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OCCUPY D.C. MAKES LANDFALL Gaining national momentum, protesters flood Washington for ‘revolution’

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

From across the United States, protesters descended upon the nation’s capital, and several university students joined in the cries for peace, a participatory democracy and a redistribution of American wealth.

People traveled from across the country to camp out in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza and march through the streets of Washington — “people united will never be defeated,” “vote for peace not war” — as a part of the Occupy and Stop the Machine protests. Many in attendance said they felt a strong sense of solidarity and hoped the protests would serve as a springboard to ending U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, alleviating poverty and improving health care, education and the environment.

“It was a really life-changing and eye-opening experience to see what it looks like to build a revolution,” said sophomore communication major Danielle Orellana, who attended Occupy D.C.’s Thursday kickoff.

Members of a new student group at this university, United Youth Movement,

Event would have cost body $14,000

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Although Student Government Association officials fought to keep plans in motion for the sixth annual Crab Fest dinner, they said tight budget constraints left them with no choice but to cancel the popular university tradition this year.

If the Crab Fest returned to Cole Field House on Oct. 20 as scheduled, thousands would have likely followed the smell of Old Bay from across the campus and packed the venue to crack open the state’s signature treat.

Although SGA officials worked through the summer and into the past week to obtain the nearly $14,000 needed to host the event, contributions from the SGA and other student groups and departments weren’t

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The most magical job on earth Two university students dress up as childhood characters for internships at Disney World

BY SARAH MEEHAN Senior staff writer

Most students remember Disney characters from movies they watched growing up, but junior Amanda Ogorzalek and senior Meredith Hickman each spent a semester playing the characters that defined their childhoods.

Ogorzalek stepped into Cinderella’s glass slippers for four months during the spring semester of 2010 while Hickman spent

the spring and summer of 2009 dressed in various Disney character costumes, including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck and Piglet. The communication and theater major and elementary education major were the only students from this university to participate in the Disney College Program, a paid internship in which students work at Disney World either as characters or staff members.

Ogorzalek and Hickman worked

eight-hour shifts inside restaurants and in the park, and spent about half of their shifts in costume. Both students said their time working as Disney characters was unlike any other local internship program.

“I love kids and I love performing and I love Disney so it was just, like, altogether it was just ideal for my life at that point,” Ogorzalek said.

The internship provided them

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A RACE TO NOWHERE

Senior elementary education major Meredith Hickman (center ) dressed up as Disney characters for her internship at Disney World. PHOTO COURTESY OF MEREDITH HICKMAN

Students create rain garden

Quarterback Danny O’Brien, left, looks to avoid pressure from Georgia Tech during a 21-16 loss in Atlanta on Saturday. C.J. Brown later replaced O’Brien and he used his legs and a strong defensive effort to help the Terps slash a 21-3 deficit to five in the fourth quarter.

Their late comeback, though, fell short, and they dropped to 2-3.

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With sustainability grant, bioretention facility reduces campus pollution into local waterways

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Members of the Maryland Sustainability Engineering group embrace rainy days as an opportunity to preserve the plants and animals that live in local waterways.

The 30-person organization created the Guilford Run Bioretention Facility — a rainwater garden located on a strip of land between Lot 1 and Campus Drive — with the help of a $9,000 grant from the 20102011 University Sustainability Fund, a pool of money which is generated from the $6 mandatory student sustainability fee.

Although completed in April, the rainwater garden is up and running this semester.

The project helps slow down the flow of rainwater that runs from the campus parking lots into Guilford Run — a local waterway near the campus — to help minimize erosion on the stream banks caused by fast-moving water, student project leader Phil Sandborn said. Essentially, the project lessens the amount of pollution that flows into nearby creeks and streams.

The facility absorbs rainwater into the ground with a soil-and-sand mixture. It then

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FEAST from page 1

Thousands of protesters converged on the nation’s capital as a part of the Occupy D.C. movement and Stop the Machine rally to end government corruption, redistribute America’s wealth and bring soldiers home from war. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

more activism in the university community.

“Activism is so rare that it from page 1 can’t even make a difference attended the Stop the anymore,” said UYM founder Machine protest Friday Mo Farshneshani, a junior evening at Freedom Plaza, a government and politics few blocks away from Occupy major. “It’s so sporadic and D.C. The event has been split up; we can’t even accomplanned since June and coinci- plish anything. Basically, dentally coincided with what we are here for is to Occupy D.C., which is an off- demand new economic and shoot of the Occupy Wall political structures, so things Street protest in New York like today’s situation don’t that has protested uneven dis- happen in the future.”

Thousands congregated at tributions of wealth and other economic and political issues. the Occupy D.C. protest this The seven UYM students weekend, presenting a united said they chose to spend front to the federal governtheir Friday evening to advo- ment, according to Michael cate pulling American sol- Patterson, an Iraq War veteran from Alaska. diers out of war.

Patterson, who has “We want to see how we can work together to get camped out in McPherson actual results done — Square for three days, said whether it be on campus, in the protest’s main goal is to the community or at the fed- make both politicians and eral level,” said junior Eng- “regular people” aware of its lish major Rutvij Pandya. “We issues. He said the group is want the structure not to be fulfilling this goal.

“Most Americans are so biased against people not in the top 1 percent [of the aware now,” he said. “It’s just inconvenient for them to nation’s wealth].”

The group is hoping to know the truth.”

“This is the start of our take momentum from the Washington protests to spur revolution. Anyone that says

PROTEST

other wise is kidding themselves,” said Maria Mullin, a freshman histor y major at York College of Pennsylvania. Mullin camped out at McPherson Square on Saturday night; she cooked 10 pounds of spaghetti at her parents’ house to feed her fellow protesters.

Some students said they felt a connection to the protests because the issues discussed will affect their future.

“College kids don’t realize how bad things are — it’s easy to be disillusioned,” said Matt Hamblin, a freshman government major at Georgetown University who attended the Stop the Machine protest.

“As long as we aren’t active, the government can continue to be complacent with us students having lots of debt, while they bail out banks and big companies.”

And the revolution to create change starts now, Farshneshani said.

“The first step is to unite ever yone; the second step is to get involved, speak out and make a difference.” romas@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Friday’s article “Students to pay at least $50 for Notre Dame game” misstated the game’s date. The Terps football team will play Notre Dame at FedEx Field on Nov. 12.

enough to cover the event’s hefty price tag.

“Certain costs with Crab Fest can never be alleviated,” said Bill Braun, SGA’s director of programming and traditions. “The price of crabs goes up every day, and you have 1,200 students coming to the event. … We were looking at a bill with over $10,000 of charges that couldn’t even be wiggled out of.”

The Crab Fest — sponsored

by Dining Services and the SGA — skyrocketed in popularity since its inception in 2006, and crab enthusiasts snatched up the 1,200 tickets to last year’s feast in only three days.

But when the SGA allocated funds from the annual student activities fees this spring, the body cut its own programming budget — which goes toward SGA-sponsored events such as the Crab Fest — to funnel more money toward student group budgets.

When Braun and other SGA officials tried to reach out to several university departments and corporate sponsors to keep Crab Fest alive, they said they found most donors would not contribute as much as they previously did because of their own budget difficulties.

Dining Services also tried to provide a discount on its services as much as possible, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said.

“We tried to offer as much support as we could because we really like this event, but unfortunately it was not enough to save the event,” Hipple said.

Additionally, SGA officials tried to get members to contribute to lightening the financial burden. Two weeks ago, Speaker of the Legislature Carson McDonald sponsored a bill that funneled $3,000 toward Crab Fest from the body’s legislative reserves and required all SGA members to assist in setting up and breaking down the event to help save on labor costs.

But ultimately Braun said he decided canceling the event would be more responsible than raising ticket prices or searching for funding that could be put to better use serv-

The Student Government Association canceled this year’s Crab Fest due to budget woes. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

ing students.

For junior biology major James Booth, who planned to go to Crab Fest for his third straight year, the news came as a huge disappointment.

“It’s very unfortunate,” Booth said. “I mean, it’s tradition. I’ve been going since freshman year.”

Some students said they understood the SGA’s reasoning in the face of tough financial times.

“The economy is hurting everyone,” junior aerospace engineering major Gerard Taylor said. “But Maryland is all about going for crabs, so it’s a bummer. I know a lot of people who wanted to go.”

Others, such as junior marketing major Julian Bryan, who also planned to go to Crab Fest, said they wished officials had done more to keep the tradition alive, even if it meant making the tickets more expensive.

“Everything else goes up,” Bryan said. “I’d rather they raise the price and go ahead with it. …

I’d rather have that option.”

To ensure no other traditions fall through this year, Braun said his committee is already working to secure funding and lay out plans for the SGA’s four major spring events: the Spring Barbecue, the Testudo Challenge, Byrd Beach and Wild and Crazy Terps Day. “There’s a renewed drive to work on the other [events] twice as hard,” Braun said. “We have twice as much motivation and the knowledge that we have to start planning this far ahead in times when everyone’s hurting.”

SGA officials are also hunting for more sustainable funding sources for future Crab Fests, with hopes the tradition will make a strong comeback next year.

“I’m disappointed as anyone that it didn’t happen, and we did try very hard,” Braun said.

“As disappointing as it is, hopefully we can make spring that much better.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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GARDEN from page 1

travels through a bed of gravel at the bottom and through a perforated pipe before finally reaching the creek, according to Sandborn.

“It’s not necessarily diverting the water from the creek,” he said. “The storm water from the parking lot is going into the creek anyway, but it slows the water down.”

The campus’ layout was ideal for this sort of project, which helps preserve the area’s landscape, Sandborn said.

“Because we have so many roads, sidewalks and buildings on campus, the [rain] water doesn’t have a chance to get into the ground,” he said.

The garden also features a variety of native plants that feed off nitrogen and phosphorous — two chemicals that are picked up by rainwater when it hits pavement — filtering the chemicals out of the collected rainwater before it pollutes water ways like Guilford Run. Student project leader Brennan Keegan said although the team faced several challenges, such as uncooperative weather when construction began in January, seeing the project in action has made it worth the time and frustration.

DISNEY from page 1

with housing, transportation and Disney networking events in exchange for at least 35 hours of work each week, they said. During their time off, they were free to roam the park and cash in on other Disney perks, such as half-price cruises.

Applicants to the semesterlong internship must be enrolled in college classes at the time they apply, but there are no other requirements for the program, Orgozalek said.

Hickman said the opportunity to be a part of Disney was an unmatched experience.

“I loved Disney before I went, so this only made it better because I wanted to be, like, part of it,” Hickman said.

But the job was not always fun, especially during sweltering sum-

“It snowed a couple of times and that was annoying, but overall it was a great experience to finally get the project realized,” he said.

Keegan said he hoped creating the facility would encourage students to launch more ecofriendly initiatives on the campus and the surrounding area to help make the university a role model in sustainability.

“There’s so much urban area around, and the more bioretention projects that pop up around the area is going to help wildlife ecosystems,” Keegan said. “It’s important for us to showcase sustainable technology, and I think it’s a great way of showing the university’s commitment to sustainability.”

Fran Avendaño, the Office of Sustainability communications coordinator, said because this project is entirely student-driven, it may help inspire other students to launch initiatives of their own.

“It will really serve as a model for what students can do using their research and knowledge and apply it to a substantial and practical project where we can experiment and use the campus as a living lab to really move toward sustainability,” Avendaño said.

The sustainability fund served as a critical resource for students looking to create and develop their own initiatives on the campus, Sandborn said, noting the student group’s

mer days. Hickman said although she enjoyed interacting with patrons, she was often unable to move at the end of the day.

“It’s exhausting,” Hickman said of acting in costume. “The first week, I just didn’t move afterwards; everything was aching and stiff.”

Despite the long days, Hickman said she enjoyed being in costume so much that she decided to stay to work throughout the summer.

“For me, it was just getting an experience with a top Fortune 500 company,” Hickman said.

“Even though it’s outside of my major, it was just amazing.”

Christina Radice, Hickman’s roommate at Disney World during the spring 2009 semester and a 2011 alumna of Medaille College, said working in the Disney-saturated atmosphere taught her the value of positive interaction.

“The biggest thing I learned

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Students designed a rainwater garden with native plants as part of a sustainability initiative.

plans to apply for the green fund again for other projects.

“The sustainability fund makes it easy for students,” Sandborn said. “These projects are about bringing creative ideas together

was just the positive experience and [that] the positive environment creates positive results, and that’s kind of what they’re all about,” Radice said.

Orgozalek said she heard about the internship from a friend whose sister worked as a character performer at Disney World, and suggested she try it out.

“One day I just decided to skip class and go to an audition in Orlando,” Orgozalek said.

She and Hickman, who now work as campus representatives for Disney, said they hope to encourage other students to apply.

“No matter what your major is, no matter what you want to do in life, and if you have any hesitation about what you want to do in life, this is just such a great opportunity,” Orgozalek said. “Everyone has some connection to Disney in their life.” meehan@umdbk.com

with other people so you can really hash out the details and turn the ideas into reality.”

Sandborn said he hopes other students now realize they have the ability and resources

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to help further the university’s sustainability goals.

“It starts this rotation of people coming up with projects and getting funds,” he said. “I think everybody ought to be able to

come up with some kind of project idea and pitch it to start this idea of actually making a difference with something on campus.” saravia@umdbk.com

Senior Meredith Hickman spent the spring and summer of 2009 playing characters, including Mickey Mouse (as pictured), Donald and Daisy Duck and Piglet, in Disney World as part of the Disney College Program. COURTESY OF MEREDITH HICKMAN

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or the last five years, hungr y students have lined up outside Cole inating this popular program is the kind of fiscal restraint more organizaFiled House once a year for the Student Government Association’s tions and departments at the university should be showing. And even if annual Crab Fest to dig into the state’s finest cuisine. But due to there wasn’t so much to lose, the SGA did have a lot to gain from going budget constraints, the SGA has canceled this year’s beloved tradi- ahead with the beloved feast.

Crab Fest has certainly been one of the organization’s most popular tion. While disappointing, the cancellation indicates that legislators have events over the last several years, especially among out-of-state students their priorities in order and are getting serious about saving money. who are culture shocked from learning how to pick the Over the last few weeks, the SGA has taken several crustaceans for the first time. Past representatives steps in the right direction toward alleviating its have cited it as one of their most successful initiatives budget woes. So far, progress has mostly been in the while in office, which is somewhat troubling but sheds form of planning and discussing instead of action. A Although disappointing, light on the good publicity they’ll be foregoing this commission was tasked with restructuring the student SGA’s decision to cancel this year nonetheless. group funding process. With so much talk recently It’s also a huge selling point for the university — new about the body’s troubled finances, this editorial board year’s Crab Fest because of students often find the idea of partaking in such a largeis pleased to see representatives taking some real budgetary constraints makes scale state tradition appealing. action in that department.

So far, this executive board has shown a more pragCrab Fest is primarily funded by the mandator y stufinancial sense. matic economic attitude than past executives have. The dent activities fee — ever y student pays $31.52 per body saved $2,000 by holding their annual bonding event semester for the body’s budget — and outside funding. Last year, only 1,200 tickets were available — a small percentage of the in Stamp Student Union rather than its usual camping retreat, which President undergraduate population — which were sold at $10 for four crabs or $15 for Kaiyi Xie called a waste of students’ money — an accurate description, as far as this editorial board is concerned. eight. Both tickets also included a buffet.

By canceling the crab feast, this year’s SGA is once again questioning the In addition to its events, the SGA uses student activities fees to fund oncampus student organizations. Just like every other student group, the SGA status quo, and once again, we approve. Granted, the economic situation is has to submit its budget to the SGA Finance Committee for approval. By more dire this year, but this editorial board is still impressed with many of choosing not to hold this costly event, the body is sending those groups a the fiscal decisions Xie and Vice President of Finance David Berlin have made thus far. message about how to spend the shared pool of money wisely.

After all, saving money is a much more valuable tradition than eating seafood.

Though surely not a terrible sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, elim-

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It’s time to create a Palestinian state

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magine a society that exists under the control of an occupying foreign state, with the full backing of the UN Security Council. Tensions within this society run high, and there are fresh conflicts — often violent — ever y day between the people of the occupied society and their perceived oppressors. In fact, there are active and popular terrorist and insurgency groups aimed at removing this occupying power and its colonial administration. Bombings, kidnappings, shootings — these are all looked at with pride; these people desperately want their own state. Have you figured out what people I’m talking about? If you guessed Israel in the 1940s, you’re right!

This seems somewhat parallel to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine today, doesn’t it? The terrorism, the popular hatred of an outside enemy (Britain, in the above case of the pre-Israeli state) and the demand for statehood, despite all of the security risks to an unstable region — it’s all there. The difference is thousands of British never

TOM BRADTKE aggressively colonized and displaced hundreds of thousands of Jews, forcing them onto a giant reser vation, and then decided to declare their newly acquired home an Anglican nation.

So yes, of course I believe the creation of a Palestinian state is a necessity. All societies and ethnicities and individual human beings should have the right to self-determination and to choose how they wish to be governed.

It shouldn’t be a matter of whether they “deser ve it,” as so many Israelis and Israel-apologists claim. That’s the same sort of logic that led to the creation of Jim Crow laws, such as the poll tax and votingeligibility tests for black Americans — including the famous test that asked blacks to correctly identify

the number of jelly beans in a jar to be allowed to vote.

The idea that an entire community must prove its worth to an oppressive state with little desire to ever grant any sort of independence or liberties to them is ridiculous.

Except in this instance, there aren’t Palestinians going to UN headquarters and being forced to look at a jar of jelly beans. They get to have their children shot for throwing rocks at tanks, their homes raided in the middle of the night by Israeli commandos or their land taken by West Bank settlers.

Of course, when the Palestinians respond with violence, they are declared unfit to have their own state. Based on this logic, did Israel “deserve” a state? I don’t know, but if the precedent set by scenarios in Israel, Kosovo or South Sudan is acceptable to everyone, then I’m not exactly sure why Palestine must prove itself “responsible.”

To treat the Palestinians as unworthy of self-government is to treat them as sub-humans who need a paternalistic approach, lest they

grow too unruly. To claim their violence is not defensive in nature is practically nonsensical. During the first Israeli-Arab war, more than 700,000 Palestinians were kicked out of their own homes or fled voluntarily when faced with Israeli pressure.

That’s ethnic cleansing if I’ve ever heard of it.

The Palestinians were then forced onto the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, where Israel has since constructed a huge security apparatus to make it as difficult as possible for them to leave or get outside aid. I simply do not buy the argument Israel was always defending itself from the descendants of Palestinian refugees.

Palestine needs its own state — not because that will necessarily bring peace to the region or because the Palestinians finally “deserve it” — but because Palestinian freedom from Israel is what is best for the Palestinians. It’s not like Israeli independence was much prettier.

Tom Bradtke is a senior history major.

He can be reached at bradtke@umdbk.com.

A smile can go a long way

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or the most part, I’ve been treated extremely well as an intern, and most of my friends have had positive experiences as well. I’ve been respected, appreciated and counted upon. But there are always those unpleasant moments when interns are subject to frustration and treated like ser vants.

There are the times when colleagues or super visors ask you to do things that are, well, stupid. Once, I actually had to Google a television station schedule. As in, I typed “ABC TV schedule” into a Google search and then pasted the result into an email to my colleague. I think it took longer for her to explain what she wanted me to do and why, than it would have for her to do the damn search by herself.

While I waited for my next trivial assignment from that same colleague, I thought about how I could

possibly frame “Googling” as a skill on my resume. Could I count that as a research skill? “Emily Kleiman, Google Queen,” I thought sarcastically. I had an insatiable desire for the harder, more visible tasks that would truly give me a chance to apply what I was learning in my classes and what I had picked up through my other internships.

But another thought jammed itself into the forefront of my mind more quickly than I could type “selfish” into Google. My job was to further the goals of the organization, and if that meant doing a Google search for a television schedule, then so be it.

Another time, a superior from a different department interrupted my morning project and requested a favor from me. I cleared it with my direct super visor and tackled her problem, which was well outside the scope of my skill set. Though I set

EMILY KLEIMAN her expectations and told her I was in no way a technical genius, she proceeded to demand more and got increasingly huffy as I delivered her results as best I could. And when she didn’t thank me after I finally satisfied her never-ending queries, I was fuming. I had spent my entire morning essentially saving her job, and all I got was a curt, “This will do.” I inundated my friends’ inboxes venting about how rude it was of this woman to treat me so unfairly.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of being nasty to the people who are rude or condescending to you, but it’s so much better to refrain from

word-vomiting the sarcastic comments and snide remarks that run through your head. Just force a smile onto your face and address the task with cheerful readiness. So many professionals go to work dreading their days, but we’re just starting out; we should tr y to bring sunshine into our offices and provide energy and enthusiasm for the work environment.

Regardless of the logic (or lack thereof) behind each task you’ve been instructed to complete, control your eye-rolling, do the task with a smile and do it well. Remember: Someone has to do it, even if it’s unpleasant. And regardless of how underappreciated you feel, keep telling yourself how much your work matters.

Emily Kleiman is a junior communication major. She can be reached at kleiman@umdbk.com.

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any readers may have seen the recent news and opinion articles in The Diamondback about The Varsity apartment complex. They explain what residents already know about freshmen’s barbaric, drunken behavior that has plagued the second and third floors of the building, but both articles omit the most newsworthy aspect of the entire story: that top-down restrictions employed to protect The Varsity have turned it into a seemingly autocratic police state.

Merriam-Webster’s defines an autocracy as a “government in which one person possesses unlimited power.” When signing their leases, tenants were fed more propaganda than facts. Many Varsity residents, myself included, remember the promise of a non-restrictive visitation policy. This stands in stark contrast to the neighboring University View’s guest sign-in policy, and it was a key reason many former View tenants migrated to The Varsity. But after the first few weeks of school, without receiving any warning or notice, residents of The Varsity were suddenly required to sign in all guests who accompanied them into the building.

This was annoying but understandable, given the amount of destruction caused by belligerent visitors in the past. Yet the real move into unchecked power came with management’s next “security measure.”

On a Saturday night a few weeks ago, seven friends and I were playing music and enjoying ourselves in my apartment when a police officer’s blunt knock at the door terminated our merriment. The officer wondered whether we were underage and drinking. We politely told him no, we were just listening to music. Apparently, this police officer and fellow officers had been let in to sweep all the building’s floors for parties.

This trend continued every weekend thereafter, as police officers became a weekly staple at The Varsity. There was no notification or email, no meeting with the community advisor, not a single form of warning or even statement of the police’s weekly arrivals. Just like that, The Varsity had now become another tool in University Police’s offensive on offcampus drinking.

Irish political scientist Edmund Burke once said, “The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” The next unannounced imposition on tenants’ rights came in the form of a “resident memo” posted in our elevators. The memo explained how free guest parking had been turned into daily running parking meters. From 7:01 p.m. to 6:59 a.m. every day, the building’s stairwells are now “exit-only” and inaccessible to the tenants paying nearly $1,000 per month to use them.

On Thursdays through Saturdays, the most convenient of the four elevators located in the parking lot is shut down from 7 p.m. through 7 a.m. The Varsity no longer suggested using its visitation policy; management demanded it.

The point of this column is not solely to criticize The Varsity’s management but also to remind it you cannot hide the makings of an autocracy in a democracy with free press. I hope this column informs readers about tenants, who are being arrested and cited in their own apartments without reason or warrants, and about our grievances, which have so far gone ignored by the “administrators.”

I may sound preachy, but I love the living space in The Varsity; it is truly a luxury apartment. But instead of tanning beds and a game room, perhaps investing in a security camera system and holding residents accountable for their actions would have been more valuable.

Luckily, my lease states I cannot be targeted for eviction if I “complain” about The Varsity. Then again, there are many things different from the lease I signed last year. Besides, when have rules ever stopped a dictator before?

Richard Scordato is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at richard.scordato817@gmail.com.

CORRECTION Thursday’s staff editorial, “The illusion of reform,” incorrectly identified one of the university departments that was under investigation for alleged staff abuse. The two departments are Facilities Management and Residential Facilities.

POLICY: Signed letters, columns and cartoons represent the opinions of the authors. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Diamondback’s editorial board and is the responsibility of the editor in chief.

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D

an Campbell used to be shy.

As an undergraduate at Hamilton College in central New York, he spent most of his time studying. He had no idea how much his life would change when a boisterous group walking by his dorm convinced him to check out capoeira, one of the world’s newest martial arts and Brazil’s national sport.

“It has really tied me to a community,” said Campbell, a physics graduate student. “I’d say it makes me much more outgoing; it’s completely changed my body language; I like to attack people now … I didn’t say all of it was good.”

By Campbell’s junior year at Hamilton, he led the school’s capoeira club. He now teaches a small group of capoeiristas at this university.

Capoeira, which is referred to as ‘the game,’ involves two individuals interacting through acrobatics such as kicks, cartwheels and the occasional head butt to alert the other of the gravity of the situation.

“Capoeira is, in a lot of senses, about trying to control the situation around you while the other person’s trying to control the situation around them, meaning you’re essentially trying to control each other,” Campbell said. “You have a limited amount of space, and you have to move around; they’re throwing kicks, which is changing the space, and you have to deal with that in a very dynamic

way. There’s definitely the sense of piloting — this exhilarating feeling that you’re in control.”

Campbell practices three times a week for two hours on McKeldin Mall or in the aerobics room at Eppley Recreation Center, sometimes by himself and sometimes with three other students.

Traditionally, capoeiristas spar in the center of a group of people clapping and playing music, while the leader conducts the game with a berimbau, a Brazilian percussion instrument that resembles a fishing pole.

“If you have some really awesome music, and you put your body in time to that music, then you can get a really big lift out of it; you’re willing to do more; you’re willing to take more chances,” Campbell said. “Movements you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise, you can suddenly do. You’ll find yourself in midair or spinning on your hands, and then you’ll see the other person grinning and throwing a kick at you, and you’ll be like, ‘Aw, man.’”

Campbell’s repertoire of tricks contains five main kicks: the martelo or hammer, the meia lua de compasso (half moon of compass), the meia lua de frente (half moon from front), the armada (a spinning kick), and the queixada (a chin kick). But he says the moves aren’t as important as how one uses them.

“The movements themselves, there are actually very few of them that we distinguish between,” Campbell said.

“What you essentially do is you start melding them, or you do what works.

You want to throw a kick to make the other person move so, oftentimes, they won’t be someplace where one of the traditionally learned kicks would actually work so you need to find some way to maneuver your body to the right place and time such that you can move them in the way that you want to and stay away from them and what they’re trying to do to you.”

Different colored cords represent different levels of expertise in capoeira, similar to belts in karate, though each group has varying systems for assigning colors. Campbell has a solid yellow cord, the second level in his group.

“That means that you can really go after this person to a certain extent and expect that they’ll be able to handle themselves,” Campbell said. “They’ve seen just about everything that can be thrown at them, and they’ll at least sort of know how to respond.”

Now that Campbell has moved beyond beginner status, he’s able to impart some of his skills to others, such as sophomore community health major Michaela Gramzinski.

“He is extremely patient and not at all patronizing,” Gramzinski said. “Many of the moves are difficult to master and

Dan Campbell (top) practices capoeira, Brazil’s national sport. The graduate student practices three times a week for two hours. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

easy to give up on, but no matter how inflexible, uncoordinated or awkward I am, I never feel like I am judged.”

Though Campbell has no aspirations to become a mestre — a master in capoeira terms — even his friends outside of capoeira recognize it’s an important part of his life.

“There most certainly have been days where Dan will come into our office and talk about how he is sore from capoeira, and of course we get to hear the stories of the different things he does to prac-

tice, like single-handed hand stands, which Dan will, of course, demonstrate as well,” said fellow physics graduate student Ryan Price.

Campbell simply sees capoeira as a way to push himself in a way academics does not, with its focus on both the mental and the physical.

“If you want to create beauty and flow, you have to open yourself up to danger,” Campbell said. diversions@umdbk.com

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JACKETS from page 8 marched 63 yards for a touchdown.

The Terps couldn’t get anything going offensively. O’Brien completed just one of his six pass attempts, and by the time Brown got the nod midway through the second quarter, the game seemed to be slipping away.

But defense kept the Terps in it. An interception by cornerback Dexter McDougle in the Terps’ end zone ended a promising drive by the Yellow Jackets late in the first half, and though Georgia Tech (6-0, 3-0) scored its third touchdown of the afternoon just 2:09 into the third quarter, those were the last points the Yellow Jackets would register.

What they had managed before then was hardly the defense’s fault. Of Georgia Tech’s three touchdowns, only the first was the result of an extended drive.

The other two came on drives of 33 and 17 yards — the result of favorable field position from special-teams and offensive blunders by the Terps.

The rash of injuries that has swept through the Terps’ roster only magnified their defensive performance. Linebacker Kenny Tate missed Saturday’s game with an undisclosed injury, leaving the Terps with four freshman starters on defense.

And when linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield went down in the third quarter, he was replaced by freshman Alex Twine.

With little alternative, the Terps played five freshmen — including three at linebacker — for much of the second half.

But behind the spirited play of defensive tackle Joe Vellano (20 tackles), the Terps found a rhythm against the vaunted triple option and held Georgia Tech to just 154 yards in the second half.

“Defense kept us in it for a while,” Vellano said. “It could have got bad.”

And while the Terps’ passing offense remained anemic — Brown and O’Brien combined to go 5-for-23 through the air for 53 yards and two interceptions — they established themselves on the ground.

Brown and running back Davin Meggett led a two-man attack, and a

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series of misdirection plays left the Yellow Jackets’ defense off balance.

Brown’s 77-yard, third-quarter touchdown run, which cut the Yellow Jackets’ lead to 11 points, came off a fake handoff to Meggett that caught the entire stadium looking the wrong way.

After a three-and-out on the ensuing drive, the Terps were on the march again when the game froze.

Starting guard Andrew Gonnella went down with a gruesome knee injury and, after a lengthy delay, was taken off the field in an ambulance. Before he left, though, the co-captain and emotional leader gave Edsall a message to relay to his teammates.

“He told Coach, ‘Make sure we punch this in,’” said Brown, who finished with 124 rushing yards. “He’s the kind of guy that would sacrifice his body for us. It’s tough to see one of your leaders go down. … It fired us up.”

The Terps gave Gonnella his wish when that drive ended with a fourth-andgoal touchdown plunge by Meggett from the 1-yard line. The Terps couldn’t convert a two-point conversion, but the score had cut the Yellow Jackets’ lead to five points with 7:33 left to play.

But after the Terps’ defense forced yet another punt on the ensuing possession, the magic stopped. Their final drive stalled at midfield, and Brown’s overthrow of wide receiver Kerry Boykins on fourth-and-8 gave Georgia Tech the ball back with a chance to run out the clock.

The game was there for the taking.

Georgia Tech was not at its best, and the Terps’ defense strung together a performance few thought was possible.

But as has been the case for much of the season, the Terps came up just short.

“We were closer in that game than what it looked,” Brown said. “We were right there, we were hanging in there.

We just needed that one big play.”

TERPS NOTE: Edsall said yesterday that Gonnella will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing knee surgery Saturday in Atlanta. Edsall did not elaborate on the specifics of his injury. cwalsh@umdbk.com

Medical personnel (above) tend to starting guard Andrew Gonnella after he suffered a season-ending knee injury Saturday. Running back Justus Pickett (below) is dragged down to the ground during the Terps’ 21-16 loss. Pickett finished with 33 yards rushing. PHOTOS COURTESY OF AUSTIN FOOTE/TECHNIQUE

Quarterback controversy brewing after defeat

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

ATLANTA – Entering the sea-

Quarterback C.J. Brown had 36 yards passing and 124 yards rushing Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY OF AUSTIN FOOTE/TECHNIQUE

son, Danny O’Brien had a stranglehold on the Terrapins football team’s starting quarterback position.

The reigning ACC Rookie of the Year, O’Brien appeared primed to build off last season’s successes and establish himself as arguably the conference’s top signal caller.

But with a largely unsuccessful start to his sophomore campaign, a quarterback controversy appears to be emerging.

After O’Brien started Saturday’s game against No. 12 Georgia Tech 1-for-6 for 17 yards passing and an interception, coach Randy Edsall chose to replace him with the largely

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inexperienced C.J. Brown.

And while Brown was as ineffective through the air — he finished the game 4-for-17 for 36 yards and an interception — his work on the ground helped orchestrate a secondhalf comeback bid that fell short in the Terps’ 21-16 loss.

“I just felt that we needed a little bit of a spark,” a terse Edsall said after the game, “so I went to C.J.” Brown ran for 124 yards, creating an effective 1-2 punch with running back Davin Meggett (86 yards, one touchdown) and taking a quarterback keeper off the right tackle for a 77-yard touchdown early in the third quarter.

But there was an obvious disconnect in the passing game with Brown under center. Many

of his pass attempts were nowhere near the intended target, and some passes — including a failed fourth-quarter twopoint conversion attempt — were past targets before they even turned around.

Brown said afterward, however, that he felt comfortable in his increased role.

“I know the passing game in and out, just like I’m supposed to,” Brown said. “It might not have showed today, but I knew I was making the correct reads. Maybe the balls weren’t there on time, and I was a little off.

“I’ll get better week to week.”

Though he wore a headset rather than a helmet for much of the game, O’Brien remained involved. He paced the sideline, relaying play

calls to Brown, and was in the middle of offensive huddles with teammates.

“Me and him, we came in together. We’re great friends,” Brown said. “He was helping me out as I help him out.”

It remains to be seen whether O’Brien, who was unavailable to comment after the game, or Brown will start next weekend against No. 8 Clemson. Edsall said yesterday to expect a “game-time” decision Saturday.

But for now, at least, there appears to be a competition at the position that seemed most set in stone entering the season.

“We’re going to evaluate that situation just like we evaluate all the positions on a week-to-week basis,” Edsall said. cwalsh@umdbk.com

VIRGINIA from page 8 chances well.”

Bates’ finish in the waning minutes made all the difference in a back-and-forth match between two of the ACC’s elite programs. Virginia forward Ryan Zinkhan scored in the 51st minute before forward Casey Townsend evened it in the 61st with his 12th goal of the season.

But unlike Bates, the Terps (11-1-1, 3-1 ACC) struggled to find the net when it mattered most.

They hit the left post in the 33rd minute, the crossbar in the 52nd and the right post in the 55th and 79th — both by Townsend. Of their 19 shots, four met metal Friday.

“We deserved better,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “It’s one of those games where you are just a little off. You start to think it might end up this way.”

After Virginia (7-4, 3-1) seized possession early, the Terps found their bearings and began putting on a show for the 2,898 in attendance.

Defender Taylor Kemp curled a 30-yard free kick off the left post in the 33rd minute.

Three minutes later, Townsend unleashed a 17-yard attempt that sailed mere inches wide of the right post, one of eight errant shots for the Terps’ top scorer.

The team emerged from halftime intent on grabbing a lead, but it was ultimately thwarted by an unranked Virginia squad hoping to capture its first season-defining win.

Midfielder Felipe Libreros cleared Mullins’ header off the goal line, and goalkeeper Spencer LaCivita made a leaping save on Townsend’s strike from the top of the box.

The chaotic pace took a decisive turn in the 51st minute when Zinkhan took a through

Forward Casey Townsend reacts after missing a shot in the first half. The senior forward had nine shots, including four on goal, in the 2-1 loss. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

ball from Bates and placed it into the far side of the net for his second career goal.

Working from a second-half deficit for only the second time this season, the Terps turned to the prolific frontline duo of Mullins and Townsend.

And after a Mullins shot clanked off the crossbar and Townsend struck the right post within a three-minute span, Townsend turned at the corner of the 6-yard box and snapped a low shot past LaCivita. The goal evened the score at 1-1 and gave the senior captain a career-high 12 goals on the season.

Townsend’s last attempt met an all-too-familiar fate, however. His header in the 79th minute ricocheted off the right post, leaving more than enough time for the game’s other top attacker to grab the

game winner.

It began with Zinkhan, who took a cross from Kyler Sullivan and dropped it off to Bates, who sent the ball sailing beyond the outstretched arms of a diving Swaim.

“Bates hit one hell of a strike,” said Swaim, who conceded multiple goals for just the second time this season.

“He just hit it really well.”

But for a Terps team that was enjoying its best start since 1968, the reality that Swaim could do little to prevent Bates’ world-class finish brought little solace.

“I’m really just going to remember this, the feeling,” Mullins said. “I want to play them again. They’re a great opponent, and I want to play them again. That’s all I can say.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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YELLOW JACKETS 21, TERPS 16

Losing, their way Comeback falls short as Terps again fall into offensive rut

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

ATLANTA – Randy Edsall had set a modest goal for his defense.

If his Terrapins football team could hold No. 12 Georgia Tech’s vaunted triple-option attack to fewer than 300 rushing yards, he said Thursday, then the Terps would be in good shape.

Well, they did that. And more.

The Terps stifled the Yellow Jackets’ offense for large portions of Saturday’s game, holding them to a season-low 21 points and 386 yards of total offense.

The Terps’ offense, however, didn’t enjoy the same success. It struggled so mightily in the first half that Edsall pulled quarterback Danny O’Brien in favor of backup C.J. Brown, and the Terps couldn’t manage any semblance of an offensive identity all game.

That proved to be the difference.

Although the Terps fought back in the second half, they were unable to overcome an early deficit and left Bobby Dodd Stadium with a 21-16 loss and the all-too-familiar disappointment of letting a potential victory slip through their fingers.

“I thought defensively, we played extremely well. Offensively, we were inconsistent,” Edsall said after the loss. “Very disappointed that we didn’t win the game today, but I was very pleased with how hard our kids played for 60 minutes.”

Early on, it seemed as if it was going to be a long afternoon for the Terps (2-3, 1-1 ACC). After they went three-and-out in the game’s opening drive, Georgia Tech

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Points Georgia Tech, the nation’s secondranked scoring offense entering Saturday’s game, scored over the final 27:51 of its 21-16 win. The Terps scored 13 in the same span.

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Quarterback Danny O’Brien’s yards per pass attempt against Georgia Tech on Saturday. He finished with 17 yards passing on six attempts.

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Defensive tackle Joe Vellano’s total number of tackles against Georgia Tech.

The mark set a career high for the junior, who also had one for loss.

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Quarterback C.J. Brown winds up for a pass during the Terps’ 21-16 loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday. Brown replaced starting quarterback Danny O’Brien midway through the second quarter and helped narrow an 18-point, third-quarter deficit to as close as five. PHOTO COURTESY OF AUSTIN FOOTE/TECHNIQUE

The Terps’ uneven loss Saturday may have marked the start of a quarterback controversy. | PAGE 7

MEN’S SOCCER

After hitting posts, Terps hit a wall at rival Virginia

Frustrated team falls, 2-1, for first time this year

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Soon after

the final whistle blew at Klöckner Stadium on Friday, Patrick Mullins crouched to the ground and buried his face in his hands.

The Terrapins men’s soccer forward stayed in that position for several moments, grappling with the events that had just unfolded against ACC rival Virginia.

In the previous 90 minutes, his team had shot attempts hit the crossbar, the left post, the right post twice and another shot cleared off the goal line.

Capitalizing on that string of nearmisses, Virginia forward Will Bates rocketed a 15-yard shot past Terps goalkeeper Will Swaim in the 84th minute. That goal, Bates’ 10th of the year, sealed a 2-1 Cavaliers win and ended the No. 2 Terps’ unbeaten streak at 12.

“It definitely leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I’m proud of our team,” Mullins said. “I thought we played well, and I think we definitely deserved to take it into overtime or maybe even win the game. But I’ll give credit to them: They finished their

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Goalkeeper Will Swaim can’t stop Virginia’s first goal Friday, a right-footed shot from forward Ryan Zinkhan.

The No. 2 Terps’ 2-1 defeat was their first loss this season. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK