August 29, 2012

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FOOTBALL: STEPPING UP

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Fall looks promising for movies, albums, concerts p. 13A

With a new year and elections ahead, students speak up p. 4A

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By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer

ELECTION 2012

Barack Obama @BarackObama Our take: Gov. Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.

Although the university will house almost twice as many transfer students on the campus this fall than last, housing availability for transfers is far from stable, according to Department of Resident Life Assistant Director Scott Young.

This fall, 220 transfer students moved into dorms, suites and apartments on the campus, compared to only 121 last year, though there has not been a steady growth in the number of transfer students living on the campus over the past decade. While many transfer students said living on the campus eases their transition to the university, officials said their housing availability depends greatly on the size of the freshman class and the number of students who decide to remain in their dorms. Both of those groups receive priority over transfers.

Resident Life Director Deb Grandner said the recent construction of Oakland Hall and the growth of South Campus Commons apartments account for increased availability in recent years. More than half the transfer students who applied for housing this fall — excluding those who canceled their applications — were able to live on the campus.

Grandner said the department has added more than 1,000 beds over the See TRANSFER, Page 2A

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Police start with less funds

Dept. returned more than half of last year’s $30K grant

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

Barack Obama @BarackObama RT if you agree: We can’t let Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan take us back to the 1950s on women’s health. pic.twitter.com/cZZUOvm1

recent Gallup poll — many students said the barrage of negative tweets and online campaigning from the incumbent and Republican candidate Romney have left them less than impressed. Romney, who is expected to accept the nomination tomorrow at the Republican National Convention, has relied heavily on Facebook and Twitter to break into the digital era of campaigning — far more than Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did in 2008 — leading the two presidential hopefuls to take

Tackling underage drinking this fall won’t be as easy for University Police as it was last year, without additional state funding to payroll hundreds of hours of overtime.

The department used an additional $11,500 last year to pay officers for about 255 hours of overtime, mainly for entering bars to recheck patrons’ IDs and shutting down more house parties, according to University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. While police say underage drinking is a concern every fall semester, much of the state grant went unused — the department returned the remaining $18,500 in the spring because officers began carrying out fewer checks on bars and parties in the winter, Limansky said.

“We didn’t do as many enforcement operations in the second and third quarters [winter and spring] before deobligating the remaining funds,” he said, adding Gov. Martin O’Malley could then direct the funds

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Mitt Romney @MittRomney Unemployment rate up. @BarackObama‘s re-election slogan may be ‘forward’ but it seems like we’ve been moving backward. We can do better. photos courtesy of silive.com (obama), nj.com (romney)

back and forth Students less passionate about election than in 2008 despite online campaigning

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer Younese Mekonnen remembers the passion his friends felt toward Barack Obama in 2008. He remembers Obama had a charisma that enabled him to draw overwhelming support from the 18- to 29-year-old crowd, ultimately propelling him to the White House.

And while polls show Obama still holds a strong lead with younger voters — he leads Mitt Romney 56 percent to 35 percent with that group, according to the most

Soaring to new heights Alum joined Cirque du Soleil after graduating

By Laura Blasey Staff writer

A city of all trades

College Park starkly different from years past after the opening of several new restaurants MORE ONLINE

By Nick Foley Staff writer When you ventured out into downtown College Park for a quick bite 15 years ago, you were faced with a gripping choice: gyros or pizza.

Marathon Deli and Ratsie’s Pizza dominated the dining scene for years, and while they remain top favorites among the university community, a recent increase in specialty-based restaurants lining Route 1

Check www.diamondbackonline.com for video of some of the newest restaurants in College Park and interviews with owners. is bringing a blast of new flavor and culture to the city.

Since she started working at Marathon Deli in 1997, owner Sharon Galanakos has seen a flurry of restaurants come and go. But her business dodged the economic

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Ch i ld ren every where have a n answer when asked what they want to be when they grow up, and most change their minds more than once — but Abigail Schmidt never wavered.

Sch m idt, the most decorated gymnast in Terps history, wanted to fly in Cirque du Soleil.

“I think I was 11 or 12 years old and I saw a Cirque du Soleil show called Alegría in Houston, and it just put a spark in me,” she said.

Her parents, Lucretia and John Quincy Adams, enrolled the Texas native in gymnastics classes when she was 6, but it was watching a flying spectacle of human beings pushing themselves to their artistic and physical limits that inspired her. Schmidt devoted her middle school, high school and college years to gymnastics, all while holding on to the secret hope she could one day become a part of that spectacle.

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She came to College Park, where she was an active member of the Terps gymnastics team and graduated last year with a degree in English, specializing in Renaissance literature.

But it was on the gymnastics team where she really made her mark.

Schmidt was known for her skill as a gymnast, her fierceness in competition and her strength as a member of a team she calls her family and closest friends. Schmidt, then Abigail Adams, won the East Atlantic Gymnastics League all-around title in her senior season, capping a career that included eight fi rst-team All-EAGL honors.

“Abbey was an incredible competitor; she had the combination of raw talent, speed and power but always with an artistic grace to her gymnastics,” said her former coach, Brett Nelligan. Nelligan called Schmidt, who was conference champion her junior and senior years, “one of the most decorated gymnasts in program history.”

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WHILE DOWNTOWN College Park used to present a challenge to students seeking new cuisines, the area has developed beyond city staples Ratsie’s and Marathon Deli to include new options, such as Indian and Pakistani fusion restaurant Krazi Kebob. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Benton said. “I like The Bagel Place. …

Everyone goes there; it’s like, the hangover spot.”

Junior Jewish studies and psychology major Jennifer Bachar said she hesitates to try new restaurants because the city offers plenty of choices already.

“It’s kind of easy to stay with what you’re used to,” Bachar said.

Naumaan Hamid could be considered one of the first restaurateurs to introduce a bold, new flavor to College Park. Nearly two years after opening his IndianPakistani-Mexican fusion restaurant, Krazi Kebob, he said he relishes offering something unique and attributes his success to a growing popularity for his

cuisine seen across the U.S. “People are a lot more open to newer foods, ethnic foods,” Hamid said. “We don’t have everyone going to buy McDonald’s anymore.”

The restaurant serves traditional Indian and Pakistani foods — such as Tandoori naan — in a burrito or quesadilla, a hybrid concoction that allows customers to introduce themselves to new flavors in familiar packages.

“People’s taste buds are getting more and more developed,” Hamid said. “[It’s] not just steak and potatoes with a little salt on it anymore — people want flavor.”

Young said he thinks dorms “absolutely” help a student feel like part of the campus community, unlike other housing options around the university.

Some transfer students said they felt they were missing out on certain CHELSEA ANDREWS things while living in a house or TRANSFER STUDENT and RESIDENT ASSISTANT apartment.

“I was lucky enough to have a students are still interested in living really wonderful experience with in dorms.

“We haven’t seen a substantial my roommate and my apartment,” impact yet of the off-campus prop- said junior nursing student and resierties because I think that when dent assistant Chelsea Andrews, who push comes to shove, if a student transferred last year.

“But I definitely felt like I missed wants to live in the residence halls, they’re going to live in the residence out on a lot of events and making friends on your floor and just the halls,” Young said.

bonding that happens in the residence halls. I definitely think that is something that is incredibly helpful for transfer students.”

Resident Life officials are analyzing the demand for housing on the campus over the next five to 10 years to develop a plan to help housing keep pace with the growth of the university, Grandner said.

“Our goal is to look at this issue in the strategic planning process,” Grandner said. He said the department plans to “look at how we are serving students and how we can improve our service to students.”

out, according to city Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater.

“Business owners are trying to find a from PAGE 1A bit of niche, and they need to find their downturn, and she receives a steady flow own identity in the marketplace,” he said. “I think people have been willing of customers.

She isn’t worried about competi- to try that over the past few years.”

With the recent openings of Chition; instead, Galanako said she would DogO’s, Pho D’Lite and District Dumpwelcome new restaurants.

“Hopefully, it’ll be more flavors in- ling, residents are mere footsteps away troduced,” she said. “You get in an area from a slew of specialty restaurants.

“If you just look at downtown, it’s and everything is [the same]. It doesn’t pretty exciting that within a couple work — one of them is going to fail.”

In a town inundated with pizza places blocks, you can walk and get multiple and Mexican joints, College Park res- different kinds of food,” Stiefvater said. taurateurs work to bring more obscure, “There’s Vietnamese food; there’s Thai unprecedented flavors to the city to stand food; there’s dumplings.”

Several students, including junior mathematics education major Ellie Markewitz, said the new options would force them to step outside their culinary comfort zones.

“Sometimes you don’t want the same thing over and over again, and when I go to Chipotle or Noodles, I get the same thing every time,” Markewitz said. “Diversity is always good, especially when it comes to food.”

However, other students, such as senior psychology major Stephanie Benton, said they tend to frequent places already familiar to them that are embedded in their college routines.

“I’d rather stick to the old ones,”

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“I definitely felt like I missed out on a lot of events and making friends on your floor and just the bonding that happens in the residence halls.”

to campus life.”

S o m e t ra n s fe r s t u d e n t s s a i d these problems made them doubt from PAGE 1A their chances of getting on-campus past few years in its effort to meet housing their first semester, opting the consistently high demand for instead to lease an apartment in one of the city’s many highrises. housing on the campus.

“I knew that [on-campus housing] “ We c o nt i nu e to h ave a ve r y loyal resident hall population who was really hard to get, so I didn’t return each year, and that’s made even really want to try,” junior diit difficult for transfers,” she said. etetics major Leah Cranmer said.

“But we’re beginning to make some “Since I am a junior, I didn’t want to headway,” she added. “We recognize be in a dorm or anything; I wanted that housing is an issue for transfer an apartment.”

Even w ith the addition of new students, and that they can really benefit from the opportunities on high-rise apartments, including campus and that housing would cer- The Enclave, The Varsity and Mazza tainly support their transition here Grandmarc, Young said he thinks

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Montreal, a country away from her husband, who plays professional lacrosse for the Ohio Machine.

“Being on a show would be an incredible opportunity, but that isn’t the full purpose of why I’m here,” Schmidt said.

“If that’s all I thought about while I was here, then I would probably go crazy — my focus here is just to make the transition into an artist and pray, pray that I’m offered a contract.”

On stage, Cirque du Soleil performers accomplish challenging feats that seem to defy the laws of physics and anatomy, twisting, contorting and moving their bodies in ways that seem impossible.

They can sing, act, dance and perform amazing physical stunts — but at a price.

“I am no longer a gymnast when I walk in here. First of all, it’s my job; it helps pay the bills. This is not something I love to do, so I do it in my spare time, like gymnastics was — this is a choice, to wake up in the morning and work hard, and it’s also a choice to not be just a gymnast,” she said. “I’m not just an acrobat, and I’m not just an actor or a dancer. I’ve spent 17 years focusing solely on my athletics and here it’s so much different. It’s about artistry, and if you’re just an acrobat here, you won’t make it.”

It’s a full workday of classes and meetings, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sometimes, Schmidt said, she only gets to fly, her specialty in acrobatics, for an hour a day, the remaining hours filled with acting classes, dance and voice lessons, physical therapy, conditioning and meetings with sports psychologists.

“The purpose of me being here is to make me an artist,” she said. “The last 17 years, I’ve been doing just gymnastics, so it’s been a hard transition.”

Although she misses her husband, dog and Crock-Pot in Ohio, through the exhausting physical demands of the job, the pain of blisters and the rough calluses on her hands and feet, it’s still her inner child’s dream.

“This is so cliche, and I’ve heard so many people say it since I’ve been here, but it really is a dream come true,” she said. “It might be easier to just sit at a desk all day long, but my favorite thing is that I’ve had a glimpse of this since I was 12 years old, and I’m 23 now and I’m here.”

“Not only did she motivate with words, but she had a work ethic that made everyone around her want to work hard as well,” said former teammate and current Maryland gymnast Kesley Cofsky.

It was almost a trial run for what she would do at Cirque du Soleil, pushing herself through the intense training it requires of its artists.

“During college is when I first started saying out loud that I wanted to eventually, with all this gymnastics, go for it and either audition or send in an application,” Schmidt said. “I think I was kind of afraid to say it out loud, because that kind of made it a reality. That was something I really wanted to do.”

Although she was afraid of sharing her dream with her friends and family, they were listening. And when she tried to put it on the back burner after marrying former Terps lacrosse player Max Schmidt, they wouldn’t let her.

“My husband and I were talking about our dreams and our future together, and he was really the one who opened the door and said, ‘I’ve heard you say it before, that you want to be a part of Cirque and that you wanted to go for it, but how much do you mean that?’”

Schmidt said. “He really just enabled me to go after it.”

In the first step in becoming a Cirque du Soleil cast member, called general formation, thousands of applicants from around the world send in audition tapes and applications, hoping to earn the chance to take part in three months of training at Cirque du Soleil headquarters in Quebec City. At the end, the top tier receives an offer of a show contract.

“It took many months of preparation and hard work in order to put together a highlight video and to really be recruited

by Cirque,” Max Schmidt said. “Dreams don’t often turn out for people, and especially when it involves living your dream out for a profession.”

For some, it can take years to even make it to general formation, but after sending in an application in January of this year, Abigail Schmidt learned in late March she had been chosen. By August, she was living in a tiny apartment in blasey@umdbk.com

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Health center campaign calls attention to HPV risks for men Few men at university vaccinated despite marketing campaign

By Sarah Tincher Staff writer Although HPV poses many of the same risks to men as women, officials say few male students have received the vaccine at the University Health Center since the center started marketing it toward men on the campus in 2010.

Members of the university’s Sexual Health A nd Reproduct ive E duc at ion p eer prog ra m sa id ma ny ma le students lack accurate information about how to protect themselves and their partners from human papillomavirus, despite the possible consequences — at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women nationwide contract HPV in their lifetime, and men develop about a th i rd of a l l H PV-associated cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To combat misinformation and ignorance about the sexually transmitted disease, the health center has launched a campaign about HPV’s effects in men.

“If students are informed about what HPV is, how it is transmitted and how to protect themselves and their partners using methods most appropriate to their lifestyles, it is possible for us to limit transmission on our campus,” SHARE peer educator Sarah Singer wrote in an email.

Singer said the health center’s campaign focuses on education to give men and women the tools they need to make a decision about getting vaccinated. Some of the posters also play off stereotypes

MEN AND HPV Despite wide availability of a vaccine, including at the University Health Center, HPV remains the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States. Sensing a knowledge gap among men, the health center launched a campaign this semester to bring the facts to male students.

Approximately 20 million people in the country are infected with HPV.

6 million Americans contract the infection each year.

More than 40 types of HPV are passed on through sexual contact.

About 1 percent of sexually active men nationwide have genital warts at any one time.

About 36 percent of HPV-associated cancers develop in men.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

75 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts cases, Sexual Health Education Programs Coordinator Jenna Beckwith said, and is safe for all men through age 26.

“The focus is shifting to vaccination so we can eliminate this from even being an issue,” Beckwith said.

“We certainly have a start, but we could certainly continue to push it.”

“I never wanted to get the vaccination because I was afraid of side effects,” said junior communication major Katie, who requested anonymity to protect her privacy. “But finding out I had HPV felt like the end of the world. Sometimes it still does feel like the end of the world because there’s no fi xing it now.”

Phi Kappa Psi Chapter President Joe Devlin was not aware of the campaign but supported plans to encourage men to vaccinate against a “disease that is becoming more and more prevalent,” he wrote in an email.

“There are so much fewer men that have received it because men still aren’t sure that they can get it,” Beckwith said. “There’s this big misconception that HPV only affects women and that the vaccine is just for women. ... Men need to know that you can be infected too and you can be vaccinated for it.”

Sophomore engineering major Nick Krochta said he thought most men were in the dark about HPV, which should change.

“I don’t know if the campaign will be effective,” said Krochta, adding he would consider getting vaccinated. “It all depends on how they present it.”

based on gender — one campaign poster reads, “Pink. Puppies. HPV Vaccine. Not just for women.”

“This kind of marketing calls into question students’ perceptions of masculinity and femininity, and it normalizes men asking questions and seeking assistance from health professionals,” Singer wrote.

T he knowledge gap about HPV can have dangerous consequences, especially in the 10 percent of cases in which the disease does not clear from the body within two years — different strains can remain present as warts and nearly all cases of cervical cancer are associated with HPV, according to the CDC. There is no treatment for the virus itself and no method of screening offered at the health center.

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MORE ONLINE Juan Cervantes recaps the highs and lows of the election season this summer. Visit www.diamondbackonline.com for more.

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Registering for the future

After being away for an entire summer, it’s easy to want to pick up right where we left off. With new classes, new professors, new classmates, it seems as if simply readjusting to a new school year is enough to keep anyone busy. But this year will see several university projects and initiatives that have been talked about for years finally come to fruition — or at least have concrete plans in place — as well as political issues that are now left in voters’ hands.

EAST CAMPUS

Strategic alliance with UMB

The 38-acre development that would both revitalize a strip of College Park along Route 1 and make this university more attractive to potential students and faculty seems to finally be taking steps toward becoming a reality. The first steps of the plan include a hotel with 265 beds and 20,000 to 25,000 square feet of conference space, a 30,000 squarefoot bookstore, three graduate student high-rise complexes and 58,000 square feet of room for ground-floor retailers.

Although students complained last semester they didn’t have enough input on the project, Vice President for Administrative Affairs Rob Specter, the point man on the project, said officials plan to host forums this year. Students should continue pushing for more inclusion on the project and come to any forums with prepared ideas for what they want to see out of the project. If the administration wants the new development to be attractive to prospective students, officials will not only heed current students’ advice, but reach out for it.

After weeks of meetings, forums and private discussions, legislators voted to implement a strategic alliance — instead of a full-blown merger — between this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Although it’s not exactly what most campus officials advocated for, there’s still a lot of potential in the MPowering the State partnership, which seeks to establish a joint public health school and joint bioinformatics center. The purpose of the alliance is to increase and improve opportunities for students and faculty, so while officials have several plans in the works, it’s not too late for students to clearly indicate what they want to see out of the initiative. It’s a partnership that will affect not only the universities, but also the state, for years to come, and students now have the opportunity to influence how it plays out.

November ballot issues While voters already have to pick the man who will occupy the White House for the next four years, state voters will also have to decide whether same-sex marriage, the DREAM Act and a bill allowing Vegas-style table games and adding one casino in Prince George’s County will be upheld. Students rallied and campaigned to help convince legislators to pass these measures, but they now need to capture the attention of citizens. It’s not an easy feat, and the more manpower behind these campaigns — no matter which side you’re on — the more effective it will be.

Workers’ Rights Employees on this campus have filed numerous reports of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and only a few people seem to care. Through anonymous letters, forums, an investigation and many trials for workers, little has been done to remedy these allegations of abuse. Though the abuse failed to meet the university’s standards of a “widespread” issue, it’s clearly still a prevalent problem, with workers continuing to come forward more than a year after the initial allegation.

Students need to make administrators understand this issue can’t just be swept under the rug. These workers cannot be ignored simply because they weren’t loud enough or strong enough to bring about the change on their own.

University Senate Few students are aware of how the University Senate operates or that it even exists. While the body passes many decisions without students really being aware of how policies come into place, hundreds of students expressed outrage and signed a petition to overturn a plus/minus grading policy passed last year. The effort was unsuccessful, but the incident should have shown students that voicing support or opposition after the fact is rarely effective. The senate often reaches out for input, but students can’t take part in university policy decisions without a bit of homework.

Internationalization Since university President Wallace Loh began his tenure, one of his main focuses has been on expanding this university’s borders to the international community. He has stayed true to his goal, traveling around the world in the hopes of increasing collaboration with each university he visits. Ross Lewin, associate international affairs vice president, has rightfully acted on plans to bring the effects of globalization to this community, expanding Loh’s founding moves.

A lot has already been accomplished, but so much more can be done — and they need to be initiatives that directly affect students on this campus. This editorial board urges students to let administrators know what more you want to see in these programs; in turn, officials need to provide more forums for students to voice their opinions.

OUR VIEW

Students have the potential to be some of the most influential voices in critical upcoming decisions and plans. We’ve outlined some of the biggest issues coming up this year, and encourage students to show up to forums, talk to administrators and ensure their voices and input are heard.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Steny Hoyer As students return to the campus for the new school year, many are busy getting organized for the year ahead. Setting up dorm rooms, purchasing books, signing up for student activities — these are all big parts of any student’s back-toschool “to do” list. But this fall, another important item deserves to be near the top of that list: registering to vote.

With a pivotal election less than three months away, every voice ought to be heard, especially yours.

That’s why I have been helping to lead an effort in Congress to make sure every eligible voter has the chance to register, cast a ballot on Election Day and have that ballot counted accurately.

For those of you in college and graduate school, this election will have a significant impact on a number of issues important to young people, such as the availability of student loans, the creation of well-paying jobs and access to affordable health care.

With so much at stake, it should be as easy as possible for you to have a say in the direction our country takes, no matter which party or candidates you support.

That’s why I joined members of Congress in sending a letter to the presidents of more than 5,800 colleges and universities across the country asking them to make voter registration information readily available to their students. University President Wallace Loh received one, and I commend him for continuing to promote student civ ic i nvolvement at this university. I was also encouraged to read The Diamondback’s Aug. 15 staff editorial, “Fill the ballot box,” encouraging students to participate in this fall’s election.

For in-state students, registering couldn’t be easier. Maryland now offers online voter registration at voterservices.elections.state. md.us/OnlineVoterRegistration for

those who have a valid state-issued driver’s license or ID number.

Out-of-state students can visit the innovative new web application I released with my colleagues in July to find out how to register in their home states, with a link to state boards of election where absentee voter forms can be downloaded. It can be found at democraticwhip.gov/votingrights.

I hope you will use it and share it with your friends to know how you can exercise your right to vote. Voting laws in a number of states have changed this year, and in some places they have become especially restrictive for students.

Nobody should fi nd out on Election Day that he or she is no longer registered or does not have the required identification to enter the voting booth.

When I was a sophomore at this university, Sen. John F. Kennedy, then a presidential primary candidate, spoke at a campaign rally at Ritchie Coliseum. In his powerful and rousing remarks that day, which afterward led me to change my major and pursue a career in public service, Kennedy declared: “Thomas Jefferson knew that the success of democracy depended on officeholders who drew their strength from the support and approval of the people. There are always, he said, two parties.

Those who fear and distrust the people and … those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, as the most honest and sure depository of the public interest.”

When more Americans vote, those who serve in office are more likely to represent the public interest, and when more students vote, our government has a greater chance of looking to the future.

I hope this year, students on this campus will stand up and make sure to include their voices in this important election — not only for our America but for the one that they will lead in the future.

Steny Hoyer is the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Whip.

Hi s of f i c e c a n b e re a ch e d at 202-225-4131.

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Appreciation and Action Richard Zipper Whether you have laughed along with Ellen DeGeneres or Wanda Sykes, tapped to the beat of a Ricky Martin or Elton John song, turned the pages of a James Baldwin or Oscar Wilde book or been entertained by the acting of Neil Patrick Harris or Jodie Foster, you have benefited from some of the many contributions the gay community has made in our world. In addition to the arts, the gay community has and continues to make important contributions to every field, from the sciences to sports to politics. These contributions benefit us all. Today, an estimated 65,000 military personnel who defend our shores and your freedoms are gay.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a gay man to whom you may owe your very life and freedom from Nazi oppression. Alan Turing, one of the founding fathers of modern computers, was a key member and a leader of the team that broke the extremely

complex encoded German military messages during World War II. Breaking the code played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain and breaking the U-boat stranglehold in the Atlantic.

These were key to winning the war.

Sadly, Turing was later prosecuted for being gay and eventually died from what is widely considered a suicide after being humiliated by the government he helped save.

So while the contributions from the gay community have been numerous and significant, there has been little show of appreciation from the world and continued persecution.

This must stop.

The gay community is just asking to be able to lead normal lives like the rest of us, to form families with those they love and to be free from discrimination because of who they are. We now live in a unique time where there are actions you can take to show your appreciation and compassion. First, in a couple of months, this state will include a referendum on the November ballot on which you can vote to allow same-sex marriages. Second, you can boycott Chick-fi l-A, which is using its profits to promote its in-

tolerance toward same-sex marriages.

As was done before, when people misused the Bible to support slavery, when people misused the Bible to keep women oppressed and when people misused the Bible to denounce the concept of the Earth revolving around the sun, the Bible is now being misused to oppress the gay community.

States that have made same-sex marriage legal have lower divorce rates and have benefited economically. So those who decry that same-sex marriage will undermine the institution have been proven wrong. And while I am far from an expert on signs from God, it seems to me those states that have opposed samesex marriage are suffering the most from the recent severe drought.

The time has come to show your appreciation, compassion and humanity toward the gay community. The time has come for the younger generation to lead the state and the country toward a more just and tolerant society. Plan to vote in November, plan to boycott Chick-fi l-A today.

Richard Zipper is a Golden ID student taking classes in biology. He can be reached at zipper@umdbk.com.

This past weekend I registered to vote by mail. This will be my fi rst time voting on the campus, and the same applies to many other undergraduates. As such, it’s important for us to know what we’re facing this election year.

The first thing to watch for will be the ads. Chalking around the mall, stickers on poles, fliers clogging sewer drains — everything you need to know, in 20 words or fewer.

Thankfully, though obnoxious, these are easy enough to ignore.

Nex t a re the ca mpa ig ners.

They’re the ones wearing T-shirts and buttons, proudly touting their campaign swag. They’ll shake your hand, smile and try to flag you down as you walk by wearing headphones, pretending not to hear. If they ask if you’re busy, I suggest saying yes; otherwise, you’ll spend the next half hour hearing why Obama is a communist or Romney is a dog torturer.

On the plus side, they’ll probably give you some swag to tout as well.

After that you have what I call political frenemies. These are the friends, classmates and random guys who live on your floor. At first, they’ll start off innocently. “Have you heard about the election? Are you planning to vote? Oh, well, you must be voting for my candidate, right? Oh, you’re not sure? Well let me tell you about him!” Either you’re with them, or the rest of your day is spent avoiding their “helpful” articles, insights and political opinions. They’re like campaigners, but without a fair warning. Even worse,

they won’t have any free swag.

With all of these hazards, plus the professors who feel the need to “enlighten” students with their views, friends who post too many articles online and columns about who to vote for, we’re going to be completely swamped with mostly unhelpful election information. We have an important decision to make, but where are we to turn?

To the best things in life: good friends and the Internet. Friends are wonderful tools for getting information. They care about your opinions, and genuinely want to discuss what’s important. They probably disagree with you, but they disagree respectfully and reasonably. Just taking the time to talk out your views will help you understand things more than any amount of thought can. You might even learn something new!

The Internet, a bastion of information, is your next best tool. Find the most extreme positions on each side, and then find the moderate positions too. Try to get every perspective; that’s how you’ll learn the truth about what’s going on. It will take a lot of work, but it’s much better than spending four years regretting a wrong decision.

The next two months are going to be long and stressful. Everyone is going to want our vote, and they’ll do whatever they can to get it. But this is our free country, and with freedom comes responsibility, so I suggest some good headphones, online newspapers and well-informed friends. When it’s all over, we’ll be better people for the experience.

Ezra Fishman is a junior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at fishman@umdbk.com.

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It’s time: Launching into a new era Yasmeen Abutaleb Think about the first time you walk into a new job. All you really want is to find a routine: something tried and true that you know works. And it’s easy to get stuck in a routine. Why change something that’s comfortable?

But imagine if you found out your routine wasn’t working and if you didn’t change something soon, you’d lose your job — or at least have one far different from the one you dreamed of. A job that simply wouldn’t cut it.

T h at’s h ow t h e l a s t s e ve ra l months at The Diamondback have been. I’ve only been editor in chief for four months, and with my tenure came an almost entirely new editorial staff. We’ve barely settled into our jobs, but we found out last year that our readership has nearly halved, and we knew we immediately had to find a way to win our readers back if we wanted to survive another 102 years.

So while change is never easy — and often comes with a lot of risks — this whole staff unanimously decided it was more important to reengage our readers than to make our jobs easier.

Clearly, the way we were delivering our news wasn’t working anymore. And that’s why over the last several months, we’ve essentially overhauled the way many things have been done.

We’ve been working to improve our presence everywhere: in print, through social media and most i mporta ntly, on l i ne. Today we unveiled an entirely new website that’s much faster, better integrates our social media, enables us to better display our photos and multimedia and happens to work all of the time.

With this site comes a lot of other changes to ensure you’re constantly informed and have a reason to visit multiple times a day. For the first time in the paper’s history, we have an online editor solely dedicated to ensuring our site is consistently updated with new and fresh content, and that our social

media lets you know what’s going on at all times. The site allows us to get news to you faster — and to keep you coming back for more, we have online-only reporters writing content just for the web. Oh, and did I mention there are games?

We’ll also be rolling out a free mobile application in the coming weeks for Android and iPhone operating systems. We know we live in a 24/7 news cycle, and we want The Diamondback to be your No. 1 source for university and community news. You won’t even have to pull out your computer to see what’s going on.

You also hopefully noticed The Diamondback you’re holding right now looks sig n i f ica ntly d i f ferent than the last one you picked up. We’ve updated our design to a cleaner and more professional look so our content is easier for you to read through.

If you walked into the newsroom a decade ago, then saw it again just a few months ago, not much would have looked different. The computers were the same, there was still that ratty old couch in the office and editors’ signatures and words of wisdom from more than 20 years ago were still written on the walls.

M ay b e ou r new sro om h a sn’t physically changed much — except for new computers. But our product certainly has, and we wanted to start the year off with a new face.

This isn’t a paper that just comes out once a day; it’s a paper that’s adapting to the world of instant communication and has moved into the digital era.

We’re still experimenting and finding out what works best. Like I said, change is never easy. But don’t be afraid to speak up and let us know how we can continue to adapt and improve, because we’re doing all of this for the same reason we come in here every night to put together a newspaper: because our readers a nd ou r com mu n ity a re more important to us than anything else. At the end of the day, we’re here to serve you.

Welcome to a new school year Wallace Loh A hearty welcome to all the new students, faculty and staff, as well as to all the returning members of our university community. A season of change is upon us as we begin a new academic year.

We are in the midst of an election season of great consequence. Technology has come calling on higher education, more insistently than ever. Innovation and entrepreneurship are essential to our state’s and our nation’s future. And we have new university leaders to help us navigate these changes.

On Oct. 1, we will welcome our new provost, Mary Ann Rankin, a renowned national leader in STEM education. We also welcome Lucy Dalglish, the new journalism college dean, and Jane Clark, the new Public Health dean. Please join me in thanking our current provost, Ann Wylie, for her many years of invaluable service in various senior leadership roles at the university.

Building on our strengths as a research university, we want to expand the translation of new discoveries and new scholarship into innovative ventures that create social value or economic value, or both. We remain true to our historic mission, as a land-grant university, of putting knowledge into practice.

We are launching a new Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The purpose of AIE is to co-

ordinate and expand innovation and entrepreneurship education across the curriculum and across all colleges. At the same time, we are partnering with the University of Maryland, Baltimore to bring together and grow our technology commercialization activities. The result is the joint University of Maryland Ventures.

National searches for the directors of AIE and UMV are now underway.

In pursuit of global innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities, I will travel in November to Israel with Gov. Martin O’Malley. As with my visit last spring to Taiwan and South Korea, I expect to bring home new opportunities for international study for our students as well as expanded research and economic development partnerships. Leading these efforts will be Ross Lewin, our new international affairs associate vice president, who just joined us last month.

This summer, we began negotiations to join a new education venture comprised of Association of American Universities schools that make courses available online and free to the world.

To ensure that we approach technological innovation in this area judiciously and strategically, we formed a Provost’s Commission on Blended and Online Education. Clark chairs this commission and will host open forums this fall.

This summer, our partnership with city and county officials received approval to create the College Park Academy Public Charter School, a college preparatory charter school for sixth to 12th grade using blended learning technology. This is a key initiative in our shared vision for community development to make this a top 20 college town for a top 20 public

university. Under the leadership of Education Dean Donna Wiseman, the target opening is fall 2013.

Our $1 billion Great Expectations fundraising campaign will come to a close by the year’s end. All of us will benefit from this success. Leading into the fi nal stretch will be our new university relations vice president, Peter Weiler, assisted by his predecessor Brodie Remington, who planned and executed this campaign so ably.

Election Day approaches. For some of you, this will be your first chance to fulfill your citizenship duty. Please register to vote.

There are some vital questions and initiatives on the ballot in Maryland.

Your vote will impact our community.

To all our community members, especially the new students, I encourage you to take full advantage of the three A’s on the campus: Academics. Arts. Athletics.

Anthropologist Jane Goodall will be among the many speakers on the campus this semester. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will premiere a unique English-Chinese language version of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, performed by our students and their counterparts from Beijing.

Our student-athletes are psyched to compete. Come cheer the Terps to victory! Take part and you will complete the circle.

C.S. Lewis, as a man of faith, welcomed change. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind,” he mused.

Again, welcome to all, as we embark on our season of change.

Wallace Loh is the president of this university. He can be reached at president@umd.edu.

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Yasmeen Abutaleb is a junior journalism and microbiology major. She can be reached at abutaleb@umdbk.com.

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Breaking stereotypes: ‘Beatle-izing’ marijuana reform Marc Priester Learning that the Beatles were a group of sellouts was as breathtaking and heartbreaking as becoming aware of a significant other’s infidelity. But their story holds a meaningful lesson for marijuana reform groups on the campus and across the nation.

Before the synchronized bows; before “She loves you, yeah yeah yeah!”; before the corresponding suits and snazzy attire; was a leather-clad, foulmouthed, hard-drinking, womanizing group that wore motorcycle jackets and buzz cuts.

While playing underground during 1961 and 1962, the band donned a masculine rocker image with Elvis Presley-level overt sexuality. It took Brian Epstein,

the mastermind manager of the group, to craft the clean, fun-loving image that the world fell insanely in love with. John Lennon had significant protest to this, but later comprehended that if the band was to catapult itself from the shadows of Liverpool and into the international psyche, they would have to discard the leather jackets and present a persona the world would admire and fawn over.

The world’s most popular musical artists are sellouts of the highest variety.

However, mass acceptance was necessary in order to garner media and widespread attention, to build that audience and share some of the most splendid music of the postwar period.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Students for Sensible Drug Policy should parallel the efforts the Beatles took, and revolutionize the way America perceives pro-reform groups. The culture of can-

nabis users has a horrendous reputation that needs to be amended in order for widespread legalization to happen. Because the national government is preoccupied with rudimentary squabbling, partisanship and brownnosing special interests, marijuana reform will come at the state level through ballot initiatives like the one coming in Washington this November. The struggle to resolve marijuana’s legality will be for naught if the majority of Americans hold adverse emotions toward those who consume cannabis.

After talking to a few individuals aged 18 through 49, I found they were associated with common stereotypes of cannabis users. People eviscerated them, calling them “lazy,” “unprofessional” and without aspirations. The older folks (aka people most likely to vote) held the most

deleterious opinions. However, even the younger crowd (who had the most positive opinion) admitted they would not hire a cannabis smoker out of fear they could not handle the professional atmosphere of corporate America.

The archetypical perception of the marijuana smoker must be reformed.

It is imperative for these groups to expand their image to persuade America to vote to legalize cannabis.

It could easily start on the campus this fall if groups highlight cannabis users who inhabit a diverse spectrum of professions and future goals and ambitions; from business, law and medicine, to science, engineering and teaching.

This is a massive undertaking: a public relations campaign to reverse a precedent that is longstanding and pervasive.

Yet it is not impossible. For the most active and energized people associated with the movement are also in a position

to change the way this country looks at the common indulger.

The marijuana reform movement’s justification and rationale is robust. I won’t even dive into the nuance and regurgitate the same old talking points of fantastic medical, financial and moral externalities. Those arguments are in vain if Middle America delegates scorn and reserves its approval, money and ballots for marijuana reform.

Maybe discerning the mystery of mainstream appeal lies in the teachings of the past. As proven by the Beatles, crossover appeal is essential to broaden one’s audience. After all, what good were masterpieces Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road if no one listened?

Marc P r i e ste r i s a f inan ce and government and politics major. He can be reached at priester@umdbk.com.

‘Rape is no excuse,’ Republican Party says Lauren Mendelsohn Last week, Republicans distanced themselves further from moderate and female voters when their platform committee announced the party’s position on a key campaign issue: abortion. Despite the fact that more than 75 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal under at least certain circumstances, the GOP maintained a strict anti-abortion stance. The platform, which was swiftly approved by the committee, calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. The proposed “human rights” amendment would extend the right to life to unborn babies, starting at conception. But the

real blow is this: The platform committee made no mention of rape as an exception to the policy, implying that not even the most victimized women could end a pregnancy.

The decision to exclude rape as an exception to their anti-abortion view shows how little the GOP as a whole values women’s health. It seemed that one thing pro-life and pro-choice cohorts could agree on was that victims of rape should be able to terminate the pregnancy, since the woman did not voluntarily bring about her situation.

Certainly the pregnant victim did not want to get raped, and she likely does not want to give birth to the offspring of her attacker. Republicans must think it’s no big deal for a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy full-term and then give the baby up for adoption. Do they not realize what an unpleasant

experience that must be? Or do they just not care?

The Republican Party’s stance on this issue is a perfect example of just how out-of-touch the world’s Republican leaders are with the people.

Most politicians trying to take away a woman’s right to her body will never be in the difficult position of needing an abortion, or be able to see past their privileged bubble to realize not everyone can afford to have a baby. They see no inconsistency in stripping rights from one group and giving them to another.

Moreover, they continue to use religion — and one that not everyone in this country follows — to shape policies.

Republican leaders also apparently don’t realize the paradox that their “human rights amendment” would create. The new law would extend the protections of the 14th Amendment

to not-yet-born beings, but Section I of the original Amendment explicitly states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Constitutionally speaking, then, an unborn baby is not yet a citizen, so the restriction upon the state to not infringe upon citizens’ rights doesn’t technically apply.

Now, not every Republican shares the strong view of their party platform — presumptive presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for example, believes rape should be an exception to an otherwise pro-life position. But many party leaders, including his vice presidential pick Paul Ryan, stand by the religious right’s unyielding view.

Moreover, while Romney may not agree with his party’s stance, let’s not forget the president is not solely

in charge of the country, and a conservative legislature could easily pass anti-abortion laws if given the chance.

In today’s society, we should look to science instead of orthodoxies to solve complicated matters. Our generation seems to understand this more than Republican Party leaders, who have ignored science so far in this campaign.

Women will still seek abortions even if they are illegal, and outlawing the procedure will create a black market for unsafe abortions. And where is the logic for denying rape victims the opportunity to forget about what happened and move on with life? Nowhere, because logic seems to have no place in the modern Republican platform.

L aure n Me n d el soh n i s a s e nio r psychology major. She can be reached at mendelsohn@umdbk.com.

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CRIME from PAGE 1A where they were more needed.

“We’ll manage; we’ve been able to manage for years.”

Director of the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center in the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention Jeffrey Zuback said leftover money from grants is usually redistributed to other institutions in need.

“Sometimes it happens that there is leftover money,” he said.

Several students, such as senior criminology and criminal justice major Becca Wells, said they felt the grant was unnecessary. Wells said university police should direct their focus to area crime.

“I was never concerned about the partying [being too much],” she said.

After a summer of relatively low crime rates — with the exception of sporadic incidents such as a man allegedly high on

PCP engaging in a gun battle with police officers and stealing a cruiser and two assaults with a deadly weapon on Route 1 — police are confident they will still be well prepared and adequately staffed for the upcoming year. The city’s violent crime rate has decreased, Limansky said, from a peak of 7.06 incidents per 10,000 people in 2006 to 2.57 incidents per 10,000 people last year. Additionally, Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin said she didn’t

see an increase in referrals to her office over the last year.

However, senior marketing major Chris O’Malley said he is surprised University Police did not use the full grant to curb underage drinking.

“I thought it was what [university President Wallace] Loh was working towards,” he said.

In addition, Limansky said students often misjudge the city as crime-ridden because crime alerts, which police send out to promote public safety, make

students perceive high rates.

“Putting out these notifications feeds an illusion that crime is bad [in the area],” he said. “It’s probably less, or at worst, on par with other cities in the state.”

But that hasn’t stopped sophomore dietetics major Tal Lee from taking extra precautions when she wanders the city and the campus at night.

“I don’t feel as safe walking places by myself,” Lee said.

While many areas don’t send crime alerts to residents, uni-

versities have to abide by the Clery Act, a federal law mandating colleges disclose all crimes on the campus and in surrounding areas. Although students m ay feel u nsa fe, College Park is likely the most heavily patrolled area in the state, Limansky said.

“It affects the perception of the public in a negative way,” he said. “They aren’t getting the good news.” akinnibi@umdbk.com

Rankin pledges to support humanities Program creates

By Quinn Kelley Staff writer Though incoming Provost Mary Ann Rankin has proven her success in the sciences, past concerns of an imbalance between STEM and humanities will have many students and faculty closely watching her first moves.

Officials said they are confident Rankin’s experiences, including serving as the University of Texas at Austin’s natural sciences college dean, will be an asset to the university when she assumes her post Oct. 1. Students and faculty in the humanities said they were looking forward to Rankin’s plans, but hope her appointment also signals a new era on the campus in which their fields receive adequate support to grow and succeed.

“There’s always some concern when people don’t have a background in your field, but I would hope that a person ... would be supportive of all dimensions of the university,” classics department Chair Lillian Doherty said.

Throughout her career, Rankin has championed science and math by developing the UTeach program, which aims to improve teacher preparation in those fields. However, university President Wallace Loh said Rankin

has proven herself as a “generalist,” leading multiple STEM disciplines at Texas, where she oversaw areas of study such as sociology, childhood development, family science, interior design and personal finance. In runway shows displaying fashion students’ final portfolios, Rankin would model student designs.

“If she can do it in one field, she can do it in others,” Loh said.

“The role of a faculty member, the nature of academics, is to be a specialist, you know a lot about a very narrow field. ... That’s the worst thing you can have in someone who’s a provost or a president.”

Rankin will not be the first to bring a background in science to the provost’s office. Interim Provost Ann Wylie, who Doherty said provided “wonderful” support to her department, studied geology; former Provost Nariman Farvardin studied engineering and led the university’s engineering school before he held the university’s second-highest ranking post from 2007 to 2011 But with a reputation for emphasizing efficiency and rigor, his strategic plan raised the hackles of many in the humanities, who worried their fields received the short end of the stick. In 2008 and 2009, students and faculty

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criticized the University Senate and Farvardin throughout their drafting of the strategic plan, alleging Farvardin and senators were too hasty in overhauling CORE and withheld support for the university’s library system.

“I think many people in the College of Arts and Humanities felt there was not sufficient support for humanities or for liberal arts education, and we’re very hopeful with this new provost,” classics professor Judith Hallett said.

However, Rankin said she pledges to divide her attention across the campus.

“I think learning how to support these other areas of the university will be really neat,” she said.

Bonnie Thornton Dill, arts and humanities school dean, wrote in an email there are encouraging signs, such as Rankin expressing an interest in urging colleges to work together facilitating outside partnerships and collaborations.

“I expect that [Rankin] will welcome the opportunity to be actively engaged in supporting the varieties of work that takes place in the arts and humanities,” Thornton Dill wrote.

Senior American studies and English major Andrew Cahoon said officials should be thoughtful

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“Humanities people should be equally recognized for promoting their existing programs and keeping students in them and finding new ways to approach these things to get new people involved,” Cahoon said.

“I feel like [Rankin] would unconsciously tend to focus more on the college of CMNS, just because that’s what her background is in.”

Jayanth Banavar, the dean of the computer, mathematical and natural sciences college, said Rankin’s commitment to success applies to all students.

“A great provost doesn’t favor one discipline over another, and really for a university to blossom and to be all that it can be, it is important to have all-around excellence,” Banavar said.

Other science officials, including biology department c h a i r G e ra ld W i l k i n son , agreed she has a desire to help all fields.

“She [is] clearly aware of and sympathetic to other aspects beyond the sciences, so I feel reasonably comfortable with her ability to help the rest of the campus,” he said. kelley@umdbk.com

paths to fed. jobs

By Lily Hua Staff writer More recent graduates and students may widen their nets in the job search to include federal positions as more agencies adopt a new program launched this summer.

A f te r re c o g n i z i n g t h e federa l gover n ment wa s struggling to compete with t he pr ivate sector i n attracting young employees, an executive order created the Pathways Program to encourage and create more employment opportunities w ith i n the federa l workforce. In effect since July, the Pathways P rog ra m launched two new initiatives — the Internship Program, which aims to help connect current students with paid internships and the opportunity to explore a variety of job fields, and the Recent Graduates Program, which hopes to pair former students with career training experiences.

Federal officials also revamped the existing Presidential Management Fellows

P ro g ra m — a l e a d e r s h i p program aimed to connect graduate students with federal careers — to allow applicants to nominate themselves to the program rather than require a nomination from their academic institution.

Becky Weir, the University Career Center’s student services and academic outreach assistant director, said the Internship Program would simplify paths for students to fi nd careers in the federal workforce, as most internships could potentially lead to full-time employment.

“It will be much clearer what a person is getting into with training, and it will provide exposure to jobs,” Weir said.

She added the Recent Graduates Program would address the competitive gap between fresh graduates and experienced professionals in applying for jobs, as graduates must apply to the program within two years after they have completed their degrees.

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orn today, you are a rather adventurous individual, and though you may not be the type to put yourself in harm’s way, you will pursue those endeavors that have rarely been pursued before by others. You may have one or two unusual talents that will win you the attention of someone important -- and that person is likely to give you the opportunity to make the most of yourself in the professional arena. The key, of course, is to retain your adventurous spirit at all times.

You can be quite private, and when that privacy is threatened, you can become quite defensive -- lashing out at anyone you perceive as a threat, even if that perception is entirely false. When you have hurt or offended someone else, it is important to make amends as quickly as possible.

Also born on this date are: Michael Jackson, singer and entertainer; Robin Leach, TV personality; William Friedkin, director; Elliott Gould, actor; Charlie “Bird” Parker, musician; Isabel Sanford, actress and comedian; Ingrid Bergman, actress.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Timing is important today, and may not be working in your favor.

You can make a few important adjustments that maximize your chances.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- You may not be aware of everything that is going on around you, and yet the more aware you are, the more you can benefit in every way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- It’s a good day to submit plans that, in the past, may have been scoffed at by some. Today, even the most far-fetched idea will find support.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You may not be lying in a bed of roses, but things are not quite as bad as you suppose. You can make things come out in your favor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Messages are sent and received at a high rate throughout the day; be sure that you’re not one of those who loses track of the info.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You are able to make the best of a situation that others do not find favorable. Today marks a turning point of sorts -- for some.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- You may come to an important

understanding of something that has been a controlling influence for quite some time.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- A little bit of fantasy never hurt anyone -- and today, in fact, you may find yourself forming a daring new plan as a direct result.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- While things are going crazy around you, you can maintain a sense of calm rationality -- at least most of the time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Take pains today to do things in a manner that will not be misinterpreted. Avoid knee-jerk reactions, by all means.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- It’s a good time to acknowledge someone else’s successes. You know that your turn will come, but why not contribute to another’s fun?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You may find yourself envying someone else’s position and accomplishments at this time. Avoid feeling sorry for yourself; come up with a plan!

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012

SUMMER’s biggest headlines IN REVIEW Recapping the summer’s most important news from on and off the campus Athletics cuts seven teams; men’s outdoor track saved

By Yasmeen Abutaleb

Senior staff writer To students just returning from summer vacations a nd i nternsh ips, Col lege Park looks largely the same.

Testudo is still sitting peacefully in front of McKeldin Mall with his nose rubbed clean, and freshmen are frantically scurrying around the campus looking for their classes.

But a f ter a n eventf u l summer, this year is sure to hold numerous changes.

F rom a n e nt i re ly t ra n sformed athletic department to a man engaging police officers in a shootout, to university President Wallace Loh ma k i ng a rg uably h is most critical appointment to date, officials were kept plenty busy during the summer months.

For those of you who were away or missed some of these Man gets into gunfight events, The Diamondback with police officers h a s compi le d its a n nu a l summer in review so you can Police received a call from catch up as the year moves 21-year-old College Park resiinto full swing. dent Andre McKoy’s mother

Kevin Anderson continually denies Stanford rumors Rumors began circulating in June that Athletic Director Kevin Anderson was jumping ship for Stanford. While both Anderson and Loh denied the rumors in June, The San Francisco Chronicle reported just a few weeks later Anderson was in the midst of negotiating a contract with Stanford’s athletic department. Anderson quickly den ied the rumors again and told The Diamondback he received an apology from The Chronicle.

When seven of eight teams slated for elimination failed to meet fundraising deadlines to save their programs, the 27sport ath letic depa rtment sh rank to 20 teams. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, men’s cross country, men’s indoor track, women’s water polo and acrobatics and tumbling were all cut July 1 to help balance the department’s budget by 2015. Men’s outdoor track was able to meet its first deadline and has until Dec. 31 to raise $1.88 million to continue competing through 2014.

loh appoints New VP for university relations CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK worried tuition could spike by 10 percent or more after a months-long budget debacle i n t he G e n e ra l A s s e m bly, higher-education officials said the increase — one of the smallest in the nation — demonstrated the state’s commitment to college affordability.

Obama’s health care law upheld

professors. T he university adopted Instructure Canvas, a learning system that integrates In one of the most public social media and boasts more Supreme Court cases in history, user-friendly features including justices voted 5-4 to uphold better communication between that he was behaving “irratioPresident Obama’s Afford- professors and students, acnally.” Soon after arriving on able Care Act, which requires cording to Division of Inforthe scene, police reportedly all Americans to have health mation Technology officials. engaged McKoy in a gun battle, insurance or pay a tax. It also shooting him several times, but C.J. Brown out for the season allows young adults to remain Student who threatened he was unaffected and crashed a under their parents’ insurance ‘shooting rampage’ pleads police cruiser into a wall outside A f te r 13 p l a y e r s t ra n s- until they are 26 years old. guilty of McDonald’s before being ar- ferred last semester, includ- While some students were rerested and taken to a hospital. ing former quarterback Danny lieved they would be able to stay A student who threatened O’Brien, the Terps football under their parents’ insurance, a “shooting rampage” on the Board of Regents approves team seemed ready to put all others said they didn’t want to campus in March pleaded guilty that behind itself and focus have to switch their coverage. to two of eight counts, including tuition hike on the upcoming season telephone misuse and disturbing with quarterback C.J. Brown For the third year in a row, University switches from school operations. The student, Fulton native Alexander Song, is the Board of Regents approved leading the team. But Brown Blackboard to Canvas no longer enrolled at this univera 3 percent tuition increase tore his ACL in a noncontact for in-state students and a 5 d ri l l i n su m mer practices, Students won’t necessarily sity, according to Marketing and percent hike for out-of-state leaving freshman Perry Hills have to show up to office hours Communication Assistant Vice st ud ents. A lt hou g h m a ny as the starting quarterback. this year to work with their President Brian Ullmann.

Peter Weiler, the University of New Hampshire’s former advancement vice president, replaced Brodie Remington Aug. 22. He will also serve as the president of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, the university’s nonprofit fundraising division, and will spearhead the university’s next fundraising campaign.

Athletic officials release turf field details After months of anticipation and illusory comments by former Terp and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, athletic department officials released details for the new, state-ofthe-art green turf field. The field should be completed in time for Saturday’s home opener and has temperature-controlled features that allow changes up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Loh visits South Korea and Taiwan

All eligible students receive housing

In his third trip to Asia as university president, Loh helped forge a partnership w it h t he Ta ip ei Med ic a l University and said officials have many other collaborations in the works, as well as increased scholarship opportunities for students.

It seems as if the housing crunch is over, as all eligible students received housing for the second straight year. That feat wasn’t accomplished easily, though — the Department of Resident Li fe lost 68 beds after closing Caroline Hall, so it added 200 beds by creating “flex” triples and quads.

Bakich leaves for Michigan; new baseball coach in town When former Terps baseball coach Erik Bakich announced he was leaving to assume the same position at the University of Michigan, athletic officials wasted no time in fi nding his replacement: Kansas State assistant coach John Szefc. Even though Szefc knows he has limited funds in light of the department’s budget situation, he said he anticipates a successful season.

Congress freezes student loan interest rates A fter months of debate about how to fund a bill that would prevent student loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4 to 6.8 percent, Congressional leaders reached an agreement to the relief of many students.

Thunderstorm leaves hundreds without power On July 1, one of the region’s worst thunderstorms left more than 20 dead and more than 2 million Mid-Atlantic homes without power for up to one week. Although most university academic buildings and dorms regained power within an hour, hundreds of students were left in triple-degree heat without electricity for days, as well as many local businesses.

Incoming student victim of Aurora shooting Petra Anderson, who was planning to attend this university’s graduate music school in the fall, was shot in the face in the Aurora, Colo. mass shooting at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. She survived the Stoglin goes undrafted shooting because of a rare birth defect she didn’t know she had, After former men’s basketand has continued to use music ball guard Terrell Stoglin was to help recover. suspended from the university for one year for violating Smoking banned on all USM the student-athlete code of conduct, he set his sights on the campuses next year NBA and declared for the draft.

Shortly after the Univer- But Stoglin went undrafted, and sity Senate voted to extend after a disappointing stint with the distance smokers had to the Toronto Raptors’ Las Vegas stand from bu ild ings to 25 Summer League team in which feet, the Boa rd of Regents he barely played, he’s still decidapproved a policy that would ing what his next move will be. ban smoking entirely on all University System of MaryValmon coaches the Olympic land campuses. University track team presidents can still designate limited areas for smoking. The After helping successfully policy is scheduled to go into raise enough money to save his effect June 30. men’s outdoor track and field team, which was slated for elimination, coach Andrew Valmon New provost led the U.S. men’s track and field Even in the midst of several squad to a slew of medals in the administrative appointments London Olympics. over the last two years, Loh has maintained the provost, the Chick-fil-A protest No. 2 cabinet position, would be the most important. Mary Chick-fil-A President Dan Ann Rankin, the CEO of the Cathy caused an upstir when he National Math and Science voiced opposition to same-sex Initiative, will officially join marriage, and his comments the rest of the administrative prompted some students to start team Oct. 1. a petition to have the fast food

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Table games bill passes Although legislators failed to agree on a contentious bill that would legalize a Las Vegas-style casino in Prince George’s County during the 90-day legislative session, they passed the measure in an August special session.

Voters will have the final say in a November ballot; if passed, state public schools and universities would receive an additional $35 million in funding.

Campus farmers market sees successful summer After a farmers market opened on the campus May 2 just outside of Cole Field House, university officials said its nine vendors saw consistent business over the summer and made $21,000 in the market’s first month. Students can expect to see some events and promotions in the coming days and weeks, officials said. abutaleb@umdbk.com

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PATHWAYS from PAGE 6A program will only have them competing with their peers,” she said.

We i r sa id it i s u nc le a r whether or not many academic departments will have their Pathway Programs in place in time for the Career Fair in October. However, several organizations are working to speed up the process by educating students about federal ca reer oppor tu n ities a nd giving agencies tips for adopting the program.

Victor Adebusola, a public policy graduate student, said federal jobs and internships are often an untapped resource for students. As the program associate for Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that encourages students to participate in federal jobs and internships, Adebusola said students should explore a variety of avenues into the federal workforce, as agencies usi ng the Pathways Program continue to craft new plans to recruit students and change or eliminate any unsuccessful methods.

“I would recommend that students keep an open mind about what positions they might be interested in the federal government and where

they can find these positions,” he wrote in an email. “For example, the Environmental Protection Agency needs accountants and the NASA needs human resources professionals. It is most important to

“I WOULD RECOMMEND that students keep an open mind about what positions they might be interested in the federal government.”

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Public policy graduate student

understand your skill set and how those skills may be of use to their agency of interest.”

Ju n ior neu robiolog y a nd physiolog y major A nju l i Jain, who interns at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, wrote in an email that she believes internships are a good way to get started in the federal career field, even if they aren’t paid right away.

“I i nter ned for no pay during the summer, but they offered me to return during the school yea r w ith pay,” she w rote. “I feel a ssu red that I will have a stable opp or t u n it y ava i l able to me with the FDA when I graduate if need be.” hua@umdbk.com

ELECTION From PAGE 1A less traditional methods to attack each other and attempt to win over voters.

“Now it’s like an even share,” Mekonnen, a junior aerospace engineering major, said of the candidates’ Twitter and Facebook use. “People don’t have that ‘Obama fever.’”

Mekonnen said he still plans to vote for Obama this year because of his higher education record, which includes a commitment to maintaining Pell Grants and fighting for college affordability. This year, however, has still seen less enthusiasm from the 18to 29-year-old demographic, despite both Obama and Romney heavily utilizing social media to campaign. While it was once a v ital campaign niche for securing younger voters, social media is now used by voters of all ages, solidifying the way campaigning and politics have evolved into the digital age, said marketing professor Bill Rand.

“We are actually seeing now engagement by older demographics, by underrepresented minorities, by a lot of demographics that aren’t reached by traditional forms of media,” Rand said.

The Facebook and Twitter crowd is still dominated by

you n ger voters, but Ga l lup data shows a distinct decline in election interest from the same group — a significant turnaround from the 2008 campaign. According to a July poll, 58 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 said they were “defi nitely likely” to vote in this election, compared to 78 percent in 2008.

“President Obama in 2008 really drew heavily from young voters,” said Hank Boyd, associate chair of the business school’s marketing department. “There was so much hope among the young people that they were really fired up.”

But with college graduates largely bearing the brunt of the economic slowdown — about 1 .5 m i l l i o n g ra d u a te s w i t h bachelor’s deg rees u nder 25 were u nemployed or u nderemployed in 2011, according to an Associated Press study — it’s been tougher for Obama to garner the same energy from the youth vote.

“You have to stand and realize that these folks are going to be d isappoi nted. T hey’re going to feel somewhat disaffected; they’re going to say, ‘Wow, I thought things would turn around and they haven’t

turned around as quickly,’” Boyd said, adding it could prompt some voters to turn to Romney or even sit out the election altogether.

Some students said they aren’t optimistic that either of the candidates will be able to significantly remedy the slow-growing economy, which has dissipated the excitement that came with the 2008 election.

“I rea l ly don’t t h i n k t h at R om ney i s goi n g to change that much even if he does get in,” said Greg Tambini, a sophomore bioengineering major, adding the stakes seemed higher in 2008 when the country was facing a recession and in the midst of two wars in the Middle East.

T he same furor for Oba ma’s 2008 ca mpa ig n may not be there, but a study by the Pew Research Center this month showed his campa ig n th is yea r has been more present in the digital arena, posting almost four times the online content as Romney and using twice as many social media platforms.

“the enthusiasm factor over a ‘celebrity’ has gone, but the enthusiasm factor over quantifiable and measurable results is there.”

DEREK ZUMSTEIN

College Republicans executive vice president Even though the polls indicate a lull in young voter i nterest, Derek Zu mstei n, executive vice president of this university’s chapter of College Republicans, said the enthusiasm hasn’t evaporated. Instead, it’s shifted from what it was in 2008. T hen, Obama was a young up-andcomer with the ability to spark interest in the youth vote by campaigning on “change,” Zumstein said, but he is now running on his record.

“The enthusiasm factor over a ‘celebrity’ has gone, but the enthusiasm factor over quantifiable and measurable results is there,” he said. “We want actual results, rather than buzzwords like ‘hope’ and ‘change.’” bach@umdbk.com

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Stamp launches Univ. leads in LGBT safety, acceptance scores compost program Campus perfectly in all Several univ. offices fund initiative

By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer

can’t or won’t take the time to do a detailed sorting,” junior history and Spanish major SaS t a m p S t u d e nt Un io n’s mantha Suplee said. Though a trash cans received a back-to- staunch supporter of the green school makeover Tuesday as movement, Suplee admitted part of a building-wide com- she too fi nds it difficult to unposting initiative to help the derstand what goes where: campus work toward carbon “Even with the guidelines, it never seems totally clear.” neutrality.

Plans to address this hurdle The project added a composting bin to trash and recycling include brief instructional stations in Stamp in order to posters near every compostboost the student union’s re- ing station and customized cycling rate, which improved f liers at every food vendor just 1 percent last year. Though i nd icati ng a brea kdow n of composting has been limited ap p rop r i ate lo c at ion s for to the dining halls and most materials.

But Lupin said the problem Stamp vendor kitchens since 2007, several departments lies beyond customers who do spearheaded this effort to bring not wish to read instructional a composting program directly to students, staff and visitors “People aren’t always for the fi rst time. sure how to sort the “W hat started in the waste from their meals dining halls made its way to the Stamp and is a growing … SO THEY OFTEN resort tradition at UMD,” said Bill to throwing everything Guididas, facilities managein the trash.” ment recycling coordinator.

SCOTT LUPIN “Composting is the new wave OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR of environmentalism.”

“The collaboration between posters and take time to sepas o m a n y c a m p u s d e p a r t- rate materials. ments at the Stamp is a great “We understand that people example of how this type of are in a hurry and want to get program can be expanded,” rid of trash when they finish sa id A l l i son L i l ly, D i n i n g a meal. People aren’t always Service’s sustainability and sure how to sort the waste wellness coordinator. from their meals,” Lupin said.

With support from several “They are afraid of throwing d ep a r t m e nt s — Fa c i l it i e s the wrong thing in the wrong M a n a ge m e nt c ont r i b ute d container and contaminating $20,000, a g ra nt from the compost waste, so they often Un iversit y Su sta i n abi l it y resort to throwing everything Fund financed $32,950, and in the trash.”

Stamp covered the remaining The Office of Sustainability expense — Stamp repurposed hopes to use lessons learned 150 old containers to make f r o m a s m a l l-s c a l e p i l o t way for about 35 composting program in the Chesapeake stations in vendor locations Building late last year. and bathrooms, and also reO f f ice of Su sta i n abi l ity modeled a compacting dock. Communications Coordina“ We c o u l d n ’ t b e m o r e tor Frances Avendano said excited about the dividends the initiative helps organizthis will result in for our com- ers frame their focus groups munity through a building and surveys for feedback and that is at the heart of campus,” anticipates how people will said Daniel Wray, Stamp’s as- use the compost bins. sistant facilities director. “ E ve n i f t h e re’s s o m e Last year, the recycling rate struggle in the beginning, it’s stood at a solid 64 percent. a learning process for people With its improved compost- trying to change their behaving resources, officials said iors and a learning process on they anticipate Stamp will our end on how to communimeet the campus-wide goal cate, educate and engage our of achieving a 75 percent re- audiences,” Avendano said, cycling rate by next year and adding that the campus exwill divert about 30 percent of perienced si m i la r holdups solid waste from landfills, ac- when the university began cording to Office of Sustain- full-scale recycling in 2002. ability Director Scott Lupin.

T h e re c yc l i n g rate h a s H o w e v e r, t h e p r o g r a m si nce i ncreased more tha n presents a challenge inher- four-fold from 17 percent in ent to many green initiatives: the 2002-03 academic year. encouraging visitors to par“Eventu a l ly t h is w i l l be ticipate often and correctly. part of just what Terps do,” “We can’t trust that things Lupin said. will be sorted correctly if it’s left to students, most of whom waseem@umdbk.com

but housing in national index

By Jenny Hottle Staff writer

Until one football game last year, Riley Bartlebaugh said she had felt comfortable being out on the campus.

But the sophomore English and theatre major said as she left the stadium, striding hand in hand with her girlfriend of nearly two years, a group of students began heckling her.

Bartlebaugh said the “obviously inebriated” group’s calls were more frustrating than threatening, but they reminded her there is still room for progress in the most welcoming environments — including at this university, which recently earned top marks as a safe and welcoming campus for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

“Since then, we don’t hold hands when walking across campus, especially at night,” Bartlebaugh said.

Earlier this month, the national nonprofit organization Campus Pride named this university one of the top 25 LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. Several administrators said it’s a sign of how far the university has come in recent years that the school received the highest possible marks on the organization’s LGBT-friendly campus climate index. However, the

REflected in a high ranking in a recent national index for LGBT-friendly campuses, this university offers many resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, including events at the LGBT Equity Center in Marie Mount Hall (above). charlie deboyace/the diamondback report also sheds light on areas the university can still improve upon, such as LGBT housing and transgender students’ issues, said Rodrigo Lozada, co-president of the campus Pride Alliance.

“It’s good, but it can be better,” Lozada said. “Topics such as addressing bullying and discrimination as well as addressing the needs of the campus transgender community would help make this university a better place.”

The index categories included student life, campus safety and counseling and health. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, the university’s chief diversity officer, said a major factor in improving the university’s index ranking was the Board of Regents’ recently approved policy adding gender identity and expression as a protected group. And about two years ago, the LGBT Equity Center and the New Student Orientation Office launched the ONE project, a first-year experience program for LGBT students to get acclimated to the university.

“We are really proud to have

this designation,” ShorterGooden said. “I think it really reflects the longtime work of the LGBT Equity Center and the President’s Commission on LGBT Issues and the work of many, many others who step-by-step have been putting together programs and initiatives and advocating for policy.”

The only category in which this campus did not receive a perfect score was LGBT housing and residence life. Erin Iverson, the resident life assignments and public inquiry manager, said last fall that her department was exploring how the university could provide LGBT students with better housing options. The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities — which features a livinglearning community with a residence hall designated for LGBT students and allies — was one campus that received a perfect score in the housing category.

Lozada said he also noticed a shortage of gender-neutral restrooms on the campus.

“Accessibility to bathrooms is

a huge issue for members of the transgender community, as they may be uncomfortable entering gendered bathrooms due to negative reactions by others,” Lozada said.

While university officials continue to work on initiatives to better accommodate members of the LGBT community, Lozada said members of the Pride Alliance and other campus organizations will also be discussing issues such as the same-sex marriage referendum this fall.

“The student body, for the most part, is more than accepting,” Bartlebaugh said. “I have talked openly about my sexuality in discussion-based classes, and I think the open-mindedness of the student body contributes to the quality of academics. If you are not willing to understand someone else or something foreign to you, how can you hope to learn from it or about it? Maryland is pretty awesome that way.” hottle@umdbk.com

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PREVIEW | MOVIES

By Warren Zhang Senior staff writer

Fall is traditionally a time for ambitious ­­­­— or at least awards-hungry — filmmaking. It’s stacked with potential Oscar contenders, as distributors try and capture the zeitgeist and, hopefully, the Best Picture statuette. This year doesn’t disappoint, offering ambitious new projects from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino.

PREVIEW | ALBUMS

By Robert Gifford and Eric Bricker Senior staff writer Staff writer

Music lovers rejoice: The autumn is positively overrun with potentially great albums. From a collaboration between two of the strangest minds in music, to a possible goodbye from one of the greatest artists of all time and the reunion of a ‘90s favorite, the season is flush with albums likely to appear on dozens of best-of lists come year’s end. Prepare your iPods: Taylor Swift, and many, many others, are coming.

DAVID BYRNE AND ST. VINCENT, LOVE THIS GIANT

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Release Date: Sept. 11

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A melding of two of pop music’s strangest minds, Love This Giant, a collaboration between Talking Heads’ David Byrne and Annie Clark (a.k.a.

St. Vincent) has raised eyebrows since it was announced over the summer. Combining Byrne’s strangled yelping with Clark’s sexy, hushed purr shouldn’t work, but tracks “Who” and “Weekend in the Dust” showcase the singers’ groovy, dark chemistry. It doesn’t hurt that the duo has eschewed rock instrumentation for electronic percussion and a brass ensemble. Add in the downright Lynchian, face-distorting album art, and all the pieces fall in place for Love This Giant to be one of the coolest, most surreal experiences of the fall.

At this point, director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil series has surpassed the original video game franchise in terms of cultural significance.

Like clockwork, this schlock auteur pumps out another consistently mediocre horror/action entry every two or three years, inevitably starring his sexy wife (Milla Jovovich, Faces in the Crowd) along with some hastily added characters from the video games. The latest, Resident Evil: Retribution, brings a floating gunship and full-on zombie warfare to the mix. Sure, that sounds awesome, but the unbearably portentous advertising campaign suggests this installment will be more punishing than enthralling.

bob dylan, tempest Release Date: Sept. 11

Because Tempest shares a title with Shakespeare’s final play, rumors abound that this will be Dylan’s final album. The master, for his part, remains coy. Swan song or not, Tempest promises to be an experience: “Early Roman Kings” is a gruff blues stomper, the title track is a 14-minute ode to the Titanic and Dylan has promised a tribute to old friend John Lennon. Thirty-five LPs in, Dylan has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants. We recommend you just pour yourself a tumbler of whiskey and let the man do what he does best.

looper

Release Date: Sept. 28

robert pollard, jack sells the cow

Writer/director Rian Johnson (The Brothers Bloom), with help from Shane Carruth (writer/director of Primer), has set out to blow stoned minds everywhere with action/sci-fi flick Looper. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Premium Rush) stars as a hitman specializing in killing targets sent back in time by future gangsters. On one such job, Gordon-Levitt is assigned to kill his future self (Bruce Willis, The Expendables 2), but botches the job, sparking an intense game of cat and mouse. Looper looks to combine the “dude … that’s deep”ness of Inception with more lens flare and Willis. If that isn’t a winning combination, I don’t know what is.

Release Date: Sept. 18

Robert Pollard’s been on a bit of a roll lately. The always-prolific front man of ‘90s lo-fi masters Guided by Voices has already released three albums this year, one as a solo project and a stellar two with Voices, the first recorded with the “classic lineup” of masterpieces Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes in a decade and a half. Pollard’s solo work has often been hit or miss, but it’s never less than fascinating (simply figuring out what the hell he’s singing about is enough to keep any listener occupied through a few plays), and if he keeps the momentum he’s built up over the year, he could be headed for a serious late-career resurgence.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Release Date: Oct. 12

ben folds five, the sound of the life of the mind

The writer/director of In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, reunites with star Colin Farrell (Total Recall) in this wacky ensemble piece about a group of professional dog kidnappers. Things heat up for Farrell and company when they accidentally steal the beloved Shih Tzu of an aggressive lunatic (Woody Harrelson, The Hunger Games). The material seems to be operating on a much broader level than the sublime In Bruges, but the footage released so far indicates the filmmakers haven’t lost their sharp comedic wit.

Release Date: Sept. 18

The last time Ben Folds Five put out an album, The O.C. hadn’t broadcast its first episode. Think about that. Since the trio amicably disbanded in 2000, singer Ben Folds has released a string of critically acclaimed solo albums, worked with everyone from William Shatner to Sara Bareilles and doled out weirdly specific a capella critiques on The Sing-Off. Now he’s gotten the band back together for The Sound of the Life of the Mind. Single “Do It Anyway” is all Billy Joel piano-banging and sensitive-guy posturing, complete with just the faintest twinge of dad-rock nostalgia. Go ahead. Sing your heart out, Seth Cohen.

Cloud atlas

dinosaur jr., i bet on sky

Release Date: Oct. 26

The Wachowskis (Speed Racer) are back and more diverse than ever with this adaptation of David Mitchell’s batshit novel. The movie tells the story of the slave trade. And the story of a clone waitress in a Blade Runner-esque Korea. And the story of Jim Broadbent’s character (The Iron Lady) getting a plunger shoved into his face. All of these elements come together for what is sure to be either a masterpiece or a spectacular train wreck. Whatever the result, whoever decided to turn Tom Hanks (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) into a gat-wielding gangster writer deserves all the Oscars.

Release Date: Sept. 18

les miserables

The Killers, battle born

Another reunited mainstay of the ‘90s alt-rock scene, Dinosaur Jr. has released two albums since co-founders J Mascis and Lou Barlow reconciled and put the band back together. Both were gloriously unstuck in time, as if the band had been cryogenically frozen mid-session sometime around 1997 and picked up right where it left off once thawed a decade later. “Watch the Corners,” the lead single off of upcoming release I Bet on Sky, is another Clinton-era throwback — ­an angsty, palm-muted rocker that sounds like it should be played on cassette between airings of Yo! MTV Raps, suggesting that while Sky most likely won’t be a major leap forward for the band, it should rock pretty hard.

Release Date: Nov. 14

Release Date: Sept. 18

While there have been many attempts at adapting Victor Hugo’s seminal novel, none have been based on the hit musical it inspired.

That is, of course, until director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) decided to step in. The plot of the acclaimed musical follows Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman, Real Steel) on an epic tale of redemption and singing set against a French revolution and more singing. At this point, a dog could probably direct this movie to multiple Oscar nominations, but Hooper’s decision to film all of the singing live adds at least some freshness to the tired proceedings.

Charging out of the Nevada desert like Bruce Springsteen behind the wheel of a Mustang, “Runaways” screamed out from behind a cloud of dust to become the rock track of the summer. The Killers are back. With Battle Born, the follow-up to 2008’s largely forgettable Day & Age, Brandon Flowers and company seek to reassert their stadium-rock dominance while continuing their loving tribute to ‘80s rock ‘n’ roll. Equal parts Elton John, Springsteen and Bono, “Runaways” is loud, bombastic and a little silly, The Killers at their anthemic, fist-pumping best.

Unpretentious and fun, this is music for festivals and huge light shows.

lupe fiasco, food & Liquor II: The great american rap album pt. 1 Release Date: Sept. 25

lincoln

An album that’s been in the works since 2010, while Fiasco battled with his label over the successful but polarizing Lasers, the Chicago rapper’s latest looks to be a return to his backpack roots. Rejecting the sweeping, echoing production value and Skylar Grey cameos of Lasers, The Great American Rap Album is leaner and rougher, though Fiasco’s critical, politically astute lyrics remain intact (“If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla, then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia?” he demands on single “Around My Way”). Fiasco is one of the sharpest and most gifted MCs around, but his output can be inconsistent. It remains to be seen whether The Great American Rap Album will live up to its lofty title.

Release Date: Nov. 16 Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine) is playing Abraham Lincoln. That’s all you need to know. OK, so Day-Lewis is playing Lincoln in a film directed by Steven Spielberg (War Horse). That’s all you need to know. Whatever the eventual quality of the film, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s politically charged and insightful book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, at the end of the day, Day-Lewis will still be playing Lincoln with all his method acting brilliance. It’ll be great.

The Mountain goats, transcendental youth Release Date: Oct. 2

Say what you will, The Mountain Goats may quite possibly be the hardest-working band in folk rock. Just a little more than a year since its last (very good) LP, All Eternals Deck, the prolific California three-piece is back with Transcendental Youth. Lead single “Cry For Judas” adds a bouncy horn section to the group’s trademark lo-fi strumming, while lead singer John Darnielle’s earnest wail and cutting, straightforward songwriting (“Some things you do just to see how bad they’ll make you feel”) remain pleasantly intact. Adding just enough new flourishes to a tried-and-true formula, Transcendental Youth should make nice autumn mood music for die-hards and casual listeners alike.

Red Dawn

Release Date: Nov. 21 Everybody’s favorite awful totalitarian regime is coming to town (again) this November with this incredibly ill-advised remake of Red Dawn. The North Koreans replace Cold War-era Soviets as the baddies who invade small-town America and force high schoolers to take up arms. Leaving aside the practical implausibilities, the trailer suggests a rather generic, if well-staged, action thriller with occasional bursts of violence set against an interesting backdrop. The irony of making the lead heroes a group of guerrilla warriors fending off a foreign invading force seems to have been lost on the filmmakers.

See ALBUMS, Page 15

PREVIEW | CONCERTS

By Dean Essner Staff writer

Zero Dark Thirty Release Date: Dec. 19

Seemingly in an attempt to make The Hurt Locker lightning strike twice, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal have teamed up for another movie about violent American intervention in the Middle East.

This time, the team has its sights set on Osama bin Laden and the American attempts to make him the late Osama bin Laden. Working with a substantially larger budget and a highly promising cast, Bigelow and Boal’s latest should be every bit the taut and well-calculated thriller The Hurt Locker was and then some.

Jack Reacher Release Date: Dec. 21

Jack Reacher features muscle cars, big guns and … Werner Herzog (Into the Abyss). Wait — what? This adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot follows the titular character’s investigation into a bizarre sniper massacre.

Fans of the book are already complaining about the casting of notoriously short Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) as the 6-foot-5-inch protagonist, and the trailer seems to indicate that the filmmakers haven’t bothered to hide Cruise’s lacking stature. It remains to be seen if writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (The Tourist) can make this pulpy material compelling and avoid a litany of tragic Jack-Reacharound zingers come December.

django unchained Release Date: Dec. 25

What do you get when you mix writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) and the history of slavery in America? Judging from the well-received trailer, you get blood, Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar) with fake bad teeth and a fistful of Johnny Cash. This hugely brash and twisted spin on a Western follows ex-slave Django (Jamie Foxx, Horrible Bosses) on a quest to find his enslaved wife. Tarantino’s trademark zippy dialogue mixes with Sergio Leone-inspired Western vistas and visuals to become what is sure to be a controversial, hyper-violent and cracking good time at the movies.

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI

grizzly bear

9:30 Club, $20 Thursday, Sept. 13

9:30 Club, SOLD OUT Thursday, Sept. 20 Friday, Sept. 21

Ariel Pink has been crafting basement-pop in the style of his idol R. Stevie Moore for many years. But after his 2010 single “Round and Round,” Pink became an indie mainstay, as well as the poster child of a modern, outsider music movement that has once again made it cool to create homemade lo-fi tapes on your vintage four track. Expect a steady diet of songs from his new record, Mature Themes, and his previous debut, 2010’s Before Today, at this 9:30 Club show.

Brooklyn-based five-piece Grizzly Bear is set to release its highly anticipated follow-up to 2009’s Veckatimest, which saw the band adding depth and detail to its already knotty, psychedelic-folk sound. Buoyed by the lead singing-and-songwriting duo of Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen, a Grizzly Bear live performance promises to be a near-perfect mix of angelic vocal harmonies, crunchy guitar riffs and shape-shifting time signatures.

animal collective

Merriweather Post Pavilion, $30-$45 Tuesday, Oct. 2 A critically adored, Baltimore-bred foursome that features an esoteric, psychedelic pop sound, Animal Collective is set to release Centipede Hz on Sept. 4. The new record shows AnCo embracing guttural, unfiltered garage rock, for perhaps the first time since 2003’s Here Comes The Indian. Its live shows are a wily mix of synthetics and noise, presenting a sensory banquet for listeners’ inner artists.

jon spencer blues explosion

U Street Music Hall, $22 Friday, Oct. 5 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, known for its raucous, rockabilly stylings that channel everyone from Nick Cave to The Cramps to Elvis Presley himself, has been churning out grimy gold since 1990. Its 1994 masterpiece, Orange, punctuated the run.

Expect a highly energetic, eardrum-busting show, one that will shatter your vague, unfavorable notion about the nature of blues.

dinosaur jr.

Black Cat, $25 Thursday, Oct. 25

It’s a blessing that Dinosaur Jr., titans of ‘90s, guitar-driven indie rock, is still performing today.

Sure, Pavement toured in 2010 and Archers of Loaf reunited for a few shows this year. But Dinosaur Jr., which has maintained the original lineup of J Mascis on guitar, Lou Barlow on bass and Murph on drums, is the furthest thing from a nostalgia act. Unlike many other reunited ‘90s bands, the group has continued to produce new material, so expect a mix of old classics and new favorites.

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PREVIEW | CSPAC 2012-2013

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

CSPAC’s 2012-13 season features Shakespeare, Sondheim and the symphony in a new light

By Beena Raghavendran Staff writer

Chinese and American students worked together to design costume pieces, such as this one, for the CSPAC production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Photo courtesy of the School of Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies

Celebrate the extraordinary.

That’s the overarching theme this year at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and it promises to further creative, curious thinking about the arts, said Missy McTamney, CSPAC’s communications manager.

But there are also themes within themes. CSPAC has grouped similar events into “pods” to promote attendance at multiple performances. The pods include themes such as Art Inspired, Jazz with a Twist and Minds and Bodies in Motion.

The Minds and Bodies in Motion pod, for example, will feature several dance events, some of which visitors may not have been exposed to without the grouping.

“The idea was to encourage people to try something new that they might not otherwise have on their radar but that we know is along the same lines of another performance that they’ve attended,” McTamney said.

Highlights include what she called the “jewel” of the season: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, coproduced by this university’s theatre, dance and performance studies school and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

Students from this university and from China will each perform in their native language, but they have collaborated on all costumes, sets and design, using Skype, Dropbox and

email to communicate and rehearse across continents.

Pianist Anthony de Mare will continue his project of recreating composer Stephen Sondheim’s works. Last year, de Mare and Sondheim selected 36 contemporary musicians to write a solo piece based on a Sondheim original. De Mare performed several of these pieces at CSPAC previously and will return to play more this year.

The UMD Symphony Orchestra will present a “Music in Mind” concert in March where it will perform Britten’s Les Illuminations with visual displays by Doug Fitch, who is known for his multimedia works in opera and symphonic performances.

Ticketed performances are still $10 for students. McTamney said at least 44 percent of tickets sold in the 2011-12 season went to students.

CSPAC’s goal remains the same as in past years: to open doors for people to think about art in different ways, McTamney said.

“We want to get you curious and have you come more than once and enjoy a range of ideas and thinking,” she said. “Our bottom line is that art is the vehicle that can do that.”

CSPAC kicks off its 2012-13 season with the sold-out Paul Taylor Dance Company on Sept. 8. Visit claricesmithcenter.umd. edu for a list of upcoming performances and events. raghavendran@umdbk.com

new formula for a summer hit? maybe

By Beena Raghavendran Staff writer

“Hey, I just met you/ and this is crazy/ but here’s my number/ so, call me maybe.”

The lyrics are pink and bubble-gummy, the beat is superficially poppy and the synthetic violins at the bridge just pull it all together.

It’s “Call Me Maybe,” the summer hit by Carly Rae Jepsen that everyone hates to love and loves to hate.

But it’s about more than the song’s 26 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, nearly 25 million views on YouTube and countless parodies and lip-synced covers (the U.S. Olympic swim team, the Harvard baseball team, the Obama speech clips). “Call Me Maybe,” in fact, has redefined what it means to be a hit summer song.

Take the formula before the invasion of the Jepsen kind. Step one: Release a catchy, upbeat song about love/summer/sex/love, summer and sex performed by a big-name artist in mid-May. Step two: Add in a collaboration with another big-name artist. Step three: Promote it with a raunchy music video via social media. Step four: Wait.

If the recipe were right, it would explode by Memorial Day, and half of America would know all its lyrics by the Fourth of July. Think back to summer hits such as Katy Perry’s seminal “California Gurls” in the summer of 2010, or Rihanna featuring Jay-Z’s “Umbrella” in the summer of 2007. Both these and their contemporaries followed the rules to sweet success.

Collaborations like Rihanna and Jay-Z’s were pretty important for summer hits. In fact, six of the 12 No. 1 summer songs from 2000 to 2011 were collabs, usually including singing-with-rapping or two singers – all according to Billboard’s songs of the summer measured

by Nielsen Music data (which puts together the Hot 100 list based on radio play, track sales and other data to track the hit songs).

But, alas. Producers no longer have it so easy. The “Call Me Maybe” storm has undermined the three fundamental keys to the summer hit: 1. Only songs by mainstream and well-known artists will rise to the top. 2. Only songs released in May are contenders. 3. Songs must be accompanied by a steamy/sexy music video.

Sure, hipsters out there will tell you they heard of Jepsen’s song last September, when the song first came out. But for the majority of

the Top 40 community, it took Justin Bieber tweeting about it and recording a lip-synced video with his famous friends in February to skyrocket the song into the mainstream world.

And Jepsen’s music video? It switches between shots of her ogling at her shirtless (male) neighbor from afar and singing with her band in her garage. The most skin she shows is in her mid-thigh miniskirt. There is nothing reminiscent of the videos of any former summer hits (lots of cleavage, scenes in clubs, dirty dancing).

Top music producers lost because of social media battles. Twitter and YouTube users, revel in your triumph. You trumped the foolproof formula.

But nothing lasts forever. Though “Call Me Maybe” threw America’s summer pop hits off their normal courses, it seems the summer hit is finally winding down; Jepsen has settled in for fourth place on the Hot 100, bumped by Taylor Swift, Flo Rida and Ellie Goulding. As Jepsen sings in her song, “Where you think you’re going, baby?” raghavendran@umdbk.com

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ALBUMS

titus andronicus, local business Release Date: Oct. 23 from PAGE 13

why?, mumps, etc.

Release Date: Oct. 9

WHY? manages to hit the sweet but slightly awkward spot on the Venn diagram where rap and sensitive indie pop overlap. Though front-man Yoni Wolf co-founded rap label Anticon, his deadpan, tongue-in-cheek flow has always been closer to The Streets than labelmate Aesop Rock, and the glockenspiel and acoustic guitar-heavy chorus of lead single “Sod in the Seed” could have come from a Cults B-side. Listening to Wolf playfully reconcile these two disparate worlds is what makes the music fascinating (“I’ll never shirk this first world curse,” he sarcastically laments on “Sod”), and Mumps, etc. promises to be a crash course on the sociology of race and class in modern rap music, as well as one of the wittiest and most fun albums of the year.

Mixing the despair and black humor of existentialism with the raucous energy of blackout-drunk punk rockers, Titus Andronicus announced itself as a major force to be reckoned with on its sophomore album, The Monitor, an epic rock opera that interwove the story of a New Jersey slacker’s breakup with Civil War-era history. The follow-up, Local Business, promises more of the same — minus the ambitious storytelling. Offering a familiarto-fans blend of the high and lowbrow (the track listing, for example, includes both a Latin biblical quotation and the phrase “Hot Deuce”) and bleak subject matter, included but not limited to electrocutions, eating disorders and insanity. On the other hand, the press release promises the album will include “moments of pure positivity, brief respites from the usual doom and gloom.” Based on “(I Am The) Electric Man,” an uncharacteristically groovy earworm, those respites could be just as enjoyable as the usual madness Titus Andronicus does so well.

taylor swift, red Release Date: Oct. 23

benjamin gibbard, Former lives

Fresh off winning a smattering of Grammys for her unforgiving 2010 album Speak Now, Taylor Swift, country’s most ferocious ingenue, returns with Red, an album she claims will focus on her semi-toxic relationships — or, in other words, more of the same. The album’s first single, the typically caustic “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” is something of a musical (if not lyrical) evolution for Swift, marrying her familiar acoustic guitar to a poppy beat and electronic production flourishes. The kiss-off breakup anthem was reportedly written about Crocs co-founder George Boedecker Jr., so the list of things Swift hates now includes both Crocs and John Mayer. We can get behind that.

Release Date: Oct. 16

Have you heard “Ichiro’s Theme” yet? If not, go online and find it right now. Gibbard’s ode to the former Seattle Mariners’ base-stealing prowess is one of the catchiest power-pop ditties in recent memory, the theme song to a Saturday morning anime too cool to ever really exist. The Death Cab for Cutie front man’s first solo album, Former Lives, drops this October. No track list or singles have been released as of press time, but fans of the emotional indie rock that made his band huge should find something on Lives to latch on to. As he has proven on standalone cuts like “Ichiro” and throughout his time with Death Cab, Gibbard is a reliably inventive tunesmith, and his forays into singer-songwriterdom should be worth following. At least until he finally releases his album of old-timey baseball songs. (A man can dream).

andrew bird, hands of glory Release Date: Oct. 30

The reigning king of twee, Andrew Bird has already released one album this year, the fantastic Break It Yourself.

His second effort, Hands of Glory, will feature “old-timey” covers of his own songs as well as covers of songs by traditional acts such as the Carter Family, essentially transforming Bird into the Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou? He’s always had an affinity for the anachronistic, but whether his lush brand of sensitive folk will translate well into a Depression-era context remains to be seen. One thing’s for sure: It will probably have a lot of whistling.

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TWEET OF THE DAY ERIC HAYES @Ekhayes5 Former Terps guard

“Well I am headed back to college park! Getting my masters and joining the coaching staff.. Big thanks to everyone who helped make it happen!”

Sports

ERIC HAYES RETURNS TO COMCAST The Terrapins men’s basketball team brought back the former guard as a graduate assistant. For more, visit umdbk.com.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012

ON THE BLOG page 1B

Coach Randy EdsalL’s Terps will enter the season with a roster ravaged by injuries to key players. Quarterback C.J. Brown (top, right) will miss the entire year, and safety Matt Robinson (middle, right) and linebacker Kenny Tate will each miss the season opener. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Parts of a whole

Little has gone right in Edsall’s second year with the Terps. But this time, it’s not his fault Connor Letourneau Randy Edsall isn’t oblivious. The Terrapins football coach knows his fi rst season in College Park didn’t go according to script.

He saw the more than 40,000 empty seats inside Byrd Stadium during the Boston College game last October. He read the headlines lambasting his inaccessibility. He talked with all 13 players who decided to transfer after a 2-10 season.

So when Edsall entered his second Terps campaign, he recognized that change was in order. That’s why he

hired new defensive and offensive coordinators. That’s why he introduced more media availabilities. And that’s why he even unveiled a set of more understated Under Armour uniforms.

Edsall was taking a mulligan. He realized last year didn’t work out and was making a concerted effort to learn from his mistakes.

And for a few short weeks, the overhaul seemed to pay off. No one was predicting bowl appearances or sellouts, but fans seemed cautiously optimistic about the program’s future.

The storm had passed, and brighter days were on the horizon.

With former star quarterback See LETOURNEAU, Page 6b

BY THE NUMBERS

2

Number of Terps who will miss the entire 2012 season due to injury.

11

Number of injured Terps who will miss Saturday’s season opener.

6

Number of freshmen who will start Saturday against William & Mary.

22

Number of freshmen listed on the Terps’ current depth chart.

66

Percentage of Terps’ players who are sophomores or younger.

As injuries continue to mount, Edsall is relying on youth to carry the Terps in his second season

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer Standing in front of a small group of reporters on the practice fields behind Byrd Stadium Friday morning, Randy Edsall was asked if he could have ever envisioned the amount of injuries currently overwhelming his Terrapins football team.

After a quick “no,” the secondyear coach paused for a moment, almost grimacing before he continued to answer.

“You know, injury is a part of the game,” Edsall said. “It’s unfortunate.

It really is.”

It’s a fitting reaction to a situation that is continuing to delay the

Terps’ rebuilding project. After a 2-10 debacle in his debut season, Edsall seemed intent on starting anew.

But with a number of key contributors already sidelined heading into a season-opening matchup with William & Mary, Edsall’s Terps are likely no better off than they were a year ago. Their record still stands at 0-0, but the losses have already piled up.

Quarterback C.J. Brown and defensive lineman Andre Monroe will both miss the entire season with knee injuries. Linebacker Kenny Tate will miss three to four weeks with a left knee injury, and safety Matt Robinson will See INJURIES, Page 7B

MEN’S SOCCER | SEASON PREVIEW

Chasing after a championship

After three consecutive early exits, Terps look to overcome playoff hurdle

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

Midfielder John Stertzer chases after Louisville’s Paolo DelPiccolo during the Terps’ 3-0 victory Sunday at Ludwig Field. Led by Stertzer and his senior teammates, the Terps are trying to advance to the College Cup this season after failing to reach it in each of the past three years. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Taylor Kemp, London Woodberry and John Stertzer arrived in College Park in fall 2009 with a clear expectation: winning championships.

The Terrapins men’s soccer team was the defending national champion. It had made five College Cup appearances in the past seven years.

Coach Sasho Cirovski had built a national power.

But three years later, the three seniors have yet to hoist that golden trophy.

The Terps fell in the Elite Eight during their freshman and sophomore years. Last season, they lost to Louisville in the third round — their earliest postseason exit since 2007.

The pain of those defeats, specifically the 4-2 loss to the Cardinals last November, has stayed with Cirovski and his players the past nine months. And as the season opens, it’s clear the No. 9 Terps’ expectations haven’t changed.

“We do have a lot of returning guys See Soccer, Page 2b

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FIELD HOCKEY

Ready for another repeat?

With a loaded roster, Terps look to win third straight championship

By Nicholas Munson Staff writer On Aug. 18, in its fi rst on-field action of the 2012 season, the two-time defending national champion Terrapins field hockey team played the U.S. Under-21 team, arguably the only college-aged team in the country stocked with more talent than the Terps.

Coach Missy Meharg’s squad dominated the first half of play, taking a 2-1 lead into the break against some of the nation’s most talented players. Although they eventually fell to the national team, 4-3, the Terps showcased their elite level of ability.

With another talented roster on display, it’s no wonder the No. 1 Terps are favored to capture their fourth national title in five years.

Sophomore Goalkeeper Keith Cardona and the Terps’ defense shut out a Louisville team that averaged two goals a game in the preseason. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

SOCCER From PAGE 1B back there.”

That process started earlier this summer. Cirovski estimated more than 80 percent of his team lived in College Park, often training two or three times a day.

And for a senior class hoping to avoid being the first group since 1997 to never make the College Cup, the stakes have never been higher.

“We’re contenders every year,” Cirovski said. “But I’ve said before, if we don’t bring at least one championship home this year, whether it’s an ACC or national championship, this will be a failure.”

Those hopes will likely hinge upon the play of their goalkeeping. Sophomore Keith Cardona, redshirt freshman Jordan Tatum and freshman Cody Niedermeier are all battling to replace Will Swaim, who is now the team’s soccer operations director.

A l l t h re e p l a y e r s c o mpeted during the Terps’ exhibition slate, and Cardona earned the start in Sunday’s season-opening 3-0 victory against No. 7 Louisville. Still, Cirovski said last week that he doesn’t expect to name a starter until the middle of the season.

“I’m confident in all three of our keepers,” Woodberry said.

“Although they’re freshmen and sophomores, I’d still rank them among the best in the country. ... I feel like they’re going to have the supporting

players around them that are going to make it easier for them to be successful.”

The Terps will also hope to avoid a rash of injuries, which plagued them at the end of last season. The team went 1-3-2 in its final six games after defenders Alex Lee and Kyle Roach suffered injuries, forcing Cirovski to use a makeshift backline in the postseason.

Of course, the Terps’ schedule won’t help them recover from possible injuries. In addition to Sunday’s matchup with No. 7 Louisville, the Terps host No. 2 UCLA on Friday and California — a team just outside the top 25 — on Sept. 2.

That’s all before the grueling ACC slate starts. The Terps open play at No. 14 Boston College on Sept. 7, and have matchups looming against No. 1 North Carolina, Virginia, Duke and Wake Forest.

But the Terps know that it’s a means to an end. If Kemp, Wo o d b er r y, S te r t z e r a nd company want their season to end in mid-December at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., they must emerge from a grueling regular-season schedule.

“We haven’t made a final four,” Woodberry said. “It’s just below the standard of what we’ve wanted to do. I think being seniors, and me, John and Taylor have been such good friends for four years, I think going out on top would be the best gift for all three of us. It would show [the] significance of what we’ve done over the past four years.” dgallen@umdbk.com

“We’re going to be keeping the traditions of Maryland hockey alive every day,” said Meharg, whose Terps notched wins at California, 2-1, and against Stanford in double overtime, 3-2, on Friday and Sunday, respectively. “This is a place that women choose from all over the world to come to and develop their hockey skills and their high-performance mentality.”

That reality helps Meharg restock her roster with the nation’s most talented players and keep them in a constant titlehunt. Though it lost midfielder Jemma Buckley and goalkeeper Melissa Vassalotti to graduation, the team is again flush with young players ready to carry the load.

A group of star returnees, including See REPEAT, Page 3B

YEAR BY YEAR

2008

Led by star attacker Katie O’Donnell, Terps cruise to a 4-2 victory over Wake Forest.

2009

Terps fail to repeat their 2008 national championship as they fall, 3-2, to North Carolina.

2010

Midfielder Megan Frazer’s double-overtime goal lifts Terps to a 3-2 win over North Carolina.

2011

The unseeded Terps defeat North Carolina, 3-2, on attacker Jill Witmer’s overtime goal.

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REPEAT From PAGE 2B

MIDfielder Megan Frazer, who won the Honda Sports Award last season, will attempt to lead the Terps to a third straight national championship this season. file photo/the diamondback

Preseason All-ACC Team selections Megan Frazer and Harriet Tibble, hope to lead a strong freshman class. Three Terps rookies are members of the U.S. U-19 national team, and one — defender Sarah Sprink — plays for Germany’s U-21 squad.

Young players’ attraction to the program is understandable.

After all, no other NCAA program can match the Terps’ postseason success — a track record that includes 50 NCAA Tournament victories, 15 Final Four berths and eight championships.

T hose feats are a tribute to Meharg, who has shown a commitment to excellence throughout her tenure. In her 25 seasons at the helm, Meharg has coached 43 players who have represented their respective nations in international play.

“Missy and all the coaches in this program, they’ve all been in the Olympic atmosphere,” said attacker Katie Gerzabek, who scored for the U.S. team against the Terps. “I can get there with their help, and this is just a good place to be if that’s your dream.”

So nearly every sign points to the Terps competing for a national title this season. In addition to being the top-ranked team nationally, the Terps are favored to best the likes of Virginia, Duke and North Carolina for the ACC title. The support in the polls is starkly different from the end of last season, when — after falling to Duke in the ACC Tournament semifinals — the team entered the NCAA Tournament unseeded before eventually toppling the Tar Heels in overtime in the NCAA title game.

“I think we learned a lot from our loss in the ACC Tournament. It kind of sparked something in the team,” said Frazer, who won the Honda Sports Award as the sport’s top player last season. “And from that, we were able to just go out and prove that we wanted it, and it was a great feeling to come out in the end when no one expected us to do much that year.” munson@umdbk.com

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FOOTBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

Freshmen make early appearance for Terps

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s soccer team had a new look when it took the field against Louisville Sunday night.

The Maryland Pride jerseys the team sported weren’t the only thing new about the No. 9 Terps, though. It was their lineup that turned the most heads in a 3-0 dispatching of No. 7 Louisville.

The Terps started three true freshmen, including two on the backline. It’s a far cry from last season when the Terps started no freshmen in their season opener. Even by the end of the season, when injuries had pared down the Terps’ roster, goalkeeper Keith Cardona remained the only freshman starter.

But on Sunday, it didn’t take long for the newcomers — forward Schillo Tshuma and defenders Dakota Edwards and Mikey A mbrose — to make their presence known.

I n the n i nth m i nute, Tshuma took a pass from defender Taylor Kemp in the box and put it into the right corner past Louisville goalkeeper Joachim Ball.

T wenty m i nutes later, Tshuma, The Washington Post’s 2011 All-Met Player of the Year, served a ball into the box. Reserve forward Jake Pace took the pass, but his shot was deflected to midfielder Dan Metzger, who put the ball into the left side of the net for the Terps’ second goal of the game.

“I thought they were except ion a l,” coach Sa sho Cirovski said. “I thought the freshmen were great.”

The impact of Edwards and Ambrose was harder to see in the box score, but each player still played large roles in front of Cardona. Edwards, starting next to senior London Woodberry at center back, and Ambrose, starting at right back opposite Kemp, helped shut down a Louisville attack that averaged two goals per game in the preseason.

The Louisville runs on the goal were few and far between.

The Cardinals took seven shots, and Cardona saved

all three that were on goal, helping him post his fourth shutout in five career starts.

The speed and physicality of the game did catch up with some of the freshmen, though. In the second half, the Terps’ training staff was working on the legs of both Edwards and Tshuma, something Cirovski attributed to the young players’ fi rst taste of the collegiate game.

“I think both of our freshmen c ra mp e d up a bit,” Cirovski said. “They just had their introduction to the demands of Division I, bigtime college soccer.”

Still, Tshuma, Edwards and Ambrose, along with fellow rookies Christiano Francois and David Kabelik, who entered off the bench, made the impact that Cirovski was expecting when he recruited them to College Park.

“They’re a talented group,” Kemp said in the preseason.

“They bring a lot of energy and a lot of personality, and they’ve integrated themselves very well into our system. We have some freshmen that are going to be competing for a lot of time, which is good because it’s going to be pushing the older guys.”

Six of the nine players in the Terps’ freshmen class — Ambrose, Francois, goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier, Tshuma, Edwards and forward Donovan Fraser — were ranked in College Soccer News’ Top 150 Recruits, with Ambrose leading the way at No. 2.

A nd beyond t hose si x, Cirovski still expects the rest of his freshman class that includes Kabelik, midfielder Tsubasa Endoh and forward Ryan Reid to contribute at some point. Sunday’s win against Louisville displayed what the freshmen can do now, but Cirovski expects even more out of them in the future.

“We have a really great freshman class,” Cirovski said last week. “There are a couple of unknowns in the freshman class that I think will have a big impact this year as well.” dgallen@umdbk.com

Quarterback Danny O’Brien struggled in coach Randy Edsall’s system last year and is looking for a fresh start after transferring to Wisconsin in February.

file photo/the diamondback

O’Brien ready to ‘bounce back’ Former Terps quarterback hopes to start fresh with Wisconsin

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Danny O’Brien entered last season with grand ambitions.

The former Terrapins quarterback envisioned winning his conference and leading his team to a BCS bowl appearance.

Those goals haven’t changed in the past 12 months. The one thing that has changed for the 2010 ACC Rookie of the Year?

His address.

After a tumultuous sophomore campaign that included mounting losses and a broken arm, O’Brien is set for a new beginning. Thirty minutes after the Terps start their season opener against William & Mary Saturday, he will make his debut as Wisconsin’s starting signal caller.

“L ast yea r was toug h,” O’Brien said earlier this month.

“But despite everything I went through, I never doubted my abilities. This year will say a lot about how I bounce back from adversity.”

It cou ld a l so prov id e a painful side story for an injuryriddled Terps team picked to fi nish last in the ACC’s Atlantic Division this season.

O’Brien earned the Badgers’ starting job on Aug. 19, just five days after C.J. Brown suf-

fered a season-ending ACL tear. The injury left the Terps without a quarterback on its roster who had ever taken a collegiate snap.

O’Brien said he learned about the news through a few former teammates before doctors had even evaluated Brown.

He was heartbroken. Though Brown had taken his starting job 10 months earlier, O’Brien still considered him a close friend. The two exchanged text messages regularly and were optimistic about each other’s upcoming seasons.

“I just said, ‘Keep being the leader you are and lead those g uys because they’re still going to need you in some capacity,’” O’Brien recalled telling Brown shortly after the injury. “He’s a really mentally strong guy, so he’ll bounce back from it for sure.”

O’Brien should know. Since deciding to transfer in midFebruary, he’s been focused on a comeback of his own.

O ’ B r i e n fo l l o w e d u p a record-set t i n g f re sh m a n campaign with a forgettable sophomore season. He struggled in new offensive coordinator Gary Crowton’s spread attack and was benched midway through the season.

O’Brien threw for just 1,648

ya rds, seven touchdow ns and 10 interceptions before a broken arm ended his year in November, disappointing totals for a quarterback who tallied 22 touchdowns the previous season.

Realizing Brown was the man of the moment, O’Brien began pursuing other options weeks after the season ended.

He took official visits to Wisconsin, Mississippi and Penn State, and he chose the Badgers after meeting with a player panel comprised of upperclassmen.

“The first thing I noticed right off the bat was just how hungry these guys are to win,” said O’Brien, who didn’t have to sit a year since he graduated in May. “The tradition of football here at Wisconsin, that just really stuck with me.”

Of course, it didn’t hurt that Wisconsin offensive coordinator Matt Canada uses a pro-style offense, the same scheme O’Brien found so much success in under former Terps offensive coordinator James Franklin two years ago. It’s a much better fit for him than the spread system — it allows him to progress through his reads and fi nd the right targets.

“You definitely won’t see me in the spread this year,”

O’Brien said, referring to last season. “That’s something I’m really excited about.”

O’Brien earned the Badgers’ starting job after a two-week tryout against senior Curt Phillips and redshirt freshman Joel Stave. He reportedly impressed the Wisconsin coaching staff with his accuracy, throwing just one interception during the first two weeks of camp.

He’ll now have to follow 2011 Big Ten Quarterback of the Year Russell Wilson, who also transferred to Wisconsin after graduating from an ACC school (North Carolina State). Wilson set an NCAA record for passing efficiency with a 191.8 rating, becoming the third straight Badgers quarterback to complete more than 64 percent of his passes in a season.

But O’Brien isn’t concerned with living up to the success of his predecessor. Other than periodic checks on Brown, he’s not keeping track of his former teammates in College Park, either.

He’s just trying to start anew with the Badgers.

“I’m mov i ng for wa rd,” O’Brien said. “Now I’m with Wisconsin and I’m ready to see what this season brings.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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VOLLEYBALL | SEASON PREVIEW

After tough 2011, Terps aim to relearn success

By Rhiannon Walker Staff writer Tim Horsmon prefers not to dwell on the past.

The Terrapins volleyball coach rarely contemplates last season’s record-setting 15match losing streak, rash of key injuries and 4-16 conference record. He’d rather learn from last year’s shortcomings and focus on redemption.

Horsmon, who’s squads increased their win totals for two straight seasons before last year’s debacle, said he expects to return his team to the level it was when it won its second consecutive ACC Championship in 2004.

“I think the expectation level and the commitment level is big and our players understand that,” said Horsmon, whose Terps defeated Villanova, New Hampshire and Robert Morris to capture the Villanova Classic title this weekend.

All six Terps freshmen contributed heavily to each of the team’s wins this weekend.

Mackenzie Dagosti no, the 49th-ranked player in the 2012 high school class by PrepVolleyball.com, said that while she was confident she would transition well to the college game, she was still anxious about how she would perform in this weekend’s invitationals.

Still, the freshman setter played a key role in two of the Terps’ wins this weekend, notching two straight assists at the end of the match to help the Terps win their final set against Villanova and tallying 22 assists

in the Robert Morris match.

Dagost i no represents a continued effort to add talent to the roster, something it lacked last year as it struggled through injuries and overall poor play. The team lost four players from last season — two graduated seniors and two walk-ons who transferred — and underclassmen make up almost 70 percent of its roster.

But youth should not be confused with inexperience.

The Terps are battle-tested, returning four sophomores who contributed down the stretch last season.

And with a freshman class that includes five players ranked in PrepVolleyball.com’s Top 150, it’s clear why the Terps aren’t taking playing time for granted.

The rookies haven’t only provided competition for the veteran Terps in practice.

They’ve also added depth to a once-depleted roster, which should help a program hoping to regain relevance in the highly competitive ACC. “The [freshmen] have contributed a ton to the team,” outside hitter Mary Cushman said. “Whether or not they’re [in the starting lineup], they’re making us better no matter what role they’re fulfilling.”

Those contributions could be key for a team that will play six NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago.

The Terps will open their home slate with Seton Hall on Friday, looking to continue its season in the right direction.

“I was proud of the kids [last season],” Horsmon said.

“This weekend, I’m looking for them to ma i nta i n the energy [and] execution that we’ve been working on.” walker@umdbk.com

Outside hitter Mary Cushman and the Terps hope to put last season’s disappointing results behind them and return to an ACC Championship-level of play. file photo/the diamondback

WOMEN’S SOCCER | SEASON PREVIEW

Coach Jonathan Morgan (left), who was a Terps assistant coach for five seasons, replaced former coach Brian Pensky (right) in February. file photo/the diamondback

With Pensky gone, Terps begin new era under Morgan Team hopes to reach fourth straight NCAA Tournament

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer In seven years at the helm, Brian Pensky took a Terrapins women’s soccer team mired in mediocrity and turned it into a national contender. He guided the team to three straight NCAA Tournament berths, two appearances in the Sweet 16 and the program’s first-ever No. 1 seed in 2010.

In January, though, all the progress Pensky had made with the Terps was put on hold. He left Col lege Pa rk for the same job at Tennessee, leaving the team he had built over the last seven years without a coach.

But after a rigorous interview process, the Terps found his replacement within their own coaching ranks. Jonathan Morgan, who coached alongside Pensky as an assistant over the past five years, was hired to continue the success his predecessor had brought to the Terps.

And now that he’s in the driver’s seat, he’s hoping for even more.

“The ACC is what this is all about,” Morgan said. “We want to get to the national tournament.”

But to get there, the No. 17 Terps (1-1-1) have to adjust.

Morgan’s new, strict knack for perfection has made practices

require more repetition, forcing the Terps to perform flawlessly in every aspect of play. Even skills as basic as passing are done time and time again until the Terps get them right.

“He’s an absolute perfectionist,” midfielder Olivia Wagner said. “I think everyone knows it’s going to make us better and we can see the light at the end. Brian was a great coach and I loved him, but Jon asks so much of us. It’s made everyone tune in and hone in their skills.”

The structure of practices and Morgan’s expectations are not too different from Pensky’s reign, though. Having already been with the team for several seasons, Morgan governs his team similarly.

“I think honestly having Jon take over after Brian has been the best thing for us,” defender Megan Gibbons said. “He knew exactly how the program was run.”

Even with that familiarity, there is still a lot of work to be done. Morgan said he has identified his team’s weaknesses, and immaturity has left the Terps with holes in their defense and a failure to fi nish on offense.

Part of that immaturity has come from some inexperience in the starting lineup. While the team features five senior starters, it also has four fresh-

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men playing major minutes, including redshirt freshman goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands. Their relative inexperience has led to some mixed resu lts i n thei r fi rst th ree contests of the season: a 3-0 win over Navy on Aug. 17, a scoreless tie with Villanova on Aug. 19 and a 1-0 loss to Ohio State on Sunday.

“The seniors, they get it,” Morgan said. “T he juniors are on their way to getting it.

Every year you’re older you get a better understanding.”

“We have a lot of new players and a whole new back line,” Gibbons said. “It’s been tough and we’ve been working a lot on that, especially on fi nishing opportunities. At Villanova we had so many shots and they just didn’t go in so we have to work on that.”

So far, the Terps have shown they’re solid in the middle of the field, dominating the ball with swift passing and lightning speed and out-hustling every team they’ve played. The team’s problems don’t begin until the far ends of the field, where both the offense and defense have struggled.

“Soccer is a funny game,” Morgan said. “You could have all the possession in the game and still lose. We need to work on our defense and offense inside the 18. We have to be a lot better, but I like the direction we’re going.”

Morgan hopes the direction the Ter ps a re headed leads them to a fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, but their schedule leaves little room for error. The Terps play at Ludwig Field just eight times this season, leaving them with 10 tough road tests; seven remain. Those challenges will prove the mettle of Morgan’s young team.

“We will be battle-tested,” Morgan said, “but so far this season, we’re on the right path.” egan@umdbk.com

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Letourneau From PAGE 1B Danny O’Brien gone, C.J. Brown was the unquestioned starter under center. Stefon Diggs, the Terps’ first five-star recruit in half a decade, was poised for a breakout freshman season.

And Joe Vellano, last year’s lone bright spot, was ready to take his seat among the Terps’ all-time defensive greats.

“I want our guys to understand that this is a whole new year,” Edsall said on Aug. 6, the fi rst day of preseason practices.. “Now what I want are the kids to go out and enjoy the success of winning on Saturday afternoon. ... Everything has led right to where we want it to be.”

But then bad luck halted any positive momentum. In a cruel twist of fate, Brown tore his right ACL during an Aug. 14 practice. Less than three weeks before the season opener against William & Mary, the Terps were without a quarterback who has taken a collegiate snap.

The news was crippling. Edsall’s “C.J. Brown era” was over before it ever truly began, and a win-starved fan base started bracing itself for another tumultuous season. Every coach’s

worst nightmare — an 0-12 record — was suddenly a realistic possibility.

Still, Edsall stayed upbeat. He said Brown’s injury was an opportunity for other players to prove their worth, and he wasted little time naming freshman quarterback Perry Hills the Terps’ opening day starter.

Even as the injuries began to mount, Edsall’s message hasn’t wavered. Seemingly every day after practice, he has told reporters about another key loss. And each day, he’s extolled the next-man-up approach.

For Edsall, it’s all about surviving. It’s about getting the most out of his available players and not making excuses.

“We’ve still got to practice,” he said Friday.

“You can’t really do anything different.”

He’s right. Edsall has already done his best to improve upon last year’s debacle. At this point, he just needs to prepare his team for the Tribe.

Does that mean the Terps will climb out of the ACC cellar this season? Probably not. Will there be fewer empty seats in Byrd? Doubt it.

But this time, don’t blame Edsall for the Terps’ shortcomings. Blame fate. letourneau@umdbk.com

QUARTERBACK C.J. BROWN’S season-ending ACL injury is just one of the many bad breaks the Terps have dealt with entering coach Randy Edsall’s second year at the helm. Freshman Perry Hills will start against William & Mary in the team’s season opener on Saturday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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DEPTH CHART OFFENSE DEFENSE WR-X 12 Kevin Dorsey, Sr. 3 Nigel King, Fr.

DE

72 Joe Vellano, Sr. 99 Quinton Jefferson, Fr.

NT LT 74 Nick Klemm, Jr. 77 Mike Madaras, Fr.

LG 63 Bennett Fulper, Sr. 64 Nick Brigham, Fr.

C

Sophomore Alex Twine will likely start in place of linebacker Kenny Tate, who will miss three to four weeks with a left knee injury. Twine is just one of several underclassmen who will be forced to contribute early after the Terps suffered a rash of injuries during preseason practices. The team will open its season Saturday against William & Mary. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

INJURIES From PAGE 1B miss at least the season opener with a strained labrum in his left shoulder.

Overall, there are about a dozen players cu rrently nursing injuries, depleting an already inexperienced Terps squad as it prepares to host the Tribe on Sept. 1.

“Football is a game where you do have injuries and it’s someth i ng that you ca n’t control,” Edsall said on Aug. 21. “Just work the guys that are out there, that’s all we can do.”

The guys who are still out t here m a ke up one of t he youngest teams in the ACC. There are 42 freshmen on the roster, and underclassmen — many of whom will be forced to contribute early and often this season — comprise nearly 70 percent of the team.

Injuries along the defensive line have led to a shuffling of positions, moving A.J. Francis

to defensive end and inserting sophomore Darius Kilgo as the starter at nose tackle.

Sophomore Alex Twine will likely start in place of Tate at one of the middle linebacker positions, and sophomore cornerback Jeremiah Johnson and freshman safety Sean Davis will see increased playing time in the secondary while three players recover from injury.

“As a defense, we’ve come together more,” cornerback Dexter McDougle said. “When injuries happen we just want guys to step up — the next guy steps in to make a play. … Just do whatever they can do to help the team and not worry about personal goals.”

The biggest impact of the Terps’ youth, though, will come from the offensive side of the ball. True freshman quarterback Perry Hills will now open the season as the starter and lead an offense whose skill positions are marked with inexperience. Freshman running back Brandon Ross is expected

to carry the rushing load alongside sophomore Justus Pickett and freshman Wes Brown, and star recruit Stefon Diggs seems poised to become the team’s best playmaker since current Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith.

“I’ve just taken it by stride, getting my face in the playbook every day, watching fi lm, just absorbing everything coach [Mike] Locksley has told me,” Hills said. “I’m ready to step it up and help this team.”

Having to rely on so many young players at key positions might not have been Edsall’s plan heading into his second season in College Park, but it’s a situation that could provide the best hope for the future.

The Terps were picked to fi nish last in the Atlantic Division and aren’t expected to win more than three or four games this season, so giving their young players on-field experience should help the team continue to rebuild.

“I think there are some guys

that have had the opportunity to really step up. You see some good things out of them,” Edsall said Friday. “They’re prepared when their names are called. I tell them, nobody can predict when your name is going to be called. When it is, you have the obligation to this team and this institution to go and play to the best of your ability.”

For m a ny of t he yo u n g Terps, that time is now. And with only William & Mary standing between the team a nd a tou g h e a rly se a son schedule, the underclassmen will have to learn quickly if the Terps hope to stay competitive this season.

To get to that point, though, the Terps must first stay on the field.

“The big thing is just perfecting everything we want to do, start to get into the ga m e pl a n for W i l l i a m & Mary,” Edsall said Aug. 18, “a nd G od w i l l i ng we keep everybody healthy.” vitale@umdbk.com

97 Darius Kilgo, So. 73 Alex Walker, So.

DE

96 A.J. Francis, Sr. 95 Justin Anderson, Jr.

SAM

35 Alex Twine, So. 37 Avery Thompson, Fr.

65 Sal Conaboy, So. 50 Evan Mulrooney, Fr.

MIKE

RG

MO

70 De’Onte Arnett, Jr. 66 Andrew Zeller, Fr.

RT 75 Justin Gilbert, Sr. 55 Ryan Doyle, Fr.

TE 89 Matt Furstenburg, Sr. 34 Devonte Campbell, Sr.

QB 11 Perry Hills, Fr. 7 Caleb Rowe, Fr. or 2 Devin Burns, So.

TB 45 Brandon Ross, Fr. 44 Justus Pickett, So.

FB 49 Tyler Cierski, Fr. 39 Jeff Hernandez, Sr. or 30 Kenneth Goins, Fr.

WR-A 13 Kerry Boykins, Sr. 1 Stefon Diggs, Fr.

WR-Z 82 Marcus Leak, So. 10 Tyrek Cheesboro, So.

47 Cole Farrand, So. 53 L.A. Goree, So. 9 Demetrius Hartsfield, Sr. 58 Bradley Johnson, Jr.

WILL

52 Darin Drakeford, Sr. 41 Marcus Whitfield, Jr.

CB

14 Jeremiah Johnson, So. 27 Alvin Hill, Fr.

SS

21 Sean Davis, Fr. 38 Clarence Claiborne, Sr.

FS

48 Eric Franklin, Sr. 20 Anthony Nixon, Fr.

CB

25 Dexter McDougle, Jr. 23 Makinton Dorleant, Fr.

Special Teams PK 15 Brad Craddock, Fr. 12 Brendan Magistro, Fr.

KR 1 Stefon Diggs. Fr. 45 Brandon Ross, Fr. Source: Maryland Athletics

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