October 9, 2014

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Big Ten suspends Cirovski, fines univ Coach misses last night’s victory over VCU after violating Sportmanship Policy in Sunday’s loss

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer The Big Ten suspended Terrapins men’s soccer head coach Sasho Cirovski for last night’s 1-0 win over

VCU at Ludwig Field and fined this university $10,000 after Cirovski had to be restrained while confronting the officials following the Terps’ overtime loss at Northwestern on Sunday.

“I sincerely regret my actions towards the officials following our

match at Northwestern on Sunday,” Cirovski said in a statement. “I would like to personally apologize to the Big Ten Conference and vow that this will not happen again.”

The Terps fell to the Wildcats, 3-2, in the 92nd minute when Northwestern forward Joey Calistri assisted on midfielder Cole Missimo’s gamewinning goal. Calistri appeared to shove Terps defender Chris Odoi-

Atsem and almost stepped out of bounds on the play.

Cirovski, whose suspension lasted one match, will incur the total cost of the fine. Assistant coach Brian Rowland handled coaching duties as the Terps beat VCU yesterday night behind midfielder Mael Corboz’s penalty-kick goal.

See cirovski, Page 3

Bret caples, WMUC business manager, addresses the SGA during Wednesday’s appeals hearing in Stamp. james levin/the diamondback

TERPS TOP VCU, 1-0, TO HALT TWO-MATCH LOSING SKID

SGA denies fund appeal for WMUC Radio station’s $11k budget request contained clerical error

By Diamondback Staff @thedbk The SGA voted against campus radio station WMUC’s appeal to a financial committee’s rejection of the station’s application for fiscal year funding last night.

Legislators voted down the bill, 6-14-1, on the grounds that WMUC’s application was filed incorrectly. WMUC discovered the application was rejected mid-last week because the station asked for the funding before the end of a 60-day mandatory waiting period — an error WMUC members said was an honest mistake.

By the r u les, accord i ng to Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk, any requests for funding of more than $1,500 must be asked for 60 days in advance. This is to ensure the funds are properly allocated and the event is well planned, Ronk said.

See wmuc, Page 2

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Midfielder Michael Sauers battles for possession with VCU forward Kharlton Belmar in the Terps’ 1-0 victory over the Rams at Ludwig Field last night. The Terps were without midfielder Tsubasa Endoh, who has been battling injuries all year, and coach Sasho Cirovski, who was suspended for the match after arguing with officials Sunday in a loss at Northwestern. The Terps, though, overcame the absence of two key components behind midfielder Mael Corboz’ penalty-kick goal. STORY P. 8

NIH grants U researcher funds for ‘cell glue’ project

Community college student transfers up in univ, state Local trend mirrors national increases

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer

Chicken eggs provide look at cell development

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer To many, eggs might be little more than a side to a full breakfast. But to one university researcher, chicken eggs might reveal secrets of how cells join, which could help in fixing cleft palates, fighting cancer and even regenerating organs.

The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research awarded Lisa Taneyhill, an animal and avian sciences professor, a $1.9 million grant to study what Taneyhill calls “glue that holds the cells together.”

To understand how cells bind, Taneyhill said she is looking at how certain proteins, called adherens and caderins, hold neural crest and placode cells together to become the trigeminal ganglia, a sensory organ on the brain stem of humans and

lisa taneyhill, an animal and avian sciences professor, is researching cell development and the “glue” that holds cell structures together with chicken eggs and an NIH grant. sung-min kim/the diamondback other vertebrates.

“It’s clear something is holding this whole structure together, or else it would all fall apart,” Taneyhill said.

“So we’re trying to figure out what are those proteins that are involved.

We think these cadherins play a role, but we need to test that to see if that’s really true.”

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To test this, she has what looks like cartons of eggs. The eggs have a hole on one side that is sealed with transparent material so the embryos still develop normally but can also be observed, she said.

Then, by putting ink in the yolk,

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To save money and raise her GPA, junior psychology major Faviola Santamaria attended a community college for two years before transferring this semester.

It was a move that Santamaria said allowed her to apply to the limited enrollment psychology program at this university.

“I always knew I wanted to go to Maryland,” Santamaria said. “My transfer was a part of that process for me.”

Statewide, an increasing number of students are designing a college experience similar to Santamaria’s, transferring to a four-year university after earning an associate’s degree at a local community college.

According to The Baltimore Sun, about 50 percent of the undergraduate students within the University System of Maryland are transfer students — and that number is increasing.

In fall 2013, 1,139 transfer students were admitted to this university with junior status, a 5.6 percent increase from the previous year, according to a report from the university’s institutional research, planning and assessment office.

“I think a lot of the increase has to do with the economy, honestly.

Going to a community college can be a cheaper option for students,” said Keisha Bates, university transfer admission counselor. “Especially for students who aren’t sure of what they want to do, they can save some expenses and figure some things out before then applying to a larger university.”

The average annual tuition and fees for community colleges during the 2013-14 academic year was $3,260, according to the American Association of Community Colleges.

In comparison, this university estimates a price tag of $9,427 in tuition and fees for in-state students for the 2014-15 school year, according to the admissions website. Out-of-state students can expect an estimated $29,720 in tuition and fees.

“It depends on the situation, but for students that don’t have a great See transfers, Page 3

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WMUC From PAGE 1 The financial committee is required to follow these g uidelines, he added, but the appeals process is made exactly for situations such as WMUC’s, when there are extenuating circumstances.

“It’s a general operation, it’s not rea l ly a n event,” Ronk said. “We shouldn’t really have the 60-day rule apply for them.”

WMUC will not be able to apply for funds again until the next deadline, Oct. 20, a nd w i l l not receive a nything until at least 30 days after, in mid-November.

B r e t C a p l e s , W M U C ’s b u s i n e s s m a n a g e r, s a i d the clerical error stemmed f ro m a m i s t a k e h e m a d e in the date on the Sept. 22 application.

Caples said the application appeared to ask for $11,000 b y N o v. 1 0 , t h o u g h t h e station was not able to ask for the funds before Nov. 21, said Brian Nowak, SGA financial affairs vice president.

Grant From PAGE 1 she is able to see when the embryo is at the stage she wants it — between two and three days in development.

When it’s at the right stage, she remove s t he em br yo from the yolk and takes out the trigem i na l ga ngl ia to analyze its RNA in a process called deep sequencing.

“So basically we’re going to look at the genes at all s t a ge s of d eve lopm ent,” Taneyhill said, noting how she will look for changes in gene expression that code for proteins to see how the proteins are involved, “and that

wmuc djs stand up in support of the group’s cause at the SGA meeting last night. About 20 radio station members attended to appeal their denied funding. james levin/the diamondback “It wa s a n er ror on my part. If I had just paid attention, it wou ld n’t have h app ene d ,” Caple s sa id .

“I’m not mad at SGA; they just did their jobs.”

More than 15 students representing WMUC attended last night’s SGA meeting, during which Caples and the station’s general manager Kevin Delmolino asked the student governing body to

allot about $6,300 in spot funding, an amendment to t he f u nd i ng bi l l i n it i a l ly accepted by the SGA. But that final bill, including the amendment, was ultimately denied.

“We’re not worried,” Delmolino said. “We will get through this. Day-to-day operations will continue as they are today.”

Taylor Ca i r n s, W M UC

news d i rector, sa id news and sports are the hardest hit by the lack of funding.

T he news section already operates on a tight budget for students interested in gaining career experience for broadcast news reporting, he said, and the section will meet today to regroup. “ We d on’t re q u e s t to o m a n y t h i n g s fo r b u d ge t purposes; when we do it’s

will give us an unbiased view of how this thing forms.”

Ta neyh i l l sa id th is ca n give scientists an idea of how cells combine, an idea that, while essential to life, is not entirely understood.

“We’re looking at a system that is basically two different cell types,” Taneyhill said, “so that’s easy to take out and look at and use as a model, but the hope would be if we learn how two different cell types can come together to form the trigeminal ganglia, it’s going to give us insight into what happens when even more than two cell types come together to form different tissues and organs.”

Tom Porter, chairman of

the animal and avian sciences department, said he hopes this research will help with knowledge of how cleft palates form and how they can be prevented.

“If these cells don’t migrate, cleft palates can form,” Porter said. “Understanding the mechanisms that control their migration is critical for understanding all these tissues.”

Ca rol Keefer,a n a n i ma l and avian sciences professor, said research into embryos at such early stages of development is pivotal.

“If you take a class, you might learn that these embryos form, and certain cells go to certain places and become certain organs. It sounds very

cut-and-dry, but the question is, how?” Keefer said. “When these processes go wrong, that’s when birth defects and cancer can occur.”

By looking at Taneyhill’s research as a model, Keefer said, future research might be able to see how cancer cells spread to other organs because the process is similar to how neural crest cells migrate and combine with placode cells.

It also could become a model for how to regrow tissue or organs, as understanding how they bind is essential to understanding how they grow.

“We are both interested in the fascinating question of how a one-cell egg becomes

only because it’s necessary,” sa id Ca i rns, who was not able to attend the meeting yesterday. “[For us,] it’s not a hobby. We do this for our careers.”

Ca i r n s s a i d h e i s c o nf id e nt W M UC new s w i l l survive the temporary lapse in funding, but said the experience points to internal inefficiencies the station as a whole needs to address.

Dennis Ting, W MUC sports director, said sports lost some of their equipment last year, and the section was relying on this funding to get the bulk of it back. Delmolino said the station needed the funds for failing and lost equipment, specifically to fund telephone lines so they can continue to broadcast effectively.

“We were really looking to upgrade, and it’s really unfortunate that we can’t,” he said. “I can’t provide for these people.”

But the station does have an alumni fund for emergencies, Delmolino said, which has enough money to help the station get through to the next cycle.

“That money was for emergencies when this kind of stuff happens,” Delmolino said.

Caples said he takes full responsibility for the error, a first in his experience crafting budgets for WMUC. “Hopefully we can have this never happen again,” Ting said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Eggs experimented on by university professor Lisa Taneyhill. sung-min kim/the diamondback a complete organism,” said Keefer, who a lso stud ies embryos in cows. “Dr. Taneyhill’s lab is answering questions about how cells know to

migrate and how do they know when they’re arrived at the place they’re supposed to be.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

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Depression rates up among college students National Depression Screening Day provides free student screenings

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer This National Depression Screening Day, more college students are struggling with depression than ever.

The results of a new study show that 60.5 percent of college students reported feeling “very sad” in the past year, according to the American College Health Association. And 30.3 percent of students reported feeling “so depressed that it was hard to function.”

“It makes a lot of sense,” said Nicole Silverberg, University Health Center care manager. “School’s really hard — there’s a lot of pressure to do well and the adjustment from high school to college can be overwhelming.”

According to Silverberg, 9,731 university students experienced depression last year. Of those students, 7,770 went without minimally adequate mental health care.

“We are always really busy,” Silverberg said. “There’s a three week

waiting period [for the Mental Health Center] and with the counseling center, same thing.”

However, there are numerous oncampus resources for students to draw from. According to Silverberg, these include meditation, massage, acupuncture, the Counseling Center and a psychiatric clinic.

“When you have depression, being a student becomes second priority because you want to help yourself first,” said Fara Hernandez, a sophomore Romance languages major who suffers from depression. “The fact that you can get help in that regard from your school is great.”

Hernandez has struggled with depression for several years. While she remembers it being manageable in high school, the disorder hit her especially hard her first semester at this university.

“I was hospitalized because I had suicidal thoughts and couldn’t take it anymore,” Hernandez said. “I was at the mental health center when I had an emotional breakdown, and a psychiatrist called an ambulance.”

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, most of those with depression experience its first symptoms during college, between

the ages of 18 and 24. Newfound independence combined with schoolwork, extracurriculars, jobs and a social life can mix to make students especially prone to symptoms.

“I think the workload and academic stress on top of social anxiety makes the chances of depression in students definitely higher,” said Sami Holder, a junior psychology major and employee at the Help Center, a peer counseling and crisis intervention hotline. “We get six or seven calls a week about depression — maybe more.”

According to Holder, the hotline, which is student-run, experiences a spike in calls during finals and other stressful times of year. While most calls are related to academics or social issues, Holder says they’ve recently received many related to confusion regarding sexual identity.

“At this point in our lives, we’re so confused about who we are,” Hernandez said. “With depression, it’s overwhelming to think about the next day, let alone about the rest of your life.”

If students believe they may be experiencing depression, both Silverberg and Hernandez stressed the importance of undergoing screening as soon as possible. The sooner

The university health center will offer free depression screenings for National Depression Screening Day. Last year, 9,731 students experienced depression and many did not receive care. file photo/the diamondback it’s diagnosed, the sooner treatment can begin and the student can start feeling better.

“Depression is something students find really hard to admit or talk about, so the fact that screenings are promoted and the university is reaching out and letting people know it’s OK to talk about it is great,” Hernandez said. “The fact that so many students are experiencing it and aren’t willing to admit it is very sad.”

Depression is defined as sadness experienced for more than four weeks that i nterferes w ith the ability to function. It can be caused by environmental and biological factors, and those who experience it are more likely to abuse alcohol, smoke ci ga ret te s a nd com m it suicide — the second leading cause

of death in college-aged students, according to the American Psychological Association.

“If it’s hard for you to do simple things, then you need help,” Hernandez said. “You should allow yourself to live a long and happy life — despite everything looking bleak now — and the only way to get there is to take baby steps.”

Free depression screenings will be offered in Room 1150 of the health center between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today. The assessments are anonymous and mental health professionals will be available to speak with about counseling resources on the campus.

The Help Center hotline can be reached at 301-314-4357. emuellerdbk@gmail.com

Officials to create medium for Purple Line discussion

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer As concerns surrounding the Purple Line light-rail project circulate on the campus and in the city, officials are responding with the creation of a compact to address the problems and open a community discussion.

The Purple Line Corridor Coalition — a group of local governments and community organizations sponsored by this university’s National Center for SmartGrowth Researchand Education — is developing the Purple Line Community Compact to addressthecommunity’sworries.

The compact will focus on community development issues such as keeping housing affordable, fostering small businesses and developing the workforce in municipalities along the proposed route, said Gerrit Knaap, National Center for Smart Growth director and urban studies and planning professor.

“It’s one thing to make sure the trains run. It’s another thing to make sure they connect people to where they need to go and that people’s lives aren’t destroyed,” Knaap said.

While addressing these issues is an important component of mass transportation projects,

Knaap said, it is not necessarily a responsibility that falls to the Maryland Transit Administration. This can cause those issues to “fall between the cracks,” he said, and the compact will help ensure that doesn’t happen.

Because the Purple Line will run through College Park and directly through the campus, it could potentially pose challenges to students and city residents, Knaap said. The new rail could make rents higher in the city and construction could impact small businesses’ success, he said.

Some students have expressed concern about how construction will transform the campus and pose an inconvenience to students and staff members.

“The campus is so beautiful the way it is, and I feel like if you put a railway through the middle of campus … it kind of changes the dynamic,” junior criminology and criminal justice major Haylee Juhas said.

Juhas, who lives in The Varsity, also said she’s worried about extra burdens for off-campus students, such as rent prices rising.

Michael Wertman, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, said he is glad the PLCC has taken the initiative to address community concerns.

Residents of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties

Transfers

“IT WAS A BIG STEP, I’M STILL GETTING USED TO IT. IT WAS From PAGE 1 GPA or don’t know exactly TOTALLY DIFFERENT AT what they’re going to study, MC — CLASSES WERE then community college can be the right choice for them,” Santamaria said. “It’s definitely cheaper.”

T he Maryland Transfer Advantage Program, a partnership with four local community colleges and this university, encourages transfers between those institutions and this university. Admitted students from Anne Arundel Community College, College of Southern Maryland, Montgomery College and Prince George’s Community College are offered a special college access program through the initiative, which includes guaranteed admission upon completion of the program, Bates said.

In addition, university representatives attend transfer fairs at community colleges statewide, Bates said, open to answering prospective students’ questions. For a few individual community colleges, admissions officials will give presentations about scholarship opportunities for transfer students.

LIKE 30 PEOPLE.” LIHINI ABEYWICKRAMA

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The Purple line light rail will be constructed and run through the campus, continuing to concern students and staff members at this university. The Purple Line Corridor Coalition is creating the Purple Line Community Compact to foster conversation surrounding Purple Line worries, focusing on community development issues. james levin /the diamondback will also have access to the line, which could bring new people to the campus, Wertman said.

That might warrant the need for heightened security measures, he added.

“At that point, we’re going to have to put the safety of the campus almost in the hands of [the MTA], because their security checkpoints are going to be what’s screening people running through here,” Wertman said.

“The potential is there for security risks, so it’s definitely some-

To cope with the change in learning style, Abeywickrama said she tries to interact w ith students a rou nd her and make appointments w ith professors for ex tra help when she doesn’t understand things.

The university tries to ease transfer students’ transitions with the Transfer 2 Terp program, which gives students special access to Stamp Student Union, a peer mentor and events throughout the year.

Ne ve r t h e l e s s, t h e re i s more t h at cou ld b e done to expand the university’s resources for transfer students, Bates said.

For years, transfer students have been on the minds of higher education officials, she said, but now it’s becoming a more “quantifiable issue” that the community is looking at.

“How much does a freshm a n p ay for t u it ion a n d how much does an admitted transfer student pay? Why aren’t we offering as many resources for those transfer students if they’re paying the sa me tu ition?” Bates said. “I absolutely think it’s a huge issue.”

Nearly 40 percent of fulltime equivalent students attending public schools in this state were enrolled in twoyear colleges, according to College Board’s Trends in College Pricing 2013, which used data from 2011. T he state had the 17th-highest percentage of students enrolled in community colleges, just behind South Carolina.

Despite the popularity of this academic path, though, transfer students can face harsh transitions.

Fo r j u n i o r a c c o u n t i n g major Lihini Abeywickrama, who transferred this year from Montgomery College, the move was “pretty tough,” she said.

“It was a big step, I’m still getting used to it,” she said.

“It was totally different at MC — classes were like 30 people, and now I’m in lectures with almost a hundred students.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

thing to be concerned about.”

But Knaap said this should not be a pressing concern for students to worry about.

“The more the university is integrated with the community, the better,”Knaapsaid.“Thatdoesn’t mean that you don’t think about what the security implications are, but I think to fear the Purple Line because of the kind of the people that it’s going to bring to campus is a misfounded fear.”

But junior aerospace engineering major Eric Frizzell said he did

CIROVSKI From PAGE 1 Rowland said he was made aware Tuesday night that he’d handle Cirovski’s responsibilities against VCU. “I’ve been here for a long

not think construction of the line would greatly disturb campus life.

“There’s construction going on right now, and it seems to be manageable, so I think that will also be manageable,” he said.

The PLCC will hold two compact workshops on Oct. 25 and Nov. 17, and the Fair Development Coalition is holding a Purple Line Community Compact kickoff rally tonight at Saint Camillus Church in Silver Spring. Knaap said he hopes to see students at these events to

time,” Rowland said. “I know the system and style of play and a lot of the things that we want to do.”

T he last ti me Ci rovski missed a match came when he was kept out of the 2003 season opener after receiving a red card in the Terps’

get involved and contribute to Purple Line development.

Wertman said although he thinks it will be challenging to get students involved and engaged in the compact, it’s important for them to care and express their opinions.

“Hey, this is your campus, and these things are directly affecting yourcampus,”Wertmansaid.“So it’s important to be involved in that kind of thing.” lschapitldbk@gmail.com

2-1 national semifinal loss to UCLA in 2002. “[Cirovski] is a big presence in the locker room,” Corboz said. “But we knew what he had to do [Wednesday], and fortunately, we got the result.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Astronomically Speaking: Pluto’s rise

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By Elaine Hunt @uhhlainee

here are a few stories everyone remembers from their childhood, but none are as famed and far-reaching as the story of Pluto. Pluto, a distant astronomical object, was a planet by our definition until 2006, when it was voted out of the elite solar system group.

Earthlings protested, cried and begged for Pluto to remain a planet. But as with all

great stories, the good guy might come out ahead.

Last month, eight years into Pluto’s planetary exile, it saw a glimmer of hope.

In an attempt to stop the mistreatment of dwarf planets like Pluto, the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a debate about the qualifications of a planet.

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or some of us, the closest pharmacy or health center that provides the health offerings we need might be miles away. While this might not apply to all of us, this seems to be especially true when it comes to women’s ability to access long-acting reversible contraceptives on the campus.

With a student body of more than 35,000 at this university, you’d think access to affordable, effective health care wouldn’t be a major problem.

Though the University Health Center offers such birth control methods as vaginal rings, patches, pills and diaphragms, these options aren’t as effective nor as efficient as some methods offered at other universities.

For instance, Indiana University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois and University of Nebraska — all fellow Big Ten universities — have been offering LARCs through their health centers. Though counseling on how to use progestin implants or intrauterine devices are offered at this university’s health center, they aren’t actually offered as an option for women to purchase through the health center.

Some argue that LARCs shouldn’t be offered at this university because they are not in high demand and could increase the health care costs the university bears. After all, according to a 2013 American

College Health Association study, 60.4 percent of college students prefer the birth control pill, while a measly 6.5 percent prefer to use an intrauterine device.

OUR VIEW

This university should be offering other effective, simple-to-use birth control methods.

However, the small demand for LARCs might be due to women’s minimal knowledge of this type of birth control method. Some myths surrounding IUDs include the idea that they cause infertility, or that women who haven’t been pregnant before cannot use them. Not only did the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals find these ideas to be false, but they also found that IUDs are as “effective as having your tubes tied,” with 99 out of 100 women not becoming pregnant while using an IUD. The truth of the matter is that IUDs, implants and other LARCs don’t just have smaller failure rates than more traditional forms of birth control — birth control pills have failure rates of 6 to 12 percent — but LARCs are easier to use.

I n t ra u te r i n e co n t ra ce p t i o n methods typically only require self-checking the strings during each menstrual period and also last anywhere between three and 10 years, depending on the type of method used.

Though IUDs or implants are more expensive, they typically only cost money in the beginning, with the payment essentially covering protection for several years.

If the health center offered LARCs, then the cost could be partially offset by reduced offerings in other birth control methods.

For example, if supplies were based on student demand, an increase in demand for LARCs might mean less money the university has to pay for other forms of birth control.

The only way we’ll know whether students on the campus prefer using LARCs is if they are actually offered. This university should offer these other birth control methods not only to keep up with other large universities that do but also because it would be a gesture of how important it thinks women’s health is. After all, this university is a leader when it comes to the quality of its academics, athletics and faculty. It’s about time it becomes a leader in women’s health, too.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

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h, meat. Americans love it.

Heck, I’ll go out on a limb and say all humans love it — no indigenous group of humans has ever subsisted and reproduced without meat, but I’ll save the debate on personal healthfulness of meat and our ancestors for another day.

Today, I want to dispel a myth that is too pervasive and perhaps damaging to the environment.

These days, “authority” figures love telling us how bad eating meat is for the environment. Methane is a bigger greenhouse gas than CO2 and cows don’t stop producing the stuff. Chickens create excessive fecal matter, generating nitrogenous waste products that dig holes into their own respiratory passages. Pig farming is notoriously inhumane. So how on Earth am I going to lay out how beef, poultry and pork can be used as a cog in the solution to climate change, instead of throwing a wrench into everything?

First and foremost, if you think methane from cows is an issue, then you better stop sweating because water vapor is one of the most potent greenhouse gases. But who’s calling to ban that? Let’s try to break down feces to help us understand what’s going on.

Methane is a byproduct of feces.

For those who don’t know, feces are very much alive, full of microbes (who yes, do produce methane), enzymes, vitamins and minerals.

What a delicious, nutritious meal for the right recipient. Who wants to guess what that is?

Grass. Grass is the foundation of a sustainable carbon cycle in the future of agriculture. But today’s system is based on grain, not grass.

It is a sad truth that about 70 percent of grain produced is used to feed livestock. It’s even sadder that the entire grain industry subsists on greenhouse gases. Monocrop

and “factory” grain farming kills more animals than meat-eating. Think of the moles, rats, mice and cute little rabbits that get killed by the huge machinery.

Unfortunately, it happens, but we never seem to hear their side. Monocrop farming diminishes biodiversity and erodes the soil , leaving it depleted of minerals and basically dead.

Feeding the world will rely on truly sustainable local food systems that utilize animals to maximize the productivity of the land. The importance of this cannot go unemphasized, as a hefty majority of land in the world is not arable. But that land is suitable for grazing.

If were one to take a trip down to Virginia, he or she could visit Polyface farm. Polyface uses the Savory method of intensive grazing to maximize productivity and work with the carbon cycle of nature. Joel Salatin uses the fecal matter from all animals to feed the grass. He uses chickens to help spread cow manure while eating the grubs and larvae to keep the flies at bay. The pigs roam outside in the forest, rooting and doing their “pigness,” as he likes to say. That’s fine and dandy, you might think, but what about its sustainability?

Joel Salatin has built 12 inches of topsoil on his farm in 50 years (an unheard-of statistic). Here’s how: When grass is grazed and rested properly, it “pulses,” rapidly regrowing to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil. His method is unusual, but some climatologists who have studied his farm estimate that were all beef put on a such a method, we could bring CO2 to pre-industrial levels.

Sometimes, nature (and a dose of thinking) has the answer, if we’re willing to look — no concentrated animal feeding operations or tortured chickens involved.

Justin Wisor is a senior bioengineering major. He can be reached at justin.wisor@gmail.com.

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Fixing the university’s software ROB COBB Fifty years ago, when university President Wallace Loh was an undergraduate, students interacted with university administration differently — in writing, in person or over the phone. Now, students conduct most of their business with universities online.

From the day we first look at the university’s website, to when we pull up a map for a campus visit, to submitting our application, to paying tuition, to registering for classes and finally applying for graduation, students primarily interact with the institution online.

And yet, of all facets of our university experience, online interactions are often the most frustrating. Despite Testudo’s — the Web service, not the mascot — new look, it still lacks powerful search tools or visual guides for planning our academic careers.

Students end up looking off-site at OurUMD, Koofers or RateMyProfessor for information about the professors and classes they are considering. A course description from the professor? A past syllabus? A way to compare classes or schedules with one another? What about integration between the schedule of classes and

Venus or drop/add? Not a chance.

The online systems are designed to do only what is necessary, not to go out of the way to help students, who are stuck using an old, slow, buggy system. In the process of choosing classes, I end up opening eight browser tabs at once, checking each professor’s curriculum vitae, ratings and any information I can about the class. I use paper to map out which combinations of classes I need in my four-year plan, which ones I have to take this semester and which ones fit in my schedule.

So what can we do?

Eric Denna, the vice president for information technology, is hard at work making student data more secure in the wake of the February data breach. The Division of Information Technology has its hands full with wiring the entire campus, serving the needs of faculty who can’t figure out how to get sound to accompany their PowerPoint slides, training those same faculty to use Canvas, managing our email and hundreds of other details that keep our beloved university from falling apart.

We can do more to serve the needs of the students, not just the institution.

More than security and PowerPoint projectors, students need well-designed Web services — a functioning search bar on Testudo, consistent navigation and layout between departments and in particular, more

powerful tools for advising, scheduling and registration.

This university ought to provide endpoints to its data and invite students and outside developers to improve upon the tools they provide.

Designing a new course registration process seems as though it would be a great student project. If this university made its data open and easy to build with, students would make tools for themselves and for one another. UMD Social Scheduler and UMD Schedule Browsing Enhancer are two examples of tools built on top of clunky university Web pages; the old CS Graphic Advisor was another student project built to help students navigate the complexities of advising and course registration.

In dozens of entrepreneurship courses, students are tasked with finding pain points in people’s lives and prototyping solutions, with the operating assumption that they can make a difference and find success by empathizing with product users. Yet the student experience with this university itself is usually frustrating and at times a nightmare. Let’s make it easy for students to solve these problems.

Students will build great things.

This university just needs to encourage it.

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

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art of being a professional athlete is being a role model on and off the field or in and out of the pool. This can cause extra stress and pressure, as athletes have to make sure all their decisions reflect them in a positive light, as if they are always in the spotlight. For some professional athletes, maintaining a good image is a difficult task.

One athlete in particular has been making headlines this past week, not for his athletic abilities but rather for his mistakes: swimmer Michael Phelps.

On Sept. 30, 22-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps was charged with his second DUI in this state, violating USA Swimming’s code of conduct. He was charged with driving under the influence, excessive speed and crossing double lane lines on Interstate 95. He registered a .14 on a blood-alcohol test, while the legal limit in this state is .08.

Phelps’ trial is Nov. 19, and if convicted he faces a year in jail, a sixmonth suspension of his license and a $1,000 fine.

On Monday, USA Swimming suspended Phelps for six months and he will not be competing on next year’s U.S. team at the FINA World Championships in Russia, even though he already qualified. Also, USA Swimming will not be paying Phelps his monthly stipend during the suspension.

Phelps took all the sanctions without resistance and also announced that he will be attending rehab. On Sunday, Phelps released a series of tweets stating his remorse and disappointment in himself. One of them read:“I’m going to take some time away to attend a program that will provide

the help I need to better understand myself.”

This is not Phelps’ first offense. In 2004, when Phelps was 19, he was arrested for drunken driving, but USA Swimming took no action. Then in 2009, he was suspended for three months after he was photographed using a marijuana pipe. But he was not charged for that.

Considering that this isn’t Phelps’ first or second offense, his actions are just boring at this point — boring in the sense that Phelps obviously has not learned from his mistakes and it seems as if he is just keeps pushing his limits. Why did USA Swimming not take action for his first offense 10 years ago? Also, the court waived the conviction for Phelps back in 2004. Maybe if Phelps hadn’t gotten off as easily as he did for his first DUI, then he might have realized the standard he would have to keep for all his years as an athlete and beyond.

Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete ever, and 2014 was going to be his comeback year, as he announced earlier this year that he was coming out of retirement and had his sights set on competing in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016. Not being able to compete in the world meet will greatly set him back from meeting his goal in competing in a fifth Olympics.

Phelps had huge plans for 2014 and now they are all gone because of his own fault. Hopefully this will be his last offense as he has already taken action to seek help and is facing jail time so the seriousness of his actions will finally set in for him.

Jessica Nocera is a sophomore go v e r n m e n t a n d p o l i t i c s a n d journalism major. She can be reached at jnocera@terpmail.umd.edu.

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BOOK REVIEW | LENA DUNHAM, NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL

THE VOICE OF HER GENERATION For better and for worse, the new memoir from Girls creator Lena Dunham utterly captures the feeling of living as a 20-something millennial

By Mel DeCandia @DBKDiversions For the Diamondback Just a few minutes into the pilot episode of Girls, Lena Dunham’s nowinfamous character Hannah Horvath proclaims, “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice … of a generation.” Hannah doesn’t seem entirely certain about her statement, or anything, really.

The line that separates the reallife Lena Dunham from her fictitious character is often a blurry one. Several aspects of the HBO hit she created, writes, directs, produces and stars in are rooted in or inspired by Dunham’s own life. But unlike Hannah, Dunham is almost certainly the surest voice of her generation, a poster child for millennials — as evidenced time and again in her recently released memoir, Not That Kind of Girl.

Dunham’s memoir is honest, thoughtful and revealing in unexpected ways. It is, however, misleadingly titled: Contrary to the title’s declaration, Dunham is exactly the kind of girl one would guess she is. She is the kind of girl every millennial knows, the kind of girl they equally worship and resent and the kind of girl they relate to because she is, in fact, one of them.

In her book, Dunham doesn’t detail her experience pitching a television show to HBO at just 24 years old, or discuss what it was like to win two Golden Globes in 2013 or even mention

that her boyfriend Jack is none other than Jack Antonoff, lead guitarist of famous pop band Fun. Dunham doesn’t give her readers a behind-the-scenes look at how difficult it is to be a young woman in today’s industry. Rather, she chronicles the difficulties of being a young woman today in general.

Despite her young success and celebrity, Dunham recounts tales typical of any 28-year-old woman who is still navigating in an uncertain world. She makes mistakes, learns from them, then picks herself up and moves forward, changed in some small way.

Every part is a reflection of the simultaneously simple and complex Generation Y experience. From stories of casual sex to social anxiety to recreational use of prescription drugs like Adderall, each page of Not That Kind of Girl is a constant reminder that Dunham’s musings on young people today come from a place of sympathy and understanding.

Even the prose (a little too self-congratulatory at times) and the format (jumping around almost manically between short anecdotes in a streamof-consciousness sort of way) echo this generation’s reputation for being mildly narcissistic and unable to focus on one thing for too long.

And rabid Girls fans will be satisfied learning some of the television show’s plotlines really are lifted from real-life experiences. Hannah’s obsessive-compulsive tendencies, which surfaced in the show’s second season, were partially

inspired by Dunham’s own struggle with the disorder. Advice Hannah receives from her book publisher on the show mirrors that of doubtful creative writing professors Dunham encountered in college. In the third season, a supporting character even works in a laughably overpriced children’s clothing place that seems an awful lot like the one Dunham describes having worked at post-college.

Dunham is definitely on the younger side for a memoirist — some might even argue she’s too young to be a memoirist at all. With the fourth season of Girls gearing up for premiere early next year and poised only for further success, it would make sense for her to wait a few years before penning a book like this one.

But Dunham’s book, on the whole, is less about her and more about her readers. Today’s troubled 20-somethings need advice and they need it now.

There’s simply no one better to consult than Dunham, who understands the experience because she’s still living it.

Who’s to say age makes what Dunham — or anyone else, for that matter — has to say less credible?

Again in season one of Girls, Hannah utters another now-iconic line, this one with more conviction: “I’m an individual and I feel how I feel when I feel it.” This is true of Dunham, and of this generation as a whole — and there isn’t, and shouldn’t be, anything wrong with that.

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FEATURE | THE MITHRIL TURTLE

one ring to rule them all Celebration of The Lord of the Rings seeks to bring the campus community closer together through the power of literature and film

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer The Lord of the Rings series was first published in 1954, and since then, pop culture hasn’t been the same. Though the initial response was critical, the series took off with fans, going on to sell more than 100 million copies worldwide. It is one of the most popular fantasy series of all time and has inspired countless works of literature through its epic plot and sprawling mythology.

This year, this university is marking the 60th anniversary of the adventures of Frodo and the Fellowship with The Mithril Turtle, a monthlong programming series put on by Michelle Markey Butler, a lecturer in the iSchool and the Honors College who often teaches courses on Renaissance literature and the works of Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien.

Butler began thinking about the

program back in spring 2013, when her Tolkien class realized that the anniversary of the publication was coming up.

Butler approached the Honors College, which liked the idea of the celebration and agreed to support the program, which kicked off in September.

Some of the larger events, such as a Lord of the Rings film screening, were easier to plan than others, Butler admitted. However, after putting out a call to other Tolkien scholars, the schedule began to come together.

“We’re fortunate that we have several Tolkien experts in this area that can come and talk,” Butler said.

The programming series explores the two seemingly divergent facets of Tolkien’s works in modern culture: Tolkien in fandom and Tolkien in academia. Butler explains that though people view Tolkien as either literature or pop culture, many miss the crucial overlap between the two.

“We forget that what we think of as literature were popular books that

people read,” Butler said. “Spending time with Lord of the Rings reminds people of that move.”

The events in the Mithril Turtle program have featured not only the more scholarly side of Tolkien — including last Friday’s staged reading of The Homecoming of Beorthnoth, Beorthelm’s Son, a play written by Tolkien in the Anglo-Saxon literary tradition — but also events that appeal to more casual Tolkien fans, like the Hobbit Day Dinner, a Middle-earth-themed potluck dinner held on Sept. 22.

Though attendance has varied between the events, Butler has been pleased overall with student turnout.

More than anything, Butler is delighted at how the Mithril Turtle programming has allowed a variety of scholars from all fields to join in the conversation, she said.

“Tolkien is a nice area because it’s interdisciplinary,” Butler said. “We have people who can talk about all the aspects of Middle-earth.”

“TOLKIEN BECOMES A PLACE WHERE WE CAN TALK TOGETHER AND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, EVEN IF WE SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.” MICHELLE MARKEY BUTLER

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The Mithril Turtle Interdisciplinary Discussion Series has invited experts from a variety of fields to discuss various elements of The Lord of the Rings and how Tolkien relates to their studies.

However, not all of these discussions are led by literature scholars; the event “Speak Friend: Tolkien-based Authentication and Other Security Insights from Middle Earth” on Sept.

26 was hosted by a visiting IT security expert, while “Protecting the Dragon’s Hoard — a Nanotechnology Approach”

was hosted by Ray Planeuf, a university material sciences professor.

Butler explained that at a university as large as this one, it is easy for professors and students to become compartmentalized. One of her goals with the Mithril Turtle program was to draw out Tolkien fans from all over the campus to interact in new ways.

“The appeal of something like Tolkien and Middle-earth is that people from different departments can talk to one another,” she said. “Tolkien becomes a place where we can talk together and understand each other, even if we speak different languages.”

The Mithril Turtle series concludes this weekend with an all-day Lord of the Rings movie marathon in Hoff Theater after another weeklong series of events, including a student research conference tomorrow and a Medieval Maker Faire, which will be held in the Ellicott Community Courtyard tonight. zdigiorgiodbk@gmail.com

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De Vries plays into Terps’ success Meharg credits assistant for consistent execution on penalty corners

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer During the past three decades, Missy Meharg has been synonymous with the Terrapins field hockey program. The 27th-year coach is, after all, an unprecedented nine-time National Coach of the Year.

A major factor in Meharg and the Terps’ success this season and in the past has been their execution on penalty corners. The Terps are averaging more than one goal per game this year from penalty corners, and no other team in the Big Ten is averaging better than .64 per game.

But as Meharg’s name is deeply connected with the Terps program, the coach said her second-year assistant Joppe de Vries should be credited for the squad’s success on penalty corners. De Vries, who draws up the Terps’ penalty corners and makes calls during games, is the driving force behind the most dangerous penalty attack group in the conference.

“He really takes pride in the corners,” forward Katie Gerzabek said of de Vries. “The plays he comes up with are really creative. He just looks at the other team’s corner defense and sees what can work and what can’t.”

The Terps celebrate a goal in their 6-0 victory over Ohio State on Friday. The team averages one goal per game on penalty corners, leading the Big Ten. christian jenkins/the diamondback De Vries spends about three hours per week watching film of the Terps’ upcoming opponent, and if the team plays two games during a weekend, his time studying game tape is doubled. He uses the film sessions to decipher the corner defenses opposing teams use most often.

The Terps offense benefited from de Vries’ work in their game Sunday against Old Dominion on the first penalty corner of the game.

While watching film, de Vries saw an opening on the right side of the defense.

“The first one we scored on is just watching their right cover and seeing exactly how she gets pinned in,” Meharg said after the 3-1 win. “You lure that and play around that block.”

Midfielder Anna Dessoye passed the ball to defender Sarah Sprink, who frequently takes the

straight shot for the Terps, but this time she faked it and swung the ball left to defender Steffi Schneid. Often, this is a variation in which Schneid takes the shot, so the Monarchs rushed her, but there was a final step to de Vries’ plan.

Dessoye, who had inserted the ball, moved to the near post and was waiting unguarded, which de Vries had anticipated. Schneid sent the final pass to Dessoye, who easily finished off the goal.

“With scouting the other teams, we kind of know with the skill set we have — we can maybe tweak it a little bit and change one pass and make a whole new corner,” Sprink said.

The Terps have between seven and eight penalty corners designed for each game based on what de Vries notices on film. The Terps will use the top two plays for

the first two penalty corners, and from there, Meharg and de Vries will determine which to use next based on the opponent’s defense on the first two corners.

“It’s a little bit of a game,” Meharg said. “Cat and mouse in that way.”

Despite the Terps’ success compared to the rest of the conference, Meharg believes the Terps’ penalty corner offense has room to improve.

The Terps have used a variety of players who are still adjusting to their roles on the set plays.

The Terps devote the end of practice to penalty corners because they’re a major aspect of their offense.

“We are out here a halfhour after practice just working on repetition and repetition,” Gerzabek said.

“So to see it finally work and execute it perfectly in a game, it just feels so rewarding.”

As players get used to their roles, Meharg said she thinks the Terps’ success rate will continue to rise. So far the extra practice has paid dividends on the field, and so has de Vries’ devotion to studying film.

“He is just as happy as we are when we score them,” Dessoye said.

Due to an reporting error, Tuesday’s article “The Same Pace” incorrectly stated former Terrapins men’s soccer forward Jake Pace scored his first goal of last season against VCU on Sept.

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RAMS From PAGE 8 got a red card. But we can’t count on that every game.”

For the first time in more than a decade, the Terps were without head coach Sasho Cirovski, who was serving a one-game ban. The Big Ten suspended Cirovski because he angrily confronted officials after his team’s 3-2 loss at Northwestern on Sunday.

A ss i s ta n t coa c h B r i a n Rowland, who handled Cirovski’s coaching duties, didn’t start any forwards. Instead, the Terps began the game with five defenders and five midfielders.

Shinsky and defender Jereme Raley started up top.

As the game wore on, forwards David Kabelik, Jeroen Meefout and George Campbell all played. Kabelik was the only one to record a shot, volleying a cross from midfielder Jake Areman right to goalkeeper Pierre Gardan, who had replaced Cyrus.

Shinsky, midfielder Mikias Eticha and Campbell played

after not competing in Sunday’s loss, but midfielder Tsubasa Endoh remained sidelined.

Endoh has played in just five of the Terps’ 11 games this year, as Corboz has slid in at attacking midfielder. Corboz was heavily involved in the Terps attack against VCU (4-7-1) and frequently sent crosses and passes to his teammates.

Not to mention, he took every corner kick.

The victory snaps the Terps’ two-game losing streak and might serve as a confidence booster. VCU has recorded victories over then-No. 6 Georgetown and then-No. 20 George Mason this year.

The Terps will hope to parlay the momentum into a victory against No. 3 Penn State on Sunday, when Cirovski will return to the sideline.

“We’ll keep building and hopefully gain some more quality in the attack,” Rowland said.

“But in terms of effort, in terms of commitment to each other and to defending, I couldn’t be happier with the group today.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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OMIDVAR From PAGE 8 spent the past three years as the video coordinator for N.C. State.

“My job is to be the best possible director of operation I can be.”

The new role is Omidvar’s latest stop in what’s been a rapid rise through the coaching ranks.

He began coaching in 2003 after injuries brought an early end to his high school playing career, and after helping at Damascus for a few months, Omidvar was offered the junior varsity coaching job at Jewish Day School in Rockville as an 18-year-old.

He accepted and led the team to the title game against rival Saint Anselm’s Abbey.

“Nima had scouted and he was so prepared that he pretty much gave his kids Saint Anselm’s playbook,” said Vic Littman, Jewish Day School’s varsity coach at the time. “There’s no such thing as being overprepared, but Nima was as prepared as it gets.

And this was junior varsity basketball.”

“They hold a special place in my heart,” Omidvar said of the championship squad. “That was my first team.”

But it wasn’t his last championship. Omidvar parlayed his success at Jewish Day School into a job as an assistant at Saint John’s College High School in Washington, where he coached McDonald’s All-American Chris Wright.

He later moved on to work at Paul VI in Virginia and helped turn that program into a national powerhouse.

During the summers, he was building the framework for one of the nation’s most successful AAU teams, Team Takeover, which went on to win two national titles.

All the while, Omidvar was working toward his degree in economics, which he earned from this university in 2008.

He also ran one of the East Coast’s premier basketball tournament and clinic companies, DC Metro Showcase, which helped him pay the rent for his College Park home.

“I still found a way to have a social life, too,” Omidvar said.

“Maybe I’m wired differently, but I’m 24 hours. I sleep like four hours a day.”

In the rare free time he had during winter nights in the mid2000s, Omidvar would slip into the since-renamed Comcast Center to watch coach Gary Williams and the Terps. Several years later, after stops at Bowie

nima Omidvar started work as director of men’s basketball operations for the Terps in mid-May. photo courtesy of n.c. state athletics State and N.C. State, Omidvar has earned a spot on the staff of a Terps team aiming to qualify for its first NCAA tournament since 2010.

Turgeon said Omidvar’s presence in the local basketball scene and his devotion to the basketball program made him an ideal candidate for the director of operations job. And Turgeon made sure to point out that he wouldn’t have hired Omidvar if he didn’t believe the young coach could climb the ranks and earn a job as assistant at a major college program.

“He’s got a lot of connections; he works at it; the kids like him,” Turgeon said. “There’s no question he’s on that path.”

At this point, though, Omidvar doesn’t want to be anywhere other than his kitchen-turned-office.

He called the Terps his “trump card to any other job offer,” not only because he went to school at this university but also because he has a handful of family members who graduated from here.

And when Omidvar moved from Prince George’s County to Montgomery County as a fourth-grader, conversations about Terps basketball helped forge new friendships.

But over the past several months, Omidvar has avoided reminiscing about his days cheering for the Terps from afar.

There’s not much time for that. He’s got items he needs to cross of his to-do list.

“I’m very proud that I’m here, but at the same time, I’m not going to let the warm and fuzzy feeling of coaching at my alma mater get in the way of doing an unbelievable job for this program,” Omidvar said. “I’ve had my moment of ‘Oh wow. I’m at Maryland.’ I got that out of my system. Now it’s time to work.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Early in the first half of the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s contest against VCU last night, Rams goalkeeper Garrett Cyprus controlled the ball inside the box, preparing for a clear.

But Alex Shinsky had other plans. The midfielder charged Cyprus and slide-tackled him, poking the ball loose. With an open net, Shinsky approached the ball and prepared to shoot, but Cyprus tugged on Shinsky and brought him to the ground. Despite the contact, Shinsky got off a weak shot that ricocheted off the left post.

The referee then whistled the play dead and issued Cyprus a red card. The infraction earned the Terps a penalty kick, which midfielder Mael Corboz buried

to propel the Terps to a 1-0 victory before an announced 922 at Ludwig Field.

“We knew we had to win,” Corboz said. “From the last game and things that have happened since the last game, we came in with a little bit of fire and a little bit of anger. It was necessary to win tonight.”

The red card gave the Terps (4-5-2) a man-up advantage for the rest of the game, and they outshot the Rams, 16-4. Nevertheless, they weren’t able to capitalize and add an insurance goal. “[VCU] sat really far back,” Corboz said. “They really didn’t have any other choice. We had most of possession, which we would’ve had anyway. It helped us manage the game. We killed a lot of time just keeping possession and making them run. Luckily for us, they See RAMS, Page 7

The bluish-gray walls are mostly bare and the floor is cluttered, but Nima Omidvar’s new office in the Xfinity Center provides a glimpse into how he earned his job as Terrapins men’s basketball director of operations.

Dozens of sticky notes and pieces of paper are pinned to a bulletin board hanging directly above a desk that has more sheets strewn across its surface. Most of the slips have to-do lists written on them.

The other notes laying around include lists of contacts. Omidvar, who graduated from this university in 2008, knows thousands of people in the basketball community around the mid-Atlantic, and he’s worked to tap into those connections since he accepted his job with the Terps in mid-May. Lining the floor around Omidvar’s desk, meanwhile, are tokens from his young coaching career. There’s the championship plaque he received after leading the Jewish Day School’s junior varsity team to a league title, trophies from AAU tournament championships and letters from former players and coaches.

Omidvar, 28, enters his first season with the Terps — who started practice last week — intent on recapturing his past success by completing each task on his daily to-do lists while touching base with anyone who could help the team.

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He said he won’t stray away from those work habits. They’re what persuaded coach Mark Turgeon to hire him in the first place.

“My assistants knew him … and then I made some phone calls, talked to some people,” Turgeon said, “and it kept coming back to how hard he works.”

Omidvar’s job entails arranging travel, food and other budgetary items for the Terps. But he also plays a part in promoting the team and observes how the program functions each day to try to identify aspects that can be improved.

He’s already pushed to install new graphics in the Terps locker room, converted a kitchen into his new office and finalized the team’s plans for flights and hotels before its first Big Ten season. NCAA rules prohibit Omidvar from recruiting off the campus or providing as much coaching as other members on the staff, but the Damascus High School graduate aims to accomplish anything else he can to make Turgeon’s job easier.

“I’d love to be a coach, but that’s not my job,” said Omidvar, who See OMidvar, Page 7

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“My boyfriend asked me to be his Defining the relationship can be girlfriend two years ago, and we’ve frustrating and intimidating, but been dedicated ever since. Without despite the challenges, let’s face the terminology, we would have it: Understanding each other’s been much more confused in what wants and needs is necessary to the other person wanted.” any healthy relationship.

Of course, not everyone upholds Let’s start with why couples need this view of necessary terminoloto DTR. gy. Nevertheless, understanding It makes things easier. People your partner’s needs is vital for a often say they don’t want to com- healthy relationship. plicate things by adding a title to It lets you know your options. If their relationship. OK, then don’t you and a potential partner are not add the title. Couples can define “official” or “exclusive” — or any of their relationships without the the titles that our urban dictionary “complications” of a title. Providing provides — then don’t limit youra definition ensures that the indi- self. This is college, and you have viduals understand the motivations plenty of options. Do not commit and reasons for their relationship. to someone who is not going to It avoids no man’s land. Instead return the favor. If you really like of giving the classic shifty eyes and uncomfortable giggle when friends SEE RELATIONSHIPS, PAGE 4

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through that because some students may not consider themselves to be sexually active.

They may be indulging in behaviors that they do not define as sex.

Planning to get intimate with Every single sexually transmitted someone? Jenna Beckwith, sexual health program coordinator at the infection can be passed through University Health Center, talked oral sex — herpes, human papilloto The Diamondback about the ma virus, syphilis, chlamydia and sexual behavior of students on the human immunodeficiency virus. campus. She also shared some quick We want students to know more advice on how to practice safe sex. about where risks may be, so they can stay safer for whatever behavThe Diamondback: What actions iors they are engaging in. can students take to practice Do you think students are not safe sex?

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They talk about it with their things is to get educated and become aware and empowered friends. Talking about hooking up

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Sex is everywhere, but while talking about it with their partners they say, “Oh, this is awkward.”

So, communicating and talking about sex helps make it a more pleasurable, positive, fulfilling, safer experience than if we are not talking about it.

What behaviors should they avoid?

What they avoid is totally personal. Every single behavior can be made safer. There are some behaviors that are higher-risk and some are lower-risk.

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How often do students come to the health center with questions?

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How can students communicate with their partners?

Some of it starts with a conversation with ourselves, about figuring out what we want and don’t want and discovering what feels good and what doesn’t. Some of it is hard to communicate with others because we haven’t thought about it ourselves.

There may be different answers in different relationships and different partners. The more we hear and see others doing this, we may feel more comfortable doing so. Our students on campus really have the power to change the culture in that way.

How can students seek answers?

We have info on the website, so students track it. They come to the health center or they call me over the phone. They may ask their RA, TA, who may direct them to us.

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We are seeing an increase in the use of lube. But we are not forcing any of these materials into people’s hands. All of it is available free to students. College can be a very overwhelming experience with a whole lot of expectations, stress and trying to find yourself and exposure they may have no idea how to navigate. Once they have the knowledge, they have to make informed choices. We are really here for a more sexually well, healthy and aware and educated campus community and that includes everyone.

What are the STIs prevalent on the University of Maryland campus?

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By Nate Rabner @thedbk For The Diamondback I had driven past College Park’s Comfort Zone about 100 times but knew next to nothing about the small, nondescript store beyond what the “intimate apparel” sign in its window implied.

So my girlfriend and I traveled up Route 1 on Friday to check out the place. It would be a step outside my, say, figurative area of ease.

I pulled up to the storefront with its pink and white awning and walked to the door. A note forbade minors from entering without parent chaperones. I wondered whether a kid had tried to come in alone. I wondered whether kids come in with their parents. I appreciated being over 18.

We stepped inside, and the owner wearing a red university T-shirt asked to see our IDs. “Is this your first time here?” he asked.

We nodded, and he introduced a few friendly-looking employees and outlined some rules. No photos or recordings in the store to protect clients’ privacy, and be careful around the merchandise for your own safety. In New York City, he explained, undercover police officers had arrested adult store clients who gave a whip test swing.

That revelation was, well, arresting. People were punished for contemplating kinky sex?

Sufficiently cowed, I agreed to the rules. (I did some research after and couldn’t find that specific case, but I did see more than enough to justify wariness.)

Comfort Zone’s website describes the store as a “party supply, novelty and gift headquarters,” and the shop has an ample selection for each category. Among other things, I found: A shel f of rau nchy ga mes.

There’s “Risky or Frisky?” (for

couples, friends and “very good friends”); the bluntly titled “Go F---!” card game; and a comprehensive array of sex dice in English and Spanish. (I’m always looking to expand my Spanish vocabulary.)

Halloween costumes. My girlfriend had noted that the ensembles in the window display resembled Halloween wear, and inside, we found outfits designed for use on the streets or in the sheets.

A book I bought, Literary Foreplay: A Lexicographer’s Guide to Sex. Kind of a proto-Urban Dictionary, it’s full of ’80s slang and even has a brief commentary on semantics.

Nutrition. Comfort Zone has the penis-shaped pasta people love to share on Reddit and pasta boobs.

Dining Services should cook this stuff as a Chef’s Feature during Sex Week.

A sign prohibiting public displays of affection.

Comfort Zone’s basement is home to more intense stuff and a family section, which stocks entertainment such as movies and comic books. I walked downstairs and passed a few incongruous Disney posters to continue my survey.

Highlights included: Blow-up dolls. As with other products in the store, they cater to a broad spectrum of preferences.

Really big dildos. I did not know that there were dildos that big.

Some of them literally are anaconda-sized. I feel naive now.

Penis enlarger pumps. Some of them are as big as the dildos.

There’s a guidebook, too.

A vast selection of DVDs — the watch-with-the-family kind. And a wall of novels. I thought about picking a few titles but somehow got distracted.

L ots of pleasa ntly scented incense sticks.

In the end, Comfort Zone lived up to its name. I am not usually a

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The Terrapins athletic teams are going B1G on the field and now you can go B1G too — in the bedroom. Spice up your sex life with these foreplay tips and sex tricks.

THE BADGER “The Bucky Badger” is performed by never taking off your red- and white-striped sweater and bringing an alarming amount of sharp cheddar into the bedroom.

THE BOILERMAKER Crank up the thermostat to at least 90 degrees. When you start to sweat, it’s time to get it on. Just make sure you rehydrate afterwards.

THE CORNHUSKER The goal here is for you and your partner to race to see who can strip each other down the fastest — first one done gets to pick the position!

THE GOLDEN GOPHER Have your partner lay down, build a pillow fort around them, like a gopher den, then perform oral sex on him or her, regularly coming up for air out of a hole in your gopher den.

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Make sure you refer to yourself as THE (your full name here) State University for the duration of your sexual encounter.

Traditional doggy-style, only with excessive spanking and when you fi nish, make sure you ask your partner “Hoosier Daddy?!?”

THE FIGHTING ILLINI

THE TERRAPIN Just do it on a burning couch so you can still f--Duke. Be sure to rub your partner’s nose and leave an offering for good luck.

No official mascot means no official rules.

Think of this one as a wild card.

THE NITTANY LION Perch on top of your dresser or other elevated piece of furniture and pounce on your partner when they enter the bedroom like a Nittany Lion stalking its prey.

This move always has a happy ending.

THE SCARLET KNIGHT Put whipped cream on your man’s “sword” and use a bright red strawberry to scrape it off.

THE SPARTAN Slowly strip in front of your partner and announce “this...is…(YOUR NA ME HERE)!!!” and then at the end of your wild sex while both wearing red capes, ask your partner, “Are you not entertained?”

THE WILDCAT B-E AGGRESSIVE! Mark your territory by scratching at your partner during sex.

Growling noises are encouraged, as is teasing your partner by licking him or her all over.

THE WOLVERINE Caught in a wolfpack orgy? Don’t hold your grunts and howls back as you claw your way to ecstasy.

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my Friends,” iCondom locates the nearest condom vendor for those who are without protection when things get steamy.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF ONLINE DATING A self-esteem boost is just a swipe, click or message away

By Jocelyn Brocato @thedbk For The Diamondback In the age of William Shakespeare, the playwright’s character Romeo scales a wall into the Capulet estate to express his eternal devotion to his fair maiden.

In 2014, you need only to swipe right on a luminescent screen.

Living in a world in which nearly all manners of human communication can be digitally transmitted, “There’s an app for that,” seems to be the knee-

jerk response to any possible need.

Whether you’re trying to get directions to the nearest Chipotle or simply to send a goofy picture to a friend, all of your trivial tasks can be taken care of in seconds with the mobile device residing in your pocket.

It was only a matter of time before someone created an app for the purpose of sex: Tinder.

Tinder is categorized as a matchmaking mobile app in which two users who share a mutual interest in each other are given the opportunity to chat. While Tinder was designed

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Some might say Tinder is superficial, with users choosing matches largely based on physical appearance, but the app’s use as a medium for individuals to exchange frivolous words of affection can boost one’s self-esteem.

“Part of Tinder’s appeal is the idea that users are removed from reality,” said Robin Sawyer, a public health professor who teaches a course on human sexuality.

Sawyer has been teaching sexual education for more than 30 years, and his innovative approach has gained him much notoriety across the nation, even being featured on

the Today show with Matt Lauer.

“Tinder serves as a medium for people who are afraid of putting themselves out there,” Sawyer said.

Users are notified only if they have received a match on Tinder; therefore, rejection is passive and in a sense, painless.

But in order for the app to be effective, Sawyer said, both parties need to be honest with what they want.

“Some people may go into the app subconsciously yearning for a relationship,” he said. “And that can make things complicated.”

Some students at this university seem skeptical about the app.

Junior civil engineering major Nick Dasher said he thinks Tinder can boost one’s self-esteem.

“If you need Tinder to feel selfworth, then you probably have some deeper issues under the surface,” Dasher said.

Sophomore business major

Brittany McManus, on the other hand, said she doesn’t think Tinder would affect her self-esteem because she wouldn’t take the app seriously.

Other students denied having a Tinder for reasons of indifference or having a significant other.

A stigma toward Tinder does not come as a surprise to Sawyer.

“If you use Tinder, it’s because you’re not cool enough to get with someone in person,” Sawyer said of what he considers a widely accepted belief.

While some might scoff at the apparent social decline the digital era has brought upon society, it is a trend that is here to stay. So if you ever find yourself pacing on a terrace, desperately waiting for Romeo to poetically exclaim his affection for you, rest assured — there’s an app for that. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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The Tinder experiment How swiping right changed my perspective on online dating CAROLINE CARLSON Meeting new people online or through a mobile app can be pretty scary. Whenever friends used to tell me they were going on dates with people they met online, my immediate levelheaded response was always, “But what if he drags you back to his dungeon and savagely murders you?!”

I recently decided to download Tinder and chronicle my experiences for The Diamondback. For

those of you who don’t live on Earth, Tinder is a mobile app that connects local users’ Facebook profi les and allows them to swipe right if they fi nd someone attractive or a person they’d be interested in meeting. Otherwise, users can swipe left. If two users swiped right for each other, they can start a direct message conversation.

In the interest of being honest, rather than sounding shallow, I will admit that many guys messaged me, but this seems to be typical for female users. The introductory conversation starter from the so-called match included anything

from “How are you doing?” or “You remind me of my ex” to my personal favorite: “If you don’t intend to have a conversation, reply with ‘1,’ if you want to go on a date, reply with ‘2,’ or if you want to get drunk, have sex and eat pizza afterwards, reply with ‘3.’”

Before starting this experiment, I laid down some ground rules: F i rs t, I wa sn’t a l lowe d to message someone first. Though I’d never say I’m an opponent of making the first move, I wanted to see what would happen with the SEE TINDER, PAGE 13

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TINDER FROM PAGE 12 guys who were interested enough to start and hold a conversation.

Second, I couldn’t fool or mislead anyone. I only continued conversations with people if I was interested in the topic at hand, and I only met

someone if I truly wanted to go on a date with him. As much as I’d love to be a gorgeous journalist dating Matthew McConaughey in New York City, this isn’t How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. This is real life, so we should actually take care not to hurt people’s feelings.

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It seemed as though everything Aaron the activist was going well — we were mesI swiped right because he was a saging each other as if we were student at this university, attrac- becoming new friends — but all of tive and, judging by his photos, a sudden, he fell off the face of the interested in the same political earth. Aaron left the conversation topics as I am. Instead of flirting, and never came back. I guess that’s we spoke about computer science Tinder for you. classes, homework and U.S.-IsraNick the pervert el relations. I know — so steamy, right? For some reason, I was really I swiped right because he was a glad we didn’t talk about butt sex

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Ravens fan and seemed like a guy who knew how to enjoy himself.

After introducing himself, he immediately asked me, “So you wanna?” After asking what he meant, he responded, “hook up!”

I immediately ignored him. A day later, I got a Facebook friend request from a Nick with the same profile picture as the creep from Tinder. I blocked him and reminded myself how important safety is in online dating.

John the Marine

I sw ip ed r i g ht b ec au se he looked good i n u n i for m a nd seemed pretty professional. A U.S. Marine-turned-systems engineer, John and I talked about computer programming, his tours in Afghanistan and Colombia and a skeleton he had in his closet (which, as I write this, I’m realizing is none of your business and didn’t make me like him any less).

John was the only person whom I physically met. So far, we’ve been on a few dates. I view our chemistry as this strange yet exhilarating combination of personal interest and physical attraction. Whenever we’re with each other, I can’t stop myself from picking his brain or lying down and studying his tattoos.

We ask each other crazy questions in the middle of restaurants just to put each other on the spot and don’t mind that we disagree on certain things. Though I don’t know what John and I have, I know I want it to grow further. If he’s reading this, I hope he can address my feelings — they’re pretty “insatiable,” if he knows what I mean.

Using Tinder taught me that the app isn’t entirely as sketchy as I originally thought it was. When used appropriately, you can meet some interesting, like-minded people. To anyone critiquing my use of the app, let me tell you: I like dating and continuing my search to find the next guy who might be “the one.” And if I have to rely on a few algorithms to do that, then so be it. ccarlsondbk@gmail.com

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Virginity is still ‘in’

multiple partners,” said Jenna Beckwith, sexual health program coordinator at the University Health Center.

Only 8.6 percent of students at this university reported having four or more sexual partners within the last year.

In reality, 61 percent of American Mean Girls and American Pie).

“That is powerful for people to Incoming freshmen aren’t just 18-year-olds reported having had expected to have sex; they’re also sex in a study from this university hear,” Beckwith said. “It definitely SAMANTHA REILLY expected to adopt a been-there- published in April 2013 in Pediatrics. challenges this cultural myth that “I think a lot of people talk about everyone’s hooking up all the time done-that-attitude that just doesn’t it more than it’s actually happen- with all these people. Some people work when they have neither been If you were to read a recipe for ing,” freshman communication may be, and that’s not necessarily there nor done any of that.

As a result, the “college experience,” it would a bad thing, just it’s certainly not go something like this: equal parts virgins often quietly slip into an major Gabrielle Ortega said.

According to the National College everybody or the majority.” booze and sex, with just a sprinkle awkward position in their collegiate Beckwith handles a variety of of academics to taste. But not ev- social circles, feeling that they aren’t Health Assessment survey conducted eryone has the palate for that kind “doing college right” or that they in the spring, 38.5 percent of the stu- sexual health-related programs on the of lifestyle, and for some freshmen, should be having sex (or a lot more dents polled at this university had no campus. Between coordinating Sex sexual partners in the past 12 months. Week, advising the Sexual Health and sex) simply because “it’s college.” it’s a hard thing to admit.

Another 36.7 percent had one sexual Reproductive Education group and “Sex has always seemed like a In nearly every TV show and partner within the same time frame. overseeing free STI- and HIV-testing part of the college experience,” movie lies less of an assumption “When we actually look at the initiatives, she welcomes students and more of an expectation: College freshman mechanical engineering numbers on campus, we see that into her office to talk about their students hook up with tons of major Theo Leasca said.

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Learn your roommate’s schedule Feel free to be weird about this.

I had a system set up that carried me through the next few years of Ask him or her to post it on the my life. And if you’ll let me, here I’d back of the door. Be a good roomBudget your time wisely like to give you some tricks of the mate and do the same. Study his Is your roommate going to the trade. Consider this a handy guide or hers whenever he or she goes to the ins and outs and ups and to take a shower. Knowledge is dining hall with a group of 10 people?

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Make the most of your space I’m not saying you should set up an elaborate Home Alone-style Rube Goldberg machine to distract your roommates, but I’m not not saying it, either.

Think about the layout of your space: Do you want to face the door to give you optimal warning time?

Face away for maximum shielding? Maybe you can hang a privacy screen from your bed riser. Maybe you can only climax on the floor. In any case, figure out how to best use your room’s space to cater to your needs, so you can cater to your own needs with ample space.

Don’t do it in the showers Those are public. Somebody cleans them for you. Come on.

Talk about it My freshman year, I was a quiet, twitchy bundle of nerves because I couldn’t communicate with my randomly generated roommate. My sophomore year, though, my roommate and I talked openly about our mutual situations, and the whole thing was much easier — I had free time when he was at a cappella practice; he could use the room however he wanted when I was at work.

We opened up a dialogue without judgment or shame, and our room was a much happier place for it. Talk to your roommate. Joke around, but be honest. It’s a lot easier to adjust the antenna when you and your roommate are on the same wavelength.

Wait, what? *** Most of the time, I enjoy the freedom that my current living situation affords me.

But sometimes, looking back from the comforts of my commuter’s bed, there’s a certain sepia-drenched (maybe “drenched” is a bad word … splattered?) nostalgia for those old days: There’s a frantic, illicit mania to wringing out the washcloth in a crowded dorm that sweetens the whole experience.

I guess doing it alone is never quite the same as having a friend around. ebrickerdbk@gmail.com

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A senior reflects on the (self-) pleasures of dorm life

By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer There are pros and cons, I’ve found, to renting a house rather than living in a dorm. On the negative side, there’s no 4-WORK around to immediately fix my air conditioning or refrigerator. I have to take out my own (and, more often than not, my roommates’) trash, remember when my bills are due and watch my thermostat like a hawk.

But there are pros, too — mostly the freedom to lock my bedroom door without question. And that comes in handy.

For the fi rst two years I lived at this university, I, like many, lived in a dorm. Well, I made do in a dorm. While an incredible environment for living and learning with like-minded peers, the dorm ecosystem was never exactly conducive to … you know … taking care of yourself. Drinking from a Solo cup. Catching the meat train at palm city. Coming in handy.

By my second year in a dorm, I had lost track of the number of close calls I’d had and no longer

really counted how many times an unexpected roommate’s arrival forced me to dive under my covers, slam my laptop shut, scooch farther under my desk or perform any combination of the three, usually while trying to turn a breathy yelp into a casual, “Sup, dude?!”

For most of my first semester, though, I was actually far too nervous to do the deed, for a lot of reasons.

Mostly, I was terrified that the university was monitoring everything I viewed while logged into the “umd” network, and I didn’t want to have to explain to my family that I got kicked out of university housing because of my weird taste in porn.

On the other, much more realistic, side of the coin, was the roommate situation — how do you time out your intimacy to the beats of another person’s day? If I noticed the door handle rattling, would I be able to default back to my normal state of nonchalance in time? Would he be less suspicious if I had shoes on? No one does it in shoes, right?

Before too long, though, baser urges prevailed. And before longer, SEE SOLO, PAGE 15

BUT WE’VE HAD SEX BEFORE. IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU’LL HAVE SEX WITH ME. DON’T MAKE ME STOP NOW.

IT’S ON US TO STOP SEXUAL ASSAULT. ASK FOR CONSENT. EVERY TIME. #RULEOFTHUMB

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