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Terps double last year’s win total by toppling Blue Devils on Saturday

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

In the middle of the fourth quarter, after letting Duke wide receiver Donovan Varner slip past him for a 35-yard catch that set up a Duke touchdown, Terrapin football safety Antwine Perez knew he had messed up.

Perez hadn’t heard defensive coordinator Don Brown screaming at him from the sideline to back up. He’d remembered the coverage scheme differently from practice. As Varner blew

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by him, he was caught flat-footed.

After the conversion — one which Brown said made him want to “bang my head on the top of the stadium” — Perez knew Brown would be steaming. So he went over and told his coach that he owed him one.

“It was a blown coverage on my part; it’s my fault for not looking at the down and distance,” Perez said. “That play was really kind of nagging on me.

So the next drive, I knew I had to make a play.”

So on fourth-and-15 with less than

two minutes left in the game and Duke driving for the game-winning touchdown, Perez atoned for his mistake.

He drilled wideout Austin Kelly right as the ball arrived, dislodging the ball, breaking up a potential first down and sealing a 21-16 win for the Terps.

“You don’t really want to make Coach Brown mad. You always want to be on his good side,” Perez said. “I thought I paid him back with a big play at the end of the game. I think I am

Student falls victim to robbery on campus Mugging incident took place outside Anne Arundel

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BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

Quarterback Danny O’Brien threw for 170 yards and one touchdown Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

This semester’s string of muggings has made it onto the campus.

University Police are looking for three men they said robbed a student of his wallet and cell phone at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday on a sidewalk between Anne Arundel Hall and McKeldin Library, University Police spokeswoman Capt. Carolyn Consoli said.

In the first robbery to strike the campus since May 9, the student told police he was walking home toward Queen Anne’s Hall when the men intercepted him and one tackled him, Consoli said. The assailants ran off toward Lot 1, and the student — who was not injured — called police promptly, she said.

The men did not display a weapon and did not appear to be armed, she added.

Consoli said that the area the student was walking in was not well-lit but that there were two security cameras in the area of the robbery and dozens more nearby. Police are reviewing the footage, but Consoli said she couldn’t say whether the suspects were caught on tape.

The campus itself isn’t as common a mugging target as College Park’s back streets; there have been at least five off-campus robberies since students

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Univ. departments help digitize health care Interdisciplinary collaboration intends to make medical records more accessible

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Vito Riccio, owner of Vito's Pizza, stands in the empty area where he plans to open his lounge and bar today. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

As the nation’s paper-based health-care system moves online, multiple university departments will collaborate to design new information technology solutions that officials hope will put the university’s research efforts on the national stage.

The health information technology initiative is being co-led by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the business school and the public health school. CHIDS Associate Director Kenyon Crowley said the goal of the research will be to create an interconnected healthcare system in which doctors have immediate access to a

Vito’s to reopen with new lounge Dabbling

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer

Vito’s Pizzeria will reopen its doors today, but with a few new additions — a lounge and a liquor license.

“College Park, here it is: the spot,” said Vito Riccio, the restaurant’s owner.

The reopening, planned for this past weekend, was postponed due to a lack of hot water in the restrooms and the death of Riccio’s father last week.

Riccio said today will be the “soft opening,” with half-price pizzas and happy hour draft specials, while the grand opening will commence this weekend, with a DJ appearance planned for both nights.

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versity-wide naming contest have been judged.

“The problems [with health IT] are so multi-faceted, it’s going to take people from all over campus to come up with solutions,” Crowley said. “The goal of the initiative is to build a unified team to take on health IT

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patient’s medical information.

The idea is that health-care professionals will be able to make better-informed decisions by having immediate access to a patient’s records, such as being made aware if a patient is due for a routine exam.

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The DCC program’s goal, officials said, is to tap into this innate knowledge and explore how best to combine a humanities education with a knowledge of emerging technologies.

According to DCC director Matthew Kirschenbaum, the iPad serves as a unifying platform for the program’s participants, who have most recently explored the possibilities of the iBooks application, which allows iPad users to read full versions of books on the device.

“It’s great for reading textbooks — a lot cheaper and more convenient than carrying around stacks of books,” said Sarah Chase, a freshman biochemistry major and member of DCC. In a way, these students are testdriving the device for possible future uses, Kirschenbaum said. Although not all textbooks are available through the application, more are added every semester, and it may prove more financially sensible for future students to replace traditional textbooks with digital versions.

“We’re kind of like guinea pigs,” freshman business major Sherry Feng said.

As advertised when the program was announced last year, DCC students will not only learn about ways to make use of technology but also have the opportunity to design an application themselves.

The university’s Mobility Initiative — the program that partnered with DCC to provide the iPads — aims to enrich students’ education through the use of mobile technology. This year, it is sponsoring its first “Mobility Contest,” a competition for students to create a mobile application that in some way supports university life.

DCC students, especially those interested in programming, are encouraged to form a team and enter the contest. The three teams with the best applications, which will be judged mid-April, could each win up to $3,000 in prize money.

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Freshman physics major Julia Ruth reads on her iPad. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Although there has been skepticism about the merit of spending such a large amount of money on such a small portion of the student population, Kirschenbaum said he believes that the iPad initiative will ultimately benefit everyone.

“One of the things a great university does is innovate,” he said.

“Its ability to incorporate new tools and technology into the curriculum to aid students in the digital age is part of what makes it stand out.”

A progressive attitude toward technology draw in a more talented student body, he added.

One criticism the program has sparked is that students get to keep the iPads rather than give them back for the next round of participants.

But Kirschenbaum said recycling them just wouldn’t be practical.

“DCC is a two-year living and learning community,” he said. “If we gave them out to new students two years from now, they would already be outdated.”

While it is uncertain whether DCC will partner with the Mobility Initiative to provide iPads to next year’s students, program participants seem to think the practice should continue.

“It’s a lot of money, and I personally wouldn’t have bought one myself,” said freshman Cara Shillenn, an anthropology major. “We haven’t done a whole lot with it yet, but we’ve only been here four weeks. I think it’s a good investment as long as we continue to use it more in class.”

“We’re really excited about being able to be one of the College Park places to cater to the students,” Riccio said.

But Riccio said he wants his establishment to stand out from other bars in the city by giving the lounge — previously the location of Wata Wing — a “New York, urban, chic feel” through postmodern artwork, no cover fee at the door and an only over-21 crowd in the bar area at night. ID scanners and security will be on site to ensure this requirement, he said.

“We’re going to be real strict,” he said, adding that as a young entrepreneur — Riccio is 28 — he needs to take extreme care.

Riccio received his Class B liquor license — the same license as the city’s other

Vito Riccio, owner of Vito's Pizzeria, is opening a new lounge section of his restaurant today. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

bars — and will be allowed to ser ve wine, which won’t be in until next week, and beer starting today. Under College Park City Council regulations, the pizzeria will be prohibited from ser ving hard liquor for six months, but Riccio said he will appeal that decision to the council and liquor board

within the next two weeks.

“Because I’m so young, I feel like I’m operating in handcuffs,” he said.

Other changes include a roped-off section separating the over-21 lounge crowd from the all-ages takeout area, TVs that Riccio hopes will attract the Sunday football crowd, a renovated

menu to add more “authentic Italian dishes” and DJs ever y Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. The pizzeria will stay open as late as the city’s other bars, catering to the late-night pizza crowd.

“I want to throw a party every night,” Riccio said.

Many students agreed the revamped Vito’s Pizzeria might help to alleviate some of the congestion students say they’ve noticed since the recent closing of two local bars.

“All the other bars are overcrowded,” said senior accounting major John Brower. “It’s small, but it makes a difference.”

Junior environmental science major Christine Marcozzi agreed, also citing overcrowding issues at other venues.

“I think we definitely need another place to go,” she said. roubein@umdbk.com

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Health school celebrates accreditation Officials say formal recognition will bring more respect, research funds

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer

Five years ago, Robert Gold sat in Provost Nariman Far vardin’s office to gain support for his vision: creating a public health school at this university.

“It was an easy sell for me — a no-brainer as far as I was concerned,” said Farvardin, who now also serves as acting university president.

The idea formally became reality in June when the public health school received full accreditation.

This achievement allows the school to compete for millions of research dollars, symbolizes high-quality education standards and represents a positive reputation among peer schools, of ficials said.

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TECHNOLOGIES from page 1 problems.”

Crowley said students will also have opportunities to engage in research alongside faculty.

“There’s a huge demand for health information technologies right now,” Crowley said. “It’ll be important to make students aware of this opportunity.”

The initiative, which has been in the making for more than a year and is being funded with $80,000 from the Division of Research, will involve several academic departments at the university, including the engineering

“It’ll be important to make students aware of this opportunity.”

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annual Research Interaction Day on Friday, and speakers at the event included Gold, the school’s dean; Farvardin; John Colmers, state secretar y of health and mental hygiene; and Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

This university’s public health school was recognized by the state in 2007, but it still had to per form a “self-study” — a deep look into the school’s curriculum and staff — and pass reviews by the Board of Councilors of the Council on Education for Public Health to receive accreditation.

“It’s one heck of an undertaking,” said Blakely Pomietto, the school’s assistant director of student services.

The school received accreditation at a “lightning speed,” according to Far-

vardin, and is the only accredited school at a public university in the Washington area.

“This milestone for us represents advancing a better state of health for Maryland,” Gold said.

To achieve that, the school’s academic researchers must collaborate with state policymakers, Colmers said.

“It’s an important relationship that cannot be underemphasized; it’s essential in the field that we have the value of information produced in the research community,” he said.

Colmers said the relationship is important because it can help the public understand the complex changes of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act and address the disparities of health across racial and ethnic lines.

Clancy said the partnership

will expand research for better care, work within communities to improve citizens’ health and provide a well-educated workforce.

The school’s creation and accreditation is in time to address the shortage in the public health workforce. By 2020, more than 200,000 more public health practitioners will be needed in order to reach the same number of professionals per capita as the 1980s, Gold said.

Clancy said it’s important the school’s students and faculty view themselves as “leaders and innovators” who will impact public health for generations.

“These are the people who are devising methodologies for creating policies that will have a positive impact on our state,” Farvardin said.

school, the behavioral and social sciences college and the computer, mathematical and physical sciences college.

The initiative will also pull from multidisciplinary movements at the university including the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and medical schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

CHIDS Founder and Director Ritu Agarwal said everyone involved will play a critical role in developing solutions.

“It’s amazing once you start talking that you have more research that excites you than separates you,” Agar wal said of the different research departments that are involved.

Crowley said today’s paperbased health care system means a patient’s medical history, such as severe allergies and medical conditions he or she might have, is restricted to the office where it was filled out. But new technologies created through this ini-

tiative could make it easier for doctors to share a patient’s medical history without requiring a patient to complete additional forms.

“It’s not just efficiencies and saving costs,” Crowley said of the potential technologies. “It has real effects on people’s health and qualities of lives.”

In addition, Crowley said initiative team members are focusing on developing solutions to help doctor-patient relationships by designing a patient-centered medical hub — a system that would include providing certain patients with interactive monitoring devices they could keep with them at home.

With these devices, patients would be monitored and aler ted to any changes in their immediate health and vital signs. The information could then be transferred through the central monitoring system to health care professionals on the other end to determine

“It’s amazing once you start talking that you have more research that excites you than separates you.”

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whether the patient is in need of medical attention.

Agar wal said the technology solutions the team is working to develop will likely gain national attention from both policy-makers and health-care providers.

“This is a concept that is likely to be adapted across the health-care system,” she said. “We still have a lot to learn, but this could eventually become the new standard [for health care].” saravia@umdbk.com

Three men robbed a student behind Anne Arundel Hall early yesterday morning. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

ROBBERY from page 1 returned for the fall semester.

University Police typically attribute the discrepancy to higher police patrols, license plate readers, manned checkpoints and more than 300 security cameras.

But even though many students walking in the area of the mugging yesterday afternoon said they feel safe within the campus’s boundaries, some also questioned that sense of security.

“I was out 20 minutes before it happened, walking alone at 4 in the morning,” said Jon Boduch, a freshman mechanical engineering major who lives in Anne Arundel Hall.

“Three guys jumping one guy, that’s not fair,” he added.

Several students said they frequently traveled between North and South Campus dorms and across McKeldin Mall without worrying for their safety, even late at night. Others said they regularly wander among the North Hill dorms to do laundry or pick up packages.

Junior animal sciences major Maggie MacKnight said she always travels with a partner on poorly lit sections of the campus but named ways more could be done to protect students.

“I wonder if a cop could be stationed around here, but [I] know they can’t be everywhere,” MacKnight said. “Maybe more lighting would help.”

The Student Government Association is asking students to identify locations on a campus map where they feel at risk;

copies of the map are available at Stamp Student Union and elsewhere in and around the campus, and students and police have scheduled a “safety walk” for Oct. 11 to visit the sites.

Consoli said that the nearly empty campus at 4:30 a.m. may have encouraged the muggers and that students need to be aware of their surroundings wherever they are, even in areas they consider safe.

In the May 9 incident, a group of five or six men approached a three-person group walking in the parking lot of the Memorial Chapel and demanded their money but ran away when one of their intended victims called 911 on a cell phone.

During the summer break, robberies also struck the peripheries of the university property — University Courtyards in late May and the Old Leonardtown dorm in June. Suspects in those crimes remain at large.

In the crime alert, police described one of the suspects in Sudnay’s robbery as a black male, 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet, 2 inches tall with buzzed hair and medium build, wearing a gray hoodie with dark gray stripes and dark pants. The remaining two suspects were also described as black men, but police said they had no further descriptions.

The first version of the crime alert described the robbers as three white males; Consoli sent out a corrected version a few minutes later and said the error was a typo. apino@umdbk.com

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Crimes such as yesterday’s do not only illustrate the risk posed to students but also o it goes. The crime spree of 2010 continued early yesterday morning as yet another victim was assaulted and robbed in College Park. This time, how- the risk to the university’s reputation. Although Maryland Images’ tour guides may ever, it was in the heart of where many students call home. shy away from prospective students’ questions regarding campus safety, that facade A student was tackled to the ground and mugged by three suspects about can only remain for so long. NBC4’s story about the latest mugging was headlined 4:30 yesterday morning near two Honors dorms — Queen Anne’s and Anne Arundel “Another College Park Robbery,” implying the run-of-the-mill rate at which such halls. The incident further debunked the Crime Time myth promoted by local police crimes happen here. And just this month, The Daily Beast ranked the university No. 5 and the Student Government Association, which claims most crimes occur between on a list of the most dangerous schools in the ACC. But who can be surprised by such an embarrassing rankthe hours of 2 and 4 a.m. ing when considering the statistics? Since 2007, when the Since students returned to the campus fewer than two class of 2011 entered the university, there have been 29 months ago, there have been at least six muggings in College Park. This is the first to creep onto the campus since last May. The robbery that occurred on aggravated assaults, 31 robberies, 347 burglaries and a stag1,329 cases of larceny on the campus. Such numbers Such a dramatic number is not only rattling for students and the campus yesterday is just gering are all the more overwhelming considering this academic their families, but it is unacceptable. And the fact that such vioone incident in a crime wave year is still less than eight months away from completion. lent robberies are now occurring feet from where many stuThere is no easy solution to crime. Despite increased dents sleep is all the more concerning. that must be stopped. police presence and public awareness efforts, students and University and Prince George’s County police are undoubtedly bombarded by high expectations from students, parents, alumni and residents. residents continue to fall victim to crime. Although the university has seen a steady The minute a crime occurs, many students curse police for not doing their jobs or decline in various types of crime, the university’s reputation of having a dangerous wasting their time busting parties. Although there may be some truth to such an campus and surrounding area has not changed.

Students become well acquainted with crime when they enroll at this university. argument, the fact is police cannot be everywhere all the time — nor do we think many would want them to be. However, the recent surge in violent crime has shown Waking up Sunday mornings to crime alerts is something many grow to expect. But when crime strikes feet away from students’ bedrooms, it can send a chilling wake-up no signs of dying down.

The public safety department employs more than 100 officers and another 100 stu- call. Yesterday’s robbery, much like the one that occurred last February between dent auxiliary, but that number is beginning to seem insufficient. The crime wave Harford and Frederick halls and another that occurred at the ATM outside of Ellicott may require a surge in officers or a shift in patrolling tactics to place more police Hall, show how dire the situation really is.

Each time crime strikes another victim in College Park, the university is robbed of where they need to be on the 1,250-acre campus. While patrols conducted in police vehicles are no doubt useful, yesterday’s robbery demonstrates that crime does not something, too. And each incident is more than just another tally on the university’s just occur near roadways. It happens in darkened corners off the beaten path, where crime statistics sheet. Students are frightened. Parents are frightened. And something must be done. students may be caught off guard and without anyone to come to their assistance.

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Voting green: The choice is obvious

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his state has a competitive gubernatorial election between current Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Gov. Bob Ehrlich. At this university, the media and politicians like to talk about tuition. However, I’ve been engaging students on environmental issues for the last four years, and the majority either have an inclination to support environmental policies or actively promote them. The most concrete example of this is the 2007 SGA election referendum in which 91 percent of student voters approved a self-imposed green fee to offset carbon emissions.

If you care about the health of the Chesapeake Bay, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, creation of clean energy jobs and construction of the Purple Line, the best choice for governor is clearly O’Malley.

O’Malley has made some decisions that I don’t like, such as building the Intercounty Connector and supporting a weakening of stormwater regulations.

But he has also supported and signed

MATT DERNOGA some of the most aggressive environmental legislation in the country, such as the Clean Cars Act of 2007, which reduces emissions from automobiles and increases fuel economy. Additionally, he entered the state into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative with other northeastern states, an action that has forced coal companies to reduce emissions and pay fines if they pollute.

O’Malley signed a Renewable Electricity Standard — which pledged that 20 percent of the state’s energy would come from renewable energy sources by 2022. He has accelerated a solar energy standard, improved the solar grant program and mandated that utility companies achieve a 15 percent reduction in per capita energy use by 2015.

Furthermore, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act that was signed by O’Malley in 2009 mandates a 25 percent reduction of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — one of the strongest global warming laws in the nation. The governor has even just proposed $48 million for the Purple Line in his newest transportation budget proposal.

What about Ehrlich? He says he’d “pull the plug” on O’Malley’s plan to build the Purple Line light rail. The halting of the Purple Line would have serious consequences, from affecting the improvement of College Park to reducing smart development and accessible transportation options for students.

Ehrlich opposed the Clean Cars Act in 2005, and he raided funding for Program Open Space — a land conservation program in the state that O’Malley fully funded. Ehrlich killed efforts in 2003 to regulate the poultry industry’s harmful impact on the Chesapeake Bay. Finally, Ehrlich fired experienced staff at the state’s environmental agencies and appointed inexperienced industry

insiders in their place — an auto-industry lawyer was head of the state Department of the Environment!

The ultimate difference between the two candidates is the distinction between offense and defense. Four more years of O’Malley will allow advocates in the state the opportunity to pass environmental laws and build on the victories from his first term. Electing Ehrlich will mean no opportunity for progress and a major fight to prevent the rollback of clean air, clean water and clean energy laws. Even the Purple Line would be dead.

I support a chance at progress. Young people cannot afford to sit on the sidelines for this election. Register to vote by Oct. 12, and either vote early from Oct. 22 to Oct. 28 at College Park Community Center (except Oct. 24), or Election Day on Nov. 2. Find out more at www.elections.state.md.us/voting.

Matt Dernoga is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at dernoga@umdbk.com.

The right to privacy: A balancing act

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hat do you think of when you hear the word “privacy”? Do you picture a “Do Not Disturb” sign or a sock on your doorknob?

Does your mind wander to that video of a bald Britney Spears attacking the paparazzi with an umbrella?

Or do you perhaps think about the inalienable right that American citizens are guaranteed? Though it’s not specifically mentioned in our Constitution, privacy is widely considered a fundamental privilege all of us share and none of us would like to cede. Privacy is what ensures our protection from self-incrimination, from unreasonable search and seizure and from being persecuted for our beliefs, to name a few.

Needless to say, privacy is one of our most important rights — yet it’s also the one that is arguably the most easily (and frequently) taken away. As soon as we are attacked or threatened, or there is a potential for some kind of

threat or attack in the near or distant future, our privacy heads for the door and sometimes gets pushed right out.

Obviously, there has to be some give-and-take in the tug of war between the right to privacy and the government’s need to secure our collective well-being. I appreciate that there are security cameras on and off the campus because they make me feel safer. Thus, I had no qualms about supporting the 19 new security cameras that are being installed in offcampus locations after Gemstone students discovered they would help crime prevention efforts.

Just like having to put my luggage through an X-ray machine at the airport and having my belongings examined by a stranger, the security cameras could be considered an infringement of my right to privacy. But because they are there to ensure I am being watched wherever and whenever I walk — which will most likely reduce the probability that I’ll be

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attacked or mugged — it’s the kind of infringement that is more helpful than harmful. Cameras can be a deterrent to crime because they induce a fear of being watched in criminals that will hopefully reduce violent activity around College Park.

When efforts to make me feel safer end up trumping my right to privacy, though, it becomes a problem. I’m willing to give up some things in the name of public safety, but there’s a limit to what I’ll voluntarily cede without a good reason.

It’s not like I have anything to hide, but it’s the principle of the matter. Many civil rights activists protested the USA PATRIOT Act,

which gave the government largely unlimited power to wiretap phones and monitor Internet usage to catch terrorists. When it was first enacted, it was so vague that it could easily be applied to those who weren’t engaging in criminal activity in the slightest. If no one’s checking on them to make sure they don’t cross the line and snoop without purpose, it’s only a matter of time before Big Brother becomes a Peeping Tom. Remember in George Orwell’s 1984 how the government monitored everything? I’m all for big government and intervention when it’s necessary to promote safety, justice and equality, but it’s a little overwhelming when it could potentially become personal and unsupervised. Because at the end of the day, my privacy is just that — mine.

Emilie Openchowski is a senior journalism and government and politics major. She can be reached at openchowski@umdbk.com.

The right to be a student

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m I the only one who thinks The Diamondback missed a crucial point as to why sports fans don’t show up to university games in its Sept. 29 article, “Fanning out”? It’s not about the early games, and it’s not about the weather. What it is about is the ridiculously intense police force that patrols this university.

University Police enforce such strict laws on the campus that students are forced to tailgate two to three miles away. Who wants to walk to the stadium from that far?

I don’t care what time it is, how hot it is or what our record is: College students want to come together in their team gear, drink a beer or two and go to the game together. That’s what college students do. But how does the university or the athletics department expect students to attend the games when they are forced off the campus in order to do that? And better yet, when they go off the campus, even at College Avenue houses, the police chase them off those premises, giving ever yone a buzzkill.

Now, I am certainly not preaching the virtues of underage drinking, alcoholism or anything like that. I am just stating the mentality of most college students, as well as rehashing what you see in movies, read about in newspapers and hear about from friends. It’s not too complicated; it’s just plain old fan bonding.

At other universities (Rutgers, Indiana and Penn State, for example), I know for a fact that the students are allowed to tailgate right outside the stadium — regardless of their age. Because of this, people actually go to the games. Rutgers has a far worse football program than we have, but their fan viewership has increased. What’s the reason for this? Because they are able to casually drink outside the stadium and walk 10 feet to the game. If I ever tried that, I would probably be arrested on the spot. The police here don’t even let 21-year-olds drink with beer kegs or party balls on the campus, and they don’t let them play drinking games. Since when is a police officer allowed to tell a 21-year-old how to drink? Additionally, since when was this university a dr y campus?

I’m certain there is a direct correlation between tailgating location and attendance at games. It’s simple: If the police took the time to simply monitor drinking rather than more or less ban it altogether, fan viewership would increase. I’m sure of this. It’s not about the record, the time or the weather: It’s about being a frickin’ normal college student for once in our lives.

Jenna Shulman is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at jshulman2@gmail.com.

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By Voices.

Saturday, Washington’s 9:30 Club played host to The Vaselines and Teenage Fanclub — both from Glasgow, Scotland. The first, a lo-fi but loud band made famous by Kurt Cobain’s fandom (and Nirvana’s treatment of three Vaselines songs), is touring in support of its first album in more than 20 years, the Sept. 14released Sex With An X. Teenage Fanclub, on the other hand, never broke up like The Vaselines did and released their 10th full-length album in May. Both bands employ rock guitars, breezy songs about love and, in true ’90s fashion, a fair dosage of noisy guitar solos.

Saturday marked the first night of The Vaselines’ fall U.S. tour.

Despite the graying heads of the band, as well as the crowd, the show was an energetic one.

After 20 years, The Vaselines is still loud and fast, opening with their new material and working in classics such as “Son of A Gun” and “Rory Rides Me Raw.” — Drew Waldo

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There’s no business like show business.

The contestants of So You Think You Can Dance find this out the hard way: dancing in several styles week after week until one of them is voted “America’s favorite dancer.” As much fun as they may have had on the popular FOX television program, they’ll be tested in new ways on this year’s national touring version of the show.

In the 40-city tour, the top seven contestants from the past season as well as a mix of “All-Stars,” popular dancers from previous seasons, will perform dances from the show as well as brand new pieces for the tour. Tomorrow night, they will light up the stage at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore.

“We just love going out there and dancing for everyone, giving the crowd an amazing performance,” said contemporary dancer Kent Boyd, 18, of Wapakoneta, Ohio.

“When you get out into an arena of thousands of people and hear screaming at the fact that you’re on stage is the most incredible feeling in the world,” said Robert Roldan, 20, a contemporary dancer from Thousand Oaks, Calif. “I can’t even explain how that rush just happens every single time I’ve stepped on stage so far.”

After a grueling summer on the hit TV series, the two runners-up have been extremely enthusiastic about performing live.

“None of us really got any breaks from the show. But it’s great; it’s what we love to do,” Boyd said. “It’s so amazing to actually realize that there are more people watching this than just your parents.”

Roldan in particular was looking forward to a performance in Balti-

more, having lived nearby.

“I lived in Maryland for about a year and a half, actually,” he said. “I was living in Riverdale, which is kind of close to Baltimore.”

Both performers discussed their favorite numbers. For Roldan, it is a contemporary routine to Coldplay’s “Fix You,” with All-Star Allison Holker.

“It’s very special to me, and I’m so glad I can do it on the tour,” Roldan said.

Boyd looked forward to group routines with the other dancers.

“There’s a couple of new ones that I can’t talk about until you see it live, and I don’t want to ruin them,” Boyd said.

“Those became some of my favorites.

It’s refreshing and new for me.”

Jamie Curtis, director of marketing and public relations at 1st Mariner Arena, expressed her satisfaction working with those putting the tour together.

“We’ve had this show for a number of years,” Curtis said. “They are fantastic to work with.”

She called Baltimore “one of the best stops on ... the entire tour of this show,” saying that Baltimore, the metropolitan area and the arena staff all fell in love with So You Think You Can Dance.

“We all love live entertainment, and we love the whole process of getting the show and putting it together and watching it grow,” she said. “Everybody that works at 1st Mariner gets this kick out of seeing people come into the building and just the excitement on everybody’s face.”

The dancers encouraged students to come see the tour in Baltimore.

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Robert Roldan, above, is a performer on the So You Think You Can Dance national tour. The show stops by Baltimore tomorrow. COURTESY OF FOX TV

to the show “can discover a new passion” by watching the various styles of dance over the course of the night.

More than anything else, the dancers stressed how much the audience will enjoy watching the show.

“All I can tell you is the tour is amazing,” Roldan said. “It’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of fun stuff that happens on stage.”

The So You Think You Can Dance tour is tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at 1st Mariner Arena. Tickets start at $37.50.

bers they look incredible. So right there, there should be a whole bunch of guys there.”

Roldan also expressed his enthusiasm for the performances on the tour.

“It’s so entertaining, top to bottom, all different styles of dance. [Audiences] can walk away feeling excited,” said Roldan.

Both also pointed out that dance is a powerful art form they feel doesn’t get enough attention.

“I feel like people my age don’t really see this type of art form as much,” Roldan said.

Boyd hopes that those who come

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MEN’S SOCCER

Terps rock Duke before full house at Ludwig More than 7,000 watch team dominate in 2-0 victory over Blue Devils

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Midfielder Patrick Mullins celebrates his first-half goal in the Terps’ 2-0 victory over Duke. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

As new Terrapin Athletics Director Kevin Anderson strolled into Ludwig Field on Friday night, he saw a Terrapin men’s soccer team playing at its best and a crowd at

its fullest.

Before a nationally televised audience including Anderson and a new record crowd, the No. 8 Terps (5-2-1, 2-1-1 ACC) didn’t just slide past the No. 9 Blue Devils (4-2-3, 1-2-1). They won with conviction, their 2-0 victory giving the team its first

signature win of the season.

“It’s a great night for Maryland soccer,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.

“It was incredible,” midfielder Patrick Mullins said of the 7,260 in attendance.

“Everywhere I looked, there were people. It just made a huge difference for us.”

In turning in one of their most thorough efforts this year, the Terps held Duke’s offense without a shot on goal.

The team’s attack, meanwhile, finally clicked for its first score in the run of play in more than 280 minutes.

“Our team defending was outstanding, and our connection on the field was very good,” Cirovski said. “You could see the communication; the movement was very good.

We probably deserved a few more goals.”

Despite averaging more than seven shots a match entering Friday night’s game, Duke forward Ryan Finley, the nation’s leading scorer, found only two openings the entire game. Both came in the second half, and both were stopped short by a stout defense. The Blue Devils managed only 10 shots and didn’t test All-America goalkeeper Zac MacMath once.

Defender Alex Lee looked comfortable at his new center back position, while right back London Woodberry also continued to impress Cirovski with his impact on both sides of the ball.

“That was probably our strongest effort as a backline so far against a high-quality team,” Cirovski said.

After an offensive lull to start the contest, the Terps started heating up before the end of the half. In the 34th minute, for ward Jason Herrick dribbled into the right

side of the penalty box and drew a penalty kick after a trip by Duke defender Andrew Wenger.

For the second straight game, midfielder Matt Kassel scored on a penalty kick with a strike to the right. Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw, who finished the game with seven saves, even guessed right, but Kassel’s shot zoomed out of reach.

Just eight minutes later, Herrick again attacked the Duke defense, ripping a shot to the left side of the net. Blocked, the shot rolled to Mullins, who slammed home his second goal of the season with a rip to the right.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” Mullins said.

“We talked about following shots up, and we preach that a lot in practice.”

Despite several other opportunities in the second half, the Terps couldn’t meet their team goal of three scores. With their defensive supremacy, though, they didn’t need to.

While an important nonconference match tomorrow against No. 3 Connecticut looms, the Terps knew how important a victor y Friday was. The win earned the team three more points in the ACC and vaulted the Terps past Duke and Virginia in the standings.

After running down the far sideline giving high-fives to fans after the final whistle, Kassel could finally pause and reflect on the marquee victory and oversize crowd that witnessed it.

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Women’s soccer falls to VT The Terrapin women’s soccer team suffered its first defeat of the season yesterday in a 1-0 loss at Virginia Tech. Get more at www.diamondbackonline.com/sports.

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Oct. 16 Clemson

Terp players celebrate their 21-16 victory against Duke on Saturday night. The win doubled the Terps’ win total from last season, when they won just twice.

DUKE from page 1 back on his good side now.”

Early in the game, it seemed as if the Terps (4-1, 10 ACC) wouldn’t be in a position to protect a lead. Their offense repeatedly stalled, and their defense couldn’t get Duke off the field.

After weeklong sermons on the importance of third-down stops, coach Ralph Friedgen watched Duke (1-4, 0-2) convert its first three third downs en route to an early 3-0 lead.

For the rest of the half, he also watched the Blue Devils

roll up 227 yards of total offense, including 173 yards through the air and four trips to the red zone.

But as it has done nearly all season long, the Terps’ defense stiffened when it needed to. Duke came away with only nine points and headed into halftime with a 97 lead despite an obvious onfield superiority.

That changed at halftime.

Brown tinkered with his defense, and the Terps finally started creating pressure on quarterback Sean Renfree.

“It’s really a tribute to the players,” Brown said.

“They’re the ones who took

that aggressive mentality and made it work. We just came out of the locker room with a renewed vigor.”

Without the running game or accuracy that helped make his debut as a starter against Florida International a success, Terp freshman quarterback Danny O’Brien wasn’t quite as sharp in his first ACC contest.

Even when he led the Terps to their lone first-half scoring drive late in the second quarter, it was aided by a crucial roughing-the-passer penalty on Duke that allowed the drive to continue.

Luckily for O’Brien and the rest of the Terps, punt

returner Tony Logan saw the offense struggling.

And so when he got his first chance to touch the ball after Duke’s first possession of the second half, he made it count.

After dodging the initial defender, Logan started moving to his left before cutting back to his right, finding a seam and racing 84 yards for the go-ahead touchdown, which he punctuated by hurling the ball at the Gossett Team House.

“In the first half, I didn’t get to go out there because the defense was having a tough time stopping them,” Logan said. “We went into halftime,

and all those guys came up to me and told me, ‘Look, we are going to give you a chance to get back there and do what you do.’ I just came out knowing that first drive was going to be the one that was going to change the momentum in the game, and it definitely helped us get going.”

A singular effort from running back Da’Rel Scott gave the Terps their final score.

Scott caught a short pass, broke two tackles and outran the rest of the Duke defense down the sideline for a 71yard touchdown.

With the win, the Terps now own twice as many victo-

After a poor start, defense closes game Brown and Terps improve first-half play to limit Duke’s weapons in crucial ACC win

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

The Terrapin football team’s defense struggled to get started Saturday, allowing Duke to score on its first three possessions of the game and putting the Terps in an early hole.

But late in the first half, on the Blue Devils’ fourth drive of the game, safety Antwine Perez grabbed an interception in the end zone, sparking the defense to pick up its intensity and level of play for the second half of the 21-16 win.

Perez’s timing was impeccable.

The crucial interception came on a third down, which the Blue Devils had conver ted with ease to start the game.

The Terps had clamped down in the red zone to that point, limiting the Blue Devils to just three field goals.

But ending their scoring streak proved key.

“We got the crowd into it again, the offense was behind us, and everyone just believed,” Perez said.

While the Terps’ offense scored its first points of game on the ensuing possession, it was the defense that really felt the effects of the interception. The Terps yielded just 48 yards to Duke in the third quarter after giving up 227 in the first half. They also had four sacks on quarterback Sean Renfree, including two in the fourth quarter.

“We were around him the whole night,” defensive coordinator Don Brown said. “From the third quarter on, I don’t think we left him alone to throw the football more than two or three occasions. We were around him the whole night

Linebacker Adrian Moten had a second-half interception to help lead a resurgent Terp defense Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

when the game was on the line.”

Because of the Terps’ dogged second-half defense, the Blue Devils’ ground game went backward in the second half. After

starting the half with 54 yards on 16 carries, Duke ended with 48 yards on 23 carries.

As the Terps continued to stymie the Blue Devils’ running

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game, they honed in on Duke’s talented receiving corps, which was targeted on all but seven plays in the second half.

“In the second half, we just came out with a whole other attitude and we just were ready to roll, and you could see that in the effort we gave in the second half,” Perez said.

“We really didn’t make too many adjustments. We just played defense a lot tighter.”

The Terps, in particular, intensified their focus on wide receiver Donovan Varner. Varner had 91 yards on six catches by halftime, catching the attention of coach Ralph Friedgen, who singled out the receiver when speaking to the defensive unit at halftime.

“I said, ‘No. 26 [Varner] is killing us,’” Friedgen said. “We had him double-covered; we had two guys playing them man-to-man, vicing the guy, and he catches the ball, which doesn’t help my blood pressure much.”

The Terps responded. In the third quarter, Varner had just two yards.

In the fourth quarter, he again broke free, getting behind the secondar y for a 35-yard catch that set up a Duke touchdown two plays later.

Fittingly, though, he was denied on the Blue Devils’ final offensive play of the game, a fourth-and-15 look from Renfree that never made it to his target.

“Going out after halftime, we just said, ‘We’re going to play Maryland defense and get after them,’” Brown said. “And that’s what we did. For the most part, except for one series — really, one play — the kids really played well.” yanchulis@umdbk.com

ries as they had all last season, plus much-needed momentum headed into their bye week.

But Duke might be the weakest conference game on the Terps’ schedule, and Friedgen knows the team still has work to do.

“It wasn’t pretty,” Friedgen said, “but a win is a win. I told our team if we are going to have a good season, you have to win some when you aren’t hitting on all cylinders. You just have to reach down and find a way to win, and I think that’s what we did.” lemaire@umdbk.com

TWO-MINUTE DRILL WHEN IT WAS OVER Down just five points, Duke faced a fourth-and-15 from the Terps’ 38-yard line with less than three minutes left in the game. The Blue Devils needed a first down to stay alive, but safety Antwine Perez broke up the would-be first-down pass, ending Duke’s comeback bid.

TERP HIGHLIGHT Tony Logan ran a punt return back 84 yards for a touchdown. His second return for a score in as many games puts him in a tie for first place in the nation in punt returns for touchdowns this season.

TERP LOWLIGHT On a fourth-and-19 in the in the fourth quarter, Duke quarterback Sean Renfree’s pass found wide receiver Donovan Varner, moving the Blue Devils to the one-yard line. A touchdown two plays later cut the Terps’ lead to 21-16.

STAR OF THE GAME Logan made the Blue Devils regret their decision to kick to him when he broke downfield for a third-quarter touchdown. With the team’s offense struggling, the Terps likely wouldn’t have reached 21 points without him.

WHAT THIS GAME MEANS The victory gives the Terps a 1-0 start in ACC play and confidence heading into the bye week. But it was an ugly win, and it came against arguably the worst team in the conference.