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Offensive line thriving after early uncertainty

Bassist Peter Hook talks about playing Joy Division LPs live

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Students request access to internal admin. emails Officers After paying $678 fee, students to see documents on Daycon, alleged campus abuse

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

A group of student activists requesting internal emails between university administrators overcame a major hurdle this week when they raised more than $700 to cover processing fees mandated to acquire the information.

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Worker Abuse raised $755 in five days — $77 more than its initial goal — from 13 online contributors to cover the predicted printing costs and labor hours it will take to sort through administrators’ emails. Students filed a request under the Maryland Public Information Act in July requesting any emails with certain words related to the university’s ongoing negotiations with cleaning

supply company Daycon and the alleged workplace abuse taking place across the campus.

“In 30 days, we will have all these documents and we will look through them and find what’s relevant and what’s interesting, and we will be posting that online,” junior government and politics and history major Sam Williamson said.

University alumna Mary Yanik, for-

mer president of Feminism Without Borders, sent the initial request for any emails mentioning: “Daycon,” “feminism,” “Black Faculty and Staff Association,” “BFSA” and “forum.” In particular, Yanik requested exchanges by and between 24 people, including university President Wallace Loh, Vice President for Student

see EMAILS, page 3

Noodlin’&company Students appear on Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin’, catch 50-pound catfish with bare hands in Oklahoma

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Kin Hulamm tried to calm his nerves as he waded deeper into the murky lake water. Joined by five other amateur fishermen — including friend and junior electri-

cal engineering major Louis Lam — the 2009 alumnus crept closer to what appeared to be a large beaver dam nestled in the brush.

And then they saw it — an enormous dark shape swimming straight toward Hulamm. It was a 50-pound catfish he had

to catch with his bare hands. And the Animal Planet cameras were rolling.

“They were all like, ‘Get it between your legs,’ and I was just like, ‘Why would I want to do that? It’s going to bite me!’” Hulamm

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Kin Hulamm (left) and Louis Lam show how they caught 50-pound catfish while filming an Animal Planet show in Oklahoma over the summer. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

indicted for riot assault Two county officers allegedly attacked university student

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

A grand jury indicted two Prince George’s County Police Department officers yesterday on assault charges in the beating of a university student last March after a men’s basketball victory against Duke led to a riot on Route 1.

After a video showing two county police officers beating then-junior John McKenna without apparent provocation went viral, county police launched an internal investigation, which the FBI took over in December.

Yesterday, State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks announced that officers Reginald Baker and James Harrison, members of the department’s special operations division, were charged with first-degree assault — a felony count — second-degree assault and misconduct in office — both misdemeanors — for the incident.

“When there is evidence of potential wrongdoing by a police officer, it would never be appropriate for me to look the other way,” Alsobrooks said in a press release. “If I did so, the residents of Prince George’s County would be right to question my ability to be fair and impartial no matter the type of job or the standing a suspect or defendant may have in our community.”

County Police District 1 Commander Maj. Hector Velez could not be reached for comment last night.

In December, the FBI interviewed about 40 county officers about the riot, where police used horses, pepper spray, pellets and batons to control the student crowd that had spilled onto the

see INDICTMENT, page 3

After accident, cyclist in stable condition Number of international Officials say case students grows over decade under investigation More support in the works, officials say

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

After a decade-long decline, university officials reported the number of international students at the university is on the upswing, and student leaders and administrators are amping up efforts to ensure these students feel comfortable on the campus.

Though the final count of new international students for this semester has yet to be determined, officials in the university’s Office of International

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Services said 800 new international students arrived in August — a significant increase from the 500 who came to the university last fall. After several international students voiced concerns that there are not enough resources on the campus for international students, university officials said they have responded.

Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement launched a task force at the start of the semester to develop

The university student who was injured Monday night in a bicycle accident with a DOTS pickup truck was in stable condition as of yesterday night, and the accident appears to be the biker’s fault, officials said.

First responders initially thought the injuries to the 21-year-old male were life-threatening after a Department of Transportation vehicle struck him while he was riding his bike on the sidewalk along Route 1

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see ACCIDENT, page 3

A university student was transported to the hospital after a DOTS truck hit him on his bike Monday night. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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By the end of their stint on Animal Planet, Louis Lam (left) and Kin Hulamm (right) had become huge fans of catching catfish with their bare hands. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK Last March, county police officers met student rioters on Route 1 with horses, pepper spray, pellets and batons. The department came under investigation by the FBI after a video surfaced showing officers beating a student. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

FISHING from page 1

INDICTMENT from page 1 street. The indictments yesterday were the first formal charges against the two officers.

McKenna and 27 other people were arrested in connection with the rioting.

Most of the charges — including McKenna’s — were dropped after a video surfaced showing officers slamming McKenna against a concrete wall and repeatedly beating him with batons.

McKenna declined to comment yesterday on the

EMAILS from page 1 Affairs Linda Clement, Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer, General Counsel of Legal Affairs Susan Bayly, Daycon representatives and individual members of the Board of Regents.

Since last fall, university students have been calling for administrators to cut ties with Daycon, which was found guilty of violating federal labor laws. Officials said cutting the university’s contract with Daycon, which supplies janitorial equipment to the campus, would be unconstitutional because the company was in the process of appealing the ruling.

Additionally, after dozens of university staff members came forward last semester with allegations of workplace abuse, discrimination and sexual harassment, university officials launched internal investi-

ACCIDENT from page 1 and crossing over Rossborough Lane, said University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky.

“The injuries originally looked a lot worse than they actually were,” Limansky said.

“As it turned out, it was a typical bicycle-being-hit-by-a-truck case, it just seemed a lot worse.”

University Police had not yet released the names of the driver or student cyclist yesterday night.

Although a definitive conclusion to which party was at fault has not yet been reached because the incident is still under investigation,

INTERNATIONAL from page 1 a plan to provide the university’s about 3,500 international students with the resources necessar y to become an active part of the university community, according to Barbara Varsa, the Office of International Ser vices’ interim director. Clement could not be reached for comment last night.

Some university officials, including Varsa, said they want to ensure international students know more programs are underway.

“We’re coordinating ef for ts with other of fices to really pay attention to

incident because the case is still under investigation.

Additional officers allegedly attempted to cover up McKenna’s beating by forcing him to remove a bandage from his head before he was brought to jail, Private Investigator Sharon Weidenfeld said.

The police officers did not file a Use of Force Report because they originally said a horse had injured him, she said.

“The cover-up was not having to write a Use of Force Report as to not be scrutinized by other officers,” Weidenfeld said.

Weidenfeld said she and

McKenna’s attorney, Terrell Roberts, are satisfied with the indictment charges against Baker and Harrison. “[McKenna] is gratified that these indictments have occurred, and we’re hopeful that there will be convictions in both cases,” Weidenfeld said.

In a statement released yesterday, county police Chief Mark Magaw said his administration is focused on maintaining the community’s trust.

University Police Chief David Mitchell, whose officers were not accused of participating in the alleged police brutality, released a state-

ment yesterday afternoon in support of the indictments.

“I respect the work of the state’s attorney and grand jur y in this case and will await the conclusion of the criminal justice system,” Mitchell said.

However, Alsobrooks said it’s important to note that an indictment charge doesn’t mean the officers have been found guilty.

“These officers — like anyone else accused of a crime — are presumed innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law,” she said.

gations in departments across the campus to determine the validity of the allegations. As with Daycon, university students have been active in pressuring administrators to act on the alleged abuse.

Filing a request under the MPIA — which mandates the university must release this information because it is a public institution — was the next logical step in holding administrators accountable as students continue to seek justice on these issues, Yanik said.

“We initially filed the request because we were interested in communication amongst university officials about what we have been doing,” she said. “We certainly wanted to know what [was] going on at an administrative level. ... We also mostly just want to hear their perspective on the situation, because unfortunately the administration is not always honest with students.”

After filing the requests,

Yanik received a response on Aug. 19 from Jack Roach, the university’s executive assistant to the president for legal affairs and chief counsel. According to Roach’s letter to Yanik, he estimated the students’ request would compromise about 192 documents and require more than seven hours of work by staff members to search, retrieve, review and prepare the documents. Including the hourly rate of the staff members and copying fees for them, Roach requested $678.26 from the students within 30 days, as mandated by state law.

University spokesman Millree Williams declined to comment on the students’ request last night.

Though coalition members said they were initially incredulous at having to pay a fee, they soon became determined to raise the money and set up an online contribution system. Within five days, they had received more than

the necessary amount from donations ranging from $10 to $200.

Group members sent administrators the check yesterday and expect to have the documents in the next 30 days.

“We can’t wait to have the documents,” said junior American studies and government and politics major Jack Izen.

“We got the fee, so hopefully we will have them soon.”

Local advocacy groups also offered their support in helping the students pay the fee.

“We try to support students organizing to promote workers’ rights,” said Mackenzie Baris, lead organizer of DC Jobs for Justice, which often partners with university student groups. “When we heard they had money to pay, we put out something to our board about trying to help try to fundraise the money.”

investigator state Trooper 1st Class Ewin — who declined to give his first name — said the initial evidence points to the biker.

“It looks like it’s not the truck’s fault,” he said. “The bike didn’t have any reflectors on, and the student was not riding in the crosswalk and was wearing dark clothing.”

The incident took place at about 8:40 p.m. on Monday, and state troopers arrived to take over the investigation 10 minutes later.

Ewin said state troopers will know more after they file a report. Limansky said the investigation has been turned over to state troopers and deferred specific questions to that department.

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international students and their issues and to put resources where their need is,” she said.

The Office of International Services, located in Holzapfel Hall, helps acclimate students to the university through emails to accepted students with campus life tips, coordinating a specialized orientation program and creating workshops for the students, said international student advisor Meg Richmond.

“We start sending emails about tips on getting their visa, pre-arrival tips, getting used to American culture — things like that,” Richmond said.

“There’s been a really good response and students

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said of the experience.

In July, Hulamm and Lam ventured to the backwoods of Oklahoma for six days to film an episode of Hillbilly Handfishin’, a reality show on Animal Planet in which hosts Skipper Bivins and Trent Jackson teach city tourists the sport of noodling — catching catfish using only one’s bare hands and feet. Hulamm and Lam’s episode premiered Sunday night.

For two self-proclaimed computer nerds from the Washington suburbs — whose previous fishing experiences involved the typical rod and fishing line — it was quite the summer experience.

Hulamm said it began in May when he heard the producers were holding a local casting call and looking for “two nerdy guys.”

Hulamm convinced Lam to join him — except Lam didn’t even find out the show involved catching catfish barehanded until the duo was already being interviewed. “[Hulamm] just asked me if I was given the chance to go off somewhere I’ve never been and do something I’ve never done before, would I do it, and I said ‘yes,’” Lam said.

And two months later, they joined four other cast members at a Dallas airport and headed off on a two-hour van drive to rural Oklahoma. Hulamm described the ride as a real “culture shock,” looking out at mile after mile of flat landscape, farms and the occasional house every half-mile.

“And then the van just pulled off into this dirt path,” Hulamm said. “And before we knew it they were mic-ing us up and then we’re being on camera. And then we would be filming six to eight hours a

day.”

While Lam and Hulamm — who went by “Moose” and “Gary,” respectively, on the show — had done plenty of research on noodling beforehand, they said nothing prepared them for the anxiety of first wading into the water, searching in muddy holes where catfish often dwell.

“They were just like, ‘Hey, put your hand in this [hole],’” Lam said. “And then there was just this fear that something might be in there that could bite you.”

The den was empty that first time. It wasn’t until later that day that Hulamm found himself faceto-face with the 50-pound catfish he had to hold between his legs while one of the hosts tied a string around its mouth. And while Hulamm said he was initially frightened by having to hold such a large and slimy creature, seeing the catfish once it was finally pulled out from the water made the experience worthwhile.

“The adrenaline just takes over,” Hulamm said. “It’s the most awesome feeling, because you never know how big it is until you lift it out.”

That particular fish would be the biggest catch of the trip — 4 1/2 feet long, which when measured next to Lam extended from his head to his knee.

After five more days of wrestling angry catfish and sustaining bumps, bruises and bites from their efforts, the tally came up to two catches for Hulamm, one catch for Lam — plus a carp he caught mid-air after it jumped out of the water — and another the duo caught as a team effort.

And while the week had plenty of scares, Lam and Hulamm said they would do it again in a heartbeat.

“It was the best ever,” Lam said. “Six days and it never got boring.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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“The injuries originally looked a lot worse than they were.”

MARC LIMANSKY UNIVERSITY POLICE SPOKESMAN

tion Ser vices Director David Allen said DOTS is also reviewing the accident, and will take action accordingly.

“We have an accident review process, so we’ll certainly go back and make sure all of the right safety steps are there” he said, adding investigations such as these take time. israel@umdbk.com

The student who was hit on his bike by a DOTS pickup truck is now in stable condition.

State troopers believe the cyclist was at fault for the accident. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

really like it.”

However, several international students — such as Graduate Student Government President Anna Bedford, who is from the U.K. — said university efforts to provide enough resources have fallen short.

Instead, student groups have taken the lead in making these students feel comfortable in a new environment, Bedford said.

“I feel like the university maybe doesn’t realize how difficult it is to come to a different country with very little support,” Bedford said.

“I think that a lot of the efforts to make international students feel welcome on campus are really grassroots and run by other inter-

national students.”

In the past four years, GSG, the Student Council of India and a smattering of other student-run groups have picked up international students from Dulles International Airport to take them to the university for their first semester.

Since August, 200 to 300 international students have been driven to the university from the airport, Bedford said.

Although university websites provide information about off-campus housing, Bedford said international graduate students can struggle to find living arrangements before arriving at the university.

To combat this issue, members of Chinese and

Indian student groups often host newcomers while they search for more permanent arrangements, Bedford said.

“Arriving in a country and having to already have somewhere to stay … there’s no kind of time to actually look at where you’d be living,” Bedford said.

Some international students said adjusting to American culture and forming friendships is the hardest aspect of moving to a new country.

Student groups, such as International Terps, help to assuage these concerns, according to group president George Zaki, an international graduate student from Egypt.

“[International Terps] creates a diverse, friendly environment where international students can meet, network and share experiences,” Zaki, who is studying electrical and computer engineering, wrote in an email.

Some international students said their common bond of coming to this university from abroad brings them closer.

“It doesn’t matter which country you are from,” said junior chemical engineering major Judicael Bouraima, who is from Benin.

“The fact that we are all international students makes us a close community.” marcot@umdbk.com

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Why the silent majority?

Sustain student support

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he university enjoyed its second consecutive sellout at Byrd Sta- a diverse panel of community representatives, soliciting public input and dium this weekend against West Virginia, and despite intermittent setting transparent deadlines for the report’s completion — as it considers rain and a third-quarter deficit that reached 24 points, the lively options for the future.

Commission member and Board of Regents representative Patricia Flocrowd stood behind the Terps as they mounted a furious rally late into the fourth quarter. Athletic Director Kevin Anderson even commended restano asked the audience to “help us find a way to expand revenue so that students in an email yesterday on their improved behavior during the game. the cutting of some sports is not an attractive option,” according to The Washington Post. After a silence, she admitted: “That’s where Meanwhile, the men’s soccer team is ranked first in we are, too.” the nation and nearly broke Ludwig Field’s home attenAt the forum, one of the most-discussed suggestions dance record during a recent match against Stanford. was taming student behavior to create a more familyThe women’s soccer and field hockey teams are nationIf students don’t seize the friendly environment during athletic events, which ally ranked, and the university has seen almost unprecedented international media attention since the opportunity to provide input to would theoretically lead to an increase in ticket sales.

That sounds great, but it doesn’t sound like an $83 milTerps unveiled new football uniforms three weeks ago. the Commission on lion solution.

And yet, all is not well in the athletics department.

Intercollegiate Athletics, they Loh’s administration has provided the community University President Wallace Loh’s Commission on with an opportunity to affect the outcome of the comIntercollegiate Athletics held an open forum in Stamp forfeit the right to complain mission’s report by helping the panel come up with Student Union on Monday to solicit input from members of the university community as it works on a plan about its recommendations. some creative ideas. Analyzing the intricacies of a dense athletics department budget may be a bit much to tackle an athletics department budget deficit of more than $83 million. As the commission studies how best to put the budget back to ask of many of the 37,000 students at the university, but at a school known into the black, several unattractive options, such as increasing student fees for innovation and a passionate fanbase, it was disappointing to see so little input from students at Monday’s forum. and eliminating one of the university’s 27 athletic teams, are on the table.

The commission hasn’t specified any potential victims of funding cuts, but Put another way, the commission’s recommendations could have farit seems likely the school’s 25 non-revenue sports — all those except football reaching effects on the athletics department and the university as a whole.

You’d never have guessed it, though, judging by the sparse attendance at and men’s basketball — would be most affected. All students who have a reason to care about one of those sports, whether they’re on athletic scholarship Monday’s forum.

Only about 50 fans, students and alumni showed up, and the 14 attendees or just fans, should be brainstorming ways to cut costs and boost revenues who voiced their opinions were outnumbered even by the 17 members of the for the athletics department.

The commission isn’t submitting its final report until Nov. 15. The public panel. Despite a prime location at the campus epicenter and an email invitation administrators sent nearly two weeks ago to the university community, it forum is over, but students are still encouraged to submit comments and appears students care more about controversial uniforms than keeping the ideas to the group’s email address, icacommission@umd.edu.

If students truly care about the future of athletics at this university, the entire department afloat.

So far, Loh’s administration has taken positive steps — such as appointing commission should have a full inbox.

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Patriotism, or lack thereof

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n Sept. 11 this year, I felt strangely sentimental when I attended the labyrinth memorial at the chapel. I noticed a photographer at the site, but neither he nor I knew we both represented The Diamondback.

The next morning, I picked up a copy of the paper and was shocked to see that the full-page front picture of an introspective-looking student at the memorial was me.

To me, Sept. 11 symbolizes American patriotism. I am troubled to think I represented the patriotic remembrance of Sept. 11 through that picture, because I do not consider myself patriotic.

Patriotism, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “love for or devotion to one’s countr y.” Personally, I do not wave an American flag outside my home, I do not say the pledge of allegiance with utmost pride (or when I’m abroad) and I feel a slight bit of shame to say I am American. Nonetheless, I felt moved — as an American — on Sept. 11.

JENNIFER SCHWARZ Culturally, we have labels for what is and what is not American. Hot dogs and beer at a baseball game: American. College football: American. NASCAR: American.

In politics, however, it gets iffy. Is racial profiling for the sake of national security American? How about Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and the tea party? For some, fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan is what it means to be an American. As Americans, we all have different ways of displaying and expressing our patriotism.

At its core, the bedrock of American patriotism is built on the foundations of freedom, justice and liberty.

Preaching those ideals is one thing, but unfortunately, I have difficulty

seeing how those principals are carried out today in America. I think cutting Medicare and Medicaid is ensuring inequality, not equality, and I think without a higher minimum tax rate for the wealthy, we are perpetuating an unjust society.

As Americans, our different cultural backgrounds feed our different values. Without a common definition of liberty, freedom and justice, we cannot come to a common understanding of what it means to be patriotic.

Politics today exemplifies the divide of patriotic values. Just listen to the Republican debates. And if the past few months in Washington are any testament to how the Democrats are getting along with Republicans, then the possibility of political compromise seems dim.

I am still tr ying to make sense of how I feel to be an American. I went to the labyrinth on Sept. 11 because I was carr ying a heavy heart with the significance of the day. I was over whelmed thinking about one of the victims who worked in the

World Trade Center. Other Americans may have been sitting watching Sunday football, only stopping to memorialize Sept. 11 during the moment of silence before the game.

When it comes to patriotism, to each his own.

Despite our countr y’s shortfalls, the ideals of freedom, liberty and equality established more than 200 years ago are still at the forefront of what we strive toward. This tells me there is reason to be proud to be American, regardless of how we feel about individual policies.

Compared to the rest of the world, our access to freedoms and equality is not so shabby. So maybe, in my own way, I am patriotic after all.

Even if I don’t agree with everything our politicians do in practice, I have a love and devotion for what America strives to be in theory.

Jennifer Schwarz is a senior environmental science and policy major. She can be reached at schwarz@umdbk.com.

Student section: Passionate or vulgar?

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ast week, many students received an email from Athletic Director Kevin Anderson that wasn’t the first of its kind, and one that I actually expected. The email addressed the profane and vulgar language displayed during the Terrapins football game vs. Miami on Sept. 5.

Typically, I would read the subject line and delete this sort of email right away, but for some reason, I decided to open this one.

As I read it, I realized it wasn’t just an ordinary email asking students to clean up their act. No, this one attached an actual email from a non-student fan describing the offensive behavior witnessed by the fan’s 11-year-old son.

I would be lying if I were to sit here and say I have never dropped the Fbomb at a game or screamed some choice words at the opposing team, but at an 11-year-old? Really? Has it really come to the point where some attendees are so drunk or so stupid they won’t hesitate to ruin a kid’s first experience at a college football game?

Regardless of whether a student was responsible for this incident, our student section has become known for its rowdiness and profanity at athletic events. This university isn’t the only school to have these problems, and we would be kidding ourselves if we believed we were. However, never in my four years here — or in my brother’s or sister’s eight years in school before me — have I ever heard of such an email being forwarded to the student section because we just don’t get it. And yes, I said “we,” because like it or not, the stupid stuff one person does reflects on us all.

I am all for having fun at the games, maybe even drinking a little beforehand (I am 21, after all), but I would never allow myself to get to a point where I would look at an 11-year-old and yell “f--you” at him, whether he was wearing a red “Maryland” T-shirt or a blue “Duke” T-shirt. And I bet the majority of students here feel the same way.

Safety Austin Walker phrased it this way: “Above all else, be respectful and

JOSH BIRCH mindful of others. You don’t have to necessarily be vulgar or offensive to other people’s feelings to be a passionate fan.” Walker’s statement says it perfectly — there is a clear line between passion and vulgarity, and I believe over the years it has become more and more blurred.

I don’t know if it’s because I am now a senior and have realized I need to grow up or because an 11-year-old was involved this time, but my mentality heading into the West Virginia game Saturday was completely different.

Maybe I finally figured out what people had been saying for years: The student section needs to clean up its act.

Students behaved much better at that game, and Anderson even sent

another email yesterday applauding the improvement.

Last week, I sat down with Anderson to hear more about his views of the passionate yet vulgar student section.

“I appreciate that support. I love it.

I’m not trying to discourage that. All I ask is that we clean up the language,” Anderson said.

Contrary to some people’s beliefs, Anderson doesn’t want to change the intensity, just the vulgar nature that some display. I think we are all mature and old enough to know wrong from right. With that being said, I leave you with the remarks with which Anderson closed our discussion.

“How do you want to be remembered?” he asked. “How do you want people to think of you at the University of Maryland?”

I know my answer. Do you know yours?

Josh Birch is a senior communication and history major. He can be reached at birch@umdbk.com.

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he field of environmental science can often get you down. With the melting of glaciers, extinction of species and great increases in all kinds of pollution, it can be hard to put up a fight against these looming stresses.

But here on the campus, it seems there is a growing community of people who motivate themselves to take on these problems and fight them in the public sphere.

As a senior environmental science and policy major, I would classify my attitude toward environmental problems up until this year as being dominated by frustration. Yet because of the recent activity of student groups such as the Student Sustainability Committee and Real Food UMD, my feelings of futility have reversed. Making the campus sustainable means meeting the needs of current students while ensuring future students will also meet their needs. SSC, as its name implies, is an organization of students working toward making our campus more environmentally friendly in a variety of ways, while Real Food UMD is a group with the specific and admirable goal of having the food served in our dining halls meet criteria such as being locally grown, organic and fair trade.

Having been absent from the sustainability community on the campus for a year, I was surprised and pleased to find out what has been accomplished at the university in this short time.

In addition to the garden already in place on the rooftop of the North Campus Dining Hall, the South Campus Dining Hall now sports its own newly and artistically painted planters of vegetables and herbs.

There are also three more gardens spread out around the campus — at Hillel, St. Mary’s Hall and the public health school.

Along with MaryPIRG, the SSC has led a campaign to reduce the quantity of nonreusable water bottles on the campus, and other advocacy campaigns have also come to the forefront of environmental minds on the campus.

These changes are vital in keeping our campus sustainable in light of an ever-changing world.

With these successes come the support of the university in the form of a new fund. This year, the Office of Sustainability has designated $215,000 for the University Sustainability Fund, which is designed for progressive student sustainability projects on the campus. Any student is welcome to apply for a portion of this money, and if you have ideas, I strongly suggest you submit them. Some ideas that have been proposed in the past include campus gardens, engineering projects, green facilities and resource reclamation initiatives in our very own dance department. This is one of the most efficient ways to get changes made on the campus, and a wide variety of projects are encouraged.

If you have had the same feelings of frustration as I have, be it in environmental issues or another field, consider this the call to get involved on the campus as soon as possible.

Start witnessing the change you can have on this campus and the wider community. Our relative privilege as college students and future leaders gives us the ability to get the ball rolling against the issues we find ourselves up against.

John Hammond is a senior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at hammondj@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Peter Hook is a conflicted man.

The bassist for two of the most important rock bands of the 20th century is currently touring North America as what is essentially a nostalgia act. Since May 2010, he has been performing the songs of his first breakout band, post-punk icon Joy Division, as the group Peter Hook and The Light. The act will perform the Manchester, U.K.-originated Joy Division’s second and final LP, 1980’s Closer, in its entirety at the 9:30 Club in Washington tonight.

Despite this long-term tribute to Joy Division, Hook admits the need for new music.

Joy Division’s lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980. After Curtis’ death, Hook and his bandmates formed the influential dance band New Order. The group disbanded in 2006, Hook said, as relationships between band members soured.

Talking with Hook before his trip to Washington, it was clear he held New Order fondly in his heart. But it was even more obvious he had an incredibly strong dislike for his former bandmates, who announced two weeks ago they would re-form as New Order — without Hook — for two performances. Hook disparaged his former bandmates at every possible opportunity.

“I was ecstatic until last week when New Order stiffed me,” Hook said, pleased with his recent shows but not with recent news stories.

“It’s a good thing doing them,” Hook said of his shows with The

Light. “Because I’m so sort of angry about New Order. [It’s good,] playing and realizing that people do appreciate what you do.”

Hook first performed Joy Division’s 1979 debut LP, the classic Unknown Pleasures, with The Light on May 18, 2010. The group played Closer for the first time in public on May 18, 2011.

The album-centric tribute shows began as a celebration of Joy Division frontman Curtis, marking the 30-year anniversary of his death. Hook received offers to perform the music outside of the U.K., and a world tour followed the first Unknown Pleasures date. This year, Hook has been performing Closer and bringing Unknown Pleasures to cities yet to see the concert.

“To get the opportunity to play it again is absolutely fantastic,” said Hook, who sings lead vocals and plays some bass parts on tour with The Light. “The fact that people like me playing it makes me wonder why I waited 34 years. But I think the reason you waited was because of New Order. Because you were doing New Order, you had something to focus on. And something that was very important to you, very dear to you. So the focus was always on that. And we rigorously ignored Joy Division.

And as I said, it was only when New Order split up, in 2006, did I realize what a shame it was that we had ignored Joy Division.”

Because Hook took the role of lead vocalist in the live band, the part of bassist had to be filled.

Hook looked to his 21-year-old son, Jack Bates, to fill his shoes.

“It’s actually quite nice in a way, it makes me ver y happy that he’s doing it with me,”

Hook said. “It feels like it’s more valued somehow.

“He was the most obvious choice. I’m surprised New Order hadn’t asked him,” Hook added with mocking laughter.

Hook and The Light are sure to perform the songs of Joy Division tightly and justly tonight at the 9:30 Club. Attendees will no doubt be entertained by Hook’s fine band and potentially captivated by Hook’s many contradictions and conflicts.

“You do have to be careful, you don’t want to dwell too much on the past,” Hook said.

“You have to realize the world is best when it moves on. So that’s one thing when you think about writing new material and the other thing when DJing — it’s interesting. I mean, New Order are going to be coming back and doing the same thing, aren’t they? They’re going to be playing old music from 30 years ago. It’s quite interesting.

“It’s quite interesting I’ve got my own tribute band going out under the name of New Order, paying tribute to my music,” Hook said with an amused laugh.

Peter Hook and The Light will perform at the 9:30 Club tonight. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $25.

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LINE from page 8 constant shuffling of personnel on and off the field. With the frenetic pace their hurry-up offense employs, skill-position players are constantly coming in and out of the game to stay fresh.

O’Brien and his offensive line — Gonnella, tackles R.J. Dill and Max Garcia, guard Josh Cary and center Bennett Fulper — have remained constants, however.

And with the Terps averaging nearly 20 more snaps per game than they did last season against two athletic defenses in Miami and No. 16 West Virginia, the relatively mistake-free efforts of the offensive line have only been magnified.

“I wouldn’t trade the O-line for anyone in the country,” O’Brien said yesterday. “It’s hard for those guys playing 92 snaps [sic] in one game. They’re just in great shape. They finish the game just as strong as they started.”

“Receivers, we’re switching out every now and then, but [the offensive line] is in there, they’re running the 90 plays a game,” Boykins added. “They’re going beyond expectations.”

At the center of the line’s success is Garcia. The sophomore left tackle entered the season having never started a college game, but with Gilbert and DeSouza out, he was forced into a pivotal role.

To this point, Garcia’s kept pass rushers off O’Brien’s blind

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side. On Saturday, despite being charged with the unenviable task of containing one of the nation’s best defensive ends in West Virginia’s Bruce Irvin, Garcia continued his solid play and rendered Irvin largely ineffective.

Irvin, whose 14 sacks last season were good for No. 2 in the country, recorded just three tackles.

“He’s only going to get better,” O’Brien said of the true sophomore. “For him to come in and play against arguably one of the top two D-ends in the country, that’s a good challenge, and he stepped up.”

Despite their success, coach Randy Edsall said he’s far from content with the overall play of his linemen. The Terps have been stopped for a loss nine times in their two games, and while Edsall lauded the group’s play in his weekly news conference yesterday, he made clear they’ve been far from perfect.

“We still need to get more push up front,” Edsall said. “I thought that we ran the ball better in this past game, but some of that was because [West Virginia] was dropping off so much in coverage.

“We’re a work in progress.

We’re nowhere near where we want to be or where we think we’re going to go. I just want to see those guys get better and more push. Yes, in the first two games … there has been productivity there, but we can still get a whole lot better than we were after these two weeks.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

Quarterback Danny O’Brien said he “wouldn’t trade the [offensive] line for anyone.”

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and they play very well together.”

The No. 3 Terps (7-1) have scored 28 goals so far in their eight contests this season, and the two freshmen have proved to be valuable cogs in the team’s attack. Fluharty and Gerzabek are responsible for a combined 10 goals, better than 35 percent of the team’s total scoring output this season.

Gerzabek got off to the faster start this season, netting the first two of her six career goals in the Terps’ second game of the season against Temple. But Fluharty has had the hot hand of late, scoring three of her four career goals this past weekend against Boston College and Massachusetts, including the game-winning goal against the Eagles in overtime.

“I see them growing every training session and every game,” Meharg said. “I love to see people reach their potential, and I think they are playing at the level that they can.”

But even with all the early success, neither player really expected to have such a vital role on the team this soon in their careers, especially on a squad filled with players fresh off a national championship.

“I didn’t really have expectations,” Fluharty said. “I just went out there to play my hardest and contribute the most that I can.”

“There’s so many great players on the team that I was just hoping to fit in well with them and keep working well as a team,” Gerzabek said. “It’s only the beginning, so if I keep working hard, then I’ll get better results.”

Part of the reason both have been able to find success so quickly is their field hockey experience outside of regular high school and college competition. Both are members of the U.S. under-21 and under-19 teams, lending them extensive international playing experience that comes in handy.

“Maryland has provided these high-performance, under-21 players the right level of training,” Meharg said. “They both have high aspirations of competing and they’re doing very well in their role with the University of Maryland.”

“Playing internationally kind of helped me come into the college aspect and the intensity,” Gerzabek said.

“It’s definitely different than high school, but I think my international experience has helped me adjust.”

Even as freshmen, Fluharty and Gerzabek have made impressive contributions to a team already filled with veteran presences. Their roles have been vital to the Terps’ success so far, and Meharg said she is excited to see how much each player can continue to grow.

“Both of them will have great college careers.

We’ve already seen it,” Meharg said. “It’s just a tradition of top-level players to be at Maryland, they’re wonderful characters and they fit into our character type very well, which is simple, hard-working and having no regrets.”

Terps started off without two losses in ACC play in the past eight years. But after knocking off Wake Forest and tying Clemson, the team finished 3-5-2 in the ACC. Pensky said he talks with his team about the importance of each win in a conference that offers no opportunity to let up. A slow start means more ground to make up later, something that is no guarantee when three of the Terps’ future opponents are ranked in the top 10. Even Virginia Tech, an unranked team, was no easy task.

“Three points in this league is huge,” Pensky said.

“Every game, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing, they’re hard wins. Virginia Tech is a very good team … this game was the first time they trailed all season.”

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WINNING EFFICIENTLY A statistic that Pensky pointed to after Sunday night’s win was the number of shots the Terps took against Virginia Tech compared to James Madison the week before, a game in which they took a high volume of shots.

Against the Dukes, the Terps took 15 total shots in the second half and two overtimes. They didn’t score once.

Against the Hokies, the Terps took only two shots in the second half and scored on both, providing the margin of victory in the 2-1 final.

Pensky also emphasized how the Terps have won some of their bigger ACC contests over the past year. Last season, the Terps’ wins against No. 2 Boston College, No. 2 North Carolina (the program’s first-ever defeat of the Tar Heels) and No. 8 Florida State all came after the Terps fell behind 1-0 and had to rally with late goals in the second half to pull out 2-1 victories.

The Virginia Tech game followed the same template, with the Terps netting two goals within four minutes in the second half to get the win.

“This is a new year, this is a new team, so to have some of that same character and fight is awesome to see,” Pensky said.

ON THE BRINK OF HISTORY Sunday night’s win was Pensky’s 62nd during his Terps coaching career, moving him into a tie for first place with his predecessor, Shannon Higgins-Cirovski.

In six years with the team from 1999 to 2004, Higgins-Cirovski amassed a record of 62-51-10 with a 16-24-4 mark in the ACC. In Pensky’s time with the Terps since 2005, he has set the school’s ACC wins mark with a 19-33-9 mark and has an overall record of 62-48-18. He will go for his 63rd victory and the school record tomorrow night at Ludwig Field against No. 18 Boston College.

Midfielder Katie Gerzabek has 15 points this year, the third-highest total on the team.

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PIRATES from page 8 concerned about the rankings or being perfect. We’re just disappointed because we were good enough to win tonight and we didn’t.”

Had they capitalized on just one of their numerous opportunities, Cirovski and the Terps would have won.

Their offense, which leads the ACC in virtually every statistical category, wasn’t just unlucky, it was downright snakebitten. Less than one-fifth of the Terps’ shot attempts were on goal, and just one of their many corners yielded a chance to score.

And during those rare moments when the Terps’ shot attempts actually headed toward goal, Pirates goalkeeper Mario DeClerico (four saves) — a true freshman making his first career start after entering the season third on Seton Hall’s depth chart — was there to haul them in.

So as the Terps ready for Saturday’s matchup at Virginia Tech, a team that beat then-No. 1 North Carolina almost two weeks ago, they’ll have more than that unfriendly crossbar on their minds.

“Our efficiency was substandard tonight,” Cirovski said. “We’ll need to do better with that if we hope to win this weekend.”

TERPS NOTE: Freshman goalkeeper Keith Cardona and midfielder Dan Metzger started last night in place of normal starters Will Swaim and midfielder Helge Leikvang, respectively. The moves were made to give the substitutes in-game experience, Cirovski said, and Swaim and Leikvang will start again Saturday. letourneau@umdbk.com

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Volleyball wins ACC opener After ending its 2010 ACC slate in defeat at Boston College, the Terrapins volleyball team got its revenge last night. Read more at diamondbackonline.com.

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No. 1 Terps settle vs.

Seton Hall Team ties, 0-0, after seven straight wins

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Guard Andrew Gonnella, shown during one of the Terps’ practices this summer, is the lone senior on the team’s starting offensive line, which has not allowed a sack this season. The Terps are one of five FBS teams with that distinction. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

For Terps, a fine line A concern entering this year, offensive line has helped keep O’Brien safe

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

With an attack predicated on its passing game, the success of quarterback Danny O’Brien and the Terrapins football team’s offense depends on the largely glory-less job performed by the five individuals protecting him.

But before the start of the season, that group was perhaps the team’s biggest question mark on the offensive side of the ball.

With experienced tackles Justin Gilbert and Pete DeSouza out indefinitely with injuries and only one senior, former walk-on guard Andrew Gonnella, starting on the line, it seemed the Terps’ offensive success would hinge on an offensive line whose ability was

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Strength and conditioning coach leaves Ricci to Texas Tech

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Senior staff writer

Paul Ricci, the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s strength and conditioning coach for the past three years, announced yesterday he was stepping down to accept a similar position at Texas Tech.

Ricci, whose official title was director of basketball performance, came to this university after nine years with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. He had previously worked on the strength and conditioning staffs of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks and MLB’s San Diego Padres.

“We certainly wish him well,” a spokesman for the athletic department wrote in an email.

During his tenure with the Terps, Ricci was known for his high-intensity workout routines that focused on maximizing balance and flexibility.

Ricci, whose last day at the university was Monday, will begin at Texas Tech next week, according to reports. schneider@umdbk.com

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uncertain at best.

Two games into the season, they’ve delivered. The Terps are one of just five FBS teams to have not allowed a sack, a figure made more impressive by the fact that O’Brien has dropped back to pass 96 times in the team’s two games.

“The offensive line is doing an amazing job. I can’t commend them more,” wide receiver Kerry Boykins said. “I think Danny’s touched the ground once or twice in two games. They’re molding together, taking pride in protecting the quarterback and making it easy for the receivers. We just run the routes; we know the protection is there.”

The Terps’ offense features a

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FIELD HOCKEY

Bright and early Fluharty, Gerzabek shining in first year

Hoping to break a scoreless tie late in the first half of last night’s game at Seton Hall, forward Casey Townsend burst into space and unleashed a wideopen shot just inside the penalty box.

But as if the goalpost were trying to send the No. 1 Terrapins men’s soccer team a message, the ball clanged off the crossbar and landed on the grass at a packed Owen T. Carroll Field.

With more than 75 minutes remaining in the Terps’ eventual 0-0 tie against the Pirates, it was already becoming increasingly clear that ball just didn’t want to meet net. “[Townsend] was completely open,” coach Sasho Cirovski said after the team’s first non-victorious result of the season. “He’s going to make that shot nine out of 10 times.”

The Terps (7-0-1) dominated possession for nearly the entirety of the 110 minutes played last night. They outshot an unranked Seton Hall (3-2-2) squad, 23-6. They even tallied 13 corner kicks to the Pirates’ none.

But when the final whistle blew and the second sudden-death overtime period ended, none of that mattered.

The Terps’ perfect start was over.

And when the sport’s newest top-25 poll is released next Tuesday, their reign atop college soccer’s rankings may be, as well.

“You know, this was bound to happen,” Cirovski said. “We’re not too

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WOMEN’S SOCCER | NOTEBOOK

Coach Brian Pensky and the Terps secured their first ACC win Sunday.

FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Even at 1-1, Terps like spot in ACC Pensky closing in on program’s win record

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

BY DANIEL GALLEN

No one on the Terrapins field hockey team had ever known what losing to Boston College felt like when they traveled to Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Friday night.

An 8-0 all-time record against the thenNo. 8 Eagles had defined the conference rivals’ one-sided series, but as the Terps headed to overtime deadlocked at 3-3, that dominance was in jeopardy.

Surprisingly, it took a newcomer to keep one of the team’s oldest winning streaks alive. Playing in overtime in her first-ever ACC game, freshman forward Maxine Fluharty took a pass in the circle and tipped in what was only the third goal of her career, clinching a Terps victory.

On a Terps team returning seven of 11 starters from its national championship team a season ago, Fluharty has wasted no time in securing her place alongside a veteran lineup. The reigning ACC Player of the Week, Fluharty has combined with classmate Katie Gerzabek to provide a substantial early impact, and coach Missy Meharg said they’re only getting better.

“It is challenging to step right in as freshmen in the ACC, especially in field hockey,” Meharg said. “I’m very proud of them. …

They’re serving the team exceedingly well

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Staff writer

As the Terrapins women’s soccer team stared down a familiar halftime deficit in its ACC home opener Sunday against Virginia Tech, the squad found itself edging toward another familiar and equally devastating path.

In six of the past eight years, the No. 6 Terps (7-1-2, 1-1 ACC) had started at least 0-2 in conference play, a statistic pre-dating coach Brian Pensky’s tenure in College Park.

Pensky calls the ACC the nation’s most difficult league, so 0-2 holes in the league — something the Terps avoided with a 2-1 win over the Hokies — can make life quite difficult.

“We don’t find a way to come back in that second half [Sunday], we’re down 0-2 hosting [Boston College], who knocked off Virginia,” Pensky said.

“To get back even at 1-1 is huge.”

Last season, the Terps started off ACC play with a tie at Duke and a win over Virginia en route to a 7-2-1 record in the conference and their first No. 1 NCAA tournament seed.

Only one other time — Pensky’s inaugural season in 2005 — had the Freshman forward Maxine Fluharty was named ACC Player of the Week yesterday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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