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City, SHA to update crosswalks New ‘zebra’ crossings on Route 1 will have reflective coatings

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By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer The State Highway Association discussed replacing the brick-pattern crosswalks in downtown College Park with “zebra-striped” ones at a City Council work session Tuesday night.

The new crosswalks will bear white, high-visibility, thermoplastic stripes so that they are more noticeable at night, said District 3 Councilman Robert Day. T he design is commonly known as a “zebra crosswalk” for its high contrast between the white strips and dark asphalt.

“It will show up better from a distance and it’ll cause drivers to pay a little more attention than the bricks,” Day said.

In the next few weeks, all brick crosswalks on Route 1 from Guilford Drive to Knox Road should be changed, Day said.

“SHA should be able to accomplish this in a quick and timely fashion,” Day said. “They have really stepped up and pushed really hard to get these safety features in place.”

The crosswalk issue was first broached at a July meeting of the city’s Pedestrian Safety Task Force, of which SHA is a part. It was determined at the meeting that visibility was more important than aesthetic appeal.

“Although it seems like many people enjoy the brick-patterned crosswalks, they felt like, because of the safety issues, we should remove them and put in our standard, highvisibility crosswalk,” said Kate Mazzara, SHA District 3 assistant district engineer.

Police say anonymous report was unfounded

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conflict without borders 150 turn out for open forum on Gaza Strip conflict

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e nsions were h igh at Wednesday’s forum on the war in Gaza when experts on both sides of the conflict weighed in but were soon overshadowed by passionate students with direct ties to the war.

The crowd of roughly 150 people was composed almost equally of students and others in the Atrium in Stamp Student Union. The discussion began with an overview of the facts of the war and historical context by moderator and panelist Yoram Peri, director of the university’s Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies and former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

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By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Senior staff writer For Maggie Gottlieb, traveling to different countries and continents is almost a routine — she lived in Australia for two years from 2007 to 2009 and has visited her sister in London.

But for three weeks this summer, the sophomore journalism major was among seven students at this university who traveled to Salzburg, Austria, to work with people from more than 20 countries for global change.

Roughly 70 students from countries including India, Argentina,

students at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change meet for class. The program sent 70 students from more than 20 countries to Austria for classes and collaboration. photo courtesy of the salzburg global seminar Lebanon and the United States attended the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, a threeweek, six-credit program that focuses on students finding solutions to global problems through the media.

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forum consisted of Shibley Telhami, an Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development; Ariel Bendor, an expert on law and war on terrorism and a distinguished visiting scholar at GIIS; Shlomi Eldar, an Israeli journalist and expert on Hamas; and Khaled Elgindy, a former advisor to the Palestinian Authority and fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

The recent war in Gaza lasted 50 days and has been in ceasefire for about a week. It is one of several wars between Israelis and Palestinians in recent years but Peri said it has been “one of the

Armed University Police officers surrounded and swept the Main Administration Building following an anonymous report of an armed hostage situation Wednesday afternoon. After about 20 minutes, police gave the all-clear signal, allowing workers back into the building.

University Police received the anonymous tip at 3:27 p.m. and arrived on the scene in about 15 minutes. Immediately, police shut off part of Regents Drive near the administration building, stopped students from walking nearby and evacuated the building.

Officers searched the entirety of the administration building as well as the nearby Lee and Mitchell buildings, according to a university news release. They did not find an armed person or hostage.

“After a complete sweep of the three buildings, it was determined that the threat was unfounded and the area was declared all clear,”

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that many different people,” Gottlieb said. “It was incredible just to hear all about cultural differences and the hardships they face in their countries, but also our similarities.”

Pl a n s for a $1 15 m i l l ion h o te l we re ap p rove d b y t h e state public works board this s u m m e r, a m ove u n ive rs it y P re s id e nt Wa l l a c e L oh s a id could trigger the revitalization of College Park.

The developer, David Hillman of Southern Management Corp., said he plans to begin construction this spring on the lot adjacent to the intersection of Route 1 a n d P a i n t B ra n c h P a rk w a y.

Its location on the east side of the campus will place it in the m idd le of the u n iversity a nd

city, and just a half a block from the Purple Line, making it the most central hotel in the area.

“There are no other four-star hotels in the area,” Loh said. “We have about well over 200,000 visitors a year to this campus, and roughly half have come for more than one day, but there is virtually nowhere for them to stay.”

Academic conferences are largely held in Washington or Baltimore because hotels in the area do not have the amenities to accommodate those events, Loh said.

But once this hotel is operating with its 295 guest rooms, 43,000 square feet of meeting space and fou r restau ra nts, con ferences cou ld b e held on t he c a mp u s, bringing business to this university and College Park.

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THE CROWD TURNS to listen to the comments of an attendee at the open forum on the war in Gaza held in the Atrium of Stamp Student Union last night. Tensions rose as supporters from both sides of the conflict voiced their opinions. stephanie natoli /the diamondback

gaza From PAGE 1 most terrible,” acknowledging that although the Palestinians suffered significant civilian casualties, Israel also sustained losses.

The discussion went from calm evaluation to heated debate when Elgindy voiced his perspective on Hamas, receiving sharp criticism from the audience. He compared Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., EU, Canada and Australia, to Fatah, the party who previously ruled Gaza, as well as the Israeli government.

“Hamas is a political body.

Yes it’s true it is ideological, religious, but that’s also true of political actors in Israel who are in government,” Elgindy said.

“There are religious nationalists that are part of the cabinet.

I would argue that Hamas is no more or no less extreme than many of those in Israel’s government.”

Tamar Adhanan, a junior economics major, reacted sharply to Elgindy’s statement.

“What would you do as a leader of a democratic country that’s getting attacked with rockets already?” Adhanan said. “I’m from Israel and my

sisters and mother spent all summer hiding from rockets and getting attacked.”

Adhanan moved to the United States five years ago after serving in the Israel Defense Force. She worked at the Israeli Embassy in Washington before coming to study at this university.

“It is very easy to sit down at a table and say Israel is doing this and the Israeli military is wrong,” she said. “Yes, there are casualties, but we use our best equipment and best technologies to target only Hamas people or people that are involved.”

After further criticism of Hamas’ tactics, such as firing rockets from heavily populated areas, possibly using civilians as human shields and spending infrastructure money on tunnels into Israel, senior supply chain management major Manar Dajani stood up and spoke about her family in Palestine.

“I had three cousins of mine who died recently in this war; they were not used as human shields,” she said. “There was no Hamas rockets fired anywhere near them; there was no Hamas weapons hidden in the houses of my cousins who were disrupted. I have a cousin who is in critical condition and cannot get the medical attention that she needs. If they want to help

civilians used as human shields, why don’t they allow them to get medical treatment?”

Two professors in the audience tried to quell the tensions and find middle ground, receiving exuberant applause from the audience.

“There is enough about war that we know so we don’t have to pick sides to say where are human rights violated. War violates human rights on all sides by all militaries,” said Joe Oppenheimer, a government and politics professor and Vietnam War veteran.

Edy Kaufman, a government and politics professor who recently taught a summer course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, voiced his concern for the level of debate in the forum.

“When I look at the audience and even our experts, I come out with a feeling that we’re more adversarial in the way we communicate and I’m very sad for that,” Kaufman said. “Because you would expect countries after a war to say that this is a time for reflection, how to do things better.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

Its combined construction and operation are expected to create 1,637 jobs and increase economic activity by more than $62 million per year, according to the Southern Management news release.

“The impact of this hotel goes way beyond the hotel itself,” Loh said. “Ten years from now, people will look back a nd say th is is the start of the renaissance for College Park.”

John Cohan, Southern Management’s marketing director, said the potential inf luence on the College Park area was a main objective in the company’s selection of this project. “ We s a w a n e e d a n d figured there would be a demand and knew it would be successful,” Cohan said

of the hotel. “We knew it would be the right thing for the community at large.

Hopefully the project and its success will motivate other developers to join in and make proposals and begin building on Route 1.”

Michael Stiefvater, city e c onom i c d e ve lop m e nt coordinator, said the new hotel would echo Southern Management’s previous success with building other apartment complexes in the area such as the Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens developments. He said this new hotel cou ld att ract busi nesses to Route 1 t h at weren’t prev iou sly possible.

“It’s a game-changer for Route 1. [Southern Mana gement] i s e ssent i a l ly add i ng a product t h at’s not currently here — bringing in amenities that are a step up from what’s cur-

rently on the corridor,” Stiefvater sa id. “[T he hotel] should have a positive impact on bringing in visitors to downtown, so hopefully that translates into business for existing businesses.”

L oh referred to th is project as an “anchor institution,” predicting that its development would encourage other upscale businesses to open in or move to College Park. “[Anchor institutions] feed on each other,” Loh said.

“That is what is meant by the revitalization of College Park — the transformation of College Park to a top-20 university town. The beginning is this hotel.”

Senior staff writer Ellie Silverman contributed to this report. emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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Univ professors to monitor local WiFi

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Maimon, Katz hope to use metadata to compare cyber-safety in area locations

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By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer Two university professors will soon be monitoring students and locals at area coffee shops, public libraries and other spots offering public WiFi in an effort to develop safer access methods for all WiFi users.

David Maimon, a criminology and criminal justice professor, and Jonathan Katz, director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, will lead the study. It will extend to 100 locations in 15 counties across the state.

Using unique scanning software in one-hour increments, the team will outline what WiFi users are accessing on the Internet and when they are utilizing it. This act of monitoring the network is called “sniffing” and is permissible in this state, Maimon said, though its legality has been debated at the national level.

“We are ultimately not going to be looking at the

salzburg From PAGE 1 The International Center for Media and the Public Agenda — based out of this university — teamed up with the Salzburg Global Seminar to create the academy, now entering its ninth year, said Susan Moeller, the center’s director. Moeller is also the co-founder of the academy, and travels to Austria with the students.

Moeller described this trip as a “multilateral experience,” aiming to give students a study-abroad experience with course requirements but to also pair them with international organizations so they can work on worthwhile projects.

“We not only have Americans traveling to a foreign country, but we have many nationalities from five continents who are coming together to work on shared projects in Salzburg,” she said.

This summer, the program attendees worked with the United Nations Development Program, country offices from places such as Latin America,

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data,” Katz said. “We are going to be looking at the metadata that is available and whether users are visiting safe or unsafe websites, secure or unsecure networks.”

Funded by a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant, the study will begin its first phase on Oct. 1 and will be followed by three months of data gathering. A pilot study of four WiFi locations in the area has already supplied evidence of variations in online behavior, but generalized information could not be drawn from the preliminary findings, Maimon said.

T h e s e c o n d a n d t h i rd phases will feature studycontrolled WiFi hotspots positioned near public WiFi hotspots, Katz said. These phases of t he study w i l l observe WiFi users’ hotspot selection behavior.

L ook i ng th roug h a socioeconomic lens, all three phases will focus on the time, day and location of each trial in analyzing users’ actions.

Katz and Maimon will also compare the cyber-safety

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Alison Dustin, a Starbucks patron, uses free WiFi offered inside the shop off Route 1 and Knox Road. Two professors will be studying WiFi usage in public spots. rachel george/the diamondback of WiFi locations such as coffee shops, fast-food restaurants, public libraries and auto shops.

The software is also able to track those hacking computers within the WiFi radius.

“It’s not a new phenomenon,” Maimon said. “Many hackers actually go to coffee shops w it h f ree Wi F i to practice hacking into nearby computers.”

A large number of cyber attacks take place each year through public WiFi outlets, Katz said, but users continue to check private or sensitive information while using public WiFi. “Unfortunately, we see that computer users are using the network for just about anything — such as checking their

bank account,” Maimon said.

Paul Shearer, a senior economics major and student employee at the Division of Information Technology’s client support office, said discussion of the dangers of public WiFi usage has steered him from accessing sensitive information while using public WiFi. “I always go on Facebook and random websites between classes, but never my email or online bank account,” Shearer said.

Maimon and Katz hope to finish the study next fall a nd use t he i n for m at ion to generate more awa reness on campus to prevent cybercrime. mhorndbk@gmail.com

Europe and Asia and faculty members from several countries.

T he students split into working groups of about a dozen each to learn about a country and an issue it encounters, such as access to clean water, gender rights or corruption. The students then had to work together to solve the problem by using media to spread awareness and find success.

A fter creati ng a med ia action plan, the groups then presented their ideas to the U.N. program, Gottlieb said.

“They’re able to say, ‘Yeah, I’m working for change,’” Moeller said. “I’m using my skill sets of media and critical thinking and analysis to help.”

Gottlieb was in an anti-corruption group, she said, and her group of four — one other student from this university, one student from Jordan and the other from Morocco — created “Bribe?,” a hands-on role-playing game teaching players the complexity of educational corruption. In the game, the moderator acts as the teacher, and everyone else is a parent trying to put his or her child through school.

“THEY’RE ABLE TO SAY, ‘YEAH, I’M WORKING FOR CHANGE,’ ... I’M USING MY SKILL SETS OF MEDIA AND CRITICAL THINKING AND ANALYSIS TO HELP.”

While this program is media-based, it attracts students from outside the journalism field, too. Several disciplines, such as political science, economics, business or science, understand that media is the basis for much of the problems and solutions around the world, Moeller said.

“There were people who came from countries who were at odds with each other,” Gottlieb said. “Regardless of conflicts back home, we were able to come to this one place … and aside from all of our differences, come together and listen to each other.”

Senior psychology major Lisa MacHarrie went on the trip. Her major allowed everyone in her group to see the issue at hand from a human perspective instead of just media, she said.

“We were more able to look at the behavioral reasons

about why people act a certain way and how they portray things,” she said.

The trip attendees also got to see speakers present, including a United Nations Development Program representative and professors from around the world.

Moeller said there was still plenty of time for exploring the area, making trips to other parts of Europe or just enjoying work time in Schloss Leopoldskron, the famous palace featured in the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

“They’re innovators, they’re entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs-in-training,” Moeller said. “They see this as being part of what they hope will be a major part of their lives — how can I work, not just for me, but how can I work to make the world a better place?”

is cu r rent ly no ev idence supporting an actual hostage situation, but the severity of the report req u i re d t he m to t a ke t he necessary actions.

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t h ro u g h t he U. S. D epartment of Defense 1033 P rog ra m , t he sa me prog ra m u nder federa l review, Hoaas said. Incidents l i ke th is serve as a “perfect example” of a time when the University Police

would use these weapons, she said.

Sophomore music educ at ion m ajor Rya n K ief t was at ma rch i ng ba nd practice on Chapel Field w h e n t h e p ol i c e e v a c uated the buildings. A fter hearing an array of sirens, he said he saw two armed officers positioned next to the side of the Lee Build-

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W it h e s t i m ate s f ro m College Board that books and supplies cost the a v e ra ge s t u d e n t a b o u t $1,200 per year, students at this university are seeking the lowest textbook prices in the first week of school.

Some are finding solutions outside of buying new textbooks at the university bookstore. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group reported in January that book costs have risen by 82 percent in the last 10 years — a number the report argued was fueling a need for alternative options.

“My principle is: where v e r i s t h e c h e a p e s t ,” said sophomore computer science major Ruoyu Lei, who buys books most of ten from A mazon a nd BookHolders.

Alexander Colaciello, a junior supply chain management and operations management major, uses the university website as a reference to find the titles but rents his books from Chegg.

He said he has rented two books from there.

The rise of technology such as tablets and e-readers has also enabled students to more easily invest in online textbooks, which

council From PAGE 1 Junior Sarah Young said she thinks the change is a good way to promote pedestrian safety along Route 1.

“Stripes will definitely be easier to see,” the early childhood education major said.

“They’re more visible while the bricks blend in with the road more, especially at night.”

Senior Mark Clementson, on the other hand, said he doesn’t think that visibility is the main reason crosswalks are ignored.

“I don’t think the change is really necessary,” Clementson, an accounting major, said. “Drunk people aren’t going to notice a crosswalk whether it’s brick or striped.”

ing, while four others, also with guns, moved around the side of the building.

To accommodate them, the band moved to the other side of Chapel Field and then continued practicing, Kieft said.

Constr uction worker Ju a n Perera was i n the Ad m in istration Bu ild ing du r i n g t he i nc id e nt. He said three armed police of-

are sometimes cheaper and more convenient to carry.

The Internet assists in buying textbooks in other ways, too. Some mobi le apps collect and compare book prices from the Web. Shannon Gierl, a junior management major, said s h e d o e s n o t b u y f ro m the university bookstore because the prices are too h ig h. She a lso sa id that when sel l i ng tex tb ook s back to the store, she doesn’t feel she gets a good return on the original cost.

Joshua Gunn, the general manager at Maryland Book Exchange, said the store has a website on which students ca n order tex tbooks, i n addition to simply buying them at the bookstore. Students can look up textbooks by class.

T he excha nge goes through the university’s main website to check the enrollment for each class, Gunn said. After seeing the list, it orders the books.

BookHolders, as well as some bookstores, offers students the opportunity to order online and choose either to pick up their books for free or get free deliveries.

Milly Gu, a junior accounting major, gets her books f rom the ca mpus bookstore, as some of her textbooks require an access code. She says it is still expensive, but she tries to rent.

“Buying online is cheaper and convenient,” she said. pganeshdbk@gmail.com

This change is one of many measures SHA has worked on to improve pedestrian safety in the area. The speed limit from Guilford Road to Berwyn Road was lowered from 30 to 25 mph, an interim chain-link fence was placed in the median between Knox and Hartwick Roads and the “Walk/Don’t Walk” signals now include countdown displays.

“This is necessary because we want to do anything and everything we can to slow down traffic and make people aware there are pedestrians crossing,” Day said. “We need to take care of our students, our visitors and everyone who walks around in College Park.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

ficers, with their weapons raised, came into the firstfloor hallway where he was working and told him and his co-workers to get out of the building. The police then checked inside each doorway as Perera left.

Pol ice w i l l conti nue to investigate the incident. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

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Wooing the youth vote As Election Day approaches, partisan bickering has come to an almost all-time high. As college students, one of the biggest issues on our minds is college affordability, and this November, it might be the key factor determining whom we vote for in this state’s gubernatorial election.

But before we jump into the political arena and declare a candidate to support, one thing is clear: Tuition affordability is nothing to joke about, and gubernatorial candidates should take the issue seriously — both in their platforms and in media advertisements.

Last month, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown released a television ad in the Baltimore market, entitled “Never Stop.”

In the 30-second TV spot, the narrator claims Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan supported “massive college tuition increases, all to give tax breaks to corporations.”

Though the ad is compelling, the accusations against Hogan were later found to be false. The ad referred to a proposal to double college tuition rates by Richard Hug, appointed by former Gov. Robert Ehrlich to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Hogan was Ehrlich’s appointments secretary, and his po-

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sition did not involve influencing tuition costs.

Regardless of political opinion regarding either candidate, false claims made to woo the youth vote are the last things we need to see. Many students who attend this university know what it’s like to be on a tight budget or take on thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

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Students deserve a trustworthy gubernatorial candidate who can manage the issues that are most important to them.

Whether we like it or not, this political debacle is relevant to many of us, as we or our families have made at least some sort of financial contribution to this state, even considering that a sizable portion of us don’t reside in it.

However, both parties aren’t necessarily free from blame when it comes to college affordability. According to Larry Hogan’s campaign website, the Republican candidate does not list any potential initiatives to reduce student debt and promote college affordability.

The Democratic gubernatorial primaries featured little discussion over higher education. Though Anthony Brown was more focused on higher education than his competitors by, for example, supporting a pledge to cap annual tuition increases at 3 percent for four years, the overall issue of college affordability has yet to be a player on the center stage.

An average of about 20 percent of adults ages 18-24 voted in the 2010 gubernatorial election across the U.S. Considering how potentially influential this voting bloc could be in the upcoming election, we shouldn’t settle for candidates who make false claims to win the youth vote, nor candidates who have little to say about influencing higher education policy.

This election season, candidates running for state office should show that they deserve our vote. We shouldn’t have to go into the ballot box choosing a candidate who we think is the lesser of two evils. Rather, we deserve a candidate who we can trust to handle some of the biggest issues we suffer from today. Whoever we support, we shouldn’t let lies or lackluster platforms continue on until November. As students who should play a role in state policy, we deserve better.

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A lethal thorn in the side of West Africa SAURADEEP SINHA

which can be transmitted easily through a simple cough or sneeze, Ebola requires direct contact with bodily secretions such as blood or vomit. This shows that biological waste is relatively accessible because the virus is not being properly contained in the area. As a result, the mortality rate of this current Ebola outbreak is about 50 percent. If the outbreak had occurred in the U.S., this figure could have been about 20 percent, based on previous European outbreaks.

But that’s not the case, and there is little point in considering this hypothetical situation. The reality is West Africa is composed of relatively fragile states with insufficient health care systems that need help to combat this outbreak. Wealthy countries around the world have the resources and are working to find a solution, but it would be an injustice if we can’t do more to help them stop it.

What we, as individuals, can do is simple: raise awareness. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a simple yet ingenious idea that raised awareness and received donations in the process.

We don’t have to dump buckets of ice water for Ebola, but we can’t trivialize the issue.

If we talk about why West Africa is having a harder time containing this outbreak, it will certainly attract more attention to the main problem and hopefully result in improving the health care systems in the region. The Ebola outbreak is simply an unnecessary burden on a region trying to find itself.

There is no doubt that the current Ebola epidemic is a devastating tragedy afflicting thousands of lives. People around the world are concerned, but what bothers me is that the only reason why some of us are intrigued by this issue is because we are all wondering how it might impact us.

Of course, Ebola is a deadly disease with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent. Cases of Ebola-like symptoms have been reported in the U.S. and Europe, and this frightens us.

This is understandable.

But if an Ebola outbreak were to occur in the U.S., our health care system would be able to deal with and eventually get rid of it. Our hospitals are equipped with the necessary tools and have doctors and nurses who can provide the care required to manage and stop the symptoms associated with Ebola. Proper disposal protocols would be used, and the public would be adequately informed and cautioned of the situation.

Up until now, there have been few reported Ebola-related deaths outside of West Africa. This is a clear indication that the problem is due to the region’s lack of basic health care.

The World Health Organization estimates that for every 100,000 people, only one or two doctors are available Sauradeep Sinha is a sophomore chemical engineering major. He can in some of these affected areas.

Furthermore, unlike influenza, be reached at ssinhadbk@gmail.com.

EDITORIAL BOARD Laura Blasey, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant news editor and news editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, managing editor, is a junior journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor, deputy managing editor and diversions writer.

CAROLINE CARLSON, opinion editor, is a senior government and politics and information systems major. She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

MaGGIE CASSIDY, opinion editor, is a junior English major.

She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

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GUEST COLUMN

Getting serious about tuition Gov. Martin O’Malley took to The Diamondback on Wednesday to brag about how he has supposedly kept college “affordable” during his two terms as governor. When he cherrypicks the facts as he did, it sure paints a really nice picture, doesn’t it?

Allow me to fill in what he conveniently omitted from his narrative.

While it is true that tuition was “frozen” under O’Malley for four years and has “only” increased by 3 percent each year since, the governor leaves out the fact that student fees for dining, housing and the health center continued to increase even as tuition was “frozen.” In most cases, these fees have increased by more than 3 percent annually during the last eight years. The result is that the total cost of attending a state institution has skyrocketed during O’Malley’s tenure even as he touts that he has kept tuition “affordable.”

O’Malley also ignores the consequences of “freezing” tuition or limiting increases to “only” 3 percent.

Someone has to foot the bill this university incurs, ,meaning state taxpayers pick up the slack. In this case, they’re the same taxpaying parents who are already helping pay tuition for their students to go to school.

A perfect example of this scenario played out in real life during this state’s “doomsday” budget crisis

in 2012. This university’s College Democrats chapter predicted that if O’Malley and the General Assembly didn’t raise state income taxes, then tuition rates could increase by as much as 10 percent. So what happened? Income taxes went up and tuition rates still increased by 3 percent. It would have been cheaper for my family to just pay the higher tuition rate, but instead we got tagged twice. Once through higher tuition and then again through higher taxes on my parents. Without a doubt, that scenario played out with thousands of families at this university in 2012.

If O’Malley and his successor want to get serious about keeping higher education affordable, then let’s talk about serious solutions instead of playing a game with numbers and rhetoric as he did yesterday.

I wo u l d l i ke to p ro p ose t h e following: First, the future governor should eliminate the administrative bloat and overhead in the University System of Maryland. Ohio University economist Richard Veddar told The Diamondback in 2012 that he could redline 500 positions at this university and others, saving taxpayers and students $50 to $70 million dollars with no negative impact on the educational product in the classroom. It’s sickening to me that this

university’s bureaucracy has grown so large that we are wasting so much money on positions that do not need to exist for our students to receive a quality educational experience.

Second, tax credits need to be extended for Maryland Prepaid College Trust or Maryland College Investment Plan and 529 College Savings Plans. We as a state should be providing incentives for families to save for college. One way is by offering tax credits to families who take advantage of these programs. The cost to the state will be minimal, and the long-run benefits of saving for college in advance are obvious. We must end the current cycle of encouraging students to take on ever-increasing amounts of debt, which creates artificial demand and encourages schools to increase costs.

These are just two examples of a number of things we can do to keep college affordable as a state. They are initiatives I will support as a member of the General Assembly starting in January. Let’s get serious and fix the problem.

Jimmy Williams is a senior finance and journalism major and a candidate for the state House of Delegates, District 13. He can be reached at j1mmy10@terpmail.umd.edu.

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the intersection of Adelphi Road and Route 212.

Having explained the extent of the problem and aired my grievances, I return to my initial concern — the parking fee increase. Forgetting DOTS’ everlasting obsession with revenue, the $2 increase serves to make life difficult for the parking attendants. It’s much easier to give change for $15 than it is for $17. Almost no one has exactly $17, which means making change for a $20 bill, a slightly more difficult process.

Furthermore, DOTS now has every vehicle that parks display the receipt in the front of the vehicle — something that is absurdly redundant, considering the parking pass is already displayed as well as the sealed-off parking lots.

When my family went to the game on Saturday, it took several minutes for the four or five cars in front of us to get past the attendant, simply because of the difficulty of making change and the absurdity of printing a receipt.

Even paying exact change, it took nearly a minute for the attendant to count the bills, check the parking pass and give us a receipt. When the Ohio State game rolls around and the campus is packed, imagine the traffic jams in and around the campus.

While I cannot solve the traffic flow problem in a column, I will be arrogant enough to give DOTS a little advice.

It should swallow its pride and either charge $15, charge $20 or encourage online prepaid parking that would require a simple scan. They must remove the receipt process; it merely wastes time.

Unfortunately, my complaints will most likely fall upon deaf ears. We’re students, so it’s only families and commuters who are affected. And the day I dissuade DOTS from giving up $2 per car is the day DOTS doesn’t give a parking ticket to a student.

For most students, the longest journey to a Terrapins football game is the walk from the tailgate to Byrd Stadium. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of other attendees have to survive local College Park traffic, navigate the sprawling labyrinth of reserved parking lots and pay an exorbitant fee to watch our Terps.

This university’s parking experience — and as a commuter, I assure you I am familiar with it — is poor at best, both for football games and weekdays. However, the Department of Transportation Services has seen fit to further complicate the problem.

This year, gameday parking fees have increased from $15 to $17, something that will lead to an unprecedented disaster at a likely sold-out game such as Ohio State.

At first glance, the collective reaction to this statement is probably as follows: Why would anyone even write a column about a $2 increase in parking fees?

Most of the past traffic problems have resulted from the campus parking attendants and traffic police closing lots early or creating terrible holdups with truly horrid traffic guidance. Too many lots dump fans into the same exit, which turns University Boulevard into a nightmare. Route 1 and other local roads become just as bad.

Of course, arriving to the game is no walk in the park. Whatever advantage this university gains from fans arriving during the course of several hours is lost to ineptitude and paying parking fees. Route 1 backs up onto In- Matt Dragonette is a junior government terstate 495 hours before kickoff and politics major. He can be reached and traffic extends all the way to at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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LASTING IMPACT | BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY

Science (still) rules Childhood icon, who speaks at Stamp Student Union tonight, instilled a love for comedy and science in a generation of students

By Michael Errigo @DBKDiversions Staff writer Everyone has their favorite part of the theme song.

M o s t p e o p l e wo u l d make the nearly cliche claim that the chanting section is the best (“Bill!

Bill! Bill!”), but I’ve heard others attach their name to t h e s l ow- m o t i t l e portion (“Bill Nye the Science Guy”). I myself am a “science rules” g uy. So m e t h i n g a b o u t Bill’s face paired up with a voice that was so obviously not his own always did it for middle-school me. High comedy.

So high, in fact, that I believed him.

Maybe it’s because of the song, the one that I just got stuck in your head, or maybe it’s just because he was the only one really saying it, but it’s clear that, then and now, science rules because of Bill Nye.

Depending on when you were in middle school, the experience varies.

For some of us, it was the cart with the TV, waiting at the front of the classroom as you filed in. That noisy old cart with the 50-pound television and ancient VHS player on it meant one thing: Bill. But that “Bill” feeling came in different forms. For other people, those fortunate enough to have that bulky TV already hoisted up in the corner of their classroom, Bill was the switching-off of lights with 30 minutes left in the period, the “clear your desks” and, finally, the song. The theme song that meant, for today, you were free. No more boring textbooks, no more awkward labs. Just Bill.

The first of what would become 100 episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy aired on PBS on Sept. 10, 1993. The episode theme

was flight and it featured a s o n g b y “ Nye va n a ” called “Smells Like Air Pressure.” Over the years, the parody song would become a true highlight of the 26 minutes spent with Bill, with songs like “R.E.C.Y.C.L.E.”, “Let’s Talk About Stress” and “ L ava f l ows ” s ta n d i n g out as towering works of scientific and musical achievement alike.

Part of the reason the show was so beloved is because it was the only product of its kind. It was informative enough that teachers considered it useful; it was entertaining enough that students saw it as a taste of something resembling pop culture.

Would many of us watch it outside of school? Probably not. But within school walls, Bill Nye was MTV, V H 1 a n d N i c ke l o d e o n rolled into one.

T h a t wa s t h e n , b u t what about now? Why

are students packing into Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom tonight to h e a r t h e m a n w h o made the bow tie famous speak? For many people, it’s because they genuinely want to hear the thoughts of a man who is quite smart even when he’s not reading from a script.

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Safety Sean Davis made 10 total tackles, eight of which were unassisted, in Saturday’s season-opening 52-7 win over James Madison. After the game, coach Randy Edsall awarded Davis, a junior and two-year starter, the special teams honorary game ball. file photos/the diamondback

davis From PAGE 8 the ball. Davis plastered the signal-caller into the turf, and the weak throw floated just past the line of scrimmage, falling incomplete.

It was one of the many highlights in an impressive season opener from Davis, who made 10 tackles, eight of which were unassisted, in the Terps’ 52-7 victory. His hit on Lee showed in the box score as one of the 15 times out of 19 chances that coach Randy Edsall’s defense stopped the Dukes on third down.

“My eyes got big,” Davis said.

“The hole opened up real big.”

It wasn’t the last time Davis

would wreak havoc in the backfield during the game.

With nine seconds left in the first half, the Dukes encountered a second-and-16 from the Terps’ 24-yard line. And on a nearly identical play, Davis stampeded through the middle of the James Madison offensive line and delivered another piercing blow to Lee. This time, though, the Dukes quarterback unleashed a high, wobbling throw to the front right corner of the end zone.

C o r n e r b a c k J e re m i a h Johnson turned to the ball and fought off James Madison receiver Sean Tapley to secure his first career interception.

“Thankfully, my teammates were blitzing with intensity,”

“IT DIDN’T SURPRISE ME THAT SEAN WENT OUT AND HAD THE KIND OF GAME THAT HE HAD TODAY. HE’S WORKED EXTREMELY HARD. ... HE DOES IT ALL. AND [I] JUST LOVE BEING AROUND HIM.” RANDY EDSALL

Terrapins football coach said Johnson, a senior. “I was happy I was able to capitalize on that.”

Davis’ performance was not limited to defense, either.

Edsall awarded the junior the special teams game ball for his effort on kickoff and punt coverage.

With just less than six minutes remaining in the first quarter, the Terps were forced to punt after quarterback C.J. Brown failed to find

an open Deon Long on third down. On fourth-and-4, punter Nathan Renfro connected on a low, driving kick that Tapley received on the Dukes’ 35-yard line.

Tapley barely took one step before his legs were taken out from under him. Davis, who lined up as a gunner on the right sideline, beat two Dukes blockers down the field before administering a hit to Tapley’s lower body

that stopped the returner in his tracks.

Davis stood up and stared f i e rce ly i n to t h e s ta n d s a s fe l l ow s p e c i a l tea m s Terps slapped his helmet in celebration.

“It didn’t surprise me that Sean went out and had the kind of game that he had today. He’s worked extremely hard,” Edsall said Saturday.

“He does it all. And [I] just love being around him, and I love the way he works, I love the way he prepares, l love his personality. And he did a really good job today.”

Davis has come a long way since his freshman season, when he played in all 12 games and made two starts during the Terps’ 4-8 campaign. That year,

a lack of depth forced Davis to take the field as a youngster — something Edsall said he regrets doing. At the time, though, the then-second-year coach didn’t have a choice.

Regardless, Edsall said that experience helped Davis grow into the player he is today.

But can fans expect 10 tackles out of Davis every weekend?

“Yeah,” Davis said with a chuckle. “I’m going to fly around and do my job and make the plays that come my way. I’m not going to try to be Superman. I’m just going to do what I’m supposed to do, playing within my scheme and just make plays.”

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miliar with the defense playing in front of her. She has known all of the defenders since they first arrived on the campus, and they don’t have any issues resolving problems on the backline.

“They have done a lot of work together, and because of that I think that they have a good cohesion,” Meharg said.

The Terps will rely on that communication — which starts with Cabrera — as they look to top the Tar Heels for the third consecutive time.

“I’m just happy that she is playing at the level and committed at the level where she is able to be here on her home field senior year,” Meharg said.

From PAGE 8 “I just went out there and was like ‘Oh wow, I’m in the ACC tournament,’” Cabrera said. “Didn’t expect it to happen, but it really came naturally.”

With No. 2 North Carolina traveling to College Park for the Terps’ home opener tomorrow afternoon, Cabrera believes that past experience helped her prepare for this new test.

Despite the fact that she will be facing the second-best team in the nation, the 5-foot-6 goalkeeper said she has never been one to get nervous before games.

Plus, Cabrera said she is fa-

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Midfielder Mael Corboz, a highly-touted transfer from Rutgers, controls the ball during a 3-2 win over then-No. 17 Coastal Carolina on Monday night. christian jenkins/the diamondback

corboz From PAGE 8 2013, Corboz was valuable Monday night, especially given Endoh’s status.

But for all of Corboz’s passing ability, the Terps still haven’t found a reliable combination on the front line. All three of the team’s goals came

from midfielders — Metzger, Sauers and Mikias Eticha.

“We’re going to continue rotating,” Cirovski said. “It’s early in the year; it’s very hot.

We demand a lot from our forwards on both sides of the ball, and we’re going to keep doing that until we can start getting all the players to have a better understanding of each other.”

With award-winning con-

tributors along the backline and in goal, the Terps have had little trouble suffocating opponents’ attacks so far this season. But if they hope to return to the College Cup, their offensive production will need to improve.

The team may not have a reliable duo of forwards yet, but Corboz has flashed his effectiveness early on. Not to

mention Endoh will rejoin the midfield for the Terps’ Friday night bout with No. 14 UMBC. “[Having Corboz] gives us a lot in the attack,” Metzger said.

“We miss [Patrick Mullins], and [Schillo Tshuma] and [Jake Pace] in the box. But his service, along with Tsubasa’s, it gives us a lot.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

“Jonathan made us quiet down and he was like, ‘We’ve been dead for 30 minutes and not talking, so this needs to be a great start for us,’” Molina said. “We came out with a lot of energy.”

The Terps’ enthusiasm lasted for most of the first half, in which they scored once and took eight shots.

But in the opening minutes of the second half, N.C. State forward Kayla Saager finished past goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands to tie the game.

Beanlands didn’t allow the misstep to change her tone in goal, though. The 5-foot-9 junior yelled words of encouragement to her teammates as they tried for the go-ahead goal.

“It was really great to hear

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Beans because she pumped us up a lot after that goal,” Molina said. “She’s a natural-born leader. You always hear her voice, and she’s always there to pick everyone up.”

With Beanlands shouting at the other end of the field, Molina headed in the winning goal for the Terps in the 61st minute.

The Terps held onto the lead, and nearly four hours after the game was scheduled to begin, the final whistle blew to signal the Terps had earned the victory and evened their record at 2-2.

“It’s a good weekend for us,” Morgan said. “We still have to be better in the final third, but you could see how we want to move and how we want to play. The soccer itself is coming together.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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Corboz shines in Endoh’s absence Rutgers transfer assists once in Terps’ one-goal victory over Coastal Carolina

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Late in the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s season opener at Louisville on Friday night, attacking midfielder Tsubasa Endoh appeared to grow a bit frustrated.

Despite Endoh’s repeated service attempts, Louisville had held the Terps scoreless through 86 minutes of play.

The Terps had steadily maintained possession and had several promising opportunities inside the 18-yard box, but they continually failed to find the back of the net.

A few moments later, Endoh ripped off his black Terps jersey and sprinted to the locker room. He had been issued a red card after pushing a Louisville player to the ground, resulting in his ejection. Even further, the infraction rendered Endoh unavailable for the Terps’ home opener against then-No. 17 Coastal Carolina on Monday night.

Given Endoh’s prolific playmaking ability, many of the Terps’ offensive sets against Louisville flowed through the speedy midfielder. But on Monday night, with midfielder Mael Corboz controlling things offensively, the Terps had little trouble in the scoring third, sending three goals past goalkeeper Devin Cook-Perales. With Endoh out, Corboz was active for the Terps, and his crosses helped them to the 3-2 win, their first of the season. “[Corboz and Endoh] have a set of skills that are interchangeable,” coach Sasho Cirovski said last week. “[They] will probably rotate between the right side of the midfield and the attacking midfield role.”

With Endoh not playing Monday night, the No. 10 Terps frequently looked for Corboz, a transfer from Rutgers, on the right side of the attacking third.

“MAEL HAS A HIGH SOCCER IQ, AND HE’S A VERY SKILLED PLAYER. THE SERVE ON DANNY’S CROSS WAS FABULOUS; THE LONG BALL ON SAUERS’ NEAR GOAL WAS WORLD-CLASS. HE’S OBVIOUSLY A VERY PIVOTAL GUY FOR US ALREADY, AND I THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SEE BETTER STUFF FROM HIM AS THE SEASON PROGRESSES TOO.” SASHO CIROVSKI

Terrapins men’s soccer coach Before attacking midfielder Michael Sauers put the Terps ahead 2-1 with his 62nd-minute strike, Corboz nearly set Sauers up for a goal.

Upon receiving the ball around midfield, Corboz dribbled a couple of steps before lofting a cross. Sauers gathered and smashed an effort on the fly that bounced off the top left corner of the net.

Earlier in the contest, Corboz assisted on a goal. At 7:37, he struck a corner kick into the 18-yard-box that defensive midfielder Dan Metzger headed in for the Terps’ first score of the year.

“Mael has a high soccer IQ, and he’s a very skilled player,” Cirovski said. “The serve on Danny’s cross was fabulous; the long ball on Sauers’ near goal was world-class. He’s obviously a very pivotal guy for us already, and I think you’re going to see better stuff from him as the season progresses too.”

After recording seven goals and six assists with Rutgers in 2012-13, Corboz didn’t play last season. With the Terps trying to rebrand their offense following the departure of their top three scorers from See corboz, Page 7

SAFETY sean davis celebrates on the field at Byrd Stadium during the Terps’ 52-7 rout of James Madison in the season opener on Saturday.

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ALL OVER THE FIELD Playing defense and special teams, safety Sean Davis makes 10 tackles in season opener

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Early in the second quarter of the Terrapins football team’s season opener at Byrd Stadium on Saturday, the James Madison offense faced a third-and-6 from its own 45-yard line, threatening to cross midfield for the first time all afternoon.

Dukes quarterback Vad Lee set up in shotgun formation with a running back to his right and four wide receivers. The

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Terps, meanwhile, posted five pass rushers along the line of scrimmage with an additional five defensive backs in coverage. Safety Sean Davis was left to man the center of the field.

Lee took the snap and dropped back. Seeing a gaping hole in the interior of the Dukes’ offensive line, Davis charged from his position on the ‘Y’ in the midfield Maryland logo. Nine steps later, the safety planted his right shoulder into Lee’s chest as the quarterback released See davis, Page 7

FIELD HOCKEY

Cabrera claims starting job Fifth-year senior goalie provides experience, leadership

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

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Terps win despite weather Players overcome lengthy two-hour lightning delay

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer Minutes before the Terrapins women’s soccer team was scheduled to play N.C. State on Sunday night, lightning struck within 16 miles of Ludwig Field. By rule, the game was stalled, and referees and school officials planned to re-evaluate the situation at 6:15 p.m.

But soon after, the lightning moved within an eight-mile radius. The match was delayed until further notice.

Almost two hours elapsed

before the teams finally hit the field, but the Terps managed to overcome the delay and pull out a 2-1 victory. The team appeared sluggish at times once the match got underway, but the players leaned on one another to remain focused.

“This group wants to win,” coach Jonathan Morgan said.

“They’re disappointed about last season, so their concentration and focus is at a better level.”

After the delay was first announced, the Terps tried to avoid becoming too tense and kept the atmosphere loose.

Midfielder Sarah Molina said

the Terps enjoyed themselves during the break with loud music and even dancing.

But as the weather delay wore on, their attitudes began to change.

“It kept going on and on, and so people were getting tired and getting antsy,” Molina said. “So our attitude went down and our energy level went down.”

When the Terps learned the delay was over, players said the anxiety subsided. Instead, they focused as Morgan ran over the game plan.

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While several incoming freshmen have entered the Terrapins field hockey starting lineup in the past few seasons, rookie goalkeepers under coach Missy Meharg have typically been forced to wait while an older teammate handles the netminding duties.

Goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera is a prime example.

She spent four years watching from the sideline, but w i t h t h e g ra d u a t i o n o f former goalkeeper Natalie Hunter, Cabrera has finally moved into a starting role.

“I’m very excited,” she said.

“I’ve been waiting for it for a long time, so I’m pumped to step up there and show everyone what I’ve got.”

Still, Meharg wasn’t immediately ready to pass the reins to Cabrera after Hunter departed.

While Cabrera seemed like the top option to start at goalkeeper after playing in seven games last year and starting

two, Meharg left the door open for any of the three goalkeepers on the roster this year.

The redshirt senior won the battle over Melissa Flowe and Jill Genovese, though, and Cabrera played all 140 minutes during the Terps’ first two games of the season this past weekend.

“She really played well during the preseason,” Meharg said. “She is fifth-year right now, so she has age and experience.”

While Cabrera wasn’t unbeatable last weekend — she allowed three goals and made four saves — her combination of past experience and communication skills have her poised for success as the go-to netminder on the No. 1 team in the nation.

And despite mediocre numbers from a small sample size against No. 10 Massachusetts and Northeastern, Cabrera did make an important save at the end of the first half against the Huskies to preserve a 0-0 deadlock.

“They hit a really good shot that could have gone in, but

Brooke had an amazing save,” forward Alyssa Parker said.

“That was a good turning point in the game.”

Cabrera’s save instilled confidence in her teammates before halftime, and the Terps started the second half by scoring on their first two shots on their way to an eventual 4-1 victory.

Last season, Cabrera was effective when given the opportunity. She finished last season with a .727 save percentage, comparable to Hunter’s .769 save percentage, which earned Hunter second-team All-America recognition.

Arguably the most important game of her career so far came in 2012, however.

With Hunter out with a concussion, Meharg called on Cabrera to start in net against then-No. 22 Duke in the ACC tournament.

With her team depending on her, Cabrera rose to the occasion and allowed one goal in a 2-1 victory.

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A BORN LEADER In the wake of tragedy, the 2009 Suitland High School football team turned to Jeremiah Johnson

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

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t was early morning on Dec. 31, 2008. Suitland High School was on winter break, and Jeremiah Johnson, a junior defensive back for the football team, was sleeping soundly in his bed. He was peaceful, content and unaware of the catastrophe that had occurred hours earlier.

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That’s when Johnson’s mother, Angeline, barged into his room unannounced. She woke her son from his slumber. Then she delivered the news.

At 2:30 a.m., Suitland football head coach Nick Lynch had died in a car accident. He was turning left onto Brandywine Road, a mile from his home, when an oncoming vehicle driving north on Branch Avenue struck his 2008 Dodge Magnum.

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johnson From PAGE 1 Lynch was transported to Southern Maryland Hospital in Clinton, where he was pronounced dead at age 43.

“I was in shock,” said Johnson, now a senior cornerback for the Terrapins football team.

For the rest of the morning, word of Lynch’s death spread around Prince George’s County to former players, current players, fellow coaches, rival coaches, friends, relatives, students — everyone.

Lynch had that kind of impact on the community.

Ed Shields, the then-defensive backs coach for Suitland, learned of the death from his wife. A mutual friend called the Shields’ home. Ed’s wife picked up and woke her husband to inform him of the tragedy.

“I had to take some time to get grips,” said Shields, who took over for Lynch as head coach for the 2009 season.

“Then I went over to see his wife and family.”

It wasn’t easy, but from this tragedy arose an exceptional display of the strength of the human psyche. And it started with Johnson.

The following fall, he willed the Suitland football team to a heroic season despite uncompromising sadness and neardebilitating grief.

Not because he wanted to.

Not because he was asked to.

He simply had no choice.

“I understood right away that my teammates would look to me,” Johnson said, “to be that rock and hold the team together.”

The adversity Johnson overcame that year prepared him for the obstacles he encountered in College Park.

In 2013, the cornerback fractured his toe in the first game of the season on a special teams play and missed the rest of the year. When Johnson returned for spring practices in April, he strained his hamstring, forcing him to the sideline once again.

Despite those injuries, Johnson was back on the field for the Terps’ season-opening win over James Madison on Saturday. The extended time off forced him into a role as the team’s No. 3 cornerback. But he’s still the player teammates turn to for guidance.

“J.J. is a great mentor, even off the field,” said junior cornerback Alvin Hill, who won the starting job over Johnson during training camp. “He’s first, I’m first — it doesn’t matter. We can critique each other and make each other better.”

‘COACH LYNCH WAS ICONIC’ There was nothing small about Nick Lynch’s funeral.

Seven days after the accident that took the coach’s life, nearly 3,000 people attended

“I NEVER WALK ON THE FIELD WITHOUT MY HELMET ON, STRAPPED UP AND READY TO GO. AND I ALWAYS JOG OFF THE FIELD. THOSE ARE TWO SMALL THINGS THAT I FIRST LEARNED WHEN I FIRST GOT [TO SUITLAND] BUT ARE STILL INSTILLED IN ME. AND I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME.” Jeremiah Johnson

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CORNERBACK JEREMIAH JOHNSON waits for fans after a scrimmage in August 2013. Johnson, who helped Suitland High School compile a nine-game winning streak as a senior less than a year after the death of coach Nick Lynch, is now the Terps’ No. 3 cornerback. Despite his role, Johnson remains one of 10 players on the Terps’ leadership council. file photo/the diamondback the funeral service at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington.

There were only 2,500 seats in the building, but that didn’t matter.

“It was standing room only,” Shields said.

After the service, Shields said authorities shut down a large section of the Capital Beltway stretching from the church to Sheriff Road — about 15 miles — to make space for the funeral procession.

“Coach Lynch was iconic,” Shields said. “People act like it was just about a coach. It wasn’t about a coach. It was about a man, and about how he cared about the kids.”

Many players showed their appreciation by wearing Suitland jerseys to the funeral, commemorating Lynch’s 13-year tenure with the school, during which he compiled a 117-33 record and captured Suitland’s first state championship in 2004 before adding another in 2006.

More importantly, though, the young men wanted to pay their respects to the influence Lynch had outside of football.

“It was a very emotional time. We obviously had a very close connection with him, and he made a huge impact on all of our lives,” Johnson said. “But the Suitland family was always close, and we were able to get

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13 games Johnson has started during his Terrapins football career. He become a full-time starter as a redshirt sophomore in 2012.

43 tackles Johnson made for the Terps in 2012, the last season he was healthy. He also had eight pass breakups.

9 games Suitland High School won consecutively in 2009, Johnson’s senior season.

166 yards Johnson compiled as a receiver during his senior year at Suitland. He also made 99 tackles. through.”

To this day, Johnson still holds dear a number of lessons Lynch taught him.

“I never walk on the field w i t h o u t my h e l m e t o n , strapped up and ready to go.

And I always jog off the field,” Johnson said. “Those are two small things that I first learned

when I first got [to Suitland] but are still instilled in me. And I think about it all the time.”

PUSHING FORWARD Ove r t h e n ex t seve ra l months, the reality of the situation settled in: the Suitland football team was without

a coach. But initially, the school put off the search for a replacement.

“Nobody was worried about football at that time,” Shields said.

Later that year, the school decided to open the job. Shields applied, and in May, after a series of interviews and other procedures, Suitland offered the former defensive backs coach the heading coaching position — a decision Shields said was impacted by the support of the players and the recommendation of fellow coaches.

It wasn’t a first for Shields, though. He had plenty of head coaching experience from his days at the helm of the Northwestern High School football team in Hyattsville, a regular opponent of Suitland in Prince George’s County play. During that time, Lynch and Shields developed a relationship as close friends and bitter rivals.

Shields took a break from high school football in the early

2000s to coach his son’s local Boys and Girls Club team. He joined Suitland in 2005 after Lynch reached out to him.

Four years later, Shields wa s fo rc e d i n to a h e a d coaching role under troubling circumstances. But the hiring was especially meaningful for Johnson, who had played defensive back for the varsity squad since 10th grade and developed a strong bond with Shields.

“I was happy to see that he took over the job because, for one, it was somebody who was already in our family, and then me personally, that was my position coach,” Johnson said. “On top of that, he’s just a guy who has great morals, great values, and he doesn’t take any BS, so to say. You need a guy like that because that’s kind of how Coach Lynch was.”

Shields wasted no time, immediately starting to work with players in the weight room. The team continued to train over the course of the summer, and Shields never abandoned his tough-love approach, as hard as that was given the immense sadness weighing on the team.

“Obviously, it was a difficult role, one that I had never been in before. But you’re kind of learning your way.

Fortunately, most coaches don’t go through an experience like that,” Shields said.

“You find your way as you go along and you learn and you use your best judgment as to what is the best way to approach the particular situations, because you know the kids are going to be sad; you know they’re going to be down. But what can we do?

How can we get them to understand that even if Coach Lynch was here, he would want us to do very well? And so let’s focus on doing the best that we can do.”

Shields said Johnson made his greatest impact during those summer months while helping get that message across to his teammates.

“To me, he was the top leader on that team for that period,” Shields said. “Not just in his play, not just in his school work and doing his school work, but also showing the guys how to move on in that type of situation.”

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Johnson From PAGE 2 much,” Johnson said. “I would never want anything or anybody to die in vain, and I know one thing that Coach Lynch would have wanted was for that team to come back and be able to still win. And we pushed ourselves even harder.”

GLORY FROM HEARTBREAK The scoreboard read Wise 14, Suitland 7.

It was Sept. 5, and the Suitland football team had just lost its 2009 season opener, the first game since Lynch’s death, by a touchdown.

“I remember a lot of tears in the locker room,” Johnson said.

Before the game started, Wise held a memorial for Lynch as a friendly gesture to its grieving opponent.

“It was just so emotional for us,” Shields said of the pregame ceremony. “Coaches were crying before the game, because we were going out to battle without Coach Lynch.

“When you go into battle with someone and when you’ve been through wars with someone and when you come through with someone, there’s a spirit there, there’s a bonding spirit. And then when you have to go out to battle again … they’re not there,” Shields continued. “They’re missing; it’s just

a different feeling.”

The pain was real and deep-seated for each Suitland football player.

In their minds, they had failed to provide their deceased coach with a victory in the most meaningful game of their young careers.

The outside world knew that was far from the case, though. The fact that they had even put their shoulder pads on and stepped onto the field was an achievement in and of itself.

Still, the loss taught Suitland a crucial lesson that fueled the rest of its 2009 season.

“At that point, we knew that nothing was going to be handed to us,” Johnson said. “Even though o t h er tea m s resp e cte d Coach Lynch and stuff, they weren’t going to just lay down because we were the team dealing with a loss. They were going to play us every week as if nothing happened. And so that’s how we had to play. And we understood that. Coach Shields, along with the other coaches, helped us to understand that. And after that first loss, I think we pushed ourselves a lot harder.”

Suitland went on to win its final nine regular-season games by an average margin of more than 27 points.

Johnson led on the field. Shields led from the sideline. And all the while, the memory of their former leader never subsided.

“Every game, man, you could

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CORNERBACK JEREMIAH JOHNSON makes a tackle in the Terps’ 2012 season-opening victory over William & Mary. Johnson went on to start all 12 games as a redshirt sophomore for the Terps that season and finished with 43 tackles and eight breakups. He then missed 10 games in 2013 with a toe injury. file photo/the diamondback almost still feel his presence,” Johnson said.

The winning streak came to an end when Suitland fell to C.H. Flowers by seven points in the 4A South Region semifinal.

Naturally, the team’s initial reaction was anger and disappointment. Shields said it took him a full three weeks before he could truly reflect on the season his players put together.

But when he did take a step back and admire the achievement, he could finally appreciate the value of Jeremiah Johnson.

He was the support when the team felt abandoned.

He was the strength when the team felt weak.

He was the leader when the team had none.

“There’s no way we could have had the season we had without him being there,” Shields said. “Jeremiah’s influence didn’t come after the first game. It came before the first game. It came all through the season.

That’s what I’m talking about: the consistency of the person. It’s not a person in a moment … but a person by the way they carry themself and

the way they perform and the way that they encourage you and what they do all the time. It wasn’t because of the encouragement that we lost the first game.

“It wasn’t because of the encouragement that we won all those games down that stretch. It was because of his constant and consistent leadership that we were able to have the season that we were able to have.

And I’ll take that way more than someone who says something for one day.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

meet your B1G FOES A look at five of the most prominent Big Ten teams on the Terps’ schedule

OHIO STATE

IOWA

2013 record: 12-2, 8-0 Big Ten

2013 record: 8-5, 5-3 Big Ten

Players to watch: 1) Quarterback J.T. Barrett: Heisman candidate quarterback Braxton Miller is out for the season with a shoulder injury, and the team’s success sits largely on the shoulders of redshirt freshman Barrett.

2) Running back Ezekiel Elliott: Ohio State is going to implement a running back by committee this season, but Elliott appears to be handling the bulk of the duties. Elliott was productive in limited action last season, carrying the ball 30 times for 262 yards for an average of 8.7 yards per carry.

Players to watch: 1) Center Austin Blythe: Blythe will look to anchor an offensive line that helped Hawkeyes running back Mike Weisman to 975 rushing yards last season.

2) Quarterback Jake Rudock: With a year of experience in tow, Rudock will look to parlay a successful 2013 into bigger things in 2014. The Hawkeyes return Rudock’s most accomplished wide receivers from last season in Kevonte Martin-Manley and Tevaun Smith, both of whom ranked in the top 35 in the conference in receiving yards last year.

Season outlook: The Buckeyes lost a lot of talent off last year’s team, which fell to Michigan State in the Big Ten title game. Regardless, the Buckeyes should still have a nationally relevant team when they travel to College Park on Oct. 4. — Jacob Walker

Season outlook: The Hawkeyes will travel to College Park on Oct. 18 for a nationally televised clash with the Terps. Iowa probably still has a bad taste in its mouth from a 21-14 Outback Bowl loss to LSU and will be motivated to make up for the defeat. — Joshua Needelman

PENN STATE

MICHIGAN STATE

2013 record: 7-5, 4-4 Big Ten Players to watch: 1) Wide receiver Geno Lewis: Lewis is the team’s new No. 1 target after Allen Robinson was drafted this offseason. The redshirt sophomore caught 18 balls last year for 234 yards to go along with three touchdowns and started four games.

2) Defensive lineman Anthony Zettel: Penn State lost both starting defensive tackles, including All-Big Ten first team member DaQuan Jones, from last year’s team and this season redshirt junior Anthony Zettel will have to fill one of those holes.

Season outlook: Former coach Bill O’Brien bolted for the head coaching job of the Houston Texans this past season, and former Terps offensive coordinator James Franklin has the Nittany Lions job. The Terps play at Penn State on Nov. 1, and Franklin should have a competitive team by the time he faces his old program. — Jacob Walker

MICHIGAN

2013 record: 13-1, 8-0 Big Ten Players to watch: 1) Running back Jeremy Langford: After ending last year with 1,422 rushing yards, Langford is poised for a big season on the ground in his final year with the Spartans. Langford led the Big Ten with 18 rushing touchdowns last season.

2) Defensive end Shilique Calhoun: Calhoun has a knack for big plays. Last year, the defensive end returned two fumbles for scores last year and brought an interception back for a touchdown as well.

Season outlook: With No. 5 Ohio State losing star quarterback Braxton Miller for the season, the Spartans are arguably the favorite to win the Big Ten this season. Michigan State can compete with anyone in the country, and the Spartans will travel to College Park to take on the Terps in a night game Nov. 15. — Ryan Baillargeon

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2013 record: 7-6, 3-5 Big Ten Players to watch: 1) Quarterback Devin Gardner: Gardner, a fifth-year senior, helped Michigan average 32.2 points per game last season. After spending a portion of the 2012-13 season as a wide receiver, Gardner replaced former Heisman Trophy hopeful Denard Robinson toward the end of last season.

2) Wide receiver Devin Funchess: Gardner will often look down the field for Funchess, who was named one of the 10 Big Ten Players to Watch. Funchess played tight end for Michigan in 2013, corralling 49 catches for 748 yards and six touchdowns.

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Season outlook: Though historically a perennial contender in the Big Ten, Michigan hasn’t won a league title since 2004. The Wolverines visit College Park on Nov. 22 for a crucial matchup in their secondto-last game of the regular season. — Joshua Needelman

We couldn’t include write-ups of every Big Ten team in our print edition, but The Diamondback’s Friday online edition will have pieces on each of the other seven teams in the conference. Plus, the online package will include a few extra tidbits on the five teams listed here.

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quarterback C.J. Brown gallops into the end zone for one of his three rushing touchdowns in the Terps’ season-opening 52-7 victory over James Madison on Saturday. Brown also completed 11 of 24 passes for 111 yards and a passing touchdown. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Terps’ most promising season in Edsall era rests on the shoulders of sixth-year quarterback C.J. Brown AARON KASINITZ He leaned back in his chair during an Aug. 26 interview session, grinned and pondered the question for a moment.

C.J. Brown, the Terrapins football team’s sixth-year quarterback, enrolled at this university back in 2009, when Greivis Vasquez was the Terps men’s basketball point guard and nobody here knew who Mitt Romney or Kendrick Lamar was.

So, are there any restaurants in College Park the Terps’ starting signal-caller still wants to check out?

“Nah,” Brown said after several seconds. “I think I’ve hit them all.”

Yeah, Brown’s been here a while.

He was with the Terps for a coaching change, two 2-10 seasons and two Military Bowl appearances.

He’s become as connected to his school and his team as any college football player in the nation, and now, he holds a promising Terps’

season in his hands.

But it’s really Brown’s arms, legs and voice that will dictate how the Terps’ first Big Ten campaign plays out.

Coach Randy Edsall, now in his fourth year, has finally built the roster he wanted. The Terps have depth and experience at nearly every position, and they pounded James Madison, 52-7, this past Saturday.

The Terps have the leadership on defense and explosiveness on offense to compete with the top teams in the Big Ten. For the first time since Edsall’s been here, he has a team that deserves to be in consideration to crack the top 25.

The thing that morphs good teams into conference title contenders, though, is great quarterback play.

As of now, it’s still unclear whether Brown will provide that.

Brown has several qualities of an all-league signal-caller. He was granted an extra year of eligibility after missing the 2012 season with a torn ACL, so he knows the Terps’ offensive schemes, and he’s a tough and experienced leader that

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can make plays with his feet. He displayed that with three rushing touchdowns Saturday against the Dukes.

Still, the Terps’ offense will only be as good as Brown’s passing. And that part of his game, six years into his tenure here, remains a question mark.

Brown, who has thrown 21 touchdowns over 13 picks in his career, struggled to connect on passes of more than 10 yards Saturday. He completed just 11 of 24 passes, which left the Terps’ two most talented players — wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Deon Long — as limited contributors.

“Coming out and going 11-for-24 on opening day is not acceptable,” said Brown, who completed 58.9 percent of his passes last season. “I hold myself to a higher standard.”

But Brown appears to have put those struggles behind him, and he’s eager to bounce back entering Saturday’s test at South Florida. And it’s not like he has to fear for his job.

Edsall has watched Brown win games for him in the past and he often praises the quarterback’s leadership

and passion. He has good reason to.

Remember when Brown ran for a game-winning touchdown at Virginia Tech last season to cap a gutsy performance and upset overtime victory? Or how about this past Saturday, when he broke multiple tackles to plow into the end zone on a wacky play on fourth-and-2?

“He didn’t throw as well as he is capable of throwing, but he did so many other things well,” Edsall said of Brown’s performance against James Madison. “It’s hard for the quarterback unless he plays a perfect game, but I’m glad that C.J.’s under center doing it for us.”

Of course, Brown’s running ability and experience won’t mean much if he can’t fling the ball downfield to Diggs and Long. If his passing struggles, opponents can crowd the box to take away the run game and Brown’s patented short passes to his playmakers.

To avoid that, Brown will need to make quick decisions and accurate throws more often than he did Saturday. Long, for one, is confident his quarterback can make the adjustments.

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“I don’t want to say his passing was unacceptable,” Long said Saturday.

“He’s actually gotten way better as a passer over the summer. His accuracy has improved; his balls have improved.”

Brown has the backing of his teammates and his coach, which he earned through the work he’s put in at the school for more than half a decade.

Through all the ups and downs during his tenure, though, Brown has yet to be a part of a 10-win Terps team.

If he exceeds expectations this season, that may change. But if he experiences a drop-off, the Terps will have to fight just to qualify for a bowl game.

After six training camps, six season-openers and countless hours spent on the campus, Brown is the most important student-athlete at this university. He has the opportunity to rectify his flaws and lead a talented roster to the Terps’ best season in recent memory.

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