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Sexual assault education closer to mandate U Senate to vote on Sexual Harassment Task Force report

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the system. “The problem is it’s not on Congress’ radar completely.”

With a list of more pressing issues, such as the conflict in Syria and continued partisanship, Congress has been less inclined to bring a broader solution to the table that would address the issues plaguing college affordability.

And, as the first hearings focusing on the bill’s reauthorization begin to take place, it’s becoming clear there is a long list of issues and interests to tackle.

Last week, a joint statement by

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), ranking members on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, announced hearings on the reauthorization would take place beginning Sept.

17, covering accreditation, state and federal roles in higher education, quality and affordability, among many other legislative

The University Senate Executive Committee preliminarily approved a series of policy recommendations on sexual misconduct yesterday.

The recommendations, compiled by the senate’s Sexual Harassment Task Force, include a mandate that all faculty, staff and students participate in a sexual misconduct education and training program. On Oct. 10, the report will go to the full senate for a final vote.

“I think that all the stakeholders will have a chance to weigh in,” said Vincent Novara, senate chairman and member of the task force.

In July 2012, the task force was charged with conducting a thorough review of the university’s sexual harassment policies. Then, in January, committee members added to their deliberations a student proposal to mandate sexual assault education.

The report recommended a multilayered misconduct training operation to begin in the spring, following a pilot program planned for this semester. Though the pilot is still awaiting approval by the university’s Institutional Review Board, it could be in full swing in about a month, said Fatima Burns, coordinator of the University Health Center’s CARE to Stop Violence office.

Students enrolled in the pilot program would be randomly selected for one of four sections: one group that fills out a questionnaire, one that attends a presentation and two that participate in different online modules.

After the task force issued its policy recommendations to university President Wallace Loh earlier this year, Loh directed the university’s legal office to draft revised sexual misconduct policies. Those were adapted in the interim, pending senate action on the task force’s report at the Oct. 10 meeting.

Cynthia Hale, the task force chair, said the federal Violence Against Women Act reauthorization in March

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focuses on planning the lecture.

Toth developed the Grunig Lecture series to give students a networking opportunity, reach out to alumni in the communication field and honor James and Larissa Grunig, worldrenowned communication scholars.

The students are responsible for all aspects of the event, from creating multimedia to providing entertainment to informing the media.

“Everyone really has to be responsible for their own part and then come together as a group,” said senior communication major Lauren Dorris, a member of the planning committee.

For most of the students, planning the lecture is their first experience running an event of any kind, especially one of this magnitude. Senior communication major Melissa Cassorla interned at public relations agency Rogers & Cowan over the summer, but she said she never felt like as much of a leader in planning

events as she does for this lecture.

“We’re really applying what we’re learning in the classroom to real life,” she said. “I didn’t know how many hats PR professionals have to wear.”

The class, taught by Pamela Grant — a former editor of correspondence for the George W. Bush administration and director of communications and senior advisor for special projects for the Environmental Protection Agency — helps students build professional portfolios that could assist them with future employment.

“They’ll have a really excellent set of materials to show employers that they already know how to do this form of communication activity,” Toth said.

Last semester, the communication department sent information

pinwheels represent the 1,100 U.S. college students who commit suicide every year. Active Minds at Maryland coordinated the event at the Memorial Chapel’s Garden of Reflection and Remembrance. james levin/the diamondback

placing PINWHEELS OF HOPE Active Minds event at Memorial Chapel labyrinth commemorates Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

By Zoe Sagalow @thesagaofzoe Staff writer

Wednesday afternoon, the pinwheels stood as representations of each of the 1,100 college students in the U.S. who commit suicide every year.

The pinwheels were part of a suicide awareness event, called Garden of Hope, in conjunction with Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Run by the university’s student chapter of Active

Outside the Memorial Chapel, more than a thousand brightly colored pinwheels were planted like flowers in the ground, spinning gently in the wind.

Near the Chapel’s Garden of Reflection and Remembrance on

Minds — a nonprofit organization that strives to eliminate the stigma of mental illness — the event sought to highlight the reality of suicide on college campuses and remember those who have committed suicide.

“Part of what we are doing with this event is to try to raise awareness because [suicide] is the second leading cause of death in

college students,” said Jeremy Hsiao, president of Active Minds at Maryland.

A nybody who says something that’s suicidal “should be taken seriously,” Hsiao said, adding it’s only a myth that people who say they are suicidal are weak, attention-seeking or See garden, Page 2

Federal aid law renewal stalls, worrying officials Higher Education Act set to expire at end of year; experts consider reauthorization problematic

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer Whether it’s accreditation reform, a more robust Pell grant program or a change in federal financial aid, experts say the key to exploring higher education reform options is the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. That is, if legislators reauthorize the bill.

The Higher Education Act, the primary law governing federal financial aid, is set to expire at the end of the year, and many expect stopgap measures and continuing resolutions in lieu of wholesale reauthorization.

And it’s that slower progress that has University System of Maryland officials worried.

“We were originally hoping that [Congress] would get to work on this much earlier,” said P.J. Hogan, government affairs vice chancellor for

Communication lecture series offers networking Students organize sixth annual Grunig Lecture

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer A new communication course is giving a group of students the opportunity to test their public relations skills by tasking them with planning a major professional networking event as the event’s first completely student-run planning committee.

In the new lecture series event course, 10 students are organizing, planning and running the sixth annual Grunig Lecture, a networking event set to be held Oct. 30 that will feature keynote speaker Dave Senay,

the president and CEO of public relations and integrated marketing agency FleishmanHillard.

“In the ea rly goi ngs, I asked student volunteers to help with the lecture, and each year, we’ve done more to make the lecture even richer and more far-reaching,” said Elizabeth Toth, this university’s communication department chair.

Students have been involved in planning the Grunig Lecture in past years, but because the planning, publicity and post-lecture efforts were so demanding, Toth said, the communication department began offering a three-credit “special events” class, COMM 398G, this year that primarily

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garden From PAGE 1 not serious. In everyday language, phrases such as “I want to shoot myself” are often used as hyperbolic, joking remarks when people don’t really mean they’re suicidal, he said.

“That’s very bad,” he said.

“When people are serious, they’re not taken seriously because there’s so much stigma associated with [suicide]. It’s defi nitely something that we as a society can improve upon.”

At Wed nesday’s event, Active Minds members gave out small tags for visitors to write notes on and attach to the pinwheels as a way for them to share thoughts about

suicide, said Ashli Haggard, vice president of Active Minds at Maryland.

“It’s a way to reflect or heal or learn,” she said.

Some visitors wrote notes to people they knew who committed suicide.

“I keep fighting. Hoping I’ll be strong enough. I wish you could have been,” one note read.

Visitors were encouraged to hold a stone while they walked through the labyrinth and reflected, said Calvin Sweeney, an Office of Diversity Education and Compliance program coordinator who helped at the event. Each stone could represent someone who committed suicide.

“Sometimes, it’s not ac-

knowledged how much stress college students are under,” Sweeney said, adding that even though it is a privilege to go to college, that doesn’t always take away from the stress.

In such an environment, it’s important for someone who is suicidal to have someone to listen to them and know that someone cares about them, said David Petersen, associate director of the Counseling Center.

“A l o t o f t i m e s w h e n people are suicidal, you just need to have that conversation, keep them going, keep them talking,” Hsiao said.

“The person who’s suicidal is scared. They don’t know why they’re thinking this way.”

The Counseling Center’s services include emergency

walk-in hours, individual t h e ra p y fo r d e p re s s i o n , i nta ke app oi nt ments for counseling services and a presentation called Helping Students in Distress, which i ncludes i n for m at ion for p e o pl e w h o k n o w a d epressed or suicidal student.

T hough Active M inds doesn’t prov ide ser v ices itself, it directs students to where they can get help. The organization serves as a liaison between students and mental health services, coordinating with the University Health Center, Counseling Center and Help Center on events such as Wednesday’s commemoration.

“Teaming up with Active Minds is a great thing for both of us,” said Megan Keane, a

PINWHEELS outside Memorial Chapel display thoughts about suicide. james levin/the diamondback volunteer at the Help Center.

Petersen said severe depression can instill a “sense of hopelessness,” something this university’s network of mental health services strives to change with programs and events like Garden of Hope.

“People feel as though there is no solution to their distress, and that leads to feeling suicidal,” Petersen said. “Instilling some sense of hope is where we want to begin.” zsagalowdbk@gmail.com

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misconduct From PAGE 1 ultimately made mandated training a requirement for the university.

The report also calls for a “multidimensional” communication effort to raise awareness, the integration of at least 21 university divisions and departments in the rollout of new policies and the establishment of a Title IX compliance office with a full-time coordinator to handle complaints.

Several members of the committee voiced concerns about policy implementation.

Josh Ratner, an undergraduate senator on the committee, said he worried online training could be ineffective.

Hale said that while she initially did not see the Internet as an “appealing option,” she decided it was practical after reviewing research of other institutions, such as the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Other senators had privacy concerns. The task force suggested creating a database tracking docu mented instances of sexual misconduct.

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would leave out names, senate parliamentarian Ken Holum worried it would inevitably compromise privacy.

Another committee member, staff senator Julie Parsons, said there was an informational gap in students’ minds that educational outreach would need to fi ll.

“There’s a lot of misunderstanding among students about what is considered sexual assault, what is considered rape,” said Parsons, a Mental Health Services employee. “Some people might be shocked that they had raped someone because they didn’t realize they had to have consent and the person was drunk — that kind of thing.”

The education outreach cou ld ex tend to everyone in the campus community, Hale said, but it would be a challenge.

Though the administration, not the senate, w i l l h a n d l e i mpl e m e nt at ion , Nova ra sa id idea s for a smoother policy introduction would likely come out of the Oct. 10 full-senate meeting.

Sex ua l m isconduct has shifted swiftly into the public eye over the past few years, as the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of

“THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES REALLY DELIVER SO MUCH MORE ATTENTION AND CREATIVITY TO THE EXPERIENCE THAN I CAN DO AS AN ADMINISTRATOR OR

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vincent novara, Senate chairman, listens to suggestions from the Sexual Harassment Task Force. sung-min kim/for the diamondback Education, in particular, have engaged the issue.

“As we were working, the ground was continually shifting,” Hale said.

The task force’s report said integration of the education mandate and other recommend at ion s shou ld sta r t i n the spri ng. Bu rns sa id the CARE to Stop Violence program would be ready to take on an expanded role.

“It’s a good idea for students to be aware of their options and their resources on campus,” Burns said. “We are preparing to be ready full-force when the mandate comes out.” akirshnerdbk@gmail.com

together,” Cassorla said. “We each have our own strengths.

I’m learning from my teamFrom PAGE 1 mates, as well as I hope they’re learning from me.” about the opportunity over The event will begin at 5 the department Listserv, and p.m. on Oct. 30 with roundstudents submitted resumes table discussions led by 15 area and went through an intercommunication professionals, view process before Grant including several members eventually selected 10 stuof the communication dedents for the “Grunig team.” WITH VOLUNTEERS.” partment’s alumni advisory “ It’s a re a l ly bi g te a m ELIZABETH TOTH board. The discussions will effort,” said senior comCommunication department chair be followed by a networking munication and music major Severa l of the students reception with refreshments Drew Blais, who is working on graphic and Web design agreed teamwork is key in before Senay’s keynote lecture on ethics in today’s workand social media with the setting up the event.

“The 10 of us, we work so well place, a topic with which he multimedia team.

took place Sept. 19, went on for two hours.

David Imig, a university education professor, said he doesn’t expect any substantial action on this until 2015, or even as late as 2016, given that both Republicans and Democrats are hesitant to breach the subject.

“We don’t have a Ted Kennedy anymore who’s passionate about this,” Imig said.

T he lobby for h ig her education is intricate, and colleges across the country differ on how they want the federal government to support public universities, further complicating an already-reluctant Congress.

Reconciling one college’s interests with another’s could prove to be too much for the bill, Imig said.

“It becomes too controversial,” Imig said. “You h ave too m a ny col lege presidents with too many different agendas that politicians don’t want to deal with right now.”

While the law is expansive, Hogan said it is im-

portant that it be approached in a comprehensive manner to best help the education system. Piecemeal efforts, he said, could ultimately begin to confl ict with one another and frustrate an already-complicated system for federal higher education support.

For example, in an August letter to the U.S. House Comm ittee on H igher Education and the Workforce, the American Council on Education outlined the big issues they would like to see addressed when it comes time for reauthorization.

One of the main objectives, which Hogan shared, was reforming the Pell grant system to adjust for inflation.

The letter also touched on concerns that policy experts and higher education think tanks have harped on for years, such as a better system for delivering information to consumers about the price tag of a college education and federal tracking

of student success.

But it also highlighted the importance of states maintaining support for schools, as many believe it was dwindling state budgets that forced college costs to rise in recent years. Hogan said that isn’t the case in this state, given its commitment to higher education. Taken piecemeal, university system officials would rather see other issues addressed, although Hogan would like to see the federal government pushing hard on these types of initiatives.

“We’re very, very, very fortunate in Maryland,” Hogan said. “If I was in a state that had gone through dramatic cuts in state funding, I’d want this maintenance of effort addressed by Congress as soon as possible.

“Public higher education is a joint state, federal and student responsibility,” Hogan said.

has recent experience.

“He was attracted to come because FleishmanHillard has just done a major internal ethics audit of its worldwide operations,” Toth said. “And so he wants to deliver the results of this research that was done on ethics and the workplace.”

The students in the class are already achieving realworld success. For instance, Cassorla, a member of the public relations team, successfully pitched the news of the lecture to USA Today. “ T he mos t i ntere s t i n g thing is that [faculty are] al-

lowing students the chance to pitch to big newspapers,” said senior communication major Kevin Painter, another public relations team member. “In the past, it’s something they would do themselves.”

The course will be offered to a larger number of students next semester, although the planned event will not be as large as the Grunig Lecture, Toth said. Several students in the course said the opportunity for hands-on event planning experience should be further expanded.

On the even i ng of Oct.

30, the Grunigs themselves — tra i lblazers w ith i n the communication field — will attend the lecture dedicated in their names. Now, the communication department is striving to blaze new trails of its own, giving students a chance to test the waters of their future careers.

“The students themselves really deliver so much more attention and creativity to the experience than I can do as an administrator or with volunteers,” Toth said.

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Are we smoke-free?

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Examining the flummoxing decision to put a smoking area near McKeldin Library

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n July 1, university President Wallace Loh announced a new policy that would make this university a smoke-free institution, noting this policy applies to everyone on the campus, including visitors and contractors, and that it covers all buildings and all campus property — except for four designated smoking areas.

One is located just southeast of Ellicott Hall. One is located around the fork in the road just south of Comcast Center. One is sandwiched between Stadium Drive Parking Garage and Riggs Alumni Center.

And one is on the front-left side of McKeldin Library.

The policy, adopted by the Board of Regents in 2012, requires every institution in the University System of Maryland to develop a plan for becoming a smoke-free institution.

The Campus Affairs Committee of the University Senate reviewed the system’s policy and made recommendations for the policy on this campus. Loh said we have an opportunity to make this a constructive experience that will promote our community’s health and well-being.

Well, let me say in the most diplomatic way possible that while I support the idea of a smoke-free institution, this policy is a joke. Like a poorly written essay with a bunch of typos, it needs serious revision, and here are a few reasons why:

First, the subject of the announcement reads “Smoke-Free Institution.” This is blatantly misleading. Because this policy provides exceptions for four designated areas, this subject should at the very least be accompanied by a big fat asterisk and should probably be completely revised.

Second, one of the designated smoking areas is on the front-left side of the McKeldin Library. Try counting the students who walk by that area on a daily basis. How in the world did smokers on this campus cut this deal?

I give this policy an “F” for effectiveness, but I give the smokers on this campus an “A” for their advocacy.

They must have hired lobbyists who graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown Law to get this deal. Nobody being educated at this fine institution of higher education needs me to explain the dangers of inhaling secondhand smoke, and nobody here is incapable of understanding why designating a smoking area right near the front of McKeldin is a terrible idea.

For one, McKeldin is a place where many students study. Is this some sort of wild conspiracy to increase the likelihood that our future valedictorians experience lung problems? And second, this particular designated smoking area creates an especially painful eyesore. On Sept. 17, Kathryn Henderson of

Complex magazine ranked our campus the 17th ugliest in the nation, and while I disagree with this ranking, this smoking area doesn’t help my rebuttal at all. In fact, the picture used in the ranking is of McKeldin.

I love you, President Loh, but you know better. Please get rid of the designated smoking area in front of McKeldin.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to give me feedback.

Disclaimer: Please be advised that I respect and have love for smokers but would simply prefer for them not to smoke in front of McKeldin.

Colin Byrd is a senior sociology m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t colinabyrd@gmail.com.

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Responses to “Smoking ban goes up in smoke” These letters to the editor, in response to Tiffany Burba’s Tuesday column, have been edited for length and clarity.

First, let me share several comments I saw posted Tuesday night on a Facebook link to the Tiffany Burba’s column: “I haven’t smoked in a year or two either, but wow. Diamondback scraping the bottom of the barrel for contributions these days?”

“Every smoker I’ve acquainted with has been at least considerate, i.e. not blowing smoke in people’s faces and stepping out of the general pathway of traffic. Really this is a waste of campus resources and an embarrassment to the author and the administration. Do they really think taking away the only means of hygienically disposing of cigarette butts is going to stop smokers?”

“I thought this was The Onion for a second almost. OK, not really. But I wished it was.”

“What I took out of this is, ‘If you want a cigarette you deserve to be mugged.’”

“As a nonsmoker and a big nonfan of secondhand smoke, this column is absurd. There are SO many things that people do on this campus that negatively affect me, such as cars putting exhaust into my face, freshmen walking at snail speed and people screaming right outside my window.

But that doesn’t mean we need to ban these activities. As a member of a community that is so closely knit together, you have to accept that there are going to be people doing things that you find unpleasant. I also find it unpleasant, though, for the campus to redirect the money I pay toward stupid rules like this.”

“The most egregious part of this is the phrase

‘addict-coddling.’ Um, what? Apart from the appalling phrasing of that, how can you talk so disdainfully people’s decision to smoke and then later ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT’S AN ADDICTION?” Besides the column being written with the aggressiveness of an emotional high-schooler and containing almost zero journalistic exposition, the main issue I have with this column is Burba’s complete disdain for her fellow students. She makes valid points about the ineffectiveness of the smoking ban but completely fails as a writer to engage or convince her readers — except to offend them, smokers and nonsmokers alike, to the extent that they feel the need to email The Diamondback in disgust.

I am startled that such a personal rant was allowed to pass through the editors’ hands. I used to consider The Diamondback a professional, informative, fairly nonpartisan source for campus news. Never before have I thought of it as a print edition of LiveJournal for upperclassmen to vent their negativity and personal opinions into our campus.

I suggest Burba find herself a friend she can talk to about her personal hatred toward others and leave a hitherto-respectable newspaper — and the student body — out of it before she resumes her position as a columnist for The Diamondback.

ASHER MEEROVICH Sophomore, computer science

“Smoking ban goes up in smoke” was impolite at best and offensive and small-minded at worst. I don’t even know where to start — maybe with shaking my head and blowing a huge cloud of smoke in the author’s face.

Here’s a news flash for Tiffany Burba: Cigarette addiction is a reality for many students.

Sure, it isn’t glamorous, and it isn’t something to proudly declare. But that “ignorant rule breaker puffing rings of carcinogens into your face” isn’t doing it to spite you. Smokers are doing it because their bodies have formed physical dependencies on nicotine; so yes, obviously their “need to pour tar and formaldehyde into [their] lungs” does outweigh others’ needs to breathe. It’s addictions 101.

What I found particularly disturbing was the author’s logic. Smokers are willing to put themselves at risk for cancer, so they should be OK with getting mugged at off-campus smoking areas? That’s equivalent to saying that because a girl dresses skimpily, she is asking to be raped.

Both are flawed, ignorant statements.

Furthermore, the methods Burba suggests we adopt to truly become a smokefree campus are idealistic and absurd. Do students really want a hike in tuition to pay officers to enforce the nonsmoking policy? Is having pristine air to breathe that important? (I don’t see any complaints about air pollution from all the cars and buses on the campus.)

I agree that smoking is extremely harmful. The university should and does provide services, such as the Tobacco Cessation Program, to help students kick the habit. Publicly shaming smokers with offensive labels on their designated areas doesn’t seem like an effective approach.

I understand the author’s dissatisfaction with a lack of policy enforcement, but this frustration should be directed toward university policymakers and officials.

Burba’s blatant lack of research about the smoking ban policies and clear discrimination against nicotine addicts were very apparent in Tuesday’s column. Being told one should accept the risk of being mugged because he or she smokes cigarettes is absurd. I can understand disliking individuals who do not follow

the smoking ban, but discriminating against the entire group is unacceptable. Frankly, I’m surprised The Diamondback would publish such a prejudiced and hateful piece.

LISA M. DUNN Senior, accounting

HANNA HUTTER Senior, psychology

Conversations among generations: A guide ROBERT COBB We’ve all heard the accusations: “Your generation doesn’t appreciate what you have!”

“You all grew up getting participation trophies; you think you’re all special. That’s why you’re unhappy.”

“Put down the cellphones, get off Facebook — you are wasting your life!”

And we’ve heard our peers respond, often with counter-accusations — something along the lines of: “The world we inherited is riddled with injustice, and yet you blame us for being unhappy with the problems you created?” or “I never got a participation trophy in my life and work hard for all I have, so stop with your baseless ageist nonsense.”

Others have (wisely, in my mind) criticized the entire debate for relying on a flawed categorization of swaths of people as belonging to certain gen-

erations and inferring their way to a paternalistic viewpoint — “I’m older, so I know best.”

It has become a truism that every generation romanticizes the “good old days.” Through well-ingrained cynical frustration, the advice we hear from our elders is often framed as categorical criticism of everyone our age.

Despite all the noise and chatter back and forth, there doesn’t seem to be any real communication going on, no wisdom imparted or stone-set ways altered. For me, the question becomes: How can we frame this conversation so it can be productive?

First, if you are going to engage in this type of conversation, it’s good to recognize that the other party probably does have meaningful ideas to add and that discussion can be valuable to everyone, especially when it avoids judgment.

When you ask more questions and make fewer pronouncements, it’s more likely that real communication will occur. For the younger folks, it is

important to recognize the real value in experience; living for many years really does make a difference. For my older readers, it is equally important to acknowledge any disconnect you may have with the trends of today; there are real cultural differences between older and younger people, and no one’s perspective is invalid.

Next, ask yourself what you expect from a conversation. Do you want individuals or groups to change their behaviors, or do you simply enjoy feeling morally superior or smarter than others? Are you open to the idea that you might be wrong in whole or in part? What is prompting your conversation? What relevant facts should you know or look for? If you were on the other side of the conversation, what might you say or feel?

Once you have assessed your own motives, you’ll probably realize generalizations are often poor substitutes for reasoning about particular situations. Very few people, if any, are in a position to do something to change an

entire generation. Dismissing anyone with an “All young people …” or “All old people …” is unlikely to influence anyone’s behavior, and it may elicit a negative reaction and a more deeply entrench the other’s views.

If you are respectful and nonjudgmental, it is incredible how interesting and informative discussions can become.

Now I’ll engage in some mild speculation, which is less likely to put anyone on the defensive and might be interesting to think about. I say this knowing it is not true for all individuals but rather recognizing it as a pattern that I see among people my age.

One of the main contentions I have read recently is that our generation has unrealistic expectations for the quality of our own lives and the quality of life for all people. I have been called naive, and naive I may be. I think this criticism is grounded in reality — I do expect my life to be great, and I do expect the lives of others to be great.

This might contribute to my dissatis-

faction or even unhappiness.

Still, I am not wrong — and my generation is not wrong — to expect more.

Progress is the continued rise in the baseline expectation for human life — our happiness, educational achievement, family life, career attainment and generally, our self-actualization.

We expect more.

Ultimately, our dissatisfaction with the status quo will drive us to change the way things are. When we see war and starvation and injustice, which we see more and more often, we feel compelled to act upon our feelings. We don’t always have avenues to act meaningfully, so we express our concern, outrage or solidarity on the Internet. We’ll eventually learn to channel that energy productively and to use the new, powerful means for sharing information to educate ourselves and change the world.

Robert Cobb is a senior computer engineering major. He can be reached at rcobbdbk@gmail.com.

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Going into this weekend, my There Since then, I’ve grown to devalue the importance of spoilers somewhat when Will Be Blood story still resonates. I can it comes to movies. A film can still be say that if I was aware of how Breaking profoundly affecting if you know the Bad would end, I would probably refrain ending, placing emphasis on the nuances from watching it like my friend did with of getting there rather than reveling in the Anderson’s film. Nearing the close of five surprise. However, I’m still a hedonistic seasons, I feel entertained, fulfilled and TV watcher. I relish the mindlessness of happy to be graced with the show’s final television, the way it can push all your disclosures. Beyond that, I’m not sure I sensory pleasure buttons without forcing care a whole lot. Good TV is like good you to think. Keeping this in mind, the fast food: Consuming it once a week is revelation at the end of a season or series fine, but anything more will leave you finale should never be spoiled because it bloated and sluggish. Now, with the end is the proper visceral culmination. If you of perhaps our generation’s best series, know what’s going to happen, your emo- I’m ready to take my last grease-laden tional attachment to the building phase of hamburger bag and run off into the night. the plot — the heightening of the stakes, the slow increase in suspense — will be dessnerdbk@gmail.com

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That’s how Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner chose to advertise the fifth episode of the most recent season of Mad Men, “The Flood.” Every Mad Men promo is almost like a mini experimental film, offering a disjointed glimpse at the most mundane aspects of next week’s episode (Peggy Olson answers the phone! Megan Draper eats spaghetti!) while offering zero hints as to what might actually transpire in the narrative.

Weiner is legendarily paranoid about spoilers — before the season six premiere, he demanded critics not “spoil” a number of “key” plot points in advance reviews that included what year the show took place in and whether the advertising firm had expanded to a second floor — despite running one of the most spoiler-proof shows on TV. “The Flood,” the episode that required such an oblique promo, was mostly about characters reacting to the (historical spoiler alert) assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. What happens on Mad Men isn’t all that important — how it happens

and what it says about the inner lives of the characters and the taboos and trends of the culture at large are what really matter. Just don’t tell Weiner that.

We are, as a culture, obsessed with spoilers — we tease ourselves endlessly with movie trailers (and, increasingly, trailers for trailers), casting information and leaked production photos and then freak out when we learn even the smallest plot point in advance. See, for instance, the fury of a handful of Internet commenters when it was revealed Charlie Rose was going to be on an episode of Breaking Bad. But what’s true of Mad Men is, to a certain extent, true of every TV show and every work of art — what happens isn’t nearly as important as how it happens and what it means. Obviously, this is true to varying degrees for different shows. Announcing that Don made a revealing and heartfelt pitch to some Hershey executives on the Mad Men finale isn’t going to annoy someone nearly as much as telling exactly what the Game of Thrones “red wedding” is or who just died on the latest episode of Breaking Bad, even if, within the contexts of those shows, each of those events is as shocking as either of the others.

But what’s true of all three of those events is even if someone “spoils” them for you, the show isn’t ruined because each has value

beyond shock value. The expert craftsmanship that went into each scene, the way the stories draw on whole seasons’ worth of back story and emotion — those are what make the most memorable moments of shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones memorable, not mere surprises.

It’s fun to watch something without knowing what’s going to happen next, but it can be just as enlightening and entertaining to watch something knowing exactly where it’s headed. We all know that Hamlet is going to die at the end, but it’s still enthralling to watch indecision and wrong decision pile up until all of the characters are trapped in a rotten kingdom of their own making, and it’s still tremendously moving and tragic to watch that kingdom finally collapse. Four centuries’ worth of spoilers aren’t enough to rob the play of its potency.

As much as Weiner may disagree, going into an episode of TV well aware of what’s going to happen doesn’t ruin anything if what you’re watching is truly worthwhile. Surprise isn’t everything — if it was, The Walking Dead would win every Emmy there is. If the show you’re obsessed with is really worth watching, an inconsiderate post from an anonymous Twitter user isn’t going to “spoil” anything. rgifforddbk@gmail.com

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Goalkeeper zack steffen stressed communication with the rest of the Terps’ backline as key to improved play. file photo/the diamondback

STEFFEN From PAGE 8 three older goalkeepers — struggled to settle in earlier this season, though he was expected to be a calming and controlling presence in the back.

But as a freshman, he needed time to acclimate to the increased pressure of Division I soccer and find his role on a roster mixed with seasoned veterans and talented youth.

The Downingtown, Pa., native surrendered three goals in each of his first two college starts, including a misplayed header in overtime against California for the Golden Bears’ game-winner.

Through seven games, Steffen has allowed 14 goals.

His 1.81 goals-against average ranks outside the top 150 in the nation.

But his early struggles inflated his season stats, as Steffen has surrendered just four goals over the past three games.

The freshman is learning, adapting and, most importantly, meshing with a Terps backline that has featured freshmen and sophomores all season.

“Communication is the whole game,” Steffen said Tuesday. “Without communication, there’s really no chance that you can win or be successful. I’m trying to [take charge]. I’m trying to get the whole team to take

charge and communicate.”

On top of the speed bumps associated with a rookie campaign, Steffen was injured during the summer and early in the preseason.

Despite Steffen’s limited practice time, Cirovski saw something special and declared him the starter Aug. 27.

And after a few rough outings to open the season, Steffen has now shown what he can be for the Terps: a goalkeeper who can singlehandedly change games.

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hope to build on that performance. For that to happen, Morgan said his attacking midfielders, such as Ashley Spivey, who didn’t start Sunday for the first time in her Terps career, need to keep performing at a high level.

Spivey sat out the first 27 minutes Sunday before playing the final 63 minutes, and she set up a few goalscoring opportunities.

“She’s been putting a lot of pressure on herself, and sometimes it’s good to just watch a little and then get into the game when it slows down,” Morgan said. “I thought she responded great.”

Spivey, who was named to the ACC All-Freshman team last season, is second on the team in goals and points, with four and 10, respectively, including the game-winner in overtime at

Clemson on Sept. 12. Her three other goals and one of her two assists came in the season-opening 9-0 win over The Citadel.

“My numbers haven’t been as good as they need to be, so I understand why [Morgan] didn’t start me,” Spivey said.

“It was a learning experience, so I was a little frustrated, but it happens to everyone.”

That wasn’t the only lineup change Morgan made Sunday, either. The Terps started the game with one forward and five midfielders, as opposed to their usual two forwards and four midfielders.

There will likely be only one forward in tonight’s starting lineup, but how the team finishes might be a different story.

Morgan said he will probably have to juggle his lineup on the fly because of fitness problems for midfielders Sarah Fichtner and Maren Knudsen, who made her first Terps appearance Sunday after an off-season

injury sidelined her for the first eight matches. The adjustments will depend on how tired the pair becomes and how well their replacements, Erika Joab and Sarah Molina, perform.

Normally, the match tonight could be viewed as the start of a rivalry. Both teams are nationally ranked, and both have advanced to the past four NCAA tournaments. Because of the Terps’ move to the Big Ten, however, there is no guarantee the teams will meet again.

The Terps aren’t worrying themselves over conference realignment though.

For a young team still trying to rediscover its early-season goal-scoring prowess, Notre Dame provides a challenge in a hostile environment.

“It’s going to be a really good test for us, especially on the road,” Spivey said. “Everyone is very excited.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

MIDFIELDER ASHLEY SPIVEY sat early in the Terps’ 1-0 win over then-No. 6 Wake Forest on Sunday, but coach Jonathan Morgan is expecting more from her against No. 5 Notre Dame. She is second on the team in both goals, with four, and points, with 10. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer Disaster struck for the Terrapins men’s soccer team Tuesday night at home against Old Dominion late in regulation.

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gnale’s head and past goalkeeper Zack Steffen.

Despite controlling possession for most of the game, a soft own goal left the Terps trailing 1-0.

A minute later, Old Dominion tried to put the game out of reach, but this time, Steffen was ready. He deflected forward Ivan Militar’s curling shot to the far post away from the goal, shifting momentum at Ludwig Field

immediately. A few minutes later, the Terps scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw, and it was clear Steffen’s save was a significant part of the comeback.

“That was big-time,” coach Sasho Cirovski said Tuesday.

“He can do those things, and he’s starting to hit it.”

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The last time the Terrapins women’s soccer team played Notre Dame, Boston College was playing its inaugural ACC season. Now, eight years later, the Terps once again face a first-time conference opponent.

After three straight games against traditional conference rivals, the Terps play at Notre Dame — one of three new ACC schools — tonight in the first

meeting between the two teams since a 6-0 Fighting Irish blowout in 2005.

“Every time I think about going to Notre Dame, I never think ACC,” defender Megan Gibbons said. “The first time definitely feels like an outof-conference game.”

No one from that defeat eight years ago remains.

Coach Jonathan Morgan was hired as an assistant two years later, and the program has undergone a complete overhaul. So it’s unfamiliar territory for everyone — an

oddity for a conference in which rivalries and intimacy are the norm.

The No. 21 Terps will be facing not only an unfamiliar opponent but also a formidable one. No. 5 Notre Dame is on a four-game winning streak, including a 1-0 road victory over perennial powerhouse North Carolina.

But the Terps have already defeated a top-10 team, beating then-No. 6 Wake Forest on Sunday, and they See IRISH, Page 7