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Proposed golf course redevelopment draws ire

By Natalie Tomlin @thedbk Staff writer Although little headway has been made in a proposed redevelopment of the university golf course, officials and a local developer are receiving strong backlash from opponents.

University alumnus and real estate developer Brian Gibbons has yet to present a formal proposal for his concept of an academic village and new entrance to the campus at the current location of the university golf course. But the concept is already

stirring up debate among city officials and the College Park community.

In a letter sent to Gibbons last week, 16 state, county and city lawmakers urged him to withdraw his proposal to develop the transit-oriented shopping center on the site of the campus golf course. Letter-signers included College Park’s County Councilman Eric Olson, Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) and College Park Mayor Andy Fellows.

The letter outlined their various concerns, from the concept’s violation of “smart growth” principles to its diversion from the proposed

East Campus and College Park Metro Station area developments.

“A smart growth development must utilize a compact building design, create walkable neighborhoods, preserve open space, strengthen existing developments, utilize a variety of transportation choices, and encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions,” the lawmakers wrote. “This proposed development fails each of these criteria.”

The golf course reopened in 2009 after a $3.5 million upgrade, which See golf, Page 2

the university golf course could be redeveloped into a transit-oriented shopping center if Brian Gibbons, university alumnus and real estate developer, presents a formal proposal. lena salzbank/for the diamondback

Workbook to assist health care planners

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Univ Extension creates Smart Choice program

By Zoe Sagalow @thesagaofzoe Staff writer

WIDE RECEIVER STEFON DIGGS celebrates in the student section after the Terps’ 27-26 win over Virginia on Saturday. Quarterback Caleb Rowe led the Terps on the go-ahead touchdown drive midway through the fourth quarter, and Cavaliers kicker Alec Vozenilek missed a potential game-winning field goal attempt in the final seconds of play to preserve the victory. For more, see page 8. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Resident Life expands global ‘buddies’ system Department’s program for foreign students part of global learning initiatives growth

By Dustin Levy @dustinblevy Staff writer Becom i ng acqua inted w ith a college campus is already overwhelming, and it can be even more daunting for students attending college in a foreign country.

This is a struggle some new international students face every semester, and the Department of Resident Life is expanding its global learning initiatives program, including creating a buddy program to facilitate a smoother transition for these students.

“International students sometimes have a hard time connecting with American students,” said Meredith Carpenter, Resident Life human resources coordinator. “They tend to have a lot of other international students that they get to know, but they don’t always get to know American students. So that’s one of our goals, really, is to try to help build that bridge so that they’re having more opportunities to meet American students.”

T he buddy program grew out

of research by an international student task force Carpenter and Resident Life Director Deborah Grandner led. In the program, international students are matched with returning students in oneon-one relationships, allowing international students to learn about and adjust to the university and American culture. Eighty to 85 returning students participated, along with 60 incoming international students — 23 percent of all new international students, said Sarah Longwell, a Resident Life graduate human resources coordinator and organizer of the buddy program.

Though the program was originally planned to match international students only with American students, Longwell said they expanded eligibility to all returning students to increase diversity.

The program requested that buddies communicate before the international students came to the university, Longwell said.

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With the federal government’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in place, more health insurance options can sometimes mean more confusion. With this in mind, a team from the University of Maryland Extension has developed a Smart Choice program to increase consumers’ health insurance literacy and clarify their choices.

The free Smart Choice workbook guides consumers through analyses of their health insurance costs, offers basic budgeting tips for determining how much consumers can afford to spend on health insurance and includes a section to compare possible plans in side-by-side columns. The program also offers workshops in which experts guide consumers through the process of using the workbook.

Bonnie Braun, a family science professor and specialist at the Extension, See health, Page 3

Fear the (robotic) turtle Maryland Robotics Center engineers animal-like creations

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Staff writer In a university setting dominated by higher education staples such as lectures and final exams, students and professors in the Maryland Robotics Center have taken a different approach to learning.

They’ve traded pens, looseleaf paper and textbooks for motors, solar cells and battery packs; these engineers strive to recreate in machines the nuances of life.

“On one side, we’re building robots,” said Krishnanand Kaipa, a professor who specializes in building and teaching bio-inspired robotics.

“On the other hand, we’re trying to learn how birds fly.”

Established in March 2010 within the engineering school, the Maryland Robotics Center is quickly becoming known in the mechanical engineering field for its robotic creations that imitate the movement styles of various animals.

Center founding director Satyandra Gupta, along with a fellow professor and five graduate students, made

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robo raven iii is a creation from the engineering school’s Maryland Robotics Center, which specializes in imitating movement styles of animals to better understand how they work in nature. photo courtesy of luke roberts headlines in May after the inaugural flight of Robo Raven, the first-ever flapping-wing robot with independently controlled wings.

The center is a place where specialists in different fields of robotics can work together to realize robots with unprecedented capabilities, Gupta said.

“There were a lot of robotics activities at College Park at the time [the Maryland Robotics Center was founded] and we wanted to make sure that all of us could work together and collaborate,” Gupta said.

“If you work together, you can accomplish much more complicated [solutions] than if you try to do it by yourself.”

Ariel Perez-Rosado, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and member of the Robo Raven team, said the center is a great resource.

His team found help there when it struggled to connect solar panels to the Robo Raven III model.

“Having professors at your disposal that are electrically inclined when you’re mechanical is a great benefit,” he said.

Perez-Rosado said the team hopes Robo Raven’s solar panels will eventually be efficient enough to support infinite battery life, an advantage for aerial surveillance. Solar sustainability technology will ideally end See robots, Page 2

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up on other center robots, such as the newly developed RoboTerp, Gupta said.

Designed to mimic a turtle’s amphibious qualities, the RoboTerp can sense if it is in water or land and change its gait in response. The robot’s development took two years of trial and error, said Andrew Vogel, a team member and third-year mechanical engineering graduate student.

Vogel got involved with the center during his senior year as an undergraduate.

“The main difficulty was waterproofing,” he said. “The first model was made out of a Tupperware container, which didn’t quite work out.”

Vogel said the next challenge was developing a way for the RoboTerp to swim without splashing. Because they intended the robot to serve as a less invasive method of wildlife observation, it was crucial that it model natural movement.

Ja me s Hopk i n s, now a full-time mechanical engineer with the U.S. Navy, got involved with robotics at this university in 2004 and began designing R2G2, a limbless snakelike robot, in 2008. Hopkins, who plans to complete his doctorate this semester, said he had to invent a new apparatus that would parallel two motors to achieve the desired movement.

“The primary obstacle was actuation, or having the ability to quickly turn with control,” he said. “Now we’re just working on designs for refinement.”

Ded icat ion to rea l ist ic movement is a quality consistent throughout the robotics center, according to Kaipa, who teaches EN M E489L: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering; Bio-inspired Robotics. After teaching basic principles of robotics in the course, Kaipa tasks teams of students with developing, constructing and programming their own robotic animal interpretations.

Kaipa, who has also done work on the RoboTerp, cited

the local council members, sen ators a nd delegates also stated in their letter to Gibbons.

Un iversity P resident Wallace Loh met with eight of the 10 Maryland Golf Course Coalition members Thursday to discuss their concerns about the plan’s potential damage to the university’s golf course.

Norman Starkey, chair of the Ma ryla nd Gol f Course Coalition, said he was happy to hear that Loh plans to maintain an open dialogue with concerned parties if real estate developer Greenberg Gibbons submits a formal proposal for the concept.

Loh said the developer’s idea is to build an “academic village” on part of the university’s golf course with a connector road to the Beltway/I-95 interchange to relieve the increasing traffic congestion on Route 1.

“W hen a respected alumnus and developer comes to the university with what appears to be an interesting — though very preliminary — idea, it’s my responsibility as president to listen,” Loh said. “Many individuals and organizations come unsolicited to the University of Maryland with ideas for major projects. I try to keep an open door and an open mind to all ideas and viewpoints.”

Until he receives a detailed work plan and timeline for the golf course redevelopment, Loh said, he could not predict what the future of the golf course and west campus will be. Once a proposal is submitted, there could be months of negotiation between the university and the developer.

S.K. Gupta, Luke Roberts, Ariel Perez-Rosado and Hugh Brock (left to right) show off Robo Raven III (top), which features solar panels (top). The Robotics Center’s RoboTerp, an amphibious robot, swims like a real turtle. photos courtesy of luke roberts (top) and andrew vogel (bottom)

“THIS IS WHAT NATURE OFFERS TO ROBOTICS ... WE WOULD LIKE TO USE SUCH ROBOTIC MODELS TO DELVE DEEPER INTO PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL LOCOMOTION BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE SOME GAPS THAT WE HAVEN’T YET FIGURED OUT.” KRISHNANAND KAIPA

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three main elements students must pay special attention to when building their robots: morphology (body structure), biomechanics (means of locomotion) and balance (involuntary mechanisms that make locomotion possible).

Above all, he explained, the student-built robots should be designed to copy the adaptability of life.

“This is what nature offers to robotics,” Kaipa said. “We would like to use such robotic models to delve deeper into principles of biological locomotion because there might be some gaps that we haven’t yet figured out.”

Some students in the class, such as senior mechanical engineering major Edward Mulhern, have started to pursue robotics outside the classroom.

“I really like making something modeled on nature with machinery,” Mulhern said.

“I’ve already applied to a few positions in the area related to robotics.”

His team decided on creating a gorilla-inspired robot because they thought it presented an unusual challenge.

“We wanted something with a unique walking pattern — you have to time the gait,” he said.

Amanda Heyes, a senior cell biology and genetics and mechanical engineering double major, said the class was manageable despite her lack of prior experience with robotics. Her team is designing a Komodo dragon-inspired robot.

Heyes considered the best aspect of the course to be its hands-on nature, a quality she said many engineering classes lack.

“Rather than just learning theory, you’re building a robot,” she said. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

The university golf course after its $3.5 million upgrade. A proposed plan to redevelop the course into an “academic village” has local lawmakers balking. lena salzbank/for the diamondback Starkey said there should be great consideration with Gibbons’ concept because it would involve damaging one of only 14 certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries in the state of Maryland. The university’s golf course has met all six qualifications for this title for the past 10 years, and it is the only one such site in Prince George’s County.

G i l l i a n P o m m e rh e n , a spokeswoman for Greenberg Gibbons, told The Washington Post in a written statement that the company was surprised to receive the letter requesting it withdraw a proposal it hadn’t even released.

Gibbons could not be reached for comment, but he previously told The Washington Post he plans to invest about $100 million and use roughly 50 of the course’s 150 acres.

For those opposed to the development, the issues involve more than the potential loss of green space, Starkey said.

The golf course hosts about 60 to 70 fundraising events each year — half of which directly support the university’s

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various colleges and athletic teams, he said.

Students, faculty, alumni and even Washington and Virginia residents play about 35,000 rounds of golf there each year, Starkey said. It also provides opportunities for prospective students to see the university.

“T he Maryland state high school championships fo r m e n a n d w o m e n a re played every year here on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the last week in October,” Starkey said. “The point is, that is the first time a lot of high school students are exposed to the University of Maryland.”

Alex Hoffman, a redshirt f re s h m a n o n t h e Te r rapins men’s golf team, said it would be awful to see the golf course affected by this sort of development. “ T h e o n- c a m p u s g o l f course is why I transferred here from Memphis,” he said.

“Not to mention the course is in the best condition I’ve ever seen it in.” ntomlindbk@gmail.com

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University community shares stories with StoryCorps initiative Students, faculty, alumni record 18 interviews about military personnel bonds for nonprofit oral history project

By Darcy Costello @dctello Staff writer Dan Crystal had low expectations going into his trip to a New York American Legion post during his leave from his first tour with the U.S. Army.

But the business graduate student met a fellow veteran — one who was stationed decades earlier at the same base as he was in Korea — and left with what he calls a lasting bond.

“I started talking to this veteran that was sitting there, and we found out that we had been stationed at the same base in Korea, just decades apart. I was enforcing an armistice that came out of the Korean War, the war he had served in,” Crystal said. “It didn’t matter that he was older or that I didn’t know him; we just started trading stories, and I felt like I belonged immediately.”

These bonds between mili-

tary personnel, which stretch across the country and over generations, are what StoryCorps has set out to record with the Military Voices Initiative. The nonprofit oral history project travels across the nation, collecting interviews with people from different backgrounds and preserving them in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. NPR often features such stories on Morning Edition, a weekly broadcast.

Members of StoryCorps visited this university Thursday through Saturday and recorded 18 sessions with university students, faculty, alumni and TerpVets executive members after Veteran Student Life Coordinator Brian Bertges and Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens reached out to the program.

These sessions will be added to more than the 45,000 interviews collected by StoryCorps

since its establishment in 2003.

Luis Gallo, an interview facilitator with the project, said during his year and a half with StoryCorps, he’s traveled across the country, “from Alaska to Miami, in military bases and rural Mississippi.”

“It’s an honor to hear these experiences firsthand,” Gallo said. “Some of the participants have really opened up in interview sessions, and we end up keeping in touch with a few of them. When people are compelled to share such personal parts of their lives, there’s a bond that’s created.”

Stor y Cor ps i nter v iewers format each session as a conversations between participants, Gallo said, with the interviewer serving as a moderator. This style offers participants an opportunity to share their experiences in their own voices, telling their own stories without a filter, Gallo said. A diverse com-

DAN CRYSTAL AND JENNIFER AUSTIN share their experiences of serving in the military with oral history group StoryCorps. Members of the project recorded 18 interviews with students, faculty, alumni and family members of the university community. rachel george/the diamondback munity and interviews with people from different walks of life contribute to the overall narrative the storytellers hope to collect, he said.

Bertges, who participated in the interview with Crystal, worked to include a number of university veterans in the sessions.

“We tried to encapsulate the

Eating disorder awareness walk raises $10,000

health From PAGE 1 co-led the team that developed Sma rt Choice a long with Extension educator Lynn Little. Braun said because people are often uncomfortable or confused when making decisions about health insurance, the program is a way to simplify the process of choosing a plan. “ R e s e a rc h s h o w s t h a t people don’t know how to make a choice, or a smart choice,” Braun said.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, many students at this university are eligible for coverage under their parents’ health insurance plans until they are 26 years old. But others, including older students, now must abide by the law’s health insurance mandate or pay a fine.

BreAnna Davis, a family science doctoral student and the Graduate Student Government’s student affairs vice president, said she was able get coverage under her father’s plan because of the Affordable Care Act, but after turning 26 this year, she must now look for other options.

As a graduate assistant, she

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By Jeremy Snow @thedbk For The Diamondback For Lucas Jennings, eating d i sorders a re a p erson a l matter.

The junior finance and information systems major saw several close friends struggle with the dramatic consequences of eating disorders.

Despite the seriousness of the diseases, Jennings said not everyone viewed them as a real problem.

“Some of my friends had to go away for a month because of [eating disorders]. They had to cut off their relationships and go to a new school,” he said. “I got mad at our high school for not supporting them — they just swept them under the rug.”

Jen n i ngs decided to do something about it. Yesterday, more than 200 participants raised about $10,000 for the National Eating Disorders Association in a walk around McKeldin Mall that Jennings organized.

Jennings said he worked for seven months to coordinate the campus’ second annual NEDA Walk by creating a committee of students to help plan the event and contacting businesses and individuals to raise money for the organization.

full range of stories and relationships,” Bertges said. “It’s a great chance for everyone to engage in conversations and talk about their service and the impact it’s had on their lives.”

To Crystal, the Military Voices Initiative is a way to archive history, especially the culture of the military and the nation since 9/11.

more than 200 students walk to raise awareness about eating disorders. The group raised about $10,000. jeremy snow/for the diamondback In 2012, he organized a similar walk that raised about $8,800. Inspired to continue his support for NEDA, Jennings was determined to make this year’s walk even bigger; he gained support from sponsors such as George Mason University’s women’s lacrosse team and this university’s Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter, as well as Jennings’ fraternity, Zeta Psi. The walk was Zeta Psi’s biggest charity event of the year, according to Zeta Psi recruitment chair Christian Cosans, a senior government and politics major.

is eligible for the university’s employee health insurance, but she plans to determine whether there’s a better option, using the Smart Choice workbook as a guide.

“I’m glad they’re offering it,” Davis said. “It’s just a matter of who’s able to access it, who’s aware of it.”

Braun’s team worked with the American Institutes for Research to determine measures of health insurance literacy — which Braun defined as the ability to get information, understand it and make use of it and feel confident you made a smart choice for your family’s health and finances.

The team is planning to eventually develop specialized programs for specific segments of the population, such as people who are about to retire and people between the ages of 18 and 26, Braun said.

“T he basic core [of the program] w ill remain the same,” she said.

Fo r s t u d e n t s w h o a r e between health insurance p l a n s , s u c h a s g ra d u a te student Madeline Miskie, the Smart Choice program is an appealing option.

While she searches for a new health insurance plan, Miskie said she plans to ex-

Delta Delta Delta is also usi ng the wa l k to help p ro m o t e “ Fa t Ta l k F r e e Week,” a campaign to encourage positive body image and self-esteem.

“Participating just made sense, especially with Fat Talk Free Week,” said Maggie Perkins, a sophomore education major and event cochair. “Both events strive for a healthy body image, not a thin image.”

Miss District of Columbia U.S. International 2012 Kaitlyn Wozniak, an eating disorder survivor and co-

coordinator of the 2010 NEDA Walk in Washington, spoke to the crowd about her own experience fighting anorexia and the importance of raising awareness of the issue.

“These walks can make a difference for the community,” Wozniak said. “We can encourage people with this disability to reach out and get help.”

Next year, Jennings hopes to host another NEDA walk with a fundraising goal of $25,000. newsumdbk@gmail.com

“I was a history undergrad at Tulane [University], so I naturally think it’s super important for Americans to remember their history,” Crystal said.

“The events they’re living through are having a huge impact, whether they realize it now or not.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

said. “For many of the students, it was something they wouldn’t have normally done.”

As part of the event series, t he prog ra m i s pl a n n i n g service activities for Make a Difference Day, an event for Thanksgiving and more.

For future semesters, officials are considering adding a student council for the buddy program and pairing two returning students for each eligible international one. But because spring semesters typically see a smaller group of international students entering housing, Carpenter said Resident Life plans for the program to grow next fall.

Carpenter said the buddy program was a good opportunity for students from any background.

“If someone is interested in learning about different cultures, how different people interact, from the returning students’ side of things, this is a great opportunity — really a low-key kind of way to get to know a person or people from other countries,” Carpenter said.

L ong wel l is passionate about the program because of her friendships with people in other countries.

“It’s connected me to a sense of global community and international community, rather than being so focused on even just my own day-to-day life,” she said. “I think that’s something that’s very valuable for our students, seeing as our world is more connected.”

With the buddy program, Resident Life intends to reach out more to international students and help them build stronger connections with students in dorms.

“I think it’s just a great way to expand your own perceptions of how we view the world and giving it a different perspective and different ideas that might not necessarily happen otherwise,” Longwell said.

“T hat way, they have someone to ask questions of before they arrive … about expectations once they get to the university,” she said.

Resident Life also developed an event series for international residents, which includes activities such as tailgates and trips.

Many buddies met at a tailgate before the Terrapins men’s soccer game against Duke, a welcoming event for the program. Students are asked to meet with their buddies twice more before a wrap-up event at the end of the semester.

“We didn’t want to make the requirements onerous on either student, but of course, if they get along well and they want to hang out more, go get coffee or go to the movies together or study, of course they’re able to hang out,” Longwell said.

Many students in the program already hope to participate again next semester, especially those whose buddies were only studying at the university this semester.

The program’s only qualifications were that participating international students were new to the university and housing and their buddies were returning to on-campus housing. Students were matched by factors such as their time spent at the university, gender preference, academic programs and language preferences.

While Resident Life has not yet conducted formal evaluations, Longwell has received positive feedback from students, including those who accompanied her on a trip to a Frederick farmers market and corn maze.

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Resident Life officials discuss how the buddy program helps international students assimilate into campus culture.

BONNIE BRAUN and lynne little aim to improve health insurance literacy and simplify the health care selection process with their Smart Choice program. marquise mckine/the diamondback ercise, eat nutritious food and do yoga to keep herself healthy — but she said that is not a long-term solution. “[The Smart Choice workbook] sounds like something that would be really, really

good for me,” Miskie said.

“I am a grad student. I’m not making the salary that I want to make as a professional, and budgeting is essential.” zsagalowdbk@gmail.com

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Oct. 7 story “Terrapin’s Turf hosts thousands” improperly identified one of the bar’s bouncers as Chris Mash. His name is Chris Nash.

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A picture of (future) good health On Oct. 1, open enrollment began for the Maryland Health Connection, a new online insurance marketplace where eligible students and recent graduates — among others — can now access high-quality, affordable health insurance. Like other online insurance marketplaces established across the country as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Maryland Health Connection offers a range of plans to meet the different needs and varied budgets of consumers, and for those who enroll by Dec. 18, coverage will begin Jan. 1.

Thanks to a concerted effort by Gov. Martin O’Malley, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and many other state and local officials, hundreds of thousands of state residents who are uninsured or find their current health plan too expensive can visit

the Maryland Health Connection, compare plans and sign up for affordable coverage. And there are many reasons why students will benefit from checking out the M a r yl a n d Hea l t h C o n n e c t i o n online today.

Those who visit the site will be able to comparison-shop among the different plans and see if they are eligible for tax credits to help further reduce the cost of insurance. State residents who meet certain income requirements will benefit from approximately $7.5 billion in these tax credits. Additionally, those who visit the site will be able to determine if they are eligible for public health programs such as Medicaid.

Next year alone, the Affordable Care Act is expected to provide 280,000 more people in our state with access to health insurance coverage. And everyone with health insurance will benefit from the new protections the law provides to consumers. These include a ban on charging women higher premiums

than men for the exact same coverage and an end to arbitrary annual and lifetime limits on coverage and dropping patients when they become sick. Insurance companies have already been required to stop denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions, and this protection will be extended to everyone starting in January.

Young Americans are already benefiting from the Affordable Care Act’s insurance reforms, as they can now remain insured through a parent’s plan until age 26. And they also have access to affordable care through the Maryland Health Connection. This creates two great options for recent graduates who are no longer eligible to be covered through the university’s Student Health Insurance Plan and may not have an immediate offer of employer-sponsored insurance. Young people now have the freedom to seek their first jobs without the fear of having to go without insurance coverage.

These are among the many reasons

why I am encouraging Maryland students and recent graduates to visit marylandhealthconnection. com to check out the many coverage options available, compare plans and enroll today. You can also call 1-855-MHC-8572 for more information or to speak with a “Navigator,” whose job is to help explain how the Maryland Health Connection works, the different coverage options and how to sign up.

There is no reason why any state resident should have to worry about accessing and affording quality health care. The Maryland Health Connection offers real choices at competitive prices.

Health care reform is moving our country forward, and — for the sake of the millions who will benefit nationwide — we’re not going to turn the clock back.

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Academic elitism in university classes IAN LACY As many of you know, not all classes are created equal. Some classes, such as organic chemistry, are more academically challenging compared to an activities course.

But many classes fall in the middle, somewhere between soul-crushingly difficult and laughably easy.

In these courses, the material is straightforward and not impossible to understand. If you study, you will succeed — or so we are told.

I have often found a variety of these middle-ground classes become more difficult than they should be. There appears to be a compensatory effort by certain professors of these classes to make their classes much harder than the subject matter would indicate. This is often accomplished by designing what I like to call attrition tests;

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they are not about testing what you know, they’re about making you give up and admit to yourself that you are not smart enough for the test.

These tests ask questions that pertain to an obscure point or detail mentioned once in the lecture or book rather than the theories discussed in the course. Professors say these types of tests will benefit us in the long run, but how? The answer is that they won’t. They only benefit professors whose statistics say their classes are incredibly difficult, which apparently makes them better instructors.

This idea of instituting harder tests to lower class scores is a backward practice. If anything, it breeds fear and contempt in the minds of students, which will affect their attitude toward learning. This type of system also leads students to feel the need to cheat in order to “beat the test.” This is in no way an effective teaching style.

It creates a culture of fear, stress and depression that negatively influences student performance both personally and academically. Is doing this to students really worth saying your class is exceptionally difficult?

Why are student suffering and low grades indicative of good teaching?

Shouldn’t professors be more focused on their students achieving higher grades? Wouldn’t it be more impressive to say students you teach achieved higher test scores and higher grades overall?

I am not saying professors should simply write easier exams in order to increase the class average, but the tests should be fair and avoid being punitive. Education needs an overhaul, and changing this culture of academic elitism is a good first step.

EDITORIAL BOARD MIKE KING, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor, deputy managing editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor.

Dan Appenfeller, managing editor, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, deputy managing editor, is a sophomore journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor and diversions writer.

Maria Romas, opinion editor, is a senior English major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant opinion editor and columnist.

ADAM OFFITZER, opinion editor, is a senior journalism major.

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elcome to Sex Week! In honor of National Health Education Week, which begins Oct. 21, the University Health Center has worked together with numerous campus and student groups to present this exciting week of programs, resources, perspectives and forums for conversation with a healthy dose of fun. And it’s vital that all students do their best to take part in such an amazing sequence of events.

We’re kicking off Sex Week tomorrow with our Sex Week Health Fair on Hornbake Plaza. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., campus and student groups will offer resources, activities, games, a Sexual Wellness photo booth, Sex Week temporary tattoos and the chance to snag a Sex Week tank top or T-shirt. After the fair, we have a full schedule of events that explore the many facets of sexuality and sexual health and wellness. All are important for establishing sexual health and making sure students utilize the numerous resources this university has available.

Opportunities to chat with a sex therapist, explore birth control methods, learn more about sex toys, improve communication in the bedroom and bring health to your mind, body and spirit through meditation are at your fingertips. Delve into conversations about sexuality, spirituality, consent and love. Sex Week is an inclusive, educational and just plain fun set of events, and we hope everyone can get something out of it — so be sure to check out our schedule!

The idea for Sex Week at this university was inspired by sex weeks on campuses around the country. My good friend and colleague Sree Sinha and I both dreamed of bringing this kind of program here, and joining forces with the Residence Hall Association, we brought the idea to the health center’s Sexual Health and Reproductive Education office. After lots of hard work and planning, we aim to provide diverse opportunities for students to learn, connect and explore the dynamic world of sexuality and sexual health and wellness. We are joined by the Student Government Association, Stamp Student Union’s Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, CARE to Stop Violence and numerous other student groups.

To view our schedule and learn more about Sex Week, please visit our website at health.umd.edu / sexweek, or visit us on Facebook at facebook.com /umdsexweek. We’re looking forward to seeing you — Happy Sex Week!

Ma rga re t D oy l e i s t h e p u b l i c relations and outreach officer for the Residence Hall Association. She can be reached at mbdoyle93@gmail .com . To learn more about Sex Week, visit h ea l t h . u m d .e d u /s ex we e k o r facebook.com/umdsexweek.

Steps toward making campus victim-friendly University Senate mandate for all freshmen to have sexual assault education is imperative to helping victims

CAROLINE CARLSON In life, it’s really easy to blame yourself. If something goes wrong and you were involved in the situation, you automatically think you could’ve done something — anything — to stop it: Maybe I shouldn’t have drank so much. Maybe I should have watched my drink. Maybe I shouldn’t have put so much trust in someone I thought was a good person.

The worst part is when people you love perpetuate the idea that you hold full responsibility for the situation.

Someone close to you tells you, “You should’ve been smarter” or, “You can’t be stupid and let this happen again,” as if you hold that much control.

In an Oct. 1 column, I wrote about how you don’t really know how prevalent and daunting issues such as mental disorders are until you experience them yourself.

I remember going through Violence Intervention Assistant training at the University Health Center my freshman year. The training involved listening to stories from women who were sexually assaulted. Some were assaulted by close friends, some were date-raped and some came home from their assaults to families and friends who blamed them for what happened. However, at the time, these stories were purely that — just stories. These were events that were completely rare, events that would never happen to me.

However, according to numerous statistics and sources, one in four

college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape. What’s worse is only 12 percent of these women will report it.

So what bridges the gap between the number of women who are sexually assaulted and the number of women who actually report it? Acknowledgment and support.

Perhaps victims of sexual assault don’t speak up about this issue, find help or use resources to prosecute their perpetrators because they don’t even know if there’s support out there.

I couldn’t be more thankful that the University Senate voted Thursday to pass a policy mandating sexual assault education for everyone in the university community.

People have raised questions and criticisms about the effectiveness of

the policy and how it’ll be funded.

Although CARE to Stop Violence is toying with the idea of offering an online program similar to AlcoholEdu, performing face-to-face training will most likely result in the highest success. In-person training establishes the legitimacy of sexual assault training while giving students a real-life look into sexual assault on the campus.

Regardless of the cost, the program is clearly much-needed. And if people are concerned about additional tuition dollars going toward a new policy, I’d stress that the safety of the student body should be given priority over anything else. If training has the capability to prevent women and men from being sexually assaulted in the future, do we really need to concern ourselves with price tags when there are surely other

subsidized programs that could be cut or financially reformed?

I support this policy because I want to live in a university community where I don’t ever feel scared to go to a bar. I want to live in a place where I won’t fear judgment. I want to live in a place where victims feel safe enough to share their stories.

Although this policy won’t magically end instances of sexual assault, it’ll show victims that somewhere on the campus, people are there for them. People are there to help you, love you and make you stronger, even when you feel like there may be no hope left.

C a ro l i n e C a r l s o n i s a j u n i o r government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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revealing a range of riches Recently popularized studen-run blog Hidden UMD aims to capture inherent beauty of the campus and share secret spots with public

By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer

of the blog and encourage the idea that it’s the university community’s blog, EDITOR’S NOTE: The identities of and they’re just the Hidden UMD members were withheld people who post to it. Completing their to maintain the group’s anonymity.

I didn’t know where we were going. four-person team are We were walking, the three of two male juniors who us, winding around the science also appreciate the section of the campus, past Horn- beauty of the campus.

The idea of Hidden bake Plaza and the physics buildUMD started as a ing in the incessant rain Friday, d r i p p i n g wa te r d ro p l e ts a n d joke, they said, a spot where they posted kicking through puddles.

I was on a journey with the two photos of parts of founders of Hidden UMD — the the campus they’d blog showcasing the campus’s in- never seen. They’d herent beauty — that has skyrock- had the blog for a eted in popularity over the past month when it hit them: What if they few weeks.

The site’s claim to fame is its made it public?

“Basically, Marypost and video of the McKeldin Ferry on Oct. 3. The black, gold land is awesome and and red crank-powered contrap- beautiful, right, and tion was connected to the sides of I think a lot of people hidden umd boasts three sections on its blog: “Of the Week,” used for standard photos of the university; “The Hidden Map,” featuring coverage of lesser-known spaces on the campus; and the fountain with a wire and enabled overlook that,” one of “Travel,” which is made up of photos submitted by students exploring other regions of the world, from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to Istanbul. photos courtesy of hidden umd students to skip the walk around the founders said.

“I don’t think that people see it is modeled after the Marauder’s 2010 here — just commenting thing,” Powell said. “We’re proud the fountain. That page on the blog Map from the Harry Potter series; because I’m excited.” received 18,000 unique views in one for what it is,” the other added. of what investigators use as re“For me, it was just really sur- search, but there’s a significant Hidden UMD’s goal is to high- and the last part, “Travel,” showday. The YouTube video posted of the ferry in action has more than light the best parts of the campus cases photos from elsewhere in the prising,” one of the founders said. amount of population out there in a creative fashion. It is split into United States and abroad, acting as “Maryland students love their that believes animals should never 10,000 views. school more than any other school. be used in research.”

The managers are two female three parts — the “Of the Week” a Terps passport.

There’s definitely pride.”

“It’s our way of showing off how section is filled with campus picjuniors who are roommates. They He wanted to ensure the animals’ “I think someone said, ‘You portrayal online would reflect that. don’t want to disclose their identi- tures; “The Hidden Map” is for great Maryland is,” a founder said.

The photos and videos are mainly guys should work for National Powell then pitched some ideas ties to preserve the hidden aspect more secret on-campus spots and taken by one of the founders and Geographic,’” she added. to the pair. Had they thought about The pair is motivated by its love covering the helicopter on the another person on the Hidden MORE ONLINE UMD team. The blog also accepts for the university, and the two will campus? (No.) The 12-foot ball of text each other throughout the sodium? (No.) The nuclear reactor? submissions.

“Each has a wow factor in it,” day with ideas for places on the (Yes.) The two eagerly took notes on campus to profile. one said. their laptops.

The trek around the rainy campus The founders weren’t expectThe founders walked back to the ing the sudden surge in popularity, ended at the Central Animal Re- center of the campus while rain cont but Hidden UMD now has more sources Facility, tucked away among inued to drench the earth. Most than 26,000 unique views. The the buildings on North Campus. students in their position would Facebook page has accumulated The CARF has five rooms that use complain about the dreariness of more than 620 likes since it was animals for research — one of 12 the campus during heavy precipitacreated Sept. 30. When it reaches on-campus facilities that does so, tion, or the fact that neither founder more than 2,000 likes, the found- according to Doug Powell, the uni- had an umbrella or the incessantly ers said, they’re going to take each versity’s attending veterinarian. gloomy weather of the past week. photo courtesy of gamentrain.com The Hidden UMD founders were other out to dinner.

But the founders didn’t. Instead, The two have received positive interested in profiling some of the they posted a photo that day of one feedback, much of it from university animals for their blog.

The very best, like no one ever was of them jumping in a huge puddle The founders sat in a room with outside South Campus Commons 6 alumni. The post about the ferry It has been 15 years since Pokémon Red and Blue first came out in the United States. Yet if stuelicited responses from alumni Powell, who chuckled when he heard and 7, perfectly capturing the joy in a dents at this university were asked what their first starter Pokémon was, many would quickly dating back to the class of ’77 the name of the blog. He walked the splash of water on a rainy day. enter into an intense debate about the merits of Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle. Though it ranging from “fabulous” to “I wish founders through the animal rights For more photos and videos from the was expected that Pokémania would fade away like boy bands and Beanie Babies, Pokémon we could have thought of something issues that could emerge in photo- blog, visit hiddenumd.weebly.com. has retained many loyal fans among those who grew up with the series.

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VIRGINIA From PAGE 8 slotted the go-ahead goal off a Jordan Allen assist to give Virginia a 2-1 lead.

The Terps responded, though. In the 18th minute, midfielder Michael Sauers was taken down in the box, and Mullins calmly finished the penalty kick in the left corner, fooling goalkeeper Jeff Gal, who finished the game with three saves.

The Terps struck again 90 seconds later. This time, Mullins earned his own penalty kick. The forward was tripped up along the endline and finished in the left corner again past a diving Gal for his eighth goal of the season — fifth off a penalty kick — to retake the lead.

The first-half scoring didn’t

end there, though. Defender Patrick Foss took a Cavaliers set piece from 25 yards out and found the side netting to equalize. Goalkeeper Zack Steffen, who finished with four saves, never saw the ball.

“It’s something you expect in these games,” Mullins said.

“It’s rivalry games. It’s stuff that goes back and forth.

It’s momentum shifts on an instant. We just tried to maintain as long as we could.”

Both teams created chances during the second half but couldn’t secure open looks.

Both backlines held strong, making crucial tackles while not allowing balls in behind.

That continued into the extra 20 minutes of overtime.

“It was a crazy game,” Cirovski said. “Both teams came out and attacked. Made things happen.”

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“WE’VE PLAYED A PRETTY GRUELING SCHEDULE. AND THE GOOD THING IS WE STILL HAVEN’T PEAKED.” SASHO CIROVSKI

Terrapins men’s soccer coach 220 minutes over the course of four days this past week, and the group felt the effects late against the Cavaliers.

Ye t C i r o v s k i ’s t e a m emerged unscathed, earning hard-fought draws in both tough conference bouts.

And he said that’s something of which the Terps can be proud.

“We’ve played a pretty grueling schedule,” Cirovski said. “And the good thing is we still haven’t peaked.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

KASINITZ From PAGE 8 field. Unlike Brown, though, when Rowe was finally healthy, he didn’t start any games.

Instead, his road to recovery came to a different end.

He worked his way back, but his only chances to compete were on the practice field and in garbage time. Rowe got his first significant game action of the year a week earlier when he relieved Brown after he suffered his concussion in the second quarter of a 63-0 loss to then-No. 8 Florida State.

Rowe said uncertainty over his role with the team despite a rigorous rehab process helped harden him.

His newfound toughness came into play in the fourth quarter against Virginia, when he made an errant pitch to running back Brandon Ross that resulted in an 12-yard loss

cavaliers From PAGE 8 everything went wrong in a 63-0 loss at then-No. 8 Florida State. Starting quarterback C.J. Brown was knocked out of the game with a concussion, and he was listed as doubtful entering Saturday’s contest. He worked with the second team during pregame warm-ups but was ultimately relegated to wearing a headset, backward baseball cap and black jogging suit.

In his place was Rowe, who made his second career start.

With an offense refitted to accommodate his strong arm rather than Brown’s dualthreat ability, Rowe completed 18 of 34 passes for 332 yards and a touchdown.

He was sacked three times and fumbled once but managed to avoid any interceptions.

“I was a little nervous

and, after an incomplete pass to wide receiver Levern Jacobs, set up third-and-22.

Rowe said he quickly moved past the mistake, and that’s believable. It was only his second career start and he may never be the long-term option under center in College Park, so what did he have to lose?

“I’ve gone through a lot of adversity since last year. I’ve had to put a lot of work in to get back,” Rowe said. “Everything I’ve gone through, everything we’ve gone through as a team kind of helped me through that.”

Rowe’s experience with trying circumstances gave him the confidence to chuck that ball deep to Long and rifle the touchdown pass to Stinebaugh. For now, that sequence serves as Rowe’s career-defining — and the Terps’ season-defining — moment.

And Rowe might not have many chances to match it.

Brown has another year of eligibility and heralded freshman

quarterback Shane Cockerille is waiting in the wings to take over.

So with Brown likely to play next week, Rowe has to return to his old mantra, one familiar to most backups.

“I can only control what I can control,” Rowe said when asked about the quarterback situation moving forward. “Whatever happens this coming week, I’m going to take it with stride and hopefully we’ll have a good game at Wake Forest.”

If Rowe doesn’t play against Wake Forest and isn’t a starter for the rest of his career, then Saturday will be the lasting memory fans have of him.

And hey, if it was Rowe’s last moment in the spotlight, making a series of clutch plays to lead the Terps to victory against their border-state rival in their final meeting as conference foes doesn’t seem like a bad way to spend it.

at first,” Rowe said. “I was looking at the rush too much. I got a little happy feet, but once I got settled in I was OK. I got hit a few times.”

Virginia, however, still presented a formidable challenge.

The Cavaliers (2-4, 0-2 ACC) jumped out to a 6-0 lead over the Terps (5-1, 1-1), aided by one of three Terps turnovers.

And though they fell behind the Terps 14-6, they were able to claw back to take a 26-20 lead.

With outside linebacker Matt Robinson, a converted safety, sidelined by a shoulder injury, the Cavaliers worked underneath the Terps coverage, as tight end Jake McGee caught eight passes for a career-high 114 yards and one touchdown. They ran a variety of screen passes and misdirections.

Running back Kevin Parks led Virginia with 112 of the team’s 242 yards on the ground.

Quarterback David Watford passed for a career-high 263 yards and one touchdown and accounted for a career-high 297 yards of total offense.

In the end, though, the result was out of the Terps’ control and rested on the leg of Vozenilek.

A field goal would have sent the Terps to their second straight loss, a last-second heartbreaker one week after being dominated at Florida State.

Instead, the Terps flooded the field as victors for the fifth time this season.

“We had to bounce back,” wide receiver Stefon Diggs said. “No matter how you do it, you got to win. That’s all that matters: wins and losses. At the end of the day, we came out with the dub, so we’re happy. Move on; put this one in the bank; work on next weekend.”

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QUARTERBACK CALEB ROWE (7) completed 18 of 34 passes for 332 yards and one touchdown. Running back Brandon Ross (45) rushed 14 times for 88 yards and two touchdowns, and Virginia kicker Alec Vozenilek (30) made 4 of 5 field goal attempts in the Terps’ 27-26 win.

Vozenilek missed a 42-yard attempt wide right in the final seconds of the game to preserve the Terps’ fifth win of the season. Minutes earlier, Rowe threw the go-ahead touchdown pass. left, bottom-right: christian jenkins/the diamondback; top-right: alik mcintosh/the diamondback

WHEN THINGS GO RIGHT

Caleb Rowe may not make another start this season, but the sophomore took full advantage of his opportunity Saturday AARON KASINITZ Every Tuesday afternoon for the first several weeks of the Terrapins football season, starting quarterback C.J. Brown would take a seat in the Young Dining Hall at Gossett Football Team House. A swarm of reporters would follow to ask Brown about his return to the field from after he tore his ACL in August 2012.

The story of Brown’s recovery played out locally and even gained national attention as the Terps started 4-0, but he wasn’t the only signal-caller on the team who spent all offseason rehabbing a torn ACL. Caleb Rowe dealt with the same injury, but he was never in the dining hall on Tuesdays.

Rowe is a backup; there was no real reason for him to be available for interviews.

In Saturday’s 27-26 victory over Virginia, though, Rowe was the center of attention as Brown sat out with a concussion. And the redheaded gunslinger took advantage with gutsy plays down the stretch to leave a significant mark on the Terps’ season in what may have been his only chance to make an impression.

On third-and-22 with less than seven

minutes left and the team trailing 26-20, Rowe scrambled to his right and lobbed a jump ball for wide receiver Deon Long that resulted in a 47-yard gain. Moments later, he slung a sidearmed strike to tight end Dave Stinebaugh for the game-winning touchdown.

“He’s definitely proved that he can run the offense the way we run it with C.J.,” Stinebaugh said. “He’s shown what he can do, and we trust him.”

So afterward, Rowe was the one in the middle of a media scrum. As is often the case with backup quarterbacks, he went from a nonfactor for much of the season to the team’s most prominent player Saturday.

Rowe finished 18-of-34 with 332 yards passing and a touchdown, an impressive line for a guy making his second career start.

He was bailed out by Long on the game’s key play and got some lucky breaks — from Virginia dropping would-be interceptions to Cavaliers kicker Alec Vozenilek’s missed field goal in the waning seconds — but Rowe did what was needed to lead the Terps to a crucial victory.

Like Brown, Rowe went through a long rehab process before he could return to the See kasinitz, Page 7

Terps catch all the breaks they missed in recent years while recording late come-from-behind victory over conference rival Virginia

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer During Randy Edsall’s first two years as Terrapins football coach, everything broke wrong. Injuries, quarterback woes, last-second field goals — it all seemed to tilt toward the opposition.

But as Virginia kicker Alec Vozenilek lined up for a game-winning field goal attempt Saturday evening at a soggy Byrd Stadium, something reversed the balance. Vozenilek had been perfect all game long, making his previous four attempts. So with the Cavaliers trailing by one, a 42-yard make to beat the Terps seemed like a logical conclusion.

Vozenilek’s attempt strayed too far right and splashed harmlessly on the soaked turf.

The Terps won, 27-26, before an announced crowd of 41,077, many of whom had fled because of the rain that fell heavily at times during the afternoon.

Finally, something went right.

“It’s a big relief because for the past two years, ain’t nothing went our way,” inside linebacker L.A. Goree said. “But we finally got this break that’s well-deserved, I think.

I’m speechless; I can’t even believe it’s real. I

thought he was going to make the field goal, but we just had the faith that we needed.”

It wasn’t just Vozenilek’s field goal attempt, either. Facing a third-and-22 in the fourth quarter, quarterback Caleb Rowe rolled from the pocket and launched a deep pass down the right side. Wide receiver Deon Long broke off his route, settled under it and outjumped two Virginia defenders for a 47-yard gain.

Just two plays earlier, Rowe had sent an errant option pitch past the outstretched arms of running back Brandon Ross for a 12-yard loss. Then he sailed a pass to wide receiver Levern Jacobs to bring up a seemingly improbable third down.

Two plays after Long’s catch, Rowe connected with tight end Dave Stinebaugh in the end zone for the 12-yard go-ahead touchdown.

“It was definitely a big drive,” Stinebaugh said. “Deon went up and made a great play, kept the drive going. We ended up scoring the game-winning touchdown. That’s just a huge play by Deon, the things he’s capable of week in and week out, the plays you don’t expect him to make but you do expect him to make at the same time.”

The Terps’ breaks came one week after See CAVALIERS, Page 7

MEN’S SOCCER | No. 5 TERPS 3, No. 23 CAVALIERS 3 (2OT)

After early scoring, defenses tighten in another draw Terps, Cavaliers combine for six goals in first 27 minutes Friday, but neither team manages to come out on top

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE , Va. — Sa s h o Cirovski expected this past week to be a challenge for the Terrapins men’s soccer team.

Playing two matches against quality conference opponents — No. 2 Notre Dame on Tuesday night and No. 23 Virginia on Friday night — was daunting to begin with, not to mention both games would be on the road in difficult environments.

So after an arduous draw against the Fighting Irish that featured two overtimes and physical play, the 21st-year coach had a feeling he would need to go deep into his bench against the Cavaliers to overcome his starters’ fatigue.

And he was right.

Cirovski was forced to make seven substitutions during the first half in a 3-3 tie at Virginia, with all six goals coming in the first 27 minutes of play.

It was the No. 5 Terps’ sixth overtime game of 2013, and the fifth one to last

MIDFIELDER MICHAEL SAUERS (right) was fouled in the box, drawing a penalty kick in the 18th minute of Friday’s 3-3 draw at Virginia. christian jenkins/the diamondback a full 110 minutes.

“I was concerned coming into the game with the tired legs, the heavy legs,” Cirovski said. “Unfortunately, my instincts were true.”

For the second time this season,

midfielder Sunny Jane didn’t start Friday night, as Cirovski opted to open the game with midfielder Mikias Eticha on the left side. Cirovski said Jane has been banged up recently, and he wanted to give the senior a

break during the game’s opening minutes to ensure he had energy for the second half.

Cirovski also made changes to his backline, replacing both of his starting center backs, Alex Crognale

and Dakota Edwards, with defenders Chris Odoi-Atsem and Suli Dainkeh, respectively, who were able to settle the Terps defense after the early barrage of goals from both sides.

Also, midfielder Widner Saint Cyr saw his first action of 2013, replacing forward Patrick Mullins for the final four minutes of the first half.

“It’s what we tell our kids all the time,” Cirovski said. “We believe in them, and you don’t know when your number is going to be called, so be ready for it.”

Midfielder Tsubasa Endoh opened the scoring just more than a minute into play, heading in a rebound off the crossbar that resulted from a feed by Mullins.

The Terps defense failed to hold, as the Cavaliers responded with two goals over the next three minutes.

Midfielder Todd Wharton finished from the top of the 18-yard box in the third minute after a botched clearance from the Terps backline.

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By Amanda Gaines @thedbk For The Diamondback Students no longer have to rely on parties or bars to score a steamy hookup — that’s so last decade.

College hookup culture has gone viral. Students can find everything from one-night stands to long-lasting relationships with the tap of the download button on any smartphone. Tinder, Down and LuLu are among the apps that are making sex by smartphone possible.

Synchronized with Facebook, Tinder finds its users’ matches based on location and looks. Users are given a selection of Facebook pictures of their potential matches and are then able to swipe each photo to the left

or right, depending on whether the picture of the match given meets the user’s standards.

This app is different in that its users don’t have to fear rejection.

However, for some Tinder users, rejection is replaced with a feeling of disturbance.

“In general, after you match with someone, the first thing they ask is when they can meet you, which is kind of creepy,” said Taylor D., a junior history major who asked not to have her last name used. “I barely knew the guy, and he already wanted to meet me.”

Another popular app, Down, formerly known as Bang With Friends in Apple’s app store, allows users to find Facebook friends who are

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suggests safer situations within students’ parameters. Whether students have questions about barrier methods, performance, birth control or other sexual topics, Beckwith — also the coordinator of the university’s Sexual Health and Reproductive Education — has the answers. Here are her tips for anyone thinking about or engaging in any sexual experience.

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Become educated When students come in for consultations or talk to SHARE peer educators, Beckwith ensures the conversation is always inclusive.

The goal isn’t to shame students but instead to empower them to become a little safer, she said.

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“I used to see things differently,” the community health major said.

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can get past that idea, everything is easier to talk about, Rego said.

“We are not alone in the sometimes-awkward or unsatisfying or confusing experiences,” Beckwith said. “The more we can talk about it, the better we can support one another.”

Support one another Students can learn from and connect with one another by having open dialogue, Beckwith said.

“Once you get in a room where people are talking about it with one another, there’s this immediate relief that, ‘We aren’t alone in these experiences,’” she said. “Then we can talk about how to make it better.”

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From the fountain on McKeldin Mall to parking lots to dorm showers, students seem to partake in sexual escapades just about everywhere.

Although the stacks of McKeldin Library and various places on the mall have long made the list of des-

tination on-campus hookup spots, some Terps get even more creative when they’re getting busy.

“I did it in a car in the visitor’s parking lot,” said Ambra, a freshman community health major.

Although hookup locales spanned the entire campus, car hookups were among the most common that students recounted, with Mowatt Lane Garage garnering several mentions.

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“I saw people hooking up behind Frederick Hall … by generators, too. … There’s two back there, and people kind of hide there,” said Students hook up all over the campus, including on the mall and in parking garages. file photo/the diamondback Marilia Moura, an exchange student “My roommate was in the shower, The dorm showers were some of from Brazil majoring in engineering.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend getting tested for sexually transmitted infections every six months or between partners. That service that is offered by the health center,Beckwith said.

Communicate Beckwith said it’s essential for students to communicate expectations, desires and comfort levels.

“Communication is with yourself and with your partners,” she said.

She recommended having those sometimes-difficult conversations with a potential partner before it is too late. This includes any STIs, types of protection and what the potential hookup will mean for both people.

“I think a lot of students don’t know it’s OK to have that conversation before,” Rego said.

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No one wants to dance the mattress jig to a mix of heavy metal and 18thcentury military march music, so take our advice and add the following songs to your bedroom playlist.

“Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” T-Pain feat. Yung Joc An effortlessly suave tune from one of mid-2000s rap’s most prolific sex-havers, “Buy U a Drank” provided music for countless middle school dances. Be sure to recall memories of nervously huddling in the school cafeteria’s corners while awkwardly fumbling with various articles of your partner’s clothing.

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For the most adventurous Terps, or those with a connection to a sports team, the athletic fields and locker rooms pose an interesting challenge; students have hit home runs in more ways than one.

“I’m pretty sure people have hooked up in Byrd Stadium,” said Sindu Manoharan, a senior animal sciences major. Baseball’s Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium and Ludwig Field, home of the university soccer teams, also came up in conversation as unique hookup spots.

“I’ve heard of something at the kids playground, too,” said Josh Reinson, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences.

And for the most daring of them all, several campus monuments and landmarks made the bucket lists of students interviewed.

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