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Trying to cope with tragedy
Faith
Service
A multi-faith service will be held today at noon in Bovard Auditorium. For more information, call (213) 740-6110
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Pledging support. Students sign petition to pledge money for emergency relief funds for victims of the attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Religion: Multi-faith service planned for today to bring together students on day of prayer and remembrance
By SARAH REA
Contributing Writer
As people nationwide come together to grieve on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, USC students from different religious backgrounds will unite today to share prayers, tears and condolences.
A multi-faith religious service will be held in Bovard Auditorium today at noon. The service, called Coming Together, is sponsored by the Office of Religious Life, with support from the Office of the Provost and Student Affairs.
At a time when faith may be waning, it is vital that students and staff he reassured, said Ryan Pearson, a student organizer of the event.
"When something like this happens, it strikes something so deep within us, it goes beyond reason.' said Pearson, a senior majoring in broadcast journalism. "It's very easy to question your faith — your faith in other human beings, your taith in institutions and your faith in God. That's when interfaith spirituality becomes very powerful."
President George W. Bush proclaimed today a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, and asked all Americans to unite in honor of those who died in Tuesday’s attack.
The event is an opportunity for the USC community “to summon I see Service page 10
Muslim students face fears, prejudice
Planned rally on hate crime focuses on hope
Event Hundreds turn out for performances at Exposition Park, compare attack to racially-charged killings
Community: No threats or violence reported, but many still on edge, concerned
By SOPHIA KAZMI
Assistant City Editor
Muslims on campus are learning how to deal with fear, grief and hope as they and the nation react to the attacks on the East Coast as well as results of the federal investigation.
“1 am scared," said Amir Shaikh, a junior majoring in public policy and management and gerontology. “I am concerned about a backlash. The mosque that 1 go to has had threats and that really hits home for me.”
Other Muslim students may not be afraid for themselves, but are for the community as a whole. There are
some reports from around the United States of angry people attacking either Muslims or Arabs, and even reports of other people who may just resemble them.
“Personally I am not afraid, but I know there is a general fear amongst Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans that they will be pointed out or associated with the people who did this," said Samina Lala, a senior majoring in accounting and information systems.
Regardless of how people are feeling, for the last three days Muslims were told to be cautious of their surroundings as well as avoid confrontation by e-mails sent out on the Muslim Student Association and Muslim Student Union listserves. Some of the student leaders also I see Muslim*, page 9 I
“There is a generalfear amongst Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans that they will be pointed out or ' associated with the people who did thLs."
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By STEVEN JONES
Contributing Writer
An anti-hate crime event Thursday night was designed to bring people to Exposition Park to celebrate improvements in the Los Angeles community, but Tuesday's attacks shifted the message to one of hope and rebuilding.
About 200 people crowded in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to take, in the words of the Rev. G. Lind Taylor, “a moment to find strength in each other” in the wake of disaster.
The event was planned to commemorate the two-year anniversary of hate-motivated shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center and the killing of Joseph
Santos lleto, a Filipino postal worker.
“Communities United for a Hate-Free Tomorrow,” was sponsored by a coalition of Los Angeles minority and religious organizations along with Ileto's family. The memorial had been planned for months, organizers said.
When the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked on Tuesday, the event's organizers quickly expanded it to include mourning for those thousands of victims.
“I don’t know if Tuesday’s events will attract more people or scare people away," said Dana Friedlander, American Jewish Committee's director of Domestic Affairs.
Ismael lleto, Joseph Ileto’s brother, -sjud that Tuesday “was like deja \	l see Event, page » I
I don't know ifihesday:s Cl lilts will attract more people or scare/M'oplt1 away"
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DANA FRIF-.DLAN'DHK American Jewish Committee organizer of anti-hate crime event
Advisers provide support to hundreds of shocked residents
Campus: Undergraduate RAs listen to students’ mixed emotions, thoughts
By GARY BAUM
Contributing Writer
Resident advisers settle into their new living environments each fall, fully prepared to handle everything from homesick freshmen to noisy upperclassmen.
They complete a mandatory academic class focusing on improving communication and counseling skills. They have experience dealing with campus tragedies such as the injury or death of one of their residents.
But not since the Los Angeles
riots of 1992 have so many RAs been forced to confront a large-scale tragedy as they did in the hours and days following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the East Coast
Raveen Gogia, the RA for the Women in Science and Engineering floor at New Residential College, first heard about the events that took place in Manhattan and Washington. D.C., when two of her freshmen residents knocked on her door at 7 am.
She quickly turned on the television and began to watch the nonstop news coverage while a group of girls quickly grew around her. Later, as the events unfolded on the screen, Gogia, a senior majoring in sociology, made her way through the adjacent hallways, checking on
all of her girls.
"Freshmen don’t yet have a strong support system of friends to rely on so early in the school year." she said.
One of Gogia's residents soon approached her. and the resident said that her roommate knew of an aunt who worked on an upper floor in the first World Trade Center tower that was hit in the attack.
Gogia immediately walked to the girls' room and watched as the roommate intently talked to her parents on the telephone. Gogia learned that while the aunt was injured, she was recovering at a nearby hospital.
Gogia later sent an e-mail to her 30 residents, noting that raging emo-I see Atfvison, page 10 I
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Talking it out. Beverly Watson, assistant director of housing, discusses the effects of the attack with Jonathan Hearn, a junior majonng in economics.