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Former U student-athlete to receive Medal of Honor

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer President Obama will award the military’s highest honor to a university alumnus for his service in Afghanistan.

Capt. Florent A. Groberg will receive the Medal of Honor in a Nov. 12 ceremony, making him the 10th living recipient of the award for actions in Af-

ghanistan, according to a White House news release.

Groberg, who was born in France, became a U.S. citizen when he was 18, competed in varsity track and cross country at this university. He joined the Army two years after graduating with a degree in criminology and criminal justice in 2006, the news release states.

He qu ick ly rose th roug h the Army’s ranks, and by July 2012 was

promoted to captain.

On Aug. 8, 2012, six soldiers, including Groberg, were providing a security detail for senior Army leaders in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province.

Groberg noticed a man with “an abnormal bulge” under his clothing coming out of a building and heading toward the group, according to an Army account of the attack.

Groberg grabbed the man and pushed

him away from the patrol group. The man — a suicide bomber — landed on the ground, releasing the trigger. A second suicide bomber set off his bomb within moments. Five of the men on the mission were killed, including four soldiers, the Army account states, but not the commander Groberg had been charged with protecting.

Immediately after the attack, Groberg’s “fibia was sticking out of my left

leg, my skin was melting, and there was blood everywhere,” he said in the Army account. He has spent the last three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“Receiving the Medal of Honor is not about me,” he said in the Army account.

“It’s about a terrible day that translated into the loss of four brothers.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

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Nando’s to donate to U pantry Restaurant’s 3-day soft open starts Oct. 25

U.S. treasury secretary talks $10 bill redesign, listens to student suggestions

By Joe Atmonavage @Fus_DBK Staff writer Nando’s Peri-Peri, which opens Oct. 25 in Ratsie’s old location on Route 1, will donate 100 percent of its three-day soft-opening sales to the university’s Campus Pantry.

The campus program, which serves food to students, staff and faculty in need, typically survives on week-to-week donations, said Allison Lilly, the sustainability and wellness coordinator for Dining Services.

“Our goal is to alleviate food insecurity on-campus, and we need food to be able to do that,” she said. “This donation is a huge, huge benefit and we are thankful because it is going to allow us to buy food.”

Lilly said she was sitting at her desk earlier this month when the Nando’s team called with the offer.

In the Campus Pantry’s first year, it

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Staff writer

TREASURY SECRETARY JACK LEW leads a student discussion and fields questions about the $10 bill redesign Wednesday in McKeldin Library.

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The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, spoke with more than 60 students and faculty Wednesday in McKeldin Library about the importance of democracy in the redesign of the $10 bill.

For the first time in more than 100 years, a woman will appear on a U.S. bill. Which woman will be featured on the $10 bill and what other changes will be made are still undetermined, said Lew, who made the initial announcement of the redesign in June. The formal redesign plan will be announced

by December.

“The goal is to have a design that reflects the important contribution

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Q-Team workshops tackle LGBT wellness

Council candidate presses on despite family tragedy Cory Sanders aims for District 1 seat

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer

Program will address safe queer sex this week

Cory Sanders was going doorto-door campaigning for the upcoming College Park City Council elections when his father called. It went to voicemail.

L ater t h at n ig ht, Sa nders, who is running for a contested District 1 seat, sat down to prepare his talking points for the Oct. 8 District 1 candidate forum, aiming to tailor them to the issues residents brought up after he rang their doorbells.

By Jess Nocera @jessmnocera Staff writer Riley Nairn, who identifies as bisexual and gender-nonbinary, spent the first few weeks of this semester feeling lonely, but has since found a community within this university’s LGBT Equity Center.

“I stayed in my room way too much, but since I started going to events put on by the center, including Q-Team, I’ve really felt like there’s a community here for me,” said Nairn, a junior Spanish major.

Q-Team, a 10-week health and wellness program that features workshops from LGBT professionals, offers LGBT undergraduate and graduate students a chance to explore their specific health and wellness needs, said Calvin Sweeney, LGBT Equity Center coordinator.

“It’s to help LGBT folks who are

See SANDERS, Page 3 Adia Evans, junior music major (left), and Ty Ginter, sophomore architecture major (right), use the LGBT Equity Center to hang out and do homework. Center experts host Q-Team program workshops. file photo/the diamondback often socially marginalized or having issues with finding wellness as students,” Sweeney said.

The center is always eager to find out what kind of workshops will be in the best interest for LGBT students and then make them happen, said Abid Antonelli, a senior art major pursuing an LGBT studies certificate.

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It was then that he listened to the message, which informed him that his father’s prostate cancer had returned and was spreading.

While the other two candidates, Christine Nagle and Fazlul Kabir, discussed their visions for College Park during the forum, Sanders flew home to Montgomery, Alabama, to see his dad, who was first diagnosed and treated for the disease in 1999.

“The campaign was on my mind, and I had residents reach out to me saying they wished I had been there,” the 34-year-old said. “But when you’re having a conversation like I had with my father, it really puts things in perspective. You have to think about family and put other things aside for just a second.”

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CRIME BLOTTER VANDALISM On Oct. 11 at around 5:49 p.m., an incident involving

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime vandalism was reported to University Police.

Staff writer An officer responded to University Police respond- Lot F, where a Police Auxiliaed to reports of disorderly ry vehicle had been damaged. conduct, suspicious persons The window on the driver’s and vandalism among other side was shattered.

The damage occurred incidents in the past week, according to police reports. between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, and the case remains active.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT On Oct. 9 at about 12:27 SUSPICIOUS PERSONS On Oct. 8 at around 6:04 a.m., officers were at the intersection of Knox Road and p.m., a man was reported Route 1 when they saw a man trying to sell items at Queen Anne’s Hall. jaywalk across the street.

An officer responded and An officer stopped 21-yearold Peter Arsenyev, who was located the man, who was intoxicated, and obtained trying to sell magazines his identification. Arsenyev along with another man. began to raise his voice and Both individuals had no afuse offensive language, and filiation with this university. he attempted to take off Police issued them a denial running, but other officers of access, and the men left the area. stopped him.

University Police would OTHER INCIDENTS not confirm his affiliation On Oct. 8. at 4:44 p.m., with the university, but a student with that name is a student reported a theft to University Police that he listed in the directory.

Arsenyev tried to fight said occurred in Elkton Hall the officers and kicked and at about 3 p.m.

A male university student spit at one of them as they attempted to put him in said he left his room for about handcuffs. He continued to 10 minutes and returned to resist while the officers tried find his electronic device gone, University Police to secure him.

Officers were eventually spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne able to secure Arsenyev, and Hoaas said.

The student had not left he was transported to the Dehis room locked while he was partment of Corrections.

Arsenyev was arrested gone, and the case is under and charged with disorderly investigation. conduct and assault in the second degree. jcampisidbk@gmail.com

CORRECTION The Oct. 8 story “State funding woes lead to university faculty losses” contained several reporting errors. The story neglected to mention the response rate for the ADVANCE survey, which was about 53 percent. The survey only targeted tenured and tenure-track faculty, not all faculty. In addition, the story attributed statistics regarding professors’ colleagues’ reasons for leaving the university to faculty who reported they were likely to leave the university.

SGA’s intern bill goes into effect

By Katishi Maake @KatishiMaake Staff writer In Aug ust 2013, former SGA President Sam Zwerling brought an intern protection bill before this university’s student governing body.

A f ter t wo ye a rs of t he Student Government Association testifying and lobbying the state legislature, that bill went into effect this year on Oct. 1, which Zwerling said was “one of the crowning achievements of the Student Government Association.”

In March, the state Senate approved t he bi l l, wh ich protects interns from workplace ha rassment or d iscrimination on the basis of their race, religion, sex and sexual orientation, among other things.

“The reason that this bill was necessary is because of inaction on the federal level,” Zwerling said. “It’s important because probably 99 percent of the interns from the University of Maryland are going to [be] working in a state where they would be covered from workplace discrimination.”

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Moore, who was involved From PAGE 1 w it h qu e er act iv i s t prolot of topics in a way that grams as an undergraduate doesn’t feel like lecturing. student, created the work“ No m atter how u nder s h o p w h e n s h e i n te r n e d control you think your life with the University Health is or even i f you feel l i ke Center after she saw a lack of you r l i fe i s spi ra l i ng out L GB T-speci f ic prog ra mof control, you should still m i n g a t t h i s u n ive rs it y, go to Q-Team because it’s Moore said.

The workshop, facilitated really beneficial for anyone by the health center, aims to that can go,” Nairn said.

Workshops offered this deliver “the core message semester i nclude a d r u m of what sexual health is in a meditation and healing ci rcle, a lectu re by f i l mm a k e r a n d p e r fo r m a n c e a rtist Ig nacio R ivera a nd art therapy by expressive therapist Tamara Galinsky.

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Prior to the law, Zwerling said many cases of discrimination or harassment brought forth by interns were thrown out in court, because interns were not protected or defi ned under workplace discrimination laws.

Now, if an intern is harassed or discriminated against at work, he or she can file a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights if the employer does not have an internal procedure for resolving complaints.

“If an intern was being harassed and they went to human resources … they could be told to either quit or deal with it,” SGA President Patrick Ronk said. “It will be interesting to see how many cases go to the Commission on Civil Rights to see if a lot of businesses are not helping out their interns.”

During the 2014 legislative session, the SGA, along with bill sponsors Del. Kathleen Dumais (D-Montgomery) and Sen. Nancy King (D-Montgomery), introduced a different version of the bill, which did not pass.

Zwerling said the Chamber of Com merce opp osed it because of a provision that would allow interns to sue

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This provision is not part of the new law, but Zwerling said adding it could strengthen the law in the future.

“There needs to be other ways that students can look for remedies when something like this happens,” Zwerling said.

“The human rights commission has ways they can investigate it, but there needs to be some punishment at the end of the day.”

SGA Speaker of the Legislature Aiden Galloway testified at a House of Delegates committee meeting in February and said the law should not deter businesses from hiring interns.

“It shouldn’t discourage employers from hiring interns,” she said. “If you’re cutting out

your intern program because you’re worried of all these allegations, then you have a bigger issue on your hands.”

Because the SGA typically passes legislation that is symbolic in nature, Galloway said she was proud the organization wrote and passed a bill directly affecting students’ college experiences.

“Getting this bill through really showed what SGA and the student body are capable of,” Galloway said. “Even though we don’t have legislative power in the context of sending legislation to [university] President [Wallace] Loh, we have a lot of other great ways we can impact campus.”

framework that is conducive to a queer student environment,” Moore said.

Experts from the health and LGBT centers will collaborate to help meet specific needs of certain communities, said Jenna Beckwith Messman, the health center’s sexual health program coordinator.

The two centers have the “sh a red goa l s of helpi n g st udents b e t hei r h appiest and healthiest selves at school so they can be their

most successf u l here a nd beyond,” Messman said.

Q-Team’s student-centered workshops create a safe space for students to find their voices and drive their own health and wellness, Moore said.

“I have been really trying to focus on self-care because without caring for yourself, there is no you to do any of your other activities,” Nairn said.

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served about 160 clients, but this year the pantry is open weekly instead of biweekly and serves between 30 and 60 people each week early in the semester, Lilly said.

Now, Lilly said she hopes people are craving chicken come Oct. 25.

“We are really excited and really thankful,” she said.

“I hope they have a really awesome opening weekend. It is such a generous gift. I hope people are excited about periperi chicken.”

When Nando’s opens a new restaurant, the company aims to connect with the community, said Sepanta Bagherpour, the company’s U.S. marketing director. The restaurant has locations in 23 countries on five continents.

“When we are opening a new restaurant, we like to f i nd out wh at m atters i n the com munity,” he said.

“That’s different from community to community. To maintain a good presence in an area, we want to work with the community.”

Bagherpour said helping an on-campus organization was an obvious choice in a city like College Park.

“As big as the College Park community is, and as big as the student community is, there are a lot of people who rely on Campus Pantry to get their food,” he said. “We are a company about feeding people and so are they. We thought it would be a brilliant way to celebrate our opening.”

In Chicago, for instance, where Nando’s opened three restaurants in the past year, it raised more than $45,000 for After School Matters, a program helping youths gain employment after high school or continue their education in the city.

It was Sanders’ father, after all, who encouraged him to run in the first place.

“When I got to College Pa rk , I c a l le d h i m a nd said, ‘Listen, there’s a lot of issues here,’” Sanders said. “And he said, ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?’ He said that if there’s something wrong in the city, change it.”

Sanders sees a variety of issues in District 1. Property taxes are too high, he said, and there needs to be more sidewalks, more family-friendly businesses and more open conversations with this university.

“Let’s get everyone at the table to revisit the partnership,” he said. “I would like to see, before the university makes decisions about purchases in the city, for them to reach out more to residents. Residents should know what’s going on.”

Sa n d e rs, wh o s e r ve s on the city’s Ag i ng-i nPl a c e Ta s k Fo rc e, a l s o plans to forge a connection between the city and university populations in other ways. He wants to start a program in which students at this university volunteer to do yardwork for senior citizens.

S a n d e r s , fo u n d e r o f video-telecommunications compa ny Sa ndtech a nd president of the Camden College Park Neighborhood Association, is running against District 1 incumb e nt K a b i r a n d Na g l e , who served on the City Council from 2009 to 2011.

Sanders said he realizes he is the “new guy in town,” which his dad told him to embrace during his recent visit home.

“He encouraged me to show residents my plat-

NANDO’S PERI-PERI opens Oct. 25 in the former location of Ratsie’s on Route 1 and will donate initial proceeds to the university’s Campus Pantry. tom hausman/the diamondback Naji m A s s e f i , a s e n ior supply chain management m ajor, sa id Na ndo’s w i l l likely be popular during its opening days, and the compa ny’s decision to help a campus organization should bolster its image. “ T h at i s a re a l ly go o d cause,” he said. “It is good t hat t hey a re gett i ng i nvolved. I know in the beginning, there is going to be a lot of hype around Nando’s.

A lot of people are going to be coming in, so for them to donate all their sales is a really nice gesture.”

Nando’s was founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1987 and has since expanded throughout the world. Its fi rst restaurant in the United States opened in Washington in 2008, and the company’s relationships with the area’s community played a role in it coming to College Park, Bagh-

erpour said.

It is known for its peri-peri chicken, which is marinated for at least 24 hours and fl ame-grilled to the spice the customer wants.

Bagherpour said the company tries to promote South A frican culture both inside and outside its restaurants.

On one of the College Park location’s walls is a large mural painted by KilmanyJo Liversage, a South African artist who has done several paintings for Nando’s, including for its restaurants in Bethesda and Woodbridge, Virginia, Bagherpour said.

“Her style resonates with College Park because it is very vibrant and youthful,” he said. “It is graffiti-esque and younger people from College Park can relate to it very well.” jatmonavagedbk@gmail.com

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form and policies, and if they think those are what’s best for their city, ask for their votes,” Sanders said. “He said to be true and honest to yourself and get to know everybody. That way you know all the issues and can try to help everybody.”

H e e d i n g h i s f at h e r ’s advice, Sanders knocks on about 30 doors every day, meaning his four-day trip home set him back about 120 houses. Since he’s been back, he’s resumed his routine.

“In District 1, there are so many people who have reached out to me to ask if t here wa s a ny t h i ng t hey could do for me, so that helps a lot,” he said. “While I was knocking on doors, one resident came out and gave me a hug.”

Mayora l ca nd idate a nd District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said Sanders offers a unique viewpoint that could be useful on the council.

“Some of the th i ngs he br i ngs a re energ y, yout h and a fresh face,” Wojahn said. “It’s always good to get a new perspective. … He’s been really engaged. When there were several problems with crime and security at Camden, where he lives, he really brought the residents together to respond to that a nd to pu sh t he Ca mden management and the city to get involved.”

I n a s i x-m o nt h p e r i o d spanning last year and this year, there were at least 12 brea k-i ns a nd one hom icide in the Camden College Park apartments. Sanders re s p o n d e d b y fo r m i n g a neighborhood watch group — the fi rst such organization for a College Park apartment complex — which will start up in about three weeks, he said.

Ed Henderson, a Camden resident, said Sanders acted a s a n advocate when t he b u i l d i n g ’s m a n a ge m e n t

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“He was instrumental in communicating information to us, pooling together our concerns and then presenting a unified front to corporate,” the 38-year-old said. “In any form of government, you’re going to need someone who is going to hear the voices of the people and then be able to provide solutions and really initiate change within a situation. He’s shown that ability here, and he’d be able to do that for all of College Park.”

Kabir, who is not endorsing either candidate for the second district seat, said he is glad Sanders is running and providing residents with another option. Every district in College Park is contested this year, making it one of the most competitive elections in decades.

Though the election isn’t until Nov. 3, Sanders said he has a plan for what he would do with the $7,000 salary that comes with being a City Council member.

“Public service is something that should come from the heart, so something I’ve always talked about is donating my city salary towards various organizations,” he said. “I’ve thought about [creating] the College Park Cancer Foundation.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

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t was hard to miss the writing on the wall, especially when it came in the form of a 21-point blowout loss at home to a mid-major. Or a 39-point blowout loss in the Terrapins football team’s only real rivalry game, or a 28point shutout in the squad’s second Big Ten opener or a stand-up-and-takenotice challenge on the road against No. 1 Ohio State that careened into a classic Terps implosion.

By that point, of course, coach Randy Edsall had blocked half of this state’s Twitter users and you’d have been hardpressed to get anything but radio silence out of the university’s athletic department on his future with the program.

Edsall had compiled a .393 winning percentage through five seasons, landing him smack in the middle of 13 coaches in modern Terps history.

His conference record, a dismal 10-24 overall, flirted with .500 all last season and nearly surpassed it before — you guessed it — another classic Terps implosion in the regular-season finale against Rutgers.

By a number of measures, the man was excruciatingly average. By the discourse surrounding the Terps this season, he had lost his clout in the locker room, become a laughingstock in postgame interviews, bungled the team’s shot at viability in the Big Ten — in short, proved himself a pox on the sport.

So with bye week looming and an impressive 2016 recruiting class waiting in

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the wings, Edsall went down without so much as a phone call from the athletic department in the hours after reports of his imminent firing surfaced.

The move marked a noteworthy about-face from the athletic department, which in June had handed Edsall a three-year extension worth $7.5 million.

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Edsall’s firing demonstrates the power of private interests in college athletics.

“Randy has made good strides in our first year in the Big Ten and our program is headed in the right direction,” Athletic Director Kevin Anderson said after announcing the deal.

During the 103 days after that endorsement, then, something spooked the athletic department enough to cut Edsall loose and toss another few million dollars into its already-yawning debt.

Let’s get real: It wasn’t the loss to No. 12 Michigan, which is currently laying waste to the Big Ten’s East Division under Jim Harbaugh. It wasn’t because the Terps tanked late against the top-ranked Buckeyes, either. The university knew it couldn’t compete in that weight class when it fled the ACC, and one year hasn’t changed things.

The real nail in the coffin? Edsall

had lost favor with big-dollar university donors, a fall from grace that only accelerated after the Bowling Green debacle.

“Well, if one pays attention to what is said in the media, at least in the blogs, there are always those who support or oppose any particular coach,” university President Wallace Loh said when asked about donors’ roles in the decision. “I certainly pay attention to everything people say.”

A waffle of an answer from a man who’s taken brunchtime visits from a host of potential donors in his Byrd Stadium box.

It’s as good an indictment as any of the sway big money holds over college athletics. Anderson’s decision to can Edsall before his contract’s $500,000 buyout clause kicks in should leave other stakeholders quizzical. There’s also no small absurdity in promoting a journeyman assistant with a 2-26 head coaching record under his belt, especially during the middle of the season.

We’ve seen the positive side of financing, what with private donors’ partial backing of $155 million in Cole Field House renovations and the widening flow of Big Ten television revenue.

Sunday, though, the athletic department threw more than $2.6 million down the drain and a wrench into its slow climb back to profitability, and for what? Hopefully Anderson knows, because this editorial board doesn’t.

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Sanders’ education error

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ne of the key campaign elements that has so strongly ignited support for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, particularly among the youth, is the proposal of nationwide free public university education. Under examination, this plan threatens to compromise the best aspects of the American university system while failing to solve any real problems.

Needless to say, the most obvious issue is the expense. Tuition for all public college and university students totals $70 billion per year. Most of this would be added to the federal budget, which already struggles with serious deficits year in and year out. Sanders plans to pay for this through a tax on financial transactions. The consequences of this tax would be complex and unclear. However, let us assume that this tax will work smoothly.

Under the current congressional districts, the GOP likely will control the House of Representatives for the foreseeable future. Even if Sanders were able to win the election, these issues would leave the plan dead on arrival. Let us also assume that Sanders’ plan could be politically viable. Even after all these fatal obstacles, it remains a dangerous mirage.

America has some of the best universities worldwide, with 51 of the top 100, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Many of our stellar colleges are public flagship state universities such as this university. More than 800,000 foreign students studied in universities in the United States last year.

Overhauling the entire pubic university system would jeopardize the best of what we currently have more than it would improve access for deserving students.

Sanders’ 2015 College for All Act would enforce more stringent federal regulations on public universities.

Increasing regulations will hinder these institutions from operating in a way that best suits their unique situation. The significant degree of autonomy that public universities currently have is a key to their success because it allows them to compete in the classroom, in the lab

and on the field.

Many wealthy European countries offer free or cheap college tuition to their citizens. However, the role of college is not quite identical in their cultures.

They tend to have less emphasis on campus life, and most students live in urban apartments or at home. As almost purely educational facilities, universities in Europe offer far fewer amenities than American ones. This makes it more feasible for the government to cover the costs.

The best way to control costs of higher education is a change in culture to one that is more open-minded to a more diverse array of higher education options. More emphasis on trade schools and training for plumbers and electricians is needed. For much of the population, K-12 should suffice as an academic liberal arts education.

The horror stories of people racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt are not because of students attending in-state public universities.

These cases tend to be ill-advised enrollments in expensive private colleges.

A moderate level of debt incurred from attending the local flagship university is not a problem if that school helps students launch a solid career.

The focus should be on making sure that students and their families are properly informed when choosing a college.

President Barack Obama’s administration has focused on this with the “College Scorecard” program. This will lead to financially sound decisions and more efficient competition among colleges. Colleges will not be able to lie to prospective students and will have to cut expenses in order to compete. If information about career outcomes and graduation rates for colleges is standardized and available, lower debt outcomes should result.

The answer to the student debt and educational access crisis is not to exert top-down control and throw money at the problem. A combination of less drastic changes can maintain the national treasures that our universities are while allowing a greater number of worthy students to benefit.

Daniel Galitsky is a senior economics and finance major. He can be reached at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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What to consider before your RA interview KATIE STULLER

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pplying for a resident assistant position is kind of like running for president.

You sit in a room among some of the greatest on-campus leaders you will ever meet, who are involved in various clubs, organizations, research opportunities, internships and so on. They’re experienced.

They’re knowledgeable. And they are confident in who they are and what they stand for.

You’ll introduce yourself to the professional or graduate staff member and current RA who will be interviewing you, and they’ll stare at you with hope that you know what you’re getting yourself into.

Do yo u k n ow a bo u t t h e l a te nights spent waiting for EMTs to take your favorite resident away in a stretcher? You thought he was so good, so supportive of the laws you instilled in the hall. It was all a lie. Your heart breaks from disappointment, and you grow a few gray hairs.

Do you know about the long evenings with your staff spent arguing over when to host the community event? You had plans to take your first lady to Terrapin’s Turf that evening for her birthday, but now, you must sacrifice your love for the good of your people. You have no choice but to attend the Pancake Night. Argh!

Do yo u k n ow t h a t t h e wa l l s you hid behind as a resident will fall down and crumble once you are elected as an RA? Privacy?

Secrets? Those don’t exist in RA world. If elected, your residents will turn into nosy little members

of the press (especially the freshmen). They’ll find that tweet from 2009 when you snorted a macaroni noodle up your nose, and they won’t let you live it down. They might even print pictures of it and cover the walls of your home with this humiliation.

They will swarm like Holmes and Watson to decipher who that blond guy is who seems to come to your room with snacks and homework quite often. And when you go out, they’ll notice that you’re not wearing your dirty casual Keds.

They’ll want to know where you’re going. And they’ll know what time you come home.

And so you grow a few more gray hairs. The policies you create will be supported by half your nation and fought by the other half. You’ll be challenged and hated by many for simply doing your job, and suddenly that free room and board becomes a less-than-satisfying perk. What is life like outside of this dorm? What is a kitchen? What is a double-sized bed?

Consider these things before entering the interview, because the key to passing the RA interview is one simple truth: Do you really, truly, 100 percent want to commit to the position of resident assistant?

B e c a u s e a s s o o n a s yo u a re elected, you never stop being an RA. Members of your community are everywhere. They’re in the dining halls; they’re on McKeldin Mall; they go to parties; they go to sporting events; they’re in the toilet stall next you. You might not see them, but they can see you.

Your home suddenly becomes your place of work. Just because you’re in your pajamas, lying on your bed watching reruns of Glee

and sobbing doesn’t mean you’re off the clock. Nothing hurts more than having to pause the scene when Finn is about to kiss Rachel for the first time because the toilet in the men’s bathroom won’t stop flushing.

But before you cry from fear, look around the room the day of your interview. Look at all the other students who are brave enough to compete with you. If you become an RA, some of these students will become your staff members — your future best friends who will endure the bad duties with you and laugh about them later. My best friends are RAs, my boyfriend is an RA, and my resident director is the greatest role model any college student could ask for.

Yes, the job can have its bad moments (writing people up is not something we enjoy), but it has a lot of good moments if you build the right environment. Having your residents hug you goodbye at the end of the school year and thank you for the time you wrote them a letter of recommendation, edited their paper, helped them find an on-campus job, encouraged them to audition for a capella or wiped their tears when their boyfriend dumped them really does make you feel accomplished.

So embrace that. Feel pumped.

If you are brave enough to apply, then you already have confidence in yourself. Being a leader requires self-assurance. Know who you are, know your strengths and know how you will be an RA who not only did your job, but was also truly memorable.

Katie Stuller is a senior English m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t kstullerdbk@gmail.com.

What was Loh thinking?

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art of our school’s mission statement reads that the university’s “collaborations with State, federal, private and non-profit partners [must] promote economic development and improve quality of life.” Two recent business decisions that university President Wallace Loh and other administrators have approved completely defy this sentiment: the firing of Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall and the acceptance of Koch Foundation money.

First, the end of Edsall’s tenure. I won’t get into whether firing Edsall was a good decision for the success of our school’s team. I want to talk about how it affects students. For that, we need to review Loh’s decision to switch from the ACC to the Big Ten. Initially, the switch to the Big Ten was optimistic. In his message to the university community, Loh stated that some of the projected revenues would be used for “academic priorities and student financial aid” and that revenues would be expected to grow by $1 million annually.

It’s confusing, then, that Loh would approve of firing Edsall. Buying the coach out of his contract cost our athletic department more than $2.6 million. Hiring a new coach will likely cost the department millions as well, because the new coach will ask for a salary comparable to Edsall’s. This spending venture comes just a semester after budget restrictions within the larger university and student tuition markups across the campus. What was Loh thinking?

Why is Loh taking this multimillion-dollar step backward? He will say the decision is profitable in the long run. He won’t explain that it will be at the cost of current university students, staff and faculty. This type of negligence toward academia is typical for the university’s administration, which talks about the move to the Big Ten as an effort to “enhance [its] global brand.”

We aren’t a brand. We aren’t here to bolster anyone else’s resume. We are a community that cares about education.

In fact, our university’s accreditation status is predicated upon our vow to prioritize education and research over anything else. For that reason, all of Loh’s side ventures should proceed only if they further our community’s pursuit of knowledge. Anything else is a burden.

This trend away from unencumbered academia isn’t just limited to football. Last year, the Koch Foundation and The Snider Foundation donated $6 million to the business school to create the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets. Considering the Koch brothers have announced that they will donate a total of almost $900 million during this presidential election cycle, it is unlikely that they would donate to our school without any contractual stipulations. In the recent past, a couple universities have released their Koch contracts, revealing that they handed the industrialists unprecedented influence over their programs, such as faculty hiring and veto power. The Koch brothers use universities as a means of advancing their political agenda; they’ve even funded similar programs to deny climate change. This is not the “global brand” we ought to promote.

Business school administrators have not released the terms of the donation, although the center’s director has promised that this agreement entails academic freedom from both donors.

Still, it’s hard to accept Loh’s seemingly good intentions when we read about these and other consistent financial burdens imposed on our academic community. Thus far, we have only seen tuition hikes and unpaid furloughs for faculty and staff. Every day it becomes more evident that Loh is creating a brand from our talent and intellect for his own benefit, not ours.

Daniel Alarcon is a senior English m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t dannyalarcon3@gmail.com.

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University Police start up Ride Along Program Students, community members can join officers for a look inside the force

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime Staff writer Fo r m a n y p e o p l e , t h e closest they’ve ever been to enforcing the law has been t h ro u g h c h a ra c te rs o n a T V screen – and, chances are, it probably wasn’t too realistic.

But for those who wa nt a taste of what wielding a badge and handcuffs is really l i ke, now’s the cha nce to find out.

With University Police’s new R ide A long Program, students a nd com mu n ity members can join an officer and find out what it’s like to work for the police force.

“It gives the community an opportunity to experience a day i n the l i fe of a pol ice officer,” sa id Un i-

versity Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas. “It’s a service we provide so people can get to know the police department — who we are and what we do — and get hands-on experience.”

While some students take part in the program to fill a class requirement, others, such as those who might be interested in careers in law enforcement, do it to learn more about the field.

Some people have preconceived ideas about what policing a college community is like, but Hoaas said the program sheds new light on University Police. “ P ol i c i n g o n a c ol l e ge campus is different than in other areas, and this lets you get a dose of what you can expect,” Hoaas said.

T hose i nterested mu st

“ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, AND WE NEVER KNOW WHAT CALLS WE’RE GOING TO GET.” Sgt. ROSANNE HOAAS

University Police spokeswoman complete and submit an application, which can be found on the University Pol ice website. Appl icants can choose which day and time they would like to do a ride along but can participate only once per semester.

“I n ou r l i ne of work, we encou nter a l l sor ts of things. Anything can h ap p e n , a n d we n e ve r k now wh at ca l l s we’re going to get,” Hoaas said.

“A nd whe n p e ople se e that, it opens their eyes and changes everything.” jcampisidbk@gmail.com

contributions of women in Lew said. “They’re not the A mer ica n h i stor y,” By rd easiest things to print; it’s said. “I’m glad that in 2015 a combination of processes From PAGE 1 we’re turning a page, but together, and the tech n iof an individual or individ- obviously there’s so much cal people that do it need to uals that resonates with the more to be done on a sub- produce hundreds of milhistory of democracy in this stitutive level.” lions of copies. With that Throughout this process, said, it is frustrating with cou ntry,” L ew sa id. “I’m looking forward to making L e w s a i d h e h a s b e e n how long it takes.” “struck” by how interested these decisions.”

Two students expressed D u r i n g t he event, L ew people are in the redesign. t h e i r c o n c e r n s t h a t t h e F r e s h m a n A r a b i c a n d “ re m o v a l” o f A l e x a n d e r asked the students and faculty for their thoughts E n g l i s h m a j o r N i c h o l a s H a m i l t o n f r o m t h e $ 1 0 on the anticipated currency Brown said he was interest- bill could cause people to ed in the discussion because forget his influence on this remodel.

“We started this conver- it seems like a progressive country. However, Lew resation say ing we had two “step forward to have more assured them that Hamilton objectives,” Lew said. “A women fig ures on federal would be honored in some g ive n i s t h at we h ave to currency.” other way.

Even though the redesign design it so that it can’t be “We are going to continue counterfeited to make sure plan is expected by Decem- to honor Alexander Hamilour money is secure. … We ber, Lew said the bill will ton in our currency,” Lew decided early on the theme not be shown until 2020. said. “People just have to “It shouldn’t take so long, wait and see where he ends of democracy was going to be the cross-cutting theme but when you look at cur- up.” rency, there’s a lot of the new bills.”

Students and faculty had more going on,” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com the opportunity to suggest inspirational women to be featured on the bill. Suggestions included Harriet ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Tubman, Rosa Parks, Alice First Lady Paul, Susan B. Anthony and Virginia Hill.

L ew prov ided feedback for each of the ideas and reminded the audience that, “T he redesig n is broader than 1 square inch on the bill.”

“T he way we’re approaching this is probably the most open process for a decision o f t h i s k i n d ,” L e w said. “Hopefully we’ll make good decisions ROSA PARKS that people will be Civil rights activist happy with and last a long time.”

Senior sociology major Colin Byrd said he bel ieves the redesign is a major step not o n l y f o r d e m o c r a c y, but a lso for women i n society.

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Fueling New Discoveries Two university researchers develop a more productive way to produce biofuels

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer Researchers at this university found a new method to produce fuel — not from fossi ls or cor n, but f rom bacteria.

Richard Kohn, an animal and avian sciences professor, along with Seon-Woo Kim, a faculty research assistant, developed a more efficient process to produce biofuels, or energy sources that come from living things.

They published their findings Oct. 7 in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Kohn’s preliminary work began in 2008 with the goa l of apply i ng the laws of thermodynamics to the fermentation process, and he and Kim have since used the method to produce fuels, such as ethanol and butanol.

From an environmental standpoint, th is research

could help decrease dependence on fossil fuels, Kohn said, and could lead to future methods of producing fuel out of organic matter.

“We could find bacteria that takes waste material, l i ke cattle m a nu re, a nd convert it into fuel,” Kohn sa id. “Or we cou ld ta ke carbon dioxide and hydrogen and turn it into fuel. We can’t make energy, but we ca n ma ke a conversion of things that have energy to a type of energy we can use.”

David Dodds, president of the chemical consulting firm Dodds & Associates, said he ad m i red Koh n’s resea rch and that biofuels should be embraced as much as possible in the future. “ I a p p l a u d w h a t h e ’s doi ng, a nd keepi ng track of the thermodynamics is something everyone needs to do,” Dodds said. “He has some novel processes that could be useful.”

Biofuels can also serve as a way around carbon dioxide emission caps in countries such as China, Dodds said.

Finding new effective and sustainable methods to generate energy are essential, and Kohn’s research is one innovative approach to the problem, Dodds said.

Paul Weimer, a research microbiologist for the U.S. A g r ic u lt u re D epa r t ment who was not involved with the study, said Kohn’s research is well ahead of the c u r v e . K o h n ’s w o r k o n changing the conditions of fermentation has allowed him to create end products, such as hydrocarbons, that Weimer said he did not even th i n k were possible from that process.

Still, Weimer said the research needs many more scientists looking at its potential applications before it can have a substantial impact on biofuel production.

“Right now, unless people take a look at what he’s done and start working on it, I’m not s u re it’s goi n g to b e applied,” Weimer said. “If they do, it holds tremendous promise.”

Kohn acknowledged that most of his findings were theoretica l i n natu re a nd need f u r t her resea rch to develop industrial uses.

He sa id he w ill apply for funding from the U.S. E nerg y Depa r t ment for f u r t h e r re s e a rc h o n t h e process.

Applying the laws of thermodynamics to biology is a concept that Kohn said is so simplistic it seems almost too good to be true.

“It’s really very useful,” Kohn said. “People are very slowly becoming interested in it, and it really makes a ver y compl icated system much more simple.” adunndbk@gmail.com

richard Kohn, an animal and avian sciences professor, helped develop a more efficient process to produce biofuels. His findings were recently published. josh loock/the diamondback

O’Malley vies for speaking time in Democratic debate

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer In an election cycle dominated by frontrunner Hillary Clinton and challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders, Tuesday’s debate offered the five Democratic candidates for president a platform to air their campaign stances — and for some, a chance at national relevance.

The three longshot candidates, former Maryland Gov. Ma rti n O’Ma l ley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, sought to appeal to the nationwide audience, but O’Malley was the only candidate to make an impression, UMD College Democrats President Jake Polce said.

“We’re seei ng a d iv ide between first-tier and secondtier candidates,” the sophomore government and politics major

said. “In terms of their performance today, it seems that Sanders, Clinton and O’Malley are maybe at a different level in terms of articulation.”

Clinton led in total speaking time with 30 minutes and 25 seconds, followed by Sanders with 27 minutes and 41 seconds, NPR reported. O’Malley trailed with about 17 minutes, while Webb had about 15 minutes and Chafee had just more than nine minutes — a lack of talking time he frequently mentioned over the course of the debate.

I n a c h a rge d m o m e nt, O’Malley targeted Sanders’ stance on guns, referencing gun legislation he passed in this state and questioning Sanders’ “pandering” to the National Rifle Association.

“Look, it’s fine to talk about all of these things — and I’m glad we’re talking about these things,” O’Malley said, referring to gun control laws, “but

I’ve actually done them.”

In addition to discussing policy questions, the CNN moderators targeted some candidate campaign weaknesses, including O’Malley’s legacy on crime and justice in Baltimore and former Secretary of State Clinton’s email scandal — which didn’t come up until more than an hour into the debate.

Sanders and Clinton both shared their desire to refrain from focusing on the emails and to instead look at what citizens want from their elected leader.

“The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” Sanders said, before the two shared a handshake at centerstage.

“It was refreshing to hear another candidate say that it’s not important and that we need to focus on the issues,” said government and politics and Spanish major Samara Cohen,

co-founder of Terps for Hillary.

“That was awesome, and I think super true.”

Vice President Joe Biden, who has not officially entered the race but was invited by CNN, declined to attend and reportedly watched the debate from home.

Debates have become increasingly important in the presidential election cycles, gover n ment a nd pol it ics professor David Karol said.

Compared to historical trends, the number of debates have grown and begun earlier in the year, allowing for multiple events before the Iowa caucus and primary voting in New Hampshire.

This year’s debates in particular have drawn extra attention, Karol said, probably partially in part because of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

The first Republican debate drew more than 24 million

viewers and the second drew almost 23 million.

Polce said the Democratic debate offered a stark contrast to the two previous Republican events.

“This debate isn’t all namecalling and mudslinging; it’s a real policy discussion,” he said. “We’re actually hearing about policy issues, ways to make college more affordable, to move the country forward.”

UMD College Republicans president Breyer Hillegas said he hoped moderators would focus on economic and national security issues, allowing the public to see which candidate — Republican or Democrat — matches their ideology and vision.

“I wish there were more debates, to be honest. There are so many people who don’t pay attention to the political process, other than the debates,” the senior biology

major said. “It’s vital to watch and understand what they each stand for — Republicans and Democrats alike.”

He pointed to the success of Carly Fiorina, who rose from relative obscurity to competitive candidate thanks to her debate performance, as proof of the power of these forums.

K a rol, t hou g h, sa id he doubts the debate would offer much of a chance for the Democratic candidates lagging behind in the race — namely O’Malley, Webb and Chafee — to set themselves apart.

“One of them could get off a couple good lines or make a statement that attracts some attention. But will it help them rise to a competitive position? I doubt it,” Karol said.

“They’re very far behind, and it’s hard to see what niche they would fill.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

Construction begins on site replacing Koons Ford showroom

By Joe Atmonavage @Fus_ DBK Staff writer Mark Vogel, a 1971 university alumnus, said people who v i sit Col lege Park consistently tell him the same thing: The hotels in the area leave much to be desired.

“I can’t tell you how many times I have had people who were staying at the Quality Inn or the Clarion Inn and they walk in and say, ‘Oh my God. Get me out of here,’” he said. “[University President Wallace Loh] and his team have finally made it an absolute priority to clean up Route 1 and get some restaurants in there and offer people good places to stay.”

Not only is The Hotel at t h e Un ive rs it y of M a r yland — a $150 million luxury fo u r-d i a m o n d h o te l a n d conference center — set to open in January 2017, but construction is set to start on another hotel on Route 1.

Construction began this month on the site that will house a 156-room Cambria Hotel where the Koons Ford show room once stood . A CVS, pa rk i ng ga rage a nd restaurant will also occupy the lot a fter the long-vacant showroom was demolished this summer. David Hillman, CEO of Southern Management Corporation, is the main developer for the project.

T he bra nd of the hotel,

which is under the umbrella of Choice Hotels, w i l l be formally announced soon, officials said. The Cambria Ho te l i s d e s c r i b e d a s a n “upscale, limited-service hotel,” said Eric Olson, the execut ive d i rector of t he College Park City-University Partnership.

“We picked the Cambria because we thought it was cutt i n g-ed ge, u rba n a nd cool,” sa id Vogel, a longtime real estate developer in Prince George’s County and a partner in the project.

“When you see it, you will see what I mea n. It is a really neat concept.”

T h e c it y a l s o re ve a l e d that the restaurant in the new reta i l development will be called College Park Grill. It will feature barbecue, seafood and pasta on an “all-around cuisine” menu, Vogel sa id. Ada m Greenberg, the founder and president of Restaurant Zone, will run the restaurant.

Greenberg a lso ow ns Potomac P izza, a loca l fi xture in this state since 1978, a nd is open i ng Potomac P izza’s fi fth location underneath T he Hotel, a long w ith a bagel restaurant.

Olson said there will be a “real transformation from the old Koons site to a really nice hotel and retail area.”

“It is goi ng add to a lot to the midtown section of College Park,” he said. “It is going to be really good hotel

product that will attract all types of people.”

Vogel said the developers are not worried about the hotels competing because there is enough need to fill both of them, and they play off each other well.

“It will be a complement to The Hotel and the conferences t here,” he sa id . “ T hey a re goi n g to n e e d more than 300 rooms. The Hotel is going to be a little more expensive, so people who want to still stay at a nice hotel won’t have to pay the top dollar to stay at The Hotel.”

K iau na Freema n sa id s h e w a s s u r p r i s e d t h e re were plans in the works for another hotel so soon.

“I am shocked, because I d id n’t k now we needed a nother,” the ju n ior econom ic s m ajor sa id . “ I f a lot of people’s parents do come to visit them from out of state and the city thinks a

hotel is needed, then it must be needed.”

Because there a re so ma ny person nel i nvolved with The Hotel, Vogel said, t hey d on’t wa nt t he t wo hotels opening at the same time. The CVS and parking garage are the first phases of the project in the former Koons lot, and in about six months, constr uction on t he hotel a nd restau ra nt will begin.

The retail area will offer free parking and should be a desirable location for people just getting off work, Vogel said.

Greenberg “i s goi ng to have a really big happy hour for this restaurant,” he said.

“There will be free parking so people on their way home from work can pull right in and enjoy the restaurant.”

A nd as for the hotel g u e s t s , Vo ge l s a i d h e i s happy that they will have a convenient option in town.

“At this hotel, people will be able to walk over to the football games or basketball games,” he said. “It is going to bring a different ty pe of person to Col lege

Park, and they don’t have to stay in Bethesda or D.C. anymore. They can stay in College Park.” jatmonavagedbk@gmail.com

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CHESAPEAKE STRONG Bay receives highest health score in more than a decade, but still has room to improve

EcoHealth Chesapeake Bay Overall Health Index’s percentage ratings of environmental health

1998 39.46%

1996 39.2%

2000 42.27%

2002 54.87%

2004 42.37%

2008 42.87%

2006 39.43%

2010 42.4%

2012 46.6%

2014 50%

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By Sam Reilly @samansayshi Staff writer

2011, when Hurricane Irene a n d T ro p i c a l S to r m L e e wrought widespread damage that led to an overall health The Chesapeake Bay earned score of 38.3.

“We had a terrible year in its highest health score since 2002 last year, according to 2011,” said William Dennison, data from the University of the center’s vice president Maryland Center for Environ- for science applications. “It mental Science, but research- really knocked the bay back a ers still gave the body of water little bit, but we’ve been improving steadily since then, a C in its latest evaluation.

T h e b a y re c e i v e d a 5 0 which is really heartening.”

The EcoHealth report card percent on its EcoHea lth report card last year, up five compiles data from 10 health percentage points from its indicators, including aquatic 2013 health score. The im- grasses, water clarity and nuproved score continues the trient levels.

“It’s something that’s so bay’s rebound from a stormy

important,” said Lindsey Ganey, a senior community health major and lifetime state resident. “Keeping the bay clean is one step better toward a safe environment.”

Researchers at the center discovered in the 1980s that excess levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous were major contributors to the bay’s failing health. When water runoff from farms and lawns carry these nutrients into the bay, it puts animal and plant life at risk by giving rise to algae that blocks needed sunlight and oxygen. Last year, the bay saw a major de-

crease in phosphorus levels, signaling an improvement in its overall health.

Den n ison sa id th is i mprovement is small but significant and that the bay still requires a lot of work.

“T he rea son t h at more people aren’t interested in saving the bay is that the problem isn’t very visible,” senior elementary education major Ann Marie Huisentruit said. “Because it’s so subtle, people aren’t as invested as they should be.”

Huisentruit said she first learned about the magnitude of the bay’s health problems

in GEOL120: Environmental Geology this past spring.

“With all this that I was learning, I realized that I really want to work to protect the bay and our watershed,” she said.

Since then, she has done hands-on work in the bay, collecting water samples, pla nti ng water f i ltration grasses and more with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

“I’m very happy to hear that it’s improving,” Huisentruit said. “I’d be curious a b o u t w h a t l e d to t h o s e improvements.”

Dennison attributes the

i mproved hea lth score to farm management practices such as planting cover crops, which recycle unused nutrients and manage soil erosion.

Fa r m e r s i n t h e M a r yland Cover Crop Program pla nted 478,000 acres of cover crops in the 2014-15 season, breaking the 2012 record of 430,000.

“We haven’t solved all the problems, but we certainly have cracked some of them,” Dennison said. “Even though it’s sti l l getti ng a fa i l i ng grade, it’s getting better.” sreillydbk@gmail.com

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MACA-WHAT? The Diamondback’s Erica Bonelli clears the confusion about the difference between macarons and macaroons. It’s a tasty lesson to learn. Visit dbknews.com for more.

PREVIEW | “NEW ARRIVALS” GALLERY IN STAMP

identify yourself From police brutality to the Iraq War, a new art gallery in Stamp tackles issues of identity and strife

halloween frights and delights are right around the corner.

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PREVIEW | HALLOWEEN EVENTS

Scary fun from hunts to Haunts Your guide to on-campus events that will get you into the Halloween spirit

By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Senior staff writer It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Brisk weather is nigh, everything is kind of orange and the evening light is doing that dusky thing that makes meeting Taylor Swift and getting murdered by a rogue The Walking Dead extra both seem possible. So, if you dig the spooky spirit and need better alternatives to bask in Halloween glory than painting yourself black and orange and lying in a field among pumpkin brethren, here are some normal people activities that will help you blend in. If you don’t, well, your loss.

Haunted Campus Tour | Anytime | Everywhere | Free Did you know that, like, half the campus is haunted?

Marie Mount Hall? Haunted. Kappa Delta sorority house?

Haunted. The Diamondback office? Haunted. Head over to the Haunted Maryland website and with map in hand, visit all the spooky sites — if you dare.

Haunted Hustle 5K | Oct. 18 | 1 to 5 p.m. | Engineering fields | $10 It’s never too early to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. Luckily, the fine ladies and gentlemen of Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Sigma, respectively, are offering a bit of practice, eerie ambience included. The Haunted Hustle 5K run will start with registration at 1 p.m., followed by the fun-run, food and activities. Tickets can be purchased at the fields before the event and cost $10.

Proceeds benefit the Wounded Warriors Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation.

Graduate Life Family Halloween Party | Oct. 23 | 4 to 7 pm | Stamp’s Grand Ballroom | Free Terps with children are invited to participate in Graduate Student Life’s 11th Annual Family Halloween Party.

Activities include face-painting, pumpkin decorating and create-your-own granola.

Big Band Halloween Scream | Oct. 26 | 7:30 p.m. | The Clarice | Free For more melodious frights, the UMD Jazz Ensemble, UMD Jazz Lab Band and University Jazz Band present their annual Halloween-themed concert.

SEE’s Haunted House | Oct. 28 | 6 to 9 p.m. | Hornbake Plaza | Free Dare to be scared (or at least mildly amused) at SEE’s annual Haunted House. Make sure to bring a friend (or five) to go into the unknown because, hey, self-preservation is important, and you’ve been working so hard on your stagesof-Miley-Cyrus costume. You’re going to want to actually make it to Halloweekend.

Scavenger Hunt | Oct. 28 | Everywhere | Free Sometimes Halloween is hidden in unlikely places. Follow UMDLibraries on Snapchat for instructions on how to participate in a campuswide scavenger hunt. The winner gets a pizza party.

Insidious Chapter 3 | Oct. 29-30 | 7 to 9 p.m. | Hoff Theater | Free As part of its fall movie series, SEE will be screening Insidious Chapter 3. Grab some popcorn and maybe a pair of extra underwear.

Halloweek in Wonderland | Oct. 26-30 | Hornbake Library | Free Hornbake Library’s annual Halloween festivities get a Wonderland treatment in honor of their recent exhibit. The library is hosting an Alice in Wonderland-themed costume party on Oct. 30 from 12 to 2 p.m. The party will include snacks, a photo booth and a live reading of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” The best costume creator will receive an iPad mini for their efforts. They will also be showing Night of the Living Dead on Oct. 29 at 6 p.m.

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photography speaks volumes in “New Arrivals 2015: Collecting Contermporary Art at the University of Maryland,” located on the first floor in Stamp Student Union. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer When Elle Peréz graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011, she was like most 20-somethings trying to make sense of her identity in a fast-paced world.

In a way to explore her inner self while pursuing her passion for photography, Peréz decided to photograph gender-nonbinary and transgender people as part of a portrait series. She initially intended to shoot subjects only in Baltimore, but she struggled to find enough participants within the confines of the city.

So at a friend’s suggestion, she advertised her budding project on the Internet to see if she could garner more interest. She quickly received a “deluge” of responses from interested gender-nonbinary people from across the country, she said, and that’s when her big idea became concrete.

“I ended up taking it as an opportunity to travel, and over the course of seven months, I planned a trip to travel throughout the country,” Peréz said. “It was a very classic find-yourself-andfigure-shit-out road trip.”

Three of Peréz’s photographs from that project, titled The Outliers, reside in “New Arrivals 2015: Collecting Contemporary Art at the University of Maryland,” a gallery located on the first floor of Stamp Student Union comprised of work from six contemporary artists.

On display until Dec. 18, the gallery, which opened Sept. 21, contains artwork with strong messages about the politics of identity in the 21st century.

The pieces were picked by members of the Contemporary Art Purchasing

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Program, a group of university students, chosen biannually, who seek, research and select works from contemporary artists they are interested in adding to Stamp’s permanent collection.

The decision to fill the gallery with work tackling current issues can be attributed to the past 10 years of socially conscious selections made by CAPP, said Cecilia Wichmann, graduate coordinator of the Stamp Gallery.

Throughout CAPP’s history, “there’s been a really fascinating trend of selecting works that explore issues of contemporary identity,” Wichmann said. “That’s an interesting indicator to what matters to students at Maryland: identity politics, personal psychology and how all these political issues are woven together and how an individual person understands themselves.”

The process of selecting the works in the latest collection was long and arduous, taking about about a year, said senior Zoe Copeman, CAPP committee board member. The committee looked into private and public collections, current issues and the big names in contemporary art, Copeman said, and narrowed its choices by visiting the galleries and artist studios.

While the students on the board wanted to include works with messages that push the boundaries of societal norms, they were wary of choosing pieces that could turn off students completely, she said.

“We wanted work that questioned the status quo but wasn’t so over-thetop that people would reject it,” the art history and psychology major said.

“We had to find that balance, which was a struggle, and a lot of great pieces wouldn’t work in the Stamp, even though I personally loved them.”

The pieces that made the cut include

Titus Kaphar’s The Jerome Project, a large-scale drawing that blends the faces of people of color killed by law enforcement or citizen vigilantes, and Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series, photographs of 3-D models of private spaces destroyed during the Iraq War. Another artwork in the gallery is Ellington Robinson’s Oath of the Imperialists, a tabletop covered with maplike designs and knives, symbolizing the wave of imperialism that dominated much of Africa and the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

While the piece is a powerful statement on the lingering effects of colonialism that can still be seen in affected countries today, Robinson said, he wants viewers to interpret the work through the lens of their unique cultures and life experiences.

“Just look at the forms, look at the collage work, look at the layers and texture, look at the knives and how they pierce the canvas,” he said. “Just look at the forms and start connecting the dots on the symbolism and what it means to you.”

Copeman said she hopes the pieces will inspire university students to question the status quo and consider voices that usually aren’t heard in society.

Most importantly, she wants students to realize the crucial role art plays in addressing contentious issues of today.

“Art to me is a way that you can address issues that you can’t really with words,” she said. “It’s beyond words — it’s a feeling and expression people are more able to get. I hope that other people see that, too, in art and can open up their minds to different experiences, perspectives and worldviews through it.” jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

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MAN AND HIS MACHINE Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s take on the reviled and revered genius innovator is a borderline masterpiece

By Cameron Neimand @kneemund For The Diamondback Die-hard, near-maniacal Apple fans — those who own (or have even heard of) the Newton or tripped acid and audited calligraphy classes in Jobs-inspired stints at Reed College — beware. Going into Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs expecting an immaculately accurate biopic on how an adopted child turned college dropout became the modern da Vinci is like going into an Applebee’s and hoping to be pleasantly surprised by the surf and turf meal you ordered: you’re going to leave thoroughly disappointed.

Writer Aaron Sorkin’s (The Social Network) script steals a page from Apple’s own motto, thinking differently, albeit more fictionally, about Jobs and the instrumental events that cemented his status as a revolutionary. Split into three parts, the film follows backstage happenings at the respective launches of the Macintosh (1984), NeXTcube (1988) and the iMac (1998).

The film is far from a fluff piece, and when we first meet Jobs (Michael Fassbender,

Prometheus ), he’s a dapperly dressed, clean-shaven ideologue of his own school of thought, fervently preparing the introduction of the Macintosh. He berates his co-workers, refusing to take the seemingly harmless advice of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen, The Interview) and threatening computer engineer Andy Hertzfeld’s (Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man) whole career if he is unable to get the demo working to Jobs’ complete satisfaction. He even uses an algorithm of his own invention to claim that he is not the father of Lisa, the daughter of his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice).

But Jobs himself is not what makes the film compelling. It is instead that the audience is begged to question its understanding of the man who became a serene symbol of transcendental knowledge in his later years.

By the launch of NeXTcube, Jobs is seen as a vengeful mastermind. After parting ways with Apple due to a dramatized falling out with former CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels, The Martian ), the film in-

sinuates that Jobs created the entire NeXT company as part of a master plan that involved Apple needing his new operating system and thus hiring him back and admit-

ting its mistake. By this point, Jobs has accepted the role of Lisa’s father, although their strained relationship becomes the driving point of the film.

It’s also one of the film’s more

embellished elements.

In reality, no credible proof exists that Lisa Brennan-Jobs was ever backstage at any of the aforementioned launch events. Thus, her 5 year-old self using the Macintosh MacPaint app to draw an “abstract” and her fourth grade self clinging to Jobs as she whispers she wants to live with him are elements of fiction.

However, these plot points become essential vehicles for the film. Despite the fact that Lisa actually lived with her father at some point in high school, the movie’s version depicts a still rocky relationship by the time of the 1998 iMac launch. This makes way for the heart-wrenching plea of Jobs’ personal assistant and “work wife” Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet, Insurgent ), who begs Jobs to correct the one aspect of his life at which he has consistently failed: being a father. Furthermore, it sets everything up for a perfect ending, one which admittedly put me into a state of chills as a tear attempted to stray from my eye socket (I held strong, I promise).

H e re l i e s t h e c r i t i c a l dilemma, for how can a film

pegged as a drama/biography be fueled by a hyperbolized existence of its titular character? Boyle and Sorkin make a 122-minute runtime and three claustrophobic backstage settings run like a welloiled machine or even a utopia’s Department of Motor Vehicles, but it’s far from a biopic. Instead, Steve Jobs is a thesis on the maturation of a modern icon, a re-imagined tale rooted loosely in reality that humanizes a man held in God-like regard.

With that being said, the film simply claims to be a story based off of Walter Isaacson’s novel of the same name, not an ironclad historical retelling. Going off that theory, the film is an absolute success (praise which I meticulously debated writing as app-solute). It garners anger, sadness, laughter and all emotions necessary for a Hollywood triumph while creatively examining the Jobs universe.

Steve Jobs is a must-see, definite early Oscar contender, but remember to leave your Apple encyclopedias at home (or at least silence your phone and close your e-book). diversionsdbk@gmail.com

REVIEW | ‘GAUGUIN TO PICASSO’ AT THE PHILLIPS

THE POETRY OF PARTNERSHIP Phillips’ latest exhibition showcases the many masterworks of a renowned Swiss collection

By Evan Berkowitz @TheEndOfMyWitz For The Diamondback This university and Washington’s Phillips Collection stand on the precipice of a grand new partnership.

How fitting, then, that the first Phillips exhibition to open since the announcement chronicles partnerships as well.

From the friendship of two collectors set on preserving great artworks of their time to partnership between artists supported and treated by a country doctor in the fields outside Paris. From the family tie of mother-and-son artists to the bond of two exiled painters working together in the foothills of the German Alps.

From the passionate romance of an artist and his dying lover to the civic pride that connected a Swiss city to a beloved Spanish painter. Even in the dichotomous relationship between two Tahitian young women, it’s all about partnerships.

The exhibition presents — for the first time in the United States — highlights from the “sister collections” of Rudolf Staechelin and Karl Im Obersteg, two Swiss friends who collected during the early decades of the 20th century.

The collections normally reside in the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland.

“This exhibition is a once-ina-lifetime opportunity,” said cocurator Renée Maurer. Artists on view include Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Marc Chagall, Édouard Manet and Wassily Kandinsky, among others.

The exhibition, which opened Oct. 10, portrays many partnerships like Staechelin and Im Obersteg’s, using tactful organization to create an immersive and at times utterly fascinating conversation among works and artists.

In Auvers One of the early champions of impressionism, Pissarro, is presented near the front. At least in this show, he is the cog around which impressionism turns.

In one work, he shows a rural pathway traversed by

two wayward peasants. The road leads to Auvers-sur-Oise, Maurer said, a small town in the countryside outlying Paris.

The town is the surprising nexus of much of impressionism as well as the exhibition’s first and most impressive gallery.

“During this time, Pissarro invited Cézanne to paint outdoors with him,” Maurer said.

“Pissarro said, ‘Paint outdoors, it might change the way you make art.’ And it did.”

Cézanne’s color palette became brighter as he explored rural subject matter in the town of Auvers itself. One site he portrayed was the home of Dr. Paul Gachet, a well-known physician and arts benefactor.

Gachet’s two callings intertwined when he treated van Gogh, who had sought him on Pissarro’s recommendation.

While in Auvers under Gachet’s care, van Gogh painted the house and garden of the late French painter CharlesFrançois Daubigny, who the Dutch artist admired. The painting is a florid tapestry of undulating emerald.

Pissarro’s influence on these artists and art itself is impossible to overestimate, as this show makes abundantly clear. The too-often neglected painter (fascinatingly born in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands) had much to teach and many eager students, including Gauguin.

“Pissarro would mentor Gauguin when Gauguin was learning about impressionism,” Maurer said. “He and Pissarro and Cézanne would paint together outdoors.” The artists’ relationships presented are extraordinarily fascinating.

However, Gauguin had no success in Paris. He traveled to Tahiti in search of an exotic creativity, but instead found a colony watered down by European influence. He explored this theme in When Will You Marry? — a main highlight and major wrinkle on this fantastic exhibition.

The work contrasts two Tahitian women. One is dressed in exotic, provocative garb. She has a flower in her hair and her blouse dips enticingly around her chest. The other is shown in colonial European attire, with

stern face and a gesture historians believe might be a warning.

This is likely the last time this work will be on public view, at least for a great while. It was recently sold to a mysterious buyer (thought to be the state museums of Qatar, which have quietly bought up many great artworks in recent years) for a reported $300 million, which would make it among the most expensive artworks ever sold.

In Basel The politics of the Staechelin collection are a cacophony of squabbling, dealing and gobs and gobs of money. It’s only abhorrent that such great artworks and the citizens of Basel who love them have to get caught in the middle.

And unfortunately for them, this scenario is nothing new. Extended wall text from the exhibition recounts a time when the cash-strapped Staechelin heirs tried to pull the same stunt in 1967 — but with a very different outcome.

The collection attempted to sell two Picassos, “elicit[ing] especially vehement responses from the museum, the city, the state … and local residents,” according to the text. Under pressure, Staechelin’s son agreed to sell the works to Basel for “much less than their market value” — nearly a quarter of which was raised by local residents’ fundraising.

Picasso himself was so moved by this show of support that he eventually donated four more of his works to the museum. It showed what partnership can do for great art.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, P a u l Gauguin is 112 years dead, and $300 million is a tad more than the canton of Basel can be expected to pay.

(The Picasso works on view, for their matter, show an artist testing himself in four different portraits that chronicle periods in his life and work. They are remarkable in their own sense, but not among his greatest works.)

In Exile A visitor looking at Chagall’s three contrasting portraits of Jews remarked to his family that they were interesting because “normally you just see goats flying around,” referencing a banal but common Chagall theme.

It’s a shudder-worthy comment, but it’s also evidence of how remarkable Chagall’s pieces on view truly are.

Born Moishe Segal and raised in an observant Jewish-Russian family, Chagall returned to his family home from France in 1914 and was kept there

by World War I. This gives the three portraits of Jews a troubling air of familiarity yet foreignness.

He dresses a transient wanderer in accurately represented prayer regalia, writes out the Kaddish prayer in one work’s background and even lists his favorite artists in English, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic in another. The works reveal competing backgrounds simultaneously in exile and back at home.

The great undercurrent of this time period is exile, due to war or unrest or something else. One can see hints of it in the exhibition, rearing an ugly head here or there, but not as great a specter as one might expect.

It is clearest, interestingly, for the Russians.

(Kandinsky and countryman Alexej von Jawlensky painted together in the German market town of Murnau while the two were “abroad.”)

In Death Jawlensky had also met and worked with Henri Matisse and Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler.

Im Obersteg met Hodler through fellow Swiss artist Cuno Amiet, from whom he had purchased his very first artwork, yet another relationship.

Hodler explored partnership in a very literal way, shown in four of his works on view that capture the profound effect of Hodler’s mistress on his work.

“They represent a relationship between artist and subject that was very intense,” Maurer said.“They had a very passionate relationship: she was 20 years younger, she was an actress, she bore his child in 1913.”

“And that same year, she had cancer. So these three really show her dealing with illness,” Maurer said. “You see her upright, strong after surgery; and then at an angle, ill; and marc chagall’s Jew in Black and White (bottom) portrays a vagrant dressed in the then at death.” artist’s father’s Tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (wrappings). Pablo Picasso’s Harlequin with Black Mask (top) shows a ballet dancer in costume, an example of the Return to Order art movement. photos courtesy of Phillips Collection/The Rudolf Staechelin Collection diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

FIELD HOCKEY | TERPS 1, MONARCHS 0

Locksley lightens mood at practice

Dessoye’s score enough on road

Converted redshirt freshman wide receiver Ulmer granted his release

Second consecutive shutout powers Meharg’s squad to 10th straight win

By Joshua Needelman and Phillip Suitts @JoshNeedelman, @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writers

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

It didn’t take long for interim coach Mike Locksley to lighten the mood with the media Wednesday after his first practice in charge of the Terrapins football team.

When a reporter asked Locksley how he was going to make things “funner,� the former offensive coordinator offered a quick response. “Funner?� Locksley said with a slight grin.

Since the announcement Sunday that he would replace former coach Randy Edsall, Locksley has stressed the importance of maintaining a lighthearted mood. Sitting at 2-4 with six games left in the season, the Terps want to turn their season around.

The early portion of the season wasn’t easy on the Terps, with four losses by at least 21 points and the distracting coaching change that loomed over last week’s 49-28 loss at Ohio State. As the season wears on, Locksley said he hopes his team can loosen up and get back to enjoying football. “If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing the right thing,� quarterback Perry Hills said. “It’s football. You love to play this game. You’ve played it since you were little.

Really, go have fun.�

The good vibes started a t p ra c t i ce We d n e sd ay.

During the middle of the session, Locksley stopped everything and started a surprise drill. He called some players’ names and

edsall From PAGE 14 It’s rare for a coach at a Power Five school to be fired midseason without some sort of scandal involved. For it to come on the basis of performance months after granting him an extension is a head-scratcher.

Sure, the school protected itself with a smart $500,000 b uyo u t c l a u s e . B u t wh y invest in a guy you intend to fire six games into a season when he’s doing exactly what everyone expected?

Yes, the Terps were supposed to beat Bowling Green, but did anyone really think they were going to beat West Virginia, Michigan or Ohio State? Entering the season, a 3-3 start seemed the most

had them do one-on-one drills in a mock fourthdown situation. “It’s like playing backyard football,� Locksley said.

The change in atmosphere has been important for the Terps. Locksley said the coaching change weighed heavily on the team, noting he “feels like crap� that the underwhelming start led to Edsall’s dismissal.

On Tuesday, Locksley met with the team to gauge its emotional state. Edsall had recruited most members of the team since taking over the program in 2011, and Locksley wanted to make sure everyone was feeling OK. “One of the things we talked about is coming in to touch with those feelings,�

Locksley said. “It’s a lot like losing a parent when you have the change happen the way it did.�

ULMER GRANTED RELEASE Former ESPN four-star quarterback recruit Will Ulmer received a transfer release, the Terrapins redshirt freshman wide receiver tweeted Wednesday.

Ulmer tweeted he expects to make a decision on his future school by December.

The Laurel native, rated a three-star recruit by Rivals and Scout, never appeared in a game for the Terps.

As a senior at St. John’s College High School, Ulmer passed for more than 1,100 ya rd s, r u s h e d fo r m o re than 1,300 yards, scored 21 touchdowns and was selected to play in the prestigious Under Armour All-America High School game. But early

likely scenario six games into the Terps’ season. So why, at 2-4, is the athletic department waving the white flag and surrendering the buyout along with the millions it’s already guaranteed Edsall this season and next?

In the grand scheme of things, $500,000 isn’t a ridiculous chunk of money for a program to eat, but for a university that had to leave its former conference of 61 years for financial reasons, it’s a bad look.

At the time, the extension had its merits. It gave Edsall a bit of stability while re c r u i t i n g , a n d i t d i d n ’t commit much extra money from the university.

But the school’s decision simply doesn’t make sense if it always intended to have Edsall on such a short lease.

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Ulmer was one of two highly rated dual-threat high school quarterbacks that switched positions with the Terps. Redshirt sophomore Shane Cockerille, another four-star ESPN recruit, moved from quarterback to fullback this summer. He’s second on the depth chart behind Kenneth Goins Jr. This news comes three days after the Terps fired Edsall and appointed Locksley, the team’s interim head coach, who recruited Ulmer.

After kicker Brad Craddock’s 43-yard field goal sealed the contest, Edsall remarked, “You know what, let the rivalry begin.� “It’s kind of intense,� defensive end Yannick Ngakoue said. “It’s like the games you live to play. Very energetic, exciting game.�

DUNN TAKES ON MORE RESPONSIBILITY Locksley will continue to call plays Saturday, but he said tight ends coach John Dunn will receive more responsibility.

With the new role pushing him in many directions, Locksley said he’s had to deal with some off-thefield matters in recent days.

When Locksley isn’t available, Dunn has taken on more of a leadership role with the offensive coaches. “The offense as a staff is involved in all the different areas,� Locksley said. “He’s just been the guy that’s kind of organized it while I wasn’t there, when I have to leave out of the room things don’t stop in terms of the preparation.�

PREPARING FOR PSU Locksley and the coaching staff will have an extra week to make sure the Terps are in good spirits. With the midseason bye week, the team won’t play again until Oct. 24 in a rematch of last season’s heated matchup with Penn State.

B e fo re a n a n n o u n c e d 103,969 at Beaver Stadium on Nov. 1, the Terps captains refused to shake hands with their counterparts before the contest.

As a result, the game was marked with physical play.

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The counterargument, of course, is that the Terps have played worse than the athletic department could’ve imagined. They were blown out by 21 points at home by a team in the Mid-American Conference and lost to West Virginia and Michigan by a combined 67 points.

This year was destined to be an uphill climb, though.

While the rest of the Big Ten’s East Division got better in the offseason, the Terps lost experience and replaced it with inferior talent.

The Terps showed their coach rare fight in the early going Saturday. After allowing No. 1 Ohio State to score three straight touchdowns, they knotted the game at 21 early in the third quarter. The game eventually got out of hand late for another blowout, but the Terps didn’t fold in Edsall’s waning moments at the helm.

Before the contest, Edsall walked to every player during stretches and shook their hand. It was nothing new, but this time it seemed different, as though he were thanking them for their time.

When a local reporter asked about the pregame routine after the Terps’ 49-28 loss to Ohio State, it seemed to mark the last straw for the embattled 57-yearold coach. “If you would notice, I do that every single game,�

Edsall said. “Every single game, out of the respect that I have for these kids and what they go through.

Every single game.�

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Terps volleyball falls in four sets Since taking over the Terrapins volleyball team before last season, Steve Aird has continually downplayed the significance of wins and losses. The Terps are a work in process, he’s maintained, and it’s going to take time to compete in the Big Ten. Wednesday, the Terps lost their 10th straight game to drop Aird’s overall record with the program record to 20-32.

Not that he cares about the losing streak. After the defeat, the coach rattled off a litany of volleyball powerhouses that weathered initial struggles before rising to the top of the sport: Arizona State, Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan.

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L o c ke d i n a s c o re l e s s battle against No. 11 Old Dominion on Wednesday night, the Terrapins field hockey team earned a corner attempt midway through the second half.

Defender Sarah Sprink took the initial shot, but Monarchs goalkeeper Kealsie Robles made the save. Midfielder Anna Dessoye, however, gathered the rebound and rifled it into the back of the cage to break the stalemate in the 55th minute.

Dessoye’s strike proved to be the game-winner, as the No. 7 Terps went on to capture a 1-0 victory over the Monarchs to notch their 10th win in a row. “It was long in the making,�

Sprink said. “It was just rewarding to see that we actually put that away, and we had that as a booster to go forward in the game because we did dominate.�

Before Dessoye’s goal, the Terps offense failed to capitalize on their looks. They managed five shots in the first half, but four of them, including two of three from forward Linnea Gonzales, went wide of the cage. The Terps couldn’t convert their three corner attempts of the half, either.

And while the Terps’ (12-3) 1-for-11 shooting performance fell below their 17.2 percent average shooting percentage, they outshot Old Dominion (8-4) 11-4 in the win.

It marked the team’s second straight one-goal victory. “Just because it was a 1-0 result doesn’t mean we’re not producing good shots and we’re not doing well on offense,� Dessoye said. “It’s just that our opponents are getting harder.�

Despite a lack of scoring p ro d u c t i o n , t h e te a m ’s defense held strong. By the time Dessoye connected on the corner rebound — the Terps missed their first eight looks up to that point — the Monarchs had yet to register a shot.

Old Dominion tried to confuse Sprink and defender Carrie Hanks by frequently rotating their forward and

midfield lines. Sprink, though, said the Terps “read their game plan pretty comfortably in the beginning,� and didn’t allow Old Dominion to dictate their positioning.

The Monarchs didn’t register a shot until the 61st minute. “As a defensive unit, we did a really good job of communicating that back,� Sprink said, “to not let them manipulate us like they wanted to.�

But Old Dominion almost derailed the Terps’ stout defensive performance in the game’s final four minutes when the Monarchs earned three penalty corners as a result of what coach Missy Meharg called “huge errors.�

In trying to clear the ball out of the circle, her players ended up turning the ball over. And when the Monarchs players took over possession, the Terps tackled them from behind and drew another foul.

Sprink, Hanks, defender Kasey Tapman and forward Emma Rissinger manned the Terps’ corner defense, however, and Meharg said she was proud of the way they responded to the late pressure.

O l d D o m i n i o n ’s f i r s t attempt of the sequence flew wide of the cage, while the second was blocked. And goalkeeper Sarah Holliday, who made two saves in the contest, made a stop on the final shot to seal the third shutout of her rookie year. “Yeah, a mistake was made,�

Meharg said. “But their ability to just wash it out and get back at it ‌ was absolutely tenacious defense.â€?

As the only top-20 team the Terps face this month, Old Dominion might provide the stiffest competition for this team before the Big Ten tournament and NCAA championship.

But after emerging victorious from a tight-knit game Wednesday night, Meharg already feels like it’s the postseason. “The game is going to be won in championship times by a small number,� Meharg said. “It’s dynamite. It gives you a lot more information about people’s ability to play under pressure.�

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football MIDSEASON REport CARD LBs C SPECIAL TEAMS BWith the Terps’ transition to a 4-3 defense, the squad’s top returning linebacker, Yannick Ngakoue, moved to defensive end.

The other three starters from last year’s team all exhausted their eligibility, leaving defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski with an inexperienced group. To make matters worse, he’s lost starters Jefferson Ashiru and Abner Logan to season-ending injuries.

The depleted squad has struggled against the run, but redshirt sophomore Jermaine Carter Jr. has provided a bright spot at middle linebacker. He leads the defense in tackles (63) and is tied for the lead in tackles for a loss (7).

— Ryan Baillargeon

The special teams group had a wild start to the season. Likely set a Big Ten record with 233 punt-return yards and a touchdown while reigning Lou Groza Award winner Brad Craddock missed a field goal and an extra point. Craddock has been perfect since, but he’s attempted just six field goals, the second fewest in the Big Ten. Likely returned another punt for a touchdown against Bowling Green, but hasn’t provided any fireworks since. Craddock and Likely are two of the Terps’ best weapons, but the rest of the team hasn’t given them enough opportunities for this group to be as dangerous as it should be.

— Ryan Baillargeon

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Defensive end Yannick Ngakoue leads the way for a Terps defense that ranks sixth in the nation with 20 sacks.

Ngakoue and defensive end Roman Braglio have provided solid pressure on the edges, with defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson plugging up holes in the middle.

And the Terps’ rushing defense has improved in recent weeks, as it held Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott to 106 rushing yards a week after he compiled 274.

— Joshua Needelman

After leading the Terps to backto-back bowl games, coach Randy Edsall was fired just six games into the 2015 campaign.

The staff wasn’t able to deal with losing a combined 12 starters on offense and defense. The quarterback play has been horrendous, and the defense hasn’t been able to put together a complete four quarters against a quality opponent.

Not all the blame can fall on the coaches, but when your four losses are by a combined 109 points, that’s simply unacceptable. Edsall paid the price, and now it’s Mike Locksley’s turn to try to get the job done.

— Ryan Baillargeon

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The offensive line didn’t allow a sack until the fourth game of the season, one of five teams to achieve that feat.

While the offensive line broke down at times against Bowling Green, it was fairly solid against South Florida, in the top 50 nationally in sacks.

But the unit has struggled against quality pass rushes in the past three games, allowing 10 sacks.

The line has opened up holes for the Terps running backs at points this season, although they struggled against a quality Michigan defense.

— Phillip Suitts

locksley From PAGE 14 talents. And with the Terps sitting at 2-4, he plans to shake things up in the locker room and on the field heading into the Penn State game Oct. 24 after the Terps’ bye week.

“You won’t see us coming in and making wholesale changes,” Locksley said. “But as I told the fellas, there will be some small tweaks as how we do some things around here.”

Locksley addressed the team Sunday after accepting the interim job. His message: Change is difficult, but the Terps must move forward and put this saga behind them.

The Washington native has now held three positions with the Terps. From 1997 to 2002, Locksley was an assistant, working with the running backs and serving as a recruiting coordinator for much of that time.

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With a practically brand-new front seven, the Terps secondary was supposed to be the reliable group on the defense, but the veterans haven’t produced.

The Terps are allowing 260.8 yards through the air, the fourthworst mark in the Big Ten. Sean Davis, who moved from safety to cornerback, has struggled to contain receivers opposite 2014 first-team All-Big Ten cornerback Will Likely.

The Terps have allowed 14 passing touchdowns, tied for the most in the Big Ten, and recorded five interceptions.

— Ryan Baillargeon

The Towson alumnus — he played cornerback there — got the New Mexico job in 2009.

Despite the reputation as a great recruiter, he was fired four games into his third season with a 2-26 record. The Terps hired him the next season.

“It’s like having kids,” Locksley said of his head coaching experience. “When you have the first one, you’re learning by trial. And obviously the second one comes, and because of those experiences, you’re able to learn from them and not necessarily make some of the same mistakes you made the first time.”

Locksley has a crucial role in the Washington, D.C. areato-UMD recruiting movement and helped reel in high-profile recruits such as former Terps wide receiver Stefon Diggs and redshirt freshman offensive lineman Damian Prince.

While Athletic Director Kevin Anderson said Locksley will be a candidate for the permanent

head coaching job, Locksley didn’t mention a desire to lead the program beyond this season.

“We haven’t even talked about how we are going to move forward,” Anderson said, “but I expect Mike will do a great job.”

For now, Locksley, whose son Kai is a freshman quarterback at Texas, is focused on building on the Terps’ performance Saturday in a 49-28 loss to No. 1 Ohio State.

The quarterback position has stabilized with the reintroduction of Perry Hills to the starting lineup. But the Terps are in the midst of a three-game losing streak and have been beaten by 21 points or more in each of their four losses this season.

Locksley said that has to change.

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Neither Perry Hills nor Caleb Rowe has been able to effectively bridge the gap from the C.J. Brown era, with both quarterbacks’ flaws magnified by a string of embarrassing losses.

Rowe tossed 10 interceptions in three starts, so the Terps reverted back to Hills, the opening-day starter, for the Ohio State game. The redshirt junior flashed talent with his legs, setting a program record for a quarterback with 170 rushing yards. Though Locksley affirmed the staff’s commitment to Hills going forward, the quarterback maintains he needs to improve in the passing game.

— Joshua Needelman

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W hile the Terps have shuff led through quarterbacks, running backs Brandon Ross and Wes Brown have provided stability by averaging 5-plus yards per carry.

Ross, who recently exceeded the 2,000 career rushing yards threshold, leads the team with 431 yards on the ground. The team has struggled to get into the red zone, though; Ross and Brown have only four combined touchdowns.

Freshman Ty Johnson has served as a solid third option, averaging 5 yards per carry.

— Joshua Needelman

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The wide receivers have been hampered by ineffective quarterback play. Still, they have had at least two games with two or more dropped passes and often haven’t appeared to be on the same page as the quarterback, especially in the 45-6 loss to West Virginia. This group appears depleted after losing its top four pass-catchers from last season — Stefon Diggs, Deon Long, Marcus Leak and Juwann Winfree. At the midway point this season, no one is on pace to top 500 receiving yards.

Redshirt junior Levern Jacobs leads the group with 222 yards.

— Phillip Suitts

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Terps seek first Big Ten win with postseason looming Morgan’s squad travels to Bloomington to battle winless Hoosiers; Indiana has just two goals in Big Ten play

By Kyle Melnick @kyle_melnick Staff writer Terrapins women’s soccer coach Jonathan Morgan said his team is officially in “desperate mode.”

The Terps are winless in Big Ten play, sitting alone at the bottom of the conference standings. With five games remaining, the Terps still hope to make a late-season push into the Big Ten tournament, which only eight of 14 conference schools qualify for.

But Morgan knows his team’s chances will be slim i f t h e Te r ps ca n ’t l eave Bloomington, Indiana, with a victory over the Hoosiers on Thursday night.

“We need to get points here down the final stretch,” Morgan said. “We all know where we stand and what we need to do. We put ourselves in a difficult position, and now we just got to make sure

WILLIAMS From PAGE 14 “Sometimes you add by subtracting,” Gary Williams said a day before his Celebrity Roast.

“In other words, the chemistry of a team is really important.”

After finishing second in the Big Ten’s regular season and advancing to the Round of 32 in the NCAA tournament, the Terps added key pieces in the offseason, though they lost star guard Dez Wells.

Five-star recruit Diamond Stone committed in March and former Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon transferred for his final season to help bolster the

midfielder sarah fichtner dribbles upfield during the Terps’ 1-0 loss to Michigan on Oct. 1 at Ludwig Field. christian jenkins/the diamondback everybody is dialed in, everybody is committed and everybody is going to give their best effort to help us get to where we need to be.”

The Terps might have their best opportunity to earn their first conference win of the season against the Hoosiers

(3-7-5, 0-4-3 Big Ten), who are in 12th place. And while the Terps (5-9, 0-6) have scored just two goals in conference play, the Hoosiers have faced similar problems.

Indiana is last in the conference with an average of 0.53 goals per contest and

Terps lineup. They’ll team up with key returning players, such as Trimble, the Big Ten media preseason player of the year, and preseason All-Big Ten forward Jake Layman.

Plus, after sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules, redshirt junior Robert Carter Jr. likely will assume a starting role at forward.

A little more than a year after five players decided to leave the program, depth doesn’t appear to be an issue for the Terps. But they’ll have to combat lofty preseason expectations.

“We just can’t beat ourselves,” said Dixon, the leader of the 2002 national-championship team. “We have a lot of

great pieces. Coach [Turgeon] and his staff pieced this team together just like he envisioned it when he took the job.”

While the Terps will have to deal with increased pressure this year, Gary Williams is pleased the team is back on center stage.

During the height of his tenure, the Terps were a national powerhouse, and now they’re part of the national conversation again.

“Certainly last year’s team got them back into the national spotlight,” Williams said. “Expectations are high, but you know, I think that’s good. People are talking about Maryland basketball, and that’s what you want.”

has recorded two goals in Big Ten play.

Morgan said the Terps offense needs to be more aggressive Thursday. Last week, the Terps attempted a combined 10 shots in two losses.

“We’ve been doing really well with getting the ball

cirovski From PAGE 14 uses excerpts from various publications that highlight mental toughness in different situations. Plus, the veteran coach puts significant emphasis on four periods of a match: the first five minutes, the five minutes before intermission, the five minutes after the break and the final five minutes.

And against the Nittany Lions, the Terps took advantage in the waning moments of the opening period, as Camp-

forward, giving our forwards opportunities,” midfielder Sarah Fichtner said. “We had quite a few opportunities that we should’ve finished. We’ve been battling so far. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been going our way.”

Illinois, which defeated the Terps 2-1 in double overtime Sept. 27, would be the No. 8 seed in the tournament if the season ended today.

Northwestern barely edged out the Terps for the final slot in the tournament last season with a 4-6-3 Big Ten record, and Morgan’s team could exceed that total if it wins the remainder of its games.

So as both the Terps and Hoosiers aim for their first Big Ten win tonight, postseason implications are on the line.

“It’s going to be an absolute battle,” Indiana coach Amy Berbary said. “They’re a strong, physical team and so are we. Both teams are going to come out fired up. It’s going to

be a matter of who can put the first one in the back of the net.”

To make sure the team understands the high stakes of Thursday’s game, the Terps’ leadership group, which comprises six players, met Tuesday. The group spoke of the importance of creating a high energy level before the game and sustaining that focus for the entire contest.

And Morgan knows the Terps need to play with a sense of urgency Thursday to get into the win column in Big Ten play.

“It’s one of those things where you just got to dig a little bit deeper,” Morgan said. “You have to be a little sharper and a little more detail-orientated in everything you do. If we try to play safe and conservative, or play not to lose, we’re not going to give ourselves the best chance to win. You have to play with reckless abandon, and just go for it.”

bell headed home a corner kick from forward Jorge Calix with two seconds left. “[Cirovski] is always making sure we knew at what points we need to be mentally tough,” said Pace, who played forward for the Terps from 2010-13.

“You’re looking to be mentally tough all the time, but there’s specific moments that require more focus than others.”

Over a span of six weeks, the Terps have played 12 games.

Not to mention, they’ll play five more matches in the regular season before likely competing in the postseason.

So while Cirovski understands his players will be tested physically, he also wants to make sure they are strong mentally. Just as he’s done during the past 23 years at the helm of the Terps program.

“It’s the difference between winning and losing,” Cirovski said. “Mental toughness in sports is a key ingredient, as it is in life. You’re constantly dealing with adversity, and how you handle that and how you prepare in advance to deal with that are critical.”

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Interim coach mike locksley (right) will take over head coaching duties for Randy Edsall (left), who was fired on Sunday after the Terps started the season 2-4. Locksley went 2-26 in two-plus seasons at the helm of New Mexico before he was fired.

The athletic department made a $500,000 mistake RYAN BAILLARGEON

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The Terps threw away $500,000.

What have we found out about Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall through the first six games this season that we didn’t know over the summer, when the athletic department gave him a three-year extension?

When the extension was announced

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Locksley gets second chance as football head coach

June 30, he was still winless against ranked teams in College Park. He still had a sub.500 record with the Terps. And he was looking at a rebuilding year after losing 12 starters.

But here we are 103 days later, with the Terps owing a guy millions to not be the coach of their team anymore.

Edsall should be out of the job, but the timing of the decision makes no sense.

See EDSALL, Page 11

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer Mike Locksley is getting a second chance.

The former offensive coordinator was named the Terrapins interim football coach to replace Randy Edsall, who was fired Sunday. Although it’s a temporary role, he has an opportunity for redemption after a disastrous two-plus-season stint at New Mexico.

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Locksley is confident he’ll be more prepared for the challenge this time, comparing a coach’s evolution to a father’s progression — Locksley has four children — as he learns from previous mistakes. But Locksley maintains he is solely focused on closing this season on a high note, not on improving his job prospects.

Either way, Locksley, who has been the Terps offensive coordinator since 2012, will have a platform to showcase his coaching See locksley, Page 12

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Cirovski emphasizes game’s mental aspect Prior to Penn State game, veteran coach distributed packets regarding resiliency

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer When Sasho Cirovski arrived in 1993 to coach the Terrapins men’s soccer team, he aimed to recruit top-ranked players and develop them into the best versions of themselves during their time in College Park.

So throughout his coaching career, Cirovski has compiled countless notes to educate and inspire the Terps — both individually and as a team. When he finds it appropriate, he’ll implement these lessons into the team’s weekly routine.

Before the Terps battled Penn State on Friday night, the veteran coach thought it was important to emphasize three values: mental toughness, commitment and confidence.

He handed out packets pertaining to those attributes Oct. 8 at the team hotel in Pennsylvania, and the Terps responded to their coach’s message a day later with a comefrom-behind win.

“We hit all three of those areas, and I think you saw them all kind of come through in one game,” Cirovski said with a laugh. “In some ways, maybe it helped the mentality of our players.”

Forward George Campbell, who entered the match against the Nittany Lions without a goal, said Cirovski gave the team a reading in

which Manchester United faced a 2-0 hole during the week. While many fans believed a defeat was imminent, the United players remained optimistic. They went on to secure a comeback victory.

“IT WAS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR US BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND WE SAID, ‘WE CAN DO THIS. WE JUST GOT TO ONE PLAY AT A TIME — WIN THE SMALL MOMENTS.’” GEORGE CAMPBELL

Terrapins men’s soccer forward And Friday night, the Terps faced an eerily similar situation after allowing Penn State to score two goals in the opening 30 minutes. The Terps responded, producing four straight goals en route to a 4-3 win.

“It was the perfect example for us because, you know, we looked at each other and we said, ‘We can do this. We just got to one play at a time — win the small moments,’” said Campbell, who finished the match with the program’s first hat trick since 2005.

“I think that was as perfect of an example as he could have given us.”

Jake Pace, the team’s director of operations, said Cirovski regularly See cirovski, Page 13

coach mark turgeon chats with his predecessor, Gary Williams, at the former coach’s celebrity roast Sept. 22 in Washington.

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Terps have lofty expectations Former players, coach praise Turgeon’s squad’s depth this season

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer WASHINGTON — Walt Williams’ minimum expectations for the Terrapins men’s basketball team: an Elite Eight appearance.

The former Terps star said he believes this year’s team will advance to a regional final, and possibly further, for the first time since 2002, when the Terps won their lone national championship.

Williams, who played for the Terps from 1988-1992, said the team’s depth will be a major factor during

the season. That sentiment is shared by two other well-known Terps figures — former coach Gary Williams, and former star and current assistant Juan Dixon. All three have high expectations for the Terps this season after the squad made its first NCAA tournament appearance in five years last season.

“They should have the mindset of being able to wear teams down, not only with their depth but with their talent and skill level,” Walt Williams said Sept. 22 at the Gary Williams roast fundraiser for the District of Columbia College Access Program.

“They come at you in waves.”

College basketball experts think highly of this Terps team, too. The Terps grabbed the top spot in an ESPN preseason top 25 and are No. 4 in CBS Sports’ latest rankings, released Tuesday.

About this time last year, things didn’t look as promising for the Terps. Five players had transferred during the offseason and an unofficial Big Ten media poll picked the Terps to finish 10th. But coach Mark Turgeon and then-freshman point guard Melo Trimble helped spearhead the turnaround.

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