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Two years later, riot-free Post-Duke game night quiet, but police remain prepared for 2010 repeat

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

After Wednesday’s men’s basketball loss to rival Duke, hundreds of students quietly filtered out of Comcast Center and the downtown bars. There was no celebrating or rioting in sight.

But local police departments were still ready — in fact, as some students walked past Ritchie Coliseum, at least 80 Maryland State Police officers waited inside, dressed in full riot gear and ready to depart at the sign of any trouble.

“It’s additional protection for officers who may be subject to violent crowds,” University

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POLICE PRESENCE WEDNESDAY Total number of officers: 500

University President Wallace Loh presented the Facilities Master Plan to the regents Finance Committee yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Regents committee OK’s Facilities Master plan Full board to weigh in on plan next month

Officers in riot gear: 80

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Architecture major has the highest unemployment rate, study shows Despite 13.9 percent rate, dean and students aren’t concerned

BY JON WOLPER Senior staff writer

David Cronrath is always worried.

As the dean of this university’s architecture school, he’s worried about his students finding jobs that are rewarding and fulfilling, he said, and he’s worried about whether they’ll all be able to fulfill their individual career objectives.

But a study released earlier this month by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce that found architecture majors

have a 13.9 percent unemployment rate straight out of school doesn’t have Cronrath particularly concerned.

It’s because the profession of architecture is undergoing a transformation, he said. Students in the school are no longer content to limit themselves to learning the very basics of the industry and are instead starting to branch out into subfields such as sustainability, real estate development and historic preservation.

The study pooled data from the 2009 and 2010 American Community Surveys on recent college graduates

aged 22 to 26 and found architecture’s unemployment rate was nearly 3 percent higher than its closest contemporary — arts majors came next with an 11.1 percent unemployment rate, and humanities and liberal arts followed at 9.4 percent. And many students said their professors have made them well aware of this trend.

“It’s almost sort of funny at this point how much we’ve talked about it,” said Brian Glassman, a senior architecture major. “No one’s really

see ARCHITECTURE, page 3

Architecture majors face the highest unemployment rate. GRAPHIC BY CAROLINE AMENABAR/THE DIAMONDBACK

After months of feedback and drafts, university President Wallace Loh presented the Facilities Master Plan — a framework for future developments and landscaping for the university — to praise from members of the Board of Regents Finance Committee yesterday.

Although many faculty, staff and students expressed concern over Facilities Management’s limited budget and land constraints for enacting many of the plan’s proposals — including new state-of-the-art teaching facilities and buildings and a more biker-friendly campus — several members of the

board’s finance committee said they are optimistic the university will craft ways to implement the plan.

The multimillion-dollar plan — which cost Facilities Management $600,000 in consulting funds to draft — would direct future developments to encompass sustainability and community stewardship, Loh said.

“Times have changed, values have changed and therefore, the master plan for the future of the university has to change as well, and that is what [the regents] completely embraced,” Loh said.

Unlike master plans from previous years, Loh said this plan ties in

see REGENTS, page 3

State ranks high for online-voting system Pew Center notes system for accessibility

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Senior staff writer

State residents who vote online this presidential election year may find the process more user-friendly than ever.

A recent Pew Center on the States study ranked Maryland second in the country for the accessibility and services provided to online voters — including technology university staff members developed — with Minnesota leading the pack. The study, “Being Online Is Still Not Enough,” analyzed the State Board of Elections website and the Maryland Elections Center website, the latter of which is operated by this university’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship.

The MEC website — which the center developed in 2008 before launching it in 2009 — stood out because of the accessible information and unique services developed over the past several years, according to CAPC Coordinator Michael Charlebois.

“The site has a lot of easy-to-use information,” Charlebois said. “We keep it up to date and make sure it has

all the content the voter needs.”

One of the website’s most innovative features is an online absentee ballot system that allows voters to download ballots instead of waiting for them to come in the mail — a service Charlebois said is especially beneficial to students voting out of state as well as disabled individuals and military personnel. He added that the absentee ballot system received positive feedback when the center surveyed students on the system last year.

In addition, the website provides easily accessible information for each voter, including their voting status and polling location, as well as information on who funded campaigns and how officials raised money for them. Voters can also download sample ballots to look at prior to Election Day. “I think it’s vital that voters have easy access to information about their polling place and how to get their absentee ballot,” CAPC Research Director Michael Hanmer said. “The Maryland Elections Center website

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The Board of Regents Finance Committee praised the Facilities Master Plan, which university President Wallace Loh presented yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

bring upscale hotels, additional housing and restaurants to the city — and still has to grapple with $650 million worth of deferred maintenance projects, according to the plan.

“Funding is always going to be an issue in good times and bad times, so we just have to find ways to work through it,” Wojciechowski said. “But there seems to be a pretty solid plan in place for the next 20 years.”

Since many of the plan’s proposals would impact the university and the city for years to come, regents said they believe state legislators will be inclined to secure funding for it.

“I view it as a great investment for the state of Maryland, and I know [Gov. Martin O’Malley] genuinely supports it,” Attman said.

land, Baltimore County.

Additionally, many board from page 1 members touted the plan’s innovative methods in coping initiatives off the campus and with the university’s limited incorporates city officials and resources. With officials 1.7 million square feet short of residents.

“What we’re doing now is land to place new buildings, saying the relationship with the plan instead emphasizes the community is important,” public transportation and pedestrian-friendly design, Loh said.

Several people at yester- which would allow parking day’s meeting said they are spaces to be replaced with optimistic Loh will receive the academic facilities. “[The plan] focuses on go-ahead to begin implementation when the full board — excellence and quality all the the 17-member body that sets way through and is contemUniversity System of Mary- porar y and focused and realland policy — reviews the istic,” said Regent Gar y Attman. “And I believe it’s plan next month.

“I think the Facilities Mas- achievable.”

But several regents ter Plan was very well put securing together and very well acknowledged reflects the positive growth funds for many of the projects that College Park is looking will be a challenge. The unito do going forward,” said stu- versity has yet to break dent Regent Collin Woj- ground on the East Campus ciechowski, an undergradu- development — a proposed ate at the University of Mary- 38-acre project that would

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Police Chief David Mitchell said of the extra officers on standby. “Why? Well, if you need them, you need them ready to roll, so they were prepared to do that.”

The officers in Ritchie were just a small population of the 500 police — combined from University Police, Prince George’s County Police, Mar yland State Police, Mar yland-National Capital Park Police and the College Park Volunteer Fire Department — who patrolled College Park on Wednesday night from Comcast Center to Route 1.

By 11:30 p.m., shortly after the game had ended, at least 15 police cruisers were present between Hartwick Road and Rossborough Lane. An additional fleet of eight riot horses were also ready in case students flooded Route 1 and began to riot as they did two years ago after the Terps beat Duke in a regularseason game.

Although police said they were not anticipating a riot, preparing for one was critical to ensuring student safety.

“We don’t want an instant crowd to envelop Route 1 without any police presence at all,” Mitchell said. “History has shown that’s not good.

The idea is if the bars empty out, there is a police presence there without sticks and shields and gas masks. And,

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officers directing traffic outside. University Marketing Director Brian Ullmann could not be reached for comment on the cost of financing these officers.

In addition to the 500 patrolling officers, police made an extra effort to control potential post-game celebration with a bonfire on Chapel Field. The fire was never lit, though, as there were not any students celebrating on Route 1. Last year, about 200 students attended a similar event.

“At some point the celebration needs to stop and we can’t have people in the streets holding traffic forever, so we were prepared so people had a place to go. But we didn’t have that,” Mitchell said.

The total cost of the bonfire was “small,” according to Mitchell, and because it was not lit, all of the materials can be used next year.

Some students said they were relieved no riot took place and police were watching the streets.

“After the riot two years ago, I feel that it’s good that the police departments in the area are making an effort to prevent students from getting out of control,” Katie O’Brien, a junior civil engineering major, said. “I feel like what they are doing is enough because no matter how many police are on the streets, if students wanted to, they would still have the same reactions.”

access to absentee ballots or polling places,” Cohen said.

“The more digital the process can be, the more accessible it’ll be for students.”

CAPC Director Paul Herrnson said much of the information provided on the website was collected by undergraduate students to give them the opportunity to work on public policy topics.

“Our mission is to address major public policy issues of today and help students

address them for tomorrow,” Herrnson said.

While the website currently focuses on state politics, Herrnson said the site might widen its scope in the face of the upcoming presidential election.

“The website deals primarily with state government, but we’ll probably branch to the federal government later this year,” Herrnson said.

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if there was a crowd surge that enveloped those roads, it’s going to take ever y bit of police presence.”

Two years ago, 23 students were arrested in the postDuke game commotion. Students alleged police brutality, eventually leading to an FBI investigation into the Prince George’s County Police Department for officer conduct that night. But Wednesday night — just like last year’s Duke game — stood in stark contrast. Mitchell said all 500 officers went home without a single arrest or confrontation.

Prince George’s County Police District 1 Commander Maj. Robert Brewer said his officers were prepared, but he wasn’t anticipating any problems like the department saw in post-game riots in 2010.

“I don’t want to categorize it as high risk, but in the past there have been celebrations that have poured into the streets,” Brewer said. “In previous years, there were fires, cruisers burned.”

It took police two weeks to plan for Wednesday night, Mitchell said. The five departments have had meetings to discuss officer placement, potential weather conditions and any other anticipation, he said.

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too seriously worried about it, I don’t think.”

While architecture majors at this university need to attend graduate school to become licensed architects, Cronrath said they’re still eminently hirable — even if they’re doing slightly different things than just building buildings. And the high unemployment rate largely stems from the collapse of the housing industry, which is now showing signs of improvement, during the recession.

“The design and construc-

tion industr y is notoriously cyclical, and it will come back to life as it has after past recessions,” said Robert Ivy, the executive vice president and CEO of the American Institute of Architects, in a statement.

“There are signs that the construction industr y will rebound slowly in 2012 and gain traction in the coming years, and there will be a demand for architects with the most up to date training and education.”

The numbers aren’t causing much internal strife in the architecture building for a few reasons, Cronrath said.

On one hand, there’s the sense the housing industr y is rebounding, and by the time current undergraduates can actually enter the job market — many students here spend a few years working and interning with a firm, going to graduate school and becoming licensed later — they feel jobs will be easier to come by.

“With every downfall we can grow up from that,” said Alison Medlyn, a junior architecture major. “I feel like within the

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next 10, 15, 20 years, everything will pretty much be back to normal.”

On the other hand, there’s the varied education Cronrath says the architecture school seeks to provide, one that educates students not just on the basics of the profession but also on ways to approach problems creatively, to think in a way that would make them valuable candidates for many types of professions.

Cronrath remembers a scene from a few years ago, when he was dean of the art and design college at Louisiana State University. The head of the business school came to him asking whether business students could learn from Cronrath’s designers “with purple hair” because he felt the students needed to learn how to solve problems in a non-linear way.

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he College Park City Council has gotten off to a rough start in density housing above ground-level retail space. The council jumped on the 2012: The council may feature a few new faces after last year’s idea, and asked for an inclusion in the bill that would allow the theoretical election, but the body’s voting patterns seem to make even less grocery store to sell wine and beer — typically not allowed in the state.

This comes after the council’s ardent opposition to redeveloping the sense. After passing critical legislation last year to ban the placement of lawn furniture on rooftops, the council has moved on to actual mat- Maryland Book Exchange site, which would feature about 1,000 student beds and ground floor retail space. ters, such as voicing its support for same-sex marriage.

Why does the city council support redeveloping the That’s a step in the right direction — the council College Park Shopping Center, which is perhaps years should surely voice its opinion on important state from breaking ground, when other developments — matters, right? But when it comes to real issues in its the Whole Foods project, the Mar yland Book own backyard, the council has struggled to maintain The College Park City Exchange site — seem imminent? a consistent stance on a wide range of issues, espeCouncil has made some The council opposed the Whole Foods development cially on mixed-use developments featuring high-end because of traffic concerns, and opposed the Book grocer y stores. questionable decisions Exchange redevelopment because of the influx of stuLast month, the council voted to oppose rezoning a when voting on proposed dent residents it would bring to the area, but this prosmall part of a 37-acre parcel of land in the southern posed project supported by council members would edge of the city. The site — a wooded area along mixed-use development result in both of these problems.

Route 1 about half a mile south of downtown College As this editorial board sees it, the only meaningful Park — is the location of a planned development fea- and redevelopment projects difference between the three proposals is location: turing 900 housing units, a Whole Foods market and throughout the city.

The plan supported by council members is on the other retail options. Council members cited traffic western side of Route 1 — away from houses in Old concerns in voting 6-2 against the project, despite Town and the residents who seemingly cling to the idea of quiet neighborapproval by University Park and Riverdale Park officials.

But during this week’s meeting, the council took steps to entice a differ- hoods in a streetcar suburb. Either that, or council members just really like ent mixed-use development featuring Harris Teeter, a high-end grocery Harris Teeter.

Either way, it’s hard not to question the council’s efficacy: Opposing store, in downtown College Park. Owners of the College Park Shopping Center — which features Chipotle, Applebee’s and other stores and restau- inevitable projects and supporting unlikely developments are not the marks rants — have expressed interest in redeveloping the site to feature high- of an effective local government. Here’s to the next two years.

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Twenty-three flavors: No room for the ladies

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he Super Bowl is the biggest day in advertising for a huge number of companies, and this year, I sincerely hope two are left out: Dr Pepper and Miller have been making low-calorie beverage commercials that tell men how to act for too long now. The last thing I need when watching impossibly gigantic men throwing each other around is to be emasculated by a Miller Lite ad because my jeans (in theor y) wouldn’t look all that bad on a woman.

Miller Lite’s ad campaign/crusade of manliness has focused on ridiculing men who do not meet its standards of masculinity. As the advertisers see it, the main criteria for being a man are drinking Miller Lite beer and never doing anything even slightly feminine. As if it wasn’t obvious enough, each commercial ends with a macho, disembodied voice telling viewers to “man up” and choose Miller Lite.

For reasons unknown, Dr Pepper has decided to hop on the patriarchy bus with Miller Lite. Now that Dr

JAKE DEVIRGILIIS Pepper, too, has a low-calorie product to sell, it needs a way to bring their beverage to men who might fear drinking a 10-calorie cherr y cola isn’t totally cool.

To reach this demographic, it has decided to eliminate an entire sex from its target market. For those unfamiliar with anatomy, that doesn’t leave many sexes left in the target market. With the coinage of the slogan, “It’s Not For Women,” Dr Pepper has topped ever y frustrating advertisement Miller has ever put out. In addition to the blatant misogyny, this seems to be an objectively terrible strategy for selling products.

Now, I’m not saying this slogan has no place anywhere in advertising; certain products aren’t made

for women. Viagra comes to mind almost immediately, but surely other such commodities exist. Diet soda, however, would not have been in my list of products that women do not use.

I think I know what’s going on here. It seems like Miller and Dr Pepper are worried there is a feminine stigma associated with the consumption of low-calorie foodstuffs.

With commercials featuring only the manliest of men, these two giants of carbonation are hoping to eliminate any elements of femininity and make their products the new go-to drink for ever y guys’ night out. Unfortunately, I think the only people who dig these commercials are men whose only option is a guys’ night out.

I don’t think these ads are working, but imagine if they did: men buying Miller Lite for the purpose of pouring it on the tight-fitting jeans of other bar-goers, Dr Pepper 10 drinkers getting punched at random — because in Dr Pepper’s world, all men love fighting. It seems that in

Dr Pepper’s world, life is an action movie. Please, come back to reality.

Dr Pepper, Miller, please stop reinforcing archaic notions of gender, and give human beings some credit. These ad campaigns reduce men to one-dimensional caricatures and ignore women outright. It’s a poor reflection on these two companies that their only idea on how to get people to drink soda is to infuse it with imagined machismo. I’d rather look “unmanly,” to use Miller’s phrase, than support a company that can’t figure out how I might be OK with such an image.

So, Dr Pepper, you’ve lost this customer. Miller? You make awful beer, so it really doesn’t matter how you advertise it. I don’t want any.

But please, when I’m watching the Super Bowl next weekend, quit making fun of me because I’m not the man you want me to be.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at devirgiliis@umdbk.com.

Preoccupied with Wall Street

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ince September, the Occupy Wall Street movement has expanded from a humblysized, anti-corporate protest in Manhattan’s Liberty Square to an immense, multinational one that encompasses about 1,500 cities.

Four months in and hundreds of police arrests, riots and used cans of pepper spray later, the Occupy movement lives on and exists on our own campus. Since the past four years have comprised of corporate bailouts, subprime mortgage foreclosures and taxpayer subsidies to corporations, it is completely understandable why the American public — specifically America’s youth — is frustrated by the overbearing, dismal economic climate in this country.

However, although corruption may exist in some parts of the financial sector, I cannot help but ask myself, “Why push most blame on Wall Street, but not on senators, representatives and other members of the federal government who have allowed our economy to fail?”

Occupy protesters complain about how the 1 percent screwed up. Corporations on Wall Street

have the majority of the wealth from taxpayers on “Main Street” but fail to protect them financially.

But who gave corporations on Wall Street tax-subsidized bailouts in the first place? What entity is responsible for tr ying to pick winners and losers in our so-called free enterprise economic system? Didn’t members of Congress choose to loosen regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prior to the mortgage crisis in 2008?

Occupy UMD and the entire Occupy movement abhor the financial benefits of Wall Street, but according to Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen, about 49 percent of Occupy protesters thought the bank bailouts were necessar y to start with. Yes, you heard me: The same bank bailouts that gave $700 billion to Wall Street investment banks were deemed necessar y by almost half of Occupy protesters who were presumed to be complete critics of financial and governmental cronies.

As much as protesters critique all of the goings-on of Wall Street, the federal government has always been

CAROLINE CARLSON the corruption-enabler. The federal government has always been one of the root causes of corporations getting the upper hand, and the federal government has always been committed to rent-seeking, or having an “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” demeanor with crooked CEOs of Wall Street.

In no way am I completely in defense of Wall Street itself. The Financial District is not without its own sins. There is no doubt corruption still lurks through the halls of some of the investment banks on Wall Street as well as the CEO’s office at General Electric (a corporation which currently pays nothing in income taxes thanks to its CEO’s appointment as chairman of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness).

Although Wall Street is not necessarily a holy ideal of what business

should always look like, one should reconsider where some of the blame should be placed.

Walking through the streets of Zuccotti Park and up the steps of the Capitol, we hear Occupiers calling for the elimination of corporate handouts and backstage deals between government and the financial industr y. Would it not make more sense to focus on how big and influential our federal government is, rather than focusing mainly on the corporate sector?

As members of America’s youth, our financial future is dependent on the fluctuations and stability of our economy. Although some in the movement have woken up to the reality of our ever-growing, iniquitous bureaucracy, some members of our generation still believe we should live our lives wrapped in the chains of big government, a powerful Federal Reserve system and endless deals between Capitol Hill and Wall Street.

Caroline Carlson is a freshman government and politics and marketing major. She can be reached at carlson@umdbk.com.

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i there. Let’s talk about life after college. First, it’s important to remember that there is no life after college.

What you will find instead is a dark, meaningless existence that contains approximately 20 percent less beer. To cope with this haunting new reality, you must step out of your comfort zone and find the courage within yourself to switch to wine.

After graduation, you will spend most of your time tr ying to “market yourself” to potential employers. This means concealing ever ything that makes you unique and creating an entirely new identity, one that appears genuinely interested in the growth opportunities available at Cat Fancy magazine. It may not be your dream job, but cats are really in demand right meow.

Once you’ve found some kind of meaningful employment, you will use your college education to think of new and increasingly complex reasons for why you can’t come in to work. Since your boss is extremely old, you could probably get away with telling him that you recently took an arrow to the knee — especially when you consider that he comes from a time when arrows were still humanity’s only real weapon.

Your social life after college will be vastly different than the one you have now. It will mostly consist of going to the same dive bar ever y night and talking about what you did in college to whoever will listen. As the years drag on, these conversations will become more and more detached from reality, until one day your old roommate is convinced you and he led the men’s basketball team to a seventh-straight national championship. It’s not all bad, though: Karaoke night is ever y Tuesday, and you sing a mean “Poker Face,” despite what the lady running the karaoke machine may think. And hey, at least you still have your health.

Which brings me to my next point: You no longer have your health. One day, you are going to wake up and discover that your body — after four straight years of being subjected to processed food and other forms of torture, such as the missionar y position — has begun to shut down. It will start as a barely noticeable ache in your lower back — which, according to WebMD, means you have fibromyalgia — and eventually get so bad that you can no longer exist on this planet without being in pain. When you reach this point — normally at about age 28 — it will be time to retire.

The only good thing that happens after college is when you settle down with your college sweetheart. This is the person who got you through some of your toughest moments, and who will be there for you now, when things get even tougher. You might even want to start a family with this person, which will mean sitting him or her down and having a serious conversation about the implications of adopting a dog.

In a nutshell, that’s life after college. So I guess what I’m tr ying to say is this: Please, for the love of God, stay here.

Mike Sanders is a 2011 graduate and former columnist. He can be reached at mikesanders74@gmail.com.

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orn today, you are likely to make profitable use of your rich emotional life and your vivid imagination, and it will surely surprise very few if you follow your instincts and pursue a life in the arts. There may be those who will try to dissuade you from such a life, especially when you are young, but like so many Aquarius natives you have also been endowed with a certain stubbornness that will lead you to do only that which you want to do — whether or not others approve of the choice. You have what it takes to develop your skills fully and become one of the best.

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On at least one occasion, and perhaps two, you are likely to change your mind and try to dedicate yourself to another line of work or way of living — but ultimately you will be drawn back to the very thing to which you were drawn when you were young.

There is, after all, no denying who you are!

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re likely to be impressed by the behavior of someone who is only trying to imitate you. You may want to pursue unrecognized options.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Discussions about what is real and what is unreal may head down some unforeseen roads today. You must be ready for anything!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — After such a buildup, what happens today is likely to be something of a disappointment — though you may recognize its real value.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take turns today, and don’t insist that someone else do what you are doing — or do it in the same way.

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Water polo’s shaky future The Terps open their season this weekend with high expectations against a backdrop of possible elimination. Read more at diamondbackonline.com.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Pensky takes Tennessee job

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps coach since ’05, he leaves team for SEC opening as winningest in program history

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

Brian Pensky, the all-time winningest coach in Terrapins women’s soccer history, has left to take the same position at Tennessee after seven seasons with the Terps.

Pensky was first contacted by the Volunteers late last week. After a visit to Knoxville, Tenn., on Jan. 20, Pensky initially decided he would remain as Terps coach.

But after mulling his options over the weekend, Pensky ultimately chose to leave the program he helped lead from mediocrity to national prominence.

“Today is a very sad day for me personally, because I’m no longer the head coach of the University of Maryland,” Pensky said in a telephone interview last night. “I didn’t know that I’d really ever be saying those words.”

Pensky took over the Terps’ program in 2005, after spending three seasons as an assistant for the men’s soccer team under coach Sasho Cirovski. Pensky replaced Cirovski’s wife, Shannon Higgins-Cirovski, in taking his first women’s coaching job.

The transition wasn’t particularly smooth for the Terps under their new coach, as the team finished below .500 in each of Pensky’s first four seasons.

But beginning in 2009, the Terps swiftly moved from the bottom of the ACC to conference and national contention.

In that stretch, the Terps went 44-14-9, twice reaching the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. In 2010, when the Terps were stunned in

Brian Pensky was hired as Terps women’s soccer coach in 2005 after three seasons as an assistant under men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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2010

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Number of games Pensky won in seven seasons as Terps coach, the most in program history

Year during which the Terps, under Pensky, earned their first No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament

Terps’ win percentage in the past three seasons, including two appearances in the Sweet 16

the second round of the NCAA Tournament, they earned their first-ever No. 1 overall seed, and Pensky was named the 2010 Soccer America National Coach of the Year.

“It stinks to see him go,”

Cirovski said of his former colleague and close friend. “It’s a very big loss for me personally because he’s such a dear friend. … He’s a special person and we’re all going to miss him dearly, and I certainly wish him the best of luck.”

The athletics department plans to begin a nationwide coaching search for his replacement immediately, according to Deputy Athletic Director Nate Pine.

“We thank Brian for all that he has done during his

tenure at Maryland and all the success he has brought to this program,” Pine said in a statement. “We wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Pensky met yesterday morning with his Terps team, which he said was stunned by the news. Pensky’s assistants, Jonathan Morgan and Laurie George, plan to remain in College Park and could be considered for the coaching vacancy, Pensky said.

While the team he built awaits his replacement, Pensky will face his own set of unique challenges in the SEC. He’ll take over a program that has reached the Sweet 16 five times since 2002 but has made the NCAA Tournament only once in the last three seasons. In that time, the Terps knocked off the Volunteers twice.

He’ll also need to leave the life he and his family have built in the area — Pensky said his three children, whom he told about the move last night, “are 50 percent tears and 50 percent smiles” — and a team of players he recruited himself.

But the resources available at Tennessee, including a $7.5 million women’s soccer complex and Knoxville’s passion for the Volunteers, ultimately proved to be the deciding factor in a trying decision-making process.

“I love it here and I’ve had an amazing experience, but the opportunity that was presented to me and my family at Tennessee was too good to pass up,” Pensky said. “I’m very much looking forward to the challenge there.”

Pe’Shon Howard had already taken off his commemorative Under Armour shoes featuring Gary Williams’ signature and matching black and gold socks before he addressed the media in the moments after Wednesday night’s loss to No. 8 Duke.

After another emotionally taxing loss — the Terps’ third straight — it was a sign, small as it might have been, that the sophomore point guard had already moved on.

His words that followed reflected the same attitude of his coach, Mark Turgeon, who preaches an even-keeled attitude at all times. With a crucial home game against Virginia Tech tomorrow, Howard said the Terps just hope they can put their losing streak to rest and forget their recent shortcomings.

“When we get to practice [today], Coach Turgeon will make sure we’re prepared,” Howard said Wednesday night. “He’s the king of not getting too high and too low.

That’s something that’s instilled in our team. We can’t get too low after a loss and too high after a win.”

For all the good that came from Wednesday night’s 7461 loss to Duke — an impressive perimeter defensive effort, a commitment to the team’s game plan — Howard

The Terps will look to start addressing it against the Hokies, who won both of their games against the Terps last season, including an emotional eight-point win in Blacksburg, Va., that all but shut the door on the the Terps’ NCAA Tournament hopes.

But Virginia Tech (12-8, 1-4) isn’t the same team it was last season. The Hokies dropped each of their first four ACC games and five of their last six overall. Their one win during that stretch, though, came against then-No. 15 Virginia.

The Terps want to take

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Forward Ashton Pankey and the Terps dropped below .500 in conference play after a 74-61 loss to Duke on Wednesday night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

a jumper that barely bounced in midway through the second half, the Terps’ offense went silent. During that time, Duke built up too big of a lead to overcome in the final few minutes, mirroring the Terps’ loss at Temple the game before.

“I think it is more of who we are,” Turgeon said. “We are a young team, we are inexperienced, we make mental errors, and we don’t make free throws. You may ask if it is an offensive problem or defensive problem — I think it is an everything problem.”

BY JOSH VITALE

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Team has shot to end three-game losing streak against VT tomorrow and his teammates know it wasn’t enough.

Even as reporters peppered the Terps (12-7, 2-3 ACC) with questions about the so-called moral victories taken from such a result, Howard held firm in his attitude toward the loss and the need to move forward from it.

“At the end of the day, it’s still just one game,” Howard said. “We have to play a good Virginia Tech team that beat a very good Virginia team. Our conference is still wide open, and we’re all packed in together. We can’t let one game affect us.”

Still, Turgeon remained optimistic for a second straight game. Despite their foul-shooting woes and moments of offensive confusion, the Terps stuck with a top-10 team for most of the game.

“If you could have been in Puerto Rico, you would have never thought that we could play like we're playing right now,” Turgeon said. “What I saw tonight was encouraging. We followed the game plan a lot better than we have defensively. We’re growing up. We didn’t win, but we hung around.”

The Terps, though, have been plagued by stretches where their offense all but disappears. They failed to score a field goal in three separate stretches of at least four minutes against the Blue Devils.

After guard Nick Faust hit

Team has lost three of past five games

advantage of the remaining home games they do have in conference and catch their ACC record from slipping further below .500. Tomorrow’s game against the Hokies provides the opportunity for Turgeon and his team to put aside the what-ifs of Wednesday’s loss and start answering other questions.

“If we want to feel good about any progress,” guard Sean Mosley said, “we have to come out with a win at the end of the day.”

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With Hokies up, Terps looking to move past Duke Senior staff writer

Hokies upset Thomas-less Terps, 75-69 Alyssa Thomas is no stranger to late-game heroics. In the month of January alone, the sophomore forward has hit a game-winning jumper against Georgia Tech and a game-tying layup at the buzzer to force overtime in a victory at North Carolina.

But as Virginia Tech salted away a stunning upset at the free-throw line in Comcast Center last night, Thomas could do little but watch from the sidelines, her left hand wrapped in a cast protecting a sprained left thumb suffered in practice Tuesday.

Without Thomas on the floor, the No. 8 Terps looked powerless to stop the Hokies as they suffered their first defeat in College Park this season, 75-69.

“It’s obviously an extremely difficult loss tonight,” said coach Brenda Frese, who met with her team for nearly 40 minutes before addressing the media. “There’s not a lot of things I can say we did well.”

“We were supposed to move forward today [from the loss against Duke],” said center Lynetta Kizer, who finished with a team-high 21 points and 10 rebounds. “It was just a mental lapse.”

The absence of Thomas was painfully obvious throughout the contest. Though the Hokies (7-14, 35 ACC) entered the game losers of five straight, the Terps (18-3, 5-3) seemed to lack the necessary firepower to build a lead larger than eight points, even against a Virginia Tech team regarded as one of the league’s worst.

After leading much of the first half and into the second before building their largest lead of the game inside the 16-minute mark, the Terps’ offense began to sputter. A jumper from Hokies guard Monet Tellier (career-high 31 points) gave Virginia Tech a one-point lead with less than six minutes to play, an advantage it would never give back.

Though they never trailed by more than eight in the final six minutes, missed free throws quelled whatever chance the Terps might have had at a comeback. They missed just six foul shots in the game, but four of them came in the game’s final four minutes.

“We didn’t step up and shoot the ball with confidence from the freethrow line like we normally do,” Frese said. “Those were critical misses in terms of the game, and we didn’t play with a lot of self-confidence.”

The Terps cut Virginia Tech’s lead to as little as three with just less than two minutes remaining, but turnovers from guards Laurin Mincy and Anjale Barrett helped the Hokies end it. They would close the game on a 9-6 run, celebrating a sixpoint upset on the Terps’ home floor.

“When you have 20 turnovers against a non-pressing team — we gave away a lot of easy baskets,” Frese said.

The loss is the team’s second straight and third in the past two weeks, leaving the Terps searching for answers as they enter a weeklong break before their next game.

“Our coaches can’t want it more for us than we want it for ourselves,” Kizer said. “This is a defining moment tonight. We have to turn it around from here and play Maryland basketball.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY CHRIS ECKARD

Guard Laurin Mincy has her shot blocked inside during the Terps’ 75-69 loss to Virginia Tech last night. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK