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Obama postpones vote on use of force in Syria In address to nation, president cites Russian plan asking Syrian leader to reveal chemical weapons

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer After the Assad regime’s agreement to a Russian proposal, President Obama called on Congress

to delay authorizing U.S. military action against Syria in an address Tuesday night.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime’s forces have been accused of using chemical weapons in an ongoing civil war in the Middle

Eastern country — a violation of international law. Though Obama previously called on Congress to authorize military strikes in response, Syria’s agreement to a Russian proposal — which asked Syria to relinquish its weapons to the international community and join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — was reason enough to delay a congressional vote on the strike.

Obama reaffirmed his belief that Assad’s forces should pay for their use of chemical weapons with military strikes, but he said he hopes the agreement brokered by Syrian ally Russia will open up a much-needed diplomatic channel with the war-torn country and prevent military action.

“It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad

regime keeps its commitments,” Obama said in last night’s speech.

“But this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad’s strongest allies.”

An Aug. 21 attack by Assad’s forces spurred the diplomatic dispute. The See SYRIA, Page 3

REELING FOR CHANGE

college park’s metro station is part of the transit district the county planning board aims to redevelop with some new amenities. james levin/the diamondback

County to seek input on transit District development plan to impact Metro, M Square, airport area santiago canton, a senior government and politics major and Georgetown barista, was part of an international children’s film festival for the Israeli Center for Digital Art this summer. sung-min kim/for the diamondback

By Matt Bylis @mattbylis Staff writer Most students board the College Park Metro shuttle with the goal of catching a Washington-bound train, but county officials hope to change that limited usage with a plan to revitalize the area surrounding the transit stop.

The existing development plan for what is known as the College ParkRiverdale Park Transit District dates back to 1997 and does not accommodate modern development and environmental practices, said Chad Williams, a project manager for the Prince George’s County Planning Department.

The county planning board, along with the city of College Park and County Councilman Eric Olson, has been discussing an update for several years. Officials hope to tap into students’ ideas to improve the area, which also encompasses the university’s M Square Research Park and the College Park Airport.

“Students now have the opportunity to be a part of the conversation and offer their perspective about what that development could look like,” said Jim Spatz, a graduate student in community planning who worked on the project. “Convenience stores serving coffee to Metro commuters or apartments just steps away See transit, Page 3

Senior coordinates Tel Aviv independent film festival

By Madeleine List @thedbk Staff writer When Santiago Canton began working as a barista at Pâtisserie Poupon in Georgetown, he had no idea he’d be given an opportunity

to help organize an international film festival.

This summer, a coworker offered him a job as the coordinator for an American independent film festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, run by her nonprofit organization, States of Minds, and in July, the senior government and politics major set off for a country where he didn’t speak the language.

Despite communication barriers, Canton said the experience was eye-opening.

The film festival promoted the idea that films can be catalysts for social change and hosted conferences on topics such as media

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Engineering prof withdraws name from District 15 election Bilal Ayyub received ‘discouraging’ advice

in Montgomery County’s District 15.

Minority groups saw an open door in Democratic Sen. Robert Garagiola’s open seat — the possibility of the county’s first minority senator. For

By Fatimah Waseem Ayyub, it was a step toward promot@fatimahwaseem ing ethnic and intellectual diversity.

Staff writer But midway through the appointEngineering professor Bilal ment process by the county’s DemoAyyub believes in the cascade cratic Central Committee, the group effect. He teaches his students that that recommends candidates to Gov. a series of unforeseen events can Martin O’Malley through a majority vote, Ayyub withdrew due to negative shake an entire system.

And it was with this mindset the feedback and advice to do so.

Like adjacent Prince George’s Palestinian-born professor, author, father and businessman filed his County, Montgomery County is a name for a vacant state Senate seat majority-minority county where the

Bilal Ayyub, engineering professor, filed his name for vacant District 15 state Senate seat but later withdrew.

If appointed, Ayyub would have been Montgomery County’s first minority senator. fatimah waseem/for the diamondback minority population has jumped in been appointed or elected to be one of recent years as the white population the county’s eight state Senate seats. fell. Though 52 percent of the counIt was a narrow opening, but minorty’s population consists of minorities, ity groups were hopeful. If officially according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a minority representative has never See AYYUB, Page 2

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and technology, education and diplomacy through film, Canton said.

“The idea we were trying to present was a much more intimate view of American culture that you don’t see as much,” Canton said. “We weren’t there to push America on people. We were more there to promote progressive mentality.”

The festival opened with a screening of The Israeli Center for Digital Art’s “The One Minutes,” a series of minute-long films made

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“We don’t really think about it here, having war on our own grounds.”

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by children in a small city outside Tel Aviv.

“These kids who don’t have access to expensive cameras or a production team, we were giving them a chance to make their own little movies,” Canton said. “Their faces were worth a million bucks; it was amazing.”

The remainder of the festival screened independent American films, unlike the Hollywood blockbusters that are usually shown overseas.

Tel Aviv is already very progressive, especially compared to other cites in Israel, like Jerusalem, said Bernard Cooperman, a university Jewish history professor.

“Tel Aviv is a left-wing city, Tel Aviv is a peace city, Tel Aviv is a gay city,” he said. “It’s a city that fosters ideas.”

Although it is a hip place full of young people and forward-thinkers, Canton said he noticed many cultural differences that make it unlike any city in America.

Young people are required

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Senior government and politics major to join the military before college, giving them a strong sense of camaraderie, he said, but also exposing them to a lot of violence at a young age. One young man with whom Canton struck up a conversation at a grocery store said he had seen his friend get killed in a building explosion.

“We don’t really think about it here, having war on our own grounds,” Canton said.

But violence doesn’t suppress the city’s thriving culture.

One night, Canton met up with Aaron Rosansky, a senior civil engineering major, at a bar called TEDER.FM. The openair bar occupies a square built around a mobile radio van, which, at night, has DJs mixing on turntables inside. It was a hopping place, diverse and full of tourists, Canton said.

Tel Aviv is a very safe place to travel, especially compared to other areas of Israel where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can flare up at any time,

Rosansky said.

During his trip, Rosansky had the opportunity to visit a distant relative in a part of the West Bank under Palestinian control, a more dangerous area that birthright trips don’t include because of liability issues, he said.

Visiting such a violently disputed place and being able to see it simply for its beauty without taking sides made him think about peace and the senselessness of violence, he said, some of the same values Canton hoped the film festival would help spread.

“It’s like a big chess game where every mountaintop is claimed for one side or the other … always fighting,” Rosansky said. “People should visit there so that they can just sit down and get a really objective viewpoint, not supporting either the Israeli or Palestinian side and take it for what they want. I walked away thinking both were idiots.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

AYYUB From PAGE 1 appointed, Ayyub would have filled the seat until the June primary next year, a move minority groups hoped would encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to compete without fear of an incumbent winning the position.

Citing “discouraging electronic traffic” and advice to withdraw from undisclosed election officials, Ayyub said internal communication showed members of the committee favored the threetime incumbent, Del. Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery) before to the final vote. The appointment process appeared set in stone with its final decisions, discouraging minorities from challenging incumbents, minority groups said.

“We have a long way to go to change the mindset of those who are apprehensive about inclusion,” Ayyub wrote in a withdrawal letter to the committee.

Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee

chair Gabriel Albornoz said it’s unfair to characterize the committee’s appointment process as a dark operation run by littleknown insiders.

“We are following normal procedures based on experience,” Albornoz said. “When a three-time delegate and former chair of the entire state party is running, we cannot deny that kind of resume.”

Speaking on behalf of the committee, Albornoz said it was unclear what factors contributed to the perception that the committee intentionally or unintentionally prevents minority representation. But minority groups said endorsing candidates before the final vote suggests the committee isn’t doing enough to encourage minority candidates to run in an open process.

Feldman and Garagiola could not be reached for comment, and the committee has not publicly responded to Ayyub’s withdrawal letter.

Though his bid for appointment did not ripple down as he imagined, Ayyub, who serves on the Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Council, said he hopes his attempt will encourage minority candidates

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to run for state and county positions. Ayyub has also served on O’Malley’s Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs and was appointed to promote higher education in a work group in 2006.

“There are many qualified people just like Dr. Ayyub,” said Karen Britto, former chair of the Democratic Central Committee. “We need to let them know they will have a support system if they decide to run.”

Grassroots groups are partly responsible for ensuring minorities are engaged in the political process, said Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery).

Nancy Navarro, president of the Montgomery County Council agreed, saying a push for civic involvement is necessary to ensure electoral participation.

In hindsight, Ayyub said, that push is a force crucial to the engineering both of classroom systems and democratic systems, whether it’s closing the gap of demographic disparity between representatives and whom they represent or demonstrating the cascade effect to students. fwaseemdbk@gmail.com

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more comfortable going there.”

Kyle Levy, a freshman animal sciences major who frequently uses the Metro to spend time with friends in Washington, described the current transit district as “barren.”

“More people would want to use the Metro if they spruced it up a little bit,” he said. “It would be great if they added some food places, coffee shops or just general places to sit and hang out.”

With such a large student population just blocks away from the Metro station, Spatz said it will be important for planners to get an idea of what appeals to them.

“They know what it’s like to bike, walk, drive and/or take the bus to the Metro stop,” he said. “They can use these experiences to inform planners about what works for the site and what could be improved.

They can also share with planners what kinds of amenities would attract students to frequent the area more regularly.”

The updated transit district development plan is expected to be approved by the county council next fall. The planning department’s next community meeting will be held Sept. 25 from 7 - 9 p.m. in the Parks and Recreation auditorium at 6600 Ken i lworth Ave. i n Riverdale Park and is open to the public.

from the Metro stop are examples of ideas that are open for public discussion and could change the future landscape around the Metro.”

A central goal of the updated plan is to streamline bus and rail transit options while paying attention to the potential environmental impacts of development, Williams said. The plan also includes the proposed Purple Line light rail, which would have two stops within the transit district’s boundaries, linking the area to New Carrollton, Silver Spring and Bethesda.

The development plan will offer recommendations for the shortand long-term, projecting as far as 25 years into the future.

“We hope to develop a realistic and implementable plan that will result in new housing opportunities, restaurants and places to work,” Williams said.

Several students said a more hospitable environment around the Metro would be not only an aesthetic change but also a significant one that would directly benefit students.

“I think it would be very helpful for off-campus students and students that work or have internships,” said Brian Dorsey, a junior accounting and finance major. “It would definitely make that area a more popular place, and people would feel mbylisdbk@gmail.com

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SYRIA From PAGE 1 attack — secretly recorded by U.S. spy organizations, according to the Obama administration — claimed more than 1,400 lives and was believed to involve chemical weapons.

Obama credited the threat of force for bringing Syria to support the Russian plan.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry began White House calls for military intervention in Syria as punishment for what is accepted on the international stage as a war crime. He suggested limited military strikes on regime targets, wary of any operation that would put “boots on the ground” and mirror the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Obama soon after joined the chorus of voices calling for U.S. intervention but also reiterated his intention solely to send the message that Assad should back down from further use of chemical weapons, not

precipitate a ground war. Obama also voiced concern that inaction could embolden other countries in the region to similarly flout weapons bans, which he echoed in his address.

“If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons.” Obama said. “As the ban against these weapons erodes, other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poison gas and using them.”

He said he also feared failure to act could prompt Iran to similarly cheat international conventions in its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons and give international terrorist groups a pathway to such weapons, resurrecting a similar argument former President George W. Bush made in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

“Over time, our troops would again face the prospect of chemical warfare on the battlefield,” Obama said. “It could be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons and to use them to attack civilians.”

Experts credit Obama’s electoral success in 2008 in part to his anti-war stance and pledges to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, but with the latest conflict in Syria, he now must reconcile his perceived anti-war reputation with his earlier calls for military action, should Assad employ chemical weapons.

To address the common concerns from an American public “still recovering from our involvement in Iraq,” Obama restated his goal to take a limited strategy that is not open-ended and does not attempt to oust the Assad regime.

Another concern is the potential for retaliatory action from the Assad regime, but Obama said the regime “does not have the ability to seriously threaten our military,” and this threat is no different than the dangers the U.S. currently faces on a daily basis in the region. Israel, he added, “can defend itself with overwhelming force, as well as the unshakable support of the United States of America.”

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A deer crashed a tailgate near the Riggs Alumni Center on Saturday afternoon, before the Terrapins football game against Old Dominion, injuring a woman and running away, said University Police spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis.

University Police responded to reports of a rogue deer that made its way into the crowded pregame festivities at the alumni center at about 2 p.m., Davis said.

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After entering the alumni center’s central garden, the deer — apparently stricken with panic, Davis said — hit a woman in the head and jumped on top of a table before running toward the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The incident lasted no more than 30 seconds, Davis said.

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Staff editorial: The value of reflection When do we stop memorializing Sept. 11, 2001? Should we ever?

Throughout the years, our generation consistently has been reminded to “never forget” Sept. 11, 2001. And how could we? When the Twin Towers fell, this year’s average freshman was in first grade. While the memories may be vague, the images of terror remain. For many of us, it’s impossible to forget.

But in recent years, a more pertinent question has come up. We know we should “never forget.” But how much do we need to remember?

2011 was a banner year for 9/11 remembrance, 10 years removed from the tragedy. In the past two years, though, the anniversaries have held less of an immediate punch.

As Linda Clement, student affairs vice president, indicated in an email to the university community this week, Memorial Chapel will toll bells at 8:46 a.m. today in remembrance

of “those who lost their lives on that fateful day.” The bells will be followed by a moment of silence and guided labyrinth walks in the chapel’s garden.

Of course, other than hearing the bells toll, those remembrance activities are voluntary — as they should be.

Almost all of those who have lived in the United States for the past 12 years are aware of the effects of 9/11 on their lives. It’s their right — some would say their American privilege of freedom — to remember 9/11 in their own ways.

And that way may be not to remember it formally at all.

In the intervening years, many have compared the 9/11 attacks to those against the Pearl Harbor naval base in 1941. While Congress waited until August 1994 to formally dedicate Dec. 7 as a remembrance day, President George W. Bush signed into

law a joint resolution to designate Sept. 11 as a national day of service and remembrance — now known as Patriot Day — barely three months after the attacks.

OUR VIEW

Twelve years later, there remains value in sharing personal stories and analyzing the impact of Sept.11, 2001.

There’s a certain sense of obligation to remember 9/11. Your Facebook news feed today probably fills with American flags, photos of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and maybe even personal anecdotes.

It’s difficult to know when to stop memorializing tragedies. Memories of 9/11 are different for most Americans than thoughts of, say, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Many of us — because of aggressive, nonstop news coverage for years and a desire for national solidarity — feel the 9/11 attacks were somehow directed at us individually.

So when do we stop memorializing it? For some of us, that answer is “never.” For others, every year’s 11th day of September brings with it glints of sadness without many changes to their daily routines. And undoubtedly, some people go about their entire day without realizing it was an anniversary of the attacks.

And all of these reactions are fine.

We all cope with death and tragedy on our own terms. There are no strictly

better or worse ways to commemorate the anniversary of Sept. 11.

Here at The Diamondback, we too must choose an approach to this anniversary every year. Twelve years later, is it possible to write about Sept. 11 without being repetitive or stating the obvious? How much coverage is too much? Do we still have any obligation to write about Sept. 11 at all?

From looking at this page, you can see the decision we’ve made. There remains value in sharing personal stories, reflecting on traumatic memories, and analyzing the long-term impact of Sept. 11 on our country. For most of us, just hearing the date spoken out loud or seeing “9/11” written on paper still carries a certain weight.

Until that unsettling feeling goes away — if it ever goes away — it’s important and valuable to continue reflecting. And remembering.

Disconnected from history TIFFANY BURBA

ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, shown here in February and built near ground zero, is symbolic of the ways the nation has changed since Sept. 11. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Our generation of fear EZRA FISHMAN I don’t remember much about 9/11 now. It was more than half my life ago, back when kids played with Pokémon cards or whatever it is I should be nostalgic about. I don’t remember the exact details of the day or even most of what happened. Besides a few images of places I was and things people said, there is one thing that sticks out clearly in my memories: the fear.

I grew up in Fair Lawn, N.J. — close enough to Manhattan that we could see the smoke for a week after the tragedy.

Everyone around me knew someone who lost someone. My dad’s office was close enough to ground zero to be evacuated (thankfully, he was at home waiting for a contractor that day).

At the young age of 10, I couldn’t process the facts of what had occurred; I couldn’t grasp the sophisticated political realities of what was happening around me. All I knew was that someone, somewhere, hated me because I was American — and, I was told, because I was Jewish — and that I needed to be afraid that they would hurt me, hurt my family, hurt my

community or hurt my country. And so I was.

In the 12 years since, our entire world has changed. Before then, we had always been America, the bastion of freedom and democracy that would do whatever it took to protect the innocent around the world.

Since then, we’re still all that — but now, we’re not just protecting the innocent.

We’re also protecting ourselves.

Instead of being the America that fights bad people because they’re bad, we’re the America that fights bad people because otherwise they’ll fight us first. We fight because we have to — because we don’t ever want to deal with that fear again.

Obviously, this is completely irrational. The level of fear we have of the world as a whole is unhealthy, and the way we respond to it is incredibly harmful to us and everyone else. The war in Iraq was a complete failure, and Afghanistan wasn’t much better. Entering Syria is, I feel, a complete mistake, but we’re going to do it anyway. How can we not? We have a whole generation of people who are frightened to their cores — frightened of what happens if we sit back and let these things develop on their own. We are constantly assailed by the politics of fear — and the politics of fear always wins.

The worst part is that the people

making the decisions aren’t always acting upon our joint fears. There is plenty to be gained from war; it’s what saved us from the Great Depression, took us to space and helped us develop the edge we once had in science education. There are also many powerful corporations, individuals and governments that would benefit from a constant state of war. These people push the American government to act not out of a need for safety, but for their own benefit. And we don’t stop them; we’re too afraid of what happens if we do.

Through the past 12 years, the politics of fear have controlled our lives. They’ve led us to do things we would never otherwise do (see the Transportation Security Administration, the National Security Agency and Fox News’ viewership).

They’ve led us to two wars and many more military excursions. They’ve led us to maintain a bloated military, which we will never stop overfunding. And, worst of all, they’ve led us to fuel them further.

Because now that we’re afraid, nothing will ever make us unafraid.

And that, more than the lives lost, is the true horror of 9/11.

Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

Waiting for Dad to call home DAVE STROH The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, left a lasting impression on every American citizen. Across the nation, everyone crowded around their TVs to watch the events unfold and to stay informed about what was taking place. Well, that is, everyone except for me. I was waiting by the phone to hear my dad’s voice tell me he was OK. To answer your question, no,

my dad wasn’t a firefighter or even a businessman in New York. He was a computer programmer for the National Security Agency, a government organization concerned with intelligence gathering and antiterrorism.

While I was young at the time of the attacks and didn’t completely understand why someone would purposely crash a plane into a building (didn’t they know they would die, too?), I did understand that when a news broadcaster says the place your dad works is a potential target, it’s time to worry.

And I definitely understood when

my mom tried time and time again to call my dad and never heard from him that it was time to panic.

Motives and political agendas meant nothing to me; all I wanted was to hear my dad’s voice. Hours went by — and nothing.

L o o k i n g ba c k , I s h o u l d h ave known that his building was being evacuated and there was no one to answer his office phone (he didn’t have a cellphone). I should have known if I didn’t see his building on fire on the news that nothing bad had actually happened there. I should have known traffic was jammed for miles, and it would take him much

I was sitting in Ms. Harrison’s second grade class, idly organizing the folders in my desk, when alQaida launched its terrorist attacks on American soil.

The day itself was nothing spectacular for me — as authority figures in an elementary school, the staff went about their usual ways of concealing the truth based on their judgments of what was appropriate for children to hear. If she couldn’t even mention reproductive health without signed parental consent waivers, there was no chance our teacher would explain that a heinous act of terrorism had just destroyed some of our most important government buildings, killing thousands of civilians.

Our daily routine was shockingly normal, except that every few minutes, the principal’s secretary paged our class over the loudspeaker. Each time, she requested that a student report to the front office for his or her mother to take him or her home. One by one, my classmates left until there were only 10 of us remaining. We were all jealous of our friends who got to leave.

The cafeteria looked empty during lunch, and we were restricted to indoor recess, despite the perfect September weather. I later learned some of our Frederick County schools were on partial lockdown because of our proximity to Fort Detrick. As one of the closest bioresearch centers to Washington, it was a likely target for further attacks. Any explosion could unleash viruses and contaminated cells from the storage compound.

We were still ignorant to cynicism at that age. Rather than worry, we all hoped to be called next so we could spend a pleasant afternoon with Dad, watch cartoons and play at home.

I was surprised when my then-

longer than the usual 35 minutes to get home.

But I was 10 years old. All I knew was the man on the news said the NSA building could be next — and that was where my dad worked.

So I did the only thing I could think to do: I sat by the phone and cried.

When my dad finally did get home, I was exhausted from sitting and crying and worrying. But I still managed to give him the biggest hug my little arms could muster. Lying in bed that night, I was mad — mad at the men who made me worry. Mad at the men who killed Americans. Mad at the men who had taken away my very first soccer practice.

But now I know they took away much more from me than soccer.

They took away my sense of security.

stay-at-home mom never came to get me, leaving me to ride my halfempty school bus the usual half-hour route home in the late afternoon. She later told me there was nothing at our house that would have protected me from a stray plane or explosion, and that the school building was probably the safest place for me to be during the day.

Although I lived through what was arguably America’s worst moment in recent history,I remained disconnected from it. I was far too young to be stricken by national grief, and no one in my family was directly affected by the plane crashes or ensuing war.

W h e n o l d e r fo l k s wh o l ive d through the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 are interviewed on TV, they demonstrate a genuine sense of connection with their country. Younger generations (mine included) appear indifferent by comparison.

In a few years, our university will accept students who had not even been born when the attacks occurred. To them, 9/11 is just another troubling historical event like slavery, the Holocaust or World War I. They may feel a retrospective sense of artificial sympathy for the people involved, but any emotional connection will probably be lost to them, as it was to me.

In an increasingly global society, it is difficult to maintain a sense of identity and self. Patriotism, however, is not something we can afford to sacrifice. Even future generations can feel the impact of tragic events if they are united by a love for their country. Through this love, we can collectively feel the pain of history within us.

While our country isn’t perfect, it’s the greatest place on Earth to call home. Acknowledging that helped me to finally feel the overwhelming anger of a great nation shocked by an act of downright evil.

This anger tells me I will always be proud to be American.

Tiffany Burba is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at tburbadbk@gmail.com.

For months after the attacks, I was scared my dad would go to work one day and never come back. Imagine 10-year-old me, watching the news all day just to make sure nothing bad was happening at the NSA. Over time I got over it, but looking back, I wasted entire days just worrying — worrying that a headline would read “Terrorists attack National Security Agency, thousands dead.”

That’s what 9/11 did to me — and I’m sure to many others as well. It took away a level of innocence. It drastically changed our lives and our childhoods, whether we realized it or not.

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For those who aren’t squeamish about the thought of ingesting raw fish or veggies wrapped in seaweed, sushi is a tantalizing experience for the senses. While there are multiple options for sushi in College Park, not all sushi is rolled equally. Here are some of the best, cheapest and quickest options if you need a sushi fix.

Hanami offers cheap, delicious sushi, but its portions are too small. photos by zoë digiorgio/for the diamondback

Hanami Japanese Restaurant It must be because I lived on South Campus during my first two years of college, but I’d never heard of Hanami Japanese Restaurant until recently.

Tucked behind Town Hall Liquors across from The Varsity, it’s easy to see how I might have missed it. Their advertising was persistent though: I’m pretty sure I have three of Hanami’s menus in my apartment now. I figured there would be no harm in trying out a new sushi place, especially one voted “Best Sushi” in the Diamondback readers’ poll in past years.

Hanami’s sushi is solid. Its quality ingredients make it tasty, and it has the cheapest prices of all the restaurants I have reviewed; various vegetable rolls start at about $4, and most of the regular rolls average about $5 each. However, the sushi mirrors its small price: Each roll is split into six pieces, which are a bit on the smaller side. Hanami offers a couple of lunch specials, which are decent deals for a couple of rolls and a side salad or a cup of miso soup. Yet I was left wanting more after finishing off my spicy tuna and California rolls fairly quickly. So much for advertising.

Tucked away behind Bagel Place, Wasabi is often overlooked despite its extensive menu.

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Sushi by Panda Express is to sushi what Ratsie’s Pizza is to pizza: You are pretty desperate when you buy it, and you’re probably going to regret it as soon as your digestive system realizes what you did. It’s obvious why you’d go there in the first place: It’s convenient.

That’s the best thing I can say about it though. In my young and innocent days, I used to grab a California or spicy roll from Sushi by Panda Express if I was hungry and nothing else in Stamp Student Union’s food court was tantalizing. The rolls cost about $5 to $7 for about eight to 10 pieces, but it barely looks like sushi. For the price you pay, the rolls are big, but they are needlessly bloated. The large rings of sushilike product are mostly packed with rice, which does a decent job as filler, but the gobs of mayonnaise in the California rolls can barely hide the refrigerated taste of the fishlike substance in the middle. I drenched it in soy sauce and the gross, green faux wasabi paste to pretend it was the real deal.

Bottom line: This is not the sushi you want. It can trick you into thinking it’s real sushi, but don’t be fooled. If the temptation proves overwhelming, remember that most good sushi places in College Park deliver.

My brother, now a university alumnus, used to tell me stories about his amazing experiences with Wasabi Bistro. Tucked away on College Avenue, Wasabi turned out to be an even better find than I expected. The rolls are big; you usually get eight pieces per roll, which are stuffed full of fish and avocado. The rice is soft, and you can tell the ingredients are fresh.

The price is very good as well: None of Wasabi’s basic rolls cost more than $6, and most rolls are slightly cheaper than the competition in the area.

Wasabi’s meal deals are even better; while not quite a steal at $13.95, the three-roll Maki combo is good for those who want to eat a lot of sushi without breaking the bank. With Wasabi’s extensive menu, it’s in your best interest to try as many as possible.

The only real drawback of Wasabi is the sushi comes with one container of soy sauce; any more costs a little extra.

My boyfriend, a recent graduate of this university, swore by Kiyoko’s rolls for several years. Though it took a little prodding to get him to try Wasabi, it only took one visit for him to admit that the sushi rolls were bigger, tasted better and gave the customer a better value for the price.

Kiyoko Express Restaurant When I first started craving sushi while living in College Park, Kiyoko Express Restaurant was one of the first places people recommended — and for good reason. Located across the street from the College Park Shopping Center, Kiyoko boasts generally reasonable prices, averaging about $5 to $6 per roll.

The menu advertises “six to eight pieces per roll,” though I don’t think I’ve ever gotten fewer than eight, and the slices themselves are usually quite plump. The ingredients taste fresh, and you can watch the chef make your rolls to order behind the counter.

I am always pleased with the amount of wasabi given; I’m pretty sure Kiyoko gives the biggest glob of the green stuff in College Park, which is a delightful way of demonstrating how much they care about their customers. Though they deliver, I’d recommend eating in at K iyoko because they leave the soy sauce and Sriracha bottles out to complement your sushi as you please.

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Diner sushi is not the train wreck it may sound like. While it’s not the best sushi in College Park, it doesn’t taste terrible. The sushi chefs roll it in the dining hall as you order, so you can tell the rolls are fresh.

When you pass through the checkout lines though, you can hear the familiar complaints being launched: The rolls are small and only yield about six pieces of sushi. For this quality, the sushi is expensive, costing about $8 for one roll. Each roll comes with edamame or a dumpling, which are nice additions, though still not enough to justify the price.

If you are on a dining plan and have extra points, I recommend getting to the dining halls early to grab a couple of rolls on sushi days. It’s a good break from the monotony of the typical dining hall menus. Otherwise, head somewhere else if a sushi craving strikes. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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From PAGE 8 to grow and develop with the more reps that he gets.”

Robinson brings an athletic dimension and new perspective to an experienced but still youthful linebacker corps.

The redshirt junior has bulked up to the size of a linebacker, but he’s retained his quickness from the secondary, and he still thinks like a safety sometimes.

He’s able to give advice to other linebackers on what routes opponents are running in case his peers had never seen anything similar before.

In addition, he’s studied film with fellow outside linebacker Alex Twine to try to pick up on different tendencies from opposing offenses that might help bridge the gap between their position and the secondary.

“It’s good, especially just communicationwise,” cornerback Dexter McDougle said. “Matt was a DB, so we can communicate with him.

He knows what we’re doing, but he also knows what all the linebackers and everybody are doing, so it makes communication a lot better. We play a lot faster, so it’s really good to have him in there, having experience with the DBs.” Robinson has earned high

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OUTSIDE LINEBACKER MATT ROBINSON has missed parts of the past two seasons with a variety of injuries, including shoulder ailments, but he’s now healthy and ready to contribute in his new position. He recorded eight tackles against Old Dominion. christian jenkins/the diamondback praise from Edsall because of his flexibility within the defense. When the Terps played nearly exclusively in their dime package — two linemen, three linebackers, six defensive backs — against Old Dominion, Robinson shifted over to the middle of the defense and occasionally spied Monarchs quarterback Taylor Heinicke.

The result was eight tackles and two tackles for loss.

“I think because I have a lot of speed, I can come off the edge and run people down,” Robinson said. “I think that’s something that definitely works to my advantage. I think I’m kind of versatile, so you don’t really have to take me off the field to cover certain people.”

Ro b i nso n d i s p l ayed a tackling prowess ever since his time at safety. In the Terps’ first three games of 2011, before he missed the rest of the year with a torn labrum, Robinson totaled 36 tackles. In five games last season, he averaged more than five per game.

But for most of this year, Robinson will line up on the strong side of the defense with pass rushers, such as outside linebackers Marcus Whitfield and Yannik CudjoeVirgil, on the other side.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that that’s the best position for him, and I think he’s got the chance to be an outstanding football player at that position,”

Edsall said.“You’re dealing with a young man who’s athletic, who’s long, who’s smart and who is physical.”

The transition to linebacker was new for Robinson, but it was the best way for him to stay on the field and contribute. And after two years battling ailment after ailment, that’s where he wants to be.

“I just didn’t really have any complaints,” Robinson said. “People always are like, ‘Ah, you don’t like it?’ This, that and the third, but I’ve just always taken it with a grain of salt and kept moving forward with it and just trying to get better to help the team.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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Cardinal defenses keyed on Brock, who has scored six of the team’s 18 goals this season.

While Brock’s ability to be an athletic and ever-present threat is necessary for the Terps to succeed, Morgan also hopes these two losses will serve as a wake-up call and lead to other players on the offense stepping up in the future.

“She’s one of the most dangerous forwards in the country … and teams are going to design and game plan for that,” he said. “We have to figure out different ways to score goals and get goals from some other players.”

While two road losses to ranked teams may not be

BLOCKS From PAGE 8 .049 hitting percentage in the invitational.

The efficiency was an improvement from the team’s performance the previous weekend. Opponents had a .158 hitting percentage against the Terps in the GW/Nike Invitational. The Terps were still able to win two of their three matches, but they knew they needed to improve defensively.

This week in practice, volunteer assistant Krista Valdivia pulled aside the team’s front-row blockers and worked on blocking attacks.

The Terps responded well to her efforts, as they blocked 17, 14 and 13 attacks against UMKC, LIU Brooklyn and Penn, respectively.

“One of our main goals from the previous weekend was to increase our blocks,” Elliott said. “We took that as something to own.”

Elliott has always been an imposing presence at the net. In 2011, she led the Terps in solo blocks (29), and last season, her 119 total blocks and 1.02 blocks per set ranked first on the team.

But this weekend, several new Terps emerged as defensive forces. Middle blocker Ashlyn MacGregor, a fresh-

what the Terps had hoped for, it might be just what the team needs as it prepars to begin its ACC portion of the schedule. With 13 games left against conference foes — six of them ranked — Morgan hopes that already knowing how to play as a unit against renowned opponents while experiencing failure will pull this team together while it’s still figuring out its identity.

“These are the type of games that you have to play to learn, and I think our kids have been through this before — they understand it, and we’re going to take our lessons and get better,” Morgan said. “Obviously it’s not great on the record, but we’ve got to make this a positive thing for us.” nmunsondbk@gmail.com

man, blocked 23 attacks.

Outside hitter Emily Fraik, who blocked just 36 attacks last season, stopped 13.

Elliott caused problems for LIU Brooklyn on Saturday, especially in the second set, as she recorded six kills in the frame, preventing the Blackbirds from garnering any momentum.

And when the Terps weren’t there to send back an attack, libero Sarah Harper bailed them out. The speedy senior had 76 digs this weekend, good for 1,328 in her career. She is one dig shy of tying Carey Brennan for fifth place in Terps history.

“It’s nice to have a goal that I want to set for myself,” Harper said. “Hopefully [I’ll] just get closer every single game — getting as many good touches as I can.”

Wi t h E l l i o t t swa t t i n g away attacks, the Terps hope their solid defensive effort will carry into the second weekend of the Maryland Invitational. Thanks to Elliott, there’s nothing pleasant for opponents about the Terps’ presence at the net.

“It’s as well as I’ve seen us block in a while,” coach Tim Horsmon said. “I don’t think we did a great job last week of it. That was one of our focuses coming into this weekend.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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By Nicholas Munson @nickmunson1 Staff writer

outside linebacker matt robinson ranked second on the Terps with eight tackles in Saturday’s 47-10 win over Old Dominion. After two injury-plagued years at safety, Robinson is finding a home at his new position, linebacker. christian jenkins/the diamondback

old face, new place, same results Robinson finds early success in switch from safety to linebacker

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer Matt Robinson isn’t the first Terrapins football safety to switch from the secondary to linebacker. At the beginning of coach Randy Edsall’s tenure in College Park more than two years ago, All-ACC safety Kenneth Tate did the same.

But while the beginnings of the moves are similar, Robinson is hoping for a far different ending. And after two games at outside linebacker this year, it seems as if that’s what he’s headed for.

Tate’s two years at linebacker in 2011 and 2012 were marred by injuries, and he never quite completed the transition from his spot at safety. For Robinson, the move has been smooth. So far, at least.

“I just think [Tate] had some unfortunate events with his injuries, and I’ve had some

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Elliott, D shine in tourney 44 blocks lead to 3-0 weekend

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Adreené Elliott stood in Comcast Pavilion, clutching a binder to her chest and sporting a wide grin. The Terrapins volleyball team had just won the weekend’s Maryland Invitational, and the middle blocker had been named to the all-tournament team.

Elliott was eager to talk about her team, which cruised to a 3-0 record in the tournament.

But when asked about the Terps’ come-from-behind victory on Friday, the typically outspoken junior tilted her head upward, searching for words to say.

“I think it took a bit of an ass-kicking — sorry — from my coach,” Elliott said. “But it definitely refocused us. And we were also demanding a lot more of each other — holding each other more accountable.

And I think that’s what made the difference for the next set.”

After going into an intermission trailing University of Missouri-Kansas City 2-0, the Terps began the third frame with a defensive intensity that helped them win the match and that persisted throughout the weekend. With Elliott leading the way, the Terps held opponents to a combined See BLOCKS, Page 7

as well,” Robinson said yesterday. “But stuff happens, and you just have to sort of run with it, so I’ve just looked at it as a new opportunity, a fresh start and just trying to get better.”

After shoulder and groin injuries derailed Robinson’s past two seasons at safety, he’s finally healthy and — despite wearing a bulky black shoulder brace — comfortable in the Terps’ defense. Two games in, Robinson is tied for second on the team in tackles with 12, and he’s third in tackles for loss with two.

“Matt’s a very versatile player,” Edsall said. “I think sometimes — we were talking about this the other day in the staff room, in the defensive staff room — you don’t really realize how big a young man he is. He’s got the height, and then he’s got the rawness and the wits to him.

“I still think he hasn’t reached his ceiling yet,” Edsall added. “He’s just going to continue See robinson, Page 7

In a matter of three days, t h e Te r ra p i n s wo m e n ’s soccer team went from being on a roll to facing a bunch of questions. Will it find ways to win on the road this year?

Will it be able to compete against ranked teams? Will it be as solid when playing tough ACC opponents as it was against the four unranked teams it beat to open the season?

The No. 16 Terps flew to the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday morning with a perfect record but lost to then-No. 22 Santa Clara and No. 4 Stanford over the weekend. Still, in his second year at the helm, coach Jonathan Morgan knows it’s far too early to panic.

“It’s only a setback if we allow it to be a setback and we dwell on not getting the results,” he said.

In their 1-0 loss to Santa Clara, the Terps failed to get a shot on goal. The Broncos stacked several defenders behind the ball, making it hard for the Terps to find any openings offensively.

Even though they fell by a worse score, 3-0, at Stanford, their offense did show signs of life. They took seven

forward hayley brock and the Terps didn’t put a shot on goal in the Terps’ 1-0 loss to Santa Clara on Friday. They had scored 18 goals in four games. file photo/the diamondback shots — three on target — against one of the best teams in the nation. And while none made it past goalkeeper Jane Campbell, Morgan could see the things players need to work on, such as execution and timing of passes in the attacking zone, which could lead to aggressive players like forward Hayley Brock putting the ball in the back of the net more often.

“The scores didn’t reflect it, but in both of those games, we had most of the possession,” Brock said. “I think given another opportunity, we would’ve put away more chances.”

Mo re t h a n a ny t h i n g , Morgan believes he needs to diversify the offense. He felt that both the Broncos and the See offense, Page 7