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Freshmen Connection housing offered With more beds, spring-admitted students in fall classes can live on campus starting this fall

and jump into university life during the fall, traditionally housed students in off-campus apartments.

Resident Life Assistant Director Scott Young said officials hope onBy Morgan Eichensehr options come fall 2014. @MEichensehr Department of Resident Life of- campus housing options will improve Staff writer ficials announced Tuesday that par- the program and foster stronger comticipants will be offered on-campus munity ties.

“This was a group that we have Students enrolled in the uni- housing for the first time in the fall. versity’s Freshmen Connection The program, which allows spring- always advocated to be able to provide program will have more housing admitted freshmen to take classes housing on-campus for,” Young said.

Young said on-campus housing has proved to be the best option for incoming freshmen, and while they considered including Freshmen Connection students in the past, the idea didn’t seem workable until now. Prince Frederick Hall will add about 450 new beds when it opens in the fall, freeing campus housing for See FRESHMeN, Page 3

whole foods MARKET, seen above in Washington, will open its first Prince George’s County location next year in Riverdale Park. file photo/the diamondback

Cafritz complex to open in 2015 Whole Foods Market, retail, housing, more in developers’ plans

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer Workers are beginning construction on Prince George’s County’s first Whole Foods Market after an almost two-year delay caused by appeals from residents.

I n S e p te m b e r, t h e P r i n c e George’s County Council approved final plans for a development by Washington developer Calvin Cafritz Enterprises, signaling a green light for construction crews to begin working on the 37-acre, $250 million project.

Located about 1.5 miles from the campus, the complex will also include nearly 1,000 multifamily housing units, a 120-room hotel, 22,000 square feet for offices and 168,000 square feet for retail.

The complex is expected to open in late 2015 along Route 1 in Riverdale Park. While the plan underwent many modifications See CAFRITZ, Page 3

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North Carolina jumped out to a 19-3 lead last night in Chapel Hill, N.C., and it proved too much for the Terps to make up in a 75-63 defeat.

Guard Dez Wells scored 18 points and forward Evan Smotrycz had 14, but the Tar Heels snapped the Terps’ two-game winning streak. STORY P. 8

Steam leak near Tawes Hall to remain active until spring

‘I wanted to be that mentor, that adviser’

Pipe age, precipitation cause harmless leaks

By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer

CRS sport clubs coordinator seeks student leadership

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer While attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Jeffrey Keenan realized he enjoyed helping foster a sense of community among campus groups and student organizations, so he majored in hotel, restaurant and tourism management to better serve others.

The Campus Recreation Services sport clubs coordinator, who joined the staff in December, hopes to join

jeffrey keenan, the sport clubs coordinator for Campus Recreation Services, wants to bring his leadership experience to the club sports community and focus on building potential leaders. rachel george/the diamondback other executives within the department to help make the club sports community more leadership-oriented. To do so, Keenan said he’ll focus on the club sports officers.

“I really like advising the students and helping them on their journeys,” Keenan said. “[Officers]

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are great leaders or have great leadership potential.”

Keenan said students can learn widely applicable skills by playing club sports. With 10 years of experience in outdoor recreation, he said See KEENAN, Page 2

A large cloud of steam will continue to pour out of a manhole on Tawes Plaza until about midspring, according to officials from this university’s power plant.

Under a fenced-off section on the plaza, steam from a malfunctioning pipe has been leaking into the air in the area near Tawes Hall and the Art-Sociology building.

The issue — an ongoing battle with steam — is the result of age and wear on the water pipes, power plant manager Gregg Garbesi said.

“We’re dealing with corrosion and pipes eroding, and usually

there’s not much we can do until it happens just because of the age of the pipework,” Garbesi said.

Because workers can’t fix the leak until the weather warms up, the issue won’t be resolved until mid-spring, Garbesi said. But Facilities Management will address the problem if the leak gets worse.

And though the leak creates an aesthetic issue, Garbesi said the vapor, which comes from groundwater, is harmless. No chemicals are released with the steam, he said, and any dormant chemicals in the pipes are staying there.

Over the past week, rain and snow contributed to the steam as precipitation drained into the plaza’s manholes and later evaporated.

The wait to solve the leak isn’t bothersome, said English lecturer See STEAM, Page 3

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DRAGONETTE: College costs never end

Ty Snook broke his ankle in high school and came back for a state title. Now he’s attempting to rebound from injury again P. 8

Paying for room, board and tuition is just the beginning P. 4 DIVERSIONS

YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY Students use individual studies programs to forge paths P. 6

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Students attend hack conference Manhattan HackCon promotes future of hackathon competitions

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer In a midtown Manhattan commercial space stuffed with a hundred or so students from universities across the nation, junior Brent Bovenzi felt right at home.

On Friday, he and eight other students from this university hopped on a bus bound for the Big Apple and HackCon, a two-day conference hosted by Major League Hacking, HackMIT and PennApps that aimed to get a feel for the future of hackathons and promote a sense of community among the schools represented.

For the students from this university, the conference also helped solidify their goals for their own upcoming hackathon, Bitcamp, said Bovenzi, an electrical engineering and government and politics major.

“Everyone was really down-toearth,” he said. “It was actually really great to talk to them.”

Citing multiple hackathons that have brought in more than 1,000 participants in the past six months, Bovenzi said he came away from the conference optimistic about future possibilities. Just a year ago, the University of Pennsylvania’s PennApps boasted “the largest college hackathon in the world” with fewer than 500 people in attendance.

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“I still like to imagine that if hackathons were around when Mark Zuckerberg were in college, he’d be going to them,” he said. “If you step back and think about it, the next big things made are probably going to be made by the people going to these.”

In the days after HackCon, Bovenzi said the Bitcamp organizers developed a better idea of how to use Bitcamp’s “fun, quirky feel” to their advantage.

That’s because the conference placed an emphasis on sharing experiences among the hackers, he said.

Throughout Saturday and Sunday, students and recent alumni led most of the talks and discussions.

For example, representatives from PennApps, who accrued sponsorship from tech giants such as Microsoft and Facebook for their Feb. 14 to 16 event, talked about effective techniques used to raise money.

MacKenzie Burnett, a junior government and politics and international relations major, said the financial aspect of HackCon was particularly beneficial to her.

Doubling as the director of outreach for Startup Shell — the student-run entrepreneurship nonprofit of which Bovenzi is the student director — Burnett joined the Bitcamp organizing efforts when she saw an area that needed more organization: sponsorship.

It was almost an unintentional partnership, one in which she helped out

graduating in 2007, he became the assistant manager of the University of California, RivFrom PAGE 1 erside’s outdoors program.

“I wanted to be that mentor, he’s ready to challenge himself with the goal of building a that adviser for the next group tighter community among of students,” he said.

Growing up in Minnesota, members of the university’s Keenan became interested club sports teams.

As an undergraduate, Keenan in outdoor recreation when worked for Stout’s outdoor ad- his family started going on venture program. Shortly after trips to national parks. With

once and then progressively became more immersed, she said. At HackCon, she gave a talk called “Bitcamp: Getting the University to help fundraise.”

“It’s a funny story how I got involved, but I’m really glad I did,” she said. “These are the future leaders of the world, and it’s good to get to know them now.”

Burnett has focused her efforts on sponsorship outreach for Bitcamp, she said. As of yesterday, the website listed eight sponsors, including companies such as AT&T and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. There’s still a long way to go, she said, but her job has been made easier by the unexpected support from the university, which has offered to assist in fundraising for the event. The university also will allow the Bitcamp organizers to use Cole Field House for free.

“I’ve never heard of another university that is willing to help out a hackathon,” she said. “They get it. A lot of other schools don’t get it.”

But while the university has responded positively, the challenge has been to win over more sponsors. Large hackathons often run a bill to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Burnett said.

Some prospective companies see the recruiting value in a hackathon, while others don’t, she added. So she breaks it down for them.

“With a resume, you can only see

a passion for outdoor adventure, Keenan found a desire to spread that excitement to other communities.

As an undergraduate, he worked in leadership positions as a resident assistant and tour guide. He also founded a running club and Stout’s chapter of the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education.

students discuss goals for hackathons at New York’s HackCon on Friday. photo courtesy of major league hacking so much,” she said. “With a hackathon, you can actually see what they can do.”

Burnett said HackCon featured representatives from the type of companies that might be interested, which allowed her to understand a new perspective on what attracts a potential sponsor. It helps if the company already knows what a hackathon is, she added.

“If you’ve heard of it, you get it,” Burnett said.

MLH Commissioner Mike Swift said the weekend conference sold out of tickets before the event. MLH offered students a subsidized ticket that cost about $100 for two nights in one of the four lofts they rented.

At this university, Keenan h a s b e e n work i n g u nd e r and learning from Rebecca Cegledy, CRS member services assistant director. He’s been helping Cegledy handle team travel, dues, fees and other administrative tasks while Tiffanie Morgan, sport clubs assistant director, is on maternity leave.

“He’s very enthusiastic, and

“We’re super happy with the way the event went around,” he said.

“There are some things we’ll change.

But it was so successful, it’ll definitely happen again.”

Going into the weekend, participants raised questions as to how the culture would change moving forward into the age of multithousand-person college hackathons. Swift said he was surprised to find the main questions being asked were along the lines of, “How can we better work together?”

The real values of the collective group were still in learning, he said.

“It’s just the start of bigger and better things,” he said. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

he’s picking up everything very quickly,” Cegledy said.

“We’re doing very well.”

As the staff works to reorganize itself, Cegledy said, the club sports department has continued to run smoothly with Keenan’s help. For him, the next few months are for learning more about the university’s outdoors programs and his position, as well as de-

veloping a stronger relationship with his colleagues and students in club sports.

“People are like the framework of our community, and people seek out that community,” Keenan said. “A lot of jobs that I’ve had over time are about creating that community.” hcuozzodbk@gmail.com

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City Council approves plan for new community park Hollywood site ground breaking set for summer

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Staff writer Children playing with windmills, sundials, cisterns and other climate-related activities is District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir’s vision for the Hollywood Wind and Weather Park, a community park set to begin construction this summer.

“The park will go up as serving the community. The Hollywood Elementary School is very close to the park and we hope that they will be using this park heavily. There will be features, or rather experiments that the students can do on the climate,” Kabir said. “It will be beneficial for the residents and especially for the smaller children in the younger generation.”

At a Jan. 21 city council work session, officials approved the

a new park coming to the Hollywood area of College Park would include weather-related activities for children. photo courtesy of floura teeter park’s final design, presented by Zolna Russell, Floura Teeter Landscape Architects’ sustainability director. The vote concluded an approval process that spanned years because of funding problems, and the project is not yet financially sound. Kabir said the city has collected $200,000 of the $520,000 needed through donations and city funding, but he is confident they will have all the money when construction crews break ground this summer.

Area residents can expect the development to take nine

months to a year to complete, Kabir said.

D i s t r i c t 1 Co u n c i l m a n Patrick Wojahn hopes the park will provide not only an aesthetically pleasing entrance to the community, but also educational opportunities for residents and children in the Hollywood area, which is located near the intersection of Route 1 and the Capital Beltway.

“We are in desperate need of green space on the Route 1 corridor, and in particular there is currently no green space at all along the Route 1 corridor and North College Park,” Wojahn

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whole foods Market’s first location in Prince George’s County will open when the Cafritz development in Riverdale Park is completed in 2015. file photo/the diamondback to accommodate foot and bicycle traffic, concerned John Tabori, mayor of neighb or i n g Un ive rs it y Pa rk .

Though the grocery store is a benefit, Tabori said, he isn’t completely satisfied with the final plan.

“There are real pluses and m i nu ses to t he project.”

Tabori said. “Negatives are obviously traffic and noise.

In between is what kind of pressures it will put on our social services — police services and the like.”

Tabori sa id a lterations were already made to the or i g i n a l s ite pl a n i n resp on se to l aw m a ker a nd citizen concerns, including adding a wall between the parking lot and the property’s border with University Park, altering the sidewalk

along Route 1, making the development handicap accessible and changing the outdoor lights to minimize light pollution in the surrounding area.

“They’re all great improvements,” Tabori said.

“They go towards creating this soft buffer [between the development and University Park].”

L oca l residents seem excited for the new retail and residential buildings and the economic benefit the development cou ld bring, Tabori said.

“I do think residents and students will take advantage,” Tabori said. “Many p eople h ave e x pressed hopes that it will arrive.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

Paul Farmer didn’t always expect to end up in Haiti. But after other plans didn’t work out, he landed in a squatter settlement in the country, which inspired a lifelong passion for and commitment to activism and global health care.

The physician and activist spoke to a crowd of about 550 people in Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union last night about the importance of innovative thinking and leadership in the area of global health. He told the story of how he was rejected from a scholarship that would have taken him to western Africa, as he lacked the skills many of the medical facilities required, and ended up in Haiti, with a group of Haitians he still works with and cares for 30 years later.

“Things don’t always work out the way you want them to, and that’s how I ended up in Haiti,” Farmer said.

Farmer is one of six leaders and activists invited this school year to speak as a part of the Voices of Social Change series, which works to show students that where there’s a will, there’s a way, said Craig Slack, Stamp’s assistant director.

“When we talk about social change or socially responsible leadership, it kind of has this amorphous feeling to it; it’s this broad concept,” Slack said.

“So I think what Paul Farmer

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a broken pipe sending up plumes of water vapor in Tawes Plaza can’t be repaired due to the cold weather. lena salzbank/the diamondback

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lywood and just let them know these are ideas and they could then talk amongst themselves or at their next community meeting about how, with these ideas, they might approach a professional landscape architect to actually develop the site,” Sullivan said. “I’m really proud of the students. I think they did a really great job.”

Student ideas were incorporated in the project’s final design, Kabir said, such as placing the park entrance in the Hollywood community as opposed to on Route 1. He said he hopes this project is just the start of more university-city collaborations.

“I feel that there’s a gap between the University of Maryland students and the longtime residents,” Kabir said.

“The more we can bring the University of Maryland students closer to the community, it will actually bridge that gap and we will all feel like we are part of the same community.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

Paul Farmer draws more than 500 for global health care talk

CAFRITZ a nd faced criticism f rom area residents before it was approved, Bruce McLeod, a spokesman for Cafritz, is confident the community will be satisfied with the store and the project’s location near the MARC, Metrorail and future Purple Line trains.

“W hen you look at that area, it really is vying for a nice, multiuse, mixed-use community,” McLeod said.

R i v e r d a l e P a rk M a y o r Vernon Archer said he hopes this community development will bring more revenue to the neighborhood through the new retail and residential space. The mixed-use community will be the first of its kind in the neighborhood.

“I’m just ecstatic we are finally to the point of doing construction instead of creating mountains of paper and hot air,” Archer said. “Basically, it’s going to bring a lot of shoppers into our areas that otherwise would just d rive i nto tow n a nd keep driving through. That’s going to help other businesses.”

But the project’s lengthy approva l pro cess, wh ich included debate over controversial items such as increased traffic and a bridge

said. “This park will be an opportunity to provide education, environmental education, to students at Hollywood Elementary School.”

Two vacant houses mark the entrance to College Park coming from the Beltway.

Michael Stiefvater, the city’s economic development coordinator, said that while the park will not have a direct economic impact, it will improve the appearance of the city and ultimately benefit the area.

“Taking out one of those houses and putting in a really nice park is certainly a benefit

for that part of town. It’s kind of making a pleasant entry to the city,” Stiefvater said. “If you go down Edgewood Road, it goes down to the Hollywood Commercial District, so we have a nice gateway feature into the shopping center there and it will improve the settings of College Park.”

At a North College Park Citizens Association meeting, Kabir said members of the association discussed the possibility of including students from this university in the design process. They reached out to Jack Sullivan, a landscape architecture professor, to organize a student competition in spring 2011 in which groups of two to four juniors, seniors and graduate students submitted park designs for evaluation by a jury of Hollywood area residents, professional landscape architects from Hyattsville and a few representatives from the city.

“We made a presentation to the entire community of Hol-

“It looks really bad, and the smell and smoke get in the way,” Brooks said. “It reFrom PAGE 1 flects kind of poorly on the Justin Lohr, who has an office school’s look, too.”

Jun ior studio art major in Tawes Hall.

Andrea Lora said the leak is “It’s not the most attraca minor disruption. tive thing, but I only come in “When the wind blows, it contact with it for at most 15 seconds,” Lohr said. “There’s seems to get everywhere on far more important issues to my skin and is just weird,” Lora said. “It’s not pretty, address immediately.”

But the hissing leak, which but since it’s not harmful, c a u s e s s te a m to c o v e r a I don’t mind it too much.”

Though the vapor is harmsection of the walkway near t he ent ra nce to t he A r t- less, Garbesi said the issue Sociology building, annoys could still be dangerous. “ T he c ave at here i s to freshman communication major Taylor Brooks during always treat a manhole as if it is hot. The steam that rises her walks to classes.

t h rou g h t he m a n hole s can heat up the covers, so touching it could lead to serious burns,” Garbesi said. “That’s why we seal off the area.”

The Tawes pipe leak isn’t unique, Garbesi said. Since the fall semester, vapor has seeped out of cracks and manholes along Preinkert Drive, another result of water leaking into manholes.

“They’re sort of a necessary evil,” Garbesi said.

“H av i ng a system t h at never leaks would be ideal; it’s just not that possible.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

the Freshmen Connection students.

“When the opportunity presented itself, with more beds in our inventory, we thought we could give it another try,” he said.

Allison Baker, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, participated in the Freshmen Connection program and lived off-campus in the University View apartments during her freshman year.

When she got the opportunity to move onto the campus her sophomore year, Baker said she jumped at the chance, adding that the dorms felt “more inclusive.”

“I really liked living in an apartment, but I definitely

will do will bring it to a real tangible, practical, real-life example, so when students think about this idea of our world and their responsibility to the globe and social responsibility, they can really see it in this evidence-based way …

And I think it can give insight to what can happen.”

Farmer addressed the great disparities in health care that exist not only globally, but also locally. He encouraged students interested in global health and leadership to be persistent and passionate and to engage in collective activism.

“You don’t have to cross a national or even county boundary to see great disparity,” Farmer said. “There is always a way to be involved in social justice work.”

He also emphasized the importance of sustainability in providing health care to underdeveloped countries. In a more developed country, Farmer said, no one would ever ask whether medical professionals were risking too many resources to care for a person injured in a car crash. However, in less developed nations, the question of whether it is sustainable to care for people comes up frequently — a pervasive problem that can prevent the world from reaching health equity.

“It is not by considering some people less valuable than others or less worth it than others that we will lead forward,” Farmer said. “What often needs to be sustained is passion for social justice and good leadership.”

Matthew Williams, a sophomore physiology and neurobiology major, said the idea of health sustainability was the most compelling part of Farmer’s speech.

Farmer, who graduated from Harvard Medical School, cofounded Partners in Health, an international nonprofit organization that brings health care to underdeveloped nations. He explained issues the organization has worked to improve across the globe, including in Rwanda, a country that cut deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria by 80 percent each and doubled life expectancy in just 20 years.

Partners in Health also brought a modern teaching hospital with first-rate medical care to impoverished people in Haiti.

When Farmer was young, he made up for what he lacked in a medical degree with enthusiasm for global health activism, he said.

“It’s not as if I had some skill, but what I did have was passion and persistence,” he said, adding that his primary advice to students interested in health activism was to “be persistent.”

Stephanie Natoli, a sophomore community health major, said Farmer’s message inspired her to become more involved with health care issues on the local and global level.

“I would say it has opened me up more to the idea of working internationally,” she said. “In public health, it is a responsibility that I should work in the community and be more involved.”

would have picked to live oncampus if I could have,” Baker said. “I think people would like that better and feel more included on-campus.”

Baker enjoyed having her own space in the apartment but did not like that the apartment community was so “closed off.”

She said she wanted to get to know other freshmen, but she found her living experience to be “kind of impersonal.”

Another former Freshmen Connection student, Brandon Paugels, also a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, lived in The Varsity apartments his freshman year and said he wished he’d had the opportunity to live on the campus.

“I had a rough time meeting new people because I wasn’t on campus,” Paugels said. “Freshmen Connection students will most definitely want to take

advantage of this opportunity.”

Management at The Varsity and the View, the top two apartment choices for program participants, did not return multiple calls for comment, though Young said the program won’t completely migrate to dorms. Resident Life still intends to prioritize housing for students returning to on-campus spaces in the fall and admitted incoming freshmen not in Freshmen Connection. Housing will be offered to Freshmen Connection students on a spaceavailable basis.

“We are still going to honor our commitment to first-year students, second-year students and third-year students, to house them on-campus if they desire,” Young said.

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CORRECTION In Jan. 29’s story, “Council: City-univ relationship top priority,” Carlo Colella was misidentified. He is administration and finance vice president.

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Veterans’ families deserve affordable tuition

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t’s no secret that this nation’s veterans frequently face immense struggles — both fiscal and mental — upon returning from active duty. Whether facing joblessness, dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder or handling the dayto-day challenges of raising a family, problems don’t simply disappear for former and on-leave military members upon their return; they all too often follow them home.

While the federal government hasn’t always handled veterans’ affairs well throughout history, it has been improving steadily.

In the decades after World War II and the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department’s yearly budget has grown more than tenfold, though the individual financial benefits for the nation’s more than 22 million veterans remain far from ideal. In 2012, the federal government allocated slightly less than $130 billion toward veterans’ benefits and services, amounting to less than $6,000 per veteran.

For those with families attempting to pay their dependents’ way through college, their limited benefits and already-strained finances often are pushed to the limit. And as the costs of higher education continue to rise, such financial burdens will continue to grow.

As part of a federal effort to ensure veterans make the most of

hoping to send their children to honorably discharged veterans tives and awaiting a Senate vote that this university, those benefits, while eligibility for in-state tuition would allow all out-of-state veterans certainly welcome, leave more than across the University System of to attend public universities at their $19,000 in tuition and fees for the Maryland. Now, the state Senate is in-state tuition rates. Nonetheless, families to shoulder. Fortunately, considering a proposal that would it’s an important first step. the state Senate has demonstrated grant military dependents in-state Far too frequently, America’s vetits willingness to modify its terms of tuition if they attended any state erans are left behind by a system that eligibility for in-state tuition rates, school in the four years preceding seems to treat them as dispensable. and measures are in the works that college enrollment.

The men and women who serve our could further improve higher eduThis state’s bill still falls short country deserve better upon their their benefits under the GI Bill and cation odds for military families. of the federal GI Bill Tuition Fair- return home, as do their children.

In May, Gov. Martin O’Malley ness Act of 2013, a proposal passed Giving them affordable access to on the heels of President Obama’s State of the Union address, in which signed into law a bill granting Monday by the House of Representa- education is the least we can do. he pledged support to military members returning to civilian life, the VA unveiled an important online tool yesterday. The new website feature allows military families to compare education benefits, graduation rates and loan default rates at universities nationwide. The program also lets these families view how many GI Bill beneficiaries attend each school.

At this university, 697 students receive benefits under the bill, which provides full coverage for in-state tuition, a housing allowance and a book stipend to military members who have completed at least three years of cumulative post-9/11 active-duty service, along with their spouses and children. Spouses and dependents of active-duty military members who live in this state at the time of enrollment are also granted in-state VETERANS DAY is celebrated every year on the campus to honor those who have served in our military. This photo from Nov. 11, 2012, captures a Veterans Day event held at tuition rates.

But for out-of-state veterans Memorial Chapel. The Diamondback editorial board argues veterans’ families should have affordable access to college education nationwide. file photo/the diamondback OUR VIEW

The state Senate should pass a new proposal that grants in-state tuition to certain military dependents.

Success: More than just numbers KEVIN HOGAN My close friend and I like to pretend-argue about which one of us is smarter. I’ll sarcastically ask him to tell me what his SAT score was again, and he’ll remind me that he beat me on the math and biology subject tests.

He’ll smack-talk about his grades last semester, and then I’ll point to my overall GPA. This is never a very serious conversation, but it’s striking how accurately we can recall who beat whom at what and when. The unfortunate truth is that I take some pride in the scores and numbers that have been attached to my name over the years. I’m a little embarrassed when I realize some of these haven’t been relevant since I applied to college four years ago.

Grading and standardized testing are clearly important tools for analyzing performance and progress in the classroom and the workplace. I am concerned, though, that the combination of these metrics with human competitiveness taints the psychology of self-evaluation.

When a student receives a score report for the SAT, that student can make objective comparisons to classmates and peers around the country for the first time. Because the test is advertised as evaluating general aptitude, students interpret high and low scores as signifying “smart” and “stupid.” When my friends started talking about their scores, I couldn’t help but dwell on where exactly my score stood and what that meant about my competence.

Notions of general academic rank solidified in high school start to break down in college. Students spread into a variety of disciplines, so it doesn’t really make sense to figure out who trumps whom. Of course, curved grading can lead to fiercer competition among students taking the same classes. Nevertheless, my experience has been that college is more about learning and exploring one’s interests than getting ahead of the guy next to you.

Throughout the past few months, I’ve noticed the numbers game is starting to rise slowly to the forefront again. This time, the name of the game is different: salary. Many of my peers are still searching for employment after graduation, but some

have been fortunate enough to find it.

I’ve started to hear figures from offer letters thrown around like test scores were at the end of high school. Just as a standardized test can be misconstrued as an absolute measure of intelligence, a salary can be misconstrued as an absolute measure of an individual’s value.

I wonder when in life the pattern of numerical comparison to others finally will fade away. For some people, I imagine it never will; it’s simply too easy to analyze and identify with hard data. At a certain point, though, your success in the work you do for a living should overshadow the numbers that tell you how capable and qualified you are.

Ultimately, what matters in education is that students are prepared adequately to do the things in life they really want to do. In that sense, it’s silly to entertain talk of who’s better than whom based on narrow metrics.

The average students who study what they love are doing far better than the “smart” students who study something they don’t care about.

Kevin Hogan is a senior computer engineering major. He can be reached at khogandbk@gmail.com.

How to succeed in a fitness class TIFFANY BURBA All day, every day, Terps are getting fit. Students at this university have the luxury of attending group fitness classes at virtually any hour in multiple athletic facilities around the campus. Classes range from yoga to BodyPump, cycling to step and everything between. And while attending a group fitness class is almost always a positive experience, here are some tips and tricks to make your experience even better.

Make sure you obtain a group fitness sticker at least a day or two before the class you wish to attend. This sticker is valid for the school year and is placed on your student ID. Fitness instructors are allowed to admit only students and guests with valid IDs or membership passes and the accompanying group fitness stickers. These can be obtained at the Member Services Desk on the main floor of the Eppley Recreation Center, at Ritchie Coliseum or from a class instructor in another facility. It’s important to get one early because the line can get quite long, and the front desk sometimes runs out of group fitness forms, so be sure to print your own online from the Campus Recre-

ation Services website. It’s unrealistic to think you will be able to show up to your class and immediately obtain a sticker.

Arrive at your class 10 to 15 minutes early to ensure a spot and wear comfortable clothing. Some classes are more popular than others, especially during peak times in the afternoon and evening when students have gotten out of class. New classes can also fill up quickly — the first Barre class at 7:15 a.m. last week had a line out the door and down the hallway.

Get to your favorite class early to avoid getting turned away because of capacity issues. Arriving early will also let you feel more relaxed and prepared for the workout. You’ll have time to store your possessions in a locker, fill your water bottle and use the bathroom before class starts so you don’t miss the warm-up.

Sneakers are always required (except during yoga), and jeans are not permitted in the gyms. Make sure you are comfortable making a wide range of movements in your outfit. Some folks are fine with skin-tight shapewear for any activity, but others prefer athletic shorts and a baggy T-shirt for lifting.

Find clothes that work best for you so you can focus on your workout instead of constantly readjusting your pants.

Know your instructor. Everyone has a different teaching style, and you want to make sure your workout goals mesh with that style. If you are looking for a soft-spoken and quiet instructor for yoga but a loud and energetic one for cycling, ask around and make a note of instructors you have met in the past.

Similarly, if counting reps out loud and frequent reminders about form are important to you, choose a very vocal instructor as opposed to one who is more laid-back about the instruction process.

And if you aren’t too particular and just want to have a great time, any instructor will achieve that goal.

Finally, be comfortable in your own skin and remember it’s not a competition. Whether you attend classes to meet other people, improve personal fitness or learn a new skill, other people might have different goals. Don’t feel embarrassed if you can’t hold every yoga pose, and don’t feel pressured to increase your body pump weights to compete with the girl next to you. It’s important to challenge yourself, but relax and remember that group fitness is not a competitive sport and no one is judging you on your ability.

Tiffany Burba is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at tburbadbk@gmail.com.

Fees on fees The never-ending costs of college

MATT DRAGONETTE

DOTS charges about $200 to park each semester, as well as game day parking fees. Obviously, these are necessary to maintain roads and vehicles, pay salaries and the like. You also need to make sure there are spaces for the people who paid to park.

It seems the university is determined to suck as much money as it can out of students.

As Mughal so brilliantly pointed out, we sometimes forget the actual cost of these things when we swipe a card or sign a loan. Society certainly seems content to virtually ignore the problem of rising college costs for students and, more importantly, why they are happening.

More loans and tuition aid might help us in the short term, but they don’t address the long-term issues of college costs.

We need to bring attention to this issue and we have to be creative.

While, for safety reasons, I don’t recommend carrying thousands of dollars in cash to pay tuition, we can launch a protest of our own.

Pay DOTS citations in coins. Can you imagine if even five people left hundreds or thousands of coins on DOTS’ front desk? DOTS would be too busy counting to even give out tickets. They are legally obligated to accept your payment in coins. Give them $1 bills — whatever it takes.

Make the effort to realize what you are actually spending.

Granted, almost all of you don’t have time or energy to do this. And though I am completely serious about doing this if DOTS ever gives you an unfair ticket, we need to understand just how much college costs, beyond the tuition number we see on the website. We need to force action to figure out why the cost of college has skyrocketed.

Once we can attack the problems forcing such a rise in costs, we can make college more affordable. How can we continue to push innovation and progress if the cost of college is too burdensome for so many Americans?

Recently, a student at the University of Utah paid nearly his entire tuition in $1 bills.

Three banks ran out of $1 bills during the process. The student, Luq Mughal, explained to the media that he worked hard on weekends to pay for tuition and he wanted to see the actual cost of his bill instead of simply “swiping a card.” Mughal, like many of us, has become frustrated with the rapid rise in costs for college students.

These costs go well beyond tuition — they include books, food, housing and, for students at this university, those infamous parking tickets from the Department of Transportation Services.

The price index for tuition alone has gone up almost 80 percent in just 10 years, according to U.S. News & World Report. Compare that ridiculous number to an overall consumer price increase of roughly 27 percent and even the expected health care price increase of just 41 percent. Where exactly is that additional cost going?

But even tuition hikes are not enough for our governments and schools. Both are adding (and increasing) fees on students.

It’s a nickel-and-diming strategy that continues to drive the cost of college higher and higher.

Books cost hundreds of dollars per semester and only get more expensive as professors switch to online homework programs that destroy the used book market. Ten mandatory fees add to our cost.

DOTS also exemplifies this penchant for nickel-and-diming. According to a Diamondback story, the department issued 82,725 citations in 2012 alone. Assuming the most common ticket of $75 (tickets range from $25 to $500), the university would have pulled in a cool $6.2 million that year. You Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached read that right.

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FEATURE | INDIVIDUAL STUDIES PROGRAM

CARVING THEIR OWN PATHS Students in this university’s individual studies program find success and satisfaction in creating their own majors

By Kelsey Hughes @kelsey_said Staff writer By the middle of her sophomore year, Tal Lee had gone through at least five majors.

First she was in the engineering school, which she switched out of before even starting classes. Then biology. Dance. Dietetics.

Community health.

The problem wasn’t that she didn’t know what to do. She had a post-college plan: get her master’s degree in public health and then go to medical school to become a physician. She knew what she was interested in but couldn’t find one major to fulfill everything she wanted to study: the biology of well-being but also other components that go into wellness, including sociology, mental health and access to health care.

Lee, now a junior, said all this knowledge would be important to her in her future career.

“I really believe physicians should be trained in cross-cultural competency as well as communication,” she said.

One day, she found the website for the individual studies program at this university that allows students to create their own interdisciplinary majors. Lee went through the application process, eventually creating and declaring her own major: public health and structural inequalities.

Lee is among several students at this university and across the nation who are choosing to create their own majors. They have different passions and goals, but they are all finding they have interests more diverse than the areas of study their respective schools offer.

In some cases, this decision to take an unconventional approach might give them an advantage.

An independent studies program “encourages students to take initiative in their education and development, something they don’t have to do by following a prescribed major,” said Patrick Civello, the interdisciplinary studies adviser at University of California, Berkeley.

“Also, an interdisciplinary perspective can be illuminating, especially to the blind spots within specific disciplines.”

At this university, the process of declaring an interdisciplinary major is rigorous. Students must be able to defend chosen majors and explain why it would not be possible to achieve the same learning objectives with any of the majors and minors the university already offers, said individual studies program Director Joan Burton. The degree candidates must choose their curriculums and write proposals explaining their majors, which they then must defend in front of a board of faculty advisers who will decide whether to accept the new major.

The individual studies program offers workshops to aid students in creating their proposals — the first one for this semester was Monday, but more will take place weekly until May 1, and each student has a faculty mentor with similar interests who guides them through the process.

For Lee, the proposal process was immensely important. She said her final proposal was about 20 pages and went through at least five drafts.

“My major is accredited by the state of Maryland, which is huge, so I take pride in my proposal,” she said.

Burton said the students who tend to follow this path are both self-motivated and proactive.

“They’re extremely diverse. They have all kinds of passion,” she said. “But they share a willingness to think outside the box, a willingness to take hold and own their education, a real desire to make an education that is meaningful for themselves in a very individual way.”

They come for different reasons. Some students in the program, such as Lee and 2013 graduate Julia Kohler, know exactly what they want to do after graduation and hope to tailor their undergraduate degrees to match those future plans. Kohler planned to apply to a master’s program targeting urban education, so her undergraduate degree became health education reform.

tal lee wanted to be versed in more subjects than biology before she applies to medical school and becomes a physician. To do so, she applied to the individual studies program and created her own major: public health and structural inequalities. kelsey hughes/the diamondback “Because of [the advisers], I was able to formulate ideas, put them on paper and actually hold myself accountable,” Kohler said.

Some, such as 2013 alumnus Dan Granot, want to make all their interests work together.

Before declaring his individual studies major in global development, Granot was juggling two majors and two minors. When he tried to pick up one of the business majors, he realized there had to be a better way of studying everything he enjoyed.

Granot said he thinks the skills he learned through his individual studies major helped him excel after graduation and to be accepted into Georgetown University’s master of science in foreign service program.

“This program is the top-ranked [international relations] school, and something that, without a self-developed degree, I would have never been accepted to,” he said.

Becky Zorn, a 2010 individual studies graduate who studied international relations, said she was able to take certain opportunities, such as

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“I felt empowered in my studies, loved most of the courses I took and worked hard to graduate with solid grades in addition to strong professional experiences,” Zorn said.

“The combination of the two proved extremely important when I searched for jobs after graduation — and found a job immediately.”

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three defenders before finishing with a ferocious onehanded slam.

Just less than a minute later, Faust retrieved a defensive rebound, dribbled the length of the floor and attacked the rim once again, this time earning one of the Terps’ 18 fouls in the game. He made both free throws.

Faust’s sudden burst of aggression fueled an 8-0 Terps run that brought the team back within eight points after falling behind by 16 points in the first five minutes. But Faust failed to maintain that mentality and finished 2-of-6 from the field and 0-of-4 from three-point range for eight points.

The Terps trailed for the full 40 minutes last night, and the majority of their 3-pointers were quality looks — the shots just weren’t falling. Free throws, however, provided an opportunity to put points on the scoreboard with the clock stopped, something that could have been essential to a comeback attempt in a hostile environment.

But in the end, the flow of the game tilted toward the Terps continuing to shoot from the outside, something they have had success with before this season.

“We weren’t getting a lot of calls at the rim,” Smotrycz said.

took eight fewer 3-pointers.

Paige, who led all scorers with 25 points, went 9-of-11 from the free-throw line, knocking down open jump shots when they were available and aggressively attacking the rim when he saw a crease.

M e a n w h i l e , t h e Te r p s s h a r ps h o o te rs s t r u g g l e d to find their stroke from the opening tip and never consistently found it in the game. Guard Seth Allen, who was coming off 16 points and seven assists in a blowout v i c to ry a t Vi rg i n i a Te c h on Saturday, shot 3-of-10 from beyond the arc, and Smotrycz, who entered the contest as the Terps’ best three-point shooter (39.8 percent), went 2-of-6.

“We had some open looks,” Smotrycz said. “They’ve got a lot of long, athletic guys who are blocking a lot of shots.”

Guard Nick Faust embodied the contrast between the Terps’ outside shooting and their success when they got to the basket. The junior entered the game after the under-16 media timeout and missed two consecutive three-point attempts. Then, Allen stole the ball from Paige and tossed an outlet pass to a streaking Faust, who exploded to the basket, beating dpopperdbk@gmail.com

NOTEBOOK From PAGE 8 year candidate also has five triple-doubles in her career, making her one of five players in NCAA history to reach that mark.

Brown’s recent string of success is the latest step in her development this season.

The freshman had a careerhigh 20 points in the Terps’

loss to then-No. 14 N.C. State on Thursday before topping that performance one game later against Syracuse. After getting her first career start against George Washington on Nov. 19, she has remained the top choice at point guard, averaging more than 25 minutes per game, the second most on the team.

Thomas and Brown were the bright spots during a tough

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HEELS From PAGE 8 disjointed, and the team committed 29 personal fouls and 16 turnovers in the game, which kept it from completing the comeback and extending a two-game winning streak.

No r t h C a ro l i n a g u a rd Marcus Paige made the key plays down the stretch to bury the Terps. The 2012 McDonald’s All-American scored 18 of his 25 points in the second half and outdueled guard Dez Wells, who finished with 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting.

“I though we did a lot of things well,” coach Mark Turgeon said of the second half. “Paige was just too good.

He hit shot after shot every time we got it close.”

The Terps, who finished the game shooting 39.3 percent from the field, could never quite catch the Tar Heels.

Forward Brice Johnson, who had 19 points and shot 8-of-8 from the field, coupled with Paige to create a tandem the Terps failed to slow down.

Plus, the Terps were hampered with foul trouble all game long. Wells, Mitchell — who had five points and a game-high 13 rebounds — and forward Jake Layman each picked up two fouls in the first half.

After the Terps almost erased North Carolina’s early lead, the Tar Heels ended

guard dez wells attempts to drive past a pair of North Carolina defenders during the Terps’ 75-63 loss to the Tar Heels. Wells scored 18 points. alik mcintosh/the diamondback the half on an 11-2 run while Turgeon had to sit those three foul-plagued starters.

So after trailing by 16 about five minutes into the game, the Terps trailed by 12 at halftime.

“We were just trying to patchwork it, trying to get through the half,” Turgeon said. “To win, you can’t start a game that way, and you can’t finish a half that way.”

In the second half, the

stretch for the Terps, and the two new season low Monday. will be critical later in the season.

The Terps are ranked No. 10, falling in the poll for the second straight week. Ranked No. 8 at SLOWLY SLIPPING the start of the season, they rose During a week in which they to No. 6 after a 79-70 win at had a chance to prove how they then-No.10 North Carolina on stack up against some of the Jan. 5 in its ACC opener. But the nation’s top title contenders — Terps moved back down to No. 8 facing No. 2 Notre Dame, then at after a loss to Virginia on Jan. 23 No. 14 N.C. State three days later broke their 14-game winning — the Terps struggled. As a result, streak. They went 1-2 last week their national rank dropped to a before dropping to 10th.

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for North Carolina to jump ahead, either. Coach Roy Williams’ team won the tip, and on its first possession, forward Ja m e s M i c h a e l Mc A d o o drained a mid-range jumper.

Layman coughed up the ball on the Terps’ opening possession, leading to a Tar Heels fast break that ended with McAdoo finishing a put-back slam dunk.

That burst for North Carolina persisted, and the hosts jumped out to an 11-0 lead just two minutes into the game.

They were up 19-3 by the 15minute mark.

“They came out really well,” said forward Evan Smotrycz, who finished with 14 points. “ We go t a co u p l e s h o ts blocked. Then they weren’t missing. They had a couple easy dunks.”

The Terps responded with their own 16-3 run after that, and they did have some positive moments. Turgeon mentioned he was pleased with the Terps’ resilience and believes his team continues to buy into his system.

Still, the early deficit proved to be too much, and the Terps left the decorated Dean Dome for the last time as a conference opponent with a postseason resume that still lacks a signature victory.

“We had a bad start,” Turgeon said. “We couldn’t afford a bad start, and we had one.”

Terps cut into the lead again as their offense improved on the strength of Wells’ 13 second-half points. The Terps, though, never staged a defining run as Paige and the Tar Heels seemed to respond with a basket each time Turgeon’s team compiled some momentum.

In the end, it was the Terps’ sluggish start that cost them.

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Though the Terps’ latest victory came in dominant fashion against a Syracuse team returning from an upset win at North Carolina, their three-game losing streak proved to be a bigger factor in their rank change.

The team shot worse than 30 percent from three-point range during its skid, and it shot a combined 2-of-25 from three in the second half during the stretch.

The Terps broke out of their shooting funk against Syracuse, however, as they were successful 69.6 percent of the time from beyond the arc in the contest.

The Terps’ performance against the Orange stopped a worrying streak, but the two prior losses place the team in a less prominent position in the national title conversation.

Still, the Terps can look toward the remainder of the season to move back up the poll.

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paign have hurt their national ranking, Frese has been satisfied with the challenge their conference games have posed.

“In my 12 years, it’s the deepest it has ever been, which I love,” Frese said.

The ACC has five teams ranked in the top 15 and two in the top five. The Terps are fourth in the conference after reaching the halfway point in their conference slate.

Though the team recently finished a three-game stretch that included two ranked opponents, it still has a matchup at No. 5 Duke, the second-place team in the conference, and a trip to Georgia Tech, who the Terps beat, 92-81, in a seesaw contest on Jan. 19.

“For all of us, I think the ACC tournament is going to be wild,” Frese said. “I think teams that are deep stand a really good chance in the tournament, and then it prepares you for the final run, which is the NCAA tournament.”

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the same. But I was able to come back in and get a win against a good team.”

Snook won again Jan. 24 at North Carolina but fell at Virginia to 174-pound Stephen Doty, 9-2, on Friday. Snook said he still needs to gain confidence in his ankle.

McCoy said Snook has always been one of the team’s hardest workers, frequently putting in extra work after practice. But now, after missing the first 10 matches of the season, that won’t be enough.

“You’ve got to not only be the hardest worker in our room, but you’ve got to be the hardest worker in the country,” McCoy said. “The only way you can do that is by completely draining your tank every day. There’s never a chance where you can [say], ‘Well, I’ve got a little bit more.’”

Snook doesn’t plan on leaving anything to be desired.

After the most grueling offseason of his life, he plans on making the most of the time he has left. When he returned from the ankle injury in high school, he went on to win the Delaware state title. So he knows what to do when he gets another opportunity.

“I’m lucky I got kind of got a second chance,” Snook said.

“What’s probably scariest is thinking I possibly may not have been able to wrestle at all this season.”

and more reps in hopes of sculpting a more chiseled physique, and he said his cardiovascular capacity had improved vastly.

“Pretty much the whole summer, I really dedicated myself to getting my weight down and still being strong,” Snook said. “I was in really good shape and my conditioning was the best it’s ever been. It was definitely a blow mentally to see a lot of the hard work wasted a little bit.”

With Snook out, Gardner became the team’s top option at 174 pounds. The senior struggled while fighting through a bruised knee for the majority of the season, compiling a 1-6 record against Division I opponents. Gardner’s ineffectiveness furthered the team’s struggles at the middleweights.

Seeing his team struggling and his senior season fading away, Snook decided to come back against Virginia Tech even though his ankle hadn’t fully healed. With the Terps trailing 18-0 to then-No. 16 Virginia Tech, Snook put the Terps on the board with a 5-3 victory over John Dickson.

“That win was really good mentally,” Snook said. “Whenever you’re out with an injury for a while, you worry that you’re not going to come back jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Despite some encouraging stretches, the Terps (13-10, 5-5 ACC) could never recover after the Tar Heels (15-7, 5-4) scored the game’s first 11 points.

“In the first half, I feel like we came out on our tippy-toes,” forward Charles Mitchell said. “We wasn’t playing aggressive enough, and we had to come from a deficit. So we had to fight our way back into the game instead of just playing basketball.”

The Terps settled in, though, and quickly trimmed North Carolina’s lead to three points with just more than eight minutes left in the first half. But their offense was somewhat

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — When the Terrapins men’s basketball team traveled to the Dean E. Smith Center to play North Carolina last January, its players tilted back their heads to see the bevy of banners hanging from the rafters emblazoned with the Carolina blue of all-time greats, extolling the program’s ACC and NCAA championships.

So the six Terps making the return trip to Chapel Hill, N.C., knew that last night’s bout with the Tar Heels would provide a significantly stiffer test than Saturday’s road victory at Virginia Tech, where Cassell Coliseum simply celebrated postseason appearances instead of titles.

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guard seth allen sits on the bench late in the Terps’ 75-63 loss to North Carolina last night in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Tar Heels snapped a two-game winning streak for guards Dez Wells (32) and Nick Faust (5) and forward Charles Mitchell (0) . alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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With just more than 10 minutes remaining in last night’s contest at North Carolina, the Terrapins men’s basketball team forced Marcus Paige into one of his five turnovers when the Tar Heels point guard drove into a crowded lane.

Jake Layman collected the ball, and the Terps, trailing 51-44, had an opportunity to come within two possessions of the Tar Heels for the first time all half. The forward walked the ball up the floor before passing to trailing forward Evan Smotrycz, who launched a 3-pointer in rhythm from the top of the arc with 28 seconds left on the shot clock. The ball clanged off the back of the rim and North Carolina secured the rebound.

Smotrycz’s miss was one of 17 missed threepoint attempts for the Terps, who shot a dismal 26.1 percent from distance in a 75-63 loss at the Dean E. Smith Center.

Coach Mark Turgeon, though, was adamant his squad didn’t settle for jump shots, even though referees Karl Hess, Michael Stephens and Mike Stuart called 47 fouls between the two teams, mostly on attempts by players to cut through the defense and get to the rim.

“We were going to the basket,” Turgeon said.

“We were driving. You might want to watch the film. We were driving it.”

The Terps took 20 free-throw attempts last night but just six in the second half.

The Tar Heels made it to the line 37 times — where they shot 51.4 percent — and they also See SHOOTING, Page 7

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Ty Snook was in the middle of a heated scramble with Tony Gardner at the Red & Black Wrestle-Offs on Oct. 27 when the Terrapins wrestling team’s 174pound redshirt senior went for a throw and his right ankle popped, immediately bringing back memories of an eerily similar moment in his high school career.

Before his senior season at St. Mark’s High School in Wilmington, Del., Snook fractured the same ankle. As he was assisted off the mat by coach Kerry McCoy in October at Comcast Pavilion with a grimace on his face, he couldn’t help but think back to the earlier incident.

A season-ending injury would have proven all the more disappointing for Snook given that he devoted this summer to getting into the best shape of his wrestling career. Luckily for Snook, it was only a sprain that kept him out as the Terps dropped six of their first 10 matches. Since returning at Virginia Tech on Jan. 19, Snook is 2-1 and has helped rejuvenate the Terps.

“I was a little panicked,” Snook said. “It was like, ‘Oh, not again.’ I didn’t know how bad it was hurt — I just felt it pop. I was pretty scared.”

Though Snook wrestled at 197 pounds in 2012-13, McCoy planned to rely on him at 174 pounds this year.

Motivated to cut weight, Snook spent the offseason transforming his body.

With one year of college eligibility remaining, Snook chose to adjust his lifestyle. He consulted the new team nutritionist, deciding to try a diet rich in vegetables and lean meats. He switched up his weight-training program, opting for lighter weights

During the past week, coach Brenda Frese emphasized the importance of the Terrapin’s women’s basketball team entering games with the same focus and intensity as it does during its practices.

Though the Terps have struggled with consistency in a stretch during which they’ve lost three of their past four games, guard Lexie Brown and forward Alyssa Thomas have provided stellar performances in an effort to get the team back on track.

Brown averaged 20 points and 5 assists last week, while Thomas averaged 19.3 points and grabbed 10.7 rebounds per game. The pair’s best performances came against Syracuse, when Brown scored 31 points on 7-of-8 shooting from three-point range, and Thomas had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for her third triple-double of the season.

Thomas has recorded at least a double-double in 18 of her 21 games. The national player of the See notebook, Page 7

TY SNOOK suffered an ankle injury at the Red & Black Wrestle-Offs in October that kept him out the early part of the season, but the redshirt senior has returned after missing the first two months of the season. He is 2-1 since coming back at Virginia Tech. file photo/the diamondback

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