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Gov candidates bicker over Brown tuition hike ad Hogan contests Brown ads claiming he supported 2003 proposed 40 percent college cost increase

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer

massive college tuition increases.”

The ad, which was the first televised campaign ad in the general election race, began airing on Baltimore network stations Aug. 22.

Hogan’s campaign sent a letter to the television stations the following day calling the accusation “demonstrably false” and demanding the ad be pulled off the air.

The two candidates for governor clashed last week when Republican Larry Hogan demanded television stations stop airing an advertisement from Democrat Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown claiming Hogan “supported

“Hogan has never had any involvement in tuition hikes and has never supported any tuition hikes whatsoever,” the letter read.

As of Monday, none of the stations had stopped airing the ad.

The Maryland Republican Party released a poll on Aug. 22 showing Brown holding a slim lead, 45 percent to 42 percent. Hogan said he believes Brown’s attack ad was a response to the recent polls. democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown, above, faces criticism from Republican opposition See ads, Page 3 Larry Hogan, who demanded Brown’s campaign ads be taken off television. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Univ Police one of three receiving fed weapons Ferguson shooting riots put scrutiny on military arms for local police

By Rokia Hassanein @thedbk Staff writer

Move-in Traffic slowed at times on Stadium Drive , but students and officials said traffic on and around the campus otherwise ran smoothly thanks to extra effort.

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TWEETING FOR TRAFFIC University officials step up move-in day assistance in response to new traffic volume and patterns

Three college police departments in this state — including this university’s — have received surplus military gear through a federal defense program that has fallen under scrutiny in recent weeks.

The U.S. Department of Defense 1033 Program, also known as the Excess Property Program, supplies equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies free of charge.

The initiative has found itself under the national microscope following protests in Ferguson, Missouri, during which the Ferguson Police Department was criticized See police, Page 2

Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer

officials said move-in days ran smoothly.

Mike Glowacki, assistant to the director of Resident Life, said Despite major traffic changes this year’s move-in was similar to around the campus, students years past.

“We had a rea l ly g reat day and Department of Resident Life

Wednesday, and traffic flowed really nicely all day,” Glowacki said. “[Thursday] was a little bit tougher, and we had a stretch in the morning where stuff got really backed up and families had to wait longer past their check-in times.”

Police repurposed roads such as Farm Drive as one-way streets at certain sections in an effort to make move-in traffic flow a bit easier, Glowacki said.

See move-in, Page 3

Alumnus brings produce to poor with Hungry Harvest Group uses earnings to back charitable CSA

By Joelle Lang @joelleRlang Staff writer Evan Lutz spent his first summer out of college living his dream: saving 28,000 pounds of produce from going to waste.

This May, the 2014 university graduate, along with business partner and 2014 university alumnus Ben Simon, started Hungry Harvest, a for-profit business that recovers farmers’ discarded produce to resell and to donate to needy families.

“Eva n i s a n e x t remely h a rd worker,” said Eli Davis, a junior journalism major and friend of Lutz’s.

“It’s always hard to build a startup, but no one was surprised to see how rapidly Hungry Harvest grew.”

Students might recognize the idea of food recovery from last semester’s debut of the Recovered Food Community-Supported Agriculture initiative, or CSA, which sold recovered produce on the campus every week and donated produce to needy families.

Lutz, former program manager of CSA, left the project to create his own business after seeing how successful CSA was among students.

See harvest, Page 7

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Fire officials are investigating how a car burst into flames at five university students’ off-campus house early Friday.

Prince George’s County Fire Department headed to the house on the 7500 block of Dartmouth Ave. at 4:36 a.m. to put out the fire, which engulfed senior finance and government and politics major Tommy Carolin’s parked car. No one was injured.

Evan Lutz, left, recovers farmers’ discarded produce through Hungry Harvest, reselling and donating the food to needy families in the Washington area. photo courtesy of hungry harvest

See fire, Page 8

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police From PAGE 1 for using equipment supplied by the 1033 Program in a riot control scenario. It stirred enough controversy that on Aug. 23, President Obama ordered a review of federal programs that distribute military equipment to local police.

But the 1033 Program isn’t a ny th i ng new, accord i ng to Ma r yla nd State Pol ice spokesman Maj. Greg Shipley.

The state police department has been using it since 1996, he said.

“The program has really benefited us over the years,” Shipley said. “It has provided us with equipment used in aviation, command, lockers and tow motors. We have received a variety that was free of charge from the federal

government and the Army.”

The handful of items this university received included 16 12-gauge shotg u ns, 49 M16 rif les, two transport vehicles and a $65,000 armored truck, University Police spokeswoman Sg t.

Rosanne Hoaas confirmed.

Crystal Brown, the chief communications officer for this university, said the department is using the equipment to prepare to respond to the most extreme cases.

The equipment is not routinely used, Hoaas said, and what the department has is on loan, meaning officers maintain the gear and would send it back to the federal government if asked. “ We a r e a u n i v e r s i t y campus, and as we have seen with events in the past — if you look at Virginia Tech, which is not too far from us — we see incidents on campuses with active shooters, and they’re

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12-GAUGE using an increased amount of fi repower, which is not what we want,” Hoaas said.

Hoaas emphasized that members in the university’s police department are highly qualified and trained to use the weapons and ensure the safety of students, faculty, staff, visitors and the community.

“We are trained for active shooter scenarios,” Hoaas said.

This university’s police department also has used the

transport vehicles to maneuver in extreme weather conditions, such as heavy snow.

But students such as senior p u bl ic he a lt h m ajor Ava Mahloogi have concerns about this university participating in the program.

“I don’t think that there will be an instance in College Pa rk t hat wou ld wa rra nt campus police to use military weapons,” Mahloogi said.

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m ajor K at her i ne Tor resHernandez echoed this tone.

“I don’t th i n k that ou r local police should be given those ty pes of weapons,” To r re s-H e r n a n d e z s a i d .

“National security and local security lie on two different levels of severity and should be handled differently and with different weapons.”

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worries about abuse of power in the future.

“In the long run it can have a negative impact,” she said.

“Why do they need military weapons when we aren’t in a war zone?”

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‘GIVE BLOOD, PLAY RUGBY’

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer

It’s a saying, it’s an old joke and it’s often on bumper stickers: Give blood, play rugby.

But this year, for the fi rst time, this university’s women’s rugby team will take that phrase literally.

The club team is hosting a blood drive for Children’s National Health System on Wednesday. Its bloodmobile will sit outside the Benjamin Building from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., taking walk-in donations and appointments that can be made online, and all donors will get free T-shirts.

This university’s department of transportation live-tweeted updates about move-in traffic and backups on and around the campus this week for the first time, as students entered the campus with belongings for the semester. james levin/the diamondback

move-in From PAGE 1 Campus Drive’s downhill lane was also closed because of construction on the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center.

Senior Spanish major John Kronopolus said the Campus Drive issue made moving into St. Mary’s Hall more difficult for him, but he was able to manage. He said Resident Life staff were very helpful.

Freshman animal sciences major Jill Yant said she had to move in much later than planned due to the traffic, but was glad that everyone seemed so eager to help her and her family despite the stress and heat of the day.

Backups were especially bad near the Stadium Drive

entrance, Glowacki said, but the move-in volunteers and Residence Hall Association staff worked well to help “dig their way out.”

Freshman economics major Adam Aist said he was surprised by how quickly he was able to get settled Wednesday morning and by how helpful everyone was.

“Move-in was a breeze.

People helped carry things in and rearrange my room,” Aist said. “I expected it to be much longer and stressful. I was so relieved it wasn’t.”

Friday was a lso much slower, but went fi ne overall, Glowacki said. He said local police helped manage move-in days on the campus.

“T he pol ice rea l ly ta ke charge of the road system and make all the decisions as far as traffic is concerned,” Glowacki said.

T he Department of Transportation Services also helped out on move-in d ay by send i ng ca rs to ava i l a bl e p a rk i n g lo t s and assisting in directing traffic, Glowacki said.

This was the first year that DOTS live-tweeted move-in traffic and backups, he added. Resident Life retweeted DOTS so its followers would have up-todate information, he said.

Glowacki said he was pleased with how move-in progressed overall. He said that while there were some struggles, ma ny issues worked out better than anticipated.

“We’ll look at what happened and figure out what we need to tweak for next year,” he said. meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

ads From PAGE 1 The ad cites a Washington Post article from October 2003 when making the claim against Hogan. At the time, Hogan was serving as state c a bi n e t s e c re t a r y u n d e r former Gov. Robert Ehrlich a n d wa s re s p o n s i bl e fo r making state government appointments.

The 2003 article does not mention Hogan. It says one of Ehrlich’s appointments to the Board of Regents, Richard E. Hug, was urging his colleagues to consider tuition hikes for all state schools and a 33 percent tuition increase at this university from fall 2002 to fall 2003.

Hogan campaign spokesma n Ada m Dubitsky sa id Hogan’s job in the Ehrlich administration was in no way related to education or tuition costs. He said Hug was not speaking on behalf of Ehrlich or anyone in his administration when he advocated doubling tuition.

“It’s really just cynical for him to pander to younger voters by lying about Larry’s record when it comes to tuition,” Dubitsky said. “We can have honest disagreement about policy, about issues, about education, about taxes, about growing the economy, but to run an ad saying that Larry Hogan supports a tuition increase when he’s never said any such thing … is entirely false and it’s dishonest.”

Meanwhile, the Brown campaign argued that, as part of the Ehrlich administration, Hogan should take accountability for the policies that

“Rugby is a pretty physical game, and sometimes you do get a scrape or two,” coach Lance Pruett said. “[Give blood, play rugby] is just an old joke, but I thought we should turn that around and make it something beneficial and help the community. It’s really important for the team to give back.”

With a prompt from their coach, teammates Krista Kirlew and Jessica Jost worked together to make it happen.

For more of Grace Toohey’s story, visit dbknews.com.

were enacted.

“Larry Hogan was a senior official responsible for appointments to the Board of Regents, and he doesn’t get to hide from his record,” said Brown’s campaign manager Justin Schall. “Hogan wants to have it both ways by taking credit for policies when they are popular and distancing himself when they aren’t. But in this case, Larry Hogan’s job was to lead the effort to appoint the majority of members of the Board of Regents where they increased college tuition rates by 40 percent.”

Hug’s proposed tu ition h i ke i n 2003 was not approved, but tuition and fees for in-state students at this university did grow by more than $1,500 during the four years Ehrlich served as governor, according to the university’s budget records.

I n t he t wo ter m s G ov.

Martin O’Malley has served with Brown as lieutenant governor, in-state tuition and fees have increased slightly more than $1,000, according to budget records.

O’M a l ley f roze tu it ion b et we en 2007 a nd 2010, following the nation’s econom ic recession, and has made 3 percent increases each year since 2010. Brown has pledged to continue the 3 percent annual increases and not make any additional tuition hikes.

Hogan has not publicly voiced his stance on college tuition, but Dubitsky said keeping costs down is a priority for the candidate.

Sen. Ji m Rosapepe (DPrince George’s) was a member of the Board of Regents in 2003 and was opposed to Hug’s pro-

posed hikes. He said he fully supports the O’Malley-Brown administration’s actions on tuition prices.

Rosapepe endorsed Brown for the November election, saying he represents the better choice for students.

“This is not an idle promise by someone that doesn’t have a record,” he said of Brown’s pledge to keep tuition rates down. “This is a promise of someone who, as part of the O’Malley administration, was an integral part of a very successful strategy to make college more affordable.”

Hogan debuted his first television ad on Aug. 25 but made no mention of college tuition.

The ad laid out the candidate’s plan for bringing jobs to the middle class by reducing government spending and cutting taxes. It also criticized the O’Malley-Brown administration, saying, “They never met a tax they didn’t like, or at least one they didn’t hike.”

Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said the “controversy” surrounding Brown’s ad isn’t how he hoped the discussion of tuition would be brought up, but he said he is pleased to see the candidates debating the issue. “ It c a n n o w b e c o m e a seminal moment of the campaign and it’s around the issue of college affordability,” Ronk said. “Now both candidates are saying they want to keep college affordable; they want to keep tuition low because of this, so they’re kind of fighting over who would be better for students, which is never a bad thing.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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orty-nine M16s. Sixteen 12-gauge shotguns. An armored truck.

If that list of weaponry and equipment seems more like something out of a U.S. Army detachment’s arsenal than the contents of a state university police department’s weapons lockup, you’re not far off.

All the same, the surplus militarygrade assault rifles, shotguns and armored emergency transport are on loan to University Police from the Department of Defense, and they’re likely here to stay.

So how did this university’s police officers end up with more than enough M16s to outfit a full Marine Corps rifle platoon? The answer is simple with somewhat frightening implications: by filling out a one-page request form.

Under the Department of Defense’s Excess Property Program, the extent of which was only recently brought to light via a New York Times Freedom of Information Act request, state and local police departments can acquire military weapons, vehicles and other tools free of charge. Options range from sleeping bags and night-vision goggles to bomb-disposal robots and a “fixedwing aircraft.”

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The program has come under fire in the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri, as local police used weapons and vehicles received through the initiative in efforts to control widespread protests.

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The excess property program appears extreme, but would be justified if community members were in extreme danger.

So a flagship university just outside our nation’s capital ends up with about 50 assault rifles; a St. Louis suburb ends up on televisions and in newspaper headlines nationwide. It’s not the same, but it’s all connected. Last month in that St. Louis suburb, the world saw what happens when law enforcement goes unchecked.

Yet University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas assured that officers were “highly qualified and trained” for use of the guns, and the vehicles the department received through the program primarily have

been used to transport officers in extreme weather conditions.

When officers mobilized on Route 1 in February, anticipating a riot after the Terrapins men’s basketball game against Duke, they brought police dogs but not shotguns — a sign that the law enforcement agencies serving this university community are reasonable when it comes to utilizing their arsenals.

When asked about the intended use for the guns and armored vehicles, Hoaas referenced active shooter scenarios, going so far as to name-drop the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

It’s a sobering truth that effectively diffuses some of the alarmism surrounding the excess property program, especially on a college campus.

Yes, 65 military-grade weapons in the hands of University Police is overkill to the highest degree, but if they save even one life, anti-militarization dialogue largely goes out the window.

The price of “safety” can be high, as evidenced last month in Ferguson, but 2013’s murder-suicide is still too fresh in this university’s collective memory to claim a situation warranting the excess property program won’t arise.

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An open and resourceful SGA PATRICK RONK Hi students! It’s the start of another school year here in College Park. With that comes another introductory guest column from the SGA president going on about how many great things the Student Government Association has planned this year, how we’re going to make the lives of students significantly better and how you should all join us as soon as possible. While I obviously believe all of those statements are true, I’d like to take a few moments out of your busy day to tell you why.

In recent years, the SGA has seen unprecedented success under my predecessor, Samantha Zwerling.

Under her guidance, the SGA was a well-oiled machine that helped thousands of students register to vote, lobbied heavily in Annapolis to keep tuition low and helped get $5 million in funding for mental health services on the campus.

While those accomplishments are Zwerling’s legacy and not mine, I am extremely lucky to inherit such an effective organization.

Because the SGA is such a great organization, you might be wondering what exactly we have planned for this year. Great question! Where do I start? To keep students safer, we’re partnering with the Office of Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence to hold focus groups with student leaders to craft an effective and inviting curriculum for the new mandatory sexual assault education that all students will take in coming years. We’re working with city, county and state officials to ensure that changes are made to Route 1 to improve pedestrian safety, and we plan to lobby the University

Athletic Council and University Senate to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at football and basketball games to help prevent binge drinking before sporting events.

To ensure that students are heard and properly engaged, we will be launching a massive voter registration drive in the coming weeks and encouraging all students to vote (at Stamp Student Union) in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

Of course, once the spring semester rolls around, we will be in Annapolis every week lobbying to keep your tuition low and funding for the University System of Maryland high. On top of that, we will be working with state Sen. Nancy King and Del. Kathleen Dumais to ensure that a bill that would protect interns from discrimination and sexual harassment is reintroduced and passed in the upcoming legislative session.

These are just a few of the hundreds of initiatives myself and the SGA vice presidents, cabinet members, representatives and committees will be working on this year. The SGA will be working on anything and everything from enhancing student group programming to increasing diversity and multiculturalism on the campus to improving the university’s commitment to sustainability this year.

If you’re interested in joining, check out our jobs board at mdsga.wordpress.com or reach out on Twitter @UMDSGA or Facebook.com/UMDSGA. I promise you we will be an effective and open resource for the student body this year, and I want you to hold us accountable. If you ever have any concerns or questions for the SGA, stop by our Wednesday meetings at 6 p.m. in the Benjamin Banneker room in Stamp, or let us know @wtfUMD or by emailing sgacommunications@umd.edu.

Patrick Ronk is the SGA president and a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at sgapresident@umd.edu.

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A new year with exciting changes WALLACE LOH The start of a new school year is a transcendent moment, alive with possibility and dreams to fulfill. The 155th academic year at this university brings new talent, new educational programs, new facilities and a new era of Big Ten athletic competition and academic collaboration.

Where I grew up, we greeted newcomers by saying “mi casa, su casa.” To new arrivals here, I say “our university, your university.”

Welcome to the 4,100 freshmen and 2,000 new transfer students. They come with the highest academic credentials ever at this university, standing high with their peers at top flagship universities.

They hail from 33 countries, and 40 percent are students of color. We also welcome the 3,200 outstanding masters and doctoral students. Our students are the promise of tomorrow.

Welcome to the 90 new professors and researchers. And congratulations to the 96 newly promoted faculty, including seven new Distinguished University Professors, the highest honor accorded by this university for trailblazing scholarship: Inderjit Chopra (aerospace engineering), James Drake (physics), Sylvester Gates (physics), Jeffrey Herf (history), Christopher Jarzynski (chemistry and biochemistry), Dianne O’Leary (computer science) and Ingmar Prucha (economics).

Great professors attract great students who, in turn, attract additional great faculty. Our talented and dedicated staff support this cycle of excellence.

Welcome to new administrators.

The new dean of the behavioral and social sciences college is Gregory Ball, an eminent behavioral neuroscientist from Johns Hopkins University, where he was vice dean for science and research

infrastructure. The new dean of the public policy school is Robert Orr, who served as the United Nations assistant secretary-general, overseeing policies on climate change, global health, food security and counterterrorism.

The new vice president and chief information officer, Eric Denna, was the University of Utah’s chief information officer. To fortify our computer networks against relentless cyber-intrusions, he is installing new technology, isolating and encrypting sensitive information and expanding our IT security staff.

Educational innovation flourishes.

There are new living-learning communities in law, geology, philanthropy and writing. Freshmen get hands-on learning with FIRE — ­ the new First-Year Innovation and Research Experience.

The internationally renowned DeVos Institute of Arts Management has relocated to this university. Founderdirector Michael Kaiser joined our faculty after illustrious tenures heading the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and London’s Royal Opera House.

Broad access to a top-quality flagship education remains a core university commitment. Last year, we raised a record $140 million from donors, with need-based scholarships a high priority.

With new sports revenues, our athletic department will provide guaranteed lifetime scholarships to all student-athletes.

We are committed to their success in the classroom, on the field and in life.

This university’s Big Ten debut is generating palpable excitement.

Teams and fans are fired up. Ticket sales are up. Thousands of new visitors will descend upon the campus. Terps games will be available on the Big Ten Network to some 60 million homes here and abroad.

Recent antitrust lawsuits, unionization efforts and congressional hearings forebode seismic changes in the landscape of big-time college sports. At issue: Are student-athletes amateurs,

playing for love of sport and pride in their alma mater? Or are they professionals, playing for a paycheck? Or are they something in between?

Spurred by federal calls for reform, the issue of sexual assault is roiling campuses nationwide. This university has been proactive, creating a new Office of Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence directed by attorney Catherine Carroll. As the new Title IX officer, she is working with campus officials to hire investigative and survivor support staff, revamp investigation and adjudication procedures to ensure fairness and safeguard the rights of all parties and implement mandatory training and prevention programs.

Our construction boom continues, with nearly $900 million in projects recently completed or in the pipeline.

The new Prince Frederick Hall just opened. The Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center is under construction. The bioengineering building is under design. The new four-star hotel and conference center will have a ceremonial groundbreaking this year. Along Route 1, this university is working with private developers on new housing and retail amenities to transform downtown College Park.

Pedestrians will encounter a safer Route 1 — a reduced speed limit, new traffic signage, a median barrier and 24/7 speed camera enforcement. University Police will be highly visible on weekend nights to calm traffic and remind students: Be safe. Be smart.

Avoid jaywalking.

On our 155th anniversary of classes, may this be your best year ever in all your endeavors — education, research, arts, athletics and service. Your accomplishments keep this university on its rising arc of excellence and impact.

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Creating a safer environment LAUREN REDDING Last spring, a group of students at North Carolina State University announced a new sexual assault prevention tool: Nail polish that, when dipped into a drink, can detect the presence of “date rape” drugs.

The announcement was met with skepticism and even criticism from sexual assault prevention advocates, who quickly pointed out that “date rape” incidents account for only 2.4 percent of all reported assaults.

The bigger issue with this fad is it doesn’t really address the societal causes of gender-based violence.

It adds one more item to the list of “things women should do to prevent themselves from getting raped.”

Instead, why don’t we focus our energies on educating men not to rape women in the first place?

I agree with both sides of the argument. As a society, we should be putting the onus of preventing rape on the would-be perpetrator, not the victim. But at the same time, I’m hesitant to put down any tool that could prevent even one assault — especially at a time when people are looking for tangible ways to prevent violence in their communities.

So I decided to write my own list of everyday ways you — yes, you! — can actively prevent sexual assaults from happening this semester.

1. Lock bedroom doors: If you’re hosting a house party, lock the bedroom doors before people start arriving. This will reduce the possibility of perpetrators taking advantage of incapacitated partygoers in empty rooms.

2. Have a designated bartender: Instead of leaving open containers of alcohol at the party for people to pour from, have designated bartenders serve all the drinks and make sure the alcohol isn’t tampered with.

3. Pick a party “helper”: There’s a Mr. Rogers quote I really love: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” Designate a party helper, someone who will remain sober during the night and make sure everyone is safe. Post the name and the cellphone number of the helper around the party.

4. Post the address of the party: This is especially helpful for freshmen at offcampus parties, as they might not know exactly where they are. Post signs around the party with the address, so a partygoer in trouble can call 911 or a friend to pick them up.

5. Familiarize yourself with the three D’s of bystander intervention: If you see potentially dangerous behavior —like an upperclassman trying to isolate a heavily intoxicated freshman — there are three different strategies to intervene: Direct: Directly approach the person who is exhibiting dangerous or potentially dangerous behavior. Say something like, “Hey, this freshman looks way too drunk. I’m taking her back to her friends.” If you’re worried about your own safety, don’t try this step.

Distract: Distract the upperclassman from the younger student.Say something like, “I want you to meet someone, come over here for a second,” and then get the freshman back to her friends.

Delegate: If you don’t feel comfortable with the first two options, get help. This might mean finding a bartender, bouncer or the party helper. It might even mean calling the cops. But if you see potentially dangerous behavior and don’t want to intervene, ask someone else to step in.

The only way we’re going to truly create a campus without rape is by looking out for one another. That’s what Terps do. Have a great, safe semester.

Lauren Redding is a former editor in chief of The Diamondback and former CARE to Stop Violence peer educator. She can be reached at laurredding@gmail.com and @Lauren_Redding on Twitter.

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NEW NAME, NEW CENTER

Erase the term ‘CSPAC’ from your memory: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is now ‘The Clarice’ and is throwing open its doors for more student access.

By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Staff writer Maybe it’s the grand staircase or light-dappled rafters. Perhaps it’s the endless hallways or massive theaters, or just the sheer magnitude of the building. Whatever the reason, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s presence demands recognition from its corner of North Campus.

This academic year, it’s also demanding your attention.

Under new executive director Martin Wollesen, the center and its many programs are operating under a new vision and a new name.

The name “The Clarice” has started popping up on the center’s website and social media pages — a new moniker that’s part of Wollesen’s effort to refocus The Clarice’s mission and refresh its position in this university’s campus culture.

“We recognize that ‘the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’ is a mouthful,” he said. “We want to provide something that would make it a little bit easier for folks, and also something that is a little more friendly and reflective of who we are.”

In his second year as The Clarice’s

rector, said the school executive director, operates well under Wollesen plans to Wollesen’s vision, esfoster further colpecially when it comes laboration not only to two main tenets: between the music professional collaboschool and the theatre, ration and community dance and perforengagement. mance studies school, “One of the most but also between The important intersecClarice and student tions between The life. Gone are the days Clarice and the School of traditional shows of Music is the fact that shared between an exthey bring in visiting clusive, elite audience artists,” Gibson said. and the performers.

“This provides our Rather than creating martin wollesen, executive director of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, is spearheading the “next generation of a new label , “The Clarice,” opening the art doors to the community. stephanie natoli/thediamondback students with the unique opportunity to work with artists and innovators” artists that are literally at the top of the behind closed doors, Wollesen aims to and campus units.”

Historically, The Clarice partners music field.” recreate the audience experience and The school also partners with with regional, national and even inrepresent art as a community affair.

For The Clarice’s 2014-15 season, ternational artists. But this season, Hyattsville restaurant Busboys and collaboration and outreach are key. Not collaboration with campus groups Poets. Through an initiative called only will it continue the Artist Partner is a main initiative. For example, Common Tone, music school students Program for visiting professionals, but The Clarice will collaborate with the and professionals will perform at the The Clarice will also venture to forge Terrapin Beats Society to host a late- cafe throughout the season as a part of Wollesen and Gibson’s community new alliances in unlikely places, he said. night DJ party this year.

The music school, as part of The integration goals.

“We’re looking at all kinds of dif“Instead of expecting everyone ferent ways to bring students in and Clarice, is also cooperating with exterthe community in and to open our nal organizations to bring new experi- in the community to come to The doors,” Wollesen said. “I want to ences to the campus and transform the Clarice, we’re also taking it out into see us have more partnerships with way students approach classical music. the community,” Gibson said.

Perhaps the biggest example of Robert Gibson, the music school’s distudent organizations and students

The Clarice’s willingness to thrust art into public space is the NextNOW Fest, which will be held Sept. 11-14.

The four-day festival will focus on bringing art directly to students and widening the public perspective of art experience. With everything from sonic massages to 32-minute interactive plays to breakfast featuring an orchestral soundtrack, NextNOW Fest seeks to push boundaries and broaden horizons while bringing art to the community.

“It is fun and provocative and surprising,” Wollesen said.

The Clarice does not seek to shrink into seclusion under the Big Ten spotlight, but rather utilize it as a lucrative tool to put this university in the forefront of arts as well as sports.

Because this university has a deeply creative campus, Wollesen hopes students will come here to unlock their own creative potential and engage in what it means to be a creative thinker.

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By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer

hungry harvest, a for-profit business launched by a university alumnus, provides fresh produce to needy families. photo courtesy of evan lutz

harvest From PAGE 1 “People came back week after week,” Lutz said.

Lutz and Simon, who also worked w ith CSA, tra nsformed their passion for recovering food and helping needy families into a limited liability company in May. Lutz said that unlike nonprofit organizations, which n e e d to s p l i t t h e i r t i m e between fi nd i ng f u nd i ng and running their projects, for-profit Hungry Harvest can focus on its mission.

Hungry Harvest will provide financial backing for its own operations and the CSA , a nd w i l l donate surplus produce for sale at the CSA tables.

“As we make money, we are also making an impact,” Lutz said. “We can focus all our time on the goal.”

Over the summer, Lutz and Simon hired three full-time employees to advertise for Hungry Harvest, with plans to grow. Lutz and Simon, however, have yet to collect a salary of their own.

“We’re not paying ourselves until we have the funds to,” Lutz said. “We’re basically working for free now.”

Customers ca n sig n up on l i ne to receive either a half-share of produce (5-7 pounds) for $10 a week, or a full share (10-12 pounds) for $17 a week, for 10 weeks.

Hungry Harvest currently del ivers produce every Sunday to 140 paying custo m e r s , 10 o f w h o m a re students.

Lutz said Hungry Harvest expects to see more student customers a f ter they advertise w ith f l iers on the campus and on social media.

T he tea m w i l l a lso spea k to cl a sses ab out Hu n g r y Harvest and appeal to faculty and staff by offering deliveries right to their desks.

W h i le Hu ng r y Ha r vest is not the only food delivery service in the area, Lutz said he is not worried about competition.

“Once we get big enough, we are going to make them nervous,” Lutz said. “We’re goi ng to show them thei r model is out of date.”

Over n i ne weeks i n the summer, Hungry Harvest recovered 28,000 pounds of

produce, selling half to customers and donating half to needy families through shelters and soup kitchens, Lutz said.

The Hungry Harvest team, along with many volunteers, has been packing the recovered produce for delivery in a church in Silver Spring, but Lutz said the business is looking to rent a warehouse in coming months.

In previous interviews with The Diamondback, some students and faculty expressed concern over the quality of the produce and health risks of recovered produce.

Lutz, however, said the CSA has checked in with the county and state health departments. About 95 percent of the produce that is thrown away is completely fine to use, Lutz said.

W h i le h i s pa re nts h a d reservations about Hungry Harvest, Lutz said they are behind him and his goal to recover food on a global scale.

“T he vision is to have a system set up all over the country where there is no food wa sted,” Lutz sa id .

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A b o u t 4 0 go v e r n m e n t transportation workers and i ndust r y representat ives toured the facilities to learn of the often unseen side of the traffic that much of the country deals with daily.

“We work with 4.6 billion data points per day,” said J.J. Biel-Goebel, progra m manager at CATT Lab. They c ol le c t t h i s i n for m at ion from 26 states: from traffic cameras, police scanners and even drivers’ cellphones and pass it on to highway administrations, policymakers and first responders.

Emergency workers represent about half of their cl ients, a nd C AT T L ab technicians have even developed a video game to help responders learn proper procedure in a virtual environment before they go to the scenes of accidents, similar to how police and soldiers go through simulated exercises.

But the other half of the users of their systems are pl a n ners a nd develop ers looking beyond the real-time data to underlying patterns.

The lab’s data allow them to find bottleneck locations and roads costing the most amount of money, which are not always the roads getting the most attention. “ You don’t wa nt to f i x roads based on what a senator is talking the most a b o ut,” Pa ck s a id . “O u r

systems tell them what legitimately is important.”

The Traffic Safety and Operations Lab deals with other facets of traffic data. Focusing more on traffic models, the university team studies the efficiency of unconventional intersection designs, evacuation plans for Baltimore and bus travel times in Taiwan, among other projects.

Yet in addition to more theoretical works, the Traffic Safety and Operations Lab also deals with direct and immediate results. With the National Transportation Center, they established the travel-time system in Ocean City that tells drivers which route to the shore is fastest in real-time, and they fixed the deadly intersection of US 40 and Red Toad Road in Cecil County.

“It is on a country highway, so there is a lot of space between intersections, and this intersection was very dangerous,” Sun Yoon Park, a doctoral student in the Traffic Safety and Operations Lab, said. They were able to calculate the best time to change the signal, and by setting up sensors and increasing the red-light time, the number of accidents there have decreased to only one in three years.

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fire From PAGE 1 One of Carolin’s housemates, senior marketing and supply chain management major Grant Germano, spotted the fire first.

Germano said he woke up at about 4:30 a.m. and noticed his room was filled with light.

He said he saw the fire when he looked outside.

Germano immediately called 911 and woke up his roommates.

As they ran to the backyard away from the burning car, Germano said he heard six to eight explosion-like sounds and found a small fire on a tent behind the house.

Roommate Daniel Popper, The Diamondback’s assistant sports editor, tried to put the fire out by beating it with a stool.

Police arrived minutes after Germano called, he said.

They extinguished the fire in “no more than a minute or two,” he said.

Carolin said the fire burnt his car, a Ford Escape, down to an unusable “skeleton.”

Two of the other roommates’ cars were damaged in the fire, he said.

The heat also warped one of the house walls, causing the porch siding to hang down, Germano said.

“We’re still very shaken up,” Carolin said.

Carolin said he is unsure h ow t h e f i re s t a r te d b ut do e s not t h i n k it wa s a n issue with the car. He said the car was relatively new, and he had not used it the previous night.

Neighbors also told him they heard “mini explosions” before the fire, he said.

Germano said he is suspi-

Scott Berger, a senior economics major and friend of Tommy Carolin, observes Carolin’s damaged car hours after it was discovered in flames. Carolin said he did not think the car malfunctioned on its own, because it was fairly new and was not used the night of the incident. Neighbors said they heard explosions before the fire. photo couresy of tommy carolin A definitive cause is not yet in two separate areas without cious about the incident.

“The fact that both the car seeming to spread is suspi- known, PGFD Assistant Fire Chief Lt. Paul Gomez said. fire and the tent fire occurred cious,” he said.

The investigation is ongoing. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

SPORTS VOLLEYBALL | SEASON PREVIEW

Uphill battle for respectability Aird leads Terps into new conference as big underdogs

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer

OUTSIDE HITTER Adreene Elliott isn’t concerned that the Terps enter the Big Ten as overwhelming underdogs.

“A lot of people are going to be surprised at what we have to offer,” the senior said. file photo/the diamondback

Last season was underwhelming for the Terrapins volleyball team.

In Tim Horsmon’s sixth season as coach, the Terps went 13-19 overall and 5-15 in the ACC to finish 13th in the conference.

It was the final season of a rough tenure in College Park for Horsmon, who was replaced over the winter

by Steve Aird, the former assistant coach of reigning NCAA champion Penn State.

With a new coach, the Terps will make their transition to the Big Ten, the nation’s premier volleyball conference. The team was picked to finish 13th out of 14 teams in the conference’s preseason poll, but the Terps will try to defy the odds.

The players are confident they can surprise their new peers this season, and the Terps opened the year by topping three small conference foes to win the Elon Phoenix Invitational this weekend. Aird, though, expects the Terps’ turnaround to take some time.

“It’s not one of those things where we’re going to walk into the conference and say, ‘Hey team, don’t worry, we’ll be fine,’” Aird said. “We won’t be fine. We’re going to be in matches where we’ll be severely outclassed and teams have a lot more talent. You can’t outcoach people in the Big Ten in volleyball, it just simply doesn’t happen.”

Aird takes over a program that

hasn’t finished better than seventh in its conference since 2005, when the team went 28-5 under the leadership of Janice Kruger. That season was the last time the Terps finished above .500 in conference play or made the NCAA tournament.

The team will also have to replace libero Sarah Harper and outside hitter Mary Cushman, who were both fixtures on the team the past few seasons but graduated this year.

Harper is the Terps’ all-time record holder for career digs at 1,763.

Cushman, meanwhile, ranks second in program history with 3,903 total attacks and fourth with 1,344 kills.

Despite losing two of the program’s finest players from an already struggling team, the players have high hopes for the season.

“A lot of people are going to be surprised at what we have to offer,” outside hitter Adreené Elliott said.

“We’re expecting to win a good amount of matches.”

Coming from the prestige of Penn State’s volleyball program, Aird knows the type of competition the Terps will face in their new conference.

“We’re going to be the underdog in most every match we play,” said Aird.

“I want to be in matches and at least have people say, ‘Listen, it’s moving in the right direction.’”

Aird wants to make that tenacity a cornerstone of his program.

And while the Terps can’t expect to have the most talent in the conference that produced the national

champions and runners-up last season, they will try to mask their deficiencies through their hustle.

“The new coaching staff and the energy they brought in has changed us as a team,” libero Amy Dion said.

“We’re going to work hard and ... we’re going to steal some games.”

Aird cited the team’s defense and blocking as strong points. The team also returns ACC second- and thirdteam selections from last season in outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher and Elliott, respectively.

But as much as the players want to believe they can be serious competitors in their new conference, the first-year coach asks for tempered expectations.

“We’re going to have to play our best match on a night where someone plays poorly,” Aird said. “And if that happens, we got a shot. But there are teams in the conference where if they play really well, we play really well, we’re going to have a hard time beating them.”

Turbulence can be expected from the team in its transitional season, but it’s part of the process as Aird and company try to build the Terps up to a program that can compete in the Big Ten. “This year there will be a lot more losses and a lot more tough matches, and that’s just the growing pains of it,” Aird said. “I’m just hoping they keep playing hard the way through.” jwalkerdbk@gmail.com

WOMEN’S SOCCER | SEASON PREVIEW

Terps, Morgan search for success in post-Brock era Younger players hope to pick up offensive slack as last season’s leading scorer embarks on professional career

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer A blowout defeat by then-No. 1 Virginia in the first round of last year’s ACC tournament ended a season in which the Terrapins women’s soccer team failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in four years.

About two months later, the Terps suffered yet another loss. The Chicago Red Stars drafted forward Hayley Brock, who led the Terps in scoring and contributed about a third of the team’s goals, in the third round of the 2014 National Women’s Soccer League draft.

Brock’s departure left the Terps searching for other players to handle the scoring load. And in the team’s first two games of its first season as a Big Ten team, they were shut out in losses to No. 1 UCLA and No. 17 Pepperdine.

But in their home opener against William & Mary, the Terps netted four goals on the way to their first win of the season. Three players scored — forward Alex Doody had two goals, and defender Erika Nelson and forward Alex Anthony each scored once — showing many Terps are capable of providing offense.

And Thursday night’s match against the Tribe indicated that even without Brock, the Terps could rely on a balanced offense to return to the

NCAA tournament.

Then Sunday, the Terps earned a 2-1 victory over N.C. State with goals from defender-turned-forward Shade Pratt and midfielder Sarah Molina.

“Replacing Hayley Brock? I don’t know if you can replace her. She’s a professional,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “But we’ll have to get goals from multiple players. We’re going to play a lot of kids up front, and we’re going to have to get goals from all of those kids.”

In addition to losing Brock, a few Terps were battling injuries during the season’s opening weeks.

Forward Lauren Berman, who returns as one of the Terps’ leading scorers, entered as a substitute against UCLA but hyperextended her knee. She’s been sidelined for two straight games, but Morgan said she should be back on the field next week.

Meanwhile, Anthony is still recovering from a knee injury that forced her to redshirt last season. She’s played in two games, but trainers will only allow her to play up to 40 minutes per contest. Still, against the Tribe, the redshirt freshman had two shots on goal and scored for the first time in her career.

Morgan said Anthony and Berman should be starters and their absence hurt the Terps.

“You never schedule that type of thing knowing you’re going to

have three or four of your starters out and not available to you,” Morgan said. “But nonetheless, I think we learned a lot being out on the West Coast.”

Both players should return by the time the team plays Rutgers in its Big Ten opener on Sept. 12, though. With three teams ranked in the NSCAA Coaches top 25, the Big Ten presents formidable competition. Penn State — the team picked to finish atop the conference standings — is ranked eighth, and Michigan and Wisconsin are both in the top 20.

Though the ACC is regarded as one of the strongest conferences, the Big Ten has a plethora of talented teams that will prepare the Terps going forward.

“A few years ago, I don’t think we could have said that [the Big Ten] was comparable,” goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands said. “Nine current Big Ten teams made it into the NCAA tournament, and that just speaks to the improved quality of all conferences in college soccer.”

The players said the new conference will be more physical than the ACC, which is more possessionoriented. But with new coaches at the helm of some Big Ten programs, Morgan said he still doesn’t know what to expect in the new league.

Whatever style the Terps face in their inaugural season in the new

Defender SHade Pratt races for a ball in a home-opening victory over William & Mary on Thursday. Pratt moved to forward Sunday and scored a goal in the Terps’ 2-1 win against N.C. State. chester lam/the diamondback conference, Brock will not be avail- that I think will step up going into able to assist them. Instead, the the Big Ten season,” midfielder Cory Terps will need a community effort Ryan said. “So, we’ll get contributo uphold their No. 3 position in the tions from everyone instead of relying conference’s preseason poll and on certain players this year.” return to the postseason.

“We have a lot of different players kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

TuesDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 | sports | The diamondback

veterans From PAGE 10 In the Terps’ base 3-4 defense, six players in the front seven are seniors, as are 11 of the 22 players listed on the defense’s two-deep depth chart. Only five of those 22 are underclassmen.

“Having that leadership and senior experience on the field, it definitely brings a lot of confidence,” Johnson said.

“So it’s kind of like that mentality, if someone catches a ball, if someone breaks a long run, it’s not OK. You should be pissed off because we know how good that we can be.”

That mentality translated onto the field during the Terps’ season-opening 52-7 victory over James Madison on Saturday at Byrd Stadium. Edsall’s defense shut the Dukes out for the first 49 minutes of the game and surrendered one touchdown all afternoon.

It forced three turnovers and sustained a relentless pass rush against quarterback Vad Lee, sacking the former Georgia Tech signal-caller twice and forcing him into a number of errant throws.

“To hold [Lee] to what we did, I think it’s a tremendous tribute to our players in terms of how hard they played,” Edsall said. “Guys just taking care of their assignments and doing the thing within the game plan.”

As expected, the Terps’ seniors led the way. Goree made a game-high 14 tackles, and Johnson secured his first career interception on a jump ball in the end zone with one second left in the first half.

“We’re going to attack.

There’s no secret,” Johnson said. “We’re going to come after you week in and week out. And that’s what we pride ourselves on.”

Both Johnson and Goree said the Terps’ senior leadership started to take form during summer training camp.

Quarterback C.J. Brown was a prominent presence from the outset of practice at the beginning of August, leading the offense in his sixth season with the Terps.

But on defense, the leadership is more spread out.

Each position group, from outside linebackers to inside linebackers and defensive linemen to defensive backs,

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has its own senior to demand accountability from.

“The first couple days [of camp], I think we pretty much had the offense on the ropes.

And I think that was solely because of our leadership,” Johnson said. “We had that leadership on defense where we could say ‘Hey, this is how we practice; this is that way this defense is run. We’re going to be aggressive, and either you hop on the train or you’re going to get hit by it.’”

That aggression is a staple of defensive coordinator Brian Stewart’s coaching philosophy. Many of the seniors will be playing under Stewart for a third season in 2014, and Kilgo said that experience has allowed the defense to develop a deep understanding of the game plan and how to play as a single entity.

“We have guys that have played a lot of football,” Kilgo said. “They know the scheme, they’re comfortable with the scheme, so it allows us to play faster.”

With experience, though, come expectations, and the seniors are well aware that their legacy as a class hinges on their performances on the field.

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LINEBACKER YANNIK CUDJOE-VIRGIL is one of six projected senior starters in the Terps’ front seven. file photo/the diamondback Even so, Goree said the group must focus on making an impact on the younger players. Looking too far ahead can get them in trouble, and nothing’s more urgent than the next game on the schedule.

“I like to lead by a good example. We all do,” Goree said. “I want to be a good role model, the best role model I can be.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

a punishment from coach Randy Edsall or the school, but Jacobs and safety A.J. Hendy were suspended for the season last week because of a violation of this university’s Code of Student Conduct.

It is unclear what that violation was or whether Hendy was involved in the July 19 incident. Whatever the case, four Terps in revenue sports have made headlines for questionable character decisions this summer, and the publicity has reflected poorly on the school.

And yes, the way outsiders perceive Terps athletes affects the students.

When you think about Penn State, your memory probably shifts to Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno and the sexual abuse that occurred on that campus.

When Oregon comes to mind, so does the recent rape case involving three men’s basketball players. And this university went through a similar shift in public perception in the late 1980s when basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine

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Reed’s arrest and the Terps football players’ suspensions might not compare with the severity of those incidents, but the point stands. Athletes are the most recognizable students on the campus, and sure, they often get a bad rap, but when they are in trouble, it draws attention, and any bad reputation within the athletic department extends to the rest of the school.

As students, we carry that reputation on our resumes and in conversations.

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Holding athletes to higher standards After several Terps generated negative headlines, we should ask for better AARON KASINITZ

OUTSIDE LINEBACKER MATT ROBINSON (40) leads the Terps onto the field before Saturday’s season-opening win over James Madison. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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Group of seniors use camaraderie to establish leadership on Terps defense

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins football defense’s chemistry starts off the field, namely in a room on the campus shared by five senior starters: cornerback Jeremiah Johnson, defensive lineman Darius Kilgo and linebackers Matt Robinson, L.A. Goree and Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil.

They’ve lived together for the past two years and indulge in a number of mutual hobbies. The room is relaxed but still competitive, especially when it comes to NBA 2K14, the video game of choice for four of the five defenders. A

chart on the wall documents the winners and losers of the daily one-on-one bouts.

“Everybody in our house plays 2K except for Matt. Matt plays the MLB joint,” Goree said. “The rest of us, we just play 2K all day, man.”

The roommates’ friendships have grown strong over shared laughs on the couch in front of the television. But as the Terps set out on their inaugural campaign in the Big Ten, those bonds will prove crucial on the gridiron, where fourth-year coach Randy Edsall has assembled the most experienced defense during his tenure in College Park.

See veterans, Page 9

Prominent athletes, especially young black athletes, are so often misjudged.

Sports stars spend much of their time in the spotlight, and many are brash and aggressive by nature, but that doesn’t mean athletes are more likely to commit crimes or transgressions than others.

After New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested and indicted for murder last summer, pundits and fans called for the NFL to improve its standards, to hold players more accountable for their actions.

When The Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins explored the issue, though, she found the perception of NFL stars as poor citizens was misguided. In fact, arrest rates for NFL players were significantly lower than those of the average male age 22-34.

So during a summer in which multiple Terrapins athletes brushed with the law, it’d be an overreaction to condemn the athletic department or level labels on the kids who have made mistakes over the past several months.

But it is OK for us as students to ask, perhaps demand, that athletes at this university act better.

Terps stars aren’t more likely to land in legal trouble than the rest of us, but their actions do draw more attention than the average

WIDE RECEIVER LEVERN JACOBS was charged with second-degree assault two weeks ago and will miss the Terps’ season. file photo/the diamondback student’s. When this university’s athletes commit crimes, it often makes national news and impacts how outsiders view our community.

In late July, incoming Terps men’s basketball center Trayvon Reed was charged with twocounts of second-degree assault, including one of a police officer, resisting arrest and theft of less than $100. Coach Mark Turgeon promptly kicked the 7-foot-1 prospect off the team, and Reed won’t enroll at this university.

Less than two weeks ago, Terps football linebacker Alex Twine and wide receiver Levern Jacobs were charged with second-degree assault stemming from a July 19 incident. Twine has yet to receive See standards, Page 9

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