2A - Thursday, September 12 2013 MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: This Week in History Professor Profiles In Other Ivory Towers Alurni Profiles Photos of the Week glee' star Darren Criss The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 anweiner@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com Darren Criss, star of the Fox hit Glee, surprised the University com- munity last week with an appear- ance at the Maize Out. Lights On. pep rally. Criss is one of the found- ing members and co-owners of StarKid Productions, a musical theatre company based in Chicago. How does it feel to be back? It's good. I come back a lot; it's just I'm never here with like a big red arrow over my head. It's just weird to be walking around the same streets that I used to walk around having this other thing that has nothing to do with me everywhere. What are your favorite memories of your time at the say that "Glee" is any better or University? worse; it's just different. Same as everybody else: the How has being a University friends you make, all the kind of alum affected your career? typical, cliched things that are timeless. For me, of all the things The summer before my senior I've ever done thus far with the year I was taking meetings, and entertainment industry, I think I met people because I went to my most favorite work I've ever Michigan ... I almost feel bad done in my life has been here. when people ask me where I went because I almost feel like I'm Do people still ask you about bragging. It has been a profound "A Very Potter Musical?" effect on me; it's a cliched sen- tence, but there's no other way to Honestly, I think I get asked say it: I don't know where I would about that more than I do "Glee." be if I hadn't gone to Michigan. When there were no stakes, I guess, when no one is really pay- - WILL GREENBERG ing attention that's kind of when >READ THE RESTOF OUR INTERVIEW WITH you create your best stuff. Not to DARREN CRISS AT MICHIGANDAILY.COM. 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Many rebels who had held out hopes that U.S.-led strikes on President Bashar Assad's govern- ment would help tip the scales as the two sides faced a deadly stale- mate said America has indirectly given the embattled leader a sec- ond wind as a statesman negoti- ating with world powers. "We're on our own," Moham- mad Joud, an opposition fighter in the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo, said via Skype. "I always knew that, but thanks to Obama's shameful conduct, others are wak- ingup to this reality as well." Rebels who have been fighting for 2 1/ years to topple Assad say the U.S. has repeatedlyreneged on promises to assist their rebellion, offering only rhetoric. In June, Obama announced he would pro- vide lethal aid to the rebels, but so far none of that assistance has gotten to the opposition and the Syrian leader's forces have gained the advantage. Violence continued Wednes- day when government war- planes hit a field hospital in the town of al-Bab near Aleppo, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observato- ry for Human Rights. The group, which relies on reports from activists on the ground, said a Yemeni doctor was among those killed in the airstrike. After a feverish campaign to win over Congress and the American people to support military strikes against Syria, Obama said Tuesday he would give diplomacy more time to H- o, rid the country of its chemical weapons arsenal that Wash- ington says was used to gas and kill more than 1,400 people on Aug. 21 in rebel-held parts of the Ghouta area outside Damascus. The death toll has not been con- firmed, but even conservative estimates from international organizations put it as at least several hundred. The president did not say how long he would wait. Although Obama had said the attacks would be limited in time and scope with no intention of dislodging Assad, rebel com- manders had planned to try to exploit them to shift the momen- tum in their favor after months of being on the defensive in what has become a war of attri- tion. Several rebels said they were opposed "in principle" to U.S. intervention but saw it as a necessity to change the situation on the ground. However, Assad, who has denied his forces were respon- sible for the attack and instead blamed rebels, fended off the threat of military action, at least for now, by agreeing to relinquish his chemical weapon stocks under a plan initiated by Russia. "Assad's regime is going to be stronger because while they've agreed to give up their chemical weapons, they get to keep every- thing else to fight the opposition that has lost territory in the past year and has now suffered a big blow," said Ayham Kamel, a Mid- dle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London. "The opposi- tion will struggle with morale and sense of purpose." Moreover, the opposition has been hobbled by increasing infighting between al-Qaida- affiliated militants and more moderate rebels as well as between militants and ethnic Kurds in the country's northeast. An influx of more sophisticated weapons from Saudi Arabia ear- lier this year does not appear to have made a significant mark on the ground, where Assad's forces are on the offensive. Nation pays tribute to 9/11 victims 12 years later 0 Families mourn lost loved ones at World Trade Center site NEW YORK (AP) - Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago. For the families, the memo- ries of that day are still vivid, the pain still acute. Some who read the names of a beloved big brother or a cherished daugh- ter could hardly speak through their tears. "Has it really been 12 years? Or 12 days? Sometimes it feels the same," said Michael Fox, speaking aloud to his brother, Jeffrey, who perished in the south tower. "Sometimes I reach for the phone so I can call you, and we can talk about our kids like we used to do every day." On the memorial plaza over- looking two reflecting pools in the imprint of the twin towers, relatives recited the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked jets crashed into the towers, the Pentagon and in a field near Shanksville, Pa. They also recognized the victims of the 1993 trade center bombing. Bells tolled to mark the planes hitting the towers and the moments when the skyscrapers fell. In Washington, Presi- dent Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden walked out to the White House's South Lawn for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. - the time the first plane struck the south tower in New York. Another jet- liner struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. "Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been," Obama said. A moment of silence was also held at the U.S. Capitol. In New York, loved ones milled around the memorial site, making rubbings of names, putting flowers by the names of victims and weeping, arm-in- arm. Former Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others were in attendance. As with last year, no politicians spoke. Mayor Michael Bloom- berg watched the ceremony for his final time in office. Carol Eckna recalled the con- tagious laugh of her son, Paul Robert Eckna, who was killed in the north tower. "Just yesterday, you were 28," she said. "Today, you are 40. You are forever young. Dad and I are proud tobe your parents." The anniversary arrived amid changes at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, where construction started Tuesday on a new visitor center. On Wednes- day, the families of the passen- gers and crew aboard United Flight 93 recalled their loved ones as heroes for their unselfish and quick actions. The plane was hijacked with the likely goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol, but passengers tried to overwhelm the attackers and the plane crashed into the field. All aboard died. "In a period of 22 minutes, our loved ones made history," said Gordon Felt, president of the Families of Flight 93, whose brother, Edward, was a passenger. David Handschuh/AP Geraldine Davie of Pelham, N.Y., cries after viewing name of her 23-year-old daughter, Amy O'Doherty, on the wall at the Sept.11 memorial during the 12th anniversary observance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. O'Doherty was killed in the Sept.11, 2001 attack.