E TH A E B c EHUE ND Lim A Penn State Erie Student Publicatio PENNSTATE Erie I 1{...-: 4 p ri a # 4 .. .4 •:, a, I .i. A..1.i, Friday's forecast: Pa Check page 2A for the weekend weather outlook PAGES 2-3 A roundup of national . ;overage on the attacks in New York City, Washing ton, D.C., and Somerset, Pennsylvania. PAGE 6 The Washington Post's view on the terrorist attack and the position the United States should take PAGE 10 The Beacon begins a series that looks into the lives of four seniors and how they view their years at Penn State PAGE 11 Help us determine who stood out the most: Jamie Foxx, Britney, or Michael Jackson News...l -5 Editorial... 6-7 Calendar... 9 Features...l 0 A & E... 11 Sports...l 2-1 4 iiininiZEF NEWSROOM: 898-6488 FAX US: 898-6019 E-MAIL: behrcolls@aol.com Offices are located downstairs in the Reed Union Building Vol. XLIX No. 4 How will ooze tlli twrivefilfaled €- ~~~~~~.- r l~; of 3 i~`•.tiHs a High: 60s° Low: 40s° 4' ./ Behrend community unites, offers support for students While the nation continues to adjust to the destruction that occurred on Tuesday, the Behrend community also had to pull together and help each other cope with the week's events. Many organizations, offices, and individuals united to provide assistance for students, faculty, and staff. The Critical Incident Response Team has been the leader in organizing aid for the distressed. Technology, muscle employed to find victims Five key elements are driving the arduous task of digging through Lower Manhattan's devastation: human spirit, muscular strength, canine sense, old-fashioned hand tools and highly sophisticated technology. Helping the humans and the dogs in the desperate se-arch and recovery effort are some of the latest technological tools, some of which were derived from scientific develop ments originally designed to explore outer space. The technological side of search and re covery allows workers to detect cracks and crevices amid the debris that lead to voids - deep pockets - where people may be trapped, dead or alive. Manhattan search and rescue units have been joined by their counterparts from throughout the country, all of whom operate the sensitive equipment used to scour the ter rain and to detect possible sounds of life be neath it. Ved7PC j'° livr;;<' q P, < s : {~RP ~,'„ir ?.. IF -Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941 by Liz Hayes and Christine Kleck news editor and editorial columnist by Delthia Ricks Newsday September 13, 2001 we cope with an attack on our country? Students watch the ongoing crisis coverage on the television in the Bruno's fishbowl on Tuesday. The big screen television screen was also used all week to keep the campus up to date with the national situation. Currently leading the team is Sue Daley, a staff psychologist from the Personal Counseling Office. Daley said CIRT was formed last year in response to the violence occurring at other schools and campuses. "After Columbine, we got together and found ourselves nervous," Daley said. "We realized that we really had no plan" for dealing with such an event at Behrend. Daley learned of a woman in Erie who was one of about 500 people who been trained in critical incident stress management. She and Daley developed a training program for all interested members of the Behrend "Everything we've ever learned comes into play in a situation like this," said Lt. Gary Hughes of Philadelphia's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force. Fifteen members of that city's team are on site in Lower Manhattan. Searchers are equipped with thermal-im aging cameras, handheld as well as those mounted to helmets; long telescoping fiber optic cameras that can be inserted into deep pockets; infrared detection devices, listening devices and an army of roving robots, outfit ted with special heat-seeking software. Generally, people can survive about two or three days without water. Doctors would not speculate Thursday how long survivors could hold on in devastation such as that of the World Trade Center. "This is not a random search. The people out there understand what the structure was like before it collapsed, and knowing the com mon collapse methodologies gives them an idea where the best places are to look for voids," said Bill McCutcheon, president of Cairns Advanced Technologies in Clifton, N.J., makers of some of the thermal-imaging equipment used at the site. September 14, 2001 community For the past several months the members of CIRT have gone through an intensive training program, Daley said. It included practicing for crisis situations and role playing with other members. Daley, whose turn as team leader recently came up in the rotation, was actually planning the next round of practice and training sessions last week before the terrorist attack occurred. CIRT consists of individuals from various disciplines. "We wanted to have a varied representation," Daley said. Team members include members Hughes added that thermal-imaging de vices, designed to be used in situations of zero visibility, can distinguish a living hu man form from background debris. Living matter emits energy, he explained, and that form's image would be conveyed through real-time cameras. Aaron Gage, a graduate student at the Uni versity of Miami who helped develop the ro bots' software, said the 22-by-28-inch elec tronic devices that stand six inches from the ground are highly equipped. "They're called urban and they're heavily treaded with tracks on each side," Gage said of the robots that are manufactured by RWI Technology, a Massachusetts company. "They can rotate to lift themselves up. They're designed to get over uneven terrain. The robots have thermal sensors, color cam eras, lights and ultrasonic detection devices. They also have microphones to amplify any sounds from beneath the debris. Once the so phisticated equipment detects signs of hu mans, searchers then turn to low-tech tools such as picks, saws, shovels and old-fash ioned brawn to remove the rubble." of the Office of Student Affairs, the Provost's Office, the Office of Student Activities, the Counseling Office, Residence Life, Housing and Food Services, Campus Ministries, Police and Safety, and the RUB Desk, as well as two students. Daley said she is proud of the commitment these individuals have made and the speed with which they mobilized once the full scope of the national crisis was realized. On Tuesday CIRT began running crisis management briefings. As facts became known about the situations developing in New York City. Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, fact A New York City firefighter places a cross honoring colleagues on a makeshift memorial set up on a fire truck near the World Trade Center. :~ . r , AFi 14 Pages 'rle i•i -George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 sheets were produced and distributed to faculty, staff, and students. Meetings were held on Tuesday to distribute these sheets and to give the Behrend community a chance to express the multitude of feelings all were having. At the meetings, everyone was given the opportunity to examine reactions, and CIRT let participants know what resources were available to them. On Wednesday, what Daley called phase two of CIRT's plan went into effect. Smaller meetings were BEHREND UNITES continued on page 2
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