On Our Minds...
What should be done in response to the terrorist attacks?
“We need to
retaliate, but
we don’t
need to get
everyone
involved”
Stacy Cook
junior, Lake
Oswego
“We should
I thinkabout
it... It’s one
manandnot
a country.” j
SanamAaravi I
sophomore, |
Los Angeles
‘‘Bomb
them
Reade Northup
freshman, Lake
Oswego
“Make some
sortofstrike
to appease
the public.”
Robert Parker
post
baccalaurate
student,
Eager, Arizona
Adam Amato Emerald
Some UO students personally affected by attacks
■Students return to campus
still feeling the effects of the acts
on the World Trade Center
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
As senior Andrew Natt watched
the World Trade Center towers col
lapse on television Sept. 11, he had
no idea that his father was in one of
the buildings and his mother was in
a hotel across the street.
Natt’s father had attended a con
ference in one of the lower floors
that morning, and his mother had
gone with him to the city. But until
they called him at noon on the day
of the attacks, Natt was unaware of
his parents’ travel plans.
“I was sort of shocked because I
didn’t even know they were there,”
he said. “But I knew they were okay.
They said it sounded like a big
earthquake and then got out before
the second plane hit.”
Although Natt didn’t know his par
ents were in New York City, some stu
dents struggled to contact family
members and friends back east while
others were left stranded in airports.
After nearly two weeks of watch
ing replays of the World Trade Cen
ter’s 107 stories topple down
through plumes of smoke, many
people return to campus this week
with mixed feelings about the event
and what the country should do.
Yuko Tokuda had just reached the
end of a trip to Peru when she saw the
second hijacked plane plow into the
N.Y. building on a television screen
—the day before her scheduled flight
back to the United States.
“We saw it on the news. But it
was all in Spanish, and I had no idea
what was going on,” she said. “I
thought it was a science fiction film.
All I knew was my flight was can
celed, and 1 was stuck in Peru.”
The junior journalism major —
whose native language is Japanese—
went to an Internet cafe in the South
American country and read both
American and Japanese articles to
learn about the terrorist attacks. After
three days in Lima, the capital of
Peru, she finally found a flight back.
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Tokuda, an international student
from Japan, said the attacks are trag
ic. But she added that it’s hard for
her to connect herself to the event
or think about how government
leaders should respond.
“I feel like the U.S. is my home,
and I care about what happened,”
she said. “But I see the whole nation
coming together, and I don’t really
feel like I’m a part of that.”
However, the events have espe
cially affected students who have
loved ones in New York City.
After senior Kristen Grbavac saw
the news, she immediately tried
contacting her best friend from high
school, who attends New York Uni
versity and lives six blocks away
from the Trade Center towers. It
took two days to reach her.
“When she called I got teary-eyed
and started crying on the phone,” Gr
bavac said. “She had seen both tow
ers come down and people jump out
of buildings. I had just been there in
December to visit her. I can’t even
imagine going back to the city right
now and seeing nothing in the sky. ”
Sophomore Mike Gonsalves was
on his way back to Eugene from his
hometown of Honolulu that day.
But when his plane landed in the in
ternational terminal at the San Fran
cisco airport and security officials
began inspecting passengers, he
knew something was wrong.
“I saw that everyone was watch
ing the television screens, so I start
ed watching and figured out what
was happening,” he said. “I thought
‘Oh my god, I was just in the air, and
I’m lucky to be here.’ I was really
freaked out.”
Gonsalves added that although
the United States should take some
kind of action, going to war could
lead to even bigger terrorist acts.
While many students heard about
the attacks in the early morning, sen
ior Sarah Watts didn’t know until
about 3 p.m. because she was without
telephone service or television. After
calling her family in Portland, Watts,
an education major, also discovered
that her aunt worked in the World
Trade Center but had safely escaped.
“I was completely shocked and
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Airlines
cut some
Eugene
flights
■ New congressional legislation
could affect airport security,
employment, renovation plans
By Sue Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on the East Coast,
airlines have planned to temporari
ly cut six United Express flights at
the Eugene Airport, to run from Oct.
1 to Oct. 31.
Four other daily flights at the air
port were canceled last week.
Airport manager Bob Noble dis
cussed the canceled flights with
members of the Eugene Airport Ad
visory Committee during a regularly
scheduled meeting Sept. 19. The
flights cut last week were a United
Airlines flight to San Francisco, two
Horizon flights to Portland and one
Horizon flight to Seattle; the flights
canceled for October are all to Seat
tle. The airport averages 37 com
mercial flights per day.
The full impact of tightened secu
rity restrictions by the Federal Avia
tion Administration will not be
known for some time, Noble said,
but could include new legislation
introduced last week in Congress
Three members of the House Sub
committee on Aviation sponsored a
bill that focuses on improving
screening methods. The sponsors
include U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D
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