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according to the Institute of International Education report, compared to about 12 percent who chose to study in Asia in 2011-2012 and less than 10 percent each in Australia and the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.

“Since we’re a Western country, our culture is geared more toward

As university officials continue to push for higher enrollment in STEM programs, experts warn that students in these fields could lose out if a comprehensive immigration reform bill passes on Capitol Hill.

A bill aimed at comprehensive immigration reform passed in the Senate this summer by a 68-32 vote.

Lawmakers lauded it as a step toward progress, but experts said a provision that offers a shortcut to employment for highly skilled foreign workers in STEM fields could overwhelm the field and drive down wages. If the House chooses to hear and pass the bill, foreign workers looking for STEM jobs could be granted temporary residence, and undocumented STEM students might be able to go through an expedited process to receive a green card.

Tech giants such as Microsoft have been active in their support of the changes, citing a shortage of qualified domestic workers and a need to combat brain drains — in which highly skilled

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study abroad students go to Europe more than any other region of the world. These percentages show the distribution of this university’s students for the 2012-13 academic year. graphic by james levin/for the diamondback

taking flight more than ever before University’s undergraduate study abroad rates hit all-time high during 2012-13 academic year

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer Casting aside fears of homesickness, culture shock and costs, more students than ever are saying “yes” to an international experience in college.

The number of U.S. college students studying abroad has increased steadily over the years, and it hit an all-time high of more than 283,000

students during the 2011-12 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education. Study abroad rates for undergraduates at this university broke records in the 2012-13 academic year, with 1,730 undergraduate students going abroad, according to the university’s Office of International Affairs’ annual report.

An increasing number of students from this university are choosing to study in Asia, the university report

showed, with 3 percent more students going to Asia during 2012-13 than in 2011-12.

As China becomes a competitive world power, more students are finding that Chinese is a critical language to learn, said Brittany Lashley, a peer mentor at the Education Abroad office who studied in China for a year.

Still, about 53 percent of students nationally choose a European country,

Study: Students’ grades better with more quizzes Daily quizzes prepare better than exams do

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Police arrest suspects in View robbery

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer University Police officers arrested four suspects this week in connection with a robbery outside of University View earlier this month, according to a department news release yesterday.

The suspects are not affiliated with the university, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

On Nov. 9, a group of men assaulted and robbed two male university students who were walking along the trail behind the View at about 3:15 a.m., according to the report. The suspects took personal property from the students before fleeing toward Route 1.

The suspects did not display weapons during the incident.

Police took three suspects into custody Monday and charged them with two counts of robbery, two counts of assault, four counts of conspiracy and two counts of theft less than $1,000. Yesterday, police arrested a fourth suspect, who faces charges of two counts of robbery, two counts of assault, six counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and two counts of theft less than $1,000. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

he instructs his students to pull out a half-sheet of paper and answer a question related to the previous night’s reading.

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By Talia Richman students learn the material and have @talirichman control over their own grades,” said Staff writer McCloskey, who teaches COMM 107: W hen Thomas McCloskey’s Oral Communication: Principles silver wristwatch reads 5:05 p.m. and Practices. “Daily quizzes faevery Monday and Wednesday, cilitate that.”

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dents brought their laptops to class and took an online quiz daily. Researchers discovered that the average participating student scored half a letter grade higher than in previous semesters on exams with identical questions, and the students who took daily quizzes were better prepared and received higher grades in the other See quizzes, Page 3

Korean restaurant set to replace Route 1 Seven Seas Kangnam BBQ among slate of new businesses

By Annika McGinnis @annikam93 Senior staff writer New College Park restaurant owner Ted Seongmuk Sim is culturally split: He’s spent almost exactly half of his life in the United States and the other half in North Korea.

He grew up in the county of Kangnam — a “Westernized” part of the Asian nation, full of young people and energy, he said. Then he moved to Kansas and later to this state, where he sent his children to this university.

Struck by the school’s diversity and influenced by his own multiculturalism, Sim plans to blend Korean and American cultures when he opens his Korean barbecue restaurant about a mile north of the campus in early 2014. With his 24-hour restaurant and bar, where chefs will cook food in front of customers teppanyaki-style, Sim aims to fill a niche in the city for both

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College students respond better to being graded on frequent quizzes rather than simply through midterms and final exams, according to a PLOS ONE study released last week. McCloskey said the scientific journal’s results are consistent with what he sees in his classroom.

Researchers studied 901 students at the University of Texas in an introductory psychology class. The stu-

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a family sit-down restaurant and a college student hangout.

“I’m a fusion,” Sim said. “I just want to show what kind of cultures we are sharing with each other.”

The restaurant, Kangnam BBQ, will fill the space of former Japanese and Chinese restaurant Seven Seas.

It will serve traditional Korean food with some American influences, such as ketchup and mayonnaise, Sim said. Though the restaurant will play Korean pop music, there will be Western-style decorative wood fittings and television screens showing sporting events, said restaurant spokesman David Lee. Along with Kangnam, a new pizza place, Terrapin Pizza Mart, is scheduled to open downtown late this year, as well as a Denny’s and a kabob restaurant in lower midtown. Frozen yogurt shop Tutti Frutti recently opened under the Domain apartment complex, and a Casey’s Coffee is slated See kangnam, Page 2

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Univ libraries costs increase Journal subscriptions rise in price; officials say fees not solution

By Josh Logue @jmlogue Staff writer The price of academic texts is on the rise, but students aren’t the only ones struggling to keep up: University libraries officials said the cost of academic journal subscriptions has left them in a financial tight spot.

The library’s total collections bud get, a l most $1 2 m i l l ion, has stayed essentially flat for a

decade, while the cost of journal and database subscriptions has increased by about 6.5 percent a year, well above the average inflation rate of about 2.4 percent. Since 2011, a $100 student fee has helped cover some of the costs, but library spokesman Eric Bartheld said it is becoming clear that the fee is not a sustainable solution.

The publishing world has undergone significant change in the past few decades. Formerly independent and cheap subscriptions are now managed by a handful of publishers, driving up costs. And libraries across the nation have fallen out of See fees, Page 2

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abroad From PAGE 1 the European dream,” said Lashley, a senior Chinese major. “Students are concerned about culture shock, not knowing what to expect.”

Junior Meghan O’Lone traveled to China in winter 2013 through QUEST, a university program for students in the business, engineering and computer, mathematical and natural sciences colleges. For her, she said, the experience of going to a country so vastly different from the U.S. was an interesting opportunity that she may never have again.

“The whole country was our classroom,” said O’Lone, a bioengineering major. “I was a little nervous to go on the trip simply because it was my first time out of the country, but it was amazing, and I’m so glad I went.”

It was difficult for O’Lone to communicate while abroad because she didn’t speak Chinese, but it was even more challenging to get used to the way of life, she said. She couldn’t access Facebook because the site was blocked, and she had to go without some of her favorite foods because she couldn’t find dairy products.

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fees From PAGE 1 favor with the rise of the Internet, resulting in less government support.

“This is something that libraries all over the world have been dealing with for 30 years,” said Daniel Mack, collection management and special collections director.

In previous years, this university’s libraries found ways to cut costs, Bartheld said. They cut journal subscriptions for nine of the 10 years before the addition of the student library technology fee, which was intended to temporarily supplement the libraries’ budget and pay for student services.

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tage of at a young age, said Jolie Darrow, a senior government and politics major who spent six months in Argentina in 2012.

“You have your whole life to go to Europe, as it’s a very family-accessible place,” Darrow said. “There’s no better time to go to South America than when you’re young, single, willing to spend 30-plus hours on a bus and sleep in the frozen middle of nowhere.”

Many students may be overlooking these less traditional regions as study abroad options because they’re afraid of culture shock, language barriers or safety issues, Lashley said, but there are many benefits to going to places less traveled.

Students may have more opportunities for financial aid, through scholarships such as the Boren Awards. The National Security Education Program funds the awards, which encourage travel to countries underrepresented in study abroad programs and are not available to students who study in Westernized countries.

For Joanne Angbazo, a senior government and politics major, studying abroad in London was a great introduction to international travel and provided just the right amount of cultural variety.

“I needed to get away from everyone and everything I knew and out of my comfort zone for personal growth,” said Angbazo,

introduced 300 subscriptions and e-book packages, but the cost of subscriptions is catching up again, Mack said. About 75 percent of the materials budget goes to electronic resources.

“This is an unsustainable model for us as a university,” Bartheld said, adding that officials are frustrated that they are essentially “buying back the research of our own faculty and students.”

The student fee has been controversial from the start, as student leaders are reluctant to support or raise a fee for something they said should come with tuition. “ T he fa c t t h at s t udents have to pay for that stu f f out of fees a nd not tuition or state funding is k i nd of absu rd,” Student

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283,000 students in the U.S. studied abroad during the 2011-12 academic year

2,053 students at this university studied abroad during the 2012-13 academic year

42 students at this university participated in more than one study abroad program during the 2012-13 academic year who participated in the Maryland-in-London program in spring 2013. “I intend on taking journeys to other places that may have more of a cultural and language difference I can learn to adjust to.”

No matter the region, increasing study abroad rates are good for the world and for students, said Claire Valdivia, Education Abroad applications coordinator.

“Programming has accompanied [the trends] in terms of offering internships and really marketable experiences for people studying abroad,” she said. “It’s not only something that’s fun for students, but it’s also really helpful for academics.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

G overn ment A ssociation President Samantha Zwerling said. “Fees shouldn’t be going to our academic livelihoods.”

T h e l i b ra r i e s a r e n o w fighting on several fronts, M a c k sa id . O f f ic i a l s a re looking for funding through donations and grants, and the library is immersed in an ongoing comprehensive assessment of its collections to distinguish the most important resources from the more extraneous ones.

Another effort promotes the use of open-source publishing among university researchers, Mack said. Universities and libraries worldwide have been warming to the option of publishing research in openaccess journals that drop subscriptions and make the infor-

mation available for free, but the research world overall has been reluctant to fully embrace open-access publishing. Subscribers currently pay for peerreviewed material, and there is concern in the scientific community that open access could challenge that review model.

But Mack said he thinks faculty will come to see it as more acceptable, and eventually, “awareness and potential will reach a critical mass.”

“It really is a dire situation,” Mack said. “[But] we have excellent librarians working with faculty, students and the administration on the problem, so I’m optimistic that we’ll find something that works for Maryland.” jloguedbk@gmail.com

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During happy hour, all barbecue menu items will be 25 p ercent of f, a nd i n general, prices will range between $10 and $30.

The restaurant also hopes to appeal to families in the area looking for a nice sitdown meal, Lee said.

“There’s no Korean barbecue in College Park, so the experience you want to bring — [it’s] not just college students, but family-friendly and open at all hours,” he said. “So it’s an option for students to hang there and do whatever they need to do.”

Fresh m a n psycholog y m ajor Sr ut h i Vijay sa id she’d eat at the restaurant because she l i kes A si a n food. But she was skeptical that the place would be popular with students in the late-night hours. “[Students are] going to be out, so no one’s going to go to a restaurant in the middle of the night,” she said, adding students would more likely go to the downtown bars or McDonald’s.

Though Sim hasn’t worked in the restaurant industry before, he’s operated more than 10 different kinds of businesses since arriving in the United States. He was inspired to open an eatery by his family’s history of restaurant ownership: His mother operated a Korean restaurant in Korea, and his uncle operates a Korean barbecue place in China.

The restaurant has been in the works for at least three years, though the owners started putting their plan into action about five or six months ago, Lee said. The building is undergoing construction, and Sim hopes to open by the end of January or the beginning of February.

“This is part of my life project,” Sim said.

to open there by the end of this year. In 2014, Fishnet owner Ferhat Yalcin plans to open a coffee shop in Berwyn down the street from his seafood restaurant.

Over the past few years, College Park has seen an i n f lu x of d iverse, i ndependent restaurants like K a ng n a m, sa id M ich ael Stiefvater, city economic development coordinator. “[Kangnam is] a fun atmosphere where you order a type of meat and cook it at your table, which has a grill built in,” Stiefvater said. “They’re very popular out in California, and I’d imagine it will become a favorite of students and residents.”

When patrons come into Kangnam, they’ll be able to sit at the bar, in a separate dining room or at one of the 27 tables with center grills where chefs will cook their food. Cooking food in front of customers adds show-like entertainment value and reduces the amount of time needed to cook, the owners wrote in their business plan.

Menu items will include beef, chicken, pork and vegetable barbecue, noodles, appetizers, sushi and salad. A typical meal will include a meat or vegetable, rice and soup, Lee said. The restaurant will also serve breakfast from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. each day.

T he ow ners hope to attract students through t he l ate-n i g ht ho u rs — the restaurant is open 24 hours except from 2 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Tuesdays.

Sim also hopes the openseating, no-tax lunch specia ls f rom 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 pm. and happy hour specials from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday will attract students. amcginnisdbk@gmail.com

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Officials release plan to update group offices Students ask for more Stamp space

By Darcy Costello @dctello Staff writer When design plans for the Student Involvement Suite in Stamp Student Union were rolled out during the building’s remodeling about 15 years ago, the campus was home to approximately 300 student groups — a far cry from the more than 800 active groups today.

T h is rapid ex pa nsion prompted a series of changes to the space and to the Student Organization Resource Center in recent years, including last year’s creation of a task force charged with reconfiguring the SIS, a project Stamp Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens expects to be complete by fall 2014.

“The space was designed with one mindset, and the reality turned out to be something different,” GuenzlerStevens said. “When it was planned, no one expected the number of student groups to more than double in the coming years. So as a result, we’re not accommodating the groups and their needs to the best of our ability, which is something we’re hoping to change.”

Throughout the 2012-13 academic year, the task force researched peer institutions’ student activity spaces, hosted focus groups and distributed

quizzes From PAGE 1 classes they took during and after the tested class.

The daily quizzes in the Texas class also seemed to have social benefits. When researchers compared student performance along social class lines, they found the achievement gap between students from lower- and higher-class backgrounds was nearly 50 percent narrower.

W hen quizzes are what launch each lecture, McCloskey said, students are encouraged to keep up with the work as it is assigned and focus on retaining the information.

Frequent tests that cover small chunks of material help eliminate the need for ineffective study sessions at the last minute.

“My goal is not for students to cram as much information into their heads, forget it as soon as the exam is over and triage what assignments are important,” he said. “I would like them to generally learn all of the material to some extent so they remember it in a year, or whenever it’ll be useful.

Daily quizzes facilitate better scores on exams and better long-term memory in general.”

A couple of challenging cumulative exams don’t always accurately demonstrate a stu-

surveys to the university community. In its report, the task force confi rmed that student groups appreciate the private office spaces for their organizations, said Donna Lim, Stamp assistant director of programs.

Va nessa T ra n, a sen ior behavioral and community health major and member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, said members of her group frequently use the office space to spend time with one another.

“A lot of times, we’ll just come in during our lunches or du ri ng free ti me,” she sa id. “Someone m ight do work on the computer, or people will just chill in the office — it’s a chance to bond with the other brothers.”

But a bigger space is needed to accommodate larger organizations, Tran said.

“We share the office with a not her g roup, but it’s a really small room. We have over 200 brothers, so we take up a lot of space and can’t even accommodate all of our members as it is,” she said.

“There’s some room for improvement in the way they’re distributing the spaces.”

However, a portion of the student population is still in favor of open, communal space, rather than closed-off offices, the task force reported. “ It’s pa r t of t he t re nd toward brainstorming around others — an open space plan helps with collaboration and group cohesion,” Lim said.

dent’s knowledge of the material and studying efforts, he said. Regularly administered assessments give a more holistic view of what a student has actually retained throughout the course.

Sophomore history major Kurt Wonilowicz said he recently failed a midterm in a philosophy class in which tests account for 80 percent of his final grade. Although he studied a few hours a day for almost a week leading up to the exam, one question confounded him, and it lowered his score by two letter grades.

“Exams are not necessarily an accurate reflection of students’ abilities. I think there are better ways to gauge students’ competency,” Wonilowicz said. “Some kids just rock at cramming. Small benchmark assignments are helpful — there needs to be a way that students who are committed to a class can show that.”

Junior Victoria Stewart said she wishes she had classes that followed the format described by the study. As an English a nd seconda ry education major, many of her classes are graded solely on a few hit-ormiss term papers and exams.

“If you don’t do well, it really screws you over and you don’t really have a chance to bring [your grade] up,” she said. “Even if you do poorly on

Univ seeks to offset global carbon impact Scientists see new world record for atmospheric CO2 The Student involvement suite in the Stamp Student Union could be getting an upgrade to better serve the student groups that use its office space. sung-min kim/the diamondback “We saw a want and a need from students for both styles of suite organization, even though they’re sort of on opposite ends of the spectrum.”

In past years, the SIS was unable to offer offices to all interested student groups and organizations. But this year, Guenzler-Stevens said, it was able to accommodate every group that applied by the deadline for an office for active use, rather than simply storage.

T h roug h student focus groups, the task force found that a large percentage of the student body was unaware of the space and resources available to them through the SIS. “A lot of times, if you’re not involved, you don’t know it even exists,” GuenzlerStevens said. Potential design aspects could help increase awareness, such as a wall of windows where passersby could see the open space for student use, she said.

Tobi Oke, a sophomore kinesiology major, first used the SIS when Christian organization Bethel Campus Fellowship hosted a game night in the space, and said he was unaware of its existence before the event.

“I always sort of thought it

was only for employees, but after I came for the event, I realized it’s a great place to hang out or lounge or socialize,” Oke said. “I haven’t really had that much of a chance to explore it, but it’s another place I can come and recline, which is always appreciated.

It could probably be better used by students if it was more widely broadcasted.”

Although the task force’s report did not set forth a comprehensive design plan, it did provide feedback that Guenzler-Stevens said officials will consider at a Dec. 6 design workshop. Together with students, faculty and staff members, employees from the Avancé design fi rm will brainstorm ideas, working toward a complete construction drawing that will likely be completed by the end of February, she said.

“We have a commitment to make the space increasingly resourceful for students, and we’re working towards our goa l,” Guen zler-Steven s said. “There’s always a way to improve the space, and we want to make it the best for student groups that it can be.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

A student takes a quiz. New research shows that daily or frequent quizzes help students learn course material better and boost attendance rates. rachel george/the diamondback one paper, you don’t get a good grade in the class.”

The PLOS ONE study also revealed that taking daily quizzes leads to increased attendance, as students have an added incentive to come to class.

At the University of Texas, the classes with daily quizzes reported 88.5 percent attendance in November. During the same month, 65.9 percent of students attended course sections that tested them based on the more traditional system. “[Students] know there will be a direct consequence to them not coming to class, and

I certainly think attendance has improved as a result,” McCloskey said.

But Wonilowicz said that u si n g cl a ss a ssi g n ments to ensure student turnout reminds him of being in grade school.

“It’s sor t of catered to younger, more irresponsible students,” he said. “[The daily quizzes] are designed to make you show up to class every day, which almost belittles us. In college, you’re expected to take responsibility.”

“WE DON’T NEED MASSIVE IMMIGRATION OF ADDITIONAL STEM WORKERS. ... WE HAVE From PAGE 1 PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO immigrants are deterred by the CAN DO THIS WORK.”

million graduates those fields.

Other opponents say the problem isn’t that there aren’t enou g h A mer ic a n S T E M graduates — data shows there aren’t enough who are either qualified or willing to take those positions.

According to a 2013 report by the Economic Policy Institute, 35.5 percent of computer and information science graduates and 46.1 percent of engineering and engineering technology graduates were employed outside the STEM fields of their majors a year after their graduation in 2009. And 52.7 percent of those computer and information sciences graduates and 31.3 percent of those with engineering and engineering technology

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complicated American immigration process.

“Under current law, many face a wait of more than 10 years to obtain a green card, and they may decide that a career in the United States simply isn’t worth that kind of instability,” Brad Smith, legal and corporate affairs executive vice president and general counsel at Microsoft, said before Congress in April. “As a result, we risk losing these experts to other countries, where they will compete against us. This bill goes a long way toward keeping their talents in

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Center for Immigration Studies fellow the United States and helping to grow our economy.”

Smith also touched on the number of high-skilled jobs in the tech sector going unfilled. At Microsoft, 6,300 open positions remained vacant, and the issue is a national one: There are close to 4 million unfilled job openings, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan has expressed his interest in

bolstering STEM enrollment to produce more workers in the field to fuel the state’s “innovation economy.”

But David North, a Center for Immigration Studies fellow, said the worker shortage isn’t the drought it seems.

Based on projections compiled by the CIS, STEM job openings over the next 10 years would stand at about 2.5 million, while the nation’s universities would churn out about 3.9

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Ori Gutin, Student Government Association sustainability director.

To offset this problem, the university has worked to increase building efficiency and ensure new buildings meet at least Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certifications, if not a higher standard, said Morgan Folger, a sustainability office intern.

“I do see that there are some unnecessary construction projects,” said Folger, a sophomore English and environmental science and policy major. “There’s a lot more that could be done, rather than taking the easy way out or the cheaper way out.”

By building new dorms to decrease commuter emissions, the university may be able to combat high carbon emissions with its own efficiency and renewable resource use, DeLeon said.

“I see [adding new facilities] as an opportunity. Now that we have the property, we can manage it better,” she said. “By making our facilities more efficient on campus, we’re using less energy and less carbon is resulting with that.”

However, the longer it takes to construct a project, the more electricity is used, Folger said, and university departments could maximize the benefits of adding new facilities by increasing efficiency and decreasing construction time.

“A lot of these buildings on campus are old, built at a time when we didn’t have a huge focus on sustainability,” said Gutin, a sophomore environmental science and policy major.

When buildings are knocked down and rebuilt sustainably, he said, the university can reap the benefits in the long run.

The Sustainable Buildings and Energy Sources work group, the University Sustainability Council and the SGA’s Student Sustainability Committee have been working on ways for the university to meet several concrete goals by 2020, including decreasing electricity use on the campus by 20 percent and making all buildings and construction on the campus carbon-neutral, Gutin said.

“I think that worldwide, [the carbon dioxide level] is a problem, but on our campus, we have one of the most sustainable campuses,” Folger said. “We have the ability to keep meeting those goals.”

While the university has met its sustainability goals this year, staying on track may prove difficult as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach a record high, a recent report shows.

The university decreased its carbon emissions by 15 percent in the past year and has been moving in the right direction “on a macro level,” said Sally DeLeon, sustainability office project manager, but human activities are adding carbon dioxide and other gases to the air at an alarming rate.

In 2012, the reported ca rbon d iox ide level of 393.1 parts per million was a record high, at about 2.2 parts per million more than the previous year’s level and more than 40 parts per million more than the target level, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization.

On the campus, heating, cooling and lighting university buildings and powering technology are the main contributors to this university’s carbon footprint, DeLeon said. University air travel is also a source of some of the emissions, along with faculty and staff commuting to and from the campus.

“T here a re ways to m a n age it, a nd I t h i n k people are aware of the conflicting priorities there,” DeLeon said. “It’s a matter of managing it.”

As the university expands and constructs more facilities, new equipment will increase power use, and demand for air conditioning in buildings and dorms will add to the university’s carbon footprint, DeLeon said. Although these additions can negatively impact the environment, she said, they are necessary as more students enter the university and more research and innovation takes place.

“As we are building new buildings and are expanding upon them, it is something that we expect, which makes it a difficulty because we want to expand,” said eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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degrees said they opted out of the field of their degree because they were unhappy with the pay, promotion opportunities and working conditions of the jobs available. About 32.2 percent and 36.3 percent of computer science and engineering and engineering technology graduates, respectively, weren’t in a job in any STEM field.

North said there is room for a foreign worker program, but companies claiming that “there is a shortage of STEM workers and therefore they have to bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers every year to work in the STEM field” is “self-serving.” Bringing in these extraneous workers would flood the supply of labor

in these disciplines and lower wages, North said, which only benefits the tech companies.

This, North said, will cause citizens and green card holders studying in these fields to be “hired away” to other fields, which would do very little to help address the supposed shortage of STEM workers.

“In general terms, we don’t need massive immigration of additional STEM workers,” North said. Companies like Microsoft “don’t need to use the immigration system to bring in great quantities of people to do mundane STEM work; we have plenty of people in this country who can do this work.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

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Thanksgiving is simply my favorite holiday Christmas is such a big deal that we spend about a month building up to it. We listen to holiday music on the radio and drape our houses in colorful lights. We go shopping for our friends and family, searching for things that will make them happy. And on Christmas Day, we get to open the little surprise boxes that our friends and family have prepared for us.

Even though I thoroughly enjoy the season of giving, I see the celebration of Christmas as almost tainted by the consumerism that surrounds it. Specifically, I’m bothered by the advent of competitive bargain hunting that fuels the nationwide frenzy of Black Friday shopping. In the context of the Christmas spirit, the energy expended on the promise of unbeatable prices seems misplaced.

Thanksgiving, by contrast, is a pure and simple celebration.

There’s no buildup and no hype.

The whole purpose of the holiday is just to eat with family and give thanks for the things we already have. We don’t need a new iPhone or a fat check from grandma to be happy; we’re just fine having the company of the people we care about. That such a mundane tradition has lasted into the 21st century is, to me, a beautiful thing.

This year, Wal-Mart’s Black Friday sales event will begin at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than sales began last year.

I sincerely hope that store will be empty, and that shoppers will be too busy eating dinner. I know that’s what I’ll be up to.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!

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he release of this week’s Department of Resident Life student survey showed what we already knew about mixed-gender and gender-inclusive housing: Both options are popular and should be the way of the future for all dorms at this university.

Ninety-seven percent of students living in mixed-gender or genderinclusive housing said they would recommend it to others. This type of positive feedback shouldn’t be shocking. College students should be able to live with members of the opposite sex, plain and simple.

Separating students based on gender is a distinctly old-world way of thinking. As Resident Life says on its website, “Historically, residence halls were designed to separate the sexes into two groups — male and female.”

Let’s remember that these boundaries were established at a time when women weren’t allowed to vote and weren’t legally required to be paid the same as men. In fact, the very notion of women receiving an equal education was taboo. And LGBT rights were basically nonexistent.

So gender-separated housing is an outdated standard from another time. In a modern society, anyone

should be able to live with anyone regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Mixed-gender and genderneutral housing provides a safe, secure environment to do so.

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Taking steps toward more gender-inclusive housing is something we need to concentrate on improving.

According to the poll, 87 percent of those surveyed said their needs were met and resident assistants were supportive and inclusive of different genders in mixed-gender units. And 94 percent reported they have not faced harassment of any kind. Hopefully, for the small portion of those respondents who claimed harassment, Resident Life is looking into those specific instances for guidance on how to prevent them in the future.

Still, in a spring 2012 poll, 28 percent of students said they would prefer to live in single-gender housing. These students should not be neglected, and options should be provided for them too — but they are now in the minority. Fortunately,

Resident Life has noticed the shift in what students want and plans to continue expanding mixed-gender and gender-neutral housing to other dorms across the campus.

At the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year, as part of its “pilot program” for inclusive housing, Resident Life said on its website “that 95% of our residence hall spaces will remain single gender, 4% will become mixed-gender housing and less than 1% of housing will become genderinclusive housing.”

Based on the survey results from the task force, those percentage numbers should start to shift in the future. The department is already “looking at expanding to basically one floor in each of the buildings in the Ellicott and Denton communities,” said Amy Martin, Resident Life associate director.

Small steps are good, and progress is appreciated. But hopefully these small steps lead to a domino effect and bigger, more expansive changes in the future. Resident Life knows a majority of students want more mixed-gender and gender-inclusive housing. It’s time to provide and stay ahead of the curve — not force future students into outdated lifestyles.

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College: A separation, not a goodbye

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There I was — a glowing smile set across my face, my arm thrown around my best friend’s shoulder on graduation day. And there was the photo taken the day my friends and I decided to hike up Bear Mountain at 3 in the morning to catch the sunrise from the peak.

While watching my photos flash on screen and then disappear a second later that I made the sad realization that my life was now officially moving in a direction off the path I had paved with my friends over the past four years.

We all make this realization, and we all let go to a certain extent — whether we notice it or not.

It happens at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday when you find yourself confiding in a new friend rather than your best friend from back home. It happens slowly, when you find yourself growing apart from your significant other who’s attending college across the country.

While letting go is hard, especially for a sensitive man like myself, it

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t’s a transition” are the words incoming college freshmen hear the most in the months leading up to their big move from a lone building to a 1,250-acre campus.

Certainly, moving to college is a transition. The second I stepped onto the campus, I was instantly confronted by a swarm of unfamiliar faces and new opportunities. This university is an entirely different world than the suburbs of New Jersey.

But before we push off and venture into uncharted territory marked by budding friendships and fresh experiences, we first let go. We separate.

“Separate” is a word rarely highlighted in any response to the question of what the move to college is like. Separation, however, is the first step in the adjustment process.

After kissing my parents goodbye on move-in day, I sat in my desk chair staring at the pictures fading into one another on the screen of my electronic photo frame. Suddenly, I was enveloped by an overwhelming sense of sadness.

Thanksgiving dinner is always at home for my family. Mom does most of the cooking and baking, and Dad takes care of carving the bird. My aunt brings over some hors d’oeuvres and a can of cranberry sauce because she prefers it to the homemade version my mom prepares for everyone else.

During dinner, I load up on stuffing and mashed potatoes and always grab one of the turkey legs. Of course, I’m careful to save room for a warm slice of homemade apple pie. It’s not a huge guest list — just my aunt, uncle, cousins and grandparents — but it’s the most family we have over all year. Needless to say, I’m getting pretty excited for tomorrow evening.

Before my freshman year of college, I never thought too much of Thanksgiving. It was just an exceptional dinner served to more company than usual. After spending three-and-a-half years in college, though, Thanksgiving means much more to me. For one, it means a home-cooked meal that beats a Chipotle run any day.

More importantly, it means revisiting my roots and seeing friends and family who I once saw every day. I now consider Thanksgiving my favorite holiday.

Hardcore Christmas fans might find it hard to believe that I would rank Thanksgiving in first place.

I do indeed celebrate Christmas, and I can see why (according to Kevin Hogan is a senior computer a 2011 Harris Interactive poll) it engineering major. He can be reached is Americans’ favorite holiday. at khogandbk@gmail.com.

is a vital step in our transition into adulthood. The separation from familiarity, from the friends who know our tiniest quirks, allows us to discover a sense of independence and self we never knew existed.

Yo u b e g i n to i n d u l ge i n t h e unknown and unexplored. You join the club sailing team even though you have never stepped foot in a sailboat. You run for class president and discover a passion for leadership.

You sneak into Byrd Stadium at 5 in the morning even though you have never done anything illegal.

You define yourself. You polish your skills and explore interests.

Four years later, you’re a different person from the guy who walked into room 1127 on Aug. 28, 2013.

You begin to pave your own path the moment you decide to let go, understanding the trail you started out on years ago will always be there.

A n ge l o B a v a ro i s a f re s h m a n journalism major. He can be reached at angelobavaro@gmail.com.

sit in class, flanked by my classmates who are idly swiping tablets, tapping Facebook messages and even reclining in their chairs to watch a live stream of a football game. I myself am looking up today’s reading on my phone.

I just don’t understand it. In high school, we weren’t allowed to use phones because we weren’t allowed to have any gadgets in class, period. This is still true in many classes on the campus, yet more than once in the ones where devices are allowed, I have been called out because I chose to use a phone.

Why are professors prejudiced against SIM cards?

That’s the only thing that separates my little Nexus 4 from every other device in the room.

In 2013, we can phone each other on laptops and take notes on tablets, but I get a truly remarkable amount of flak in class just because my phone natively functions as a phone.

The short-term solution to getting called out for looking up class documents on a phone is to simply explain that it was being used for an innocent purpose.

Both parties leave the interaction flustered but not angry. It’s not enough, though, because I’ve been called out twice this semester. For nothing. I’m not mad; I’m just confused.

Texting is probably the biggest defense for the anti-phone party, but I can’t even fathom it. Nowadays, anything with Wi-Fi can text.

I could probably text you from my toaster if I tried hard enough.

Assuming laptops and tablets are allowed in the classroom, the floodgates are already open for every other channel of unruly communication. You could go on Chatroulette on your laptop in class if you were crazy enough.

Maybe something about the hunched posture and the minute jabs or the low-rider position for thumb-users simply draws

the eye and screams “this kid isn’t paying attention.”

I’m not sold by this. Laptop users look far more suspicious, because from the teacher’s perspective each one looks like Wilson from Home Improvement. Except on his side of the fence, there’s Reddit, Tumblr and ESPN. At least on a phone I can’t hide the fact I’m giggling at something unrelated to class.

I can read small text on my phone.

I feel the need to point this out because people (my dad) can’t. I can forgive, somewhat, the suspicion of those whose sight is worse than mine. But they’re still wrong.

Phones make noise. This is true.

“Ringtone” is the word we use to describe the class-interrupting phenomenon of a rude phone user.

We don’t, however, have a word for when someone opens their laptop in class and it automatically begins playing porn from the previous session. I recommend “ringmoan,” so we can stop pretending phones are the only device with soundbased disruptive capability.

To be level with you, is preventing brief, awkward exchanges as important as “real” issues — such as sustainability, equality and fairness — that get published in the opinion section of The Diamondback?

Yes. The fact that our professors are capable of maintaining the cognitive dissonance that would allow them to shun phones and allow laptops is incredibly distressing. These are professors, honored for their rational and logical expertise. The fact that they can produce doublethink on a 1984-esque level reflects badly on college as an institution, on the merits of higher thought and on the whole educational system.

What I’m trying to say is: Not allowing me to look up the reading on my phone will literally cause the apocalypse.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at atlasemm@gmail.com.

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REVIEW | FROZEN

frozen in time The newest release in the Disney Princess genre, Frozen manages to recapture the feel of ’90s Disney but accomplishes little else

By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer At their prolific apex — the princess boom of the ’90s — Disney’s animators managed to do something that seemingly no one else in Hollywood could manage.

Besides creating self-perpetuating merchandising machines, Disney was producing genuinely great, memorable Broadway musicals, full of perfectly crafted songs and physics-defying choreography

that put Busby Berkeley to shame.

Deeply indebted to its princess predecessors, Frozen stakes its place right in the heart of golden age Disney Princess-dom, but despite its many charms, it fails to bring anything truly groundbreaking or memorable to the table.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” Frozen follows two sisters: bubbly Princess Anna (Kristen Bell, The Lifeguard) and the quieter Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel, a Broadway lifer who’s served time on Glee). Unbeknownst

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to Anna, Elsa has the magical ability to control ice and snow. When Elsa loses control of her powers and flees during her coronation, an eternal winter settles over their kingdom of Arendelle. Anna soon finds herself teaming up with a rugged mountain man (Jonathan Groff, C.O.G.) and an enchanted snowman (Josh Gad, The Internship) to find her sister.

T h e re a re s o m e ge n u i n e l y powerful moments within the needlessly convoluted, exposition-heavy plot, and Frozen does pleasantly dovetail from some of its spiritual forebears, giving Anna and Elsa enormous agency and emphasizing their sisterhood over their romantic entanglements.

But for much of its runtime, Frozen feels like a retread, a pleasant but incredibly familiar play-through of the Disney Princess greatest hits: dead parents, vague magical prophecies, anthropomorphic animals, a lastminute rush to cram in as much conflict as possible. There’s nothing wrong with playing all the hits, necessarily, but there’s nothing particularly invigorating about it either. It may all be new to this generation of kids (and this film seems squarely aimed at 7- to 10-year-old-girls, judging by the crowd at this screening), but Frozen’s narrative is nothing but tricks that any older viewer could come up with in her sleep.

Frozen, in short, is comfort food when it has the potential to be so

frozen is Disney’s latest attempt to live up to the glory days of the ’90s, but it doesn’t do enough to differentiate from the standard tropes of Disney princess-dom. Highlights include the 3-D animation of wintry scenes, an endearing snowman and Kristen Bell’s singing voice. photo courtesy of adventuresofacouponista.com much more. The 3-D animation is gorgeous to look at (the ice and snow are, naturally, rendered beautifully), and the voice cast is incredibly game, particularly Bell and her chirpy, surprisingly strong singing voice.

The sprinkling of musical numbers (penned by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, a veteran of Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon) are split about evenly between Wicked-esque power ballads and showtune standards. All are simple and sweeping enough to ensure kids will be able to belt them out after first listen. None are so grating that parents won’t be able to sit through them on the car

ride home. Only one (a jaunty ode to summer sung by Gad’s eccentric snowman) manages to feel inspired.

Let’s talk about that snowman.

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and get No. 7, that’ll definitely help our chances,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “And that’s all we can focus on right now.”

Some of the Terps’ seniors were on the program’s most recent team to make it to a bowl game, when the Terps defeated East Carolina in the Military Bowl in 2010. But many players on the team have only known two losing seasons during their time in College Park.

So after the Terps won their sixth game at Virginia Tech on Nov. 16, it was a natural topic of conversation.

“It’s come up, just because people want to know, ‘What’s it like to go to a bowl?’” Brown said. “There’s not too many people that are on the team that have been to a bowl, and that’s the biggest thing, the gifts and things of that nature, where you’re going, what it’s like, what are practices like. … We don’t really have control of that right now because there is still games to be played. There is still so much uncertainty, but I’m sure guys are looking at the possibilities.”

The Terps still have the opportunity to clinch the program’s first winning record since the M ilitary Bowl season, and they know a 7-5 record would be more appeal-

this season’s leading scorer, forward Jake Layman, Smotrycz slid into a playmaking role in the first half.

Though Smotrycz finished the game 5-of-13 from the field, he scored 13 points, added three assists and grabbed 11 boards.

“That’s something that comes with any game,” Smotrycz said.

“If your shot’s not falling, you got to find other ways to impact the game, whether that’s rebounding, offensive rebounding, getting to the rim. You got to do something, you got to find a way.”

Smotrycz helped the team thwart the Friars’ late comeback attempt in the tournament final, but it didn’t come easily. The junior forward played 34 minutes in the

QUARTERBACK C.J. BROWN (center) and the Terps could play in the Heart of Dallas Bowl on Jan. 1, according to recent projections by analysts. alik mcintosh/the diamondback ing than a 6-6 record.

“I definitely think it’s important because winning will take care of everything after that,” outside linebacker Matt Robinson said. “And as long as you have the most wins you’re capable of having, most things should fall into place after the season.”

When the Terps take on N.C. State in Raleigh, N.C., there will be plenty on the line: a final regular-season win for the team’s seniors, Edsall’s first winning season and a rebound from a skid

during which they lost five of seven games.

But the chance to improve and solidify postseason positioning provides even more to play for this weekend.

“It’s tough not to look at, but we try not to fall into that because we really just got to get this one and hopefully the rest will take care of itself,” center Sal Conaboy said. “And really, we can only worry about this one because at this point, it’s literally a one-game season.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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SAUERS From PAGE 8 Providence and found the goal again for the Terps — who will face No. 12-seed UC Irvine in the third round of the NCAA tournament on Dec. 1 at Ludwig Field — beating multiple defenders in the left side of the box with sharp cuts before poking a shot around goalkeeper Keasel Broome and into the bottom right of the goal with the outside of his foot.

“Mikey is a special young player,” Cirovski said. “And I was disappointed he didn’t attack more after getting that goal. It was so special; I wanted him to do it again and again and again. I kept encouraging him.”

Despite being a midfielder, Sauers made his first career start at right back on the road against California in the Terps’ second game of the season. Cirovski was seeking an answer for his backline, which featured multiple freshmen, including Alex

ELLIOTT From PAGE 8 Crutcher said. “Being on a team sport has helped her reach out of her comfort zone.”

Elliott’s good-natured spirit has helped her become a role model for her younger teammates.

“A lot of kids look up to Adreené,” Horsmon said.

victory over Northern Iowa on Sunday, and in the final few of his game-high 37 minutes Monday, he began to fade.

“He was really tired in the second half,” Turgeon said.

Smotrycz said that he’s still getting back into “game shape” after sitting out last season because of NCAA transfer rules, so the extended playing time on back-to-back nights was a challenge.

Providence went on a 20-4 run late in the second half to help trim a 19-point lead to two, but the admittedly exhausted Smotrycz grabbed a key rebound in the final minute as the Terps edged the Friars.

“In situations like that, it kind of goes out the window,” Smotrycz said. “You just got to fight through it, and I thought everybody did a good job of that.”

He had enough energy to

stomp around with his teammates and climb a ladder to clip a piece of the net off a hoop after the win. But Smotrycz’s excitement wasn’t a result of his individual play; he believes his personal turnaround pales in comparison to the Terps’ rebound as a whole from the Oregon State loss.

Much like Smotrycz, the Terps entered the Paradise Jam reeling after a 1-2 start to the season, but they remained outwardly confident. Now the Terps and their versatile forward have tangible evidence to support that attitude for a championship trophy and an all-tournament team selection.

“I think this a great, great step for us,” Smotrycz said. “Definitely good to head back to the states with a championship.”

Crognale and Suli Dainkeh, but the Terps put on an ugly defensive performance in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Golden Bears.

Sauers would be absent from the starting lineup for the next five games, including conference battles against Duke and then-No. 2 North Carolina, in which he didn’t play a single minute. Cirovski couldn’t deny the midfielder’s versatility, though, and after a disappointing home draw against Old Dominion, the coach started Sauers, this time at midfield, in a 2-0 victory over Pittsburgh — the Terps’ first shutout of the season.

Sauers started the final 10 games of the regular season at outside midfield, scoring his first career goal against Boston College on Oct. 4. The Terps won seven of those 10 games and lost just once on their way to the ACC regular-season title.

But Cirovski altered his lineup once again for the conference tournament, bringing Sauers off the bench for

all three games, and the midfielder continued to produce.

The Terps and Tigers were locked in a scoreless tie in their semifinal match with 13 seconds remaining in the first overtime period. Sauers collected a deflection and buried his third goal of the season to lead the Terps to the championship game against Virginia, which they won 1-0. Sauers added his fourth goal of the season in the NCAA tournament second round against the Friars on Sunday.

And if there’s one thing Sauers has proved this season, it’s that it doesn’t matter if he’s coming off the bench or starting.

He’s going to find a way to make a difference in games.

“I just have the mentality that when I’m in, when I’m on the field, I just do my best, 100 percent,” Sauers said. “I think that’s what every guy on our team does, which is why we’re winning games.”

“She spends a lot of time helping them.”

While Elliott’s eccentric personality may have lent itself to some difficulties when she was a child, it also helped her transition seamlessly to team sports. Since she began playing volleyball in the seventh grade, Elliott has made it her duty to help her teammates.

Though she said she could

still be a bit gullible at times, she fits in well with the Terps.

Next season, she won’t have to just fit in — she’ll have to lead her teammates.

“She is God’s gift to us,” Williams-Smith said. “She is one of those people God has sent to humanity to bring love, peace, happiness, joy. That’s her job in the planet: to share her love.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL | PARADISE JAM

After sitting on bench, Smotrycz keys Terps Forward posts strong performances against Northern Iowa, Providence in tournament

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands — Evan Smotrycz couldn’t wipe the smile from his face Monday night into yesterday morning after his Terrapins men’s basketball team topped Providence, 56-52, to win the Paradise Jam title.

The forward, who was named to the all-tournament team, walked aimlessly around the court at the University of the Virgin Islands gym for several minutes after the final buzzer sounded, hugging and highfiving any teammate he could find.

Based on that elation, it’d be hard to tell that just three days earlier, coach Mark Turgeon was urging Smotrycz to provide greater production.

Turgeon even brought Smotrycz off the bench for the first time this season in a 68-43 tournament-opening win over Marist on Friday because of his disappointing play the week before. Smotrycz never wavered, though, recording a combined 33 points and 20 rebounds over the final two games to key a tournament title.

“He’s playing with confidence,” Turgeon said Monday night. “He made some big shots early, really got us going.”

On Friday, Turgeon decided to start freshman point guard Roddy Peters instead of Smotrycz after the junior shot 4-of-11 from the field in a disheartening loss to Oregon State on Nov. 17. Against Marist on Friday, Smotrycz totaled just four points and one rebound.

Still, Turgeon plugged the 6-foot-9 Massachusetts native back into

“THAT’S SOMETHING THAT COMES WITH ANY GAME. IF YOUR SHOT’S NOT FALLING, YOU GOT TO FIND OTHER WAYS TO IMPACT THE GAME, WHETHER THAT’S REBOUNDING, OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING, GETTING TO THE RIM. YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING; YOU

CORNERBACK WILL LIKELY and the Terps could have a more prestigious bowl berth on the line this weekend at N.C. State. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

PLAYING FOR MORE

GOT TO FIND A WAY.” EVAN SMOTRYCZ

Terrapins men’s basketball forward the starting lineup against a bigger Northern Iowa team Sunday, and the decision paid dividends.

Smotrycz scored 17 of his gamehigh 20 points in the second half of an 80-66 Terps victory over the Panthers. His versatility was key for the Terps as he hit 3-of-6 3-pointers and led the team with nine rebounds.

Afterward, Smotrycz said the benching didn’t affect him. He was still upbeat and believed that he would be able to regain his form.

“I expect to play well,” Smotrycz said.

“I think as long as I prepare and go in with the right mindset I should do that.”

Smotrycz didn’t allow his production to dip much in the final against Providence, either. While last season’s leading scorer, guard Dez Wells, got into foul trouble early, and the Friars’ defense locked in on See SMOTRYCZ, Page 7

Terps could strengthen bowl case with win at N.C. State on Saturday

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer In one week, the conversation turned from how far up the postseason bowl hierarchy the Terrapins football team could climb to if it will even make a bowl at all.

The ACC has 10 postseason-eligible teams up for eight bowl tie-ins. Syracuse could become the 11th with a win Saturday, meaning that even if No. 2 Florida State clinches a spot in the national championship game — freeing up another slot — the Terps could still be left out of the ACC’s allotment.

But with the season finale at N.C. State looming Saturday, the Terps are echoing their coach in discussing what they can control and knowing what’s at stake.

“I don’t have to tell them,” coach Randy Edsall said. “I told them that last week. They understand it.

I don’t think you have to sit there and remind them

again this week. We’re going to prepare this week to go and get win No. 7. That’s really the bottom line.”

A seventh win and a winning season would make the Terps an appealing prospect for a number of bowls.

Representatives from the AdvoCare V100 Bowl, which takes place Dec. 31 in Shreveport, La., have attended at least two home games this season, and that bowl will have the seventh pick out of the ACC schools.

But the Military Bowl, which will get the No. 8 team and takes place Dec. 27 in Annapolis, is also seen as a logical, local option because the Terps would be expected to draw well at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

At the same time, a number of other bowls could still be in play. A number of conferences, such as the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC may not be able to fulfill all of their tie-ins. Multiple bowl projections in the past week have the Terps taking the place of a Big Ten team in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

“It’s tough to say, obviously, but if we go out there See BOWL, Page 7

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VOLLEYBALL

MIDDLE BLOCKER ADREENé ELLIOTT has shed a shy personality to become a key leader for coach Tim Horsmon and the Terps this season. file photo/the diamondback

Blocking it out Despite shy demeanor, Elliott emerges as force for Terps

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Adreené Elliott saw her grandmother suffering in a hospital bed, so the then-7-year-old pulled up a chair in a Winston Salem, N.C., hospital and began reading her the Bible. Elliott’s parents hadn’t told the second-grader to do it; she just felt it was the right thing to do.

The Terrapins volleyball team’s middle blocker always possessed a genuine concern for others. Her trusting personality bred naiveté when she was a child, attracting teasing from peers in middle school.

But when Elliott stepped into a team setting on the volleyball court, her natural, pleasant demeanor and kindness proved to be assets.

The Terps will conclude this season with matches against Virginia and Virginia Tech this weekend. Next year, Elliott, outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher and middle blocker Catie Coyle will be the only seniors on

the team. Elliott will be tasked with taking on more responsibility as a leader — a job that will likely mesh well with her personality.

“On the days that she doesn’t feel like she gives the way that she would want to, I think that that’s hard on her,” coach Tim Horsmon said. “She understands the importance and the dynamic of team. Especially in our sport, everything is interlocked.”

Elliott was sheltered as a child.

She rarely hung out with her friends, she wasn’t allowed to date and her congeniality led other students to pick on her.

In middle school, a 12-year-old classmate told Elliott that she had five children. Elliott returned home and recounted the tale to her mother.

“I was like, ‘How old was she when she started having children?’” said her mother, Avis WilliamsSmith. “‘This child is so naive.’”

Elliott added, “I’m a trusting person. … Until you give me a reason not to trust you, I do.”

She didn’t let the teasing bother

her, though. Elliott immersed herself in volunteering and worked at the Special Olympics, Samaritan Ministries — which helps people without health care — and retirement homes.

“People are Adreené’s passion,” Williams-Smith said. “She really cares about people. … She gets joy out of giving other people joy. And she does it without any desire to get anything in exchange. She just wants to help.”

Elliott rarely displayed typical teenage angst. When she’d get into an argument with her mother, she’d head to her room and either draw or write in her diary. After a few hours, she’d find Williams-Smith and give her a hug and a kiss.

After being very introverted during her freshman season, Elliott has emerged as a vocal leader for the Terps over the past two years, and she is involved in the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee.

“She’s putting herself out there,” See ELLIOTT, Page 7

MIDFIELDER MICHAEL SAUERS has earned consistent playing time for the Terps as this season has gone on. The Terps will take on No. 12-seed UC Irvine on Sunday in the NCAA tournament third round. file photo/the diamondback

Down stretch, Sauers emerges as top option Freshman has scored four goals this season

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer Sasho Cirovski had trouble finding Michael Sauers a spot in the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s rotation during the beginning of the season.

The coach knew Sauers — a D.C. United Academy product — was talented, but with freshman goalkeeper Zack Steffen and several other freshmen defenders in the starting lineup, Cirovski simply couldn’t afford another inexperienced body on the field.

Over the course of the season, though, Sauers developed into one of the Terps’ most lethal midfielders and became a consistent starter during the team’s strong second half of the regular season. Cirovski brought Sauers off the bench during the Terps’ ACC championship run, but that didn’t stop the midfielder from having an impact, as he scored the game-winning goal in overtime against Clemson in the semifinals.

Sauers returned to the starting lineup in Sunday’s 3-1 win over See SAUERS, Page 7