September 17, 2014

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GOP senators bar Bank on Students bill Legislation would have allowed some students, graduates to refinance loans at lower interest

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer

byrd stadium is the site of a new challenge to net zero on landfill waste. josh loock/for the diamondback

Congress failed to pass a bill Tuesday to lower interest rates on existing student loans when Republican senators blocked the vote from taking place.

The Bank on Students Act, intro-

duced in June by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), would have passed with a majority had there been a vote, Warren said on the Senate floor, because it was supported by all 55 Democrats as well as three Republicans. But Senate procedure allows the minority party to object and block legislation from reaching a vote, which Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) did Tuesday.

“This is a classic example of the Republicans refusing to show any progress, let anything good happen on the Democrats’ ticket,” said this university’s College Democrats chapter spokesman Steven Palmer.

The bill would allow students and graduates with loans signed before July 1, 2013, to refinance to today’s low interest rates of less than 4 percent. This would allow more than 25 million Americans to refinance their student loans at an average savings of $2,000, according to a White House fact sheet.

“Students are hurting incredibly badly with debt and have ludicrous amounts,” Palmer said. “This is something that wouldn’t have solved it but would have done a good amount to help a lot of students and they refused to even vote on it, which is ridiculous.”

Monique Boyd, director of this university’s Office of Student Financial Aid wrote in an email the office is working to ensure students make smart financial decisions when taking out loans.

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Conference audience boost poses green issue Univ officials aim to turn all athletic venues to ‘zero-waste’ facilities

By Ryan Carbo @thedbk Staff writer With the move to the Big Ten attracting more people to sporting events, this university has had to accommodate an increase in waste.

As a part of the Drive to Zero Waste initiative, a joint effort of Intercollegiate Athletics, Facilities Management and Dining Services, university officials are making efforts to turn all athletic facilities on the campus into “zero-waste” facilities, diverting 90 percent of waste from landfills to composting and recycling stations, starting with Byrd Stadium.

“It’s a very ambitious project,” said Andrew Muir, Sustainability Office spokesman. “But I think it’s going to take some time in terms of not only educating people, but also dealing See drive, Page 2

Study: Modern families don’t have a norm

SARAH GOFF, a senior dietetics major involved in the upcoming food bank project to benefit low income faculty, staff and students, poses for a portrait in her commons apartment.

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hungry for more Food pantry to open in October for healthy hunger assistance for low income students, faculty

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Senior staff writer Food insecurity on college campuses is a hidden crisis that’s difficult to measure and little understood, but as the issue becomes more prevalent, universities, including this one, are working to alleviate the problem.

Dining Services and the University Health Center are collaborating with other campus departments and student volunteers to open a food

pantry in late October in Cole Field House that will distribute free prepacked bags of groceries to students, faculty and staff in need.

With the rising cost of college and the growing necessity for a higher education, more and more people at universities are struggling with tuition and costs of living, often leaving little money to budget for food — a more flexible expense than rent or a tuition bill, said Jane Jakubczak, coordinator of nutrition services at the Health Center.

It wasn’t until about five years ago that Jakubczak, who is a nutrition counselor for students,

began to hear complaints of hunger from a few of her clients. Since then about six students have expressed their concerns to her about food insecurity or their inability to afford healthy food, but Jakubczak suspects there are many more students and staff members suffering at this university.

“If six to eight are actually telling me that that’s a road block to eating healthy, there are probably 10 times more who aren’t sharing,” she said. “Students who are struggling with this may See food, Page 3

Nuclear family model no longer predominant

Officials, groups work to promote mental health help

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer

September is suicide prevention month

A university researcher has found, that when it comes to families, there is no such thing as normal.

About 50 years ago, the nuclear family was the norm, and nearly twothirds — 65 percent to be exact — of American households had a father who worked and a mother who did not. In 2012, that number fell to 22 percent, with families becoming more diverse in terms of both the marital and employment status of parents, said Philip Cohen, the university sociology professor who wrote the study.

“Most people know families have changed a lot,” Cohen said. “The idea is that diversity is the new normal.”

In his paper, published Sept. 4 by the Council on Contemporary Families, Cohen used statistical data from the 1960 U.S. Census and the 2012 American Community Survey to

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While September marks National Suicide Prevention Month, the importance behind these 30 days sticks with organizations at this university all year.

About 1,100 college students commit suicide each year, acc o rd i n g to A c t i v e M i n d s , a mental health advocacy organ ization. Forty-fou r percent of students nationally have reported feeling so depressed, “it was difficult to function,” according to Active Minds. About two-thirds of people who need help with depression don’t get it, and in 2008 about 18 percent of students had seriously contemplated suicide.

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Services and Suicide Prevention Program at this university to ask for suicide prevention training to learn warning signs and strategies for helping a suicidal person to recovery, said Jeri Boliek, the program’s coordinator. “ E ve r y b o dy h a s a d i f fe re nt reason for reach i ng out,” sa id Maureen Wimsatt, a graduate assistant in the University Health Center program. “It’s about creating a supportive presence.”

Training through the university helps people understand the basics of intervention, Wimsatt said. The Mental Health Service’s suicide prevention efforts on the campus include partnering with the Help Center as well as student-run organizations such as this university’s branch of Active Minds to raise awareness and advertise events.

“We’re always looking for ways to get the word out — to let students know that resources are out there,” Boliek said. “Getting them steps to seek help is our mission.”

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Triage Services and Suicide Prevention Program coordinator Boliek said the Mental Health Service is trying to see if it can purchase space on TerpLife, this university’s student affairs app so students can easily download important suicide prevention and contact information during crises.

T h is way, the u n iversity ca n reach out to more people while “thinking like a young person,” Boliek said.

“It’s so hard to tell if we are doing well,” Boliek said. Last academic year, “We were fortunate to not have any [suicides], although the year before that, we weren’t so lucky.”

And depression is highly treatable, Boliek said, but students often don’t

know how to reach out for help.

“Depression isn’t a choice — it’s not because you have a bad attitude; it’s a physical illness,” Boliek said. “It’s important to understand that it’s not your fault, and it’s OK to get help.”

But Boliek said she has noticed more people who are seeking help over the years, and more students willing to talk about it.

To reduce the stigma around mental illness, Active Minds at UMD’s mission is to open conversations at its meetings and events, said Ashli Haggard, the group’s public relations chairwoman.

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Students develop photo-puzzle app for Android, Apple devices Puzzable allows users to send pictures in jigsaw form to friends

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer Zach Matz said that when Ghedalia Gold-Pastor visited his apartment and became his roommate in the same day, it was both fate and a leap of faith. Taking leaps of faith would prove a defining factor in their relationship and pursuit of entrepreneurial success.

Gold-Pastor, a junior mechanical engineering major, and Matz, a senior kinesiology major, joined forces in April 2013 to create Puzzable, an app that lets users take a picture, add a caption and send it to friends in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. “ [ P u z z a b l e i s] a g r e a t concept,” said Adam VanWa g ne r, t he c om mu n it y and venture programs coordinator at this university’s

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. “It combines two very popular segments of competitive gaming apps. … People are competing with each other, and then there’s the social aspect of everyone wanting to share their pictures with everybody.”

T he app beca me ava i lable for Android and iOS on Aug. 23 and Sept. 2, respectively. Puzzable is free on all devices, and as of Monday, it had about 1,200 downloads, Gold-Pastor said.

Developing the app took about a year and a half and incurred a $40,000 investment, wh ich Gold-Pastor a nd M atz ra ised t h roug h fa m i ly contributions a nd their own life savings, Matz said. The bulk of the money went towa rd outsou rci ng part of the app’s development to a company in India, he said, while other funds

financed campaigning and marketing tools.

“We put our hearts and souls into making it,” Matz said. “It’s a full-time job.”

The two also used on-campus resources to help make their product a success.

Va nWa g ner sa id G oldPastor and Matz took full advantage of Fearless Founders, the Dingman Center’s three-stage program that uses lean startup methodology to help students build their businesses from the ground up. This method is a new approach for startups that favors consistent experimentation and consumer feedback to improve the product, rather than relying solely on company intuition and up-front development.

G ol d-Pa s to r a n d M at z d id most of t hei r project development through this program, including creat-

ing their company, 417 App Stud ios L LC, i nteracti ng w it h c u s tom e rs, get t i n g fe edback, sp e a k i n g w it h m e ntors a n d d e ve lopi n g their “minimum viable product,” Puzzable, VanWagner said.

“The University of Maryla nd has been fa ntastic,” Gold-Pastor said. “They’ve b e en able to con ne ct me with other people who have successful apps, and are a couple years ahead of me … so I’ve been able to get some nice mentorship.”

University programs like the Do Good Challenge — an eight-week competition that encourages students to create projects that will have a positive impact on others — also influenced the app’s growth, Matz said.

T he Do Good Challenge spurred the idea of inviting nonprofit organizations to provide pictures for the app by sponsoring “puzzle packs,” Matz said. Sponsors would provide puzzle packs to Puzzable in exchange for either revenue shares when packs are sold, or advertising space, such as factoids along

Pride Alliance redirects focus drive for new year: more meetings President Madeleine Moore, co-coordinator Rachel Twombly hope to encourage discussion, activism that has been lacking

By Sarah Dean @sarahdeanjourn Staff writer Pride Alliance said it is hoping to emphasize activism more this semester, bringing back a focus the LBGTQ organization has been lacking for years — general body meetings.

President Madeleine Moore said the organization’s weekly meetings have generally been the executive board members discussing fundraisers and events logistics, working to turn Pride Alliance into an “event-based organization.”

To change this, the senior public health major said there will be a general body meeting every other week so all members can discuss issues and current events relevant to the campus, with a focus on activism.

“We’re just bringing back the d iscussion, activ ism, current events and fun stuff that had been missing for a couple years,” Moore said.

Pride Alliance coordinates five weekly student discussion groups, each attracting different members of the LGBTQ community. Bisexuals at Maryland, TransU, Women to Women and Bro to Bro, which is currently undergoing a name change, all have weekly meetings held in the LGBT Equity Center. There is also Safe Space, which is cocoordinated with the LGBT Equity Center and held in Marie Mount Hall.

P r id e A l l i a nc e’s s m a l l groups are more for discussing personal issues and creating a sense of community, said sophomore psychology major Rachel Twombly.

Twombly, one of the small group co-coordinators for Pride Alliance, said she hopes

students From PAGE 1 “We should focus on the financial landscape to improve the outlook for future generations,” she wrote. “We need to do what we can to provide opportunities for students to save so they may create personal wealth now and in the future.”

Student loan debt brought in an estimated $66 billion in interest revenue to the government between 2007 and 2012, according to a Government Accountability Office report released in January.

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these meetings will allow students to have a greater voice about issues on the campus.

The Pride Alliance board is going to try to resolve any issues students bring up at the meetings by working with other departments on the campus, Twombly said.

“When [students] talk at these meetings, they’ll feel like something is going to happen about the things that they are having issues with, because we’re going to really try hard to fix them,” she said.

During meetings, a facilitator leads the students in an issuebased discussion, depending on what the students want to talk about, said sophomore economics major Camille Veselka, who co-coordinates the small groups with Twombly.

“This is a huge campus; you can easily get lost, feel like you’re alone, and it’s hard to make friends,” Twombly said.

“A lot of people go to these groups, and they vent all the things that they’ve had going on in their life, and it really helps them. … I think a lot of people need this sense of community to be happy here on campus.”

Veselka said the groups also help LGBTQ students who might not have support systems at home, and some students have only come out rega rd i ng thei r sex ua lity within the groups.

“We would hope that people would feel comfortable going there who aren’t exactly comfortable revealing themselves to the world,” Veselka said.

Sophomore history major William Soergel said attending Bisexuals at Maryland meetings this past year helped him come out to his parents and deal with an unsupportive

the bill because it replaced the lost revenue from student lo a n i nte re s t b y re q u i ring those earning between $1 and $2 million to pay a minimum 30 percent income tax. Cornyn also said on the floor that Republicans believe creating more jobs for young people is the way to solve the student debt problem.

“This continued disregard for youth issues underlines the simple fact that the GOP is out of touch with America’s young people,” read a statement from College Democrats of America President Natasha McKenzie, a student at Trinity University.

“WHEN [STUDENTS] TALK AT THESE MEETINGS, THEY’LL FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH … ” RACHEL TWOMBLY

Sophomore psychology major roommate. This year, Soergel leads the discussions as a facilitator of Bisexuals at Maryland, held in the LGBT Equity Center on Thursdays.

As the new coordinators, Veselka and Twombly are working to make the groups more welcoming to all members of the LGBTQ community and its allies. Small group attendees do not have to fall under the category the title indicates.

“Ever yone t h i n k s t h at Woman to Woman is just for lesbians and Bro to Bro is just for gay men, and we want to make it be able to apply to anyone in the queer community,” Veselka said.

Pride Alliance is also working on bringing back a small group that’s been gone for a few years: True Colors of Maryland, for LGBTQ people of color.

Veselka said the main goal of these groups is to build a stronger community. Pride Alliance meetings will be held in the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy’s conference room in Stamp Student Union at 6 p.m. on Fridays.

“A lot of our friends, some of their parents aren’t the most supportive,” Veselka said, “but I feel like they’ve created a family for themselves here.” sdeandbk@gmail.com

The bill was first brought to the floor in June, when it was then blocked by the Republican minority. Democrats spent the summer trying to garner support for the bill and it was reintroduced last week. Warren received 491,743 signatures on an online petition to pass the bill.

“This isn’t over, and Democrats will continue the fight to ensure that every American has access to a quality, affordable education,” said Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in a statement Tuesday. jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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with the larger crowds that they’re going to be getting.”

T he initiative, which w i l l add new wastesorting stations in athletic facilities, received a $40,000 grant from this university’s Sustainability Fu nd. T he stations will reduce the amount of materials going to landfills and provide the compactors needed to handle the compost, said Student Government Association susta i nabi l ity d i rector Ori Gutin.

The junior environmental science and policy major said a key component of the initiative is a plan to educate students about composting and recycling at all sporting events.

“On campus, we’re doing a lot of great things, and I think students and faculty are definitely aware of … what sustainability is and how they can lead a sustainable lifestyle, but there’s always room for improvement,” Gutin said. “Especially with composting, it’s something that people are still kind of figuring out.”

The project has already

Ghedalia Gold-Pastor, junior mechanical engineering major, demonstrates his app, Puzzable, which he and fellow student Zach Matz created together. rachel george/the diamondback with pictures, to promote their causes. “ I t w a s [t h e D o G o o d Challenge] that inspired us to reach beyond the gaming s p e c t r u m o f P u z z a b l e ’s f u nc t ion a l it y a nd re a l ly apply it to help others and to help good causes,” Matz said.

Fearless Founders and the Do G oo d Ch a l len ge each gave Gold-Pastor and Matz $1 ,0 0 0 i n awa rd m o n e y.

This money will go toward developing the app to make it more marketable, GoldPastor said.

i mplemented some of its prom i s e d goa l s, s u c h a s making use of compost and recycling bins with prominent signage explaining what goes in each bin, said Joshua Kaplan, associate athletic director for facilities, operations and events.

Kaplan said the university also plans to replace all condiment packets at concession stands. Condiment dispensers, such as the ones provided in the dining halls on the campus, create the most landfill waste, said Allison Lilly, sustainability and wellness coordinator for Dining Services.

“This is a great endeavor that we’re literally in the infancy of — we’re just starti ng,” K apla n sa id. “Even t ho u g h we i mple m e nte d everything that we said we would implement, and all our action plans are underway, our goals are not achieved, and we know it won’t be achieved overnight.”

Season ticket sales are up 25 percent this year, and this university’s average attendance during the first two home games was 46,620, a 25 percent increase from to the 37,380 average from last season, Kaplan wrote in an email.

K apla n sa id that even t houg h reduci ng la nd f i l l materials and diverting com-

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Average attendance during home football games in 2013 postable and recyclable items is important, waste can’t be reduced without cooperation from those attending the games: students, staff and fans. Staff members will be at the waste-sorting stations to explain where items go, he said.

The initiative also held a Byrd Stadium waste audit on Sunday to measure landfill waste, as well as the amount of recyclables and compostable materials that would have been sent to landfills, said Bill Guididas, Facilities Management recycling coordinator.

Without the audit results, which have yet to be released, those collaborating on the project will not be able to move forward, Guididas said.

“They’re taking some good steps this year,” Muir said.

“But I think there’s definitely going to be room to expand.” rcarbodbk@gmail.com

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are working. Cohen analyzed census data and found that many more women held a bachelor’s degree and were employed in 2012 than 50 years ago.

“T h at’s a big ch a nge,” Cohen said. “It’s a change for women because they are getting more opportunities for employment, and it’s also a change for families because ch i ld ren a re g row i n g up without the unpaid work of a mother who is always there.”

The implications for these changes, both in individual roles and family structures, are wide-ranging, said Liana Sayer, a sociology professor who was not involved in this study.

Comparing data from the census since 1880, Cohen’s study also showed an increase

of non m a r r ied i nd iv iduals and a decline of married couples, especially in the latter decades of the 20th century. Fewer people are getting married, so there is now the question of who will care for single people as they get older, Sayer said.

The data show many women can and do support themselves without the help of a man, and the prejudice against singlemotherhood is decreasing, Sayer said. However, other problems still exist for women and for mothers.

“The wage disparities that exist between mothers and nonmothers are actually now greater than the disparities between men and women,” Sayer said. “This appears to be related to the cultural

belief that mothers prioritize their family and would not devote themselves 100 percent to a job. And they experience a very negative penalty because of that.”

The study also shows how single fathers are also experiencing a changing role in society, as more men do not live with their families or do not support their families alone, said Kevin Roy, a family science professor.

“The biggest thing underpinning this is income inequality,” Roy said. “A lot of it is a story of men’s changing involvement with the family.

Low-income guys married in the 1960s could still live with their family and be an influence in family life, but now that is not always the case. You can no

longer really be a low-income man and support a family.”

Because many jobs have been outsou rced to other countries, as well as the fact that many men do not have high school degrees and men face higher rates of incarceration, men find it more difficult to support a family now than in the past, Roy said.

“People might look at this [study] and think the family is in crisis,” Roy said, noting how it does mean fewer people are getting married and fewer children are growing up in homogeneous situations, but that this is not a bad thing. “My concern is that there aren’t enough hands providing for kids.”

The study demonstrates that there is a move away from normative family structure,

Roy said. In reality, however, families are probably even more diverse than the census can record, with informal living arrangements and extended families, he added.

“T he d iversity a ng le is important because we can’t assume uniform family background,” Cohen said. “Young people already sort of understand this, but older people sometimes don’t and that’s a problem because a lot of our politicians are older men who were born in the ’50s, and when they’re making decisions for the government, they can’t assume that married people are the statistical norm, nor are they the automatic goal we should all be striving for.”

working to create a survey tool to measure the issue at this university based on two From PAGE 1 published reports of similar rebe self-conscious about it, it’s search done at the University of really similar to other things Hawaii at Manoa and Western that have a stigma associated Oregon University. Both universities found significant rates with it.”

Food insecurity in univer- of food insecurity among the sity populations is difficult to students surveyed: 21 percent measure and there are little at the University of Hawaii data available, said Devon at Manoa and 59 percent at Payne-Sturges, a public health Western Oregon University.

Payne-Sturges said she professor. Payne-Sturges is

plans to conduct a similar survey before the end of the semester that will most likely be distributed by email and will measure food insecurity among both graduates and undergraduates as well as staff. It will also work to evaluate the effectiveness of the food pantry and help it better serve the university community, she said.

The food pantry’s model will follow in the footsteps of other university pantries that

collaborate on the College and University Food Bank Alliance website, cufba.org.

CUFBA was co-founded by the Michigan State University Student Food Bank, the first student-run food bank in the U.S., which opened in 1993.

The MSU Student Food Bank, which operates entirely on donations, mostly financial, holds distribution hours every other Wednesday and serves about 4,000 students per year, said

Nate Smith, director of the food bank and doctoral student in the college of education at Michigan State. About 60 percent of the students who use the food bank are graduate students and about 50 percent are international students, he said.

“There’s a couple of factors that play into it,” he said.

“There’s still structural issues in the economy for people who are in the working class and struggling to make ends meet; it just costs more now to go to a post-secondary institution.”

This university’s food bank will operate out of a Dining Services concession stand in Cole Field House and will begin distributing on Oct. 22.

Regular distributions will be held one day every other week alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays, said Allison Lilly, sustainability and wellness coordinator for Dining Services.

Dining Services and the Food and Nutrition Club plan to begin collecting donations of nonperishable food items and reusable bags after the First Look Fair and will place donation bins at key locations around the campus, such as in the convenience stores and Stamp Student Union, she said.

The Department of Transportation Services will host a massive food drive for the food pantry over homecoming weekend, she added.

Once the food pantry is launched, student volunteers will pack reusable bags with groceries based on the needs of the recipient and how many dependents he or she has, keeping in mind to include a variety of nutritious food that covers the main food groups. She said she hopes that the pantry will one day be able to collaborate with the university farmers market and the campus community gardens to include fresh produce in its distributions.

One of the factors that largely affects students’ food

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From PAGE 1 compare family structure in both years. Cohen found that families with single fathers, never-married mothers and a parent cohabiting with a nonspouse — each representing 1 percent or fewer families in 1960 — respectively made up 3 percent, 11 percent and 7 percent of families in 2012.

The familial structure of two married and working pa rents represented 3 4 percent of families in 2012, according to the study.

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security at this university in particular is the lack of accessibility to affordable food, said Sarah Goff, senior dietetics major and president of the Food and Nutrition Club. Goff researched access to grocery stores from the campus for an English paper and learned that, without a car, getting to a supermarket in the area can be costly and a significant time commitment. The only stores available within walking distance are convenience stores, which often have smaller and pricier selections, she said.

“Every time you have to pay for something [like transportation], it’s taking out of your food budget,” Goff said.

For now, the collaborators of the food pantry only have statewide data to refer to, and can’t predict how many people at this university will come, Lilly said.

In 2012, 16.2 percent of people in this state reported not being able to afford enough food for themselves or their families, according to the Food Research and Action Center’s food hardship reports. Participation in the SNAP food stamp program in this state increased by 118 percent between 2007 and 2012, according to FRAC. “The question is how big is this problem on the campus, and how many people will be needing the service of this campus food pantry,” PayneSturges said. “It’s terrible to think about someone having to make a choice between ‘I need to buy that textbook’ and eating.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

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erby. Even going straight to the point and asking someone about suicide can help open the conversation, she said.

“It actually gives them a place to openly talk about it, and it can be the most helpful thing,” Haggard said.

“Showing you care enough to listen can make all the difference for them.”

Haggard said she would tell suicidal strangers that people in their lives care about them, even if the good things are hard for them to see.

“When there’s something nice to say to someone, I try to share it,” Haggard said. “I try to smile at everyone who passes me — because you never know how a simple act of kindness could impact their day.”

“We share our own stories about reaching out with each other, and we try to convey that not everyone has mental i l l ness, but everyone has mental health,” said the senior community health major. “By showing people that their peers also deal with stress, loneliness, depression and anxiety, we hope to also show them they aren’t alone in their feelings.”

Haggard said there’s a misconception around who is qualified to prevent someone from committing suicide.

Everyone has the ability to help, she said, even by doing simple things such as asking someone how he or she has been or complimenting a pass- rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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The influential impact of fandoms A year later, still not enough STAFF EDITORIAL

ultra-fans’ behavior to their own obsessions. Most of us can think of at least one thing in our lives that causes such zeal and enthusiasm to spill out of us. It might not be a television show or book series, but rather your future career or your social life.

Just because you focus your time and effort on climbing the corporate ladder instead of Comic-Con doesn’t allow you to make a judgment that one is a better use of time than the other. Each has its own merits and disadvantages that could support an argument for or against it. Perhaps instead of drawing distinctions between ourselves and fangirls and fanboys, we should try focusing on what we have in common: genuine passion.

Passion, I think, is at the very heart of a fandom. You might believe this effort and enthusiasm toward teen idols and pop culture phenomena is misdirected, and you might be right.

But it also shows the depth of dedication and excitement of which today’s youth are capable.

It is refreshing to see so many people unapologetically being themselves. Enthusiasts happily share their potentially unusual interests with no reservation or thought of the stereotypes with which other people might associate them. Say what you will, but fandoms attract and support independent thinkers who are accustomed to the potential isolation of the road less traveled.

For a generation that is often described as apathetic, I offer this as evidence to the contrary. The future relies on the actions of a passionate few, and our fandom dedication shows that we have passion in spades.

DANIELLE WILKIN

As young adults navigating through our formative years, we are constantly challenged to find people with whom we can forge a genuine connection. For some, camaraderie is found in family, roommates or that kid you sit next to in your statistics discussion. Others seek less traditional means, and so enters the fandom.

The term “fandom” describes a community of people who bond over a common interest. That interest can be a movie, game, character, band, anything.

You name it, and there is probably an extraordinarily intense group of devotees who have formed a community based on their shared enthusiasm for it.

Each case of fandomania presents itself differently, depending on the individual and his or her area of interest. Symptoms range from occasional indulgences or casual fondness to total immersion into the lifestyle of a fictional character. The fans themselves are as unique as the subculture they so proudly represent.

Speculation about what drives these obsessions is endless: the search for community, craving an acceptable forum for more unusual interests, the expression of deep and unrelenting love, a distraction from a less pleasant reality — take your pick. It’s different for everyone.

From the outside looking in, there are a lot of questions. People don’t know whether they should react with hesitant support, genuine curiosity or complete confusion. But a lack of understanding is no excuse for judgment or condemnation.

Outsiders might look at a fandom Danielle Wilkin is a senior biology and with uncertainty and even distaste, but science education major. She can be they rarely take the time to compare reached at dwilkindbk@gmail.com.

Why discussion on gun control still matters

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n May 16, 2013, just five months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and four months after the Firearm Safety Act was introduced in the state Senate, Gov. Martin O’Malley signed this state’s gun reform bill into law.

It was an impressively swift feat of legislative wrangling and one of the broadest gun-control laws implemented throughout the nation in the wake of the December shooting.

It banned 45 types of guns newly designated as assault weapons, limited gun magazines to 10 bullets (down from 20), forced gun buyers to submit fingerprints to state police, and attempted to reduce access to guns for those with mental illnesses and histories of violent behavior. O’Malley allocated $4.6 million in a supplemental budget to carry out and enforce the new measures.

It was the most far-reaching gun legislation in this state since 2000.

But our law wasn’t enough.

On Sept. 16, 2013, 34-year-old contractor Aaron Alexis entered Building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard, assembled his sawedoff Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and opened fire, ultimately killing 12 before committing suicide.

Alexis had been cited for misconduct eight times before being honorably discharged from the

Navy, in which he had served for three-and-a-half years in a fleet logistics support squadron. He had been arrested on two occasions for incidents involving firearms: In 2010, for discharging a weapon while in Fort Worth, Texas, and in 2004, for shooting out another man’s car tires.

OUR VIEW

One year after the Navy Yard shootings, gun law reform should still be at the top of this state’s legislative agenda.

He had also purchased his weapon, a Remington 870 Express Tactical 12-gauge — a variant of the bestselling shotgun in history — legally from a small-arms dealer in Virginia two days before the shootings, successfully passing state and federal background checks in the process.

Alexis’ Remington — along with the Mossberg 500 shotgun (second in sales only to the 870) used in January’s shootings at the Mall in Columbia — is eligible for purchase in this state, provided buyers can pass the background checks.

It’s a tellingly common narrative: In three decades’ worth of mass shootings from 1982 to 2012, fewer than one-quarter of the 143 guns held by the perpetrators were obtained illegally, according to a

Mother Jones report in May. Yes, more than half of the killers possessed weapons now outlawed under the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, either for their high-capacity magazines or their designation as assault weapons.

But of those 143 weapons, 95 still are legally available today. Most are nonassault rifles, shotguns and pistols — weapons more than sufficient for carrying out copious violence, as the Navy Yard shootings and dozens of others have shown.

As we’ve seen time and again, it’s not so much a question of whether these acts of widespread violence will occur, but when — a sentiment that hasn’t abated in the year since enacting wide-ranging federal and state gun law reforms.

July marked the anniversary of Aurora, Colorado; this month, it’s the Navy Yard; in three, it’ll be Newtown, Connecticut — three of the countless tragedies we’ve come to collectively view as yearly mile markers, testaments to the seeming inevitability of shooting massacres.

This state’s General Assembly has hardly been sitting on its lapels in the wake of the Firearm Safety Act, but legislators need to recognize that the problems posed by gun violence have hardly been eradicated, if even significantly mitigated.

As the ever-evolving gun control debate continues to warp further, this state needs to continue to lead the national charge on reform.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Laura Blasey, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant news editor and news editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, managing editor, is a junior journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor and diversions writer.

MaGGIE CASSIDY, opinion editor, is a junior English major.

She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

CAROLINE CARLSON, opinion editor, is a senior government and politics and information systems major. She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

GUEST COLUMN

A parent’s view on privilege

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write a check for thousands of dollars each semester for my kid to get educated at this university.

Hence, I’m quite interested in what I’m getting for the payment. I offer this comment with respect.

Last week, my son was assigned a paper. The professor said (paraphrased), “If you are white, describe how you have received privilege in life. If you are a person of color, describe how white privilege might have harmed and hampered you.” I think this is not education. It’s political indoctrination — indoctrination into a toxic ideology.

Our students should understand that this is normative for American universities today, where, for the most part, the values of Americanism have been replaced by those of Marxist leftism. Our trinity of liberty, “E Pluribus Unum” and “In God We Trust” has been replaced by the destructive ideology of race, class and gender. The assignment reflected this.

A teacher with American values would have said, “Each American student is a beautiful, free, complex individual possessing a huge mix of God-given privileges and weaknesses — skin color being a parameter of no importance at all.

“Skin color, or whom you like to have sex with, or where your grandparents emigrated from or how much money your parent has acquired honestly has about as much importance in American life as one’s shoe size.”

Our true American privilege, among many others, would be very different from that described by those who hold leftist values.

It is more on the order of: having the great privilege of living in a country founded for adults, where we are not to be treated like children by a massive government — a government taking huge amounts of our wealth and power and caring for us from cradle to grave.

It’s the privilege of being born in the greatest country that has existed in human history, having great freedom; having, hopefully, a married mom and dad who are good parents; having the good fate to be raised with good character and morals; having the opportunity to bond with a good religion and an understanding of the values from the Bible; having the privilege of learning in detail the values of limited constrained government in our great Constitution, and the privilege of being able to learn about the moral greatness of capitalism.

These are not the privileges my son was directed. He was directed to leftism and its regressive, crude, un-American values that say we should worry about how many molecules of melanin are in each of our skin cells. My kid has no privilege based on such molecules.

Av r u m H i rsc h i s a p hy s i c i a n and parent of a student at this university. He can be reached at hsachs@starpower.net.

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Under custody? Then zip it!

Blabbering will hurt you, but shutting it won’t

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ost of us are quite familiar with Miranda rights, having learned about them in school and heard cops recite them on TV. The Miranda warning is given to prevent suspects from incriminating themselves and to remind them of their right to an attorney, as well as of the danger that a suspect’s statements can be used against him or her.

At first glance, some of us might think that only the guilty need the warning; after all, they have something to hide, and you, an innocent, do not. Unfortunately, you’re sorely mistaken if you think talking to police or federal agents will get you out of trouble. The reason is simple: If you are under arrest, that means you are suspected of being a criminal and those who arrested you assume you’re guilty — you’re the bad guy.

You could accidentally, out of fear, tell the officers an untrue statement, which would be bad for you later on, as contradic-

tions and lies will “prove” that you did it. (By the way, lying to police is a crime, another charge for the prosecutor to throw at you.) Worse yet, you might pretend to be smarter than your interrogators and try to outsmart or frustrate them by blabbering. Remember, anything, and that means anything, can and will be used against you, whether it is an outright confession or an apparently innocuous statement.

To further illustrate my point, Robert Jackson, who served as attorney general and a Supreme Court justice, claimed in 1949 that “any lawyer worth his salt will tell [a] suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.”

His statement was a response to a court case in which the defendant was convicted of murder after confessing to the crime under duress.

So egregious were the circumstances under which the confession was made that the Supreme Court reversed his conviction. Since then, we have developed oversight over

police interrogations, but the police will gladly intimidate you with prosecution and manipulate you with all sorts of tricks. But once you’ve made it unambiguously clear that you will remain silent, the mind games and intimidation will stop and you’ll hold an advantage over the officers.

The right to remain silent and to have legal counsel is one of the very few tools we citizens have at our disposal to keep cops in check. Acting like the good guy when in custody won’t get you anywhere because your interrogators probably know much more about manipulation than you do.

You might think that you’re as innocent as it gets, but those who arrest you clearly think otherwise.

Refusing to destroy your own defense is not an admission of guilt, and the prosecution cannot present it as such, so zip it, get a lawyer and flex your rights!

Gonzalo Molinolo is a junior history major. He can be reached at gmolinolodbk@gmail.com.

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Leonardo DiCaprio is a new United Nations Messenger of Peace on climate change to garner attention to conservation, after funneling tons of cash to the cause. Go get ‘em, Leo.

LASTING IMPACT | GILMORE GIRLS

the golden girls Gilmore Girls is coming to Netflix, to the excitement of many who grew up in the 2000s — including a pair of roommates

By Talia Richman and Ellie Silverman @talirichman, @esilverman11 Senior staff writers As we lugged huge yellow bins into room 7110 of Cumberland Hall on freshman year move-in day, one of us would periodically yell, “Copper boom!” before running down to the parking lot to grab the next load. Our parents were understandably confused, but we just shrugged: It’s a Gilmore Girls thing.

And although we didn’t move a mattress into and out of the dorm — and then back into the dorm again, as it happened on the show — the 7110 plaque above the door became our white, slightly rusted mailbox with the word “Gilmore” etched into its side. We were — and still are — “Team 7110,” just as Lorelai and Rory will always be the “Gilmore Girls.”

Trying to find a roommate on Facebook to avoid the daunting mystery of random selection is a bit like platonic online dating. But when our mutual love of Gilmore Girls came up in a slightly awkward first Facebook chat, we both swiped right. Loving Gilmore Girls means more than having similar tastes in television — it’s not a show,

gilmore girls comes to Netflix on Oct. 1, and many who grew up with the show are rejoicing. it’s a lifestyle.

With the series coming to Netflix on Oct.1, even more people will be able to experience the supreme joy we (and other millennials) have felt growing up with these characters from 2000 to 2007. And even more people will start talking at the mile-a-minute rate that’s an unavoidable side effect of a Gilmore Girls obsession.

It means we were OK spending some Saturday nights watching movies together instead of facing the sweaty masses in a frat house basement. Rory showed us there’s no right way to do college or have fun — she was the one who watched Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth while on spring break in Florida, right?

It means we weren’t surprised when we discovered we both owned the complete collection of Jane Austen’s

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work and were more content to spend the day in the magical world of books than almost anywhere else. Rory’s extensive reading list became ours, too.

It means we were fine with our fridge remaining nearly empty most weeks. Sure, it sometimes houses the occasional Chinese to-go box, but the only permanent resident is our coffee creamer. Lorelai showed us that’s all you really need for a balanced diet.

And although we have yet to turn a mundane article about the repaving of a new parking lot into a “bittersweet piece on how everybody and everything eventually becomes obsolete,” we try to channel Rory’s desire to tell stories that matter as two aspiring journalists. Going out for The Diamondback together was an inevitable choice for two girls who grew up watching Rory find her

voice at the Yale Daily News. When Rory first explained why she wanted to study journalism in the second episode of the series, our 13-yearold selves heard our jumbled dreams translated into a profession.

“Travel, see the world up close,” Rory told her headmaster when he asked what her aspirations were.

“Report on what’s really going on, be a part of something big.”

On top of leading us to our career path and teaching us that the plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac, the show also displayed girl power. Lorelai exemplifies it as a witty and resilient woman raising her daughter alone after getting pregnant at 16. She started out as a maid and ended up opening her own inn. She saw men naming sons after themselves, so she did the same with her daughter. She found a man

she loved, so she proposed.

She was independent and hardworking, and she made all her dreams a reality while rocking heels. With Lorelai as her example, of course Rory was confident enough to choose to follow Barack Obama on the campaign trail over a marriage proposal.

Seven seasons later, we unknowingly had became feminists.

And while this show taught us many lessons, the main one is about friendship. Yes, Lorelai is Rory’s mother, but the relationship transcends the normal mother/daughter bond. They are best friends. Through example, they show viewers how to be there for another person — just listen to the theme song: “I will follow where you lead.”

As we continue our pace of rewatching one season per semester, we can’t wait for more people to gain access to the whimsical world of Stars Hollow and fall in love with the characters we now call family. Each time the chords of the theme song fill our tiny dorm room, we’re reminded of how lucky we are to have the Gilmore Girls as our role models. newsumdbk@gmail.com

REVIEW | PILOT: RED BAND SOCIETY

THE FAULT(s) IN THIS TV SHOW After this summer’s film The Fault in Our Stars, a show about teens with illnesses is coming to Fox, and it’s horribly wrong

By Michael Errigo @DBKDiversions Staff writer In 2011, Octavia Spencer won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in recognition for her powerful performance in The Help. Now, only three years later, Spencer is the lead character in the pilot of Fox’s Red Band Society, which premieres at 9 p.m.

I’m not sure if the second fact cancels out the first, but it certainly tries its best.

Spencer called the first episode of Fox’s new dramedy about a group of teenagers in a hospital “the best pilot script that I had read,” a statement that makes me question her sanity and ability to read. It’s the kind of show that makes you angry at how bad it is — that makes you wonder how many people read the script or saw the episode and approved it.

The whole pilot seems to be written by people who have neither been to a hospital nor had a conversation with anyone under the age of 40. It sounds as if they filled out a “crappy television show” Mad Libs with the top 10 Urban Dictionary word searches of 2012. “YOLO,” “cray-cray” and “awesomesauce” are all used in actual

conversation. Those kids and their slang these days!

The show gives off the insulting and completely misguided belief that its creators know not only how the younger generation acts, but also what it likes. One can’t help but think that if the executives at Fox actually bothered to show this script to one living, breathing teenager, this fiasco could have been avoided.

In the extremely rare instance that something not-terrible happens, from a nice camera shot to the right song choice, it just feels like a waste.

And that’s not to mention the actors involved. Besides Spencer and executive producer Steven Spielberg (yes, that Spielberg), names too big to be tarnished forever, the cast has a “dead man walking” air about them (their careers, not their characters).

It doesn’t help that most of them recite lines like a kid in speech class.

More plot details are necessary. The pilot focuses on Spencer’s character, Nurse Jackson, and the young patients on her floor. There’s Leo, the kid with cancer who is totally cool and witty.

There’s also his best friend Dash, who is black and wears urban clothes and tries to seduce the nurses. He tries to pull the old “I don’t want to die a virgin” line on a new one mid-sponge

red band society is perhaps the worst new show on TV this fall and pokes fun at sickness. photo courtesy of fox.com bath and (spoiler) it doesn’t go as well as you might think.

There’s also Kara, a mean cheerleader who ends up on the ward with a broken arm and is just a horrible person. It’s clear that the writers are trying to set her up for a “nice on the inside” storyline, but their idea of a bratty teenager is horrendous. Kara is unbelievably rude, unrealistically ignorant and straight-up racist. I have never met anyone like her.

Finally, there’s Jordi Palacios. He’s the new kid who lied his way into the emergency room (past tons of other sick people on the waitlist) to get the great medical attention he de-

serves. The doctor relents to Jordi’s illegal plan by simply saying, “I have a feeling ‘no’ isn’t in your vocabulary.”

Brilliant.

The whole show is narrated by Charlie, who (plot twist) is in a coma.

People call him “Coma Boy” and everything. Apparently, he is still able to see and hear everything. By way of explanation for this exceptional situation, Charlie simply says, “Yeah, this is me talking to you from a coma.

Deal with it,” and delivers some more grade-A coma jokes.

This is a real scene that happens in a real show: Kara, forced to share a room with the coma boy, takes out a pack of cigarettes and blows some smoke in his face to see if he’s really out cold. When he doesn’t flinch, she exclaims, “That is so cool!”

The scene is bizarre, confusing and painful, and it represents a huge flaw in the show as a whole. It tries to treat childhood illness, a dark topic, with a casual tone, but it comes off as completely nonsensical and ridiculous.

The show is probably built around the success of The Fault in Our Stars, but the difference between the two is that TFIOS used its characters’ diseases as something to build a life around instead of a punchline.

Fox’s website calls it a dramedy,

and maybe it will eventually turn into one, but the pilot has no idea where it’s going. Among the many inappropriate, dull jokes about sickness and death, there are three or four big, sappy season finale-caliber emotional moments. They are uncomfortable and strange to say the least.

Many things are wrong with Red Band Society. I don’t really expect it to be around for long, but while it’s still alive, TV executives can learn a few things from it: 1. Don’t take a guess at what’s cool nowadays. It never, ever works.

2. Don’t try and build a whole show around a trend. Cancer kids are not something to cash in on. A good show will always possess the same things: plotlines that don’t take huge leaps, situations that are realistic and characters that seem real. It’s not very hard.

I will finish this review by addressing the show directly and, if I may, by taking us back to 2011 to play on a beautiful line from a better time in Octavia Spencer’s career: You is embarrassing, you is insulting, you is awful.

Red Band Society premieres at 9 p.m. on Fox. merrigodbk@gmail.com

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especially one with Brown’s size and athleticism.

The result was 18 carries from the Terps’ 6-foot-3, 218-pound signal-caller through a myriad of plays and formations.

Brown scrambled four times for 36 yards — the product of West Virginia implementing man-to-man coverage with two safeties guarding against deep passes, leaving no one defending the quarterback’s running lanes.

Brown added 26 yards on four draw plays. Offensive coordinator Mike Locksley also sprinkled in one traditional option play, which went for two yards, and a bluffed jet sweep to dynamic receiver Stefon Diggs, which went for a loss of five.

But the most deadly running play Brown ran against the Mountaineers was the zone read — something Locksley, Edsall and the rest of the Terps coaching staff wanted to make a focal point entering the contest.

In total, Brown kept the ball on four zone-read plays, and he gained 116 of his 161 rushing yards on those four snaps, two of which marked his longest runs of the after-

“I’m not afraid to mix around lineups and put different people in,” Aird said.

Murray has started the entire season and when not battling injuries, St. Hill has started alongside her.

“As a freshman, having to start my first weekend was the best way of getting my feet wet,” Murray said. “I kind of had to dive in. And I think it was the best way to do it; get all the nerves out, get all the first jitters out and just go for it.”

T h e two p l aye rs h ave brought strong play to begin the year. St. Hill has averaged a block per set to lead the team and Murray is averaging 0.75 per set, second on the team.

Murray was even named to the all-tournament team at the Black and Gold Challenge in Boone, North Carolina, this past weekend.

MacGregor still receives plenty of floor time as a substitute as well. Hrebenach and Coyle, though, have had their time limited. Neither has played double-digit sets this year.

RUNNING BACK Brandon Ross sprints away from a West Virginia defender in Saturday’s defeat. After beginning the season as the No. 1 back, Ross started the loss to the Mountaineers on the bench and finished with zero yards on four carries. marquise mckine/the diamondback noon: a 75-yard touchdown run on a zone read to the left, the longest rushing touchdown by an FBS quarterback this season, and a 37-yard run on a zone read to the right.

“They decided to take away [the running back] in the zone read so the quarterback opened up,” Edsall said in his conference call Sunday. “With what we do offensively, sometimes they might take away the quarterback and make the running backs carry the ball. Yesterday, they were taking the running back away, and the quarterback had those options.”

Still, there was one curious thing about the Terps’ rushing attack Saturday. Against South Florida, Wes Brown

took over the running back duties in the second half, igniting a seven-point comeback victory with 58 rushing yards on 12 carries in the final two quarters.

It seemed Wes Brown would be featured against the Mountaineers. But the sophomore, who was suspended all of last season because of legal issues, didn’t touch the field despite the other running backs’ struggles, especially in third-and-short situations — the type of short-yardage plays the 6-foot, 210-pound Brown was expected to excel at this season.

“I just, as a head coach, decided not to play him,” Edsall said Sunday. “He’s

been practicing, he’ll practice this week, and we’ll see how the game plan all shakes out.”

Wi t h o r w i t h o u t We s Brown, Edsall and the Terps will need to find a consistent and reliable running back moving forward. After Saturday, teams will likely start to key in on C.J. Brown and the zone read, forcing one of the Terps’ running backs to step up.

Nonetheless, Edsall said he will continue to maintain diversity in his rushing attack, C.J. Brown included.

“We rush the ball pretty good,” Edsall said. “The quarterback is a part of that.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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“He’s an inspirational player for us,” Cirovski said.

“Unfortunately, he plays so hard, he takes a lot of knocks.

He gets injured. We need him to hopefully get some good fortune one of these days and get some rhythm and some fitness in his play.”

Campbell, a freshman, hopes to avoid Shinsky’s history with injuries.

Before he joined the Terps, Campbell had an impressive senior year at McDonogh.

After racking up 23 goals and 15 assists, the forward was named the NSCAA Boys High School National Player of the Year.

“He’s as dynamic a player as I’ve ever coached,” McDonogh coach Brandon Quaranta said in August.

Despite lofty high school achievements, Campbell — who recorded two shots Friday — hasn’t netted a goal with the Terps.

Campbell sustained a minor injury at Louisville on Aug. 29, and he’s attempted just five shots on a frontline that has

Aird’s goal is to make the Terps compete harder in practice, but it can be frustrating to players who experience a dip in playing time.

“I’ll say it’s upsetting,” MacGregor said. “But at the same time we have middles who are doing well at their positions. They were contributing where they needed to, and they were getting the job done. So that just means that I have to go in and practice and work hard and get better so I can get some more playing time.”

If it weren’t for strong leadership, Aird said, competition could even cause rifts throughout the roster.

But the Terps haven’t had any issues with that. And as the players compete for playing time throughout the year, they should continue to sharpen each other’s abilities.

All Aird has to do is pick the lineup.

“I’m going to play the kids that help the program,” Aird said. “I’m not a guy who plays favorites. I don’t have any other agenda.” jwalkerdbk@gmail.com

frustrated Cirovski.

“It’s getting better, and we are improving every game,” Cirovski said of the offense.

“But I’m not happy with it at the moment.”

While Campbell has started all five games this season, Cirovski has employed several options opp o s i te C a m p b e l l o n t h e frontline. Korvah, David Kabelik and Jeroen Meefout have all started contests. But Cirovski appears confident in Campbell.

Shinsky’s tenure with the Terps hasn’t been completely diminished by injury; he’s a captain and began the season as a starter. But after scoring 17 goals as a senior at West York Area High School in York, Pennsylvania Shinsky didn’t score his first college goal until his junior season.

Campbell’s early career trajectory is similar to Shinsky’s.

But Cirovski doesn’t want Campbell to hold back, even if it impacts his health.

“They’ve got to play their game,” Cirovski said. “You hope that they don’t get hurt.

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leathers From PAGE 8 The switch also forces defenders to understand their positioning on the field while sprinting up the field, and adding Leathers to the starting lineup moments before the game contributed to an already difficult task.

“It was [an] adjustment,” Sprink said. “It was challenging at times.”

B u t t h e d e fe n se ove rcame the challenging tasks this weekend, adding more

depth and familiarity moving forward. Meharg now has the option to play Hanks at center back with Leathers in her position when Frusher isn’t on the field.

Leathers’ ability to earn penalty corners will be crucial for the Terps as the season progresses, and the experience she gained playing almost an entire game with the defense will help solidify the backline.

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Blockers battle for floor time Aird keeps options open at key position

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer

strategy and not the uncertainty regarding the team’s tailbacks.

“It was part of the game plan,” said Brown, who accounted for 161 of the Terps’ 163 rushing yards on Saturday. “We knew that going in.”

Edsall said in the week before the showdown with the Mountaineers the Terps coaching staff studied film and concluded that their opponent’s 3-3-5 base defense — a formation including three down lineman, three linebackers and five defensive backs — wouldn’t stop a rushing quarterback,

Coach Steve Aird believes in competition. When he took over the Terrapins volleyball team this summer after former coach Tim Horsmon departed, Aird made it clear to his players that nobody was guaranteed anything. The things they accomplished before Aird’s arrival were irrelevant to him.

This is particularly true with the middle blocker position in which five Terps — Catie Coyle, Chavi St. Hill, Kelsey Hrebenach, Ashlyn MacGregor and Hailey Murray — are all battling for two available spots in the starting lineup.

And though it is still early in his tenure, Aird believes his philosophy has already started to bring out the best in the Terps.

“It’s healthy,” MacGregor said. “It keeps everyone working hard, and it keeps everyone on it.”

If not for the coaching change, MacGregor would have been a likely choice to fill one of the starting middle blocker positions. She led the team in blocks as a freshman, placing No. 28 in the nation with 1.33 blocks per set while playing in almost every set.

Both Hrebenach and Coyle were also key contributors to the team last season, finishing second and fourth in blocks per set, respectively, and would have anticipated similar roles this year.

That would have left St. Hill — who only played in 19 sets last year — and Murray to likely spend most of this season on the sidelines. But last season’s stats haven’t factored into Aird’s decision-making.

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quarterback C.J. Brown tries to maneuver past West Virginia defensive lineman Christian Brown in the Terps’ 40-37 loss Saturday. Brown had 18 carries for 161 yards and one rushing touchdown. chester lam/the diamondback

DUAL THREAT

Brown leads team on ground while running backs combine for only seven carries against Mountaineers

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Entering Saturday’s matchup with West Virginia at Byrd Stadium, the Terrapins football offense was due for a change.

In the Terps’ previous game against South Florida, an ugly seven-point win for coach Randy Edsall’s squad, starting running back Brandon Ross lost two fumbles in the first two quarters.

It marked the recurrence of a ball security issue that plagued the junior early in preseason camp.

Ross got just one touch in the second half against the Bulls, as sophomore Wes Brown received the bulk of the carries. And against the Mountaineers, junior Albert Reid started the game in the backfield, which appeared to signify the end of Ross’ stint as the No. 1 back.

But the Terps’ 40-37 loss to West Virginia did little to cement a starter at running back.

In fact, the running backs combined to rush for only four yards on seven carries while quarterback C.J. Brown carried the load on the ground. And both Edsall and Brown attributed the imbalanced rushing attack to

MEN’S SOCCER

Terps maintain aggressive play Shinsky, Campbell avoid altering styles even after recent injuries

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer When the Terrapins men’s soccer team huddles during games, a few players stick out. Defender Alex Crognale, who stands 6 feet, 5 inches and weighs close to 200 pounds, is hard to miss. So is 6-foot-4 forward Jeroen Meefout.

But deep inside the huddle, two of the more dynamic Terps can get lost amid the larger athletes. Alex Shinsky, a 5-foot-9 midfielder, and 5-foot-8

forward George Campbell have drawn coach Sasho Cirovski’s praise for their wild, frenzied styles of play.

But their recklessness has led to injuries. Much of Shinsky’s career has been blemished by physical setbacks, while Campbell has hardly practiced since the season began a few weeks ago.

Neither player had a significant impact in the Terps’ 1-1 draw at Michigan on Friday. Nevertheless, Cirovski insists he doesn’t want Shinsky or Campbell to tone down their play.

“I want Shinsky to be Shinsky,

I want Campbell to be Campbell,” Cirovski said. “I want all our guys to play with the freedom and reckless abandon that’s made them the kind of player they are.”

Shinsky started against Michigan but left the game in the 18th minute due to an unspecified injury. In his absence, Cirovski rotated between midfielders Michael Sauers, Jake Areman and Daniel Johnson.

Nagging hamstring problems forced Shinsky out of 10 games in MIDFIELDER ALEX SHINSKY battles for possession during a scoreless tie with UMBC on Sept. 5. Shinsky, a See shinsky, Page 7 senior, has had a history of injuries since he arrived in College Park in 2011. christian jenkins/the diamondback

FIELD HOCKEY

Leathers earns praise for surprise start against Owls Meharg labels sophomore midfielder ‘player of the game’ after Terps claim 3-0 victory over No. 16 Temple

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer After starting the first two games of the season for the Terrapins field hockey team, midfielder Delaney Leathers had played a more limited role off the bench in the three games entering Sunday’s contest with No. 16 Temple.

Leathers would’ve continued that role, but coach Missy Meharg chose to sit defender Rachel Frusher before the game to rest a sore hip. With an opening in the starting lineup, Leathers got her first chance to start the game on the field since opening weekend.

P l ay i n g i n d e fe n d e r C a r r i e Hanks’ typical spot, the sophomore saw 59 minutes of action, and Meharg named Leathers the Terps’ player of the game after the 3-0 win over the Owls.

“Delaney had a fabulous game,” Meharg said. “She got [player of the game] just for her smartness.”

Meharg said she was most impressed with Leathers’ ability to draw penalty corners on Sunday. The Virginia Beach, Virginia, native earned “three or four” of the Terps’ eight penalty corners on the afternoon, Meharg added.

While Leathers wasn’t officially given an assist, all three of

“DELANEY HAD A FABULOUS GAME. ... SHE GOT [PLAYER OF THE GAME] JUST FOR HER SMARTNESS.” MISSY MEHARG

Terrapins field hockey coach the Terps’ goals came off a penalty corner, and without Leathers’ ability to create them, the game might have been much closer. Her strong stick skills and approach into the circle enables her to have success in drawing the corners.

“Delaney is so smooth on the ball,” Meharg said.

Leathers played an integral part of the defense that shut out the Owls as well. The Terps defense stresses the importance of communication, and it can be difficult to keep the cohesion on the backline when the lineup is changing on a game-to-game basis.

Still, with Hanks playing a new position and Leathers filling in for Hanks, the Terps were able to make the adjustments over the course of the game to hold Temple scoreless.

“Defense, you have your certain positions and it’s like a routine, and you know who is playing where,” defender Sarah Sprink said.

Sprink, one of the three captains

on the team, had to be the voice as the last line of defense with goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera to make sure everyone understood where they needed to be positioned on the field.

The junior has to adjust to a new aspect of the Terps’ attack now, too.

Last season, Meharg used seven players on the attack edge, but she has since added an eighth this year in hopes of sparking more offense.

The adjustment forces defenses to guard an extra player on rebounds, but with one less defender sagging back, the Terps run the risk of counter-attacks.

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