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Law grads recommend less weight on rankings

By Lily Hua Staff writer There are always moments where, in retrospect, people wish they could do things differently — for prospective law students, graduates have gifted a token of advice from their years of experience.

Nearly 50 percent of law school graduates recommend placing less emphasis on law school rankings and more on job placement rates or affordability and tuition, according to a Kaplan Bar Review Survey released earlier this month. Only 17 percent of graduates identified rankings as the most important factor in determining where to apply, whereas a similar survey issued

to LSAT students indicated 86 percent of them believed law school rankings to be “very important” or “somewhat important” in deciding where to apply.

“The legal profession is highly, highly stratified,” said university President Wallace Loh. “It’s about the most hierarchical profession there is.”

Gregory Shaffer, pre-law advising coordinator, said he believes published rankings can be a useful guideline for students to figure out where they fall academically when they’re looking at their options for admissions. However, students are utilizing the rankings in such a way that gives them blinders, leaving them unaware of or unwilling to consider schools that are not as highly ranked, but could still be a good fit.

DECIDING ON LAW SCHOOL LSAT students’ top considerations when deciding on the right law school: 1. Rankings (32 percent) 2. Geographic location (22 percent) 3. Academic programming (20 percent) 4. Affordability/tuition (13 percent) 5. Job placement statistics (8 percent)

“It should still be a process. All it is, is an additional piece of information they should put in their toolbox when making their law school decision,” Shaffer said.

Junior history and journalism major Lena See law, Page 3

bonnie thornton dill, who is the first black woman to serve as the Arts and Humanities dean, is also the founder of the university’s Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity. photo courtesy of monique sheree everette

Breaking all barriers ARHU interim dean Thornton Dill has made strides in women’s studies, pushing new views

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boardwalk empire, which takes place during the Prohibition era, requires historical fact-checking for each script. University alumna Heather Halpin Pérez, who works at the Atlantic City Free Public Library, serves as one of the show’s historical consultants. photos courtesy of hbo.com, photo illustration by may wildman/the diamondback

BOARDWALK EMPRESS University alumna works as historical consultant in Atlantic City for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire

By Laura Blasey Staff writer For many people, the idea of doing historical research conjures up memories of slaving away in the library over a term paper.

But Heather Halpin Pérez, a university alumna, carries just that task, earning herself a spot in the credits of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

Pérez, who graduated from this university’s library science program, is a historical consultant for the show. She has earned the nickname “Boardwalk Empire’s Librarian” by being able to

answer questions about the tiniest of details in mere minutes. Originally from Lynchburg, Va., Pérez said she had always enjoyed research and picked this university for its strength in the field and its proximity to the Smithsonian Institution and the National Archives.

In 2006, as she prepared to graduate, Pérez heard about a job opening in New Jersey for an archivist at the Atlantic City Free Public Library. She had never been to Atlantic City and knew little about its history, but she borrowed a book about one of the city’s infamous nightclubs from McKeldin Library and read it on the way to her interview.

To her surprise, she got the job. But she never would have guessed working in the archives of a small library in the casino capital of the East Coast would lead her to a show that has won 33 awards and secured 54 nominations to date.

Tucked away in the Atlantic City Free Public Library lies the Alfred M. Heston Collection, the definitive source on the history of the city. Here, curious area residents and aficionados have access to a vast array of photographs, newspaper clippings, maps, charts, music, See boardwalk, Page 3

While scholars devote years of study to one area of research, Bonnie Thornton Dill believes more answers can be found by looking at a fuller picture.

She has taught for years in the women’s studies department, is the founding director of the university’s Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and has served as the interim arts and humanities dean for more than a year, making her the first black woman to hold the position. In her studies of society, Thornton Dill found ideas developed best when they centered around the interweaving and overlapping of different fields.

“People were not looking seriously at gender as something that really shapes society,” she said. “I still think that women’s issues are very important, are still in some areas overlooked, certainly distorted and problematic if you look at what’s happening today.”

This “intersectional” approach is on center stage at the consortium, which aims to highlight and support research about several different subject areas and look at how they operate in relation to one another, she said.

Although gender is one of the consortium’s areas of analysis, Thorn-

ton Dill said she developed an interest in women’s studies before beginning to teach it at the university in 1991. Looking at women,families and careers and making the study of women and gender the focus of analysis is important because these topics change the way people look at the world, she said.

Understanding the history, she continued, is vital to realizing how important a field women’s studies remains, especially as statistics show women still earn less money than men in the same positions.

“These are battles we thought we had won,” she said. “The struggle continues ­— it is continuous.”

A passion for debate and discussion drove Thornton Dill to teach and later become chairwoman of the women’s studies department. While she enjoys the intellectual work of research and scholarship, Thornton Dill has a particular passion for helping young people embrace learning and new ideas.

“I guess I was always interested in things that would kind of change the world and improve it,” she said.

But teaching wasn’t the only outlet for Thornton Dill’s gender and equality scholarship.

As chair of the advisory board of scholars for Ms. Magazine, a feminist See dean, Page 3

Ecuadorian cavefish use teeth to navigate, researchers find

By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer Most creatures use their teeth for eating and protection, but a school of fish in the dark waters of a cave in Ecuador has developed a different purpose for its chomping whites: sensory navigation.

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University researchers, along with the National Institutes of Health and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, discovered these fish use teeth nested on their skin — called denticles — to project hydrodynamic images that allow the fish to feel their way through the darkness and fast currents of the caves.

Researchers said the discovery of this evolutionary phenomenon, which has been found exclusively in the cave, suggests there are other creatures with similarly unusual characteristics still yet to be uncovered.

“This was an unexpected discovery,” NIH researcher Gal Haspel said. “But serendipity in science is about being

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The discovery began when biology professor Daphne Soares flipped through a few local tourist guides about the cave while in Ecuador for research.

Out of habit, Soares collected a few samples during her visit to the cave.

When she brought them to the lab for

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electron microscope scanning, she noticed the fish were covered with skin teeth but had few navigational water current detectors, called neuromasts.

Curiosity aroused, Soares, along with Haspel, an Ecuadorian undergraduate student and two undergraduate students

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LAW From PAGE 1 Kasawala is on par with those surveyed by Kaplan.

“Honestly, I’m basing it off of rankings, too,” said Kasawala, who is on the pre-law track. “I’ve always thought the higher, the better.”

As an undergraduate director, Laure Brooks has seen a fair share of students from her department, criminology and criminal justice, send in law school applications with the idea that a top-tier school is their only means of gaining a quality education and eventually earning more money.

However, Brooks advises students to take into consideration the academic competition they will face during their law school years.

“If they go to a highly ranked law school, they’re going to be going against a lot of strong students,” she said. “However, if they choose to go to a school that is not as highly ranked, they’re more likely to be at the top and one of the strongest in their class.”

Many good young lawyers attended schools that never make the top 20 or 25 in the country, Loh said.

“Even the graduates of Harvard and Yale, a very large proportion do not have jobs,” he added.

Dean From PAGE 1 publication founded by Gloria Steinem, Thornton Dill helped push the view it takes a wide range of perspectives to paint a picture of a group of people. In the 1970s, she experienced firsthand the challenges of studying women’s issues as a black scholar.

“My colleagues and I contended that the gender analyses of that period were too often derived from the experiences of white middle-class women, and ignored the oft-untold stories of women of color and those without economic privilege,” she wrote in a 2009 Ms. Magazine editorial.

One of the most important functions of the magazine is training scholars to make their work comprehensible to an outside audience, she said.

“It kind of keeps me aware of the political and activist side of what’s going on,” she said.

Ryan Heisinger, who has worked as an ambassador for the arts and humanities college and served on the dean’s advisory board, said Thornton Dill’s innovation has helped propel the college forward.

“She’ll type away during meetings on her iPad with her bluetooth keyboard attachment,” said Heisinger, the Student Government Association’s academic affairs vice president. “She’s open to new, cool ideas, and she wants to work on them with students.”

The competitive job application pool for law degree graduates has stemmed from numerous causes, such as the integration of technology into the work field and the large number of students who are choosing to go to law school to extend their education and postpone entering the real world.

“I see a fair number of students who come in and say, ‘I just want the most prestigious law school that I can go to and I’ll figure out what I’m going to do with the degree when I get it,’” Shaffer said.

Law school has also been a safe haven for students who don’t know what they want, said Jeff Thomas, Kaplan Test Prep pre-law programs director, as the facile requirements of having a good GPA and taking the LSAT make it easy for students to decide on that path. The survey has left something to be said about students understanding what a law degree is and what it does, he added.

“Students need to pay a little more attention to what they want to do,” he said. “It’s not as simple as saying, ‘I want to be an attorney.’

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As interim dean, one project Thornton Dill said she is most proud of is the creation of a series of videos featuring the work of different humanities scholars at the university. The project, she said, helps students grasp the concept of research discovery in the arts and humanities. One video was released earlier this month, and seven more are scheduled to be released through May. “It translates what humanities scholars do into language that people who are not in the humanities can understand,” she said. “It’s engaging, it’s short, it begins to tell our research story.”

Women’s studies professor Ruth Zambrana said cooperation has always been one of Thornton Dill’s greatest strengths.

Zambrana, who has known Thornton Dill since 1978, worked on establishing the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and edited a collection of essays published in 2009 with Thornton Dill.

Zambrana said Thornton Dill stands out in her job because she makes others feel as if their ideas are being heard and considered and thinks practically about the options while still thinking outside the box.

“I always see her as an exemplar of a statesperson, of a diplomat. She has tremendous patience,” Zambrana said. “Her greatest asset is the ability to listen.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

Heather Halpin Peréz, a university alumna, is a historical consultant for the HBO show Boardwalk Empire. photo courtesy of neill borowski

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as the show developed.

That’s how it began — any time a historical question came up, McGinty called the library to ask Pérez.

“My role is basically fact-checking,” she said. “If they have a question about something, or if they want a detail, their researchers will contact us, and we’ll look it up for them — like if they want to know what the menu was for a special dinner for Nucky Johnson, we’ll look it up and see if we can find whatever was served at the meal.”

Pérez’s work is so thorough and speedy that she earned herself a spot in the credits.

“I didn’t know I was going to be; they just put it there and somebody said to me, ‘Oh, your name’s in the credits,’ and I said, ‘Oh, really?’” she said.

Her involvement with the show also landed the mother of two and Latter-day Saints volunteer a spot in Atlantic City Weekly’s 2012 Top 40 Under 40.

“She’s invaluable to the show,” McGinty said.

“Whenever I have a question or the show has a question, we always go directly to her.”

Pérez’s work was most instrumental during the fi rst couple of seasons of the show, when the writers and actors were setting the scene and building characters. She said because the show is in its third season now, she gets fewer calls.

Pérez is not paid by HBO — all of the work she does is just part of her duties at the library or its small Atlantic City Historical Museum.

“It’s just the same kinds of questions I answer for John Smith in North Carolina about his grandmother’s honeymoon photo,” she said.

And even though her research on the history is vital to the show’s success, she doesn’t watch it religiously.

“I don’t have HBO, actually. That’s not one of the perks they offer,” she joked. “But I’ve seen a couple episodes from the past seasons, and I do watch the recaps each week.”

Pérez said her work as an opportunity to get more people to learn about the city’s wealth of history.

“We’ve had so many more requests for information about the city, and it’s really been a great benefit for the city itself,” she said. “There’s a lot of historical tourism now. People are coming to see the places they see in the show.”

contracts, books, postcards and menus, some as old as Atlantic City itself.

These artifacts paint a vivid picture of a region known for big business, big personalities and big-time power and greed, and it is here where Pérez quietly shows off her prowess, answering questions for anyone who asks.

There has always been a certain allure about the seaside city. It was the inspiration for the modern Monopoly board and the origin of the Miss America pageant. But in the 1920s, it was the place to be.

Historians refer to the Prohibition era, from 1920 to 1933, as “Atlantic City’s Golden Age.” Tourism was at a peak as Americans flocked to the boardwalk to gamble and drink smuggled liquor. Under the influence of organized crime boss Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, the city became a playground for racketeering and a major hub for the bootleg alcohol trade.

This was the inspiration for Nelson Johnson’s book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City and its 2010 TV incarnation, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Created

by Terence Winters, directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Mark Wahlberg, the show follows a racketeer modeled on Nucky Johnson, named Nucky Thompson and played by Steve Buscemi, and his cohorts as they run the boardwalk.

“Research on a period TV show or movie is extensive and crucial to give it a historic authenticity,” head researcher Ed McGinty wrote in an email. “It needs to make it believable to the viewers. Everything from writing, to costumes & sets, to music is all meticulously researched.”

McGinty, who is originally from the Atlantic City area, met Pérez when he went to the library for research in preparation for the show’s production.

He was searching for the Atlantic City American Legion hall number and a list of people who ran against Johnson in a 1920 local election.

Pérez found the original ticket, and after spending three days perusing the archives and working with McGinty at the library, she told him he could call the Heston Collection staff if he had any further questions blasey@umdbk.com

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tion of water flow and determine the distance to the bottom of the cave, the study reports.

Researchers believe the neuromasts were fi ltered out by nature because they could not withstand the cave’s high currents.

“Think of trying to hear someone talking in a rock concert — the background noise is too high,” Soares said in a news release.

Other fish use these teeth for more traditional purposes, such as protection, cutting and reducing drag. The presence of the trait in other creatures remains fishy, the researchers said.

“Every cave can be thought of as an experiment in adaptation, and in each one, evolution might take a different course,” Haspel said.

from this university, embarked on an expedition to explore the cave and spent two weeks poring over the fish’s anatomy and morphology, studying their form and structure. The results of their research were published in August in the scientific journal Current Biology.

What the group found was shocking: the skin teeth had taken over the role of neuromasts by adapting to the dark depths and fast currents of the cave. Unlike most cavefish, which use neuromasts to move around, these creatures use denticles as navigational devices. As the teeth deflect the currents, the fish can detect the direc- waseem@umbdk.com

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he other week, I received an email from university President Wallace Loh. When I receive his emails, I open them and scan through to see if there is any important information that relates to me. In this recent email, I was rather offended by the inappropriateness of the message, in which Loh discussed his personal opinion about the DREAM Act, a bill set to be voted on this November.

To give a quick background, this bill was passed by the Maryland legislature earlier this year, but after enough petition signatures were gathered, the bill will now be voted on by referendum. This bill seeks to offer in-state tuition to students who are the children of undocumented immigrants — there is much more to the bill and who specifically qualifies, but that is the general outline.

I understand that Loh, as a human being and, more importantly, a university president, should have an opinion on the matter. What I found offensive was his use of power as this university’s president to send an email to the entire student body and inform us of his opinion. To me this is an inappropriate use of the university listserv, which is supposed to inform the student body of university-related issues — not to spread political opinions.

If there is one place that should be absent of politics, it is the classroom.

If this university wants to be one of the top schools in the country, then it should strive to remove political bias, and politics in general, from the classroom. It should present the information clearly and factually. If Loh wanted to send out a message informing students of the DREAM Act and what it is, that is one thing. But to send an email to the entire student body explaining his political opinion on the matter is wrong.

Getting young people and students involved in voting is very important.

Informing students of issues directly affecting them is important. Using — or should I say abusing — one’s power to try and sway people’s opinions on a piece of legislation does not belong in an academic setting.

Brian Rothman is a junior marketing major. He can be reached at brothman@umd.edu.

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ith the economy barely in a state of recovery from the recession a few years ago, everyone at this university — and across the country — has had to take a few hits. Students have been paying higher tuition rates for three consecutive years, faculty and staff have gone without pay raises and administrators have had to find ways to cut back on resources while still maintaining this university’s status as a top public research university.

So it made perfect sense that the university opted to pull out of the Academic Common Market, which allows students from 15 other eastern and southern states to pay in-state tuition at the university if they pursue a major that is not offered in their state.

The program costs the university more than $1 million a year, which is simply an unnecessary expense when people currently attending the school are already

While the Academic Common barely scraping by. After conducting a study, university officials found Market is a good idea in theory, it’s the program cost more money than a system many students take advantage of to pay lower tuition rates. it brought in.

They may come in There are only a s a f i re p ro te c about 100 to 150 OUR VIEW tion engineering students at the major or Jewish university who are studies major, but in the program, acsome students may cording to interim switch their major Provost Ann Wylie. a f te r b e g i n n i n g Not to belittle the t h e i r s t u d i e s to students who do learn about somecome through the t h i n g t h e i r s ta te program, but at a does indeed offer — university with more this university may than 26,000 underjust have a better graduates, paying upwards of $1 million for a program program, or is farther away from that benefits less than 0.6 percent of home. Out-of-state tuition rates are the population isn’t a cost the uni- certainly difficult to afford, but it’s versity can afford — especially with unreasonable to allow some students so few funds to begin with. If it’s pos- to pay lower rates while others are sible, that money could be put toward stretching themselves thin working scholarships instead or another initia- long hours to pay for their education. tive that would help a greater number University President Wallace Loh said some students are “scamming the of students.

This university’s decision to pull out of the Academic Common Market was sensible, as it helps far fewer students than $1 million would in another facet of this institution.

system.” The university’s support for a program that allows students to manipulate this unfair advantage cannot continue.

And this university isn’t the only one leaving the Market — Virginia Tech also announced it was leaving the program, Wylie said. She said students currently in the Market at this university won’t be affected and can continue to pay in-state tuition, so no one will be displaced or have to scramble for alternate arrangements.

Leaving the program is certainly disappointing for some prospective students, but clearly everyone has had to take a hit to stay afloat in this economy. And when pretty much everyone is already struggling to simply get by, officials have to prioritize programs and funds by what will benefit the most people.

Scaling back here and saving more than $1 million per year may mean the university can take on a more profitable endeavor later — and who could argue with that?

The secret to education is respecting the student VIEW The U.S. educational system needs to let students live up to their intellectual potential by challenging them, not letting them simply pass with the bare minimum.

MARIA ROMAS No Child Left Behind — former President George W. Bush’s act “to close the achievement gap” — was a major source of aggravation for me as I grew up. In January 2002, when I was in fourth grade, the act went into effect, and I was fully aware during my entire primary educational career of how much the legislation constantly discouraged me.

The basic premise that the q u a l i ty o f e d u ca t i o n s h o u l d improve is practical, and I don’t think many people would argue with that. There have been studies upon studies about how we have to bring our education levels up to (and above) the standards overseas, and the theory behind the act could potentially help us move toward this goal. But that’s pretty much where the sensibility ends.

The most frustrating practice educators have adopted is teaching down to the level of the dumbest kid in the class. The initial leg-

islation doesn’t call for anything more than every child meeting the meager standard of education each state government feels should be the bare minimum. With this, teachers run the risk of decreasing expectations — even teaching “to the test” and shaping curricula around lowered criteria — in order to show improvement over the years and avoid repercussions for not meeting standards.

The law has ultimately weakened the system as a whole.

Now, President Obama has granted waivers to several states and basically has done his best to repeal the law. But that’s not the point.

What if, in this country, we decided to prop up principles of education to the smartest student in the class?

Instead of boring smart kids with monotonous lessons, in which they don’t actually have to learn, we should force all students to be accountable for a higher level of understanding.

Now, some say people can be innately stupid or inherently smart; I don’t buy it. Barring any learning disabilities, if you work hard, you can achieve any level of education you commit to (provided you have the

money). Maybe someone has an easier time understanding what’s going on in his math class — that doesn’t mean the student better at English can’t work hard to achieve the same level of understanding of the math as his classmate. Just because something may take a person a bit longer to comprehend doesn’t mean it’s not in his or her mental capacity to understand. It’s always possible, but our culture in the U.S. allows students to take the easy way out, not forcing them to work to achieve something.

We should strive for a system like China’s, for example. Teaching is a highly respected profession and not one people see as weak, as people often characterize it in this country.

The Chinese government has placed a high priority on ensuring individuals get as much education as possible, rather than working to better school rankings or looking for “improvement” by setting the early benchmark low. One of the country’s main focuses is decreasing illiteracy and semi-illiteracy, rather than making sure students are just literate enough to pass some test. These are just a few examples of an educational system

that seems to be thriving. In response to increased global competition for jobs in engineering, math, science, language, etc., China has stepped up to the plate and made students work to be better. Why wouldn’t the same work here?

If we committed ourselves to not just getting by with the minimum standards in the United States, but surpassing standards and challenging each other to be smarter, more students could hold a higher level of intelligence. We should put more effort into ensuring our teachers are wellrespected, so smarter people want to be teachers and we can dispense with the idiots who just went into teaching because they want summers off. We have to ingrain a thought into students’ minds: There is no reason you can’t learn something. If we make young students hold themselves to a higher standard, we can eliminate the culture of getting by and make a better, more intelligent future for our country.

Maria Romas is a junior English and journalism major. She can be reached at romas@umdbk.com.

U.S. medical care: Put patients first VIEW There is an unhealthy disconnect between hospital staff and patients in desperate need of care. For hospitals to be able to help the largest number of people, they have to step back and gain some perspective on the matter. We can’t just continue to have unacceptable medical care and assume everyone is being given the best care possible.

LAUREN MENDELSOHN America spends a lot of money on health care — more than any other nation does per capita. Yet we place quite low comparatively in terms of actual health care quality; the World Health Organization ranked the U.S. system 37th in the world, indicating there’s much progress to be made.

Where is all our money going, if not toward improving the system already in place? Why do Americans continue to pay health care professionals so much if average patients are worse off here than somewhere else — where they’d get better treatment for a fraction of the cost? Clearly, much of the expenditure is waste, a result of greed and skewed priorities. But the waste is also due to the all-too-common inefficiencies that hold back the U.S. health system from reaching its full potential.

I recently witnessed the ineptitude of the health care system, when my boyfriend was badly dehydrated and had to go to the hospital. The ambulance took him to Washington Adventist Hospital, after the EMTs received a “green light” from the Takoma Park facility. When we arrived at the ER, though, there were no beds or rooms available, and there were many other people waiting to be seen. I was upset

the hospital operator was allowing ambulances to keep coming.

My boyfriend knew he needed an IV or he’d pass out, but the nurses and doctors in the triage area didn’t seem to care. He was told he couldn’t get an IV without the triage doctor’s approval, and he couldn’t be triaged until he got off of his stretcher and sat up. But he was too weak to do that (hence the stretcher), and I asked one of the nurses what would happen if he passed out right there waiting for treatment. She said they would “deal with that if it happens.”

Does that sound like preventive care to you?

The nurses, who made no effort to be friendly, kept to their strict protocol regardless of other patients’ symptoms. An older woman who was clearly very ill, vomiting in the little receptacles so many of the other waiting patients also had, was forced to give up the bed she was laying on so they could examine someone else there. Another woman came in with an agonizing broken wrist and was coolly told to sit down and wait — no ice, no priority and no respect from the hospital staff.

There should be flexibility in the order that patients are seen, especially in an emergency room where people come solely because they need help right away.

It took two hours of waiting in a hallway before a doctor approved an IV, and another two hours before a room even opened up for us. After eight hours of misery, a few bags of IV fluid and no diagnosis, we finally left the hospital. I’d made a few scenes during the day, pleading with the unyielding staff, and was just glad we were able to go home.

I realized, during the long hours waiting among people who just needed a caring hand and people who couldn’t care less about patient X, there is a disconnect in our health care system.

We cannot provide the best service possible until medical professionals and organizations remember why they’re in this business: to help people live better. The fact that some facili-

ties are for-profit while others are not wouldn’t matter as much if they all stepped back and regained perspective. If you want to help people, listen to them; and if you do decide to help, make sure to do it well.

L a u re n M e n d e l s o h n i s a s e n i o r psychology major. She can be reached at mendelsohn@umdbk.com.

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43 Pumps or wedgies 45 Type of eel 47 Bell tower 49 New World assoc.

50 Each and every 51 Pop in 54 Indoor gardener’s tool (2 wds.)

60 Kind of tradition 61 Listened in 62 Nectar fruit 63 Fish habitat

64 Disturbing emotion 65 Alice’s chronicler 66 Geraint’s beloved 67 In need of organization 68 Bug repellent

38 Iowa college town 41 Went bad 43 Bear’s advice 44 Chopper’s destination

46 Inform on 48 Cheap and gaudy 51 Meadow rodent 52 OPEC member 53 H.H. Munro

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This is nothing to fret about; you understand that the road to accomplishment and expertise is fraught with mishaps, and you expect to fall on your face now and again, confident that you will pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again with more knowledge and know-how than you had before. The more you learn, of course, the greater your successes will be!

You can be both sensitive and hard, and which you are at any given time is largely determined by the situation in which you find yourself. Take care, however! You do not always default to the most appropriate mood or reaction -- and it is this apparently random aspect of your character that you must learn to control.

Also born on this date are: Serena Williams, tennis player; James Caviezel, actor; Linda Hamilton, actress; Olivia Newton-John, singer and actress; Kent McCord, actor; Jack LaLanne, fitness guru; George Gershwin, composer and songwriter; T.S. Eliot, poet; Ivan Pavlov, scientist and behaviorist.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -Someone may not understand your intentions today; make sure that your actions are accurate reflections of true, sound motives.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- You should be able to put to use some of that very rare and unusual knowledge that you’ve picked up in your travels. Others are impressed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- What you begin must be finished, and there’s no two ways about it. Take care that you don’t bite off more than you can chew.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Fixing a current problem will take more than mere cosmetic adjustments. You’re going to have to get to the heart of the matter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Are you willing to talk about difficult subjects among those who may not appreciate their import?

If not, much will be put on hold today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- A new perspective is what’s called for at this time, but to get it you’re going to have to try something that doesn’t come naturally.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You may finally break through a

strange sort of barrier that a new friend put up between you. Things can be taken to a higher level.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -You can explore things more freely once you set aside any prejudices you may be harboring -- and yes, they are there to be set aside!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You know how to do what you are being asked to do, but for some reason you are standing in your own way. Now is no time to stunt your own growth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Others may not be willing to let bygones be bygones at this time; you may have to step in and prevent things from getting ugly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- What you are considering at this time may not be necessary when all is said and done -- and is, as it happens, more dangerous than you may know.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- It’s a good day to make certain decisions that will affect your career in the long run. A new relationship begins to yield fruit.

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FACE-OFF | TV BINGE-WATCHING

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Is a little bit of overindulgent TV-watching a good thing, or will upcoming generations miss out on a crucial bonding experience without the ritual of a new episode every week?

How I Met Your Mother and Arrested Development are two shows that have remained popular partially because of their availability on Netflix. However, the suspense of shows such as The Amazing Race vanishes with greater accessibility. photos courtesy of buddytv.com, manolith.com and hd amazing pictures.

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By Dean Essner Staff writer

It’s an undeniable symptom of the streaming age: Instant access has made it possible to bingewatch series after series of television. I’ve done it myself — in the past six months, I’ve seen every episode of How I Met Your Mother, Archer, Arrested Development and (my proudest accomplishment) The Office. Though this habit may be bad for your GPA and your social life, there are definitely benefits to marathon viewing.

Last semester, How I Met Your Mother was my show of choice. That’s seven seasons, or 160 episodes.

I did this in about two months. Excepting the last few episodes in season seven that I watched week to week, I binge-watched almost the entire series. And while I certainly lost that feeling of suspense that comes at the end of an episode when you have to wait a week to find out the next installment of the saga, I think I gained a lot more.

For one, binge-watching is perfect for people with short attention spans. Often, I’ll watch the first episode of a show, and maybe I’ll even enjoy it and want to keep watching, but not enough to hook me or make me come back next week. And sometimes, the pilot is just not great; if it tries to set up too much of the story or cram too much in 30 minutes, I won’t come back for a second. If I start a show on Netflix, I will be more likely to give it a chance, simply because the window of opportunity in which I can watch the show has been opened wider.

Binge-watching is also great because watching a lot of episodes in a short span of time allows viewers to pick up the more minute details and linking characteristics that they would have otherwise missed while watching the show over a longer period of time. For HIMYM especially, which relies heavily on flashbacks and jumps in time, I remembered a lot more of the details and plot points that connected various episodes because I watched them over a shorter period of time.

Arrested Development was big on this element, too. One of the show’s best features is its repeated jokes: stair car hop-ons, constantly referring to George Michael’s girlfriend as ‘her’ and Tobias trying to join the Blue Man Group, to name a few. While I’d probably remember some of these from week to week, seeing the way the show uses these jokes in each episode so closely together made it funnier because I was more aware of it.

Yes, there is a certain excitement that comes with waiting for each episode and watching it live when it airs. But there is also merit in immersing yourself in just one show. You learn more, and you love more of a show if you dedicate your attention to that show in its entirety, not in spurts.

TV is, for me, a ritual. I have fond memories of The Amazing Race nights on Sundays at home with my family, where every facet of the evening — the time we put away the dishes, ate dessert, took showers, readied our bags and books for the next day — centered on 9 p.m. At that time, we plopped, without fail, in front of the living room tube for host Phil Keoghan’s iconic show intro. In many ways, this was my weekly steadfast slice of solace.

With the prominence of services such as Netflix, HBO GO and other streaming websites, this tradition has all but crumbled. We’re bingewatching our favorite shows now, consuming ourselves with the episodes we missed in the prior weeks because the accessibility is, well, fabulous. But this isn’t just about mangling a time-honored ritual of communal entertainment, it’s also about taking the artistic impulses of television creators and writers and smashing them against our cable boxes until they are just lifeless displays of low-grade entertainment.

Single episodes seemingly exist as short films, or at least short-form bursts of narrative. By watching them all in a long, unbroken streak, we are missing out on the deliberate creative flourishes that come with the way they start, unfold and end. The suspense was always designed to hold us throughout the week until the airing of the next episode.

We won’t know what that’s like because the story doesn’t cease for us; we can cue up the next edition in moments.

To cycle back to my prior anecdote, the ritual of new TV every week made the sensation of physically watching a show that much more gratifying. I knew that there was always The Amazing Race waiting for me at the end of any trying seven-day stretch because I, along with my family, had carved out a segment of life and dedicated it to one, unique tradition. I’m frightened that the upcoming generation will never know what that’s like.

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PREVIEW | RICH AUCOIN

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blends epic indie rock, orchestral music and dancepop into one package on his debut album, has played in America before, but still hasn’t gained the same following he has in Canada. For Rich Aucoin looks to give fans a special communal experience with his live show the next few weeks, he’ll try to build his reputation in the States, crossing the nation from Washington, D.C., and New York

By Adam Offitzer to California, with a stop in Texas and other states along the way.

Staff writer So what is it about Aucoin’s live concert that’s such a big deal?

“I try and create a really communal atmosphere at my shows,” “There are essentially two breeds of music lover in Canada,” reads popular music blog CokeMachineGlow. “Those who believe he said. “It’s all focused around positive energy, so it’s a really Rich Aucoin to be one of the best live performers currently good thing to come out to and meet some new people — while, working, and those who’ve yet to have the pleasure of experi- like, floating on each other.”

The singer often performs in the middle of the crowd and encing Rich Aucoin perform live.”

Meanwhile, those of us in America who read that lofty claim has a variety of tricks up his sleeve. He literally crowd-surfs on a surfboard; he has a giant rainbow parachute he uses to are forced to wonder — who is this guy?

A lucky crowd will get to find out, when Aucoin brings his live blanket the crowd; and he encourages singing along to every lyric of every song. show experience to DC9 tonight.

“The way I perform,” he said, “the music has all the words “I like playing for new people,” Aucoin said when asked about performing for American audiences. The musician, who up on the video screen — not with the bouncing ball, but sort

of like karaoke. It’s like crowd karaoke.”

Aucoin developed his performance techniques after starting out with a low-energy live show.

“Originally I just played some sit-down shows,” he said, “or I would essentially almost stand behind the screen that I projected my videos onto.”

After opening for artists like Girl Talk, he figured it was time to change it up.

“I thought, ‘I should probably make this a bit more lively,’” he said.

That was probably for the best. Now, Aucoin’s show is known as a cathartic, uplifting experience that one has to see to fully understand. While Aucoin said he still likes the idea of playing as an accompaniment to a video, and occasionally will do a lower-energy show that fits the mold of his original concerts, those attending his Washington show will be expecting the transcendent performance they’ve been promised. After all, it’s Aucoin’s mission statement to “play every show like it’s your last show.”

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LEN From PAGE 8

Alex Len added 30 pounds of muscle this summer after struggling to bang against stronger big men in ACC play last year. file photo/the diamondback

his potential, gushed over his height and noted his perfect shooting form. They figured he’d be an impact player for the Terps from Day 1, that it was only a matter of time before he developed into a surefire superstar.

What they didn’t necessarily take into account? Len was lost.

After enrolling in classes days into the fall semester, the Ukraine national team member struggled to adapt to his new surroundings. He barely spoke a word of English and couldn’t understand his coaches and teammates.

When roommate John Auslander asked him simple questions, Len pulled out his laptop and visited translation websites. When he wanted to get food at a restaurant, he simply pointed at the menu and hoped servers fi gured out his order.

A nd when Ter ps fa ns approached Len on the street, he blushed with embarrassment.

“I t h i n k t he f i rst t h ree mont h s were t he h a rdest because I didn’t know any language,” Len said. “I knew just a little bit, but it wasn’t good enough to communicate.”

It d i d n’t h e lp t h at L e n became the subject of an NCAA eligibility probe shortly after

he signed with the Terps. And after using up all of his temporary eligibility in preseason workouts, Len wasn’t able to play with the team once practice began in September.

Thus, Len was forced to sit and watch while the NCAA investigated his ties to a European pro team — a process that eventually ended in a 10-game suspension.

“It was rea l ly tough for him,” said Auslander, a junior forward. “You could tell he just wanted to be out there and be with the guys. It was killing him not to practice.”

Len fi nally made his college debut in the Terps’ 83-72 win over Albany on Dec. 28. He netted his first of five dunks 54 seconds into regulation, and earned a standing ovation after 12 minutes. When Len took a seat in the game’s waning moments to chants of “We love Alex!” he had 14 points, eight rebounds and three blocks.

“It was a n u nbel ievable feeling,” Len said. “Just to get on the court and see that huge crowd, it was amazing.”

The feeling wouldn’t last.

Although Len averaged 13.3 points and 9 rebounds over his next three games, he struggled mightily in ACC play. He reached double-digit point totals just twice during the Terps’ fi nal 18 games and was often benched after getting into early foul trouble.

The rail-thin Len dropped easy passes, struggled to post up smaller defenders and appeared generally confused.

Still unable to grasp the English language, Len often couldn’t understand which play the point guard was calling.

When he caught the ball in the low post, he didn’t know whether to dribble, pass or shoot.

“How the hell did we win 17 games?” coach Mark Turgeon said with a smile. “He didn’t u nd e rs t a nd a word I wa s saying. I should’ve won Coach of the Year.”

Len used last season’s shortcomings to help motivate him through a strenuous summer slate of workouts, weig ht lifting and English tutorials.

A fter spend i ng much of last year trying to convince Turgeon to let him be a fi nesse player, Len has devoted himself into developing a low-post presence. He added 30 pounds of muscle and expanded his arsenal of post moves — improvements Turgeon said have made Len “close to being twice as good” down low.

“When you guys see him for the first time,” the second-year coach said, “you’ll be like, ‘Wow, he did grind it this summer. He worked at it.’”

That should become evident Nov. 9 when the Terps face defending national champion Kentucky at the Barclays Center i n Bro ok ly n , N.Y. Len, who will likely match up against freshman phenom Nerlens Noel, is anxious for an opportunity to prove his worth against the country’s best.

After spending the past year getting comfortable and acclimated, the former gymnast is ready to show why he was born to play basketball.

“I’m really excited,” Len said. “It’s going to be a great challenge.” letourneau@umdbk.com

Defender London Woodberry and the Terps have pitched two consecutive shutouts. They haven’t allowed a goal since a Sept. 14 win over Boston College. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

SHUTOUT From PAGE 8 a lot of confidence that when you need to make a save, that you need to come through for those guys because they always have got your back during the games.”

C o a c h S a s h o C i ro v s k i , though, is quick to point out the Terps’ success on the defensive end goes beyond the four defenders he starts each game.

“Shutouts are not just backline-credited, so to speak,” Cirovski said Friday. “It’s a function of the whole team.

Today, I thought the pressure of our forwards and midfielders was very good. We held them to one shot. I thought the whole team did a good job. It was a team shutout.”

Forward Patrick Mullins, who also plays in the midfield in certain situations, said defense is always on the mind of the Terps’ offensive players. The moment possession is lost, the Terps scorers are looking to get the ball back.

“It starts on the front line,” Mullins said. “Me and Schillo [Tshuma] or Christiano [Francois] or whoever’s up top, we take a pride in pressing the defense from up there so they don’t even get a chance to get to our backline.”

And while the Terps have notched five shutouts this season, they’re still looking

for more if they want to get deeper into the postseason. In their last three NCAA Tournament losses, the Terps have allowed four goals to Louisville and three to both Michigan and Virginia.

“Last year, we weren’t good enough defensively i n the long run to get us to where we wanted to be,” Mullins said.

“We really focused on it a lot this year. Focus on defense is the big priority. We want to be in the top 10 defensively if we want to try to do something this year. That’s one of our goals, to be one of the top teams defensively.”

Entering Monday’s matchup with Georgia State, the Terps were tied for third in the ACC in goals against average and tied for 26th overall in the NCAA. But for Mullins and the Terps’ standards, that’s not good enough.

If the Terps keep their mentality from Friday night, when they recorded their first shutout since a 4-0 win over Boston College on Sept. 7, they know they’ll go as far as the defense takes them.

“It was a goal of ours tonight to get a shutout,” Woodberry said after the 2-0 win over Virginia Tech. “That was just the main thing on our minds, get the shutout and get the win. We were focused the whole time and got the job done.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

Born to play

Another shutout for Terps

After up-and-down freshman year, Len poised for breakout season

Team hasn’t allowed goal since Sept. 14

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

Alex Len didn’t choose basketball. It chose him.

Growing up in eastern Ukraine, Len was more concerned with cartwheels than jump shots. He was an action fi lm aficionado and took gymnastics classes hoping to emulate his idol, Jackie Chan.

One day, a local high school basketball coach visited Len’s gymnastics center and noticed the scrawny 10-year-old towering over his older classmates. The coach promptly escorted Len to a gymnasium, gave him a basketball and told him to shoot.

“I remember I shot it and I made it,” the 7-foot-2 Terrapins men’s basketball center said yesterday in his fi rst meeting with reporters since arriving in College Park 13 months ago. “[The coach] said, ‘See, you were born to play basketball.’”

There’s never been much doubt Len, who averaged six points and 5.4 rebounds in 22 games as a freshman last year, was made for the hardwood. He’s a rare breed — a rangy big man who runs the floor like a guard. He can swat a shot, sprint down the court and spot up for a three-pointer.

Those skills, of course, brought expectations. Before Len ever stepped on a Division I basketball court, NBA analysts labeled him a “future lottery pick.” They praised

The Terrapins men’s soccer team’s dominance at Ludwig Field on Friday and Monday nights was obvious.

After 180 minutes against Virginia Tech and Georgia State, a brightly lit zero lingered in the slot for the visitor’s score as the Terps defeated their opponents by a combined 6-0.

But the rest of the scoreboard told a deeper story. In the upper corners, the shots for each team are listed. After beating the Hokies, the Terps had an 18-5 advantage. Against the Panthers, it was 22-1.

None of those shots against the No. 1 Terps were placed on goal.

In fact, the last time an opponent placed a shot on goal was Sept. 14, when N.C. State midfielder Alex Martinez netted a penalty kick in the 63rd minute of the Terps’ 3-2 win in Raleigh, N.C. Since then — 207 minutes total — goalkeepers Keith Cardona and Jordan Tatum haven’t even had to make a save.

“It gives you a lot of confidence to know that you have such a solid backline with London [Woodberry] back there as a center back, especially,” Tatum said Monday. “It just gives you

See LEN, Page 7

Sophomore center Alex Len made his first appearance for the Terps at last season’s Maryland Madness. After sitting out the first 10 games, Len averaged six points and 5.4 rebounds. The Ukraine native spoke to reporters yesterday for the first time since coming to College Park 13 months ago. file photo/the diamondback

See Shutout, Page 7