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PGPD assault conviction overturned Name of county police officer accused of beating university student in 2010 riot cleared

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer A Prince George’s County judge cleared earlier this month the name of a county police officer convicted

ing to court records. Harrison and another county officer repeatedly hit a university student with a baton during a riot following a men’s basof assaulting a university student ketball upset victory over Duke University in March 2010, resulting in a in 2010.

Judge Beverly Woodard overturned sentence of 30 days on house arrest.

John McKenna, the student who on Sept. 9 the jury’s 2012 verdict convicting now-retired Prince George’s was beaten that night, required eight County Police officer James Harrison staples to close a laceration on his Jr. of second-degree assault, accord- head, according to a Washington Post

editorial board column. He was later awarded $2 million in damages from the county. The incident was caught on camera and posted online.

During a reconsideration of the trial, Woodard granted Harrison probation before judgment, which gives him the ability to clear his record if he abstains from breaking the law for See PGPD, Page 3

Anthony Brown celebrates his selection as the democratic candidate with a party at Riggs Alumni Center in June. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Campaign ads up gov race stakes Attack-based strategy disputed in Hogan, Brown campaigns

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer With less than 40 days until this state elects a new governor, the race has become combative and has some upset over the candidates’ attack-based campaigns.

A New York Times and CBS News poll from Sept. 10 showed Democrat Anthony Brown holding a 51 percent to 37 percent lead over Republican Larry Hogan. The gap is significantly wider among 18- to 29-year-olds, in which age group Brown leads 71 percent to Hogan’s 15 percent.

“A lot of college-aged younger people have seen a lot of the victories of the O’Malley-Brown administration in keeping tuition low,” said Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk. “O’Malley ran a very progressive agenda and Brown is now running off that progressive See CAMPAIGN, Page 2

one of WMUC Radio’s DJ booths, pictured above, is home to multi-genre student-run music and news radio, which will play in North and South Campus Dining Halls beginning Nov. 1. josh loock/for the diamondback

over the airwaves

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer The free-form, multi-genre campus-based radio station WMUC will begin playing its music, as well as public service announcements, in

campus dining halls beginning Nov. 1.

WMUC obtained approval from Dining Services on Tuesday, said Nathan Chai, the chairman of the Student Government Association’s health and wellness committee. This development followed the SGA’s Sept. 10 resolution of approval for the initiative.

U professors weigh in on challenges, benefits

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Historian to use fellow stipend for research

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Senior staff writer pamela long conducts research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Long, a university alumna, will use her grant funds to further her Roman infrastructure research. photo courtesy of macarthur fellows foundation MacArthur Fellows and granted her what can I say?” a stipend of $625,000, awarded over The independent historian rethe course of five years to help her ceived her doctorate in renaissance further her research. and reformation history from this “I was quite shocked,” Long said.

“I’m sort of overwhelmed by it, but See GRANT, Page 3

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Kevin Delmolino, WMUC’s general manager, said the radio station plans to start out playing music only in the North and South Campus Dining Halls, although the station hopes to expand its outreach over time.

“We’re just slowly rolling out, and when that See WMUC, Page 2

Univ system seeks to expand open-source book offerings

University alumna wins prestigious MacArthur

Digging through the troves of Italian history, deciphering Latin texts and studying Roman infrastructure is how university alumna Pamela Long spends her days, and her long hours have paid off.

The MacArthur Foundation recently named Long among its 2014

With university permission, South, North Campus Dining Halls to begin broadcasting WMUC on Nov. 1

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For university students enrolled in professor Scott Roberts’ PSYC 100: Introduction to Psychology class since fall of 2010, the idea of a college course that doesn’t require spending hundreds on a textbook isn’t foreign, it’s reality.

Roberts, along with his colleague, Ryan Curtis, use an opensource textbook for their introlevel psychology courses rather than requiring the purchase of a traditional textbook.

For the 3,648 students that Roberts and Curtis have taught with openeducational materials, this means savings: roughly half a million dollars by the end of the academic year, based on an estimated traditional textbook cost of $120, Roberts said.

This use of online educational materials was targeted in the University System of Maryland’s Maryland Open-Source Textbook initiative in spring 2014, a voluntary pilot program in which both Roberts and Curtis participated. This spring, the system hopes to expand the program, increasing the number of courses involved.

In the pilot, 11 courses spread across seven institutions statewide See books, Page 3

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Among women, Brown is holding a 59 to 29 percent lead, while the male demographic leans 2 percent in Hogan’s favor. Women’s health issues have been a contentious point of debate this week, following an ad Brown’s campaign released Monday.

The ad calls out Hogan for avoiding the issues of abortion and contraception and claims he is hiding his conservative v iews on women’s hea lth issues. It cites two examples from Hogan’s early career to show the candidate’s antiabortion stance.

The first is a public statement supporting his father’s efforts to ban abortion in Prince George’s County Hospitals in 1980, when Larry Hogan Sr. was county executive. The second is a 1981 statement while Hogan Jr. was running for Congress, saying he supported a “human life amendment,” which would ban abortion nationwide.

“Marylanders have a clear choice between two very different futures in this election,” Brow n w rote i n a n exclusive statement issued to The Diamondback. “I am a strong supporter of ensuring that all women have access to the quality health care they need, including affordable birth control and the right to choose.”

Hogan responded Tuesday by calling Brown’s ad false and claiming it reflects lies about his positions.

“My belief is that all women i n Ma r yla nd shou ld have access to the birth control of their choice,” Hogan said in a news release Tuesday.

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husband, and a father of three grown women. It will be the policy of my administration should I be honored to become the next governor.”

Brown shot back, stating that Hogan continues to hide his conservative agenda.

“Larry Hogan doesn’t trust women to make their own health decisions — he supported banning abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, and he supported a constitutional amendment to limit women’s access to common forms of birth control, that’s a dangerous direction to take Maryland,” Brown wrote.

Ji l l Sa ntos, president of UMD Feminists at this university, said she thinks women are opposed to candidates who don’t support their right to have an abortion.

“A woman’s health care decisions should be made by her and her doctor alone, not a politician,” said Santos, a senior criminology and criminal justice and psychology major. “If a candidate supported banning abortion in the past, I, as a feminist, would be really, really skeptical. I don’t want a non-health care professional to try and outlaw something that he or she does not truly understand.”

Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Shawn Quinn said he wants to see Brown and Hogan stop using attack ads and run more responsible, issue-based campaigns.

“They simply run around accusing each other of things and have no plan to do anything for the citizens of this

“I WOULD RATHER SEE CAMPAIGNS WHERE BOTH ARE TALKING HELP THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND AND HELP STUDENTS, AS OPPOSED TO TALKING ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE THE OTHER CANDIDATE IS.”

PATRICK RONK SGA president state,” Quinn said. “They figure if they can just get by with buying signs and yelling at the other one that people won’t realize there is no plan.”

Ronk also said he wants to see the candidates run more ethical campaigns.

“I’m pretty disappointed in both campaigns. I think this has become a really ugly race,” Ron k sa id. “Ever y time one campaign releases an attack ad, the other comes out and says it’s full of lies and horrible rhetoric. … I would rather see campaigns where both are talking about how they can help the people of Maryland and help students, as opposed to talking about how much of a terrible person the other candidate is.”

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Chai noted that WMUC’s play time in the dining halls will be a staggered process to allow the radio station to fix hiccups, gather feedback and iron out any other problems that might arise.

“In the beginning, we’ll probably have a six-hour time block maybe once or twice per week,” Chai said.

“And then once we figure out what people like, what people don’t like, what we can improve upon and we improve upon it, then we can start expanding the time that we’re actually being played in the diner.”

WMUC is waiting until November to air its content because it hopes to gradually increase the amount of PSAs in its repertoire, and therefore needs time to create new ones to be smoothly integrated into its music programs. At the moment, the radio station averages one PSA per hour, Chai said.

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the south campus dining hall will play WMUC radio shows for about six hours twice a week starting Nov. 1, following the Student Government Association’s initiative approval. The station will start out playing music and PSAs, and then expand. josh loock/for the diamondback that the university offers, especially for a lot of underclassmen who we think don’t know about, for example, services like the Help Center.”

Delmolino said fi nding out about the university’s services casually over the radio will be more comfortable for students than being bombarded by PSAs around the campus.

“With the PSAs, we feel that people don’t want to be stopped on the street, like, ‘Hey you, join this thing or do this thing,’” Delmolino said.

“People want to know this information; they just don’t want to be hassled about it.”

Chai also said he thinks offering PSAs is a part of the station’s responsibility to the campus community.

“WMUC gets like $32,000 a year out of the Student Activities Fee, which is quite a bit of funding,” Chai said. “We should really be kind of trying to make the best out of it as we possibly can.”

Although the integration of PSAs is new, Chai said the idea to play WMUC in the dining

halls is not. Last year, WMUC played du ri ng late-n ig ht dining hours a couple of times per week. However, it fi zzled out due to programming conflicts, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said.

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However, with such concerns being more effectively handled this time, Hipple said Dining Services is eager to help support the campus radio station. “ It’s a go o d t h i n g. We l i ke bei ng good members of the community; we like supporting the university,” Hipple said. “WMUC is an organization that is a part of the university, so whenever possible, if we can play them, we would like to.” tswaakdbk@gmail.com

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Univ prof earns $1.6 million to study pigs’ flu resistance Test pigs expected to mature without influenza virus receptors

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer

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MCATs to add three new sections, take students nearly twice as long Test will require three additional semesters of coursework

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer The Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, will undergo in April its biggest changes in the past 20 years.

T h e te s t, re q u i re d fo r medical school applications, will be nearly twice as long and test students in three new content areas: biochemistry, psychology and sociology. This means students will need to prepare for three additional semesters of coursework on top of the eight semesters already needed for the current exam, said Eric Chiu, executive director of pre-med programs at Kaplan Test Prep.

“If students are in a position where they can take the current exam by January, before the test changes, we are strongly encouraging students to do so,” he said.

The last date to take the current exam is Jan. 23, 2015, and Chiu said spots for the remaining exams are filling up quickly.

But Wendy Loughlin, health professions advising director at this university, disagreed that students should rush to take the current exam.

“We feel our students have been learning in this very interdisciplinary way for a long time; we feel like they are going to be prepared for this test,” she

GRANT From PAGE 1 university in 1979 and has gone on to publish an array of books, articles and essays about the history of science and technology.

Long is currently in Rome work i ng on a book about 16th-century Roman engineering and researching archival records. She is focusing particularly on the city’s aqueducts, which have been bringing spring water from the surrounding mountains into the city since before the 16th century and are still running today.

Though many old societies exhibited incredible feats of engineering, such as the Egyptians, Rome is particularly interesting because it is so well-documented, and there is an abundance of records and historical accounts to research, she said.

“The records are all there, how they financed things, how they decided things, the bureaucracy of the city government,” she said. “It’s interesting to have so much information about how they made decisions about urban infrastructure.”

Long spends most of her time going through archived records on documents and

said. “If they are not ready … it [would be] very foolish to rush to take this test because that MCAT score will become part of their permanent history.”

The new MCAT is designed to prepare future doctors for the rapid and drastic changes in the field of medicine and health care system, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

T he A A MC creates a nd administers the MCAT, and it collaborated with medical schools to create a test that assesses if students are able to apply what they know to problems that call for scientific inquiry and reasoning, Chiu said.

The addition to biochemistry attests to these changes, and coursework in biochemistry for pre-med students will be mandatory, as opposed to before, when it was highly recommended, Loughlin said.

“In medical school, you need to understand not only the biological processes of the body [but also] the chemical processes,” said Mylinh Vu, a senior biochemistry major.

“Biochemistry is a good bridge of that.”

Chiu said the AAMC surveyed medical school admission officers, faculty and deans and found that biochemistry was a content area predictive of success in the medical field.

When Vu took the MCAT

this month, she was given a trial section that contained questions in psychology and sociology.

This section did not count toward her score, but it caught her off guard.

“I don’t feel adding psychology and sociology is really necessary,” she said. “These are a lot of the things you would learn in medical school.”

A Kaplan survey of medical school admission officers fou nd that 4 4 percent of schools are indifferent as to which test version students submit when applying to medical school. Twenty percent recommended pre-med students take the current test, and 27 percent recommended they take the new test.

Most schools will be accepting scores from the current MCAT through 2017, with a few expressing preference depending on the application cycle, according to the AAMC. “We’ve made changes in our curriculum with a much more integrative approach in mind,” Loughlin said. “My advice would be to trust the system and recognize everyone is going to be judged the same way. Doing poorly on the old MCAT is going to be much worse than doing average on the new MCAT.”

minutes of council meetings in Latin and Italian from the 12th through the 16th centuries.

“It gives perspective to look at past societies,” she said.

“The more history you study or research or know, the more perspective you have.”

Although the architectural infrastructure of 16th-century Rome is extremely solid, with much of it still standing today, the practice of engineering was still very primitive, lacking modern technology and recognition as a professional field.

But even though the methods have changed significantly, the problems engineering aims to fix remain the same.

“All of our cities have infrastructure problems,” she said.

History is an important topic that often gets downg ra d e d b y ot her d epa r tments, said Kenneth Holum, a history professor who worked with Long during her time at this university.

“We have terrible conflicts and challenges that we don’t know how to face, and the only way of dealing with those challenges is from experience,” he said. “If we don’t look at the past and see what we’ve done right and what we’ve done wrong, how can we face these challenges?”

Long was Holum’s teaching assistant for a class on “women in antiquity,” which

was taught for the first time at this university, and ended up playing a major role in the class, he said.

“She gave the course a kind of authority that I couldn’t have had, because at that time, female students who were interested in feminism were not interested in hearing men talk about feminism,” he said.

Receiving a grant from the MacArthur Foundation will not only help Long fund her research, but it will give her a high level of recognition that will advance her career, said Long’s husband Bob Korn, owner of Uptown Productions, a production company in Washington.

“I’m stu n ned of cou rse a nd e c s t at ic, s t i l l nu m b from it,” he said. “It means she’s going to plow ahead and finish this book and go onto the next one.”

Long said she’s already started dreaming of future projects. Her next book, The Lure of Machines, will be about 15th- and 16th-century European inventors such as Leonardo da Vinci.

“This [grant] will allow me to be more creative in a sense,” she said. “After this book is finished, I’ll write another book and do more research. I love doing what I’m doing.”

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Yearly vaccinations help keep the f lu at bay, but one university researcher hopes to go one step further towa rd erad icati ng the disease with help from unlikely candidates: genetically altered pigs.

T he U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture granted $1.6 million to Bhanu Telugu, an animal and avian sciences professor, to study pigs’ resistance to the flu.

“We humans knew about the flu since 370 B.C., so Hippocrates, one of the first to write about medicine, described the flu,” Telugu said. “In all these years, we have yet to defeat this disease. Every year you have to go out and get vaccinations.”

Un l i ke sm a l lpox a nd other diseases scientists have been able to eliminate, the flu remains elusive in part because of its extreme variety, Telugu said, and because it can easily proliferate in animal species such as birds and pigs.

As a first step toward disease resistance, Telugu plans to genetically alter pigs to become resistant to the flu.

Like traditional breeding, genetic engineering chooses specific traits the scientists are looking for and selectively breeds them.

books From PAGE 1 employed openly available educational materials free of charge to students, in lieu of pricey textbooks — a move that students and faculty were widely appreciative of, said M.J. Bishop, director of the university system’s Center for Academic Innovation.

The initiative stems from James Jalandoni, a former president of the university system student council who compiled research indicating an unmet need existed in the textbook market for affordable, alternative academic resources, said Zach McGee, current student council president.

The basic drive, McGee said, comes from two main issues; the first being the “obvious” financial benefit to students.

“Paying $300 for one textbook is simply absurd, even if you use it every single day,” McGee said.

And it’s those high prices, he said, that can drive students to go without their

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From this decision, Harrison’s second-degree assault charge “is hereby stricken,” according to the order of the court. The probation before judgment offense will remain on his record, but Harrison can request a trial to erase the charge in three years, state judiciary spokeswoma n A ngel ita Plemmer Williams said. “[Judge Woodard] said she would take it under advisement, and then in a

“But sometimes then [with traditional breeding] when you’re mixing all the traits, you get bad traits as well as good traits,” Telugu said.

“So then when we go into the genome, we can change exactly what we want and nothing else.”

Telugu will use TALENs and CRISPRs — synthetically generated genetic material that splices DNA at specific points on the genome — to go into single-celled pig embryos and cut out the genome’s nucleotides that code for influenza virus receptors.

Without these nucleotides, if all goes according to plan, the pigs will grow up without receptors to the virus, Telugu said. Without these receptors where the virus can foster an attack, the pigs cannot get infected with the flu.

Liqing Yu, an animal and avian sciences professor, sa id genetic eng i neeri ng allows scientists to study things they would otherwise be unable to observe. Similar methods to Telugu’s research have successfully prevented the disease from spreading in poultry, he said.

“If you give a chicken the flu, it could die, but it won’t pass on the virus,” Yu said.

Telugu also plans to introduce decoys — RNA fragments that appear similar to the influenza virus — that would replicate in the pigs and prevent the actual virus from breeding in animal cells.

Telugu said he is hopeful that because the pig is a large animal, his research can help

scientists learn about the flu in humans. Though genetic engineering of humans is illegal, he said, scientists might be able to develop drugs to block human receptors to the virus, based on how it works for the pigs.

“To this day you can basically cure cancer in a mouse, you c a n cu re a mou se of diabetes, but if you use a mouse as a model, you can’t always apply those findings to people. … When you think about it, we are becoming pigs,” Telugu said, noting sh a re d fo o d pre fe re nc e s between humans and pigs.

“They’re also single-stomach animals like us, and they have a similar physiology to us.”

While government regulators do not always specify where genetically modified animals stand in the research world, Telugu said, these pigs should not be considered genetically modified.

“What he’s proposing is more like gene editing, so by definition, it’s not transgenic,” said Carol Keefer, an animal and avian sciences professor who also works with genetic and reproductive research.

T h is d isti nction seems simple, but it’s significant, Keefer said. Some animals are obviously transgenic, incorporated with a foreign gene, but Telugu’s proposed pigs are more ordinary.

“We want to use this as a model so we understand what genes are responsible, and we can develop drugs to treat the flu,” Telugu said.

textbooks, thus handicapping themselves academically — a huge problem in today’s academic climate.

The decision to create an open-source textbook for a course does come with a time commitment for instructors, though, Roberts said.

When Roberts was putting together the first draft of the PSYC 100 textbook in 2010, he was creating it a chapter ahead of what he was teaching, staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning preparing lesson plans and assignments.

“I don’t lecture my students on appreciation of their textbook, but a lot goes into creating something like that,” Roberts said.

Still, he said he thinks many introductory-level courses at this university are well-suited for open-source textbooks — saving students money, giving them access to up-to-date information and offering interactive educational experiences.

“It’s really a matter of locating the information and putting it all together,” he said. “With the right time and resources, faculty members could create almost any introlevel textbook that exists.”

In post-pilot surveys, stu-

dents generally appreciated the cost benefits that came with the open-source materials, McGee said. Some students expressed a desire for additional sample problems or examples, though, which the university system hopes to address in the future by setting up printing stations to print and bind open-source materials for a minimal cost to students.

On Oct. 21, the student council and the Center for Academic Innovation will sponsor a workshop, “Introduction to Open Educational Resources,” designed to spark conversations among faculty about the pros, cons and feasibility of moves toward opensource textbooks, Bishop said.

Hopefully, she added, it will draw more volunteers to this spring’s pilot program.

“Really, the choice of instructional materials needs to be up to faculty members, who are most qualified to make decisions about whether the information is appropriate, accurate and rigorous,” Bishop said. “We’re just hoping to create an opportunity for them to play with these things and start to consider the idea.”

couple of weeks, she issued an order granting the probation before judgment but did not give any reasons as to why,” Erzen said.

The Diamondback reached out to Harrison’s attorney, who did not respond. The court orders do not go into details about the overturning.

If Harrison does not break probation, he will be cleared of the charge, Erzen said, and he would be able to rejoin the department.

Erzen said he disagreed with Woodard’s decision and that the jury already “spoke loud and clear” with the ruling.

“We didn’t feel that we should take that voice away from [the jury] by granting [Harrison] a probation before

judgment,” he said. “This was a long trial, and the jury really took their time in deliberating.”

A video of the incident, which is posted on YouTube, shows McKenna skipping across Knox Road. Police stop McKenna, and although he does not appear to instigate a struggle, the officers push him against the wall, knock him down and hit him while he is lying on the ground.

During the trial, questions were raised over Woodard’s previous marriage to a county officer who was convicted of using excessive force, according to a 2012 Diamondback article, but both sides agreed there was no true conflict of interest.

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hen we think of different ways local politics affect us, we usually start with the obvious factors: taxes, regulations, construction projects or any major legislation that happens to cross the county executive’s desk. This Election Day, however, Prince George’s County voters will be focusing on something different yet just as influential as other major laws affecting residents: term limits.

As of today, this county is the only one in the Washington metropolitan area that imposes term limits. Though this county doesn’t stand alone among counties across the U.S. for imposing limits on elected officials’ tenures, many lobbyists have their eyes on Prince George’s, as it will have a controversial question on its ballot dealing with term extensions this year.

Term limits in this area haven’t been a new point of contention. In 1992, citizen activists collected signatures to place a two-term limit on county executive and County Council positions. With the ballot measure winning, disgruntled politicians attempted to abolish term limits by putting the question to a vote again on both the 2000 and 2004 ballots. What resulted was a whopping 60 percent and 80 percent of voters respectively voting to keep term limits in those years, proving how important term limits are to residents in this county.

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This year, the County Council unanimously voted to put another term limit extension question on the November ballot. If approved by voters, limits will extend from two terms to three, setting the maximum number of years a county executive or County Council member can keep his or her seat at 12 years — lengthier than term limits for both the president of the United States and this state’s governor.

OUR VIEW

Residents of Prince George’s County should vote against extending term limits.

Extending term limits is anything but a smart idea, though proponents of this measure, including County Executive Rushern Baker III, support the measure based on “the interest of democracy and voter empowerment,” Camille Exum, county charter review commission chairwoman, wrote in an email.

For instance, if we were to look at term limits based on a perspective of democracy, then let’s consider California’s term limits. A 1995 study found that term limits on state legislators correlated with a “rush of retirements.”

This ultimately led to an astounding 50

percent more candidates than would have been expected, providing voters with more diversity in electoral candidates to choose from and more competition in each election.

Others argue that term limits will deter legislative bodies from having politically experienced members, as turnover will be high. However, this begs the question: Do politically experienced candidates really create better legislative bodies, and how do we even define “better” legislative bodies?

Legislative bodies might pass efficient laws because some of their members have diverse experiences, political interests or ideas. In other words, legislators who haven’t spent the last eight-plus years sitting in a County Council chair.

So what really is the ideal term limit? Is there a huge difference between serving four, eight or 12 years in the same seat?

Though we might never be 100 percent certain of what the perfect term limit is, this editorial board does not support extending term limits for the county. Any reasonable opportunity to diversify the County Council and provide more voter choice is something we can get behind, and we hope it’s something voters in this county can get behind too.

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Professors need quizzes, too ROB COBB

On top of all that, cultural norms within academia minimize the importance of student feedback — what matters is teaching the curriculum approved by the department, not doing whatever the students say. Sure, student evaluations will be considered as part of reviews for promotions, but they don’t weigh nearly as much as publication. Often, evaluation is viewed as a way for students to reward teachers who make classes easy and punish those who make them rigorous.

None of this is to say that college teachers do not care; they work untold hours to serve students who are often apathetic. Most teachers care deeply about student learning, just not deeply enough to actually approach a student and ask for feedback on their teaching.

The university has many goals: We are a research school, so the focus of many faculty is on their academic work, including research and publishing, not instruction. A quarter of students at this university are graduate students, whose mentorship and guidance takes up a great deal of faculty attention. Still, educating undergraduates comes first in our school’s mission. To make that a reality for our teachers, they need more frequent and useful feedback — not just performance ratings, but information framed for making decisions for improving pedagogy and communication of content.

If a part of a lecture was boring or unclear, teachers need to know that immediately, not at the end of the semester, when students have forgotten what was boring and teachers can’t do anything about it anyway. If an assignment or anecdote was particularly enlightening, they ought to get that feedback immediately. If the feedback is going to be good, it should be anonymized, open and available all the time.

Provost Mary Ann Rankin, deans, assistant deans and President Loh: help our teachers teach better. Encourage them to improve. Build them a system for immediate student feedback.

If you are a student, you know where you stand academically in all of your classes — except maybe for the few days of uncertainty before an exam is handed back. You have a sense of how well you are doing, maybe not to the very percentage or even letter grade, but you know what neighborhood you are in.

You know because you’ve been getting feedback. Small graded assignments such as quizzes and homework, your own frequent syllabus analysis and point-totaling — these help you place and pace yourself. You know how well you need to do on an assignment to get the grade you want. The knowledge is supposed to help us as students shape our study habits and improve before we are stuck with a final grade.

However, flawed grades are a feedback mechanism; feedback itself is helpful. In the professional world, good companies give employees feedback all the time, not just at the end of a quarter or year. While this kind of review is often fraught with stress and anxiety because it is tied to compensation and advancement, it can also be a helpful tool for growth.

Feedback prevents surprises — if you have been doing poorly, you know it and you won’t be fired out of the blue.

Excellent college teachers seek out continuous feedback. Most teachers, however, stick to a syllabus finalized before ever meeting the students, and wait until the end of semester course evaluations for feedback. Instead of smoothly adapting and improving their teaching over the course of the semester, they must attempt to learn disjointedly when their lump of student feedback arrives. More worrisome to me, only students who complete the full class are surveyed — there is no mechanism to collect feedback from students who dropped Rob Cobb is a senior computer or withdrew from the class likely the engineering major. He can be reached at rcobbdbk@gmail.com. most important students to ask.

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The things Paris taught me PATRICK AN Having walked from Notre Dame Cathedral to the Louvre with three friends last month in Paris, down the rusticated southern bank of the Seine, I decided to take a break by the fountain of the Grand Bassin before continuing onto the Champs-Élysées.

There, under the sunlit bright blue sky, where a phantasmagoria of clouds drifted playfully in the cool breeze, sat a crowd of Parisians in the green public lawn chairs circumscribing the fountain. They sat so still that the pigeons dared to venture inches from their feet to peck at baguette crumbs, and aside from the fading voices of the perambulating street vendors trying to sell their wares and the crackling sounds of cars skipping down the cobblestone roads in the distance, a peaceful, carefree but peculiar tranquility enveloped me. It was a Wednesday.

At once, this moment of quixotic calm disturbed me; I had never witnessed so many people practicing nonchalance at a time. Do these Europeans have nothing better to do than vegetate in the sun? But in my moment of exhaustion, I too became nonchalant to the stressors of my life.

So this is what it is like to stop and smell the roses, to spend a moment in

solitude, to step away from the surge of constant stimuli transmitted from the demands of work, school and society.

Unfortunately for Americans, this practice is only an abstraction, a luxury reserved for octogenarians to preserve their sage vanity and big perspectives.

The rest of us are too busy tracking down our American dreams from the iron sights of a Remington to partake in such aromas of life. Yet in France, where the work week is 35 hours and Parisians spend their evenings dancing the tango beneath the steps of the Palais de Chaillot, this is normal.

I think America’s negative attitudes toward inactiveness and unproductive leisure can be explained by the “work hard, play hard” philosophy, which finds roots within the concept of the American dream. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of American values is found in the axiom that success can only be earned through rigorous work.

Consequently, the “play hard” component — which spawned out of necessity to prevent burnout and insanity — is an occupation in its own right, carefully compartmentalized out of the day and executed with a rigor commensurate to our work ethic, often times irresponsibly manifesting itself in the forms of drugs, alcohol and sex.

The Europeans have managed to avoid such a destructive cycle of the “work, play, repeat” lifestyle and learned early on that “free time” is radically different than scheduled pleasure.

Perhaps America’s fixation on productivity provides its own downfall in its search for existential satisfaction.

Too often we find ourselves working hard to save time just to be able to do more work. During the rare opportunities when we do rest, much effort is placed on using our brains as little as possible and immersing ourselves in vapid hedonism with the required company of others. This allows little time for rumination, self-reflection, inspiration and ultimately maturation, leaving ourselves vulnerable to moral and spiritual decay and existential discontentment.

In retrospect, I think I now know why I was so disturbed by the sight of so many Europeans lounging about.

Their faces carried an enlightened serenity us Americans only describe on people immediately after death.

But despite their lifeless appearance, I think they knew that they were experiencing a moment worth living for.

Having returned to the U.S., I have yet to experience that same clarity and invigorating peacefulness again, but right now there is a gentle autumn breeze outside my window running its fingers through the leaves; I wonder, if I catch it, if it could take me to Paris again.

Patrick An is a junior biology m a j o r. He ca n b e rea c h ed a t patandbk@gmail.com.

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ed me. I generally consider our generation to have an incredibly progressive and accepting take on the world and the people around them. Whether that is optimistic or naive, I don’t know, but I refuse to believe that the few cheap laughs he received from his friends were worth the gunshots I felt in my heart at that moment.

People often mistake the freedom to express themselves for the liberty to attack others. You have the same rights as the students sitting on either side of you. I believe that those rights come with the responsibility to respect the rights of others. No matter how mighty you think you are, you have no reason to stand as a gate between someone and their own beliefs.

Eventually, he apologized, but he can’t take back what he said or what I felt. And I’m sure some of his friends didn’t agree with what he was saying, but he couldn’t have known that for sure, and that’s the problem. It’s not about knowing your audience, because you never really can. It’s about being respectful of the possibilities that live behind the carefully constructed, socially accepted reactions.

We’re so accustomed to gracefully dropping ownership in the face of controversy or conflict — or not being “cool enough,” for that matter — and as a result, we keep our opinions coveted and our vetted profiles set to “public.”

I’m all for free expression. You wouldn’t see my byline on this page if not for it. But there doesn’t need to be such a disregard for others in the process. It is possible to hold views different than someone else’s and to do so with consideration.

In the end, when push comes to shove, your weapons shouldn’t be someone else’s beliefs.

I was sitting in Stamp Student Union with the Nyumburu Cultural Center a few hundred yards away. A few inches away from me was my open book, containing anthems of heroes who dedicated their lives to freedom and unfettered expression. A few feet away was a group of people denouncing everything I stand for.

I was sitting in a diverse university, in a free country, in what I thought to be a 21st-century world.

But I was wrong.

I was listening to a student stabbing at my religion. He passed a card around from an on-campus Christian group, showing his friends and overflowing with comedic remarks and hearty chuckles.

It’s too hard for him to understand how anyone could believe this, he said. It’s too ridiculous not to laugh at, he said.

By some pervasion of the progressive nature of our ever-diversifying culture, I was in the middle of this situation. I was in a sick wonderland and there were no cute talking animals to pull me out.

My heart broke as I realized that some are still so myopic in their own views that they simply don’t realize the painful ricochet effect their words can have on a complete stranger. I was exhibit A. My blood was boiling and I was shaking, and he wasn’t even speaking directly to me.

I asked him to please stop making fun of my religion. His response?

“Don’t worry, I have a lot of friends Samantha Reilly is a freshman who are Christian.”

The amount of religious intoler- journalism major. She can be reached ance this student exhibited astound- at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

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orn today, you are one of the most active individuals born under your sign -- at least mentally! Your mind is always churning away, thinking up idea after idea, dreaming big dreams and working on schemes that can bring you to the forefront of your chosen profession and, very likely, win you the kind of personal contentment most others may never experience. You don’t let the world around you frustrate you too much; you realize that not everything is as it should be, and you take that as your cue to do everything you can to improve the world around you even as you strive to reap the rewards that are so important to you. You are both realistic and idealistic; your dreams are always tempered by a healthy pragmatism.

You have many talents, and you are sure to do well in any number of careers, but, alas, you will find that it is best that you choose one, and only one, to pursue on a long-term basis.

Your personality itself is one of your greatest tools, and you are not the kind to come up for air very often.

Also born on this date are: Will Smith, actor; Mark Hamill, actor; Christopher Reeve, actor; Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress; Scottie Pippen, basketball player; Michael Douglas, actor; Barbara Walters, journalist and television personality; Shel Silverstein, poet and illustrator; Jamie Hyneman, television personality; Cheryl Tiegs, supermodel; Tate Donovan, actor; William Faulkner, author; Juliet Prowse, actress and dancer; Dmitri Shostakovich, composer.

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FACEOFF | DOES TOO MUCH CASTING SPECULATION HARM TV SHOWS?

FALSE DETECTIVES

ACTORS RUMORED TO BE JOINING THE CAST OF TRUE DETECTIVE include buzzy and award-winning names such as Brad Pitt (left), Jessica Chastain (center) and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss (right).

YES: Too much focus on casting distracts from the quality of the show

By Jon Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer Elisabeth Moss, Rachel McAdams, Jessica Chastain, Jessica Biel, Malin Akerman, Rosario Dawson, Oona Chaplin, Brit Marling, Kelly Reilly, M i c h e l l e Fo r b e s a n d Jaimie Alexander: what do these actresses all have in common? They have all been rumored to be one of the four leads of True Detective’s second season.

11 women rumored for one role.

Eleven (at least)? Who is coming up with these q u o te - u n q u o te n e ws stories? At this point, we might as well be pointing to any actress and saying, “Well, she’s an actress, so she could possibly be in the show.” The intense need for pre-knowledge of everything in the television and film world is damaging our ability to i m m e rse o u rse lve s i n the art itself. Once the season is out, it won’t matter about the rabid speculation — we’ll obviously know for sure.

Speculation is fun and worth doing in between episodes of the show. Fan theories, as crazy as they can be, are an interesting part of fan culture and extend the enjoyment

of the show. Go ahead, go on forums and write about what you think could possibly happen in season two of True Detective, but journalism shouldn’t be concerned with throwing around every little rumor. Even if the future actress is on that list of 11, 10 of them won’t be on the show, which makes them all a p re t ty b i g wa s te o f time to write (and read) about.

This is even reflected in film trailers. Go to any big-release movie and watch a barrage of by-the-numbers movie trailers outline all of the major plot points of the entire film. It’s understandable that people want to know at least a bit about what they’re going to watch to decide if it’s for them, but what happened to being genu i n e ly s u r p r i se d by a show or film? Not even strictly looking at plot points, but even down to the premise or actors?

Imagine going into a film and finding everything a surprise, down to supporting actors and even the overall plot?

Certain films (The Cabin in the Woods) and shows (Orphan Black) are far better to go into completely blind, letting

“THE INTENSE NEED FOR PRE-KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING IN THE TELEVISION AND FILM WORLD IS DAMAGING OUR ABILITY TO IMMERSE OURSELVES IN THE ART ITSELF.” JON RAEDER even the basic premise be an interesting twist.

T h e f i rs t s ea s o n o f True Detective was staggeringly popular in the world of TV critics and prestige TV-watchers, and it’s already catapulted Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson into even higher reaches of stardom. It’s poised to do the same for Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn (this will be a large step outside of his perceived type) and the a s - o f - ye t u n k n o w n s p l ay i n g t h e t h i rd a n d fourth roles.

But what if, for once, we just ignore the swirling rumor mill and go into the season knowing as little as possible? Won’t that make the mystery much more exciting? jraederdbk@gmail.com

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NO: Online speculation only heightens fans’ real world experience for the better

By Leo Traub @LeoTraub Staff writer Anyone following the swirling rumors preceding season two of HBO’s neo-noir crime drama True Detective is probably aware of the endless flood of speculation and hearsay about who the show’s next stars will be.

Since the goosebump-inducing first season’s finale in March, tons of A-list actors and actresses have been thrown around in speculative discussions about next season. The Hollywood rumor mill has churned out household names like Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender and Rachel McAdams, with bloggers and entertainment news websites driving themselves bonkers trying to keep track.

Just this week, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn confirmed that they will be appearing in the next season. Other stars have been identified as possible stars for next season or as having been “in talks” about the show.

Or as having expressed interest in the show.

Or as being people who exist.

So yes, speculation about the show has been particularly rampant, but deservedly so. As a show, True Detective is artful and riveting, with fantastic performances by co-leads Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, gripping

VINCE VAUGHN is definitely joining the cast of True Detective. photo courtesy of askmen.com writing by creator Nic Pizzolatto and a nail-biting six-minute tracking shot that won director Cary Fukunaga an Emmy. The intellectuality and thrill that marked every episode of season one has earned True Detective the attention it’s garnered.

But beyond earning attention in merit of the actual character of the show, the speculation preceding True Detective season two makes sense logically, given the unique nature of the show’s casting strategy.

As an anthology series that changes setting and cast every season, True Detective bought film A-listers McConaughey and Harrelson with the promise of minimal time commitment.

Instead of spending years of seasons on a show, the duo was only required to put in eight episodes worth of TV. This sort of casting attracts major film stars like the rumored ilk of Pitt and Chastain, who would not normally star in TV shows for

fear of long commitment.

Thus, the cacophony of speculation. True Detective’s list of rumored leads for next season is star-studded with b i g n a m e s t h a t eve r yo n e knows, so everyone gets to take part in the speculation.

What’s more, Pizzolatto only fueled the fire, first when he announced that next season would feature three leads — at least one of whom would be female — and again when he upped that number to four.

With Farrell and Vaughn filling two of those roles, the others seem to still be wide open.

However, the bottom line is that the speculation is fun.

Will Pitt and Chastain be strapping on their detective hats and magnifying glasses for True Detective season two? With a flat-out denial from Pizzolatto, probably not. But the consideration that they might have been only adds to the building anticipation and gives fans awesome fodder for discussing potential season-two storylines or roles. The big names energize the conversation, cultivating interest and allowing everyone (even non-TV junkies!) to join in the discussion.

The anticipation, fed by speculation, keeps fans interested during the show’s b r e a k . I t ’s w h a t w i l l n o doubt earn True Detective a high viewership again come season two. ltraubdbk@gmail.com

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Dion returns to home state when Terps play Illinois Volleyball travels to Champaign for Big Ten opener on Friday; junior libero expects family, friends to attend

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer When the Terrapins volleyball team heads to No. 16 Illinois for its match on Friday, it will be the first time in her career that libero Amy Dion will return to her home state.

Dion grew up in Algonquin, Illinois, which is about a three-hour drive from Champaign, Illinois, where she will play in front of friends and family in the Terps’ Big Ten opener Friday. And though the team will be hundreds of miles away from College Park, Dion still expects a cheering section for the Terps.

“I hope this one time [my family and friends] will be able to pull for Maryland,” Dion said. “Maybe in every other sport; not so much. But right now, I think they’ve got to cheer for Maryland.”

Dion will also be trying to display her skills to a team that spurned her years ago. Despite being ranked by PrepVolleyball.com as a top-150 talent in the class of 2012, she was not offered an opportunity to play for the Fighting Illini.

Dion said she thinks highly of Illinois’ ability, however, saying the team is big and plays physically at the net. But what the Terps might lack in size and strength, Dion be-

lieves they will be able to compensate against the Fighting Illini with their scrappiness: a tone she helps set with her presence on the court.

“I think she’ll be great,” assistant coach Kristin Kenney said. “The kid’s a competitor.”

Dion will also see some familiar faces across the net.

She’s squared off against members of the Fighting Illini before while playing for Huntley High School and her club team, Sky High Volleyball.

And since she was 12 years old, Dion annually attended the Fighting Illini’s volleyball camps.

But while she returns to face the team she grew up with, coach Steve Aird isn’t

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“She’ll want to play hard,” Aird said. “What she knows is

that the level of playing in the Big Ten is really, really hard and she grew up watching it. And now, playing against Illinois,

being a kid from Illinois, it’ll be a really exciting thing for her.”

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to consecutive uneven defensive performances from the Terps, and the injuries are particularly worrisome as the Terps prepare to face off with Coleman, who has a tendency to evade tacklers.

“He’s a big back, but he also has that speed that wows you,” Goree said. “With that combination, it’s somebody you have to tackle full speed and you have to run through, or else you’re going to miss the tackle.”

Added Stewart: “I’d like for us to just stay in our gap and have good gap integrity and to tackle the guy with the ball.”

But it won’t be easy for the Terps to bring down Coleman with backups and nicked-up starters on the field.

Not only that, but Indiana is the type of team that will exploit lack of depth on opposing defenses. The Hoosiers like to play fast, and their nohuddle offense has helped them run 82.7 plays per game this season, about 14 more than the Terps run on average.

A tea m t h a t’s a l rea dy reached deep into its bench might have trouble rotating enough defenders into the game Saturday to keep everyone fresh.

“One of the things we are going to have to do is control the run and make sure that

we get lined up and be able to execute at a very quick pace,” Edsall said. “They get up, make a call, snap the ball and go.”

And once they snap the ball, the Hoosiers usually hand it off.

Coleman is the workhorse, no doubt, but Indiana also leans on running backs D’Angelo Roberts and Devine Redding to change the pace and take the load off its star junior.

When the Hoosiers went on the road to upset No. 18 Missouri last week, Coleman had 132 yards on 19 carries, Roberts rushed the ball 15 times for 65 yards, and Redding added 10 carries for 49 yards. As a team, Indiana ranks ninth in the country with 310.3 rushing yards per game.

The Terps defense gives up 199.2 yards per contest on the ground, a mark which is the 99th worst out of 125 teams.

So Saturday’s game boils down to the Terps’ paltry run defense trying not to totally collapse against Indiana’s stout tailbacks. It’s possible the Terps stiffen and buck the trend that seems likely to define this game.

Regardless, Stewart probably isn’t having too leisurely of a week. And the Terps defense likely won’t have a relaxing Saturday afternoon.

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to get in there and just know we’re going to score. Not just shoot to shoot, but know that it’s going to go in the net.”

Aside from having the confidence to score, Morgan said many of his players wait for the “perfect window” to attempt their shots instead of taking risks and moving into smaller windows where scoring might be more difficult.

“Sometimes goal-scoring is just opportunities, so if you have a small window, that’s an opportunity to score,” Morgan said. “Most times that’s the best opportunity because the goalkeeper doesn’t know it’s coming.”

I n t ra i n i n g T u e s d a y, M o rga n s a i d t h e Te r p s worked on scoring fundamentals in preparation for the Hawkeyes (8-1-0, 3-0-0) today. And while Morgan hopes their work in practice translates into the match, they’re still playing without one of their more determined scoring threats.

Forward Alex Anthony, who hasn’t played since Aug. 31 against N.C. State, remains sidelined with a hamstring injury and did not travel with the team this weekend.

ball and he runs the ball very well. He’s a very good player.

If you look at the stats that he has, they speak for themselves.”

The Terps will look to counter Coleman and the Hoosiers’ running game with a front seven that’s still a bit in flux. Edsall announced this past weekend that defensive end Quinton Jefferson will have season-ending knee surgery Friday, and that’s sent co-starter at nose guard Keith Bowers over to the left end spot.

Not to mention, the linebacking corps has looked different each game. Outside linebacker Matt Robinson missed this past weekend’s win against the Orange with a shoulder injury, and backup Cavon Walker underwent season-ending surgery the week before, forcing redshirt freshman Jalen Brooks into a starting role.

Inside linebacker Cole Farrand’s also been hampered by injuries, which has allowed Alex Twine an opportunity to start. Senior linebackers Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil and L.A. Goree have also missed games this season.

All of these issues have led

Midfielder sarah Molina dribbles up the field in a 2-0 victory over Rutgers on Sept. 12 The Terps haven’t scored since that victory at Ludwig Field. marquise mckine/the diamondback Though she redshirted last season and has made just three appearances this year, Anthony attracted the attention of her coach, who said she’s shown traits of a true goal scorer in practice.

“She has the personality of, like, ‘Get me the ball; I want it; I’m going to score; Jon, I can score,’” Morgan said. “And everyone knows that. When she’s healthy and she’s fit, she’s scoring goals left and right.”

But for the time being, the

Terps will look elsewhere for goals against the Hawkeyes, who are tied for second in the Big Ten with a 0.44 goals-against average. Still, they’ll hope to exude more confidence around the net, starting this afternoon.

“We just have to build that,” Morgan said. “The repetition will help. Just keep breeding confidence into them and hopefully that will help as well.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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notebook From PAGE 8 Suli [Dainkeh] did a very good job.”

DROPPING OUT W h e n t h e Na t i o n a l So cce r Coaches Association of America national rankings were released last week, the Terps received 32 votes and didn’t make the cut. It was a marked change for a program that qualified for the previous two College Cups.

This week’s rankings were even less kind to the Terps, as they didn’t receive any votes. Still, the Terps insist the snub isn’t weighing on them. The team has 11 games remaining, and they feel like they are beginning to gel.

“I don’t think we could expect to get any votes with our record right now,” Corboz said. “Yeah, guys look at that stuff. But we know going into any game, we could beat any team.

We should beat any team.”

PENALTY KICKER Last season, former forward Patrick Mullins converted on all nine of his penalty kick attempts. But with Mullins’ departure, Cirovski had to select a new player to take the crucial shots this season.

While Corboz took the Terps’ first attempt of the year, it isn’t clear whether he’ll take all of them.

“I’m not going to say I’m the PK guy, but if there’s a PK I don’t mind stepping up and taking it,” Corboz said. “On Monday night, it was pretty natural to take the ball.

None of my teammates seemed to object to it.”

Cirovski added: “He’s a guy that has some real confidence. [If] he wants to keep taking it, he can keep taking it.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

CENTER SAL CONABOY (65) points out his responsibilities in the Terps’ 34-20 win over Syracuse on Saturday. Conaboy and the offensive line helped C.J. Brown throw for 280 yards in the game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Conaboy From PAGE 8 I could tell our guys ‘I got this.’”

The offensive line’s ability to pick up blitzes was instrumental in the Terps’ hot offensive start against the Orange. Brown began the game 4 of 4 passing for 145 yards and two touchdowns in the first two drives, and three of those four throws came on plays when Syracuse rushed at least five defenders. “[Brown] did a good job of getting the ball out of his hands pretty quick,” Conaboy said. “When they bring a lot of pressure, it’s hard to hold up for a long time.”

On multiple occasions, Brown has talked about how he’s start-

“[I] JUST GOT IN THE FILM ROOM AND PREPPED A LOT, BECAUSE I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO TRY AND THROW A LOT AT US. AND I WANTED TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE I COULD TELL OUR GUYS ‘I GOT THIS.’” SAL CONABOY

Terrapins football center ing to feel more comfortable on the field. That has translated to significant success both on the ground — he rushed for 161 yards against West Virginia — and in the air — he threw for 280 yards against the Orange.

A large part of that production stems from the chemistry between Brown and Conaboy, who’ve started together for the past two seasons.

“We have to be like one,” Conaboy said. “Us playing together for so long

has really helped. He knows if he messes up or misses something or doesn’t see something, I’ll pick it up, and I know the same.”

Conaboy said there were several times against the Orange when he pointed something out to his fellow linemen before Brown approached the line of scrimmage to correct him.

“He’ll come up to the line and say ‘No, no, no, over here’ because he can see a little bit more than me,” Conaboy said. “We really work well together.”

That rapport between Brown and Conaboy goes back to preparation — something Conaboy said he truly embraced last season.

Now, it’s routine.

Entering every weekend, Conaboy not only understands the favorite moves or tendencies of the defensive lineman he will face on a down-bydown basis, he also comprehends the scheme of the opponent’s defense.

That way, the rest of the Terps offense can rely on him to lead.

“That helps me to be able to play faster. It helps me to be able to make my calls faster,” Conaboy said. “I want to do my best for us to be successful. And for us to be successful, I have to get in there and prep.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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Terps hope to start finishing in match at Hawkeyes Morgan preaches aggression in attempt to halt scoreless streak

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer As Michigan forward Ani Sarkisian chased down a missed shot late in the Wolverines’ game against the Terrapins women’s soccer team Friday, midfielder Madisson Lewis raised her left hand to ask for a pass.

Sarkisian wound up for a rightfooted cross into the box, and Lewis wedged herself between two Terps defenders and in front of goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands.

When Sarkisian struck the ball, Lewis took a few quick steps forward to clear some space before ripping Sarkisian’s pass into the back of the net to give the Wolverines the lead in their eventual 1-0 win.

Though multiple Terps surrounded Lewis in the box before she took the pass, she managed to slip through the defenders and create a small window to score.

The Terps admired Lewis’ aggressiveness on the play, and it’s a mindset coach Jonathan Morgan wants his team to mirror as it aims to halt a two-match scoring drought this afternoon when it faces Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

“She had a great goal because she threw herself at the ball,” midfielder Sarah Molina said of Lewis’ strike. “She did not want to miss that goal. There was no way she was going to miss it. If we had that same mentality, we would have about 10 more goals under us.”

Molina also said the Terps (3-3-2, 1-1-1 Big Ten) have been tenta-

tive in the box and haven’t thrown themselves at the ball in an attempt to score. Two days after the Terps were shut out by the Wolverines, they played to a scoreless draw with Michigan State despite attempting 23 shots, six of which were on goal.

Earlier in the season, the Terps recorded 13 shots on goal against Navy but netted one in an 1-1 draw. With several scoring chances yet few goals, midfielder Sarah Fichtner — much like Molina — believes a new mindset around the net will help translate misses into goals.

“The opportunities are there, but it’s just having that confidence in the box,” Fichtner said. “We just have to get in there and just know we’re going MIDFIELDER SARAH MOLINA sends a pass in the Terps’ loss to Michigan on Friday. Molina and the Terps haven’t See HAWKEYES, Page 7 scored in the past two games and sit at 1-1-1 three games into Big Ten play. alexander jonesi/for the diamondback

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Coleman makes for tough test Indiana running back figures to cause fits for Terps defense AARON KASINITZ

all 60 minutes Saturday, but the Terps offensive line held strong under Conaboy’s direction.

The Orange’s go-to blitz that afternoon featured rushers off the edge, and it was used predominantly on third down. But Syracuse had run the same play against the Terps last year in a blowout victory at Byrd Stadium. Conaboy saw it on tape during the week and was prepared.

“Coming out of West Virginia, I knew we didn’t play our best up front. I knew I didn’t, myself, lead the best, lead how I wanted to,” Conaboy said. “So coming out of that game, [I] just got in the film room and prepped a lot, because I knew they were going to try and throw a lot at us. And I wanted to be in a position where

Devising a game plan to slow Tevin Coleman seems like a dreadful duty, and Terrapins football defensive coordinator Brian Stewart has reason to be especially frustrated while taking a stab at it.

Coleman, Indiana’s star running back, is one of the most talented ball carriers in the country. The 6-foot-1, 210-pound junior ranks third in the NCAA with 569 rushing yards this season on 66 carries, and he has six touchdowns through three games.

He’s big, fast and shifty, and he’s averaging 8.6 yards per carry.

The dude is good. Really, really good.

Stewart’s defense, meanwhile, has weathered mighty struggles recently while dealing with a rash of injuries, and a middling Syracuse offense gained 370 yards on the ground this past Saturday in a 34-20 Terps win.

So when the Terps travel to Indiana on Saturday for their Big Ten opener, Coleman — who spearheads a threepronged rushing attack — figures to cause legions of problems for an ailing defense and headaches for a veteran coaching staff. “[Coleman] is very good,” coach Randy Edsall said. “He can catch the

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Center Sal conaboy readies to snap the ball in the Terps’ 34-20 victory over Syracuse on Saturday. Coach Randy Edsall awarded Conaboy an honorary game ball after the contest. christian jenkins/the diamondback

CENTER OF ATTENTION Edsall says Conaboy plays ‘one of his best games’ in win over Orange

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins football team’s three-point home loss to West Virginia on Sept. 13 didn’t sit well with center Sal Conaboy.

The senior prides himself on protecting the quarterback and executing blocks in third-and-short situations. But the Terps offensive line didn’t do either against the Mountaineers, as C.J. Brown was sacked twice and hit hard often, while the offense failed on a crucial third-and-1 late in the fourth quarter when fullback Kenneth Goins Jr. was tackled for a loss of 5 yards on a run up the middle.

So, as the offensive lineman on the Terps’ leadership council, Conaboy made a commit-

ment to improving in the week leading up to the team’s 34-20 win at Syracuse in the Carrier Dome. He spent hours in the film room. He wanted to know everything the Orange defense could possibly throw at him. He made sure he wouldn’t feel outmatched.

And that steadfast preparation resulted in a performance from Conaboy that rivaled any in his five-year career in College Park — one that earned him the offensive game ball for the week despite a near-career high passing from Brown.

“Sal played one of his best games since he’s been here,” coach Randy Edsall said. “[He] did a great job with the checks with all of the stuff that we were getting and making the identifications the right way.”

The Syracuse front brought blitz after blitz for

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Captains call team meeting before win over Dayton Cirovski uses fewer subs in victory over unranked Flyers on Monday; Terps fail to receive vote in NSCAA poll

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer After the Terrapins men’s soccer team dropped a heavily anticipated conference game Friday to Michigan State, 1-0, midfielders Dan Metzger and Alex Shinsky and defender Mikey Ambrose called a team meeting.

The loss extended the Terps’ winless streak to four games, so the captains decided their teammates needed some inspiration.

“We all just got up and talked about what everyone needs to improve on,” midfielder Mikias Eticha said.

The senior’s message seemed to resonate with a youthful Terps squad on Monday. Midfielder Mael Corboz

netted the game-winning penalty-kick goal in the 31st minute against Dayton.

Forward George Campbell led the team with four shots and said the meeting motivated the Terps.

“We sat down, and we looked each other in the eye, and we said we have to do something,” the freshman said.

“We really have to come out and fight as a team, as a unit. Today showed that when we put our minds to it, and we battle for one another, we can pretty much do whatever we want.”

SUBSTITUTIONS Throughout the Terps’ uneven 2014 campaign, coach Sasho Cirovski has used many of his substitutes.

Cirovski used 17 players in the Terps’

loss to Michigan State, and 20 players a week earlier at Michigan.

But against the Flyers, Cirovski used 14 players, the fewest this season.

“I told you after the last game that I wanted to try to get some rhythm,” Cirovski said. “It’s a combination of players playing well and we were in good rhythm.”

While Cirovski played four forwards, the Terps’ backline and midfield got little rest. Defender Alex Crognale and Shinsky, who has battled injuries all year, didn’t play despite receiving significant minutes in previous contests.

Cirovski said Crognale isn’t hurt.

“We’ve been rotating guys back there,” Cirovski said. “And today defender mikey ambrose (right) heads a ball during the Terps’ 1-0 win over Dayton on Monday. Ambrose is See notebook, Page 7 one of three team captains who called a team meeting before the contest. christian jenkins/the diamondback