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SJSU honors alumnus, Flight 93 Capt. Dahl

United Airlines Capt. Jason Dahl once told his sister that if there was ever a problem with his airplane, he would make sure that it came down in the mid-dle of nowhere, away from any people.

It was a statement that would prove eerily prophetic.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 slammed nose-fi rst into an empty fi eld in Pennsylva-nia, instantly killing 37 passengers, the four hijackers who had commandeered the aircraft , and its seven fl ight crew members — including Dahl, the air-craft ’s pilot.

Capt. Dahl was only one of thou-sands who lost their lives that morn-ing, but for the students and faculty of SJSU’s aviation department, his death holds special signifi cance: Dahl was one of their own.

On Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, nearly ten years aft er that fateful morning, around two dozen SJSU students, faculty and alumni gathered at the department simulator lab in the Industrial Studies building.

An Air Force ROTC color guard, squeezing between furniture and boxy equipment, marched silently to the head of the room where Dahl’s friends and family waited to speak in celebration of the man’s life and legacy.

“Th e legacy of Jason was that he was a captain — a proud captain,” said Da-vid Bunger, a fellow pilot and longtime friend of Dahl’s. Bunger was joined by Dahl’s two sisters, Carol Heidrich Dahl and Joan Raymundo.

Also speaking were current depart-ment chair Seth Bates and Tom Leon-ard, co-founder of the aviation depart-ment, and one of Jason Dahl’s former

by Chris MarianStaff Writer

Above:Daniel Matthews (right) plays taps on the trumpet while SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi reflects outside of the Music build-ing during Sunday’s Into Light 9/11 memorial concert.

Photo by K.L. Perry / Spartan Daily

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New assault reported; second in six days

A sexual assault reportedly oc-curred in the early morning hours Sunday near Campus Village.

According to an SJSU Safety Alert sent to students and members of the campus community, the sexual assault occurred at approximately 1:56 a.m.

on Sunday off -campus in the area near Ninth and E. San Salvador streets.

Th e incident is still under investi-gation by the San Jose Police Depart-ment and additional details have yet to be released.

Th is is the second reported sexual assault on or nearby campus in the

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Junior business accounting major Fatima Ibrahim wears a hijab, an Islamic religious garment. Photo by Brittany Patterson / Spartan Daily

10 years later: Muslim students reflect upon lifeafter tragedy

Shafayat Hussain, a biomedical en-gineering graduate student at SJSU, will never forget where he was that day when everything changed.

“Th at morning was just so ordi-nary, and bang — it all changed,” he said.

On Sept. 11, 2011, Hussain had just woken up and was gett ing ready for school.

“I turned on the TV to the Today Show and saw a plane hit the build-ing,” he said. “I was young, so I at fi rst really did think they were showing a movie.”

Aft er fl ipping through the chan-

by Brittany PattersonStaff Writer

Remembering 9/11

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Muslim: Living in polarized US

teachers. Th ey described a man utt erly devoted to his craft and to the people around him.

Born and raised in south San Jose, Dahl att ended elementary school at what was then called Hillsdale Elementary School. Th e school was recently re-named “Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary School” in his honor.

Dahl had a keen interest in aviation since the time he could talk, his sister Carol said. At age 13 he joined the Civil Air Patrol and earned a scholarship to help pay for fl ight training.

“Aviation was his love — that and photography. He sort of juggled the two,” she said with a laugh. “He also worked out at Reid-Hillview pumping gas so he could have (more) money to rent the planes and fl y.”

For Jason, said Joan Raymun-do, fl ying wasn’t a hobby — it was his life.

“Any chance he got to fl y he took,” said Raymundo, the other sister in att endance at the me-morial.

Dahl learned to fl y well before he learned to drive — his sisters recall having to pick up from the airport aft er fl ight les-sons. By age 16, the minimum legal age, he was fl ying solo and received his pilots license shortly aft er.

“I remember the fi rst time he asked me to go up with him,” said Carol. “I was like ‘that’s a litt le bitt y airplane.’ I’m used to the big ones.”

She said she still felt safe with him.

“I trusted him — just not the airplane,” Carol said. “I just re-member how thorough he was.”

She described watching Dahl perform his ground inspections, and being impressed by how ab-solutely steady and methodical he was.

Aft er graduating from high school Dahl enrolled at SJSU. It wasn’t really much of a decision, said his sisters — he got one look at the school’s aviation program, and the matt er was decided.

It was at SJSU that Dahl met David Bunger, forging a lasting friendship with him and several other young pilots.

Aviation students tend to be a close-knit, clannish bunch, said Bunger, and the friendships Dahl made at the university would last long aft er his graduation in 1980.

Bunger remembers those years fondly.

“Th ere were seven of us who hung together at San Jose State, under the tutelage of Tom Leon-ard,” he said.

Graduating with degree in aeronautical engineering, Dahl’s fi rst fl ying job was as a corporate pilot.

He eventually went on to land a job with United Airlines, rising steadily through the ranks. Ac-cording to his family, his genial demeanor and air of solid com-petence made him popular with his fellow pilots, both as a friend and mentor.

Dahl eventually became what is known as a “standards pilot,” whose primary role was to train and evaluate other pilots.

Th is senior position allowed Dahl to have more fl exible schedules, and therefore more time to spend at home with his family — his wife, Sandy, and his son, Matt hew.

Jason and Sandy Dahl’s fi ft h wedding anniversary was going to be on Sept. 14, 2001. To get the time off with his family, Dahl agreed to fl y Sept. 11 through 13.

On the morning of Sept. 11, just over 45 minutes aft er take-off , four hijackers, led by al-Qai-da pilot Ziad Jarrah, stormed the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93.

Overpowering Dahl and First Offi cer LeRoy Homer, the four hijackers took control of the aircraft , herding passengers and crew to the back and threatening them with knives and what was claimed to be a bomb.

Over the intercom, Jarrah told the passengers and crew the hijackers were going to land the aircraft and use them as hos-tages.

By this point, friends and

family of those aboard the hi-jacked airliner had begun receiv-ing phone calls from the plane. It was these phone calls that provide us with some of the best and most chilling evidence of the events which unfolded aboard Flight 93.

It was from these calls, ac-cording to friends and family on ground, that the passengers and crew of Flight 93 learned of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the att ack on the Penta-gon, and the fate which was in-evitably to be theirs if they didn’t stop it.

With the legendary cry of “Let’s roll!” captured over an open phone line, the passengers surged forward toward the cock-pit, fi ghting through hijackers in the cabin in a bid to retake the aircraft .

According to the cockpit data recorder, at around 10 a.m. Jarrah felt he was in imminent danger of losing control of the aircraft , saying as much to his fellow hijacker in the cockpit over the sounds of fi ghting behind them.

He rolled the aircraft onto its back and pulled straight back into a powered dive that that ended in a fi reball in an empty Pennsylvania fi eld.

Dahl’s old friend David Bung-er also ended up working for United Airlines.

He recalled the deathly si-lent atmosphere when he came into work that morning, and his stunned reaction on learning that his friend Jason had gone down with Flight 93.

Bill Heidrich, Dahl’s brother-in-law, also remembered being crushed by the news.

“Th e family had lost so much,” he said. “Jason had already lost a brother in Vietnam. When we heard that Jason had gone down, it was like ‘Th is just isn’t fair.’”

At the memorial on Sept. 6, David Bunger ended his speech on a grim note.

“Let us never forget, as Frank-lin D. Roosevelt once said, ‘the day that will live in infamy,’” he said. “For us, that day was Sept. 11, 2001.”

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Dahl: 9/11 pilot memorializedJoan Raymundo, sister of Jason Dahl, signs a Flight 93 flag in his honor at Wednesday’s memorial. Flight 93 was the flight that went down in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Dorian Silva / Spartan Daily

past week.A safety advisory was also

sent via the SJSU Safety Alert system on Monday, Sept. 5, when an att empted sexual as-sault was reported on campus near the Engineering build-ing.

According to the alert, the victim alleged that an un-known subject, described as an African-American male in

his late 30s to early 40s, had asked for a light for his ciga-rett e before att empting the as-sault.

According to data from the San Jose Police Department, there were 253 reported rape incidents in San Jose last year and 1,966 reported cases of aggravated assault.

In a statement from the SJSU Safety Alert sent on Sunday the University Police Department issued a reminder

to “campus community mem-bers, especially those living in housing areas and the imme-diate vicinity, to avoid walk-ing alone at night, to be aware of their surroundings, and to walk in well lit areas.”

UPD has an Evening Guide program which is open to all SJSU students who would like to request an offi cer escort to accompany them from an on-campus location to anywhere within two blocks of campus.

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Assault: Reported off-campus

ON THIS DAY…- President addresses nation:

Four planes were hijacked by terrorists. Two crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the Pentagon and the third crashed in Pa. “Today our nation saw evil,” President Bush said on live television.

- Campus shuts down (at right)Classes were stopped in light of a national tragedy which absorbed the attention of the SJSU community.

- Students find solace at service 30 people gather for interfaith prayers for peace at Catholic Campus Ministry chapel.

- Donors flock to Red CrossIn wake of tragedy, more than twice the normal number of contributors seek to supply their blood to banks.

nels, seeing nothing but the same shocking footage, Hussain and his mother watched, their mouths open, he said.

“One feeling really stood out later on: Th is is America — this is actually happening here,” he said. “Th en the towers fell, and we were just silent for a while. My mom and I just looked at one another.”

Hussain and his mother were among the millions of Ameri-cans who watched in disbelief as the media broadcast images of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, 32 Muslims died on 9/11, three of whom were on the hijacked planes, representing 1.07 per-cent of all those who lost their lives.

Fatima Ibrahim, a junior business accounting major, said she doesn’t remember where she was on 9/11, and it wasn’t until she was in high school when she understood the sig-nifi cance.

“I took it upon myself to be kind to everyone and actually make people understand why I wear a scarf myself and why I’m Muslim,” she said. “I try to explain it to where it’s like you know what even though people who are Muslim did this, not ev-ery Muslim is like that.”

Ibrahim says being Muslim is more than just a religion — it’s something that intersects with every part of her life.

“For example we believe in something called Qadar Allah which is what God has planned for you,” she said. “So I pray and study as hard as I can go to class and take my test and if I get an F, like ‘Hey don’t cry about it, it’s what God’s writt en.’”

Th e San Francisco Bay Area is home to about 250,000 Mus-lims, according to a news ar-ticle on the California Council on American-Islamic Relations website.

Mohammed Ashfaqul Islam, a sophomore soft ware engi-neering major, said the reaction in Kuwait, where he was raised, was similar to the reaction in the U.S.

“In the Qu ran it’s writt en that if you kill an innocent per-son you go to hell — straight

up,” he said. “Th ere’s no way, no way any Muslim, any practicing Muslim, can justify what hap-pened on 9/11.”

Islam was twelve when the planes hit the towers and he said although the att ack sad-dened him and his friends, the event’s signifi cance didn’t hit him until a year before he moved to America.

His parents suggested Islam blend in to avoid att racting at-tention to himself, something he said he did through his fresh-man year.

“Th ey were kind of scared that if I’m a practicing Muslim in America … the FBI will prob-ably be on my case or some-thing,” he said.

Hussain said he sees im-provement in Muslim relations in America, but there is still work to be done.

“I look around, and far more people are friendly to us com-pared to those that are hostile to us,” he said. “A lot of groups have come out and supported the American Muslims.”

Still, he has hope for the fu-ture.

“It’s not a matt er of if nor-malcy will return, but just a matt er of when,” he said.

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Tenor Joseph Frank sang the National Anthem and “America, My Wondrous Land” during the Into the Light Concert in the Music Concert Hall yesterday. Photo by K.L. Perry / Spartan Daily

SJSU vows to remember 9/11 in emotional concert, Sunday

by Chris MarianStaff Writer

Students and faculty alike congregate anticipating a performance of taps and a candlelight vigil yesterday outside of the Music building for San Jose State’s Into the Light Concert. Performances included dancing, singing and instrumental perfor-mances Photo by K.L. Perry / Spartan Daily

SJSU instructor Maria Basile performs “The Upward Spiral” during yesterday’s Into the Light Concert. Photo by K.L. Perry / Spartan Daily

On the evening of Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, the main hall of SJSU’s School of Music and Dance echoed with the thunder of Mozart’s Requiem.

It was a requiem for the thousands of people from all walks of life who perished that fateful morning, ten years ago to the day.

Th e performance Sunday night included choral routines and an eclectic mix from all branches of the department including classical piano, jazz, po-etry reading and modern dance — all in commemo-ration of the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist att acks.

Th e whole event had its genesis with three pro-fessors, William Meredith, Joseph Frank, and Layna Chianakas.

“We all remember where we were on 9/11 … it was a catharsis,” said Frank, who also sang tenor in one of the night’s performances. “Here we were (now), years later, we needed to do something.”

Th e three professors decided to organize a me-morial concert, bringing to it a diverse array of per-formance arts.

“We all thought we would bring something dif-ferent to the table,” said Frank.

In the hours before the concert Sunday evening, the Music building was a beehive of activity.

Packs of student volunteers, tuxedoed perform-ers, professors and ROTC cadets swirled busily about the halls.

Most of the muscle behind the event was pro-vided by student volunteers.

Jose Mendiola, a senior of voice performance with the School of Music and Dance, was one of those student volunteers.

When Professor Chianakas put out her call for help, he was one of the many who responded.

Mendiola was impressed with her ability to or-ganize.

“She e-mailed us this past week and just put it all together,” he said.

Junior music major Neil Rontley answered the call as well.

It wasn’t a particularly hard choice, he said, say-ing that student performers like him would always jump at the chance to perform.

At 8 p.m. the event began with the packed hall standing in salute as an SJSU ROTC color guard planted the American fl ag on the stage, and Chianakas, a mezzo-soprano, sang the national an-them.

Next up was Joseph Frank, singing “America,

My Wondrous Land” by Rob Roy Peery.Between performances, SJSU President Mo-

hammad Qayoumi took the podium to recount the events and consequences of the 9/11 terror att acks and the diffi cult years that followed.

Aft erword, there was the performance of Mo-zart’s requiem, followed by a reading of Tomas Transtromer’s poem “Schubertiana” by Nils Peter-son, an SJSU professor emeritus and Santa Clara County’s fi rst poet laureate.

Th ere was another solo performance from Layna Chianakas, a staccato modern dance routine from dance student Marte Madera and a Brahms piano piece from Gwendolyn Mok.

Th ere was another dance routine performed with sinuous grace by SJSU dance instructor Ma-ria Basile and fi nally a smooth jazz performance by student trio Aaron Lington, John Shiffl ett and Frank Sumares.

Th e concert came to a close with a fi nal speech from Karl Toepfer, dean of the College of Humani-ties and the Arts, thanking students and faculty for their eff orts in producing the concert, and dedicat-ing the event once again to the victims, living and dead, of the Sept. 11 att acks.

As the ROTC color guard returned for the fl ags, the audience fi led out slowly behind them,

pausing beyond the doors to hold a candlelight vig-il, singing “God Bless America” in subdued tones.

Both the professors and students behind the concert said their reasons for doing it weren’t just about celebrating an anniversary, but also about preserving the memory and impact of an event that changed the nation.

According to Chianakas, most students now at SJSU would have only been 8 or 9 when the att acks occurred in 2001 and it was important to reintro-duce these young people to a transformative trau-ma that, for many, would only have been a vague memory.

“It’s important that your generation understands the impact of these events on the nation,” she said.

It’s a sentiment shared by Jose Mendiola.“When I ask my friends how they feel about it

(9/11) they just shrug and say ‘I was a kid,’” he said. “I still remember it, but I didn’t really understand the signifi cance of what was going on until my profesors explained it to me.”

The Air Force ROTC Color Guard prepares for the presentation of the colors during yesterday’s Into the Light Concert. Photo by K.L. Perry / Spartan Daily

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Aft er Hours is a new month-ly event held at the Th e Tech Museum combining a world of science, a plethora of drinks and a new place to socialize with friends.

Last week the Tech Museum held its third Aft er Hours event, and I must say it was quite fun.

Th ey have food and drinks for those who don’t mind spending a few extra bucks. For $5 to $10 you can really get into the spirit or get some spirits in you.

Th is particular Wednesday night was themed “DNA with a Twist” and it left my brain spin-ning from both alcohol con-sumption and a ton of exhibits and boisterous board games that att endees could play.

Th ey had an array of over-sized games for att endees to partake in such as Jenga, chess, Connect 4 and Twister, which you would think would be easi-er to play in a larger format.

Actually, it takes a litt le more fi nesse to play these games when drinking but it adds to the fun when your friend att empts to remove a Jenga piece the size of a shoebox and knocks over the whole stack.

I did not have a “Techtini,” the Tech Museum’s equivalent to a martini served in a glow in the dark glass, but I did have a beer and a mixed drink. I know drinking on the job is unpro-fessional, but I had to really get into the experience.

One experience I could not pass up this particular evening was listening to live music be-ing played by the Sunrunners on the roof of the Tech Muse-um. It made my night.

Several Stanford graduate students studying genetics also made hands-on science presen-

tations that were entertaining to your everyday non-scientist. Since the night’s theme was de-oxyribonucleic acid, why not have graduate students from Stanford do experiments and demonstrations with eager tip-sy participants?

One exhibit that caught my att ention was an exhibit that looked like every CSI episode ever, except there was no fake blood everywhere.

Th e Stanford students set up a fake crime scene and it was up to the patron-sleuths to fi g-ure who had done it based on the evidence the criminal left behind.

Basically, I got to play with water that changes color when you mix it with the suspect’s DNA and then try to match it with the right perp.

I loved how I got to use something that looked like an advanced turkey baster to suck the liquid evidence from a tube, plus I had to have my suspi-cions confi rmed that the Joker was the culprit.

Overall, I really enjoyed the Aft er Hours experience at Th e Tech Museum.

I have never been to a museum before when there was no one under 21 allowed, making the experience entirely less chaotic and less aggravat-ing.

Th e Tech Museum seems to have the right idea by off ering events such as this and will continue to do so every fi rst Wednesday of the month from 6 to 11 p.m.

Th e next Aft er Hours event, to be held Oct. 5, will be themed “Super-Powered Pajama Party.”

Some might argue that cocktails and science do not go together. I say, try Aft er Hours and then let me know what you think.

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Museum mixes spirits, science for those of drinking age

J.T. Mudge goes for the glory in this oversized game of Jenga on Wednesday night during After Hours at the Tech Museum of San Jose. Jenga was one of several oversized games that patrons could play at the event. Photo by Jasper Rubenstein / Spartan Daily

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I was listening to NPR and drinking my coff ee on the morn-ing of the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

Audie Cornish and Robert Smith were pregaming the 9/11 memorial, the sort of thing you would expect to hear in the hours before the Macy’s Th anks-giving Day Parade.

It was the preamble to our annual pageant of death, by now a familiar ritual.

Cornish was asking Smith about the view of the memorial from where he was standing.

Th ey read the day’s sched-ule. When moments of silence came, they annotated them for listeners who would otherwise encounter dead air on their ra-dio.

I assume on cable news chan-nels yesterday they replayed video of the planes hitt ing the towers — two missile-like ob-jects striking two skyscrapers, causing fi res to break out, burn-ing slowly and eventually col-lapsing.

It is oft en said we were trau-matized by these images.

Two years later, America rained down actual missiles on a large swath of Baghdad, a tactic we called “shock and awe,” the commencement of which inter-rupted prime-time TV.

Live images of a whole se-ries of buildings being struck by hundreds of missiles and the resulting widespread fi res were broadcast to the world.

Nobody calls these images “traumatizing.”

Yo Yo Ma was playing cello at a somber ceremony where the names of the victims of the 9/11 att acks were read.

In the days aft er the att acks, several organizations painstak-ingly compiled and cross-refer-enced their lists of casualties to produce a canonical record of who died at what time on that day. Th ere is now a memorial bearing those names.

Th e record of civilian casual-ties directly caused by U.S. mili-tary action in Afghanistan is far less precise than our record of the dead from 9/11, in part be-cause the United States military doesn’t offi cially keep track of civilian casualties.

A combination of records kept by Professor Marc Herold

of the University of New Hamp-shire and the U.N. Assistance Mission Afghanistan yields an estimate of 6,861 civilians killed in Afghanistan by U.S. and inter-national forces since 2001.

Th e picture in Iraq is far more grim. At the low end, 102,417 Iraqi civilians have been killed according to Iraq Body Count, a group that monitors press re-ports of civilian casualties in Iraq.

Included in this estimate are deaths from insurgent military action, roadside bombs and sui-cide bomb att acks.

Let us be charitable and as-sume that only one quarter of the total civilian casualties were caused directly by U.S. military action. Th e fi gure was closer to 37 percent in 2003-2005, accord-ing to Iraq Body Count, but fell off in subsequent years.

Th ese leaves us with a very conservative estimate of 32,465 civilian casualties caused by the U.S. in response to an att ack that killed 2,996.

Admiral Mike Mullen called this “Visiting upon our enemies the vengeance they were due,” speaking at the Pentagon memo-rial service.

Nobody will be reading the names of those people or in-scribing them in brass and plac-ing them in a memorial, in part because many of them only have words like “Son of dead man” to identify them.

Th ere’s no one event marking mass civilian death in these wars — in the countries where we’ve “visited our vengeance,” civilian deaths occur in a steady proces-sion.

I don’t mean to minimize the loss experienced by family and friends of the victims of 9/11.

I only mean to suggest that the tragedy of mass civilian death is not singular, nor unique to the United States, and to ques-tion our glorifi cation of the loss, the media spectacle, the wall-to-wall coverage and the national-ist religion we all helped create in the wake of the att acks, this anniversary being its main holy day.

9/11 has become a dark ritual, a pagan invocation, summoning the spirits of the dead to justify our state of perpetual warfare and the deep intrusion of the surveillance state into our daily lives.

We will probably never roll back the increase in unchecked law enforcement power, the rise in closed-circuit television cam-eras, warrantless wiretapping, the criminalization of domestic dissent, designated “free speech zones” for protests, physically invasive airport screenings and rapidly approaching horrors such as mandatory biometric identifi cation cards or facial and retina scanning.

Th e current wars may end, but we will always have to live with the doctrine of preemptive undeclared war they gave us.

As I write this, remote-con-trolled planes are fl ying in Paki-stan and who knows how many other countries.

Some of them will drop bombs, and many of these bombs will kill civilians.

Th e CIA will continue to claim “zero” civilian casualties from these att acks, but a recent New York Times story quoted several skeptical experts on the subject.

One of them — Bill Roggio, editor of Th e Long War Journal — called the CIA claim “absurd.”

Our politicians make similar-ly absurd claims — Republicans say our nation is bankrupt be-cause of profl igate government social spending and public em-ployee unions, while Democrats say corporate tax loopholes and Bush’s tax cuts are driving us into fi nancial oblivion, but any-one with eyes can see it’s the trillion or so dollars we’ve spent on these wars without asking Americans to pay for them.

Th e generation born aft er 9/11, now old enough to under-stand what happened and form opinions about it, have known nothing but war, domestic op-pression and economic ruin their whole lives. To them, this is normal.

To those of us just becoming adults, all we have is a hazy rec-ollection of a world that was not like this, one that rapidly fades as the years go on.

From those old enough to have come of age politically in a world without constant open warfare, in a time when it would have been crazy to suggest that intelligence agencies should have access to domestic civil-ian library records, we hear too litt le.

We hear only of how the world changed on 9/11, and the tacit acceptance of all those changes.

Th is is the world we live in now. Nobody pretends the vast and radical changes our country underwent in response to 9/11 are temporary anymore.

For those that question this new reality, our media provides as it’s answer this yearly pag-eant of death.

As managing editor of this newspaper, I was against off er-ing this issue as a sacrifi ce in this ritual.

In spite of myself, I helped it along. I sincerely hope I’m not the only one who is deeply un-comfortable with it.

We do not have enough criti-cal voices in this paper, or in the media generally, against the political and military legacy we inherited from 9/11. I hope you’ll raise yours.

By Matthew Gerring

Wes Side Story appearsweekly on Mondays

US needs to move on from 9/11

I might get some hate mail for this but I’m just going to say it — it’s time to move on from 9/11.

Now hear me out fi rst, I’m not trying to be insensi-tive or hurtful and I’m not trying to say anything like “F**k America” because that’s just ludicrous.

Unless your a heartless piece of you know what, we all felt something for those who lost loved ones on that day.

It’s a national tragedy, we all know it is, and many lives including my own across this country were greatly aff ected by it but just like losing any loved one in your life there comes a point where you have to stop dwelling on it.

Prett y much every year since that terrible day that I can remember, the media and society alike have brooded on this topic.

As someone who has gone through a few tragedies, I feel the worst thing you can do when going through a loss is

dwelling on what happened and I think for the last 10 years America has refused to let go.

9/11 shatt ered America’s sense of invulnerability and for the fi rst time ever many Amer-icans were suddenly aware of the world around them and the bad people out there who wanted to see us dead.

I think that’s why this trag-edy has endured as long as it has in our psyches — for the fi rst time in a long time Amer-ica was scared.

In that time, 9/11 has become a symbol of many things in this country.

It’s been a beacon of hope, patriotism and sacrifi ce that has united us as a people against a common enemy.

It’s also been a source of racism and prejudice toward Muslim-Americans and has led us into one of the longest and most fi nancially crippling wars in our nation’s history.

It has led to a day where people of any background in this country can talk and share what they felt about that day and come together in the comfort of others.

It has also led to politicians and pundits on both sides blatantly abusing 9/11 as ways to call one side or the other un-American or “not one of us.”

It also led to the disman-tling of some of our basic civil liberties by the Bush admin-istration in the form of illegal wire-tappings and the infa-mous “Patriot Act.”

I don’t think the people who died that day would want us using their memory in that way.

So I say once again it’s time to move on from this terrible tragedy.

Th ere have been many horrifying days in our coun-try’s history but I think with the assassination of Osama bin Laden earlier this year and the 10-year anniversary, it’s fi nally time to let go.

I believe as a country it would show a great deal of strength on our part to let this tragedy go.

It would represent to the world that while we acknowl-edge that this terrible tragedy occurred, we are no longer tied down by it.

I think it would do the people who died and sacrifi ced their lives that day a great liberty and show to them and the rest of the world that we really have grown as a country and are stronger since then.

In close, all I have to say is this — may our troops stay safe and may God bless America.

= 10,000 people

8,164 U.S. troops,coalition troops,contractors and journalists injuredin Afghanistan

5,807 U.S. troops,coalition troops,contractors and journalists killedin Iraq

2,229 U.S. troops,coalition troops,contractors and journalists killedin Afghanistan

44,747 U.S. troops,coalition troops,contractors and journalists injuredin Iraq

41,624 Afghan troops andcivilians injured

17,400 Afghantroops and civilians killed

894,581 Iraqitroops and civilians killed

1,646,156Iraqi troopsand civilians injured

Since 9/11/01:

Calculations made using estimations via http://www.unknownnews.net

as of September 11, 2011, but data is as of 2010. Formulas for Iraqi and

Afghan troops are partially estimated and are rounded down.

There are no estimated figures for injured journalists.

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Check tomorrow for an international perspective on 9/11 from a former Spartan Daily editor living in Pakistan

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Spartan Daily Monday, September 12, 20116 SPORTS

Senior quarterback Matt Faulkner, who missed Saturday’s start with concussion-like symptoms, will be further evaluated this week in preparation for SJSU’s home opener against Nevada on Sept. 17 at Spartan Stadium.

Head coach Mike MacIntyre said the starting quarterback against Nevada will remain unknown until Faulkner’s test results are in.

Sophomore Dasmen Stewart was given the start against UCLA in lieu of Faulkner’s inability to play.

No matt er who gets the start this weekend, MacIntyre said he will remain confi dent in his de-cision behind center.

“We will sit down and talk about it this week,” he said. “I think both of them can play and do well. We’ll fi gure out what’s best for the team as we go forward.”

MacIntyre said each quarterback has diff erent styles of play and diff erent benefi cial character-istics and added that having sophomore Dasmen Stewart on the fi eld does change his off ensive game plan slightly.

“(Stewart) has some strengths that he likes to do,” MacIntyre said, referring to Stewart’s ability to use his legs and escape the pocket to gain yards on the ground. “But Matt has some strengths too. It changed it a litt le bit.”

MacIntyre informed Stewart he would be the starter against UCLA on the Th ursday prior to the game.

“I was a litt le nervous but at the same time I was excited,” Stewart said. “It’s right in my home town so a lot of family and friends came to see me. “

Stewart said he recognizes that his ability to run changes the off ense.

“On third and long, nothing was there so I just took off and got the fi rst down,” he said, referring

to a play during the Spartans’ loss to UCLA. “It opens up the off ense a lot.”

Although Stewart was able to move the fi eld against the highly-touted Bruin defense, he was plagued by body cramps that forced him to miss parts of Saturday’s contest.

“It was a shame he got the cramps,” MacIntyre said. “We had a play down the middle and he was cramping up and he couldn’t follow through. We just have to make sure he stays hydrated bett er.”

Stewart said he felt down on himself for having to miss plays during the game.

“I tried to stay in the game for as long as I could till the point where my calves just locked up,” he said. “My main goal this week in practice is to get my body right by doing a lot more conditioning so I won’t have this problem again.”

Stewart and MacIntyre both said they are im-pressed with the leadership Faulkner showed on the sideline against UCLA.

“Good thing about Matt is that if he’s not play-ing he’s still there supporting us and still being a leader out there,” Stewart said.

“He was relaying the plays and helping Das-men and Blake with everything,” MacIntyre said.

Th e Rose Bowl didn’t smell like the decadent fragrance for which the stadium is named on Saturday for SJSU, but there was a noticeable aroma of improvement.

SJSU (0-2) carried a tie score into the fourth quarter against UCLA (1-1) but allowed two unanswered fourth-quarter scores to lose the game with a fi nal score of 27-17 in Pasadena, Calif.

Spartan head coach Mike Ma-cIntyre called the contest a well-fought aff air and said he was proud of the way the team played.

“I thought it was a good football game,” he said. “UCLA played well. We were right in it and had a couple miscues there at the end and we had a chance. Our kids played hard.”

A surprise came with the release of the Spartan starting lineup prior to kick off — senior quarterback Matt Faulkner, who started last week against Stanford, was scratched be-cause of concussion-like symptoms during practices this week.

Th e change marks the second time in four years the Spartans had a diff erent quarterback in each of its fi rst two games.

MacIntyre said the team made up its mind Th ursday that Faulkner would miss the start because of failed concussions tests, which are required by the NCAA when any concussion symptoms are present.

“He had a litt le bit of a concus-sion and with all the new tests and everything that we do, he didn’t pass the test on Th ursday and that meant he was out on Saturday,” MacIntyre said.

Sophomore quarterback Das-men Stewart was given the nod for his fi rst career start, taking over for Faulkner and leading a Spartan of-fense that recorded 317 net yards in the defeat.

Stewart fi nished 11-31 passing for 111 yards, and added another 53 yards on the ground, showing ver-satility with his ability to get away from blitzing Bruin defenders.

“(Stewart) managed the game well,” MacIntyre said. “I like the way he ran the football. He made some good runs on some passing plays where he got the fi rst down. Th at was critical for us.”

Stewart experienced some body cramps in the fourth quarter, allow-ing redshirt freshman Blake Jurich to receive the fi rst playing time in his NCAA career, but said he was pleased with his performance.

“We moved the ball well as an of-fense,” Stewart said. “I was a lot more relaxed out there than I thought I would be. Second series I started feeling more comfortable.

Stewart, along with senior Bran-don Rutley and junior David Free-man, led a Spartan rushing att ack that came alive against UCLA with 202 yards — one week removed from recording a total of 24 yards against Stanford.

“I was proud of the way we ran the football,” MacIntyre said. “I’ve been saying we could run it and we fi nally ran it well.”

Rutley led SJSU in running with nine rushes for 88 yards, 65 of those coming on a long touchdown run in the third quarter to tie the game go-ing into the fi nal 15 minutes of play.

Rutley gave all credit for the play to his off ensive linemen.

“Without a good line we’re not going to have runs like that,” he said. “Th e line block perfectly and the play worked to perfection.”

Rutley said he is confi dent the Spartan running game will continue to fl ourish.

“We knew this year we would be able to establish a run game because the way the lineman worked,” he said. “I think its going to be like this each week, we are going to keep get-ting bett er and bett er.”

Both Freeman and Rutley found the end zone once each, Freeman’s

fi rst quarter touchdown being the fi rst touchdown for SJSU this season.

MacIntyre said he saw much im-provement from the team that com-mitt ed self-wounding mistakes in a 57-3 loss last weekend and added that the team recognizes it as well.

“Th ey feel bett er about the way they competed and they know they can do it, but they are down because of the loss,” he said. “Th ey want to get those W’s and hopefully we are taking a step in the right direction.”

MacIntyre said he couldn’t call the team’s near-upset a defi ning mo-ment for Spartan football as it con-tinues its season, but said it was an impressive showing by the team.

“A win is a defi ning moment,” he said. “I do believe our kids showed resilience aft er coming off a very embarrassing loss last week. Th ey came back and fought hard in a hos-tile environment, a great place to play against a football team that was hungry themselves. Th ey weren’t overlooking us I can promise you that, because they are fi ghting for their lives too.”

Senior safety and team co-captain Duke Ihenacho said the performance his team displayed on the fi eld is en-couraging to the locker room vibe.

“It’s motivating, but nothing feels like a win,” he said. “ We didn’t get the job done so we have to go back to the drawing board and prepare for next week.”

Two late Bruin scores prevent an SJSU upsetSpartan safeties James Orth (81) and Duke Ihenacho (2) trip up Bruin Anthony Barr to prevent him from scoring, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.Photo by Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

by Ron GleesonSports Editor

Sports & 9/11: a healing tool in time of need

by Ron GleesonSports Editor

Tears fl owed from the eyes of millions of people this week-end as football games around the nation be-gan with ceremonies in remembrance of the terrorist att acks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon ten years ago.

From children to the elderly to 350-pound linemen observing a moment of silence prior to kick off , those who paused to recollect the pain-ful yet unforgett able memories from that fateful Tuesday morning couldn’t help but mourn.

Lives were changed and lives were lost.Th is was the scene at the SJSU versus UCLA

football game Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasa-dena — a pregame ceremony to remember those who perished in the att acks that resulted in tears shed.

When the towers fell 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, sports fans suddenly no longer cared about the outcome of the game the prior week-end and entire sports industry took a back seat to the tragedy when Major League Baseball, the National Football League and NASCAR took breaks in their regular seasons.

People lost a sense of what was normal — they lost connections to the litt le things in life that brought happiness to their days.

When teams returned to the fi eld aft er the short hiatus following the att acks, so did a small amount of glee to the grieving nation.

In the New York Mets’ fi rst game aft er play resumed — which was played in Qu eens, New York — then-catcher Mike Piazza hit a game-winning home run in the bott om of the eighth inning, causing the crowd in att endance to be-come hysterical.

Tears fl owed once again that week by those in the grandstands at Shea Stadium, but this time they were tears of exhilaration.

Some people believe ceremonies like those for the departed on Sept. 11 do not belong in sport, but sport is what brought this nation back together when we needed something to put much-needed smiles on our faces.

When sports returned our sense of normalcy returned as well; the litt le things we cherish ev-ery day.

Sports became a gathering place for people longing for something to take their att ention off something that has scarred their minds.

When people came together again, the nation showed that even though they may have been hurt, they would not be hurt for long.

People temporarily lost themselves in the game and shared a collective vision of patrio-tism.

Th e nation became one entity, secured and strengthened by the spectacle they came to see.

Th ese stadiums became cathedrals, rich with the adrenaline many had hoped would return one day, possibly making sports matt er more than ever before.

And even though the events of 9/11 may not have increased the popularity or importance of sports then, sport will forever be known as the glue which bonded a once-ailing nation.

Spartans cornerback Peyton Thompson (19) reacts to being called for pass interference in a game against the UCLA Bruins. Photo by Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Spartans quarterback Dasmen Stewart (18) scrambles to get rid of the ball to avoid being sacked. Photo by Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Quarterback depth chart gets sacked

by Ron GleesonSports Editor

Sophomore Dasmen Stewart stands in the pocket and surveys his receivers. Stewart finished 15-31 passing for 111 yards in his first career Division I start. Photo by Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

CORRECTIONIn the Sept. 7 issue, the credit for the

photo of Matt Faulkner should have been

credited to Th omas Webb / Spartan Daily.

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