The Towerlight, September 13, 2001

tl20010913-000 "Thursday www.thetowerlight.com C ViFelli ublished twice-weekly by students of Towson University 9/13/01 � ,1 wson reacts tragic events iter named w Senate chair 5 el playing e show Friday tball game tponed ents n Crisis 2 5 pus briefs 6 e Blotter 6 9 ics & Comics 10 igh Road 10 16 , Pass and Pick 17 Break 19 22 NAT 011 Spencer Platt Getty Images Two planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, collapsing the buildings early Tuesday morning. Jennifer Hykes The Towerlight Tuesday morning, America watched as two hijacked planes crashed into New York City's World Trade Center. Millions watched another plane crash into the Pentagon in the nation's capitol and still another explode in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Two days later, experts are searching- for black boxes, bodies and answers. ""This was a sobering display of terrorist coordination, the scale of which is truly stag-gering,"" Dr. Griff Hathaway, a former Towson political science professor, said. ""The degree of infrastructure, finance and precision is almost unbelievable � except there it is on television."" Hathaway, who is now a faculty member at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, said that in the aftermath of Tuesday's ter-rorism the United States will most likely experience permanent effects, especially in security measures. ""Ask yourself, -when was the last time that a purely American domestic flight of origin and destination, a U.S.-owned and U.S.- piloted aircraft, was hijacked?"" Hathaway said. ""And there were four seized and crashed, all before noon. I'd say U.S. air trav-el, like the U.S. itself, will never be the same."" Assistant political science professor Dr. Alison McCartney, who teaches International Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy, said experts will be looking into other attempts that may have failed Tuesday. ""We don't yet know if there were other attempted hijackings that were thwarted along the way,"" she said. ""That's the sort of information that will possibly come to light in the future."" One of the many questions Americans are asking is why these particular buildings were targeted. McCartney speculated that the attack was See TERROR, page 4 Kir* Jacobson The Towerhght Students watch Tuesda's oents unfold. Today High 80 Low 58 Friday High 72 Low 49 Saturday High 70 Low 49 Sunday High 73 Low 52 "