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Lawmakers aim to address accreditation reform Ceding control of process from federal to state level could alter colleges’ access to financial aid

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer Whether Congress will come together before the end of the year to reauthorize the Higher Education Act is yet to be seen, but policymakers on both sides are beginning to show

signs of compromise that have higher education lobbyists optimistic about meaningful reform.

As President Obama looks for approval for his plan to tie school performance metrics to federal aid, Republicans have their sights set on higher education reform through accreditation policy.

In early November, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) unveiled a plan to reform the channels through which universities become accredited, a process that ultimately helps a college access financial aid. Under the current system, educational institutions are divided into six regions and seek out accreditation status from independent organizations. In this state, the regional accreditor is the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Under Lee’s proposal, this system

would not change, but states could opt to set up their own accreditation organizations, ceding what is generally a regional, private responsibility to state authority. New York already follows this model.

“Today, the federal government restricts access to higher education and inflates its cost, inuring unfairly to the advantage of special interests at the expense of students, teachers and taxpayers,” Lee said in an address to the conservative Heritage Founda-

tion in October. “The federal government does this through its control over college accreditation. Because eligibility for federal student loans is tied to the federal accreditation regime, we shut out students who want to learn, teachers who want to teach, transformative technologies and cost-saving innovations.”

It’s good to facilitate conversation on this topic, said Anne Neal, See reform, Page 3

City farmers market will see updates for spring

ALL YOU CAN FREEZE

Some vendors, market master leave this season

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer

toppings on display at Tutti Frutti, the city’s newest frozen yogurt venue and the first store to open under Domain at College Park. The restaurant offers gluten- and dairy-free foods. sung-min kim/the diamondback

Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt shop opens under Domain College Park

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer Nestled under College Park’s newest apartment complex near the business and architecture schools, frozen yogurt shop Tutti Frutti is catering to the glutenand dairy-free crowds.

The shop, located under Domain at College Park, offers more than

50 flavors of frozen yogurt, all of which are gluten-free, general manager Isabel Kim said. Every day, at least one dairy-free option is also available.

T utti Frutti, wh ich opened earlier this month, is the newest of several frozen yogurt venues in the city. Yogiberry on Route 1, located next to Ratsie’s Pizza, has been open since 2009, and Sweetgreen opened in 2012 under the

University View. Tutti Frutti is the first store to open under Domain and will be joined by Subway and Casey’s Coffee.

Tutti Frutti is part of a chain of individually owned stores, Kim said. Owners work with one another to compare ideas for enhancing the quality of the frozen yogurt options. The College Park location plans to use customer input to make menu changes, Kim

said. Customers can make flavor requests on the store’s Facebook page or by contacting Kim. Staple flavors include chocolate, vanilla and coffee, but a rotating menu includes options such as cheesecake, salted caramel and watermelon sorbet. Soy peanut butter, Kim said, is one of the most popular choices among customers.

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As winter temperatures started rolling in, the Downtown College Park Farmers Market closed for the season.

City officials saw an increase in sales and traffic this year, but they’re making plans to reorganize the market after several vendors left and the contracted market master stepped down.

Virginia-based KSM Marketing and Events signed a $28,000 contract with the city in February to improve the market. But company officials told city leaders KSM would leave at the end of the 2013 season, said Michael Stiefvater, city economic development coordinator.

The farmers market, which ended Nov. 17, drew more vendors and customers than in the 2012 season.

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International student task force finishes Officials implement 11 work group initiatives

Push for Native American studies minor set to resume Advisers seek greater enrollment in courses

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer Plans to establish a Native American studies minor, a project that has been in development for more than four years, have once again been put on hold as students and faculty plan to resume efforts next semester.

During the 2010-11 academic year, the Native Studies Working Group gained support from former Provost Nariman Farvardin, who pledged to help institute more Native American courses at this university and approve plans to create a minor. But when Provost Mary Ann Rankin replaced Farvardin in 2012, efforts to implement the minor slowed while the work group focused on garner-

ing student interest in the Native America n cou rses already being offered, said Dottie Chicquelo, Ameri c a n I n d i a n DOTTIE CHICQUELO Student Union American Indian Student Union adviser adviser.

The university offers 16 courses that have at least 25 percent of their content focused on Native American issues as of the fall 2012 semester, according to the Native American Studies Program website.

Demonstrating student interest and enthusiasm about enrolling in these courses is the most critical step in establishing an official minor or concentration in the subject, Chicquelo said.

Thirty-five undergraduate students, less than 1 percent of the un-

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29.1 percent 2012 proportion of American Indians and Alaska Natives in poverty dergraduate student population at this university, identified as American Indian or Alaska Native in the fall 2012 semester, according to the 2013 Cultural Diversity Report.

However, Chicquelo said many more people might have Native American roots but don’t know it.

By Dustin Levy @dustinblevy Staff writer

Learning about Native American history is extremely important, even for those who don’t have ethnic ties to the culture, said Aaron McKay, AISU co-president.

“Knowing the history of your country and the other people around you makes you a more well-rounded person,” the senior management major said. “You never know when you’re going to come i nto contact w it h a Native American. You need to be knowledgeable.”

Native Americans have played a major role in U.S. history, so devoting a program to the group is especially helpful, said Lisa Warren, a graduate assistant who is teaching CMLT 285: American Indians in Literature and Film: Perspectives North and South this semester.

After two years of research, a university work group dedicated to improving the lives of international students has concluded, leaving the university with 11 new initiatives and more in the works.

Officials launched the International Undergraduate Student Task Force in 2011 after university President Wallace Loh called for an increase in the number of international students.

The group spent a year researching and developing a list of 21 recommendations, released in 2012, and an additional year developing them. The group’s final meeting was in October, but officials are optimistic about the 11 initiatives they’ve implemented so far, calling the group a success for the university and its population of international students.

“We know that undergraduate international students are a smaller

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University team takes home innovation award at national wood stove decathlon Students compete against field pros

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Staff writer Last week, a university team traveled to the National Mall to compete in the Wood Stove Decathlon, earning the top prize in the particulate matter emissions category.

The event pitted 12 teams against each other from Nov. 15 to 19 and tasked them with building wood stoves. The engineers who made up the teams ranged from employees of established companies to small-time inventors. This university’s team was the only student group.

Taylor Myers, captain of this university’s Team Mulciber, said the development of the team’s stove began last year

when the Alliance for Green Heat, the nonprofit that organized the event, reached out to the university.

“We didn’t know anything about wood stoves a year ago,” he said.

Myers and his team got to work, designing a stove with features such as a combustion fan, which allows for easier regulation of oxygen flow and temperature. This is something most modern commercial stoves leave out, the second-year fire protection engineering graduate student said.

“T he key adva nta ge i s control,” Myers said. “We can adjust our stove on the fly.”

Though he said this feature helped keep the team’s stove’s particulate emission much lower than others in the competition, Myers plans to make several modifications in the future, including changing

Industries, Ackerly said fresh ideas like those explored by Team Mulciber are crucial moving forward.

“No one knows if the solution to low emissions is something that hasn’t been tried before,” he said.

Lewis Thibodeau, the vice president of manufacturing at Woodstock Soapstone, said the university’s team’s ideas were interesting and innovative. His company’s stove won the grand prize of $25,000 for having what judges considered the best all-around entry.

“I was jealous because they were able to think outside the box because they weren’t making a stove for immediate release on the market,” Thibodeau said. “We haven’t used a fan mostly because of the restriction of price point.”

T he A l l ia nce for Green Heat plans to hold another

university students work with the wiring for their wood stove during the 2013 Wood Stove Decathlon. The event was held Nov. 15 to 19 on the National Mall. photo courtesy of laura Perrotta Wood Stock Decathlon in I want to continue with,” two years, though details he said. “We’d like to keep are tentative. If the compe- moving forward w ith our tition is held again in the fall idea because we think it’s one of 2015, Myers plans to make that isn’t on the market yet.” another run.

“It’s absolutely something jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

Student creates textbook shopping app

american From PAGE 1 “Anytime there is a group that has been historically ignored, it is the responsibility of higher education to focus on that,” she said. “A huge part of American history and culture came from Native Americans.”

But Native American studies s h o u l d n’t fo c u s o n ly o n history, McKay said. There are serious social problems Native American people face today, he said, such as alcoholism, violence and domestic abuse.

“All we learn about is the Trail of Tears,” he said. “But we don’t learn about what happened after that.”

According to the Census Bureau, 29.1 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives were in poverty in 2012, the highest rate of any racial group in the U.S. “I can’t really blame Americans for not knowing this information because they’re subject to the same public education system that doesn’t talk about it,” McKay said. “Now’s the time for people to be shown what’s happening and what’s been happening for 500 years.”

Chicquelo said she plans to mobilize the AISU next semester to reorganize the push for an official minor or concentration in Native American studies.

the fan’s air flow. The Mulciber stove let smoke seep out when its door was opened in the competition, a flaw, he said.

Other speed bumps, such as the stove overheating and damaging some of its electrical work, cost the university’s team a chance at winning the top prize, said John Ackerly, Alliance for Green Heat president. With a few more months to develop the stove, it could have been a different story, he added.

“We loved it because it was really out of the box,” Ackerly said. “They had some really innovative designs with a ton of potential.”

The Wood Stove Decathlon received nearly 50 applicants and selected 14 as finalists, he said. Two, however, dropped out before the competition started. While the top awards were given to larger companies such as Woodstock Soapstone Company and Travis

Service connects local students to save on costs

By Ben Zito @thedbk For The Diamondback art at last year’s Native American Indian Powwow. mike king/for the diamondback

“I CAN’T REALLY BLAME AMERICANS FOR NOT KNOWING THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY’RE SUBJECT TO THE SAME PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T TALK ABOUT IT.” AARON MCKAY

American Indian Student Union co-president “The hope for the minor is to benefit students,” she said. “It will enhance their knowledge of a different cu ltu re a nd help them learn the truth about the history of a culture that has a nd conti nues to be misrepresented and underappreciated.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

When senior aerospace engineering major Gerard Taylor developed an app to help college students buy and share textbooks, he knew he was tapping into something unique.

“I’ve looked around, and I haven’t been able to find anything like it,” he said.

“I know Amazon has an app that allows you to scan the book’s barcode to look up a price, but that’s about it.”

Taylor’s app, BookBridges, allows users to buy and sell books locally. Although users can sell any type of book, t he app i s most ly gea red toward textbooks. Its appeal, Taylor said, is that there is no third party involved in the transaction.

St udents of ten p ost i n Facebook groups indicating they are buying or selling a textbook. Other than that, t h e re a re n’t m a ny ot h e r effective outlets th rough which students can buy and sell books to one another, Taylor said.

“It seems like a great way of shortening the book-buying process and making it easier and safer,” said Jacques Cassagnol, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences.

Buyer and sellers arrange face-to-face transactions a nd ag ree to the terms of sale. Payments will ideally be made in cash, although it is u lt i m ately up to t he pa r t ie s i nvolve d , Taylor wrote in an email.

Although the app is geared towa rd students, a nyone can use it, Taylor wrote in an email. Users create personal profiles complete with usernames, ensuring shoppers’ anonymity if they want it. After they create profiles, users can post books they are selling, request books and form “connections” — allowing buyers and sellers to message one another through a chat feature. BookBridges can also be linked to Facebook, Taylor said.

The app can be used for any major university in the continental United States, not ju s t t h i s u n ive rs it y, Taylor said.

Taylor first began working on BookBridges in March, originally intending for it to be a website. In August, however, he decided an app

FARMERS

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“We switch out our flavors a lot to cater to different tastes,” Kim said.

In addition to gluten-free f roz en yog u r t, t he s tore offers da i ry-free f lavors, created by nongenetically modified soybeans grown on farms, Kim said.

Like other frozen yogurt shops, Tutti Frutti lets customers serve their own portion of frozen yog u rt a nd add toppings, which range from brownie bites and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to pomegranates and mangoes. A bowl costs 49 cents per ounce, slightly more expensive than Yogiberry, which costs 45 cents per ounce. Sweetgreen offers small servings for $4 and large bowls for $6.

It’s been a slow start for business, Kim said. The store had to postpone its grand opening planned for Nov. 22 to wait for contractor inspections, which Kim said caused a steep decline in business.

The first week after the store’s opening was slow she said, but business picked up in the second week.

“A lot of our business is dependent on students,” Kim said.

“The last thing you think about is frozen yogurt when you’re cold.”

But though the total number of vendors increased, several vendors left the farmers market midway through this season because of low sales and scheduling conflicts.

The market has eight vendors, four of whom plan to return for the season starting in April 2014, according to a presentation during the Nov. 19 City Council work session. One vendor is likely returning, and three are listed as unsure.

Looking ahead to the spring, Stiefvater said, the city staff and farmers market committee will work to hold more events during the season. Stiefvater also recommended to council members that city staff members take on more responsibilities, such as marketing and seeking out new vendors.

“There’s a lot of competition for farmers markets in the area,” Stiefvater said.

In a survey conducted by city officials, Stiefvater said, farmers market customers wrote that they wanted to see bread and cheese vendors.

“We were missing some vendors people kind of expect to have at farmers markets,” he said.

The downtown farmers market is one of four weekly

Tutti frutti, a frozen yogurt shop, opened this month under Domain. sung-min kim/the diamondback The store now plans to have a grand opening in February, “when everyone settles in; it’s not too crazy,” Kim said.

She said the store plans to add smoothies, coffee, bubble tea and more once employees become comfortable with their positions.

Some students who are regular customers of Yogiberry said they are looking forward to having an opportunity to try Tutti Frutti; it is just a matter of making the trek across the campus.

“I’d be willing to try it, but it’s under the Domain, right?”

said Jordan Kramer, a freshman government and politics major. “I don’t go over there that often.”

Sophomore jou r n a l i sm major Cheri Wang, an Ellicott City native, said Tutti Frutti is the most popular frozen yogurt shop back home.

“I think Tutti Frutti tastes better,” Wang said. “I just like the flavors better.” hcuozzodbk@gmail.com Senior staff writers Jenny Hottle and Laura Blasey contributed to this report.

was a better idea, and after designing the user interface, Taylor paid Crucial App Concepts about $4,500 to code the app for him.

With the help of a book called Idea to iPhone, Taylor navigated each step of the process, f rom raw ha nddrawn mock-ups to the app’s final stages. A lthough he had a few friends help him design the app’s logo, icon and website, he undertook most of the work by himself, Taylor wrote in an email.

“For my particular case, I had a fantastic idea, but I had zero idea how to implement it on a mobile platform,” he wrote. “The book showed me where to find designers and developers, how to start a successful marketing campaign and so much more.”

BookBridges w i l l be free and is set to launch in January, Taylor said. Depending on the iPhone version’s success, he may develop an Android version in the future.

A s col lege becomes i ncreasingly expensive, some students said textbooks are a necessary expense with often little return value.

“The last time I went to the bookstore, I returned a book that I originally bought

farmers markets held in the city. The market held on Saturdays near the Herbert Wells Ice Rink on Paint Branch Parkway launched in 1979. The Farmers Market at Maryland opened in May 2012 and is open Wednesdays in front of Cole Field House. In June, the city debuted the Saturday morning Hollywood Farmers Market in North College Park.

There’s “a lot of energy” in all of the farmers markets, which is one reason they’ve grown in popularity year a f ter yea r, M ayor A ndy Fellows said.

Starting in January, the city will begin its search for a new market master for the downtown farmers market.

This individual will take on a more modest array of responsibilities. The new position will revolve around managing the market on Sundays and providing monthly reports to city staff, according to the Nov. 19 presentation.

By hiring a new market master with fewer responsibilities, Stiefvater said, the salary of the market master could be cut in half — saving the city some expense.

During the meeting, City Council Student Liaison Catherine McGrath said students especially enjoy coming to the market for Bill’s Backyard BBQ and it would be nice to have

bookbridges connects students for lowcost textbook sales. courtesy of bookbridges for $83, and I only received about $16 back,” said Kevin Content, a junior physics major. “It’s really frustrating because the book was still in pretty good condition, and I only had it for a few months. Now I pretty much just use A mazon to buy all my books.”

Taylor’s ultimate goal with BookBridges, he said, is to help students save money to try to reduce the stress of college.

“The primary motivation for creating this app was to help students reduce their academic expenses as much as possible,” Taylor wrote in an email. newsumdbk@gmail.com

more prepared food vendors.

“Students have even begun to use him for the on-campus tailgates,” McGrath said.

Next year, McGrath said city officials should try to connect more to student organizations, such as Greek life, that might be interested in setting up tables at the market to advertise events.

“The city realizes that the students are really key to making the farmers market a success,” she said.

Nex t season, city sta f f members plan to start the downtown farmers market in mid-April, depending on the weather. District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said Nov. 19 that construction projects on the horizon — such as the Maryland Book Exchange apartments — will eventually bring even more students to the market.

Considering the city’s continued efforts to collaborate with the university, District 3 Councilman Robert Day said he would enjoy seeing the vendors and customers from the university farmers market on Wednesdays come to the downtown market next season.

“I know it’s a tough call because a lot of people go out on Saturdays and they don’t see Sundays as the big day,” Day said. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

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Univ initiative brings innovation skills to classroom setting Chang said.

“Why make it a choice for students to say, ‘I want to work on things on my own when that’s going to take away As junior computer science major from my classes and credits required Daniel Gillespie began developing to graduate’?” Chang said. “Our goal is an idea for a social networking app, to put more of that into the classroom he found it was increasingly dif- across all of the colleges.”

Finding time to work on a project ficult to balance his work with his has been challenging for Gillespie. course load.

“A lot of the time, you sort of have But with the launch of the Academy to make a choice, one way or another, for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, class time could become more valu- and usually classes don’t do so well,” Gillespie said. able to aspiring entrepreneurs.

This semester, the academy has The university announced an iniintegrated two-week mini-courses tiative in January to open up entrepreneurial classes to students of all taught by lecturer Erica Estrada-Liou majors, and Dean Chang, associate into existing classes. The mini-coursvice president for innovation and en- es focus on subjects such as design trepreneurship, spent the summer thinking, project development and developing a plan. Through the learning from and embracing failure. academy, headquartered in Symons Starting in fall 2014, the academy will Hall, students will be able to attend offer a Fearless Ideas series, fourclasses, workshops and events that credit multidisciplinary courses in will teach them skills to create their which students can work with experts outside of the classroom. own projects.

“We wanted students to get realExisting business competitions world experience working for realsuch as Cupid’s Cup and programs like Innovation Fridays, in which stu- world outcomes,” Chang said.

Academy staff have been sorting dents can receive expert feedback on their startup ideas, helped propel this through 33 class proposals from nine university into The Princeton Review’s colleges and will announce 10 Fearless top 25 undergraduate schools for en- Ideas courses in late January, Chang trepreneurship. But often, students said. Some proposals aim to build interested in starting a project must classes from scratch, while others choose between the classes they want would alter existing entrepreneurto take and the work they want to do, ship-focused classes, like those offered

By Josh Logue @jmlogue Staff writer

FORCE From PAGE 1 group of students that haven’t gotten a lot of specific attention in the past,” said Meredith Carpenter, Department of Resident Life human resources coordinator and task force member.

The task force consisted of 18 members, including 13 administrators from student and academic affairs agencies on the campus, and utilized focus groups, panel discussions, an assessment survey and a literature review to develop a picture of international students’ issues and needs.

The fi rst round of surveys i n 2011 reve a led t rend s: More than 75 percent of international students on the campus felt they were getting a qu a l ity educat ion, but between 25 and 50 percent of students were struggling with fi nances, and many felt lonely or isolated.

T h e 2 1 r e c o m m e n d ations developed in response covered four areas: assisting international students w it h t he t ra n s it ion to a new environment; expanding programs and services to support student success and retention; improving campus communications; and enhancing the university’s approach to serving international undergraduate students.

After a year of research, the group was given an additional year to work toward remedying the problems it had identified. New initiatives included establishing a liaison program connecting the student affairs and academic offices with the Office of International Student and Scholar Services and making online university resources available in other languages.

Deborah Bryant, the undergraduate studies assistant dean and letters and sciences director, served as an

IN THE IDEATION ROOM, part of the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Symons Hall, students can write ideas for startup projects. sung-min kim/the diamondback through the Hinman CEOs program.

Selected courses will be offered for at least three semesters, and professors will receive a bonus for each semester they teach. It’s an incentive for faculty to add to or create courses, Chang said. Departments could also use the funding to attract adjunct faculty.

Some courses will have specific focuses, perhaps having ideas for potential companies, while others will give students without specific project ideas a chance to work with a team of people from different backgrounds.

academic advising community representative. Her office now has a liaison to ISSS, which has experience working with international students and an advising staff trained in crosscultural communication.

As the program with the highest international undergraduate student enrollment, letters and sciences had many changes to make.

They’ve fi ne-tuned the English-language exams to better sort students into appropriate courses, Bryant said, and for two years, letters and sciences has offered a UNIV course for international students taught by the ISSS staff.

“Many of the challenges that international students experience come from their orientation to the university and the academic advising that they receive and the availability of courses toward the end of August when it’s time for them to actually register,” Bryant said.

Officials are seeking to be

The academy will leave much of the course specifics up to individual professors, but all classes will have a multidisciplinary approach and nontraditional classroom feel, Chang said.

“We didn’t want people stuck in a classroom with only the professor giving feedback,” he said.

Helping shape the academy is a student design team spearheaded

by Meenu Singh, Student Government Association academic affairs vice president. The team interviewed students across the campus to gauge

more sensitive to international student needs outside the classroom, too. Resident Life is expanding its school break housing to Elkton Hall to accommodate students who can’t go home and made sure campus amenities will be available, including cooking facilities, shuttle service and access to the 24 Shop, said Deb Grandner, Resident Life director and task force member.

Welcome Week and orientation activities were also specially tailored with the help of Resident Life and the orientation staff. In contrast to American students, the international students received four days’ worth of orientation activities.

The task force evaluated its improvements through fall 2011 and fall 2012 surveys of international undergraduates, and results indicated their initiatives were working, Grandner said. In the fall 2012 survey, 10 percent more students said they received

their interest in pursuing innovative projects. Many students, they found, did not feel empowered to pursue projects that interested them while staying on top of academic requirements.

“Hearing what students want was really important,” Chang said. “That’s why the student team is so critical.

The issues they came up with were very interesting and also incredibly heartbreaking to me.” jloguedbk@gmail.com

clear information about how to manage their arrival and 10 percent more students reported they were satisfied with the campus services.

Although the task force disbanded in October, several members will serve as an advisory council for the ISSS to examine how to better serve the needs of international undergraduate students.

Grandner said the task force was a positive experience for campus officials as well as undergraduate students. Making changes and exploring initiatives helped her to build relationships with campus agencies and academic offices on behalf of international students and to better inform her own staff of the needs of this population.

“Our campus really recognizes the importance of global education today,” Grandner said. “We appreciate the diversity that international students bring to the campus.” dlevydbk@gmail.com

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341,375 participants

National Novel Writing Month challenges aspiring authors to complete full-length novel before Dec. 1

By Zoë DiGiorgio @dbkdiversions For The Diamondback 4,600 words. 15,000 words. 38,500 words. 50,000 words.

Throughout November, many Facebook and Twitter users have posted an ever-increasing number of updates about their efforts to complete a fulllength novel before Dec. 1 as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, as it is commonly known.

NaNoWriMo has been challenging participants to crank out 50,000 words in one month since 1999. Since the unconventional writing event went online in 2000, it has caught on with many eager writers. There are more than 300,000 participants registered on the project’s website, including many college students. At this university, some students set aside time from their schoolwork and social activities each November to challenge themselves to write a whole book as fast as possible.

Senior English major Ashley Delaney started participating in 2009 while she was still in high school. In her freshman year of college, she convinced her friend Jonathan Johnson, now also a senior English major, to try it too. Delaney managed to complete her novels her first two years, leaving her feeling victorious.

“The first year I won, I was really proud of it and the book I produced doing it,” Delaney said.

This year marks the third time in five years that Delaney has completed the challenge. Though she started five days into the month, she managed to complete her novel at a breakneck pace, leaving 10 days to spare.

“It was the best feeling in the world,” she said.

The event forces participants to be writers rather than editors. The push for 50,000 words means that quality is often overlooked in favor of word count. Delaney hopes to revisit her novels to revise them for future publishing. In its 15-year history, more than 250 novels have been published as a result of NaNoWriMo, including Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

Aspiring novelist Johnson has attempted NaNoWriMo for the past four years, though he has worked on six novels in that time span. Johnson has completed the NaNoWriMo challenge once and come close to finishing it two other times, though at great cost.

“I only won sophomore year because I neglected all of my classes,” he said.

“So, not the best thing to do.”

Johnson’s goal is to write about 2,000 words a day, though he says he is behind on his novel this year. He

started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, teachers and more.

They walked away novelists.

615 libraries

opened their doors to novelists through the Come Write In program.

44,919 people participated in Camp NaNoWriMo’s online writing retreat national novel writing month, which has taken place since 1999, challenges literary participants to write 50,000 words in one month. photo courtesy of national novel writing month. statistics from nanowrimo.org/about hopes to catch up over Thanksgiving break, but his problem is not uncommon — many writers find they cannot complete the challenge while managing their hectic lives. Regardless, Johnson is happy with the work he has accomplished so far.

“Right now, I love my story because it’s evolved so much,” he said.

Though she has never completed a novel since first attempting NaNoWriMo in seventh grade, sophomore linguistics major Kit Winner is passionate about writing and loves the challenge. For her, NaNoWriMo provides much-needed motivation to continue writing.

“I always write better and more consistently when I have an end goal, and it motivates me so much to write,” she said.

It is often difficult to remain motivated and complete a novel, but Winner finds support from others crucial to persevering.

“I always make sure that I tell

people that I’m writing, that I’m doing this challenge … and then I update them regularly on my progress,” she said. “It’s a fantastic motivator.”

The NaNoWriMo website offers forums, pep talks from famous novelists and resources to help writers.

Even though she’s behind on her word count this year, Winner is undaunted; she plans to finish her book even if it takes her part of December to do so.

She recommends anyone who wants to write a novel to take up the challenge even if they don’t necessarily have the time to complete it.

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REFORM From PAGE 1 president of the American Cou nci l of T r u stees a nd A lu m n i . T i g hte n i n g t h e screws on accreditation and asking schools to answer for performances can help keep federal dollars from flowing to inefficient schools, an outcome that has helped fuel tuition increases.

“What Senator Lee is suggesting by his bill, and it’s certainly a concern that we share, is that the existing accreditation system is a driver of cost increases,” Neal said. “This is a very creative and promising approach, which would give more authority to states.”

David Bergeron, postsecondary education vice president at the Center for American Progress, said he would like to see reform on this issue but that Lee’s approach is largely unnecessary because federal law already gives states the authority to do this. New York has taken advantage of the opportunity, but many other states opt to use regional accreditation standards. If New York’s approach is successful, Bergeron said, more states would employ this model, but up until now, that has not been the case.

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Many experts agree that the current system needs reform.

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n April 2004, I was a normal college student who went to bed thinking I had the flu. By the next night, I was in critical condition in a hospital in Kansas City, fighting for my life against the same type of bacterial meningitis, serogroup B, that is spreading on the Princeton University campus.

When I awoke from a drug-induced coma three weeks later, I found that because of the loss of circulation caused by the infection, my limbs had turned black and were rotting while still attached to my body. Three months of painful burn unit treatments, skin grafts and amputations followed. Then I spent a year learning how to walk without toes and function without fingers.

Since then, I have waited eagerly for a vaccine that can prevent serogroup B meningitis and ensure that no others will not have to experience what I experienced. That day is almost here.

I’m very encouraged that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given permission for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to import the vaccine Bexsero and offer

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it to Princeton students to quell the meningitis B outbreak on that campus, and I am glad the school’s board of trustees will make it available for those who want it.

I am wondering, though, when the FDA will finally determine whether the shot will be available to the U.S. public at large, including the thousands of students on other college campuses who are at higher risk for serogroup B meningitis because of close quarters.

The shot has already been approved for use in the European Union and Australia, and the CDC believes it is safe.

According to the CDC website, Bexsero’s manufacturer, Novartis, is working on combining the shot with another to produce a comprehensive vaccine that would protect against all five major strains of meningitis in the U.S. While we can all agree that the convenience of a single shot is appealing, do we really want to risk lives in the meantime? Why not at least make Bexsero available for American students outside of the Princeton campus who also want to protect themselves from meningitis B?

Already, three cases of meningitis B have been identified on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Other cases of meningitis, the types of which are unidentified, have cropped up at Georgia Tech and Monmouth University in the days since the FDA announced it would allow Bexsero at Princeton.

I understand the FDA has protocols to follow, but every day we go without Bexsero in the U.S. has the potential to cost lives and limbs. I have the scars and the stumps to prove it, and I am one of the lucky ones.

Bacterial meningitis is a disease that can take healthy people and, within 24 hours, leave them with brain damage, vision loss or loss of limbs. Sometimes all it leaves is grieving family members, who in many cases did not even have time to say goodbye.

It’s time to end this disease. The technology is catching up to it. Now all we need is the will.

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‘White girl bleed a lot’ The ‘knockout game’: Racial assault? attacker casually looked at one of his victims and stated, “White girl bleed a lot.”

The main issue concerning these events isn’t that news organizations haven’t been covering them. (CNN and USA Today have been catching up with coverage, publishing several articles on this topic.) The main issue is that news networks and social justice leaders haven’t been addressing all forms of racial conflict.

Let me assure you — I do not believe we live in a post-racial society. I understand that incarceration rates disproportionately impact black people.

I think it is unfair that massive media attention is placed on people like Elizabeth Smart and Natalee Holloway when young girls of other races are also forced into the sex trafficking industry.

With that said, I think the only way to become a part of a post-racial society is to address conflicts that are targeted against any and all racial groups.

Political leaders on both sides of the aisle will only be capable of practicing what they preach once they address any and all racially heated events. Where are the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton on this issue? Why haven’t they condemned these attacks, so we know their movements are above ignoring these types of events?

From what we’ve seen, it’s like these leaders only address issues that victimize their own racial group — issues that only put people in their communities at risk — because this is what perpetuates their fame. I’m not asking for leaders of black organizations or social justice movements to write columns about these events, but they should at least make a public statement condemning these attacks.

Being politically correct does not fix the problem; rather, it exacerbates it by allowing certain violent acts to occur, premising that they are not targeting specific racial groups.

If we allow this political correctness to permeate the minds of our future political leaders, what will happen next?

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A new craze spreading throughout New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Missouri and Washington, D.C., dubbed the “knockout game,” typically involves a group of young thugs attacking strangers on city streets.

Footage of these attacks shows perpetrators casually passing by strangers, then immediately sucker punching them just for entertainment.

Though this game has been played in some form for the past few years, only recently have major news networks begun to shine light on the growing trend. Even back in 2011, court records in St. Louis, Mo., concluded a perpetrator killed an innocent man as part of playing the knockout game.

As the Associated Press reports, “in New York, a 78-year-old woman strolling in her neighborhood was punched in the head by a stranger and tumbled to the ground … In Jersey City, a 46-year-old man died after someone sucker-punched him and he struck his head on an iron fence.”

Amid recent video coverage and firsthand accounts of this incident, some news publications, political organizations and law enforcement officials have been denying the severity of these crimes. Last week, The New York Times even stated, “Police officials in several cities where such attacks have been reported said that the ‘game’ amounted to little more than an urban myth.”

However, in New York City, the police department’s hate crimes task force is investigating some assaults in Brooklyn because the attacks have often targeted Orthodox Jews, the Associated Press reported.

New York Post and conservative columnists have written that young black gangs sometimes play the knockout game in urban environments to attack whites or people CarolineCarlsonisajuniorgovernmentand of Asian ancestry. During a mass politics and information systems major.She attack in Milwaukee, for instance, can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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The Five Commandments of the Sidewalk Because etiquette while walking is simply essential DAVE STROH At a university with some 37,000 students, walking around between classes can be a crowded hassle.

What’s worse is that many people seem to have some glaring holes in their understanding of the rules of the sidewalk. So just as a reminder, here are the five commandments of college sidewalk etiquette.

I. Thou shalt walk on the right side of the sidewalk.

Come on guys, this isn’t England.

We drive on the right side of the road, so we should walk on the right side of the sidewalk. If everybody could keep to this rule, the pedestrian flow would be much smoother. This would eliminate those awkward moments when you and the guy walking toward you can’t seem to decide who should move over, ultimately resulting in both of you moving the same way and having to repeat the process. So remember, if you love America, right is right.

II. Thou shalt stay aware while texting and walking.

I understand that texting is a huge part of communication for collegeaged adults, but if you are going to text while you walk, pay attention to those around you. We have all been stuck behind that girl who is walking too slowly because she is texting and doesn’t realize she has people behind her — or else played sidewalk chicken with that guy who has his eyes on his phone and doesn’t see you right in front of him. These texters obstruct the entire area’s foot traffic. If you choose to text and walk: Keep the pace, look out for who is coming toward you and don’t become a walking roadblock.

III. Thou shalt not ride a Razor scooter.

This isn’t really sidewalk etiquette; it’s more like life advice.

IV. Thou shalt not walk three abreast.

Nobody wants to be the third wheel who has to walk behind his or her two friends, but on a narrow sidewalk, walking three abreast is just rude. In many situations, the sidewalk can’t accommodate more

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than three people walking side by side. Because of groups walking three wide, pedestrians coming from the opposite direction are forced to walk on the grass or dirt. While this may seem like a bit of a first-world problem, anybody who has been forced to step off the sidewalks on a soggy McKeldin Mall mall during or after rain knows why this is an issue.

V. Thou shalt not bike on the sidewalk.

This should be obvious. It’s called a sidewalk — not a sidebike. Rarely in life are we given such clear instructions on how to act in a social situation. If you choose to ride a bike on campus, keep it to the street. The “sharrows” painted on campus roads are there to remind drivers to share the roads with bicyclists. So bikers, take advantage of this new signage and pedal to your hearts’ content (just not on the sidewalk).

If everyone could keep to these commandments, our campus commutes would be safe and orderly rather than chaotic.

Dave Stroh is a senior English major. He can be reached at dstrohdbk@gmail.com.

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esterday, a few Diamondback staff writers lobbied for their favorite types of cheese. I thoroughly appreciated their reasoning and their overall reverence for the dairy product that Liz Lemon and I often spend our nights with, but I must admit it could have been cheddar. It was a Gouda effort to introduce beginners to the ways of Cheesus, but there are many other varietals often left by the wheyside.

So please take a moment to read and learn about the many ways Cheesus can Brie you happiness.

Cheese is a grate example of human ingenuity. Whoever thought of letting animal milk culture until it made little chunks was a forward thinker. Honestly, cheese has curd many late night hunger pangs for me. If I could go back in time and give the first cheesemaker a giant wheel of cheese, well, he probably would already have one.

Another benefit of cheese unBrunost to most people is that it can help prevent cavities. In fact, cheese has tons of calcium, making it easy to Muenster the effort to eat a lot of it — and often. Your bones will be so strong you can easily build a cottage all by yourself. You’ll cream the competition in a weightlifting battle. You’ll smoke Usain Bolt in a footrace.

You’ll cake the books with world records. You’ll string together a legacy so long and unprecedented, people will Stilton be talking about it 100 years from now (just like a

well-aged cheese).

You’re probably thinking, “Queso, how can I get my hands on this stuff?” Well it Colby harder, because it’s pretty easy today. Just go to your local farmer and ask him for some of the good stuff. If your farmer is unwilling to part with his cheese (admittedly understandable) try saying, “Urda best!” and giving him a Swiss of whiskey for payment. Be forewarned: The farmer may be blue for a while upon seeing his cheese leave him. But he will make more … he’s ricotta.

Before asiago, I ask you to join me in raising halloumi until the truth of Cheesus is spread to all. I’m feta up with the anti-cheese vitriol storming through our government. This literally lactose-intolerant language needs to be cut out. We need to labneh for better cheese education. All students should learn reading, writing and Romano.

I havarti explained the numerous health benefits. Its deliciousness is uncontested. To eat cheese, to know cheese and most of all, to love cheese are the most American of pursuits.

Paneer cheese with a nice wine and you are automatically classy. Cheese is there for us in times of hunger and snacking, dinner parties and sandwich making. I encourage you to get to know Cheesus. I welcome you to grill me on my cheese knowledge. But let it be known, I will always want to know who cut the cheese.

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By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer It’s fashionable these days to bemoan Hollywood’s lack of creativity and endless sequels, spinoffs and remakes. In fact, Hollywood itself hasn’t done much to convince viewers otherwise.

When there are so many generic movies filling up theaters, it can be easy to forget that genuinely talented people exist within the movie industry, even at the helm of a remake.

Director Spike Lee (Red Hook Summer) is certainly one of those talented few, though it remains to be seen whether or not his upcoming remake of Oldboy will be a dud or unexpected masterpiece. Hopefully, it can equal any of the following top five recent great remakes. His career could certainly use a boost.

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Did it need to cost about seven times as much as the original? Of course not. But it’s hard to deny that David Fincher’s remake is far sleeker

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and better than the original film.

For one thing, Fincher’s exacting visual eye gives the remake a much more precise aesthetic than the original’s low-end cinematography.

For another, the remake’s expanded budget allowed Fincher to hire a far better supporting cast. Though Rooney Mara’s (Side Effects) role isn’t quite as good as Noomi Rapace’s (Dead Man Down) angrier take on Lisbeth Salander, the rest of the remake’s cast is uniformly better than the original’s assortment of Swedish performers, shoddy accents aside.

Still, neither version manages to rise above the rather overhyped source material.

ers) added an immense amount of spit and spin to the visuals, resulting in one of the most beautiful Westerns ever made. On top of that, the remake is populated by a game cast, with a particularly noteworthy performance from Matt Damon (Elysium).

The only downside to the remake is that it’s a little uneven, with a deliberate second act immediately followed by a frenzied third and accompanied by a noticeable change in mood. The movie never really recovers from the tonal whiplash.

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4. True Grit The Coen brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis) didn’t have a high bar to clear in adapting this 1969 John Wayne vehicle, which was more notable for earning Wayne his only Oscar than for its quality as a film. Still, that their remake is this good was a genuine surprise.

In addition to refocusing the movie on the vengeful girl at the story’s center, the Coen brothers and cinematographer Roger Deakins (Prison-

3. Let Me In The original Swedish Let the Right One In lit the cinematic world on fire with its twisted vampire spin on a coming-of-age story that’s equal parts creepy and sweet. Let the Right One In captured the hearts of cinephiles worldwide while Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight started metastasizing to theaters.

Fast forward two years and a seemingly rushed remake titled

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Let Me In dropped without much fanfare and all the signs of being an embarrassment. And yet Let Me In actually proved to be a remarkably thoughtful film, transposing the winter gloom of the original’s Swedish backdrop to a slightly warmer, if even more depressing, Reagan-era America.

Though imperfect, Let Me In actually manages to improve upon the original with better dialogue and better lead performances. Let Me In does largely hew to the same beat-by-beat plot as Let the Right One In, but its subtle differences and improvements are enough to make it worthwhile.

an epic grandeur that the original couldn’t quite muster.

2. The Departed

Steven Soderbergh’s (Behind the Candelabra) remake of Ocean’s Eleven is the only movie on this list that is in an entirely different league than the original. Neither is a timeless artistic masterpiece, but where the original coasted entirely on the charm of the lead performers, the remake’s cast is matched at every turn by an equally inventive and playful storyteller.

The remake somehow manages to distill the essence of Las Vegas into a tidy, cinematic package, even managing to carry over much of the same charm that drove the original. The remake remains perhaps the greatest example of postmodern entertainment, thanks to its seductively sleek, cheeky surface and comedy masking a genuinely engaging heist story.

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One of the more famous examples of a good remake, Martin Scorsese’s (Hugo) The Departed will forever be remembered as the movie that finally won Scorsese his Oscar — even if the director of the original Infernal Affairs wasn’t a big fan.

This is one of the few cases where the remake is a genuinely different interpretation of the original. While The Departed has the same rough plot as Infernal Affairs, Scorsese’s film feels longer and richer, if slightly more bloated, than the Hong Kong original. Beyond the obvious culture shock of replacing Triads in Hong Kong with Mark Wahlberg (2 Guns) in Boston, The Departed also rather neatly expands the themes explored in the original, lending it

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FRIARS From PAGE 8 a 19-point lead and then hang on despite a 20-4 Friars run that lasted much of the second half.

Offensively, Wells and Smotrycz led the team with 13 points apiece, but all eight Terps who played had at least one field goal.

But defense, the Terps said, was the game’s deciding factor.

The team held the Friars to 27.1 percent shooting from the field and 10 points in the paint.

“Attention to detail is the biggest thing,” Wells said. “As you can see, we really honed in on all those things and it was a good defensive game. We only had 56. It was all defense.”

In the first half, the Terps were clicking.

Wells’ explosiveness on the break got the Terps out to a 6-0 lead, as he followed his coast-to-coast dunk with a behind-the-back move and layup in transition.

The Terps’ post players picked up the slack when Wells was sent to the bench with foul trouble, as Smotrycz, forward Charles Mitchell and center Shaquille Cleare all posted seven points in the first half.

The trio also helped control the glass in the initial minutes, and the Terps ended the half with a 26-19 rebounding edge.

Providence, meanwhile, shot 7-of-30 from the field in the first half, and the Terps maintained a high level of defensive play out of the locker room.

REVIEW From PAGE 8 Missy Meharg said Wednesday before the national semifinals.

“When you have players that can run with or without the ball at that speed, it makes it very dangerous.”

The team boasted the best scoring offense in the nation, averaging 4.27 goals per game.

The high-scoring attack helped the Terps win by an average of 2.96 goals, the country’s highest scoring margin.

But with forward Jill Witmer’s departure, the team will be without its top scorer. The Lancaster, Pa., native, had 19 goals this season and finished her career fifth on the program’s all-time scoring list with 67 goals. Her season earned her ACC Offensive Player of the Year.

The departure of McEvoy, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, and goalkeeper Natalie Hunter, an All-Region selection, leaves a void in the team’s backline. But with a returning defensive unit that includes Sarah Sprink, Steffi Schneid and Kasey Tapman, the team will look to prevent the rough

DRAGONS From PAGE 8 respectively, but the Dragons kept the game close in the second half with their threepoint shooting. Drexel (2-3) was 7-of-12 from beyond the arc in the half, forcing the Terps to grind out the result.

Smith scored 13 points for the Dragons in the second half, finishing with 19 points and five rebounds. Curran was one of five Drexel players to make a 3-pointer, and she finished with 16 points. The Dragons shot 15-of-28 from the field in the second half and outscored the Terps, 40-35.

“I thought those late breakdowns that we had off of our press gave them momentum and confidence to be able to be confident with what they were doing,” Frese said.

The Dragons had some early shooting troubles, however, going 1-of-10 in the game’s first seven minutes. The Terps started 6-of-8 from the field during that span.

Guard Brene Moseley’s 3-pointer with 1:47 left in the

The Friars didn’t score for the first 4:41 of the second half.

But then the Terps got cold, and they allowed Providence to claw back into the game.

“Our guys were really tired,” Turgeon said. “We missed a lot of shots we normally make.

But we gutted it out.”

Providence guard Bryce Cotton’s hot shooting helped the Friars trim the Terps lead to two points with less than two minutes to play. But then Wells, much like he did to start the game, provided the Terps a place to turn for production.

He hit a floater in the lane and then a couple of free throws to preserve a slim lead.

“I just knew I had to make something happen,” Wells said. “I had to make something happen for my team to stop the bleeding, stop the momentum.”

After Wells’ scores, the Terps newly steady defense responded with a stop, and the team eventually held off the Friars.

About a week after the Terps left Comcast Center with a discouraging loss to Oregon State and a troubling 1-2 record, they return to College Park today with a championship trophy.

And while posing for pictures, Wells, Smotrycz and Faust had a real reason to smile.

“I love it, I love winning,” Smotrycz said after the game last night, chuckling with his hat turned sideways on his head. “I love winning things.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

starts like the one that proved costly against Duke.

“We talk about having two games in one and being able to sustain for 35 minutes for each one of those games,” Meharg said Friday. “Our first game was at 50 percent.”

The Terps started slowly in some of their closest games this season, which forced the team to play from behind at times, such as against Old Dominion on Oct. 20, its only regular-season loss.

Still, Meharg often talked about how well the Terps responded to challenges this season. The Terps always had an answer. Though their response against Duke wasn’t enough for a win, it was what Meharg has seen from the Terps,even as the season came to an unwelcome end.

“We were at a place that we needed to make a decision that we were going to play our game and play to our potential,” Meharg said. “If you have 40 percent of your legs, you give 100 percent of 40 percent and just shift your mentality, which they responded to very well, and I’m very proud of them for that.”

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WRESTLING

197-pound christian boley fell to Penn’s unranked Frank Mattiace on Friday night as the Quakers upset the Terps, 19-13, at Comcast Center.

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Boley shoulders blame for Penn loss Redshirt senior falls to Quakers freshman to put match out of reach

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Christian Boley hastily plopped himself onto a black leather armchair outside of the Terrapins wrestling team’s locker room at Comcast Center, snatched the cap off his head, placed it on his right knee and glared forward.

The then-No. 10 197pound Boley lost, 12-4, to Penn freshman Frank Mattiace earlier Friday night, mathematically ensuring that the Terps wouldn’t have an opportunity to mount a comeback against the Quakers.

“One hundred percent, I put this on me,” Boley said. “I put the team loss on me, I put my loss on me and I will be better.”

The Terps fell to Penn, 19-13, their second consecutive loss to an unranked opponent.

After No. 2 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock defeated No. 11 Lorenzo Thomas, 7-1, the Terps trailed 15-10. Spencer

Myers beat Steven Graziano, 6-4, at 285 pounds in the final match of the night, picking up three points for the Terps. Had Boley won by decision in his match, the Terps would have won the dual meet, 16-15.

“Christian Boley is a fifthyear senior, ranked in the top 10 in the country, and he lost,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “We don’t expect him to lose, and he lost to a freshman. That should never happen. He wins his match, we win the dual.”

The Terps once again struggled at the lower and middleweight classes, leaving Sheptock, Boley and Myers to carry the burden and attempt to lead to the team to its first dual meet victory against a Division I opponent.

“We had a chance to win going down the back slide,” Boley said. “We got to me, Jimmy and Spencer. We were within five; that’s where we wanted to be. And I blew it.”

After Sheptock defeated Thomas, the tide appeared

to be turning. But from the onset of the 197-pound tilt, it was clear that a Boley victory wouldn’t come easily.

The freshman challenged the reigning two-time ACC champion early on, earning a 4-1 lead after the first period, and the deficit only grew larger.

“He’s a decent wrestler,” Boley said. “He’s not anything special, I’ll tell you that from my experience. It’s something mental from me, mistakes from me, that kind of gave him the match.”

Whenever Boley tried to mount an offensive, Mattiace stopped him. In the second period, the freshman took him down and rolled him over for a near fall, securing five points in a matter of seconds.

“Christian is usually one of those guys that are mentally tough and can bounce back from giving up an early takedown or two,” Sheptock said.

“He just didn’t have enough magic in the tank today.”

As the match drew to a close, Boley kept scrambling for takedowns, but Mattiace evaded him. When the official blew the final whistle, Boley continued to flail his arms at Mattiace and bumped chests with him before the referee got between them.

Boley’s frustration was just part of more early struggles for a team that declared its intention to capture an ACC Championship and compete for a national title.

With Boley, Sheptock and Myers, it appeared the Terps had the weapons to back up those claims.

After the match, however, Boley said that the team is not where it needs to be yet. And neither is he.

“More film, more reps, more focus, going harder [and] pushing my limits even further,” Boley said.

“Because what I had today wasn’t enough.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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half gave the team its biggest lead of the game at 34-18, but five straight points from the Dragons, including a 3-pointer at the buzzer, made it 34-23 entering halftime.

“I thought our ending to half didn’t help in terms of letting go into half with a ton of confidence,” Frese said. “All good things we could learn from to improve and get better.”

Drexel carried that momentum into the second half with their sharpshooting. The Dragons hit four of the first five 3-pointers in the half.

Drexel cut the deficit to three points with 2:46 left in the game, but the Terps’ free-throw shooting down the stretch helped them maintain their lead. The Terps were in a tough position, but they were able to still grind out their fifth win of the season.

“I thought Drexel was terrific tonight,” Frese said.

“They did a tremendous job taking possessions away from us, really working the shot clock, making us utilize trying to make better decisions in terms of our possessions.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

RUNNING BACK JACQUILLE VEII (center) rushed six times for 16 yards Saturday, but his fourth-quarter fumble led to Boston College’s go-ahead touchdown. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

penalties From PAGE 8 Boston College running back Andre Williams tying the game with a 6-yard touchdown run.

A mix of running and passing plays had the Eagles defense off balance, and the Terps were set at the Boston College 26-yard line. But on a 9-yard pass from Brown to wide receiver Amba EttaTawo, an ineligible receiver downfield penalty was called on the Terps, wiping out the play and setting them back five yards.

On the next play from the Eagles 31, Brown lofted a high, arcing pass down the left sideline. Wide receiver Nigel King settled under it and caught it for a touchdown. But there was another flag on the field, and the officials ruled that King pushed off the Boston College defensive back guarding him. So the Terps were pushed back 15 yards.

A 10-yard rush by running

back Brandon Ross and a 2-yard completion from Brown to Ross brought the Terps back to the Eagles 34.

On third-and-18, Brown scrambled before finding wide receiver Levern Jacobs over the middle for a 33-yard gain just short of the end zone.

But yet again, there was a yellow penalty marker resting on the turf. Brown was past the line of scrimmage when he threw the ball, and the Terps were forced to punt from the 38-yard line on fourth-and-22.

“Just with stupid things, with linemen downfield, jumping offsides or me over the line throwing the ball,” Brown said.

“Just little things. We were having big plays and success with and just kept shooting ourselves in the foot and making it third and 21 and that’s just never a good situation.”

Overall, the Terps were penalized five times for 44 yards, with 24 of those coming on that one possession. It was the fourth-most penalties and fourth-most

penalty yards the Terps have had in a game this season.

“As a offense, I thought we played our butts off,” running back Albert Reid said. “We left a few plays on the field because penalties. Penalties hurt us a lot. … We just got to get rid of those penalties next game.”

The Terps had another promising drive snuffed out by a turnover in the fourth quarter. Leading 24-20 with the opportunity to bump their lead to at least a touchdown, the Terps were inside the Boston College 20. But running back Jacquille Veii was stripped at the Boston College 7 as he took a handoff through the left side of the defense, and the Eagles recovered.

Five plays later, a collision in the secondary led to a 74-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Chase Rettig to wide receiver Alex Amidon to put the Eagles up 26-24.

But Boston College suffered a miscue of its own, as Terrapins outside linebacker Marcus Whitfield blocked

kicker Nate Freese’s extrapoint attempt, and safety Anthony Nixon returned it 98 yards for two points and a tied game. The Terps would get the ball back with little more than five minutes remaining and a chance to retake the lead.

“It swung the momentum again,” Brown said. “Just like that, 0-0 game. We had the ball, another opportunity to score. That was our mentality.

Been moving the ball all day.”

T h e Te r p s , t h o u g h , co uldn’t capitalize and punted the ball back to the Eagles with 1:32 remaining.

On third-and-3, Williams got loose for 36 yards on his final rush of the game and put the Eagles in range for Freese’s game-winner from 52 yards out.

“We felt like our worst enemy was us with the penalties and just the little miscues that we had,” Brown said. “We felt like they couldn’t stop us, and we just kept shooting ourselves in the foot.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL | PARADISE JAM

Terps fend off furious Friars comeback, 56-52 Providence nearly erases 19-point deficit in second half of Paradise Jam tournament final

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands — The Terrapins men’s basketball team boarded a plane headed for the Virgin Islands on Wednesday as a shaken group.

While the Terps didn’t splinter or completely lose confidence after starting the season 1-2, coach Mark Turgeon said unexpected struggles left his team

a bit dismayed before its trip to the Caribbean.

But all that disappointment and uncertainty seemed a distant memory when guards Dez Wells and Nick Faust and forward Evan Smotrycz posed for pictures last night on the court at the University of the Virgin Islands gym wearing black hats emblazoned with “2013 Paradise Jam champions” that had small pieces of the net from the gym’s hoops

tucked in them.

Moments before the photo opportunity, the Terps fended off Providence’s furious second-half comeback attempt to earn a 56-52 victory and cap a string of three wins in four days for the Terps that ended with a Paradise Jam championship.

The Terps’ concerns might not be fully alleviated after a trio of victories over unranked opponents, but nevertheless, a team that left College Park

reeling returns with something to build on.

“I didn’t feel good about us a week ago Sunday,” Turgeon said. “I knew we were going to play better, but I didn’t know if we could do this. So this is pretty big for us.”

Wells was named Paradise Jam MVP after he scored nine of 13 points against Providence in the second half to help the Terps outlast the previously unbeaten Friars. Smotrycz was the other

FIELD HOCKEY | SEASON IN REVIEW

Terp on the all-tournament first team, and he finished with 13 points and 11 boards in the final.

As a whole, though, Turgeon’s team used the same formula during the tournament to find success. They played stifling defense in each game and turned in balanced efforts on the offensive end.

On Monday, those two factors helped the Terps build See FRIARS, Page 7

STATISTICAL LEADERS POINTS Bryce Cotton, Friars: 19 Dez Wells, Terps: 13 Evan Smotrycz, Terps: 13 Two Friars with 10 REBOUNDS Evan Smotrycz, Terps: 11 Kadeem Batts, Friars: 9 LaDontae Henton, Friars: 8 Jake Layman, Terps: 7 ASSISTS Evan Smotrycz, Terps: 3 Roddy Peters, Terps: 3 Kadeem Batts, Friars: 2 Six players with 1

FOOTBALL

THe terps lost only one game in the regular season but fell to Duke in the semifinals. file photo/the diamondback

One last run falls short Terps’ season ends in semifinals after near-perfect regular season

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Terrapins field hockey defender Ali McEvoy chased Duke forward Jessica Buttinger toward the corner of the L.R. Hill Sports Complex turf with less than 30 seconds left in the NCAA semifinals.

In an effort to give the Terps a final chance to keep their national championship hopes alive while down, 3-2, McEvoy poked the ball loose, and midfielder Hayley Turner took possession. Duke intercepted Turner’s final pass upfield, however, and McEvoy finally stopped running.

As the final five seconds of the Terps’ season passed, McEvoy squatted and put her hands on her face.

The team’s relentless playing style, one that led to many of its wins this fall, couldn’t get the Terps an equalizing goal Friday afternoon, ending a season with many individual and team achievements but no national title to top it off.

“I think we played them tough,” midfielder Anna Dessoye said. “They just stood strong.”

After a sluggish first half put the team down, 3-2, the Terps’ secondhalf showing resembled how they played for the majority of a season that included 22 wins, an undefeated ACC regular season and a conference championship. It also provided a look at how the team expects to play next year.

Forwards Emma Rissinger and Mieke Hayn overwhelmed Duke’s backline with their speed at times, forcing turnovers and helping the Terps sustain pressure. Now with a full year of experience, the two rising sophomores will be key components of the team’s attack, which also includes rising juniors Dessoye and Alyssa Parker, both of whom switched between midfield and forward this season.

“One of the things we’ve really tried to do is recruit speed,” coach See review, Page 7

COACH RANDY EDSALL (left) talks with wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo after Etta-Tawo was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the third quarter of the Terps’ 29-26 loss to Boston College on Saturday. He was called for the penalty after catching a 33-yard touchdown. tim drummond/the diamondback

COSTLY ERRORS Penalties, late turnover stop Terps short of win against Boston College

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer Early in the second quarter Saturday, yellow penalty markers on the Byrd Stadium turf became just as common as the Terrapins football team’s black jerseys and Boston College’s white uniforms.

The Terps were penalized three times in five plays, squashing a promising drive into Boston College territory in a tied game.

And in a 29-26 last-second loss to the Eagles, the Terps’ turnovers, miscues and penalties formed too

formidable a foe to overcome, in addition to Boston College’s powerful running game.

“We keep shooting ourselves in the foot,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “We got to be able to put people away. We weren’t able to do that. Boston College played great. Our defense played good. They knew what they were going up against. Their running back and O-line are second to none. We had all the opportunities in the world today and just didn’t capitalize.”

The series of plays in the second quarter thwarted a potential response after a blocked punt led to See PENALTIES, Page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 8 TERPS 69, DRAGONS 63

Terps stave off upset attempt by Drexel

Thomas scores 21, Walker-Kimbrough adds 12 as team holds on for fifth win last night

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Shatori Walker-Kimbrough hit a jumper from the left wing to extend the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s lead to 53-41, and the Terps were poised to start a run that would help them maintain a comfortable lead over Drexel in the second half.

But then Dragons forward Sarah Curran and guard Alexis Smith hit back-to-back 3-pointers, and after Smith glided into the paint for a layup, the Terps’ lead suddenly shrunk to four points with 10:33 left

in the game, prompting coach Brenda Frese to call a timeout before a nearsilent crowd at Comcast Center.

Drexel closed late Monday night, but the No. 8 Terps were able to hold off the visitors down the stretch for a 69-63 victory.

“Proud of our team in terms of how we finished,” Frese said. “To be tested like this early, you get to see a lot about your team this early in the non-conference race.”

Forward Alyssa Thomas and Walker-Kimbrough led the Terps (5-1) in scoring with 21 and 12 points, See DRAGONS, Page 7

GUARD BRENE MOSELEY dribbles away from a Drexel player as the Terps hold off the Dragons, 69-63, last night at Comcast Center.

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