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Obama coming back to campus In third visit, president will speak about health care at Comcast Center Thursday

BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff writer

President Barack Obama will hold a rally on the campus Thursday to build support for health care reform.

The appearance, Obama’s third at the university since 2006, is expected to be held in the Comcast Center from noon to 1 p.m. and is part of an attempt by the Obama administration to reshape the conversation about the controversial health care legislation working its

way through Congress.

Details about the rally are scarce, but university officials worked with the White House over the weekend to establish the logistics of the president’s visit.

“Our responsibility is to work with his administration to provide the best venue for him to deliver his thoughts,” university spokesman Millree Williams said.

“We’re ver y excited.”

Calls to the White House press office were not returned.

Engaged University’s future still in doubt Despite SGA’s urgency and advocacy, tight budget means administrators may still slash popular agriculture program

Obama’s stop in College Park is the third in a series of rallies where the president will press his case for health care reform, following appearances Saturday in Minneapolis and tomorrow in Pittsburgh to the AFLCIO’s national convention.

Obama has visited the university twice in the past, but the atmosphere has never been as contentious as it is now. His first appearance was to campaign for then-U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in his race for U.S. Senate, which Cardin eventually

won. His second was a huge rally held at the Comcast Center in February 2008, shortly before the presidential primaries in the state, which he handily won over then-Sen. Hillary Clinton(D-N.Y.).

This latest appearance could be bigger than Obama’s previous events at the university.

“We’re expecting him to command a greater attendance this year,” said Williams. “He’s the president now.

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President Barack Obama speaks at a rally at the Comcast Center in February 2008. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

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BUNNIES University’s three ‘Girls of the ACC’ bring Playboy to College Park

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Last Wednesday’s SGA meeting ended with an unexpected twist: A resolution supporting the Engaged University, a community service program threatened by budget cuts, was introduced and passed unanimously — all in one sitting.

The speed at which the resolution was passed speaks to just how important the Student Government Association views the Engaged University, which since 2002 has connected students with their nearby community, running extracurricular service programs out of an abandoned public school in Riverdale.

But the administrators holding the program’s purse strings remain unsure about its future. Cheng-i Wei, the dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, which partly funds the Engaged University, said he’d take the SGA’s vote into consideration, but couldn’t make any promises about its future.

“Right now, every program in the college is under consideration,” Wei said. “Every unit is to be evaluated, including my own office.”

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n October’s issue of Playboy, nearly naked girls pose in dorm rooms and perch atop desks piled with books and dictionaries with college emblems, pom-poms and spirit posters in the background.

They are clad in skimpier versions of college spirit gear that fall from their bodies in various states of undress.

But take a close look around you next time you sit down in your Psychology class or peruse books in the library because some these co-eds — more often objects of fantasy than reality — walk among us.

Three students from the university grace the pages of Playboy’s October issue in a “Girls of the ACC” photo spread. More girls from this university were

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Engaged University Director Margaret Morgan-Hubbard speaks at an SGA-organized media event. Administrators are debating the program’s fate.

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gram at the university has to submit a budget proposal cutting 8 to 10 percent of their schools’ costs to the provost by tomorrow. Wei said each program in the college is facing scrutiny, and the Engaged University, which costs $300,000 a year to maintain, is certainly no The university’s three Girls of the ACC sign copies of Playboy at Cornerstone Grill and Loft. MATTHEW

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Activists wish for bolder carbon reduction plan Student senators still plan to vote for bill

BY DERBY COX Staff writer

As the University Senate prepares to vote Wednesday on the Climate Action Plan a sweeping environmental strategic plan which calls to eliminate the university’s carbon footprint by 2050, some student activists say the plan doesn’t reach far enough.

The plan, which administrators, students and professors crafted over the course of almost two years, would tap new renewable energy sources, retrofit campus

buildings with sustainable features and call for increased recycling.

But several student said this plan is merely a good start.

To put the plan in context, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, signed by Gov. Martin O’Malley earlier this year, requires the state reduce its emissions 25 percent by 2020, while the Climate Action Plan goes farther, seeking to cut the university’s emissions in half by the same date.

“We have to go by the state laws anyway,” said Jesse Yurow, the Stu-

Honors department unveils three new living-learning programs

STATE VS. UNIVERSITY Despite student criticism, the Climate Action Plan is more ambitious than its state counterpart, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act: Cut state emissions 25 percent from 2006 levels by 2020 Climate Action Plan: Cut university emissions 50 percent and bring the net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2020.

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

As the university seeks to attract higher achieving high school seniors, administrators last Friday unveiled three new programs to help achieve that goal.

“Digital Cultures and Creativity,” a product of the arts and humanities college, and “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” of the engineering school will join the three current programs of the University Honors Program next fall. “Global Public Health” from the public health school will become the university’s 14th College Park Scholars concentration.

“We really want to be known as offering a premiere undergraduate educa-

dent Government Association’s agriculture legislator. “So for us to just be complying with the state is lame. We should be leaders in the state, not just following baseline requirements.”

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PLAYBOY from page 1 represented in Hugh Hefner’s legendary magazine this year than any other ACC school.

“It was a boost of confidence,” said alumnus Jennifer Lynn, one of the chosen girls. “It helps with self esteem. The girls in Playboy are beautiful so it was an honor to be in the magazine.”

And to celebrate the magazine’s Friday release, the girls who bared it all helped promote the issue with events at Axe Hair and Cornerstone Grill and Loft this weekend.

Crowds of students flush from the football team’s victory a few hours earlier crowded into Cornerstone on Saturday night to get autographed copies of the magazine and meet the university’s very own Playboy models: Lynn, public community health major Nöel Simone and junior marketing major Connie Du. “It was so spur of the moment for me,” Simone said. “I’m glad I did it, though.”

At the event, which was co-sponsored by LifeStyles condoms and Axe, Cornerstone patrons got more than just a free show. Drinks in hand, students stumbled up to the promotional table, grabbing handfuls of complimentary LifeStyles condoms, Axe Hair shampoo, glow sticks, blinking necklaces that read ‘I <3 making out,’ Girls of the ACC cups and shirts, along with, of course, their signed magazines.

“I love it because there’s a lot of hot girls at Maryland,” alumnus Jon Shapiro said. “And in the ACC, we have got to represent it. …The girls are pretty sexy and I am proud they went to Maryland.”

Playboy’s famous October college issue has been running in the magazine for 33 years and always generates a good amount of sales, Playboy publicist Liz Sablich said.

“We like to generate excitement about the issue,” Sablich said. “In particular, we like to celebrate these beautiful girls. It is such a unique opportunity and we want them to feel special and proud.”

The magazine rotates conferences each year. The ACC was featured for the last time in 2004. Each year, the number of women chosen depends on the conference and turnout for the auditions, Sablich said. Last year’s issue spotlighted Big 10 schools, which tends to sees a larger turnout due to the larger population of the schools. The Big 10 spread contained about 40 young women last year, compared to the ACC’s 15, Sablich said. Each school in the ACC is represented at least once, except for Boston College.

Tryouts at this university were held last spring before the final selection of girls were sent to Chicago in March and April for photo shoots.

After a few hours of hair and makeup preparation, they felt completely comfortable, the models said.

“It was so surreal,” Lynn said.

“You don’t ever picture yourself in that situation, especially how quick it was. You were in the shoot and it was so quick, it was like just do it.”

Lynn, who said her father used to collect Playboy magazines, said she always admired the women featured in the magazine.

“I have always wanted to do it,” Simone agreed. “I never actually thought I would try out for it, but I saw the opportunity and I jumped on it.”

From left, Jennifer Lynn, Connie Du and Nöel Simone sign autographs at Cornerstone on Saturday night . MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

In the next few months, the trio are up for coed of the month on Playboy’s website. Simone and Du will be competing for November and Lynn for December.

“It’s nice to know that it’s not just a dead end,” Du said. “I am enjoying it and will just see where it can go.”

Even though they have been enjoying the experience and will continue to accept opportunities that come along, none of the women will be ditching their degrees to set up house in the Playboy mansion with Hefner or take up a career posing naked.

“I definitely have my career in gear,” Lynn said. “I’d love to do it part time, but I have a greater career focus.”

As reams of magazines were handed out at the party Saturday, guys perused the pages with friends, this time with the models on the page

standing a few feet away. For the girls, this hasn’t really sunk in yet.

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Grad. students, Univ. Senate call for more awards Staff writer

Budget cuts. Furloughs. Swine flu.

The university may be able to add another item to its list of woes: too few teaching awards.

It may not seem like a big deal, but teaching awards can really count when graduate students begin their job hunts, graduate students said.

“When we’re out on the job market, it’s, in general, saturated with PhDs,” graduate student Aaron Tobiason said. “And you need anything you can to be able to stand out.”

No one knows exactly how many awards the university actually gives out, but Ken Holum, the former chair of the University Senate — the university’s highest advisor y body — said asking around has led him to conclude there aren’t enough. That could make it hard for graduate students to compete in the job market with graduates from other schools.

More awards would also encourage good teaching rather than just good

CLIMATE from page 1 Manager Heather Lair countered that the university is outpacing the state’s reduction goals, saying the Climate Action Plan is aggressive in its current form and can be further revised.

“The state of Maryland is progressive and we’re trying to be more progressive,” she said.

Still, students point out questions remain about the plan’s funding model.

“There are like three sentences about financing the plan,” said University Senator Bob Hayes. “If you want the plan to fail, the best way to do it is to give it a totally unrealistic source of funding.”

According to the plan, possible funding sources include, “capital project requests, individual department budgets, funding from the University Finance Committee and external grants” and a campus green fee. Joanna Calabrese, a student who helped develop the plan and now is the SGA’s Director of Environmental Affairs, said the $4 fee is expected to raise almost $100,000 this year.

Lair said the finances were left intentionally vague and will be worked out by the Campus Sustainability Council — which includes students and administrators — created this year to implement the plan.

“Certainly it’s a difficult time right now,” Lair said. “So it’s hard to say where [the money] will come from. But there are options I think, and the university’s committed to being creative.”

For instance, the plan

research, he said.

“This means we’re missing an opportunity to reward good teaching in a systematic way,” Holum said.

Graduate Student Government President Anu Kothari agreed, saying there aren’t enough awards for graduate students and the deficit highlights how they are often shortchanged at this university.

“It’s definitely not good for [graduate students’] morale,” she said. “It strengthens the idea that awards are for faculty, and graduate students are treated more like employees. And they are not given access to as many awards as faculty are, and that’s really unfortunate since a lot of the teaching burden really falls on us.”

“You need anything you can to be able to stand out.”

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includes inexpensive and free strategies, including building retrofits that would eventually pay for themselves through reduced energy costs, Lair said.

A draft of the plan was released in April, and received 90 comments from the campus community. Last month, the university released an updated version of the plan, which Lair said featured mainly clarifications.

Calabrese said she was disappointed more student feedback wasn’t added to the new version of the plan. At a focus group in late April, students suggested everything from adding new sustainability staff to reducing bottled water sales on campus, according to an e-mail from Calabrese.

“This shouldn’t become the clearinghouse [for all sustainability ideas],” Lair said.

“There were lots of good ideas, ... but there’s limits to how much could be hung off this tree.”

Despite their concerns, students said they generally supported the plan and hoped it would serve as a jumping off point for campus environmentalism.

Phil Hannam, who served on the work group as a senior last year, called the plan a “necessary beginning” for campus sustainability, and Hayes said he plans to vote for it.

“It’s hard to make a document that everyone agrees with 100 percent,” Lair said. “But I think on the whole a very diverse group agrees with the spirit and the guidelines and the strategies of the document.” cox@umdbk.com

Last year, the Senate Educational Affairs Committee reviewed the issue but was unable to determine how many awards there were.

Earlier this month, the Senate Executive Committee sent a letter to Provost Nariman Far vardin asking him to compile a list.

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Ellin Scholnick, who was put in charge of the project, said she would search department websites and electronic newsletters for information about the awards rather than conducting a labor-intensive sur vey.

She said she did not know when the process would start or how long it would take to complete.

If it turns out that Holum is right, adding more awards may be appropriate, she said. But she emphasized that awards are not the only way to encourage good teaching.

“It’s not just the formal awards per se, it’s the building of the culture in which it’s expected that there be good teaching that’s ultimately the issue,” Scholnick said.

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Quality of teaching and research are weighed when departments perform salar y reviews, Scholnick said, but Holum said teaching too often gets the short end of the stick.

“In theor y faculty members, professors, are promoted in part because of their teaching,” he said.

“Actually good teaching has ver y little weight.”

Holum suggested additional teaching awards should come with monetar y rewards, although he said that might not be possible right now with the economy struggling.

Tobiason, a Senate Executive Committee member, said he’s not sure if there are too few awards but that it’s important to not go overboard with creating new ones.

“The easy answer would be of course we need more awards for teaching assistants,” Tobiason said.

“At a certain point it becomes the issue if that there are so many you water down the ‘pop’ of each one.”

We’re working closely with his office to make his visit as comfortable as possible.”

The rally is free and open to the public.

“Why not come here? We’re one of the top research universities in the world,” Williams said. “We certainly have the capacity to bring in the types of people who would be interested in what he has to say.”

Both of Obama’s earlier university appearances were feelgood affairs before largely friendly crowds. But Obama’s recent appearances throughout the countr y have drawn heavy protests from conser vative groups who accuse the president of spreading socialism. Some protesters have been videotaped using racist language or carr ying loaded weapons.

While protesters are expected to gather, Williams said it is too early to speculate what type of crowd will actually attend.

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Teaching awards could lead to better employment for graduate students in the future

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Engaged University in Riverdale teaches students and community members how to garden. Student supporters say the program is essential to the university’s mission of giving back to neighboring communities. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

ENGAGED from page 1 exception.

Wei declined to comment on other budget cuts he was considering.

Still, SGA legislators maintain the program is essential to the university’s mission to give back to its neighboring communities.

SGA bills usually go through three levels of approval and take weeks before they’re voted on, making the Engaged University bill’s passage relatively unusual.

“The programs running there are a model for educational outreach and community building,” said College of Agriculture and Natural Resources legislator Jesse Yurow, who sponsored the

HONORS from page 1 college had grown too large to foster close-knit communities.

Each new program would enroll only about 75 students.

There are about 1,000 students already enrolled in the honors college, a number that won’t grow with the new programs, Dorland said.

legislation. “People talk about changing communities for sustainability and they’re doing all of that there.”

During Wednesday’s meeting, Yurow made a motion to speed up the SGA’s legislative process because of the impending Oct. 1 deadline when the Engaged University’s grants will expire.

“It’s a time-sensitive issue,” Yurow said. “People’s jobs are at stake.”

SGA President Steve Glickman said he was confident the unanimously passed resolution will compel university administrators to look closer at saving the program.

“Now that students have gotten involved, the game has changed,” Glickman said. “I

believe that we have shown, and will continue to show, how important Engaged University is to the campus community. By speaking up to the administration and getting our voice heard, we believe essential programs such as Engaged University can be saved despite these tough economic times.”

Nick Place, the associate dean and director for University of Maryland Extension, the second institution footing the Engaged University’s bill, said he found the SGA’s support moving. Still, like Wei, he acknowledged the program’s future is uncertain.

“We are deciding how we need to move forward now,” Place said. “This has been a really good program, especially

for that community in Riverdale, and it has been really effective in getting a number of students over there to be engaged, which is part of our school’s mission. There are a lot of things we need to take into account.”

Yurow, Glickman and Joanna Calabrese, the SGA’s director of environmental affairs, hope to bring the bill to Wei today to win his support.

But they’re not stopping there. The SGA has invited Gov. Martin O’Malley to tour the Engaged University in the hopes that it will impress him enough to merit state money.

O’Malley has not yet responded.

Students in “Digital Cultures and Creativity” will work with new media technologies ranging from video production and digital art to online communities.

“Entrepreneurship and Innovation” seems similar to the business school’s QUEST Honors Fellows program, setting students on a course to produce business models that could one day receive financial support.

But Hamilton says both the honors and scholars programs will be geared toward freshmen and sophomores rather than upperclassmen.

The programs will also update the honors college, which Dorland said hasn’t changed much since its inception in the early ’90s.

The “Global Public Health” scholars concentration will help students develop an understand-

ing of the socioeconomic, environmental and political facets of public health. Outside of the classroom, students will interact with public health organizations and even complete related study abroad projects.

More new programs are expected to be announced during the winter months, Hamilton said.

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ollege Park city officials have long worried about the impact downtown wouldn’t, but it’s relatively clear his bouncers have made exceptions in the past. bars have on public safety. But too often, they imagine raising prices to And increasing prices might only encourage more pre-gaming, and students will new, higher levels will be like a magic wand, eliminating binge drinking in drink even more in shorter periods of time. In off-campus housing, there are no one fell swoop. While it’s important that bar owners have stopped offering authority figures to slow students’ drinking. The best way to eliminate pre-gaming ridiculous specials — $1 pitchers at Thirsty Turtle, 50-cent rails at Cornerstone — is to start denying entrance to those who do. Getting rejected from a bar is embarrassing, and those who are kept out will learn their lesson. keeping students safe downtown will require more than just pumping up prices.

Bar owners should also call the police to stop alcohol-fueled fights. Many times, The College Park City Council asked the three downtown bar owners to present safety plans to them last week. Alan Wanuck, a former city councilman who owns bouncers solve these altercations by simply throwing the belligerent drunks out on the street where they can settle their disputes without Thirsty Turtle, presented a detailed plan for limiting the numsupervision, ultimately putting the safety of the greater comber of drunk people he allows in to the bar and the number of munity at risk. patrons who will be able to drink. R.J. Bentley’s owner John Area bar owners need During the meeting last Wednesday, bar owners were asked Brown gave a less detailed presentation, while Mark Srour, the owner of Santa Fe Cafe, Cornerstone Grill and Loft and The more ways to make their about the possibility of installing ID scanners to ensure those who enter their bars are at least 21. The owners appeared to Mark, whose long-time refusal to install sprinklers at Santa Fe establishments safer. dodge the suggestion, and with good reason. Regardless of consistently drew the ire of the council, didn’t present a plan. fines (like the $5,000 one Santa Fe received in May), underage (Even though Brown’s and Wanuck’s plans were different, drinkers are a significant source of income for Srour, Brown and Wanuck.

Srour said his plan was the same as the other two.)

The best solution is to take smaller steps. They’ve begun cleaning up the sideThe consensus among the owners and council members? Raise prices and binge drinking will go down. There is logic in this (see the impact high taxes have walks near Route 1 by preventing people from sitting on the brick wall outside of had on tobacco consumption), but there are other, better ways the bars can Thirsty Turtle, which decreases the threat that crowds, assaults, hecklers and traffic pose to students. The city has also installed “No Loitering” signs, adding further improve student safety.

First, the obvious: Srour should install sprinklers in Santa Fe and The Mark. The discouragement. More significantly, they’ve increased patrols.

So far, the bar owners (or at least Wanuck and Brown) have talked a good game. latest update of his plan for Santa Fe, which is being renovated and is closed at the moment, included the sprinklers. But his delay in installing them was still shame- But talking won’t prevent a student from vomiting in the College Park Shopping ful, especially considering he signed a contract with the city requiring their installa- Center parking lot at 2 a.m. It won’t stop two guys from throwing punches after tion by March 2006. He has also said he plans on installing sprinklers in The Mark. drunkenly bumping into each other. Actions will.

Students should feel relieved that officers are looking out for their safety. It’s now That should be done with as much haste as possible.

Second, the bars shouldn’t let in obviously drunk students. Wanuck said he time for bar owners to get on the same page.

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Furloughs: We’re all in this together

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n Sept. 24, professors across the University of California system will walk out of class.

The group has three demands, all relating to budget cuts that shouldn’t look unfamiliar to this university community. The first is employees who are paid less than $40,000 be exempt from furloughs and pay cuts.

The second is implementation of an alternative plan developed with staff that mandates furloughs be taken on instructional days. The third is a call for full budget disclosure.

That’s California. Probably just a bunch of Berkeley film studies professors having a simultaneous acid flashback to 1968, right? But looking down the list of faculty supporting the walkout, names should jump out at a fair number of university students. If we canceled all classes that included the work of Judith Butler (yes, of University of California, Berkeley), one of the professors on the list, we would have no American studies department, no

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HARRIS LGBT studies and half of the sociology and English students would have the day off. We’re talking about serious scholars who are threatening to walk off the job. But why?

University President Dan Mote’s furlough plan is supposed to come out sometime this week, and there’s plenty of speculation and anxiety about what it’s going to say. One of the most contentious issues is furloughs on instructional days. The question is whether professors should be able to take their mandated unpaid vacations on days when they normally teach classes. The reason the University of California system faculty voted that furloughs be

taken on teaching days is that it’s not much of a day off if you have to prepare for the same number of classes. The University of California system regents disagreed.

I don’t know what Mote’s furlough plan will say, but if it precludes furloughs on non-instructional days or pressures professors to come in and work on their days off, then we shouldn’t stand for it. Furloughs on noninstructional days are essentially pay cuts, and to ask anyone to pretend they’re not is insulting.

We can’t stand by while our faculty is disrespected and shortchanged and expect it not to affect our education.

Yet some students, like former Student Government Association president and current University Senate Executive Committee member Jonathan Sachs, are only concerned about getting all of our class time. Sachs told The Diamondback that he wants to make sure professors don’t miss class days, so student services aren’t affected

by furloughs.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. The classroom is a continuing project between students and professors, and to affect one is to affect the other.

How does Sachs think the faculty is going to feel when we come trolling for support on a continued tuition freeze?

We can’t expect them to stand up for us if we won’t stand up for them. We need to present a unified front to fight for things like budget transparency and shared governance. An insult to professors is an insult to the whole educational community, and that includes us.

If Mote’s furlough plan is abusive and doesn’t reflect the input he received from professors, I hope our teachers are brave enough to follow their California colleagues’ lead.

And I hope we’re smart enough to have their backs.

Malcolm Harris is a junior English and government and politics major. He can be reached at harris@umdbk.com.

Early classes: Getting a master’s in disaster

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was wearing the gigantic sweatpants I had slept in that caught around my untied sneakers and gathered in folds around my ankles like elephant feet. I had on a mismatched high school sweatshirt, and my hair was wrestled into an unbrushed bun that was tilting to one side of my head. My empty backpack was slung over my shoulder— it was the only class-related item I had managed to grab on my way out the door. I looked like a hobo who just woke up in a corner of the lobby.

Once, just once, I’d like to be prepared for an 8 a.m. class.

And it always seems like I’m the only one late. I’m the only one who pressed the snooze button one too many times, threw my hair into a mangy ponytail and ran out the door.

I’m the only one who ran the halfmile dash across the campus and up the stairs of the journalism building, lunging into the classroom overheated

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HARE and panicked.

I’ve taken two 8 a.m. classes at the university, and it’s always the same hellish experience. Take, for instance, my debacle in JOUR 320: News Writing and Reporting II. Horrific does not even begin to describe the trials I had attempting to get to that class on time.

I went into the semester clearly aware of my weakness and took measures to prevent disaster.

“Susie,” I’d say to my roommate before climbing up to the top bunk. “If you hear my alarm tomorrow, just kick at my mattress and scream.”

That worked about as often as you

would imagine.

Yet somehow, despite extensive preparations, disaster struck. And the thing about disaster is it doesn’t care.

It will come on the last day of classes, when your final paper is due, whether you like it or not.

That morning, I woke up for my 8 a.m. not at 8:01 or 7:59, but 8 exactly.

My paper was already late. In journalism, if your assignment comes in at 8:00:01, you fail.

I scrambled down from my bed in a fit and called my mother. What else could I do?

“Can you take the bus right now?” (I was living in Courtyards at the time).

No, there’s not another bus for 15 minutes.

“Does anyone have a car?”

Susie does, but she’s sleeping.

“WELL THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!” Susie to the rescue. We arrived at the journalism building at 8:15 a.m.

I entered in my usual way — like a bat out of hell, frazzled and puffy-eyed.

After class, I sheepishly schlepped my paper up to the front. I failed, but luckily, I had enough grades in my arsenal to survive the F, in case you were worried.

And it’s always the same. Because disaster doesn’t care. It will come whether you’ve done your homework or not. Whether you’ve slept or not.

Whether you’ve showered or not. It will come ... and on time. At 8 a.m.

So set an alarm, or two, or three.

Tell your roommate to kick your mattress (or get a car). Just make sure you’re awake by 7:45 a.m.

But know that, despite your best efforts, you’ll probably still be late — unprepared and, of course, looking your worst.

Rachel Hare is a senior journalism and French major. She can be reached at hare@umdbk.com.

JEREMY GRANOFF

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hen I made this campus my permanent home two weeks ago, I was a lost freshman who knew nothing about this university, its traditions or what fraternities had iffy reputations and were the ones I should probably avoid.

Now, after two weeks on the job, I still may not know anything about the former three aspects of this university, but there is one thing I have learned here: Everything is extremely inconvenient.

Living on North Campus, you learn to love the so-called “Incon,” a name given to the North Campus Snack ‘n’ Shop in regards to its alleged inconvenient hours.

However, it may just be that the most convenient ser vice on this entire campus is the food mart with the title of Incon — and the place is not even open for business on Saturdays.

From the general perspective of a freshman, there are a few things that really grind our gears when it comes to campus inconvenience.

For starters, who decided that, when building a campus for over 26,000 undergraduates with close to half of them living on the campus, it would be a good idea to have only two large, full-service dining halls?

Try going to eat at 6 p.m. at The Diner. It makes more sense either to skip your meal or buy something from the not-so-inconvenient-by-comparison Incon.

The University of Connecticut, for contrast, apparently knew what they were doing when they built their campus. The school has four large dining halls that can serve up to 1,000 people at a time and another small dining hall designed to fit 450 people, all for a total undergraduate population of just under 17,000. That’s five dining halls for a school two-thirds the size of this university.

When traveling in large clusters with my other inexperienced freshman friends on the way to the Stamp Student Union, as we are wont to do, I often find it somewhat odd that the Taco Bell Express is only open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Adele’s Restaurant is not even open on the weekends.

But at least the evening ShuttleUM buses begin service at 5:30, so even when we spend all day wallowing in misery because we cannot take a bus to our class across the campus, we can cheer ourselves up by taking the formerlyinconvenient-but-now-somewhatconvenient-when-you-think-aboutit shuttle to the bars on Route 1.

So as amazing as this place is, the reality of the freshman experience is that we must learn to cope with the inconvenience of this entire campus. Yes, the hours of the dining services on the campus are terrible and, well, inconvenient. Yes, the campus is beyond huge. And yes, all the buildings do look exactly the same.

But it’s not too bad, really. It’s just part of the fun of finding your place in this massive red, black and gold sea of inconvenience.

Jeremy Granoff is a freshman journalism major. He can be reached at jgranoff09@gmail.com.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Now is no time for complaining.

Focus on what you’ve really done lately, and you’ll realize that things are going according to plan.

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You’ll be surprised at how capable you really are.

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You have distractions to overcome.

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ALL THE CRAP YOU CARE ABOUT Megan Fox is an atrocious actress. At least that’s what three anonymous crew members from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wrote in an open letter to director Michael Bay’s official site. “Yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able,” they said. “So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option.”

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FASHION’S NIGHT OUT Manhattan glittered on Sept. 10 as fashion industry insiders and celebrities descended on city streets for Fashion’s Night Out, an event created to encourage customers to shop and to kick off New York Fashion Week.

The event attracted more than 700 participating stores, many of which have locations in the Washington area. Each store put its own spin on attracting customers while donating a portion of its proceeds from event T-shirt sales to charity.

Despite the publicity surrounding the New York shopping scene, College Park students don’t need to travel all the way to New York City to nourish their passion for high fashion at affordable prices.

“College is so exciting because you can explore style,” said Jane Keltner, fashion news director at Teen Vogue. “Having a limited budget can make you more creative, so a lot of college students look at magazines, get inspired and come up with a new spin on [the trends].”

For the fashion conscious college student, finding good fashion is as simple as taking the Metro to Georgetown and the surrounding areas.

“Fashion is everywhere — you don’t need to spend a lot of money,” said Amy Astley, editor in chief of Teen Vogue, when asked how college students can be fashionable and budget conscious. “There is no requirement that, to be stylish, you need to be expensive.”

Both the Georgetown and Bleecker Street shopping areas are home to clothing and accessory stores such as Intermix, Sunglass Hut, Ralph Lauren, Juicy Couture, Steve Madden and Tommy Hilfiger.

“I used to go shopping in Georgetown,” said Eva Chen, the health and beauty director of Teen Vogue. “D.C. has changed a lot in the past 10 years. There are more boutiques that are small and cool.”

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In the time of Hillar y Clinton, Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi, it should come as no surprise to see girls fighting for power in a man’s world.

“We’re in the 21st centur y here, and women are in high political positions, are leaders of countries, and they now have a big place in government,” said David Gram, director of National Players’ Lord of the Flies.

It was Gram’s decision to change four of Lord of the Flies author William Golding’s characters — Ralph, Simon, Roger and Sam — to women, a choice that was partly influenced by the fact that women are included in the touring company’s other show, Much Ado About Nothing.

“I felt that there would be a really great dynamic in having women play women,” Gram said.

“As an audience member, I was not interested in seeing four women play boys.”

Rachel, Sally, Rose and Sam take the stage with the rest of the Lord of the Flies cast for preview performances Wednesday and Thursday night at Olney Theatre Center.

Golding’s 1954 story focuses on a group of schoolchildren stuck on a deserted island after a plane crash. The children eventually separate into two competing factions, resulting in chaos and violence.

And although Golding’s novel is 55 years old, Gram sees how it can still connect to today’s world.

“I think that the show has a lot of themes and ideas right now that are ver y much in the public consciousness,” Gram said. “We’re looking at the ideas between group think and the individual, making rational and irrational decisions, notions of morality and immorality.”

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Gram also points out the play’s more or less obvious link to government, noting that the two groups the children create are similar to the Republican and Democratic parties.

“Whenever people are stuck in a situation together, when you have an eclectic group of people who are forced to sur vive, are forced to live together, inevitably there are gonna be leaders, and there are gonna be followers,” Gram said. “That’s just the way human nature is.”

One of those leaders, Rachel, is portrayed by Dionne Richardson, who said “the essence of Ralph” is still in her character.

As Richardson notes, however, Rachel being a girl does alter some things, such as the character’s relationship with opposing group leader, Jack.

“The thing that might have changed a little bit is this power dynamic between Rachel and Jack,” she said. “When it’s a boy and a girl, everyone will start to question, well, is it that they’re really attracted to one another, or is it that they really hate each other?”

Gram — who slightly increased the ages of the characters for this version — has also considered how gender impacts the stor y.

“Even though they’re younger, there is automatically a sexual dynamic, which you can’t ignore,” he said. “I’m not saying that we’re overtly playing that up, but I think it’s an underlying thing, and I think that it actually brings a great energy.”

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“There’s these two parts of her personality that are dueling with each other,” she said, “the part of her that wants to be a kid and just wants to play and have fun [and] the other part of her that knows she has to be an adult and knows

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And any notion that Rachel may not be able to stand the same pressures as Ralph is summarily dismissed by Gram.

“In today’s day and age, girls can be just as ruthless as boys,” he said. “I purposefully, in a cou-

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TERPS 38, JMU 35

TWO-MINUTE DRILL WHEN IT WAS OVER Freshman field goal kicker Nick Ferrara nailed a 26-yarder, his first game-winning kick at any level, during the Terps’s possession in overtime to give them the victory. JMU kicker Dixon Wright missed a 41-yard attempt earlier in overtime.

TERP HIGHLIGHT Quarterback Chris Turner kept a late fourth quarter drive alive with a fourth down completion to wide receiver Ronnie Tyler, then found wide receiver Adrian Cannon for a 27-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 35.

TERP LOWLIGHT JMU quarterback Drew Dudzik ran 70 yards for a touchdown to put the Dukes up 35-21 with 11:23 left in the game.

Dudzik avoided a number of should-be tacklers on his way to the end zone.

STAR OF THE GAME Wide receiver Torrey Smith recorded a number of big plays Saturday, including this 81-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and an eightyard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 28. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

DETWEILER from page 8 It took Turner’s senior leadership, Torrey Smith’s play-making ability, Ferrara’s short field goal and a little luck to win the game in the end.

Everything had to come together late to survive and avoid the team’s first-ever loss to a Football Championship Series (formerly I-AA) team.

Even after earning their first win in exciting fashion, it’s unclear where the Terps go from here.

“I think I have concerns,” Friedgen said addressing the state of his team after a pair of uneven performances and several key injuries. “The thing will be how fast these kids can mature. I do think we will get better, it’s just a question of how fast.”

The Terps’ best thread of hope is the experience gained from playing such an intense, close game and emerging with a win.

Linebacker Alex Wujciak called it “learning how to win.” And it wouldn’t have been possible if the game had played out as expected with a more convincing and less confusing performance.

“We stuck it out,” defensive tackle Travis Ivey said. “It didn’t look pretty against a I-AA team, but who cares? A win’s a win.”

Yes, the young Terps battled and pulled out the come-frombehind win.

They took their first step toward earning bowl eligibility for the fourth straight season, and a five-touchdown offensive performance means 10 free Papa Johns Pizza toppings on Tuesday.

But if that knot in your stomach didn’t go away when Ferrara’s game-winner split the uprights, you’re probably nervous that the so-far-unimpressive Terps have a full ACC schedule left to play.

That’s when the Terps’ newfound flair for the dramatic could really come in handy. edetweiler@umdbk.com

JMU from page 8 Caussin to tie the game at 21-21 with 3:39 to play in the third quarter. When JMU linebacker Jon Williams returned a Turner interception 62 yards for a touchdown to give the Dukes their first lead of the game, you could hear a pin drop at Byrd Stadium.

Smith’s 8-yard touchdown run on an end around pitch early in the fourth quarter tied the game at 28.

Smith finished with 229 all-purpose yards.

But the defining play of another subpar performance by the Terps’ defense gave the Dukes the lead back and set up the need for Cannon’s game-tying catch.

Dudzik broke multiple tackles and scampered 70 yards for an improbable touchdown run.

The Terps’ defense ended up allowing 417 yards of total offense and did not force a turnover for the second consecutive game.

They struggled against the

Dukes’ spread option offense, and often left at least one big seam for the Dukes to exploit.

“I think we’re still just getting a feel for each other,” linebacker Alex Wujciak said.

To add injury to insult, cornerback Nolan Carroll broke his tibia early in the fourth quarter and Friedgen said the senior captain will likely miss the rest of the season.

The defense did force the Dukes to attempt a 41-yard field goal on their first overtime possession which was pushed wide right, and set up Ferrara’s big moment.

It was the true freshman’s firstever field goal attempt at Byrd Stadium, and he said it was his first-ever game-winning field goal at any level.

“I said ‘All right, this is my time.

Let’s go,’” Ferrara said. “I just kept my head down and just got it through.”

The Terps celebrated wildly after Ferrara’s kick split the uprights and saved them from the grips of an abject disaster.

Just another day at the office.

Wide receiver Torrey Smith gained 229 total yards, 81 of which came on a first quarter kickoff return, and scored two pivotal touchdowns. The sophomore also helped move the Terps down the field, catching eight passes for 80 yards, mostly on short screen passes.

WHAT THIS GAME MEANS In a nutshell, the Terps still have a lot of work to do. After a 39-point loss in their first game at Cal, the Terps failed to answer many lingering questions, especially when it comes to defending the run.

TEAM STATS NET YARDS 417 359 268

TIME OF POSSESSION 236 149

TERPS JMU 29:45 30:15

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Terps sneak

by JMU in OT with 26-yard Ferrara FG

BY GREG SCHIMMEL Senior staff writer

The last part rings particularly true.

But it’s how the Terps put themselves in that position that is so disconcerting. With a twotouchdown first half lead, the home team had a chance to extinguish James Madison’s upset dreams early. That would have inspired confidence that the Terps were moving forward from their first week blowout loss at Cal. Instead, the Terps soon trailed by a touchdown when a pair of third-quarter turnovers helped the Dukes run off 22 unanswered points. Suddenly confident James Madison and its loud, purple-clad contingent had effectively sucked the air out of the Terps and their fans.

Turner said afterward he was well aware a loss would make the team a punchline. In a matchup that was skewed toward the Terps on paper, Friedgen called it “a battle of wills.”

When it was all over, Ralph Friedgen was able to joke about it.

After the Terrapin football team scratched out a 38-35 overtime win against James Madison on Saturday night, Friedgen ambled into his postgame press conference and made a quip that rang a little too true.

“Well, just another day at the office,” Friedgen deadpanned.

But the veteran head coach knew the roller coaster game really hadn’t been that funny.

The Terps let the Football Championship Subdivision Dukes hang around for far too long, and saw an early 21-6 lead turn into a 35-28 fourth quarter deficit.

Adrian Cannon caught a 27-yard touchdown pass from Chris Turner to tie the game with 5:09 remaining in regulation, and true freshman Nick Ferrara kicked a 26-yard field goal in the first overtime to give the Terps their first win of the season.

It was nearly the Terps’ first-ever loss against a team in the FCS/Division I-AA ranks. The Terps lost to Villanova, a current FCS team, in 1971 before Division I-AA was established in 1978.

“There was just that feeling where we don’t want to be the guys who were upset.

We don’t want to be the guys getting laughed at on TV,” Turner said. “Teams like that are always tough to play. We’re happy with the win. You can ask anyone, we’re all very happy.”

Turner led an efficient offensive attack in the first half that methodically moved the ball with short passes and quick runs.

Running back Da’Rel Scott opened the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 7-0, Torrey Smith returned a kickoff 81 yards for a touchdown to make it 146, and Turner showed a new level of toughness when he kept the ball on a 4-yard touchdown run, absorbing a big hit at the goal line to make it 21-6 with less than five minutes to go in the first half.

“I don’t think I’ve seen him make a play like that since he’s been here,” Friedgen said.

Turner finished 25-for-38 for 236 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

But the Dukes got some confidence back with a 4-yard touchdown run by Jamal Sullivan before the half that made the score 21-14 after a two-point conversion, and they came out in the second half playing with swagger.

Quarterback Drew Dudzik threw a 15yard touchdown pass to tight end Mike

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see JMU, page 7

Freshman kicker Nick Ferrara converted a game-winning 26-yard field goal in overtime to give the Terps’ a narrow 38-35 win Saturday night. The Dukes took the lead twice in the second half, mainly thanks to 268 rushing yards. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

For this night, too much excitement ERIC

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s Terrapin football coach Ralph Friedgen gathered his field goal unit in a huddle during overtime of Saturday’s game against James Madison, kicker Nick Ferrara stood off to the side practicing his rightfooted stroke.

The Dukes had called a timeout meant to ice the freshman kicker before he attempted his first game-winning field goal attempt, and the remaining Terp faithful cheered an impending victory.

The fans quieted long enough for Ferrara to calmly make the 26-yarder that gave the Terps a

38-35 victory, setting off another raucous round of applause as players mobbed Ferrara and hoisted him skyward.

Saturday’s win brought the high drama normally reserved for hotly contested, late-season ACC games to Byrd Stadium early this year. With several big momentum swings and the first overtime for the Terps at home since 2000, it was an instant classic.

But against a James Madison squad with quarterback questions in its season opener, it was an unnecessarily gut-wrenching ending that created more uncertainty for the Terps.

“We wanted to come out, and we wanted a decisive win,” quarterback Chris Turner said. “We wanted to feel good about ourselves, but I think we still do feel good. Everyone’s really satisfied with the win considering how things went. I think a lot of people thought we were going to lose tonight just because they had so much momentum.”

No. 1 Terps exert dominance this weekend

Men’s soccer breezes past visiting BC

Field hockey crushes No. 13 Penn State and Towson on back-to-back days at the Terrapin Invitational

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

According to the NCAA rule book, the yellow elastic armband worn by Terrapin men’s soccer captains Jason Herrick and Kevin Tangney doesn’t technically make them responsible for anything other than meeting with the officials 10 minutes prior to kickoff.

Friday, though, the two showed again why they’re a lot more important than that.

Herrick and Tangney continued to carry a youthful Terp squad with their poise and play Friday night, notching a goal apiece as the Terps opened their conference slate with a 2-0 shutout against Boston College.

“It’s always nice having at least one win in the bag,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “Anytime you get a shutout in the ACC, it’s a great night. We’ll take that and we’ll learn from it some more and we’ll continue on.”

Entering Friday, Herrick, a forward, was the more likely candidate to get on the score sheet for the No. 7 Terps (2-1, 1-0 ACC).

The junior’s ACC-best third goal of the season fell to his feet after the striker most experts predicted to be the team’s best option up top — Casey Townsend — made things tough for the Eagles (1-3, 0-1 ACC).

In the seventh minute, midfielder Matt Kassel delivered a

The Terps set up to defend a BC free kick in the first half of their 2-0 win Friday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

dipping cross from the right wing into the middle of the box.

Townsend skied for the ball with BC goalkeeper Justin Luthy, drawing enough contact to make a catch or clearance impossible.

The rebound fell to a waiting Herrick, who knew what to do with it.

“Last game, we weren’t following shots and chances much so I just went around the back side looking for it,” said Herrick, who is one goal short of equaling his total from last year and has all but one of the team’s scores.

“The goalie did end up dropping it, so I just put it on target and it went in.”

His co-captain got in on the act in the 75th minute, when Tangney, the team’s tallest regular player, got his head on a Kassel corner.

“It’s one thing to do it back in your own 18, but when you can do it in the box, it’s always a good time,” Tangney said. “There’s no

pressure and you just want to go up there and score and have fun.”

The fifth-year senior’s brief celebration commemorated not only the game’s finishing haymaker but also the goal’s personal significance.

Before his goal, Tangney had two more ACL tears than he had points — zero — during his lengthy career in College Park. It was a fitting reward for his work with a young but nonetheless stout defense that shined Friday.

Boston College registered only two shots the entire second half.

The Terps had 14 shots in the same span for a total of 23 on the night. All they needed, though, were Herrick and Tangney’s.

“We know we have lots of other players capable of scoring, but both those guys are made of the best stuff on Earth,” Cirovski said. shaffer@umdbk.com

The Terrapin field hockey team did more than win two matches this weekend. They dominated.

The No. 1 Terps had shown signs of brilliance at times in the first five games of the season, whether recording two shutouts in a row to start the year or scoring four goals in five minutes against No. 19 Michigan last week.

But they had yet to control a game completely in all facets.

That all changed at this weekend’s Terrapin Invitational. The Terps (7-0) pulverized No. 13 Penn State 8-1 on Saturday, then trampled Towson 10-1 on Sunday, achieving their two best offensive performances so far this season while stifling their opponents’ attacks.

“I think overall it was just a great team effort, from the backfield sending the balls all the way through the forwards,” said forward Nicole Muracco, who had five goals during the weekend. “That’s why the goals came so easily, because we all worked as a team.”

Both games started off with a bang.

After a scoreless first half in their last match, the Terps exploded right out of the gate against Penn State, blowing by the Nittany Lions’ normally stout defense for three goals within the first 10 minutes of the game and five in the half.

Though the team was slower to start Sunday, the Terps still outshot the Tigers 9-2 and scored four goals to their one in the first half.

Both Penn State and Towson pulled their starting goalies before the first half was over.

And in both matches the defense was able to keep the opponents away from the circle and force the ball back up the field. The Terps outshot their foes 50-14 and gave up only seven penalty corner opportunities the whole weekend.

“To come out so strongly is something

Midfielder Megan Frazer and the Terps outscored two opponents 18-2 this weekend in their best two performances of the year.

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we’ve really been working toward,” back Emma Thomas said. “So we’re pretty happy that the goals came from all sorts of places and the way we kept our integrity and kept working hard. When you come out so strongly, it’s hard for any team to come back from that.”

Against Penn State, the Terps played more conservatively after halftime, but still scored three more times. Penn State’s one goal was scored only after Terp starting goalie Alicia Grater had been taken out to rest.

“They’re playing beautiful attacking hockey,” coach Missy Meharg said. kyanchulis@umdbk.com