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Aziz Ansari to headline SEE’s fall comedy show

Student loan default rate on the rise nationally

Parks and Recreation star will perform in Cole Field House Oct. 13; SEE will sell 10,000 tickets

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Aziz Ansari, comedian and star of NBC’s critically acclaimed Parks and Recreation, will headline this fall’s Homecoming Comedy Show, Student Entertainment Events announced yesterday.

Ansari, who starred in this summer’s 30 Minutes or Less and hosted the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, will perform in Cole Field House on Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.

SEE board members said they were thrilled to

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secure Ansari as this year’s lead performer.

“We’re really excited we were able to get [Ansari] for our comedy show this year,” said Liz Blackwood, SEE’s public relations director. “He’s definitely a rising star in the comedy industry, and so far response has been very positive.”

Eric Feldman, SEE’s director of comedy, said student polls have consistently positioned Ansari as one of students’ top choices for the annual comedy show, which moti-

vated SEE members to find a way to bring him to this university.

Although SEE’s initial bid to host Ansari was denied when it could not meet his asking price, other student groups chipped in to bring the coveted star to the campus; Blackwood declined to comment on the final cost. Ansari will be supplying his own opening act, who has not yet been disclosed, Blackwood said.

Even though SEE was

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French Rose The auburn scarf the scarlet brooch the amber stoned necklace The firebrick sweater the jasper hairpin the denim jacket The pastel paintings the wool carpets the marble floors The candlelight — in the dining room The rose petals — The first time you told me

To pay for her education at this university, Kayla Mayberry took out two loans that will take her decades to pay back.

With 63 percent of university students receiving some type of financial aid, the junior early childhood education major is one of many on the campus borrowing money to pay for school.

Although the number of graduates nationwide who failed to make student loan payments is on the rise nationally, this university is bucking the trend by keeping its default rate at a minimum over the last few years.

Although Mayberry said economic conditions and competition for jobs are worrying, she is confident she will be able to make payments on her federal and private loans.

“I’m studying to be a teacher, so I’m not going into money,” Mayberry said. “I think I figured it out so I’ll be able to pay, but I’ll be in my 40s.”

According to the Department of Education’s report released Monday, 8.8 percent of students nationally defaulted on their loans in 2009 — a substantial increase from 7 percent in 2008 and 6.7 percent in 2007. However, because this university is a public four-year institution with vast resources for its student population, Financial Aid Director Sarah Bauder said students have been able to keep the default rate at 2.3 percent, the same

NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY DEFAULT RATES According to the Department of Education, 8.8 percent of students nationally defaulted on their education loans in 2009 — a jump from 7 percent in 2008.

However, this university has managed to keep its rates substantially low. Here’s a look at the last few years: 2007: 2.3 percent 2008: 3.9 percent 2009: 2.3 percent

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‘All about the heart’ University freshman publishes book of poetry He watched movies. But he kept the door closed, separating himself from most outside interaction.

At the end of that summer, Demuren emerged from his state of isolation with what he deemed a time capsule of his

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In the summer of 2010, Dolapo Demuren, then a rising senior in high school, shut himself in his room. He read books. He listened to music.

thoughts: a book of poetry, Dreaming Forever: Lifemare Edition, which marks its sixmonth publication anniversary at the end of the month.

“I ended up deciding to have it published because I felt like things I went through a lot of

kids go through and a lot of kids will go through,” Demuren said. “So why not have them have a story that they can read, and one that they can annotate or try to

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Only one week after having her baby daughter, Anupama Kothari stepped back into the classroom to assume her role as a graduate assistant because she could not afford to take time off to recuperate.

For about two years, the Graduate Student Government has pushed the university to implement a policy allowing new graduate assistant parents

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to use their 30-day paid sick leave and can take up to 12 weeks off without risking losing their job. Many graduate assistants said they wanted this same job security.

“Having a new baby basically means no more sleep, so having to get up in the morning wasn’t easy,” said Kothari, who is now completing her doctorate in business. “I think six weeks is definitely the minimum time that is required. You have a new baby, your body

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has gone through so much stress and you need to recover on that front.”

If the Graduate Council votes in favor of parental leave, it will be incorporated into the university’s official policies on graduate assistants. In 2009, Graduate Council officials announced that its student affairs committee would look into a policy change, but a recommendation never came to

Identity theft, Internet bullying and privacy breaches are digitalage risks that state officials and university researchers are working to decrease in this state.

Amid a summer that saw multiple cybersecurity breaches — such as Citigroup bank and Bank of America — state Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — Md.) is advocating for better Internet user BEN CARDIN protection to Congress. And the MARYLAND STATE SENATOR university is also working to strengthen barriers between hackers and private Internet users through the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, which announced a new partnership with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory last month.

The Center has become a national forerunner in cybersecurity and established multiple partnerships last year with other institutions including Tenable Network Security and Lockheed Martin, according to Associate Director Eric Chapman. The Center’s research hopes to help mitigate security breaches and help with Cardin’s main goal to protect the state’s Internet users, according to Sue Walitsky, Cardin’s National Communications Director.

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Vote to take place next month for up to six weeks unpaid leave for new parents after the Graduate Student Government lobbied for two years up to six weeks of unpaid leave after their child is born. The Graduate Council — comprised of professors, administrators and graduate students — will put the measure to a vote for the first time later this month, according to GSG President Anna Bedford.

Graduate assistants do not qualify for parental leave after a child is born because they are not considered university employees, differing from faculty members who can request

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POETRY from page 1 understand, to help themselves, to help them learn from mistakes or find different alleyways and avenues to go about solving things.”

Demuren, now a freshman at this university, began writing poetry at age 15, but Joseph Carroll, Demuren’s former British literature and journalism teacher at DeMatha Catholic High School, said Demuren always had the ambition to be a great writer.

“You want to talk about a high school student who’s self-driven — he was years beyond the typical high school student,” Carroll said. “Just leaps and years beyond. He’s got a natural genius and a way with words. He’ll really make a mark down the road.”

And Demuren has already taken more than a few steps in that direction. He’s an alumnus of both the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop and the University of Iowa’s Young Writers Studio. He also worked on Teen Media, a program on Baltimore’s ABC affiliate, helping report and run a newscast.

Though he was initially accepted to this university as a journalism major, Demuren is now a letters and sciences major and lives in the Writers’ House, a competitive housing program that holds 50 to 60 creative writers.

“We bounce off ideas,” Demuren said of his experience in the house. “We introduce each other to different genres. We share stuff. We talk about what’s going on in our classes, like one of my roommates writes prose; I

write poetry, so it’s different.”

While Demuren does not loudly announce his experience as a published author, he hopes to become more involved on the campus by applying to be the poetry editor for the literature and art journal Stylus and signing up for TerPoets.

His mother, Shade Demuren, said he’s always been a leader who seems to have a different perspective on things.

“Even when he was a little kid, sometimes it’d be like, ‘What are you talking about?’” she said.

“But even sometimes if I’m unsure about something and I talk to him, I feel better after talking to him.”

Both Demuren’s parents are Nigerian, and his ethnicity plays an important role in both his writing and thought process.

From his junior to his senior year of high school, he participated in Operation Understanding DC, a program that combines lectures, field trips and community service to further the understanding of black and Jewish culture. He said the program forced him to consider his responsibilities as a black person.

“In no way do I have any type of animosity toward anyone because of anything that’s happened in the past,” Demuren said. “I’m just working toward the future, trying to make here a better place, trying to make then a better place.”

In addition to his family and heritage, Demuren counts diverse sources like Jesus, Kanye West and Robert Frost among his inspirations, and his goal is to emulate those famous names by simply being remembered.

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“Sometimes I just imagine some guy in some Renaissance period who did some really great stuff, aw man, great stuff,” Demuren said. “But I don’t know who he is. But he did some great stuff. And also sometimes I think — we have all these writings, engravings of stones and monu-

ments, what if all that stuff was just demolished? I don’t just want to live on the page. I want to somehow go from the page to here.”

He pointed to his chest.

“It’s all about the heart,” he said.

“That’s where you want to get.”

as 2007.

Although the university’s rate spiked in 2008 when the education department changed its formula for measuring default statistics, Bauder said this institution has largely kept it low in comparison to private schools, which charge much more for tuition.

“If you look at what kind of institution is causing the rate to increase, it’s not four-year institutions or public institutions or community colleges, it’s the private institutions,” she said.

Even compared to other universities in this state — which has a default rate of 6.7 percent — this university sees relatively few graduates unprepared to make their loan payments. This university tied with Salisbury University for the lowest default rate for a Maryland public four-year institution.

“The [University System of Maryland] has worked to help students manage their debt by dramatically increasing institutional financial aid in recent years to ensure that students, and particularly the poorest students, graduate with less debt,” system spokesman Mike Lurie said in an email.

Students’ strong work ethics in this university have also contributed to keeping the loan default rate low, Bauder said.

“We have an excellent student population who pays their loans back. Maryland has a workingpopulation diligence that pays off not just in student debt but in credit debt,” she said.

But some students said taking responsibility for their loan payments after graduation is still a daunting task.

“I couldn’t imagine what it would be like if I had to take [my loan] out on my own,” said senior psychology major Kim Goldman, whose parents secured her financial aid. “It’s not an issue I have to think about very often but when I do think about it, it’s stressful.”

Bauder said to combat students’ worries, the Financial Aid office offers interactive budgeting work sheets, information about managing finances and outreach programs for students with excessive debt.

“We ... talk to them about the difference between a need and a want,” said Bauder. “I had one student spending $200 a month on television bills and he thought it was reasonable, but he wasn’t buying books.” lurye@umdbk.com

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ANSARI from page 1 prepared to bring in another performer — B.J. Novak and Craig Robinson of The Of fice were among the possibilities — the organization found out an hour before its June 2 deadline that Ansari would be paying this university’s students a visit.

“I was really not looking for ward to having to find another performer, because he was the person people wanted to see,” Feldman said.

Feldman said SEE hopes

to sell 10,000 tickets to the comedy show this year — 4,000 more than were sold for Dimitri Martin last year and 2,000 more than for Russell Peters in 2009. Feldman said he’s confident SEE can sell out the venue based on student response to yesterday’s announcement.

Many students said they will buy tickets to the comedy show because of Ansari’s widely acclaimed roles on television and in movies. Ansari plays Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation, which will begin its fourth season later this month.

“I watch Parks and Recreation religiously, and Aziz is by far the funniest on the show,” said freshman marketing major Ross Aroyo. “I can’t wait to see him; he’s hilarious.”

Others said they are excited to see a comedian whose name they recognize, unlike others who have performed in the annual show in recent years.

“I like that it’s someone I’ve heard of,” said senior musical engineering major Rachel Lader. “I feel like in the past few years I haven’t heard of the performers, but Parks and Recreation is a popular show

so I’ll definitely be there.”

Although SEE hasn’t always seen enthusiastic student response to the performers it books — the organization was criticized for bringing Nelly, who many deemed an outdated artist, to headline last year’s Art Attack show in Byrd Stadium — Feldman said he’s grateful most people on the campus are excited for this year’s show.

“We definitely had a few bumps along the way,” he said. “But I’m just happy it worked out.” israel@umdbk.com

Due to an editing error in the same article, Elizabeth Novara’s title was incorrect. Her title is curator of historical manuscripts, and she is the primary curator for the “Women on the Border” exhibit.

An error in a caption for the same article incorrectly identified the exhibit. The picture on the front page was of the special collections exhibit.

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this funding structure, there’s no denying spring is coming — if the SGA hasn’t figured out a new system by then, student groups will either be forced to follow the old process or be left in limbo.

Neither is an attractive option — the SGA’s pool of money last spring was In response to growing discontent among student group leaders and an ever- $2,270,000 short of what groups requested. Students’ patience is running out, expanding gap between the amount of money groups request and the funds especially after the most recent appeals process’ debacle left many groups scrambling to find money on their own. available, the SGA has decided to task a new committee Funding for student groups is the primary responsibilwith finding a solution. ity of the SGA. While it also makes resolutions on univerBecause the SGA executive board determined student group leaders have the biggest dog in this fight, the The SGA is right to create a sity issues, organizes events on the campus and lobbies university and government officials on students’ behalf, Commission on Financial Reform will be comprised of student group presidents and treasurers who will apply commission of student leaders those tasks are secondary. The university only mandates perform one fundamental task: allocate funding. for committee spots over the next two weeks. After all, to reform the group funding theIt’sSGA only September — the commission should be able to they’re the ones who will feel the impact of whatever sysprocess but should set a soft make progress by next year. The committee needs to cretem they implement. a system that will prevent last year’s funding meltdown This approach is certainly worth commending. It deadline to encourage them to ate from recurring. That enormous mistake hurt not only stushows the SGA wants its operations to be transparent, dent groups but also the SGA’s credibility. This is its chance inclusive of those outside the organization and work in finish by spring. to smooth over that crisis and restore students’ confidence favor of its constituents — students themselves. But SGA President Kaiyi Xie and Vice President of Finance David Berlin — who devel- in the organization.

Xie was right — hasty planning is a recipe for disaster — but not setting a deadoped the idea for the committee and said they’ve seen firsthand as former student group leaders how important and difficult of an issue this is — haven’t set a line for completion could be just as detrimental. Members of this committee will make decisions that will affect generations to come, and there are many aspects timetable for the commission’s work to be completed.

While both said it would be ideal to have a new process in place by the spring they’ll need to address. Students with differing viewpoints and conflicting priorisemester, when student groups first submit funding requests for next year, they ties will likely sit side-by-side, debating a process they feel strongly about — they wouldn’t sign up if they didn’t. Without drawing out a timetable early on, commitdon’t want to rush the process by setting a hard deadline.

Xie said he’d prefer the commission take as long as necessary to craft a well- tee members could feasibly stay at the drawing table until they graduate.

This reform is a long time coming, so we applaud this year’s executive board thought out plan, but this editorial board believes he can — and should — prioritize both speed and quality. There’s simply too much at stake for student groups. for taking steps that should have been taken many years ago. We urge the SGA Under the existing system, student groups request funding from the SGA in to set a deadline — even if it’s not written in stone — to ensure committee memthe spring for the following academic year. Then in the fall, they can request bers don’t drag their feet. Xie and Berlin have been approaching the issue the more in an appeals process. And while the commission may ultimately change right way; now they just need to pick up the pace. veryone seems to agree — the Student Government Association’s process for funding student groups is flawed, and with budget cuts particularly deep this year, now is a good time to address the problems.

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s a university staff member, I was heartened to see the Sept. 6 article “Students continue protests of alleged workplace abuse,” about students backing respectable treatment by staff supervisors. These students should be commended for looking beyond student concerns to the campus as a whole. We all should be working to keep the university community united, comfortable and safe.

To be a community, all students need to show their maturity and remember that everyone has a job to do. Staff and faculty work hard to accommodate students and there should be reciprocity from students.

However, the following incident shows that not everyone is aware of their social responsibilities within the community.

A Facilities Management fleet maintenance vehicle was backing into a parking space in the Terrapin Trader garage and a student driver (probably in a hurry to get to class) zipped into the space and was struck by the fleet vehicle. The University Police officer who responded to this accident found the fleet driver at fault.

The officer told the fleet supervisor that “the message he wanted to convey was that we (staff) don’t compete with students for parking spaces.” But was the driver competing or just trying to park at the closest spot to his next assignment? What if the same situation happened between two students? Who would be at fault?

I feel this assessment is a disservice to all concerned. The driver now has a permanent mark against his record with human resources, the university must repair the student’s vehicle and the fleet vehicle and the student is free to repeat the offense with impunity.

What are we teaching our students about personal responsibility and their part in the wider world?

JILL DOTY UMD FLEET MANAGEMENT

Anderson was right Getting into the professional spirit

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he iconic notes of Zombie Nation’s “Kernkraft 400” coursed through the stadium, but I wasn’t thinking about our new uniforms or how awesome they looked; rather, I was bouncing up and down and already thinking about how best to incorporate red accents into my outfit the next day at my internship.

We hadn’t beat Miami yet, but I was confident we were going to pull it off. And I wanted to show my school spirit the next day in a city full of university alumni. I even momentarily contemplated throwing on my Terps hat to complement a simple black dress and pumps.

As a student in a school full of spirit for athletics, it is important to find the balance between showing your Terps pride and maintaining professionalism. School spirit continues after graduation, but even the most spiritcrazed alumni probably wouldn’t appreciate it if you began tailgating

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KLEIMAN for a big game during work, even if they would join you in wearing red, black, white and gold prior to said game. As fellow Terps, you have a connection, and that can get you far in any professional environment.

Once you establish a common ground, feel free to say “Go Terps!” and celebrate a win, a new hire or a recruit’s commitment to the school.

Even if sports aren’t your thing, there are so many university successes you can talk about. We have been awarded grants; we have teamed up with governmental agencies to research and solve global issues; we have had professors honored for their projects and findings.

And if all else fails, talk about your courses or professors. Our university is changing rapidly, with new administrators, coaches and programs. To name a few of our recent accomplishments: We’ve installed solar panels on Severn Building, our National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism conducted a terrorist threat assessment as the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks passed and President Barack Obama has been to our university twice already in his presidency. There should never be a shortage of topics to discuss with interested alumni.

Life, especially professional life, is about forging relationships, knowing people and learning from them. It’s about appreciating the quality of your education and respecting those who have already completed that education. And come on, alumni are proof we can make it in the real world. That alone should be reason enough to get

to know them!

Even if your supervisors or colleagues weren’t out in the middle of Route 1 during the celebration after the Terrapins men’s basketball team beat Duke in 2010, that doesn’t mean they don’t have school spirit or they don’t appreciate school spirit.

But your display of that spirit must be in a professional manner. Go ahead and talk about the next big game at the water cooler in the lunchroom. Flaunt your Terps pride with appropriate accessories (not with a baseball cap, for example). Use your Testudo planner to make to-do lists.

There are so many ways you can show your support for your school and show your sense of community and belonging, not only to the school and its athletic teams but also to all of the values this university represents.

Emily Kleiman is a junior communication major. She can be reached at kleiman@umdbk.com.

Rolling in the deep: Student loan debt

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ecent college graduates are among the primary users of www.seekingarrangement.com, a website on which rich older men — or “sugar daddies” — help women pay off their student loans in exchange for sex.

In other words, graduates have resorted to prostituting themselves to avoid defaulting on their loans. If you don’t believe it, you can watch their story on Dr. Phil tomorrow.

Clearly something has gone terribly wrong in paying the costs of the secondary education system. It’s a discussion no one wants to have. But everyone, not just college students, needs to face what we’ve feared for a long time.

We’ve created a monster, and it’s called student loan debt. I say we — meaning the entire country — have created it because we’ve all accepted it. From our parents’ generation and before, we’ve learned that to succeed, you need a degree. For them, if that meant taking on a little debt, they did it. The long-term benefits outweighed the costs.

In the past, the doctrine of debt held true. Now, however, the insanity of the figures leads one to question — whether the old system is on the verge of collapsing.

A few facts to consider: In 2000, the amount of student loan debt in the United States was $200 billion.

Today, that number approaches $1 trillion. In reaching these astronomical levels, student loans have surpassed credit cards as the largest source of debt in America.

The only thing rising at the same rate as college debt may be college tuition. Adjusted to inflation, tuition has risen 650 percent since 1978.

These ballooning tuition rates have translated into the most troubling fact in all of this: The average student leaves college $27,200 in debt. Some face debt exceeding $100,000.

Naturally, many students cannot come close to paying off these loans.

The New York Times reported this week that, overall, nearly 9 percent of borrowers defaulted on their student loans in the last year. Regardless of whether tuition costs are rea-

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KARASOV sonable, it’s obvious the amount of debt students have assumed is simply unsustainable.

Take solace, however, in the fact college graduates make about more than $20,000 more per year than those without degrees. So although paying off loans will prove painful for the majority of graduates, they will hopefully prove worthwhile in the end.

But by the same token, the status quo cannot persist. When student loans reach six-figure levels, few jobs offer the earning potential to withstand this burden. We need to eliminate this exploitative aspect of education to prevent graduates from getting stuck paying back their loans ad infinitum. This especially holds true of for-profit colleges — the ones you

constantly see advertised on TV, such as the University of Phoenix or Kaplan University. Fewer than 7 percent of students at these universities leave without debt.

Secondary education should not function as business. Just because it has gone in that direction does not mean we should accept this as inevitable.

Something needs to change in the near future if we hope to avoid an entire generation of college graduates drowning in their own debt. Perhaps more students will turn to their state schools to avoid debt, or more drastically, colleges will restructure as institutions to accommodate.

If students continue to take on loans beyond their means, the road ahead may prove disastrous. It’s time we aimed for a better solution. Otherwise, we may need a lot more “sugar daddies.”

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics and psychology major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

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he Diamondback Editorial Board completely missed the point when it criticized Athletic Director Kevin Anderson for expecting civilized student behavior. As a university alumnus, I don’t think it’s so ridiculous to expect students — who are supposed to be, and expect to be, treated as adults — to act like they have a grain of sense. After all, parents expect institutions of higher education to “mold” the minds of their children, so why shouldn’t those same institutions expect students — who are supposed to be molded by their parents — to conduct themselves reasonably at athletic events? And, for that matter, everywhere else.

I am in an especially interesting situation this week, in that I work at WVU. Athletic Director Oliver Luck was right on the money for asking people not to wear the infamous Tshirts that have circulated over the years, just as Anderson is right on the money for asking for better behavior.

An occurrence that sticks out in my mind came a few years ago when WVU hosted Maryland in football. As my wife and I were walking out of the game, some WVU students accosted a female Terrapin fan who was clearly quite pregnant. They kept walking in front of the woman and screamed obscenities at her and her husband, and it was absolutely ridiculous. We were mortified.

I am not saying fans should conduct themselves as they would when they are in church. But I am suggesting that we can all be great fans and not act the way we have seen WVU and Maryland fans behave. Keep in mind — and it pains me to say this, believe me — that you don’t seem to see that kind of behavior out of fans at universities such as Duke, Wake Forest or Penn State. Their fans may annoy you, but you don’t see in them what you see a little closer to home.

Your opinion piece says, “If Anderson truly cares about the university’s national reputation, he’ll realize that this institution’s student behavior is not unique...” and that “Anderson should wait for fans themselves to realize what’s best for the teams they so desperately want to succeed.” I am in awe at the lack of accountability in those statements and the clear misunderstanding of the point.

PATRICK GREGG MORGANTOWN, WV UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS, ’83

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Also born on this date are: Heidi Montag, pop celebrity; Prince Harry of Great Britain; Dan Marino, football player; Tommy Lee Jones, actor; Oliver Stone, film writer and director; Merlin Olsen, football player and actor; Jackie Cooper, actor; Fay Wray, actress; Agatha Christie, mystery writer; Robert Benchley, author; William H. Taft, U.S. president.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ve been taught to do things in a modest fashion, but you’ll have the chance to show others all that you can really do.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can do much to assist others without sacrificing your own opportunities. Ultimately, you may be working with others very closely.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may think that you’re doing things in the wrong order, but all that matters is that you get them done. Period.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You don’t want to be aimless in your pursuits; focus on a clearly delineated goal, and do what you know how to do best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’ve been following a certain routine, but you’ll realize that you’ve been holding yourself back.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A few important decisions have to be made before the day is out, but you don’t have to make them on your own. Solicit the opinions of others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A fast pace isn’t necessary — but if you want to move more quickly, there are ways of doing so without sacrificing your safety.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Pay attention to the things going on around the home that others might overlook. Certain tones and rhythms are all-important at this time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’re likely to receive certain messages in an unusual way — but they are no less important simply because of how they are delivered.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A confrontation of sorts may be unavoidable, because you’ve been keeping your opinions and reactions to yourself for long enough.

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CYBER from page 1 private cybersecurity companies on the issue passes, these groups would eventually decide whether to mandate minimum security standards that protect Americans from cybercrime.

Because the state has one of the highest concentrations of cybersecurity jobs, Walitsky said it is only natural for Cardin to take a stand on the matter.

“Senator Cardin believes we can find a balance between keeping information flowing freely and keeping it safe,” Walitsky said. “Free and open Internet gives a voice to people worldwide and needs to be protected from censorship. However, there are plenty of predators who want to exploit or compromise the information systems.”

Although the Center has not yet put its research into practice, Chapman said this university aims to continue forming partnerships with other universities and corporations so that one day, their work can be implemented.

Chapman said the Center’s partners examine cybersecu-

rity from a range of angles, including behavioral, economic, business and public policy and its multidisciplinary approach sets this university apart from other institutions.

“There is an enormous technological component and technical solutions will be at forefront, but our comprehensive approach puts us heads and shoulders above other universities,” Chapman said.

Public policy professor John Steinbruner said he supports Cardin’s actions and that he would like to see cybersecurity become a global initiative. However, Steinbruner noted that security programs can be costly and take time to install.

“People are reluctant to slow up their company’s work with security provision because it would make them marginally less efficient than their competitors,” Steinbruner said. “You would have to impose rules on everyone at the time — Maryland is just too small a scope.”

But Joshua Berenhaus, treasurer of Mar yland’s Cybersecurity Club, said there are other options out there to protect Internet users from hackers, such as training sessions for those who are

“Our comprehensive approach puts us head and shoulders above other universities.”

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“I definitely think it’s important for everybody to know how to protect their systems,” the sophomore computer science major said. “It’s important on a global scale especially, but you have to start somewhere.”

But conversations on cybersecurity cannot wait much longer, researchers said.

“Whether it’s looking for jobs in the cyber world or simply protecting yourself, I think people should be interested in cybersecurity, even if their background is not computer science,” said William Nolte, a research professor in the school of public policy. “People are just now star ting to realize that we are not invulnerable.” romas@umdbk.com

PARENTS from page 1 fruition, according to Barrett Dillow, GSG vice president for legislative affairs.

“We work just as hard as anyone else, and we really deserve benefits, but for some reason the university doesn’t seem to really see us,” said Kothari. “It’s kind of like we are invisible people at times and that needs to change.”

A number of issues have surfaced throughout the years, such as who would teach classes when graduate assistants are caring for their newborns and if research projects would fall through if too many graduate assistants were on leave at once, Bedford said.

“People have concerns about losing their graduate students for six weeks,” Bedford said. “If you’re really concerned with a student’s education and well-being, you should be able to accommodate them for six weeks in the event of childbirth.”

Although the university allows a “leave-of-absence” for graduate assistants for up to two semesters, this does not help with the financial burden new parents face and does not

GSG President Anna Bedford (left) and other graduate students are pushing for more parental leave.

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mean there will be a job waiting for them when they get back, said Jatia Wrighten, a government and politics graduate student.

Wrighten said she was unable to apply for an assistantship last fall because she didn’t think she would be able to handle taking classes in addition to raising her newborn son.

“I would say that it was a strain economically on our family. Right after the baby was

born you need diapers and bottles, and you basically lose that source of income,” she said.

“A lot of students in the graduate school, we are at marriage age where it only makes sense to have some sort of procedure or some type of policy to follow when someone gets pregnant,” said Wrighten. “There are ways to work around it. It’s pregnancy, it’s not death.” hicks@umdbk.com

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DIVERSIONS FRIDAY: Check back tomorrow for a trio of movie reviews, including the much-hyped Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising) and starring Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love.), along with a slew of talented character actors.

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The arts have long been used as a means for society to come to terms with happenings and tragedies around the world. Some of the greatest contributions involved artists reconciling the traumatic or the incomprehensible through artistic expression, such as Night or Of Mice and Men. Why should films be any different? Despite what the filmography of Roland Emmerich may suggest, cinema can be used as a means of informing and explaining confusing and frightening current events to the masses.

A good filmmaker rips a story from the headlines and crafts a film that seeks to educate and comfort, not just provide cheap, exploitative thrills.

Consider Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion — the film manages to simultaneously be completely accurate and faithful to the threat of epidemic disease, while not sensationalizing the matter. And it’s an entertaining movie, to boot.

The movie offers a grounded, authentic take on the mechanics

behind the response to diseases, similar to what happened across the world during the recent swine flu panic, giving us plebs a sense of what tracking and preventing an infectious disease might entail.

A well-executed movie such as Contagion can inform the public on the realities of scientific and geopolitical infrastructure much more effectively and in a more interesting fashion than, say, a biology professor and his thick textbooks.

A good movie can be used to educate moviegoers about the finer details and nuances of current events. That is not the only context in which a film can use current events to offer a rewarding experience.

Movies are also able to offer emotional closure and perhaps even catharsis. Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, released only a year after the 9/11 attacks, manages to both convey both the wounds inflicted upon the psyche of New York and

Contagion is the latest in a long line of movies to use a topical threat — in this case, a disease — to sell its product. Is it ethical for Hollywood to make movies that prey on societal fears? present a tribute to the strength and unity of the city’s residents.

Chris Morris’ Four Lions managed to portray terrorists as comedic, bumbling lackadaisical believers without negating any of the pain inflicted by terrorism. Similarly, Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop makes light of something inherently serious — the decision to enter war — without ever feeling too rash or exploitative.

Modern filmmakers are perfectly capable of handling topical issues with subtlety and restraint. There is no “too soon” for moviemakers, not when you take into consideration the valiant efforts put forth by visionary directors and writers.

Movies are a force for good and change in the world. Just don’t let the timeliness fool you.

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It’s hard to make an invisible villain scarier than Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees combined, but Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion does it with a virus that wipes out about onethird of the world’s population in the blink of an eye. The film is genuinely unsettling and makes you painfully aware of how many times you touch your face per minute.

The film’s quality aside, though, it made me wonder: Should Hollywood be using topical issues and events as a scare tactic?

Contagion may try to class up your typical pandemic story with an A-list cast, but its main goal is to use the audience’s knowledge of recent outbreaks of diseases such as swine flu and

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SARS to create an atmosphere fraught with fear. That’s so emotionally manipulative, the film could easily be shown in middle school science classes to teach kids about the dangers of touching doorknobs. There is a difference between organically creating tension and shoving dread down your audience’s throat.

No one in Hollywood is more guilty of making these films than Roland Emmerich. The man has destroyed New York four times by means of aliens, giant mutated lizards, floods created by global warming and what he believes will be the great 2012 cataclysm.

Let’s break his films down for a second. Most people are freaked out by the ideas of alien invasions (Independence Day), giant mutated, rampaging lizards (Godzilla), global climate change (The Day After Tomorrow) and

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the Mayan prediction of a 2012 apocalypse (2012). Emmerich’s logic must’ve gone something like, “I should exploit these concerns that most people share and make movies with lots of explosions and zero artistic value that downplay the very issues they’re looking to highlight! I’ll be rich!”

Unfortunately, his evil plan is clearly working — people flock to his movies. 2012 made $166,112,167 at the box office despite earning a 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Hollywood executives are fluent in the language of money and will keep commissioning Emmerich to make the same empty threat movies over and over again.

To demand smarter, less manipulative movies from the Hollywood higher-ups, stop giving filmmakers like Emmerich your money. Either he and his ilk will have to start making films with less manufactured emotional cores, or they will be forced to go away. diversions@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

DORSEY from page 10 says, ‘My name’s Kevin, and I want to play football for you.’

“Right after he left, I called [former Terps recruiting coordinator] James Franklin and said, ‘Coach, I’m going to sound crazy, but I’ve got a kid here in eighth grade that you’ll be recruiting in two or three years.’”

Harley wasn’t crazy. By the end of his sophomore season, Dorsey had carved his way into Forestville lore as a wide receiver and quarterback and was taking calls from former Terps coach Ralph Friedgen.

In Dorsey’s first meeting with Friedgen — who had never even seen him play live or on tape — he showed up wearing a business suit in a setting for which most high schoolers don T-shirts and jeans.

By the time he left, he had his first scholarship offer. “[Friedgen] just said, ‘We want to offer you,’ and I’m like, ‘What? Have you even watched the tape?’” Dorsey recalled. “But all he said was, ‘Just based on your character, I want you to be part of this football team.’ I took that to heart, seeing that this guy already cared about me not only as a football player but as a person, as well.”

Shortly thereafter, Dorsey became the first member of the Terps’ 2008 recruiting class. Other schools came calling for the eventual four-star recruit, but he had no intention of wavering on the pledge he’d made to Friedgen.

“He committed to me, so I committed to him,” Dorsey said.

IN TRANSITION When the Terps cleaned house last offseason, much of the coaching staff Dorsey had known for five years crumbled. Friedgen’s contract was bought out, Franklin became Vanderbilt’s coach, and much of the rest of the coaching staff moved on.

What Dorsey was left with was former Connecticut coach Randy Edsall, a man Dorsey knew only as one of

his many anonymous suitors while he was in high school.

“It was almost as if [Connecticut] just watched the tape and gave me a scholarship,” Dorsey said. “I never really got to talk to [Edsall].”

Fortunately for Dorsey, the straight-laced attitude Edsall brought to the program was one he’d already embraced. A dress code that banned hats indoors and diamond-stud earrings posed no problems for the modest wideout.

“I wouldn’t say it was a hard transition because he’s definitely someone I love to play for,” Dorsey said. “The biggest thing for him [is] he’s a player’s coach, and it reminds me of playing for Coach Harley because it’s someone you want to play for.

“He wants you to succeed, and he’s going to demand the best out of you every single day.”

Edsall’s expected — demanded, really — effort comes naturally to Dorsey.

He earned a reputation in high school for his ceaseless work ethic. He was often spotted running on the Forestville track in the dog days of summer, the dead of winter and any time in between.

That’s carried over to his college career. Speaking to reporters early yesterday afternoon, he said he’d left the team house only once in the time since he arrived there at 6:50 a.m.

And the team’s official practice was still more than an hour away.

“I’m not the person to go out and be vocal. I’ll do it at the right time, but my biggest thing is to go out and lead by example,” Dorsey said. “A lot of guys can say certain things but their actions dictate something different. I’d rather just show you, OK, this is what I’m going to do every single day.”

“He kind of takes that mindset in everything he does,” O’Brien said of Dorsey, who he said is among his best friends on the team. “He’s very hardworking, very goal-oriented. He’s easy to hang out with, for sure, but that mentality that he has on the field shows through off the field.”

For Dorsey, it’s all comes back to his basic philosophy.

“I have a few things that I believe in firmly,” Dorsey said. “Depending on whatever religion you believe in … your god will be there for you. And the second thing is that to gain anything, you have to first give something.”

DEFENSE from page 10 stalwart defense that blanked then-No. 8 Boston College last week had vanished.

Entering Tuesday’s game, the Terps’ defense was a nearimpenetrable force, allowing just two goals in its previous five games and just one shot on goal in their previous three.

“It’s definitely difficult when you go from a game like Boston College, when you expect to have a lot of work and then you don’t,” Swaim said. “Then you have a game like this, when it’s just a true dogfight.”

After forward Casey Townsend gave the Terps a 3-1 lead in the 80th minute, the backline lost its trademark hustle. Defenders began lagging on assignments, and Rothe began finding open shots.

The senior defender, who hadn’t tallied a goal before Tuesday, scored twice in the final 10 minutes of regulation to

NEW YEAR, NEW HOPE Dorsey acknowledges he yearned for a bigger role with the Terps in years past.

While he saw the field as a reserve wide receiver and on special teams as an underclassman, his touches were limited with the likes of Torrey Smith and Adrian Cannon ahead of him on the depth chart.

But with Smith’s early departure to the NFL and Cannon’s graduation, the doors opened for an unproven group of wide receivers.

Dorsey was at the head of the pack. At 6-foot-2, 205 pounds and blessed with good speed, he entered training camp as the apparent No. 1 receiver.

The sample size is small, but he’s so far lived up to his billing as a legitimate go-to target for O’Brien. In the Terps’ season-opening win over Miami, Dorsey led the team in both receptions (eight) and receiving yards (124), and his 52-yard reception down the right sideline late in the fourth quarter helped set up what proved to be a game-winning field goal. Whether he maintains that level of production in the team’s uptempo offense throughout the season remains unclear, even to Dorsey.

But what he does know is that big plays like his late grab against Miami make his tireless preparations worthwhile. And that, despite his solemnity on the field, he’s enjoying every minute of it.

“This is fun. This is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to get an education that’s paid for through athletics and be able to go out and do something you love every single day,” Dorsey said. “I actually do joke around a lot, but when it comes to preparing I’m a little more serious.”

VIRGINIA from page 10 ruckus,” Pensky said. “The fans usually think they should get every call in the book and it’s usually a lot of screaming and yelling from everyone. Our challenge is to remain emotionally calm and level, but be very competitive at the same time.”

Grove called the tie against James Madison the Terps’ most disappointing result of the season so far. In failing to capitalize on a number of goal-scoring opportunities, the Terps were forced into overtime, where they then lost Spencer to both a ribs and head injury in the closing seconds.

“The whole mindset this year is short memory,” Grove said. “We have a short memory whether it’s a great game, we have a short memory whether it’s a bad game. It’s all about the next game ahead of you.”

That next game could very well set the tone for the Terps’ entire ACC campaign. Seven ACC teams are in the NSCAA top-25 poll with an eighth receiving votes, making for what should be highly contested games all season long.

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force the Terps into their first overtime in more than a year.

“We were maybe a little bit overconfident coming in,” said Townsend, who leads the ACC with eight goals in six games. “We got a little stagnant when we went up 3-1, and that can’t happen.”

Fortunately for the Terps, their defensive meltdown in the second half didn’t tarnish their perfect record.

With two minutes remaining in the second sudden-death overtime period, midfielder John Stertzer headed a cross past Retrievers goalkeeper Dan Louisignau and secured the Terps’ first 6-0 start since 2003.

But as the Terps prepare to host N.C. State on Friday, Cirovski said he won’t forget his squad’s defensive shortcomings against UMBC. “We’re going to learn how to manage a game,” Cirovski said. “That’s a problem we need to fix.”

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all these games,” Pensky said.

“They’re all going to be emotional games. There are going to be calls that go our way, calls that don’t go our way, goals that are scored on us, goals that we score. There are going to be ebbs and flows everywhere and we’ve got to be able to deal with all those adversities no matter where we play or who we play against.”

Tonight, it’s a Virginia team that boasts forward Caroline Miller, who is tied for second in the ACC with seven goals, and forwards Gloria Douglas and Erica Hollenberg, who rank second in the conference with five assists this year.

And while the Terps will be missing a key piece in both their emotional and physical puzzles, Pensky is confident his team can elevate its level given the circumstances.

“It’s a big rivalry between Maryland and Virginia in general and certainly between our soccer programs,” he said. “We have a lot of respect for each other and we’ve had some very emotional games with them the last three years. Both teams are going to be pretty desperate Thursday night.”

better. After Bias’ death, Driesell’s departure and the NCAA’s sanctions on the Terps program, he left a cushy job at Ohio State to bring his alma mater back from the brink of irrelevance. Forging past television and postseason bans, Williams soon enough had the Terps atop the sport.

People point to that championship as Williams’ crowning achievement, the one that separates him from Driesell. But it’s what that championship represented — the completion of Williams’ resurrection of the program — that makes him so special.

We can only wonder where the athletics department would be today if it weren’t for Williams. The Terps would likely still be looking for their first major national championship since the football team won one in 1953. The athletics department would probably be in even more dire financial straits than it finds itself in today. And there almost assuredly wouldn’t be a court at Comcast Center to name, because there wouldn’t be a Comcast Center.

It was Williams’ dominance as a coach that made building one of the premier college basketball venues in the country necessary in the first place. Williams is the most prominent figure in Terrapins athletics history. Bigger than Bias, more enduring than Juan Dixon, more important than Curley Byrd. And greater than Driesell.

Naming the court after Williams isn’t a slight at Driesell. A number of basketball programs have named courts and buildings for legendary coaches and figures even when other greats had come before them.

And frankly, why should a building that Driesell never coached in and didn’t have an important role in erecting feature his name on the court?

It isn’t a judgement of Driesell. It’s a judgment of Williams.

The shame here isn’t that Driesell doesn’t get the court named after him, but that he hasn’t been honored in another way in the two decades since he was forced out. Greivis Vasquez has his number hanging in Comcast less than a year after he graduated, but Driesell has had to wait more than 20 years.

Driesell deserves a banner in the rafters. Give him a statue. Have Lefty Driesell Day at Comcast. Do something.

There has to be a fitting way to honor Driesell. But the court? That belongs to Gary.

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Curious George Once again, George Lucas is re-releasing his Star Wars trilogy, and once again, he’s making changes to it. Bad move.

BY RENEE KLAHR For The Diamondback

Marshall Crenshaw will perform at the Birchmere on Friday.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARSHALL CRENSHAW

New wave, old songs

BY REESE HIGGINS Senior staff writer

It took 21 years, but Marshall Crenshaw finally got the validation he was looking for.

“I just remember standing up there, thinking, I’m going to take this as proof that I’ve lived my life right,” Crenshaw said about performing at the Apollo Theater in New York on Nov. 7, 2002. “The fact that I’m standing onstage at the Apollo Theater and I’m singing and people aren’t booing me, I just figured this is validation right here. That was a real big deal for me.”

Nine years later, the pop singer-songwriter — the artist behind the jangly guitars of “Someday, Someway,” a minor hit in the early 1980s — is celebrating his career with a 30th anniversar y tour.

The shows will mark three decades since the release of his first single. The tour makes a stop at the Birchmere in Alexandria on Friday.

To initiate a year of anniversary-related activity, Crenshaw performed his debut single and his first album, his 1982 selftitled LP, in full at City Winery in New York City for three

nights in a row, beginning at the end of April.

But be warned — Crenshaw won’t be playing the entirety of his debut album on his current tour. The City Winery shows were the first and last times he will perform the album in sequence, he said.

Today, Crenshaw may be best known by a new generation of fans as the writer of the title track for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the 2007 comedy starring John C. Reilly.

Though his songs are more likely to play on adult alternative radio stations these days, his first pop-rock records can be tagged as part of the mainstreaming of new wave (think more Elvis Costello than A Flock of Seagulls).

The show at the Birchmere will emphasize Crenshaw’s early albums and work as an overview of his career, Crenshaw said. Though his debut album won’t be performed in its entirety, Crenshaw looks back fondly on the City Winery shows.

“That was a big deal,” he said. “People got pretty emotional about it. … It was like a big nostalgia trip for a lot of

people. It really seemed to mean a lot to people.

“There were people that came in from all around the country to be at these shows,” Crenshaw added. “And then there were some faces from the past that I was really happy to see again.

People that I’ve lost contact with but who were important figures in our lives back when we started out. It was like that. A lot of emotional aspects to it.”

Performing an album in full is a popular concert industry gimmick, and Crenshaw needed time to think about these special performances before he signed on to the idea. Once he realized the joy the performances might bring to his fans, he agreed to perform the LP in full.

“I had to sleep on it when the idea first came forth,” Crenshaw said. “Once I got my mind around it, I thought it would be really fun for people. And it was.

That’s what I love most about it — just seeing how much people got off on it.”

Marshall Crenshaw will perform at the Birchmere on Friday. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $27.50. rhiggins@umdbk.com

George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars saga, has messed with the wrong Sith Lord.

For many, the original Star Wars trilogy is seen as moviemaking at its finest, a perfect masterpiece. That sentiment has apparently never registered with creator George Lucas who, since the 20th anniversary re-release of the films in 1997, cannot stop tinkering with what is considered his greatest achievement.

For years, Lucas has been manipulating cuts of the old films, upgrading special effects, altering dialogue and replacing actors with CGI “special edition” versions, which has stirred up a great deal of controversy over the years. So what’s the latest drama that has fans’ lightsabers all in a twist?

It’s the very odd — and almost comical — changes he made for the Blu-ray re-release titled Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

In the upcoming edition of the films, out Friday, the changes range from a CGI Yoda to digitally-altered light sabers.

The most notable change, though, is in Return of the Jedi, when Darth Vader now shouts an Anakin-esque “Noooo!” during an epic battle, causing purists to scream sacrilege.

If this entire situation wasn’t already peculiar, in 1988 Lucas stood before the U.S. Congress and argued in favor of retaining classic films in their original forms. His part in the debate helped create the National Film Registry, an organization that takes historically significant films and preserves them. That Lucas seems light-years away from the Lucas of today — the one who continuously modifies his ever-popular classics.

Although fans of the series

have vehemently expressed their outrage, nothing will deter Lucas from what he believes is his quest for perfection. In all sincerity, Lucas truly feels as though he is improving these films, despite the negative reactions.

While it’s true that the special effects used in the originals cannot stand up against the technology available today, there is something to be said about a film that is indicative of

the time in which it was created.

Still, Lucas’s unapologetic manner towards the backlash from this recent change serves as a warning that more alterations are to come.

Until then, all fans can do is wait and hope that next time, Lucas will let sleeping dogs lie and leave the galaxy far, far away in peace. diversions@umdbk.com

THE BEST OF: JONAH HILL’S THE SITTER ADS Have you seen those Jonah Hill-faced fliers around campus, asking if you need a sitter? If you haven’t, check out his fresh face on page seven. People have been calling the mysterious phone number, and, for better or worse, their messages — ostensibly sent to Hill’s character in the upcoming The Sitter — have been logged for your enjoyment. A few of our favorite quotes: “I just woke up a little bit ago, did it with my girlfriend and now we’re going to Wendy’s.”

“We want to find someone that can be part of our family. We’re lesbians.”

“OK. Jonah Hill, or babysitter. I’m so high right now and I would love to talk to you, and I wish you would have answered. But you didn’t, and now I’m sitting in my car, and I have to walk to my house, but I feel like a f---ing werewolf is waiting for me outside, which isn’t cool at all.

Like, ahh! What the f---? I think there’s a werewolf outside, and I’m pretty sure when I get out of the car...”

“Yeah, I was just wanting to let you know I’m pooping right now.”

“I’m drunk out of my mind right now. I’m literally on the ground, rubbing myself against a furry carpet. It’s f--ing crazy.” “[Maniacal laughter]” “...I wonder if you’re actually going to listen to this message. Oh, f---. Oh, f---! I don’t know. This is — I’m really uncomfortable now. But I still would love to talk to you!”

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Terps to wear all-black unis The Terps football team will wear all-black uniforms Saturday against West Virginia, coach Randy Edsall announced yesterday. Read more at TerrapinTrail.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

A court fit for Gary

FOOTBALL “Even before [Barack] Obama was president, I used to tell people when Kevin was in ninth grade he could be president one day.”

— Forestville Military Academy coach Charles Harley

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he writing has been on the wall for years. Scratch that, the writing has been on the court for years: Whenever Gary Williams retired, the court at Comcast Center would bear his namesake. Simple as that.

But now that it’s actually happening, there’s backlash?

People cheered in May when University President Wallace Loh announced the plan at Williams’ retirement celebration. It was a fitting time to formalize the honor, a gesture that proved the man who screamed, sweated and — above all — succeeded for 22 years on the sideline in College Park would be immortalized at Comcast Center, The House That Gary Built.

No one was talking then about how it would be disrespectful to other coaches in the program history. For as good as his predecessors were, Williams stood above them all.

Then a report last week in The Baltimore Sun indicated that a “quiet but potent minority” felt the move would be a slap in the face to longtime coach Charles “Lefty” Driesell and even to current women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese.

It’s a shame that Driesell hasn’t been given his due, and it’s even worse that it’s likely because his time at this university ended on as harsh a note as the death of Len Bias. He should be remembered for much more than tragedy.

For proof, look at the two ACC regular-season titles, NIT Tournament championship, two ACC Coach of the Year awards, 348 wins and eight NCAA Tournament appearances. He set out to make this university the UCLA of the East and brought with him the first dominant era in Terps basketball history. Driesell, in many ways, built the program.

But Williams rebuilt it, and rebuilt it

Wide receiver Kevin Dorsey, who leads the Terps with eight receptions and 124 receiving yards this season, committed to the Terps after his sophomore year in high school. Now, he’s one of the team’s unquestioned leaders in the locker room. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Making an example Ever the quiet leader, Kevin Dorsey is letting his play on the field — and work off it — speak for itself

MEN’S SOCCER

Breakdowns for backline in Tues. win

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

BALTIMORE — Nursing a 3-2 lead over an unranked UMBC squad Tuesday night, Will Swaim suddenly lost sight of the ball amid a jumble of white jerseys.

With three Retrievers strikers blocking his view, the Terrapins men’s soccer goalkeeper couldn’t see what happened next: UMBC defender Sean Rothe darting into space and launching a shot from just inside the penalty box that bounced off the post and past Swaim.

UMBC’s record-breaking crowd burst into an uproar as the redshirt senior tried to comprehend what had just happened.

“Some parts of the play I blacked out on,” Swaim said after the Terps finally secured a 4-3 win in double overtime.

“But I know [Rothe] had a wide range to shoot at.”

The chaos that unfolded in front of Swaim in the 83rd minute epitomized the No. 1 Terps’ defensive struggles during the second half Tuesday night.

As UMBC desperately tried to secure a program-defining win over its in-state adversary, the Terps’ backline appeared outmanned for the first time this season. Players looked confused, assignments were missed and coach Sasho Cirovski wasn’t pleased.

For the final 40 minutes of regulation, the 19th-year coach frantically called out assignments as the Retrievers notched three goals — the same number of total goals UMBC had scored over its previous four games.

“We didn’t manage the end of the game well at all,” a hoarse Cirovski said after the game.

In the span of just four days, the

see DEFENSE, page 8

of a largely inexperienced receiving corps and into a leadership role in the Terps’ locker room.

And no one is surprised.

“He’s just a leader. He just does everything right,” quarterback Danny O’Brien said. “He’s a guy you can look to to be running extra sprints or routes after practice.

“If you’re a young receiver trying to aspire to be a good receiver … this is how you do it at the D-I level, and this is how you work.”

BY CONOR WALSH

see SCHNEIDER, page 8

Senior staff writer

Charles Harley has coached at Forestville Military Academy for more than a decade, sending what he guesses to be about 20 football players to Division I schools. Among the best, Harley said, was Kevin Dorsey.

From the time Dorsey arrived at Forestville, Harley had a feeling he’d join that elite group of college athletes. And still, he felt Dorsey was capable of more. Much more.

“Even before [Barack] Obama was president,” Harley said, “I used to tell people when Kevin was in ninth grade he could be president one day.”

Dorsey laughed off his former coach’s grand expectations yesterday — “I’ve heard him say that a few times, but that’s never been a dream of mine,” he said — but Harley’s notion speaks to the aura that has come to surround the Terrapins’ junior wide receiver.

Dorsey carries himself with a quiet confidence and speaks eloquently. In the classroom, the economics major embraces his “student-athlete” classification. And when he’s not in class, he’s probably in the weight room or watching film at the Gossett Football Team House.

With a work ethic rooted in his no-nonsense upbringing, Dorsey has thrust himself to the front

A LONG TIME COMING

With the exits of Torrey Smith and Adrian Cannon, last season’s starting wide receivers, Kevin Dorsey has emerged as a go-to target this year. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Dorsey’s character didn’t develop overnight.

Sure, his time at Forestville — a public military high school in Prince George’s County with a strict focus on discipline and academics — shaped him. But long before he ever established himself as regiment commander, the academy’s highest-ranking cadet, or as the school’s most talented football player, he was a strong-willed and confident kid.

Harley recalls the first time he met Dorsey, who came to the academy as an eighth-grader with his father to speak with the coach.

“At that age, Dad usually does all the talking,” Harley said. “But the young man steps up and

see DORSEY, page 8

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Terps head to ACC action minus a star Spencer will miss game vs. Cavs

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Coach Brian Pensky won’t be hard-pressed to find a replacement on paper for injured forward Jasmyne Spencer when the Terrapins women’s soccer team opens ACC play against No. 14 Virginia tonight.

The depth Pensky has built in his time as coach, after all, offers a wealth of options to choose from. But that doesn’t mean the team won’t miss more than the starter’s one goal and three assists this year.

“We’re going to miss Jasmyne’s personality,” forward Ashley Grove said. “She’s

always a gritty, go-hard, go-at‘em [player], and as you can see by her getting hurt, it doesn’t matter who’s in her way. She’s little, she’s fast, she’s going to go.”

In senior Sade Ayinde, sophomore Hayley Brock and freshman Cory Ryan, the No. 6 Terps have a myriad of talents at their disposal for their highstakes matchup with Virginia.

But playing without Spencer, who helped the Terps (6-0-2) to an undefeated record during a nonconference slate that featured then-No. 22 Minnesota and then-No. 2 Stanford, will be a different story in ACC play and, for tonight at least, at Virginia’s Klock-

Forward Jasmyne Spencer, who has one goal and three assists this season, will miss the Terps’ ACC opener due to injuries sustained Sunday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

ner Stadium.

“Klockner Stadium is always a pretty tough place to go into,” midfielder Olivia Wagner said. “They have a pretty good fan base and, yeah, it is our first ACC game so I think we’re all getting fired up for it. I think it’s a

great place to go and play the first ACC game because you know there’s going to be a good atmosphere, you know they’re going to bring you their best game.”

Both teams come into tonight’s game following unsatisfactory weekends. Vir-

ginia (3-1-1) suffered its first loss of the season on Sunday, a 3-2 loss to Penn State at home, while the Terps were mired in a 0-0 tie with James Madison 40 miles away.

“There’s going to be

see VIRGINIA, page 8