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Greek council SGA has only $60,000 to give to groups enforces new party policy Body usually doles out about $300,000 to student groups in fall allocations

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Fraternities required to report other rush parties

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

Fraternity members are now required to report other chapters’ underage rush parties to the Interfraternity Council or risk losing all social privileges for the entire recruitment period, due to a new watchdog initiative aimed at cutting down recruitment violations.

This new rule by the Interfraternity Council, which represents 22 university chapters and enforces its own set of disciplinary policies, requires any fraternity member who sees a rush party or knows of one taking place to contact that chapter’s president and the IFC’s executive board. If the chapter still throws the party, it could land the entire council in social moratorium until recruitment ends Sept. 21.

“The chapters are value-based organizations and therefore shouldn’t be using alcohol to encourage people to join these organizations,” said IFC Advisor Amie Jackson.

The council’s push to crack down on rush parties comes on the heels of more severe problems at other universities, such as the University of South Carolina, where a rash of alcohol violations led to a partial suspension of fraternity recruitment this fall.

“I think there was a general distaste in the community for having these large events because freshmen were just coming down in masses to attend,” Jackson said.

Vince Bellitti, IFC vice president of recruitment, said several parties have already been reported this semester, even though recruitment has not officially begun. He declined to say how many violations have been committed, or name the chapters that committed them,

Student groups seeking additional funding from the SGA this semester may receive far less than what they hope.

At the Student Government Association’s first legislative session of the year yesterday, SGA Vice President for Financial Affairs David Berlin said the organization had to change the process of allocating funds to student groups this fall due to tight budget constraints. The body now has 80 percent less money to give to student groups.

“I know this is something you all don’t want to hear,” Berlin told legislators yesterday. “But I don’t

think this will hinder the performance for any student groups.

I don’t think there are any groups that don’t want to be active, and I don’t think this will make any of them cease to exist.”

Student groups receive the main portion of their annual budgets from the SGA in the spring, but in the fall, organizations are allowed to ask for more money.

Student groups generally appeal up to $1 million to $2.5 million in secondary funding each year, and the SGA would typically have a pool of around $300,000. This fall, the body has only $60,000 to give out, officials said.

Traditionally, the SGA would

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Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie speaks about reallocating student group funds for the fall. TJ ROOT/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

BALANCING ACTS Gymkana makes national debut on “America’s Got Talent”

BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN For The Diamondback

For Gymkana Troupe members, jumping through fiery hoops is a run-of-themill activity — but doing so on a national stage was a whole different story.

More than thousands applied but only 12 groups were chosen to perform on the NBC talent-scouting show “America’s Got Talent,” and the gymnastics troupe — which typically performs high-flying acrobatics for school children to promote a substance-free lifestyle — ultimately made it to the semifinal round. Gymkana was eliminated last week after troupe member and alumnus Warren Hull hit the ring of fire, causing it to accidentally tumble. Yet many Gymkana members said the group’s success was more than they could have imagined.

“I think we did our job. Even if we didn’t win this thing, we put Gymkana’s face out there,” senior kinesiology major Orsam Ahmed said. “We just laughed it up ever since, and we kept a positive attitude.”

The troupe submitted a video of its

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Students flock to 251 North New North Campus dining hall served 800 students a night in its debut week

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BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

After more than a year of anticipation, the university’s newest dining hall is officially open and now that its first week of business is over, many students said they only have one complaint — they wish they could eat there more.

As the first all-you-can-eat dining hall on the campus, 251 North promised to be a new experience for everyone, offering unique dishes, such as chicken ginger teriyaki, artisan pizzas and tiramisu parfaits. According to Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva, 251 North served an average of 800 students each evening the past week. Wright-Riva said she expects that number to go up as the semester continues.

“Feedback has been extremely positive,” Wright-Riva said. “Students are very happy about the selections, and I think they’re excited to try things they never have before.”

The only hitch for students so far, many said, is how few times they actually get to enjoy the new dishes. North Campus residents are allotted one 251 North meal per week, while South Campus residents are allowed just four a semester. 251 North meals cost $11 each. And similar to the traditional focus date system with standard meal plans, North Campus students lose the allotted meals if they do not use them each week.

“It’s understandable, but I don’t like it,” sophomore kinesiology major Julie Trinchere said.

But dining officials said they stand by this policy for now, adding that they will re-evaluate the system as the semester goes on based on how frequently students actually eat in the

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A watchful eye University Police’s monitoring system boasts more than 500 cameras

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There are at least six sets of eyes, all at one comfortable location, monitoring more than 500 cameras 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And they’re watching you.

While University Police continuously patrol the campus to deter crime, few students said they knew the department has hundreds of cameras that can all be monitored from a control room — the Security Operations Center — in the police station. The initiative has grown substantially since its inception in 1996, and police said it has helped in solving various crimes throughout the past 15 years.

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This safety initiative is unique to this university, police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said. Representatives from all over the country, and even as far away as China, come to tour the control room in hopes of creating a similar system.

Although the control room began with just 25 cameras and one person monitoring them, it has since grown to boast more than 45 employees — all students and contractual workers — 350 police-owned cameras and more than 100 College Park and university-owned cameras.

The cameras are mounted to the exterior walls of buildings, roofs and blue-light stations throughout

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FUNDING from page 1

“SGA can no longer be the sole means of getting money for your organization.”

DAVID BERLIN SGA VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCIAL AFFAIRS

Gymkana, a gymnastics group dedicated to promoting a substancefree lifestyle, practices routines yesterday afternoon. Chosen out of thousands of applicants, the group performed in California on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” show and made it through to the semifinals.

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and Gymkana president.

The 15 troupe members from page 1 chosen to fly out to California for the show soon became performance in April and attached at the hip, practicing learned they were chosen for three to four hours daily the two weeks prior to the first the show in early summer.

But they had one small performance, which aired problem: They needed a Aug. 9.

Members and coaches new routine.

“The biggest challenge we quickly revised their performfaced was getting a routine ances, which typically consist together in such a short of balancing acts on ladders, amount of time and getting to include acrobatics, ballet all the representatives to and vaulting.

Despite these challenges, Maryland to practice together,” said Ashleigh the troupe garnered enough Hyman, a senior math and votes to advance to the semisecondary education major final round. Its second — and

final — live TV performance was a multifaceted act consisting of balancing atop a tower of chairs, vaulting and jumping through its signature ring of fire with new props, such as vaulting boxes specially designed to fit the small stage.

“It was a unique routine that was designed to showcase the multiple levels of talent that Gymkana can bring to the table,” said Scott Welsh, director and coach of Gymkana, adding “when Sharon Osbourne gives you the comment, ‘I can’t believe you’re not professionals,’ [in

the first episode] that was good enough. That was victory for us.”

Although the troupe wasn’t crowned champions nor won the $1 million cash prize, many members said getting their message out there was victory enough.

“We’re hoping that this experience shows what Gymkana’s about and helps us financially so we can continue what we’ve already been doing,” Ahmed said. “We want to reach more kids and show them that you can live drug, alcohol and tobacco free.”

Several students said they

ficult to tell when a party has been thrown, whether from page 1 from word-of-mouth or latenight walk-arounds to fraterbecause the IFC hasn’t for- nity houses.

“It’s definitely made a posmally put them on four weeks of social moratorium. When a itive impact on the commuchapter is put on social mora- nity. I think it’s a great poltorium, it is banned from icy, and it’s cutting down on holding organized recruit- the large parties that present such a huge risk issue,” ment or social events.

“It’s actually been pretty said Alex Guacci, IFC vice effective, a lot of chapters president of risk managehave been calling us about ment and a member of things that have been going Lambda Chi Alpha.

Although this new policy on,” said Bellitti, a junior mechanical engineering is only enforced among IFC major and member of fraternities, the Panhellenic Association — which repreLambda Chi Alpha.

If a fraternity is found to sents 14 university sororities have thrown a party and no — will be seeing changes other chapter reported it, this year, too. The council’s the entire council could also national organization now be put on social morato- prohibits sorority members rium. Bellitti said it’s not dif- from attending any frater-

nity recruitment events.

PHA President Marie LaMonica, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, said although her council already recruits separately from fraternities, the rule will enrich recruitment on the campus.

“I think we as a community have the ability to bring in tons of members who can really make a positive change on our campus, and by recruiting differently it really shows the differences between our two councils,” LaMonica said.

University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said the IFC policy could be a social deterrent, as chapters may think twice before throwing a party or turning a blind eye

to one if they know all chapters could be held accountable for others’ actions.

“Just from a peer standpoint, they wouldn’t want to bring down the culture of Greek life as a whole,” Limansky said.

Although police are aware of which off-campus houses are most used for fraternity parties, Limansky said officers do not give IFC a formal notice if they respond to a party at a satellite house.

While Limansky said there doesn’t appear to be an above-average number of alcohol violations this month, he is hopeful Greek culture will reform before suffering permanent damage.

“God forbid someone dies because of alcohol poisoning,” Limansky said. “I’d

have been holding on to their meals,” Wright-Riva said.

Despite the restrictions on how much they can eat, many students said 251 North is worth the wait. It features five separate stations — a grill station, a salad bar, an Italian food center

and two deli kitchens. One serves Vietnamese-style sandwiches and Asian noodles, while the other offers open-faced hot sandwiches.

“It’s amazing, definitely the best food I’ve had on campus,” said sophomore letters and sciences major Alex Winter.

“It’s in a league of it’s own,” added sophomore mechanical engineering major Eddie Mulhern.

Even some students with dietary restrictions could not complain too much.

“I would’ve expected them to have more options, con-

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DINING from page 1 dining hall.

“The worst thing that could happen is 3,000 students want to eat on the same night because they

CAMERAS from page 1 the campus and downtown.

These Pan Tilt Zoom — more commonly known among police as PTZ — cameras are capable of swiveling in every direction and can zoom and focus through all hours of the day and night.

With at least six employees working at a time, monitoring the screens for any suspicious activity, Lt. Joanne Ardovini, the control room’s commander, said the purpose of the control room is to stop crime in its tracks.

“To be proactive, we look for suspicious activity and call an officer over to that location to check it out before anything happens,” said Ardovini, who has been the commander of the team for four years. “To be reactive, we watch officers responding to incidents and see if they need backup.”

Ardovini recalled an incident where an officer was assaulted and his radio fell out of his reach, but because the control-room team was watching the monitors, it was able to call for backup before the officer was injured. She said employees in the control room also review videos after incidents for suspect information.

Ardovini said control-room employees once saw a man kick a girl in the leg, and cameras caught the suspect fleeing toward Comcast Center.

“We saw him take his shirt off to change his appearance, we saw him assault another person, and by watching him on our monitors, we were able to direct an officer to him just before he was about to assault a third person,” she said.

But some students said they aren’t convinced the cameras are effective.

“The cameras are a good idea, but the city still has a pretty high crime rate,” said Anna Pham, a junior cell biology major. “But any safety initiative is better than no safety initiative.”

Ardovini said although the cameras cover most of the campus, they cannot look into residential windows.

“In addition to blocking out the windows, we put all of our employees through training so they know what’s appropriate and what’s not,” she said. “We respect privacy.”

But if the monitors see an usually large group of people walking to the same place, the control-room team can call or radio police to alert them of the situation, which some students said makes them uncomfortable.

“It makes me really uneasy that these cameras are everywhere,” junior violin performance major Alex Yin said. “I really want to know where they all are now.” egan@umdbk.com

were impressed that an organization at this university made it to the semifinals of the nationally televised show.

“I think it makes us look good,” said junior history and psychology major Richie Green, who watched Gymkana’s first appearance on the show. “Amateur gymnastics competing at that level is a plus.”

Yet, the troupe’s national stint may not quite be over — they could be voted to perform during the “America’s Got Talent” tour. news@umdbk.com

“I think it’s a great policy, and it’s cutting down on the large parties that present such a huge risk issue.”

ALEX GUACCI INTRAFRATERNITY COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT OF RISK MANAGEMENT

hate to be on that end of the phone call. I’d rather explain why we’re enforcing alcohol violations than explain to a mother why we haven’t done any enforcing.” lurye@umdbk.com

sidering there’s more for ever yone else,” said sophomore business major Shinduk Seo, a vegetarian. “But based on what I’ve had around the rest of campus it wasn’t that bad.” israel@umdbk.com

transfer the leftover money student groups did not spend from their allocated budgets the previous year into a pool to be given to the groups that apply. But because the pool has been steadily draining, student groups can now only apply for as much as $500 on a first come, first ser ve basis, and only 52 groups would receive the maximum amount.

Before, student groups could ask for as much as they needed.

About $7,500 of the $60,000 will go toward SGA ser vices and telephone bills, and the rest will be funneled into this school year’s Group Help fund for student-run organizations.

Berlin emailed student groups after last night’s meeting that he would be accepting Group Help applications starting Friday.

“SGA can no longer be the sole means of getting money for your organization,” Berlin wrote in the email to student groups,” Berlin said. “We are now, and forever will be, facilitators helping you find the resources you need to help your organization be as successful as ever.”

Mario Pareja-Lecaros, — who is the general manager at WMUC, which had its budget significantly slashed last semester — said the maximum $500 grant is short of what the organization had been wanting.

“It’s unfortunate,” he said “[We’ll] hope to get the maximum $500 and hopefully next semester we can get more funding from alumni and other sources. ... But there’s nothing we can do about this.”

SGA officials said while the situation was troubling, it was expected, noting that the student activities fee has risen only $5.02 over the past decade. Meanwhile, the number of student groups has grown, and the amount student groups spend has also risen significantly.

SGA executives had also weighed the options of divvying up the funds and giving $181.66 to each of the 289 groups that applied for funding in the spring, but SGA President Kaiyi Xie said this option would better meet the group’s needs with what little funding they had available.

“Having the Group Help fund, it’s there for them 100 percent,” Xie said. “We thought this would be more fair than to make 90 percent cuts to student group budgets they applied for.”

Mar yPirg President Sam Zwerling said her organization had not planned to apply for secondar y funding this year.

“We’re doing a lot more outside means of funding, working with other student groups, and doing fundraising,” she said. “We realize times are tight for ever yone.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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Granted, safety comes first U

niversity Police recently received a $30,000 state grant for officers be more concerned with making sure that an individual can safely walk the to boost their enforcement of underage drinking laws, which three blocks back to his or her residence. If anything, such stringent enforcesounds like a victory for public safety — unless, of course, you’re ment will only foster resentment and mistrust of police among the students one of the thousands of underage student drinkers on this campus. they aim to protect.

It’s certainly worthwhile to amp up patrols on and around the campus, parWith this money, University Police can now afford to pay more officers overtime at night. But instead of increasing patrol around the community, ticularly on the streets of Old Town College Park and along Route 1, where many students regularly trek back to their resiofficers are planning to enter downtown bars and redences after a night of partying downtown. card students who look to be drinking underage.

Police could also use this money to launch iniEven some over-21 community members, who have tiatives aimed specifically at younger students every legal right to drink, have raised their eyebrows at the University Police should use the who are most at risk for alcohol-related illnesses grant’s intended purpose of cracking down on underage $30,000 in state grant money to or most likely to walk alone in an unfamiliar city consumption. Indeed, at a sprawling state university with a at night. Police could create maps of the safest social scene characterized by bars, house parties and Greek tackle the risks associated with walking routes from downtown to North Camlife, it’s simply asking police to fight a losing battle. underage drinking, rather than try pus, where most freshmen live, and then patrol That’s not to say ensuring student safety shouldn’t areas for heavily intoxicated students who always be a top priority for University Police. But rather to eradicate the practice completely. these are the most vulnerable. More realistic than tackle underage drinking itself, the department approaches to tackling underage drinking — should channel the extra money into protecting alreadywithout demanding absolute abstinence — could surely be taken while still intoxicated students from their surroundings — and vice versa.

This editorial board lauds the department’s decision to use the grant satisfying the grant’s purpose.

University Police are different from other police forces; officers are tasked money to put more officers out on the streets for longer hours, a move that we hope will mitigate the risks of being out at night and in the early mornings. with protecting a different sort of population than found in typical jurisdicBut the upcoming crackdown does little to address the real problem at hand: tions. On a university campus, police should not attempt to pursue the same goals they would in a suburban community made up mostly of families with protecting students who are already intoxicated, legally or not.

Of course, alcohol consumption itself can be dangerous. The Diamondback young children.

It would be foolish for University Police to refuse $30,000 from the state, reported Tuesday that University Police broke up parties over the weekend where they discovered high school-aged teenagers who had consumed far but it’s equally foolish to fight a problem that will never go away. This money would be best spent if used to address the risks associated with underage too much alcohol and required medical attention.

But it does little good to write an alcohol citation for a 20-year-old, straight- drinking, not the act itself. Underage drinking is a fact of college life. But with A student sipping a beer in Cornerstone Grill & Loft. Instead, officers should a sensible approach, it’s associated risks don’t have to be.

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Editorial cartoon: Eun Jeon

Traditions: Don’t mess with them

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raditions are great. They let you know how things are going to happen, give you something to look forward to (or at least what to expect) and keep things consistent.

Traditions allow friends, family and even communities to reminisce on past moments of happiness in hopes of more opportunities for present and future togetherness and joyful times.

A few of my personal favorite traditions include: screaming so loud I break a window ever y time I see my best friend back at school for the first time, sur viving only on Diet Coke and Fruit Roll-Ups whenever my roommate and I have a big paper due and consistently walking out of ever y Metro station in the exact opposite direction of where I need to go. All of these traditions complement my daily existence and supplement my happiness.

We have a few traditions at the

LAURA FROST university that rock my metaphorical socks as well: always closing the dining halls precisely when it seems most students finally have time to eat, perpetually running out of housing and at least one bar closing ever y semester.

But spring semester, the campus was abuzz with talk of another, older tradition: transforming Byrd Stadium into Byrd Beach. “Did you know that back in the 1980s, students could just hang out in the stands when it got warm,” said the well-informed student to her wideeyed companions. “Ever yone did it.

Even professors.”

Of course, such rotten tales could

not be true — nothing this fantastic could ever happen at the university where students are forced to live on Diet Cokes and Fruit Roll-Ups and are never educated on the proper way to exit Metro stations.

But suddenly, the magic was real, and a venerated and wonderful tradition returned. Indeed, during the spring semester we finally brought back a tradition that actually helps students. Instead of a place just for sporting events, concerts and late-night intrusions (a crucial item that should be on every College Park bucket list), the stadium was opened for students to hang out and sunbathe. For a single, fleeting day, people were able to spend a carefree afternoon lounging in the sun with friends.

But nearly as soon as it began, the magic was gone. After a few short hours, Byrd Beach was once again Byrd Stadium, and the tradition was sent back into hibernation.

Much is lost as things change

with time, but much is gained as well. The Food and Drug Administration has instituted strict sunscreen standards, people finally know smoking is extremely unhealthy and Oprah’s show is finally off the air. But some things should remain the same, and some traditions are even better when renewed, as Byrd Beach was this glorious April.

So here’s to change when it’s warranted, but tradition when it’s called for: best friend reunions, finals week nutritional standards and, most of all, many more sunny days spent in our beloved stadium’s stands — I promise it’s a nice place to hang out, even when you’re not sliding under the gate at 2 o’clock in the morning to do it.

Laura Frost is a junior government and politics and journalism major.

She can be reached at frost@umdbk.com.

Connectedness: Making “leaders of tomorrow”

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ere at the university, yesterday’s teenyboppers are training to be the “leaders of tomorrow” in our increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Pretty overwhelming! How are we young students supposed to prepare ourselves for an ever-evolving world filled with complexities and challenges?

According to the Strategic Plan, the university’s 10-year guiding document, our curriculum aims to “address the most important issues of our time, and produce the leaders of tomorrow.”

OK, addressing issues makes sense. But can someone please tell me what those last three words mean? As one of those former teenyboppers, I’m carrying a lot of responsibility on my shoulders to become tomorrow’s leader.

During my educational time here at the university, I can’t help but leave some lectures thinking, “This world is screwed.” I sometimes feel paralyzed when thinking about all the problems in the world — many of which have incredibly deep roots — and our lack-

luster responses to those problems thus far. Although my classes have taught me about these issues, they have failed to offer real solutions or teach me how to find them myself.

Perhaps teaching us about these problems is the university’s way of telling us to look at what’s been done already and to do better.

Theoretically, teaching young adults that they are the “leaders of tomorrow” might inspire them to become actively engaged citizens who yearn to make the world a better place. La-dee-dah. But even if these words were just written to inspire students, the university has not achieved its goal. At least not for me.

Actually, those words make me cringe. I cringe because I have difficulty understanding how to be a leader in the current state of the world. How is the university actually supposed to go about creating the leaders of tomorrow? Students can always take one of the education courses that formally teach them about applied leadership, but let’s be real here.

No course, person or institution is

JENNIFER SCHWARZ going to teach you how to be a leader. After three years of waiting to be transformed into this elusive “leader of tomorrow” by some inspiring lesson here at the university, I have gained a new perspective as I enter my senior year. I’ve realized becoming a leader in today’s world is up to us.

I believe one way to become a “leader of tomorrow” prepared to address complexities of our world is through connectedness. I’m not talking about Internet connectivity, but human connectivity. In your years as a student, connect to your community, your university, your peers and your teachers. Study abroad, do an alternative break trip and talk to your professors. While at the university, we have an invaluable opportunity to mold the way we embrace and

engage our world. It is up to us to choose how we take on the responsibility of being “leaders of tomorrow.”

But the university isn’t off the hook; it still plays a crucial role. By providing us with the people, the location and the environment for connecting ourselves to the world around us, College Park is simply the place where us leaders can come into our own. While here at the university, we can prepare ourselves to learn how to address the problems of today.

As university President Wallace Loh said in his inaugural address in April, “We have a responsibility to educate our students to live and work in an interdependent world.” As I enter my senior year, I feel a little less overwhelmed with my responsibility because I have realized that through my engagement here at the university, I am learning to condition myself to become a “leader of tomorrow.”

Jennifer Schwarz is a senior environmental science and policy major. She can be reached at schwarz@umdbk.com.

Letters to the editor

Make room for Mac

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’d like to extend a congratulations to Student Entertainment Events for successfully booking Mac Miller. I know many students were clamoring to get him on the campus. You guys listened and got us someone a large portion of the student body wanted.

It is for this reason I am disappointed and a bit surprised the concert is scheduled for Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom.

My fears were realized when the show sold out within a minute of being released; students quickly took to the event’s Facebook page to complain about the lack of tickets and small venue. Frankly, I think they have a point. An artist as popular as Mac Miller could easily fill up Ritchie Coliseum, and moving the show to an even bigger venue, such as Cole Field House, would allow more students to enjoy the show and allow SEE to bring in more money to cover its costs and fund other events.

We go to a school with more than 25,000 undergraduate students. We don’t often have events that bring large portions of the university together, and when we do, we all feel a sense of pride in our school. Sporting events and concerts such as Art Attack are experiences that students remember for years, brag about to their friends from home and help to make the big-time college experience for which most of us came to this university.

Your organization has an opportunity to put on an awesome event with a high-profile artist and live up to one of the goals listed in your constitution — “providing leisure time and educational activities in the areas of concerts, comedians, speakers, films, and performing presentations.”

Please do the right thing and move the Mac Miller show to a venue where more students can enjoy the experience you all work so hard to create.

BENJAMIN GOLDSTEIN SENIOR MARKETING

Ludwig Field notes

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had the pleasure of attending my first Terrapins men’s soccer game Friday night — not a total pleasure, as my nephew plays for Stanford, and I was rooting for his team. But it was a great atmosphere, and the Terps have a darn good soccer team, too.

A couple of observations: 1. Can the students broaden their vocabulary a touch? “Sucks” more than dominated — it got old fast.

“Left, right” to torment the goalie was clever, more befitting a topnotch team. Come on students — let’s see and hear more creativity!

2. How is the Testudo statue outside the football stadium still there? Two NCAA titles for the soccer team? Move the turtle to Ludwig Field!

Best wishes for a great season, but if Stanford and Maryland meet again: Go Cardinals!

TOM BLACK KINNELON, NEW JERSEY

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Virgin Mobile FreeFest wasn’t always free.

Back in 2008, Virgin Mobile Festival was a two-day event held in Baltimore with highprofile artists — and high ticket prices. The economic downturn late in the year forced organizers to reconsider holding another bigbudget festival the next year.

The producers of the festival, I.M.P., had a conversation with Virgin Mobile and suggested to “just sit on the sidelines” that year, said FreeFest spokeswoman Audrey Schaefer. However, according to Schaefer, Virgin Mobile wasn’t too keen on that idea. “They basically said: ‘That’s no fun!’”

The company then went back into planning mode, figuring out ways to make the 2009 festival free. And with that, FreeFest was born.

Saturday, tens of thousands of music lovers across the area will flock to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia for an eclectic, daylong music festival — entirely free of charge.

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FreeFest, now in its third year as a free festival, has assembled a lineup filled with artists from across the spectrum.

There are well-known DJs (former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy) and plenty of indie rockers (including TV On The Radio and The Black Keys), along with a punk-rock legend (Patti Smith), an up-and-coming rapper (Big Sean) and a soulful hit-maker who enjoys singing a certain four-letter word (Cee-Lo Green).

The festival is sold out — or, as its website is calling it, “Free’d Out” — due to a collective snatching of tickets on its Facebook page back in July.

Since the event doesn’t expect to make huge profits, Schaefer said, it is truly “a celebration of music for dedicated music fans.”

While the festival is free for attendees, the bands still need to be paid, and Schaefer said Virgin Mobile underwrites much of that money to provide fans the day of music.

Of the 40,000 fans expected to attend, many will be college students. Among those attending will be senior com-

puter science major Val Kravets, who is most looking for ward to the “techno groove” of DeadMau5.

“I like how FreeFest is easily accessible to the public both financially and geographically,” Kravets said. “However, I do believe that if there was a cheap ticket price then the bands and performers would be more mainstream and popular — like the Virgin Fest of past years.”

Other students share this desire for more mainstream performers, and preferred last year’s lineup.

“Compared to past lineups, this year’s is far less impressive,” said sophomore English major Leigh McDonald, who has attended both previous years of FreeFest and listed Sleigh Bells, Girl Talk and Weezer among her favorite past performers. “That said, FreeFest is one of my most anticipated events of the year.

There is always an interesting mix of music-loving people that come out.” diversions@umdbk.com

North Carolina’s Hopscotch Festival spreads its artists over 12 venues

BY REESE HIGGINS Senior staff writer

Free haircut or free film screening? Yelawolf or KORT or Times New Viking? Charity celebrity basketball game or charity bicycle race? Swans or Mount Eerie or Liturgy?

These are just a few of the questions that will face attendees of the Hopscotch Music Festival, which takes place today through Saturday in Raleigh, N.C. The nearly limitless options surrounding the Hopscotch festivities are only hinted at with those tantalizing questions, further choices reaching deeper into the unknown and the exciting.

Hopscotch takes place across 12 different downtown Raleigh venues, hosting acts as wellknown as psychedelic pop act The Flaming Lips and as obscure as chiptune-pop band D&D Sluggers; as global as Israeli guitarist Yair Yona and as local as Raleigh indie-rockers Lonnie Walker.

Though headliners include out-of-towners such as the Lips, southern rockers Drive-By Truckers and the final perform-

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ance of reunited indie-rock legends Guided By Voices, the vibrant local scene is undoubtedly the bedrock of Hopscotch.

“It’s always been a really big deal around here,” said David Mueller, the leader of Heads on Sticks and the bassist of Birds of Avalon, two local acts performing this weekend. “[The music scene is] almost like little league. Everyone I knew was playing in bands by the time I was 12 or 13.”

The festival, put on by Raleigh-based alternative newspaper The Independent Weekly, is in its second year. More than 135 artists are set to play official concerts, scattered throughout clubs and concert halls, all within walking distance of each other.

Much of the event is organized by two Independent Weekly employees, Marketing Director Greg Lowenhagen and Music Editor Grayson Currin. Lowenhagen founded the festival as a potential source of additional income for the Weekly. Currin books about 85 percent of Hopscotch’s acts.

Despite Currin’s role as a journalist, he sees no conflict of interest in curating the festival, which often includes booking artists he

has written about for various publications.

“When I curate this festival or decide who’s playing, it’s really not that different of a process from when I write about music,” Currin said. “It’s about what do I find interesting and why. The thing that keeps me feeling that way is that whatever I do, I’m being honest.”

Maintaining an ethical standard is important, though it can lead to awkward situations, Currin said.

For last year’s debut Hopscotch, Currin booked San Francisco psychrock band Sleepy Sun. About six months after the band was booked, Sleepy Sun released a new record, Fever.

“I was assigned to review it for Pitchfork,” Currin said. “I gave it a 6.1 [out of 10]. I was kind of mean to it. I didn’t like it. And that’s just how it was. Their booking agent was kind of like, ‘What the f---, man? Why did you do that?’ I was just like, I’m a music critic who happens to book a music festival. And they’re still a really good live band and one you should totally go see, but the record wasn’t very good.” rhiggins@umdbk.com

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TEMPO from page 8 said, “which is like three whole quarters from last year of our offense. So, I mean, it was a lot of fun.”

For an offense without a proven playmaker outside of O’Brien but no shortage of reliable targets for him, Crowton’s spread-the-ball philosophy may be the perfect fit.

“The scheme that I’ve brought in, that Coach Edsall has allowed me to put in, is a scheme that tries to use skill players,” Crowton said on the team’s media day in August.

“The biggest thing other than tempo is just execution; execution is more important to me than the tempo.”

Wide receiver Kevin Dorsey proved to be a threat over the top, leading the Terps with 124 receiving yards against Miami.

Quintin McCree and Ronnie Tyler were similarly effective and combined for 13 catches as the most popular targets on O’Brien’s screen passes.

Coupled with running back Davin Meggett’s receiving ability out of the backfield and experienced tight end Matt Furstenburg’s versatility in playing on the line or splitting out wide, the Terps seemed to have an available option ever y time O’Brien dropped back — especially when they had an open field

MULLINS from page 8 Mullins was out of shape.

“Last year, he could only go real hard for about 10 to 20 minutes,” coach Sasho Cirovski said, “so we brought him off the bench.”

Mullins took advantage of his limited playing time. As a converted striker, he paced the midfield with five goals and was named ACC Freshman of the Year after starting in just one of his 21 appearances.

But the rookie wasn’t satisfied with his new hardware.

With Herrick graduating, he knew he had the talent and the opportunity to thrive.

He just needed the endurance.

“When I first came in, [fit-

AMERICAN from page 8 took a 2-0 lead into halftime.

Wagner extended the advantage with a penalty kick in the 63rd minute before an own goal by American gave the Terps a fourth tally. Freshman Shade Pratt’s first career goal pushed the team to the final 51 scoreline.

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to work with.

But as they approached Miami’s goal line and the field got shorter, the offense sputtered.

With Hurricanes safeties closer to the line of scrimmage and the defense more compact, the Terps’ short passes were snuffed out and their running game was rendered largely ineffective.

Despite 499 yards of total

offense, just 19 of the team’s 32 points resulted from offensive scores. In a Military Bowl drubbing of East Carolina last December, by contrast, the Terps posted 19 more offensive points on 21 fewer yards from scrimmage.

Nonetheless, their combination of pace and efficiency — each of the Terps’ seven drives to the red zone Monday took

ness] was one of the biggest obstacles for me to overcome,” Mullins said. “And I personally wanted to make sure that wasn’t an excuse for me to be off the field this season. I just wanted to eliminate it altogether.”

So after spring practices finished, Mullins returned to Louisiana with a newfound dedication to working out.

He trained for about an hour everyday by himself, and practiced technical exercises with a trainer for another two. He also played with the New Orleans Jesters, a USL Premier Development League team, which allowed him to stay at what he called “game speed.”

“I needed to make sure that I did it individually, and that I was motivated,” said Mullins,

who has tallied three goals through the No. 2 Terps’ first four games this season. “I think that’s the tough part. But I wanted [summer] to be a time where I made some major strides in my fitness.”

According to Cirovski, that’s exactly what he did. At the team’s annual media day in late August, the 19th-year coach spoke glowingly about Mullins’ improved stamina.

He felt so confident in Mullins that he had no qualms over who would join Townsend as a leader on the frontline this season.

“The forward line looks great,” Cirovski said. “We have Casey Townsend and Patrick Mullins, and I feel very good about those two. I know they’ll score a lot of goals this season.”

Townsend and Mullins

“We try to be a low-maintenance team,” Pensky said. “We just want to play and compete and have an opportunity to get this game in and hopefully get a win. It doesn’t matter where it happens. We prefer to be in the comforts of our own field. At this point, the mindset shifted to: We just want to get this game in.”

Perhaps even more encouragingly, the Eagles’ goal came at a point when all of the Terps’

starting backline had already departed because of the team’s comfortable lead. Substitutions were plentiful, as 11 Terps came off the bench to see time on the field.

“We kind of made a commitment coming into this game that we were going to our bench early, and our team is really deep,” Pensky said.

As the Terps now look to start a new scoreless streak, Wagner

less than five minutes — presented Miami with the unenviable challenge of keeping up.

And the Terps’ tempo could even be a notch higher next time.

“Our pace definitely helped us tonight,” guard Andrew Gonnella said after Monday’s win. “We definitely want to continue to get faster.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

have so far made good on their coach’s preseason prediction. The former roommates have scored more than 50 percent of the Terps’ goals this season, and with ACC play starting Friday against Boston College, the duo has already totaled 24 shots.

“When you score a lot of goals, you know we’re obviously doing something right,” Townsend said.

And judging by the mass hysteria he triggered at Ludwig Field last week, Mullins should have many more goals ahead of him.

After all, they are his passion.

“Every time I go out to do individual training, it’s always shooting,” he said. “That’s just something I love to do.” letourneau@umdbk.com

afterward kept the significance of this streak in perspective and the team’s greater goal in mind.

“We’re pretty focused on ourselves right now,” she said.

“Just keep winning, just keep developing as a team, just keep getting better every single game. So this was just another game where we could add a win to our record.” dgallen@umdbk.com

SCHNEIDER from page 8 Armour. They were thinking about Maryland.

You can say that it’s simple, shameless attention seeking.

But anyone who has paid attention to this university’s athletics department in recent years has seen the state flag and its colors highlighted more and more. It’s been painted in Byrd Stadium’s end zones and featured on uniform patches.

Then, on Monday night, it was plastered on a helmet in prime time.

Save the corporate complaining. College football is a professional league masquerading as an amateur competition as is, and outfitters’ money-grabbing intentions are obvious and inevitable.

But Monday night was much more about the program than the product.

So while Under Armour’s stock value has hardly moved since the uniforms debuted, the same can’t be said of the Terps. Their wild getup got the attention of fans, recruits and college football fans around the country.

Now, they just better do something while people are watching. schneider@umdbk.com

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re we still talking about the Terrapins football team’s uniforms? Really?

Yes, we are. It seems almost everyone is. Still. And that’s the point.

It’s been two-plus days

since the Terps defeated Miami wearing uniforms emblazoned with the state flag. Sure, the topic isn’t trending on Twitter worldwide as it was Monday night, but it’s still a major topic of discussion in the media.

Whether you like the uniforms is beside the point. Last year, the Terps could barely get attention on their own campus. Now, they’re in the national spotlight. “Good

Morning America,” CNN, NPR — you name it, the Terps’ crazy unis have probably been discussed there.

Everyone has an opinion.

Quarterback Danny O’Brien said the team loved them, that “creating that buzz is what’s great about college football.”

Paul Lukas, ESPN’s uniform aficionado and uni-watch.com founder, wrote Tuesday that “a very foolish school and a very foolish company showed just

how desperate for attention they are.”

He’s partially right: The Terps are desperate for attention. As a basketball school in a basketball conference, and as a run-of-themill program in the shadow of the Redskins, Ravens and even Virginia Tech locally, winning isn’t always enough to grab attention. Nine wins weren’t enough last year, and another trip to the Military Bowl probably won’t be enough this year.

Randy Edsall and the athletics department can talk all they want about a new era for the program, but it won’t matter until fans feel like things actually are starting to change. It sounds silly, but dramatically unique uniforms can do that.

And while the unorthodox threads Oregon wears seem entirely like Nike experiments, the uniforms the Terps donned Monday night screamed one thing above all: Maryland.

The uniforms instantly became a point of pride for the team and the school it represents. On national television, millions of eyes were trained on a flag that is synonymous with the state of Maryland and its flagship university.

As the Terps ran out of the tunnel Monday night wearing their special jerseys, people weren’t thinking about Under

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UP AND RUNNING Quarterback Danny O’Brien (left, above) led a high-tempo Terps offense during the team’s seasonopening win against Miami on Monday night. With a quick and accurate air attack, O’Brien completed passes to six players, including wide receiver Ronnie Tyler (right).

PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE/ THE DIAMONDBACK

With up-tempo passing attack, Terps racked up nearly 500 yards of total offense in Monday debut vs. Hurricanes

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

It was no secret the Terrapins football team planned to debut an up-tempo offense in its season opener.

Still, the frenetic pace the Terps burst from their locker room with Monday seemed to leave every head without a Maryland state flag plastered on it spinning.

Even those of the refs.

“I thought sometimes the officials were taking too long to put the ball down,” Edsall said after Monday’s 32-24 win over Miami, adding that they were “slowing us down just a little bit.”

Even with any referee-aided delays, the Hurricanes struggled to keep up, especially in the first quarter. Led by quarterback Danny O’Brien, the Terps strung together a

precise 11-play drive to take a 7-0 lead less than four minutes after the opening kickoff.

And it didn’t stop there. While the Terps’ lack of red-zone efficiency — just 19 points came from their seven trips inside Miami’s 20-yard line — dulled what could have been a historic offensive outburst, they cut through the Hurricanes’ defense with relative ease all night.

O’Brien spread the ball around to six different receivers with a steady torrent of quick-hitting passes, and often within seconds of the Terps’ ball carrier being dragged down, the offense was back at the line of scrimmage, keeping the pressure on.

“I think tempo really helps us, especially when we’re playing a defense as athletic as Miami’s,” said O’Brien, who completed 31 of 44 passes for 348 yards. “I think that the playing at that tempo can really slow those

guys down. We have a really experienced offensive line that can play at that speed. We don’t sacrifice efficiency.”

It was a far cry from the offenses of Ralph Friedgen and James Franklin.

The Terps’ former coach and offensive coordinator, respectively, often opted to keep the ball on the ground and march methodically down the field.

But with first-year offensive coordinator Gary Crowton, who earned a reputation for aggressive offensive attacks during his time with the Chicago Bears, Oregon and LSU, it certainly seemed the Terps would have a different look this season.

That change proved a welcome one in the Terps’ locker room.

“We ran 49 plays in the first half,” O’Brien

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MEN’S SOCCER

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Mullins’ long run to glory

Terps allow first goal, but get five themselves

Now fully fit, forward stars for high-scoring No. 2 Terps

Team still undefeated after win at AU

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Patrick Mullins sure knows how to make an introduction.

Moments into the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s 4-0 win over Stanford last Friday, the sophomore forward slashed through the attacking third and netted a goal from the top of the penalty box.

While Mullins pounded his chest with the swagger of a veteran, the clock above him stopped to read “44:38.”

It had taken him just 22 seconds to transform a packed Ludwig Field into a scene from out of “Hoosiers.”

“That first goal 22 seconds in really took a lot out of [Stan-

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ford],” forward Casey Townsend said. “I think that was the key of the night.”

Mullins’ cinematic moment proved more than 18 months in the making.

The New Orleans native arrived at this university in the spring of 2010 with a clear objective: become a starting forward on a national championship-caliber team.

Two obstacles blocked his path, however.

First, the Terps already had one of the nation’s finest for ward tandems in Townsend and then-senior Jason Herrick.

But perhaps more importantly,

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Forward Patrick Mullins, right, has scored three goals for the Terps this year. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

GERMANTOWN — For a half-dozen games, the Terrapins women’s soccer team had held off the inevitable. Six games came and went for the Terps, including an overtime tie with No. 2 Stanford, without a single ball finding the net behind one of their goalkeepers.

Then, in the 74th minute of an eventual 5-1 win over American last night, Eagles forward Jasmine Mohandesi broke through the defense and lobbed a shot over the head of Terps goalkeeper Yewande Balogun.

“We knew it was going to come, obviously,” midfielder Olivia Wagner said.

The goal could have spelled doom against a team like Stanford. But the No. 3 Terps (6-0-1)

already had a comfortable 4-0 lead when their 634 minutes of scoreless defense came to an end. And for the unbeaten squad, the game won was more important than the goal allowed.

“We talked about it the other day when we broke the record,” coach Brian Pensky said. “At some point we are going to give up a goal. I thought they came back right away with a little bit of an edge and an urgency, and that was good to see.”

The Terps made themselves right at home at the Maryland SoccerPlex after the week’s heavy rains moved the contest with the Eagles (2-5-0) from Ludwig Field. Forward Sade Ayinde came off the bench to give the Terps goals in the 23rd and 36th minutes, and the team

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