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Univ officials consider updating hazing policy Student Conduct Committee to review, revise language of current policies

Prevention Task Force determined that the definition of hazing requires more clarification, including citing more examples of the practice and outlining the penalties for engaging

By Katishi Maake the Student Conduct Committee. @TheHavocRat The report, which is due by Nov. 14, in hazing.

Add it ion a l ly, t he ta sk force Staff writer will likely go to the senate floor for a vote after the conduct committee decided that more resources on how A bill that would revise the lan- submits it to the Senate Executive to report a witnessed act of hazing, either confidentially or formally, guage of this university’s hazing Committee.

A policy subgroup of the Hazing are needed to enhance the current policy is currently under review by

policy.

“We are not significantly changing anything,” said Andrea Goodwin, director of the student conduct office and a member of the task force. “We are requesting that we adopt a new policy so that it is more clear to students and anybody who has to adjudicate the policy.”

Fraternities, sororities and other campus groups might See hazing, Page 2 see changes to the hazing policy. file photo/the diamondback

State steps forward on Purple Line

slow and steady

Officials issue project proposal request for line bisecting campus

One camera at a time, the city looks to ensure safety and slower speeds

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer The Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryla nd T ra nsit Ad m i n istration have taken the next step toward completing the Purple Line light rail: issuing a Request for Proposals to build it, the organizations announced in a July 29 news release.

T he t wo a re lo ok i n g for a private-sector team “to design, build, construct, finance, operate and maintain the Purple Line during a 35-year contract term,” according to the news release.

Four teams — Maryland Purple Line Partners, Maryland Transit Connectors, Purple Line Transit Partners and Purple Plus Alliance — were invited by MDOT and MTA in January and have been asked to submit proposals

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By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer With three pedestrians killed in accidents along Route 1 this year, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir has received emails from residents afraid to venture onto the dangerous stretch of highway in downtown College Park.

On Aug. 15, i n a n effort to assuage those fears and promote safe driving, three speed cameras began operating in new locations within half a mile of the university while seven out of eight existing speed cameras in College Park extended their operating hours to 24/7. Speed cameras previously operated from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Revenue from speed camera tickets issued will go toward A speed monitor stands on Route 1, near the intersection with College Avenue, as part of ongoing efforts to increase road safety.

Senate addresses LGBT name concerns with revision bill

Green listing puts U at top of Big Ten

SEC sends directory edit bill to committee

Sierra Magazine lists school as 13th ‘coolest’

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer A n env i ron menta l magazi ne ranked this university as the 13th greenest school in its “Cool Schools 2014” list, making the institution the highest-placing among Big Ten universities.

The rankings published by Sierra Magazine were compiled based on several categories: co-curricular, energy, investments, food, innovation, academics, research, planning, purchasing, transit, waste and water.

Some of the biggest points weighed

Decorated recycling bins are one of the many ways the university stands out for its green efforts.

Sierra Magazine ranked this university 13th on its annual “Cool Schools” list. rachel george/the diamondback in the ranking were water consumption, renewable energy sources, energy consumption in buildings and innovations, according to Sierra Magazine’s scoring key.

“I would give credit — lots of people deserve the credit — but high on the list are the students,” university President Wallace Loh said. “You

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The university’s Senate Executive Committee voted unanimously to charge the Committee on Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion with reviewing a bill that would enable students and employees to more easily update personal information in university databases.

The equity, diversity and inclusion committee will be responsible for reviewing the bill’s proposal and consulting several administrative offices about university and federal reporting requirements, Reka Montfort, senate director and executive secretary, wrote in an email.

LGBT Equity Center Director Luke Jensen, who is sponsoring the bill, says the issues the bill addresses are interrelated.

Some students and employees want to be addressed by a name different from their legal name. Because of this, an employee can change his or her primary name, and a student is able to use a preferred name, which is stored in a separate database from the student’s primary name.

Because the primary- and preferredname databases do not communicate with each other, one can overwrite the other at any time, Jensen said.

“There was a need to have a broader conversation to set some polices about how the use of these names should operate on campus and be in conformity with one another,” Jensen said.

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hazing From PAGE 1 Another revision to the current policy includes punishing hazing victims who are willing participants.

Goodwin said this change stems from the idea that victims of hazing tend to perpetuate the cycle once they are fully accepted into their group.

“Although it may not deter hazing, it will help send the message that participating in hazing as a willing participant can sometimes warrant student conduct sanctioning,” said Matt Supple, director of the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Purple From PAGE 1 The arrangement is called a public-private partnership, or a “P3.” Because the team that builds the Purple Line will also be responsible for its long-term operation, a P3 gives the team greater incentive to work responsibly and design a successful project, MDOT and MTA stated in a

Logan Grenley, a sophomore government and politics major and vice president of t h i s u n iversit y’s Z eta Beta Tau fraternity chapter, does not believe punishing victims will deter hazing.

But he does acknowledge a revolving-door effect.

“A lot of people who are hazed are turning into people that haze others,” Grenley said.

While Goodwin said she doesn’t believe hazing will ever be completely eradicated, she views the policy revision as an exercise in education that could potentially help curtail the practice.

“A lot of [fraternity brothers] are aware of [the policy] and what it entails,” Grenley said. “A lot of them ignore it

and think they can get away with it.”

Even though Grenley believes hazing is an inevitable part of Greek life culture, he does not believe it is more of a problem at this university than at any other school in the country.

J o h n Z a c k e r, s t u d e n t affairs assistant vice president and the chairman of the task force, agreed that an updated policy is an integral part of hazing prevention.

“Helping our campus community better understand what acts constitute hazing is an essential aspect,” Zacker said. “This policy may help to more clearly define hazing, but it will continue to take student leader-

January news release.

A f te r a te a m h a s b e e n chosen, construction is scheduled to begin in 2015; the Purple Line will open for service in 2020, MTA spokesm a n P a u l S h e p a rd s a i d , which has left some current students disgruntled.

This construction timeline will affect students over the next few years, but few of them will be able to take advantage of the finished product.

“Obviously it would disrupt

a lot of campus life,” junior marketing major Mekayla Sendak said. “It just makes things a little more difficult.”

The Purple Line will run east to west through Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and will cut directly through this university’s campus. Many students fear the construction will be loud, inconvenient or even dangerous.

“It’s something we’ll have to see if the good outweighs the bad,” Sendak said.

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Junior dietetics major Ellyssa Sherman expressed optimism regarding the project.

“It is a big step into the future, and it is really for the next generation or the next Terps-to-be,” she said.

Some worry the increase of c om mute rs f rom s u rrounding areas could pose a security issue.

“There’s going to be a lot more crazy people walking arou nd,” said sophomore Mark Covington, who’s en-

rolled in letters and sciences.

A nother concern is the future of the “M” circle on Campus Drive, which might be moved to accommodate the new track.

“T he new P u rple Li ne through the big ‘M’ would be atrocious,” sophomore gover n ment a nd pol it ics major Jasmine Snead said.

“It’d be a whole bu nch of traffic on our campus, and I think that the Green Line is close enough.”

But many said the Purple Line could provide a faster and more convenient alternative for commuting, in addition to creating jobs. And because the project is scheduled to begin this academic year, some students said they likely will have to learn to adjust.

“Students are basically going to have to kind of deal with it in the best way they know how,” Covington said. lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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Campus makes LGBT list This university was recognized again for its strides toward improving safety and academic life for LGBT students, earning a spot on Campus Pride’s 2014 Top 50 List of LGBTFriendly Colleges & Universities.

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CAREERS at the NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY university students in space suits pose at NASTAR Aerospace in Pennsylvania in May as part of the K-12 STEM Educator Program.

Fifteen students from this university took part in the program to help achieve national STEM educator goals. photo courtesy of eric day

Univ students attend space camp to improve STEM educator skills 15 students join NASA program to help achieve national goals

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer Fifteen university students and 12 students from other local universities spent part of summer break at a space camp, but they weren’t learning how to become astronauts — they were learning how to become STEM educators.

Fol l o w i n g P re s i d e n t Oba m a’s ca l l i n 2010 for more science, technology, engineering and mathematics educators and workers, NASA challenged consortiums all over the country to help achieve their goal of supporting at least 100,000 new K-12 STEM teachers by 2020. The District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium won an opportunity to launch its program, the K-12 STEM Educator Program.

“It’s gone really well; the caliber of the students we got for this program is just amazing,” said Eric Day, program manager of the D.C. Space Grant Consortium. “They’ve all stepped up through every part of the program, and I’m so proud of all of them.”

This six-phase program invited freshmen, sophomores and juniors in college who are interested in becoming STEM educators from around the Washington metropolitan area to apply. Now finished with phase three, the students are preparing to begin working at the National Air and Space Museum this semester.

The students first met in February to form groups and begin designing scientific experiments to launch in the

International Space Station.

The winning team, comprised of Georgetown University and George Washington University students, proposed bringing an air-purifying plant into space to see if it could germinate with the same properties.

“I’ve taken out most [from the program] how to be a scientist,” said Maryellen Campbell, a junior economics major at Georgetown University and member of the winning team.

“You don’t realize some of the aspects involved unless you’re directly involved. I have a larger appreciation for all the detail.”

Phase two took the students to NASTAR Aerospace in Pennsylvania, known for holding a space camp for students, where they launched rockets, wore flight suits and navigated airplanes through flight simulators, Day said. They also trained on a centrifuge, which astronauts use to feel specific forces they would if they were launching into space, he said.

“In physics, you learn what forces are, but you never know how to actually explain them,” said Kenneth Ke, a junior bioengineering major. “In this it was explained; it was showed; you saw diagrams and then you actually felt it [in the centrifuge], which was the coolest thing.”

After a week in Pennsylvania, the students went to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt for a fiveday astronomy-based teacher-training workshop. This fall semester, they will receive extensive training to explain certain exhibits at the Air and Space Museum. Then in the spring, the students will head to Washington public schools to

work with STEM teachers and students.

“The students are part of the building of this program, they’re playing a key part in all of this through their feedback,” said Megan Kemble, the D.C. Space Grant Consortium’s assistant director. “Our goals are not only to support students who already want to teach K-12 STEM, but to swing students who might have been on the fence over.”

Si nce apply i n g for t he program, university junior A n ne L a n gd on s w itche d her major from education to nursing, but she still hopes to incorporate STEM education into her life, she said, perhaps through volunteering.

“A lot of times you think of education, you think of just teachers in classrooms, but there are other programs outside of school that you can really get involved in and work for,” Langdon said. “I’m looking forward to being able to work at Air and Space Museum … it’s a cool way [to teach].”

But Day and Kemble said more programs like this are still needed to bring President Obama’s call a reality, but they hope to see students teaching STEM subjects after graduation.

“I think it’s critically important for this country to be proficient in STEM, and the only way … is if you grab them early when they’re in middle and high school and get them interested,” Kemble said. “You can’t do that without teachers who are enthusiastic and inspiring. We’re trying to build that foundation.”

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speed From PAGE 1 further public safety measures, Kabir said.

City Public Services Director Bob Ryan said speed tickets revenue tota led $1,586,860 i n f isca l yea r 2014. After the speed camera contractor was paid, the city received $968,085.

The city uses that money to pay for part of the annual $1.1 million cost of the contract pol ice prog ra m, t h roug h

which the city hires Prince George’s County police officers to supplement the officers assigned to the area, Ryan said.

“A ny re ve nu e t h at t h e c it y t a kes i n f rom s p e e d cameras must be spent on public safety, like the contract police program, and anything above that would have to be spent on other public safety projects such a s i m p ro v e d p e d e s t r i a n safety projects or security cameras and those types of things,” he said.

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Nearly three weeks have passed since the speed camera hours were extended, and officials have yet to determine what the effect on revenue will be.

“It will change the number of tickets and the revenue, probably, but I can’t really esti mate by how much at this point,” Kabir said. “Some people think it’s a kind of revenue-generating scheme and come up with a conspiracy theory, but it has nothing to do with making money. It’s all about keeping people safe.”

Historically, speed cameras have generated more money when first installed, with revenues dwindling in later years. In 2011, the cameras generated $3.6 million, which fell to $1.6 million in 2013.

Mayor Andrew Fellows said he hopes that trend won’t persist with the new installations and extended hours.

“I hope the message gets out and people don’t speed,” Fellows said. “One of the things we’ve worked to do is create so much publicity around the horrific events

of the past year that people get the message not to speed through this part.”

Ryan said even if the extended hours result in more tickets issued, the city can only use as much as 10 percent of the annual revenue budget on public safety — about $1.5 million.

“If as a result of enforcing 24/7, we were to receive total revenue exceeding 1.5 million, we would give that money to the state of Maryland which wou ld go i nto the state’s general fund,” Ryan said.

Speed camera tickets are $40 regardless of location or speed, and are issued to vehicles exceeding 37 mph, but police can issue speeding tickets to anyone going faster than the 25 mph limit.

Kabir said no one wants to see a repeat of the past year, and the speed cameras — along with the safety measures they will fund — will support that. “ T he se s p e e d c a me ra s aren’t a silver bullet to fix it,” he said. “But it’s one thing.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

In the palm of your hand Resident Life creates new mobile application that eases this fall’s move-in

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer

men if Resident Life set up more visible information spots around the campus to help g uide new students and their parents on move-in days. He said he knows it can be a stressful and confusing process.

“I encountered a lot of new students who didn’t k now where they were going, and since we have such a big campus that can be pretty frustrating,” Balieiro said.

He said he hadn’t heard about the new guidebook app, but he thought it could be useful to students, especially to help them navigate move-in days.

Junior economics major Alexis Leary said the app w a s e x t re m e l y e f fe ctive for her position as a community assistant because it listed schedules and sent reminders about training times. But it serves more important roles, she said. “[ I ] t h i n k it i s most effective for freshmen, as there are multiple resources on the app, such as move in-dates,” Leary said.

Right now, Molina said about to 5 ,000 people have dow n loaded the TERPLife app and Resident Life guide. He said he has spoken to a couple students about the app and was glad to hear they l i ked it a nd thoug ht it was a convenient source of information.

The Department of Resident Life has introduced a new TER PLife mobile application to provide students with information about life in the dorms and fall move-in.

Ronald Molina, Resident Life information technology coordinator, said the department spoke to other student affairs departments in April to find ways to “keep up with times and with technology” to make important information more easily accessible for students.

“A pl a n wa s developed for us to get our own application,” Molina said. “We wanted to create a guidebook so that students could always have information available to them throughout the academic year.”

Each department has its own section within the T ER PL i fe app, wh ich officia l ly lau nched Ju ly 18, Molina said. The app provides students with the ability to create their own to-do lists, view maps of the campus and receive announcements on their cellphones.

The Resident Life section i ncludes i n formation regarding department services and programs such as Math S uccess a nd S y n* Q u es t, Molina said, and “the most important part of the year: fall move-in.”

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Decorated recycling bins around the campus promote university goals to maintain an eco-friendly campus. Sierra Magazine placed this university at No. 13 on its “Cool Schools 2014” list, which judges U.S. universities on various categories such as water, transit and energy consumption in campus buildings. rachel george/the diamondback

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student engagement, i ncluding energy efficiency, sustainable food, funding From PAGE 1 and educational courses.

“We ta ke what we hea r a n i mp or t a nt p or t ion of being a top green campus, f ro m s t u d e n t s a n d p u s h s a i d O r i G ut i n , S t u d e nt faculty and administrators to G overn ment Association make changes to accommodate students,” Gutin said. sustainability director.

Gutin said students had Gut i n a nd t he Student Sustainability Committee, a significant impact on the a branch of the SGA, work ra n k i n g, c i t i n g h o w t h e to represent t he student sustainability minor is the voice rega rd i ng susta i n- most popular minor at the university. ability on the campus.

As an environmental ad“We go out and find the most pressing issues that vocate himself, Gutin said st udents c a re ab out a nd being on a campus that puts work to improve that and for th a n ef for t to rema i n make a positive impact on green further motivates him this campus,” said Gutin, to think of how everything a j u n i o r e n v i ro n m e n t a l he does impacts the environment, whether it’s his science and policy major.

T h e c o m m i t t e e h a s diet, phone or car.

“Bei ng i n a school that worked on a variety of sustainability efforts through emulates sustainable prac-

tices encourages me to make changes in my life,” Gutin said. “It inspires me.”

O t h e r p ro g ra m s , s u c h as the new Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainabi l it y, fo c u s on get t i n g st udents to ex a m i ne environmental issues in one of this state’s community every year.

T his year, PA LS will be looking at the city of Freder ick, sa id Ur i Av i n , t he program’s director.

T h e o rg a n i z a t i o n w i l l i nt roduce a ra nge of 28 courses that will help students apply what they learn in the classroom to sustainabi l it y-rel ate d proje c t s, Avin said.

He added that this university’s rating is good, but there’s still “so much more” students, faculty and com-

munity members can do.

“I’m increasingly proud, but I’d still love to see us pushing up and up that list,” Gutin said. “I think it’s an honor to everyone in the Office of Sustainability, though we can definitely do more.”

“I th in k that the No. 13 ranking from Sierra Magazine shows that UMD is still in the top tier of universities when it comes to ca mpus sustainability,” said Sally DeLeon, a project manager at this university’s sustainability office. “I hope that students, faculty and staff let the ranking contribute to their motivation to keep up the good work and try to go even further in their efforts to leave small footprints.” rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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The Testudo outside McKeldin Library overlooks the mall at sunrise yesterday, before the semester’s first classes began. The day saw a high in the mid-90s, with strong storms hitting the campus in late afternoon and early evening hours. At noon, Washington was the hottest location in the U.S., according to the Weather Channel’s map of temperatures from across the country.

A sub-element of the SEC’s charge will give the Student Affairs Committee the responsibility of considering preferred-name issues for students, Montfort said.

Gender data are also kept differently for university employees and students, respectively. Employees are given more flexibility to update their gender “at will,” according to the bill, while students must “submit a request and supporting documentation” if they wish to change their gender.

The two options available when selecting sex are “male” and “female,” which presents an issue for transgender students who do not feel comfortable identifying with either choice and international students who use a third option in their country of origin.

“I don’t th i n k there’s a u n i fo r m t h i r d r e s p o n s e that we could put up there,” Jensen said. “But I do think by making [gender identification] an optional question … you are not forcing someone to answer a question where neither of the

A student reads about mixed-gender housing. Officials will review a bill that would change policy on storing gender information in databases. christian jenkins/the diamondback options are appropriate.”

Add itionally, students, unlike employees, cannot choose honorifics such as “Mr.,” “Ms.,” “Miss,” “Mrs.” or “Dr.” According to the proposal, many on-campus units use the sex or gender field in records to add a “Mr.” or “Ms.” in front of the student’s or employee’s name.

The proposal suggests that employees and students be given the same options when selecting an honorific, including opting out of selecting one.

Jensen was unsure as to which entity within the university wou ld be responsible for carrying out these

changes. However, he suggested the implementation of an electronic system similar to the University of Michigan’s, which allows students to change their own names.

“All vocal members were in favor of at least investigating the plausibility of t hese ch a n ges, a lt hou g h t here a re some pract ic a l c o n c e r n s a b o ut c h a n ge s to the U M D databases b e i n g q u ite l a b or iou s to implement,” Anu Challa, a Senate Executive Committee member and junior computer engineering major, wrote in an email. kmaakedbk@gmail.com

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e have all taken that one class in which we only need to show our faces in the lecture hall or use a clicker to mark our attendance. Or during registration, we look at our four year plans and add, subtract and maybe even multiply the amount of classes and credits we have to take to get a degree. Higher education progress is determined by the amount of check marks you receive on your university’s to-do list, and according to higher education experts, this type of learning has very little to offer students.

This system, in which your education is determined by the amount of time you sit in a classroom, is the way of the past and inhibits the type of education and learning that will be necessary sooner rather than later in higher education. Change in higher education is coming, and it’s called competency-based learning — where credits are rewarded flexibly, rather than through strict requirements. It shifts away from physical class time and deadline assignments and instead creates a flexible learning experience for students. The goal of the competencybased learning initiative is to recognize that learning occurs all around students and through their experiences — not just in classrooms and on Scantron sheets.

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Competency-based education programs are a growing trend, and this university should take advantage of them.

While the legislation has not yet been signed into law, the presence of competency-based learning and what changes it might bring have already been noticed at this university. According to Elizabeth Beise, associate provost for academic planning and programs, the University System of Maryland has begun devising a draft policy that seeks to specify how competency-based learning will be assessed.

Even though doing away with standard education practices seems incredibly radical, most universities — including this one — have been on board by accepting Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate as credit that can be applied toward a student’s degree — a good sign that a foundation for competency-based learning already exists.

With competency-based learning, higher education students can create an educational experience suited to them and learn in different and better ways than they would sitting in a lecture hall. If other universities, and hopefully this one, embark on the mission of creating competencybased learning programs, then higher education as a whole has the ability to become even more personalized for every student. With that amount of flexibility and personalization, a student will most likely be engaged at higher levels than they could be in a standard class.

Along with holistic educational benefits students would receive if competency-based learning became a thing of the future, there would also be financial benefits for students in an age when the price of a college education seems to cost an arm and a leg.

Without having to travel to college campuses for particular amounts of time, students can save money and potentially not suffer as badly from student loans.

Hopefully, in the future, universities can create competency-based learning programs that allow students to learn in ways that are more suitable to them and their style of learning. Despite the legislation not being signed into law, it is a comforting and reassuring thought that education officials are starting to recognize the changing world and how learning needs to change with it.

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Keeping Maryland tuition affordable

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s this university opens its doors to begin a new semester, returning students are going to notice some new things around the campus — particularly those shiny B1G logos heralding the Terps’ arrival in the Big Ten. But one thing remains the same: affordable and stable tuition rates.

During the Great Recession, shrinking budgets led many states to cut their investment in higher education, increase tuition rates or both. With $1.2 trillion of crippling student loan debt hindering our economic growth nationally, increasing the financial burden of higher education on students is the last thing we need.

In this state, we believe providing access to an affordable college education is a key to strengthening our middle class.

So instead of slashing our investments in higher education, the O’Malley-Brown administration worked with the General Assembly to freeze tuition for four years. This is the only state in the U.S. to have done so. Since then, we’ve kept tuition increases to 3 percent or less for the University System of Maryland.

Our choices are paying off. Both the College Board and The Washington Post recognize that this state is doing more than any other to hold down the cost of college tuition.

The Pew Center for the States

named this state one of the top three in the nation for upward economic mobility. In 2013, this state had the second-highest job creation rate of any Mid-Atlantic state — even better than Pennsylvania and Virginia. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce named this state No. 1 for innovation and entrepreneurship three years in a row and No. 1 for STEM jobs.

Student loan debt is not just a student issue; it affects our entire economy. A paper from Pennsylvania State University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows people with student loan debt are less likely to start their own small businesses, and a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows graduates with student loan debt are less likely to have a mortgage than at any time in the past decade.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. Without a serious commitment to higher education, states will fail to build the leaders and the workforce our 21st-century economy demands.

The O’Malley-Brown administration has never turned away from that principle; today, our students and this state are stronger as a result.

Martin O’Malley is the current governor of Maryland. He can be reached at governor.maryland.gov/mail or on Twitter @GovernorOMalley.

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t happens every year as I pass out cups on move-in day: “Hello, would you like a free cup from Catholic Terps?”

“Uh, well … not really.”

“Oh yes! My daughter would love a cup! We’re Catholic!”

I love handing out those cups to everybody, Catholic or not. But I hate when it happens like that.

What would Jesus do? Yes, that phrase reeks of trendy wristbands from the overly emotional youth groups that plague America, but for Christians it is a crucial question in any situation.

As for the case at hand, it seems widely apparent that the Almighty God does not force all college students to go to church on Sundays, so it certainly seems a bit presumptuous that parents would try to. A more general answer to the question is that Jesus would die to save us from our sins.

That answer assumes two premises: That we have sins and that Jesus of Nazareth — a man who lived 2,000 years ago and half a world away — can somehow eliminate them. The first

premise is empirically verifiable: One must only look to the newspaper to see numerous stories of sin. The idea that we are all pretty much OK as far as our level of sin goes is tempting but false; our relationships with each other — and with God — are not what they ought to be.

Ironically, I often find that those who might deny the word “sin” are those who see it most clearly. I still remember listening to an avowed moral relativist argue passionately that evolution should be taught rather than the pseudoscience erected to resist it.

He was right — teaching falsehood is sin. There are many others.

Unjust law enforcement? Sin. Irresponsible use of the Earth? Sin. Homophobia? Sin. This is by no means a comprehensive list; if I were to continue, no one would be left without guilt.

But must we then say that sin has the final word? That depends on the second premise. It would be nice if we could eliminate sins by ourselves, but if my futile efforts to eliminate even the simplest sins

from my own life — along with the utter failure of great 20th-century utopian schemes — are any indicator, that is impossible. Must we despair, then? Perhaps.

But if that infant from Bethlehem — born exiled in some beast’s food trough only to later die in the most gruesome way imaginable, enduring the climax of human cruelty and sin and yet somehow loving His persecutors — was God, then there is hope.

Despite the best efforts of pushy parents, you get to make your own choices at college. If you choose to continue going to church — or to start — you ought to know what you are committing to.

The Church is not for good people; it is for bad people who want to be good. Also, one must strive to imitate Christ and therefore to die in greater or smaller ways every day, to save people from their sins.

Matthew Rice is a senior materials science and engineering major. He can be reached at matthew.rice.d@gmail.com.

y mother says thinking positive thoughts will lead to positive results. And even as newspaper ad revenues and print readership decline, I’ve tried to focus on what I can do to ensure The Diamondback remains this community’s top publication.

Even more so than larger publications, college newspapers struggle to take steps forward. Our business model is one that’s tied to the past, and it’s an especially difficult cycle to break, as each employee stays for four years at most, usually spending a year or less in a particular position.

I’ve spoken with alumni about these challenges, and much of the feedback I received was similar to Margaret Mead’s famous quote: It takes a small group of motivated people to effect real change.

Fortunately, that’s what we have.

While students were away on vacation and working internships, The Diamondback’s staff worked exhaustively to rebrand itself. I’m proud of the changes we’ve made in the last few months, and I’m even prouder to share them with you, our readers.

Our first step toward rebuilding ourselves was establishing a brand-new online desk. If you’ve been on our website recently, you may have noticed a few changes and sleeker look, both on desktop and mobile — that’s thanks to our online desk, which now includes two coders. And we have a second URL, too: dbknews.com. We’ll be shedding our mobile app in October to focus on our mobile site, which will give us more flexibility in how we present our content.

We’ve also stepped up our social media engagement, using I n s ta g ra m m o re f re q u e n t ly and engaging with our readers more on Facebook and Twitter.

I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention our new push for Vine.

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to follow The Diamondback on Instragram, Twitter and Vine @thedbk and on Facebook at Facebook.com /TheDiamondback.

We’ve sought to make it easier for our readers to discuss our content by adding Disqus’ commenting system to our site in August. With a simple click, you can connect a social media account or create a separate Disqus account to comment. This system is fluid — almost like its own social network — and in use on other sites, including NPR, Politico and The Atlantic.

Interested in donating to our organization? You can now do that through PayPal. Other upgrades we’ve made won’t be so obvious to our readers. Internally, our desks are now operating with a new editing schedule to better serve our online readership. More content will be going live during the day to make sure you have access to all the information you need for a great semester.

These are just a few of the steps we’ve taken. There is still more work to be done and a few more surprises to announce in the coming weeks.

My staff and I are focused on The Diamondback’s rebirth as a modern news source, and we’re inviting you, our readers, along for the ride.

But I can also guarantee that we will always be the same news source this campus has come to know and trust since 1909. After all, where would we be without our faithful readers? We welcome your suggestions, questions, comments and concerns. New year, new look, always the news.

Laura Blasey is editor in chief of The Diamondback and a senior journalism major. She can be reached at lblasey@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Others may well criticize you for this, but you will know when you are on the right track, and you needn’t take such criticism very much to heart.

Also born on this date are: Salma Hayek, actress; Lennox Lewis, boxer; Keanu Reeves, actor; Jimmy Connors, tennis player; Mark Harmon, actor; Christa McAuliffe, teacher and Challenger astronaut;Terry Bradshaw, football player.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Even the smallest beginnings can lead to the biggest gains — as long as you have the patience and foresight to stay on course.

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ESSAY | INDEPENDENT MOVIE MUSICALS

jazz hands not required Independent movie musicals are widening their reach by breaking from dance numbers to realistic, performance-based settings

By Mel DeCandia @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback W h e t h e r i t ’s h e l p i n g Dorothy follow the yellow b r i c k ro a d , c e l e b ra t i n g Danny’s confession to Sandy that she’s the one that he wants or sympathizing with the cartoon mermaid Ariel and her longing to be part of that world, many audiences have long accepted song in cinema.

But the world of independent film is now finding a too wide audience for the musical genre. Unlike their showy Hollywood studio counterparts, these indies don’t have big-budget dance numbers or characters who spontaneously break into song. These characters know when they’re singing, and when they do break into song, it’s for a purpose — usually for a performancewithin-a-performance.

The newest of the bunch is Sundance movie God Help the Girl, coming to theaters Sept. 5, which centers on a pop band. The movie’s music, written by Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, is heard in performance only. But the trend didn’t start with God Help the Girl. It began with 2006 indie flick Once.

Once tells the story of two musicians (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová of band The Swell Season) who find each other by happenstance and, in doing so, find themselves and their artistry. The sleeper hit took home Best Original Song at the 2008 Academy Awards for the ballad “Falling Slowly” — which the characters perform in the movie and worked as a standalone top-100 single.

Once has spawned several more indie “moviecals,” in which music is heard only in performance.

In 2010, the Toronto International Film Festival premiered Janie Jones, a film about a girl (Abigail Breslin, Perfect Sisters) and her estranged father (Alessandro Nivola, American Hustle) meeting for the first time and bonding over, you guessed it, their mutual love of music.

The Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, another tale of a struggling musician, came to theaters in 2013.

Only a handful of songs off the soundtrack are original, scattered among a number of cover songs, but the film received the Golden Globes nomination for Best Original Song.

Just this summer, indie movie musical Begin Again, s ta r r i n g A- l i s te rs Ke i ra Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine, won wide acclaim from critics.

The trend isn’t just for stories of struggling musicians, either. For the more Glee-inclined, there’s the little-known 2008 flick We re T h e Wo r l d M i n e .

Despite the film’s fantastical elements — the bullied, gay main character puts a magic spell over his school, turning his tormentors gay — the songs throughout occur overwhelmingly in dream sequences and school play performances.

There are plenty of reasons why this brand of independent, more self-

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2006: once 2008: were the world mine 2010: janie jones 2013: inside llewyn davis 2014: begin again, god help the girl It’s a formula familiar to fans of Glee, which has been using songs for performances-within-shows for five seasons.

T h a t’s n o t to s ay t h e “spontaneously break into song and dance” musical is dead. Several stage musicals have recently made their way to the silver screen, most notably 2012’s Les Misérables.

In its wake, Hollywood has spurred on an onslaught of movie musical adaptations, some slated for release this holiday season.

Yet, critics and audiences alike continue to favor the indie movie musicals are playing to more audiences by grounding their songs in reality, stepping away from the formerly abrupt transitions into song. These movies include (from top) God independent movie musical Help the Girl, Begin Again and Once. photos courtesy indiewire.com, nola.com and atriptoireland.com. films and their more apparaware movie musicals is for an hour and a half. The ent sense of realism. After so popular. For one, people films’ musical genre tend to all, critical acclaim for Begin often go to the theater to see break away from the typical Again outstripped Clint something they can relate show tunes. Because of plot Eastwood’s attempt to bring to, and these movie mu- circumstances, songs tend Broadway hit Jersey Boys to sicals don’t require them to sound far more like radio the silver screen.

Less conventionally, indeto suspend their disbelief hits than movie sound bites.

pendent movie musicals have found their way from screen to stage and encountered massive success. In 2011, Once made its Broadway stage debut, garnering Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Musical, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical and Best Musical, and the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album.

And so, with God Help the Girl’s release, the trend continues.

Musicals, grounded in reality or not, still serve the same purpose. Whether characters are swinging from lampposts and singin’ in the rain or strumming a new tune on their trusty old guitar, music plays the same important role it always has in cinema and beyond: making an audience feel something. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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hockey From PAGE 8 either. The Terps have reached the final four the past six seasons and won the ACC Championship last season.

Plus, the Terps were ranked as the top team in the nation for most of last season, so they’re accustomed to playing with hefty expectations.

“No. 1 comes with some interesting mental challenges,” Meharg said. “I’m confident that the Maryland players that have been here for two, three, four years understand it’s nothing more than a number.”

Gerzabeck doesn’t shy away from acknowledging what that number means for the Terps this season.

“We definitely have the bull’s-eye on our back big this time,” the Springfield, Pennsylvania, native said. “When people play Maryland, they are going to play 10 times harder than they would playing any other school, just because everyone wants to beat us.”

The Terps take their top ranking to the Big Ten, a conference that enters the season

Jacobs From PAGE 8 Etta-Tawo especially impressed after Diggs and Long went down with injuries in 2013. He had 31 catches for 500 yards on the year and was second on the team with an average of 16.1 yards per catch.

The third member of the Terps’ second-string receiving corps is Jacquille Veii, who moved from running back to wideout in the preseason.

“Jacquille is just going to continue to get better,” Edsall said. “It’s still a process. He just moved to wide receiver two weeks ago. ... He’s not going to turn into Jerry Rice

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with four other teams ranked in the top 20.

Still, because the Big Ten lacks the top-tier quality of the ACC, which has four of the country’s top six teams, Meharg focused on strengthening the Terps’ nonconference schedule during the offseason. The Terps are set to play four nonconference teams ranked in the top 10, including No. 10 Massachusetts, which they topped, 3-2, Friday night to open the season.

“We want people to play at their very best every time we step on the field so that we can play at our best and play better and better,” Meharg said.

In the absence of last season’s seniors, a junior class featuring forwards Alyssa Parker and Shari Jones along with midfielder Anna Dessoye has shown promise. The three players combined to score all three of the Terps’ goals in their season opener against the Minutewomen.

Defender Sarah Sprink, another junior, will provide l e a d e rs h i p f o r a yo u n g defense, which will feature d e fe n d e r C a r r i e H a n ks.

While Meharg didn’t expect the freshman to adjust to the

college level by the opening ga m e , H a n ks i m p re sse d during the preseason and earned a start against UMass.

“I think the most interesting part is the depth we have,” goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera said. “We have four or five players that can play all of those defensive positions.”

The Terps are deep on offense as well. Parker, Dessoye, midfielder Delaney Leathers and forward Moira Putsch all gained familiarity playing together on the U.S. under-21 team this summer. And Putsch, a freshman, started the opener for the Terps and scored a pair of goals in the preseason matchup with Old Dominion.

While a single player might not make up for the loss of Witmer’s team-leading 19 goals last season, the Terps expect their depth and balance to be just as dangerous.

The Terps are No. 1 once again, and Meharg doesn’t expect a dip in the program’s play.

“I can see this team playing some of the best team field hockey that has ever been played here,” she said.

overnight. He’s learning.”

The ripple effect of Jacobs’ injury stretches beyond the game day depth chart. Freshman Juwann Winfree might burn his redshirt and be available if another wideout sustains an injury, and freshman quarterback Will Ulmer switched to wide receiver yesterday.

“I give Will credit because it was on his mind,” Edsall said.

“When we talked about it, it was really that he feels that this is where he can help the team the most.”

As for Jacobs, he’ll have surgery Thursday — Edsall declined to give specifics on the injury or surgery — and he’ll apply for an NCAA waiver to maintain four years of eligi-

bility. Regardless, Jacobs will have to watch from the sideline this year as the Terps receivers aim to make up for his absence.

P l aye rs e c h o e d E d sa l l on Tuesday by praising the speedy freshman and wishing him well with his recovery. The team is accustomed to saddening injuries, though, so following the lead of their coach, the Terps have their focus on supporting Jacobs and moving forward without his presence on the field.

“It’s definitely tough,” Brown said. “But at the same time, [Jacobs] has his brother and he has us. He’s got his family behind him.”

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GOALKEEPER ZACK STEFFEN makes a save during the Terps’ victory over Coastal Carolina on Monday night. Steffen, a sophomore, was the starting goalkeeper in last season’s narrow loss to Notre Dame in the NCAA championship game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

preview From PAGE 8 summer, lifting weights and sculpting muscle. That way they were able to focus on soccer as soon as the preseason began.

But in their season-opening contest at Louisville on Friday, the team fell to the Cardinals, 1-0. The Terps had no problem moving the ball into the scoring third and outshot Louisville, 10-7, but their relative inexperience up top showed.

Even in the Terps’ 3-2 win over No. 17 Coastal Carolina on Monday night, none of the team’s goals came from forwards.

Not only did the Terps lose Mullins and his 19 goals, but forwards Schillo Tshuma and Jake Pace — who scored six goals each last season — are also gone. Freshman George Campbell and junior David Kabelik started at forward in the season opener.

Coach Sasho Cirovski said he still believes this year’s Terps will score goals; they’ll just be a team that relies heavily on the play of their backline, goalkeeper and midfield.

“We’re still trying to figure things out up front,” Cirovski

said. “I think we should be extremely strong in goal, across our backline and our midfield.”

Cirovski called senior captain Dan Metzger, who was named to the preliminary watch list for the 2014 Hermann Trophy, “a spine player.” The defender is strong at stopping plays from developing in the defensive third, but also starts Terps’ offensive possessions and pushes play downfield.

“You don’t see a lot of backs or defensive midfielders get a lot of recognition,” Cirovski said. “He really was our anchor [in the] defensive midfield [last year], and is this year. Now he’s being asked to be more of a leader. We made him captain right after the season last year.”

Metzger joins a talented midfield that includes Rutgers transfer Mael Corboz, Endoh and co-captain Shinsky, a unit Cirovski said has the potential to be the most prolific in the nation.

The Terps are similarly strong on defense. Steffen, who won the NCAA Championship Most Valuable Defensive Player award as a freshman, leads a backline that includes Alex Crognale, Suli Dainkeh, Mikey Ambrose and Chris Odoi-Atsem,

among others. Odoi-Atsem and Steffen were named to the U-20 US national team in July and competed with the team during the summer.

Though Cirovski and the coaching staff have tinkering to do with the Terps attack, the rest of the team is replete with depth and talent.

While sitting with the media in a conference room at Xfinity Center last Tuesday, Cirovski became slightly emotional when talking about last season’s defeat in the NCAA final. He placed his right hand over his heart, covering the Terps logo emblazoned on his red polo.

As the team progresses through its 18-game season, painful memories of the events in Chester might flare up occasionally.

And if they do, the Terps can succumb to the emotions or use them as inspiration.

“We have a saying in our locker room: The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall,” Cirovski said. “We feel good about what we represent, and how we go about things. We hope that this time we have the chance to be the last team smiling.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Terps prepare to replace T. Jacobs Leak, Veii among receivers set to see larger roles with freshman sidelined

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall has announced plenty of season-ending injuries during his time in College Park, so the news that starting wide receiver Taivon Jacobs would need knee surgery and miss the year didn’t fluster the fourth-year coach.

Instead, Edsall walked into a press conference yesterday afternoon with his typical stern and confident stride. Edsall expressed his frustration for Jacobs, a promising redshirt freshman who was making his first start when he injured his knee in Saturday’s seasonopening 52-7 win over James Madison.

But then, as he has so many times over the past four seasons, Edsall quickly shifted gears and expressed confidence in the Terps’ ability to replace the Camp Springs native.

“We all feel bad for him,” Edsall said. “But again, it just gives other guys opportunities to step up.”

The Terps have lost three talented wide receivers in just over a month. In addition to Jacobs’ injury, Nigel King transferred before preseason camp and Jacobs’

brother, Levern, was suspended for the season last week for a Code of Student Conduct violation.

Still, the Terps have experienced receivers to pick up the slack. Marcus Leak, a junior, will fill Jacobs’ spot in the starting lineup entering this Saturday’s bout with South Florida. He’ll take the field alongside wideouts Stefon Diggs and Deon Long, two former five-star recruits whom many have tabbed as the Big Ten’s top receiving duo.

L ea k m i s s e d t h e 2 0 1 3 season while taking a leave of absence from this university, but in 2012, he finished second on the team with 23 catches and 393 yards. “[Leak is] going to have to step it up,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “We have all the confidence in the world in him.

He’s played before, he’s had success, so I don’t think there will be a drop-off.”

Even the backups who figure to slide into more prominent roles after Jacobs’ injury have some experience. Both Amba E t ta -Tawo a n d Ma l co lm Culmer earned playing time last season while the Terps were decimated by injuries, and they’re both listed as backups on the depth chart.

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The Terps gather before the second half of a 3-2 win over No. 17 Coastal Carolina on Monday night. The team improved to 1-1 with the victory. christian jenkins/the diamondback

YEAR OF REDEMPTION After falling short in last year’s title game, Terps eye a return to the sport’s pinnacle

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer The sound of the final whistle wasn’t enough to bring the losing squad off the field. When 90 minutes of exasperating soccer dotted with controversial officiating ended in heartbreaking defeat for the Terrapins men’s soccer team in the 2013 College Cup final, many Terps remained on the turf at PPL Park as Notre Dame celebrated its first NCAA championship.

Midfielder Alex Shinsky slumped to the ground, sprawling across the icy

pitch. Forward Patrick Mullins, a twotime Hermann Trophy winner, bid one final adieu to the Terps fans who had made the trek to Chester, Pennsylvania.

And midfielder Tsubasa Endoh stood on the sideline, allowing the confetti meant to celebrate Notre Dame’s win to decorate his body.

The Terps still remember that frigid December night, and they are using it as motivation this season. Though Mullins is gone, many significant contributors from last season’s ACC Championship squad are back for the Terps’ inaugural Big Ten season.

And with last season’s devastating loss in mind, they are intent on returning to college soccer’s final weekend and bringing home the program’s fourth NCAA title.

“We’re hungry for the national championship,” goalkeeper Zack Steffen said. “Nobody likes to lose when you’re that close. So we’re all just using that as big motivation to push us to take that extra step.”

Steffen said the Terps seem even more motivated than last year. Many players worked on fitness in the See preview, Page 7

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Aiming to sustain dominance Despite loss of decorated seniors, Terps begin season as team to beat

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer After losing just once in the regular season, the Terrapins field hockey team fell short of a national championship when Duke ousted the Terps, 3-2, in the 2013 NCAA semifinals.

The loss that day in Norfolk, Virginia, also ended the careers of six Terp seniors, including ACC Offensive Player of the Year Jill Witmer, ACC Defensive Player of the Year Ali McEvoy and second team All-America goalkeeper Natalie Hunter.

Losing decorated players across three units would devastate most rosters, but when the National Field Hockey Coaches Association released this year’s preseason rankings, the Terps were sitting atop the

poll for the sixth time in the past nine seasons.

In her 27th season with the Terps, coach Missy Meharg will look to fill the voids left by last year’s seniors with a balanced squad in search of the program’s ninth national championship and eighth under Meharg.

“I don’t think it’s really falling on one person,” forward Katie Gerzabeck said. “We are working together as a unit to do it.”

Gerzabeck and midfielder Maxine Fluharty lead a fivemember senior class this season that, as freshmen in 2011, helped the Terps win their most recent national title.

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B1G GAMES YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS As the Terrapins head into their first season in the Big Ten, mark your calendar for the most exciting games this fall

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

Braxton Miller was lost for the season with a shoulder injury, but No. 5 Ohio State is still one of the country’s most talented teams, You’re probably sick of hearing and it’ll roll into Byrd Stadium for that it’s going to be a B1G year a historic event. for Terrapins sports, but there’s some truth to the overused conMEN’S SOCCER ference-affiliated wordplay. As Sept. 19 vs. Michigan State the Terps begin life in the Big Ten, the next 12 months will play The Terps host longtime rival a significant role in molding the No. 9 Georgetown on Sept. 30, but future of this university’s athletic No. 10 Michigan State is the game department. you should be sure to watch. This is Will the Terps teams be able to a year of new faces and new rivalries compete in the new league? Will in College Park, and the Spartans support from fans be as strong as it could be the Terps’ biggest chalwas in the ACC, the conference the lengers in the Big Ten. Terps called home for the past 61 years? Will any new rivalries form?

FIELD HOCKEY The Terps will begin answering Oct. 10 vs. Penn State those question this fall, and if you want to see how things shake out, Coach Missy Meharg and the here are home games for some fall Terps enter the season as the nasports teams you won’t want to tion’s top-ranked team, but they’ll miss. have to go through the No. 8 Nittany Lions to prove they are the class of their new conference.

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The surest route Scary and sacred, trashy and wise, Route 1 stretches between old and new

By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer

T

he cars flash by, fast enough to smack the air but slow enough for their headlights to beam brightly before bouncing away in the distance. At night at the intersection of Route 1 and Knox Road, music booms; you can hear girls singing Spice Girls lyrics and students bustle in and out of bars.

Just north, by Lehigh Road, is an area shaded darker by nightfall, surrounded by trees above and leaves below. One block up, people run for buses and cross to College Avenue from the university at Regents Drive as crickets chirp.

Route 1 stretches 2,593 miles from Florida to Maine — that’s 14 states with clusters of shops and businesses and homes lining the highway. This state sees 81 miles of that, with names that range from Rhode Island Avenue to Bel Air Bypass.

A slice of those miles is nestled in College Park, at this university, where the strip officially titled Baltimore Avenue features bars and restaurants. It’s a place equally scary and sacred, both trashy and wise.

On weekends, Route 1 is in its prime, bustling with the wasted and the weary and the invincible and the insecure strutting along the highway and its side streets.

Route 1 shifts easily from bustling metropolis to lonely soul so often that it’s used to it by now, the flashing cars a reminder that they’re not stopping in College Park, not tonight, and maybe not ever.

The road is rich with backstory.

One of the road’s designers was

E. W. James, who later said he’d pitched it as “the first route along the Atlantic side of the U.S.A, following as far as possible the old, historic Falls Line roads.” The 1908 Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland states that the road is “dedicated by way of easement or fee simple, as the case may be, to the public use.” Now it’s still used publicly — for a cigarette butt receptacle and riots and drunken stumbles home.

It’s seen it all. The riots after beating Duke and the killing of Osama bin Laden. The Sunday morning walks of shame. The shuttering of several College Park staples along its path recently — rest in peace Panda, Lime, Maryland Book Exchange, Yogiberry.

But the Book Exchange has shifted into a new temporary location, and the city promises its relaunch will be in style.

Its development plan as of March highlights a new Book Exchange that will sit under student housing, plus a Courtyard Marriott coming to the city, plus another CVS Pharmacy, plus development of the infamous Knox Box apartments into Terrapin Row. We’ve heard the promises like flickers of hope for the faded street — talks of East Campus? A revitalization project? — only to disappear or change plans.

Since its establishment last century, the road in College Park has morphed into an occasionally scary one. Some are afraid to travel alone after nightfall. It becomes a map distinguished by crime alerts and misfortune. Everyone in College Park knows the unspoken Route 1

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rules: Hide your electronics. Keep your guard up. Travel in groups.

Crime time is 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. Stay off the side streets. Don’t be stupid.

Admissions promoters likely dread the questions about campus safety. Parents would have much greater peace of mind if only College Park was more like Annapolis, or Columbia or Elkton.

And they have questions, no doubt.

Why can’t College Park be a better college town? Why does it abound with the same issues of many other cities in Prince George’s County?

Why did we get stuck with one of the worst places to house thousands of students?

But perhaps things are getting better as new restaurants and housing developments move into College Park. From January to August 2013, crime was down 37 percent from the same time period a year earlier. But it’s becoming

chain-y now. Only a few places, like R.J. Bentley’s and Ratsie’s, are still unique to College Park.

As the university aims to expand into a top research university and the town tries to grow with it, everyone wants to shift Route 1 into something it’s not and won’t be in the near future: sophisticated.

It’s a sophomoric street at heart, as many in college towns are — one plagued with traffic and jaywalkers.

It’s a street that the excited cross for nights of their lives they can’t remember, and a place where superficialities manifest themselves, a place Terps call home but do so delicately, in an “Oh, Route 1” kind of way, like bearing with your crazy friend because you love them, but you know they’re destined for nothing great, nothing special.

Now, it’s caught in a tug-of-war.

Change it, or don’t. You can’t have the Route 1 charm and the new

gentrification. It’s either one or the other.

I could have died on Route 1. It was one of the first nights of my freshman year, and a group of us were heading downtown. Stupidly, naively, I didn’t look left before crossing — I was caught up in the excitement of college and the excitement of hitting the streets — and almost walked into the shining headlights barreling toward me. My roommate held me back.

And I think about that night while crossing the street sometimes, but sometimes I wonder if I’m even remembering it right.

After all, it was so long ago. So many people have grown from teenagers to young adults here; our Route 1 is a stretch colored with memories and hopes and youth and life. braghavendrandbk@gmail.com

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COLLEGE PARK GUIDE RESTAURANTS

SPECIALTY SHOPS & SERVICES

Bagels & Coffee 22 7-Eleven 47 The Bagel Place 14 Starbucks

Nail, Hair Care & Tanning, cont.

1 Revo Nails 31 Today’s Hair

Ice Cream, Smoothies & Yogurt 9 Cold Stone Creamery 57 Smoothie King Pizza 48 8 59 44 32 36 20 71

Laundries & Dry Cleaning 74 Zips Lodging & Travel 3 Quality Inn & Suites

Blaze Pizza Domino’s Pizza Ledo Restaurant Papa John’s Pizza Pizza Kingdom Pizza Mart Ratsie’s Terrapin Eatery Slices

Restaurants & Spirits 4 Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill 42 Aroy Thai 13 Chipotle Mexican Grill 52 Cluckster’s 61 Cornerstone Grill & Loft 50 Five Guys 29 Hookah Cafe 67 Ivy Noodle 17 Jason’s Deli 37 Jimmy John’s 66 Kiyoko Express 26 Krazi Kebob 27 Marathon Deli 11 Noodles & Co. 69 Ovo Simply Veggie 68 Pho Thom 2 Plato’s Diner 33 Pot Belly’s 20 Ratsie’s Terrapin Eatery 62 RJ Bentley’s Restaurant 55 Shanghai 54 Subway 34 Ten Ren’s Tea House 79 Terrapin Turf 46 Wasabi Bistro

Mini-Markets & Pharmacy 22 7-Eleven 7 CVS Pharmacy 43 One Stop Shop Music, Videos & Electronics 6 Gamestop 58 My Cell Phone Repair 16 Radio Shack Printing, Copying & Postage 25 College Park Shipping & Mailing 5 FedEx Kinko’s Copies Sportswear & Equipment 21 David’s Shoe Repair 12 Rugged Warehouse 51 Three Stripes Miscellaneous 33B The Tattooery

SPECIALTY SHOPS & SERVICES Banks 18 Bank of America Books 49 Bookholder’s 24 Maryland Book Exchange

Clothes, Gifts & Boutiques 64 Big Planet Comics 12 Rugged Warehouse 15 University Shop

Nail, Hair Care & Tanning 63B Alina’s Hair Design 30 The Beach Tanning Center 65 College Park Barber Shop 56 The Hair Cuttery 28 Kevin’s Nails

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Office Buildings 60 College Park City Hall 78 College Park Center 19 Kaplan Education Center 70 T Mobile

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Route 1 construction brings new housing, restaurants City, university officials hope development plans will transform College Park into top-20 college town

By Jenny Hottle @JennyHottle Senior staff writer With new restaurants and construction plans for a hotel and a mixed-use housing complex, Route 1 is rapidly transforming College Park into what university officials aim to make a top-20 college town.

Domain at College Park, a luxury apartment complex that opened in June 2013, stands at the corner of Mowatt Lane and Campus Drive.

The Knox Box apartments will be torn down in coming weeks to make way for Terrapin Row, a mix of apartments and townhomes.

With city staple Maryland Book Exchange as its anchor tenant, Landmark College Park will open in fall 2015, just off the campus on Route 1.

Across from the university’s main entrance at Route 1 and Paint Branch Parkway, plans are in place for a four-star hotel. And down the road, about 1.5 miles from the campus, construction for the county’s first Whole Foods Market is underway.

But while new buildings keep popping up along the Route 1 corridor, some complexes have had difficulty maintaining tenants. Over the past few months, restaurants such as Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, Garbanzo and Yogiberry have shuttered their doors.

Still, Michael Stiefvater, the city’s economic development coordinator, said this summer was relatively quiet for business openings and closings. He looks to the city’s future, envisioning a Route 1 densely packed with housing complexes and more restaurants and shops to support a permanent resident base.

Here’s a look at what’s changed in the city over the past few months and what’s coming soon.

THE BOARD AND BREW (left), open since June, offers more than 600 board games and drinks such as blueberry muffin lattes. Casey’s Coffee opened under the Domain at College Park in May. file photos/the diamondback

NEW IN COLLEGE PARK The Board and Brew Stop in for a cappuccino or stay a few hours to play Battleship. Located under the Varsity, the university alumni-owned cafe opened in June. Customers can choose from a collection of more than 600 board games, unwind with a blueberry muffin latte and try a grilled Nutella sandwich. The cafe has live music and open mic nights on Tuesdays.

Casey’s Coffee After a few months of delays, the coffee shop opened under the Domain in May. The shop serves waffles and paninis in addition to gourmet coffee and specialty drinks.

Casey’s Coffee also has locations in Washington, Baltimore, Columbia and Ellicott City.

Tutti Frutti The debut shop under the Domain complex, Tutti Frutti opened in November 2013. The frozen yogurt shop has a rotating selection of about 50 flavors ranging from standard vanilla to salted caramel and soy peanut butter — and all are

rant complex that will include Housing complexes Whole Foods grocery store is adLocated across from the Bagel vancing. A second phase of the Place, Landmark College Park is project will include a hotel and still under construction, but preSubway leasing for fall 2015 has already Because one Subway apparent- residential units. ly isn’t enough, College Park now begun. Stiefvater said construchas three: on Route 1, in Stamp tion is expected to be completed in Kangnam BBQ Sports Bar and Grill Student Union and now under The Korean barbecue restau- summer 2015, and some units will the Domain. The sub shop has rant and bar, set to open in the be available to tour starting early the chain’s usual made-to-order next few weeks, will be open next year. sandwich offerings.

24 hours a day, Stiefvater said.

Earlier this summer, Knox Box Kangnam BBQ will serve tradi- tenants learned they would be tional Korean cuisine with some displaced after the management COMING TO COLLEGE PARK American twists. The restaurant company sold the property to detakes the place of Chinese and velopment company Toll Brothers.

Blaze Pizza The addition of Terrapin Row Pizza in just 180 seconds? Cus- Japanese restaurant Seven Seas, tomers at Blaze Pizza, opening located about a half-mile north and Landmark will bring about within the next few months, will of the campus.

2,400 students downtown, Stiefbe able to select a pizza from the vater said. menu or create their own thinA few housing complexes deHotels crust dish, which will cook in an veloping north of the campus are Construction for a Marriott open-flame oven in three minutes. Courtyard hotel, which will also geared toward “an older crowd,” Blaze will replace Lime, which include a CVS Pharmacy and nearly Stiefvater said. closed in September 2013.

24,000 square feet of retail, will “We need people to live here Though the restaurant chain begin toward the end of this year, 12 months out of the year. We brags about its speedy service, Stiefvater said. could use more higher-end retail Stiefvater said plans for opening A developer in August unveiled and sit-down restaurants,” Stiefthe College Park location are plans for a $115 million four-star vater said. “If in 10 years more of moving slowly. hotel and conference center across College Park is developed, we’ll from the university’s main entrance. see fewer vacant properties and Stiefvater said construction on the broken-down buildings.”

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WHAT WE WISH WE KNEW Returning students share their advice for freshmen and transfer students

A word of advice: The do’s and don’ts of freshman year (from an upperclassman)

“Take random classes. You never know what strange niche you might be interested in. That’s how I ended up studying — and liking — Russian history.”

Jessica Loesberg

senior history major

STUDENTS and testudo rushed to the center of McKeldin Mall in 2012 to dance to Psy’s “Gangnam Style” in a flash mob.

By Amanda Eisenberg @thedbk For The Diamondback As the upperclassmen watch the lanyard-wearing freshmen take on their beloved College Park, it’s hard not to feel the waves of nostalgia for the good ol’ days when dining hall food wasn’t quite so repulsive or when you went out with your entire North Campus dorm floor. Despite the Internet’s sage advice that the freshmen indubitably read, here’s the real deal for first-year tips from a cool older girl: Don’t be intimidated stepping onto a big campus. With more than 26,000 undergraduate students, there will always be someone who is interested in the same things as you. Want to learn how to slackline? There’s a club for that! Find your niche and ultimately you’ll find yourself surrounded by a good group of people.

Do keep an open mind, whether that means meeting different kinds of people or trying something new.

With so many opportunities sur-

rounding you at school, strive to attempt something you have never done. Strike up a conversation with strangers, try a new type of cuisine or take a class completely outside the box.

Do remember to take care of yourself. Between the excessive walking — Stamp Student Union hill, anyone? — and strange eating and drinking habits, it becomes very easy to put a healthy routine on the back burner. Try to carry a water bottle at all times to stay hydrated in the remaining hot summer days and make sure to eat before going out for the night. Your body will thank you once classes and all-nighters begin.

Don’t forget to hit the gym.

Grab your roommate and learn how to play squash or go for a run outside. Nonrunners, try downloading an app to keep you on a routine; I’m working my way through a Couch to 5k app that has me running for longer than I ever have. And for the nonathletes among us, the Eppley Recreation Center offers a multitude of classes from Body Pump to

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Zumba, a pool for swimming laps and a (free!) rock climbing wall.

Make it a social event with your floor while staying fit.

Do stay organized at the beginning of the semester. Most freshmen struggle with time management because there is so much going on and so little time for homework. It’s helpful to make an all-encompassing deadlines list to make sure you never miss a single assignment, even if you can’t find your economics syllabus.

Don’t wear your highest heels without definitive plans. Ladies, we all agree your Steve Madden wedges are the cutest, but you do not want to suffer the pain of walking through the livable community of College Park for hours in them. Going to the bars? Great.

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“Do your research on everything — classes, professors, clubs, Greek life.

Maryland has a lot to offer, and there’s always something happening. Take advantage of your surroundings.”

Anika Reed

junior journalism major

“Keep your door open. It allows you to meet more people than if you keep it shut. Don’t be afraid to say ‘hi’ to people.”

James Lord sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences

“Definitely study abroad. If you can’t go for a full semester, go on a short-term trip. Take the time to look into your options, like scholarships, to make it happen.”

Rebecca Salzman

senior marketing major

“Balance your day. Incorporate studying along with extracurriculars and hanging out with friends.”

Pete Myers

sophomore business major

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get phone savvy this semester Download these apps for an easier start to school At a university the size of a small city, it can be stressful to find your way around the campus the first few days. At the same time, you have to adjust to new classes and learn to balance work and a social life.

By the end of the month, if not the second week of school, you’ll get into the swing of things. But these apps will hopefully help you adjust to college life in the meantime — and they’re all free.

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If walking around the campus late at night makes you feel uncom[iOS and Android] Stop losing track of to-do lists fortable, you can call this number to hastily scribbled on a piece of scrap ask for a police escort to walk you Campus Maps paper and organize yourself with to your destination. [iOS and Android] You can also use the blue light a simple mobile task list. A step Lost on your way to class? emergency phones to call for an up from your phone’s standard Looking for Cambridge Hall but wandering around South Campus task app, Any.do lets you add and escort.

Commons? This map app, created manage tasks from your phone app, by university alumnus Vikram by email or online. Simple typograUniversity Health Center Bhandari, just might save your phy and a clean color scheme make [301-314-8184] day. Select your destination from streamlining your to-do list an aesYou can schedule an appointa list of more than 200 build- thetically pleasing experience. ment at the University Health ings, and the app will display the Center over the phone or online most direct route based on your at myuhc.umd.edu.

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[Android] Defend yourself against parking DOTS Next Bus tickets from the Department of YourBus UMD Transit [301-405-1780] Transportation Services with this [Android] If you don’t have a smartFind out when the next bus is ar- app that helps you find free parking phone or haven’t downloaded a riving at your nearest Shuttle-UM on the campus, search for lots near bus schedule app, you can call stop. This simple app allows you to your destination and set an alarm this number to access the DOTS search for nearby stops and favorite to make sure you leave before your automated Next Bus Service and specific routes to quickly look up meter expires. A team of university find out when a bus will arrive at undergraduates created the app, pre- your stop. You can also text “NBUS arrival predictions.

You can also check out bus pre- sumably after growing tired of getting UMD” and the bus stop code to dictions using iCommute DC slammed with $75 tickets and– un- 41411. (the lite version is free) or going to successfully appealing them to DOTS. Look for it soon in Apple’s App Store. dots.umd.edu/nextbus.html.

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The Shuttle-UM buses run through most parts of the campus, [iOS and Android] [iOS and Android] This safety app, developed by the but this service will pick you up Make your downtown commute Department of Resident Life and the if you find yourself far from the easier with a Metro trip planner that fits in your pocket. Run by The Wash- Department of Public Safety, displays bus routes or out after the evening ington Post Express, the app provides campus emergency alert messages service stops. The curbside pickup users with a Metro map, live updates and offers the university community service runs from 5:30 p.m. to of train arrival times, a trip planner a list of actions students and faculty 7:30 a.m., every night, and serves and rail advisories. The app also has should take if they find themselves in the campus and immediate surrounding area. a newsfeed of Metro and Washington an emergency situation.

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