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After restructure, education college advances With eight new faculty members, transition period still underway

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On the heels of Oakland Hall’s debut, university officials announced their plans to replace the aging Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico Halls with a $66 million air-conditioned, ecoconscious dorm dubbed Prince

Frederick Hall.

Set to open in fall 2014, the dorm will comfortably house about as many students as the three dorms combined. Following the newly-opened Oakland Hall and renovations to Denton and Easton Halls, officials decided that the rooms in the three buildings no longer met

the standards of other dorms, according to Bill Olen, interim director of capital projects for Facilities Management.

“Because of the geometry of the building, they’re relatively narrow,” Olen said. “It limits the ability to provide dorm

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Education school faculty and staff overcame the first hurdle of the college’s planned overhaul, working to condense the college’s seven disciplines into three new departments throughout the summer.

The education school first proposed the reorganization of the college’s administrative structure two years ago amid concerns from various faculty members who said the changes would end up hurting the college. But education Dean Donna Wiseman said the merger to address the harsh economic climate and the college’s shrinking departments has been successful thus far, and many faculty members are optimistic for the college’s future.

“They’re done thinking about it and just ready to start and are looking forward to the next step,” she said.

Moving forward, the college will continue to focus on ensuring the newly merged departments work cohesively — since Wiseman said cooperation is still needed in some areas — and creating modern programming for education students that keeps up with the evolving nature of K-12 education, Wiseman said.

“There have been specific attempts to try to develop new departmental identities,” Wiseman said. “In the ones where they really worked to do that, you can see them begin to emerge and become a different unit.”

Education policy and leadership professor Betty Malen said her department’s hard work during the summer assuaged most of her concerns that the college’s overhaul

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Portraying how dinosaurs behaved in prehistoric times onscreen is no easy feat — unless you’ve got university paleontologist and geology lecturer Tom Holtz working on your team.

“Dinosaur Revolution,” a four-part miniseries which made its Discovery Channel debut on Sunday, enlisted Holtz as a consultant during production to ensure the accuracy of the science behind the dinosaurs and situations depicted on the show. While the documentary is based in fact, the one-hour episodes follow dramatic plotlines that make the dinosaurs come alive.

Holtz — who has worked as a consultant on several other documentaries, including the 1999 production of “Walk-

ing with Dinosaurs” — said this type of storytelling for entertainment and education about dinosaurs is the first of its kind to hit the small screen.

“In order to get the audience interested … you’ve got to give them a little personality,” Holtz said.

While animators were responsible for telling the stories through art, Holtz acted as a detail-oriented resource to vouch for the science behind their actions, and he often reviewed storyboards to offer up suggestions for improvements.

“I was brought on to help pitch ideas, to help propose things … and to factcheck or to try and put the brakes on the more wild speculation,” he said.

“Sometimes it worked and sometimes

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“Johnny’s standards for excellence were impeccable, his ability to recruit brilliant young faculty to come to Maryland was unmatched,” said System Chancellor Brit Kirwan.

“His work ethic was legendary, spending many nights on a cot in his office to avoid wasting time traveling to and from home.”

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Taco Bell expands menu, extends hours

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Students craving a soft-baked shopping mall staple will be able to grab Auntie Anne’s pretzels at the Stamp Student Union food court starting next semester.

Taco Bell halved their location’s space this semester, which made room for the incoming vendor — a change that Taco Bell manager Lori Dominick

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said has allowed the restaurant to expand its menu and stay open four hours later to close at 8 p.m.

Among Taco Bell’s new options are chalupas, seven-layer burritos, fried taco shells for salads and mango and strawberry Fruitista Freeze drinks. The restaurant will also share a soda machine with Auntie Anne’s once it moves in next door, according to Dining

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In any case, Holtz was able to make his voice heard in determining the finished product. For example, he made the suggestion to change the setting in an episode from western North America to Portugal to give viewers the chance to learn about dinosaurs that aren’t well-known.

And some scenes were even inspired by fossils Holtz has uncovered in his own research, including an allosaurus’ smashed

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“There’s an incredible amount of work that goes into implementing restructuring, but I think we’re positioned to move through this process in a constructive way,” Malen said.

However, she questioned whether restructuring resolves the college’s budget woes.

“The resource constraint issues are a problem however we are structured,” Malen said, adding the only solution is more state and university funding.

Wiseman said most faculty members have jumped on board since the University Senate approved the plan in April, and with the addition of eight

DORM from page 1 rooms that will meet the current design guidelines.”

Originally, Facilities Management officials wanted to renovate Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico Halls. But Facilities Management, in conjunction with the Division of Administrative Affairs and the Division of Student Affairs, determined that forcing students out of those buildings could cause another housing crunch, Olen said. Resident Life officials declared the four-year problem over last semester.

The Facilities Council approved the project in March, with the Board of Regents fol-

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lower jaw which was shown to be the result of another dinosaur’s tail whip to the face in one episode.

Another episode showed tyrannosauruses biting each other, reflecting the face wounds and puncture marks found in their fossils.

“We know that they would occasionally wrestle around by grabbing each other’s faces,” Holtz said.

Other portions of the show are based on modern animal behaviors, though Holtz said their speculations weren’t too far off base.

The pilot episode showed a gigantoraptor performing a mating dance based on the rituals of rep-

tiles and birds.

“We’ll never know what dances it had because that sort of stuff doesn’t preserve,” he said. “But they certainly had something.”

And thanks to updated findings on the dinosaurs’ physical appearance, the show was able to present more realistic looking animation.

“One of the bigger discoveries in the last 15 years is that many of the carnivorous dinosaurs had fuzz or feathers outright,” Holtz said.

While creating the show was an extensive, multi-year process, Holtz’s colleagues said

there was no one more suited for the job.

“Tom is an absolutely obsessively driven individual where dinosaurs are concerned,” geology Undergraduate Director John Merck said. “His is a name that basically anyone involved in dinosaur evolutionary research is familiar with.”

And this summer’s Comic Convention in San Diego sparked interest with filmmakers to create a longer version of the show for the big screen based around the same concept, so this may be only the beginning for this type of dinosaur

new faculty members — the department’s first hirings in three years — many are ready to work under their new department. Yet Wiseman said pleasing everyone immediately isn’t feasible during a major transition period.

“We’re still going to have people who are a little uncomfortable with the reorganization and the mergers, but for the most part, it is gelling,” Wiseman said. “When you have a major change, you’re going to have some things that don’t work the same way, so people are going to be discouraged and upset.”

Some students — such as senior studio art major Maggie Sullivan, who will be pursuing a master’s degree in education at this university — said she worried last year the transition

would hurt their future plans, but that it has occurred without a hitch.

“I know a lot of students in their fourth year were very concerned whether there’d be too much restructuring, and they’d lose their programs,” she said.

In addition to maintaining its programming, the freshly-integrated department will be developing curriculum to help students better teach science, technology, engineering and math disciplines in their future classrooms — a skill many school districts are seeking in potential employees, Wiseman said.

Under the new slogan of a “World of Learning,” the college will also aim to offer students more exposure to their instructors’ professional experiences through lectures and

brown-bag lunch meetings, Wiseman said.

Yet Wiseman said some issues require more heavy thinking, as many schools are now requesting that students take a wider range of courses, such as special education and how to teach in a foreign language, regardless of their area of expertise.

Since those courses are currently in separate departments within the college, Wiseman said she hopes to create an Institute of Teacher Education that will help join these departments together.

“We have a lot of work to do, but we have some strong leadership and constructive leadership that I think will help us accomplish that work,” said Malen.

lowing suit in June. Construction is set to begin April 2012, according to Olen.

But since Prince Frederick will sprawl across 160 spaces in Lot U5 — which is located next to the three buildings and in front of the business school — the Department of Transportation Services has been forced to craft a plan to deal with the lack of parking spaces. This, combined with the loss of more spaces in Lot 4 due to a separate project, could cause freshmen and sophomores to lose parking privileges on the campus, said DOTS Director David Allen.

“Because of a loss of parking, we’re thinking we might need to do that,” Allen said.

“It’s an overall plan that we’ve

put together.”

The new building will feature the same environmentally-friendly technology used to build Oakland Hall and is slated to achieve LEED Gold certification. This includes energy efficient windows, a more efficient mechanical system, an eco-friendly lighting control system and water conservation technology.

“This being after Oakland, we believe we can achieve the same criteria,” Olen said. “Traditionally, we see energy and efficiency in design and construction as one of the top areas.”

These efforts also include a SCUB (Satellite Central Utility Building), a centralized system in the basement of Prince Frederick that can provide air condi-

tioning to surrounding buildings.

Several students, including Wicomico resident David Russell, said living conditions in the current dorms aren’t ideal.

“It’s really hot,” said Russell, a freshman civil engineering major. “I’ve heard people joke about it as a dungeon. … We can make fun of it. It’s not a living hell or anything.”

Yet, not all residents said they agree that building a new dorm is necessary — freshman letters and sciences major Yael Nagar said she’s content in her Wicomico dorm.

“You don’t need air conditioning,” she said. “People are really pampered.”

She added that living in small, unairconditioned quarters fosters a sense of camaraderie between floormates.

“Everybody hangs out in the basement; everyone leaves their doors open all the time,” Nagar said. “It’s really not a problem.”

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“The hope is that in having fun [viewers] actually learned something from watching it,” Holtz said.

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Sales at Taco Bell are up more than 30 percent since the change, which is credited to the eateries’ expanded hours, Dominick said. She added that she is not concerned the restaurant may lose customers to its incoming neighbor.

“I think that’s different enough that it won’t take business from Taco Bell,” Dominick said. “It’ll be a nice complement to the things that are already there.”

These changes mark the Stamp food court’s latest update since Dining Services added the kebab restaurant Moby Dick in January.

Last semester, Mullineaux considered bringing in a donut, bagel or frozen yogurt vendor to fill the extra space.

But after gathering input from faculty, staff and students, he ultimately decided pretzels were the right complement to the food court’s current offerings.

Many requested a hot dog joint, and since Auntie Anne’s offers a Nathan’s hot dog wrapped in a pretzel, that vendor seemed to hit the jackpot, he said.

“It’s kind of a small space for anything major,” said Mullineaux. “We’re going to be able to hit dessert, the perception of healthy and a hot dog all in an eight-foot storefront.”

Auntie Anne’s pretzels can be ser ved without salt or butter for a healthier option, according to their website.

But that pretense of nutrition in a standard soft pretzel package wasn’t enough for senior economics major Alejandro Valencia.

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“We’re going to be able to hit dessert, the perception of healthy and a hot dog all in an eight-foot storefront.”

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“It’s another unhealthy option,” Valencia said.

Other students, such as senior economics major Nataly Lovo, said they were thrilled the extra space would feature pretzels.

“Those pretzels are delicious,” she said. “It’s like having a mall in Stamp.”

Dining Ser vices is currently working on a design for Auntie Anne’s space to submit to the Department of Health, which will include an oven large enough to possibly bake extra pretzels and set up more kiosks on the campus in the future.

Mullineaux said the vendor would likely be ready to open sooner than next semester, but officials could not book appointments for staff members to attend Auntie Anne’s training school until December.

In any case, he said, the famous soft pretzels will be a welcome addition to the expanding food court.

“We are all ver y excited about the new options,” Mullineaux said. “I’m personally looking for ward to learning how to make an Auntie Anne’s pretzel — I’ll probably attend the school.” lurye@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a source’s error, yesterday’s article “SGA has only $60,000 to give to groups” incorrectly identified the amount of money student groups can seek from the SGA. They can apply for up to $1 million to $1.5 million in funding.

A caption on a photo of SGA President Kaiyi Xie for yesterday’s article “SGA has only $60,000 to give to groups” incorrectly identified who spoke to legislators at the meeting. Vice President for Financial Affairs David Berlin spoke about the new rules at Wednesday’s meeting.

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raternity recruitment is officially not what it used to be. Thanks to a their friends in other houses — many students are going to find themselves in new policy enacted by the Interfraternity Council — the body that rep- uncomfortable situations. And unless there’s a massive council-wide culture resents and governs 22 fraternity chapters at the university — under-21 change in which everyone agrees to stop having these parties, they’ll have to make those tough decisions pretty often, as rush parties have always been an rush parties are a thing of the past.

At least, that’s the goal. It’s up to fraternity members themselves to see it important aspect of recruitment.

Members will have to choose: Follow the rules by reporting others’ parties and through. In an unprecedented move by the IFC, chapters are now required to possibly catch flack for doing so, or hold their report any underage rush party they know of or see taking tongues and risk being placed on social moratoplace to the IFC’s executive board. They also are required rium. Either way, the policy puts students between a to contact the president of the chapter throwing the party. rock and a hard place.

If that fraternity throws the party anyway, all the chapters Despite its drawbacks, the IFC’s doesn’t mean the council was unjustiin the council could lose social privileges until recruitment new policy requiring fraternities to fiedButinthat implementing this policy — life is full of ends on Sept. 21. difficult choices. Part of becoming an adult is figIt’s certainly a stringent policy, but it’s one that’s report one another’s parties is a uring out your personal values and accepting intended to keep students safe during a period typically characterized by heavy alcohol consumption. Additionally, good test of members’ maturity and that the proper course of action isn’t always the it seeks to portray members of Greek life as a group of will ultimately benefit Greek life. one that provides the most fun. Greek life, like other activities, should promote learning experiresponsible, mature students capable of self-regulation.

The idea is based on the principle of self-governance. The IFC executive board ences that can turn members into well-rounded individuals capable of doing is composed of 10 elected individuals from any one of the university’s chapters; the right thing. This initiative is one of those challenges.

It’s unclear how the rest of recruitment will pan out as rush continues under they also share the responsibilities and the potential consequences of the policy.

Greek life is about community, so it makes sense that this policy is structured the new regulations. Many will choose to obey the requirements; others will in a way that necessitates joint enforcement efforts. If one chapter chooses to likely ignore them. Regardless of the number of parties that get busted or chapviolate IFC recruitment rules, the entire council could suffer. It forces them to ters that lose privileges, the results of this initiative will reflect the state of Greek share responsibility for one another’s actions, which promotes unity between life and its participants.

Yes, the policy does require members to show maturity. Yes, it asks them to the chapters — a particularly worthwhile goal for Greek life, which sees its fair give up one of the most enjoyable aspects of recruitment. Yes, it could cause share of competition and rivalries between houses.

But on the other hand, the watchdog nature of the policy is sure to cause tension between friends and further strain relations between rivals. But those plenty of bumps in the road. It places a heavy burden on each member’s shoul- kinds of sacrifices are part of life, and that includes Greek life. So if this policy ders to report their peers’ violations. By asking members of one fraternity to is asking too much, maybe some of those Animal House stereotypes aren’t just snitch on members of another — which, in many cases, would mean ratting out stereotypes, after all.

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Freshman year: Swimming with the big fish

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s a freshman, I perceive the idea of college through those goggles — a point of view that adds to my timidity but also elicits a perfect sense of excitement. But there’s reason behind that timidity — it’s easy to drown and get lost in such an outpouring of people, prospects and responsibilities.

College is a vast ocean, marked by its various student groups, ethnicities, departments, courses, majors, minors and electives, professors and students to befriend or never know.

It’s marked by residential buildings, social activities, distractions, attractions and at times, the sense of competition that stems from grades and getting that internship next semester.

The crossroads of a freshman’s new life here surely requires a reflective, focused conscience.

Perhaps when you were younger, you were one of those kids who stood at the edge of the shallow end, a bit scared to take the first eventful leap.

Entering college is like taking that first plunge into a swimming pool. It

ARIEL DOSETAREH can be a bit frightening, intimidating and even unapproachable. But before jumping into this giant pool of confusion, there’s a state of mind, an acknowledgment, that those like me should have in order to succeed and make it to graduation. I’ve noticed that many of the same rules for swimming pools also apply to college.

Rule one: No running, pushing or horseplay. College is finished through small steps. As Theodore Roosevelt said, “I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.” I’ll choose my friends slowly and cautiously, while acknowledging my end goal and the classes I need to take to get there.

I’ll have a plan of what I want to accomplish by four years’ end, and go about achieving that plan consciously, step

by step. I understand things will change, but adapting to change carefully is all part of the college process.

College is not about rushing, but about taking your time.

Rule two: Use flotation devices when needed. From the Department of Transportation Services trying to ensure safe transportation at all times of the day, to the Health Center caring for my well-being, to Student Career Services assisting me for life after college — help, in various forms, is all here.

Rule three: No swimming in the diving area and no smoking, chewing tobacco or gum around the pool itself.

I must keep away from harmful substances and dangerous places. Know that a precarious social life can have detrimental effects on your academics.

Choosing the right friends and living a balanced lifestyle devoid of the often enjoyable, but risky, social distractions will indeed work to my benefit.

For many, college is the first opportunity to truly explore interests and individuality. For the students whose eyes are set for success, it’s a time to

work hard. It’s a time to apply themselves, both in class and for those jobs, internships and honor societies.

It’s a time to build a reputation as a future businessman, journalist, engineer or doctor.

To be sure, changing majors is normal, and feeling stressed during finals week is basically a given. But these are all opportunities I’ll have to show myself, to build character and to make an effort. Because in college, there are unlimited bounces on the “striving” board and, consequently, there are plenty of opportunities to succeed. I know there will be times of stress and confusion, but I must remember to keep swimming because with the right focus, I’ll surely make it through my first finals week and ultimately find my life’s career path.

So, my fellow freshmen — jump right in! The water is warm. The community is welcoming. And the sky is the limit.

Ariel Dosetareh is a freshman Jewish studies major. He can be reached at dosetareh@umdbk.com.

Dining Services: Cooking up collaborations

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ver y year, a number of campus departments and offices collaborate with student groups, but last year one stood out from the rest: Dining Ser vices ser ved as the institutional host for an impressive lineup of at least seven major studentrun initiatives.

They allowed Food Recover y Network volunteers to recover and donate about 6,000 meals worth of surplus food to a local shelter. They opened up their roofs as community spaces for the Rooftop Community Gardens on top of both the North and South Campus dining halls.

They fielded Real Food UMD’s proposal for a sustainable purchasing plan to transition to more local and ethically sourced food in the diners. They worked with Jelly for the Belly’s focus date food donations, the Student Government Association’s Keep Me Mar yland scholarship point drive and events like the postgame bonfire and spring barbecue.

Dining Services even let us hooligans in the Love Movement dress up

as grandmothers and raise awareness about finishing the food on your plate.

Finally, they have cemented the students’ role in their policy-making process by meeting regularly with the Resident Hall Association’s Dining Student Advisory Board.

Dining Ser vices is not the only department on the campus doing an exemplar y job of collaborating with students. Stamp Student Union, the Office of Sustainability, the upper ranks of the University Police and Vice President of Student Affairs Linda Clement are just a few of the departments and people on the campus my compatriots and I have worked with who have mastered the art of student-administrator collaborations. When they get an email from students, their faces light up like little children. Upon hearing your project proposal, one would think you just proposed for their hand in marriage in front of Justin Bieber moonwalking on a double rainbow. At their core, they believe in students, value our recommendations and see us as equals.

But in my experience, other

BEN SIMON administrators have been hit or miss.

While I know they are busy doing what administrators do (administering, duh) it is discouraging when carefully crafted emails seem to disappear into cyberspace, or when it just feels like you are getting brushed off. A few experiences last year left some of my peers feeling like administrators were obstacles to overcome rather than our partners in shared governance, which bred cynicism among students about administrators’ intentions.

I have a couple of recommendations. First, departments and offices across the campus, especially those that are more isolated and aren’t used to working with student groups, should take a cue from Director of Dining Services Colleen Wright-Riva and make themselves available for

collaborations with students.

Second, offices should institutionalize feedback from students, again taking Dining Services’ DSAB (which is an RHA committee) as a model. Individual colleges and the SGA have done well to create Dean’s Student Advisory Councils, but now need to strengthen the new DSACs by helping them plan meaningful programming and by advising their deans.

The passion and manpower of students and the institutional resources and expertise of administrators has been an effective marriage in the past, and I’m looking for ward to some fresh partnerships this year. Ultimately, this is about the need for ever y administrator on this campus to recognize the power of not just working for the students, but working with us.

Ben Simon is a senior government and politics major. He is also a co-vice president of the Love Movement and vice president of South Campus operations for the Food Recovery Network. He can be reached at simon@umdbk.com.

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rom being blasted by a hurricane during move-in to a win against the Miami Hurricanes in the Terrapins football season opener, the 2011-12 school year has already taken the campus by storm. As we overcome the rainy weather, celebrate the excitement of fall sports and slowly settle into our academic schedules, we can all agree on one thing: It’s good to be home.

With the return to the campus, the Residence Hall Association is geared up for another fantastic year. The RHA is the voice of on-campus students. Through programming and policy initiatives, we do everything in our power to make your experience living on the campus like a home away from home.

The RHA is composed of 14 separate hall or area councils that plan social activities throughout the year for their residents. Last year, Bel Air, Cambridge and Chestertown residents rocked out at “BCC’s Got Talent.” Commons Area Council put on the “Commons Block Party” and a hugely successful wings night prior to a Maryland basketball game. Denton, Elkton and Easton Hall Councils teamed up to put on “Denton Glows Green,” a community-wide glow-inthe-dark event focused on sustainability. Students also enjoyed the return of the North Campus Luau held on La Plata Beach. This year, hall councils are encouraged to find even more creative ideas for events that will unite their residents and foster a sense of community.

Hall and area councils also send representatives to the RHA Senate, a legislative body that drafts and votes on imperative policies that affect all residents. To accomplish this, members of the Senate work closely with four departments within the Division of Student Affairs: Resident Life, Residential Facilities, Dining Services and Transportation. By communicating directly with these administrators, it is easy to implement whatever changes we think should be made and to directly impact students’ lives.

Last year, the RHA worked on combating the housing crisis with involvement in the building of Oakland Hall and the development of the 251 North dining hall. We also worked with the Department of Transportation Services to organize a bus to Cherry Hill, N.J., and Philadelphia to take out-ofstate students home during breaks.

This year, the RHA is focusing on campus sustainability, emphasizing the importance of finding creative ideas to decrease our campus’s ecological footprint. As last year’s ACC winner of Recyclemania, we hope to continue our efforts to make this university one of the greenest schools in the country and make sustainability a way of life here at College Park.

RHA is one of the most influential and fun student groups on the campus, and we would love to see some new faces (and old ones, too!) as we strive to make a difference. If you want to get involved, applications for hall council positions in each residence hall are up on our website, www.rha.umd.edu, and are due today.

Elections for hall council positions will be held Sept. 13 and 14. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at marylandrha@umd.edu or friend us on Facebook to make your voice heard.

With that, we hope everyone has a great start to the school year, and to new and returning students alike: Welcome home!

Meenu Singh is the public relations officer for the Residence Hall Association. She can be reached at meenuksingh92@aol.com.

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The floor above the food court in the Stamp Student Union contains a room with two glass walls. Through the panes of this gallery, viewers can see a sporecovered glass ball or a frame with 24 squares, each square a vintage sign that has no use anymore. These and other works in the gallery lend a sense of sophistication to the otherwise bustling student union.

“HIV,” a glass sculpture by Luke Jerram, is one of the pieces of art bought by David Phelps and the rest of the university’s Contemporary Art Purchasing Program.

Yet they were purchased not by sophisticated experts, but by students at this university such as David Phelps.

Phelps is one of five students who participated in the biennial Contemporary Art Purchasing Program over the past year, which involves an art theory course, visits to galleries and weekly discussions. The program culminates with a visit to New York City, where Phelps and the others bought new pieces to be displayed in the Stamp gallery from Aug. 29 to Oct. 15. The exhibit officially debuted last night with the CAPP opening reception.

A history and theatre double major, Phelps wanted to

explore the fusion of his two disciplines through curating — selecting and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition — and found that opportunity through CAPP. “The motivating idea behind the art is really important to me, and also the historical background of the art,” Phelps said. “We saw some things where it was like, ‘Wow, that’s beautiful, that’s amazing, but why?’”

Phelps was not the only one passing judgment on the works — which will be placed in popular spots around Stamp when the exhibit is over — to be bought for the gallery. Each of the five students had to agree on

the six pieces put in the gallery, so the process was truly a collaborative effort.

“We started out as five people with very different backgrounds and ideas about art,” said Eldis Sula, who was also part of this year’s CAPP team, but graduated in the spring. “We ended up evolving into a group that was able to choose the art that was best for the university.”

Granted, each student still has his or her favorite pieces.

For Phelps, it was “HIV” by Luke Jerram and “Signs Without Significance Portfolio” by Jeff Brouws.

“It’s this great juxtaposition of the beauty of this more or less realistic model

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typologies, which is a grid of all the same objects. And we all had our themes, and one of my themes I really dug was urban decay, and it’s all about that.”

Phelps is involved in other arts-based activities in addition to CAPP. Last fall, he was the scenic designer for an underwater-themed puppet show at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and acted as the assistant scenic designer the year before for M Butterfly, a contemporary adaptation of the famed opera, Madame Butterfly.

He’s also the Events Recital Manager for graduate student concerts at CSPAC and has participated in Tent

Troupe, a traveling summer theater company based in Silver Spring that performs in big-top circus tents, for the past four years.

Former gallery graduate assistant Megan RookKoepsel, who worked closely with Phelps and the rest of the CAPP team, said his involvement was strong in this group as well.

“He was the youngest in the group, but that didn’t stop him from adding to the conversation at all,” she said.

“He has a personality that’s great for a group like this.

You can’t be lost, and he definitely wasn’t.” diversions@umdbk.com

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EAGLES from page 8 that feat by building upon an already dominant start. The Terps have outscored their opponents, 12-2, and have already tallied two shutouts this season.

“We’re in a really good place right now, and we’re just going to try to keep going,” said Townsend, who leads the Terps with four goals this season.

And as is the case with many veteran squads, Boston College has built quite a reputation for its physical style of play. So

MILTON from page 8 phase of his life has come to an end, he was still very passionate about staying in the game. What’s not a better opportunity than to coach at his alma mater?”

That opportunity arose

DUKES from page 8 something that was on display Wednesday against American, when 22 different Terps — or two full teams — took the field.

“Our preseason is so short that we also need some of these games to feel out our players and our personnel and see who plays well and see who plays well together,” he said.

CLUB from page 8 This House,’ it just goes along with it really well.”

The Club’s official inception came at the beginning of the fall semester as part of the Resident Life Department’s new Terps-forTerps program, which works with the athletics department to link residence halls with certain teams on campus in hopes of creating more student fan bases.

The field hockey team is paired

far this season, the Eagles are averaging 12 fouls per game.

That statistic probably won’t scare the Terps, however.

Although they’re not necessarily known for their physicality, they’ve proved more than willing to mix it up when necessary. They tallied 16 fouls to Boston College’s 13 during a double-overtime, 1-1 tie in Newton, Mass., last season.

“Obviously when you head into ACC play, the physical side of it is very important,” Mullins said. “Because it’s very quick and very physical, especially with a team like

Boston College.”

The Terps have shown flashes of brilliance this season. They posted three-goal outbursts in the second period of matches against No. 12 West Virginia and No. 25 St. John’s, and they even scored four goals within the opening 30 minutes of a home win over Stanford last week.

But as the Terps prepare to step under the bright lights of Ludwig Field tonight, they understand that mere flashes likely won’t beat a top-10 team.

They want a complete game.

And that’s what they’ll need

if they hope to push around Boston College as they did two years ago.

“Oh, we feel really good,” Townsend said. “We’re really confident.”

TERPS NOTE: Cirovski has yet to announce whether defender Alex Lee will be available for tonight’s game. The senior co-captain left midway through the second half of the Stanford game with an undisclosed leg injury and arrived at Sunday’s 2-1 win over Radford in street clothes.

when volunteer assistant coach Nolan Neiman decided to leave the Terps’ staff for a position at Millersville University in late August. Milton instantly came to mind for Bakich as a replacement.

Milton will primarily work with the team’s catchers, but Bakich said he will help with many other aspects of the team

as well, including the team’s pitchers, base running and offense. The third-year coach also sees the former major leaguer as a motivator for the team, not to mention a major recruiting tool. His volunteer moniker won’t limit his role with the squad, Bakich insisted.

“The fact that he’s passionate about Maryland, and he’s pas-

sionate about baseball? We couldn’t be happier, and we’re certainly going to lean on him in every aspect,” Bakich said.

“He’s a full-time assistant coach, in my opinion, even though he’s not a salary and benefited employee. He’s every bit a part of our staff as anyone else.”

The bottom line, however, is still the win column.

“We need wins and we need those wins to help our RPI because we’re about to start our conference play in the best conference in the country.”

The Terps will open ACC play on Sept. 15 at No. 7 Virginia, with games against No. 25 Virginia Tech and No. 15 Boston College to follow in the next week.

“Starting this Sunday at

James Madison, we’ve got a three-week stretch of six very difficult games,” Pensky said.

“It’s almost like our ACC play starts this Sunday at JMU.” Midfielder Olivia Wagner, who is leading the team with four goals, said she doesn’t approach nonconference games any differently from ACC contests. The atmosphere, she said, is not much different. “[There is] maybe a little familiarity in the conference

games because we play all those teams every year, but it’s the same thing going on,” she said.

“We always want to get a win.”

With ACC play almost upon it, the team is sharing the same view as its coach, a synchronicity that has translated to results on the field.

“It is our last nonconference,” Wagner said, “but our eye’s on JMU and nothing else.”

with the Elkton and Easton dorms, said sophomore business major Katie Popecki, an Elkton Hall resident assistant who is one of the leaders of The Club.

In the Terps’ home opener Sunday, The Club made its presence felt, joining a crowd of 721 that watched the Terps defeat Michigan, 2-1. More than 30 students attended the game as part of The Club.

“It was a really awesome experience. There were a lot of people, the crowd was crazy for the team and everyone was

cheering and screaming,” Popecki said. “It was a really engaging game.”

But as much as the students enjoyed the experience, the Terps appreciated their presence even more. The team brought in 400 more spectators per game than the NCAA average last season, but players said having an official student fan section made the atmosphere even better on the field.

“The energy they bring to the game helps us pick up our energy,” sophomore defender

Ali McEvoy said. “We just really like having those extra fans there supporting us. … We really do thrive off our fans.”

Even as The Club has gotten off to a good start, the Terps hope the group will continue to grow as the year progresses.

They still need an official logo, Meharg said, and she hopes they will have T-shirts by the time the Terps host the ACC Tournament in early November.

“We play a really run-and-gun style, so that’s a culture and a characteristic I’d like to see go along with The Club,” Meharg said. “It’s a very vocal game, it’s a very international contest, and we just want to get that feverish response in numbers coming out to watch the women.”

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CRUTCHER from page 8 company in that regard.

Crutcher, an Under Armour AllAmerican recruit, has done nothing but open the eyes of her opponents and the ACC to what she can be capable of. Standing at 6 feet 1 inch tall at the outside hitter position, she has already given Horsmon reasons to describe her as “unstoppable.” In the Maryland Invitational, she recorded 33 kills, 29 digs and a .311 attack percentage.

“She has the potential to be one of the best freshmen that I have coached,” Horsmon said.

“She’s a special player, both offensively and defensively, and Remy [McBain] has complete confidence in her.”

“She’s produced for us, and for a young player, she’s pretty smart,” McBain said of Crutcher, who was named the tournament’s most valuable player.

“When we get her in good situations, she really hits the ball hard.

She’s an all-around competitor, and I’ve got no problems with setting the ball to her.”

Crutcher modestly accepts the compliments, and despite her young age, understands the importance of a team effort to translate into victory.

“It’s been a great experience for me already,” Crutcher said. “It just feels good to know that someone believes in you and your abilities on the court. But I know without the rest of the team, I wouldn’t have a big impact. Without a good set, I wouldn’t have gotten that kill.”

Crutcher, who hails from the volleyball hotbed of North Carolina, was first scouted by the Terps in the middle of her sophomore year at Cary Academy.

After his coaching staff identified her as a talent, Horsmon managed to pluck her from the grasps of ACC powers North Carolina and Duke.

Now, Crutcher’s hope is to take the Terps to that same level.

“Her potential was great,” Horsmon said of Crutcher’s production in high school, “but I just told her that she has already moved past those expectations in the matches.” munson@umdbk.com

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BASEBALL MEN’S SOCCER

Milton to rejoin Terps as coach Former Minnesota Twins pitcher starred for program in mid-1990s

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Senior staff writer

Fifteen years since he last pitched for the Terrapins baseball team and just two years after he retired from his professional playing days, Eric Milton has returned to College Park as a coach.

Milton, an All-Star with the Minnesota Twins in 2001 who racked up 89 victories in his major league career, will join the staff as a volunteer assistant, the team announced yesterday.

Milton pitched for the Terps from 1994 to 1996 and was a first-round pick of the New York Yankees in the 1996 amateur draft. The Yankees traded him to the Twins, where he spent most of his career. He had three straight years of double-digit wins from 2000 to 2002, one of the best stretches of a career that saw him play for three other teams as well.

“I sat in a dugout for over

2,000 Major League baseball games in my career,” Milton said in a release. “You learn a little bit about baseball that way. I think I can add a lot to this program.

[Coach] Erik [Bakich] used the ‘pigeon-hole’ word — I have more knowledge than just pitching; it’s all aspects of the game and I think I can add that to this program.”

Bakich first reached out to Milton in his first year on the job — 2009, the year Milton retired — as part of an effort to reconnect with former Terps greats.

Based on the relationship he built with the former Twin, Bakich had a feeling he would one day join him in the dugout.

“We kind of developed a friendship, and the more time I spent with him and his family, I just knew that he would make a great coach and he had a passion for coaching,” Bakich said.

“Now that the playing career

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Nonconference a nonissue for Terps Midfielder Alex Shinsky and the No. 2 Terps will face an undefeated Boston College team tonight at Ludwig Field. The eighth-ranked Eagles have scored 12 goals in four games this year. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Coming of age Terps face improved, more mature Boston College in ACC battle

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Sasho Cirovski will notice some familiar faces when he looks down Ludwig Field’s sideline tonight at Boston College.

That doesn’t mean the coach’s Terrapins men’s soccer team will open ACC play against the same Eagles squad it faced in recent years.

No. 8 Boston College, after all, is no longer the group of fresh-faced recruits who suffered a rain-drenched, 2-0 loss at Ludwig Field on Sept. 11, 2009.

Despite the relatively tight score that night, the Terps dominated the ball like a bully on a kickball field, outshooting

the Eagles, 23-9.

Tonight, the Terps will face a seniorladen Boston College team that’s stepping into its relatively new role among the ACC’s elite. The Eagles have quadrupled their opponents’ scoring total this season, and are coming off an impressive 2-0 win at then-No. 22 Dartmouth on Sunday.

“This is a group we have seen develop over the last few years,” Cirovski said. “One year they started seven freshmen, and now those kids are juniors and seniors, so it’s a very veteran team.”

Much like the Terps’ three-headed attack of forwards Casey Townsend and midfielders Patrick Mullins and

VOLLEYBALL

Crutcher emerges as top freshman Staff writer

The Terrapins volleyball team — and junior Remy McBain and freshman Ashleigh Crutcher, in particular — has one goal in mind this weekend: duplicate the last.

The squad’s blossoming setter-spiker partnership will again drive the Terps (3-3) as they host the Arundel Mills Terrapin Invitational this weekend, welcoming Yale, Sacred Heart and Delaware to the same court where the Terps defeated VCU, Xavier and Quinnipiac last weekend in the Maryland Invitational. With McBain and Crutcher thriving, the squad didn’t give up a single set over the weekend, and Terps coach Tim Horsmon said he hopes similar success carries over starting tonight.

“We are really focusing on building off last weekend and gaining confidence,” Horsmon

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BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

During Wednesday night’s game against American, the Terrapins women’s soccer team saw its six-game shutout streak end.

Another longer — and far more important — streak remained intact, though. The Terps’ 5-1 win against the Eagles was another notch in a nearly three-year unbeaten streak against nonconference foes dating back to Sept. 14, 2008. Since that 1-0 loss to William & Mary, the Terps have reeled off a 27-0-2 record out of the ACC, with the lone ties coming earlier this year against No. 2 Stanford and last season against regional rival Georgetown.

Another win — or tie — Sunday night at James Madison would cap their third straight undefeated nonconference slate. But coach Brian Pensky knows the Dukes (3-1-1) will be

no easy task.

“James Madison has a rich tradition,” he said. “We got them, 1-0, two years ago at our place. They are going to be well coached and prepared for us.”

Sunday’s matchup is the final nonconference game of an eight-game slate that saw the Terps play two top-25 teams in Minnesota (then ranked No. 22) and Stanford.

“In these eight games we always try and find a balance between playing against some really stiff competition and some games that are really going to help our RPI and play some games where if we do things the way we want to do things, we can get some wins,” Pensky said.

The scheduling of relatively weaker opponents allows Pensky and the Terps to rotate personnel and try different combinations of players on the field,

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FIELD HOCKEY

New spikes

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON

John Stertzer, Boston College relies heavily upon three upperclassmen for the majority of its scoring. Senior Amit Aburmad and juniors Kyle Bekker and Charlie Rugg have accounted for more than 80 percent of the Eagles’ goals this season.

In a rare battle of unbeatens, the No. 2 Terps (4-0) will try to open their season with a five-game winning streak for the first time since 2004.

The Eagles (4-0), on the other hand, are aiming to go undefeated through their first five games for the first time in program history.

Cirovski’s squad hopes to prevent

Terps’ undefeated streak up to 29

said. “The upperclassmen stabilized us, but the freshmen are also stepping up and filling in valuable roles.”

McBain, the squad’s primary setter, ranks fifth in assists per set in the conference, and also has the seventh-highest total of assists in the history of the program (1,653). She has been a consistent force on the court since her freshman year and has amassed three double-doubles and a triple-double so far this season.

“Remy has come a really long way … time and again, she is able to be the best volleyball player on the floor,” Horsmon said. “In volleyball, the center is like the quarterback; she has to be the leader. She makes great decisions, which is why she is a team captain. We’re all excited for her being the center of the program.”

McBain, though, might have

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For new fan support, Terps turn to The Club

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

More than 10,500 total fans made their way through the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex gates to see the Terrapins field hockey team last season, more than double the total season attendance of any other team in the country. The Terps have led the ACC in each of the past four seasons, and even drew an NCAA-record crowd of 2,381 to watch the 2010 national championship in College Park.

The Terps did all that without having the benefit of an organized student section leading the charge.

That’s set to change this season, however, with the recent unveiling of their new official student support group: The Club.

Comparing it to The Crew, the vocal fan base for the men’s soccer team, coach Missy Meharg said she had been working on the group with the team’s marketing department

More than 2,300 people attended the NCAA Championship in College Park last year, which the Terps won, 3-2, for the seventh time in program history. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

since last season, and it’s something she hopes will grow. That process will begin with this weekend’s Terrapin Invitational, where the No. 3 Terps

(3-1) will host Northwestern (3-1) and Villanova (1-2).

“To have a following and a group that’s your own and your fan base, there’s nothing more

powerful,” Meharg said.

“When you look at our signage with Under Armour, ‘Protect

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