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Shutdown tampers overall legislative agendas Higher education, immigration reform fall by wayside as government stays closed for 10th day

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headed toward compromise, but experts said the shutdown controversy has left these policies with little hope for progress and the partisan In the heat of federal budget gridlock has become all too typical battles, experts said political grid- of federal lawmakers.

For example, lawmakers nearly lock is both characteristic of failed congressional compromise and a let interest rates on federal Stafford warning sign for issues at the top of loans double this summer before coming to a compromise, which the legislative agenda.

Higher education and immigra- is more of a temporary patch than tion were once thought to be issues a long-term solution, said Allan

but as the economy grows and interest rates begin to rise above the historically low levels they have been at since the fi nancial crisis, Schick said Congress’ short-term deal has long-term consequences for student borrowers.

“The compromise they struck a few months ago has built into it a future rise in interest rates,” Schick said. “If you have a legacy of debt after you graduate, it will affect you.”

Outside the realm of higher education, the government shutdown and generally uncompromising nature of

Schick, public policy professor.

Before a deal struck on July 31, students with fi nancial need were able to access subsidized Stafford student loans at an interest rate of 3.4 percent, while the unsubsidized rate sat at 6.8 percent. Since 2007, these Education Department-administered loans operated under fixed rates, but the compromise instead pegged the rates to the 10-year treasury yield, the rate at which the government borrows, with a 2.05 percent premium.

The rates are set at 3.86 percent,

Congress has dampened the prospects of other legislation thought to interest both sides of the political aisle.

“There was a rumor that there was going to be an immigration bill this year — where is it?” public policy professor Philip Joyce said.

Comprehensive i m m ig ration reform plans, which former President George W. Bush supported, would work to secure the borders, streamline the legal immigration process, punish employers for hiring undocumented See shutdown, Page 10

Veteran peer advisers ease transition to university life

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the physical sciences complex, a state-of-the-art facility completed Sept. 27, will be featured in TV show Veep’s third season. jenny hottle/for the diamondback

HBO’s Veep films scenes on campus New Physical Sciences Complex used for set

By Laura Blasey and Matt Bylis @lblasey, @MattBylis Senior staff writers A lthough it was intended for science, the newly completed Physical Sciences Complex got a taste of fame this week as a set for HBO comedy series Veep.

With construction beginning more than three years ago, the projected $128.7 million, state-of-the-art complex was completed Sept. 27, marking the end of what Facilities Management Capital Projects officials called “the largest, most complicated project” the department has undertaken.

The complex, located on North Campus between the Regents Drive Garage and the Campus Farm, contains labs that will facilitate joint research initiatives with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said Bill Olen, Capital Projects director. Producers for the show found the building’s sleek design and glass walls appealing and opted to use it as a backdrop for episodes in the show’s third season.

“I don’t know how they find the places,” said one crew member, who asked to remain anonymous because of a nondisclosure contract. “One: It’s empty, and two: It has that modern look inside.”

Over the show’s past two seasons, producers filmed in this state because of the tax credits offered through the Maryland Film Office, an extension of See complex, Page 2

startup shell, a student-run startup incubator in the technology advancement program building, is home to about 40 students. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

Building something great Student-run Startup Shell offers 24-hour resources, inspiration

By Annika McGinnis @annikam93 Senior staff writer In a hub of ideas, junior Eric Mintzer just had another one.

He sat before three connected screens in a small room fi lled with computers and couches, coffeemakers and cords. Red and green lights pulsed rhythmically through a coil of white tubing at his feet as he brainstormed; his eyes lit up

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nomics major Anthony Ingelido out of the Startup Shell, a completely student-run startup incubator and registered nonprofit situated in the university’s technology advancement program building, near the Campus Farm. Home to about 40 students, the Shell offers 24-hour access to technological resources and a community of student expertise.

The Shell itself evolved from See shell, Page 3

New univ career club connects women

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer Despite decades of fighting for workplace rights such as fair wages, women make up far less than half of executive positions in American companies, but female students at this university are coming together to work toward overcoming career challenges.

Leading Ladies Connecting, a new university organization, seeks to give women of all majors networking and career opportunities. The club

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from the excitement of creating something new.

“Imagine playing Pac-Man on the side of a building, with the actual contours of the building defining where you go,” said Mintzer, a junior management major.

M i ntzer’s idea wa s for h i s company, Imaginex, which creates innovative, interactive 3-D light shows for nightclubs and music events. He created the company with junior accounting and eco-

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Kimberly Godfrey, club president, and Taeler Wilson, vice president, founded the group after learning there are far fewer women in leadership positions than men. In 2012, women made up about 8 percent of executive officer top earners in the Fortune 500, according to Catalyst, a nonprofit aimed at expanding opportunities for women in business.

“There’s research about women shying away from those leadership positions because men are usually leading ladies connecting hosted its first See ladies, Page 3 meeting Monday. rachel george/the diamondback

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It’s human nature to want to open up to people who share common interests, experiences and backgrounds, and for incoming studentveterans, it’s no different.

But when student-veterans enroll in a university, they’re often older than the average student and less likely to know other incoming students. They’ve also been out of the school environment for several years: All these are factors that could affect their college experience, student-veteran Luciano Dimino said.

With this in mind, the university’s new Peer Advisors for Veteran Education program pairs incoming veterans with peers at this university — someone who has made the transition from military service to university life and can help to ease the incoming student’s entry.

“There are a lot of factors that could be at play unique to veterans — things another veteran might have been through and can help with, things they’ll understand more than other people,” said Dimino, a senior accounting and information systems major.

The program began at the University of Michigan as a partnership among that university’s Depression Center and psychiatry department and Student Veterans of America.

Now, there are PAVE initiatives at seven institutions across the country, including this university’s chapter.

PAVE leaders chose to reach out to colleges with defined veteran communities, said Dimino, a leader of this university’s program and peer adviser.

This university already offers an extensive veteran center on the campus and provides scholarships and other resources, said Brian Bertges, veteran student life coordinator.

About 800 student-veterans are enrolled at the university. About 30 of them are regularly active in the veteran community, and PAVE leaders will see another 30 “once in a while,” Dimino said — an amount they hope will change with the new program.

T he program is optional, but leaders said they hope to eventually assign everyone a peer adviser during their student-veteran orientation.

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As students swarm to dining halls for meals, so do honeybees — thousands fly in and out of their wooden hive boxes on the roofs of buildings in search of food.

The university’s beekeeping club, which tends five hives on the roof of 251 North, two atop the North Campus Dining Hall and two on the Plant Sciences Building, is working to help its bees prepare for winter and developing plans to support a growing population next year.

the state Department of Business and Economic Development that seeks to bring television and film projects to this state, another anonymous crew member said. The film office also keeps a list of available filming locations, which includes this university. Starting Oct. 2, the cast and crew were on the campus filming at several locations, including the new complex yesterday and Tuesday.

The series stars Julia LouisDreyfus as a senator-turnedvice president of the United States. The first crew member said the episode included Louis-Dreyfus’ character visiting a Google-like Web company.

The building provided the contemporary backdrop they wanted; it just needed furniture, bean bag chairs, gum

ball machines and colorful bike racks made from pool noodles. The production team also brought in and planted large palm trees.

“T he people building it weren’t entirely happy with it,” the crew member said.

“But it was all smoothed over.”

Olen said Facilities Mana ge m e nt i s s t i l l wa it i n g on final approval from the county health department for use of ground water for toilets and urinals, a feature aimed at making the bathrooms more environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

The university is also seeking LEED certification for the complex from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Yoojin Park, a sophomore marketing major who lived in nearby Centreville Hall during the construction, said she was impressed by the final product, although the building process was sometimes inconvenient.

veep ’s production crew outside the Physical Sciences Complex. matt bylis/for the diamondback “It was annoying when they would block off some of the sidewalk,” Park said. “But we were more curious as to what it would be.”

The building’s use of natural light is one of its best features, Park said. “ I re a l ly l i ke t he op en windows,” she said. “I like the colors that they used, and I think the design is just pretty sweet.”

Margaret Magnaye, a sophomore hearing and speech sci-

ences major, said she enjoyed watching a compilation of photos show in the building taken with cameras that overlooked its construction.

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shell From PAGE 1 a simple idea, growing organically from the minds of students into its current hub of creativity.

“The whole idea behind it was there’s all these great resources on campus for student entrepreneurs,” said Eric Rosenberg, a 2013 university alumnus and one of the Shell’s founders. “But when it’s time to actually build your product or service, you’re sort of on your own.”

So Rosenberg, along with co-founder Justin Searles, a senior computer science major, started coming up with ideas for a “co-working space” based on a similar organization at Stanford University.

“I had about a dozen [friends] or so over to my house, had some beer, had a fire, and pulled out a whiteboard outside a nd bra i nstormed for the next two to four hours,” Rosenberg said.

The founders of the Shell approached Mtech Ventures directors Craig Dye and Dean Cha ng, who gave t hem a 700-square-foot room to make

ladies From PAGE 1 the ones in charge,” Godfrey sa id. “We a re promoti ng women to rise up and take force of these positions.”

Godfrey, a junior accounting and finance major, said she realized there were no clubs focused on helping women jump-start their professions and felt there was a need to reach out to female students.

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into their new home. The Shell accepted 10 students in the spring semester and 26 more this semester. Though anyone can work in the Shell, only official members have 24-hour access. Mintzer and Ingelido generally stay from 4 p.m. to 2 or 3 a.m. six days a week.

“I’ve lived here for two weeks straight,” Mintzer said.

To members, the incubator creates a community of student experts with knowledge to share. Shell members regularly lead educational “Shell Talks” on skills such as Javascript coding, 3-D printing and Google Glass.

Rosenberg created Route Rider, a mobile app that gives the whereabouts and arrival times of public transit buses.

“After learning about microprocesses and technology from people in the Shell, we broug ht that i nto ou r company,” Rosenberg said.

“We bu i lt th is prototy pe device that you can mount on the side of a bus and record in real time when someone’s getting on, getting off, where the bus is and what time it is.”

And when Mintzer needed help on a complex engineering topic, he didn’t need to go far:

He found out what to do just by walking around the room and asking other students.

Other student businesses that grew out of the Shell include VentureBoard, an online platform for student entrepreneurs rated as one of the top 50 U.S. college startups

by College Startup, as well as Parallel Tracks, which allows users to listen to the same music at the same time as selected celebrities. Another company, Evlove, sponsors online clothing swaps.

New ideas also include motorcycle helmets that would detect crashes and contact emergency services, a magnet-powered elevator and a biometric pillbox requiring fi ngerprint scanners to open.

Members hope to attract students from all kinds of disciplines, Searles said.

“T here a re people who don’t know the first thing about technology, but they’re brilliant and we want them in there,” he said.

In the Shell on Tuesday evening, junior government and politics major Alexander Florescu sat talking to Mintzer and Ingelido. It was his first day, and he didn’t have an idea

yet. That wasn’t a problem, Mintzer told him.

“Just do something and try something,” Mintzer said to Florescu. “And if you don’t like it, do something else.”

Florescu was immediately attracted to the Shell’s idea of “making something for the world.”

“They just get things done,” he said. “There are a lot of people on campus who have great ideas but no one to approach to get some criticism.

“Everyone here is a potential teammate — I feel like I fit in.”

Members said the Shell’s culture and tight community were major draws. In the Shell, beanbag chairs and couches, art supplies, microwaves, inspirational posters and even a white Statue of Liberty holding a Terps foam finger lend the space personality.

The Shell’s slogan is “think, build, play,” giving credence not only to community and entrepreneurship but also to having fun, Mintzer said.

O n e n i g h t, a g ro u p o f members spent about seven hours painting their logo on the wall, Searles said.

“We were just hanging out, blasting music, painting, being

silly, climbing ladders, all that fun stuff,” he said.

Another time, 25 members spent the entire night building an Android app. And one Saturday night — or Sunday morning at 2 or 3 a.m., — Rosenberg was walking home and noticed a light on in the Technology Advancement Program building.

“I was like, ‘Oh, someone must have left it on; I’ll go turn it off,’” he said. “But it was 3 a.m. and there were like 10 people in there working on their companies. I was instantly proud.”

For student entrepreneurs who have struggled to balance classes and their companies, the Shell helps them “stay sane,” Searles said.

As students’ ideas grow, so does the Shell physically expand. This semester, it will tear down a wall and build into the next room, installing a prototyping lab in the room beyond that, said junior government and politics major Mackenzie Burnett. There are also tentative plans to create a collaborative, interdisciplinary space with the behavioral and social sciences college.

The Shell’s officials hope to engage in philanthropy,

including a phone case campa ig n a nd mentorsh ip of middle and high school students, Burnett said.

Looking forward, members describe the Shell in a single word: potential, said Luke Bittner, a junior materials science and engineering major.

“The space itself will grow.

It’s going to be really good for UMD students,” Bittner said.

“We want to keep its spirit because it’s an incubator for wonderful things.”

When students fi rst moved into the room last year, they found just one decoration already on the walls: a sign, re ad i n g i n mo d e st bl ack letters, “These people are building something great.”

It’s a philosophy they still hold today as they grow as a community, a nurturing ground for bright students armed with big ideas and determination to transform them into reality.

“Everyone who’s come by has been blown away by it,” Rosenberg said. “We love what we’re doing, everyone loves what we’re doing, and we want to see it grow as big as it can.”

ity still affect women in the workplace despite legislation such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 that allows individuals to challenge pay discrimination, according to the National Women’s Law Center. On average, women working full time earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to the White House.

Leading Ladies Connecti n g h op e s to g ive yo u n g women the con fidence to challenge discrimination and

climb to the top of the ladder i n a ny f ield they choose, Godfrey said.

Although the group is open to students of any major, this semester will be focused particularly on arts and humanities, business, communication, environmental science, govern ment and politics, journalism and STEM majors because there is a large disparity in women’s pay compared to men’s pay in these fields, Godfrey said.

One of the group’s main

events will be a networking session on Nov. 18 with professional women representing a variety of fields, said Wilson, a junior communication and English major.

Ernst & Young professionals and recruiters, law professors from the University of the District of Columbia’s law school and university alumni will be among those talking to students, recruiting and helping them form connections, she said.

Lara Fu, a freshman government and politics major who attended the first meeting, said she is looking forward to talking to success-

ful women in her field.

“If I want to go into politics, men are definitely looked at as stronger public figures,” Fu said. “I like the fact that [Leading Ladies Connecting] is helping advance women in terms of careers and jobs.”

The group will sponsor other events, such as a resume workshop and etiquette session on Nov. 4 and a study session near finals week, Wilson said.

During homecoming week, the group will join the Student Homecoming Committee and others in writing letters and preparing care packages to send to troops overseas, she said.

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allows female students to socialize with one another while working toward their career goals, Wilson said.

“People can sometimes be restricted to only knowing others in their dorms or in their classes,” she said. “We want them to be able to work with a lot of females on campus.”

In the near future, Godfrey said she hopes to see more women occupying top positions across different job fields.

“There needs to be more women in these positions,” she said, “because we bring a different perspective to those roles.”

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Shutting down important investigations Investigations of college sexual assault cases halted nationwide — and for what?

As the government shutdown’s days tick into the double digits, the damaging effects continue to unravel nationwide.

Largely unsung in this despicable and preventable example of government dysfunction, but still equally affected, are sexual assault victims on college campuses around the country.

In another twist of flummoxing and arbitrary lines drawn between essential and nonessential, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights investigations of sexual assaults have been suspended. The office looks into Title IX and Clery Act violations filed against colleges and universities considered not to be properly handling sexual assault problems.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then-sophomore Landen Gambill received an honor code violation in the spring semester from her university after filing a sexual assault complaint against her ex-boyfriend. After handling the case hastily and without much transparency, the school soon expelled the accused ex-boyfriend without proper investigation, the ex-boyfriend said. Meanwhile, Gambill’s ex-boyfriend — who was later found not guilty — felt fear

for his safety after the conflict, prompting publications to grant him anonymity.

The Education Department stepped in to sort things out in a way that university was failing to do. And regardless of the outcome of that investigation, the situation needed guidance, compassion and clarification. But now, without closure and with two wounded parties still at odds, there is no visible end in sight.

And Gambill’s story is just one of many. Before the shutdown, similar investigations were ongoing at the University of Southern California and the University of Virginia.

Yale University, which has faced 16 Title IX complaints in recent years, agreed with the Office for Civil Rights in 2012 to restructure its responses to rape — or as it once deemed it, “nonconsensual sex” — cases by 2014. The office recently had to cancel a site visit to the university, a progress report of sorts, to evaluate Yale’s efforts.

Rape and sexual assault are, unfortunately, defining issues in college administration and culture.

And to see them flippantly disregarded as nonessential is yet another tragic facet of this shutdown, an im-

mediate effect of our government’s backward discourse.

Thankfully, this university is ahead of many of its peers where it counts. The Education Department was not openly investigating here for Title IX or Clery Act investigations, and recent developments have illustrated the administration’s dedication to keeping things that way.

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The government shutdown continues to cause damage, keeping the Education Department from investigating poorly handled sexual assault cases.

The expansion of the Code of Student Conduct to include behaviors off the campus will make it easier to punish and hopefully prevent cases of rape and sexual assault beyond campus borders.

And a $500,000 investment in the University Health Center and Counseling Center for increased mental

health support has strengthened the safety net this university offers to catch and care for victims.

The always noble work of CARE to Stop Violence aims to respond to the needs of victims and advocate against the pervasive culture of sexual misconduct that sadly exists on college campuses.

But we are lucky to have such a framework in place at this university — others don’t have the same privilege. And in those cases, the government shutdown is immediately and tangibly marring victims’ chances to recover.

This editorial board has already pointed out the effects of this grotesque political game on our own friends and families and on members of the university community whose internships have been canceled and whose families won’t see paychecks. It is important to remember that the full picture of those affected is a broad and diverse one, and these people’s suffering has surely worsened since the shutdown began.

Therefore, with a full view of these victims in mind, it’s time for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to acknowledge the complete failure of

the government shutdown and end it. According to ABC News, as well as a CNN tally of House representatives, there are enough votes to pass a straightforward, temporary spending budget bill that would continue funding the government, ending this absurd shutdown. At this point, it is Boehner — and Boehner alone — who is keeping this vote from happening. He claims there are not enough votes on the House floor to get the bill passed.

But we can only find out if we hold an actual vote. As President Obama said to the press, “If Republicans and House Speaker Boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. Let the bill go to the floor, and let’s see what happens. Just vote. Let every member of Congress vote their conscience, and they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down.”

Isn’t that how our government should work, anyway? Boehner needs to acknowledge that this shutdown has accomplished nothing except harming Americans and will only continue to do so. He needs to allow a vote on a clean budget bill, and it needs to pass. This got out of hand long ago, and it’s only getting worse.

STILL CLOSED: The government has now been shut down for 10 days.

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It’s time to start caring The shutdown is too important for apathy ROBERT COBB Here in college, we obsess about our football team, classes, Miley Cyrus, Breaking Bad and, of course, whatever personal drama is happening that day. But politics? Leave that to the government and politics majors. We can’t make a difference anyway. “All the politicians are crooks and phonies. I hate them all,” goes the conventional wisdom.

As the nation careens toward political and economic disaster, we Terps are oddly unconcerned.

Perhaps the perpetual fearmongering and gridlock have turned us off from politics and dulled our senses so much that, in the face of this very real crisis, we are no longer capable of the appropriate level of outrage.

Perhaps the situation is too abstract for us to emotionally invest in it, or we feel a sense of hopeless detachment because we perceive that nothing we do will have any effect. Maybe we are too busy with clubs and midterms to spend time reading the articles our politically minded Facebook friends share on our newsfeeds. Maybe we just don’t know enough to understand when things are serious and when all the noise is just posturing.

At the risk of adding to the “boy

who cried wolf” perception of the media: This time it’s real. I can’t, in 600 words, capture the intricacies of the entanglement, and I don’t want to turn anyone off with the blame game. The political reality of the government shutdown and looming debt limit crisis should be something that makes you very afraid. Remember when the market crashed in 2008 and millions of people suffered? The crash from which we are still recovering?

We are facing a crisis of that magnitude in the next month, unless a miracle happens.

The Democrats can’t and won’t concede because it sets a precedent for this type of negotiation for the future. The Republicans can’t yield without getting anything or they will appear to have caused the whole thing and not gotten anything from it.

Unless House Speaker John Boehner can figure out a way to slip out of this without tainting his whole reputation, or the expert opinions I have been reading are mistaken about the impossibility of compromise, we are headed for disaster.

On Oct. 17, without a debt ceiling bill, the government won’t be allowed to pay its debt. The resulting dramatic dip in value of treasury bonds, a cornerstone of the financial system, will have dramatic consequences for everyone, you and me included.

A great majority of us, students

and faculty alike, have built around ourselves a protective shell, allowing us to ignore unpleasantness and discomfort.

We tackle difficult challenges but only in comfortable areas.

It is easier to simply ignore the Student Government Association, walk past whoever is tabling for a particular issue and, above all, deliberately avoid paying attention to national politics.

It isn’t cool to have opinions; reserved detachment and the claim of “I don’t really pay attention to all that” let us escape from thinking about very real challenges and having real conversations about them.

Some readers might be thinking, “But I do pay attention! I do follow this stuff!” Certainly you know, more than most, the frustration of being constantly surrounded by caring, intelligent people who consciously or unconsciously decide to ignore issues that will affect their lives.

We here on the campus are really smart — I don’t mean to be trite or to oversimplify — we are damn smart.

We need to figure out how we can raise our voices and fix this before it becomes what it could, forcing us to spend years picking up the pieces.

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

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Most of you have probably been enjoying the BuzzFeed lists, Tumblr posts and Saturday Night Live sketches about the government shutdown.

I’m right there with you — they are hilarious. After all, who wouldn’t want to see Mean Girls references used to explain political debates?

However, as funny as these viral links may be, this situation is not a joke — the government has really been shut down for more than a week.

Obviously, the government shutting down is a huge problem, and I am not saying people aren’t aware of that. But as a government and politics major who cares about politics and the federal government, I was hoping this could spark a real political debate among my peers. Students are known to be some of the most apathetic potential voters, but this seemed like our chance.

There is not a single person who

has not seen some sort of shutdownrelated post on Facebook or Twitter, and I thought this could be our moment to realize we have a voice. We could have real conversations about real issues, or — at the very least — be inspired to vote for people who hold our ideals and values.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that the government shutdown is certainly comical, and it’s OK to laugh, but it is also a serious issue that has put many people out of work, affected important government services and damaged our economy. If you don’t want to debate politics, you don’t have to. But when next fall’s midterm elections come around, before you decide you don’t care about voting, keep in mind that every incumbent let the government shut down.

Rachel Cooper is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at rachcoop@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Safe haven for Web-savvy pot smokers goes away With the loss of exchange website, drug users will need to look in less comfortable areas CHARLIE BULMAN Across the country, pot smokers continue to mourn.

On Oct. 1, federal authorities arrested Ross William Ulbricht, alleged founder and chief administrator of the popular drug trafficking website Silk Road.

The black-market Goliath will certainly be missed at this university. While I never accessed the site while it was still afloat, I’ve learned

through multiple conversations that many a Web-savvy student purchased goods, especially marijuana, through the trade network. Ulbricht’s brainchild trafficked a hodgepodge of other illegal goods, including fake IDs, counterfeit money and an assortment of outlawed narcotics. As the FBI celebrates its victory, it’s worth examining the potential fallout of the bust.

For many smokers (and other buyers), the digital market was a godsend. By pairing the Internet anonymity software Tor with

the digital currency Bitcoin, the site matched thousands of parties across vast distances.

The Amazon-like experience offered safety for users in two important ways: The mail-order system allowed drug seekers to avoid lessthan-friendly street dealers, and the reviews of vendors’ products ensured the quality of the weed. Unlike average dealers in the flesh — whose rarity guarantees a steady stream of customers willing to accept potentially unsafe drugs — online marijuana sellers had a strong incentive

to maintain the purity, and therefore the safety, of the product. Limited side effects and moral abomination aside, the Web-based system was a far safer alternative to backalley deals.

Considering this university’s ruthless pursuit of dorm-dealing miscreants, many recreational users will likely be flushed out into the more unsavory corners of College Park for their supplies. Some proponents of banning sites like Silk Road would counter that the risk users take when seeking out

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drugs shouldn’t be their concern. This approach lacks pragmatism and compassion.

Allowing smokers — or any users, for that matter — an avenue to acquire drugs safely isn’t an endorsement of drug use; rather, it’s a rational admission that people will use drugs and a humane decision to allow them to do so safely.

Regardless of any personal reservations, heavy-handed repression of perceived vices often threatens public safety.

In this vein, it’s not a coincidence that Mississippi, a state where many schools adhere to an abstinence-only sexual education curriculum, also claims the silver medal for most teenage pregnancies.

Like teenage sex, death and taxes, marijuana consumption is an immovable fixture in American life. Instead of judging pot users and redirecting them to dangerous locales, policymakers should

promote drug education and safe consumption among established users.

Ulbricht’s fall was unavoidable. In addition to facilitating the trade of fake government documents and hacking services, he attempted to arrange the hit of a man who threatened to reveal the identity of Silk Road users. The violence of black markets is a regrettable, if unavoidable, consequence of prohibition. But for his many personal failings, Ulbricht devised a system that minimized the violence and dangers of the drug trade.

As copycat sites inevitably rise to fill the void left by Silk Road, government officials would be wise to look the other way.

Charlie Bulman is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.

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OLIVER STONE AND BRITNEY SPEARS DIDN’T LIKE THE BREAKING BAD FINALE

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Critics may have (mostly) loved it and audiences may have tuned in in record numbers, but intellectual luminaries and noted cultural critics Oliver Stone and Britney Spears have bones to pick with Breaking Bad’s finale. Stone complained it was “ridiculous” and too violent — high praise coming from the director of Natural Born Killers — while Spears simply said it was “really sad.” What show did you think you were watching, Britney?

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By Danielle Ohl @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback May 25, 2011, was a tough day.

Families, couples, mother, daughters and 15-year-old cliques all gathered around their TV screens to watch a terrible event unfold.

Yes, May 25, 2011 was a dark day in American history: It was the day that we, as a nation, said goodbye to the one and only Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah ended her 25-season run in 2011, capping off the highestrated American talk show in history — a ranking it holds today. It was an event to mourn because there was no way to escape Oprah. Either you watched her, your mom subscribed to her magazine, your grandma read from her book list or your

elementary school teacher based half her lessons off of things she learned from her. Like it or not, at one point, Oprah affected your life.

The real tragedy, however, is not her absence but her replacement: A flurry of pointless daytime talk shows that quickly ushered a parade of lackluster celebrity hosts into our lives to take her place. Such not-so-prominent Hollywood C-listers as Bethenny Frankel, Jeff Probst and, most recently, Queen Latifah brought their diminished yet still somehow famous personas to television in the years since Oprah bowed out.

Their domination of daytime television raises a few questions.

If, like Frankel, I were to star in The Real Housewives of New York City and then subsequently

show something none of us “little not-staged tropical showdown? people” do — getting married and Of course that would permit me to talk to you about such having a baby — would that hard-hitting topics entitle me to a nice as “The Loneliest 40-minute slice Guy In America” of prime-time and “Could You television?

Make A New Why does Friend Every s ta r r i n g i n D a y ? ” Yo u one Christget the point. m a s m ov i e Oprah was qualify great, but Latifah to tell s h e ’s g o n e . people across Ellen is fine. the country how Even Dr. Oz doles they should be living their lives? What photo courtesy of patdollard.com out some interesting medical facts every once if, like Probst, I hosted a in a while. The problem is show in which people get stranded on an island and sys- that so many of these new hosts are tematically outlast each other in famous just for being famous. They a totally legitimate, definitely- bring nothing else to the table. We

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Maybe daytime talk shows are your guiltiest pleasure. Maybe I’m being cynical. But there are people out there who, for some godforsaken reasons, have enough power to actually change the world — or at least the TV schedule. Instead, network executives are airing Frankel’s tips on how to “Decode Your Dirtiest Dreams” to an audience of vaguely interested middle-aged women. To me, that doesn’t seem right. We need Oprah back. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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PREVIEW | SPOOKY MOVIE INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

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The AFI Silver in Silver Spring highlights the genuinely disturbing and the comically spooky this month during its international horror movie festival

By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer Curtis Prather is on a mission with the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival: The filmmaker and festival director wants to remind Washingtonarea residents why the theater experience can be so special.

“I really want to get it into people that these films are actually better away from your [video on demand] and downloading it, with an audience,” Prather said. “You’re not going to have a burlesque show in your house. You’re not going to be able to sit there and talk with the filmmakers or the stars and find out how they did it.”

The burlesque show is an extreme example of Spooky Festival’s diverse lineup.

Prather, as one of the festival’s programmers, worked hard to find movies that appeal to different sensibilities, though he conceded his mother would never come to one.

“I’ve always gone from the mindset that not everybody is like me,” he said. “Me, I can go sit in a theater for 12 hours straight watching films. I understand that would be torture for most people.”

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“You won’t get two shorts of zombies and a feature of zombies,” Prather said. “You might get something funny, something disturbing and then go into a feature that’s something completely different. We try to mix that up.”

This year’s lineup reflects Prather’s philosophy: The program covers a broad range of genres, with something for almost everyone.

Thanatomorphose, which plays Saturday night, is a tough film to prepare for, Prather said. “[It’s] maybe one of the most disturbing films I’ve seen,” he said. A gory, neatly contained horror flick, Thanatomorphose charts the life of a woman as she begins to liter-

ally rot from the inside out.

On the lighter side is Pinup Dolls on Ice, which Prather said will make its American debut at the festival. It’s a funnier, lighter affair to balance out darker entries such as Thanatomorphose, and it features the aforementioned live burlesque performers.

“We’ve got local burlesque performers that will be there [Friday] night, and I’m still not sure what we’re in for that night,” Prather said.

Another film Prather highly recommended is Willow Creek

by Bobcat Goldthwait, of God Bless America and World’s Greatest Dad infamy. Prather described the movie, which opens the festival tonight, as an intriguing spin on the wonkysounding premise.

“You’d be surprised how many found-footage Bigfoot movies there are coming out right now,” he said. “We just lucked into this one, which is a fantastic and legitimately scary film.”

One last highlight of the festi-

val Prather mentioned is Israel’s surprise gem Big Bad Wolves, which plays Oct. 18. He said this unique genre fusion will play at the festival several months ahead of its scheduled release.

“It really is an extraordinary film,” Prather said.

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ESSAY | ZOMBIES

the dead will walk the earth Zombies have been a pop-culture mainstay for decades thanks to their symbolic power as a representation of our deep-seated fears

By Zoe di Giorgio @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback The Walking Dead returns for its fourth season Sunday night, meaning zombies will once again crawl from their graves for our weekly entertainment. However, it’s hard to say that the living dead are returning — from video games such as The Last of Us to Brad Pitt’s summer blockbuster World War Z, zombies have been a fixture in pop culture for years. Despite the numerous groans from those protesting “another zombie movie,” the zombie media invasion shows very few signs of stopping.

But where did this cultural obsession with these rotting flesh-eaters come from?

Unlike vampires — which entered popular conscious-

ness primarily through literary works such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula — zombies lack one singular origin in our modern culture. The living dead have existed in many cultures throughout the world in a variety of forms. One of the oldest surviving works of literature, the Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, includes a goddess cursing the dead to rise and eat the living.

However, there are many differences among these concepts of the undead, and there was no real zombie genre until the 20th century.

Kyle Bishop, an English professor at Southern Utah University, argues that our modern concept of zombies is actually a product of film. In his article “Raising the Dead,” Bishop wrote, “The zombie genre does not exist prior to the film age

because of its essentially visual Romero’s creatures acted nature; zombies do not think or purely out of hunger. These speak — they simply act, relying monsters, called “ghouls,” on purely physical manifesta- were not only terrifying but also reflective of realtions of terror.” world terrors of the The first zombie Vietnam War. film, White The audiZombie, preences could miered in 1932 connect the and depicted gruesome, zombies as fictional humans enzombies on chanted by a t h e t h e a te r voodoo witch sc re e n to t h e doctor. In the graphic images that following decades, photo courtesy of tbivision.com were shown nightly zombies figured into campy horror movies such as on the television screen.

Romero’s zombies also Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. However, the zombie tapped into the American fear genre took on a new level of of “the other,” an enemy that cultural significance thanks looks human but looks and to George Romero’s 1968 film acts differently. This fear of “the other” reflected the Civil Night of the Living Dead.

Removed from the classic Rights movement, and the voodoo zombie archetypes, movie serves as a metaphor for the racism prevalent in America in this decade, Bishop noted.

“H istorically, zombie cinema had always represented a stylized reaction to cultural consciousness and

particularly to social and political injustices, and America in the 1990s saw perhaps too much complacency and stability for zombie movies to fit the national mood,” Bishop explained in “Raising the Dead.”

The genre once again rose to prominence following the 9/11 attacks, feeding off the new national terrors and tensions. According to the History Channel program, “Zombies: A Living History,” more than half of all known zombie movies have been made after September 2001.

“Because the aftereffects of war, terrorism, and natural disasters so closely resemble the scenarios of zombie cinema, such images of death and destruction have all the more power to shock and terrify a population that has become otherwise jaded by more traditional horror films,” Bishop wrote.

Zombies again reflected the fear of “otherness” in America.

Like the media prototype of terrorists, zombies are presented

as unfamiliar to humans, unable to see reason, impossible to negotiate with and desperate to kill without reason. The Walking Dead became a potent staple of post-9/11 horror.

Zombie movies today still reflect many common fears that impact audiences around the world: Fear of our own death, the “other,” infection, technology and even the fear of other people are all present in today’s media, including The Walking Dead.

Moreover, media such as AMC’s hit zombie show highlight the darker side of human nature. As humans fight for survival in these post-apocalyptic landscapes, they must decide how to function in a world where the social order has broken down. In these c i rc u m s ta n ce s, h u m a n s realize they often become no better than the monsters they are fighting.

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Federal judge rules state institutions duplicated HBI academic programs sity, Coppin State University, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In allowing hisSome of the state’s public torically white schools to copy universities have unfairly du- such programs, the state was plicated academic programs preventing its minority schools from historically black colleges from offering unique programs and universities, a federal judge that could attract applicants.

This state never ended the ruled this week. “duplication of programs that U.S. District Judge Catherine facilitated segregation — and Blake said in an opinion released Monday that several predomi- it has maintained policies and nantly white higher education practices that have even exacinstitutions have unnecessar- erbated this problem,” Blake ily copied academic programs wrote in her opinion.

In her ruling, Blake menmeant to create equity at the state’s historically black uni- tioned several cases in which versities: Bowie State Univer- the state’s historically black

universities offered programs that saw enrollment declines when other institutions in the system began offering similar curricula.

For instance, the master’s degree education programs at three historically black schools saw sharp enrollment declines when the University of Maryland, Baltimore County opened up a similar program.

And according to The Washington Post, Bowie State’s computer science program saw a si m i la r en rol l ment drop when Towson University opened one of its own.

Students and alumni from

the historically black institutions formally filed a complaint against the state in 2006, and the case was brought to a Baltimore court in 2012, The Post reported. Several pretrial mediation attempts were fruitless, according to The Baltimore Sun. “We sought to prevent the marginalization of the HBIs and wanted them to have academic programs that are attractive to students and properly supported by faculty, facilities and other resources,” wrote David Burton, president of the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher

Education — a plaintiff in the case — in a statement.

Blake ordered that the state and plaintiffs go into mediation to determine which courses being offered by the state’s public institutions should be, on some level, offered at its black schools. The court also denied a portion of the case that alleged the state underfunded its HBIs. In a statement, Samantha Kappalman, a spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O’Malley, said the state was deciding what path to take to resolve its differences with the plaintiffs.

“We respectfully disagree with the court’s conclusions

regarding duplication,” she said. “We are continuing to review [the] decision and are considering all of our options.”

Though the University System of Maryland was not directly involved in the suit, spokesman Mike Lurie said the system supports the state’s commitment to remedying the situation.

“At this early stage, we’re in a position where we support the state’s commitment to reviewing the decision that came in on Monday and how the state will go about exploring options to respond,” Lurie said.

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Senate on a 68-30 vote over the summer, but Joyce said “silly political fights” ultimately sealed its fate, as it has yet to be introduced to a vote in the House.

The Senate version, which incorporated a 13-year pathway to citizenship, was a “marvel of compromise,” Schick said, and

the Democrats ceded a great deal to Republican demands in helping craft the bipartisan bill. But “stuck in an ideological sinkhole,” he said, Republicans were hard-pressed to consider it a victory.

“There’s a lot of comprom ise in that bill,” Schick said. “Republicans have won,

except they don’t know that they have won on that issue.”

Past bargains may also play into the culture of political gridlock, Schick said. After Republicans budged on tax increases to address the fiscal cliff in the beginning of the year, they feel President Obama is pressing his luck in trying to

force further concessions out of them and he “wants another bite of the apple.”

“The fact that they compromised the last time actually complicates the process of compromising this time,” Schick said.

By Alex Kirshner @alex_kirshner Staff writer

From PAGE 1 workers and help provide a pathway to citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. After the 2012 presidential election dealt a decisive blow

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Professor emeritus to donate $500,000 for tech-based learning initiatives “He’s a very innovative guy,” said Andrea Morris, development and corporate relations assistant dean for the computer, mathematical and natural sciences college. “He wants the university to shake things up and do things in the best way possible.”

Pugh pledged to give $100,000 each year for five years, with other donors matching this amount. Pugh has already donated this year’s $100,000, and college alumnus Phillip H. Horvitz matched it.

The department will use the money to better educate students through technology, said Samir Khuller, the chairman of the computer science department.

“You want to improve the quality of instruction. … So by the end of five years, we’ll have a much higher quality of instruction,” he said.

Pugh thought there was ample technology available to improve education that he could help bring to the department, Khuller said. Most efforts will be experimental, Pugh said, figuring out what works best in the classroom.

“There’s a lot of great stuff out there, and we’re trying to adapt it to Maryland,” Pugh said.

The donation will help create and introduce the “flippedclassroom model,” Pugh said.

Rather than students listening to a professor for a set amount of

time in a standard lecture, students will access resources such as books, online components and video segments outside of the classroom and then come to class well-prepared.

If a professor’s lecture is posted online and students can watch it on their own time, more class time can go to asking and answering questions and completing exercises to help students figure out which areas they need to work on — a form of blended learning, Khuller said.

“W hen you come to the classroom, the students actually have to actively put what they’ve learned into practice … based on the material learned outside of the class,” Pugh said.

Michael Roberts, a sophomore computer science major, said he has never experienced a blended learning course but appreciated Pugh’s gift.

Roberts added that the best way to learn computer science is by having access to and playing with examples of code.

“It’s more than technology,” Morris said. “It’s looking elsewhere for great ideas and implementing them, and then creating new ideas, showcasing how this will help others looking to educate computer scientists in the future.”

After retiring in 2012, Pugh, also a former Google consultant, worked on open-source projects and mentored com-

panies in the area.

Two of his projects that have become popular are Skip Lists, a data structure for organizing lists of information, and FindBugs, a tool that looks for mistakes in Java programming code.

P u g h ’s d o n a t i o n w i l l “refresh” computer science education, Morris said. She hopes it will benefit all students in the department.

“It’s very nice to be able to share with alumni that our own faculty … and the investments that they make, mean a lot,” she said. “Our own faculty cares so much about the student experience.”

of the program. It’s so much easier for students to connect w ith other students than From PAGE 1 anyone else,” Bertges said.

Bertges sees the program “PAVE is really a way for them as an asset to the veteran to make a community at the community, an additional university and know they’re way for student-veterans to not alone.”

At this semester’s orientagain access to the university’s resources and communicate tion, the first since PAVE came with people who have shared to the university, six interested peers joined the program, and experiences.

“That peer-to-peer connec- a few more have joined since tion, that’s the greatest aspect the semester started, said peer

adviser Katrina Browning.

So far, the PAVE leaders have made weekly communication with peers, usually via email. Dimino said he strives to keep interactions informal to make students comfortable with asking any question they may have, avoiding a “Big Brother” relationship.

Since the start of the semester, he has tried to ease the transition process for the incoming students, including helping one

with the business school application process.

“The student was going to apply to the business school but didn’t realize the competition — I mean, I’ve heard horror stories of kids with 3.8 GPAs being rejected. It’s a limitedenrollment program, so having the entire package together is so important,” Dimino said, adding that he also helped the student to navigate the majordeclaration process.

Ensuring that incoming student-veterans know they can come to peer advisers with any question they have is one of the most important — and the most difficult — aspects of the program, said Browning, a senior anthropology major.

“The veterans have been out on their own, living independently,” she said. “A lot of times, they want to get in, get out and not waste time.”

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“It’s really important that we let them know there are resources to help and that there’s nothing wrong with seeking out assistance,” Browning said. “It’s OK to ask for help.”

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Professor emeritus Bi l l P ugh, a reti red computer science professor, pledged on Oct. 1 to donate $500,000 to the computer science department to contribute to the department’s five-year goal of raising $1 million to improve technology-based education and blended learning initiatives.

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GALLEN From PAGE 13 in ACC play before ultimately mounting a run through the NIT. “I’ve only seen the Duke game once, and I didn’t see any of the points I scored,” Wells said. “I saw all the mistakes I made defensively.

The games that stick out to me are Iowa, Kentucky and Carolina in the ACC tournament. Those were the games we really had a chance to do something special as far as like in a tournament type of thing or first game of a season and we came up short.”

In Wells’ lawsuit against Xavier, he alleges “severe emotional distress” over the past year because of the damage to his reputation caused by his expulsion.

That rarely showed on the court last season. He leads the team by example, getting up at 6 a.m. to shoot jumpers at Comcast Center before the Terps’ 8 a.m. practices.

And Turgeon said he’s behind him 100 percent.

media From PAGE 14 sidelined them for most of last season, and forward Tierney Pfirman has recovered from mononucleosis and a dislocated kneecap.

The Terps are able to field a full roster for their practices, with 13 of 14 players cleared to play for the beginning of the season. The team expects center Brionna Jones to be cleared by next month.

T h e tea m re t u r n s i ts whole rotation from last season, with the exception of forward Tianna Hawkins.

It also welcomes a top-10 recruiting class, a four-player group that features ESPN HoopGurlz’s No. 7 overall ranking and No. 3 point guard Lexie Brown.

With their robust combination of experience and talented youth, the Terps look equipped to improve upon their Sweet 16 loss to Connecticut last season and compete for their first national title since 2006.

“This team this season is probably the most driven, committed team that I’ve ever been around in my 12 years here,” Frese said. “Most people would have been satisfied with a Sweet 16 finish.

This group wasn’t.”

“IT’S NOT GOING TO INTERFERE WITH US, AND I THINK DEZ IS A STRONG-MINDED ENOUGH PERSON NOT TO LET IT AFFECT HIM. IF HE DIDN’T REALLY BELIEVE IN WHAT HE WAS DOING, HE WOULDN’T BE DOING IT, SO I DON’T THINK IT’S GOING TO AFFECT US AT ALL.” MARK TURGEON

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Riser’s return boosts Terps’ depth along defensive line Running game struggles; Rowe impresses on short notice

Terrapins men’s basketball coach “I know it’s going to come up a lot,” Turgeon said.

“Every TV game, but it’s not going to interfere with us, and I think Dez is a strongminded enough person not to let it affect him. If he didn’t really believe in what he was doing, he wouldn’t be doing it, so I don’t think it’s going to affect us at all.”

This summer, Wells played pickup games against Dixon and other Terps alumni.

While he learned different things from their play on the court, Wells realized the standard he has to live up to when he steps onto the court at Comcast Center donning the Terps uniform.

T h a t’s t h e i m p o r tan t thing to him: Everything

forward Alyssa Thomas, who is coming off one of the best individual seasons in women’s basketball history, shows that drive is seen in.

Last season, she became the first player in NCAA or WNBA history to average more than 18 points (18.8), 10 rebounds (10.3) and five assists (5.3).

“I don’t think anything is like last year,” Thomas said.

“We had so much adversity last year, and we were able to overcome that. … This year, with our numbers, we just have to play hard and learn how to play with each other.”

Though the team will look for Thomas to be its leader again this season, she will be playing a different role.

Because of the injuries in the Terps’ backcourt last season, Thomas often had to fill in at guard. With the depth at the guard position this year, Thomas won’t be tasked with operating the Terps offense as often. Instead, she will be contributing to the low post, accommodating for the loss of Hawkins.

Headlining the Terps’ guard unit will be Moseley, Mincy and Brown. After watching Moseley’s and Mincy’s seasons end prematurely, Brown anticipates the opportunity to play alongside both during their comeback seasons.

else around him that isn’t on the basketball court can stay off the basketball court.

He realizes the significance of the accomplishments of those who came before him, and he wants to honor them.

“This is their alma mater,” Wells said. “They want to come back and be confident and be boastful about what they did here and the team that they have here now. So we know we owe it to them — to those guys who won a national championship, who did great things, who were first-team All-Americans, second-team, third-team.

We owe it to those guys to play hard every time.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

Both Moseley and Mincy were granted medical redshirts after the injuries, so they each have an additional year of eligibility in College Park.

“On the bright side, I get Laurin for an extra year. I get Brene for an extra year.”

Brown said. “Our bench is going to be so deep, and that makes me so excited because I know that I’ll have a bunch of girls to depend on.”

Considering the options available for the team, Frese will have a tougher time choosing the lineups during the season. But it’s a better problem to have, she said, than having to choose from a decimated roster.

From what she has seen from the players so far, they seem to agree. With the Terps nearing a full recovery from their injured roster, they are willing to make the adjustments necessary to help the team become even stronger than last year.

“Whether it’s their academics, in the weight room or on the court, we see a group that is extremely selfless,” Frese said. “When you’re talking about 14 players and the dynamics that we’ll have this season, that’s a great quality to be able to have as a team.” ppierrelouisedbk@gmail.com

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer In a humbling blowout loss at Florida State, bright spots were few and far between for the Terrapins football team, especially on the defense.

But while the Seminoles dominated, the Terps did have a player appear on the stat sheet for the first time this year.

Defensive end Zeke Riser, who had been sidelined by a foot injury for the first five weeks of the season, made his Terps debut and recorded his first tackle in the third quarter.

“It was really tough,” Riser said. “I’ve never really been part of a team and been able to play and then not been on the sidelines. To miss those first four were tough.”

Riser transferred from Houston as a graduate student with immediate eligibility this summer and was expected to provide depth along a defensive line trying to replace two starters. He played in defensive coordinator Brian Stewart’s 3-4 defensive scheme at Houston and could provide a veteran presence with familiarity.

But his adjustment to the Terps was slowed by his injury, and he was kept off the field for the first third of the season.

Against Florida State, though, he was back on the field, and when the Terps released their depth chart for Saturday’s game against Virginia, Riser was listed as Keith Bowers’ backup at defensive end.

The 23-year-old said he’s probably the oldest player on the Terps’ travel squad, so he feels like he can contribute to the Terps however they need him to. And as he returns to full health — Riser acknowledged he had “a little bit of rust” at Florida State — he could play a more significant role for the Terps.

“I thought he did a good job,” Stewart said. “He did what we asked him to do. He’s a solid player. He used his hands, filled his gaps, so I was pretty excited. I was excited for him that he got his first chance to go out there and play for us.”

running game During their blistering 4-0 start, the Terps displayed a

RUNNING BACK BRANDON ROSS rushed for minus-1 yard in the Terps’ 63-0 blowout loss at Florida State on Saturday after rushing for 332 yards in four games. file photo/the diamondback balanced offense, picking up yards with relative ease both through the air and on the ground. But Saturday at Florida State, the Seminoles clogged up the Terps’ ground game, forcing them to the air early and often, where they found little success.

Running back Brandon Ross entered Saturday’s matchup with 332 yards in the first four games. But against the Seminoles, he carried the ball only three times for minus-1 yard and reverted to some bad habits that plagued him earlier in the season.

“I was doing too much dancing,” Ross said. “As far as holes opening up, after watching film, there were some lanes that were there that I could have hit better, but I didn’t see them right away.

That’s just something I got to do more preparation, study the opponent better.”

As a whole, the Terps gained 33 yards on 25 carries, with running back Jacquille Veii racking up 15 yards in garbage time to lead the team. Facing a superior, athletic defense, the Terps couldn’t get their timing right in order to have the success they needed.

“When you’re in the zoneread scheme, you’ve got to make sure you read it correctly,” offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said. “When we get the ball to the edge, we’ve got to take care of blocking the perimeter. We’ve got to get all those things accomplished running the football, and we

haven’t been very good at it.”

rowe’s cameo When quarterback C.J. Brown exited Saturday’s game with a concussion, backup Caleb Rowe appeared in a game for the Terps for the first time in almost a year. And he wasn’t in an easy situation.

Facing a third and long deep in his own territory against a dominant Florida State defense, Rowe calmly completed a long pass to wide receiver Nigel King, briefly giving the Terps a spark in the rout.

“As I told him after the game, I thought Caleb came in and executed a lot better than what I would have expected,” Locksley said. “Coming into that type of situation, his first play was a third and 12, and he bangs the seven route for a first down.”

Rowe finished the game 9-of-17 for 119 yards and no interceptions, and the sophomore was sacked once.

Though word of Brown’s status for Saturday’s game isn’t expected until tonight, the Terps are clear they still expect the offense to operate at the same level it did early in the season.

“We just have to be supportive of whoever our quarterback is,” Ross said. “If Caleb is playing, that just means everybody has to step their game up in order to help him. He got some time last year, but when he did, he showed out. We definitely feel like we can win no matter which quarterback is in there.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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GALLEN From PAGE 16 effect that landed Wells with Turgeon and the Terps and eventually saw him assume the top leadership role for a storied basketball school.

So when Wells took his seat at a table in Comcast Center for Tuesday’s media day, he was once again peppered with questions about distractions — this time stemming from a lawsuit he filed against Xavier in August — affecting the Terps once the season tips off at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 8.

Wells, though, was steadfast in response.

“I’m a competitor; stuff off the court doesn’t affect me on the court,” Wells said. “When I step in those four lines, I don’t care about what’s

going on in my personal life.

Issues or whatever’s going, it’s going to be there off the court, that’s all I care about is winning that game.”

And given Wells’ performance last year and his goals for this year, there’s no reason for anyone to worry about the junior. He sees potential to etch his place in Terps lore among the likes of Len Bias, John Lucas and Juan Dixon.

That alone is enough for him to shift everything off the court out of his focus.

“I look at a lot of film on Lenny,” Wells said. “He was so great, man. I hear stories about him all the time. That’s one thing I really, really look forward to and really think about is legacy. His legacy that he left behind on the court was great. Juan, Steve Blake, those guys, the legacy left behind on the court was

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great and that’s something that I look forward to leaving behind whenever my time is up here, after I graduate.”

Wells already had a few classic moments during his year with the Terps. He contributed to an upset of Duke in what was likely the teams’ final meeting in College Park for the foreseeable future. He endured taunts of Northwestern fans in putting up a then-career high 23 points on the road in November. And he dropped another 30 points on Duke in an ACC tournament upset in March.

It’s not good enough for Wells, though. The Terps still missed the NCAA tournament for the third consecutive year, falling back to Earth after a 13-1 start to the season. The team struggled See GALLEN, Page 12

FRAIK From PAGE 14 commitment to his players.

When it came time to start looking at colleges to continue her career, Fraik found something familiar.

Coach Tim Horsmon first watched Fraik play at the Junior Olympics in summer 2010.

“I saw her at nationals,” Horsmon said. “I watched her move and jump and how hard she played, and how athletic she was in the air, and within the first day I knew that I wanted her here.”

As she went through the recruiting process, Fraik quickly made up her mind: She wanted to play for Horsmon and the Terps. Horsmon’s engaging and rigorously demanding coaching style resembled Zeciski’s. She would visit other schools, as her parents wanted her to keep options open, but everything still pointed toward the Terps.

Fra i k wa s a d o m i n a n t middle blocker in high school and was named to the 2011-12 Under Armour Honorable Mention All-America team.

Horsmon believed Fraik was better suited for outside hitter, and Fraik responded with 100 kills and blocked 36 attacks in her freshman season.

While she thrived on the court, Fraik also dedicated herself to her studies. She was valedictorian of her graduating class, and several Ivy League schools recruited her. In turn, she’s given back to the community.

Fraik often helped out her elderly grandfather’s cousin when she lived overseas. So in high school, she joined Generations Together, a program that matches senior citizens with students. Fraik was paired with an elderly woman, and during their time together, Fraik found someone she could admire.

“She was everything I wanted to be,” Fraik said.

“Her travel and her sense of adventure. … She had done everything, seen everything.

She was so grateful for her life and so willing to help others.”

After watching her daughter record a career-high 18 kills against Clemson last week, Raney planned to return home

“I WATCHED HER MOVE AND JUMP AND HOW HARD SHE PLAYED, AND HOW ATHLETIC SHE WAS IN THE AIR, AND WITHIN THE FIRST DAY I KNEW THAT I WANTED HER HERE.” TIM HORSMON

Terrapins volleyball coach to Singapore. Fraik, however, is needed here with the Terps.

After an Oct. 1 practice, Horsmon plopped down on the Comcast Pavilion bleachers next to Cushman, who was wrapping her ankle. The injured Crutcher was talking to an assistant coach. And across the hall, Fraik was back in the weight room with more crucial ACC matches looming.

“I’m not sure you could pick a better representative of our program,” Horsmon said. “All the things she’s done, how eclectic she is. … She’s off the charts, in terms of everything she does. She’s just an achiever.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | MEDIA DAY

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After growing up in China, Fraik finds bright future in College Park Outside hitter steps up as injuries deplete position’s depth

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer When Emily Fraik was 12 years old, her parents decided to move to a new country. So the seventh-grader grabbed her bags and stepped off the plane back onto United States soil for the first time since she was a newborn.

Fraik’s parents were forced to move the family of five to China shortly after their employers, Procter & Gamble, transferred them overseas and right after Fraik was born. They were re-stationed to Ukraine when Fraik was 8 years old, and then moved to Ohio before she had graduated middle school.

And though Fraik’s parents have since moved to Singapore, Fraik lives in this country. And the Terrapins volleyball team is glad she does. While outside hitter Mary Cushman plays despite a sprained ankle and outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher is sidelined with an injury, Fraik has taken on a more important role in the offense.

“I definitely would like to help the team and step into that role, whatever needed,”

FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS became the first player in NCAA or WNBA history to average 18 points, 10 rebounds and five assists per game last season. rebecca rainey/for the diamondback

Finally healthy, Terps turn page High expectations for team with healthy group, talented youth

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Chloe Pavlech still remembers times she would stretch alongside only six players on the baseline before practices last season with the Terrapins women’s basketball team.

With injuries plaguing the Terps last year, the team had to adjust to its slim roster. At times, the Terps even had to prepare for games with seven players or fewer, altering practice structures and energy.

When Pavlech explained the current practice envi-

ronment during the Terps’ media day Tuesday, however, the guard’s description was entirely different. That baseline is filled with a healthy roster once again, and the No. 5 Terps feel rejuvenated heading into this season.

“I feel like we have an entire army,” Pavlech said.

“It’s really exciting to know that our whole team is basically healthy. … Now that we’re practicing, everything is so much louder.”

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“I think that’s when she really kind of fell in love with it,” said Sally Raney, Fraik’s mother. “She was still growing, and she thought it would be a great fit for her.”

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Fraik said last week. “There are definitely a lot of leaders on our team, and I’d love to contribute that, be a part of that and help our team in any way possible so we can be successful.”

The sophomore outside hitter stepped up for the Terps two weekends ago against Georgia Tech and Clemson, smacking a team-high 34 kills over two matches. And in a split with Virginia and Virginia Tech last weekend, she amassed 17 kills.

Despite her key role for the Terps, Fraik didn’t even pick up a volleyball until the ninth grade. While living overseas, she played soccer and basketball and ran track.

But once she reached the Wyoming (Ohio) School in the Cincinnati suburbs, her mother recommended she try volleyball because she was taller and more athletic than most of her classmates.

“I went to a training session with a couple of friends and had no idea what I was doing,” Fraik said. “And [I] just had to start from scratch. But definitely as I continued playing, I grew to love it.”

Fraik was soon carrying a ball with her constantly and

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leadership From PAGE 16 burden on Turgeon. In the past, the third-year coach may have had to urge younger players to take on an extra workload, but now he has veterans willing to do that.

Wells, Faust and Smotrycz each bring different qualities that have helped the team gel, and the trio appears eager to take on the additional leadership responsibility.

And that’s an added dimension for the Terps, a team that has struggled to mature in the program’s transition period over the past two years.

“It’s just my personality; I am very vocal, and I speak my mind, and I make sure everybody is keeping themselves accountable,” Wells said. “I just want everybody to be their best, play as hard as they can and be as efficient as they can when they’re on the court.”

Wells appears to be the team’s primary leader as its arguably most polished player.

Faust, meanwhile, has been in the program the longest of the rotational players, and Smotrycz has experience from two years at Michigan.

Smotrycz and Wells are the only Terps who have played in an NCAA tournament game.

Wells led Xavier into the postseason as a freshman, and as a sophomore at Michigan in 2011, Smotrycz scored eight points in a first-round win over Tennessee and added 13 in a second-round loss to topseeded Duke.

While he was sitting out last year, Smotrycz had to “pick his spots” to be vocal. But now that he’s able to join his teammates on the court on game days, he’s more comfortable offering advice.

“I can bring experience of what it takes to win,” Smotrycz said. “And be vocal and obviously lead by example.”

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rest of the Terps, who seem to follow the junior forward’s example.

“As a leader, it’s night and day,” Turgeon said. “He’s really trying, and he’s doing it in the right tone. Guys respect him.”

With a player like Wells setting the tone for the team, and with Smotrycz and Faust adding experience, it’s easy to forget the Terps have just one senior: and that’s reserve John Auslander, who won’t figure into the regular rotation.

Even without a proven fourth-year player, Turgeon said his group “seems like a veteran team.”

That’s refreshing for Turgeon.

Otherwise, he’d be tasked with waking up more than a dozen college kids for an 8 a.m. practice without any help.

“We’re practicing in the morning, and that’s not easy for college kids sometimes,” Turgeon said. “Getting guys going in the morning as a leader is really important, and Dez has done a really good job with that.”

GUARD NICK FAUST is the Terps’ longest-tenured rotational player as a junior, and he’s taken on a more significant role. file photo/the diamondback Faust, meanwhile, hasn’t reached an NCAA tournament, but he’s the only player in the rotation this season that played for the Terps in Turgeon’s first year in College Park.

In 2011, Faust was a freshman on a young and uneven team that missed out on the postseason. The Baltimore

native has since seen his role change, and he’s now the Terps’ most-tenured contributor.

“Being an older guy, it’s a lot for me, getting the younger guys locked in and things like that,” Faust said. “It’s something that I’m looking forward to.”

Then, of course, there’s

Wells, who’s asserted himself as a leader through both his actions and his voice so far.

Wells came to College Park before last season after Xavier expelled him for an alleged sexual assault a prosecutor later said had no supporting evidence.

Wells concedes it took him a while to get acclimated to life at this university, but this season, he feels comfortable.

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FORWARD DEZ WELLS emerged as the Terps’ leader on the court last season despite his late arrival to the program. The Terps’ season ended in a loss to Iowa in the NIT semifinal at Madison Square Garden. left: marquise mckine/for the diamondback; right: file photos/the diamondback

Despite outside distractions, Wells focused as ever on season, legacy DANIEL GALLEN Dez Wells sat and stared blankly into the distance on the Terrapins men’s basketball bench at Madison Square Garden in New York as the seconds ticked away in a National Invitation Tournament semifinal loss to Iowa in April.

The forward pulled his jersey up over his face

as coach Mark Turgeon came over to comfort him after he fouled out in the final game of what had initially been a promising Terps season.

Eight months earlier, Wells wasn’t even a Terp. Nine months earlier, this university couldn’t have been farther off the radar for the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team performer from Xavier.

But his expulsion from Xavier for an alleged sexual assault launched a domino See GALLEN, Page 13

With Wells, Faust, Smotrycz, Terps finally have experience, maturity

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Roddy Peters crawls out of bed at around 6 each morning, and by 6:45, he’s at Comcast Center to take about 300 jump shots before the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s practice begins. Coach Mark Turgeon never asked his freshman point guard to adopt his early morning routine, and in fact, most of his teammates don’t hit the floor until practice starts at 8 a.m.

So how did Peters, an 18-year-old just beginning his college career, develop the habit?

“Dez — I got it from him,” Peters said Tuesday, referring to forward Dez Wells, the Terps leading scorer from last season. “I was watching him do it, and then I decided I want to come early.”

The leadership role Wells has taken on, along with fellow juniors guard Nick Faust and forward Evan Smotrycz, has eased the See LEADERSHIP, Page 15

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