October 2, 2014

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Student ticket requests surpass expectations First home Big Ten football game receives record 9,000 student ticket requests; section sells out

By Jordan Branch @thedbk For The Diamondback Students at this university made a record 9,000 ticket requests for the Ohio State game during last week’s two-day period. Now, tickets for the 10,000-seat student section on Saturday are sold out, said Matt

Monroe, athletic ticket services assistant director.

Students can still purchase guest tickets, but they’ve been renamed as “family and friends” tickets for the Terrapins football team’s first Big Ten conference home game — and they come with a higher price tag than usual.

Student guest tickets typically

range between $25 and $35. But family and friends tickets for the Ohio State game cost $40 plus a $3 online convenience fee.

Hashem Hraky, a junior environmental health and physiology and neurobiology major, said he wanted to purchase a guest ticket for his friend for this weekend’s game, but became discouraged when he saw the price.

Monroe said guest tickets cost more for premium games, when the athletic department perceives tickets

will be in greater demand to watch certain rivalries. This weekend is one of these games.

Guest ticket prices are based on the face value of the tickets, which is the ticket’s price for the general public.

“We do a lot of analysis based upon the value of that game and the opponents we’re playing,” Monroe said.

In the 2013 season, the highest face value for a ticket on lower stadium See tickets, Page 2

students wave a state flag during the Terps’ game against JMU on Aug. 30. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Univ group demands wage hikes for workers Group presents letter, hangs banner calling for university action

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Senior staff writer

attendees at the university’s ninth annual Crab Feast dig in at Cole Field House on Wednesday. About 650 people showed up to the event, which the SGA tradition commission hosted.

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deep blue nothing University’s annual Crab Feast sees decline in attendance, availability of traditional blue crabs

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer The SGA tradition commission hosted its ninth annual Crab Feast at Cole Field House last night, with fewer attending than in years past.

About 650 people ate at the

dinner, which included four crabs along with a buffet of other food, including barbecue chicken, corn on the cob, green beans, corn muffins, chocolate cake and beverages. Joe Mullineaux, Dining Services senior associate director, said ticket sales normally reach about 1,000.

Mullineau x said this year’s

tickets cost $22.50 each, up from last year’s $17.50. The price hike is because of the recent decline in crab populations and the reflected increase in market price, he said.

Tickets for the fi rst Crab Feast in 2005 were $10.

“Because this is the earliest we’ve ever had it and this is the fi rst time

we broke the $20 mark, and because it’s on a Wednesday … the count’s down a little bit,” Mullineaux said. “The count would actually be higher if we had done it on a Thursday or later in the semester, but all the parties concerned kind

Madeleine List @madeleine_list Senior staff writer It wasn’t just the overwhelming number of applications he received for fall student internships that surprised Jon Anderson, director of development at Hope Connections for Cancer Support.

It was also the fact that nearly every one of the more than 100 students applying to work at the local nonprofit had a personal connection to cancer.

Interns for Hope Connections For Cancer Support Sean Kelly (left) and Kalkidan Ejamo (right) pose for a portrait outside of McKeldin Library. They’re part of a team of eight university students. james levin/the diamondback “I was just floored,” he said. “There were some who might not have had a family member, but a friend or a family

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friend. Everyone has a tie to cancer.”

Going through the pile of resumes, he decided that rather than choos-

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Student interns connect cancer experiences with service Team of eight pursues fundraising projects

In an effort to complete a publicizing campaign for workplace wages and rights on the campus, members from a student advocacy group delivered an open letter Wednesday to university President Wallace Loh’s office demanding a change.

Eight university students from this university’s chapter of the Student Labor Action Project — an economic justice advocacy group that works to end student debt and poor workplace conditions — met to deliver the letter, garner petition signatures and drop a banner from the second-floor balcony

ing one intern, he would create a team of eight university students who would play a major role in the mission of the organization, which is to provide cancer patients and their families programming to find support to deal with the emotional and physical stress of the disease, Anderson said.

The students collaborate on marketing and fundraising strategies, while each pursued his or her own plans for a fundraiser, Anderson said. There is no set requirement and students can work either alone or with a partner, but Anderson said he would like to see each See cancer, Page 3

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Development plans spur parking space shortage Last month, former university student and Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe announced he would be donating more than $30 million toward the construction of a new and innovative computer science building for the university.

But while this building is a big step toward growing the computer science program, it also creates a new parking dilemma on the campus, Department of Transportation Services officials said.

For more of staff writer Lexie Schapitl’s story, go to dbknews.com

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From PAGE 1 of wanted to tie this event into the first home Big Ten game, as sort of a week of special events.”

Dining Services cooked just more than 40 bushels of crabs — 64 crabs per bushel, some from the Bay, some from its tributaries — in the parking lot behind Cole from about 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Mullineaux said. The event received spon sor i n g a nd marketing help from Dining Services, the Student Government Association, the athletic department, Stamp Student Union and Pepsi.

“We try to get [crabs] from the Chesapeake Bay — doesn’t always happen,” Mullineaux said. “Back when we first started, crabs were going for about $70 a bushel delivered. I think we’re paying about $195 a bushel right now.”

Bryan Farrell, a junior economics major and the SGA’s tradition commission director, said the best part of the feast is its ability to bring all types of people together, using the popular local dish to bridge the gap between in-state and out-of-state students. “ Ju s t e at i n g c rab s i s a pretty social thing because there’s always those people

randy edsall, the university’s head football coach, welcomes the 650 people in attendance at the ninth annual Crab Feast last night. stephanie natoli/the diamondback who’ve never done it before, so we give them directions on how to do it,” Fa r rel l said. “You’ll always have the Marylanders who know how to and the out-of-staters who a lot of the times won’t.”

Sophomore physiology and neurobiology major Parvathy Retnakumar, who attended t h e fe a s t fo r t h e s e c o n d year in a row, said the event spurred a sense of community at the university.

“W hen people th i n k of Maryland, they think about crabs. But for people who come from out of state, they don’t really get the Maryland experience,” Retnakumar

said. “I think it’s important to get an essence of Maryland culture.”

Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall made his first appearance at the feast, offering a pep talk for the h i g h ly a nt ic ipate d B i g Ten home football game against Ohio State University on Saturday.

“You as students really make the difference for our team,” Edsall said. “The more of you come out and support us, the tougher it is for [Ohio State] to be able to play.” tswaakdbk@gmail.com

levels was $75. Tickets on a few hundred seats for the Ohio State game are priced at $85.

“The face value of the Ohio State game is bigger than any other game on the schedule as of now,” Monroe said.

Monroe said this university falls slightly toward the lower end of ticket prices for conference games.

S o m e B i g Te n s c h o o l s charge students for tickets.

Monroe said this university has not discussed charging for student tickets, but all students at this university pay a ma ndator y ath letic fee. Full-time undergraduate students currently pay $203.19 annually.

Si nce t h i s u n iversity’s move to the Big Ten conference, ticket sales and average attendance have increased by about 25 percent, Monroe said. So far this fall, the ticket office has sold more than 22,000 season tickets.

Guest tickets are released based on remaining student sect ion ava i l abi l ity. A nd because of the demand for t ickets to t he Oh io State game, the university could not provide student guest tickets in the student section for this Saturday’s game, Monroe said.

I nstead, the u n iversity opened up additional seats in the 300 level of Byrd Stadium to make room for family and friends ticket holders.

Hraky said he wanted to be able to sit with his friend, so he emailed the university’s ticket office. The ticket office staff recommended he switch his ticket to the 300-level seats to sit with his visiting friend, Hraky said.

For Hraky, this would come at the cost of sitting with his other friends in the student section. So Hraky posted in the University of Maryland Class of 2016 Facebook group, looking to buy a student ticket.

Hraky is not alone. Other students have begun to buy and sell student tickets through university Facebook groups.

When senior community health major Sarah Kolar discovered she had to work on game day, she posted on the University of Maryland Class of 2015 Facebook page offering to sell her ticket.

She sa id someone contacted her in less than five minutes, and she sold the student-section ticket for $40. Kolar said there was no

price negotiation, and the buyer was eager to purchase the ticket.

“S i t t i n g i n t h e a c t u a l s t u d e nt s e c t io n — it’s a better vibe … and more fun,” Kolar said.

Four premium-designated games are on the schedule for this season, which included the Sept. 13 game against West Virginia and the upcoming games against Iowa and Michigan State.

Mon roe sa id t he add itional exposure that the Big Ten brings and an increase in fans’ expectations have contributed to the increase in ticket sales and attendance.

He a l so poi nted to t he Terps’ 4-1 start, which might translate into increased ticket sales and game attendance.

H ra k y sa id he at tended all but two ga mes last season, and this season he has noticed a more packed student section.

“We are playing harder teams,” Hraky said. “I think that kind of makes it more fun because people want to see if Maryland wins.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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wages From PAGE 1 of McKeldin Library with t he words “FIGH T FOR WORKERS” written across it.

The letter, which was published in The Diamondback as a guest column Wednesday, was primarily written by SLAP member Corinne Paul, who said the group has been able to connect with campus workers recently to discuss the conditions and start planning how to move forward with this movement — one the student group would like to put a heavy focus on.

“This is our next step as a group,” said Paul, a sophomore government and politics major.

“We’re fighting for higher wages for workers, and we’re connecting it with the national ‘Fight for Fifteen’ campaign.”

The letter referenced some campus workers being paid wages near the poverty level, and said “current campus wages a re enti rely insu fficient.” The group made a

CANCER From PAGE 1 student raise between $1,500 and $2,000 by the end of the semester.

“We’re going to be able to create new projects or programs or support groups based on what these students are doing,” he said.

The team, which Anderson calls the student action committee, started work this semester and is made up of a

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plea in this letter to Loh to set a living wage at a minimum of $15 per hour for all campus workers, and asks that employees who work 40 -hour weeks be defi ned as full-time employees to receive union representation.

Paul said the group wants to a s k L oh to a g re e t h at campus worker conditions could improve and wages could increase on the campus.

“Hopefully, we can meet with him and share our side,” Paul said. “We know that President Loh doesn’t have complete control over this, and we’re not expecting him to snap his fi ngers and have this be changed.”

About seven members entered the Main Administration Building at about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, introduced themselves a nd handed the letter to a secretary, Paul said. The group inquired about setting up a meeting with Loh and were told they would be contacted.

Meanwhile, other group members, including SLAP

m e m b e r C h r i s B a n ge r tDrowns, walked across the McKeldin Mall to hang the large banner from the library portico, hand out fliers and ask for petition signatures as students walked by. The group held the banner up for about 30 minutes until library officials instructed them to take it down, said BangertDrowns, a sophomore biochemistry major.

Hanging a ban ner from the outside of the library is not something that students are permitted to do, said Eric Bartheld, McKeldin Library spokesman.

T here a re occasion a l ly banners hanging from the

diverse group of students who represent a variety of majors, such as biochemistry, communication, marketing, government and politics and economics, Anderson said.

“It’s essentially the perfect mix,” he said. “You bring all these young, motivated people together and give them a clean slate, you’re going to achieve great things.”

Each year, the Bethesdabased nonprofit serves about 8,500 cancer patients and their families by providing

activities, classes and social programs, all free of charge.

Kalkidan Ejamo, a senior communication major and student intern, is helping plan a 5K fundraiser in November.

She is also working on plans for a social fundraiser that would involve an evening of arts and music for alumni of the Global Communities living-learning program later in the semester.

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T h i s sa m e g ro up le d a protest outside of the Main Administration Building in April asking Loh to disclose the contract between this university and Capital One Ban k for financia l transparency. Months after the protest, the university disclosed its lease agreement with the bank to the group.

T h e m e m b e rs a re s t i l l gatheri ng i n formation i n regards to the lease agreement, Bangert-Drowns said, but this other movement is the next phase in the group’s course of action.

“This campaign is going to be a long campaign — we don’t expect them to immediately concede to our demands,” Bangert-Drowns said.

her because her mother suffered from breast cancer when Ejamo was 12, she said.

“Cancer has become such a common thing in so many people’s lives,” Ejamo said.

“It’s really hard, especially for the families dealing with it, to find a place where you’re connected and treated as an equal.”

Watching his friend battle cancer in high school is what inspired Jeremy Brazda, a junior marketing major and student intern, to get involved with Hope Connections for Cancer Support. Although his friend had a strong support

system of friends and family while he was in treatment, he said many people fighting the disease don’t.

“One of the main things [Hope Connections for Cancer Support] does very well is that cancer can be a very scary, daunting thing to come to terms with, [and] the whole point of their mission is to make everyone involved feel happy and comfortable,” he said.

Brazda is working w ith another intern to host fundraisers at local synagogues throughout the semester.

T h e w o rk t h e s t u d e n t action committee has done so

far will help the organization expand to serve more people with cancer in the area, Anderson said. He plans to bring in a new committee of eight students every semester and hopes to create an annual fundraiser that students will help run in addition to their own personal fundraising projects, he said.

“One of the things that’s really unique is seeing what these students are putting together,” he said. “They’re goi ng to be hav i ng a rea l impact on the organization.”

SLAP Members unveiled a banner and took signatures for a petition asking for fairer working wages and representation for university workers yesterday. james levin/the diamondback

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Library officials similarly do not permit posters along the walls of the building, he said.

Bartheld discussed the incident with the student group shortly after they were instructed to take the banner down, and he said they were cooperative.

“It’s not anything that we allow,” Bartheld said. “And it’s not any judgment about the worthiness of the cause, it’s just that we don’t allow banners like this.”

T h e p e t it ion s, on e for collective bargaining rights

and the other for a campus w o rk e r l i v i n g w a ge , received about 50 signatures from students Wednesday, Bangert-Drowns said.

“Every single worker on this campus deserves a living wage and collective bargaining rights,” he said.

The group will wait until it receives a response from university officials before moving forward, Paul said.

The president’s office acknowledged having received the letter Wednesday afternoon, and human resources officials are working to respond and meet directly with the group, said Brian U l l m a n n , a s s i s t a nt v ic e president of marketing and communications.

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he saying goes that this state is the place for crab cakes and football. While our state’s success in that particular American pastime might be debatable, there’s no doubt that generations of residents have enjoyed eating crab.

But our relationship with the crustacean might be approaching an end. According to the National Environmental Education Foundation, rising pollution levels and water temperatures have caused a loss in crab population in the Chesapeake Bay. Both warm waters and heightened levels of carbon dioxide cause the water to become more acidic.

Put simply, more acid results in fewer fertile organisms — and fewer crabs and oysters in our bay.

Looking at the issue from a wider perspective, pollution in this state’s estuary hasn’t just affected the environment, but could create a massive dent in our economy. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the commercial seafood industry accounted for about 34,000 jobs in 2009 throughout this state and Virginia. That year, blue crab exports contributed $78 million to the local economy.

When we hear people talk about protecting the bay, some of us prob-

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ably don’t consider the ways pollution indirectly affects everyone in the area. Though organizations like the Chesapeake Bay Foundation rightfully try to get everyone involved in protecting the bay, these recent environmental findings show that it hasn’t been enough.

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Growing pollution levels in the Chesapeake Bay call for action from more than just nonprofit organizations.

Rather than to simply tell residents to help clean the bay, it won’t be cleaned to a substantial extent until local policy changes. Consider that in March, the state Senate voted against an amendment that would prevent diversion of money from the Chesapeake Bay Trust Fund, a nonprofit organization established by the General Assembly to improve the health of the Chesapeake. According to state Sen. Bryan Simonaire (R-Anne Arundel), $125 million originally designated to the fund had been diverted to other government programs throughout the past five years.

Legislators also have yet to address the Conowingo Dam, where 175 million tons of sediment is currently trapped. The dam has continuously collected pollution since 1929, and its collection is approaching the brim, with the possibility of a storm sending it over into the Chesapeake Bay. Though some oppose dredging the dam because of high costs, the fact that no assurance has been made from any state or federal lawmaker is troublesome to say the least.

This university has already made so many strides in protecting the environment, from LEED-certified buildings to its Office of Sustainability. Do we really want to give all that up to see the Chesapeake Bay — a historic symbol of this state’s environment — remain pollution-ridden?

“Cleaning the bay” is definitely easier said than done. The issue lives deep in a hotbed of political and economic hassle. However, this body of water is like a home to us, so we need to treat it as such.

If we reach out to those who can initiate this change as well as address problems at a legislative level, then maybe a century from now we’ll still be able to have crabs sitting on our plates.

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Get ready for a Beltway playoffs DANIEL GALITSKY

our generation has been alive. This is the year all that changes.

If you like scoring, the O’s are your team. With only decent pitching but elite hitting, their postseason hopes rest on winning high-scoring ballgames. You probably know star center fielder Adam Jones, but the versatile Steve Pearce has come out of nowhere to become a key cog in the lineup. They are this state’s own squad and the reason you yell “O” during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The Nationals, whose stronghold in this state is in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, have depth and balance but not elite individual hitters. Hyped phenom Bryce Harper has been trying to get back on track after suffering numerous injuries, but the underrated Anthony Rendon is this team’s unofficial MVP. A 30-minute trip on the Green Line is all it takes to see this team in person.

The Terrapins baseball team’s 2014 season was its most successful ever, as the team made it to the NCAA Super Regional and pushed Virginia to the brink. There must be something in the water in the Chesapeake Bay. The year 2014 has raised local baseball to a higher standard with an impressive trifecta.

If the impossible comes true and the Beltway World Series comes to fruition with the Nats and Orioles facing off, our campus will be geographically right near the middle. When was the last time a college campus was at the 50-yard line of the Super Bowl? Nothing is guaranteed in October, but dreams of a pennant are more vivid along the Interstate 95 corridor than ever before.

With Ebola being confirmed on U.S. soil, forget that and get baseball fever instead! If you catch it, don’t call a doctor.

For the second time ever, both local ball clubs are in the postseason. After early exits for both the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals in 2012, when both mid-Atlantic teams were eliminated in tragic late-inning fashion, they have returned with more experience and resolve. The chances of an orange and black parade through the Inner Harbor or a red and blue parade down Pennsylvania Avenue have never been higher. If you haven’t been paying attention, it’s not too late to start.

If you were born in the early- to mid-90s and raised in this state, baseball fell into doldrums during your formative years. As the novelty of Camden Yards faded, Cal Ripken Jr.’s retirement in 2001 began an era of futility for the O’s.

How could the nondescript Brian Roberts and Melvin Mora compare with the championship physicality of Ray Lewis and Ed Reed?

Meanwhile, the Nationals were still the Montreal Expos before arriving in Washington in 2005, only to begin an eight-year period of at-best mediocrity. While Gilbert Arenas’ and Alex Ovechkin’s teams were unable to even come close to championships, their above-average play drew the local spotlight. The Nats did nothing to distinguish themselves in the barren landscape of D.C. sports.

While the Orioles have a long and storied history and the Nationals are the new kid on the Daniel Galitsky is a junior economics block, they have been equally ir- and finance major. He can be reached a relevant for the majority of years dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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Immigration reinforces STEM fields MATT DRAGONETTE Monday’s guest column, “Is there a STEM worker shortage?,” which purports to discuss the reason behind STEM workers’ “modest levels of wage growth,” is both misleading and dangerous. The column, which was published simultaneously in the University of Iowa’s school newspaper, masks the author’s fear of immigration and seeks to strike fear in the hearts of a strong STEM university. Though neither a first-generation American nor a STEM major, I will dismantle the author’s writing and explain why a legal, reasonable immigration policy is a positive, just and wholly American thing to support.

The writer first cites the Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s study of STEM wages. It claims STEM wages have barely increased over the past decade. The author’s source, CIS, is unapologetically opposed to most immigration, and has no problem cherrypicking data to meet its needs.

The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, demonstrates that there is more than meets the eye. As it turns out, the overall real median wage has declined since 2001, while STEM fields such as architecture and engineering have seen real wage growth of as much as

5.77 percent. Not 50 percent, to be sure, but that’s with the rapid immigration the author complained about. And the idea of a “STEM worker” shortage is a hotly debated topic and far from settled.

I personally believe we should never stop innovating in a highly competitive global market.

The author really displays his nativist fears by dividing the STEM workforce into native and immigrant employees.

He views the STEM workforce not as a collection of diverse majors and occupations who could work in a variety of fields but as a collective body whose sole purpose should be to work in-field.

Therefore, the author sees the excess legal STEM immigrants as people who take American jobs and — I infer — should be deported, with all future STEM immigrants banned.

This is ignorance. Have legal immigrants not contributed? Were the likes of Thomas Paine and Andrew Carnegie not useful to our country? Would the author deny Albert Einstein citizenship? The university’s own Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, was an immigrant. What of the millions that immigrated in search of freedom and a better life? Immigrants have built and will continue to build this country.

If that explanation does not suffice, maybe economic data will. More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or children of immigrants. Immigrant-owned small business provide 4.7 million jobs and $776 billion in revenue each year. A

higher percentage of immigrants (10.5 percent) than native-born Americans (9.3 percent) own a business.

The percentage of doctorate holders who are immigrants is staggering – 57 percent of all engineering doctoral degrees are held by immigrants.

I am by no means advocating an open-border policy that would endanger national security, legitimate economic interests and put an undue burden on taxpayers and the government. We need to know who enters the country and we cannot support masses of unemployed, uneducated or dependent immigrants.

But it seems foolish to me to seal the border in a dynamic global economy, in which faraway countries are already competing with us economically and politically. It would be even more foolish to deny those who believe in the freedoms we enjoy and believe in the American Dream. The ideas of industriousness and individual freedom, community and equality are what make Americans truly American. If the world is a competitive place, then it makes sense to recruit the best talent for our “team” so we can continue to innovate.

The author fails to grasp the essence of America. We’re defined by our actions, not our birth.

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Checking for IDs keeps students safe EMMA ATLAS

not hard to spot at all, the way it sits on the most uneven part of the sidewalk next to a boarded-up building in the sketchiest 10-foot radius on the street.

The whole area itself is nice, as I had learned, but as I watched a man come by and squat on the curb with his bike, the grass in the cracks of the pavement felt a little longer. In my agitation, I turned to look at the other buses, not my bus, and felt that agitation grow to see him look too. At one point, he turned and asked me where I was headed.

“Yep,” I said, gesturing vaguely at my headphones.

A bus came by, this one also not Shuttle-UM, but headed toward the school. I must have moved too much, because he began to pack up his things.

Then as the bus pulled in, he looked to see me still sitting and stepped back.

“Not your bus?”

“It’s chilly out,” I said.

What felt like ages later, the Shuttle-UM bus pulled in, I gathered my things,and I swear to God, it looked like I had just ticked off a HannaBarbera villain. I slipped onto the bus, flashed my student ID to the driver, and watched the guy sizzle at me from the sidewalk, all but waving a fist in anger.

I don’t want to know what he had planned, and I don’t want to wonder if he planned anything at all. I’m happy knowing that it didn’t matter, because Shuttle-UM was providing a safe service and a sanctuary to me. There are so many reasons that DOTS drivers need to be vigilant about checking IDs, from equality to safety; you don’t have to pick just one.

I used to think the Department of Transportation Services’ policy regarding the presentation of IDs to board Shuttle-UM buses was brutally annoying. My journalism courses, for a time, required me to travel to Hyattsville twice a week, and with the buses arriving as infrequently as they did, a forgotten ID could mean getting a zero on an assignment. The Sept. 23 story in The Diamondback about senior James Edwards, who felt he was discriminated against by a bus driver for being asked to present an ID while others were not, hit home for me, not because of the discrimination, but because uniformity in ID-checking saved my butt on one of those many trips out to Hyattsville.

We heard over and over in that class not to travel to our beats alone and not to stay out late, the sort of message that goes in my ear and right out the other, having lived next to a bus stop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for a better part of the last decade. I can’t blame the department for that at all. Chuckleheads like me are the reason they need to remind everyone else. I traveled to Hyattsville late and alone, as I had at least 10 times already that semester.

My work finished early, so I was stuck waiting for the next ShuttleUM bus, which wouldn’t come for another 45 minutes. I sat on that Emma Atlas is junior government and park bench next to the bus stop on politics major. She can be reached at that main road in Hyattsville — it’s eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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TOMORROW’S BOXES, TODAY Radiohead lead singer raised a stir recently by releasing a solo album on BitTorrent. Could this become the future of album releases?

By Jon Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer B a c k i n 2 0 0 7, R a d i o h e a d shocked the music business by releasing a critically acclaimed album online with a pay-whatyou-want pricing model. Not long after, the website Bandc a m p a l l owe d l e s s e r- k n ow n artists to put their music into the vast expanse of the Internet, even if it didn’t make much — or any — money. Beyoncé can drop an album with full music videos without warning, and for better or worse (read: worse), U2 can give you their newest album whether you want it or not.

The ever-changing world of music distribution and downloading is a common topic addressed by music critics, especially in our Spotify-ruled world. It seems as though there aren’t any more ways for artists to innovately release albums. Until, of course, this past Friday, when Thom Yorke, lead singer of the aforementioned Radiohead, genuinely managed to blow minds by dropping an entire album onto a site known in some circles for promoting music piracy.

Last week, Yorke dropped a few hints that he might be in the studio.

Rumors swirled about a potential new Radiohead album — the most recent was 2011’s The King of Limbs

Thom yorke (left) released a solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, to the site BitTorrent last week. This isn’t the first time Yorke has experimented with unorthodox album releases; in 2007, his group Radiohead released an album with a pay-what-you-can pricing model. photos courtesy of metro.co.uk (left) and pitchfork.com (right) — but a few days later, Yorke up and released a new solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.

For fans of Yorke’s solo work, the new album isn’t particularly groundbreaking. It’s still excellent electronic music, dripping with Yorke’s eerily beautiful falsetto.

And at this point, the sudden release of an unexpected album — even one by a music figure as renowned as Yorke — isn’t anything particularly industry-shattering.

But Yorke found a new way to push the boundaries. He didn’t just put Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes up on Radiohead’s website; he put the album up on BitTorrent for $6.

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rent is a site that offers users the ability to torrent files. Unlike other forms of file downloads, torrenting works by having several users “seed” files from their own computers while other users “leech” the album, downloading it for themselves. Utilizing the combined power of several hosts, or seeders, files can be downloaded much faster. While torrenting itself is perfectly legal, it often has the reputation as the ideal method for illegally downloading large files, such as music or films.

With this release, Yorke seems to be dancing around the issue of illegal music downloading. In the announcement, he wrote that he

intends for this release to be “an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around.” If more people learn to use BitTorrent, then more people can get the music they want without interacting with the bureaucracy of the music industry. Yorke’s intentions seem to be to have BitTorrent serve as a direct-to-users store like Bandcamp, but it’s hard to ignore the unspoken suggestion that users should just steal their music with this technology.

Yorke has gone on the record as saying that he wants to eliminate the middlemen of the music

business. For those in the music industry, this is disheartening news, but for the musicians themselves, it’s part of the new era’s core mantra. Artists used to give tours to sell records; now records earn little money but hopefully encourage fans to come out and spend money on the tour. With Bandcamp and Yorke’s BitTorrent experiment, more of your money is going directly to the artist, allowing them the means to make more of the music you love.

It’s a difficult line to walk. Our generation has grown up with the ability to essentially listen to any song or album from the comfort of our homes for little to no money, and it seems like an unwanted step backward to stop that access. However, artists need the money to live and deserve to be paid for their efforts. Yorke’s experiment and sites such as BitTorrent and Bandcamp are the future of music downloads, even more so than Spotify. The artists get the money, the fans get the music and the only middleman is a website dedicated to bringing you the music with as little interference as possible.

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Midfielder Sarah Fichtner has played in 29 of 30 games and made 24 starts since joining the Terps. chester lam/the diamondback

fichtner From PAGE 8 freshman season, but her foot took more time to heal. She endured three more surgeries, which kept her out of the lineup for a second straight year.

But Fichtner recovered in time for the beginning of the 2013 season, and she made her first career start against No. 4 Stanford in the sixth game of the season. Ever since, she’s been a staple in the Terps midfield.

“Sarah is a huge role model on this team and a huge presence on the field,” Beanlands said. “She works her tail off all the time, and you know that you’re going to get 110 percent from her at all times.”

Fichtner pairs her ambition to be successful with her presence as someone the team looks to in difficult

situations. Morgan said she doesn’t yell or scream much, but her ability to point out mistakes to her teammates while staying positive makes her one of the most respected players on the squad.

In the Terps’ three matches leading up to Sunday’s match with Nebraska, the team scored one goal, which Fichtner attributed to the team’s lack of confidence near the goal.

So just more than a minute into that game, Fichtner took it upon herself to provide an offensive jolt. After receiving a pass from midfielder Maisie McCune on the right flank, Fichtner weaved by two defenders before poking a s h o t i n to t h e to p - l e f t corner to give the Terps an early advantage.

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Though Fichtner lead by example Sunday, she’s also shown the ability to lead vocally.

“She’s got both of those qualities,” Morgan said. “You look at her and there’s no way you’re going to doubt what kind of effort she’s putting in. But also, she has the ear of the team. She has the voice.”

Though Fichtner’s injury prevented her from playing at Rutgers to begin her college career, she’s found a home with the Terps, who will continue to rely on her against the Boilermakers (6-5-1, 2-4-0).

“Terrific person, terrific player, and there’s a reason why she was unanimously selected as our captain,” Morgan said. “She just embodies everything that you want.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

“They’re a great program.

They have a great history,” right guard Andrew Zeller said. “For our inaugural Big Ten [home] game, it’s a great opponent to have for us.”

But given the Terps’ struggles against ranked opponents under Edsall, the implications of a win at Saturday’s contest stretch beyond the historical significance of conference realignment and the impact on the Big Ten standings.

“It’d be a great statement,” inside linebacker Cole Farrand said.

The magnitude of the game has been mirrored in demand for tickets from students and non-students alike.

According to a Terps football release, tickets for the student section sold out on Monday. But the team made additional student tickets available for 300-level seats until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to “accommodate the overwhelming student demand.”

Additionally, the athletic d e pa r t m e n t a n n o u n ce d Friday the availability of a “limited number of tickets” after Ohio State “returned a package of its allotment.”

Byrd Stadium has a listed capacity of 51,802, but the Terps haven’t drawn 50,000 fans to the facility since a Sept. 17, 2011, loss to West Virginia, Edsall’s second game as coach.

“It’s the first Big Ten game, so everybody’s excited. And

Coach Randy Edsall (right) has yet to beat a ranked opponent in his four years as Terps coach. The team hosts No. 20 Ohio State this Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback who better to play in your first home Big Ten game besides Ohio State?” Farrand said. “Fans and students are coming up and saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to the game,’ which is always a good sign, because we want as many fans there as possible because that definitely helps you.”

Attendance aside, Edsall is still searching for a marquee victory three and a half years into his stint.

In his first game as coach, Edsall led the Terps to a win over then-conference rival Miami in the program’s last nationally televised night game. But the team went on to lose 10 of its final 11 contests to finish the season 2-10.

The Terps also went on the road to defeat Virginia Tech last season in overtime, but that came after back-to-back

home ACC losses, including a 20-3 shellacking at the hands of Syracuse. And earlier that year, Edsall brought his undefeated No. 25-ranked Terps to No. 8 Florida State only to lose, 63-0.

Edsall’s again put the Terps in position to earn a programchanging victory this season.

After last week’s 37-15 conference-opening win over Indiana, the coach said his team proved it fits in the Big Ten. On Saturday, Edsall’s team has a chance to prove it can contend.

“There will be a lot of pageantry with the first home game here,” Edsall said.

“Hopefully, what we can do here is play to the best of our ability and give ourselves the opportunity to get a win.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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LEADING BY EXAMPLE Fichtner proves vital as Terps’ captain entering tonight’s match against Boilermakers

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer Before the season began, the Terrapins women’s soccer team voted midfielder Sarah Fichtner as one of the three captains tasked with leading the Terps’ quest to return to the NCAA tournament after a one-year absence.

And while the impact of fellow captains forward Alex Doody and goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands shows in their statistics — Doody ranks second on the team in goals and Beanlands has compiled four shutouts — coaches and teammates praise Fichtner for steadiness and versatility, traits that aren’t recognized in box scores.

“She’s probably, in the time that we’ve been here, one of the most dependable players I’ve had,” said coach Jonathan Morgan, whose Terps host Purdue tonight.

“With her, I know exactly the type of effort and what type of performance we’re going to get out of her every day.”

Since Fichtner transferred from Rutgers after her freshman year, she’s played in 29 of the Terps’ 30 games and made 24 starts, including 10 so far this season.

The Toms River, New Jersey, native cherishes that time on the field because she’s spent two years off it.

In June 2011, Fichtner suffered a Lisfranc injury, in which two ligaments tore off a bone in her foot. After undergoing surgery in August, Fichtner attended Rutgers in the fall.

But while sidelined as she continued to recover, Fichtner struggled through her freshman campaign with the Scarlet Knights.

“I was at Rutgers because it was in New Jersey, and I loved the campus when I went on my visits,” Fichtner said. “But I just didn’t feel like a part of the team when I was injured, and it just wasn’t the right fit for me.”

Fichtner decided to leave the Scarlet Knights and join the Terps (4-4-2, 2-2-1 Big Ten) for her redshirt See fichtner, Page 7

When the Big Ten released its 2014 conference schedule in midMay, many Terrapins football fans circled on their calendars the team’s Oct. 4 bout with Ohio State.

It marked the Terps’ first Big Ten home game. The Buckeyes would almost surely be ranked when they traveled to Byrd Stadium. And it wasn’t out of the question for both programs to enter the contest undefeated, sparking hushed conversations of the ESPN College GameDay crew potentially arriving on this campus for the first time.

Those wide-eyed prophecies weren’t fulfilled, though, as both teams suffered defeats in their first three games of the season. Ohio State lost starting quarterback Braxton Miller to a season-ending shoulder injury during the preseason and fell to Virginia Tech at home in Week 2. The Terps, meanwhile, were upended by border-rival West Virginia on a field goal as time expired on Sept. 13 in College Park.

Even so, Saturday’s game against the No. 20 Buckeyes, which kicks off at noon on ABC, represents perhaps the most important home game in coach Randy Edsall’s fouryear tenure. A win would be the first for Edsall over a ranked opponent during his time at the helm and would cement the now first-place Terps’ perch atop the standings in the Big Ten East division.

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Cole Farrand and the Terps play their first-ever Big Ten game at Byrd Stadium on Saturday when Ohio State visits. chrisitan jenkins/the diamondback “We have a tremendous opportunity and tremendous challenge ahead of us this weekend,” Edsall said. “Looking forward to the home opener here at Byrd Stadium. I know it is going to be an electric crowd and a packed house.”

The Terps’ last victory against a ranked opponent came Nov. 27, 2010 over then-No. 21 N.C. State. That was the season before Edsall took over in College Park, during which the team went 9-4 and won the Military Bowl under Ralph Friedgen, now the offensive coordinator at Rutgers.

Since then, the Terps have gone 0-8 against ranked opponents. Four of those games have been played in Byrd Stadium, with a fifth coming on Saturday.

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