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Consent officially defined in sexual misconduct policy

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ing party has the “ability and capacity to exercise free will and make a rational, reasonable judgment,” which officials said means consent Consent is a hot topic in the cannot be given while one party is media, championed by feminists highly intoxicated. and now in print for the fi rst time In addition, the policy places the in this university’s history as an burden of consent on the initiator, official part of the university sexual meaning he or she must be sure to misconduct policy. acquire consent before continuing — The revised policy, which com- allowing no room for the victim to bines the pre-existing sexual be blamed. assault and harassment policies, “Students are going to have to defines consent as a “knowing, engage in direct conversation with voluntary and affi rmatively com- sexual partners for every act,” municated willingness to partici- said Resident Life Associate Dipate in a particular sexual activity rector Steve Petkas, who serves as or behavior.” the interim Title IX director. “Past It goes on to clarify that consent must be given while the consentSee misconduct, Page 3

OUTSIDE LINEBACKER MARCUS WHITFIELD (left) and defensive end Quinton Jefferson hush the Connecticut crowd after forcing intentional grounding in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter of the Terps’ 32-21 victory over the Huskies at Rentschler Field. The Terps defense accounted for nine points. tim drummond/the diamondback

PASSING the first test UConn challenges in Edsall’s return to Rentschler Field, but Terps come away with win during pregame introductions. They heckled and gestured as coach Randy maryland 0 13 14 5 Edsall, making his return against the uconn 7 3 3 8 program he helped build, ran into the tunnel for halftime. But when EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — After two games at Byrd Stadium against lesser esque Rentschler Field, however, the quarterback C.J. Brown kneeled one foes, the Terrapins football team had Terps finally found their first chal- last time to milk the final seconds off yet to be tested. lenge against Connecticut. Before an the clock in a 32-21 Terps victory, The offense rolled. Difficulties were announced 38,916 mostly clad in blue they were gone, replaced by silver few and far between. If the Terps and whipped into a frenzy, the Terps bleachers and a line of red taillights weren’t scoring touchdowns, they offense stalled, turned the ball over and visible outside the stadium.

“We love it because when you’re were at least getting field goals, and resembled nothing close to the juggerpoints racked up on the scoreboard. naut from the previous two Saturdays.

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Res Life hires 8 RAs for Ellicott after violations Firing, resignation removed half of hall’s RAs

By Jenny Hottle @JennyHottle Senior staff writer In the days leading up to the start of the fall semester, North Campus Resident Life officials had to scramble to hire new Ellicott Hall resident assistants after eight students resigned or were fired for violating their conditions of employment.

New and returning resident assistants arrived on the campus Aug. 18 for training. After an Ellicott Community discussion on alcohol policies the next day, Resident Life officials learned a group of resident assistants violated several parts of the alcohol

Ellicott hall has new resident assistants after a presemester alcohol incident. jenny hottle/for the diamondback policy, said Amy Martin, resident life associate director for North Campus.

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Primary hopes inspire North diner would-be delegate updated for

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Junior, 20, seeks election to District 5 as one of youngest ever

Dining Services alters value meals in halls

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By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer

Jo s h S to n ko w a k e s u p e a c h morning at 4:45 a.m. He commutes an hour and 45 minutes from his home in Manchester to College Park three days a week for classes. And on the days he doesn’t have to make the trek to the campus, he goes door to door, introducing himself.

It’s a lot to handle, but it’s all necessary for Stonko — the junior economics major hopes to become one of the youngest District 5 representatives to the House of Delegates in state history. It won’t be easy, though, considering both his age (20) and

New year, new dining hall? Students returning to the campus may notice a few changes to the North Campus Dining Hall, including a new layout and new menu.

Dining Services officials spent the summer updating the dining hall’s layout to better accommodate students and employees, said Bart Hipple, Dining Services spokesman. They’ve also made subtle changes to the food offered and the size of the menu at the Sprouts vegan station to address student requests for healthier food,

josh stonko, junior economics major and District 5 Republican delegate hopeful. james levin/the diamondback competition from the incumbents, including one fellow Republican who has held her position since 1995.

“One thing we’ve seen in Carroll [County] is a lot of the incumbents have become complacent,” Stonko said. “The legislature and the government aren’t in line with a lot of the things I believe in.”

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california deli, the North Campus Dining Hall’s sandwich station, has been redone to function more like popular fast food restaurants as part of Dining Services’ updates to the dining halls. sung-min kim/for the diamondback as well as changes to the value menu at both the North and South Campus dining halls.

One of the more notable changes was made to the North Campus Dining Hall’s sandwich station.

The operation has been redone to accommodate a more Chipotle- or Subway-style method: Students will order their bread and meat

first, then continue down the line as they request condiments and other toppings.

Officials also removed the dining hall’s dessert counter, though students can still get slices of cake and pie where the doughnut display once sat.

The dessert station’s remodeling See diner, Page 2

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STAFF EDITORIAL: ENDING RAPE CULTURE

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UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS Chunsheng Wang (top) and Eric Wachsman (bottom) lead two teams that are developing low-cost, high-energy car batteries. james levin/the diamondback

Univ research teams plan safer batteries Energy Dept funding helps foster innovative, cost-effective designs

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer

member of the team.

Because it can’t catch on fire, the battery is safe and reliable to use in vehicles, Hu said. It’s also lighter, he said, so it can be safely and efficiently installed.

“You don’t want it to weigh so much,” Wachsman said.

“You would rather move the car around than the battery.”

The other team, led by engineering professor Chunsheng Wang, will use its $405,000 award to merge the best components of water-based, or aqueous, and organic plasticbased batteries, Wang said. It will combine the safety of the aqueous battery with the higher energy of the organic one, he said.

The goal is to help cars drive a longer distance on one battery charge, Wang said.

Safety is also a priority for Wang’s team — and because of the battery’s water-based materials, it won’t be able to catch on fire, said Tao Gao, a chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral candidate working on the project.

“With transportation right now … the concern is the high cost, and the second is the safety,” Wang said. “If our technology is successful, we can solve both problems.”

Both Wachsman and Wang hope that in the future, their model can be used in other devices such as cellphones.

“If we succeed, there will b e a h u ge b r i d ge fo r t h e current battery technology or energy system technology,” Gao said. “We are trying and we are hoping.”

Driving electric cars may soon become safer and cheaper because of the work of two university research teams, which were recently awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop new vehicle batteries.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded the researchers from the university’s Energy Research Center and the chemical and biomolecular engineering department as well as 20 teams from other institutions $36 million in total to develop innovative electric vehicle batteries focusing on cost, safety and efficiency.

The teams from this university hope to create batteries with a “very, very low cost, but with a very high performance,” said engineering professor Eric Wachsman, one of the team leaders.

Also the director of the university’s energy research center, Wachsman has more than 20 years of experience working with these types of materials. He began perfecting his battery idea with the help of Venkataraman Thangadurai, a chemistry professor from the University of Calgary.

Using inexpensive ceramic materials that conduct lithium ions, Wachsman’s team — which was awarded $574,275 — will create an affordable, high-energy battery, said Liangbing Hu, a materials science and engineering professor and eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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was done to accommodate the new, larger Sprouts vegan station. There is now room for two additional stations within the Sprouts operation: one specifically for stir-fry and the Sprouts daily special and one for Sprouts wraps and other menu offerings.

And the “New Yorker” station, which was once a nighttime hot sub station, has been converted into a gourmet salad station similar to the South Campus Dining Hall’s Salad Sensations.

Students today have more sophisticated palates and are asking for healthier, more flavorful food, Hipple said.

The department shed the fried food from the value meals and is adding options with more complex combinations of flavors at both dining halls.

“The new layout of the diner was strange at first,” said Brenda Shah, a sophomore

physiology and neurobiology major. “However, after the first few awkward attempts of standing in the wrong line or saying the wrong things, I learned the ropes and found that this layout is much more efficient.”

Fortunately, students have more time to adjust to the new layout, as officials have also extended the dining hall’s hours. On nights with no late-night service, the dining hall stays open until 8 p.m. instead of 7 p.m.

The goal with the changes was to improve customer service and accommodate a larger incoming freshman class, Hipple said. Dining Services also began requiring employees to wear name tags and looked at new plating techniques to improve the appearance of the food served at both the North and South Campus dining halls.

Although it isn’t far into the semester, Hipple said the new layout has kept the North Campus Dining Hall cleaner and more efficient, and Dining Services has received positive student feedback.

“The menu at Sprouts is bigger and better than it was

SPROUTS in the North Campus Dining Hall has new sections for stir-fry, wraps and a daily special.

Dining Services also updated and expanded the dining hall’s menu. sung-min kim/the diamondback before and provides students with plenty of healthy vegan options,” said Nick Henninger, a sophomore economics major.

“I feel better about eating at the

diner this year, and am generally more confident that I will not regret what I’ve eaten.” hcuozzodbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE Do you remember what stressed you out when you went to school at 7 years old? Maybe your parents, like mine, wouldn’t buy you light-up shoes.

I’m still a little bitter, if you can’t tell.

For Tiana Parker, it was her hairstyle.

Parker’s school told her that she could not have dreadlocks, a decision that caused her parents to remove her from the school.

Parker’s father Terrance, a barber, told news sources his daughter always looked presentable.

Deborah Brown Community School’s handbook states, “Hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros and other faddish styles are unacceptable. For safety reasons, girls’ weaved hair should be no longer than shoulder length. Boy’s hair is to be short and neatly trimmed.”

In an interview with Fox23 News, Parker said with tears in her eyes, “They didn’t like my dreads.”

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munity School? The girl is crying in her interview. I understand the school wants its students to look presentable. I believe if you present yourself properly and show respect to yourself and others, you’ll perform better in school.

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MISCONDUCT From PAGE 1 sexual encounters or one set of sexual behaviors does not imply acceptance going forward. They have to communicate — and frankly, that’s what adults do.”

The step follows language in the Education Department’s T itle IX specifications — which were sent to primary, secondary and post-secondary schools nationally as a “Dear Colleague” letter in 2011 — and brings this university in line with peer institutions.

Un ive rs i ty P re s i d e n t Wallace Loh commissioned a work group to tackle the sexual harassment policy, which suggested the harassment and assault policies be combined and clarified. A second task force worked this summer to implement that suggestion and wrote a concrete definition for consent in the process.

Feminist groups on the campus praised the policy’s definition of consent after its debut.

“This isn’t something that people really teach, so it’s very important that it be clearly spelled out in the policy,” said junior criminology and criminal

justice and psychology major Jill Santos, president of UMD Feminists. “The university is definitely headed in the right direction. I just would hope they enforce the policy and continue on the right track.”

Officials who worked on the document said the combination of both policies will make it easier for students to access the information.

Instead of having to search for two separate policies, which could potentially both apply to a situation, students can find all of the information in one place.

“If anyone feels they have been victimized or assaulted, under the new policy, they don’t have to dig around to find information,” Petkas said. “It’s out there, and they can find it fast.”

Officials have plans to spread the word about the updated policy. Existing measures to educate students on what constitutes sexual misconduct and what resources are available include the sexual assault prevention pilot program, debuting this semester, and a unit in AlcoholEDU, a requirement for incoming students.

The existing efforts are not enough, though, officials said, and they plan to expand their

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THE BASICS • “‘Consent’ means a knowing, voluntary and affirmatively communicated willingness to participate in a particular sexual activity or behavior.”

• Consenting parties must have the “ability and capacity to exercise free will and make a rational, reasonable judgment.”

• Burden of obtaining consent is on the initiator.

“[Students] have to communicate — and frankly, that’s what adults do.”

STEVE PETKAS

Interim Title IX director outreach in the future to offer more training and information to the university population.

Wendy Jacobs, a university lecturer and interim Title IX director along with Petkas, has a list of issues to address in future student training, including the role of drugs and alcohol in sexual misconduct, intervention by bystanders, prevention strategies and how to get support.

“We want to incorporate consciousness-raising strategies,” Jacobs said. “Realistically, people don’t always know these things, so if we can get the word out and spread the information, it would only benefit students.”

Jacobs says she hopes the

number of complaints reported to the university will rise in response, not as incidents of misconduct increase, but as students increase reports to the university.

“That’s the irony of the situation: If we’re doing a good job, we’ll be getting more complaints, as people know what they should and shouldn’t be tolerating and the campus takes it seriously,” Jacobs said.

“Over time, we hope it will go down as perpetrators become less likely to do this and are taught about the consequences.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

knocking on doors, maybe 10 or 15 thousand doors,” Helminiak said. “Stonko has been running himself ragged sign-waving, knocking on doors [and] showing up for events. He has, beyond his years, an ability to meet and greet and get along with people.”

Stonko has worked to accumulate experience during his time at this university, serving as vice chairman of this university’s College Republicans group. Previously, Stonko worked for Rep. Roscoe Bartlett and State Sen. Joseph Getty.

“I’m close to a lot of the legislators in the county,” Stonko said, adding that Getty in particular has been a good mentor for him.

His biggest campaign focus is education reform. Primary and secondary education does not sufficiently prepare young people for college or to enter the workforce, Stonko said.

He added that better education makes for a better-educated population, which would render employee training more effective and save businesses money.

“College preparation is just not where it should be,” he said Stonko’s campaign is a family affair. His father is campaign treasurer, and his younger brother and mother do miscellaneous work for the campaign.

Stonko’s older brother, David Stonko, said he signed on to be campaign manager because family is important to him.

“It’s the type of person that Josh is, the type of personality,” David Stonko said.

David Stonko said the family was not surprised when his brother told them he had decided to run. “[Josh Stonko] understands people very well. He has a desire to help out his community and the people around him,” said sophomore accounting and finance major Greg Faenza, Stonko’s friend and treasurer of College Republicans. “This is something he’s always wanted to do.”

From PAGE 1 If elected, Stonko will be among a small number of people who have held offices at age 21 — after his next birthday. Kenneth Schisler was 21 years old when he won a seat in the General Assembly in 1990.

The Baltimore Sun reported in 1990 that Del. David Shapiro, a Democrat elected in 1977, was the only other person in recent history to serve in the General Assembly at about that age.

Shapiro was 22.

Stonko announced his candidacy for the Republican primary in District 5 in August.

The primary elections won’t take place until June 2014, but Republicans in Carroll County said he already shows promise, both as a candidate and as a symbol for what they hope is the beginning of a new era for the Republican Party, which they say has gone stale in the public eye.

“The Republican Party is accused of being a party of just old men,” said Larry Helminiak, second vice chairman of The Maryland Republican Party, and vice chairman of the Carroll County Republican Central Committee. “We need young people,” he said.

Helminiak said Stonko is particularly young — anyone under 40 running for office is generally considered to be young, he said. But that isn’t to say Stonko is inexperienced, he continued. “[Stonko] is very young, but he gives the impression of being very experienced,” Helminiak said. “He handles himself like a businessperson in their 30s.”

Running a campaign isn’t easy, especially with a full load of classes. Stonko said he set up his schedule so he has Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends free to focus on campaigning.

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ellicott From PAGE 1

that hiring pool, Martin said. But two came from the Gemstone honors program, a decision Martin said officials made so students from the program would be represented on the staff.

The new resident assistants are catching up on the training they missed, Martin said.

However, not every new resident assistant has completed the semester-long training course, Introduction to Student Personnel. In special cases, a resident assistant may be employed while still taking the course, according to the university’s resident assistant conditions of employment.

“It seems to me approaching someone unknown [by Resident Life] is a bit more of a wild card,” the resident assistant said. “With someone you know through the RA class, you can just inform them about Gemstone. But with someone you know who is affiliated with Gemstone, you don’t know how they’ll be as an RA.” It’s not a regular practice to reach out to students not in the candidate pool, Martin said, adding officials prefer to hire students from the alternate list.

Prior to the hiring of new employees, the resident assistant said Ellicott Community staff members helped prepare the building for move-in and arranged extra duty shifts. Some students who left their positions helped as well, Martin said.

“There was lots of help in getting the building ready, so I don’t think it fell to just the remaining RAs,” she said.

The resident assistant said the loss of so many staff members was a shock since it happened so close to the start of the semester. But it was more of a personal loss, she said, since she knew many of them well.

“A lot of those RAs I looked up to, I was friends with,” she said. “As an RA, the main impact I felt was a reminder of the risk involved because what happened to those RAs really could have happened to anyone.”

on the incident but said officials made it clear to resident assistants that alcohol-related violations — including underage drinking, drinking while on duty, providing alcohol to minors and having parties in residence halls — are grounds for dismissal. In addition to the eight who were fired or resigned, several others out of the building’s 16 total resident assistants were put on probation, Martin said.

Each resident assistant involved underwent two reviews following the incident, one based on their employment conditions and the other a judicial process involving the Code of Student Conduct, Martin said, leading to a range of sanctions.

“They’re role models and leaders, and part of their training is about the fact that they have to uphold campus policies and community living standards in residence halls,” Martin said. “It was very devastating, not only for the students involved, but we were very concerned about opening the building and those kinds of things.”

A North Campus resident assistant, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the resulting sanctions were unfair, especially because the incident occurred prior to the start of the academic year.

“There was definitely a lacking of equality in their judgment,” the resident assistant said. “They just didn’t want a nonexistent staff.

Better to have half a staff than zero staff.”

Resident Life officials were able to fill all the vacant positions within 10 to 14 days of the investigation, Martin said. The scale of the incident was the largest Martin had seen in her 14 years working on the campus, she said, but officials had a long waiting list of alternate candidates who were able to fill in.

Six of the newly hired Ellicott resident assistants came from jhottledbk@gmail.com

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Finding our religion Battle against sexual assault CAROLINE CARLSON “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

Although people debate whether the above statement is valid, the Atheist Bus Campaign, which aims to spread positive messages about atheism throughout Britain, has no hesitation in publicizing this idea. But can that statement really be true? Does religion even correlate with being happy or sad?

I was born an atheist. The first time I can remember stepping into a church was when I was 12 years old. I love evolution (not to say all believers in God can’t), and I think it’s not so bad being a part of the 15 percent of the country that believes humans evolved without divine intervention, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll.

In middle school, I used to be jealous that I never had a first communion or a bat mitzvah. What’s even worse is that I don’t think I was ever invited to either one of those, so chances of converting already seemed pretty slim.

Although I’m comfortable saying I’ll never convert to a religion at any point in the near future, I love going to random religious services — and I think you should too.

For an academic course freshman year, I was assigned to do something that would make me feel like an outsider, so I went to masses at the Catholic Student Center.

To my luck, the priest’s sermon that evening was on atheists. He talked about a young, godless man who became ill and refused aid from Christ. He kept a gun under his pillow and threatened to kill any priest who tried to help him.

A priest, disguised as a commoner, successfully slipped a crucifix over the man’s gun and took care of the young man until he was no longer ill.

I’m not going to say that this sermon made me want to convert. It didn’t make me favor Christianity or believe atheism wasn’t the way to go, but it made me feel

like religion wasn’t entirely exclusive of those who didn’t “belong.” From my experiences in the past few years, I’ve heard sermons and speeches that conflicted with my preconceived ideas of religion — particularly refuting notions of atheists and believers being incapable of helping each other.

It might seem strange to spend time going to random services at churches, temples and synagogues, but the biggest thing I’ve learned is to separate the religion from the institution. Some of the primary concerns atheists have with religion are the bureaucracy and politics associated with it, but sometimes those become insignificant by just being an observer — putting yourself in uncomfortable situations and forcing yourself to learn what’s behind all the politics.

When I sit and listen to a sermon or watch people pray with one another, I don’t think of bureaucratic leadership structures or codified rules; in fact, I’m rather thankful that people can, once a week, share their beliefs in peace. I don’t sit in religious services in hopes to find a religion that “fits” me but purely because I enjoy the fact that people can peacefully create support networks surrounding an ideology. It’s something I haven’t seen, at least to a high extent, in any other part of my life right now.

There’s something about being an outsider that ultimately makes you find something you enjoy in people.

You may think I’m the crazy atheist who goes to different services just to watch people (and still has a lot to learn about religion), but it definitely makes me have faith in the encouragement people provide one another in religious settings. Maybe one day someone will create a centralized atheist church , but for now, I’ll continue my rounds of enjoying people’s capability to provide support and love even in the most troubled times.

Trigger warning: This editorial contains content that can provoke strong emotional responses, as it deals with the topic of sexual assault.

It’s a heartbreaking, infuriating truth that one in five American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape, according to a 2011 government survey. For college women, that number has been estimated at a staggering one in four. At this university, home to more than 17,000 female students, that means more than 4,000 likely will be victimized.

But it doesn’t need to be that way, a fact that campus activists — and, finally, administrators — clearly realize. Thanks to a new sexual assault prevention pilot program and much-needed updates to its sexual misconduct policy, this university is taking the necessary steps to combat rape culture.

The pilot program, Violence Intervention and Prevention, aims to educate students on issues of consent and sexual assault as well as empower survivors to report their assaults. Beginning in late September or early October, the program will debut to 300 to 600 students, and the University Senate is poised to vote on a bill requiring all incoming freshmen to complete the course.

If the senate ratifies the bill, it could play a pivotal role in protecting likely the university’s

most sexually exploited population.

Experts consider the first six weeks of college a “red zone” — a period when freshman women are most likely to experience an attempted or completed rape. By proactively educating students when they first join the campus community, the university could head off sexual assault before it occurs.

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This university’s commitment to combating rape culture and helping victims of sexual assault is commendable.

The university’s efforts haven’t stopped there, either. In a larger administrative culture seemingly predicated on victim-blaming and cover-ups, a revised sexual misconduct policy may mean the difference between silence and justice.

For the first time in university history, the policy now addresses the issue of consent, defining it as a “knowing, voluntary and affirmatively communicated willingness to participate in a particular sexual activity or behavior.”

The university’s willingness to forge ahead on the issue and revamp its legislation is commendable, and it comes as a sharp contrast to other institutions’ handling of sexual assault allegations. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been mired in media scrutiny after accusations of

underreporting rapes and a high-profile honor court case in which a female student faced expulsion after alleging a rape. A Naval Academy midshipman has shaken the school’s reputation after accusing three former football players of raping her.

This university’s decision to focus on helping victims and educating its students proves a far better indication of character than hushing up allegations to protect its name. And with other recent developments, administrators appear committed solely to cracking down on perpetrators and helping victims through the healing process.

The Code of Student Conduct expansion, which allows the Office of Student Conduct to issue sanctions for off-campus misconduct, will empower administrators’ ability to pursue justice in assaults committed outside the university’s boundaries.

Additionally, $500,000 in funding toward the University Health Center Counseling Center will contribute to the university’s resources for sexual assault victims. With 11 new psychiatrist, counselor and psychologist positions, the university will offer more outlets for victims than ever before.

This editorial board applauds the university’s commitment to action against sexual assault. With activists’ and administrators’ continued commitment to education and justice for survivors, the university can take further decisive steps in combating rape culture.

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C a ro l i n e C a r l s o n i s a j u n i o r government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

GUEST COLUMN

The city’s potential

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ollege Park should not just be a livable community. With its proximity to Washington, what has been ranked as the 38th best academic university in the world and being a lively city, College Park should be one of the most desirable college towns in the country. So why isn’t it?

My name is Matthew Popkin, and I’m running for one of College Park’s District 3 City Council seats. This is my fifth year living in College Park, as I am a graduate student in the public policy school. This city has become one of the only two places I’ve ever considered home. Whether you live in South Campus Commons, Graduate Gardens, Leonardtown, Old Town, Calvert Hills, Yarrow, or the College Park Estates neighborhood or on Knox Road or Fraternity Row, I want to represent you.

Through my work in the Student Government Association and the University Senate and through my experiences as a student and College Park resident, I have seen firsthand the inefficient use of time and resources based on a lack of coordination between the city and this university. I have also seen the poor communication and disconnect between student residents and longterm residents, and I can help bridge this gap by focusing on three main issues.

A critical hurdle to advancement is the recent deteriorating quality of life.

To address this, a council work group recently drafted 63 ideas to improve the community — from attracting more businesses, such as movie theaters, restaurants and bars, to hosting more community block parties to facilitate meeting neighbors. While the council could have started implementing some of those ideas this month, it chose instead to postpone discussion until after the election, squandering two months when action could be taken.

In fact, this university, police, SGA and Greek life leadership have already begun implementing some ideas, such as the Code of Student Conduct expansion and proposing the on-campus tailgating pilot program.

In addition, public safety is a perpetual concern in College Park. It’s unacceptable that so many people feel nervous walking along Knox on Friday

nights. Though violent crime has been decreasing, thanks to Prince George’s County Police and University Police, we must do even more to combat sexual assault, theft, vandalism and the community’s perception of crime levels.

As an SGA vice president in 2011, I led two safety walks in College Park.

Both involved police, university and city staff, students, and local officials who walked along selected routes at night and subsequently implemented over 90 improvements, including new lights along Paint Branch Trail near Looney’s Pub and a redesigned intersection to reduce speed and improve pedestrian safety at Yale Avenue and Fraternity Row. Expanding this program to include more residents and students would bring the community together and further contribute to safety efforts.

Lastly, a college town should be well developed, accessible and sustainable.

The focus should be on poorly developed or vacant lots. One example is redeveloping the Knox Box apartments into a vibrant Knox Village. The plans include both undergraduate and graduate housing, recreational space, and retail spaces connecting South Campus to downtown College Park, which would eliminate a huge eyesore and low-quality housing. The integration and expansion of car- and bike-sharing programs, along with the eventual Purple Line, would also help reduce traffic and pollution in the area.

Beyond these, I have many more policy ideas regarding safety, community-building, sustainability and development that I cannot detail here. Please email me for a full list of my policy priorities. I welcome any questions, concerns or suggestions.

Despite genuine efforts and progress, the city and university have yet to completely collaborate, include all stakeholders and act upon the developed vision. It’s time to change that and adopt an approach that will help College Park fulfill its true potential.

Matthew Popkin is a graduate student in public policy and a candidate for City Council in District 3 for the Nov. 5 election. He can be reached at popkinforcitycouncil@gmail.com.

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‘Hump day’ commercials: Power of ads DAVE STROH Every year, billions of dollars are spent to create memorable advertisements and commercials.

Some use shock, others use factual statements, and still more use humor to sell a product or service to consumers.

While it may be a funny ad, the Geico “hump day” commercial is a great example of the power advertising has in our lives.

Since it first aired, the dumblooking camel commercial has been the source of many popular phrases and jokes. Not a Wednesday goes by that I don’t hear someone around the campus yell, “HUMP DAY, YEAH” or “WHOOP WHOOP.” But what does this popularity have to say about how advertising affects us?

It shows that even the most simple advertisement, if effectively executed, can become a huge part of everyday life. It’s not like this was a major motion

picture or prime-time sitcom; it’s a 30-second clip.

O n e o f t h e m os t i m p o r ta n t aspects of good advertising is the ability to stay in the minds of consumers. Being memorable is important — when consumers go to purchase a product, they will feel a connection to a product or company they have heard of before. Despite there being no connection between camels and insurance, any person who sees the commercial will associate the two in the future. Collegeage students may not be looking to buy insurance just yet, but you can be sure that in a few years when they are ready to buy insurance, those who remember the “hump day” commercial are more likely to seek out Geico.

While choosing one insurance provider over another may have limited repercussions in the long term, we as consumers should be aware of how these types of ads affect our decisions. Advertisements are all around us, and they affect the decisions we make every day. Consumers are probably more likely to purchase a product or service from

a well-known company even if it is not the best option for them. And it’s not just product purchases that advertisements impact.

Political advertisements shape the way voters perceive potential candidates and can sway people’s opinions on critical issues. Just with the use of clever rhetoric, voters can have their views changed on crucial topics without even realizing it. Misinformation is sometimes cleverly hidden within the rhetoric and wording of these types of advertisements. This misinformation can lead to uninformed voters making decisions they will regret in the future.

This Geico commercial is funny and entertaining; I laugh every time I see it. But despite the entertainment value, consumers should keep in mind the potential pitfalls from taking advertisements too seriously. Making sure to get objective opinions, instead of blindly trusting advertisements, is the only way to keep yourself from being swayed by clever marketing.

Dave Stroh is a senior English major. He can be reached at dstrohdbk@gmail.com.

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how the eight-year epic ends CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is wrapping up its run on TV this season; we give you one dedicated fan’s list of demands necessary for the show to end in the best way 2. Revisit another past love.

By Kelsey Hughes @kelsey_said Staff writer Well, this is it. The final season of How I Met Your Mother is upon us all. Next Monday — Sept. 23 — Ted’s story will finally reach its close (and Ted’s kids can finally take that bathroom break).

I will be recapping the final episodes on the blog at diamondbackonline.com, so to start it off this week, I thought I’d write my list of hopes and demands for season nine. (Coincidentally, I wrote this in Middletown, Conn., just off the campus of Wesleyan University, Ted, Marshall and Lily’s alma mater.) Here’s what I want:

One of the big things I’m hoping to see in this season is a lot of flashbacks within flashbacks and especially a lot of flashbacks that will trigger memories for longtime How I Met Your Mother fans. It’s the most fitting way to wrap up the show.

Along those lines, it would be a great plot twist and a link back to the earlier segments of the story if Ted runs into another one of his former flings.

Ideally it would be Stella, so Ted can get some final clarity on whatever unresolved issues he has from being left at the altar.

3. Tell it from the mother’s point of view.

I’ve supported this idea in previous episode recaps, but from the looks of season eight’s ending, this next season will be devoted to how the mother came to meet Ted. Although we now know who

she is, the story was left with enough loose ends (Marshall and Lily’s uncertainty about their careers, Robin and Barney potentially having second thoughts on their impending wedding) that an entire season devoted to that concept is not possible. However, that doesn’t mean there can’t be one or two episodes devoted to the mother’s story.

4. Farhampton better mean something.

Just like “Dowisetrepla,” the smelly place where Marshall and Lily rent an apartment (stands for DOwn WInd of the SEwage TREatment PLAnt), Farhampton better stand for something and it better be a major part of an episode (thus harkening back to the Dowisetrepla episode).

5. Pull out all the old jokes.

1. Please, no more Robin and Ted. This relationship has been done to death, stamped into the ground and then run over by a car. You would think after a bout of dating, some hookups and several deep talks, the two would be able to see that they clearly aren’t made for each other. I appreciate the value of revisiting past loves, and I know Robin and Ted’s closeness can and should cause complications, but the tango is old.

I’m talking Major Buzzkill, Barney’s “Get Psyched” mix CD, the cockamouse, Robin Sparkles, ducky tie, interventions, slap bets, all of it. Go out with one big nostalgia-laden, well-written bang.

I’m begging you, How I Met Your Mother, remind me why I loved you and make me sad to see you go. how i met your mother has followed the lives of Barney Stinson, Robin Scherbatsky, Ted Mosby, Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin for eight seasons. Though we now know who the mother is, the show still has plenty of loose ends to tie up. photo courtesy of stuffpoint.com

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cording to the university’s Conferences & Visitor Services, and it originally continued west to Anne Arundel Hall. Named after Theodore McKeldin, a former state governor, it stretches about 16.28 acres. The Point of Failure — the spot between LeFrak Hall and Shoemaker Hall that’s said to be bad luck if stepped on — was once the center of the We document some of the typical events that occur at the center of our campus campus before the university expanded and the mall was constructed.

On Wednesday, a cardboard swing, ing and everything in between, masked by

By Beena Raghavendran adorned with red tape and a smiley face, its trees and shadowy side paths. @thebeenster McKeldin Mall at noon is hot — it was swel- hung from the branches of a tree close to Senior staff writer tering on one of the warmest Wednesdays in the “stage” occupied on Fridays by improMcKeldin Mall in the morning is foggy September — yet people still clustered in the visational comedy group Erasable Inc. Not many noticed it — most were in front and peaceful, dew clinging to its grass. Ev- shadows, just out of the sun’s reach. of the library watching Thomas erything is quiet. The sun rises over the east It was 93 degrees. Humidity Oehler, a world champion trial side of the campus, opposite the Testudo clung to every side path and bicyclist, jump over people statue and the library, cresting over the corner; loungers scrambled while on his bike. for shade on the edges of administration building.

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huskies From PAGE 1 on the road, you definitely want the stadium to be quiet,” inside linebacker Cole Farrand said. “You want to hear a cup drop in the stands. It’s always a good feeling when the whole stadium’s quiet. You can talk with your buddies because you know everybody’s leaving.

They’re all shutting down, and it’s a good feeling when you see everybody leave.”

The win wasn’t a resounding thumping like the first two, but it gave the Terps the opportunity to face adversity on their way to the program’s first 3-0 start since 2001. The Terps failed on two fourthdown attempts in the first quarter, they turned the ball over three times and they were penalized a season-high four times for 54 yards.

Wide receiver Nigel King left the game during the Terps’ first drive with a left leg injury, and cornerback Dexter McDougle exited to the locker room in the third quarter with a right shoulder injury minutes after his gamechanging interception return for a touchdown. On Sunday, Edsall said McDougle’s shoul-

der would require surgery and that he’s out for the year, effectively ending the senior’s career. Still, the Terps held off the Huskies for the win.

“We needed a road win to get us right, get us right, get us ready going into Game 4,” wide receiver Stefon Diggs said. “It was just like we had to get this dub. We worked hard all week. We just came down here. It was a business trip. Had to handle business.”

While the Huskies defense, which had two weeks to prepare for the matchup, stymied the offense early, the Terps still managed to post 501 yards of total offense — their third straight game surpassing 500 yards — despite their occasional ineffectiveness. Offensive coordinator Mike Locksley mixed up his play-calling with runs, passes and different looks with the team’s zone-read.

Brown accounted for 399 yards of total offense — 277 passing and 122 rushing — while running back Brandon Ross ran for 95 yards on 18 carries. Diggs recorded his second straight 100-yard receiving game with five catches for 110 yards, though he had only one catch in the final 41-plus minutes of play.

Despite the gaudy numbers —

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between 2004 and 2012, the Terps managed 500 yards of offense only twice — there were still plenty of kinks for the Terps to work out. On their opening possession, they went for it on fourth and 1 from the UConn 43-yard line, but defensive end Angelo Pruitt stuffed Ross for a three-yard loss.

Two possessions later, Brown was picked off by cornerback Taylor Mack deep in UConn territory after his pass to the left flat went off Ross’ hands. On the Terps’ final possession of the first quarter, Brown was stuffed on another fourth and 1 deep in UConn territory.

Later in the game, running back Albert Reid would bobble an option pitch from Brown that UConn (0-2) recovered, and Ross would fumble when Mack hit the ball with his helmet while making a tackle.

“We got lucky today coming out with a win with the turnovers we did,” Brown said. “We were moving the ball and that was the big thing. We didn’t do anything too stupid, it was just fumble after fumble when we were about to go punch it in.”

The defense, though, bailed the Terps out. McDougle had two picks — in addition to his touchdown return, he made

quarterback c.j. brown passed for 277 yards and rushed for 122 more as the Terps gained 501 yards of offense. tim drummond/the diamondback a diving catch down the right sideline in the first quarter — while outside linebackers Marcus Whitfield and Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil had three and 2.5 sacks, respectively.

UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer would pass for a career-high 349 yards, but many of these, including a 75-yard touchdown pass to Shakim Phillips (10 catches, 178 yards, one touchdown)

came after the Terps built a 19-point lead. As a team, the Huskies rushed 34 times for only 25 yards.

In the days before the game, Edsall said there was no extra motivation heading back to East Hartford. Players said most of the motivation came from last year’s UConn win in College Park and wanting to be 3-0.

But for whatever reason, sitting in a tiny, white cin-

derblock-walled interview room deep in the stadium after the Terps passed their first test, Edsall seemed particularly satisfied.

“It’s good to come back and have another great memory here at Rentschler Field,” Edsall said. “But now, it’s on the Maryland sideline, which pleases me tremendously.”

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will come into play yet again.

“We all feel comfortable about each other, no matter who comes in, no matter who steps in, we know they’re going to get the job done and that’s what we do,” Likely said.

Though McDougle will not return to the field for the Terps, he will still be an active member of the team for the remainder of the season.

“We’ll support him any way that we can through this process,” Edsall said. “He’ll sit in on the meetings and continue to keep his mind sharp and learn more football. And the good thing is he only needs one more class to graduate and he’ll continue his classwork, and he’ll help us from a coaching standpoint and work with some of those younger guys.”

TERPS NOTE : Wide receiver Nigel King exited Saturday’s game during the Terps’ first drive with what Edsall called a left leg injury. King was on the sideline with crutches, but he will not need surgery and Edsall did not update his status further in a conference call Sunday.

From PAGE 8 the injuries that do happen, but we have got to have the next guy step up and get in there and play. That’s all we can do. In this game, you’re going to have injuries. You just hope you don’t have too many of them.”

Freshman Will Likely filled in for McDougle the rest of Saturday night’s contest and will start opposite Goins moving forward. When the Terps are forced to use multiple defensive backs on the field at the same time, like they will be this week against West Virginia’s spread offense, reserve cornerbacks Alvin Hill and Jarrett Ross will see increased roles.

“It’s kind of tough,” Likely said Saturday night. “I don’t know the results yet, but we’re still going to fight, we’re still going to practice. Next guy’s just got to step up.”

Edsall declined to say whether he would play second-string safety A.J. Hendy at cornerback, mentioning that the team has just begun game planning to face the Mountaineers on Saturday. Either way, the “next man up” philosophy that’s been significant during Edsall’s tenure in College Park

heels From PAGE 8 field with the ball.

Terps defender Suli Dainkeh failed to step up, giving Holness an open look at the goal on the breakaway. He finished with his left foot past goalkeeper Zack Steffen to give the Tar Heels (2-0-2, 0-0-2 ACC) a 2-1 lead.

Shortly after, defender Dakota Edwards — who started in 23 games as a freshman last season — replaced Dainkeh, seeing his first action of the season after being sidelined with an injury for the first four games. He would play the rest of the game. “[Dakota] brought some composure and some speed to the back and some experience,” Cirovski said. “He was very effective in the 60-plus minutes he played.”

Tshuma connected again in the 37th minute for the equalizing goal. After a touch from midfielder Tsubasa Endoh off a throw-in, the sophomore striker found space at the top of the box and finished a leftfooted strike past Tar Heels goalkeeper Brendan Moore.

“I felt like I was ready physically and mentally before the game,” Tshuma said. “And we’d been working a lot of different combina-

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tions and runs in practice.”

After a scoring frenzy in the first half, the second half quieted down, largely because of Edwards’ presence in the backline for the Terps (1-2-2, 1-0-1).

Midfielders Sunny Jane and Metzger both had long-range opportunities, while forward Patrick Mullins almost connected on a header off a Mikey Ambrose set piece.

A scoreless overtime ended the game in a tie.

“We’re giving up too many goals still,” said Cirovski, whose team has now surrendered 12 goals in five games — the earliest in the season the Terps have allowed that many in the past 10 years.

The Terps had opportunities to emerge victorious in Chapel Hill on Friday night. Untimely penalties and defensive lapses brought the Tar Heels right back into the game, despite a solid offensive performance from the Terps forwards and midfielders.

Still, the draw will finally give the Terps something positive to build on after a rough start to the season.

“We’re improving,” Cirovski said. “We’re a much better team now in the third week of the season than we were in the first week. We’re moving in the right direction.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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McDougle to miss season with shoulder injury Senior cornerback suffers injury in win over UConn, ending college playing career

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Late in the third quarter of the Terrapins football team’s 32-21 victory over Connecticut on Saturday, cornerback Dexter McDougle celebrated in the Rentschler Field end zone after his 49-yard interception return gave the Terps a two-touchdown lead.

Minutes later, he writhed on the ground at the UConn 37-yard line in pain with trainers working on his right shoulder after making a tackle.

Coach Randy Edsall announced Sunday that McDougle, a senior and three-year starter, will need season-ending surgery on that shoulder.

McDougle is not eligible for a medical redshirt, meaning his playing career at this university is over.

The Falmouth, Va., native already intercepted three passes this season — including two Saturday — and was one of six returning starters

on the Terps defense.

“Dexter was playing as good as he’s played since I’ve been here,” Edsall said on a conference call Sunday. “He’s been playing very, very well and it’s just sad that this happened. He may have had his best game on Saturday and the interceptions were huge for us.”

McDougle tackled UConn tight end Sean McQuillan in the right flat, leading with his right shoulder and taking McQuillan’s legs out from under him. He stayed down on the ground for an excruciating two minutes while trainers worked on his shoulder before walking off gingerly and heading for the locker room.

McDougle’s loss thins the depth of a secondary already missing the Terps’ other starting cornerback, Jeremiah Johnson, who’s out for another six to seven weeks with a fracture in a toe on his left foot. Isaac Goins has started in that spot.

“It’s part of the game,” Edsall said. “I sympathize with See mcdougle, Page 7

“Dexter was playing as good as he’s played since I’ve been here. He’s been playing very, very well and it’s just sad that this happened.”

RANDY EDSALL Terrapins football coach

CORnERBACK DEXTER MCDOUGLE suffered a season-ending shoulder injury tackling Connecticut tight end Sean McQuillan in the third quarter of the Terps’ 32-21 win. tim drummond/the diamondback

MEN’S SOCCER | TERPS 2, TAR HEELS 2

MIDFIELDER TSUBASA ENDOH battles with North Carolina forward Josh Rice in the Terps’ 2-2 tie with the Tar Heels on Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Terps scored first for the first time this year but had to come back from a 2-1 deficit. photo courtesy of spencer herlong/the daily tar heel

Terps score first, last in 2-2 draw at rival North Carolina Tshuma scores twice as Terps avoid consecutive losses

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer The Terrapins men’s soccer team came to a crossroads Friday night at No. 2 North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. A loss, and the squad’s downward spiral, which has included losses to Virginia Commonwealth and California in the first four games, would continue.

A win, and the No. 18 Terps would appear to return to top form by beating a top-tier opponent and in-conference rival.

The team got neither, battling to a 2-2 draw against the Tar Heels behind two goals from forward Schillo Tshuma, but

coach Sasho Cirovski knows it was a step in the right direction.

“At the end of the day, it was a satisfactory result,” Cirovski said. “But more importantly, we put together a good 90-minute performance.”

For the second time this season, the Terps scored the opening goal. Tshuma slotted his third goal of the season into the top corner in the 11th minute, finding the ball at his feet after a Dan Metzger shot was deflected.

It didn’t take long for the Tar Heels to respond, though.

Three minutes after Tshuma’s opening goal, Metzger committed a reckless foul in the left side of the box and Tar Heels midfielder Raby George

took care of the penalty kick to even the game at one.

It was the third penaltykick goal the Terps have surrendered through five games this season.

“That’s unacceptable,” Cirovski said. “We took a nice lead, we’re playing well and then we give up a penalty.

That’s something that we have to stop giving away. … It’s way too many.”

North Carolina’s Omar Holness broke through again seven minutes later for the Tar Heels. The freshman made several moves in his defensive half before making a 50-yard run down the center of the See heels, Page 7