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their pledges on social media with the hashtag #WalkWithFrancis.

Junior Jessica Nahmias said she has become more involved in her faith since arriving at college and took the pledge because of her passion for serving others.

Nahmias, a kinesiology major, is chairwoman of the Catholic Student Center’s service committee.

Earlier this month, the committee led an event during which students made more than 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the homeless in Washington, she said.

“I thought [taking the pledge] would be just a great way to help me keep growing and do things for others,” Nahmias said. “I think just serving the poor and the homeless and the hungry or even just other people in your community, it’s something

Student groups that file funding appeals with the SGA might have a tougher time getting approved this year.

Starting this semester, Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said he will be tougher on groups that file appeals based on mistakes made in their initial applications.

In the past, groups have made appea ls based on emotion, as opposed to presenting structural or procedural objections, he said, noting the SGA would sometimes grant these appeals.

“For every one group that is appealing that didn’t get funding, there’s a lot of other groups that didn’t get funding for the same reason and decided not to appeal,” Ronk said. “It’s important for people not to lose sight of that.”

Throughout the academic year, there are six allocation periods when student groups can apply for and receive funding.

This semester’s first allocation deadline was Monday. About 100 to 130 groups apply each period depending on the month, Ronk said.

The largest mistake groups make when applying for funding is including or transcribing the incorrect documentation, Ronk said.

During the past couple of years, the Caribbean Students Association has appealed to the SGA, citing documentation discrepancies in its application and issues with understanding the SGA’s discretionary guidelines.

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College Park Liquors can sell liquor on Sundays after a Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners decision. tom hausman/the diamondback

Town Hall, CP Liquor to sell liquor on Sundays

STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS sit in the Catholic Student Center to watch Pope Francis celebrate Mass at Catholic University. tom hausman/the diamondback

Walking with Francis

Stores must also make $50,000 in upgrades

University students are among more than 100,000 people who took pledges before the pope’s arrival in Washington

By Joe Atmonavage @fus_DBK Staff writer Two College Park liquor stores will now be able to sell liquor on Sundays, but they must also get makeovers.

T he P ri nce G eorge’s Cou nty Board of License Commissioners recently approved Sunday liquor sales at College Park Liquors and Tow n Ha l l L iquors, a decision that also mandates the businesses each invest at least $50,000 in store improvements.

Before obtaining its permit, Town Hall Liquors could sell beer and wine Sundays in its store and its lounge.

The lounge will still serve only beer and wine Sundays, as the license is for alcohol that is permitted off the property.

The two stores applied for the license this summer after Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill in April allowing Prince George’s County to issue 100 licenses allowing liquor sales on Sundays from 8 a.m. to midnight.

Senior civil and environmental engineering major Ashraf Khan said he doesn’t see any issues with stores selling liquor on Sundays.

“I don’t think it is bad,” he said. “I don’t particularly drink on Sundays.

I don’t go out, but it is a good thing, I guess. I don’t see a problem with it.”

The two stores must follow county and city guidelines put in place for licensed stores in order to quench the thirst of College Park residents on Sundays.

The county requires the $50,000 reinvestment. Stores can opt for a waiver through the county, but Bob Ryan, the city’s public services director, said he suspects the county won’t be giving many out. Regardless, the College Park City Council and the city attorney determined that College Park Liquors and Town Hall Liquors will not apply for the waiver.

“They are looking for the liquor stores in the county to get a facelift, so to speak,” Ryan said.

District 2 Councilman Monroe Dennis added: “From the city’s perspective, it is an attempt on our behalf to try and make certain things about the appearance of some of these facilities more amenable.”

College Park Liquors’ propertyuse agreement states it must remove 50 percent of the signage on its storefront windows, clear the aisle in front of the store and use ID scanners, Ryan said.

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By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer Students from this university are among more than 100,000 people who pledged to pray, act or serve the community in anticipation of the pope’s visit to Washington this week.

The Archdiocese of Washington launched the Walk With Francis pledge to welcome Pope Francis on his visit, said Katie Atmonavage, communications manager with Catholic Charities of the archdiocese. Considering the pope’s de-emphasis on material things, Catholic Charities and the archdiocese created the pledge as their gift to the pope, rather than buying something.

People can take the pledge by visiting the Walk With Francis website and signing up to pray, act or serve their communities. They also can share

Website launches to connect U entrepreneurs, developers 5 students’ platform now active at 10 campuses nationwide

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer Hanging out over winter break two years ago, Tyler Denk and Taylor Johnson had an idea.

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launched March 30 that empowers student entrepreneurs to connect with developers on their college campuses.

Over the past year and a half, Denk and Johnson — along with Johnson’s twin, senior electrical engineering major Tommy Johnson, plus junior computer science and mathematics major Ephraim Rothschild and sophomore computer science and mathematics major Akash Magoon — took the idea from Squarespace, a website builder, to gauge interest at this university for VentureStorm 2.0,

the site’s updated version that launched last week.

“We found it difficult to find student developers willing to work on a project full time, and through our entrepreneur classes and the Dingman Center [for Entrepreneurship], we found a lot of other people had the same problem,” Johnson said. “We decided: Why not create a Web platform that would enable students to connect to each other?”

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53 faculty redesign courses to promote active learning Professors added exams, promoted discussion

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer Student cou rse eva luation comments for biology professor Patricia Shields’ first redesigned, active-learning course last spring ranged from admiration to unsubtle aversion.

Some students said, “‘I loved the Wednesday activity; I enjoyed the

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Though they had fleshed out their concept — a music app called JukeTree — the senior mechanical and electrical engineering majors had no way of making their dreams a reality, as they lacked the technical skills to build the app they envisioned.

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teaching style,’” said the BSCI105: Principles of Biology professor. “And then you get to the other ones that said, ‘I felt like the activities were big sucking black holes.’”

So far, Shields is one of 53 faculty members across eight colleges at this university who have redesigned their courses under the Elevate Fellows course redesign program to provide a See LECTURES, Page 5 THE BIOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING lecture hall seats hundreds of students. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

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POPE FRANCIS’S VISIT TO WASHINgTON Graphic by Evan Berkowitz/The Diamondback

From PAGE 1 that Pope Francis definitely tells us to do.”

Junior Natalie Dagher, a communications intern with the center, said she took the pledge to prepare herself for the pope’s visit.

“Anything big or momentous that happens in your life, like an upcoming deadline or a celebration, you prepare for it,” the computer science and mechanical engineering major said.

“That’s just like what Catholics are being called to, and everyone really in the U.S., to prepare for his visit to be able to welcome him with open arms.”

When Pope Francis visits Catholic Charities on Thursday, Cardinal Donald Wuerl w i l l p re s e n t h i m w i t h a book containing the names of people who pledged to Walk With Francis and posts written on social media before the book went to print on Sept.

16, Atmonavage said.

The book includes 67,225 names on more than 400 pages, Atmonavage said, and more than 100,000 people have signed up to Walk With Francis, according to the pledge’s website. The site will stay open to give people the opportunity to serve the community even after Pope Francis’ visit, Atmonavage said.

Men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon, state U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, John Carlson of the Washington Capitals and Craig Stammen of the Washington Nationals have taken the pledge, Atmonavage said. “ We ’ r e r e a l l y e x c i t e d about the momentum that this pledge has garnered,” she said. “We announced the pledge in July, and you know with summer, people on vacation, we were getting some numbers but not as much as we wanted to, and I would say in the past week we have seen

4:15 p.m. yesterday Mass at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

11:30 a.m. yesterday Prayer at St. Matthew’s Cathedral.

9:15 a.m. yesterday Welcomed by President Obama at the White House.

11:15 a.m. today Charitable event at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Catholic Charities.

10 a.m. today Address to Congress followed by appearance on Capitol West Front.

4 p.m. Tuesday Arrives at Joint Base Andrews.

4 p.m. Thursday departs. tens of thousands of names [added] every single day.”

T he Cathol ic Student Center has been promoting the Walk With Francis pledge on social media and at Masses, service events and weekly dinners, campus minister Lisa Greey said.

Greey said she does not know how many students have taken the pledge but that the center’s announcements and use of social media have generated excitement on the campus.

Social media allowed the pledge to bring the community together and “connect people that might otherwise not be connected,” Atmonavage said. Pope Francis has also

been particularly active on social media, tweeting regularly from @Pontifex to 7.27 million followers.

“It really makes him accessible to young people because they have this daily reminder of little things that they can do to either be closer to their faith or make their community better,” Greey said. “He really makes a strong emphasis to use social media as a platform to reach billions of people.”

Pope Francis’ visibility in the media has also allowed people to see him caring for the poor and setting an example, Greey said. Moments when Pope Francis embraced a disfigured man and washed feet during

Holy Week have been captured on camera.

“That resonates with people, and I also think it challenges people,” Greey said. “It challenges me. I’m like, ‘I hope I love people that way. I hope I treat people that way.’”

Atmonavage said she hopes the pledge shows the positive impact people can have on their communities.

“We’re just really hoping that people can come together and realize, you know, we’re not asking for a lot,” Atmonavage said. “Just one simple thing can really make a difference.” lschapitldbk@gmail.com

LIQUOR

“WE WANT TO TRY AND ENSURE THAT From PAGE 1 ANY BUSINESS IN THE

T he i ncrea sed storefront w i ndow v isibi l ity is primarily so police officers who are driving by c a n look i nto t he store and make sure there are no issues, Ryan said.

College Park Liquors, wh ich op ened i n 1990, pla ns on renovati ng its cash ier cou nter a rea, changing the shelving in the front and making the store easier to navigate, said Abigale Bruce-Watson, an attorney who represents the store.

Col lege Pa rk L iquors h a s a ye a r to m a ke t he changes or its license will be revoked, Bruce-Watson said. The same applies for Town Hall.

The council suggested Town Hall change its exterior to make the bar and store more inviting. Multiple council members suggested adding windows.

Ja mes H igg i ns, Tow n Hall’s general manager, told the cou nci l i n a special session last week t h at doi ng so wou ld be challenging because the store hasn’t been renovated since 1981. Structural issues limit the changes it can make, he said.

The city requires Town H a l l to m a ke i mprovements to its facade and the front area of its business, s t ip u l at ion s t h at we re written into the application that was presented to Board of License Comm issioners on T uesday, Dennis said. “ G e n e r a l l y, w e a r e asking them to brighten up a little,” Dennis said.

“Fifty thousand dollars sounds like a lot of money, and to some businesses it is, but it doesn’t really go a long way.”

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District 2 councilman Junior journalism major Mia Hassler echoed Dennis’ thoughts.

“It looks like an undercover, secret place,” she said of Town Hall. “They could make it a little more saferlooking and welcoming.”

W it h Tow n H a l l, Rya n said, the city clearly prioritized improving the store’s exterior — by painting it, for instance — and repairing the fence in the back of the store and fixing the large mounted sign out front.

In the store’s July application to the Board of License Com m i ssioners, H ig g i n s said the business would redo the floors in the lounge and much of the ceiling, as well as upd ate its beer boxes, which keep beer cold. Ryan said these are changes the store could make if it has money left over from renovating the facade.

Dennis said if the city did not have a stance on the licen ses or opposed t hem, the license commissioners board could still grant the licenses to the liquor stores, making the decision an easy one.

“We found there was no reason to disapprove,” he said. “We thought that it was in our best interest to approve with some conditions that would hopefully indicate that the city is in favor of trying to help businesses but that there should b e som e cond it ion s t h at should appeal to our city as a whole. “ We w a n t t o t r y a n d ensure that any business in the city survives.” jatmonavagedbk@gmail.com

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SAME CONTAINER, DIFFERENT WORLDS NextNow portal brings participants face-to-face from countries apart

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Senior staff writer Senior Kamran Partovi stepped into a gold shipping container stationed outside of The Clarice and came face-toface with another man named Kamran, 35, who was also standing in a gold shipping container — only his was stationed more than 6,000 miles away in Tehran, Iran.

“We had a lot in common. We talked about politics and things going on with the U.S. and Iran nuclear deal. We talked about traveling,” said Partovi, a government and politics major who is from Iran. “I really enjoyed the experience. ... I get really homesick, and for me, it was kind of a way to travel [to Iran].”

Partovi and Kamran were brought together as part of the “portals” program, an idea pioneered by a company called Shared Studios. Gold shipping containers stationed in different cities around the world connect people via real-time video feeds.

One of these global portals was on the campus during The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s NextNow Fest. Students and visitors could sign up for 20-minute sessions in the portal, where they could speak with someone living in Iran, Afghanistan, Mexico or Honduras.

“The idea behind the portals came from many years of reporting and finding that some of the more compelling conversations I had were after I turned off the camera,” said Amar Bakshi, founder and lead artist of Shared Studios. “Even from some fleeting conversation with a stranger ... we were able to talk about really personal things and things that would otherwise be difficult to bring up.”

Bakshi decided to launch the portals after traveling the world working as a foreign correspondent. He said when he returned from his travels, he noticed these kinds of meaningful conversations, especially with people very different from himself, were rare. He missed those connections.

Bondarev said the portals are an exciting example of how modern technology can bring people together in meaningful ways. She said the portals could also present learning opportunities for students, and representatives at The Clarice are already thinking of ways to bring the portals back to the campus.

“There really are amazing opportunities in terms of connection,” Bondarev said. “It goes beyond sort of the politics that are going on in the world and connects people on a very basic level. It’s about humanity.”

Partovi said the concept is a great opportunity to see what people from different parts of the world have in common. He said especially in places like Iran or Honduras, which are parts of the world that are often misunderstood, it can be good to get an in-depth look at people’s lives.

“It’s just bringing two people together to talk,” Partovi said.

“That’s where the value is.”

A SHIPPING CONTAINER sits outside The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as a NextNow Fest art installation. tom hausman/the diamondback Erica Bondarev, associate exThe portals are about using feel like the person was standtechnology to create a public ing there with you,” Shaw said. ecutive director at The Clarice, space where people can interact, “When I walked out, it felt like said the portals fit into the he said, and building connec- they were walking out with me.” NextNow Fest’s goal to welcome Shaw said she had expected students of all backgrounds to tions between different places.

Alumna Lauren Shaw spoke to see a familiar video-chat campus through creative, artful to a mother and two young screen, like on Skype, but it was and fun experiences.

Actors and dancers were also children living in Mexico City. designed to be more intimate.

“A lot of information is con- able to interact with other artists She said she liked the idea of making the world a smaller veyed through the whole human from around the world for colplace through conversation but body and through eye contact, laboration experiences using was surprised by how real it felt. which are things that are not the portals. Bondarev said her “For just being a carpeted conveyed well through a small 9-year-old daughter even got 75004 shipping container, it was screen like through a webcam,” to show off some break dancing moves to a man in Mexico City. meichensehrdbk@gmail.com amazing to me how it made you Bakshi said.

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Volkswagen disappoints Prioritize sexual assault education customers, employees STAFF EDITORIAL

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aslow’s hierarchy of needs, a basic psychological theory proposed in the mid-20th century, depicts a pyramid of requirements for human growth and development.

At the base of this pyramid lie physiological needs such as air, water, food and shelter — all the elemental prerequisites for survival. Next comes safety: health and well-being, personal and financial security. Love and belonging, esteem and self-actualization round out the pyramid’s peak.

Fairly basic stuff. So basic, in fact, that this university’s orientation director, Gerry Strumpf, invoked Maslowian geometry when outlining the summer freshman orientation program.

“When you first get here, you’ve got to worry about your physiological and safety needs to get up higher to your emotional needs,” Strumpf said in an interview with The Diamondback. “We see our summer programs as meeting those basic needs: ‘Where am I gonna sleep, where am I gonna eat and what classes am I going to take?’”

Protection from sexual misconduct and medical and legal resources for assault victims, apparently, lie among the emotional needs to take a backseat to course scheduling and dining plans.

The two-day summer orientation programs required for all freshmen don’t address this university’s sexual misconduct policy whatsoever, and they provide only a passing reference to the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct.

Strumpf provided a variety of reasons why she feels orientation programming isn’t the proper place to raise aware-

ness of sexual misconduct, including the following: 1. “We’re not going to change the world by talking to 4,000 students at one time and lecturing at them.”

2. “When they come to [UNIV100: The Student in the University], we’re going to talk about it at a very high level.”

3. “Also — and I’m going to be gender-specific — but I think it’s more a women’s issue, that they’ve got to be really careful.”

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Sexual misconduct needs to be addressed at freshman orientation.

Let’s operate under the assumption that the last reason — an all-too-pervasive myth that activists and this editorial board have struggled to bust time and again — was merely a verbal misstep on the part of Strumpf, who elsewhere in her interview acknowledged the importance of sexual misconduct training for all freshmen.

Still, less than half of this year’s freshman class enrolled in a UNIV course this semester, according to the schedule of classes.

What’s more, administrators didn’t email out the mandated sexual misconduct training module until Sept. 1, six days after move-in began. As of Sept. 17, just 35 percent of students had completed it.

When and where will students — especially those not enrolled in UNIV100 sections piloting the sexual misconduct

training — receive the nuanced education they need regarding consent?

The “red zone,” the period between freshman move-in and Thanksgiving break, places female students at their highest risk for sexual assault. And at a time when the usual 1-in-4 statistic has faced a rising number of critiques, more than 25 percent of female undergraduates at 27 well-regarded universities said they were victims of sexual misconduct and assault, according to an Association of American Universities survey released Monday.

Most high schools don’t account for such dialogues in their curricula, and if this university doesn’t reinforce the topic of sexual misconduct early and often, students might never take heed.

This university needs to reach both potential perpetrators and victims as soon as they set foot on the campus, and that starts with summer orientation.

Student orientation leaders, often the first upperclassmen newly enrolled students encounter, need to level with freshmen as peers on the topic of sexual misconduct in the same ways they do drug and alcohol abuse. Administrators need to champion the Title IX office and other resources for victims of sexual misconduct.

We need to start saying more, and it needs to start at orientation. Strumpf promised she would find a way to work in the topic of sexual misconduct next summer, and her office must develop concrete plans to deliver an in-depth discussion. Course scheduling and dining plans are important, but protecting our most vulnerable students has to come first.

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n the recent Volkswagen scandal, the company has revealed the use of TDI clean diesel engines programmed to intentionally evade pollution testing. The Environmental Protection Agency began investigating and noted discrepancies between emissions testing and actual driving results in these vehicles about a year ago. However, Volkswagen has just recently admitted to the use of devices in these engine that could sense when emissions were being tested, triggering pollution control mechanisms within the car. Volkswagen has announced and apologized for the 11 million diesel cars enabled with the programmed engine, of which about 500,000 cars are in the U.S., but the company’s CEO has denied any wrongdoing.

An apology for a fraud of this magnitude is insignificant; it necessitates well beyond a simple recall. Volkswagen’s reputation is rightfully tarnished, and the company will face severe fines and lawsuits. Volkswagen will be responsible for the costs for fixing cars sold from 2009 to 2015 to meet pollution regulations. Compounding the above to a sharp 20 percent plunge in its stock price and decline in investor support, Volkswagen will suffer a substantial setback.

The consequences Volkswagen is currently facing are well-warranted and unsurprising. By attempting to deliberately violate numerous environmental laws and issues, topics of deep value in American society, Volkswagen has lost its reputation of being a company built on serving consumer demands. Even worse, these “clean diesel” engines have been reported to release 40 times the allowed level of nitrogen oxide — a pollutant known to cause such

as asthma and bronchitis, among other respiratory problems.

While there have been no deaths or significant accidents reported, unlike Toyota’s acceleration and Takata’s explosive air bags cases, Volkswagen has proved that it can cheat the public and environmental laws, or at least think it can until it got caught.

Furthermore, there are a couple o f m a jo r i m p l i ca t i o n s o f t h i s scandal. First, the use of diesel technology in America is now in a greater state of flux. Volkswagen’s TDI technology was highly marketable and a popular choice compared to many hybrid models.

Considering that not many other car companies promote diesel and are now even more unlikely to, diesel technology might decline unless companies such as Mercedes and Audi continue to produce cars with clean diesel technology.

Moreover, this scandal is an exa m p l e fo r s t u d e n ts o n h ow companies might operate given certain restrictions. It is well known that corporations and executives get involved with fraud to increase profits and meet customer demands. However, this scandal shows students that companies face severe consequences.

Company image is important, and if its value and ethics system is corrupted, why would anyone put their money and trust there?

Students seeking careers in entrepreneurship and management in particular should take note of this incident. Employees want to be part of a company that puts people and integrity first. In that way, Volkswagen has not only been diminished in the eyes of the public and consumers, but also its employees, making the road to recovery all that much harder.

Sauradeep Sinha, former opinion e d i t o r, i s a j u n i o r c h e m i c a l e n g i n e e r i n g m a j o r. H e c a n b e reached at ssinhadbk@gmail.com.

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Ahmed exposes education failure

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ne of the first things I remember learning in elementary school was meant to be a fun lesson about diversity in America. “We’re a melting pot of cultures,” went the pitch. Eventually, the melting pot became a salad bowl, and presumably afterwards, a food pyramid. It’s hard to say. However, the backbone of the American culture has, in recent years, produced a phenotype nowhere near as innocuous as my elementary school’s model.

Since George W. Bush’s disjointed and circumspect post-9/11 address to Congress, the American ethos of patriotism has taken on a decidedly xenophobic bent. The Justice Department recently strengthened legislation prohibiting racial profiling yet included a “national security” loophole that civil rights organizations are saying allows exclusive targeting of Muslims. One need not be active on Twitter or in CNN comment sections to be familiar with the mantra “speak American!” Donald Trump disparaging Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush for their fluency in Spanish on a national stage typifies the sentiment. An alarming cultural emphasis on a homogeneous “Americanism” has produced a pressure disproportionately exerted on Muslims.

While blatant Islamophobia induced the arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, another lurking party is culpable as well: the American education system. Schools in America are filled with more police officers than ever before. Particularly for ethnic minorities, schools have become a disciplinary hotbed of sus-

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popular dodge among many feeling the public’s wrath is that people outside a system, who have not experienced what it’s like to be a member of said system, should not be able to criticize the pensions and expulsions. According to wonder we’re being lapped by most of actions of those attempting to data from the U.S. Education Depart- the developed world. work within that system. ment, in Ahmed’s own Irving IndepenOn the surface, this is a reasonWe have a system that excels at dent School District, between 2000 churning out students who are reason- able line of thought. Certainly, at and 2011, the number of suspensions ably competent at filling out bubbles the very least, we should give extra and expulsions handed out increased on standardized tests. While many in credence to the opinions of people 355 percent. I find it hard to believe that federal oversight wince at the figures who have actually done a job we Texas students are 355 percent more on the end-of-year check, too few do might be inclined to criticize, violent today than they were in 2000. the same after peering at the students no? It makes sense: I have never Rather, the definition of what merits we’ve been producing. The scope of been employed in the education discipline has expanded, and suddenly education has been narrowed to a thin system, so of course there must be we’re punishing our students more stream in which our students survive, nuances to that professional space than ever — a small part of a crimi- but aren’t asked to thrive. What do we I am unaware of. nalization of creativity that’s stifling do when confronted with a willing and Yet there are ways in which this our young people. capable student who aspires to design, particular line of rationale falls Public schooling in America — and create and innovate? Handcuff him in apart at the seams. Recently, a New in many places around the globe — the hallway of his high school.

York City police officer tackled cropped up in the 18th century to Ahmed made two principal mistakes: retired pro tennis player James address the needs of burgeoning in- being Muslim in a country filled with Blake, mistaking him for a credit dustrialism. To meet those demands, lurking pockets of xenophobia and card fraud suspect. Both Blake and the model for schooling stressed linear- daring to operate outside the confines the suspect are black. Unsurprisity and conformity: the same morals of classroom instruction. Islamopho- ingly, large swaths of people and that make for successful industry. Now, bia might be the social justice issue organizations such as Black Lives 300 years later, the needs of society Ahmed’s story targets, but the failings of Matter were outraged over the have changed greatly, but the ideolo- our education system deserve equal time apparent profiling incident, and gies haven’t. Schooling in the United under the microscope. Ultimately, in Blake himself called for the officer States follows a “manufacturing model,” both our broken educational paradigm to be fired. education expert Sir Ken Robinson and in American culture itself, it seems But not so fast, New York Police said, whereby forward progression is what we’re most afraid of is change.

D e p a r t m e n t Un i o n P re s i d e n t demanded and conformity is expected.

Young Ahmed’s story crystallizes in Patrick Lynch said. In a Sept. 15 Organic talent exploration falls by the the junction between the failings of both letter to reporters, Lynch lambastwayside, and a somewhat singular sense American education and the American ed “arm-chair judges” who “have of what constitutes “ability” is used to ethos. One gets the sense that a pair of never struggled with someone who quantify students (the current flavor Franklin’s bifocals couldn’t help Irving is resisting arrest” and are “not of the month is “college and career High School’s principal see the system- qualified to judge the actions of readiness”). The basic goal of educa- atic problems he’s missing. police officers putting themselves tion is to provide conditions amenable in harm’s way for the public good.” to intellectual growth; with our exist- Jack Siglin is a junior physiology and Even if this argument were uning model, our system is failing many neurobiology major. He can be reached at assailable, even if it did not lend of our best and brightest. It’s no small jack.siglin@gmail.com. itself to ridiculous conclusions GUEST COLUMN

like, say, all Americans who have not worked as politicians being unable to criticize those in the political sphere, Lynch’s argument would fail because of a simple truth: He, like myself, is a white man who has never experienced being a minority policed in a systemically racist society.

He has never been able to racially identify with the millions of black people in the prison system or the thousands more shot dead by law enforcement before they even get there. He has never had to justify his very existence in his country of origin and then justify that justification. Lynch has never been a black person, and so he should not be able to criticize the response of black people.

And ultimately, it is these kinds of realizations we need to come to.

It is Lynch’s job to advocate his officers — he is the union head, he was elected to protect his union members’ best interests and, to some extent, that should be appreciated. However, his response to this particular scandal is juvenile and short-sighted: By dismissing people with concerns over how police have been and continue to interact with black people and other minority groups, he is negating any claim for empathy he might have. He is attempting to turn the police — who, as a group, and system, have killed more than 1,000 Americans over the past year — into the victims, and that is a fallacy that cannot stand.

E l y Va n c e i s a s e n i o r E n g l i s h m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t evancedbk@gmail.com.

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App rewards students for staying off phones CRIME BLOTTER hours before.

T he man had cut in line for a bus and was approached by the d river, Un iversity Pol ice re- who later called the police. s p o n d e d t o r e p o r t s o f Officers talked to the man theft, disorderly conduct again and provided him and trespassing in the past with more information.

T h e m a n w a s c l e a rly week, according to police having a bad day, Hoaas reports. said, and was not a threat but was just looking for DISORDERLY assistance.

CONDUCT

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime Staff writer

O n S e p t . 17, o f f icers received a dispatch ca ll a nd stopped a ma le student who was reportedly yelling at three women near Woods Hall.

The man began yelling at the women, because they wouldn’t allow him to use their phones, said University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

Officers located the man a nd referred h i m to the Office of Student Conduct.

Hoaas said the same individual had an interaction with officers earlier that day at 5:44 p.m. They had received reports of an intoxicated person going up to people in a harassing manner, she said.

On Sept. 18 at 12:27 p.m., officers responded to Stamp Student Union for a man who was raising his voice and making statements that caused others to notify the police, Hoaas said.

T he officers met with the man at the University Health Center and provided him with information and additional resources.

He then left the area.

At 2:49 p.m., officers responded to Ca mpus Drive and Adelphi Road for a report of disorderly conduct. Hoaas said this was the same individual from the i ncident a few

THEFT O n S e p t. 16 a t a b o u t 10:40 p.m., an officer responded to Marie Mount Hall for a report of identity theft. Fraudulent charges were being made on a male student’s cred it ca rd to make purchases in another country, Hoaas said. The case is still pending.

Hoa a s sa id t h at once noti fied of persona l infor m at ion bei ng used b y a not he r i nd iv idu a l , victims should report the situation right away to the bank and the police.

On Sept. 18, University Police received a report for a bicycle theft at 1:13 p.m. at the H.J. Patterson Building. Another bicycle theft was reported at the Leona rdtow n apa r t ments at 2:29 p.m., Hoaas said.

Users earn discounts to local businesses by keeping phones locked during class

By Jess Nocera @jessmnocera Staff writer Students ca n ea rn d iscounts to Coldstone, Smoothie King and DP Dough, among other local businesses, just for keeping their phones off during class.

These rewards are distributed through Pocket Points, a free app that tracks a student’s phone use during class.

“I definitely need the incentive to keep my phone away and actually pay attention and take notes,” said Justine Fox, a senior civil engineering major, who uses the app.

Whenever students are on the campus, they can open the app and then lock their phones. For every 20 minutes the phone remains locked, s t u d e nt s e a r n on e p oi nt toward discounts.

Fox said she is most looking forward to earning the discounts for Kevin Nails and Looney’s Pub. This app will “save students money and hopefully increase their GPAs,” said Mitch Gardner, co-founder of Pocket Points.

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T he bu si ness a i med to launch at “the most popular colleges” around the country, and so far, it is at more than 100 schools, including this university, Gardner said.

“We’re not trying to solve the problem of excess phone use of the students, but we are just trying to mitigate the issue w ith kids usi ng smartphones in class,” said Daghan Percinel, this university’s Pocket Points campus representative and a junior astronomy major.

Currently, both Gardner a nd Rob R icha rdson, the other co-founder of Pocket Points, are taking leaves of absence from California State University, where Gardner is a business marketing major and Richardson is a computer science major.

“In spring of 2014, I was a junior at Chico State, Rob was a sophomore, and Rob was sitting in class and kind of saw ever yone on thei r phones not rea l ly pay i ng attention,” Gardner said.

“Then the entrepreneur [in him] was thinking there’s a problem and there needs to be a solution.”

POCKET POINTS, a mobile application that rewards users for not using their phone during class, is now available to students at this university. enoch hsiao/the diamondback Gardner said Richardson’s idea reson ated w it h h i m because he perceived a phone addiction problem associated with classrooms, he said.

“We were curious to see if it would actually work and if students would really stay off their phones,” Gardner said. “One thing we really focused on was creating a great enough incentive for someone to do so.”

Students across the country who use the app can gain points toward a discount at local businesses on the campus as well as some online companies.

“It’s so easy to use and it’s literally free money so there no point in [students] not downloading it,” said S u s a n n a Wa c h , a j u n i o r biology major.

Wach noted that if students earn enough points, they can earn a free calzone at DP Dough.

“As much as kids are always on their phones, they are also always worried about money,” Wach said. “College kids love free things, so why not combine free things with doing well in class.” jnoceradbk@gmail.com

Class Sizes at This University

more interactive, studentcentered experience, said Ben Bederson, the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center’s executive director.

T he re d e si g n i nvolve d major syllabus adjustments, such as dropping and adding course material, making more exams that were worth fewer points each, adding discussions and putting the onus on students to do work such as quizzes outside of class, Shields said.

The campuswide initiative has reached 12,000 students in 44 courses so far, Bederson said.

It’s a “small nu mber of courses, but a big impact because a lot of the courses we’ve been working on are the large courses,” he said.

T h i s u n iversity h a s a n abundance of larger-sized classes. There are 385 course sections with 50 to 99 students, and 231 sections with 100 or more students, university spokesm a n Br ia n Ullmann said.

“T here is plenty of a necdota l ev idence of students not feeling engaged or paying much attention in a long lecture,” Elizabeth Beise, academic planning and programs associate provost, wrote in an email. “For the courses that we know about that are more engaging, it seems as though both the faculty and the students enjoy the experience more.”

Ju n ior com mu n ic at ion major Sarah Matzelle said her large lecture class often fails to hold her attention.

“I feel distracted all of the time,” Matzelle said. “[I’d like] a smaller class, more interesting professor, less notes. … It’s not interactive really,

you just sit there and listen.”

Although some students might be wary about the increased effort of an activelearning class, Shields said students in these courses end up learning and retaining more of the material.

“Whether the students understand it or not, they really do get a lot from it,” Shields said. “Because they did [the material] … as opposed to just memorizing it for a test when it goes in one ear and out the other.”

The results Shields has seen in her classes are not uncommon. Average examination scores i n active-lea rn i ng courses were about 6 percent higher than traditional lecture courses, according to a 2014 meta-study that analyzed 225 individual studies.

The best teaching method is to have students put in effort to learn things themselves, Bederson said.

“It’s sort of like exercising your muscles,” he said.

“You can’t become an athlete by watching someone play tennis.”

For teachers i n lectu re courses that have not been redesigned, such as history professor Robert Chiles, the success of the class largely depends on the teacher having the proper skill set to teach a larger group.

“You can’t just put words on a screen, because then they’re just going to ignore you,” said Chiles, adding he often uses images during h i s 150-st udent lect u res for HIST200: Interpreting American History: Beginnings to 1877 and HIST201: I nterpreti ng A merica n History: From 1865 to the Present. “You have to have common sense. You have to know how people learn.”

Junior economics major Chris Hoff man said he learns

best when the class is smaller.

“A larger class is less personal,” said Hoff man, who’s currently taking BMGT210: Foundations of Accounting for Non Business Majors. “[I’d want] more interaction with the professor … maybe have more group projects, where you meet in groups and meet with the professor in that group, and you get a little better student-teacher ratio.”

Although social-psychology professor Jennifer Wessel has difficulty interacting one-on-one with students in her 150-student PSYC221: Social Psychology lecture, she said she’s tried to bridge the divide by implementing discussions and debates, as well as tailoring her material so it resonates with more of her students.

“Sometimes I’ll bring in a current event that I think is an interesting example of something that also maybe applies to a certain demographic group that feels underrepresented,” Wessel said, noting she’s also shown different types of people and relationships in her lecture slides.

An identifiable problem w i t h t ra d it i o n a l l e c t u re classes is that they can give an unfair advantage to the

privileged population while i sol at i n g g roups s uch a s women, minorities and lowincome students, according to a Sept. 12 New York Times article.

“The same lecture, given by the same professor in the same lecture hall, is actually not the same for each student listening,” according to the article. “Students with more background knowledge will be better able to absorb and retain what they hear.”

Active-learning classes can serve as an equalizer, Bederson said.

“It results in more equitable outcomes — that is, that you’re less likely to be helping the students that are already most advantaged,” Bederson said. “It sort of equals the playing field.”

However, some students said they are still content with the traditional lecture style.

A large lecture “gives you sort of the freedom to do work on your own,” said Zachary S c h a i n , a f re s h m a n e nrolled in letters and sciences taking ECON200: Principles of Micro-Economics. “More individual-based learning is more for me.”

uate student in the Technology Entrepreneurship program at this university, who later used so you need to balance a lot VentureStorm last spring to of entrepreneurs with a lot of create AllPlay, an app that enables users to search for developers.”

From PAGE 1 The team attracted the site’s movies and shows across platthe web platform currently first users in the spring by es- forms, such as Hulu, Amazon spans nine other campuses, tablishing a presence at campus and Netflix.

“Our main goal is to help including George Mason Uni- competitions, such as Bitcamp, versity, Pennsylvania State where 100 developers signed up other entrepreneurs pursue Un iversity, Un iversity of for their project, and Cupid’s their ideas,” Denk said. “So Southern Carolina and George Cup, where they attracted the many people have good ideas attention of fellow entrepre- and want to pursue their own Washington University.

“VentureStorm is ideal for neurs by winning the showcase thing and can’t because there’s so many barriers in the form of bigger universities because event, Denk said.

One of those entrepreneurs technical expertise.” you need a network,” Denk Although it’s free to use the said. “It’s a two-sided market, was Adam VanWagner, a grad-

site, entrepreneurs must pay $10 to post a project, Denk said.

They must also agree to pay VentureStorm 10 percent of any transaction with a developer.

There are currently between 25 and 30 projects posted, Denk said.

One of the projects belongs to Zach Fishbein, a senior aerospace engineering major, who found out about VentureStorm through Taylor and Tommy Johnson.

His app, InPin, which enables students to easily meet up on the campus, “should be up and running within the week,”

Fishbein said.

“I was on the website maybe a week before someone applied [to work on my project with me],” Fishbein said. “We messaged a little, talked in person, agreed to work together and it’s been great ever since.”

So great, in fact, that Fishbein has already posted a second project.

But despite their satisfaction with VentureStorm, Fishbein and others said they wish the site boasted more developers looking to collaborate.

“The only downside right now is not a lot of people know

about it, so there aren’t enough developers on the platform,” said Arielle Bitton, a senior marketing and finance major whose app, Flutter, is scheduled to launch within the next year.

“I got lucky, but it’s hard to find a good match.”

However, th is problem looks to resolve itself as VentureStorm gains momentum, Bitton said.

“That’s not really the fault of the actual service,” Bitton said.

“They just haven’t gotten the word out yet.”

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TRESPASSING Officers responded to the Annapolis Hall area at 11:01 p.m. on Sept. 18 for a suspicious-person call, Hoaas said.

A n older ma n w ith no a f f i l i at ion to t h i s u n iversity was seen talking to himself. Officers located the man and told him he wa s t respa ssi n g a nd to leave the campus. jcampisidbk@gmail.com

Troupe’s treasurer, said the SGA’s guidelines do not disadvantage the groups she is involved in, but added that the budget training required by the SGA for the treasurers and presidents of student groups could be more intensive.

“Going to budget training didn’t give [our members] a clear picture of how to go about this process,” the senior family science major said. “It’s a very serious process, and sometimes I don’t know if they understand the importance of it for student groups.”

While it’s important for student groups to understand the SGA’s guidelines and to thoroughly review their applications, McCammon said she hopes the SGA will recognize when genuine mistakes are made.

“It can never hurt to ap p e a l e m o t io n a l ly. I would never say nix that,” she said. “We’re students.

We’re human — and that’s where emotional appeals should be allowed.”

“I understand not making an emotional appeal based off something that’s clearly delineated in the guidelines,” said Nandi McCammon, CSA’s former twotime president. “A policy that [the SGA] needs to explain more explicitly in their guidelines … is sufficient grounds for an appeal.”

Ronk and Sarah Niezelski, SGA finance vice president, said it’s tough to deny groups funding, but they must treat each group fairly, which entails only granting appeals in special cases in which the SGA’s rules disadvantage a particular group.

“At the end of the day, it’s state money, and there are policies in place that have to be followed,” Niezelski said. “We need to be fair and equitable in everything we do. Consistency is a huge part of that.”

She added that it’s beneficial that groups have the opportunity to apply for funding multiple times a year, and the SGA is willing to give feedback on applications for following months.

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RESTAURANT AND BAR GUIDE Finding organic ingredients Students seek natural food in markets, eateries near College Park

By Sam Reilly @thedbk For The Diamondback

to do,” she said.

Organic food’s proven health benefits, such as increased intake of antioxidants and With what seems like ev- heart-healthy Omega-3 fatty eryone rushing to the nearest acids, have garnered attention organic market to stock up on over the past two decades. Sales produce and quinoa, eating or- have increased from $3.6 billion ganically is a growing trend that in 1997 to more than $39 billion applies nationally and among in 2014, according to the Organic Trade Association’s State of the students at this university.

Tori Valcarcel, a sophomore Industry report.

The U.S. Agriculture Deenrolled in letters and sciences, said part of the reason she tries partment defines organic food to eat organically is the result of production as “the application of a set of cultural, biological, the media around it.

“I have my own reasons and mechanical practices to eat organically, but at the that support the cycling of same time, it’s like the thing on-farm resources, promote

ecological balance and conserve biodiversity.”

Regardless of individual reasons for ditching artificial ingredients and processes, there are several organic options in and around this university for students to explore.

The Maryland Food Co-op offers fair-trade, organically sourced cafeteria-style food from its location in Stamp Student Union’s basement.

“We’re trying to provide h ig h-qua l ity food, h ig hquality specifically being good ingredients that taste good,” co-op worker Chris Litchfield said. “That kind

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Outside Cole Field House is the university farmers market, where local farmers and vendors

put up tents every Wednesday.

These local businesses offer food and products “fresh from farm See organic, Page 7

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Where to find the greatest offers and specials at nearby bars

By Sammi Silber @thedbk For The Diamondback The bars on Route 1 make for great stops to unwind on free weekends or after a long day of classes for students at this university. We put together a guide to the best bar deals around the university.

CORNERSTONE GRILL AND LOFT Right along Route 1, the bar is close to the campus and has long hours, closing at 1:40 a.m. everyday and 2:40 a.m. on Fridays. The bar has 14 HD TVs, a projectorscreen TV and 12 different draft lines of beer, according to its website — making it a great place to watch sports with friends or have a couple of drinks.

With different deals for bars near the university offer different deals, specials and amenities during every day of the week, the bar the week for university students and visitors. photos by josh loock/the diamondback

every day of the week, including $2.50 Miller Lite Mondays, Natty Boh drafts for $2.50 on Mondays and Tuesdays and Half-Way Wednesdays, when burgers are half price all day and drinks are half price from 9 p.m. to close. It also offers beer drafts on Thursdays and $11 Domestic Buckets, which include five bottled beers on Sundays all day. “ B e nt s i s my favor ite, because you can dance there, but they also have an outside space,” junior computer eng i neeri ng major A ma nd a Lotwin said.

ton of people will come out,” said freshman government and politics major Greg Kotchick.

The drink deals include beer towers, bottomless mimosas on Mondays and “Fishbowl Fridays,” one of the most popular deals, in which the bar provides drinks inside different sizes of fishbowls.

Ju n ior fa m i ly sciences major Nicole Ma la ment deemed Turf one of her favorite bars, partly because of the atmosphere. With a pa r ty-l i ke env i ron ment, TERRAPIN’S TURF live music and TVs to watch Terrapin’s Turf has been sports games, Terrapin’s Turf gaining popularity since it has something for everyone. opened in 2013. Sitting on Knox R.J. BENTLEY’S Road adjacent to Route 1, this bar provides a wide variety of Another local bar along drinks, and for those who just want to watch a game or be Route 1, R.J. Bentley’s was with friends and eat, its menu founded in 1978 by university includes sliders, nachos and alumni and was transformed from a 1920s gas station into even seafood.

“Turf runs a bunch of deals a bar and restaurant.

Bentley’s provides specials on drinks on Tuesdays, so a offers $2 beer draft Mondays, $3 Fireball on Wednesdays and $2.50 Captain Morgan and Coronas on Fridays, as well as Sunday Drafts — offering reusable mugs of beer all day and all night.

If you like games, there is also the loft, which is equipped with 13 TVs, two pool tables and video games. The bar also offers events for different TV shows that premiere for the fi rst time on networks.

LOONEY’S PUB Looney’s Pub has four locations in the state, but the Irish-themed pub’s College Park location appeals to students at this university and residents in the area.

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Banking on brunch Where to find the best mid-morning meal deals

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Located on Route 1 next to Blaze Pizza, Bagel Place offers a variety of bagels, spreads a nd sa ndw iches, Sometimes waking up at a from flavored cream cheese not-so-early hour in College and eggs to the Terrapin — Park brings a craving only a a bagel topped with plain toasted bagel or a perfect- cream cheese and your choice ly cooked egg can satisfy. of cheese.

“I like Bagel Place Whatever breakfast experience you’re looking for, because they have French we’ve compiled a list of the roast coffee, and that’s my best places to do brunch in favor ite k i nd of cof fe e,” said Karma Kory, a senior College Park (and beyond). physiology and neurobiology major. “And they have a BAGEL PLACE lot of options, so it doesn’t There’s almost always a line get old.” on the weekends at this classic TERRAPIN’S TURF College Park breakfast stop.

Especially if you live on South This bar and restaurant Campus, the call from Bagel Place after sleeping in on a Sat- could be your go-to for both urday morning is undeniable. Saturday nights and Sunday

mornings. Besides classic brunch fare, Turf also serves bottomless mimosas for $15 or for $10 if you purchase food as well.

For sophomore A nd rew M a rko w it z , Te r ra p i n’s T u r f i s “a lways a good environment.”

“T here a re a lways k ids there in the morning,” Markowitz said. “You can socialize and have a good meal.

And it’s pretty cheap, too.”

COLLEGE PARK DINER T h is notorious Col lege Park landmark is open 24 h o u rs — p e r fe c t fo r a ny breakfast any time.

“It’s not a chain, so it’s a little different, and they have a lot of good stuff,” said Julia

Bell, a sophomore environmental science and policy major. “I really like their French toast.”

D u b b e d “ q u a i n t” a n d “cute” by Bell and other students, the College Park Diner serves a variety of traditional diner foods like burgers, pancakes and waffles whenever you’re feeling the need for brunch.

BUSBOYS AND POETS This unique Hyattsville eatery down Route 1 serves classic breakfast foods like French toast and various preparations of eggs for brunch.

W h i l e t h i s re s t a u ra n t isn’t as close as other Route 1 options, it’s easily accessible by bus or car. “ It’s d e f i n ite ly u n l i k e a ny other place I’ve been to,” s o p h o m o re f i n a n c e major Jamie Grossarth said of brunch at Busboys and Poets. “I really enjoy their

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FOUNDING FARMERS When you’re itching to get off the campus, Washington is a Metro ride away and full of brunch and breakfast spots for any group or mood.

Fo u n d i n g Fa r m e rs i s a farm-to-table dining spot w it h i ndoor a nd outdoor seating in the Foggy Bottom neig hborhood, ser v i ng up a n a rray of f lavored w a f f l e s , s t u f fe d F re n c h toast and eggs.

“The food is really good and they have a variety of choices on their menu,” said junior psychology major Jennifer Weinstein. “They have really good potatoes, which are important for brunch.”

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owned by the Georgetown cup c a ke shop B a ke d a nd Wi red isn’t a ty pica l sitdow n br u nch restau ra nt, but still has a unique menu with several options — all i n a re l a x e d c of fe e s h o p setting. “[A Baked Joint] is good because it’s a really casual environment, it has really good, homey food, a nd it doesn’t brea k t he ba n k,” said Tessa Velazquez, the daughter of the restaurant’s owner. “We try to keep our prices as low as possible.

College students can still get the brunch experience, without paying $40 to $50 for a sit-down brunch.”

T he cafe serves stuffed biscuit sandwiches (a bestseller, said Velazquez), along with a variety of sandwiches, baked goods and specialty coffees, such as its cold and bubbly Nitro coffee. newsumdbk@gmail.com

SEARCHING FOR SUSHI Where to get delivery, your dollar’s worth and quality sushi in and around College Park

By Naomi Grant @thedbk For The Diamondback For a delicious and portable meal, sushi can be a great option, especially for college students who crave it. There are several restaurants located just off the campus that can make it easy for students to have the meal they want, even when on a budget or time crunch.

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The restaurant also boasts the most important part of every meal — dessert — with a dessert bar for a sweet, postbuffet treat.

Remember to head to Sakura with your student ID if you’re looking for a discount, because all college students get 10 percent off their order if they show their ID, said manager Ivy Shao.

but has plenty of other options.

With its sizable menu that includes appetizers, noodles and rice, lunch and dinner combo boxes and Hibachi combo and lunch, there’s something for everyone who visits.

F resh m a n hea r i ng a nd speech sciences major Sydney Hancock described the sushi she ate as “delicious,” noting she also enjoyed the presentation.

“It felt really welcoming,” Hancock said. “The tables were also small enough that if you went with somebody, you could

actually see them; you didn’t have to shout across the table.”

Hanami will deliver up to five miles away for a fee of about $5, though ordering from a twomile radius only costs $1.

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“A s a c ol l e ge s t u d e nt, [Sweetgreen] is kind of expensive,” said Damon King, a junior operations management major. “But if you’re willing to make the investment, it’s a perfect low-calorie alternative to a place like Chipotle.”

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Finding the foods to fit your needs Eateries near univ offer vegetarian, allergy, gluten-friendly options

By Racquel Royer @thedbk For The Diamondback Finding good eats in college when you’ve got a specific diet regimen can be a frustrating trial-and-error process. But there are some choices when it comes to gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan eating that aren’t too far from the university’s gates.

BLAZE PIZZA For a crispy thin-crust gluten-free personal pizza made in just minutes, try Blaze Pizza on Route 1. The m a d e-to-o rd e r c o n c e p t allows customers to choose from more than 15 vegetables, seven meats and six cheeses, including one vegan cheese option.

The menu also includes six fresh salads and one legendary dessert — the s’mores pie.

An allergen information spreadsheet and even a calculator that computes nutrition facts based on your personal pan pie are also both available on the eatery’s website.

“The personal pan is so great because it allows me to choose from vegetarian options you can’t generally find at a regular pizza joint, like ricotta, cherry tomatoes and arugula,” said freshman Jasmine Jack, who is enrolled in letters and sciences.

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CHIPOTLE “ No m at ter wh at you r unique dietary needs are, Chipotle has options for you.

Unless you have an allergy to delicious food, in which case, we might have an issue,” reads to Chipotle’s mission.

The menu at the Mexican grill chain is simple — choose from your choice of tacos, a bowl, a burrito or a salad and add your own ingredients. All options are gluten-free, aside from the soft flour tortillas.

For those with allergies, Chipotle does not use eggs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, shellfish or fish as ingredients in its food. It also offers tof u, ca l led sof r ita s, for vegetarians.

Chipotle offers an allergen spreadsheet on its website outlining which items contain m ilk, soybeans, wheat or sulphites.

And, an added bonus, Chipotle announced earlier this month its plan to start delivering food later in the fall.

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T he dining halls on the campus also allow special requests to be made for students who are gluten-free. Requests ca n be made on a week ly basis, and there’s a variety of premade gluten-free sandwich options available.

“It’s really nice because

I go there every day and I basically know everyone in the kitchen,” said freshman public health science major Cassandra Weir, who said she enjoys the gluten-free pasta and cake. “Everyone greets me, and they’re very accommodating. It’s even faster and easier than waiting in line.”

For the vegetarians and vegans, the salad bar is available with a variety of fruits, dressings and vegetables, which could also be paired with the vegetarian soup of the day. “ I m a k e a S o u t h w e s ttype deal, with black beans, carrots, corn and ranch,” said Jessie Bixby, a freshman business student.

with a wide variety of food deals, such as $6 burgers and fries and $1 tacos on Tuesdays.

“On Saturdays, we have $2 rails for all UMD students — that’s one of the best drink specials in College Park,” bar

manager Kevin Wright said.

“We do game day specials on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and have over 50 TVs, so we have all of the NFL games.”

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New eateries on the way to College Park

MARYLAND FOOD CO-OP The Co-Op, located in the basement of Stamp Student Un ion, wa s a n i n it i at ive created in the 1970s to bring healthy, natural food to the campus.

The eatery’s sandwiches are custom made to order by a friendly staff, with vegan f r iend ly opt ion s such a s tempeh bacon, vegenaise and tofurkey.

“Food Co-op is killer and t he fa l a fel w rap is super y u m m y,” s a i d g r a d u a t e student Charles Daly, who is a vegetarian. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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“If I want Panda Express, I can go to Stamp, but for those who live in apartments or something, then they can more easily go to Route 1,” the finance major said.

A new, two-story coffee house and wine bar is also slated to open along Route 1 in the College Park Auto Parts location in summer 2016, city officials and business owners announced Tuesday. The new eatery will offer craft beer and wine in an artistic venue.

With The Hotel at the University of Maryland slated to open in 2017, College Park will welcome new restaurants on its ground floor, including Old Maryland Grill, Bagels ‘n Grinds, Potomac Pizza and Kapnos.

Kapnos is a chain of Greek restaurants located in Washington and owned by Top Chef contestant Mike Isabella. This location will be Isabella’s first restaurant in Prince George’s County, Schum said.

“I like Potomac Pizza … it’s actually right outside my house,” said freshman physiology and neurobiology major Soundarya Avantsa.

Avantsa added that because she’s a vegetarian, there are other options she would like to see come to College Park in the near future, like Baja Fresh Mexican Grill.

To add to the selection of restaurants already in and around College Park, a new array of eateries will start popping up within the next few months and coming years.

Na n d o’s P e r i-P e r i , a South African and Portuguese chicken restaurant, will open a location at Knox Road and Route 1 in October, said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

Na n d o’s i s re p l a c i n g Ratsie’s, a pizza restaurant that used to sit at the location. It will also take over spaces that were located next to Ratsie’s — the former location of Yogiberry and David’s Shoe Repair, Schum said.

“There are a couple of [Nando’s] locations in the metropolitan area already, but this will be the first one in Prince George’s County,” Schum said.

College Park will also house a Panda Express location in the College Park Shopping Center, to add to an already-existing Panda Express located in the food court at Stamp Student Union. The new Panda Express will fill in the space of what used to be Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill.

For freshman Shannon newsumdbk@gmail.com Zhang, another Panda Express is a great addition for people Staff writer Hallie Miller who don’t live near Stamp. contributed to this report.

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Looney’s also offers activities for students, hosting Trivia Night on Mondays and

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READ WITH CAUTION Trigger warnings are increasingly used to alert people of potentially upsetting content, but are they really necessary?

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer Lately, there has been a tsunami wave of discussion about trigger warnings — the act of labeling certain material as potentially upsetting — and the political correctness that many claim runs rampant throughout colleges in this country.

The Atlantic ran a searing critique in its September issue of what it calls “The Coddling of the American Mind,â€? an extensive report in which the article’s authors claim that students are increasingly becoming ill-prepared for life after college because “[a] movement is arising ‌ to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.â€?

Colleges have also started to take a stand on the matter. American University’s Faculty Senate unanimously passed a resolution this month against trigger warnings, saying professors might not use them in a way “that students construe it as an option to ‘opt out’ of engaging with texts or concepts, or otherwise not participating in intellectual inquiries.�

Even President Obama lent his voice to the issue, saying that college students shouldn’t avoid confronting material they might find offensive, including, as the president suggested, “a guest speaker who is too conservative� or “a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women.�

The latest fodder for debate about millennial culture and the progressive environment on many college campuses, trigger warnings seem to be on everybody’s minds, and a lot of people — the majority of them older — have quite a few objections about them.

But what is all the fuss about?

Originating during the early days of the Internet on blogs for feminists and people with PTSD, trigger warnings served as a way to forge a safe space for victims of sexual assault, violence or other emotionally damaging experiences. By applying warnings at the top of a post, the advocates believed, those surfing the Web would be aware of potentially re-traumatizing content in articles, videos or pictures, and then could make an informed decision about whether they were in the proper situation to handle such material.

Trigger warnings are a hot topic right now on college campuses. photos courtesy of wikimedia. grahic by evan berkowitz/the diamondback Since then, trigger warnings have spread from low-profile blogs in the corners of the Internet to prominent use on sites that strive for inclusivity, such as Tumblr, to the syllabi of some college professors in an attempt to signal in-class content that could provoke adverse reactions from students.

Now, they are the latest divisive topic analyzed in the editorial columns in newspapers across the nation with positions that fall somewhere on the spectrum of dismissive to defensive.

Senior Selena Roper, a shift leader at this university’s Help Center, a peer counseling and crisis intervention hotline, said there is a “false perception� that people who use trigger warnings are incapable of handling upsetting content. Instead, she said, the warnings are a helpful tool to let survivors of trauma know what they are getting into. “For the most part, people I know who do use trigger warnings to help protect themselves just use it as a way to pause before reading an article and decide if they are in a place where they can deal with any heavy feelings that might come up,� the sociology major said, “and if they are, then they can make sure they are in a quieter place where it will be less stressful.

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“Usually they just read the article anyway,� she added. “It’s more of an issue of ‘I don’t want to be blindsided by this’ than ‘I want to avoid this entirely.’�

It’s a problem that Aditi Vijay grapples with when teaching classes: how to accommodate each student’s sensitivities while remaining focused on their educational needs.

Vijay, a university clinical assistant professor of psychology, said that although trigger warnings are likely a response to the rising number of college students coping with mental health issues like anxiety and depression, she doesn’t have time to implement them in all of her lectures. “We see more students struggling with things like anxiety and depression, and you know we don’t want to make things worse,� she said. “At the same time, as an instructor, that is really outside the scope of my responsibility, where I can’t really design a class with each individual’s emotional needs in mind.�

Trigger warnings are additionally problematic, she said, because the best treatment for trauma is not to give a warning that potentially encourages avoidance of a subject. Instead, the optimal option is to guide a patient to confront the phobia or fear

itself in a safe and measured way — a process commonly known as “exposure therapy.�

While she can understand providing a brief warning for students in her class when she lectures on topics like sexual assault, a prevalent issue on college campuses, Vijay fears that it could send the wrong message. “I am very concerned about sending a message that if you are a trauma survivor you are fragile or you can’t handle things, because most trauma survivors I know are actually very resilient and very strong,� she said.

Senior Alicia McElhaney, co-president of Project Heal, an on-campus group that seeks to promote healthy body images, disputes the notion that trigger warnings potentially inhibit the growth of students — arguing instead that they can make for a better workplace post-college by raising awareness of sensitivities that other people struggle with. “Being more inclusive and having more knowledge of what can harm other people, I think, makes for a better position for coworkers overall, rather than this idea that we have to face the real world,� she said. “We do, but we don’t have to face instances of people being insensitive.�

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paanakker From PAGE 14 Paanakker, who transferred to this university in the offseason after completing an undergraduate law degree in the Netherlands, was ineligible to participate during the first three weekends of the No. 9 Terps’ season. But since gaining eligibility in mid-September, Paanakker has adjusted to her new surroundings and provided depth in the Terps midfield through the first three games of her career.

“Friday, she was just happy to be out there, but [Sunday] she settled in,” Meharg said. “She’ll be a vital part of our midfield.”

Because Paanakker’s international credits didn’t translate to a specific department in the United States, the Terps had to wait for university administrators to determine her academic major and standing.

She’s now enrolled as a sociology major but plans to switch to criminology and criminal justice in hopes of attending law school in the future. Nonetheless, Paanakker yearned to contribute in the Terps’ first six games.

She wasn’t allowed to travel with the Terps. She wasn’t permitted in the team room on days of home games, either.

Watching the Terps suffer their first three-game losing streak since 1998 wore on her.

“It was annoying to see all your teammates go out there,” Paanakker said. “I felt like not really part of the team.”

Once her transfer issues were resolved, Paanakker wasted no time getting on the field. But she wasn’t sure what to expect.

She had never experienced the Terps’ pregame routines or the flow of NCAA field hockey. Her first appearance came as a reserve about eight minutes into the

contest against Northwestern on Friday.

Paanakker spent much of her 13 minutes on the field watching her teammates to see what they were doing. When she got the ball, she passed it off as quickly as she could.

“The main word I would use is confusion,” Paanakker said. “I was like, ‘S---, what’s happening?’”

“FRIDAY, SHE WAS JUST HAPPY TO BE OUT THERE, BUT [SUNDAY] SHE SETTLED IN. ... SHE’LL BE A VITAL PART OF OUR MIDFIELD.” MISSY MEHARG

Terrapins field hockey coach Defender Sarah Sprink said that the Terps’ playbook language hasn’t always translated to the field, with six international players and a host of freshmen receiving playing time.

Sprink, who was in Paanakker’s position three seasons ago as a freshman from Germany, has tried to impart some tips to the junior. When she feels confused during a game, Paanakker looks to her teammate’s body language. “ I t’s j u s t rea c t i n g to whatever’s happening in the moment,” Sprink said.

“We’re all good field hockey players to kind of read off each other and see, ‘Well, if she doesn’t get it, we have each other’s back for [a] second,’ and then we’ll talk about it later.”

Paanakker put her initial jitters behind her after a quick talk with Meharg during Friday’s contest against Northwestern.

“Missy came up to me and was like, ‘Chill. Just relax. Do what you can,’” Paanakker said. “I was like, ‘All right.

Yeah, let’s do that.’”

The talk tempered Paanakker’s nerves ahead of the Terps’ Sunday match against New Hampshire. Midway through the first half, Paanakker dribbled along the goal line and flipped a pass to forward Julie Duncan in the middle of the circle. In the process, the Terps drew a foul off a New Hampshire defender to set up defender Carrie Hanks’ score on the ensuing corner.

On a Terps foul shot five minutes later, Paanakker stopped the entry pass to frame Sprink for the German’s second score of the match. The assist marked her first point as a Terp. And later in the period, she registered a shot on goal.

She felt even more comfortable against No. 20 Princeton on Tuesday night.

Paanakker didn’t register any points or assists, but she baited the Tigers into a key turnover in the second half to help preserve the Terps’ two-goal lead.

It was the type of contribution Paanakker could only imagine making while serving as an idle spectator for the Terps’ first six games.

“I just found my confidence,” Paanakker said, “and went out there. Just chilled.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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ashiru From PAGE 14 talking about.” But if the wideout falters, Ashiru tells him to pick it up. The messages go both ways.

Others have helped Ashiru along, too. Redshirt sophomore offensive lineman JaJuan Dulaney starred with Ashiru and Etta-Tawo at McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia.

When Ashiru’s former teammates heard he was considering the Terps, they promised to keep him in the loop and talk with the coaches, some of whom he knew previously.

Head coach Randy Edsall h a d re c r u i te d A s h i r u to UConn, although he left for the Terps before Ashiru’s first season. While Ashiru’s connection with Edsall helped, another coach played a larger role in bringing him in.

Terps defensive backs coach Darrell Perkins, who was an

hoyas From PAGE 14 After a scoreless first half, Georgetown (4-2-2) wasted little time converting a goal out of the break.

T h e p l a y b e ga n w h e n forward Brandon Allen, who leads the Hoyas in points, sent the ball forward to Muyl.

Defender Ivan Magalhaes unsuccessfully slid to stop the pass, setting up a one-onone opportunity for Muyl to open the scoring. He took a few dribbles in the box and beat goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier to the far post.

The strike forced the Terps to play from behind for the first time in four games.

Cirovski remained confident that the Terps would respond with a score, though.

assistant coach with the Huskies from 2010 through 2013, was in contact with Ashiru before the Terps hired Perkins over the summer. So when he became part of the new coaching staff, he campaigned for Ashiru. “ I wa s t ry i n g to wo rk through him, and then he ended up getting a job,” Ashiru said. “He’s the one that actually set it off from the beginning, helped me get to Maryland.”

When the former twoyear starter for the Huskies joined the Terps, he wasn’t a guarantee to crack the starting front seven. On the preseason depth chart, Ashiru was listed in a position battle with Jalen Brooks.

But when Abner Logan, the starting outside linebacker opposite them, went down with an ACL injury, it opened the door for Ashiru.

He’s started all three games so far, and he’ll be among the 11 starters trying to slow down

West Virginia’s spread offense this Saturday in Morgantown, West Virginia.

After last week’s performance, Edsall expects Ashiru to continue to improve as he familiarizes himself with the Terps defense.

So far, Edsall is pleased with the linebacker’s progress.

“A guy who’s played as much football as he did prior to coming here, we expect him to get better,” Edsall said. “I think that he has.”

When the Huskies visited Morgantown in 2011, Ashiru was forced to watch from the sidelines during his redshirt campaign. He could’ve been on the sidelines again this year, but the combination of Logan’s injury and Ashiru’s play helped him earn a starting spot.

Now, alongside two former high school teammates, he will have a chance to impress in front of a sellout crowd.

“This is what I live for,” Ashiru said. “I can’t wait.”

“Even after we gave up the first goal, I thought we were composed,” Cirovski said. “I thought we continued to play and do all the right things, and I felt the goal was coming.”

The Terps evened the score shortly after when Elney launched a shot at Marcinkowski. The shot was saved, but the goalie never gained full possession of the ball.

It dribbled away from Marcinkowski, and Elney took a few touches before finishing the empty-net goal.

“It felt really good to break the seal and get the first goal,” Elney said. “And now, more will come, definitely.”

With the match tied and seven minutes remaining in regulation, it appeared the Terps were headed to extra time for the fifth time in eight games. But the team allowed

the ball to bounce around in their box for too long, and Georgetown responded with the game-winner.

“That’s a tough way to lose this game,” Cirovski said.

“You’re on one end with an opportunity to score, and you have a careless turnover and then you lose.”

Cirovski praised his team’s performance, especially in the opening 45 minutes. Yet after a few slipups, the Terps suffered their second loss of the season.

“We did well overall,” Niedermeier said. “It was just a couple mental errors that could have been prevented.

And it’s frustrating, but we’ll be able to learn from it and get it. So it’s going to be a learning experience.”

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Williams takes jibes at DC Celebrity Roast in stride Former players, assistant coaches, local celebrities share stories at fundraiser for local college access program

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer

WASHINGTON — Gary Williams was in a familiar position Tuesday night, sitting in a chair as former Terrapins men’s basketball players performed in front of him.

But the players weren’t hoisting shots. In fact, Williams, the former coach who led the Terps to the 2002 NCAA championship, wasn’t on a basketball court.

Williams was the center of attention at a Celebrity Roast fundraiser for the D.C. College Access Program, a nonprofit organization that helps funnel students in Washington from high school to college. Laughter filled the room at the JW Marriott as former players and assistant coaches told humorous stories and reminisced about Williams’ practices, locker -room antics and meetings.

Wi l l i a m s, wh o coa c h e d t h e Terps from 1989-2011, took the jibes in stride. When a roaster mentioned his obsession with scribbling down notes, Williams took out a pad and pretended to jot down some thoughts.

Michael Wilbon and James Brown hosted and local sportscaster Chick Hernandez emceed the event. Her-

baillargeon From PAGE 14 close contests. West Virginia, which received the second-most votes of any unranked team in the Associated Press poll, is undoubtedly the more talented team. But 17 points is harsh.

Bettors are suggesting the Terps can’t compete with the Mountaineers. Maybe they’re right, but the thought of that should piss the Terps off, especially considering the programs’ familiarity.

GARY WILLIAMS poses with former assistant coaches, players and local celebrities at his roast in Washington at the JW Marriott on Tuesday.

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nandez, who works for local cable sports network, CSN, even got in a few of his own jabs.

Some of the more memorable stories came from those who worked closely with Williams. Ohio State assistant coach Dave Dickerson, who was an assistant under Williams for nine years, remembered when Williams unleashed at him during half-

time of an eventual 89-83 overtime win over then-No. 1 North Carolina in the 1997-98 season. “‘You don’t effin’ care,’” Dickerson recalled Williams saying, “‘because you’re not sweating.’”

Dickerson made sure to keep a bucket of water waiting for him after the game in case he needed to appear like he was perspiring. After

the game, he went on a recruiting trip to look at a player in Florida and a player in North Carolina before rejoining the team at Wake Forest.

Williams told Dickerson he was wasting time recruiting those two players; the Terps had no shot of getting them. The players, Dickerson said, turned out to be Steve Blake and Chris Wilcox. Both were

Coach Randy Edsall’s squad is in an odd place when it comes to rivalries.

Its history with the ACC is now in the past, and one year in the Big Ten isn’t long enough to spark tension with the new conference foes.

Sure, “Shakegate” before last year’s win against Penn State is a good start, but the Terps have two wins in 38 all-time meetings with the Nittany Lions. That’s not a rivalry.

So Terps fans are left with West Virginia. The programs have met 51 times since 1919, with the Mountaineers owning a 27-22-2 edge in the series.

“I HEAR THE CROWD IS KIND OF LOUD. ... HOPEFULLY WE CAN

The Mountaineers have six players on their roster that hail from this state, while freshman quarterback Gage Schaffer is the lone Terp from West Virginia.

“You see some stuff online, the border battle and everything like that,” defensive end Roman Braglio said. “It’s good. Everyone kind of enjoys it, and it’s a good rivalry.

We’re all excited to go out there and get a win.”

The matchup is far from an elite rivalry in college football, but for now, it’s all the Terps have.

SHUT THE CROWD UP.” JERMAINE CARTER JR.

Terrapins football linebacker Plus, the schools’ proximity leaves them often recruiting the same players.

“We compete with them in recruiting, so it’s always going to be sort of like a little rivalry game,” wide receiver Taivon Jacobs said. “We get the best out of everyone every time we play them.”

significant contributors on the 2002 national title team.

There were a variety of roasters Tuesday night. Tony Massenburg, a senior during Williams’ first season in College Park, was a speaker. So were former Terps Walt Williams and Keith Booth. Former assistant coaches Jimmy Patsos and Chris Knoche, who also played under Williams at American University and is the Terps radio color commentator for the Terrapins Sports Radio Network, also participated.

Each roaster got their jokes in, but they made sure to thank Williams for the effect he’s had on their lives and careers.

While Williams is retired, he’s still making an impact on young people’s lives. DC-CAP has established a Gary Williams scholarship fund, which will pay for students to attend local colleges.

For a man who coached college kids for much of his life, it’s a fitting tribute.

“The one thing you notice is a lot of these kids are really intelligent,” Williams said. “That’s the great thing about this program.

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A year ago, they were left watching Josh Lambert’s kick silence Byrd Stadium.

Now they have to head to Morgantown for the first time since 2012 to play before an announced sellout crowd. And after an early-season loss to Bowling Green, they can’t afford to let the raucous environment hinder their play.

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MEN’S SOCCER | No. 25 HOYAS 2, No. 11 TERPS 1

Georgetown sinks Terps with goal in 83rd minute Three-game shutout streak ends in defeat

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer

WASHINGTON — The Terrapins men’s

midfielder tsubasa endoh sits dejected after the No. 11 Terps fell to No. 25 Georgetown, 2-1, on Wednesday at Shaw Field in Washington. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

FOOTBALL | COLUMN

soccer team was tied 1-1 with Georgetown in the 83rd minute Wednesday when the ball started bouncing around the box.

When the Terps failed to clear the ball, Georgetown took advantage.

After a brief scrum, forward Alex Muyl came up with the ball and crossed it into the box to midfielder Arun Basuljevic.

Moments later, Basuljevic’s shot pierced the back of the net for the go-ahead goal.

The No. 11 Terps weren’t able to recover from the defensive blunder and fell, 2-1 to No. 25 Georgetown at Shaw Field.

“It’s a very empty feeling because we deserve better,” coach Sasho

Cirovski said. “We played a great game today against one of the top teams in the nation — a veteran team — and I thought we were on the wrong end of a couple of unfortunate turnovers that we got punished for.”

Entering the contest, the Terps (3-2-3) hadn’t scored in two of their previous three matches. They ended up unleashing 13 shots at JT Marcinkowski and forced the Hoyas goalkeeper to make five saves. In the 69th minute, forward Sebastian Elney put the Terps on the board.

It was crucial mistakes on the defensive end, however, that Cirovski said made the difference in his team’s one-goal defeat.

See HOYAS, Page 12

FIELD HOCKEY

WVU spread shameful 17-point underdogs should feel slighted RYAN BAILLARGEON

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It’s a game that’s all too memorable for Terrapins football linebacker Jermaine Carter Jr. — for all the wrong reasons.

After chipping away at a 22point deficit to West Virginia on Sept. 13, 2014, to tie the game with 9:43 left in the fourth quarter, the Terps watched the Mountaineers drill the game-winning field goal before the Byrd Stadium crowd as time expired. It was the first time Carter, then a freshman, saw significant time at linebacker.

“That game really hurts,” Carter said while recalling the 40-37 loss Wednesday.

The Terps’ first chance to avenge the loss to their border-state rival comes Saturday in Morgantown, West Virginia. And despite not losing to the Mountaineers by more than two touchdowns since 2007, the Terps enter as 17-point underdogs, according to Bovada Sportsbook.

“It’s disrespectful,” Carter said of the spread, “but you can’t pay it any mind.”

The Terps should pay attention to it, though. They should feel slighted.

It should serve as added motivation for a series that typically features See baillargeon, Page 13

midfielder floor paanakker corrals the ball during the Terps’ 5-2 win over New Hampshire on Sunday at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. It marked the junior’s second career game. marquise mckine/the diamondback

PAANAKK-ING no more Netherlands transfer Paanakker settling in after becoming eligible last week

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer When the national anthem ended before the start of the Terrapins field hockey team’s game against New Hampshire on Sunday, the Terps

huddled at midfield and clapped their hands.

Coach Missy Meharg and her staff joined them on the turf, and the players joined hands, passing squeezes around the circle as Meharg gave her squad a last-second pep talk.

It’s the same ritual the team runs through before every game. Yet when someone clutched

midfielder Floor Paanakker’s hand, the Netherlands native got mad.

“I was like, ‘What are you doing?’” Paanakker recalled. “She was like, ‘You have to pass it through,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that.’”

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FOOTBALL

UConn transfer Ashiru starting to feel comfortable Outside linebacker reunited with former high school teammates

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer

linebacker jefferson ashiru tackles South Florida running back Marlon Mack during the Terps’ 35-17 win over the Bulls on Saturday. The senior recorded a season-best nine tackles. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Jefferson Ashiru was in a new city, getting ready to join a new program as a senior. But the first person to greet him was an old friend.

When Ashiru, a graduate transfer from Connecticut, landed at the airport in June, Terrapins football wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo was waiting for him. After a falling-out with the Huskies coaching staff, Ashiru was drawn to this university by a few familiar faces, including Etta-Tawo, a former high school teammate.

On the field, the outside linebacker had to adjust to the Terps’ defensive

scheme, though. Each team has a different role for linebackers, Ashiru said, and he had to learn his new duties. But after a season-best nine tackles last week, Ashiru said he feels more comfortable.

With the growing confidence, Ashiru has started to become more vocal in a young linebacker unit.

“It’s been like an uphill battle for me, honestly, but I feel like this past week, it really clicked for me,” Ashiru said Tuesday. “I felt really in tune with the team.”

Ashiru’s nine tackles Saturday against South Florida tied for second most on the team. In the two previous games, he had a combined five.

While he’s the only upperclassman starter at linebacker and one of two

on the two-deep roster, Ashiru didn’t want to step on any toes by speaking out of turn earlier this season. That began to change last Saturday.

“He’s starting to feel very comfortable with the guys at this point,” defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski said. “Anywhere we can get leadership or someone speaking up on our football team, we think it’s great.”

Since his arrival, Ashiru has leaned on Etta-Tawo as he’s acclimated to College Park. During practices, the two push each other with both encouragement and harsh words.

When Etta-Tawo makes a catch, Ashiru tells him, “That’s what I’m See Ashiru, Page 12