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New partnership with technology company will help university expand blended learning A new partnership with technology company Coursera, which hosts free online courses from 33 universities worldwide, is a first step toward increasing the university’s use of online and blended learning, officials said. The university’s only expense in the part-

By Lauren Kirkwood Staff writer The university will offer four free online courses this spring, and not just for students — they’ll be available to anyone with an Internet connection.

nership was the cost of producing the course materials and the efforts faculty and officials put into designing the four courses, according to Information Technology Vice President Brian Voss.

“We’re going to see how this goes,” Voss said. “We’ll see how effective this

is, and how our faculty display interest in it and what’s involved in ‘Courseraizing’ courses.”

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prices at on-campus shops are higher than in convenience stores. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

U. shop prices marked up Few items can be held in bulk, officals say

By Bradleigh Chance Staff writer Darby Whitehair started to notice the price markups from behind her cash register at the Union Shop.

Items at the Stamp Student Union store consistently cost more than at local supermarkets and convenience stores, hikes Dining Services officials said are necessary because the department can’t store items in bulk.

Though the ease of purchasing food and goods on the campus often rings up a price 40 percent higher than at private stores — on everything from cereal to cleaning supplies — many students said it’s a struggle to take their business elsewhere.

“I went through $200 Terp Bucks in three trips to the Commons Shop just getting basic groceries,” freshman psychology major Steven Ringer said.

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public policy students made decisions about how to manage the federal budget yesterday while playing the online simulation game “Budget Heroes.” charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Game CHANGE

Students get to decide how to manage federal budget in online simulation game ‘Budget Heroes’

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer Students, rather than politicians, were given the power of the nation’s purse strings Wednesday, as creators of a popular online simulation game offered a group of public policy students an oppor-

tunity to decide how to manage the federal budget.

It was up to students to choose how to handle the government’s health care, Social Security, infrastructure, education and other programs and expenses while also monitoring revenues through tax code structure and investments in the online game “Budget Hero,” which recently launched

wrapping IT up

Dining Services changes wrap-making process after summer retraining; leaves ends open

a new Election Edition. The role-playing came at a time when a heated presidential campaign has pitted the two political parties against each other when it comes to responsibly managing the nation’s budget.

DREAM Act would not greatly impact university

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By Jenny Hottle Staff writer

Whether it’s the classic buffalo chicken, the Maryland club or a simple turkey and cheese, no wrap will ever be the same.

After Dining Services employees went through training sessions over the summer, which included how to construct the wraps, officials decided to make several changes to the wrapmaking process, including cutting vegetables, chicken and other sandwich products, rather than dicing them, and leaving the ends of the wraps open instead of folded in. “[Employees] have been instructed not to dice these products. Tomato slices are to be cut in half, grilled chicken is to be sliced, fried chicken tenders are cut into four or five pieces and cheese slices are left whole,” head chef John Gray said. “Operations managers, supervisors and I watch employees make sandwiches and wraps. If something is made incorrectly, the employee is quietly spoken with or shown how to properly make the sandwich or wrap.”

The university may not see a large influx of undocumented immigrants enrolling should voters uphold the DREAM Act in the statewide referendum in November, according to university and state experts.

In part because of the requirements of this state’s DREAM Act, fewer than 1,000 undocumented immigrant students in the state would likely enter a two- or four-year college or university next fall, said Kristin Ford, an Educating Maryland’s Kids spokeswoman, based on the experience of states that have passed similar legislations.

“None of those states have had more than 1 percent of their student bodies comprised of DREAM Act students, so that’s the projection we’re using,” Ford said.

The state’s DREAM Act would allow undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at any of the state’s two-year community colleges or four-year universities if they attended a state high school for at least

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after retraining sessions this summer, Dining Services officials decided to no longer fold in the ends of wraps or dice the sandwich’s contents to save time and improve the overall product . charlie deboyace/the diamondback Although she complained to the workers who make the wraps, sophomore Italian major Kaitlin Paddy said she didn’t have any luck in changing the wrap-making process, which made her stop buying them altogether.

“They said you have to talk to the head chef because it is only their idea and none of them are agreeing with it,” she added.

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three years and their guardians have filed state taxes.

“None of the other states require tax paying or being able to prove that you or your family have filed state income taxes,” Ford said. “So we anticipate that will whittle the pool even further.”

The number of undocumented immigrant students who could enroll in college also depends on their ability to afford the full in-state tuition, Ford added, as undocumented students are not eligible for state or federal financial aid.

Government and politics professor Robert Koulish said he thinks it is reasonable to estimate a number of students in the low thousands would apply to state colleges as a result of the DREAM Act and their enrollment “would not overwhelm resources at the state’s community colleges.”

“Further, the number of Dreamers coming to College Park are not likely to be nearly as high,” Koulish said.

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game From PAGE 1 “It’s a tremendously important exercise to be able to have people just really confront the realities of what so often just gets wrapped up in rhetoric,” said Don Kettl, the public policy school dean.

“For these students in particular, what’s also important is that we’re not only talking about the nation’s future — we’re talking about their future.”

The four groups of students varied on their underlying goals for the budget: whether to promote government efficiency, work toward energy independence or simplify the tax code to generate revenue more effectively.

Killing tax cuts was the solution for public policy masters student Adele Byrne and her group.

“That’s one of the most important ways to try and balance the budget … to have more coming in than goes out,” Byrne said.

wraps From PAGE 1 Gray said, to help improve the overall product and move along the often-snaking sandwich lines.

“This was done to increase the speed of the lines, give a better plate presentation and increase the edibility of the wrap,” Gray said.

Many students, however, said the changes have made their meal experience more difficult.

“It’s really difficult to eat because everything falls out of the bottom. It’s not that hard to fold the bottom end,” said Claire Tomaszewski, a freshman materials science and engineering major. “If I am turned off by it, some of other people must be, too.”

Gray said closing the ends of the wrap wasted time since they often didn’t include the contents of the sandwich.

“With the ends folded in,

Others favored cuts to corporate tax rates to give businesses a leg up in the global marketplace.

“For taxes it was pretty much our conflict area, where we couldn’t decide whether or not to cut the corporate taxes,” said Max Gross, a senior economics major. “We decided for the purpose of competitive advantage that we should.”

And almost every group agreed to cut defense as the nation slowly draws out of conflicts in the Middle East.

Additionally, every group looked to address Social Security and Medicare, government programs with price tags that are set to skyrocket as more and more people retire in the years to come. The groups proposed raising the retirement age, which Kettl said would cut the benefits of those very students when they reach retirement age.

“That, I think, is a pretty powerful message,” Kettl said. “Every group stood up and said, ‘You can

you would get three or more bites that were tortilla and no filling,” he said. “By leaving the ends open, the fi lling products are spread evenly throughout the wrap.”

Sophomore biology major John Morgan said he preferred the way the wraps were made last year.

“I like them better when they’re folded in, and I do like the end piece cause I have a bit of extra wrap,” he said.

So fa r, officia ls haven’t changed the new process, leaving the method, just like the wraps, open ended.

“We haven’t been exposed to the other types of wraps,” said freshman psychology major Mica Cocco. “But we definitely think they’re hard to eat and they should accommodate for us.”

Staff writer Bradleigh Chance contributed to this story. amenabar@umdbk.com

On Wednesday, public policy students used a game to simulate managing the federal budget. Four groups used various strategies to solve budget problems. charlie deboyace/the diamondback cut my benefits in the future in exchange for the ability to be able put the country back into a sound fiscal situation.’”

The simulation culminated in a Capitol Hill news conference, where university officials and students presented the game and student input to Congress.

dream From PAGE 1 politics professor, said that assessment of the legislation’s immediate impact was fair.

“The law is fairly stringent in Maryland as far as the DREAM Act is concerned,” Rouse said.

“It’s not automatically going to affect a significant amount of undocumented immigrants.”

Joel Sati, a student at Montgomery College who recently disclosed he is an undocumented immigrant, volunteers with CASA de Maryland with the hope that students like him will be able to attend college.

“They have the ambition and ability to be positive forces in their communities, but the fact that they have no papers doesn’t allow them to be even that,” Sati said.

Despite these projections,

“As it stands now, it’s our generation that’s going to be stuck with all the debt and all the fiscal woes of the country,” said Zach Cohen, a senior government and politics major.

“While politicians have paid relatively good lip service about fixing the debt and bringing

several students said they thought the law would encourage more immigrants with children to enter the country illegally.

“I completely understand the fact that the immigrants this act is helping were most likely brought here by parents and had no choice in the matter,” said sophomore Arabic studies and Romance languages major Sara Stifler. “I don’t like the idea of this because it is using our tax dollars and encouraging the exploitation of our country’s resources by people who are here illegally.”

Other students, such as Tanya Kumar, said the importance of the act’s end goal overshadows its potential impact on the state’s educational system.

“If [the DREAM Act] can change the lives of even a small group of people, then it’s worth working towards,” said the junior astronomy and biology major. “If it’s truly the ‘illegal’ part of illegal

Social Security and Medicaid to sustainable levels, we haven’t really seen that in action.”

Some students were eager to pitch their ideas to Congress in hopes of fixing the budget before it’s too late.

“I think we need to have a frank discussion with the American

immigration that people object to, then in good conscience, the right thing to do is give young people trying to build a future in this country the chance to do it legally.”

Koulish said he hopes to see many undocumented students, whom he calls “dreamers,” to take advantage of the Maryland DREAM Act if it passes.

“Without access to a college education, thousands of young people who were raised in the state would not have access to decent jobs that would allow them to contribute to the economy or their community,” he said. “It is likely to be in everybody’s interest, citizen and immigrant alike, to see these young people gain access to a college education.”

The Latino Student Union and other campus cultural organizations seek to provide undocumented students with a support

people about what will happen if this budget goes bust,” said J Charles Mintzmyer, a masters student in public policy. “Maybe in 2035 we won’t have a military; maybe in 2035 we won’t have social security.” bach@umdbk.com

“they have the ambition and ability to be positive forces in their communities, but the fact that they have no papers doesn’t allow them to be even that.”

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Montgomery College student system if the DREAM Act passes by assisting them with finding resources to afford the cost of higher education, said LSU Public Relations Vice President Diana Villatoro-Sancho.

“It should be guaranteed that the resources that are given to other students, be given to all students during the application process, regardless of their immigration status,” VillatoroSancho said. hottle@umdbk.com

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UNIVERSITY STORES consistently mark up prices from other local retailers, in part because the university has no facility to store non-perishables in bulk. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

PRICES From PAGE 1 “Pretty soon I’m going to have to start paying out of pocket.”

Ringer and his roommate visit the Commons Shop at least once a week to stock up, rather than relying on food from the dining halls. While he likes to make quesadillas in his dorm, Ringer said the cost of the ingredients deters him from eating at home often.

“I think they capitalize on the fact that it’s the only place on campus to get groceries by hiking up the prices,” he said.

Whitehair said people are always surprised by how much they have to pay for their items.

“Sometimes people put stuff back, but most just buy it

anyways,” she said.

According to Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple, the markups are unavoidable because the university does not have a warehouse to store mass amounts of non-perishable items, and Dining Services must rely on small, weekly shipments.

Some products, such as ingredients used in dining hall recipes or products purchased from the university, are relatively cheap, Hipple said.

“Dairy products come from the campus dairy, so we get good prices,” he said.

Only the largest of companies buy non-perishable items in bulk because they sell enough of the product for it to be profitable, said Dining Services Assistant Director Dave Bullock, adding the

department has not increased its markup and has lowered its prices by about a cent from last year.

“Except for a few items, we don’t sell enough of any single item to get a volume discount,” he said. “The just-in-time delivery process reduces costs and provides fresher products.”

For many suppliers, the university’s academic calendar is also a challenge, Hipple added.

As a result, students like Whitehair said they have to determine what is and isn’t a reasonable buy. While some basic items are as cheap as at local grocery stores, other specialty items tend to cost more. For example, ramen noodles cost $2.55 for a pack of six both at the convenience shops and at local supermarkets, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch costs $6.39 on the campus and $3.59 through Giant’s delivery service, Peapod.

A 14 oz. box of Cheerios costs $5.69, while an 18 oz. box is $4.49 through Peapod.

“The boxes of cereal are insane,” she said. “I would never spend that much.”

Cleaning and household supplies are often pricier as well.

A single Bounty paper towel roll costs $3.39 and a 12-pack of Scott Naturals are $15.49 on the campus, compared to $2.99 and $9.99, respectively, through Giant’s delivery service. And

while a 50 fl. oz. container of Gain detergent runs up $11.49 at a university shop, a container double the size is only $2.00 more through Peapod.

Sophomore computer science major Nick Mosquera tries to buy his groceries elsewhere in order to save some cash.

“Even though it doesn’t feel like real money because you’re using a plan, it’s still food that you’re buying and it doesn’t need to cost that much,” he said.

Mosquera said the total cost of his shopping trips often comes as a surprise because products’ labels have been missing their prices. Dining Services has begun fixing some of the labels and has a large shelf order going in this week, Bullock said, though many items were lacking price listings as of yesterday.

“We are constantly working to keep shelf tags in place and up to date,” he said. “With such a huge variety and small stores, it’s tough to keep tags and items in the same place. … We are always willing to do a price check at the register.”

Mosquera said he understands some services can’t be cheap.

“At other universities students have to pay for athletic events, but they’re free here,” he said. “I guess this is just something that’s hard to avoid.” chance@umdbk.com

The UNIVERSITY SENATE executive committee discussed partnering with online course company Coursera last month. Four free courses are in the works. file photo/the diamondback

COURSES From PAGE 1 “Developing Innovative Ideas for Real Companies,” “Women and the Civil Rights Movement,” “Exploring Quantum Physics” and “Software Defined Networking.”

Physics professor Charles Clark, who will teach “Exploring Quantum Physics,” said the Coursera model benefits the faculty who teach the courses as much as the wide range of students who enroll in them.

“The reason I got interested in this mode of instruction is the very large numbers of students that can be engaged,” Clark said. “That’s basically the appeal — there’s an opportunity to learn something when you have the potential of dealing with such large numbers of people.”

Many Coursera courses are populated by students from around the world rather than students from the host university, Voss said. While university students can take advantage of the online program, they cannot receive university credit for completion.

“It provides a way of exploring topics in depth with no financial commitment and no real hazard in terms of your reputation,” Clark said.

Coursera courses will function similarly to traditional courses in many ways — lectures, assignments with strict deadlines and final exams will be the norm – but they’re completely different from most people’s idea of an online class, Voss said. The university also has many other options to explore and no plans to commit solely to Coursera, he added.

“This is like a spice rack — if you look at a spice rack, there’s dozens of different spices,” he said. “There are dozens of different approaches to online and blended learning. It’s not like we’re going to pick Coursera, and that’s it.”

One of the main distinctions of Coursera lies in its social elements, he said. Students have the ability to interact with one another in online forums and make comments about problems or concepts.

Clark, who is enrolled in a quantum computing Coursera class, said after posting comments on different aspects of an assignment, he received myriad responses and emails from other students in the course.

“T here is a considerable degree of social learning that goes on,” he said.

Faculty members also must break down their typical 50- or 75-minute lectures into modules of 12-to-15 minutes to fit the Coursera model, Voss said.

University President Wallace Loh said in an age where many people start using computers at age 4, blended learning models and shorter lectures could likely be the future of higher education.

“This is a whole new vision.

A new vision of how teaching and learning will be in the 21st century,” he said.

Several officials said the university’s partnership with Coursera is not the end result of consideration of blended and online learning, but merely the first trial.

“Nobody really knows the full benefits of online and blended learning,” Loh said. “I think the cautious and realistic thing to say is that this is a great experiment. We will learn.”

A n d a l t h o u g h t h e fo u r courses planned for the spring cover fields from science to the humanities, Academic Planning and Programs Associate Provost Betsy Beise said online learning may not be feasible for every subject area.

“It is a d i fferent way of teaching,” she said. “Not everyone knows how to do it, and not every course is suitable.”

Beise said the university is working to incorporate greater use of technology in the classroom in order to balance the benefits of daily interaction with the advanced aid of modern tools. A Provost’s Commission on Blended and Online Education formed this summer will begin meeting within a few weeks, she said.

“For undergraduates in general, we feel pretty strongly as an institution that students benefit from interactions with each other and with faculty in the classroom,” she said. “That’s not to say blended isn’t a good strategy.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

MORE ONLINE ‘He was greatly admired’ FRANK McDonald, 1925-2012 Frank B. McDonald, former chief NASA scientist and senior university research scientist, died Aug. 31 after 50 years of dedicated work in space physics and cosmic ray astrophysics.

“I can’t really put words in my husband’s mouth, but I believe that his passion came from his curiosity about our universe,” his wife, Irene Kelejian McDonald, wrote in an email. “He had an insatiable thirst for finding the answers through his science.”

McDonald, who was 87, died of a cerebral hemorrhage after giving a speech at a scientific symposium in Ypsilanti, Mich., at the University of Michigan. photo courtesy of eun-suk seo Frank Bethune McDonald was born on May 28, 1925, in Columbus, Ga. He graduated from Duke University in 1948 and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in physics at the University of Minnesota in 1951 and 1955, respectively.

McDonald worked as a chief NASA scientist from 1982 to 1987. During his time at NASA, he helped launch a partnership with historically black colleges to fund research projects and a teach-in-space program, which aided students in learning about science and space exploration.

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Accessing the syllabi

Hungry for Apple Last week Apple introduced the iPhone 5. This in itself should not be news, as the anticipation surrounding the September 12 announcement had been building for months. Numerous websites and blogs had been speculating about the new phone ever since the release of the 4S last year. In case that weren’t enough, every major news outlet from The New York Times to the French Le Monde ran articles describing the new changes, at times giving real-time updates from the press conference to satiate curious Apple fans and common consumers alike.

All of this coverage isn’t surprising — it is the norm with new Apple products along with long lines at Apple stores and backlogs on orders as more and more people hop on the bandwagon. What is surprising is the variability between the coverage of the iPhone and, say, the Samsung Galaxy S III, which came out in May. Media outlets — which are run on the premise of objectivity — seem to favor the products coming out of Cupertino over other competitors on the market.

While there is speculation and conspiracies regarding payoffs by Apple, I’ll dismiss those simply because of the broad range of coverage and the improbability of paying off institutions like The New York Times. The answer is much simpler and also slightly worrisome in the everchanging landscape of media: Consumers like the iPhone, so the media produces.

It’s easy to see this infatuation. Just look around this campus and see how many of the iconic Apple logos you can

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spot. Or look online. Google has a feature where you can see what is most searched in a day. The day before the release of the iPhone 5, more than 10 million people in the U.S. searched the query “iPhone 5.” To put it into perspective, less than 5 million people searched for terms related to the shootings in Aurora, Colo., on July 20. This leaves us with a daunting reality: Americans are more engrossed in their electronics than a tragedy involving the loss of 12 American lives.

That may be a drastic comparison, but it goes to show the issue with bias is two-fold. Yes, the media is unfair in its coverage, but it is enabled by the American public. News sources cover stories readers are interested in. Doing so allows them to make money, but they have to be careful when covering businesses that are in close competition. They have to find balance so a fair business environment is able to thrive and one company isn’t aided by skewed coverage. Consumers have a role to play, too. We must keep our options open and maintain an air of skepticism when purchasing products. Although I must disclose that I own an iPhone, it wasn’t the de facto choice.

In fact, the reason I ultimately chose it was because my car had a dock connector in it. Avoid the bandwagon unless you have a legitimate reason for jumping on, and maybe the media will follow suit.

D a n n y D v o ra k i s a f re s h m a n business major. He can reached at ddvorak@terpmail.umd.edu.

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ave you ever walked into a class on the first day and, a few minutes into lecture, come to the realization the class was going to be way more work than you bargained for? And did you immediately regret your decision to take it? For students who have been here for more than a year, it’s most likely happened at least once.

In a few weeks, that maze of class registration will start again. Students will be trying to find class times that work with their schedules (or attempting to work it out so they don’t have to be up before 10 a.m. any day), coordinating with their friends so they’re not alone and, most importantly, figuring out which classes they’ll be able to manage in one semester.

Outside of reviews from o u r u m d . c o m a n d a n e cd o te s from peers who have taken the class already, students have little means of knowing what exactly they’re signing up for. There’s no way to see what the teacher has planned for the class — or has done in the past — leaving students simply hoping they have not signed up for too much (or too little, for those overachievers).

That problem led former SGA President Kaiyi Xie to propose making course syllabi available at

the time of class registration, potentially through Testudo. The hope is students could make more informed decisions about which classes to sign up for, rather than having to frantically drop and add courses at the start of the semester.

The proposal seems to be moving in the right direction, as the University Senate’s Educational Affairs Committee, which was charged with reviewing the proposal, has recom-

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Posting syllabi before the semester will help students better navigate their course registration — so step up and make it happen. mended syllabi for undergraduate courses be easily available online.

Additionally, the committee’s report states that, “every effort should be made to implement this recommendation as soon as possible with existing technology such as unit web pages accessible from Testudo. … A concerted effort should be made over time to develop a universal model for the electronic dissemination of course syllabi.”

Students typically don’t take too much interest in University Senate

decisions until they find out a policy has been passed that they don’t agree with. This mentality was on full display last semester when the senate approved a plus/minus grading policy, and even though students issued a petition hoping to overturn the decision, it was ultimately unsuccessful because administrators said the decision was final. Today, however, students have the ability to influence policy before a final decision is made.

The senate will have its first full body meeting today, where it will discuss and vote on the measure.

Any students able to show up to the meeting — which starts at 3:15 p.m. in Stamp’s Atrium — should certainly attend and ensure senators hear their voice. Students who aren’t senators may not be able to vote, but they should explain why the policy is necessary. If students can better plan their class schedules, they can prepare for the upcoming semester and avoid being caught off guard.

At the end of the day, making syllabi available in advance not only benefits the students, but the professors as well. After all, they won’t be wasting their time with students who don’t actually want to be in the class but couldn’t find something else to take.

Students were too late in trying to influence the senate’s decision to implement a plus/minus policy. Let’s not make the same mistake twice.

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America’s body image The perception of a ‘normal’ female body is unrecognizable SARAH GORDON While perusing the Twittersphere a few weeks ago, @WolfpackAlan linked me to an article titled, “The Top 15 Sexiest Plus Size Women.” I clicked through the slides, which featured pictures of Adele, Kate Winslet (since when is she plus-size?), Kirstie Alley, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Hendricks. All gorgeous, talented, successful women — each having earned a place in Hollywood through a combination of luck, hard work, a featured role on Glee and/or Simon Cowell’s endorsement. Yet in terms of looks, these women aren’t ever compared to the likes of Rihanna, Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz or even Martha freaking Stewart because of their size. There is never an article written, picture posted or compliment given to bigger women without a specific mention of their size. It’s the ultimate backhanded insult. They can’t simply be beautiful women; they have to be beautiful plus-size women, which in our culture equals significantly less.

In American society, weight is the initial barometer of attractiveness.

Women who are not skinny are instantly cast into a lower tier than smaller women. This isn’t relegated strictly to women, either — at least a plus-size woman has a shot at being

thought of as attractive, as long as she has curves in all the right places — see Christina Hendricks. The first thing that autofills when you type her name into Google is weight or size, believe it or not. So much for her acting. After reading this article, I Googled, “Top Most Attractive Plus Size Men.” Millions of results, and absolute zilch on the topic. So, plussize women are criticized, but plussize men aren’t even allowed to see the light of day.

So maybe I, as a size-12 woman, am better off. At least I can aspire to being in a tabloid feature someday about how miraculous it is that some percentage of the population still finds me attractive — despite the fact that my thighs touch when I walk. I was browsing through a Cosmo the other day at Giant and read a fourpage article about a size-12 “plussize” model that expounded on her arduous journey as a model and how comfortable she is with her weight.

What an inspiration.

This is not a ubiquitous, worldwide trend. Biologically, it isn’t even an accurate one. Across many cultures, women whose hipbones you can’t see are the ones who are the most attractive, because having some bulk displays wealth, prosperity and good health — as well as the ability to not die in childbirth. Obviously, Americans have really taken that idea to the bank, since we now have more obese people than underweight ones. But it boils down to

a simple question: Why has weight become the ultimate indicator of sex appeal? Attractiveness is completely subjective, after all.

Why can’t confidence work through the same mechanism?

Maybe if self-esteem were what societally drove sexiness, people would be inspired to find ways to love themselves as they are. That way, thinner people can be attractive. Bigger people can be sexy.

It’s not what you wear; it’s how you wear it. As Donna Summer once said, “If you got it, flaunt it.”

How you perceive other people can affect how others judge your own feelings on relative attractiveness. If someone found Seth Rogan mind-bendingly sexy circa “Superbad,” that wouldn’t fit in so well with all the other tweens crooning about Zac Efron’s abs, and then what would happen?

Would People’s “100 Most Beautiful” actually start to contain a face or two not altered by surgery and/or Photoshop? Would Abercrombie & Fitch start selling jeans that could fit someone larger than a Barbie doll? Would characters like Lauren Zizes on Glee actually be more than a caricature?

To quote the Tootsie Pop Owl, the world may never know.

Sarah Gordon is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at gordon@umdbk.com.

Let me start by saying this: If I had a vagina, there is no way in hell I would support the Republican Party.

The failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act, the delay in reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the push for the Sanctity of Human Rights Act and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan doing Paul Ryan things all point to a dangerous future for women looking to support the Grand Old Party.

But here’s the weird thing: I don’t have a vagina and know little of the female experience. Maybe you do have a vagina and maybe you do identify as a female. That’s fantastic, but please don’t treat this as an exclusive prerogative to speak for the entire gender.

In the past year, several liberal news outlets — The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Nation, etc.

— have featured similar sentiments on this issue, ranging from “Why Would Any Woman Vote Republican this November?” to “Women!

WTF?!” Even The Onion jumped in on the onslaught, declaring, “Women Voters Can’t Help Fawning Over Sexist GOP.” These themes have resonated with single women in particular, 72 percent of whom favor President Obama compared to 26 percent for Republican nominee Mitt Romney (as of late August). Beyond the context of the upcoming election, the general criticism echoed in the media revolves around how so many women could support social values that seemingly malign their entire gender. These are important points to make, as the “war on women” is almost impossible to ignore. However, there is a key distinction between arguing why you believe women should join your cause and disdaining women with different perspectives.

In a population of 157 million women, reproductive rights or gender discrimination do not always define the priori-

ties of women, nor should they have to.

Even when people claim women are not a monolithic group, they still go right ahead — with a big Curb Your Enthusiasm “having said that” — and tell women what they should value and how they should vote. While you could say “If I were a woman” or “As a woman,” in trying to comprehend the political, social and religious values of our time, no one can ever say he or she speaks for or understands the needs and wants of an entire gender.

A married woman from rural Alabama experiences gender issues from an entirely different perspective compared to the single, 20-something woman from Potomac.

If we want to understand why some women support values and leaders that supposedly suppress their rights, we need to dig deeper than “Women!

WTF?!” Otherwise, you’re just furthering the cultural gap between yourself and the people you are trying to convince.

More than indignant articles, shifting demographics may play the largest roll in reshaping the way our leaders make decisions. Increasing numbers of single women (1.8 million more in the past 2 years) are part of a larger base that can counterweight the unwarranted and aggressive attacks on a woman’s right to self-determination and unobstructed health care.

In the meantime, please don’t try to sway conservative women through attacks on their intellectual capacity or moral compass. Try to comprehend the America they grew up in and work to bridge their understanding of the world with your own.

If you can’t, you’re just as naive and narrow-minded as the people you disagree with.

This column may bear no weight for you by virtue of my manhood. I hope not. This is not a man trying to speak on behalf of my gender — no one should do that.

Nadav Karasov is a junior economics major.

He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

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Andrea McDowell, a junior microbiology major who likes 3LAU’s music, Sam Kravitz, a freshman psychology major, was introduced to DJ 3LAU said though the artist isn’t as big a when she went to sleepaway camp with name as Mac Miller — who headlined last year’s back-to-school concert — the artist’s sister.

She was the only one of her seven- this exposure could help 3LAU. “People that know him are really person dinner table at South Campus i nto h i m,” McDowel l Dining Hall who had said. “It’s probably a good ever heard of 3LAU. “CAN WE GET SOME QUALITY chance for him to get a The DJ is headlin- IN THIS HOUSE?” better student base.” ing Student EnterANDREW BURANS While some students tainment Events’ Sophomore said they’d be interested Back-to-School Slam tonight in a show that features in checking out a new artist, others said they wouldn’t attend the concert rapper XV and indie band Carousel.

In a survey taken during 2012’s because they’d never heard of 3LAU. Andrew Burans, a sophomore English Art Attack, the highest number of students said they would definitely and theatre major, said he isn’t imattend a 3L AU show over a rtists pressed by SEE’s headliner choice.

“I’m probably not going,” Burans Best Coast, T heoph i lus L ondon, Neon Indian, Toro y Moi, Gaslight said. “Can we get some quality in Anthem and Azealia Banks, a SEE this house? Just check out any of the indie-rock bands out there. They’re representative said.

The back-to-school concert is a slice all really broke bands looking for of its year-round budget, which in- places to play.”

SEE’s Back-to-School Slam is tonight cludes other concerts as well as comedy shows and events — not to mention the at 7:30 p.m. in Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom. Tickets are $8 for unicost of venues for all of them.

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By Eric Bricker Staff Writer The Wood Brothers make American music. Familiar, homemade, rustic and lived-in, it’s the kind of “greenish-bluish” music that “smells of leather and Maker’s Mark,” according to Oliver Wood, the group’s guitarist.

Wood, his brother Chris (who plays upright bass) and Jano Rix (guest vocalist, pianist and makeshift guitar/drum kit known as the “shuitar” player) bring their leathery sound to The Hamilton in Washington Saturday night.

The small venue is perfect for the group’s roots music, which thrives on intimacy and energy, Wood said.

“Any time you can connect with the audience, it’s very satisfying, but that’s much easier to do in an intimate setting, so small places are almost always a blast,” he said. “It feels more like the band and audience are in the same bubble and actually entertaining each other.”

“It’s also easier for fans to appreciate subtleties in the music if they are close up and captive,” he added.

Subtle is a good way to describe the group’s music, which blends the blues, rockabilly, folk and bluegrass into a unique yet distinctly American sound.

“Smoke Ring Halo” is a gospel-edged ode to a girl with a “busted heart” and a “cigarette jones,” while “Spirit” sounds like a walk through an alley in Memphis, Tenn., complete with a sleazy, fuzzy blues riff.

The mish-mash of genres comes from Chris’ and Oliver’s diverse musical backgrounds: Chris played jazz extensively with Medeski Martin & Wood, while

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By Dean Essner Staff writer The opening sequence of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood —­a sprawling, desolate landscape of scattered weeds and jagged cliffs covered by a sky of looming rain clouds, all punctuated with an ominous, atonal wash of string instruments — is poetic bliss.

The film that follows is a microcosm of everything unsettling in this short scene.

In the next cut, main character Daniel Plainview (the perfect Daniel Day-Lewis) chips away at bedrock with a pick, complete with the famous gleam of determination that never eludes him over the course of his evolution. This is the loneliness of all-pervading ambition, the tunnel-vision approach Plainview applies to both life and business, ultimately rendering him a disconnected soul in a web of personal connections.

Of all the connections Plainview makes and

Oliver (the older of the two) cut his teeth playing guitar with blues-rock legend Tinsley Ellis. Though they share songwriting duties, the two even live in different places — Chris lives in New York and Oliver writes and records out of Nashville, Tenn.

Though it took a while for the siblings to play together, it was a natural fit, Wood noted. Adding Rix to the group only added to the fraternal sound.

“I feel like we do have a family sound,” Wood explained. “The way our voices blend and the way we groove together — it seems built in.”

The band is touring in support of its pair of live EPs, Live Volume 1: Sky High and Live 2: Nail & Tooth, released earlier this year. Full of three-part harmonies, grooving bass and the brothers’ playfully down-home songwriting, the live albums exude a gritty sense of fun.

It’s an excitement that can only be found in “clubs, festivals, and theaters,” Wood said.

“The studio is a very controlled and often sterile environment — great for capturing high-quality sounds — which inspires us in a much different way,” he explained. “Live is much more fun and I think you can hear that. …The energy from and connection to the audience adds a lot to the music.”

The Wood Brothers and Chris Kasper play at The Hamilton, 600 14th St., N.W., Saturday. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. bricker@umdbk.com

effectively severs, his tumultuous relationship with preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) pangs the most. Plainview wants the oil beneath the land in Sunday’s town, so, to get the people on his side, he strikes a bond with their spiritual leader. This is Anderson’s brilliant and subtle comment on the connection between religion and commerce.

In the movie’s final, thunderous scene, Plainview beats Sunday to a bloody pulp with a bowling pin in his mansion. The reason? The humble Sunday wanted some money for his church to survive during the worst of the Great Depression. As exemplified by Sunday’s lifeless body on the floor of Plainview’s recreation room, commerce is king.

If we were to tie Plainview to any current character in pop culture, Walter White of

Breaking Bad would probably do the trick.

Similar to White, Plainview becomes entranced by the prospect of winning the game of life.

“I have a competition in me,” Plainview remarks at one point. “I want no one else to succeed.”

And by the end of the film, standing over Eli with that same gleam, he shouts, “I’m finished.” After slogging through an existence of emotional detachment, Plainview has decided that he has finally won the game.

But, if you look closely, you can still see him fussing with the pick in the bedrock underneath the panorama of weeds and cliffs. He is forever alone. essner@umdbk.com

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MORGAN From PAGE 8 really wanted to coach, but it was an opportunity.”

Seventeen years later, the 39-year-old Delaware native is the head coach of the Terps — a program that is undefeated in conference play, at the top of the ACC standings and having its best league start since 1997.

T he first time the Terps started ACC competition with two victories, Morgan was just two years out of college. Russ Farr, his roommate in New Jersey, had talked him into leaving his Rowan assistant position to coach club soccer.

For eight years, he worked with children between the ages of 3 and 18, teaching basic soccer skills.

“I encouraged Jon to give up what he was doing at the time to see if we could make this coaching thing work,” said Farr, a youth soccer coach who had Morgan as his best man in his wedding. “He always credits me with getting him out of the investigative work and getting him back into soccer, which he loved.”

Farr’s suggestion has led Morgan down a winding path

to College Park. But to get there, Morgan and his roommate had to first start a soccer training company together. The New Jersey business gave the pair access to star athletes and opened doors to higher positions.

“That’s where my coaching career really kicked off,” Morgan said. “I worked with some high level and national players. It was really great exposure.”

That exposure led Morgan to Glenn Crooks, the Rutgers wo m e n’s s o c c e r c o a c h .

Crooks offered him a position as a volunteer assistant for the Scarlet Knights.

T h rou g h h i s work w it h Crooks and the exposure from his training business, Morgan was invited to coach a summer camp at Ohio State. When a position opened on the Buckeyes’ women’s soccer staff, coach Lori Walker figured Morgan was an ideal fit. Morgan accepted a position as Walker’s second assistant.

“My world was just youth soccer and a few years later I was coaching at one of the biggest universities,” Morgan said. “At that point, I was pretty much committed to college soccer.”

Morgan slowly developed a friendship with then-Terps coach

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Coach Jonathan Morgan left his job as a private investigator to become a college soccer coach. He’s 6-2-1 in his first season at the helm of the Terps. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Brian Pensky through the college coaching circuit, and Pensky entrusted him with scouting and judging the New Jersey athletes he had trained years before. In 2006, Pensky made an offer Morgan couldn’t refuse.

“I grew up in Delaware, so when an opportunity opened up at Maryland, and Brian asked if I wanted to come back home, I said ‘yes,’” Morgan said. “Maryland was a place I visited a lot in my adolescence. It was close to home, and it was in the ACC. I was like, ‘Absolutely.’”

Morgan spent five years

as a first assistant in College Park, where he created training sessions and handled scouting reports. The pair led the Terps to three straight NCAA tournament appearances before Pensky left for the same position at Tennessee in January.

But Pensky didn’t want to go alone.

“I was interested in Jon coming with me to Tennessee,” Pensky said. “We had a good understanding of each other and what our strengths and weaknesses were, and we were a great team. But Jon pretty quickly made it clear to

me that his fi rst choice was to go for the Maryland job and to be the head coach.”

After spending 17 years as a trainer and assistant, Morgan was ready to r u n h is ow n college program. He applied for the Terps’ head coachi ng position — a stressf u l and daunting task for a man who hadn’t applied for a job since 1996. He spruced up his resume, crafted a cover letter and prepared for an interview with the athletic department.

Morgan beat out two former college coaches to get the job.

“For him to get a job in the ACC in an area he loves living in, it was a dream come true,” Farr said. “If you could line up all the jobs in the country, he would’ve picked that.”

Morgan has led the Terps to a 6-2-1 record this season — a run that includes a win over then-No. 12 North Carolina.

“I think, honestly, having Jon take over after Brian has been the best thing for us,” defender Megan Gibbons said.

“He knew exactly how the program was run.”

The practices and daily approach haven’t changed much, either. The biggest difference? Morgan is a stickler for flawlessness.

“He’s an absolute perfectionist,” midfielder Olivia Wagner said. “But I think everyone knows it’s going to make us better, so we can see the light at the end. Brian was a great coach and I loved him, but Jon asks so much of us and it’s made everyone tune in and hone in their skills.”

Honing those skills could be the only thing separating the Terps from their competition tonight, though, when they face ACC-rival Duke in Durham, N.C., and attempt to extend their winning streak to three games.

“You never want to lose to Duke, so it’s going to be a big game,” Morgan said. “We need to go in there excited to play and ready to take it to Duke.”

Win or lose, though, Morgan has no regrets. From a sweaty van to a sweaty locker room, the man who was once miserable prowling for classified evidence is now living out a dream he never could’ve imagined.

“I loved the youth soccer; I still do today,” Morgan said.

“But being in a college environment is one of the coolest things anybody can do. This is my passion.” egan@umdbk.com

Linebacker L.A Goree (left) and the Terps will try to win their first game against the Mountaineers since 2004 when they travel to Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday. file photo/the diamondback

RIVALRY From PAGE 8 fans. Tight end Matt Furstenburg said he’s had children clad in Mountaineers gear give him the middle finger. Francis recalled an elderly woman spitting on him before the Terps’ 31-17 loss at Mountaineer Field two years ago. Even coach Randy Edsall got nostalgic, describing a time during his days playing quarterback at Syracuse when Mountaineers fans pelted him with oranges.

“They’ve got some fans up there that are crazy,” Francis said. “Saturdays in the fall are what they live for the whole year.

So you’ve got to be able to come forward because their fans are ready and their teams are ready.”

And then there’s the noise.

W hen the Terps made the four-hour trek to Morgantown, W.Va., in 2010, Friedgen’s squad had three delay-of-game penalties and one false start on its opening drive. Center Paul Pinegar simply couldn’t hear quarterback Jamarr Robinson yell, “Hike!”

That volume could prove troublesome for freshman quarterback Perry Hills, who has four turnovers through three games and has yet to play before a capacity crowd.

“He needs to come in tomorrow and put [the mistakes] behind him,” offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said yesterday. “That’s going to be our best way of doing things around here. Win or lose, we have 24 hours to get over it and make the necessary adjustments we need to make.”

But all the adjustments in the world won’t make containing the Mountaineers’ biggest weapon — wide receiver Tavon Austin — an easy task. The Baltimore native, who earned first-team All-America honors last season, has terrorized the Terps since choosing West Virginia over his home-state school just days before the 2009 signing day.

Austin has totaled 228 receiving yards and two touchdowns in two games against the Terps — providing yet another painful reminder of the Mountaineers’ success recruiting the state of Maryland in recent years.

West Virginia has 10 Maryla nders — i nclud i ng key

contributors Austin, Braun, running back Ryan Clarke and linebacker Terence Garvin — on its roster. And with the exception of Clarke, the Terps heavily recruited each starter.

“West Virginia, it’s only like four hours away,” said Garvin, who stymied the Terps with nine tackles and a pick-6 last year. “But you come up here and you just see a lot of things that people might not have seen back at home. It’s just a different atmosphere than how it is back there, which is why I think it attracts people.”

Still, local recruits aren’t always given the option to don the red and gold. Steve Slaton committed to the Terps in 2004, but bolted for West Virginia when Friedgen decided he had too many running backs and pulled the scholarship.

Slaton rushed for nearly 4,000 yards and led the Mountaineers to two BCS bowl victories.

Owen Schmitt also wanted to play for Friedgen, and sent the Terps’ staff his tape when he decided to transfer from Wisconsin-River Falls in 2004. The Terps didn’t consider Schmitt a Division I prospect, though, and the fullback landed in Morgantown. He went on to rush for more than 1,000 yards and 13 touchdowns.

“There are so many players in this area and this region and state, we’re not going to get them all,” Edsall said. “There’s some that we might not recruit based on different variables in the recruiting process.”

Though that’s true, stories like Slaton’s and Schmitt’s — as well as those of Austin, Braun, Garvin and others — only intensify the Terps’ bitterness toward their southwestern neighbor.

“There’s some teams that when they come on the field, you just don’t like,” Francis said. “They feel that way about us, we feel that way about them. That’s just how it is.”

So don’t tell the Terps their rivalry with West Virginia is dead. Don’t bother asking the Mountaineers, either.

A six-game winning streak can hardly wipe away 93 years of disdain.

“Of course this is a rivalry game,” Garvin said. “W hy wouldn’t it be?” letourneau@umdbk.com

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“Being in a college environment is one of the coolest things anybody can do. This is my passion.”

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In journey from private investigator to women’s soccer coach, Morgan finds his calling

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer The van was an oven of sorts, with no air conditioning, closed windows and the dead, sweltering heat of summer. It was parked on the side of the road for days.

Inside were binoculars, radios and a man stalking his prey from across the street.

The man spent four years in college learning how to piece together evidence and training for what he thought was his dream job.

That man’s life used to be fi lled with sweaty jerseys, screaming fans and soccer cleats. That is, until Jonathan Morgan became a private investigator.

“That was my world for six months and I hated it,” the fi rst-year Terrapins women’s soccer coach said.

Morgan left his van, radios and binoculars behind and looked for something else. Anything else.

Morgan, a recent college graduate, turned to his alma mater for a new position. He was offered an assistant coaching job with the Rowan College men’s soccer program, a team on which he was a four-year starter.

But it was a profession he wasn’t completely sure he wanted to pursue.

“It was another opportunity to stay around the team and be a part of it,” Morgan said. “I wasn’t sure if I See MORGAN, Page 7

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Chasing after a longtime rival Border states battle in recruiting and on the field

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Jeff Braun hasn’t forgotten the 2004 Gator Bowl.

West Virginia’s senior offensive guard still remembers watching former Terrapins football wide receiver Steve Suter return a second-quarter punt for a touchdown.

He remembers quarterback Scott McBrien throwing for a career-high 381 yards. And he remembers the Terps leaving Jacksonville’s Alltel Stadium with a 41-7 blowout win over the No. 23 Mountaineers.

So as Braun prepares to face the Terps for the third straight year Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium, he isn’t taking anything for granted. Never mind West Virginia is a four-touchdown favorite.

Never mind his team has won its past six meetings against the Terps. He knows better than to take the bordering state’s flagship university lightly.

“You know, they got the best of us around

here, too,” said Braun, who followed Ralph Friedgen’s Terps while growing up in Westminster. “I mean, it’s not like around here we think it’s not a rivalry anymore.

Because we really do consider it one.”

It’s a rivalry steeped in tradition. The Terps and Mountaineers have played 48 times since 1919 — the longest ongoing series for either school. And although West Virginia has dominated in recent years, the Terps are just four wins shy of evening the all-time tally.

Of course, that means little to the team’s seniors — a group that has yet to beat the Mountaineers.

“I don’t have no fond memories about playing up there because we lost,” defensive end A.J. Francis said Tuesday. “They kicked our ass every game we played. So there’s not many fond memories. You get tired of losing for sure.”

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SAFETY Eric Franklin (center) and the Terps fell to West Virginia, 37-31, at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium in College Park last season. The Terps are looking to end their six-game losing streak to their longtime rivals and upend the No. 8 Mountaineers on Saturday in Morgantown, W. Va. file photo/the diamondback