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— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
March 4,1933
University Press
Friday, October 5,2001 A Four-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 78, No. 10
ousing disaster’s flames
Photographer
finds unity,
pathos, fear
in New York
Kasey Jordan
UP editor
Walking through busy, yet silent streets of New
York City, Patrick Patterson was overcome by the ran-
cid smell of the rubble — the ashes of destruction and
human remains that lingered upon the air of a dramat-
ically changed Big Apple. No one was rushing to get to
work,..car horns ceased to beep at .intersections,
strangers were whispering quiet conversations as if
they had known one another all their lives.
Sadness, pathos, empathy, unity, fear — these emo-
tions hovered1 over the city, but Patterson said that he
fought to keep these feelings inside. He had a job to do.
Patterson, a Beaumont senior and student of pho-
tography and film, went to New York on Sept. 19 on a
five-day mission — to take a gift of brotherhood — a
fire helmet signed by local firefighters — and place it
on the firemen’s memorial that has been erected near
the site of the World Trade Center tragedy and to shoot
photos for his classes and for the University Press.
“There was an eerie silence,” he said. “Usually the
city is loud and booming. It was really strange. New
Yorkers, when they walk, don’t make eye contact. That
day (his first day) I saw people, who did not even know
each other, wanting to make contact, wanting to talk to
each other and needing the other people there for
them. It was a domino effect of emotions.”
Patterson stayed with family who live in New York.
It rained the first day he was there, he said, but he was
determined to make it to Ground Zero.
“Walking through Grand Central Station, all you
see are missing persons fliers,” he said. “People were
stopping and looking. The guy selling the New York
Times was screaming, ‘Osama bin Laden wanted dead
or alive!’
See PATTERSON, page 6
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Firefighters in New York City have been working diligently around the clock at the site of the former
Twin Towers, in the background, in efforts to clear the rubble that resulted from the terrorist attacks on
the nation.
International
students
empathic
in response
to terrorism
Jaime Espinosa
UP staff writer
The terrorist events of
Sept. 11 had a profound
effect on Americans, but
sometimes it is easy to over-
look the effects that the
events of that day have had
on the lives of international
students attending Lamar
University.
James Roach, a Lamar
freshman from Larme, Ire-
land, a small town north of
Belfast, said that when he
was a child he was always
worried about the terrorism
that was present in his home
country. For instance, when
he was in elementary school,
he remembers being wor-
ried about places that he
had to go, people that he
talked to, friends that he
hung around. There Was a
feeling of distrust, he said,
because any of these places
or people might be involved
in terrorism.
“I lost my best friend
when I was 12,” he said. “He
was trying to buy ice cream
at a store when, all of a sud-
den, everything exploded.
“Seeing the violence in
the United States, I can’t be-
lieve there are people who
let their blindness kill other
people.”
He says he has seen this
in his own country, and now
he sees it in the United
States.
Roach is afraid that
tighter security in this coun-
try will limit people’s free-
doms.
He points out that secu-
rity is very tight, there are
See STUDENTS, page 8
Bus crash thought
to be isolated act
by Croatian visitor
MANCHESTER, Tenn.
(AP) — The Greyhound driver
whose neck was slashed by a
passenger just before the bus
crashed managed to crawl from
the wreckage and search for
help, his surgeon said.
Dr. Ralph Bard said Gar-
field Sands told him what hap-
pened after the Wednesday
crash that killed the blade-
wielding attacker and five other
passengers. According to Bard,
Sands said he climbed out of
the overturned bus in a field,
stumbling in the night toward a
nearby light.
“Everybody who could be
saved from that accident was
, saved,” Bard said. “He gets out
and goes for help. This is a good
guy.”
Sands, 53, of Marietta, Ga.,
was in stable condition after
Bard stitched up two 5-inch
long, 2-inch deep slashes on the
side of his neck. The 34 passen-
gers who survived the crash
were all injured, including a
pregnant woman who under-
went a successful Caesarean
section hours later. She and the
baby were in stable condition.
The FBI identified the
assailant as Damir Igric, 29, a
Croatian who entered the
United States in Miami in 1999
with one month left on his visa.
He boarded the bus in Chicago.
In Croatia, the state-run
news agency HINA quoted
Igric’s stepfather, Ante Spaic, as
saying the whole family was
“deeply shocked,” adding that
the family hadn’t been in con-
tact with Igric for some time.
The attacker struggled with
Sands for control of the wheel
before it crashed on Interstate
24, 60 miles southeast of Nash-
See BUS, page 10
In THE FACE OF FEAR. TERRORISM
Cosmopolitan still advocates world peace
Greg Hayes
UP staff writer
Despite the recent terroristic
attacks on our nation, global traveler
Cynthia Wiggins, who has lived abroad
much of her life, believes that peace is
still attainable within our world today.
“People innately want to be at
peace,” she said. “The things that we
have learned along the way are hate
for other races and religions. This is a
learned process, but we are really bom
innocent, pure and full of love. I just
know, in my prayers, that this is the
way God sees us — as a pure and
peaceful humanity. Everything else is a
lie, and we just get to the point where
we believe the lie more than we
believe the truth of man.”
Wiggins, who now lives in Beau-
mont, said that she feels all humanity
across the globe is capable of being
peaceful neighbors if we can get past
the fallacies of education that have
been instilled in us over the centuries.
“If we hear that a certain race or
religion is bad, it is something that has
been told to us,” she said. “We are not
born with these beliefs. It is only some-
thing we have been educated to be-
lieve.”
Reared in a military family, mar-
rying a military man, living abroad and
visiting countries in the Near East, she
says that what we need to realize is
that people there think we are an
immoral society.
(They are on) “this crusade to
See WIGGINS, page 8
Cynthia Wiggins has lived and visited abroad off and on since age 5. She stands
next to a painting that was purchased in Spain.
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