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Some students wish university dining plan expanded buffet-style, gourmet options like other schools

Drawn in by a feast of whole Maine lobster, crab bisque and cheesecake, students flocked to the North Campus Diner and South Campus Dining Hall yesterday —

BEDBUG PROCEDURE Several students in Commons 7 complained of bedbugs in their apartments.

If a room is being inspected: 1. Commons staff schedules three inspections, each one to two weeks apart 2. All clothes and linens must be packed 3. Furniture must be moved away from the walls 4. Residents must vacate their apartments for five hours

in on one of their few all-you-caneat meals, though Dining Services officials said the other dining halls still showcase an important side of dining on this campus — a la carte.

Some students shuffle along in double-wide lines to customize their own stir-fry, pasta or wrap.

Customers can stop at different stations to recreate a hefty Thanksgiving meal from Cluckers or an Italian family dinner at Luigi’s. Other students, driven by a sense of adventure or thriftiness, sample the daily value See DINING, Page 2

Students report several bedbug infestations in Commons 7 Tenants frustrated with Commons staff for delaying inspections

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer After noticing strange bites on their bodies, several students in South Campus Commons 7 discovered they had bedbugs in their apartments.

Bedbugs have plagued Commons

apartments for the last couple of years. They became such a prominent problem that Commons officials added a bedbug clause to the lease in May 2011, which states students must prove their rooms are bedbugfree when their leases end. While the addendum also requires tenants take certain precautions against bedbugs,

By Quinn Kelley Senior staff writer

such as not bringing in furniture from off the street and notifying management if they believe there may be an infestation in their apartment, students have still found themselves facing the same problems this year.

Commons Director Gina Brasty did

all you can eat a rare sight since the university opened its newest facility last year.

But today, some customers will go back to asking why every meal can’t be all-you-can-eat, students said. 251 North’s gourmet options have students trekking from as far as the edge of South Campus to cash

Enrollment in ESL classes increases

EDITOR’S NOTE: An employee’s name was withheld to protect his job.

With a growing Spanish-speaking workforce and diverse campus community, university employees sometimes experience difficulty communicating with one another, prompting officials to increase supervisor training and English as a second language courses.

More than 100 employees, 44 of whom are enrolled this semester, have participated in ESL classes since the spring semester as part of a nine-step plan developed nearly a year and a half ago to address alleged workplace abuse, said Human Resources Director Dale Anderson. Because workers can now nominate themselves for the classes, there is a waiting list of about 35 to 40 people, and the program will likely take about 60 people in the spring, Anderson said.

“People are extremely grateful for the opportunity and believe that this is making a significant difference in their lives,” he said.

Although workplace tension and conflicts are inevitable, ESL classes and supervisor training are the first steps in fostering a more inclusive workplace environment, university President Wallace Loh said.

“We are really making a lot of progress, and we’ve made significant investments in funding to make these classes available,” he said. “I think it’s a very important factor.”

However, Loh said the ability to speak English “is not the silver bullet” in resolving conflicts, and other factors contribute to issues in the workplace — factors university officials are also working toward alleviating.

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ELMS has site outages

Counseling Center wait times draw concerns

Site down during prime study hours

By Sarah Tincher Staff writer

By Lily Hua Staff writer ELMS website outages during prime -time study hours throughout the past week have left many students frustrated, and although officials attempted to determine and resolve the problem yesterday morning, it is still unclear whether the glitches will persist.

Division of Information Technology officials said they could not confirm why the university’s Enterprise Learning Management System, powered by Blackboard at two data centers in Virginia, has been experiencing interrup-

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While the Counseling Center aims to provide valuable support to students in need, long wait times may hinder its capabilities, students said.

For some, the lag in booking an appointmentcanaggravateadangeroussituation.Lastspring,Ashliwassufferingfrom a prior condition she’d kept under control for a while. And one day, in the middle of class, the sophomore community health major suffered a “mental breakdown.”

“It came back full force and I didn’t

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know how to cope with it,” said Ashli. “I had never had professional help before.”

When she tried to make an appointment with the Counseling Center, staff considered her an emergency case but still scheduled her appointment for a week later, Ashli said.

“It was the longest week of my life,” she added.

After the wait was up, Ashli said, the initial appointment experience was disappointing. It seemed more like a casual conversation than a therapy session until the final 15 minutes, she said, and though the center encouraged her to seek long-term treatment, it could not accommodate her. The center established

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used as a tool to bring student organizations and established non-profits together as well as help identify a suitable policy solution.”

Starting today, the group will set up boxes outside the North Campus Snack ‘n’ Shop, 24 Hour Shop and the Commons Shop to collect food donations from students through next Thursday.

her as non-suicidal, and though staff encouraged her to seek longterm treatment, she said the center could not offer her weekly appointments for 12 months.

Securing a follow-up appointment after the first meeting can take anywhere from a week to a month, Counseling Center Director Sharon Kirkland said. Wait times may fluctuate because of time of year, the students’ availability or his or her preference in therapist, but the center strives to provide quality counseling to each student who comes through its doors, she said.

“I wasn’t suicidal anymore,” Ashli said. “I was only considering dropping out of college, which isn’t an emergency, apparently. … The wait times have deterred me from wanting to go back to that, and it seemed like things that were important to me weren’t necessarily as important to them.”

The center has seen a 12 percent increase in students seeking services from last year, Kirkland said, but they have no additional staff members to account for the extra services, which include career counseling and services for emergencies, academics, disabilities, testing and research. Kirkland is currently in the process of working with the student affairs vice president to hire more counselors.

“We really work to make sure we’re meeting the needs of the students here,” said Kirkland. “I don’t want students to feel the minute they come in here they’re put on a waitlist.”

Others who turned to the resource reported they had better luck — senior criminology and criminal justice major Zahra Ahmed said she had “a good experience overall.”

As with Ashli, the center considered Ahmed an emergency patient when she called for the first time this February, and she had her intake appointment within a week of the call.

She, too, came off emergency status after her initial appointment.

Unlike Ashli, though, Ahmed began seeking a therapist weekly within only two weeks of her initial appointment.

“All students who come in are given an intake appointment within two weeks,” Kirkland said. The intake appointment would give them a determination of whether the student needs further counseling or therapy.

Active Minds co-President Jen Robinson said the university should place more emphasis “on the mental health services and getting people the help that they need.”

Senior psychology major and Active Minds member Molly Brown agreed.

“They’re doing the best they can with the resources they have,” she said.

“I just wish they had more resources.”

But Ashli said a wealth of resources is not helpful if students cannot access them, either in initial evaluations or long-term therapy.

“I think the execution of it could be better,” Ashli said.

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Shopping center one of first locations of USPS initiative, gopost

By Lily Hua Staff writer The U.S. Postal Service brought its latest innovation to College Park last week with “gopost,” a kiosk that allows people to mail packages while bypassing the hassle of restrictive store hours and long lines.

The city’s gopost station, one of only three in the state, is open 24 hours a day at its location across from The Varsity and University View apartment buildings in the Campus Village Shopping Center. Customers can both deliver and retrieve packages by using the station’s touchscreen to access its locker, providing students and area residents an alternative to the post office or Stamp Student Union’s Terrapin Shipping and Mailing store.

Customers can register online for a gopost account and then use their account number or access card and a PIN to use an individual locker at any

Gopost, a U.S. Postal Service program that allows customers to send and receive packages 24-7, is piloting one of its first locations in the city: in Campus Village Shopping Center acoss from the Varsity and View apartment buildings. The free locker system requires an account number and PIN. charlie deboyace/the diamondback gopost station. People can either leave packages with prepaid postage and a barcode in a secure box or have packages shipped to the unit, according to the USPS website. The system also uses email and text notifications.

USPS launched its pilot program in Virginia and has since expanded the concept to Montgomery and Prince George’s counties late last month.

The city became one of the program’s first locations because postal service officials knew there would be many students in the area, said USPS acting communications specialist Andrea Burrows, and that it would be a test of its popularity.

“It’s innovative, cutting-edge, and convenient,” she added.

Though the kiosk is about a 20-minute walk from Stamp, it may fill a gap for students looking to send out parcels over the weekend, when some facilities such as Terrapin Shipping and Mailing are closed, manager Rico Ashab said.

“I can see the convenience in it, but I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary,” Ashab said. “We’re open until 7 and that’s later than most postal offices.”

Many people, especially students and professors, are still too pressed for time to do their mailing at Stamp between classes, said senior kinesiology major Jeffery Ung. “Students have classes until 6 or 7, which means they wouldn’t be able to go until after classes,” Ung said.

The gopost location’s proximity to

several apartment buildings and shopping centers was an extra draw, students said.

“It’d be beneficial for upperclassmen and graduate students off campus because it’s a hike to walk to Stamp,” said senior psychology major Roma Rajput.

Montrose Crossing Shopping Center and 154 Congressional Lane in Rockville also feature new gopost units.

While many students rarely send physical mail, Ung said, the gopost could prove to be a good investment.

“I don’t use [traditional] mail anymore; I pay most of my bills online,” said Rajput, “but for those who are still using [traditional] mail, it’d be beneficial.” hua@umdbk.com

Muslims Without Borders starts second CANpaign Group aims to spread awareness, fight poverty and homelessness in Washington area

By Lucy Westcott For The Diamondback As it kicks off its first semester as an official group on the campus, this university’s Muslims Without Borders chapter is on a mission to help feed the hungry and raise awareness about local poverty.

Tuesday night, the group launched the second campuswide CANpaign food drive with a screening in Stamp Student Union of Baltimore, We Love You, a documentary highlighting poverty, sex trafficking, human rights and homelessness in Baltimore. Attendees were invited to bring donated cans of food if they wished, all of which would go toward the Washington- and Virginia-based Capital Area Food Bank. That night, the group collected a total of 20 cans.

“The event was great, we had a great turnout and people from UMBC and local community colleges came as well,” said community health and psychology major Aisha Hussain, who serves as the chapter’s president. “We hope to raise awareness about poverty within our own community, as Baltimore is essentially our own backyard.”

The Muslims Without Borders chapter grew out of the Muslim Students Association, which ran the first CANpaign drive last year and donated more than 10

dining From PAGE 1 meals, through which Dining Services draws on a variety of cuisines to create a different pairing every day of the week — sesame chicken wings and lemon meringue pie; Kentucky breaded basa fish and shrimp jambalaya rice with chocolate cake; sloppy joe sliders and fruit.

But since last fall, the advent of an all-you-can-eat facility has often overshadowed many of those options, students said, despite Dining Services’ efforts to make the older, a la carte dining halls as appealing as possible.

“All of the dining halls should be like 251,” said freshman journalism major Emily Goldman. “I’m sure there would be ways for Dining Services to figure it out.”

It wasn’t always a struggle, said Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple. Though dining plans were exclusively all-you-care-to-eat in 1985, a two-year experiment with introducing the option of a la carte meals reduced the number of students choosing a buffet-style option to less than 10 percent, he said.

Those individuals were the more frequent, heavier eaters, Hipple said, meaning the lighter eaters were subsidizing their dining.

But with students once again clamoring for more variety, the department made its first major change in years with the addition of 251 North, follow-

Muslims Without Borders made sandwiches for members of the Washington community for Project Downtown. Tuesday night, the group started the second campuswide CANpaign food drive by screening a film on poverty, human rights and homelessness in Baltimore, bringing in 20 cans. photo courtesy of aisha hussain tons of food to East Africa. While most of the MSA’s past fundraising efforts were focused toward international issues, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Syrian and Libyan revolutions, Dania Shafei, Muslims Without Borders vice president and sophomore biology major, said members of her chapter are “thinking globally, working locally.”

“We want people to see how they are changing the world,” Shafei said.

Mawish Raza, a co-director of Baltimore, We Love You and a recent graduate of UMBC, was present for Tuesday’s screening. She said the purpose behind the film was to empower student groups like Muslims Without Borders to take action to address issues in their own communities.

“Poverty is a toxic disease that impacts most urban cities,” Raza said.

“The hope for this film is to have it be

ing a trend in universities fine-tuning their dining systems. For example, Virginia Tech, ranked first out of 52 top schools for campus dining by The Daily Meal, opened a new dining center this semester, boasting a Bruegger’s Bagels walk-up window, full-service sushi counter and fresh crepes and gelatos.

While both schools offer a la carte options, some institutions’ dining plans are driven by the all-you-caneat system. North Carolina State University gives its students a set number of buffet-style meals per week and “equivalency points” to spend on convenience shop goods, quick-serve restaurants on campus and takeout orders at any of its dining halls.

Daniel Ahern, a sophomore engineering major at North Carolina State University, said he wouldn’t change a thing about his dining plan.

“If you want just a regular dining hall meal, you can just swipe in and get whatever you want,” Ahern said. “We have these things called equivalences, which allow us to buy a certain amount of food at fast food places on campus without spending money outside of our plans.”

But what works for some universities is not always the best option for others, Hipple said.

“We’re in a big city,” he said. “It’d be different if we were surrounded by a smaller town, like Georgia Tech.”

While some students may want all dining halls to mimic 251 North, Hipple said the majority appreciate

“We’re in a big city. It’d be different if we were surrounded by a smaller town, like Georgia Tech.”

BART HIPPLE

Dining Services spokesman having a variety of options, including the freedom to get their meal to go.

“If we were to only do all-you-caneat all the time, we couldn’t do carry out,” Hipple said.

Sophomore Nick Ruiz, enrolled in letters and sciences, said he has found the best of both worlds in the all-campus plan, which allows students in at least their third semester to spend their dining points at dining halls, Adele’s, convenience shops, cafes and Stamp Student Union.

“The biggest perceived benefit of the all-campus dining plans is that none of the points are tied to any particular location,” Hipple said. “If the student is willing to accept points with variable value, the student can choose to eat at any Dining Services venue.”

Ruiz said he prefers the all-campus plan after spending his freshman year short on enough points to eat a full lunch or dinner throughout the week.

“I don’t know why they don’t give the option to the freshmen,” Ruiz said. “I guess they assume kids won’t know how to budget their points when they’re first starting out.” chance@umdbk.com

A dining services employee serves up a lobster to a waiting student at the South Campus Dining Hall.

Although a variety of options and regularly scheduled themed dinners draw crowds of students, many still said they prefer the all-you-can-eat system at the one-year-old 251 North. christian jenkins/for the diamondback

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Researchers work to improve hearing implant design $130,000 auditory lab in Morrill Hall one of few of its kind worldwide; focuses on sharpening device’s sound quality

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer University researchers are working toward improving the lives of people with cochlear implants, specifically those with two, in an on-campus lab, one of the few labs of its kind in the world.

The research conducted in the approximately $130,000 Auditory Perception and Modeling Lab in Morrill Hall focuses on further improving the hearing of people with cochlear implants, which are surgically implanted devices that provide the ability to perceive sounds to

deaf and hard of hearing people. Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Matthew Goupell, who heads the research, said his goal is to try to solve problems such as difficulty hearing in certain environments and issues with sound quality.

“We have one of the best collections of researchers in the U.S.,” Hearing and Speech Sciences Department Chairwoman Nan Bernstein Ratner said. “Cochlear implants are a tremendous invention, but we’re trying to fix their flukes.”

Much of the research entails refining how the two implants communicate with each other in order to give patients better

sound quality. People with cochlear implants also have difficulties hearing in certain environments, Goupell said.

“Hearing with a cochlear implant is much different from normal hearing,” he said. “[The implants] are far from perfect and need to be improved greatly.”

The Hearing and Speech Sciences Department completed construction in June on the lab, which is one of the few in the world specializing in dual cochlear implant research. The research facility, which was sponsored by the National Institute of Health and the university, took a year to build; construction began

in the summer of 2011 in Morrill Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the campus.

The research is attracting participants both locally and nationally, with the lab already observing and conducting tests on 20 volunteers. More than 188,000 people worldwide have cochlear implants, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. Goupell said he believes about 2 percent of the nation’s population with cochlear implants has two implants.

“I think that cochlear implant research is a very important contribution to hearing science,” Bernstein Ratner

bedbugs

said. “This is very cutting edge, and I’m very happy that the university gets to be a part of that.”

Goupell said he hopes the research will ultimately help deaf or hearing-impaired people to no longer be handicapped by their disability.

“Not being able to have a conversation in a restaurant because it’s so noisy is far from ideal,” he said. “We’re trying to improve quality of life, and we want people to be able to do what normal people do.” doanemalotte@umdbk.com

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not respond to requests for comment.

Brasty sent an email to Commons residents at about 10:45 p.m. last night to let them know there have been reports of bedbugs and to submit a work order if they suspect a problem.

Joe Oudin, a junior criminology and criminal justice and government and politics major, said he and his roommates first realized their room was infested during the second week of school, when they discovered mysterious bites on their bodies.

“It was kind of shocking to think that we could have this problem,” Oudin said.

“I didn’t feel comfortable being in my own apartment.”

He and his roommates immediately reported the problem to Commons staff, but were disappointed when they did not receive a response until three days later.

Once the staff sent in an exterminator, Oudin said he was discouraged when the worker refused to answer questions regarding the extermination, instead referring the students to Commons staff for answers.

“I think there has been a big lack of communication between the students and Commons,” he said. “They haven’t really been able to tell us anything.”

Senior physiology and neurobiology major Raevathi Ramadorai had a similar experience in her Commons 7 apartment. She said she reported the problem Sept. 17 after her roommate had been noticing bug bites since the beginning of the semester. After exterminators failed to find anything in their first two inspections, Ramadorai later found and

“Just because you both speak the same language … doesn’t mean that all of your normal human conflicts are going to disappear,” he said.

Loh and Solomon Comissiong, the president of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, both said issues that may arise from cultural or language barriers are not unique to the state or the university.

Instead, it is a rising trend as the country becomes more diverse and accumulates more native Spanish speakers.

“These kinds of workplace issues, what I call the normal conflicts among human beings that come from different backgrounds, just permeates all of society,” Loh said.

Comissiong said he has spoken to workers who have been subjected to “xenophobic attacks” and racial- and cultural-based epithets.

“I know for a fact that countless members of our campus community that are low-wage workers that are also immigrants have complained about this,” he said.

Loh said a source of tension in the workplace could stem from work ethic.

He said many immigrants tend to work more hours than other employees because they generally want to make a new life for themselves and their children in America, which could cause bitterness among employees who do not consistently work 12- to 14-hour days.

“They work hard. They are good workers. And sometimes that causes resentment,” Loh said.

The solution to conflicts that come from language, racial or cultural differences, Comissiong said, is to work as a campus toward a more inclusive community, which means workers, administrators and students need to cultivate an atmosphere of appreciation and understanding.

“Because those courses are still not widespread, it is a step. It is a step in the right direction towards meeting one of the demands that the Black Faculty and Staff Association put out there,” he said.

“It’s important that [ESL] courses are provided so that these individuals not just maneuver better on campus, but can go certain places in society.”

A Dining Services employee said although he has seen minor communication issues arise in the workplace, there are not significant difficulties that result from cultural differences or language barriers.

“You will always find that there will be misunderstandings,” he said. “They’re not major problems.”

The burden shouldn’t rest entirely on Spanish-speaking employees, Comissiong said — native English speakers should also work on learning or improving their Spanish or other additional languages to improve communication.

“Language is the cornerstone to anyone’s culture,” he said.“That’s one of those ways for us to take progressive steps.”

Residential Facilities employee and Justice at Maryland coalition member Don Mitchell said he had not recently seen any issues stemming from race, culture or language, but he believed these issues still occurred on the campus.

“Many things that I’ve seen personally occur haven’t been recent, but I have no reason to believe anything they’ve done has changed that,” he said.

Commons Shop supervisor Vicky Mendez said communication can sometimes be difficult, because many of her employees are from Ethiopia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti, and both their and her second language is English.

While it can be hard to always communicate in English rather than Spanish, French and Amharic, they try to explain things to each other as best they can, she said.

“We always try to understand each other,” she said.

elms From PAGE 1 wrote in an email.

“Unfortunately, this was an unplanned outage, so we weren’t able to make any prior notifications,” Johnson wrote. “Our ELMS, powered by Blackboard, has not experienced a service disruption of this kind for about two years.”

Blackboard engineers were notified of the first service interruption on the evening of Sept. 23 and began trying to identify and resolve the issues, Johnson said. However, problems with logging in and loading pages remained, and students continued to face periodic outages and glitches on the evenings of Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.

“There is no excuse for ELMS to be down, especially after it was down a few

several students living in South Campus Commons 7 said they have experienced bedbug problems in their apartments this semester. christian jenkins/the diamondback captured a bedbug in her apartment to prove it was infested.

“I was really mad when I first found out,” she said. “I still don’t understand why it took Commons staff so long to discover this; I’m really surprised at how poorly they dealt with it.”

Once a bedbug problem has been confirmed, Commons staff schedules three exterminations — each one to two weeks apart. For exterminators to carry out the extermination, all clothes and linens must be packed, furniture has to be moved away from the walls and residents must vacate their apartments for five hours, Oudin said.

“The exterminators were pretty much on their own schedules,” said Evan Schroeder, a junior architecture major whose

apartment was also infested. “It was very inconvenient ­— my roommates and I basically had to live out of garbage bags for three weeks.”

Students also said they had never directly been told the cause of the bedbugs and Commons staff members have blamed students for the problem, saying they were bringing pests from their homes.

“They have tried to play this issue down as isolated but I really don’t think it is,” Oudin said. “The staff just doesn’t want to accept any responsibility.”

Students said they have been trying to receive compensation for the problems the bedbugs have

caused, but staff has maintained it will not receive any, students said.

Students were not required to pay for the exterminator.

Since bedbugs spread quickly, students said they hope the exterminations will end the outbreak before they’ve spread to other Commons apartments or campus buildings.

The tenants who have seen exterminators said the situation has improved in their apartments.

“Since the ending of the treatments, we have not had any more bedbugs — knock on wood,” Schroeder said.

days ago,” said sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Ben Sandberg.

Although the university has utilized Blackboard for several years, officials decided to transition from Blackboard to Canvas, a cloud-based learningmanagement platform, before these incidents. Cloud-based services often better accommodate a varied number of users at any given time, which would avoid a great number of service interruptions, Johnson said.

“We are hopeful that transitioning to Canvas in January 2013 will alleviate some of these service interruptions,” she wrote.

Blackboard held a scheduled emergency server maintenance yesterday morning at about 2 a.m. to attempt to resolve the website’s issues. However, students said they were wary of whether the server maintenance will permanently

fix the glitches, since the first attempt hadn’t yielded any positive results.

“They will continue to reassure us that it will be fixed, but I’m pretty sure that it will get worse before it gets better,” said Sonny Maeng, a junior business and psychology major.

Because ELMS hasn’t experienced such a widespread problem for a few years, many students were caught off-guard by the continuation of the outage from night to night. Some also said the timing was especially unfortunate, as many students are preparing for midterm exams.

“I was hit blindsided by it,” said Sandberg. “If I had known, I would have downloaded [course documents] to my computer beforehand.”

Because ELMS is an integral part of student learning, where professors upload course documents, assign online

homework and provide lecture slides, students were quick to notice the problems the site was experiencing. Many students were forced to adjust their study schedules to accommodate the sporadic windows where ELMS was running properly.

“The fact that it happens means that someone, much like myself, will have to stay up later until the outage is over to do an assignment,” Maeng said.

Johnson said students should immediately contact ELMS support or call OIT when the system malfunctions to expedite service restoration.

“When we become aware of sustained service disruptions, we usually alert faculty members as soon as possible,” she wrote.

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christian groups come together for religious revival With more than 35 different Christian groups on the campus, it’s not uncommon for the various ministries to find themselves isolated from one another. However, several religious leaders sought to change that last week, and over the course of three nights, about 250 students from at least 12 campus ministries gathered together for a campuswide religious revival.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

Opinion

With limited time, prioritize your pursuits

Rest assured, you’ve got prospects.

At no other time in life can you so fluidly choose professional interests, new friends, sexual partners or random activities to fill your schedule.

It’s precious time because if life is like a poker game, eventually you have to go for it with the hand you’re dealt.

The freedom to do whatever you want will slowly erode and before you know it you’ll have kids, a gut and a bunch of work tying you down.

If you hate poker analogies, I’ll put it like this: At some point or another, you need to define what you want to get out of college. This could mean taking the most challenging route possible or enjoying the freedom available all around us. If you prefer shenanigans with friends, getting drunk and having time to spend afternoons napping on the mall, do these things with full confidence — a passionless nap is hardly a nap at all.

You might prefer spending your time planning your future career rather than scheduling naps. For those ambitious students out there, you have a decision to make: You can diversify your interests and pursue the Renaissance man/woman lifestyle or find your jam and pour your passion into a single endeavor. If you want to succeed, choose the latter.

Trying out new clubs and activities is a critical part of the personal growth and exploration necessary for people to find what inspires them.

Freshmen and sophomores unsure of what they want out of college should especially seek out as many opportunities as possible — it’s unlikely you

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entered college with your life plan already laid out.

Diversifying your interests is great, but at a certain point you limit yourself to only skimming the surface of what you’re capable of accomplishing.

Passion is a limited reservoir, so deciding how to dedicate your time and energy is key. It’s a terrible misconception to think of life as a giant resume — you are not defined by what you can say you did, but what you’re capable of doing in the future. Rather than stuffing your resume, leave college with tangible, applicable and direct experience for your future, whatever that might entail.

This means immersing yourself in your unique college experience. If you have a designated number of hours for extracurricular activities, divvying up your time between various groups and projects could theoretically lead to tremendous success in everything you do. More likely, you’ll spread yourself thin and fail to obtain the type of success you could have reached if you had fully committed to one pursuit.

Dedicating yourself to one project — whether it’s intensive research with a professor, joining an improvisation troupe, starting a new student group or creating a business — will leave you with a stronger narrative than if you sprinkle your cover letters with as many activities as possible.

To borrow a cliche sports analogy, if you want to perform at the next level, you have to separate yourself from the competition with one elite skill or talent. Rather than trying to be good at everything, work to excel at one thing.

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Fans of the athletic club

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he immediate future of athletics at this university depends on the whims of a couple of twins in Houston. By the end of the night, Aaron and Andrew Harrison will have finally decided whether they will play at Comcast Center next season, with John Calipari at the University of Kentucky or surprise the basketball world and choose Southern Methodist University. If they commit to playing in College Park, it could completely transform the program — and the fan base.

But the long-term future — of not just the men’s basketball team, but the entire athletic department — hinges on much larger issues: lagging attendance, lackluster performance and strained funds. The narrative has been well-chronicled by both this editorial board and the athletic department itself: The department has not been able to generate the broad support and success — financially or athletically — it needs and expects to sustain itself.

Instead of relying solely on the impulses of teenagers and 20-somethings, it finally looks like the university has put forth a clearer plan for the future.

On Sept. 27, the university released a five-year strategic plan for the athletic department, featuring a 36-page interactive multimedia version online. A few noteworthy goals in the plan include efforts to increase the Terrapin Club Annual Fund and major gift fundraising, broaden the career development program for student-athletes and

formalize an official student fan club.

The first two proposals seem straightforward — balancing the budget and improving the educational opportunities for student-athletes should definitely be priorities. Of course, these plans bear no weight if there is no follow-through in all of these grand plans.

Which leads us to the third proposal: creating an official student fan club.

The university hopes to develop the student fan base into an organized club

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The five-year strategic plan — and the specific proposal of a club for student fans — will help lead the athletic department into a better era. to support varsity sports, in particular football and men’s basketball.

Modeled after similar groups at other universities, the club could mobilize students toward committing themselves more wholeheartedly to attending athletic events — boosting attendance and school pride in the process. With proper execution and marketing by the department, there’s reason to believe this can work.

Based on initial feedback from members of UMD Crew (the Maryland soccer fan club) and other students interviewed in a Diamondback article yesterday, this specific plan has generated tempered enthusiasm at best. Students may doubt whether it’s possible to du-

plicate the passion of a few dedicated fans for a much larger club or convince students to spread their passion across multiple sports.

What’s the downside? Worst-case scenario, the club has a marginal effect on attendance.

But if officials could garner enough students to form a substantial fan club, it could transform the way students view football, basketball and other less-popular sports. Byrd Stadium hasn’t averaged more than 50,000 fans in five years, while attendance at men’s basketball games has decreased every year during that same stretch of time. If this university hopes to retain its reputation as a campus featuring some of the most passionate fans in the country, those numbers need to change. For students claiming an organized club would hamper student enthusiasm for varsity sports, right now it’s questionable whether we have any in the first place.

The proposed club — along with the entire five-year plan — is necessary, but not a sufficient step toward improving athletic performance and culture at this university. Officials should continue to seek alternative solutions to encourage greater fan support and prove its strategy is more than a series of empty talking points.

For numerous reasons, fans don’t come out to athletic events like they did in the past. But if the elimination of seven varsity programs was the low point for athletics at this university, hopefully today — and this strategic plan — will mark the beginning of a new era.

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Nadav Karasov is a junior economics major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

Loss of control Blocking out your feelings will only lead to unhealthy obsessions and dissatisfaction CAMILLA YANUSHEVSKY We call ourselves daredevils, convince ourselves we are fearless and rewatch the same motivational speeches. To an extent, we love hearing about tragedies because the sense of catharsis is uplifting.

But in reality, we are a country of alcoholics, drug addicts, hoarders, gamblers, compulsive shoppers and binge-ers — all battling obsession.

Some engulf themselves in their work 24/7, while others spend endless hours in the gym perfecting their physique. Some silence their conscience with alcohol, while others inflate their lungs trying to avoid another sleepless night. And there are quite a few taking on more extreme measures — starving, cutting and even suicide.

We stopped listening to news. With our little free time, we’d rather tune into The Real Housewives of New Jersey or The Bachelorette. Ironically enough, these let us temporarily disengage with reality.

We retreat to the manipulation of our memories. We are drawn to the comfort of control — of the information we receive and, ultimately, what we do to our bodies. For some, the process can be quite addicting. It can involve exerting authority over family and friends, whether by deciding how to spend their money or whom they talk to.

And we are all guilty of it, to varying degrees.

Humans have always and will always need control. For certain people, it is a means to freedom; for others, it is a defense mechanism for feelings of powerlessness. In reality, the control we do

find is a substitute for the loss we’ve encountered in our lives — the person who broke our heart, the best friend who passed away or our crushed dreams. It’s a substitute for our emotions.

We have become so adept at masking our insecurities, putting on the Vaseline smiles and giving those feeble hugs. Whether it is due to evolution or to cultural norms, this adeptness has reached the point where the idea of vulnerability — the risk of showing sadness, anger or frustration — is taboo.

I suppose vulnerability means you might seem human.

Real freedom means losing the control we perceive we have. It means recognizing we are not perfect, we make mistakes and what might seem pleasing in the short-term can create a vicious cycle in the long-term.

Drinking, doping, hoarding, gambling, shopping and binging all create failed illusions of life. Time scares us, and having nothing to do leaves us with our thoughts. For some bizarre reason, having time to resolve our inner conflicts is a bad thing.

We shouldn’t be obsessing over cheating our emotions. We should be seeking the stability self-disclosure presents. Practically speaking, a life without superficiality does not exist.

So, escape.

Go away from the world and first acknowledge the feelings to yourself.

Second, strive to live a life not of restraint or indulgence, but of moderation.

My older sister has this expression, which has stuck with me: Your body is a temple, so treat it as such.

Camilla Yanushevsky is a junior finance major. She can be reached at yanushevsky@umdbk.com.

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Failure is a beautiful thing Falling short of your goals is not a character flaw; it’s part of the process of ultimately achieving greater success.

SARAH GORDON I’m from Howard County, where we choose civility and everyone attends Friday night football games under our $1.1 million lights with near-religious regularity. We’re pushed with militant authority that we must be the best at all times, starting when our parents choose where we’re going to preschool, which, based on their attitudes, you would think directly determines if we go to an Ivy League college or not.

We’re trained to shoot for perfection every time, and when we don’t meet those lofty goals, we’re losers.

We have failed. We have not met the expectations set before us by society, by our parents and, over time, by our own perceptions. I don’t live on some remote island — this happens in counties all over the U.S., to which I’m sure plenty of students at this university can attest.

Some time last year, I was hanging out with a friend taking organic chemistry, a class I had passed with a “C” the semester before. He, too, was on the cusp of getting a “C,” which among science majors is on par with

contracting leprosy. He anxiously explained to me that if he were to get a “C” in this class, he would never be able to fulfill his dreams of going to medical school and becoming a doctor. I posed the question: Did he really think every single licensed doctor who has ever practiced modern medicine never earned a “C” as an undergraduate? It is as if one strike means you’re out, and getting a “C” in “orgo” — arguably the most difficult class offered in the biology major — equates to the destruction of all his dreams.

If this sounds like an overreaction, don’t be fooled. It isn’t, and it certainly isn’t particular to science majors. But this is what we’ve been taught — anything less than perfection means you better start looking for a cardboard box on some street corner on which to settle down.

J.K. Rowling gave an amazing commencement speech to Harvard’s 2008 graduating class, titled “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” She talked about her pre-Harry Potter life, in which she struggled every day to find enough money to feed herself and her daughter. But if she had achieved fame and glory without the struggle preceding it, she would have taken her success for granted. Rowling was not born a celebrity. She took a path less traveled, one she likely never expected or

wanted. Her successes were dependent on her failures. In her speech, she said, “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. … I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

We use the word failure to describe nearly our every move. Any time we don’t fulfill our goals and expectations, we mark it as a failure. Relationships, new hobbies, classes, sports — the list goes on. But as educated people living in the 21st century, we are more powerful and capable than we can ever know. We are more than the sum of our mistakes, misfortunes and stumbles. Perhaps we should start to see mistakes as human and normal. If we were to excel at everything all the time, we would lose our compassion. We would forsake our ability to empathize with those who aren’t able to succeed as well or as quickly as we do. We would no longer be able to laugh at ourselves and see our foibles as humorous. Is the price of “success” really worth that?

Sarah Gordon is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at gordon@umdbk.com.

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You know how to wield power wisely and carefully.

You are rarely happy with a completed task unless it has been done according to your highest standards -- and they are high indeed! You are never one to say that something is good enough, and you insist that others strive for excellence at all times as well -- and you will often help them do so.

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The American Film Institute’s Latin American Film Festival features two sober and emotionally affecting tales of people living in desperate situations

By Warren Zhang Senior staff writer The American Film Institute’s Latin American Film Festival has offered Washingtonians a taste of modern Latino cinema for the past 23 years.

AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, the host of the festival, has screened selected films from the lineup for us in advance of their festival premieres.

La Sirga The howling wind has a near constant presence in La Sirga, a haunting portrait of an impoverished community in the Andes Mountains. La Sirga is a challenging film; its austere direction and deliberate pace seek to create and sustain a mood rather than tell a story.

Debut director William Vega possesses

an impressive knack for capturing the textures and feel of a setting. The film is packed with precisely composed shots of dilapidated housing and gray wilderness, like something out of an Andrei Tarkovsky or Terrence Malick film.

Much like those influences, Vega takes a rather oblique approach to storytelling. The plot is threadbare – Alicia flees her destroyed village, seeking refuge with her uncle and bringing with her sexual tension and emotional baggage.

Rather than drive the film forward through plot, Vega presents an increasingly sinister procession of images and revelations. La Sirga’s greatest strength lies in this flow, offering an almost dream-like (or perhaps nightmare-like) mood and tone alongside its simple but affecting story of war and trauma.

A heartwarming film this ain’t, but La Sirga

is made with compassion and respect for the inhabitants of its Colombian hell.

La Sirga will play at AFI Silver on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12.

The Delay As a study of the ravages of age and a depiction of one woman’s attempts to keep her family together, The Delay is frequently moving and heartbreaking.

Director Rodrigo Pla (The Desert Within) shoots the film thoughtfully and with an eye for gorgeous framing. Pla makes good use of setting and ambient sound effects to communicate interior moods and frustrations efficiently and effectively.

At times, The Delay evokes the calculated coldness and precision of a Michael Haneke film, with similarly desperate characters to boot.

Unfortunately, some convoluted writing

holds T he Delay back from masterpiece status. Though the dialogue may play better in Spanish, the English translation is frustratingly bland. There’s no real eloquence or flow to the often repetitive and redundant conversations, doubtlessly compounded by the actors’ rather monotonous line reading.

The plot, which follows a harried single mother struggling to manage her family while keeping her elderly, senile father safe, moves along nicely until a plot twist threatens to spiral the film toward wholly melodramatic territory.

Pla, however, has the gumption to never push things too far and manages to keep The Delay grounded in enough emotional reality throughout to make a lasting impression.

The Delay will play at AFI Silver on Sunday at 7:15 p.m. and Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $12. chzhang@umdbk.com

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Kemp strong in return from injury Terps stay at No. 1 in polls; defense in position to achieve goals

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer During wins over Virginia Tech and Georgia State, the Terrapins men’s soccer team was missing a key member of its stingy backline.

Defender Taylor Kemp was sidelined during those two late-September victories with a nagging leg injury, forcing the Terps to start Jordan Cyrus — who had played forward at times this year — on the backline. The defense didn’t miss a beat, recording shutouts in both contests.

When Kemp returned at College of Charleston on Saturday, though, he made his presence known. The senior captain notched two assists in the 3-2 come-from-behind victory. In the 66th minute, he tallied an assist on reserve forward David Kabelik’s fi rst collegiate goal. Kemp also set up defender London Woodberry’s gamewinning goal in the 84th minute on a free kick.

“It was good,” Woodberry said of Kemp’s return. “Taylor is a quality player.”

It’s not the first time this season Kemp has helped pace a Terps come-

back. The team fell behind N.C. State in the fi fth minute Sept. 14 before recording three straight goals over a 20-minute span starting near the end of the fi rst half. Kemp assisted two of those goals, too, as the Terps defeated the Wolfpack, 3-2.

Kemp ranks second on the team with five assists, trailing only forward Patrick Mullins’ team-leading six.

Kemp also ranks fifth nationally in assists per game (0.71).

STILL NO. 1 Despite receiving a scare from unranked College of Charleston, the Terps retained their No. 1 ranking in this week’s NSCAA top-25 poll.

The Terps garnered 21 of a possible 23 fi rst-place votes, with No. 2 Connecticut receiving the other two. In the previous two polls, the Terps received 22 such votes.

The Terps are one of three ACC teams ranked in the poll. North Carolina checks in at No. 6, while Wake Forest is No. 15. Tomorrow night’s opponent, Virginia, is receiving votes.

“You always take pride in being No. 1,” coach Sasho Cirovski said Sept.

21. “But you learn over time to keep it in perspective and to recognize the pressure that comes with it, but also the insignificance of it.”

As the No. 1 team, the Terps know they have a target on their backs. Desperate to unseat the nation’s top-ranked team, the Cougars jumped to an early lead and forced the Terps to notch their second comeback win of the year.

“You feel good about it,” Cirovski said of the No. 1 ranking after the Terps’ 2-0 victory over Virginia Tech on Sept. 21. “You feel warm and fuzzy, but you know that’s not the endgame.”

HOLDING STRONG Mullins said last week the Terps aspired to have a top-10 nationally ranked defense. While allowing two goals — one of which Cirovski called an “uncharacteristic, soft” goal — at College of Charleston on Saturday night hurt their national standing in some categories, the Terps are still in good position to achieve that goal.

Through last weekend’s games, the Terps were tied with Monmouth for 29th in goals-against average (0.76), a mark that is third in the ACC behind

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Midfielder Erika Joab scored her first-career goal for the Terps last night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Terps tallies in the first half before taking seats on the bench.

With the Terps (9-3-2) holding a comfortable cushion, little-used role players saw major minutes in the second half.

In the 53rd minute, junior midfielder Kristen Schmidbauer launched a corner kick into the 18-yard box. Freshman midfielder Maisie McCune headed the ball over Patriots (5-6-1) goalkeeper Taylor O’Berry’s reach, scoring her first goal of the season.

“It was awesome that I had a chance

Defender Taylor Kemp returned to the lineup Saturday after missing two games with a leg injury. The senior notched two assists in the Terps’ 3-2 come-from-behind victory at College of Charleston. file photo/the diamondback North Carolina and Wake Forest. The Tar Heels rank second nationally with a 0.32 goals-against average.

With goalkeepers Keith Cardona and Jordan Tatum combining for five shutouts in nine games this season, the Terps rank No. 13 in shutout

percentage (0.56) in a tie with Appalachian State and Missouri State.

Cardona is No. 44 in goals against average (0.83), a mark that ranks fourth in the ACC.

to go in and play,” said McCune, who had played just 40 total minutes entering last night’s game. “It felt so natural.

Schmidbauer played literally the most perfect corner ever to my head and it went right in. It felt so good.”

Freshman midfielder Erika Joab also contributed to the final tally, scoring her first career goal in the 67th minute off a more than 30-yard strike. Like McCune, Joab had only played 40 total minutes for the Terps before last night.

The Patriots’ lone goal came when goalkeeper Shannon Zickler — who only played the second half — fumbled the ball before it crossed the threshold, giving Francis Marion forward Yasmin Bunter her fi fth goal of the season.

Even though the Terps’ secondand third-stringers saw a lot of time last night, the team held Francis Marion to just three shots. The Terps, in contrast, recorded 23 shots.

With ACC contests filling the Terps’ remaining regular-season schedule, that complete team effort may not occur again this season. But there’s always next year.

“We’ve been talking since August about how great the depth on our team is,” Morgan said. “We’ve got a lot of talent within this team, and I think you might have got a little glimpse of what the future looks like.”

LINE From PAGE 8 through its first four games, coach Randy Edsall decided to shake up his starting lineup.

True freshman Mike Madaras will take over for junior Nick Klemm at left tackle, and redshirt freshman Andrew Zeller will start at right guard in place of De’Onte Arnett.

“Just by taking a look at some of the things that transpired in the games and in practice this past week,” Edsall said, “I felt that this was the best move for us, as a team, to be the best that we can be.”

Neither of the two freshmen have started a college ga me, but they have both gained rotational experience.

Madaras has appeared in four games, and Zeller made a key block in his Terps debut at No. 8 West Virginia on Sept. 22 that helped spring wide re-

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ceiver Stefon Diggs for one of his two touchdowns in the team’s 31-21 loss.

“They are athletic, they play with a physical toughness and they are guys who play to the whistle,” Edsall said. “They will get downfield and make blocks and do the things that I expect out of an offensive lineman.”

Those traits haven’t gone unnoticed in practice. The Terps’ bye last week gave the offensive line a few extra chances to face off against the team’s No. 8-ranked defense, a unit Fulper said “ain’t no slouch.”

“Zeller is one of those guys that’s annoying as hell,” defensive end A.J. Francis said.

“Even if you beat him off the line of scrimmage, he’s still going to keep hitting you and won’t leave you the hell alone.”

That’s probably good news for the Terps. Hills has made strides in his short time in College Park, but he’ll have to stay on his feet if he hopes to build upon his

Quarterback Perry Hills’ 16 sacks are the sixth most in the nation. file photo/the diamondback three-touchdown performance against the Mountaineers.

And if that happens, the percentage on that unforced errors chart should decline this weekend.

“The main thing is just guys not being on the same page,” Fulper said. “As soon as everybody gets on the same page with communication, we’re going to be pretty good.” vitale@umdbk.com

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

FOOTBALL

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Bench fuels shellacking of Patriots Starters rest in Terps’ 5-1 blowout of Francis Marion

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer

more hits he’s taking, the more opportunity there is for him to get hurt,” guard Bennett Fulper said Tuesday. “We just need to do the best we can to keep people off him.”

The group charged with that task will look a bit different this week, though. After seeing his team rank second nationally in sacks allowed

Terrapins women’s soccer seniors Olivia Wagner, Becky Kaplan and Daniella Hubka played a new position last night. They rode the bench.

The three veterans didn’t even take off their warm-ups as they watched the No. 12 Terps dominate Francis Marion, 5-1, at Ludwig Field in their fi nal non-conference matchup.

Senior defender Domineca Hodak, who started against the Patriots, joined them on the sideline in the 30th minute and never returned to the game.

“We just wanted to give some kids some rest,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “On the calendar, we’ve always had the intention of resting those kids.”

The starting 11 players, with the exception of Hodak, resembled a possible starting lineup for next season. They included seven freshmen, two sophomores and one junior.

But even those 10 younger starters didn’t stay in too long. All 11 eligible freshmen saw time in a game that was never a contest for the No. 12 Terps.

“It was important for us to put a game like this on the schedule,” Morgan said. “It’s hard when you get into ACC league play, it’s hard to get all the kids minutes and it’s hard to get all the kids who work their tails off minutes. A game like this allows everyone to get out there and play.”

Regular starting forwards Ashley Spivey (one goal) and Hayley Brock (two goals) had all three

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Terps offensive linemen stand around quarterback Perry Hills after he took a hit from the West Virginia defense in a 31-21 loss on Sept. 22. Hills has been sacked 16 times this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

on shaky ground

After watching opposing defenses sack quarterback Hills 16 times through four games, Edsall changes up offensive line

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer The Terrapins football team has a chart of how many unforced errors it makes every game. Every penalty they commit, every ball they fumble and every sack they allow, the Terps record it.

At the end of each game, they calculate the percentage of plays those errors mar.

What hurts their percentage the most? Sacks.

Quarterback Perry Hills has been sacked 16 times through four games this season — the sixth-highest number among FBS signal callers. Overall, the freshman has fi nished a play on his back twice as many times as he’s crossed the goal line.

“Being on the offensive line, you never like that your quarterback gets hit that much. The