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Show Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 UtilhStat•S "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University • Logan A day we will never forget Today's Issue: Campus News Ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the world is still evaluating and living with the reprecussions BY BRACKEN ALLEN staff writer Find out what this student is doing with immitation fat attached to his stomach. Page 2 Features College students are losing their religion, but why? Page 4 Sp orts Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans are still unable to come to a consensus on what those attacks mean to the nation. Not only do politicians clash on foreign policy actions, but individual citizens maintain different opinions on what the events of that day truly represent. Steve Sharp, political science professor, Financial Aid director, and former member of the U.S. State Department, said, "I think the main effect of 9/11 was psychological. It ended the notion that peace and security in the United States was the norm." I really don't think it was a historyaltering event. I don't think it will be seen in those terms. r. -- 1- 71 — IT In ...11 II I" 'I II .1 - Michael Lyons, interim political science dept. head Sharp sale e considers 9/11 to be "analogous" to Pearl Harbor in the sense that it exposed some of the United States' weaknesses, which brought on a sense of paranoia. "Both events aimed at Americans' assumption of their place in the world," he said. However, Michael Lyons, interim department head of the political science department, Aggie football crushes Weber State in first home game of the season. Page 9 II _I VII II I". i L - L - "With this as the legacy of 9/11, on its 10th anniversary, I will stand with those families like the Rodriguez's and declare: 'Not in my name."' Page 10 Interact Now! Today: Students sing — and blow — their hearts out while offering "The Star-Spangled Banner." J v 10nUcV elements RESTAURANT All You Can EAT PIZZA! Mondays — $10.00 lapses after being hit by United Airlines Flight 175. A total of 2,996 people died that day. AP photo Students act as victims in staged explosion call at 10 a.m., to respond to a reported explosion at the church located near the hospital," said Craig Humphreys, assistant fire chief and fire marshal, to a group of journalists at Logan Regional Hospital, Saturday morning. Humphreys said people contaminated by chemicals from the bomb were treated. Public information officer and account manager Julie Sanders said the bomb contained methyl parathion, a toxic pesticide. Sanders occasionally updated the journalists on the situation until the drill was officially over. The explosion didn't happen. The patients and journalists were volunteers. During the drill, Sanders said the hospital set up a decontamination tent outside the emergency entrance where volunteers were decontaminated. She addressed the press as if the explosion was real, as part of the simulation. USU student and volunteer patient Emily Decker said glowing gel was put on the volunteers in place of the methyl parathion. After the students arrived at the hospital, they were put through the decontamination tent to be washed clean, she said. "We went through the washing stations and then afterward, the incident commander came and he black lighted us because Check out "Bites of the Week," a continuing advertising feature, inside, page 8. (Includes Drink end Salad) (435) 750-5171 www.TheElements13estaurant.com Online exlusives, blogs, a place to comment on stories, videos and more. Free Classfieds, too. www.utahstatesman.com • THE SOUTH TOWER of New York City's World Trade Center col- Added Value! AA .1,, • ;al .'groui „mow AA-joie-Nit BY CHRIS LEE news senior writer "Logan Fire Department received a Opinion Inlimoiner Ii Ira ' MP 0 RP 0 1.,P 0 RP 0 RI —Nost RP 0 es! 1 1-"W M• 0 RP R1 7W Ii- tt. .?"" 1111.. W.: 1.411 RP 0 mlim 0, RP 117.. 2- Rif. 0 ids R s' holds very different beliefs, even directly contradicting any comparison between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. "My reactions to things are probably going to surprise you," he said. "I think the most important thing about the 9/11 attacks is that we, in my view, greatly overreacted to it politically. It was an assault upon our dignity and a shock, but in the larger scheme of things, you know, it wasn't Pearl Harbor." "I really don't think it was a history-altering event, I don't think it will be seen in those terms," Lyons said. He explained that at the time of 9/11, the real estate market and actions on Wall Street were already setting up the economic crisis we are in today. He also cited the development of China as a world power as a far more significant historical event than Sept. 11. "I wish people would become better informed politically about the genuine threats to our future as a nation," he said. "Now, I don't dismiss 9/11 as trivial; it wasn't trivial. Television images captured the terror spectacularly, but television images don't capture so effectively some of the other things that affect our economic future. You know, if it bleeds it leads, and 9/11 bled all over the place." Sharp agreed with Lyons that, for the most part, the U.S. overreacted to the terrorist attacks, but he asserted that the reaction was reasonable, given the situation. He also disagreed with Lyons and said 9/11 did effectively change history. ')See SEPT. 11, Page 2 POLICE TAPE ADDS to the temporary reality of a fake bomb explosion where students and cornmunity members partcipated as volunteer victims and journalists for the yearly Hazmat training at Logan the glow stuff would only glow under black light, and that's how they analyzed how well they scrubbed us down," Decker said. USU student Liz Bond said many of the volunteers were given specific instructions and backgrounds. She said some volunteers were unconscious and one was supposed to pretend to have a concussion. "I was 16-weeks pregnant. It was a crazy experience for me," Bond said. "I got off the bus, and I couldn't walk; and I was freaking out, and I actually did hyperventilate a little bit, so that part was a little bit real; and I was just crying and crying." Logan Regional Hospital CEO Michael Clark said the hospital does a drill to prepare it for a possible disaster. "Our intent in doing this is just to run through the scenarios — see that we're prepared for these disasters — because every time we learn from them," Clark said. "We do this once or twice a year to try to figure out where our weak points are and try to improve." Clark said one of the places they could improve on is communication. He said there was a delay in the notification of the drill and communication at the beginning of the drill was "spotty." "Because of the delay of the notification, we had patients walk in that were contaminated with the chemical and caused the contamination of the hospital so we would have to go back and clean those things up as well," Clark said. Clark said the staff performed well with setting up the decontamination tent and decontaminating the volunteers. Dan Miller, head of security, said security's job is to secure the building and provide crowd control. "For my team, the first thing that broke down was the lack of an alert early on. We need the information quickly," Miller said. "It's a lot of building to secure. In this scenario we needed to be able to secure the building, and route all the contaminated patients through one portal so they didn't ► See HAZMAT, Page 3 |