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Sustainability places high in Sierra listing Univ practices rated No. 13 nationally

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer

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The university received its highest score yet on the Sierra Club’s annual ranking of colleges based on their sustainability practices, placing 13th on Sierra magazine’s list of the nation’s “Coolest Schools” this year.

While acknowledging the university’s achievements, especially in areas such as sustainable transportation and recycling, university officials said they hope to use ratings like these to identify problem areas and push for greater environmental awareness.

“Since 2011, there’s been a lot of things that helped us improve

new programs we implemented, but also participation in some of the initiatives has gone up,” said Sally DeLeon, Office of Sustainability project manager.

“Both of those factors, I think, improved our score.”

The ranking is open to any four-year undergraduate college or university in the country, and this year, 162 institutions were evaluated. Sierra scored and ranked the universities based on an 11-category point system. This university scored 732.4 points out of a possible 1000, achieving perfect scores in both the “Co-Curricular” category — encompassing clubs and community service organizations — and sustainability See GREEN, Page 3

Univ achieves top 25 LGBT ranking Mckeldin library’s south side is one of four areas on the campus where smokers such as Zak Glennon (top right), a junior philosophy major, are permitted to consume lit tobacco products, after a university system-wide ban went into effect in July. top: james levin/the diamondback; bottom: file photo/the diamondback

Lit tobacco ban shuffles smokers around campus as fall classes commence

By Madeleine List @thedbk Staff writer With this university’s smoking ban in effect, smoke in the air is now more isolated — and so are student smokers.

“I feel like a second-class citizen — alienated,” said Carmen Deanna, a doctoral candidate studying gov-

ernment and politics, while taking a smoking break near McKeldin Library, one of four designated smoking areas on the campus.

Other smokers said being forced to congregate at four small smoking zones separates them from other students and adds to the already harsh social stigma smokers face.

“I think the university is simply following a part of Ameri-

can culture that has demonized tobacco, for good reasons,” said Deanna. “Autonomous democratic citizens should be able to make that decision for themselves.”

This university banned lit tobacco products in July as part of a University System of Maryland policy to eliminate smoking from See smoking, Page 2

Resources expand for LGBT students

By Madeleine List @thedbk Staff writer For the second year in a row, this university has been ranked one of the top 25 LGBT-friendly colleges in the nation.

Along with other major institutions, such as the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania, this university earned its place on Campus Pride’s national list of institutions doing positive work for LGBT

policy, academic life, student life, housing, counseling, health and other categories.

“We envision this place as a university that’s equitable for everyone,” said Luke Jensen, director of the LGBT Equity Center, an office on the campus that provides support for students, faculty, staff and alumni who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or ally.

Recently, the university See LGBT, Page 3

CIC brings boons to Market vendors hope dog days are over brings students, academic resources Fall possible sales boosts Univ joined consortium in July before 2014 Big Ten conference transition

By The Diamondback staff @thedbk As the university prepares for its move to the Big Ten athletic conference next year, the transition to the new league is already beginning to play out in university libraries, on study abroad trips and in leadership training.

That all comes with the university’s adjoining transition to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic consortium comprising the universities in the Big Ten and the University of Chicago, that this university joined on July 1, a full year before Terps

teams take the field in the Big Ten. Some CIC initiatives have already been implemented, officials said, while others have yet to be rolled out in their entirety.

“I think things are going very smoothly,” said Steve Fetter, associate provost for academic affairs. “CIC has a very competent staff, and they have made the transition for us very easy.”

Fetter, who along with Provost Mary Ann Rankin heads administrators’ efforts to integrate the university with the committee, said one benefit See cic, Page 3

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By Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen Senior staff writer The return of students at the end of August marks the beginning of a new semester, and vendors at the Downtown College Park Farmers Market said they are looking forward to a boost in sales.

Live guitar music set the scene for the farmers market Sunday afternoon as local residents and students shopped for fresh produce and baked goods. After a slump in business throughout the past few months, local vendors said they were excited for a rush of students hoping to find an alternative to campus dining. “[The summer] gave us a chance to work on growing the resident base, which happened — we felt it pick up

SALISBURY UNIVERSITY

2 killed, 1 injured yesterday night in shooting An apparent murder-suicide has left two dead and one wounded in a neighborhood near Salisbury University yesterday evening.

Wicomico County Police and Salisbury officials reported an unidentified

the downtown college park Farmers Market, held in the parking lot of City Hall every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will likely see business boom with students returning to the city for the fall. james levin/the diamondback over the summer,” said Kelly Morris, market master and president of KSM Marketing & Events. “We’re just glad to add the students on top of that.”

man entered an off-campus house and shot two people — a female Salisbury student and Charles Abbott, a former Salisbury student — at about 6 p.m.

The shooter then fatally shot himself inside the house, according to reports.

Police are investigating the incident and believe it may have been an act of domestic violence.

On Sunday, a line of customers, most of them students, snaked through the See FARMERS, Page 2

Abott was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead, according to Delmarvanow.com.

The female student was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center and was in critical condition as of 12 a.m. today, according to reports.

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SMOKING From PAGE 1 from its member institutions’ premises. University officials designated four areas where smokers can still light up, marked by signs on the south side of McKeldin Library near Somerset Hall, between Riggs Alumni Center and the Stadium Drive garage, west of the main staircase in front of Comcast Center and between Byrd Stadium and Ellicott Hall.

For nonsmokers, the principle of the ban is what is important, showing that this university is concerned about students’ health, said Clark Wright, a junior economics and finance major.

“It represents a progressive view and perspective on where our society is going,” Wright said. “It’s a healthy policy I think. There’s already plenty of reasons for people to quit, and if it’s losing the convenience to smoke outside on campus that does it, good for them.”

But the policy has

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left smokers feeling less optimistic.

Making it more inconvenient to smoke may help some smokers quit, but quitting is a long process, and in the meantime, commuting to the designated smoking areas is a pain, said Vasilios Tsirigotakis, a junior civil engineering major. Because there are so few smoking areas, students have to make long trips just to smoke, he said, and with a minimal amount of smokers on the campus, it doesn’t seem necessary. “ Be twe e n c l a sse s, yo u sometimes get the urge to smoke and then you have to run back over here and smoke and then run all the way back across campus. I’ve been late for a couple of my classes just for that,” said Jay Jha, a junior microbiology major.

“I actually want to quit, but I do realize it’s not going to happen overnight.”

In recent years, the popularity of smoking has dwindled to the point where the practice is almost taboo, said Douglas Farrow, 63, who is taking English classes at this

university. Smokers pay high prices for a carton of cigarettes, and many institutions and state and local governments enforce tighter regulations on smoking in public — and that shift in social attitudes is a difficult adjustment for those who embrace the practice.

“Smoking was my generation,” said Farrow, who’s been smoking for 47 years. “I grew up with billboards and television ads with little cartoon characters smoking. Smoking was natural. It was what you did.”

For many smokers, a nicotine addiction can be one of the hardest habits to kick, and the process of quitting is different for everyone, said Edie Anderson, smoking cessation counselor at the University Health Center.

A one-time smoker herself, she understands how difficult it can be to decide to quit and stick with it.

“One day, I just decided I was done with it,” Anderson said. “I thought the smell was nasty. I didn’t like the way my clothes and hair smelled. The last pack I had, I just dumped

it on the table and weaned myself off.”

One of the most addictive factors of smoking is the habit itself and the associations people have with it, she said. “ Yo u l i g h t u p a c i ga rette because you feel like it destresses you,” she said.

“But it wasn’t really that cigarette that destressed you, it was that first deep breath.”

As part of her smoking cessation program, Anderson teaches breathing exercises and meditation techniques that people can use in place of smoking cigarettes. The program also provides individual counseling to develop a plan for quitting, nicotine patches to ease the quitting process and five acupuncture treatments, all free. Appointments can be made by calling Anderson at 301-314-9629.

“It’s about becoming aware of your habit and making a choice,” she said. “It’s realizing that that cigarette you’re lighting up is more harmful to your body than the pleasure it’s giving you.”

but we were really looking forward to this weekend.”

T h e fa r m e rs m a rke t i s one way city officials hope to increase business in the summer, when businesses throughout College Park “feel the pain” of fewer customers, said Robert Day, District 3 city councilman.

“We as a council — and the business community — need

to figure out a way to bring the residents back to Downtown College Park when the students go home,” Day said.

In May, the market reopened under Morris, whom the city hired to help increase revenue and the number of vendors.

The market operates with eight vendors but could have up to 12 this fall, Morris said.

Because the new market

master’s contract was for only “The students are the most enthusiastic one year, city council members will look at the farmers mar- customers ever, coming here in their pajamas ... ket’s success when it closes we were really looking forward to this weekend.” for the season on Nov. 17, said NATE PORT Michael Stiefvater, College Grandma Vera’s Bakery owner Park’s economic development “It’s been a lot more orga- distance of the campus, the coordinator. In the meantime, the farmers market will have nized, and it seems like people farmers market provides a special events each Sunday have enjoyed it a lot,” Stief- convenient alternative to the this month to attract students vater said. nearest grocery stores, said Located within walking Sandeep Pandey, a senior and bring in more business. chemical engineering major who doesn’t have a car. He and Elaine Nghiem, a senior business major, often come for produce such as broccoli and peppers and walk away with homemade doughnuts and scones.

It’s also a chance to experiment with unique produce, said Jenn Eisenberg, a junior communication major, who tasted the yellow watermelon as she walked around the market with her friends.

“We go because the prices are cheaper and the food is better quality,” Eisenberg said.

“I was telling my roommates that we should try to come back and make stir-fry with the vegetables.”

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Colton boyer, a freshman electrical engineering major, enjoys a cigar near McKeldin Library in one of the university’s new designated smoking areas. james levin/the diamondback

City Hall parking lot to pick up pulled pork and other meats from Bill’s Backyard BBQ. More than half of the business’s customers tend to be area students, owner Bill Coleman said between greeting returning students and chatting with other vendors. Since launching Bill’s Backyard BBQ 11 years ago, Coleman, a College Park resident, said he has developed loyal student customers through catering for Greek life and spending three years with the farmers market.

The slower summer has been hard on Grandma Vera’s Bakery, a first-year vendor that sells fresh-squeezed orange juice and an array of pastries, including scones. But owner Nate Port said the fall looks promising for his bakery and the farmers market.

“The students are the most enthusiastic customers ever, coming here in their pajamas,” Port said. “Coming to the market when school is out is The downtown college park farmers market offers students high-quality fruits, vegetables and baked goods at affordable prices, and some vendors said they depend on students still worth it. We stuck around, to keep their businesses going. The market is open on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the City Hall parking lot. graphic by ben fraternale/the diamondback; photo by james levin/the diamondback

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GREEN From PAGE 1 planning, and excelling in other areas such as innovation, transportation and waste.

T he w idespread u se of alternative forms of transportation on the campus, including biking, walking and carpooling, contributed to the university’s high score in that category, DeLeon said.

According to the Department of Transportation Services’ 2012-13 report, Shuttle-UM ridership rose 18.1 percent since 2011.

T he ca mpusw ide recycling rate has also increased, from 63 percent in 2010 to 76 percent in 2012, DeLeon said, and the university decreased its carbon footprint by 14.4 percent from 2005 to 2011.

The Green Office Program, which works with on-campus offices to decrease their negative impact on the environment and promotes sus-

LGBT From PAGE 1 has been taking strides to expand resources for LGBT students, especially focusing on housing, which has lacked diverse options in past years, said Amy Martin, associate director of the Department of Resident Life.

Resident Life has completed renovations in seven buildings and is constructing a new, gender-neutral dorm, Prince Frederick Hall, to provide more comfortable housing options for LGBT students, Martin said.

During room selection for fall 2013, students who were interested could request “mixed gender” or “gender

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tainable practices instead, launched in 2011 and includes more than 120 offices. “ It s e e m s l i ke U M D i s constantly taking steps to make the school greener,” said Leah Schleifer, a junior environmental science and policy major.

Schleifer, a former intern with Dining Services’ Green Dining program, said there are plenty of opportunities for students to volunteer, intern or otherwise do their part to make the campus greener.

“Every student seems to make some sort of an effort,” she said. “I see a lot of reusable water bottles, a lot of people on their bikes, things like that.”

The university’s sustainability council also created several work groups to improve sustainability performance in specific areas. The Sustainable Buildings and Energy Sources, Sustainable Water Use and Watershed Protection, and Education for Sustainability groups will set goals, monitor

the university’s progress and create new policies.

The Sustainable Buildings and Energy Sources group will concentrate its efforts on decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, while the Education for Sustainability work group plans to make sustainability a universal learning theme, as more than 200 students have added a sustainability studies minor since its January 2012 inception and more than 100 professors are incorporating sustainability lessons into their courses.

“Everyone can participate in improving the ranking,” DeLeon said. “Find ways to commute, conserve energy, reduce the amount of waste that is generated on campus … just become involved in the sustainability movement, because there’s just so many ways, and there’s something for everyone.”

Because of some data transfer errors in 2012, the university’s ranking in last year’s Sierra report, No. 73, was

not an accurate portrayal of its green reputation, DeLeon said. The most recent accurate rating prior to this year’s was in 2011, when the university was ranked No. 20, she said.

Although there are still challenges ahead, the university is implementing changes to better itself and its performance, said Scott Lupin, director of the Office of Sustainability and associate director for the Department of Environmental Safety.

“The national ratings conducted by the Sierra Club, Princeton Review and others provide colleges and universities a sense of how well they perform against similar schools, identifies common issues and goals that may be used for planning and highlights areas requiring greater focus and attention,” Lupin said.

The Office of Sustainability will release its annual progress report, which will review and lay out the sustainability accomplishments and goals for

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inclusive” housing options, Resident Life Director Deborah Grandner wrote in an email.

“Mixed gender” refers to wings or floors that are not separated by gender, with male and female students assigned to alternating rooms. Students can request to live in genderinclusive apartments or suites with students of different genders, Grandner wrote.

Bathrooms in mixed-gender halls will be located next to each other in the middle of the floor and will include a genderneutral, single-use bathroom and shower, Martin said.

“This has helped us move forward and is an important piece of this ranking,” she said.

“We know that this is important to people and helps them feel safe.”

T h i s ye a r, a b o u t 4 0 0 students will be living in gender-inclusive or mixedgender housing, she said, and Resident Life will conduct a survey in the fall to see how students are doing and what can be improved.

Jensen said the improvement in housing options has been a great addition to other resources this university offers for LGBT students, such as Rainbow Walk-in Hour at the Counseling Center, a Career Center LGBT liaison and the Rainbow Terrapin Network, which sends panels of peer educators into classrooms, residents halls, and fraternities and sororities to educate students on LGBT issues.

But despite this univer-

sity’s efforts, there is always more progress to be made, said Madeleine Moore, junior public health major and social chair for Pride Alliance.

This university is doing pretty well with LGBT issues, she said, but it needs to focus more on the “T” and do more to make the campus’s climate more inclusive for transgender people. This means expanding gender-inclusive housing even more, she said, mandating that there be at least one gender-neutral bathroom in every building and providing a more gender-fluid option on paperwork rather than just male or female.

Fo r t h e s e c h a n g e s t o h a p p e n , Mo o re s a i d t h e general culture on the campus will need to change.

“When a trans person walks into a room, you still see heads turn,” Moore said. “It’s a cultural thing because we’re so used to the gender binary that as soon as someone steps out of it, we’re like, ‘What’s going on? What is this?’ I’d definitely like to see a cultural shift on campus.”

Part of changing the culture on campus means emphasizing diversity and acceptance of all people, said Marilee Lindemann, director of the LGBT studies program.

“There’s a much deeper c o m m i t m e n t a c ro s s t h e university to seeing sex and gender variation as part of diversity,” she said. “Diversity is not just about race.”

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Shuttle-UM ridership in 2012, up from 1.5 million in 2005 the future, this fall.

“The university has accomplished a lot,” DeLeon said.

“Participation is really important at all levels, and without the involvement of everyone … we wouldn’t have scored this highly.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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CIC From PAGE 1 already extended to students and faculty in the transition is the library content shared among each of the CIC’s 15 institutions.

Under the sharing system and pending availability, volumes can be sent across the institutions’ library systems to other CIC members’ shelves or computers within a week, Fetter said.

As part of the CIC, the university will also become part of the consortium’s effort with Google to digitize millions of books in the universities’ library systems.

The consortium also has a collaborative study abroad enterprise, which enables students at one university to enroll in foreign studies programs through one of the other 14 institutions if they are unavailable where the student is enrolled.

“It’s having access to a much larger menu of study abroad possibilities in many more countries or places in those countries,” Fetter said.

Rankin, the university’s chief educational officer as provost and its leading representative to the CIC, said the study abroad collaboration would be available to students this academic year, though agreements still must be formalized before the collaboration comes to fruition.

“They’re ready for this to happen, and it’s just up to us to get it implemented,” Rankin said. “Certainly by next year, we’ll have a lot more opportunities available.”

L i n d a C l e m e n t , v i ce president for student affairs and a co-chair of university President Wallace Loh’s Big Ten and CIC integration task force, said she expects the CIC to offer more avenues to the university community over time.

“I think there’ll be lots of connections, some of which we can’t even see yet,” she said.

The CIC institutions hold periodic leadership training discussions and information sessions. Those are in full swing, Clement said, with student government, administration and residence officials all having taken part in meetings over the past few months.

“People have already started actively participating,” Clement said. “You can see it happening.”

Rankin added that these groups of students, staff and administrators were allowed to sit in on several CIC meetings before the university was even a member.

The CIC offers myriad benefits to students and faculty, Fetter said, but university staff is unlikely to feel such a wide impact.

Though some staff members benefit from more resources in their fields of work — such as library staff having access to more volumes under CIC sharing policies — the academic nature of the CIC means the consortium will not generally reach university workers outside the realms of academic study.

The CIC also does not have a direct link to nonuniversity residents of College Park, Fetter said.

On the campus, though, students will first have access to CIC resources this fall, officials said, with more to come gradually.

Though full integration won’t happen for some time and is difficult to measure, Rankin said the transition to the consortium has been “effortless” in its opening stages.

“It’s been very welcoming and enabling and extraordinary,” Rankin said.

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A book-smart decision to cut costs

fter students pay tens of thousands of dollars to finance a college education every year, the cost of textbooks can feel like an extra slap in the face. According to the College Board, students spend about $1,200 annually on books and supplies — a truly obscene amount.

Obviously, textbooks are often necessary supplements to the classroom experience. But spending thousands of dollars on them just seems wrong. And the fact that students are frequently required to buy the cleverly repackaged “updated” textbook editions — when used copies of last year’s edition can be bought cheaply — makes the whole system look like a scam.

Fo r t u n a te ly, t h e Un ive rs i ty System of Maryland Student Council has decided to address this longstanding issue by taking a step in the right direction. The student group

is starting a pilot program for opensource textbooks that essentially allows some university system professors to build their own low-cost books from an established pool of information and resources.

In addition to the huge monetary savings an open-source textbook program would provide, it would also grant participating professors more creativity and flexibility. Many professors already craft their class reading lists themselves by posting readings and lecture slides on ELMS or distributing scanned copies — all while disregarding the class textbook. This initiative will allow professors to customize their own textbooks, tailoring them to fit the structure of the class.

Last semester, groups such as the Student Government Association and MaryPIRG made textbook affordability one of their top priori-

ties, moves this editorial board fully endorsed. It’s encouraging to see the university system respond to these student campaigns by taking action.

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Establishing a pilot program for open-source textbooks is a step in the right direction for college affordability.

Textbook costs should be a national issue, but the topic is usually lumped together with the larger and more complicated issue of overall college affordability. In 2009, a congressional bill to establish a federal grant program for open-source textbooks was introduced and died in committee without much fanfare.

Statewide initiatives, on the other

hand, are more feasible. In 2012, California established an initiative to fund 50 open-source textbooks for state universities and to create an online library to host those books. States such as Ohio, Washington and Texas have also made efforts to fund and promote open-source textbooks.

This state can and should be a pioneer in addressing this issue.

According to USMSC President James Jalandoni, a statewide initiative may be possible if this pilot program goes well.

Let’s hope administrators and politicians take note of this program and the clear student demand for reasonably priced class resources. It’s hard to imagine students wouldn’t want to replace their $100 textbooks with free ones.

Some have raised doubts that free, open-source textbooks will

have the same factual accuracy and quality of a pricey traditional textbook. These are unfounded and unfair accusations — plenty of inaccuracies and mistakes have been documented in the supposedly high-quality textbooks we buy today. Even if a free open-source textbook contained a broken link or small inaccuracy, it’s still a free textbook. A good or bad textbook does not make or break a class — the teacher does.

In an age in which so much information can already be freely accessed over the Internet, establishing affordable class resources is a sensible next step. And really, who gets hurt by free textbooks other than publishing companies and their middlemen? Students and faculty should fully support this pilot program so we can continue to shift the current norm of outrageous textbook costs.

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Thinking it through before going abroad ERIK SHELL Your freshman year of college, and each year after, is full of unique experiences only available to a fulltime student. After all, it is still a luxury to spend the four years after high school with significantly less responsibility than in the years after college graduation.

While there are many typical experiences — joining a club, starting your professional network, watching Rocky Horror at midnight — one seems to stand out above all: the semester abroad.

If you’re a new student, chances are you’ve already heard your colleagues talking about this future plan as if it were a given. Some, in fact, may already have a country or two in mind, and they will gladly tell you what they will do once they are there.

Professors, parents and relatives might also expect you to go abroad, especially if your field of study has a specific country associated with it.

Language majors will obviously visit the country of their chosen tongue, for example.

For all their differences, peers and elders share some common ground when it comes to discussing your year abroad: They know you’re going to love it. While the location and duration of your trip may differ from their suggestions, there is no doubt in their minds this will be, by far, the most defining moment of your young adulthood.

In reality, foreign travel is much more complex, and approaching it as a virtual utopia with candy and rainbows can leave you grossly underprepared.

For one, there are dozens of travel experiences out there and each carries different expectations. For example, a $6,000 class taking place over two or three weeks is going to be much more tourist- and group-focused than a semester-long or full year of living and learning in one location.

That small, constantly moving class is also likely to be much safer, as there are fewer opportunities to travel alone. Being alone is not inher-

ently bad, but notions of safety are not always the same across cultures. While it may be easy for us to notice which areas of Washington to avoid at certain times of night, all notions of criminal behavior and dangerous areas go out the window when one is thrown into a completely foreign culture.

Finally, it is important to accept that there are countries that simply hate Americans. A generation ago, for example, France was much less friendly to English speakers than it is now, though it still has not fully embraced American tourists.

A lot of these issues stem from the American practice of idealizing non-American cultures. I’m not saying America is the grandest nation on earth, but the idea that a place is good simply because it is not American is a similarly ridiculous fallacy. Each country has both good and bad, and ignoring the bad becomes easier when you overromanticize the good.

This is not all to say you should never leave the country. Having an idea of how other people function day to day alongside their history and traditions is essential to developing a more global system of empathy and understanding.

And while when going out to meet new people, there is always a chance they will be your new best friends. However, you also run the risk of meeting someone with the widespread human condition that leads to a willingness to cheat the system at the expense of others.

The fabled semester abroad has become overhyped and underinformed. Any movement abroad should be preceded by due diligence and thoughtful consideration of what you want, be it to follow your ancestry, to pursue academics or to climb the four highest points in Asia.

If you take the reins of your trip, you will be able to have a much safer and more fulfilling personal experience abroad.

Erik Shell is a junior classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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Returning to College Park ADAM OFFITZER I don’t need to tell you what it was like to study abroad, because by now you’ve heard somebody give the standard recap. It’s hard to spend five months in another country and not have the same experience pretty much everyone does: traveling the world, meeting new people and learning new cultures and customs.

But I do want to talk about how it feels to come back.

You see, Sunday marked my first time stepping foot in College Park in eight months. That’s a long time to be away, and the return was as weird as could be expected. Most things felt strikingly familiar — Route 1 hasn’t changed much, Terrapin Turf still isn’t open, and the campus is still as beautiful and huge as ever. But there are also subtle differences — the completed physics building,

the Domain apartment complex, a new Mediterranean food place here and a new pizza place there — that make me feel a bit disoriented.

Obviously the placement of new buildings hasn’t caused me any deep emotional distress. They’re just buildings. And for the most part, the town and the campus are pretty much exactly as I left them. But changes and new developments serve as casual, calm reminders that I’ve been away.

And I’ve missed out.

For me, this was always a big fear about studying abroad — aside from, of course, the inevitable culture shock and homesickness that comes with living so far away. It worried me to “miss” a semester here at school, to miss spending time with great people, to miss the Duke game, to miss the chance to see some of my closest friends graduate.

Fortunately, that’s not how I’m feeling. I’m actually feeling pretty good. Because even though my return

to College Park has felt a bit bizarre and disorienting, it’s been mostly overwhelmed by a warmer feeling: comfort.

This past week, I’ve been hanging out with old friends as if no time has passed since we last saw one another.

I’ve been navigating the campus with ease, feeling like a true veteran when I get the chance to guide lost freshmen.

I cheered on our football team and remembered the whole fight song. I waited in line for that oh-so-satisfying College Park Chipotle burrito bowl, and loved every bite.

I’ve always loved our campus, and while the “livable community” of College Park is far from perfect, it has its own charms and hidden gems.

But it took being away for eight long months for me to fully realize what this school has finally become to me: a true second home.

Adam Offitzer is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at aoffitzerdbk@gmail.com.

Pros and cons of studying domestic DAVE STROH In the 2012 school year, my world at this university changed dramatically. From a new major to a different living situation, I made many adjustments. The biggest adjustment had to do with the school’s many study abroad programs. Even though I was not participating in these programs, they had a large impact on my life.

Since my first days at this school, I have been part of a group of very close friends. Roughly 12 of us were almost inseparable and we became somewhat of a family away from family. Despite our differing views, beliefs and backgrounds, we could talk about anything without worry of judgment or condemnation. Yet last year, all but three of us decided to apply to study abroad programs.

While at the time, I thought little of the possibility for change in the

group, I eventually realized our friendships would never be the same.

Half of my friends went to London and the other half to Berlin; those who lived together became tighter friends than ever. Facebook pictures allowed me glimpses of the part of my world that was rapidly changing.

However, I still failed to realize the depth of that change. I carried on with my life as normally as I could, talked with those abroad when it was convenient (rarely ever) and awaited their return and life as it used to be. I only truly understood the differences in my group when they eventually returned to school for spring semester.

Those who studied together had stories I had never heard, about people I had never met, set in places I had never been. They had experiences I could never completely understand and could never even think to replicate. They had changed.

And they had changed together.

Sure, I was different, too. No one

can live six months in College Park without some kind of change. But now, their change was a shared one.

If not for study abroad, we would have changed together, slowly, in a way that was almost unnoticeable because of the subtlety of life.

So what is my friend group like today? Well, those who lived together abroad live together at school. I talk to them when I can, see them occasionally and miss them often.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame them for anything. I’m happy for them and the relationships they all share. I have new friendships that were formed during their absence, and I am extremely thankful for those in my life now.

The entire experience has taught m e t h i s l e sso n : A ny t h i n g ca n change. How you handle that change is up to you. You can either go with the flow or be left behind.

Dave Stroh is a senior English m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t dstrohdbk@gmail.com.

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The World’s End isn’t as wall-to-wall perfect Decades from now, when experts look back on End, that the tidy perfection of village life is the history of film, they will probably remember enforced through violence and indoctrination, as Shaun of the Dead, nor does it ever match the comedy in the early 21st century as the age of the there’s always something suspect about ordinary genius of Hot Fuzz’s third act — one of the greatman-child. From the blockbusters of Judd Apatow adult life. It’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers with est extended comic set pieces of its era — but it is more than worthy of its predecessors. If anything, (This Is 40) to the low-budget mumblecore of the pratfalls and comic gunplay.

In The World’s End, Pegg and Nick Frost (Snow it suffers from an excess of ambition. It tries to do Duplass brothers (The Do-Deca Pentathlon), the grown man emotionally trapped in adolescence is White and the Huntsman) — this millennium’s so much that its attention is frequently divided, the defining archetype of contemporary comedy, buddy-cop answer to Tracy and Hepburn — leading to a somewhat overburdened climax and the way hapless working stiffs and fast-talking play former childhood pals who have drifted apart in their 40s. Pegg’s Gary is a washed-up dames defined the 1930s.

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In fact, all of Gary’s childhood pals — a Cornetto ice cream, a dig at Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy — consisting of Shaun of the veritable who’s who of great British actors, Dead, Hot Fuzz and now The World’s End is one including Paddy Considine (Girl on a Bicycle), of the best depictions of arrested development. Martin Freeman (Sherlock), Eddie Marsan Writer-actor Simon Pegg (Paul) and writer- (Ray Donovan) and Rosamund Pike (The Devil director Edgar Wright (The Adventures of Tintin) You Know) — have moved on and settled turn modern-day England into a vast playground down, but Gary is desperate and conniving filled with zombies, robots and aliens for their enough to persuade them to return to their edgar wright examines the set of The World’s End, his latest heroes to do battle with. Whoever the specific hometown for one night to attempt an epic successful parody. photo courtesy of laurie sparham/focus features

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wide receiver deon long makes a catch during the Terps’ 43-10 win over Florida International in the season opener at Byrd Stadium. christian jenkins/the diamondback

long From PAGE 8 in the Terps’ season-opening victory.

“I felt like I looked good, but always room for improvement on my blocking, my running routes and stuff like that,” Long said Saturday. “I can improve.”

Long gained more and more yards with each of his catches. His first two catches as a Terp — he previously spent time at West Virginia and New Mexico in addition to Iowa Western — were screen passes on the outside for a combined seven yards.

But on a second and 9 during the Terps’ first touchdown drive in the first quarter, Brown was flushed from the pocket to his right and found Long along the sideline for a 27-yard gain.

The catch was reviewed and upheld after Long tiptoed along the sideline.

“If you get the ball anywhere near him, he’s going to catch it,” Edsall said. “He’s got the ability to go deep. Great body control. Good hands.”

It was a day in which most things seemed to go Long’s way. He fumbled during a 20-yard catch-and-run later in the second quarter, but the

ball bounced straight up off the turf and back into his chest as he fell down.

“He came out and had a great day,” Brown said.

“They left him one on one on the boundary, and if you do that, we’re going to exploit you. But the end of the game, they were clouding his side of the field, putting two guys over there.”

Long makes one-third of a heralded trio of Terps r e c e i ve r s , a l o n g w i t h Stefon Diggs and Nigel King.

Each of them has the potential to break off a big play at any moment, and while King was quiet — one catch in the fourth quarter for 21 yards — Diggs picked up where he left off last season with five catches for 98 yards and a 66-yard touchdown catch.

And Long is well-aware of the explosiveness around him on the field.

“It’s just motivation,” Long said. “At any time, [Diggs] could take a pass to the house like a touchdown.

So I got to make the best of my opportunities when I get the ball and then just communicating with him, everything we do. Talking to him every play and just keep me working hard.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

year, much more comfortable in the role,” he said. “Every game you try to learn a little something about yourself, try to learn a little something about your team and be better.”

Having completed their four-game, season-opening home stand, the Terps (4-0) have already shown how powerful their offense can be. They dominated The Citadel in a 9-0 win in the season opener, and they scored 18 goals in the four-game stretch.

Forward Hayley Brock is a big part of that offensive firepower. The senior from Acton, Mass., was a breakout star last year, earning All-ACC Second Team and ACC All-Tournament Team honors while scoring 13 goals. She already has nearly half of her scoring output from last year, netting six goals so far.

“She’s been a stud,” Morgan said. “That’s expected. She’s been a stud when people are draped all over her, and she still finds a way. I think we’re going to be able to score some goals this year, knock on wood.”

Mo rga n h a s o f fe n s ive options off the bench, too, with forwards Cory Ryan and Gabby Galanti, who notched the go-ahead goal in a physical match against Navy on Sunday night. He also considered moving Ashley Spivey between the midfield and forward positions.

The Terps midfield may have the most new faces of any part of the team this year. With former starters Danielle Hubka and Olivia Wagner now on the sidelines as student assistants, Morgan will rely

FORWARD gabby galanti scored the go-ahead goal in the undefeated Terps’ 2-0 win over Navy on Sunday. rebecca rainey/for the diamondback more on Spivey and fellow sophomores Riley Barger and Maisie McCune. He has also been starting freshman Lauren Berman, who may emerge as one of the team’s biggest scoring threats with two goals and three assists in four games.

Defensively, the Terps should also benefit from having a year under their belts. With defender Megan Gibbons’ ACL injury in early September last season, Morgan had to shuffle pieces around and played a unit that was either young, inexperienced or both. The Terps allowed 24 goals, the most given up since 2005. So far this season, the Terps have allowed two goals and recorded three shutouts.

“This year, [Morgan] chal-

lenged us to not give up as many goals, not to give up as many fouls and just to play good, solid defense: Keep the ball in front of us, don’t let shots get off, don’t let crosses get off, defend well in the air and be cleaner in the back,” defender Erika Nelson said.

“We’re especially focusing on the basics, basic soccer.”

The team’s last line of defense will be the same as last season, with redshirt sophomore Rachelle Beanlands at goalkeeper. The Ottawa, Canada, native posted a 1.07 goals-against average along with five shutouts in her first year as the starter.

Her numbers may only drop with a better defensive unit in front of her.

“Last year was a bit of a learning curve, but I think this year we have a solid group in the back,” Beanlands said. “We’re all pretty coordinated, and we listen to each other, so it’s good.”

Ranked high in the polls at No. 15, the Terps have their sights on a fifth-straight NCAA tournament appearance. But this time around, they plan on making their stay last a lot longer.

“I think after having such a great season last year in the ACC and then losing in the second round, it was a really big disappointment and a letdown for all of us,” Brock said. “We’re coming back and trying not to repeat that this year.” nmunsondbk@gmail.com

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FORWARD HAyLEY BROCK and the Terps are aiming for another NCAA tournament run this season. The Terps fell in an overtime matchup against Denver in the second round last season. james levin/the diamondback

As Terps get older, expectations get higher Seasoned team looks for deep tourney run

By Nicholas Munson @nickmunson1 Staff writer After five years serving as an assistant coach, Jonathan Morgan finally got the call to take over the Terrapins women’s soccer team in early 2012.

While he was getting a fresh start after the departure of former coach Brian Pensky, the program’s roster was a nearly clean slate as well: 16 of the 31 players on the roster were freshmen.

Morgan still steered the Terps to their fourth-straight NCAA

tournament appearance last year, when they eventually suffered a second-round defeat to Denver in double overtime. This season, as the Terps age, the expectations increase. They lost four starters, but they have a roster that blends youth and experience, with seven underclassmen and three seniors in the starting lineup.

All of that has Morgan excited and ready.

“I feel much more comfortable this See preview, Page 7

On the first play of the second quarter in the Terrapins football team’s season opener Saturday, quarterback C.J. Brown took the shotgun snap, faked a handoff, planted his right foot and lobbed a high, arcing pass to the back corner of the end zone from the Florida International 25-yard line.

Wide receiver Deon Long beat the Panthers’ coverage, and the ball fell into his hands moments later for his first touchdown with the Terps.

That was one of many highlights for Long in his Terps debut.

The junior college transfer from I owa We s te r n C o m m u n i ty College flashed the talent that made him a five-star recruit by catching nine passes for 110 yards and a touchdown as the Terps overpowered FIU, 43-10.

“I wouldn’t say he exceeded my expectations,” coach Randy Edsall said yesterday. “I thought that watching him on film from Iowa Western and watching him this spring, you could see that he was a very talented wide receiver, and watching him go out on Saturday and then watching him on film — no, that didn’t surprise me.

That’s kind of what we expect out of him, and again, we think that he can even be better than what he was on Saturday.”

While Edsall wasn’t taken

WIDE RECEIVER DEON LONG (left) and coach Randy Edsall (right) talk during the Terps’ 43-10 win over Florida International. Long had nine catches for 110 yards and a touchdown. christian jenkins/the diamondback aback by Long’s performance, it did come under unique circumstances. Long was twice listed on the Terps’ training camp injury report as “out for the week” with a back injury, and shortly after Saturday’s game, Long revealed three

fractures in his lower back — the L2, L3 and L4 lumbar vertebrae — as the reason for his absence.

But Long returned from the injury and posted big numbers See LONG, Page 7

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By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer With similar names, signs and menus, College Park’s many Asian restaurants can be hard to tell apart. But these are worth a shot:

Pho D’Lite Pho D’Lite isn’t the best pho joint in the county — that would be Pho 88 past Ikea — but it’s certainly the best within walking distance of the campus, and it’s a very pleasant place to enjoy a meal.

The signature Pho D’Lite offers a good mix of textures paired with hearty broth, and vermicelli bowls are great for the hot months; they’re a fresher, lighter take on standard Asian takeout.

The service and ambiance at Pho D’Lite are a serious cut above most other area Asian restaurants.

most of what Shanghai Cafe has to offer — there are a few authentic Chinese dishes, but results are scattershot. Dining in is a considerably less endearing experience, but delivery is quick and reliable.

Ivy Noodles

Wasabi Bistro

wasabi bistro is convenient and affordable for the best sushi in the College Park area. As at the other restaurants listed here, make sure to branch out from the entrees for variety. james levin/the diamondback

of convenience — it’s a one-stop shop for bubble tea, froyo and tasty Japanese morsels. Wasabi offers plenty of combos and box meals for value-seeking Terps, as well as the deliciously unique sushi pizza.

Appetizers are also tasty — check out the crunchy, savory scallion cake and crispy pork gyoza.

Ivy Noodles is the only place Wasabi Bistro beats out all the in College Park where you can area sushi restaurants by virtue wzhangdbk@gmail.com find he fen, udon, Cantonese egg noodles, lo mein and rice noodles all under the same roof, along with more traditional Chinese/American Chinese fare. The wonton noodle soup has a killer mix of great wontons and good noodles in a decent broth, and the pork and preserved egg congee hits the Chinese comfort-food sweet spot.

Ivy Noodles also has speedy phone and online delivery service.

Shanghai Cafe There are a ton of American Chinese restaurants near the campus. Almost all of them (I’m looking at you, Seven Seas) are decent, but few are as remarkably consistent as Shanghai Cafe when it comes to cooking up greasy General Tso’s chicken or murky hot and sour soup. If you’ve ever been to a Panda Express, you know

pho d’lite, with its lighter fare, cool atmosphere and strong service, stands tall above many of the area’s Asian restaurants. Check out the vermicelli bowls for an exotic texture. rachel george/for the diamondback

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Last year in ACC advice from upperclassmen means big season “[I wish I had known] where all the buildings for Terps sports were. I learned by using TerpNav, the website, WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU HAD KNOWN AS A FRESHMAN?

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Five games you won’t want to miss this season

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“I wish I knew about OurUMD.com because I think it’s better than CourseEval, and I didn’t know about it until the spring.”

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer T h e re’s n o d o u b t this year is one of the biggest in the history of Terrapins athletics, the terps will face off against Clemson Oct. 26, in one of their most challenging games of the season. photo courtesy of clemson athletics considering it’s the university’s last go-around in the ACC their quest for a third national title after 61 years in the conference. in eight years.

So if you’re a Terps supporter — or just enjoy the atmosphere of the Women’s Soccer: vs. Wake Forest games — you’ll probably want to Sept. 22 attend some of the bigger matchups this season and help send the The Demon Deacons are ranked Terps into the Big Ten with a bang. No. 10 in the nation and they’ll We’ve searched the schedules and come to campus for a Sunday afterpicked one game you’ll want to noon game against forward Hayley check out for each team this fall. Brock and the No. 15 Terps.

Football: vs. Clemson Oct. 26

Field Hockey: vs. Virginia Oct. 25

With quarterback C.J. Brown healthy, the Terps seemed primed for their best season in third-year coach Randy Edsall’s tenure.

W hen Clemson visits College Park for homecoming, the Terps will likely face their biggest test of the season trying to stop Tigers quarterback Tajh Boyd and wide receiver Sammy Watkins.

This matchup of top-10 teams will mark the last time the Terps face their border-state rivals in a regular-season league game. Like the men’s soccer team, field hockey lost in the NCAA semifinals last season.

Volleyball: vs. North Carolina Nov. 24

Coach Tim Horsmon and the Terps, who are searching for their first NCAA tournament berth since 2005, will celebrate Senior Day Returning Hermann Trophy against one of the ACC’s stronwinner Patrick Mullins and the gest teams.

Terps get one last crack at their longtime conference foe Friday in akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

Men’s Soccer: vs. Duke Sept. 6

SENIOR SOCIOLOGY MAJOR LEBONA HAILU

JUNIOR ACCOUNTING MAJOR IAN EFFRON

“Going to class actually counts for, like, half of your grade. I rarely went to class, and it affected my GPA a lot.”

SENIOR CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAJOR ASHLEY FRANCE

“I think that definitely things like Freshman Forgiveness, knowing that that is a tool … I also wish I knew it was a good thing to be social. I personally wasn’t that social, but it would have enhanced my experience if I were more social.”

SENIOR FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT MAJOR MAURICE CLARKE

“I lived at the View, so I wish I knew about what happened on South Campus, like down on Route 1, the restaurants … just the social life because it gets really separate.”

JUNIOR GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS MAJOR JOSH GORSKY

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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.

37 Revo Nails 31 Today’s Hair

Ice Cream, Smoothies & Yogurt 9 Cold Stone Creamery 57 Smoothie King 39 Yogi Berry Pizza 8 59 44 32 20 71

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

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

Restaurants & Spirits 4 Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill 42 Aroy Thai 35 The Barking Dog 73 Big Play Sports 23 China Cafe 13 Chipotle Mexican Grill 52 Cluckster’s 61 Cornerstone Grill & Loft 50 Five Guys 10 Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill 29 Hookah Cafe 17 Jason’s Deli 37 Jimmy John’s 66 Kiyoko Express 26 Krazi Kebob 59 Ledo Restaurant 48 Lime Fresh Grill 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 39 Capital One Books 49 Bookholder’s 40 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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find your ideal study spot

By Yasmeen Abutaleb @yabutaleb7 Senior staff writer There are the parties, the clubs, the sporting events and the social scenes.

At some point, though, you’ll have to come to terms with the fact that college is a place to get a degree, which generally requires some work and studying. So when you’ve settled into campus life and can’t escape the inevitable reality of homework and exams, you’ll want to find places on the campus that help you perform to the best of your ability.

It takes some trial and error, but fortu nately, I have th ree years of experience to tell you the best study and work spots on and around the campus.

Whether you’re writing a paper, completing an assignment or studying for an exam you’re totally unprepared for, The Diamondback has got you covered.

BACK OF HORNBAKE BASEMENT McKeldin Library is the beautiful building showcased in all the campus brochures and pictures.

But just a five-minute walk away is Hornbake Library, which, fortunately for you, is often forgotten about or overlooked.

Hornbake is far quieter than McKeldin and sometimes nearly empty — an almost eerie hidden gem on the campus. And few people know about the back of the basement, which has a nice view of a small courtyard and spacious tables to lay out textbooks, laptops, calculators, notebooks and whatever else you may be carrying in your arsenal.

As an added bonus, many of the chairs rock and are big enough to shift position in as you grow tired, bored and irritated with whatever you’re working on. Because of its near silence (most of the time), this spot is best for intense exam studying, lab reports, long papers due within hours and difficult homework assignments.

josie o’regan, utkarsh jain and lauren tolchin study in the Terrapin Learning Center on the second floor of McKeldin Library. Although it is the one of the most popular places to study on the campus, this floor can become packed with students cramming and writing papers around finals time — all the more reason to check out the top floors or somewhere different on the campus. file photo/the diamondback

TOP FLOORS OF MCKELDIN LIBRARY Everyone flocks to the second floor, which is regularly remodeled and easily accessible. But during midterms and finals, it often feels more like a crowded coffee shop than a library. Those who were around this past spring may remember a YouTube video of a student dancing on the second floor in the midst of finals studying.

Few decide to venture to the fourth floor and above, though, which still has the appropriate books-and-desks library feel while maintaining the perfect level of quiet. And you can always walk a

few steps down to enjoy a bit of a social scene if you’re feeling restless.

JASON’S DELI

journalism major, and Knight Hall has gorgeous high windows and Thanks to its all-you-can-eat beautiful computers with tons of salad bar and complimentary ice software for students to use 24 hours UNDER A TREE/HORNBAKE PLAZA cream, Jason’s Deli can be the a day. I’m also a microbiology major, M a ke t he most of t he l ate perfect place to do some casual and the science buildings have small s u m mer a nd fa l l mont h s by studying or work. You can refuel as libraries and even practice exams studying outside. The fresh air needed and meet up with a couple available for students to take. helps you think more clearly, es- friends when it’s time for a break. pecially when you need to tap into For most, rooms and dorm lounges your creative side while writing provide too many distractions. Go ACADEMIC BUILDINGS papers or completing an art assee the campus and take advantage of signment. There’s also the right Chances are your department or everything available to you. And, of level of background noise if the college has resources for you to use, course, if you have any other suggesassignment you’re working on such as computers or study rooms tions or find your own under-the-raisn’t too high-pressure, and you in various buildings. Capitalize on dar spot, let us know! have time to take in the beautiful these, and make the most of your scenery surrounding you. tuition dollars. For example, I’m a yabutalebdbk@gmail.com

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Making the most of the meal plan want to be one of them. So try to save money where you can. Grab some salad from the free-toppings EZRA FISHMAN bar. Fill up your refillable water bottle with soda or milk to catch Fall semester is here. And with it the massive discount. If you pay comes the start of everyone’s least close enough attention, you can find favorite diet: the meal plan. This all kinds of great ways to cut costs will be my fourth year with a meal and maybe even afford breakfast plan; I’ve eaten almost everything some days.

Second, get creative. There’s no served at the dining halls by now.

In these long years, I’ve learned a rule that your entire meal has to few tricks to get the most for my come from one station. Get a salad money. I’d like to share some of from the salad bar or pasta from the pasta bar and add grilled chicken them with you.

First, take advantage of the free from the grill. Get a slice of cheese things and discounts. Dining points pizza and add your own toppings on are a hard-to-come-by commod- the side. Get some bread from the ity. By the end of the semester, the toaster section and some chicken people who have extra points will tenders to build your own delicious be everyone’s best friends; you sandwich. (That was my meal for a

few weeks at the end of last semester.) You can even get your friends together and make an Epic Meal Time-esque creation out of items from every station.

Third, know where the food is good. The pasta bar on South Campus is always a solid choice, and they’ve finally added one to the North Campus Dining Hall as well.

Use all of your 251 North meals. It has an amazing selection, it’s allyou-can-eat, and you’re just going to lose the free meals otherwise.

(People on North Campus have fewer points specifically because they’re supposed to go there every week.) Your best friend is always the buffalo chicken wrap (unless you don’t want to gain weight). Not all late-night meals are equal. (Tuesday

is Tex-Mex and pancakes.)

And the absolute best thing from either dining hall is the stir-fry from Seasons 12 at the South Campus Dining Hall. It’s only open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the lines can take a half hour during peak activity, but if you have enough time at lunch, you want to get it as often as you can. The food there is all of moderate to high quality, the sauces are great, and there are so many options that you can make a new meal every time. I have friends who can write whole papers on the different ways to do stir-fry; you want to be one of them, too.

Finally, and most importantly, know all the ways to avoid dining hall food. You can make friends who have kitchens. You can scout

the events with free foods — I’ve met someone who survives on just those.

You can make meals using your Terp Bucks. You can start working at a local restaurant and eat there. You can get a different job and use your money to eat anywhere. Or you can do the college thing and survive on crates of ramen and tea. If you’re lucky and save a lot of points, you can treat yourself to Adele’s in Stamp Student Union — whatever it takes to get yourself out of the dining halls.

Because in the end, the best thing you can get out of your meal plan is to get out of using your meal plan.

Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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PHONE NUMBERS TO REMEMBER Quinn Kelley @quinnkelley Senior staff writer

number for University Police. Call this number to request a walking escort on the campus so you don’t have to walk alone at night. You Throughout orientation, fresh- can also request a police escort by man welcome events and your first using any of the blue-light emerfew nights out on the town, you gency phones around the campus. might gather tons of new phone numbers — even those of people DOTS NextBus you’ll never see again. The follow301-364-1780 ing numbers, however, will help you stay safe and navigate the campus, The Department of Transportaespecially during the somewhat tion Services’ automated NextBus scary and uncertain time that is service. You can call the number the beginning of freshman year. to find when a bus is coming to a nearby stop, or text “NBUS University Police (Emergency) UMD” and the five-digit code of any DOTS bus stop to 41411 to find 301-405-3333 out how long you’ll have to wait.

The emergency phone number This service is also offered online for University Police. Calling 911 and as a smartphone application. is fine for emergencies too, but that connects you with the Prince George’s County Police Department, which deals with off-campus crime in College Park. University Police handles emergencies on the campus and sends out crime alerts to students through texts and emails.

University Police (Non-Emergency) 301-405-3555 T he non-emergency phone

DOTS NITE Ride 301-314-NITE (6483) DOTS’ NITE Ride service, which runs between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. seven nights a week. Although shuttle buses service the campus at night, this service picks up students from areas on the campus that aren’t on an evening bus route.

University Health Center 301-314-8184 The number to make an appointment at the University Health Center. You can also make appointments for many services at myuhc.umd.edu. qkelleydbk@gmail.com

numbers and services keep students safe on and off the campus.

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