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Senate bill could lower loan interest If passed, ‘Bank on Students’ act offers pre-2013 loans chance to refinance at lower interest rates

in August of that year. But students and graduates who took out loans before that date are locked into higher rates, often ranging from about 7 to

By Jon Banister loans and ease the burden of debt for 9 percent, bill sponsor Sen. Elizabeth @J_banister university students and graduates. Warren (D-Mass.) wrote in a recent Senior staff writer Retroactive since July 1, 2013, op-ed for credit.com.

“These new rates are exactly the new loans have had interest rates The U.S. Senate is expected to vote capped at 3.86 percent, after Presi- rates nearly every Republican in this week on a bill that would lower dent Obama signed the Bipartisan the House and the Senate voted for interest rates on existing student Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 just last year as the fair rate for new gary williams will return to this university as the senior managing director for alumni relations and athletic development. file photo/the diamondback

student loans issued in the 2013-2014 school year,” Warren wrote. “If these lower rates are good enough for new borrowers, they should be good enough for the older borrowers, too.”

The bill, known as the Bank on Students Act, would allow students with higher interest rates to refinance their loans to match the new lower See LOANS, Page 2

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Williams takes univ alumni job ‘I’m a Maryland person ... There’s no doubt about that.’

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Gary Williams was born and raised in New Jersey, and he rose to prominence as a basketball coach in Boston and Columbus, Ohio, but he doesn’t associate himself with those places.

“I’m a Maryland person,” the former Terrapins men’s basketball coach said yesterday. “There’s no doubt about that.”

And the Hall of Fame sideline general who helmed the Terps from 1989 to 2011 took another step yesterday toward staying connected with the university when he accepted a senior role overseeing athletics fundraising and leading alumni outreach.

Williams’ official title is senior managing director for alumni relations and athletic development. It’s a new role, so details of his job are still being hashed out. But it’s clear See WILLIAMS, Page 3

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Dominic Dix (left) and Isabel Nathan (right) introduce themselves at the One Project Kickoff on Wednesday. The Kickoff was hosted by The First-Year Experience for LGBTQA Students at UMD. The program helps students make a smooth transition to college life.

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Probing device, landing craft to land Nov. 11

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer University researchers will aid in the landing of a NASA-engineered spacecraft on a sun-orbiting comet this November, a project that is the fi rst of its kind.

The landing craft, Philae, and its attached robotic probing device, Rosetta, are slated to land on comet 67P’s surface on Nov. 11, after more than 10 years of space travel and orbit together.

Dr. Lori Feaga is an associate research scientist in the astronomy department. rachel george/the diamondback “T he scient i sts re ached t he gravity assists to slingshot it further comet when it was far enough from from Earth. It hibernated in a mothe sun, so that they could watch tionless state for nearly three years how it developed and changed over before scientists reactivated it in time,” said Elizabeth Warner, an late January. observatory coordinator at this “It’s almost like restarting a car university. that hasn’t been used in years and Launched in 2004 as the Rosetta mission, the spacecraft used four See ROSETTA, Page 7

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Students might admit they don’t know very much about Ebola and how it spreads, but many don’t fear an outbreak of the disease in the United States.

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, according to the World Health Organization. The current outbreak has been labeled an epidemic and has mainly spread through populations of West Africa.

The death toll has risen to more than 2,000 — higher than in all previous Ebola outbreaks combined.

Kristen Nordlund of the Centers

for Disease Control wrote in an email that this outbreak was different in certain ways from others. One of the largest differences, she said, was the geographic location.

“This is the first outbreak in West Africa … where we’ve seen cases including urban areas like the capitals of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia,” Nordlund wrote. “In the past, outbreaks have been found in more rural areas. And that’s not to say that there hasn’t been spread in rural areas, but it’s really the spread in urban areas that is different.”

According to a WHO report released Monday, the number of “probable, confirmed and suspected cases” was 4,269 as of Sept. 6. There have been 2,288 Ebola-related deaths recorded by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the document.

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LOANS From PAGE 1 rates. T h is wou ld en able about 25 million Americans to refinance their student loans, saving an average of $2,000 over the life of the loans, according to a White House fact sheet.

Student loan interest rates are some of the highest loan interest rates in the country.

For example, the national average for mortgage loans i s 3 . 25 p e rc e n t, a c c o rding to Bankrate.com. This university’s College Democrats chapter spokesm a n Steven Palmer said students shouldn’t have to pay such high interest rates. “ C o l l e ge s t u d e n t s a re bei ng treated u n fa i rly as people who have taken loans,” Palmer said. “Student

interest rates are not lowering; they’re locked into ludicrously high rates, and that’s why student debt is some of the highest kinds of debt that people have.”

The federal government is expected to bring in an estimated $66 billion in interest revenue from student loans taken out between 2007 and 2012, according to a Government Accountability Office report released in January.

“Having student loan i nterest rates generate money is not an inherently b a d t h i n g,” s a id L u ke P i nton, Student G overnment Association government affairs director. “But having it generate so much money where it’s actually a revenue source is a completely d i f ferent topic.

That’s something that I was shocked about.”

T he bi l l wou ld accou nt for the loss of revenue from student loan interest rates by closing tax loopholes for t ho se m a k i n g more t h a n $1 million, making them pay a higher percentage of their income, a provision referred to as the “Buffett Rule,” after billionaire Warren Buffett.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is the youngest sitting senator at age 41, and he said he is still paying back his student loans while preparing to send his children to college. Murphy participated in a conference call yesterday morning to make his argument for the bill. “[The bill is] a very reasonable proposition: A sk people who have made it in this country to help others have a fair shot at success,” Murphy said. “You don’t get to have a fair shot at success

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The bill was originally introduced June 4 but was fi libustered by the Republican minority in the Senate. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) told reporters that if Republicans block the bill again, President Obama would use

his power to help students.

“President Obama made it very clear at his State of the Union address that he would reach across the aisle and try to work with Republicans on issues like college a ffordabi l ity a nd ma ki ng sure that paying your loans back didn’t tie you up in a knot of debt when you finish college,” she said. “Even if the Republicans refuse to work on that with him, he also said that he would use h is pen, so the president has taken executive action to limit interest rates and the amount students have to take back when they begin paying back their college loans to no more than 10 percent of their monthly income.”

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“I’m worried about what skyrocketing student debt means for young people and the future of our country,” Mikulski said in a Sept. 4 news release. “We must reduce interest rates and increase graduation rates. That’s why I’m fighting to pass the Bank on Students Act.” P i nton emphasi zed the i m p o r t a n c e o f re d u c i n g student debt for the country as a whole.

“It’s stifling, not just to an individual that’s trying to get a job and buy a car, but because of that reason, it’s stifling to the national economy because these are the people that are going to start up businesses,” he said.

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Williams, an alumnus who guided the Terps to their lone national title in 2002, will be actively involved in promoting this university in an official capacity.

Williams “will serve as spokesman for the Alumni Association’s new 25th Anniversary Celebration and help manage the University’s new regional development plan in New York City, Baltimore, Los Angeles and South Florida,” accord i ng to a u n iversity news release.

The Baltimore Sun reported one of Williams’ projects includes raising funds for an indoor football practice facility, which football coach Randy Edsall has been advocating since he arrived in College Park in 2011.

“I like to think of Gary as our new head coach of athletic fundraising and alumni outreach,” university President Wallace Loh said in a statement. “And I’m confident he will have the same level of success off the court as he did on it.”

Williams has served as an athletic department adviser since he retired in 2011, and he remained involved with the university by taking on several projects even before yesterday’s announcement.

He was a co-chair of the university’s Great Expectations capital campaign, which was launched in 2006 and reached its goal of raising $1 billion by December 2012.

In his new role, Williams will hope to continue his fundraising success while working with the Division of University Relations, which raised a schoolrecord $142 million last year,

Senior government and politics major Kyong Song said he knew the epidemic was only really an issue in West Africa as of now, but he still worries about it eventually coming to the U.S. A Harvard School of Public Health survey last month showed that 39 percent of adults worry there will be a large outbreak in the U.S., and 26 percent are concerned that they might be infected with the virus during the next year.

“Just the fact that it is an epidem ic and can rapidly spread in populated areas is a bit scary,” Song said.

Song said he knew a few U.S. aid workers had already been infected, and that the country had brought back those infected workers in an effort to study and treat the disease.

Freshman economics and Japanese major Alexis Stemper and sophomore mechanical engineering major Eli Gunther said they did not know much about the disease beyond the basics they’d seen on the news, but they weren’t really worried about it affecting the U.S. Gunther said he knew it could be difficult for the diseases to spread overseas.

Ebola does not generally spread t h rou g h a i rbor ne transmission and can only be caught from contact with the bodily fluids of someone who is showing symptoms.

And there are still no reported cases of Ebola spreading on U.S. soil.

“I know we have better medicine and care here, so I’m not really worried about it,” Stemper said.

gary williams, former Terrapins men’s basketball coach, accepted a senior role overseeing athletics fundraising and leading alumni outreach yesterday. University President Wallace Loh expressed confidence in Williams, noting expectations that “he will have the same level of success off the court as he did on it.” file photo/the diamondback and the Alumni Association.

“O u r A lu m n i A ssoci ation actually began the very same year that Gary Williams arrived on campus as the new head coach in 1989,” Nicole Pollard, the university’s Alumni Association president said in the release. “I can think of no better ambassador for our 25th anniversary, and to help us grow the community of Terps around the globe.”

Williams said he was excited to take on this new role as the Terps embark on their first

full year in the Big Ten. Williams coached in the Big Ten at Ohio State in the 1980s for three years before he took the Terps job, and he served as an analyst for the Big Ten Network for a year after he retired from coaching.

“It’s a great chance for the university to go in a little different direction as far as being a member of the Big Ten now,” said Williams, who was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August. “I have a little bit of

a background in the Big Ten.” a nd has been i nvolved Much as he would after with a variety of comgames while serving as the munity events.

But the iconic coach has Terps’ coach, Williams said yesterday he’d need to evalu- never strayed too far from ate several things before he this university.

“Maryland was very got to work implementing changes and taking on proj- good to me,” Williams ects. He wants to examine said. “It gave me an eduthe university’s fundraising cation, it gave me a chance initiatives, get different de- to play basketball, and then partments on the same page I was a graduate assistant at Maryland: my first job and begin to set goals.

Wi l l ia ms, 69, has been that I had. So whenever plenty busy si nce he qu it you can give back — and drawing up game plans and I’m in a position to do it — running Terps’ practices. I’m more than happy to.”

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atastrophes have a way of forming a permanent stain in our memory — no matter how old we get, we can remember certain events as if they happened yesterday.

When many of us were in elementary school, at an age when we couldn’t even comprehend the idea of terrorism, we saw what felt like the world tearing apart before our eyes. Thirteen years later, memories of the events on Sept. 11, 2001, are still strong. And over the years, those horrifying events have shaped us as a generation in unique ways.

While some websites refer to us as the “9/11 generation” (we were old enough to remember the events on that day, yet young enough to allow those events to shape us throughout high school, college and our careers), this title is almost always used to allude to the fear and chaos experienced on that grim day.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media will be alive with American flags, quotes and pictures today memorializing the events. Many of us might take some time to reflect in our own ways or participate in a moment of silence for those killed during the

attacks. Regardless, we all have our different ways of remembering 9/11, and there’s no doubt it’s something that will not be easy to forget.

OUR VIEW

The past 13 years have uniquely shaped our generation to memorialize 9/11, yet not be too fearful of looming terror.

While our parents’ generation was the one largely responsible for responding to 9/11 with enhanced security and military efforts, ours was the one with, interestingly, a unique profile compared with others.

Among all age groups, those ages 18 to 29 were least likely in 2012 to foresee occasional terrorism in the future, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center poll. Additionally, over the past few years, the number of Americans “not at all” worried about terrorism has steadily increased.

Though the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings have since shaken our generation’s cavalier attitude, bringing

our fears of future terroristic acts on par with that of our parents, according to the same report, we’ve proven our resilience.

Though looming threats in Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere should definitely still be on our radar, the fact that future terrorist threats don’t instill fear in our minds as much as they did before is worth noting.

So, have we become mentally stronger toward the idea of terrorism, or have we just gotten used to living in a post-9/11 world?

We might never know the answer, but with growing up watching the news and hearing about terrorism and security measures happening across the globe, it wouldn’t be surprising for our generation to be resilient when it comes to future threats — capable of acknowledging serious risks but not allowing fear to overcome ourselves.

Although we are not singularly the “9/11 generation,” we are a generation capable of remembering and memorializing lives lost and a country changed, all while being fearless when it comes to what our future might hold.

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t was a simple tweet: “The #Ravens have terminated RB Ray Rice’s contract this afternoon.”

Within seconds, the message from the official Baltimore Ravens Twitter account reverberated around the country. Some celebrated the decision and applauded the Ravens for a courageous response to a publicrelations nightmare, while others lamented how the team will suffer without its star running back, but neither response was appropriate.

The Ravens’ decision came more than six months after a video surfaced of Rice dragging his unconscious fiancee out of an Atlantic City, New Jersey, elevator. And the franchise only terminated his contract because a subsequent video was released Monday showing that Rice punched his fiancee, confirming rumors that he was the one who knocked her unconscious.

If history is any indicator, the NFL and its fans will forgive Rice in a few months, when he’ll inevitably be signed by another team and likely deliver stellar performances. After all, the initial response was pathetic: The NFL handed down a two-game suspension, and the Ravens continued to stand by their star. Making matters worse, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, one of the most respected NFL writers, wrote that several NFL officials saw both parts of the video months ago.

Professional football has been my favorite sport to watch since I was 11 years old, and I’ve been a huge Rice fan ever since he was drafted in 2008.

My dad bought me a Rice jersey six years ago, and I even bought my older sister a Rice sweatshirt after we went to a Ravens game together.

But I haven’t put on that jersey since February, and I’ve wondered why the league and the Ravens let such a disgusting act go virtually unpunished. It sends a chilling message: Domestic violence is OK if you rake in millions of dollars and help lead your team to success.

The NFL has had other disciplinary issues to deal with since the

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nocent Iraqi civilians are now dead, as estimated in a study conducted

by Brown University.

The others who have since been killed include nearly every member of al-Qaida directly responsible for the attacks of 9/11, including Osama bin Laden, yet somehow after 13 years we are still searching for justice and peace.

Back home, the events of 9/11 have been used as a catalyst to engender widespread Islamophobia.

This year the Arab American Institute conducted a poll showing only 27 percent of Americans have favorable attitudes toward Muslims, down from 35 percent in 2010. The Patriot Act has placed loopholes in our civil liberties, torture has been standardized, our military budget has since seen a more than 100 percent increase, and the drones we have produced threaten the privacy of our citizens and murder those in foreign nations.

The weapons we build to kill these terrorists are in such abundance that they are even being handed down to our police to combat our own civilians. So who exactly are we at war with? Perhaps it does not matter.

The startling power and influence the United States commands over foreign governments in the Middle East has revived the glorious American empire. Providing weapons and aid to military factions and attempting to institute

American-dictated democracies in countries such as Iraq, Egypt and Libya is carried out under our entitlement of justice and peace. How else to do this than by constantly reminding the American populace of 9/11? By constantly promoting Islamophobia and instilling a sense of danger from foreign entities? By constantly chanting the tribalistic propaganda “God bless America?”

Instead of trying to find peace and justice for those killed on 9/11 overseas, we can start here on American soil by properly laying them to rest.

According to the Wall Street Journal, there are still 1,115 people, or 41 percent of all those reported missing, who still have not had their remains identified. And along with burying the dead, we can also bury our national prejudices toward Muslims, our hauteur display of American might through our unchecked military funding and our fixation on using 9/11 as an excuse to explain the inexcusable atrocities we help to commit in the Middle East.

When we have laid these to rest deep beneath the Earth, maybe then can we emerge from the valley of darkness, and maybe t h e n t h e s u n w i l l r i se o n o u r nation once more.

Patrick An is a junior biology m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t patandbk@gmail.com.

Rice video first surfaced. On June 7, the league suspended Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon for the entire 2014 season for failing a second drug test. Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker was suspended for four games for using Adderall without clearance.

On Aug. 25, Washington Redskins safety Brandon Merriweather was suspended for the first two games of the regular season for a helmet-to-helmet collision in a preseason game — the same punishment Rice faced for beating his fiancee.

After continued backlash, the NFL revamped its rules so that domestic violence offenses carried a six-game suspension for first-time offenses and up to a lifetime banishment for a second offense — a pitiful attempt to demonstrate it takes these offenses seriously.

If the NFL and the Ravens were legitimately determined to do the right thing, Rice’s contract would have been terminated in February, and Rice would never be allowed to step on the gridiron again. Instead, the Ravens simply wanted to put an end to the publicrelations nightmare so the team could focus on winning games.

Professional football has a nasty history of forgiving players for heinous crimes. In 2008, Adam “Pac Man” Jones resumed play after he faced legal action in connection to hitting two women.

Michael Vick was reinstated in 2009 after serving 21 months in prison for running a dog-fighting ring for five years. The following year, Vick’s jersey was one of the country’s best-selling, and he was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year for leading the Philadelphia Eagles to their first division title since 2006.

The NFL needs to undergo a serious culture change and hold its players to the same standards as the average person, even if they make millions and win Super Bowls. No one should be applauded for Monday’s decision until Ray Rice is forever banned from ever setting foot on a football field again.

Ehab Abutaleb is a senior environmental science major at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He can be reached at aehab1@umbc.edu.

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oday across the nation, we will be asked by our friends, our teachers and our government to share a moment of silence in remembrance of those who perished during the 9/11 attacks — a remembrance of that day 13 years ago when we realized we were not so invincible, world peace was not so certain and al-Qaida, which functioned in some obscure and distant badlands called the Middle East, was actually not so far away.

And as the debris settled and the sun retreated beyond the horizon, uncertain if it would rise again, then-President George W. Bush, in our moment of national fragility, comforted us by quoting Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for [God] is with me” and like a phoenix, our nation will rise from the ashes and “unite in our resolve for justice and peace.”

Unfortunately, the next day, out of the ashes emerged not a phoenix but a pestilence that festers on our incessant fixation on 9/11 and those who died on that day; war was also upon us.

Just nine days after 9/11, President Bush announced, as though it was some sort of achievement, that we were entering “the first war of the 21st century,” and we would go to war to fight the terrorists to seek justice for the dead and defend our country. In the name of justice and self-defense, more than 130,000 in-

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old, in terms of numbers. Yet, even as I avoid watching any footage, my visceral reaction to the new visual is not proportionately less powerful.

This new threat triggers the lurking fear, anger and sadness embedded in my psyche. My instincts cry out, “Do something! Before it happens again!”

I don’t know if I should trust my instincts. I have trouble internalizing statistics.

What do we want from our foreign policy? What does a peaceful world look like? How do we make it to that place?

These questions, not the panic caused by evil men, should drive my thinking about foreign policy. About what we ought to do.

Among my friends, I see the same horror, attention turned toward something more tangible, something we can actually take action about. From the voices on the radio, I hear the same cry as my instincts, angry and still hurt, wanting to lash out. The same trouble with statistics.

Something about terrorists to the west of the Mediterranean Sea and east of the Indus River touches us differently than terrorists elsewhere. Somehow, when they are the ones killing, and we are the ones killed, it feels different. I do not know if it should.

Other statistics come to mind when I think about the real things to fear, when I try to correct what I care about. Thousands, millions, billions — my mind struggles to feel for just one person, and it is not because of apathy that I cannot do anything to help.

I do not pretend to know what the answers are, or even the right questions. I was not close to anyone who died. I wish I had more to give to those who were.

I have trouble with statistics.

It is not pleasant, but I can imagine what it is like to be a victim of violence. I can imagine violence done to my family, or friends or someone I know. It’s harder, but I can imagine violence inflicted upon many people.

My mind is not equipped to empathize with large-scale tragedy. I cannot do enough imagining to feel for more than a handful of people.

Logically, I know that 1,000 victims is far worse than 100, that 10 is much worse than one. Still, those numbers do not convey 10 times the sense of loss. I am not alone in this inability.

It is rare indeed for someone to feel in proportion to the scale of a tragedy.

Today marks 13 years. Enough time for a child to be born and grow up and struggle to understand.

It is difficult to synthesize the stories we lived through, of tragedy and heroism, with the facts and statistics. Two thousand, nine hundred seventy-seven dead. More than a thousand who worked or lived near ground zero have been diagnosed with cancer since. $750 million in cleanup costs and billions lost in economic activity. Somehow the numbers aren’t as real as the images, the stories of individuals.

Some things are different, and some things are the same.

These days, instead of talking about al-Qaida, we are talking about ISIL. As a country, we still can’t agree what we should do about a foreign enemy, much less on a shared vision of our role in Robert Cobb is a senior computer the world. The new terror should engineering major. He can be reached feel like nothing compared to the at rcobbdbk@gmail.com.

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CLIMBING THE SCALES A cappella week continues online! The Diamondback’s Julia Reed warms up with the all-female Mezumenet, and Maeve Dunigan gets close with Kol Sasson. Visit dbknews.com for more.

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CREATING A CULTURE OF MUSIC Anokha blends South Asian and American Jewish a cappella group Rak Shalom defines influences to create a sound all its own itself through close-knit friendships

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer

ANOKHA MEMBERS perform at an International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella event at Johns Hopkins University. The group blends current pop with South Asian musical influences for a sound that stands out on the campus. james levin/the diamondback

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mash-ups that feature songs from many genres — and often languages.

At last year’s performance in the Memorial Chapel, the group performed songs by Kanye West, Coldplay and A.R. Rahman, among others.

Their diversity is a talent they wish to showcase and share. “ We t r y o u r b e s t to reach out to a broad range o f a u d i e n c e m e m b e rs by p i c k i n g s o n gs t h a t are relevant and new as well as creating memora b l e m a s h - u p s w i t h some songs that we grew u p l i s te n i n g to ,” s a i d Anokha’s music director Sara Mahmood, a junior psychology major.

In August, Anokha finished editing and mixing what is now its first studio album, Unleashed.

The group has also competed in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella and Gathe Raho, a competition specifically for South Asian fusion groups.

“We’ve made so much progress in the last few

What do you get when yo u m i x S o u t h A s i a n music with modernday hits? Anokha, this university’s only South Asian-American a cappella group. “ We re c o g n i z e t h a t music is something that unifies people from all over the world, and each culture has so much to offer like different beats, d i f fe re n t i n s t r u m e n ts and different sounds,” said Niti Dharwadkar, a physiology and neurobiology major and Anokha’s president.

Anokha means “unique” and “inimitable” in Hindi, Dharwadkar said. The sound the group seeks to achieve is indeed unlike any other on the campus: Established in 2001, Anokha highlights the different cultures that coexist in the South Asian region, while blending Eastern and Western styles together. They often sing

“WE RECOGNIZE THAT MUSIC IS SOMETHING THAT UNIFIES PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND EACH CULTURE HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER.” NITI DHARWADKAR Anokha President

years,” said Anokha Vice President Sanjay Chainani, a physiology and n e u r o b i o l o g y m a j o r.

“This makes it fun to be in Anokha. Every member of the group contributes to the group’s direction. I think that’s pretty cool.”

Members are diverse in background and training, but according to Chainani, they all take music seriously.

“A n o k h a i s a re a l l y special group and joining the team is an opportunity to create awesome music,” he said. “That’s a goal we’re willing to put our time and effort into.” dohldbk@gmail.com

It may sound cliche, and the members of Jewish a cappella group Rak Shalom would be the first to tell you that, but the group really functions as a family.

“It really comes across when you get to know the members and how we interact together — how big of a family we are, how close we are and how much fun we have,” said Joey Frankel, a senior government and politics major and Rak Shalom’s president.

Rak Shalom, entering its 10th year as an a cappella group on the campus, specializes in American and Israeli pop music, as well as traditional Jewish songs.

The group also does crosscultural mash-ups, such as “Gold,” a combination of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” and popular Israeli song “Jerusalem of Gold.”

For its 10th anniversary, Rak Shalom will be holding a concert with the group’s alumni in December.

“We’re going to sing all our songs from the beginning up until now,” Frankel s a i d . “ I t ’s g o i n g t o b e awesome.”

Rak Shalom performed at the opening barbecue of Hillel’s Welcome Week 2014 to recruit for this week’s auditions. Watching as they sang and swayed together to Jordin Sparks’ “Tattoo,” it became clear that this group is as cohesive as its members claim.

“We are more than just an a cappella group,” said Nachmi Kott, a freshman computer science major. “We are a group of friends. We are very much a family. We don’t just get together. We

RAK SHALOM MEMBERS sing together at a cappella auditions. The group performs American and Israeli pop songs as well as traditional Hebrew numbers. james levin/the diamondback don’t just sing once a week.

It makes our performance a lot better.”

Frankel said the group practices five hours a week and hangs out socially together.

The group has also bonded through recording CDs and go i n g o n to u r to ge t h e r, which they do every spring.

Last year, they performed at schools and synagogues in New York, Michigan and Toronto, and this year they plan on visiting Florida. In May 2012, they were even able to perform for and meet President Obama.

“We got a picture with him,” said Maya Freund, a senior hearing and speech sciences and psychology major and four-year member of Rak Shalom. “It was really fun. It was really exciting.”

But successes aside, the members of Rak Shalom like

“WE ARE MORE THAN JUST AN A CAPPELLA GROUP ... WE ARE A GROUP OF FRIENDS. WE ARE VERY MUCH A FAMILY.” NACHMI KOTT

Computer science major

being a part of the group because it allows them to spend time with close friends they know they can count on.

“We really just are a family in the sense that even outside o f re h ea rsa l s we ’re b e s t friends,” Freund said. “Those are my group of friends.

Those are the people I want to hang out with outside of Rak Shalom, and I think that that energy and that chemistry creates something special on stage.” dlevydbk@gmail.com

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Rosetta From PAGE 1 has been kept in the cold of space,” said Lucy McFadden, a former astronomy research professor. “It’s amazing that it works.”

T he spacecraft engaged with the 2-kilometer-thick c o m e t i n M ay, s a i d L o r i Fe a g a , a n a s s o c i a t e a stronomy research scientist.

Once attached to the comet’s surface, the landing craft will conduct further testing of gases and scoop up soil samples for analysis. T he c ra f t c a r r ie s 20 probi n g dev ices for test i ng these substances, including Alice, a UV imaging spectrograph that Feaga manages.

A l ice, ab oa rd R oset t a , has already been activated by scientists and is creating images of the comet’s su rface usi ng u ltrav iolet spectra. Alice sends scien-

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tists an image of numbers, which they fill in with corresponding colors, Feaga said.

T h e s c i e n t i f i c go a l o f the mission is to detail the comet’s composition, nucleus a nd properties. But more i mpor ta nt ly, t he genera l goal is to directly explain the comet’s origin, and indirectly rationalize how our planet formed, where human life started and what organic material might have created life, McFadden said.

“By observing the comet, we can successfully learn more about the origins of the early solar system and how it could help support the fact that maybe our Earth gained its water from these comets, or even helped provide life,” said Jose Miguel Castro, a junior astrophysics major.

T h e d e v i c e d i s c o vered hydrogen and oxygen in the comet’s atmosphere on Sept. 4, but has yet to send d ata

showing evidence of water on the surface, according to a NASA news release.

Despite its size, the comet will not be bright enough to be visible until next year, Warner said.

Two other university affiliates worked on Rosetta, including Dennis Bodewits, an assistant astronomy research scientist and Michael A’Hearn, an astronomy professor and research scientist.

After losing contact with the Deep Impact mission spacecra f t i n September 2013 , A’Hearn moved to Germany to work closer to the Rosetta mission headquarters, McFadden said.

A’Hearn, McFadden, Feaga and several other university researchers were all involved in the decades-long Deep Impact mission, which succeeded in making contact with the Tempel 1 comet.

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T he tea m reached t h at c o m e t o n t h e Fo u r t h o f July, and after the landing, nothing could compare to it for these researchers, McFadden said. And the same kind of experience may come the Rosetta researchers’ way in a few months.

“The mission is really just beginning,” she said. mhorndbk@gmail.com

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Several contributors still sidelined Anthony, Ryan miss Terps’ 1-1 draw with Midshipmen due to injuries than Morgan doesn’t know when Ryan will be allowed to return.

Originally, Ryan, a senior from Norwood, Massachusetts, planned on playing through the injury. In fact, she came on as a substitute in the two games after the Terps’ loss to the Waves.

But when the doctors reevaluated the senior, they determined her bone was compressed, forcing her to undergo surgery.

“Her arm is broken to the point where she can’t play

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

defender dakota edwards started 23 games as a freshman for a Terps team that reached the College Cup. He played eight games last year while battling injuries. file photo/the diamondback

Edwards remains on Terps’ bench

Injuries have ravaged the Terrapins women’s soccer team to start the season, and the Terps played without starters forward Alex Anthony and midfielder Cory Ryan on Monday night against Navy.

Ryan, one of three Terps named to the Big Ten Players to Watch list, had surgery Wednesday night on an arm she broke against Pepperdine on Aug. 24. Coach Jona-

Two seasons ago, thenfreshman defender Dakota Edwards was an instrumental part of a Terrapins men’s soccer team that qualified for the College Cup. Edwards, once named the No. 54 recruit in the nation by TopDrawerSoccer.com, started 23 games at center back in 2012, helping organize a starstudded backline that included defenders London Woodberry and Taylor Kemp, who have both gone on to play professional soccer.

But Edwards’ 2013 season was cut short by injury, and he played in just eight matches.

Now, four games into his junior campaign, the once-promising prospect has yet to see the field.

“Dakota’s been in good form,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “It’s just tough to get him some time.”

Cirovski attributed Edwards’ lack of playing time to the team’s depth at the position. Defenders Chris Odoi-Atsem, Alex Crognale and Suli Dainkeh have also been in the rotation and performed well, and Cirovski hasn’t given any indication that he intends to alter his backline.

With the other three center backs emerging last year, Edwards seemingly got lost in the shuffle and hasn’t found his way back into the mix.

Cirovski said he doesn’t rank Edwards any lower than the others, though.

“I feel like we’ve got four starting center backs,” Cirovski said. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

Berman after she had been out with a hyperextended knee for the past few weeks.

Berman, who is the Terps’ leading returning scorer from last year’s squad, attempted six shots against the Midshipmen.

“She showed her quality to n i g h t ,” M o rga n s a i d .

“Once she starts getting match fit and she gets a little bit stronger, I think we’re going to have something special there.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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right now,” Morgan said. “Her fitness is good, her touch is good; it’s just the break was a little more severe than we originally thought. So just to be careful, we’re keeping her out right now.”

Morgan also decided to rest Anthony, who has been battling hamstring issues.

The eighth-year coach added that he hopes the redshirt freshman will be ready to play Friday at Ludwig Field against Rutgers.

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brown From PAGE 10 three touchdowns on seven carries. But his passing was on the other side of the spectrum, as he completed just 11 of 24 passes (45.8 percent) for 111 yards and a touchdown.

O u t s i d e o f a 4 1 - ya rd to u c h d ow n c o m p l e t i o n to Deon Long in the third quarter, Brown was 10 of 23 for 70 yards.

So Edsall said Brown’s 17 of 28, 201-yard afternoon against the Bulls, the Terps’ first FBS opponent of 2014, was an important s te p fo rwa rd . H oweve r, Brown continued to be ineffective throwing the ball down the field, which could be a concern if that persists moving forward, considering the Terps’ two best offensive playmakers, Long and receiver Stefon Diggs, are threats in the vertical passing attack.

quarterback C.J. Brown completed 17 of 28 passes for 201 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions in a 24-17 win at South Florida on Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback passes down the field, the duo execute and do the things he’s On the first drive of the by a Bulls’ defensive back. coached to do, not overthink Diggs and Long gener- becomes much less potent. game Saturday, Diggs beat his “He wants to be perfect,” it, not overanalyze it. He’s got man along the right sideline. ated buzz in the offseason Brown saw the open receiver because of their collective Edsall said of Brown. “When to be able to do things people and heaved a throw, but it had skill sets and freakish ath- you play like that, you have a can’t defend and people can’t too much air. The toss came up leticism. However, if Brown tendency to make more mis- stop because of his athletic well short and was intercepted is unable to connect on long takes. He just needs to go and abilities. I just want him to go

out and have fun and let it go.

Just let it go, stop thinking so much, and just go play.”

That relaxed mentality might be difficult to achieve, though, as the Terps’ competition gets stiffer as the season progresses, starting this weekend against West Virginia.

I n ga m e s a ga i n s t t h e Mountaineers, as well as Big Ten opponents Michigan, Ohio State and Michigan State, Brown will likely not be able to commit three turnovers or complete less than 50 percent of his passes and lead the team to victory.

Nonetheless, there remains no panic among his teammates and coaches. After all, Brown’s quarterbacked the Terps to two wins in as many games.

“To me, quarterbacks are judged with their wins and losses,” offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said. “And right now, he’s a 2-0 quarterback.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

defeneder Rachel Frusher is part of a backline that has allowed six goals on seven shots in the second half of contests through four games this year. rebecca rainey/the diamondback

notebook From PAGE 10 “The whole team across the board is a lot more solid in scoring,” Parker said. “It hasn’t really shown yet, but I think we will have a breakout game.”

SECOND-HALF STRUGGLES While the Terps have dominated possession and shots in the second half through the first four games, opponents have scored on nearly every shot on goal. Competitors have beat goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera on five of the six shots on goal in the second half.

The Terps would like to continue to limit their opposition to an average of 1.6 shots on goal per half, but they need to improve on stopping those shots. The fault doesn’t fall solely on Cabrera, however.

The Terps defense is allowing quality shots in those instances, and coach Missy Meharg attributes it to a backline that hasn’t had much in-game experience with one another. Defender Rachel Frusher, who has started all four games at center back, is an Australia native who Meharg said is still adjusting to the Terps’ style of play.

“We have to look at our realities that we are a work in progress,” Meharg said.

“We have a new goalie that is starting for the first time. We have a new center back that is starting for the first time.”

HEALTHY AGAIN The Terps entered the second weekend of play with a healthy group, but they endured some injuries during the games that forced Meharg to tweak the lineup. With nearly a week to

“WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OUR REALITIES THAT WE ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS. WE HAVE A NEW GOALIE THAT IS STARTING FOR THE FIRST TIME. WE HAVE A NEW CENTER BACK THAT IS STARTING FOR THE FIRST TIME.” MISSY MEHARG

Terrapins field hockey coach recover, though, the Terps are back to full health.

Midfielder Lein Holsboer suffered a sprained ankle that kept her out of the game against M iami (Ohio) on Sunday, but the freshman is expected to take the field against Drexel this Saturday.

Against the Redhawks, midfielder Kasey Tapman and forward Moira Putsch were hit by sticks. Putsch had her hand wrapped and returned to finish the game, while Tapman needed eight stitches in her head but is also ready to go this weekend.

“Lein is good. She played today and is doing very well,” Meharg said after Wednesday’s practice. “All the players seem to be fine.”

DROPPING DOWN The Terps relinquished their No. 1 ranking to North Carolina following this weekend’s 3-1 loss to the Tar Heels but only dropped to No. 3 in the NFHCA Coaches Poll.

Coach Missy Meharg said she was surprised the Terps didn’t fall further, with No. 4 Duke and No. 5 Syracuse still undefeated behind them.

“It makes a statement to the program that at least we maintained a top-four ranking,” Meharg said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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Balanced offense lacks star No Terp has scored more than two goals through four games

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

is a result of mental lapses, not physical ones.

“He’s putting too much pressure on himself,” Edsall said. “He’s overthinking things, and he’s paralyzing himself a little bit. He’s just got to get back to playing the kind of football he’s capable of playing.”

Brown is an exceptional runner who put his athleticism on display against James Madison, an FCS team, when he rushed for 61 yards and

After many years of one player carrying the bulk of the scoring load for the Terrapins field hockey team, the Terps are relying on a balanced attack to get the job done this year.

Through the first four games of the season, no Terps player has scored more than two goals. Still, the Terps have won three of their first four games.

Moving forward, the team doesn’t expect any single person to dominate the attack. Instead, the Terps will continue to count on multiple offensive contributors, just as they have early in the season.

“It’s nice to know that anybody can go into the circle and that anybody can score,” forward Alyssa Parker said.

So far, five players have taken at least nine shots this season, but only two have taken more than 10. Parker believes that the team’s balance forces defenses to respect everyone on the Terps attack.

While the varied scoring and shooting distribution hasn’t produced the quantity of goals from past seasons yet, the Terps expect to change that soon.

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quarterback c.j. Brown releases a pass in the Terps’ season-opening 52-7 win over James Madison on Aug. 30. Brown has thrown three touchdowns and two interceptions this year. christian jenkins/the diamondback

‘JUST LET IT GO’

Edsall suggests C.J. Brown relax after veteran quarterback experiences struggles in season’s first two games

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer After struggling with his passing game during the season opener against James Madison on Aug. 30, Terrapins football quarterback C.J. Brown showed improvement Saturday in a 24-17 win at South Florida.

He completed six more passes and his completion percentage was almost 15 points higher. He

fired his second and third touchdown tosses of the season, both to receiver Marcus Leak. Not to mention, in Tampa, Florida, Brown nearly doubled his passing yardage from the bout with the Dukes at Byrd Stadium.

Still, Brown’s performance didn’t meet expectations because of a myriad of turnovers that nearly cost the Terps the game. The sixth-year signal-caller fumbled three times, losing one, and tossed two interceptions.

And to coach Randy Edsall, Brown’s poor play

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