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COMING DOWN FROM CAPITOL HILL Obama speaks on debt ceiling, higher education to crowd in Ritchie Coliseum

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

After weeks of following congressional debt negotiations on TV and in newspapers, a handful of students and residents got the chance to ask President Barack Obama about the nation’s fiscal situation last Friday — face to face.

In a town hall meeting announced only days before, Obama took the podium in Ritchie Coliseum at about 11 a.m. before a crowd of 1,200 students, residents and previously selected White House Twitter followers. Obama answered questions from the audience after briefly remarking on the looming deadline to raise the nation’s debt ceiling — the cap on the amount of money the federal government can borrow. If the debt ceiling is not raised by Aug. 2, the nation could default and recipients of programs such as Social Security and Medicare may not receive their benefits.

Although congressional leaders from both parties have put forth debt-ceiling plans in the week since Obama spoke on the campus, negotiations have deadlocked several times and it remains unclear what, if any, plan will be enacted. Despite these tooth-and-nail disputes about how to reduce the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt on Capitol Hill, Obama promised the inti-

Admins. said findings will benefit departments

BY REBECCA LURYE For The Diamondback

A recent state audit into university practices found officials committed two infractions — they paid millions to a food vendor after the contract expired and did not accurately record the leave and workloads of several faculty members.

While neither violation will result in serious penalties for the university, the state is nonetheless required to perform ongoing investigations to ensure the institution, its administrators and faculty are abiding federal guidelines.

“Auditing is just part of how we operate, and it’s a very helpful process,” Provost Ann Wylie said. “We do very well; we run a very clean operation, but auditors see things in a way we didn’t.”

The report released last week found the university continued to pay $4.7 million to a foodservice provider after its contract expired in March 2010. The university’s long-held contract

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mate crowd in Ritchie that he will fight to ensure students’ futures remain secure in uncertain financial times.

“Before we ask college students to pay more for their education, let’s ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes that are lower on their rates than their secretaries,” Obama said to an applauding audience. “This isn’t about punishing wealth; this is about asking people who have benefited most over the last decade to share in the sacrifice.”

Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie had a one-on-one meeting with Obama before he took the stage and briefly discussed students’ concerns about college affordability. “[Obama’s visit] shows that he is trying to bring in student input into the talks,” Xie said.

“It’s also nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth rather than the pundits on TV.” On Tuesday, Xie participated in a conference call with Obama and other collegiate student leaders, during which he discussed the uncertain future of student programs — especially Pell Grants. In Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012, he recommended cutting the number of Pell Grants given to students

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Whole Foods store set for Riverdale Park Despite high prices, city welcomes organic shop

BY JIM BACH For The Diamondback

With the upcoming addition of a Whole Foods grocery store in Riverdale Park, students may be seeing a wealth of organic options within a mile and a half of the campus.

But thanks to more convenient eco-conscious alternatives on-and-off-campus — combined with the store’s high price tag — some officials and students said it is unlikely Whole Foods, set to open in 2014, will become the go-to grocery store for students.

“Whole Foods tends to be a little more expensive,” said College Park Mayor Andy Fellows. “It may not be such an attractive option for some students.”

The store will move into the Cafritz familyowned property — located along Route 1 between Albion Road and East-West Highway — within a half-mile of three transit locations: the College Park Metro Station to the north, the Riverdale Park MARC Station to the south and the future Purple Line rail to the east, said Chip Reed, the Cafritzes’ attorney. Combined with

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Cracking the human brain’s code Researchers tackle prosthetics project

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

Some simple, everyday movements aren’t easy for amputees and stroke victims, but kinesiology associate professor José Contreras-Vidal and his research team are working so these patients may eventually regain the motion they lost.

By using a skullcap that measures brain function, researchers at the university’s Neural Engineering and Smart Prosthetics Lab are working to decipher specific brain activities and how they translate into bodily motions. Sorting out the brain’s code will help the researchers

learn to manipulate thoughts of actions into actual motions, which could restore mobility for people who have had strokes, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease or amputations.

And while putting these thoughts in motion is complicated enough, Contreras-Vidal said adapting their lab findings into practical applications is essential for the team. In the future — possibly as soon as three years from now — Contreras-Vidal hopes their research will be turned into clinical aids for people who are looking to become more mobile.

“We want to translate these findings

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JOHN BRUNGOT, 1990-2011

‘He loved everything he did’

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Senior fire protection engineering major Johnny Brungot was known as everyone’s friend. PHOTO COURTESY OF GEORGE BRUNGOT

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Whether listening to the life stories of seniors at his grandfather’s retirement center, playing with children at his mother’s home day care or simply hanging out with his fraternity brothers, Johnny Brungot was always making friends.

“I never met anybody in my entire life like Johnny,” said junior business major Blake Levy. “People gravitated to him because of how great he was.”

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the morning of June 29 from multiple injuries sustained after a 25-foot-fall off the roof of his family’s home in Davidsonville. He had celebrated his 21st birthday the day before.

The Annapolis-born senior was an Eagle Scout, a camp counselor and a member of this university’s Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. And no matter what the setting, Brungot’s upbeat attitude always attracted new friends.

“He was just always really friendly and happy all the time,” said high school classmate Hannah Anderson, a junior journalism major at this university.

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Brungot attended South River High School, where he ran cross country and track. He was pursuing a degree in fire protection engineering at this university and interning for the fire marshal at the Pentagon.

“He loved the family; he loved his friends; he loved his neighbors; he loved the college; he loved the track team; he loved everything he did,” said George Brungot, his father. “He liked people. He was a people kid.”

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“Even the previously untouchable programs are facing cuts,” Xie said. “It’s pretty dire and I think they are looking to cut a lot of Pell Grants, and I think a lot of people see that as a pertinent issue. … The state needs to find a way to help students pay for college because we can’t simply rely on federal ones anymore.”

State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said that as Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office struggles with its own estimated $1.1 billion budget gap in 2012, federal aid — especially for education — will be more important than ever.

“If the federal government cuts back in areas beyond Pell Grants, it will put a lot of pressure on the state governments,” he said. “We’ve got to be sure that the federal budget isn’t reduced entirely on the backs of middle-class families who send their kids to public institutions.”

In his on-campus remarks, Obama pledged to tackle the rising costs of government-funded higher education programs so they will continue to be available in coming years.

“We’ve got to make sure that these programs, which are the crown jewels of our social safety net … that those are there for the future,” he said.

After speaking for less than 30 minutes, Obama opened the floor to the audience, randomly picking

eight attendees — ranging from university graduate students,, public school teachers and community members — who asked him questions on topics such as health care, creating sustainable communities and the president’s biggest regrets thus far in his term.

Many students were enthused after the meeting and confident that no matter what the outcome of the budget negotiations, Obama will fight to keep higher education costs low.

“He’s putting everything he can and his best effort forward,” said senior criminology and criminal justice major Aaron Gregg.

But others said Obama’s visit did not ease their anxiety.

“I don’t feel more assured,” said university alumnus Tom Bailey.

“You hear so much bullshit with media coverage. I wanted to hear his opinion from his mouth. I think he explained it as well as a politician with his own political agenda and political aspirations would.”

University President Wallace Loh said while the president’s visit helped students become engaged in a national debate, it was also a strategic political move on Obama’s part.

“I think he was out here entertaining the students but also sending a signal to the people out there negotiating,” Loh said after the event. “I think it’s a brilliant tactic.

He leaves the negotiations to come here, be on national television and talk about the issue.”

Nick Foley contributed to this report. abutaleb@umdbk.com

ORGANIC from page 1 the various bus systems, Reed said he sees an opportunity to reach target consumers.

“I think it’s an attractive site for Whole Foods,” he said.

In an area that lacks an abundance of supermarket options, a Whole Foods could help out those students who have little interest in nearby grocers — such as the Shoppers on Cherry Hill Road or the Giant on Greenbelt Road.

“One of the first things that Whole Foods looks for is an educated customer base,” Reed said. “They’ve had real success in other near-university loca-

BRUNGOT from page 1 the fraternity house for always having friends over to watch movies, said Levy, Alpha Sigma Phi’s president.

“I think he had like a terabyte on an external hard drive of movies,” longtime friend and fraternity member Nathan Suberi said.

Among his many interests, Brungot had a passion for running. Suberi, a member of Brungot’s cross country and track teams, said he had an

tions, so, with their style of product offering, it usually appeals to that sort of demographic.”

Every Sunday since the beginning of June, a weekly farmers’ market takes over the parking lot across from Ledo Restaurant. According to Reed, the introduction of yet another organic option emphasizes the area’s increasing interest in locallygrown produce.

“These farmers’ markets are right up [residents’] alley,” he said. “I think they are very complimentary of one another.”

Additionally, the on-campus Maryland Food Co-op has boasted healthy, eco-conscious food for more than 30 years.

Devin Mahoney, a manager at the Co-op, sees Whole Foods as

a potential partner to promote similar dietary values.

“The more healthy, organic, responsible options we can have around campus, I think the better overall,” Mahoney said.

The Whole Foods store is part of a larger development plan on the property that would include a fitness center and other retail venues. The construction is expected to begin in 2012 and could lead to more traffic issues along a notoriously congested Route 1.

“One of the main things that we, College Park, want to do is work with our sister municipalities in Riverdale Park and University Park to make sure our concerns are addressed about traffic and congestion and other

impacts to the local community that development might have,” Fellows said.

The Cafritz property, stretching almost 40 acres, has potential for development, Reed said.

“It’s a large undeveloped parcel,” Reed said. “An opportunity with a pretty good-sized blank slate.”

Some students, such as junior English major Rutvij Pandya, said they would make an occasional visit to Prince George’s County’s first-ever Whole Foods.

“I’d go there, maybe not all the time but definitely to get a few things that I know I could get there that would be better,” he said.

uncanny ability to take the physical and mental anguish that came with the sport.

“He could just take so much pain,” the senior economics and mathematics major said.

“He just had the ability to put that part of his psyche on the back burner and just push through whatever adversity he had in the way.”

But he brought more than just his agility to the team — he always came to practice with a sense of humor, often wearing an orange Hawaiian shirt and bathing suits to training sessions.

Brungot and Suberi ran a marathon together in Richmond, Va., their sophomore year, highlighting a longtime friendship that had largely been built on their shared love of running.

“Whenever I go for a run now, I can’t stop thinking of him,” Suberi said. “When you’re running, especially long-distance stuff, you have a lot of time to talk. We knew everything about each other.”

More than 500 lines filled Brungot’s registry book at George P. Kalas Funeral Home — a testament to his

active social life, George Brungot noted.

“He’s always brimming with life,” Suberi said. “He lived every second of every day with a vivacity that you couldn’t contain.”

He is survived by his parents George and Christine Brungot; his brother Mark Brungot, 32, of Davidsonville; and his sister, Karen Brungot, 26, of Annapolis.

Alpha Sigma Phi is planning an event to memorialize Brungot this fall.

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PROSTHETICS from page 1 into biomedical devices that people can use,” he said. “We want to get people out of wheelchairs and walking again.”

With a 10-person team hailing from bioengineering, neuroscience and kinesiology programs, research tasks within the project are assigned accordingly: Some researchers decode brain activity while others invent new ways to teach the brain how to manipulate thoughts.

“We not only want to figure out what the brain does, but we also want to have a very quick method of being able to teach people to control their brain activity,” neuroscience graduate student and lab researcher Anusha Venkatakrishnan said. “The goal is to eventually unite them together.”

But getting to that point will be complicated, Contreras-Vidal said, because different methods are used for different medical conditions. Whether it’s working on improving dexterity for

Parkinson’s patients or moving new limbs for amputees, the lab’s collaborative effort is essential.

Though surgical brain implants already exist to help people with physical disabilities move more naturally, these contraptions are costly measures. But this research team developed a noninvasive option that applies similar concepts, instead using a skullcap with 64 electrodes that track brain activity. Because the brains of physically disabled people are still fully functioning, the team has been employing these high-tech hats to learn how to reconnect the brain to the body by manipulating thoughts.

“Your brain is still intact, it’s just disconnected,” ContrerasVidal said of these disabilities.

The team has presented its findings at international conferences in Italy and Mexico, and as they continue to make progress they will reveal more of their research at a UMUC conference on Monday. University President Wallace Loh will visit the lab Thursday to review their work.

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“To try our answers on these [devices] to demonstrate that they actually work, and people can control these arms using their thoughts, sounds very cool to me,” neuroscience doctoral student and lab researcher Harsha Agashe said. “ If they can really help people make a difference in their lives, then that’s worth it.” marcot@umdbk.com

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with U.S. Foodservice has kept food prices constant at a time when the university is dealing with crippled funding and budget crises in multiple departments, university officials said.

Without a solidified contract, U.S. Foodservice could have raised its prices, and the university would have been required to pay the higher fees. However, the vendor acted in “good faith” and did not raise prices, according to a university statement.

“We have a responsibility and an obligation to feed the students,” said Bart Hipple, assistant dining services communication director.

“When the contract expired, we could either stop eating or operate without a contract, and I believe we have the correct authorization to do that.”

Dining Services fills out the paperwork for the supplies they need, and the university’s Procurement and Supply department then writes a check to U.S. Foodservice. Hipple said Dining Services officials asked the Procurement and Supply department to renew

the contract, but the process failed to meet a specified deadline.

“That’s a failure over here in Procurement and Supply,” said department Director James Stirling.

“We should have noted the contract was expiring and solicited renewal, so it was an oversight from our department.”

The university also did not seek approval from the Board of Regents — a 17-member board that sets policy for the University System of Maryland — before paying U.S. Foodservice, due to confusing guidelines, Stirling said.

Typically, the purchase of food items are exempt from the Regents’ approval. However, payments of $5 million or more require their go-ahead. Although the funding was $4.7 million from July 2010 to March 2011, Regents officials said it would most likely exceed the $5 million mark by July.

“I think this is an anomalous event, and I think it helped clarify where two Board of Regents policies conflict with each other,” said Julie Phelps, assistant vice president of administrative affairs.

Although system spokesman Mike Lurie wrote in an email that the policies are stated clearly, he said his office is looking to clarify

them to avoid future complications The university is currently reviewing competitive applications for the next long-term food service provider, Stirling said.

The report also looked at 10 randomly selected faculty members’ sabbatical paperwork and noticed that seven of the samples did not complete a form specifying what they did while on leave from the university.

Because that statistic appeared staggeringly high, university officials conducted their own report of employees who took six to 12 months leave for study, research or rest. They found that only 10 percent did not complete the correct paperwork, Wylie said. She added she doesn’t believe faculty abuse their sabbatical leaves, but get bogged down returning to work and delay writing their reports.

University officials declined to release the names of the nine faculty members Wednesday because the official who knew the names was out of the country.

To fix the error, the university will switch to an electronic reporting system in January, according to the policy updated in May. lurye@umdbk.com

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Walking the line

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he university may not be facing a potential credit rating downgrade like the eral years running. Byrd’s luxury boxes remain unsold, and football and basketball federal government is, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been spending within attendance has declined.

The mandatory athletics fee of $198.77 per student per semester already provides our means. News that the athletics department has overspent its budget and thus exhausted reserve funds is discouraging for a university commu- more than $9 million to the athletics department’s annual budget. Forcing the rest nity already weary of tuition hikes and furloughs, to say nothing of the national of the university to shoulder additional debt would place an unfair burden on students who reap little benefit from non-revenue-producing sports. Relying on a fickle debate over budget cuts and debt limits. fan base to fill a reserve fund is just as unreliable as hoping But at least university President Wallace Loh is prepared to for an end to the recession. do something about it.

Spending money to field competitive teams in revenueAccording to a statement released last week by Loh, the athletics department has been running a deficit for several The President’s Commission producing sports can be seen as an investment in hopes of a future profit, but in lean times it’s difficult to justify signifiyears and used funds from a separate reserve to balance its on Intercollegiate Athletics cant expenditures on sports programs that have no hope of budget. But now that reserve is depleted. So Loh has estabproducing a surplus. According to The Post, 24 non-revenuelished the 17-member President’s Commission on Intercolleshould consider all options producing sports drained the university of $64 million from giate Athletics, which is tasked with examining the athletics department’s finances. The commission, composed of mem- when determining how best to 2005 to 2010.

It is clear, then, that the athletics department needs to find bers drawn from inside and outside the athletic community, create a balanced budget. a way to cut costs. is set to report back to Loh with recommendations Nov. 15.

The university boasts one of the largest athletics proIn the meantime, this editorial board has some recommengrams in the country. Its 27 varsity teams outnumber those of every other ACC dations of its own.

As Loh stated early in his tenure, athletics are the “front porch” of the university. school except Boston College and the University of North Carolina. Perhaps Last decade’s success in football and men’s basketball led to an uptick in exposure at fielding so many programs is a luxury we may not be able to afford anymore. the national level. Former Athletics Director Debbie Yow, perhaps emboldened by There are many ways to cut costs, such as reducing salaries and travel costs, but an influx of alumni donations, spent upwards of $200 million on facility projects, at this university athletic scholarships often account for about half of a program’s including the construction of Comcast Center, the addition of 64 luxury boxes to total expenditures.

It’s never easy to cut a program. Coaches lose their jobs, students lose scholarByrd Stadium, new facilities for softball, field hockey and lacrosse and renovations ships and fans lose the opportunity to watch elite athletes take part in games they to soccer’s Ludwig Field and baseball’s Shipley Field.

After all that, the university certainly has a nice front porch. What we don’t have love. But what’s good for a sports program isn’t necessarily what’s good for the rest anymore, at least it seems, is money: According to documents obtained by The Wash- of the school, especially in such tough economic times.

As the President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics compiles its report, ington Post, the athletics department is $83 million in debt, and only part of that debt can be blamed on the recession. The department ordinarily relies on surplus dollars we ask only two things: Be thorough and be fair. Submit an honest report with hard from the Terp men’s basketball and football programs to fund the other sports, but numbers, showing the university community how to balance the front porch’s lackluster performance and fan malaise has led to a decline in that revenue for sev- budget the right way. For the sake of the rest of the house, be good sports about it.

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College Park: Putting the pieces together

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nless you’re blinded by the new ugly green paint job adorning the building that formerly housed our beloved Thirsty Turtle, you’ve probably seen the explosion of student housing developments that has sprouted up right past the campus’ main gate.

Indeed, it was just a few years ago that the University View seemed like it was all by its lonesome self on a deserted island. The only entertainment options available to View residents were either watching Sue (the infamous owner of College Park Liquors) curse out loitering alcoholics or going to McDonald’s at 2 a.m. to observe the somber expressions of stoned students when told the McFlurry machine was, unfortunately, still out of service.

Suddenly, however, things are looking up. The View finally has some company down on Route 1: The View II, the Varsity, Mazza Grandmarc and the Enclave will all bring needed foot traffic

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ARNSTINE to the “uptown” section of College Park. New businesses, such as Looney’s Pub and a handful of restaurants, will serve those students well, but the development so far has been patchwork; downtown and uptown are separate entities instead of anchors at either end of a lively corridor.

But the pieces are coming together.

Within the next decade or so, College Park will undergo a transformation unlike anything the university has seen since many buildings on McKeldin Mall and North Campus were simultaneously built back in the 1950s. Loh has wisely sided with nearly every other Purple Line stakeholder and dropped the university’s specific oppo-

sition to the Campus Drive alignment, which will improve transportation into and out of College Park. The Purple Line — a proposed light-rail system that would connect communities in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties — would run right through East Campus, a development that will eventually occupy land from Paint Branch Drive to the edge of Fraternity Row, thus serving as the missing link between uptown and downtown.

Additionally, through the tireless efforts of local politicians such as District 3 County Councilman Eric Olson (D) and state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DAnne Arundel and Prince George’s), the region of Route 1 between Route 193 and Campus Drive will soon receive more than $8 million for an engineering and design project. This is the first step in the long-term redevelopment of Route 1 to improve safety for both pedestrians and drivers. Once completed, these improvements will create a vibrant streetscape: Every-

thing from newly aligned bus routes and traffic patterns to lighting improvements and the construction of wider sidewalks will make College Park a more vibrant community.

Decades of neglect and poor planning have led to a blighted Route 1 corridor that raises the ire of students, their families and visitors to the university. After watching parts of Hyattsville, Silver Spring and the U Street neighborhood undergo drastic transformations in recent years, it is time for College Park to experience the benefits of a well-planned community. With the emergence of university and private development, an improved transportation system and leaders who understand what needs to be done, we finally have all the pieces to solve the College Park puzzle. Now it’s time to put them together.

Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

Women’s sports: Worth a watch

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ou may have heard that the U.S. Women’s World Cup team lost the final match to the Japanese in PKs (some bizarre soccer lingo), marking the first thing Japan has won since Manchuria.

And while my heart was broken for the awesomely named, gorgeous-eyed, valiant American goalkeeper Hope Solo, I must begrudgingly commend the people of Japan for what seems like the only good news they’ve had recently. One thing the Women’s World Cup did do was generate excitement. As miraculous as it may seem, people were genuinely interested in women’s soccer.

Honestly, how could you not be? The Women’s World Cup was amazing.

Replays of Abby Wambach’s lastminute header still give me chills.

Women from around the world played with skill and passion, and people watched. But why is it that aside from a few huge events such as the Olympics and World Cup, women’s sports are often relegated to the periphery of popular culture?

Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is that many people here at this univer-

sity, in the United States and around the world couldn’t care less about women’s sports. Of course there are exceptions, but for the sake of gross generalities, this is a useful one. Many women’s professional sports leagues seem to be the awkward younger siblings of their male counterparts. Both the WNBA and LPGA Tour are far less popular and lucrative than the NBA and PGA Tour are.

In recent years we have begun to see women breaking into major men’s sports; Michelle Wie on the PGA Tour and Danica Patrick in NASCAR are two prominent examples, but these women are the exception rather than the rule.

As a former baseball player who still remembers giving up a home run to a girl in a championship game, the claim that women cannot compete with men is simply false — she was one of the best players in the league.

We at this university are lucky enough to have some of the best female athletes in the country. Our field hockey team has won seven national championships, competitive cheer has won four and women’s lacrosse has 11.

All three teams were national champi-

ROB RIKER ons just last year in 2010, and under coach Brenda Freese, women’s basketball has been a perennial contender and won the 2006 NCAA championship. We love our lady Terps and do a good job of supporting them; field hockey led the nation in attendance in 2010, and women’s basketball has been top 10 in three of the past four years.

This week College Park is playing host to the CITI Open, a Women’s Tennis Association event that has brought some of the world’s top players here to College Park. Tennis is probably the professional sport with the most parity between genders in terms of fan base, prestige and wealth. The Maria Sharapovas and Venus Williamses of the world are just as famous and wealthy as the Rafeal Nadals and Rodger Federers. And yet, I have barely heard any mention of this event going on in our

own back yard.

As a broad trend, the lackluster support is a concern: In a nation obsessed with sports, where are the women?

While the NFL and NBA have both undergone lockouts to bicker over how to divide their riches, women’s leagues struggle. The Women’s United Soccer Association folded in 2003 and it was not until 2009 that the Women’s Professional Soccer league was formed. The sad fact is that when people do not care as much, there is less money. Since this seems to be the year to talk about money (even the federal government is doing it), it is important to note the university’s athletics department is some $83 million in debt. I hope that whatever changes are made do not negatively impact our female athletes, who have brought our university the majority of our national championships (23 of our 38). And when you get the chance, watch a women’s game, you won’t be disappointed.

Rob Riker graduated in May with degrees in government and politics and history. He can be reached at riker@umdbk.com.

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sat at my desk on the fifth day of my summer internship and happily — yet quietly — slurped yogurt off the container’s lid without a care in the world. But a striking thought made me stop mid-lick: What if the company’s CEO, whose office was right next to my not-so-private workspace, popped her head out and caught me?

I returned my tart tongue to my mouth, disposed of the yogurt lid and turned back to my computer, glad everybody else around me was too busy to have noticed my momentar y lapse of professionalism while enjoying my midmorning treat.

It really doesn’t take ver y long to become comfortable in new surroundings. On my first day, I would not have been caught dead licking a yogurt lid at work. I didn’t even start bringing yogurt until my third day, because I thought eating something that required a spoon would call too much attention to my presence.

Yet by my fifth day, I had already become way too comfortable in a space that was barely mine. What came after licking yogurt lids? Taking off my shoes under the desk? Bringing in slippers? Putting on another layer of deodorant midday? I was sliding down a slippery slope.

I’ve always been told feeling ner vous is a good thing, because it means you’ll be more aware, alert and likely to put forth your best effort. I’ve also been told relaxation and confidence are indicators of success. If all that is true, then how am I supposed to be confident, relaxed and nervous at the same time?

While it is important to maintain a certain level of relaxation in the workplace, it is also important not to cross the boundar y between being relaxed and being too comfortable. Especially when you don’t have the luxur y of an office with a door that you can shut when you have your inexplicable urges to do the unthinkables mentioned above, you always face some amount of scrutiny in the workplace.

Though the line between relaxation and comfort depends on the company or organization and your hierarchical position (for some, it might be perfectly fine to wear slippers at work), professionalism must always be in the back of your mind as an intern. A little red flag should arise in your mind whenever you find yourself slipping into practices that you usually perform in your dorm room or apartment.

As the summer winds down and internships come to an end, take note of your environment as you get more comfortable and gain more confidence in your workplace. Whenever you encounter that line between comfort and complacency, maintaining a sense of that first day ner vousness is imperative to keeping your feet on the ground — not folded up onto your swivel chair — and your tongue in your mouth.

Emily Kleiman is a junior communication major. She can be reached at emilykleiman22@yahoo.com.

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Move over, Battle: Los Angeles: You’ve got some steep competition for the title of worst movie of the year.

The Smurfs seems to exist primarily to prove critics were wrong to hate Cars 2 (“No, this is what a terrible kids’ movie looks like.”) It’s a craven, cynical attempt by studio execs to cash in on nostalgia by offering up a hackneyed, lamely “hip” remake of a 1980s anima-

tion franchise — in 3D, no less.

Really, The Smurfs is two movies in one. Neither is good. One is merely boring; the other is gouge-out-your-eyes bad, and the movie as a whole is alternately insipid and insufferable.

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By itself, this plot would make a perfectly forgettable dramedy, the kind of Cquality, 80-minute flick studios crap out all the time to make an extra $20 million But the other half of the movie, the half that actually deals with the Smurfs, is so bad — so woefully terrible — that not even the likes of Harris can save it from descending into Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquellevels of intolerability.

It has to be said: Smurfs are annoying. Maybe they weren’t quite as annoying in their cartoon incarnation — then again, children are not the best judge of these things — but they are

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The writers must comprehend how grating the Smurfs’ singing is (the only lyrics they know are “la la la”), but they keep having them sing anyway.

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EDSALL

CATCHING UP: TERPS SIGN ON AFTER LOCKOUT

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With the end of the NFL lockout allowing teams to head back to work, several former Terps set out to do the same this week. After the start of a condensed free-agent signing period Tuesday, undrafted free agents such as linebacker Adrian Moten (left) didn’t have to wait long to find at least a temporary home for their services. Below are three other players from last year’s team who have already signed:

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Friedgen. They also lost 2 1/2 practice hours from their weekly in-season allotment of 20 for violating practice limits last season. The departures of nearly a dozen players, either voluntary or otherwise, has also thinned the Terps considerably at several positions.

“It’s not going to be an issue at all because we’re not going to let it be an issue,” Edsall said of the practice limitations. “It’s not going to hinder us. Not going to let it hinder us.”

Edsall added: “This isn’t my first rodeo. Let me say this, going in to Jacksonville with the Jaguars and starting that program from scratch, then going to Connecticut and doing what I did — this has been a breeze.”

After a season in which the Terps came within one win of a trip to the ACC Championship game, rising sophomore quarterback Danny O’Brien said, “The goal is ACC title or bust.”

For now, few see that hap-

pening. Florida State (65 firstplace votes) emerged as the overwhelming media favorite to take the Atlantic, with Clemson (four) and Boston College (two) also garnering mention and NC State projected to finish third. Only Wake Forest received fewer votes than the Terps in the division — not that Edsall was taking notice.

“My thought process is we’re going to compete for a league championship this year,” Edsall said. “That’s the whole mindset.”

TERP NOTE: Linebacker Kenny Tate was named to the preseason All-ACC team Wednesday.

Tate is the only Terp representative on the team.

O’Brien received four votes for preseason conference player of the year, making him one of only two quarterbacks to earn first-place nods. Florida State’s EJ Manuel, who was tabbed as the preseason AllACC quarterback, earned 14 of 71 votes, behind only Boston College running back Montel Harris (26). sports@umdbk.com

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More ACC Kickoff coverage Why is coach Randy Edsall rankled at having to face Miami in the season opener this September? Get the answer online at our sports blog, TerrapinTrail.com.

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For Terps, again it’s title or ‘bust’ Team projected to finish fifth in Atlantic

BY JONAS SHAFFER Senior staff writer

PINEHURST, N.C. — Before a flock of reporters who, on the whole, hadn’t yet put much stock in the prospects of his Terrapin football team, Randy Edsall grinned. Skimming over the piece of paper in front of him — the one that bore the prediction of a fifth-place Terp finish in the Atlantic Division — Edsall said he’d seen it before.

A season ago, the former Connecticut coach’s Huskies were projected to be the Big East’s fourth-place finishers.

Then they went to the Fiesta Bowl.

“I’m not worried about pleasing everybody because if I think I’ve got to please everybody, then we’re not going to be as good as we need to be,”

Edsall said Monday at the ACC Kickoff, his first public appearance with league brethren. “And we can’t develop the way I want to develop. I’m just going to go and do the things I think are right for our program.”

That hasn’t always been easy for Edsall in his first few months on the job. As he seeks to reshape the Terps’ future in his own ways — introducing new coordinators, new rules and even new uniforms — traces of the past have cropped up to complicate matters for the team, which starts practice Aug. 9.

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see EDSALL, page 7

Coach Randy Edsall, shown here at his introductory press conference in January, told reporters Monday at the ACC Kickoff that “we’re going to compete for a league championship this year.” FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK