Students are auditioned on the piano and practice on the practice keyboard," Halsted said. "When they get good enough they can play in the tower." Only 500 carillons exist in the world, and the University harbors two of them - one in Burton Memorial Tower on Central Cam- pus and another in the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower on North Campus. Played from a keyboard, Biological war fears. run' ,high By Jacquelyn Nixon Daily Staff Reporter In the aftermath of two cases of anthrax exposure in Florida last week, the threat of a biological terrorist attack seems more of a reality than ever before. In Michigan however, prepara- tions for handling such an attack have been in the making since before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Geralyn Lasher, director of communications for the Michi- gan Department of Community Health,said the state has been working with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention while preparing a procedure similar to Florida's in the event of a biological attack. Using a required reporting system, Florida health officials were able to trace the origin of the anthrax strain back 50 years to an Iowa lab. "The key is that early type of detection ... identifying something quickly, notifying the appropriate people"' Lasher BRENDAN O'DONNELL/Daily I I I ,I I i