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Activists post university budget online As cutbacks Defying administrators, SGA legislator downloads and circulates document

BY BEN SLIVNICK Senior staff writer

Student leaders have long been frustrated by administrators’ failure to make the university budget more accessible during the budget-cutting process. In response, they have posted the 900-page document online themselves.

The posting defies administrators, who have repeatedly turned down calls to put up the

document, and comes three days after a top official warned that the budget contains sensitive information, such as employees’ salaries.

The budget is stored in PDF and paper form at Hornbake Library, and at about 3:30 p.m. yesterday, Student Government Association legislator Kenton Stalder copied the document to a portable drive and e-mailed it to students and faculty.

The fiscal year 2010 budget

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was first posted online by student activist Malcolm Harris on his personal blog (24percent.wordpress.com). It is

also available on the SGA’s website (umdsga.com) and at diamondbackonline.com.

But even now that the budget has been posted, Stalder contends the publicly available version does not break down university spending in sufficient detail and said the SGA will be pushing administrators to publish line-by-line expenditures.

“It’s really not that detailed of

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A (Sex) TOY STORY

hit, employee morale drops Faculty and staff members worry about decreased pay and increased workloads

BY DERBY COX AND CARRIE WELLS Senior staff writers

University faculty and staff are bracing for an uncertain future where they are forced to do more work for less pay.

Some will be laid off. Others will leave and not be replaced. And those who are left will pick up the slack, fearing the cutbacks will hurt students.

Some university employees are taking a fatalistic approach, noting that the economic crisis is affecting everyone. They said with so many cutbacks, the quality of the university as a whole will have to suffer.

“We’re experiencing the pain of losing what we’ve worked so hard to build while fearing our co-workers, and perhaps even ourselves, could lose our jobs,” said one assistant professor, who asked not to be named because, unlike tenured fac-

ulty, assistant professors can be fired. The professor also worried that the requirements for tenure would remain the same, while faculty applying for tenure would be struggling under a larger workload.

“As the university’s faculty and staff shrink it becomes harder and harder to deliver these [teaching] outcomes like we did in the past,” she said. “But we owe it to our students to do the best we can, and we will.”

A state-mandated plan calls for university employees to take two to 10 furlough days — unpaid time off — on a sliding scale based on salary. The state also cut the university’s budget by $86.2 million since last year in an attempt to deal with a huge decrease in tax revenue.

Many faculty and staff members were concerned these cutbacks would eventually trickle

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An array of sex toys were on sale last night in Tydings Hall. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Sex shop owner aims to educate students beyond the birds and the bees

BY AMY HEMMATI Staff writer

Last night, Jacq Jones strapped on a dildo over her kelly green sundress and told students to lube up.

Her hour-and-a-half-long speech, which took place in Tydings Hall last night, wasn’t your average sex talk.

It opened with information on sexually transmitted diseases and explored condoms, oral sex, different

types of lubrication and vibrators, in detail. Jones, who owns a sex toy shop with her partner in Baltimore, came prepared with a wide collection of props that she used to demonstrate and explain all the dirty details.

“What’s great about sex toys is that they give you ways that you can be sexual with others that are completely safe and do not involve the exchange of bodily fluids at all,” said

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Jones, 40, who has been a sex educator for more than a decade.

About 30 people were in the audience. Most were members of the Pride Alliance, Feminists Without Borders or Terps for Choice — the three organizations that sponsored the event.

The talk was billed as educational, aimed at empowering women to take control

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The ever-growing Ludwig Capacity upgrade should be evident vs. North Carolina tonight

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

Tonight, Terrapin men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski expects to push Ludwig Field to its utmost limits.

A record crowd is expected to flood the cradle of Terp soccer in a nationally televised rematch of last year’s national championship game with No. 2 North Carolina. And the No. 4 Terps have Cirovski to thank.

This summer, seats were added to the field to increase its capacity from 6,500 to 7,000 — any more seating would violate fire safety codes.

Like so many of Ludwig’s projects under Cirovski’s watch, the expansion isn’t about numbers.

It’s merely a manifestation of Cirovski’s drive for perpetual progress. It’s a symptom of an unrelenting desire for perfection

in every aspect of his program.

“I just feel like you’ve always got to take a step forward,” said Cirovski, now in his 17th year as the Terps’ coach. “I just like moving forward and finding a way to move forward.”

This undertaking may have been Cirovski’s most ambitious.

He pushed to have flagpoles set up at Ludwig’s north end. He got signboards to border the field and sponsors to fill them.

He introduced the ceremonial goal frames that recognize his program’s two national championships. He gave The Crew, the program’s vocal unofficial fan group, more seats from which they could endlessly harass opposing goalkeepers.

This summer, he wanted to give them more. But before he could, he would have to take

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

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Fall sees dramatic bike theft uptick Hoping to avoid yearly spike, DOTS gives away stronger locks

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

The Crew packed stands on both ends of the pitch against UCLA earlier this year. Ludwig Field’s capacity is now 7,000 and adding more seating would violate fire codes. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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In response to the growing number of bike thefts this time of year, DOTS and the University Police are urging riders to rethink how they lock up their bikes.

Earlier this month, the Department of Transportation Services handed out free Ulocks when students registered their bicycles, in an effort to get more secure locks into the hands of cyclists.

On average, the number of bike thefts increased from about 11 thefts in August to 23 in September, according to University Police data tracking bike thefts from 2004 to 2008. Throughout the rest of the year, the averDIVERSIONS . . . . .8 SPORTS . . . . . . . . .10

ages are lower, mostly hovering between three and five thefts per month in the winter and spring. This early semester spike is due to the sudden return of students and bicycles to the campus, police officials said.

But not all bike thefts are noted by the police data — if two bikes are stolen from the same area at the same time, it is considered one theft. Campus police noted that about one or more out of every three bikes stolen are not reported.

“We see a drastic increase in the number of bike thefts during the month of September up to the end of October,” University Police Capt.

John Brandt said. “As the

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BUDGET from page 1 a budget,” Stalder said. “It’s 900 pages, but it’s a $1.5 billion budget. Anyone looking through this current budget isn’t going to really be able to get an informed idea about where money is being spent at this university.”

It was partly for this reason that university President Dan Mote said posting the Hornbake document didn’t make sense.

“It doesn’t do you a damn bit of good when you see it,” Mote said, pointing out that though the university recently decommissioned an escalator in Hornbake Library in a move estimated to save $100,000 annually, that decision wouldn’t be reflected in the publicly available budget.

This budget is only published once a year, while the university’s budget is, in reality, a living document constantly subject to change. In addition, the budget in Hornbake does not show line-byline expenses, such as the escalator Mote was referring to.

What it does show are employee salaries and department expenses broken down into categories. For instance, the president’s office’s expenses are broken down into 22 categories, including travel, phone use and mailings.

Harris pointed out that the budget lists $4.9 million in student fees spent on outside consultants but does not list who those consultants were.

“We want to know what it is and if that’s something that can be cut instead of our classes or professors’ salaries,” said Harris, who is also a columnist for The Diamondback.

Stalder said he hoped administrators would eventually publicize the exact documents they’re using as they decide the fates of university programs.

“With the budget situation we’re in, when we’re furloughing our faculty, when we’re cutting down programs that are important to us, it kind of ties the hands of anybody that wants to come in and make informed suggestions because we can’t get the information the administration has,” Stalder said. “It puts the administration in a position where they’re the only ones that have the information to make an intelligent decision.”

But Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said that the budget in Hornbake is the same budget that administrators look at when deciding on budget cuts.

She acknowledged that the budget was complicated but said students were dismissing it prematurely.

“It’s 900 pages — they simply haven’t studied it yet,” she said.

Stalder expects to present a bill to the SGA legislature outlining further plans next week. slivnick@umdbk.com

SAFETY from page 1 amount of bikes coming to the school increases as people move back in, so do the thefts.”

Although the data from 2009 is not yet available, police expect the trend to continue this semester.

Using U-locks instead of cable locks will decrease the likelihood that students will have their bikes taken, police officials said, adding cable-locked bikes account for over 80 percent of bicycle thefts. DOTS and police recommend all cyclists lock their bikes with a standard U-lock.

U-locks — most of which are made of steel — are much more secure and stable. Most students use cable or chain locks because they are cheap and light-weight, making them easier to carry around but also easier to cut through.

“Cable locks can be cut with a cable cutter in less than three seconds,” said Beverly Malone, assistant to the director of DOTS. “You might as well leave your bike up against a tree.”

As an extra precaution, some students lock up their bikes using both locks. A U-lock is used to secure the bike to the rack and a cable lock is used to fasten a wheel to the rack.

Malone said many cyclists who have fallen victim to thievery have learned a simple but expensive lesson: Trying to save money by buying a cheap lock will ultimately cost you a bike.

Junior mechanical engineering major Jeffrey Jones had a bike stolen during October of last year.

His bike was locked with a cable lock when it was stolen. Although it was later recovered, Jones isn’t taking any more chances.

He now uses a U-lock and registered his bike with DOTS to increase his chances of finding his bike if it is ever stolen again.

“I’m taking every precaution I can to keep my bike safe,” Jones said. lredding@umdbk.com

Volunteers revitalize riverbank near Comcast Native plant species added by students, faculty could help to prevent flood damage

BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer

Faculty and student volunteers gathered yesterday to restore rain gardens buffering a creek near the Comcast Center parking lot that could possibly prevent future flood damage.

The effort, which continues today, focuses on removing invasive, non-native plants from the creek’s edge and planting native species in their place. Doing so will create a natural, eco-friendly treatment plant, according to Marla McIntosh, interim director of the university’s arboretum and botanical garden.

Restoring the gardens will prevent flooding of the creek by soaking up rain water and will filter water before it enters the creek, water and sewage systems.

Trash and debris from tailgating before and after football games, as well as the general carelessness of students, increases damage to the gardens, said Karen Petroff, manager of landscape operations in facilities management.

Students became involved in the project when Ben Curwin, a junior chemical engineering major, asked McIntosh over the summer about helping with the arboretum. McIntosh hired Curwin as a student volunteer coordinator.

“I have an idea in my head that the way to get the leaders of the professional world to implement ideas like ‘green’ roofs that make sense environmentally and economically is to expose students — the future leaders — to those ideas while still in school so that they can take the ideas with them when they graduate,” Curwin said.

Before students stepped up, most of the volunteer work on the arboretum project had been done by nonprofit groups like Chesapeake Natives, McIntosh said.

Students also contributed financially.

The plants used in the project were purchased with grant money the Student Government Association provided last spring for green projects.

“I have a passion for campus

Students work to restore the riverbank.

restoration and the ecosystem. I want to make the area more beautiful and healthier, not only for the environment, but also for us,” said sophomore landscape architecture and art histor y major Kathleen Seay, pointing out a direct connection between the health of the rain gardens and

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the university’s water supply and flood safety.

McIntosh plans to continue merging student volunteerism and the Arboretum and Botanical Garden project in an Oct. 11 tree-planting event. desmarattes@umdbk.com

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Getting it right S

econd chances are hard to come by. But the Committee for the Review of Student Fees is getting one. Those $165 in new student fees? Gone, after a simple meeting of university President Dan Mote’s cabinet. Why? Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said she and Student Government Association President Steve Glickman had a misunderstanding, and the final 90 minutes of the meeting, which he missed, will be redone. This saves Glickman from a colossal blunder and gives students a new chance to defeat these unfair fees. The new meeting hasn’t been scheduled yet, but if the administration doesn’t want the fee review process to become even more of a farce, here are some steps they should take.

n’t easy to find. The lack of publicity is not just unfair — it may be illegal.

KEEP NOTES

You may have noticed what actually happened at the committee meeting last Thursday isn’t entirely clear. There’s a reason for this: No independent observer can watch the meeting, and no minutes of the meeting were available.

So to re-piece the events, one must rely on the memories of the participants, which, for reasons of either bias or fallibility, are unreliable. SGA Senior Vice President Elliott Morris told The Diamondback that English professor Maynard Mack abstained on one vote, which Mack later denied. It’s unlikely Morris intentionally lied, but students shouldn’t have to rely on committee members’ recollections.

OPEN IT UP Nothing in state law requires minutes be made immediately The new meeting should be held in the open, and administraThe Committee for the available, but at the very least, records of who voted which way tors asking for fee increases should be forced to publicly should be disclosed so constituents can hold their representaexplain their reasoning. Keeping the meetings closed is legal Review of Student Fees tives accountable. under state law, but mere legality shouldn’t be enough to preshould make the most of its In the short term, some members of the committee should serve an opaque, undemocratic process. take it upon themselves to keep detailed and accurate notes, The students on the committee — including Glickman and second chance. particularly if the meeting happens behind closed doors.

Graduate Student Government President Anu Kothari — should do anything they can to force the meeting into the daylight.

BEAT THE FEES If the meetings continue to be held in closed session, members of the General Lastly, the committee should reverse its earlier, now irrelevant decision on $165 Assembly should force the meeting out of the shadows by changing the law. in new fees. While the amount isn’t tremendously significant, tuition and state-supplemented funds traditionally support what the fee increases will pay for — the UniHIRE A TOWN CRIER The university has done a great job in the past of publicizing forums on subjects versity Health Center, the libraries and classroom maintenance. There is no reason like textbook prices and binge drinking, and administrators made a campus-wide this should change. If the line between state-supported and fee-supported activities announcement about the budget town hall earlier this week. Similar efforts should is blurred, what’s to prevent the administration from creating a $100 fee to fund professors’ salaries down the road? Provost Nariman Farvardin said earlier this week be made to keep the student body informed about the fee review process.

The Open Meetings Act requires governmental bodies to give notice of their in an e-mail that administrators don’t plan on expanding fees this way, but it’s still a meetings, either by publishing a notice in the Maryland Register, by actively telling disturbing precedent.

Between the controversial new fees and Glickman’s early departure, the student members of the news media who regularly cover the process or by posting a notice in a convenient public location. There is no notice in the register, the administration fee review process is now under more scrutiny than ever. Let’s hope that’s enough never informed The Diamondback editorial staff, and if they posted a notice, it was- to cause some much-needed reforms.

Our View

Editorial Cartoon: Justin Cousson

Letters to the editor Pissed off about Calvin Wednesday morning, as usual, I came down to The Diner to pick up the day’s Diamondback. I glanced at the headline about the administration’s town hall and the disappointing news about the Hoff Theater before noticing the very familiar yellow hair that protruded over the paper’s fold.

With a feeling of trepidation, I flipped it over, and, sure enough, there was the all-too-familiar picture of Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes smirking back at me while urinating on a red letter “M.” The strip, which ran from 1985 to 1995, is famous not only for its hilarity and often-profound looks at philosophy and art but also for the desire of Bill Watterson, its creator, to avoid cheapening the comic by overmerchandising his characters. Consequently, very few pieces of official Calvin and Hobbes merchandise exist — the graphic that ran in The Diamondback is an unauthorized image that was taken from a panel in the original strip in which Calvin fills up a water balloon. Though it has become ubiquitous, with images featuring faux-Calvin peeing on everything from a Ford logo to a New York Jets helmet, the logo never remotely matched the innocent spirit of the original comic. Just like the beach boardwalk T-shirts and bumper stickers on which the image appears, The Diamondback’s prominent use of the picture not only insults the original spirit of a work of art but also directly defies its original creator’s wishes. I hope that the next time The Diamondback chooses to add a logo to its pages, its editors think less about recognizability and more about whether the spirit of the image is aligned with the original work from which it was drawn.

Logan Anbinder | Class of 2012 | physics and philosophy

High on fives I just would like to applaud the enthusiastic group of students who assembled in front of the South Campus Dining Hall Tuesday afternoon.

In a rush to make it to a meeting, I did not stop to talk or to get that “free high-five,” but I just have to say thank you for brightening my day. You are all such an inspiration.

I am confident you touched a lot of people through your cheers, smiles and signs. Thank you!

In the words of one of your signs, “You are awesome!”

Maroulla Plangetis | Class of 2010 | supply chain management

Fund-raging: Revel for a reason

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o matter what the state of the economy may be, one thing’s for sure: College students will always shovel out money for their beer. It’s a staple of college life, similar to unopened textbooks and lowered expectations. Think of all the occasions where you drink beer: at the bar, at the game, in the shower. Drinking beer is more routine than Dolly Parton’s breast examinations. But do you ever wonder where all that beer money goes and whether or not it’s being used for the betterment of society? I’m guessing not. All you care about is beer and the fun-yet-embarrassing outcomes that will ensue.

Don’t feel ashamed. You’re just a college student who likes to crack open a few cold ones when the time is right — which, lucky for College Park liquor stores, is 26 hours a day. But not once have you thought to harness the power of fundraising to exploit the wealthy

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KRAMER underage drinkers of this grand university. Last weekend, my roommates threw a fundraiser called Kegs for Kenya. The goal was to raise money for Crossroads Springs Institute, a center for AIDS-afflicted children in Hamisi, Kenya that is sponsored by the nonprofit group Bounding Books.

The money raised from this “fundrager” helped alleviate the cost of shipping for new books to the library. After two kegs, more than 100 Solo cups, and a night of charitable drunken bliss, roughly $550 was made toward the cause at the end of the night.

If you hadn’t noticed yet, $550 is a butt-load of money for a night of cheap drinking in large quantities — a group of lonely sorority girls could easily tackle a tab this expensive in one sitting.

Following the success of Kegs for Kenya, I began to question why we repeatedly drink away our money and have nothing to show for it the next morning besides a pricey receipt soaked in a pool of vomit. I get it; the whole point is to go out and have fun, but why not profit morally from your drunken antics? It’s a strange phenomenon, but damn, does it feel good.

When you think about it, fund-raging can solve a lot of problems.

President Mote’s newly revised Furlough plan will cut 10 days of pay from University Professors? BOOM! Solved.

A campus-wide fund-rager on McKeldin Mall would help the university avert the crisis.

Our nation’s health care is weaker

than a bag of hummingbird skeletons?

BOOM! All-night fund-rage at every bar in the U.S. Take that, Canada. I don’t know about you, but I would totally raise my glass with my professors on the mall or down a few brewskies during the national “Beer Fair for Health Care.”

Now, these are all lofty, nearly impossible requests, but you can’t deny that on a much smaller scale, these efforts would produce substantial results.

Think of it this way: Anything is better than knowing that your beer money was used to pay for the cops at Thirsty Turtle or contributed to the unhealthy eating habits of every other yellow-clad bouncer at Cornerstone.

It’s time we make use of our poor decision-making skills and drink for change.

Jason Kramer is a junior American studies major. He can be reached at kramer@umdbk.com.

Hollywood’s vampire obsession: It sucks

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read Bram Stoker’s Dracula when I was 8 years old. While it affected me to the point where I went to sleep with a blanket wrapped around my neck for the next few years, I never expected to one day go through the vampire epidemic we’re experiencing now.

Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, Vampire Diaries and The Vampire’s Apprentice, not to mention the hundreds of spin-off teen vampire novels, are nothing new. Humans have had a fascination with vampires for a long time now — we’re just currently experiencing a particularly concentrated wave of vampire-themed entertainment.

Mainly to blame, I would argue, is Twilight, which gives false hope to young tweens everywhere. While in the past, people enjoyed horrifying vampires, vampire hunters, wooden stakes and coffins, we’re now expected to sympathize with these mythical creatures, or even date them.

BETHANY

WYNN Basically, Twilight is every woman’s dream in one badly written, but strangely addictive, series. A ridiculously good-looking boy-man, rich and generous, is instantly in love with and devoted to you and willing to lay down his life for you. He doesn’t expect or push for any favors in return; in fact, he insists you get married first. True Blood, while entailing a different set of circumstances, features yet another vampire irresistibly compelled to love, cherish and protect a perfectly average human.

This fairy tale is so entrancing that the two lead characters — the vampire and the innocent girl — are now actually

engaged in real life. And now Vampire Diaries, an absolutely horrific CW series featuring — you guessed it — a “good” vampire irresistibly attracted to an absolutely-gorgeous-but-doesn’tknow-it, emotionally damaged human.

I’ve had enough.

My theory is that women everywhere, whether they admit it or not, are dying for the male characters that these stories portray. They are the perfect men, akin to Disney princes and knights on white horses. This is not a vampire obsession — this is an obsession with the subconscious, societydriven hope that men like this actually exist somewhere. There’s a reason I’ve heard a dozen girls claim that they have absolutely no idea why they find Robert Pattinson so attractive — it’s not him, it’s the character he plays.

I can personally attest that I was actually angry that he was cast as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter, and then Edward in Twilight, because I didn’t

think he was good-looking enough (I can feel you judging me), but when watching him in Twilight, I could barely concentrate on the horrendous special effects (I saw it with my 11-year-old sister, but let’s face it, I would’ve seen it whether she was with me or not. In fact, my mom, my best friend and her mom were all there watching it, too, and also hiding behind the “just watching it with the 11-year-old” defense).

At first, I was somewhat perturbed by this fantasy world that my little sister was being subjected to, but then I decided that every little girl should be allowed to pretend that they would one day meet a nice vampire boy. After all, when my friends and I were little, we wanted to be princesses — same story, different characters.

Bethany Wynn is a junior French language and literature and sociology major. She can be reached at wynn@umdbk.com.

Respect for holidays It’s easy to criticize. With its shrinking pages, content and decreasing circulation, The Diamondback does it well, and it crossed the line by criticizing Student Government Association President Steve Glickman for leaving early from the meeting of the Committee for the Review of Student Fees.

Despite what the articles stated and the absurd cartoons insinuated, Glickman left the meeting, at the previously announced end time, to fly home to spend Rosh Hashanah with his family. Sure, the article stated that fact — seven paragraphs too late. This university has the largest number of Jewish students of any public university in the country. Presumably, most either went home or made alternate plans to celebrate this important holiday.

It is preposterous that Glickman would be criticized for this. This is the time of year when there are many holidays on many calendars.

Criticizing one for practicing his religious beliefs is irresponsible, but criticizing one for practicing his religious beliefs without having reported the whole story crosses the line. I am sure that had a meeting of this importance been scheduled the night before Christmas, a majority of members would have been absent. In reality, a meeting should never be scheduled the night before a religious holiday.

Rosh Hashanah is a time where Jews do what we usually do: pray, sing, talk and eat with family and friends. It’s a perfect time to reflect on the past year and plan ahead for the year to come. While Glickman has obligations to the student body (which, unlike the article portrays, he met), he also has an obligation to his family, his religion and his values.

John Lennon became famous for his iconic song “Imagine.” I imagine a day when The Diamondback makes responsible arguments. Let’s hope that in the coming year, The Diamondback practices more responsible journalism. After all, it still has time to repent.

Ilana Frankel | Class of 2010 | government and politics and Jewish studies

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orn today, you are never one to sacrifice the passions, desires, likes and dislikes of youth. Indeed, the traits that will have defined you when you are young are likely to be the very traits for which you are best known when you have grown to adulthood and beyond, for you understand the value of being true to yourself — when both young and old. You know yourself quite well, and you are never unwilling to share yourself, your knowledge or your abilities with those around you. Generous to a fault, you thrive on interaction of all kinds — private, public, personal, professional and recreational.

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You have a wide competitive streak, but you never take this part of yourself too seriously; even when you are determined to win, you understand that it is all fun and games. You play by the rules and insist that others play fair as well.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A friend or loved one is likely to see things your way at last — and you’ll have the chance to prove that you’ve been right all along.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can indulge a whim during the first part of the day and enjoy unexpected rewards as a result later on. Share the wealth.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — What begins in jest is likely to become quite serious before the day is out. You’re likely to play harder than others.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve been promoting yourself well, but you’ll have to prove that you really do have what it takes. It’s harder than you think.

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Charles Delwiche, an associate professor of biolfrom page 1 ogy, was one of many to say they understood the state and university had to make down to affect students.

With professors struggling tough decisions.

“I’m not happy about being under a greater workload, the quality of teaching could suf- furloughed, but I also recogfer, and class sizes could grow nize that there aren’t a lot of even more. When administra- options,” Delwiche said. “The tive support staff are laid off, budget really is bad, and so remaining staff members then it becomes question of attempting to keep their ‘Well, how are you going to departments running spread it around?’”

Though many have gripes smoothly may hit snags, such as longer lines to see an advi- with the specifics of the sor or less employees to reduction plans, many were also pleased that answer phones and furloughs will be process paperwork. administered on Rumors are circua sliding scale lating about another and that the round of budget cuts salary reductions due to a recently would be spread announced $300 milout across 17 pay lion state revenue periods. shortfall. AdministraStaff could be tors said they’re worthe first to be laid ried about how this off. They are also will impact the usually paid less already-sinking than faculty memmorale of their facbers, meaning ulty and staff. salary reductions Regardless of may impact them whether the budget more dramatically. is cut further, admin“I’m trying to istrators said, layoffs use some stratein the near future LARRY LAUER gies to deal with are inevitable.

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL that,” said Jamie “Everybody’s OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Carrigan, a staff walking on STAFF member in the eggshells,” said Larry Lauer, chair of the math department. “Maybe get Council of University Sys- a second job if I have to. My tem Staff. “I have two con- husband’s retired, so I’m trytractual workers who are sin- ing to encourage him to see gle moms. They’re very vul- about him doing some partnerable. It breaks my heart time work temporarily until we to have to let them go, but get through these times.”

Administrators and faculty when you have to make those decisions, it ends up have noted that the structure with people like these single of the university may have to moms whose families rely on change dramatically to grapple with these massive cuts. them for their income.”

“The reality is that at Those left behind are already overworked. This some point there has to be university lags significantly some sort of reorganization behind its peers in faculty to — otherwise I can’t see how student ratios and staff to we’re going to keep cutting student ratios, administra- across the top and get everything done,” said the assistors said.

“To say faculty have hours tant professor who declined between 8 and 5 in the to be named. “Some older evening is a little bit of a mis- faculty say if things get nomer, because even if we go really bad only way to deal is home at 5, most of us are to actually shrink. This hacking away at our com- really is a moment of chalputer until midnight,” associ- lenge for higher education ate psychology professor as a whole, but also an Michael Dougherty said. “If opportunity to reinvent.” you have a furlough day, you’re still going to end up cox@umdbk.com, doing something.” cwells@umdbk.com

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Jacq Jones from Sugar sex shop gives an educational sex toy party in Tydings Hall.

TOYS from page 1 of their own bodies and sexual desires. The dildo and dental dam demonstrations, organizers said, made the event.

“I was really glad that the presenter was so casual about the display,” said Mary Yanik, a junior chemistry and government and politics major who is a member of all three organizations.

“Some people make a big deal about them, but having the physical replica parts there

emphasized using products made of body-safe materials, such as silicone, that can be cleaned easily to prevent the spread of infection.

Throughout the speech, she handed out various props she brought with her and described positions and techniques that would yield optimal pleasure.

“I kind of expected her to just hold up crazy sex toys; that wasn’t quite what happened,” said freshman mechanical engineering major Will Dunham. “I was more like, ‘Hmmm, I wonder how that works,’ or ‘Oh my God, that thing is huge!’ And some-

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City officials and downtown bar owners have been at odds for more than a year, devising safety plans and making unofficial price agreements, all in the name of curtailing binge drinking at the downtown bars.

But what neither can effectively regulate is the common practice of drinking before going out, or “pregaming.”

“It’s just kind of like a part of getting ready to go out,” sophomore English major Mary Bolgiano said. “So you don’t have to spend as much money.”

Looking to save money or to start drinking earlier, students often buy alcohol to drink before

heading out to bars so they won’t have to drink as much there.

In a presentation to city officials earlier this month, Thirsty Turtle owners Alan Wanuck and Tom Hall expressed concern about this practice and assured officials their employees would be trained to recognize drunk patrons trying to gain access to their establishments.

“If they’re coming to the bars, you just have to make sure they’re not intoxicated when they’re coming in,” Wanuck said.

“It’s as simple as that.”

Hall called pregaming students “bobbleheads” at the meeting and said he often denies entry to those who have obviously been drinking.

Wanuck said he doesn’t

understand pregaming’s appeal.

But students said, despite lowprice drink specials sometimes offered at College Park bars, they’re still not cheaper than at liquor stores. They also cite slow service at bars as a deterrent.

“The room’s a more relaxed atmosphere,” said sophomore architecture major Kenny Horton, who pregames with his friends at home. “You don’t have to wait for a drink.”

College Park Director of Public Services Bob Ryan said the city’s main concern is the safety of students, something he feels could be compromised with heavy drinking.

“It’s a concern on multiple levels,” Ryan said. “If people are drunk when they’re headed to

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Ryan said the city faces a serious dilemma: They don’t want drink prices so low that they encourage binge drinking, but bars offer security and supervision while house parties do not.

“I think it’s a pretty complex issue,” Ryan said. “If there was an easy solution, someone would have come up with it by now.”

Sophomore business major Matt Gianfrancesco, said bars might address the popular practice of pregaming by adopting new activities.

“I wish they’d have some [drinking] games sometimes,” Gianfrancesco said. “Then I’d pregame there, I guess.”

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Pride Alliance director of programming A.J. Short said the event was extremely successful and is looking forward to inviting Jones back to the campus for a repeat performance.

“When we were planning our events for Radical Rush Week last year, we were looking for things that would bring out new people to our groups,” said Short, a sophomore women’s studies major. “The talk was great, and we’re thinking of making it an annual event.”

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Surrogates, which is based off a 2005-2006 comic series by Robert Venditti, is the latest offender.

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The wall-of-sound, psychedelic pop of School of Seven Bells sounds perfectly crafted for the present.

The enthusiasm the band has for making its lush, shoegazy pop seems to have found a perfect home in the early 21st century. Its debut album, Alpinisms, is full of fuzzy, often danceable, melodic songs.

The Brooklyn, N.Y., band returns to the area this weekend with shows at the Ottobar in Baltimore and Rock N Roll Hotel in Washington.

Expect a well-polished set of Alpinisms cuts and new songs.

“I’m really looking forward to playing the new songs and to having people hear them,” vocalist and guitarist Alejandra Deheza said about the upcoming tour dates. “That’s pretty much the No. 1 thing. I’m really excited for the fans to hear something new.

“We’ve been touring Alpinisms for months and months. It’s going to be exciting to get a totally different reaction from the new songs, and I think it’ll be a really good one.”

The group — comprised of Benjamin Curtis (formerly of Secret Machines), Deheza and her twin sister Claudia Deheza (both formerly of On!Air!Library!) — started working together in 2007 after the members met three years earlier when their former bands opened on tour

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for Interpol. After finding musical commonalities in one another, the trio set out to develop what would become their entrancing sound once everyone was free to do so.

“I think [our sound is] very accessible,” Alejandra said. “I think it’s very singable, but also it’s still challenging, I think. I dunno, I think people really appreciate that a lot of the time. Pop doesn’t have to be dumbed down for anybody. That’s what I really like about it.

“It’s very beat-oriented. That’s probably one thing that people

would want to know because there’s so much guitar involved. But for me, it’s just really psychedelic pop music that just happens to have a lot of beats underneath it. Which is how I would describe it to just anyone off the street.”

Touring consistently since Alpinisms’ release until three months ago, School of Seven Bells members said they love being on the road and promise to bring that passion along on their upcoming tour — the last in support of the album.

“I love touring, and just the fact

that we can and that there is a demand for it is pretty awesome,” Deheza said. “I love moving — I don’t like to be still. I like to be in different places every day. It puts you in a totally different mode and I feel like a lot less worried and a lot less neurotic when I’m on tour.”

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Freshman midfielder Megan Frazer is new to the Terp-Wake Forest rivalry, which resumes Saturday at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Freshman midfielder Megan Frazer admitted she didn’t know much about the Terrapin field hockey team’s history with this weekend’s opponent, No. 3 Wake Forest.

“I think — I don’t really know — but apparently Wake Forest is going to be a tough game,” Frazer said.

That’s an understatement.

The Northern Ireland native can be excused for not yet grasping the intricacies of ACC field hockey. But many of the No. 1 Terps (9-0, 1-0 ACC) know the Demon Deacons (61, 1-0) all too well.

The Saturday game at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex will be a rematch of last year’s national championship game, in which the Terps beat Wake Forest 4-2. In the ACC title match two weeks before, the Terps defeated the Demon Deacons 4-3.

The year before that, the teams met in the ACC Tournament semifinals, but Wake Forest came out on top. In 2006, like last season, the rivals met in both the ACC and NCAA Championship games — the Demon Deacons won the former, the Terps

the latter.

The two adversaries have met in the postseason for 10 seasons straight since the Terps bested the Demon Deacons in the 1999 ACC Championship.

“It’s always a great game playing against Wake Forest,” redshirt senior goalkeeper Alicia Grater said.

“They’re a team that brings out the best in us, and I think we bring out the best in them.”

Including the regular season games, the teams’ senior classes have faced off eight times in three seasons. The Terps, who have won all three regular season matches in that span, hope to continue that streak.

The Demon Deacons will make it tough as they try to avenge their loss in the 2008 national title game. But the Terps want to look forward.

“Last year’s happened,” senior back Emma Thomas said. “Now it’s this year, with two new teams. So I think we’re excited because they’re probably the best team we’ve played yet.”

Like the Terps, Wake Forest’s strength is a balance of the offense and defense.

Both teams give up fewer than eight shots per game on average, thanks to solid tackling in the back-

field and controlling possession in most of their matches.

The Demon Deacons’ attack is not as high-powered as the Terps’, averaging 3.29 goals a game to the Terps’ nation-leading 5.75. But according to coach Missy Meharg, Wake could capitalize on penalty corners, which could cause trouble for the Terps.

The Terps usually limit opponents’ penalty corners chances. In their ACC opener last Saturday against Boston College, though, they gave up 10 corners and only had seven themselves.

Now, against their rivals, the Terps are eager to prove they are as good as they were at the end of last season.

“Without Wake Forest, there’d be nothing to play for,” Meharg said.

Frazer, though, is content to stay oblivious of the implications of this weekend’s match as long as possible.

She figures she’ll find out firsthand soon enough.

“I hear people talk and stuff, but I try not to listen to it so my view on the game can’t be tilted either way,” she said. “I’m just excited, looking for a real challenging game. It’ll be interesting to give Wake Forest a go.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

seats from them and distribute them elsewhere.

After weeks-long deliberations with Senior Associate Athletics Director Chris Boyer, Cirovski decided they could augment Ludwig’s capacity at little cost. In late July, three rows of seating were added behind each goal, where bench bleachers replaced the sections of chairs with backs.

After all, Cirovski reasoned, seat backs weren’t exactly something the group’s members took advantage of during games.

Those seat backs were reallocated to the east end of Ludwig, where they joined existing seats to increase the total number of rows to 11 from seven.

With one seating swap, the venue’s number of available seats swelled by nearly 1,000. With the addition of another entrance gate, Ludwig’s capacity grew by 500.

“Every year, I want to show some growth,” Cirovski said. “Obviously, under the current economy and budget constraints, it’s hard to do big projects. I always like to show small improvements so every year I come there, I feel like we’re still growing.”

Even before its expansion, Ludwig’s vastness — in passion, support and activity — was obvious. Freshman defender London Woodberr y had never played with a crowd of more than 500 during his high school career.

After coming to College Park last year to see the Terps’ nationally televised bout with then-undefeated and then-No. 1 Wake Forest, he felt at

DETWEILER from page 10 argue with the results. We feel as a team that if he has to go back to that old way just to win, then we know he’ll do it.”

Before the season, it was great to focus on Friedgen’s looser attitude thanks to a slimming waistline and a surge of youthful talent. But now the team looks overmatched and slow to learn. Friedgen is running out of excuses.

This week, he’s acknowledged that youth can’t continue to be an excuse, but he’s also gotten philosophical, blaming some tough luck and off-thefield issues that are keeping some players from reaching their fullest potential. After calling out running back Da’Rel Scott’s fumbling issues and the defense’s poor play on the game-losing drive last Saturday, Friedgen softened those stances this week.

A month ago, the stories about players joking with him during practice, the canceled workout sessions and the Medifast diet all seemed like good ideas. But now ... well, at least Friedgen has the last one still going for him.

It’s not like Friedgen is going to lose the ship if he changes things up.

Friedgen’s success in his first eight seasons has earned him credibility, both inside the locker room and

home — even among 6,499 complete strangers.

“It was just unbelievable,” Woodberry said. “This is a good place to be.”

Cirovski knows it can be better. The Terps, arguably the top program in men’s collegiate soccer, share Ludwig with the track and field team and have a trailer for their locker room without working bathrooms. Creighton, meanwhile, debuted its $13 million soccerspecific Morrison Stadium in 2003.

Notre Dame’s $5.7 million Alumni Stadium opened this season.

“There’s no reason why we can’t have that,” Cirovski said. “And someday we will have that. Unfortunately, the timing isn’t right, right now.”

Boyer said the Athletics department doesn’t currently have the capital to pursue projects like the construction of a new stadium — no matter who it’s for.

“Whenever Sasho asks for something, we’re certainly going to listen,” Boyer said. “Athletics isn’t in a position where we’ll be pursing any significant capital projects in the short term.”

Sketches and renderings of his vision for soccer at the university litter Cirovski’s office. For the moment, they’re just pieces of paper.

But no matter how far off Cirovski’s plans might be, he can be assured that his grand vision is taking shape. All he has to do is look around during tonight’s game against the Tar Heels and see 7,000 of his closest backers cheering.

“If it takes 10 years to build our little soccer Taj Mahal, then so be it,” Cirovski said. “But one day, we’ll build it.” shaffer@umdbk.com

around the university.

Friedgen has made some minor tweaks. He’s stopped timing practice periods, instead making players repeat each play until they do it properly. But that’s not enough — not for a team without a win against an FCS opponent so far.

That’s not to suggest the team hasn’t been working and playing hard, but for a coach who often worries about “reaching” his players, the results have been flat-out bad.

Friedgen acknowledged that he had second thoughts about how he ran fall camp after the loss to Cal. But he chose to stay the course, and still things haven’t improved.

There’s still time to turn things around, but it has to start soon.

“What coach Friedgen do is what coach Friedgen do,” linebacker Adrian Moten said. “Nothing that’s going to kill you, but if he wants us to jump out off a building wearing parachutes just to get us to play better, we’re going to do it. I trust coach Friedgen.”

Following his emotions has gotten Friedgen this far. If he doesn’t make the necessary changes now, the team could well revert back to an even older habit it’s not ready to revisit: being an ACC doormat.

That’s something even the old Fridge never dealt with. edetweiler@umdbk.com

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THE MATCHUP

Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Maryland Terrapins

2-1 (0-1 Big East)

1-2 (0-0 ACC)

WHEN: Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. ET WHERE: Byrd Stadium, College Park T.V.: ESPN360 LINE: Pick‘em DATA: Two seasons ago, the Terps upset thenNo. 10 Rutgers 34-24 in Piscataway, N.J. This year, both teams are trying to rebuild.

TERPTRACKER 2009 TEAM STATS TERPS

RU

Passing (ypg) 230.3 Rushing (ypg) 139.0 Total (ypg) 369.3 Points per game 27.3 Opponents ppg 39.7 Avg. Time of Possession 31:18

233.3 151.7 385.0 27.7 23.0 31:47

QUARTERBACK TRIO Rutgers quarterback Tom Savage, one of just four true freshmen starting at quarterback in the country, was knocked unconscious in the fourth quarter of the Scarlet Knights’ 23-15 win last Saturday.

Thursday, coach Greg Schiano said the quarterback was “50-50” to play against the Terps, according to the Home News Tribune of New Brunswick, N.J. If he misses the game, reserve Domenic Natale, a senior, is expected to start. But Schiano also uses a “Wildcat”esque package involving junior Jabu Lovelace lining up under center. All three competed for the starting job in camp.

As a result of the uncertainty, the Terps have had to plan for three different quarterbacks this week.

“You gotta play the plan,” Terp coach Ralph Friedgen said. “I don’t think you alter what you do, you just know each guys strengths.”

GETTING HEALTHY? In the season-opening 52-13 loss at California, the Terps were not just embarrassed, they were hit with two major injuries to starters that have had a major impact in the season’s first three games.

Freakish left tackle Bruce Campbell and heady safety Jamari McCollough (right, inset) have not played since the opener, where Campbell suffered turf toe and McCollough sprained his ankle.

Yesterday, Friedgen said both players were probable and ahead of schedule in their recoveries, but he wasn’t certain about the kind of impact each would be able to make in their first games back.

Defensive coordinator Don Brown has said he’s been worried about overusing Kenny Tate, McCollough’s replacement, lately. And tackles Paul Pinegar and R.J. Dill have performed admirably in Campbell’s absence, but depth is lacking at the position.

The returns are coming at the right time.

Linebacker Alex Wujciak and the Terps, still in search of an FBS win, play Rutgers tomorrow.

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DESPERATE TIMES After 1-2 start, Terps must win Saturday against Rutgers

BY GREG SCHIMMEL Senior staff writer

The Rutgers tombstone is prominently located in the front of the symbolic graveyard.

Among the other headstones displayed near the entrance to the Terrapin football team’s practice field, which commemorate the Terps’ wins over top-10 teams, the Rutgers tombstone is often the first one passersby see.

“R.I.P. SCARLET KNIGHTS TERPS 34 #10 RUTGERS 24 SEPTEMBER 29, 2007.”

What a difference two years makes.

The Scarlet Knights (21) have gone a middling 15-10 after that loss and haven’t even sniffed a return to the top 10, while the Terps (1-2) have had enough trouble this season trying to beat supposed cupcakes James Madison and Middle

Tennessee.

They certainly haven’t looked like a team that could beat a top-10 program on the road.

Heading into tomorrow’s rematch at Byrd Stadium, both the Terps and the Scarlet Knights could desperately use a statement win against a fellow BCS conference team to build some momentum for their program and attempt to head back in the right direction.

Otherwise, their seasons might soon be fit for burial.

“We need this win for a lot of reasons,” Terp wide receiver Torrey Smith said. “For ourselves as far as confidence goes, for our fans to not jump off the bandwagon. The biggest thing for us that we need to do is just fix our mistakes.”

The Terps’ mistakes have been plentiful and well documented during the first three games of the season, and coach Ralph Friedgen and several Terps readily admitted this week things have not been going according to plan.

The defense has allowed nearly 40 points and more than 465 yards of total offense per game, and while the offense has provided some big plays, turnovers and penalties have been a

frustrating, recurring theme.

The last-second 32-31 loss to Middle Tennessee last Saturday is currently the low point. But with a tough ACC schedule looming, the Terps could be falling into a potentially ugly downward spiral if they don’t start improving quickly.

They know that if the season hasn’t started to come unglued already, it certainly could with a secondstraight home loss to the Scarlet Knights tomorrow.

“We’ve been facing some hard luck.

Sometimes you’ve got to change your luck and make your luck,” Friedgen said. “I think this team really needs to have a coming out.”

The Scarlet Knights have also been somewhat of an enigma in the early going.

They were blown out at home by current-No. 14 Cincinnati, 47-15, to start the season, and then rebounded with home wins against lightweights Howard and Florida International.

But it is still unclear what they are capable of.

A win against the Terps might give them more of an idea.

“I think for both teams, for us and Rutgers, it’s a game to see really

SERIES HISTORY ALL-TIME SERIES LAST MEETING

Terps lead 6-3 Sept. 29, 2007

RECENT MEETINGS 2007- (A) 1942- (N)

W, Terps 34, Rutgers 24 W, Terps 27, Rutgers 13

KEY MATCHUP

Time to get tough

TERP DEFENSIVE ENDS VS. RUTGERS OT ANTHONY DAVIS The Terp pass rush has seen mixed results thus far this season.

Last weekend, the Terps’ sacked Middle Tennessee quarterback Dwight Dasher four times in the loss. But little of the pressure they’ve been able to get on opposing signal callers has been from the Terps’ weakside defensive ends, Jared Harrell (pictured below) and Derek Drummond, who have zero sacks.

This week, Friedgen said he wasn’t getting enough production from the position and would use true freshman Isaiah Ross in an increased role on the line.

Whoever plays will be going against one of the top offensive tackles in the nation. Davis (above) is a 6-foot-6, 325-pound specimen who made a host of preseason All-American lists.

While the Scarlet Knight offensive line has been criticized despite boasting five returning starters so far this year, Davis’s enormous potential is impossible to deny.

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DETWEILER

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alph Friedgen’s eyes gleamed with passion.

The Terrapin football coach’s voice grew louder as he discussed how he planned to improve his team following last Saturday’s home loss to Middle Tennessee.

Friedgen said he had to get tougher on his squad. He wouldn’t worry about player fatigue in his effort to put a quality team on the field.

In other words, the old “Fridge” was back.

For a coach whose post-game demeanor following disappointing losses has usually included a hushed tone and sometimes tears welling in his eyes in recent seasons, it was a telling display of frustration. But nearly a week later, it seems as if it was just that.

After evaluating his

team’s performance against the Blue Raiders, Friedgen, who emphasized his more easy-going approach with this squad during fall camp, has backed away from his fiery post-game comments.

“I watched the [game] tape, and you have to understand, I’m an emotional person, and I don’t take losing very well,” Friedgen said. “It eats away at me, especially the way we lost it.”

But why not give in to those emotions, Ralph?

After three games, the team continues to be plagued by the same problems. Everyone is frustrated, and the Terps need something to feel good about.

As the team struggles to overcome its youthful mistakes, a swift kick in the pants might be just the right remedy. With Rutgers coming to Byrd Stadium for the Terps’ final nonconference game Saturday, the time is right for a new approach and a dose of tough love.

“When he was his old way, he won big games, beat top-25 teams,” said wide receiver Ronnie Tyler, who called Friedgen “nicer” this year. “You can’t

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Quarterback Chris Turner and the Terp offense know they must cut down on turnovers and penalties.

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where we’re at, to see really where we’re going to go from here,” Terp quarterback Chris Turner said. “I think on paper we’re pretty evenly matched, and we’ll just have to see what happens.” schimmel@umdbk.com

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HEAD OFFENSE

DEFENSE

The Terps have connected on some big plays this season, specifically to wide receiver Torrey Smith. Turnover issues must be settled, but consecutive 30-point efforts are hard to deny.

With uncertainty at quarterback and a mediocre running back platoon, Rutgers will hope for a low-scoring affair.

After allowing 119 points in three games, coordinator Don Brown’s defense probably wouldn’t be getting an edge against many teams, despite moderate improvements last week.

Rutgers has forced seven turnovers already this season and boasts a very strong pass rush.

SPECIAL TEAMS

COACHING

On paper, the Terps should have one of the strongest special teams units in the country. But some established veterans have struggled in coordinator Charles Bankins’ first season.

Scarlet Knight kicker San San Te has struggled from 30 yards and out, making just two-of-five.

Greg Schiano and Ralph Friedgen have both achieved quite a bit in turning around former cellar-dwellers in BCS conferences.

Still, Friedgen’s name has been seen on virtually every coaching hot seat list lately, while Schiano may lead his team to a fifth straight bowl game.

INTANGIBLES

PREDICTION

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Rather than calling it a tie, We’ve decided neither team has an intangibles edge.

Rutgers is a young team playing in its first road game, potentially without its first-string quarterback.

The Terps may be playing in front of a hostile home crowd as a result of the season’s struggles and Rutgers’ fans.

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