University officials said they are making every effort possible to reach out to students who are feeling any number of psychological side effects of Tuesday"s terrorist attacks.

Counseling and Psychological Services temporarily expanded its services to assure that help is available to all students, anywhere on campus.

CAPS Clinical Director Jim Etzkorn said it is very important for counseling to be available for students feeling loneliness, loss, anxiety or anger.

"I would say when something of this magnitude happens it can overwhelm our ability to think clearly about it ourselves," Etzkorn said.

"I think if someone has experienced a loss, or even if they are feeling bad but have not experienced a personal loss, that counseling would be helpful because it helps people feel connected, less fearful, less alone."

The Tappan Room at the Michigan Union, Conference Room 1 at the Media Union on North Campus and Conference Room 6 in the Michigan League have volunteer counselors waiting and available for students from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The services offered are free of charge and counselors do accept walk-ins.

Etzkorn said that so far, many students both those with personal connections to Washington and New York City and those without close ties have taken advantage of the additional help.

CAPS Director Todd Sevig said students must realize that their feelings are shared by others and that they are not alone.

"I"ve been talking with students and there"s one thing that I"m really hearing from students and that is a sense of loss.. a loss of the notion that this can"t happen in our country," Sevig said.

Etzkorn said another emotion running high on campus yesterday was one of uncertainty, as many students from the attacked cities still had not heard back from their families and friends.

"I think some have been concerned because they haven"t heard from family and so they"re wondering what"s happening to family and they are feeling anxious, understandably," he said.

"Or they know some family member hasn"t been found and they are expecting that they have been killed."

Molly Spooner, an LSA sophomore from New York, said she knows what it is like to have to wait.

Spooner waited all day Tuesday and into the early morning hours yesterday before she learned whether her best friend, who attends school in New York City, was safe.

"She called me at 4:00 a.m this morning. She"s fine. She just said it took her forever to get an outside line," Spooner said. "She said she watched the whole thing from her dorm window."

Sevig said that while the information available to students about the well-being and whereabouts of those in the World Trade Center and Pentagon is coming slowly, so far, he has not heard from a student who has experienced a close loss.

Irving Leon, an assistant professor at the Medical School and clinical psychologist, said that for those closer to the attacks, there could be some long-term side effects.

"For most people I wouldn"t be surprised if they have certain delayed effects," Leon said.

"When people go to airports and they see the increased security measures, they are going to have an increased sense of anxiety. it will remind them of the fact that flying on airplanes is probably never going to feel as completely safe as it has for most people."

For the estimated 1,700 students from the state of New York and 115 from Washington D.C., Leon said returning home might be a new experience.

"I would imagine that there is something about this that would be so powerful that there could be a sense of not feeling as connected to them because they didn"t feel it in such an immediate way," he said, adding that another common feeling might be a sense of guilt: "I got off easy."