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U subject of animal rights complaint Watchdog group alleges death of six research bats a violation of animal welfare legislation

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer A watchdog group filed an official complaint against this university Monday, accusing an animal caretaker of violating the Animal Welfare Students watch a live stream of the Constitution Day event from the Computer Science Instructional Center on Wednesday. josh loock/for the diamondback

Act and causing the deaths of six bats.

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! called for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct an investigation into the university’s self-reported infraction and impose the maximum fine of $10,000 per animal death.

“Unless these university labo-

ratories are fined, they won’t take anything seriously,” said Julia Orr, SAEN spokeswoman. “This is the only way to make people sit up and take notice, and that’s what we’re looking for. Animal welfare violations are just endemic in the entire industry.”

Orr said that SAEN obtained through the Freedom of Information Act records sent from this university

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Justice clerks hold historic law forum

University’s robust student club offerings grows even larger at First Look Fair

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer Three former clerks to Supreme Court justices joined university students in a forum Wednesday on the 227th anniversary of the Constitution’s signing to discuss their experience with the Supreme Court and its role in our democratic society.

The event, titled UMD Constitution Day, took place at the UM Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. About 25 students traveled to participate in the forum, while more than 50 watched a live stream on this campus at the Computer Science Instructional Center.

Thiru Vignarajah, former clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer talked about how Breyer believes the Supreme Court should be hesitant to strike down acts of Congress, except in extreme circumstances.

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sujal bista, a recent doctoral graduate working on virtual reality research, demonstrates how virtual reality technology can be used to simulate various driving conditions. stephanie natoli/the diamondback million for a new computer science building, a scholarship and two endowed chairs in the department.

“We’re on the tip of the iceberg,” sa id Sa m i r K hu l ler, computer science depa rtment cha i rma n.

“We have just sta r ted to put a focus on virtual reality. For 40 or 50 years it’s been thought about and developed, but now at Maryland it is coming to the forefront.

That’s what Oculus has done, and it’s pretty amazing.”

Khuller said the department does not know how much of the donated money will go directly toward virtual reality, but said because of the relatively inexpensive price of Oculus technology and the money from the NSF grant, the lab will not be expensive to build and will offer opportuni-

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performing a backflip during her routine at the First Look Fair on Wednesday.

Khuller: ‘We’re on the tip of the iceberg’

The future of virtual and augmented reality on the campus appears to be no illusion.

In fact, university officials project that, with the help of recent donations and grants, virtual reality research could later be one of this university’s claims to fame.

On Sept. 9, the u n iversity re c eive d a $600,000 g ra nt to further v irtual and augmented r e a l i t y r e s e a r c h a n d e d u c ation from the National Science Foundation.

T wo d a y s l a te r, t h e v i r t u a l reality company Oculus VR’s CEO and co-founder Brendan Iribe, his mother El i zabeth a nd M ichael Antonov, Oculus’ chief software a rch itect a nd 2003 u n iversity alumnus, donated a combined $38

W hen sophomore geolog y m ajor M adel i ne W h ite sta r ted sea rch i ng for students w it h si m i l a r i nterests, she fou nd that the Geology Club no longer existed.

So with a faculty adviser and two peers, she decided to establish the Geology Adventure Club, in which she hopes students interested in geology will form lasting bonds.

Since the start of classes, about 20 groups have jump-started or earned university recognition for their organizations by registering with the Student Organization Resource Center. With high hopes for their inaugural year, most of these

Senior computer science major and Gymkana member Caitlin Cummings records a video while

Univ pursues virtual reality research with grant money

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Conference part of 227th anniversary of Constitution signing

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to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.

The documents were written by university Vice President and Chief Research Officer Patrick O’Shea to inform Axel Wolff, director of OLAW’s Division of Compliance Oversight, of the violation and subsequent bat deaths.

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ties for plenty of research.

Some money from this grant will go to the Graphics and Visual Informatics Laboratory, which studies applications for augmented reality – where the user is not fully submerged into a virtual world, but instead available technology advances their own environment.

They plan to build an Augmentarium in the A.V. Williams Building, which would be a room with walls of television screens, allowing researchers to see huge representations of biological molecules like ion channels at work, or zoom in on full 360-degree displays of ultra-high resolution pictures, Sujal Bista, a recent doctoral graduate, said.

“We have believed for a while that virtual reality will change the world,” See virtual, Page 3

The percentage of students who worked at least one internship has been increasing steadily over the past five years, according to a survey conducted by the University Career Center in May. The graduation surveys measured the percentages of students who reported having had at least one internship. In 2013, that number was 60.2 percent, up from 53.9 percent the year before. In 2009, it was 52.7 percent.

The Career Center received a 54 percent response rate from a sample of “just over 7,000 students” three weeks after graduation, Center Director Kelley Bishop said.

While options such as taking classes, staffing camps or traveling during the summer attract some students, many are choosing to get work experience in the form of an internship.

“Students have had internships in high school. … I don’t recall that

when I was in high school,” Bishop said.

Junior environmental science and policy major Saba Rahman worked as a veterinary technician at the Goshen Animal Clinic in Gaithersburg this summer, checking in clients, pulling out vaccines and taking care of animals post-surgery. She said it was a good experience given her preveterinary track.

Christian Lee, a junior finance and information systems major, said he asked his uncle, the CEO of investment advisory firm Alexandria Capital, for an internship last winter.

His uncle accepted, and later, Lee was invited back for a summer internship.

According to the 2013 graduation survey, of the 60.2 percent of graduates who reported having one or more internships by the time of graduation, 49 percent had one internship, 33 percent had two internships and 18 percent had three internships. The majority of responses came from undergraduates, Bishop said.

Referring to the same survey, Bishop said 17 percent of respondents i nd icated they had used Careers4Terps or online sources to find an internship, 12.5 percent See interns, Page 3

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CONSTITUTION clubs From PAGE 1

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“[Breyer] says … if a state’s representatives, who have been elected by the people, or the federal government’s representatives, who have been elected by citizens across the country, come together and decide that this is the law that they want, it should be an exceptional act by [the Supreme Court] to strike that kind of thing down,” Vignarajah said.

“We should always remember that our North Star is allowing the people to govern themselves.”

Rebecca Taibleson, former c le rk to Ju s t ic e A nton i n Sc a l i a , sa id S c a l i a h a s a firm methodology he uses to make sure he stays consistent with his principles and remains legitimate in the eyes of the public.

“Certainly it’s difficult on a case-to-case basis, but he wants a stable guide post to keep him honest,” Taibleson said about Scalia. “He’s very keenly aware that he’s not elected, and he’s been appointed for life and none of us had any choice about him really and have any choice about if he stays.”

T he panelists also gave advice to the undergraduate and law school students watching the forum. Associate Dean Max Stearns, the debate moderator, said he had law school students from “tremendously varied” undergraduate majors and that students shouldn’t worry about their major’s relation to law.

“The most important thing is to find the thing that excites you and pursue it vigorously,” he said. “That’s really what you’re going to take to law school: that level of attention to detail, broad understanding, intellectual curiosity and drive, that’s what matters.”

Vignarajah said his best piece of adv ice to u nderg radu ate students is to practice w riti ng a nd find confidence in their voice, a skill he said he wished he had developed earlier.

Ju n ior govern ment a nd politics major Mickey Hartz, who watched the live stream from the campus, said he is considering law school and found the forum valuable.

“It really gave me some good perspective about what my goals should be both academically and as a person,” Hartz said. “Not just to get a good grade but to aspire to be somewhat like these people.”

Brandee Pettus, assistant director of the law and society minor at this university, helped organize the event and said she hoped the event would spark greater student interest in law.

“Seei ng a nd obser v i ng someone who clerked for the Supreme Court for someone interested in the law is a huge benefit,” she said. “It will either strengthen their interests in law or see personalities like the man behind the justice.”

groups set up among the 450 organizations at the First Look Fair yesterday and will return today.

The university recognizes more than 700 student groups in total, said Pranshu Gupta, student account associate.

“We have clubs that are reactivated from years ago, and we find people coming in to start new groups all the time,” Gupta said.

Three weeks ago, senior independent studies major Jonathan Fix started Terps Against Hunger, which is based on a nonprofit he works for in Washington called Kids Against Hunger.

“We produce these rice casserole meals that have a three-year shelf life, and they provide the individual with all the nutritional requirements they have for that meal,” he said. “So they are perfect for malnourished children, adults or anyone just in need of a meal.”

This university is teaming up with Fix and his team for this year’s Homecoming Terp Service Day on Oct. 11. Fix hopes the university-wide event will call for 150,000 meals, but such a goal requires many more volunteers — which is where the First Look Fair comes into play.

“We’re expanding our volunteer base,” Fix said.

“We’re trying to reach students to help publicize, fundraise and run the logistics of the event.”

Jeremy Mushailov, a junior civil engineering major, is the vice president of this university’s new American Society of Highway Engineers chapter. sung-min kim/the diamondback Sophomore Adrienne Baer went into the First Look Fair with similar recruitment goals for Gift to Uplift, an organization she and seven other students started in a social entrepreneurship class last spring.

“We make gifts, care packages, for kids not in the best situations,” the business and independent studies major said.

As part of the care package, Gift to Uplift members create a personalized book for the child — one in which he or she stars as the hero.

“We have students write it and students illustrate it, then we present it to the family,” Baer said.

For students to apply to become a university-recognized organization, they need eight group members and a

faculty adviser. Baer said resources such as the Center for Social Value Creation, the chance to participate in the Do Good Challenge and the support of many professors makes the task simple.

Senior mathematics and physics major Delilah Gates decided to fill out the forms for the Society of Physics Students to become a university-recognized organization, which it hadn’t been since her freshman year.

Junior civil engineering major Ranteg Rao decided to create this university’s chapter of the American Society of H ighway Eng i neers a f ter hearing from the Chesapeake chapter, which holds monthly dinners for networking. He said he hopes his organization

will help civil engineers land internships and make contacts in the industry.

“There are a lot of things we can do with it,” Rao said. “The club gives us the opportunity to help other students, especially freshmen in the major.”

T hough each organization has different missions, members and ideas, they now are a part of the network of student groups, joining the

rows of tables at the First Look Fair.

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“The University of Maryland takes the welfare of its research animals very seFrom PAGE 1 riously. The incident that According to a letter written SA EN cited in their letter

by O’Shea on Feb. 28, 2013, was swiftly reported by us,” “bats housed in a flight cage O’Shea w rote in an email had been left without water” Wednesday. “We immedion the evening of Jan. 5, 2013. ately took actions to ensure The next day, six bats were that the animal care staff found dead, the letter stated. supporting that laboratory “The [Institutional Animal were provided with addiCare and Use Committee] de- tional training, along with termined that the deaths of the t he i mplement at ion of a six dead bats on January 6th daily checklist for tracking did involve a single mistake ad- completion of tasks.”

A statement provided by mitted by an animal caretaker; thus, did involve dehydration,” the National Institutes of Health Office of LaboratoO’Shea wrote in the letter.

The letter also contained ry Animal Welfare said that information on the steps the cases shared with the media university took to correct by SAEN are not current and were managed by the unithe problem.

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by OLAW. “These institutions are in good standing with OLAW and in keeping with the requirement for self-reporting, will report to OLAW any noncompliance with the relevant policies and regulations involving research animals, should they arise,” the statement said.

Or r sa id t hat t he FOI A documents revealed other infractions as well. In a separate Feb. 28 letter, O’Shea wrote that a principal investigator and teaching assistants decapitated adult chickens during a course, though the protocol calls for CO2 euthanasia.

Because the Animal

Welfare Act doesn’t cover birds, this issue was not included in the official complaint to the USDA, but Orr said it was still indicative of the laboratory behavior at this university.

“This shows a pattern at the university, we believe, of negligence, and that’s a problem we have,” Orr said.

“Unfortunately, some of the incidents were with animals that aren’t covered by the Animal Welfare Act, but we take those just as seriously.”

The next step is waiting to hear back from the USDA and see if it decides to proceed with the investigation, Orr said.

Tanya Espinosa, a USDA spokeswoman, said the depa r t ment is st i l l look i ng

complaints filed by SAEN, said Michael Budkie, SAEN’s executive director. In some cases, IT’S A GREAT CONCERN he said he’s seen proceedings TO US THAT IT IS NOT AN go on for three to four years ISOLATED INCIDENT.” before fines are levied.

SAEN has filed complaints JULIA ORR Communications director of SAEN against a host of other unifurther into the complaint versities, including Yale Uniand that there is no designat- versity, Brown University and ed time frame for resolution. University of Florida.

“The reason we look into “Every time we look at a things further is so that we university, we find something can get the complete informa- wrong, and I think it’s a huge tion,” Espinosa said. “There’s problem that needs to be adno investigation right now, dressed by the USDA and by and we may or may not decide the universities themselves,” to open an investigation — it Orr said. “This is not an isodepends on what we find out.” lated incident, and it’s a great Last year, seven in 10 fines concern to us that it is not an issued by the USDA against isolated incident.” research facilities across the nation were a result of official trichmandbk@gmail.com “THIS IS NOT AN

ISOLATED INCIDENT, AND

Interns From PAGE 1 got an internship through one of the career fairs and 18 percent got a full-time job through an internship or co-op.

Some employers hire only interns, and of the interns they hire, only a few are accepted as full-time employees, Bishop said. Additionally, more than half of employers expect student applicants to have had at least one internship to hire them, Bishop said, citing national surveys.

“St ud ents shou ld b e ready by the end of their sophomore year,” he said.

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Greg Kraida, a third-year graduate student studying computer science, tries on OculAR, a reality augmenter. This type of augmenter could potentially help people in everyday situations.

virtual From PAGE 1 said Amitabh Varshney, the director of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

“Right now, everyone is excited about video games, but I think it is about much more than that.

When you think about the mass media revolutions that have changed the world, there’s the printing press, recording, cinema, radio, TV, Internet and the mobile revolution. Virtual reality would be the eighth.”

The future of virtual reality on the campus looks bright, but is hardly new.

For the past few years, researchers at the engineering

school’s Hybrid-System Integration and Simulation Laboratory took advantage of virtual reality to study things otherwise difficult to study like the cognitive strain placed on emergency workers in high-stress scenarios. They currently run a simulation that puts experimental subjects in a virtual hospital patient telemetry room.

“It’s often difficult to go into these safety-critical situations when they are going on,” said Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, a mechanical engineering professor and co-director of the HybridSystem Integration and Simulation Lab. “It’s hard to get reliable data, and it’s difficult to not interfere. So it’s necessary to use these VR simula-

“WITH OUR WORK, WE UNDERSTAND HOW HUMANS UNDERSTAND THREEDIMENSIONAL SOUND, HOW WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, YOU CAN STILL KNOW WHERE A SOUND IS COMING FROM.” RAMANI DURAISWAMI

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tions, where the people involved are not at risk and the system is not at risk, but you can still collect data. It also gives you more flexibility in designing the

environment and modifying the experimental design.”

Ramani Duraiswami, a computer science professor and director of the Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory, is also working with virtual reality, but not the aspects people usually think about.

“Glasses like the Oculus display allow you to visualize a new world, but there is no good solution for sound,” Duraiswami said. “With our work, we understand how humans understand three-dimensional sound, how when you close your eyes, you can still know where a sound is coming from. … In VR, you essentially need to make sure the sound is processed correctly and it makes

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you essentially feel like you are in this other world.”

These types of labs often draw students from a variety of fields. Vaughn-Cooke said the Hybrid-System Integration and Simulation Lab brings in graduate and undergraduate students from a number of different engineering majors, as well as computer science and public health.

Varshney said such cooperation is pivotal for the advancement of virtual and augmented reality.

“We will need the help of perceptual psychologists,” Varshney said. “We will need the help of artists and designers. We will need the help of engineers and others in addition to computer scientists. We really need to build interdisciplinary bridges across the campus in the service of this field for it to be a success.”

Varshney said there have been plans to work with the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to use augmented reality to make its lobby space an interactive environment for visitors to the theater, and that is just the beginning of what virtual reality can do for the campus.

Previous plans for becoming more involved in virtual reality research now seem more within reach, Varshney said.

“It’s just that the gift came at such a great time – it really put our efforts and future plans into sharp focus,” Varshney said.

Then he laughed. “It put a lot of the virtual dreams we had into reality.”

Students are using the university to find internships and jobs. Many colleges within the university host career fairs, seminars and career events.

Through these, students can meet with company recruiters and hand-deliver resumes.

A n internship also shows an employer how well-rounded a student is. Grades and activities are important, but a job or internship can really prove the student’s skills and show what they know, Bishop said. “[An internship] changes you,” he said. “It makes you proactive as a student learner as well.”

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Don’t judge anything by its cover EMMA ATLAS

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over it more than once just because of how often it’s praised.

It’s so ingrained that Atlas Shrugged is some kind of Satanist text that reading it in public or “coming out” as reading it to friends was like coming forward as an elephant hunter. Just because I’m reading Atlas Shrugged does not mean I hate the poor. Surprisingly, I don’t think Ayn Rand hated the poor either, but we too quickly disregard her personality and the book because we can’t be bothered to read it.

Does Atlas Shrugged have problems? Absolutely, most books do.

Anyone who isn’t an objectivist in Atlas Shrugged is inexplicably fat.

Sometimes the narrative dissolves into a series of awkward straw-man interviews. But I know I agree more than I disagree with it, and I know I wouldn’t have read it if I didn’t struggle with the fact that anyone who talks about it only mentions how evil they think it is.

It’s true Rand puts an unhealthy amount of weight on the importance of money, but actually putting in an effort to read her story reveals other themes, like the willingness of the public to disregard new ideas. The central point of the story is the construction of a railroad that the public has canned but which the main characters ride like some sort of ambrosial Bifröst. My point about making your own opinions isn’t life-changing but what I’m saying is: disregarding things without trying them is you missing out on a chance to ride a sex train to Asgard. Your loss.

Summer reading material is usually meant to be light, easily absorbed and convenient to bring to the beach.

Instead, I broke all of those rules and steeled myself to read Atlas Shrugged this past summer. I can practically feel your eyes flicking back up to my byline and realizing it’s funny, because “Atlas” is in the book title and it’s also my last name.

I, unlike most of you, do not judge books by their covers. More than one person has told me to go read Atlas Shrugged, not because of the obvious humor, but because of my beliefs.

After a lot of “It’s too long,” or “I heard it was bad,” I finally picked it up.

I know the trope, and I’m not trying to be the Ayn Rand undergraduate expert of this university, but if Atlas Shrugged has only reaffirmed what I already thought — which it has — it has also taught me at least that we put too much value in other people’s judgments. Disregarding books, movies and people based on rumor and others’ opinions is easy and tragic, and we do it all too much.

These trendy and judgmental opinions are everywhere. The popculture opinion “Tom Cruise is a creep” is a common one, and it keeps a lot of people away from his movies, but I actually thought he gave a really good performance in the film Edge of Tomorrow. “Pumpkin spice-flavored anything is amazing” is another trope, especially with the changing seasons. I’ve never had pumpkin Emma Atlas is a senior government spice. It might be good? But I’ve had and politics major. She can be reached to stop myself from getting doe-eyed at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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Banking on the future The student loan crisis needs an overhaul

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ne of the most far-reaching bills to ease the towering national student loan debt failed to even reach a vote in the Senate on Tuesday. The Bank on Students Act, introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in June, would have lowered interest rates on student loans signed before July 1, 2013. While loans signed after this date carry an interest rate of less than 4 percent, some students with existing loans prior to this period could be paying up to 8 percent in fees on direct federal loans.

Though the bill had support from 55 Democrats and three Republicans, it was ultimately blocked by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Republicans primarily objected to the bill based on the way it would replace lost revenue from student loan interest — placing a minimum 30 percent income tax on individuals making between $1 and $2 million per year, otherwise known as the “Buffet Rule.”

To be fair, Warren asked for unanimous consent to vote on the bill and was not open to the idea of allowing open amendments, of which Cornyn would have approved. However, this doesn’t necessarily justify the minority not even allowing the bill to go to a vote — let alone not introducing an alternative.

At a time when $1.2 trillion in student debt is hampering the

For instance, why haven’t Senate Republicans pushed more bills like the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, which would establish a formula for determining market-based loan rates? And when it comes to finding jobs after graduation, the House has passed over 40 bipartisan jobs bills — yet a good number of them don’t OUR VIEW find success in the Senate.

Generation Y hasn’t fared well economically — seven in 10 college graduates who earned a degree in 2012 had an average amount of $29,400 in loans, and the graduate class of 2014 suffers from an underemployment rate of 16.8 percent.

Though Warren’s bill only addressEven if the stopgap spending es those who signed loans prior to measure and election season prevents July 2013, many of us entered college politicians from finding ways to solve before then (and many graduate stuour student loan debt problems, it dents are also a part of this cohort).

At the end of the day, the student should still be an issue at the top of loan crisis doesn’t just affect us as their agenda.

Policy aside, young voters make a individuals, but as members of a unisizable portion of the electorate — versity community and a generation about 19 percent in 2012 — meaning just trying to graduate and find ways even if politicians don’t care about to get by.

Some might say Tuesday’s Senate student loan debt, their electoral chances rely on it whether they want outcome translates to failure for us.

While some are content with the bill it to or not.

With Warren’s bill failing, certain being killed, this doesn’t mean we reforms could be introduced that should stall when it comes to fixing might receive more support from the overall issue at hand. In a few members of both parties. Regard- short months, Congress will be back less of the congressman or senator, in action, and we should all be there there’s no excuse for not having more too — asking legislators for solutions higher education bills discussed in no matter what their political affiliations or ideologies are.

Congress. nation, seeing political debacles like this one occur is anything but welcoming. In less than a week, Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending measure to make sure the government is funded until Dec. 11 (so bills aren’t passed during election season).

Legislators across the political spectrum need to recognize and attempt to alleviate the student loan debt crisis.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

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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.

This one time at band camp DANIEL GALITSKY

than its sum. The marching band wins every time it goes on the field.

You’ll never see a marching band lose eligibility due to illegal benefits. The marching band never gets ejected for targeting. While Under Armour might not reinvent the band’s uniforms on a weekly basis, the Might Sound of Maryland’s classic elegance doesn’t need to change. Crab cakes and the marching band — that’s what Maryland does.

Marching band members might not receive the type of prestige that football players get, and there is no National Marching League that pays massive salaries to elite flutists. You won’t see fans lining up for autographs from the first chair clarinet.

I couldn’t name the band director and you probably couldn’t either. That’s not necessarily wrong, but the band’s effort and dedication to impress fans is equal to the football team’s.

You know most of its songs, and the rhythms of the drumline cadences have been etched in your mind, but take a moment to appreciate the effort and execution that makes them happen.

During breaks in the game, look up from your phone and remember that the music isn’t always coming from the speakers. Years from now, when you remember being a Terp, a few sports memories will stand out.

But they will all be tied together by the staccato brass roar of the timeless refrain “M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D, MARYLAND WILL WIN!”

Sometimes, to truly appreciate something, you have to participate.

As a mediocre former high school band member, I am disappointed when my friends and fellow spectators at Terps games scoff at my admiration for the Mighty Sound of Maryland at halftime. While I was only a bass drummer, dealing more in brute whacks than melodic finesse, the combination of sound, movement and effects during the intermission of every game never ceases to impress me.

While the vast majority of students watching and attending football games most likely have never participated in serious tackle football and would be shattered into smithereens by an oncoming linebacker, it is still easy to get excited by the action on the field.

Whether or not you have had the pleasure of trotting for hours with a tuba on your shoulder or a drum bouncing off your chest, the same appreciation should be present when you see the marching band perform.

Like football players, the band members spend part of their summers on the campus, honing their skills in the hot sun. Long days of perfecting technique and mastering formations are the norm. Learning to march with proper formations and transitions requires the precision of a receiver running routes, the timing of a pocket passer and the footwork of a running back.

Each instrument is a unique con- Daniel Galitsky is a junior economics tributor, unimpressive individually, but and finance major. He can be reached combining into a whole that is greater at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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Due to an error, yesterday’s staff editorial, “A year later, still not enough,” incorrectly stated Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis’ cause of death. Alexis was shot and killed by police and did not commit suicide.

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The actuality of white privilege

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he United States has skeletons in its closet. Not skeletons in the sense of minor transgressions, but in the sense of subjugating an entire race for the purposes of an efficient and inexpensive labor source.

Slavery in America affects our society to this day. About 60 years ago, the “separate but equal” doctrine was accepted in many of our states. To say that the idea of white privilege is un-American is to ignore the oppression and suffering that this country brought upon black people and all people of color.

If melanin levels are of no importance, then the colors of the ghettos of today are merely a coincidence.

The view that skin color has no bearing on one’s ability to pursue his or her goals is one that ignores basic societal realities and presents a dangerous way of thinking.

In response to the guest column published yesterday titled “A parent’s view on privilege,” Mr. Hirsch’s argument skirts the surface of hatefulness and dips its feet in the waters of social Darwinism. His assertion that the teaching of white privilege is in fact political

indoctrination seems hollow when held up to his belief that our students should be learning about the supposed “moral greatness of capitalism.”

Survival of the fittest, while encouraging competition, is not a theory steeped in morality.

Simply put, being black in America is harder than being white. I, being born white, have myriad privileges that those of color do not enjoy. I am not struck with fear when I am stopped by a police officer for a speeding violation.

A Department of Justice report found that black people are “nearly four times more likely to experience the threat or use of force during dealings with the police.” Is it not a privilege that I do not worry about being choke-slammed to the ground after running a red light? The recent stories of Michael Brown and Eric Garner highlight the pervasive nature of police brutality against people of color. Black disadvantage spans from law enforcement to almost every facet of society. According to a 2012 study supported by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, black men make up merely 5.5 percent of all college students.

I also take exception with Mr. Hirsch’s constant invocation of religion. The assertion that the “trinity of liberty” has been replaced with the “destructive ideology of race” is a flowery way to say that our children should be taught about the Christian dogma that pervades our country instead of the everpresent oppression of those who are not white.

If we as Americans believe that we are the “greatest country that has existed in human history,” as Mr. Hirsch wrote, we must realize that being born black is an instant disadvantage.

Our nation’s violent and oppressive history has created a present society in which a caste system is emerging that resembles medieval Europe. Let us not ignore the fact that white privilege exists in the United States. We must realize this problem that plagues our cities and towns and act to deserve the mentality that America is indeed a “city upon a hill.”

Samuel Stern is a junior government and politics and journalism m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t sstern@terpmail.umd.edu.

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REVIEW | VIDEO GAME ROUNDUP

ON ALIENs, BIRDIES AND zombies Bungie’s highly anticipated latest disappoints while two indie games offer wildly different approaches to storytelling

RECENTLY RELEASED video GAMES include the ambitious failure of Destiny (left), the bizarre experimentation of Hatoful Boyfriend (center) and the surprisingly moving storytelling of The Walking Dead: Season 2 (right). photos courtesy of fool.com, quartertothree.com and gamesided.com

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Destiny Played on PS4. Available on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. You can tell a lot about a game from its title. Consider Halo: There’s an implicit, almost religious grandeur to it, yes, but there’s also a sense of mystery, intrigue. Contrast that with Destiny: The grandeur becomes portentous, if not pretentious. It’s such a simple word, but loaded with so much weight.

When Bungie released Halo 13 years ago, there was very little hype and very low expectations. Only fans of their shooter Marathon had even heard of the studio. Now, with the launch of Destiny, Bungie is close to a household name in video gaming and Destiny held such promise, buoyed by reports of an outrageous half-billion dollar budget.

There was nowhere for Destiny to go but down.

Even now, a half-billion dollars in sales later, describing precisely what Destiny is remains a challenge. Destiny is Halo mixed with Diablo mixed with World of Warcraft mixed with Borderlands. You shoot, you loot, you raid, you grind

and you will be bored tearless by the inert story.

There’s something about an evil force known as The Darkness trying to wipe humanity out, and only you (along with everyone else playing) can hope to save us all by killing the same three enemies in the same four places over and over again.

Destiny isn’t a good game, yet somehow it manages to be an utterly engrossing one. Bungie has created an addictive loop of shooting, looting and leveling up that sucks you in, whether you like it or not.

So much of the game is repetitive, but it never becomes tedious.

And, despite the awful storytelling and awful voice acting, Destiny’s lore is rather interesting.

Thanks to peerless visual design and an interesting mix of magic and space opera, Destiny remains an interesting world to explore throughout the 10- to 15-hour campaign.

None of this is enough to make Destiny a good game, but maybe Destiny 2 will succeed at being the next big thing Bungie so desperately wants to create.

Hatoful Boyfriend Available and played on PC. At heart, don’t we all just want

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FAR FROM PERFECT Newest Survivor knock-off misses the mark

By Maeve Dunigan @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback “Imagine throwing off the shackles of convention and conformity,” booms a low voice as a camera pans over a mountainous landscape.

“Imagine what it would be like to start your own world with your own rules.”

The voice now has a face; he is a small mustachioed man wearing round glasses and a fedora. You later learn this narrator’s name is Dan Piraro, that he is fairly irrelevant and sometimes on camera.

Thus begins the first episode of what will be a yearlong reality TV program on

Fox, the stupidly-named Utopia.

Utopia loftily calls itself the “biggest social experiment ever televised.” The show follows 14 pioneers sent to a remote location with very few personal possessions, where they are filmed over the course of a year. Their goal is to create a perfect 14-person society. Among many other priorities, they must find their own food, build necessities, install plumbing and electricity and decide on a form of government.

This show has no winner or loser. The pioneers aren’t competing for a sum of money or a brand new house, they are simply seeing if they can construct a perfect society from the ground up. Or

somebirdie to love? Hato Moa’s utterly unhinged pigeon dating simulator Hatoful Boyfriend answers that question with a resounding yes.

In the interest of full disclosure, however, there is one point that anyone considering a purchase of Hatoful Boyfriend must understand.

The game is a visual novel, a somewhat bizarre offshoot of a graphic novel and a Choose Your Own Adventure popular in Japan. For the uninitiated, this means there’s very little game in this video game.

Instead, the action is relegated to picking among a few options at key junctions in the story. While Hatoful Boyfriend offers a surprising amount of choice for a visual novel and playfully comments on the genre throughout the game, a third-person shooter this ain’t.

Still, it’s difficult to complain about the lack of player agency when such a wide array of equally bonkers endings and plot twists unfurl within the halls of St. PigeoNation Institute. You play as the only human in a school otherwise entirely populated by sentient birds. To explain anything else about the game’s story would be spoiling the fun.

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P l ayed o n P C . Ava i l a b l e o n Android, iOS, Ouya, PC, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The first season of The Walking Dead video game was the only book, movie, song or video game to have ever made me cry. So, the second season of The Walking Dead couldn’t realistically hope to fill those unreasonably large shoes, but, gosh darn it, it gets close.

For one thing, the story and storytelling is far more ambitious than the first season. Stories about father-daughter relationships have been told before with success in video games. Stories about growing into adolescence are difficult to credibly tell in more traditional forms (i.e. books and films) let alone in a video game about zombies.

Immense credit, then, to the team at Telltale Games for crafting a believable and engrossing story revolving around Clementine, the little girl from the first game, growing into a young woman.

In the first season of The Walking Dead, every decision made felt as though you were peeling back layers of an onion and revealing more

maybe they just wanted to be on TV, who knows.

One hundred and thirty robotic cameras watch the pioneers’ every move. These pioneers are seemingly regular Americans from all walks of life.

They include a pastor, an ex convict, a pregnant woman, a lawyer and a contractor. However, casting for Utopia is ongoing, and pioneers can be voted off and replaced.

The people being filmed have absolutely no privacy. Not only are their lives broadcast in the episodes, a live camera on the Utopia website allows viewers to see what the pioneers are doing at any time. As I am writing this, the pioneers are making eggs; one of them just used an excessive amount of salt.

Creepy audience participation doesn’t stop with the live stream.

Viewers can log onto utopiatv.com and create a “passport” that allows them access to exclusive clips, because ap-

parently an ongoing live stream and weekly episodes just aren’t enough. The passport also gives viewers the ability to vote for which utopians should leave the society.

But wait, there’s more! For the price of $4.99 a month, viewers can get a “premium passport” that allows them access to even more streams of the pioneers. As the Utopia website describes it, “Think of utopiatv.com as an interactive extension of what you see on the air — an alternate path strewn with back-story pebbles, multiple live streams, and all the other dirt on the Utopians. So roll around in it!” Yeah, roll around in that utopian dirt.

For a show with so much hype, such big aspirations and so much potential for viewer participation, one would think that Utopia would attract a fairly large audience. However, this doesn’t seem to be true.

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about the main character. Here, every decision you make shapes the person Clementine becomes. It’s exhilarating, terrifying and heartrending in equal measure.

It’s a testament to Telltale’s superb writing that I’m absolutely certain different people will have violently different reactions to the game’s five or so endings.

On the other hand, the stretch marks inherent to Telltale’s core game design have never been so apparent. The first season of The Walking Dead created an effective illusion of determinism, which begins to wear thin during portions of the second season, where the smoke and mirrors become painfully obvious.

The game also, crucially, lacks technical polish. I was unable to carry over my decisions from the first season into the second because the game couldn’t find the save files on my computer. The general interface is clunky, slow and arduous to use. The quick time events scattered liberally throughout the same border on self-parody.

But, even with these serious problems, The Walking Dead: Season 2 is still a fantastic and moving experience, a must-buy for anyone willing to tolerate more zombies. wzhangdbk@gmail.com

ness Times, Utopia premiered to an audience of about 4.6 million, while the second episode attracted only 2.5 million. The drop in viewership and ratings has led many to believe Fox should consider canceling the program, but with the sheer amount of money and time the network put into it, they seem to be opting to stick it out.

Why such a drop? Maybe it’s because the first episode consisted largely of the pioneers simply yelling uncreative expletives at each other. Maybe people think giant televised social experiments are a bit unsettling. Or maybe Fox just premiered the wrong show at the wrong time.

The word “utopia” is derived from the Greek word “ou-topos” meaning “nowhere” and, ironically, that’s exactly where this TV show — in quality and viewership — is going. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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line From PAGE 8 guard Silvano Altamirano, center Sal Conaboy, right guard Andrew Zeller and right tackle Ryan Doyle — to correct its mistakes. And it started in the hours after the game.

Zeller said a number of offensive linemen started watching film on Saturday before they had even seen their families.

“After a loss like that, you look for any little thing that you can blame yourself or that you can improve to make the team better. I think the front five, that’s exactly what we did,” Zeller said. “We were all very critical on ourselves and just looking for the little things that we can perfect.”

The unit did some positive things Saturday. Brown broke off several long runs and finished with 161 yards on the ground.

However, the offensive line was unable to create space when the Terps needed it most.

“They’ve just got to keep working together, keep getting better,” coach Randy Edsall said. “But again, just like everybody else, they weren’t consistent enough.”

Zeller said the key to im-

proving in third-and-short situations is polishing technique. On those downs, each offensive lineman must win his one-on-one battle.

“Just dominate your guy,” Z e l l e r sa i d . “ T h a t’s t h e mindset.”

Added Dunn: “Third-and-1, goal line, that’s the offensiveline down. Put your hand in the ground and just fire off the ball.”

Most importantly, Zeller said, the Terps offense has to limit mistakes in all facets of the game, third downs included.

Offensive coordinator Mike Locksley implements a specific grading system to help in this process: staying below a 12 percent margin of error in any game.

A c c o r d i n g t o Z e l l e r, Locksley adds up the total number of plays in a contest, including those rendered null by penalties, before determining how many of those plays were negative.

Did a receiver drop a pass?

Did the offensive line surrender a sack? Was there a turnover? Did a player miss an assignment? Did the unit fail on third-and-short? And so on.

Take those negative plays a n d d iv i d e t h e m by t h e total plays over the course of the game. If that final

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Terrapins football left tackle number equates to less than 12 percent, then the offense achieved its goal.

“Coach Locksley harps on it. If you’re under 12 percent, you’re going to win a lot of games,” Zeller said. “If you’re above 12 percent … your opponent is not beating you; you’re beating yourself.”

Zeller said the Terps were below the 12 percent threshold on Saturday against West Virginia, but the failures on third down — the Terps went 4-for-15 in the game — proved to be the difference.

Even so, the two missed opportunities on third-andshort have fueled a more determined offensive line. And when another chance comes, the unit will be prepared to execute.

“Coach Locksley and Coach Edsall have trust in us,” Dunn said. “And next time, we want to show them that they can trust us.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

cornerback will likely runs past West Virginia punter Nick O’Toole en route to a 69-yard punt return touchdown in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 40-37 loss. The score marked the second punt return touchdown of Likely’s college career. chester lam/the diamondback

KASINITZ From PAGE 8 about two hours before I came here,” Likely continued.

“I’m about to go back [to the film room].”

Still, Likely has natural ability to go with his grittiness and dogged work ethic.

He’s quick and shifty and has tremendous vision, which is most evident on his punt returns.

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vember, and his score Saturday against West Virginia tied the game at 37.

He averages 27.5 yards per return, which is the best mark in the country for anybody who’s returned at least five punts.

“It’s just my instincts,” Likely said, explaining his success. “Seeing things before it happens. Just catching it and making plays. I can’t really explain it.”

But the reason Likely is the Terps’ most inspiring player, the reason he’s the kind of guy Edsall wants to build a

defense From PAGE 8 “It was just a change in mentality and we had to take pride in our defending,” Nelson said.

“And there are still things that we need to work on, but I think as a whole we just don’t want to let the team down, so we’re trying to get our act together.”

Since their West Coast trip, which also featured a match against No. 12 Pepperdine, the Terps have tightened their backline. Gerlitz credits the improvement partly to the unit’s extended time together.

After last season, the three also played alongside one another this past spring.

In addition, Nelson said she and her teammates are avoiding taking plays off and experiencing mental lapses.

Against N.C. State, Beanlands made a small mistake that allowed the Wolfpack to tie the game temporarily.

The 5-foot-9 junior dove too early on forward Kayla Saa-

program around, lies with those days he spent battling Benjamin at Glades Central.

“He has a lot of pride,” Edsall said. “That’s what separates him from a lot of these guys. He doesn’t want to get beat, and if he does, he’s going to figure out why he got beat and go back and make sure it doesn’t happen again. He isn’t going to hang his head; he is going to come back and do more.”

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ger’s shot and was unable to make the save. “ T h a t ’s s o m e t h i n g I shouldn’t be doing at my age,” Beanlands said. “So it’s that sort of thing: always being focused and always being concentrated on the task at every moment without thinking about the future or the past.”

Though the Terps have experienced a few defensive hiccups so far, they’ve recently done a better job limiting their opponents on the scoreboard. They’ll hope to do more of the same this weekend against Michigan, which is coming off an upset win against then-No. 9 Wisconsin and Michigan State.

“Both teams are counter-attacking teams,” Morgan said of the Wolverines and Spartans.

“So our transition to defend once we lose it is going to be a huge priority for us. We have to make sure we do a good job getting our numbers back and behind the ball.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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elliott From PAGE 8 excited for the chance to display her talents against some of the nation’s top competition.

“I really appreciate any floor time I can get, any manner I can get it,” Coyle said. “But I don’t feel that my role has changed all that much even if I’m on the floor. … So just to be able to showcase [my talent] is a big opportunity for me.”

A n d t h o u g h E l l i o t t ’s absence will hurt the Terps, Aird believes some of her teammates will get valuable

experience they might not have received otherwise.

B u t d e s p i te t h e “ n ex t person up” attitude that Aird has instilled in his players entering a weekend of stiff competition, the first-year sideline general still realizes the rest of the year will be tough, especially if Elliott misses an extended period.

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FOOTBALL

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Backline continues to make key strides Terps have allowed three goals in past five matches after struggling early in season

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

The Terps Offensive line celebrates with Albert Reid after the running back scored a touchdown in an Aug. 30 win over James Madison. christian jenkins/the diamondback

POINT OF PRIDE Terps offensive line hopes to improve on third-and-short situations

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer With three minutes, 41 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of a tie game against West Virginia on Saturday at Byrd Stadium, the Terrapins football offense faced a third-and-1 from its own 36-yard line. The unit set up in an I-formation with quarterback C.J. Brown under center. Fullback Kenneth Goins Jr. crouched in a three-point stance 2 yards behind Brown, and running back Brandon Ross stood with his hands on his knees 3 yards behind Goins.

Brown took the snap before delivering a handoff into Goins’ stomach, but the offensive line created no push against the Mountaineers’ front. Goins took two steps

and was swallowed up by six blue jerseys. The fullback managed to evade several defenders but was eventually brought down for a loss of 5 yards.

The play marked the final time the Terps would touch the ball in a 40-37 loss and the second time in the contest the offense failed to convert on a third-down running play with 2 or fewer yards to go.

In the days following the disappointing loss to a bitter rival, members of the offensive line voiced their discontent regarding the crucial blunders.

“We failed on a big third-and-1,” left tackle Michael Dunn said. “We know we can’t let that happen again.”

That mentality translated into steadfast commitment from the five-man offensive line — Dunn, left See line, Page 7

Entering its game against Rutgers Friday night, the Terrapins women’s soccer team faced a Scarlet Knights attacking unit capable of scoring in bunches.

In their previous four matches, the Scarlet Knights outscored their opponents 12-1 and averaged 15.75 shots per game. Much of the offensive firepower came from midfielders Amy Pietrangelo and Madison Tiernan and forward Stefanie Scholz, a trio who combined to score eight goals and attempt 41 of the team’s 63 shots in those four contests.

However, when the Scarlet Knights traveled to College Park, they fell victim to a Terps defense that limited them to three shots on goal. Rutgers’ three reliable scoring options still had their chances — they attempted 10 of the team’s 13 shots — but failed to crack the Terps’ solid backline in a shutout loss at Ludwig Field.

After the Terps allowed three first-half goals in their seasonopening loss to No. 1 UCLA, they’ve surrendered just three goals in their past five games. And as the Terps enter conference play, the defense continues to correct its mistakes and work on communication.

“We’ve become more disciplined and more connected as a back three,” defender Amanda Gerlitz said. “Over time, it’s been getting much better and more connected.

We drop together and we talk more.”

Fellow defenders Shannon Collins and Erika Nelson round out the backline. As juniors, the two provide experience — both have started more than 30 games during each of their first two seasons — and

defender Amanda gerlitz dribbles upfield in a victory over Rutgers on Friday at Ludwig Field in the Big Ten opener. alexander jonesi/ for the diamondback have played together frequently.

Gerlitz, meanwhile, started last season as a defensive substitute.

Later in the year, coach Jonathan Morgan moved her into the starting lineup, so she played alongside Nelson and Collins in the final six matches.

Still, the Terps had trouble protecting their goal in 2013, allowing 1.55 goals per game compared to a goal per game so far this season.

And in their season opener against UCLA, the Terps’ defensive struggles continued, as the Bruins rifled off 14 shots on goal.

Nelson believes the Terps’ trip to California was a wake-up call for the defense. As a unit, they agreed they needed to increase their level of play and help alleviate some of the pressure on goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands.

See defense, Page 7

FOOTBALL

VOLLEYBALL

Terps move forward with Elliott sidelined Senior to miss matches vs Washington, USC

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer When the Terrapins volleyball team dropped its first match this season against Radford on Friday, it also suffered a different kind of loss.

While diving for the ball, outside hitter Adreené Elliott landed awkwardly on top of her hand, fracturing it.

The team is unsure how long Elliott will be sidelined, but she won’t play in Seattle today and tomorrow when the Terps take on No. 5 Washington and No. 10 USC, respectively, in the Pac-12/Big Ten Showcase. And after this week, the Terps begin conference play.

So the Terps move into the meat of their schedule needing to replace the senior, whom coach Steve Aird called the team’s best player.

“Any time was going to be a bad time to lose Adreené,” middle blocker Catie Coyle said. “We can only make the best of it. We at least have experience with the team; we’re comfortable with the people who are behind her.”

Aird said several players will be asked to help replace Elliott, though Coyle is likely to see the most increased workload. The senior played 75 sets last year and placed fifth on the team in blocks.

Middle blocker Kelsey Hrebenach and setter Whitney Craigo will also see time as outside hitter, Aird said.

“I don’t think you just do a s t ra i g h t - u p re p l a c e m e n t fo r [Elliott],” Aird said. “I’ll have to be

“I DON’T THINK YOU JUST DO A STRAIGHT-UP REPLACEMENT FOR [ELLIOTT]. ... I’LL HAVE TO BE REALLY CREATIVE ABOUT THE LINEUPS.” STEVE AIRD

Terrapins volleyball coach really creative about the lineups.”

Ashleigh Crutcher will be the one to fill in at Elliott’s position, however, transitioning from the right-side hitter spot, where she has spent all of this season.

Crutcher played the outside hitter position last season, when she was named to the All-ACC second team, so she is not concerned about the move.

“Volleyball is volleyball,” Crutcher said. “Playing on the right side or the outside, you just hit the ball as hard as you can and that’s what I’m going to continue to do.”

Crutcher also said she is comfortable with Coyle’s ability to enter the mix. “[Coyle] is one of our captains,” Crutcher said. “And she works hard every day in the gym. I feel like everyone on the team has the most confidence in her.”

Coyle hopes her ability to block will help the team this weekend. She also believes that, though she isn’t as talented as Elliott, she has enough athleticism and intelligence to keep her team in games.

And after playing a reserve role to begin the year, Coyle said she is See elliott, Page 7

Cornerback Will Likely makes a move during a punt return in the Terps’ 40-37 loss to rival West Virginia on Saturday at Byrd Stadium. marquise mckine/the diamondback

The model of success Tenacity, work habits make Likely a program-changing player AARON KASINITZ If 5-foot-7 Terrapins football cornerback Will Likely was watching when 6-foot-5 Florida State wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin rose above Auburn defenders to grab the gamewinning touchdown of last season’s national title game, he probably got a bit of deja vu.

Benjamin was a lethal weapon in the red zone all year for the Seminoles. Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston would often float high passes in Benjamin’s direction, and the current Carolina Panther would leap over smaller defensive backs to snag the ball. Benjamin finished the year with 15 touchdowns, thanks to a play that was, essentially, unguardable.

College Park’s favorite squirt can tell you that from his high school experience with Benjamin. Though

Likely gave up about 10 inches to Benjamin and is two years younger than the wideout, the future Terp often lined up against him in practices at Glades Central High School in Florida.

Benjamin typically used his size to best Likely, just as he did to so many corners during his college career.

But Likely returned to the line of scrimmage to try to cover Benjamin again and again, regardless of how challenging and frustrating the task seemed.

It’s that tenacity that’s made Likely a fan favorite at Byrd Stadium and one of the most electric players in the Big Ten entering this weekend’s game at Syracuse. And Likely doesn’t just try hard. He’s a star on a team with aspirations of competing for a Big Ten title, and he’s a player the Terps need if they have any chance of approaching that goal.

The Terps’ 40-37 loss to West Virginia on Saturday would have

been a blowout if not for Likely. The sophomore forced a fumble when the Mountaineers were driving deep in the Terps’ territory in the first quarter, halted another West Virginia drive with an interception and took a punt 69 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.

“It doesn’t surprise me that he’s playing at such a high level because of the way he prepares and how he works,” coach Randy Edsall said.

“That’s the difference.”

Likely spends extra time on the practice field and in the weight room, sure, but he especially likes watching film. The media asked Likely about these habits while speaking to him Tuesday.

“I watch film every day,” the softspoken corner said.

It turns out his film session was being interrupted.

“I just got done watching film for See KASINITZ, Page 7