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Funds for U. House weren’t all earmarked

Officials used donations from general funds, contrary to claims money could only be used for house, investigation found

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rebecca Lurye Senior staff writers Despite prior administrative claims that all donations used for a $7.2 million construction of a president’s residence were specifically earmarked, university officials funneled some of the funding

from a pool of general donations, a Diamondback investigation found.

The recently completed house, which will soon be university President Wallace Loh’s primary residence — in addition to his current College Park home — came at a tough economic time for the university. Construction for the multimillion dollar house began just

weeks after officials announced eight sports teams would be cut, and the university was facing a slashed budget for the next fiscal year.

Initially, the planned residence sparked some public outcry, from commentary on social networks to critical columns in The Washington Post.

But former University Relations Vice

President Brodie Remington assuaged those concerns, stating 30 private donors — who had specifically pledged to the project — were fully funding the house’s construction. Because that money had been donor-earmarked for the residence, it could not be used to save any sports teams or go toward scholarship funds, Remington said.

“The donors to this project have stepped forward because they believe in the benefit of this project as a way to raise money,” Remington told The Diamondback in January. “All the donors support other projects and programs at this university and have absolutely See funds, Page 2

Most severe charge dropped for officers in 2010 riot

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

standard hallway — but it’s a perfect shortcut at a time like this, when Bo Burnham fans are lined up from Adele’s to the information desk on the first floor. And fortunately for Ramirez, he falls under the “authorized personnel” category; it’s just one of the perks of working as a Stamp student-manager.

Two county officers accused of police brutality during the 2010 Duke riot will no longer be tried for the most serious charge filed against them — first degree assault, which carries a maximum 25-year sentence — the trial’s presiding judge ruled yesterday.

Judge Beverly Woodard said Prince George’s County police officers Reginald Baker and James Harrison will be tried only for second degree assault and misconduct in office because prosecutors did not provide convincing evidence that former university student John McKenna sustained “serious and permanent injuries” or that officers intended to inflict such injuries during an altercation March 3, 2010, The Washington Post reported.

The officers beat McKenna in the riot after a Terps basketball win over Duke.

Baker’s testimony highlighted Day Three of the juried trial in Upper Marlboro yesterday, marking the first time the officer spoke publicly about the incident, defense attorney William Mitchell said.

Inside the Prince George’s County Circuit courtroom, Baker said he was not sorry for his actions that night, as he was only trying to protect the officers he was working with, the Post reported; Baker said he felt McKenna was dangerous at the time of the incident.

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luis ramirez, a senior behavioral and community health major, works as one of six student-managers in Stamp. He helps maintain order at large events, among other responsibilities.

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authorized personnel Senior Luis Ramirez works as student-manager at Stamp, beat out 85 applicants for one of five open spots

By Laura Blasey Staff writer Every student has seen them — the sets of doors throughout Stamp Student Union leading to mysterious places students are not allowed to go.

Senior behavioral and community health major Luis Ramirez always wondered what

lurked behind those inconspicuous doors, but the intrigue soon faded. Those service passageways didn’t seem as exciting to him after he finally ventured down one.

“I remember walking back through there and being like, ‘It’s just a hallway,’” he said Friday night as he exited the passage running behind the Student Union Grand Ballroom.

It’s long and empty with white walls — your

New sorority chapter settles into campus

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75 women have joined Alpha Xi Delta so far

Pho D’Lite offers up Southeast Asian option for patrons

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By Nick Foley Staff writer pho d’lite specializes in pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup, as well as other Asian offerings. alexis jenkins/the diamondback When an empty space in the Campus Village Shopping Center opened up a year and a half ago, Irene Song jumped at the chance to expand her empire — and to bring a Southeast Asian flair to the city.

Since opening in early July, Pho D’Lite — located doors away from co-owner Song’s original business venture, Hanami Japanese Restaurant — has tapped into the niche market

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of specialty restaurants in the city, serving up its own kind of Asian fare: pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup typically served with beef or chicken. The second restaurant of its kind in the city — Pho Thom opened in fall 2011 — Pho D’Lite has jumped aboard an emerging local trend.

The restaurant is among a slew of eateries specializing in unique foods,

a recent fad in the city dining scene. In August, Roti Mediterranean Grill, which serves couscous, falafel and hummus, opened in one of The Varsity’s retail spaces, and ChiDogO’s, a hot dogspecialty restaurant, opened in April.

But there is still a precarious outlook for local businesses — District Dumpling,

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The Alpha Xi Delta chapter on this campus has no traditions, no president and no “bigs” or “littles.” It does not have a real identity — yet.

But that’s what made it so appealing to the 75 women who joined the chapter this fall, re-founding the sorority on this campus. And the new members are excited to mold it from the ground up, creating traditions they will pass down through the years.

“Every sorority has its own character, so we get to decide what people will think of us and who we want to be,” said sophomore chemistry major Caryn Gordon, a

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new Alpha Xi Delta member. “[I like] just the whole idea you’re starting from scratch.”

While the sorority was originally founded on the campus in 1934, it became dormant during the 1990s.

However,overthepastdecade,AlphaXi Delta kept a good relationship with the university by renting its house on Knox Road to students, according to Emily McCarthy, one of two Alpha Xi Delta headquarters staff members helping this university’s chapter develop.

Last year, university administrators and the National Panhellenic Conference decided to bring the sorority

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funds From PAGE 1 agreed they will continue doing so, in some cases at an even higher level.”

The project has been entirely overseen by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, a private nonprofit organization led then by Remington. Officials originally said they would cap the project’s cost at $6.2 million when public planning began in December 2010. But after that figure went up, a source close to the fundraising effort said University Relations staff members were charged with raising $2 million to $3 million of earmarked money.

The source, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, said officials actively encouraged interested donors to gear money toward the house, not other projects. And, the source said, a public university that uses state money was paying its employees to do so.

“That means obviously state money is being used for these people to try to raise money for the house,” the source said. “It takes away from fundraising ability for scholarships.”

One of the project’s listed donors did not intend for his donation to

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“We’ve been working on br i ng i ng t hem back for a while,” said Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Matt Supple. “They had been very supportive of the university during a period of time when seven Panhellenic organization houses were being renovated.

During those times, houses shut down for 15 months and oftentimes women moved into the [Alpha Xi Delta] house.”

About 150 women expressed

fund the project, the source said.

John Holmes, who is deceased, left $471,000 to the foundation in late 2010, just as plans for the house were underway, with only a stipulation that it be used for “general uses and purposes,” Remington wrote in an email in September.

Remington decided to put the money toward the new house.

“The Foundation had full latitude in deciding how to use the generous gift and chose to invest in a project that year in and year out will help raise millions of dollars for scholarships, academic programs, and other campus objectives,” Remington wrote.

“We believe any donor who supports ‘general uses and purposes’ would be pleased to have his/her gift leverage many more gifts over many years for the advancement of the University.”

The executive committee could have used the money for another initiative, but believed the house was the most worthwhile investment, he said.

The Diamondback spoke with three donors after multiple calls to several of them.

According to a list of received donations and their donors sent to The Diamondback, university alumna Judith Ganz, of Belmont, Mass., donated $2,500 in cash.

However, when The Diamondback asked her about the donation, Ganz said she hadn’t heard about the president’s residence.

“I’m friendly with Brodie Remington, and it was through him I made the donation,” Ganz said.

Alumnus Philip Rever said University Relations staff members visited him and his wife and asked if they were interested in donating to the residence specifically. He subsequently pledged $25,000.

Officials first announced plans to renovate the president’s residence in August 2010. Since then, there have been some discrepancies between the amounts officials reported securing and the amount shown in documents obtained by The Diamondback.

A third donor, alumnus Greg Schaub of Austin, Texas, said he decided to support the project after he learned of it and after January construction had begun.

“It was purely something I saw and took a proactive interest in after I saw the literature on it,” said Schaub, whose donation totaled less than $1,000.

In December 2010, officials announced the selection of a design-build team and stated in a press release: “More than onethird of the maximum cost was secured before selection of the

The president’s residence, a project overseen by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, was recently completed. A Diamondback investigation found officials dedicated some funds to the house from general donations not earmarked for the project. file photo/the diamondback design-build team and before any concepts or renderings were available,” which would amount to more than $2 million.

Officials did not publicly discuss the project again until January 2012, when construction began.

By then, Remington said the foundation had raised $4.8 million for construction and $400,000 for the house’s maintenance.

Although Remington said $2 million was booked by December 2010, University Relations’ documents show only one donation at that time: a pledge of $25,000.

An informal pledge of $2 million

at the time was not booked until November 2011, according to the documents. The foundation had raised a total of $3.13 million by November 2011.

“If that implied the funds were paid at that time, that was not accurate,” Remington said, “but we knew that the commitment was absolutely firm and when we needed the funds we would receive them.”

By the end of January, the nonprofit had raised just more than $4 million in pledges and cash, including the $446,000 endowment to maintain the facility.

Officials secured about $7.65 million by July 25. Remington and his wife, Sapienza Barone, the president’s assistant, have contributed $25,000 toward the house.

Remington, who left his post in August, said the foundation has always looked upon the president’s residence as an asset to help the university raise even more money for the benefit of the campus and school.

“We look at the house as a means to an end,” he said.

interest in the sorority during fall recruitment in September, and 75 women were accepted Sept. 23, McCarthy said.

“I think it was a fantastic number of women,” Supple said. “I think it met or exceeded their expectations, and it certainly met or exceeded our expectations.”

Gordon said she thinks most new members had never gone through recruitment before, but Rachel Barron, a sophomore journalism major and member of the Kappa Delta sorority, said some students may have seen Alpha Xi Delta as a new opportunity to join Greek life.

“They might’ve gone through formal recruitment and went, ‘You know, none of these are really for me,’ didn’t feel the connection,” Barron said. “So I think [Alpha Xi Delta members are] getting a larger variety of girls in their chapter.”

Such wa s t he ca se for sophomore journalism major Meghan Hoff man.

“I actually rushed last spring, but I dropped out halfway through,” Hoffman said. “I think if I hadn’t done AZD, I probably wouldn’t have done it again.”

This semester, Alpha Xi Delta is considered a “colony,” and members will focus on educat-

ing themselves about its history, electing officers and beginning to create the traditions that will later come to define the sorority — including deciding which events the members will hold for their philanthropy, Autism Speaks, designing their “family letters” and coming up with “the little things, the intricacies of the chapter” that make them who they are, Barron said.

The sorority will also bring back some traditions from its earlier days at this university, including one in which each graduate offers a teacup and pink rose to display in the chapter house, McCarthy said.

Moreover, because Alpha Xi Delta is starting anew, all officer positions — including the entire executive committee and all of the chairs — will need to be filled this semester, McCarthy said.

“We want to make it so that all the women have a role in the chapter and can take ownership of what they’re doing,” she said.

The chapter will fully participate in fraternity and sorority events this semester, holding its official “installation ceremony” in December and participating in spring recruitment. The off-campus house will also be renovated this year in time for members to move in by fall 2013,

McCarthy said.

As Alpha Xi Delta members begin to create the chapter’s legacy, Hoffman said this first class will always remember these founding days.

“No one has bonds yet,” Gordon said. “We’re starting at the same place. I feel like for some sororities, it’s harder when you have older girls, because you don’t get to know them as much and they all have their own friends and everything. So I feel like we’re going to be a closer, bigger group of people because we’re all starting out together.”

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Going out of bounds while their coaches – senior kinesiology majors Benjamin Smit and Kenny Wilson — cheered them on from the sidelines.

For Smit and Wilson, volunteering for the Riverdale Park developmental soccer league is more than just fun and games.

They hope this new program can also provide a safe environment where children can enjoy supervised play, something several Riverdale Park residents said had been sorely missing from their community.

Smit and Wilson are both stu-

dents in KNES 457: Managing Youth Programs: Educational, Fitness and Sport, which led them to join forces with Cheryl Moran — a regional manager of the Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation – to create the Riverdale Park soccer league for children aged 6 through 12.

“Our professor told us to find something we like, something we’re decent at, and then use that to give back to the community around campus,” Smit said. “I’ve played soccer since

I was 5 or 6 in rec leagues and then in high school, and I still play intramural now. So this seemed like a great way to give back and have some fun.”

Moran had been trying to launch a local soccer program for two years, and with the students on board as coaches and her department supplying the equipment, she was prepared to ask the Riverdale Park Town Council for permission to use the park for the soccer league at its legislative meeting Oct. 1.

“I was fairly surprised that in this area with such a high Hispanic population there doesn’t really seem to be organized soccer leagues,” Ward 1 Councilman Jonathan Ebbeler said following Moran’s proposal.

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called vermicelli, usually served with pork, shrimp, chicken or beef, according to Song. Most dishes cost about $8.

Consistency and customer service are main reasons the restaurant is thriving, said coowner Jim Geisler, who oversees Pho D’Lite as a partnership between Song and several others.

“Pho D’Lite has been focused on customer satisfaction and the creation of product consistency that will keep our customers coming back,” Geisler wrote in an email. “Based on total sales, it appears to be working.”

The store has seen steady crowds since opening, which could be due to its prime location

near The Varsity and University View apartment buildings, according to Economic Coordinator Michael Stiefvater.

“Both times I’ve been in there, it’s been reasonably crowded. …

They’re doing pretty well,” he said. “They’re in a well-known shopping center that has a lot of other well-known businesses.”

Song’s original success with Hanami and longtime experience in the city inspired her to open a second restaurant, Stiefvater said.

“She knows the area and has been doing well with Hanami, so I think she saw an opportunity, and space popped up in the same shopping center,” Stiefvater said.

“It’s easy to manage two shops in

the same shopping center.”

Fishnet restaurant owner Ferhat Yelcin will also own two businesses in the same shopping center when he opens a coffee shop on Berwyn Road later this year or early in 2013.

Song’s two-store foothold could help her in the long run, said freshman journalism major Amy Dion.

“She is her own competition, so either way, she’s making money.”

For others, pho is not an exotic dish but a cuisine reminiscent of the familiar.

“The taste is similar to food from home,” said first-year graduate student Cheng Zhao, who grew up in China. Zhao added,

Students volunteer as Riverdale Park developmental soccer league coaches; give local children a chance to play

By Sarah Sexton For The Diamondback On a sunny Wednesday afternoon at the Riverdale Neighborhood Playground, two 7-yearold boys stood facing each other on the field, leaning forward in anticipation as they waited for the whistle to blow.

It did, and one boy quickly took control of the soccer ball that had been set between them and dodged around his opponent. In an instant, 14 children were scrambling across the field

pho From PAGE 1 which first opened its doors exactly three months ago yesterday, shuttered in the past few days. Ivy Noodles will occupy the Route 1 storefront in Pho Thom’s complex in November, according to shopcollegepark.org.

But in Pho D’Lite, the orders keep coming. A wall of tiki-style palm leaves greets customers, creating an exotic atmosphere that carries throughout the dimly lit restaurant. Rows of black tables line the main entryway.

The restaurant specializes in a specific kind of cold noodle,

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County officers dressed in riot gear dispersed students the night of the 2010 Duke riot. file photo/the diamondback

“In my m ind, I don’t know if he has something in his hands or not. I can see his arms, but I can’t see his clenched hands,” Baker said, according to the Post.

Character witnesses were also brought in to testify, Mitchell said.

On Monday, the officers were seen on video beating then-21-year-old

RAMIREZ From PAGE 1 It’s 5:30 p.m., half an hour before the doors open for the comedian’s show, and Ramirez is nervously watching the line as it snakes around Stamp’s fi rst floor.

“People have a tendency to let their friends cut, so I have to check that the line is in order and not blocking the walkway,” he said.

Another day, another dollar, another borderline out-ofcontrol queue before a Student Entertainment Events function — that’s the way it goes, and it’s Ramirez’s job to iron out the wrinkles. He often helps out at large events like these, but since it’s only his first semester on the job, he has yet to meet any big names.

“I’m looking forward to a day when I help out at the homecoming show or some concert,” he said. “But with my luck, it probably won’t happen on my shift.”

Each year, six students get the opportunity to work as student-managers in Stamp’s building manager program, and any undergraduate or graduate student can apply.

Ramirez and his coworkers beat out 85 other applicants for the opportunity.

“Their responsibility is to make sure the building is safe and operational for all of our guests that come through,” said guest services coordinator

Soccer Organization league is in Boonsboro, about 60 miles from Riverdale Park, and for the past two and a half years William Wirt Middle School has not offered an after-school soccer program due to budget cuts, according to the school’s basketball coach, Le’Sheldon Dunbar. Moreover, Riverdale Elementary School does not offer a soccer program, and the community does not have a recreational center, Moran said.

“We’re giving these kids the opportunity to have an organized soccer league, and they really haven’t had that before,” Wilson said. “Now they get to play together and learn some fundamental skills.”

On Oct. 8, eight eager children showed up for the league’s

fi rst session at the park.

“It was a blast,” Smit said.

“The kids came out and played for a solid hour, hour and a half.”

Sm it a nd Wi lson coach Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and they hope to keep the program running for 12 weeks. As the weather gets colder, the sessions will likely move to Riverdale Park Elementary School, according to Billy Cortes, Moran’s assistant.

So far, the soccer league has been a hit among children and parents alike.

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Pho D’Lite, located across from the University View, has seen steady crowds since opening, despite competition from similar local restaurants, like Pho Thom. alexis jenkins/the diamondback “This food is more delicious than Shanghai [Tokyo Cafe].”

Geisler said the team of restaurateurs may open a third local establishment, hoping to continue following the same business model that’s led them to success.

McKenna with batons after one officer knocked him to the ground with a riot shield.

McKenna suffered a concussion and bruises and needed eight staples to close a wound on his head.

The defense began presenting after the prosecutors rested their case yesterday morning, and will continue today, Mitchell said; barring any delays, they will rest their case this afternoon.

“College Park wants great food and healthy food at reasonable prices,” Geisler said. “We want to continue to be the mainstay of College Park.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

clarification Due to an editing error, the headline and photo of Wednesday’s article, “New student group seeks to create friendlier campus,” incorrectly implied members of Project Hello Stranger had initiated contact with the Help Center.

Project Hello Stranger hopes to partner with the Help Center in the future.

The Help Center is also the group that holds free-hug events.

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and student employee supervisor Lisa Hegwood.

After Hegwood selects the fi nal group of managers from the applicant pool, they go through a weeklong training process that includes fi rst aid and CPR certification, event planning training and multicultural education — anything and everything to arm the students with the tools to handle the diverse people and events Stamp houses.

And there are lots of people to take care of — Hegwood said Stamp hosts 17,000 people on a daily basis. The busiest shift is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., when students are out of class and events and meetings start.

The managers take turns working four hours at a time and have a wide range of event and guest services responsibilities: They supervise the information desk, help out at the ticket booth, sort mail, do building rounds to ensure everything and everyone is in order, work at larger events and almost anything else the situation requires.

The student-managers are the ones who open up the building in the morning and lock the doors at night. They even take turns playing head honcho on the weekends, when the full-time employees have gone home and it is up to the students to run the building. It’s a job a professional could accomplish more easily than a student, but Hegwood

said that’s not the point. The program is designed to give paid participants real-world customer service experience that can help them in the long run — experience Ramirez said would help him in nonprofit work, which he hopes to do after graduating.

“This is a learning environment and student employment helps students become better people,” Hegwood said. “We want to help our students develop as much as possible in the time that they are here, and this is just another way.”

Ramirez got his start at the information desk — a crash course in customer service. Information desk employees work closely with the building managers, which is how Ramirez found out about the program.

Although he has yet to experience anything truly strange, Ramirez said, he once experienced a false alarm. As he was locking down the building one day, the security alarms in TerpZone went off — but upon investigation, he and University Police discovered housekeeping had been accidentally locked in and tripped the alarm while leaving.

“I think I’m lucky because I’ve heard horror stories,” Ramirez said.

Not every shift keeps him on his toes — sometimes they’re dow n right boring — but Ramirez said having both kinds of days creates a nice balance.

“The days it’s hectic, I wish it

were simple,” he said. “The days it’s simple, I wish it were hectic.”

After doing rounds through hallways before and during Bo Burnham’s performance, Ramirez sits in the manager’s office behind the information desk. It’s a small room with red walls and posters full of customer-service tips. Hegwood is sitting at her desk looking over security tapes and Ramirez is compiling a report of the activity he observed.

On a table sits a basket of iPhones and wallets — lost items found throughout the building, waiting for their owners to claim them. People usually don’t, but the office holds on to the phones, wallets a nd even si ng le shoes for months, just in case.

A basket of lost items doesn’t seem like much, but it’s indicative of the office’s philosophy: It wants everyone to feel welcome. Because only one student-manager is on the clock at a time, Ramirez doesn’t see his coworkers often, but the staff is a tight-knit bunch.

Ramirez said he hangs out in the office and does homework between classes.

A lthough he is a senior, Ramirez will be returning to the university next fall, and he plans to continue as student-manager.

“I love the university so much,” he said. “I love this building, I love working here.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE Federal grant renews partnership to improve traffic patterns Drivers across 14 states who regularly feel the toll of traffic congestion may soon see relief.

University researchers, in a federal partnership with traffic data collection company Inrix, are speedily working to alleviate traffic by mapping out 40,000 miles of traffic patterns in real time.

The Vehicle Probe Project (VPP), established in 2008 between the university, Inrix and the I-95 Corridor Coalition — an interstate partnership of transportation agencies and toll authorities — was renewed for an additional year under a $3.2 million Federal Highway Administration grant.

For the past three years, the partnership has provided software tools for traffic engineers and state transportation department officials to analyze how to better serve highway systems, whether through accident notification on highway signs or up-to-date travel time information.

To read more of staff writer Fatimah Waseem’s story, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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Internet giants exploit our privacy with ease

I tutored a girl two years ago — and Facebook knows. It is quite disturbing.

I had one correspondence via email with the girl’s mother, an email that was deleted a year and a half ago. And today, Facebook lists the mother’s name under “People You May Know.”

I remember when I first joined Facebook four years ago; I thought it was without charge. Little did I know that Facebook is too smart of a company to allow free rides. I was, in fact, supplying Facebook and application developers with the most sought-after currency of this time: my personal data.

Of course, there is the personal data I choose to share — my current location to find local deals, concerts or nearby restaurants and my name, my birthday and my education to help connect with friends. The real concern, however, is the amount of personal data we often inadvertently share with the public.

For example, Skype asks for the Facebook photos and birthdays of its users and their friends. The user is the one asked for permission, though, not the user’s friends.

The same is true of Facebook applications. Facebook’s privacy policy states an app must disclose how it is collecting and sharing data. Yet it is quite perplexing how apps such as “MyPad for iPad” have privacy policies simply reading, “adding Privacy settings shortly.”

And what about Google, which placed advertising cookies on Safari users’ computers — even after previously stating it would discontinue this practice — until it was slapped with a $22.5 million fine in August? Or Google’s Street View, which collected personal information such as users’ emails, passwords, medical records and even text messages? According to a Google engineer in 2007, it was “designed” to do so. Google has since apologized for the breach in security, yet it still has

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somehow managed to withhold documents during investigations by the Federal Communications Commission.

Google and Facebook’s abilities to influence the results of an investigation have grown dramatically as both, as well as Amazon and many other Internet companies, recently set up the Internet Association, a lobbying group dealing with Internet regulation and social media, with a focus on piracy and privacy issues.

In fact, the president of the group, Michael Beckerman, was a former U.S. House and Energy and Commerce Committee deputy staff director — the very committee dealing with regulation of the Internet, communication and technology. Beckerman is quite the insider, as he was also a former adviser to Fred Upton, the current chairman of this committee.

It’s no coincidence, I assume.

Unfortunately, it seems the government couldn’t care less. Currently, the U.S. does not have a law outlining comprehensive privacy protections.

The White House previously drafted an outline for a Privacy Bill of Rights that would provide people with information about when, what and how the data collected about them is used. Why is this blueprint still just a proposal?

With Google spending $3.92 million on lobbying in 2012’s second quarter alone and Facebook increasing its lobbying budget by 200 percent, former Jack Abramoff’s metaphor of lobbying to legalized bribery comes to my mind.

It makes me wonder, who are Congress’ real constituents?

With Facebook donating about $1,000 to $5,000 to many members of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet and U.S. House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Google donating about $1,000 to $33,200 to almost every member on both these committees, go figure.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Beating stress together

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n early August, Newsweek came out with its annual rankings of “Most Stressful Colleges,” feeding the desire of college students and alumni everywhere to see which universities punish — or push, depending on how you choose to look at it — students the most. For students at colleges on Newsweek’s list, the distinction is usually treated as a mark of pride. The thinking likely goes: If stress is a product of rigorous learning, current stress will lead to future success.

Depending on what you value, stress can be both a necessary evil and a way to feel important and productive. But as college students know all too well, stress is frequently an indication of deteriorating mental health.

College is associated with stress for good reason: Nearly one undergraduate student in five suffers from stress, according to a 2008 Associated Press survey. In 2010, freshmen entered college with the lowest emotional health levels since annual survey data was collected 25 years earlier, according to The New York Times.

A d e p re sse d e conomy has created a grim outlook for future jobs, which only compounds the typical stress of college life. With two-thirds of college graduates leaving school with more than $31,000 in student loan debt, students are finding they need

to make more sacrifices to succeed.

Working a steady job or interning on top of a full course load is increasingly normal for students trying to stay afloat financially. These days, job prospects play a greater role in choosing a major than personal interests or passion — nationally, 23 percent of students major in business, when only 7 percent indicate a strong desire to do so, according to National Public Radio. Whether it’s

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College has always put a strain on students’ mental health, but this campus is increasingly prepared to help students cope. lack of fulfillment, financial strains, grueling coursework or something else, stress permeates throughout college campuses.

Stress is inevitable, but how you manage that stress is essential to developing a sustainable and productive lifestyle. This editorial board has already encouraged students to take advantage of the Counseling Center and the University Health Center’s Mental Health Service, but reducing stress sometimes requires a different form of alleviation.

It’s promising to see a surge of student groups looking to defuse

the negative effects of stress. Active Minds has already made a strong impact on the campus, working to increase students’ awareness of mental health issues, and the Help Center continues to offer its services as a peer counseling and crisis intervention hotline. New to the fold at this university, Project Hello Stranger will work to further combat heightened stress levels on the campus.

In efforts to promote a happier and friendlier university environment, Project Hello Stranger intends to offer a model for collective kindness among students. While offering umbrellas on rainy days and passing out balloons to interested students may seem like minor initiatives to some, even the smallest of gestures may have an impact.

Even though there are fewer resources available for student group funding, new groups such as Project Hello Stranger are taking the initiative to do more with less. Along with the stress management resources available at the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the collective culture of promoting mental health and reducing stress is a positive sign.

Reducing stress on the campus is a worthwhile niche for Project Hello Stranger to address — yet, there are plenty more issues confronting students on this campus. Students should follow the path of Project Hello Stranger by taking a proactive and creative approach toward improving quality of life on the campus.

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Camilla Yanushevsky is a junior finance major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

Staying close with faraway friends NADAV KARASOV Back in the good ol’ ’90s, I remember hearing stories of childhood best friends my parents had lost touch with over the years. During this magical period of my life, friendships were defined by nights of PlayStation at sleepovers, afternoons of Risk and marathon viewings of Dragon Ball Z. The idea of losing touch with friends was incomprehensible, so when I heard such a falling-out was possible, I was as incredulous as a boy could be.

Fast-forward to today, and the incomprehensible has turned into a terrifying possibility. Moving away from home, mingling with new people or even studying abroad if you’re lucky all make it increasingly difficult to keep tabs on your buds. In a few years (or sooner) ,college will be over, friends may move to different cities and we’ll all settle down in new lives.

On certain occasions, old friends will reunite and relive the glory days.

In these precious nostalgia-filled moments, you’ll do your best to recapture the old magic. But chemistry is a function of joint growth and shared experiences, which means if you intend to turn friends into lifelong compadres, you need to recognize the difficulties of long-distance friendships.

For romantic couples, long-distance relationships tend to either crumble beneath the weight of divergent life paths or implode due to temptation.

Platonic relationships are less extreme — you can’t “cheat” on each other. Still, without similar experiences keeping you together, you can easily grow disconnected from the daily lives of the people you supposedly care for most. There will come a time when your friends

need someone they can confide in. If you ignore their lives for months at a time, they’ll cease to expect anything from you. This isn’t a reflection of your character as much as a consequence of living different lives.

In a way, staying friends across cities and continents goes against human nature; people were never meant to have best friends thousands of miles away.

Even with Skype (or Google Hangouts, if you’re pretentious like that), nothing can replace direct human interaction.

The best-case scenario is you’ll be equally invested in the joys and concerns of each other, which takes an effort far beyond the occasional Facebook post. It’s the little things: hearing about new flings, rough weekends, strange encounters, family drama or musings on the future. The mundane anecdotes you miss eventually add up to a whole life’s worth of stories.

Accept the trade-off: The more time you spend on Skype, the less time you have for the rest of your life. Personally, I’ve failed in too many long-distance friendships, and, in many ways, it’s why I feel compelled to write this. College provides a pivot point for the rest of your life, as well as what type of company you’ll keep in the future. Foster friendships with people who matter to you.

At some point, your friendships may fade — just like they did for my parents.

But if you put in the time, a few special bonds will sustain.

To the friends I’ve let down: I’ll do my best to be better. To the people out there thinking this doesn’t apply to them: Embrace the time you have with the important people in your life. Even if relationships don’t last forever, do your best to defy the odds.

Nadav Karasov is a junior economics major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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SARAH GORDON Sophomore year, one of my favorite parts of the weekend was rousing myself from bed on Sunday morning, shuffling down the hall to my friend’s room in some kind of mismatched sweatshirt and sweatpants combination and dragging our exhausted selves to the dining hall for buffalo chicken wraps and Diet Cokes. We discussed the more entertaining events of the past two days and nights — we called it “recapping.”

Like a Hardy Boys novel, we left no stone unturned: Who did what with whom and who went where and when, with plenty of theorizing about why. There is a universal language of gossip. No matter where you sit — in China, Kazakhstan or Bermuda — as a woman, you don’t need to speak the native tongue to know what’s going on. When I looked around the dining hall those Sunday mornings, I realized almost every other table of girls was probably having the same conversation.

I’ve since tried to pinpoint when

exactly sex became the most heated topic at the table. It’s like switching to an iPhone after having a Motorola RAZR. What did we do before we could check our email, Facebook, The Washington Post, People.com and the entire length and breadth of the Internet at any time, night or day? What on earth did we talk about before we talked about sex?

In many of these oh-so-scandalous chats with my friends and acquaintances, I noticed a theme across the board: Navigating the minefields of college relationships requires us to put aside our comfort zones, lower our standards and hyperbolize our experiences. We’ve all built sex up to be a monumental elephant in the room that we can talk about with anyone except the people to whom it actually pertains. Whether we’re having it, not having it, trying to have it and failing miserably or having it but trying to escape, we’re stressed.

We feel guilty, obligated, trapped, frustrated, misunderstood and alone.

For an activity at least theoretically intended to be a pleasant experience, it sure comes at a high emotional cost.

A friend recently confessed to me she was a virgin. Even my word choice for how she did it — confessed — reflects our environment,

which requires some part of her to be ashamed of that status. So I ask: Ashamed of what, exactly? Does having sex makes you a good, accomplished or attractive person? Yeah, right. But the grass is hardly greener on the other side. Often times, we’re ashamed to have sex just as much as we are to refrain from having it. In both scenarios, we’re boxed in by how we’re afraid others will perceive us.

In actuality, whether we’re looking for a future spouse, a good time or anything in between, it isn’t anyone else’s business. It isn’t only validated if it’s with someone we love, nor is it less legitimate without feelings. But either way, no one has the right to make us feel what we’re doing — or not doing — is wrong. Obviously, we dictate our own morals and ethics, and if we were confident enough to be as loyal to them as we were to our fears of judgment, maybe we’d find more satisfaction.

And for those people completely content with their place on the great spectrum of sexual satisfaction, just know you’re sorely disliked by pretty much everyone on the planet.

Sarah Gordon is a junior neurobiology and physiology major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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may have been enough fuel to get the project off the ground, Stansbury attests there are bigger things on the horizon.

“College Park is a state school, and it doesn’t have an art-school vibe,” he said. “I kind of wanted to show that there’s people doing cool stuff here and start a little bit of a scene.”

Operating out of his home he calls “the cottage,” a small house just east of the MARC train tracks, Stansbury began working on the idea of this “scene” in small bits. The initial order

of business was releasing the first EP

by Sunset Theme, the bedroom-pop act of fellow classmate Alex Mamunes, a senior biology major. Both Mamunes and Stansbury go way back, which made the move only natural.

“I’ve been recording music with Jack since high school,” Mamunes said. “We’ve always tried to start stuff and it [wouldn’t] work out, but so far [Tricot] feels really good.”

Expansion beyond Sunset Theme included Morgan Spanner, a Towson student who writes stripped-down indie pop, and Wapinitia, the lo-fi project from junior journalism major Daniel Gallen (a senior staff writer for The Diamondback), as well as Stansbury’s own Dew. Spanner, in particular, attested to Tricot’s help giving her the inspiration to record again on a consistent basis.

“I used to play a lot of open mic nights in Baltimore, but that was two years ago,” she said. “I was extremely flattered when Jack asked if he could put my music on a tape because I hadn’t done a lot in a while.”

Gallen’s connection to Tricot,

drum and bass with Handsome Furs’ dreamy synth-rock, all delivered with a dash of New Bomb Turks’ punk sneer.

“It’s just songs that we like to play,” Boeckner explained. “It’s all about the emotions and the overall path of the song.”

About half of the tracks came from Boeckner and half from Daniel, Boeckner said. Other songs were born completely spontaneously, he added. “‘Would That Not Be Nice’ was just a jam we were doing the second time we played with a drummer,” Boeckner said.

The song was recorded on an iPhone.

Though the group has only been playing as a unit for about a year, Boeckner and Daniel had been toying with the idea of playing together for half a decade, Boeckner said.

“Britt and I have known each other for five years now,” he said. “About a year and a half ago, we started talking about starting a band.”

“You meet some people and you

talk about doing t h i n g s, b ut it wa s clear right from the sta rt that th is was goi n g to h app en ,” Boeckner added. “It was surprisingly easy and exciting for me — I think for him, too.”

Though the group has found more success in a year than most bands find in DAN BOECKNER (right) plays with Spoon’s Britt Daniel (center) and Sam Brown (left) of New Bomb Turks in indie supergroup Divine Fits. photo courtesy of rockmusicreport.com their careers, Divine Fits shows no sign of slowing down. core he grew up on, Boeckner is still The group plans to tour the U.S. until influenced by what he learned from the end of the year before heading Fugazi and the rest of the Washington to Australia and Buenos Aires, Ar- music scene.“So anti-commercial, gentina, Boeckner said. After that, but so catchy,” he said. “They put “We’re going to sit down and record everything into that performance.” another record,” he said.

Divine Fits plays the 9:30 Club in “There’s a lot of momentum right Washington tonight. Doors open at 7 now,” Boeckner added. p.m. Tickets are $20.

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By Dean Essner Staff writer “When we separate music from life, we get art,” said famous avantgarde composer John Cage.

This theory of sonic detachment — that we need to strip away everyday distractions to conjure something purposeful — is the reason great bands keel over and die at the height of their success. Life oozes into music, and the resulting cocktail is toxic enough to make art an improbable pursuit.

However, senior history major Jack Stansbury’s personal success contradicts this idea. He records under the ambient moniker Dew, a project that amalgamates both digital sound and found sound. It calls to mind everyone from Oneohtrix Point Never to

The Books. But he is also the creator of Tricot Records, a College Park label initially designed to showcase and promote both his own musical endeavors and those of people close to him.

“I had some friends who were making music, and I wanted to celebrate and feature that,” Stansbury said. “I wanted them to have something physical that they could give to their friends or sell or have for themselves because [everything] is so digital now. They already have SoundClouds.”

This dedication to tangibility is a major component of the Tricot way.

All artists under Stansbury’s watch release music via cassette tape, a stark antithesis and genuine kissoff to the 21st century ideal of Internet file sharing. But while nostalgia

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By Eric Bricker Staff writer Divine Fits’ Dan Boeckner has passed through Washington before, as a member of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs. But the city still holds a special place in his heart.

“Growing up in Canada in the late ’90s, early 2000s, D.C. was like this mythical place for me,” Boeckner said.

“D.C. hardcore was my gateway drug into real music,” he added.

“Fugazi was one of the first live shows I’d ever seen. Watching Fugazi play in Vancouver [Canada] in the late ’90s was like university for me.”

Boeckner and his new band, Divine Fits, will play the 9:30 Club tonight.

Formed about a year ago, Divine Fits is

an indie lover’s wet dream: Boeckner shares writing duties with Spoon front man Britt Daniel, while Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks rounds out the group on drums. The trio released its debut album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, in August.

Because all three members of Divine Fits had found success with other groups, the band was quickly labeled a “supergroup.” It’s a title Boeckner remains reluctant to accept.

“I think it’s obvious why we got the label,” he said. “At the end of the day, I don’t care. I think our group is super. We’re a super group of guys.”

A Thing Called Divine Fits is a perfect meshing of the artists’ diverse styles: Aggressively cool cuts such as “For Your Heart” marry Spoon’s lean, angular

jack stansbury of Tricot Records releases all his music on cassette. photo courtesy of jack stansbury

while equally as positive as Spanner’s, is less about inspiration and more about focus and palpability. “[Tricot] gives everything a purpose,” he said. “It’s like, ‘I’m going to write this stuff, record it and put it out.’ It’s something you’re putting your music toward besides just playing a show.”

A sense of purpose, right now, is fueling any future goals Stansbury may have for Tricot. Yes, he does see it as an outlet through which he can feature both his own work and his peers’ while dabbling in a mid’80s nostalgic haze of cassette tapes, handmade posters and dirt-cheap merchandising. But down the road, he has hopes of creating a grander affair. Stansbury’s lasting legacy may, in fact, prove to be less about the label itself and more about his influence on local musicians who have something to say but lack the forum to say it.

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don’t want that to happen. You want the young guys to look up to you.”

It did have an effect on one of those young guys. Like McDougle, Johnson has elevated his play since the Terps’ season opener. His six pass breakups lead the team, and defensive coordinator Brian Stewart has praised the 6-foot defensive back for his knowledge of the game and willingness to study.

“I think J.J. and Dexter took it personally, what happened in that game, and decided to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to go and do things better.’ And I think they’ve done that,” Edsall said. “That’s why we’re seeing some improved play in the secondary.”

The Terps will likely need that improvement to continue this weekend against N.C. State. Edsall called Wolfpack quarterback Mike Glennon “probably the best guy that we face all year long.”

“He does a good job of getting his hips and his body to follow his throw, so he has some velocity on them. He can throw outside the numbers, he can throw down the field — they’re

they did pretty well, but I think it was a valuable lesson for some of them. The next time they get that opportunity, they’ll be much better.”

Only two of the team’s regular starters — defenders Dakota Edwards and Mikey Ambrose — took their positions at Ludwig Field at kickoff, and three players made their fi rst starts of the season. While the No. 1 Terps’ usual suspects — forwards Patrick Mullins and Schillo Tshuma and midfielder John Stertzer — recorded points in the 2-0 win, the seemingly slow start didn’t faze Mullins.

“There’s been a bunch of guys out here who deserve to get minutes, and this is a perfect time for them to get those minutes, and they went out and were excited,” Mullins said. “I was excited for them to play, as much as I hate to be on the bench.”

Defender Alex Lee’s injury last season proved to be a factor in the Terps’ undoing late, as players had to make spot starts off the bench when they might not have had game experience. Defender Taylor Kemp has missed the past three games, an eerie similarity in the Terps’ consecutive undefeated starts.

Against Colgate, Cirovski started Edwards and Ambrose along with redshirt sophomore Marquez Fernandez and redshirt junior Widner Saint Cyr on the backline, and the quartet posted a scoreless 45 minutes in front of goalkeeper Jordan Tatum. In the second half, usual

defensive coordinator brian stewart’s secondary has bought into his aggressive 3-4 defensive scheme. file photo/the diamondback a vertical passing team that suits him well,” Stewart said yesterday. “We’re going to go after him, but he’s still the best pro-style, upright-style quarterback we’ve seen.”

But for McDougle and his teammates, it doesn’t matter which signal caller is leading the opposing offense. Taking a page out of his coach’s book, McDougle said the unit just wants to get better each week.

“Our confidence is up and our team is always behind us,” McDougle said. “We feed off that. We’re going to keep playing hard.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Midfielder Widner Saint Cyr started on the Terps’ backline in their 2-0 win Tuesday vs. Colgate. charlie deboyace/the diamondback midfielder Helge Leikvang and Kemp’s primary replacement, Jordan Cyrus, subbed in for Fernandez and Saint Cyr. “I think the backline was solid,” Cirovski said. “I was pleased to get Marquez and Saint Cyr 45 minutes apiece. I thought they were solid. Obviously, the guys that came in did a good job for them as well.”

Despite the play of the reserves, though, the differences between the starters who led the Terps to a 12-0-1 start and the complementary pieces were distinct. The Terps’ offense struggled to generate shots early, and Colgate had some chances to score off set pieces.

“We have a great group off the bench, but I think some guys were nervous coming in,” Tatum said. “We didn’t exactly have the same rhythm when we have the starters in there. We got a few key players in there like Stertz and started

to calm down, not panic as much and move the ball around like we usually do.”

With only one more nonconference matchup — Lehigh on Tuesday — and a crucial ACC game with No. 2 North Carolina on Friday, it was one of the few chances for Cirovski to see how his reserves would react to a start with few consequences.

And while it might not have shown on the scoreboard or on the stat sheet, there’s confidence that the Terps’ bit players could become factors if needed in midNovember — or even early December.

“It was some guys’ first start out there, but I thought they did a great job,” Mullins said. “They held their own. I was proud of them. I was so excited for them going into tonight, and I thought they did well when they were out there.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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“Our main goal was to go at 100-percent speed, pass the ball and try to get as many players involved as possible,” defender Sarah Sprink said. “We had a lot of speed and got them to move a lot, giving us the opportunity to score. Opening up the field was our greatest strength in the first half.”

T he first-half fireworks a l lowed Meha rg to t i n ker with her lineup in the second half. Twelve substitutes found their way onto the field in the second half, and even though the production drop-off was significant — the team scored just one goal on seven shots in the half — it did give many

HURRICANES From PAGE 8 said. “We always have intense practices, but drills like this help us rest a little and focus on our next game.”

L ess r u n n i n g a nd more resting has been the overarching theme for the No. 7 Terps this week. They haven’t played since their 3-2 overtime win at Boston College a week ago, marking the first time this season the team has had seven days between games.

“I think this break is really going to help us,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “Us and Duke have been the last two teams in the league to get a week off, so we’ve been playing and playing and playing.”

The time off has been critical for the Terps. They’ve played two games a week since the season started in mid-August, and the break provided them a chance for some long-awaited rest.

“We’ve been tired and fatigued,” Morgan said. “I think the week off and a couple days away from the game have allowed them to get refreshed and get that excitement back. There’s been a new excitement, a new energy and a new want to get better.”

players an opportunity to gain more on-field experience.

For M e h a rg, it wa s t h e perfect way to prepare for a meeting with the Tar Heels.

Her stars got a chance to score eight goals in the fi rst half and rest in the second half, keeping them fresh for this weekend.

Meharg doesn’t know if or when the team will be able to dominate a team so thoroughly again — all the more reason to savor her team’s latest victory.

“W hen you’re fortunate enough to get up like that, it’s a great opportunity to start to work on things that you want to do in your next match or later on down the road,” Meharg sa id . “ W it h t he outc om e already known, you can really work on your tactics and capitalize on that luxury.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

The Hurricanes (7-6-2, 2-4-1 ACC) will test the Terps’ (113-2, 6-1-1) renewed energy, though. Morgan said Miami is a team that likes to mount quick attacks against opposing defenses, something that should challenge the Terps’ backline early and often.

“They’re a very direct team and they send a lot of balls over the back, so we just have to watch out for those,” defender Shade Pratt said. “But we’ve really rested our legs and now we can definitely come out strong against Miami.”

The Terps’ break has come at an opportune time. They were dragging their feet Oct. 11 against Boston College, but tonight they said they’ll be more prepared.

Their tired legs and tired minds have been healed, and a week away from the pitch has been precisely what Morgan’s team needed.

“They were just tired mentally, but we’re fresh now,” Morgan said. “It’s been great for us and if they approach [tonight] the way they’ve approached the last three days, work i ng ha rd a nd getti ng excited, we’ll be pretty good.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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“Finishing, working hard, sticking together as a team. Those are the main things we have to do.”

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ANOTHER NEW UNIFORM?

The Terps men’s basketball team unveiled a new set of uniforms for its season opener. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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FOOTBALL

second chances

Safety Anthony Nixon, cornerback Dexter McDougle, safety Eric Franklin and cornerback Jeremiah Johnson (from left to right) struggled to begin the season but have come on strong, holding opponents to a 40-percent pass completion rate in the past two games. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer Through six games this season, there’s little doubt the Terrapins football team’s front seven makes up one of the most stout units in the nation.

The linemen and linebackers manning the team’s 3-4 front have been nearly impenetrable all year, ranking No. 9 in the country against the run.

But the team’s pass defense has, at times, lagged behind. Stymied in the run game, opposing offenses have been forced to go to the air against the Terps. And in the early part of the schedule, the secondary has struggled to stay on the same page.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

After slow start to season, Nixon, McDougle, Franklin, Johnson making marked improvement for Terps in secondary Cornerback Dex ter McDougle committed three crucial pass interference penalties against William & M a r y. Sa fety A nthony Ni xon m issed a n open-f ield tack le on Temple wide receiver Jalen Fitzpatrick’s 35-yard touchdown reception. Cornerback Isaac Goins blew an assignment that allowed Wake Forest wide receiver Terence Davis to haul in a 73-yard touchdown pass. West Virginia wideout Tavon Austin burned the entire unit

single-handedly, scoring touchdowns of 24, 34 and 44 yards.

Little by little, though, the Terps’ last line of defense — primarily consisting of McDougle, Nixon, cornerback Jeremiah Johnson and safety Eric Franklin — is tightening up. In the past two games, three opposing quarterbacks — the Demon Deacons’ Tanner Price and Virginia’s Phillip Sims and Michael Rocco — have combined to complete just 40 percent of their passes, 10 percent below the

Terps’ season average.

“This is all a part of the process of what we’re going through and what we’re working to develop here,” coach Randy Edsall said Tuesday.

“They have to go out with a mindset to say, ‘When I go to practice today, I’m going to get better in this aspect, or I’m going to get better in this or I’m going to get better on third down.’ That’s one thing that we’re starting to get.”

It hasn’t been a quick turnaround.

The process began six weeks ago, following the Terps’ season-opening 7-6 victory. After the secondary allowed four of the Tribe’s 10 completions to go for more than 15 yards and committed three pass interference penalties — one that led directly to William & Mary’s first field goal of the contest — McDougle buried himself in game footage to see what went wrong.

“There’s no excuses for that this year,” the senior said. “After that, I was in the fi lm room hours after we were supposed to, just by myself, just looking at what I can do to get better.

You being the senior cornerback, you See SECONDARY, Page 7

MEN’S SOCCER

Week off beneficial for Terps

Cirovski shuffles lineup to help team stay fresh

Team back on field tonight vs. Miami

Before the Terrapins men’s soccer team focuses on securing its fi rst national championship in four years, it must reflect on the past.

The Terps’ defense faltered in each of the team’s past three NCAA Tournament losses, allowing at least three goals in each defeat. The team has come out with a renewed defense this season, shutting out its opponents in seven of its fi rst 13 games.

The Terps’ offense struggled down the stretch last season, scoring two goals in only two of the final six games. This year, the Terps have

Terps play six defenders in win over Colgate

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer At practice yesterday, the Terrapins women’s soccer team kept one goal on the end line and moved the other to midfield. The Terps scrimmaged with two teams of 11, fitting all 22 girls in the 50-by-30-feet restraints of the chalk-lined field.

T heir passes were short, their sprints were brief and their shots were taken from right in front of the net.

But they didn’t play the small-ball game because they wanted to simply give themselves a break heading into a home matchup with Miami tonight.

They played so they could stay more focused and alert.

“It’s less running, but we get to have more touches on the ball and play a little quicker,” midfielder Cory Ryan See HURRICANES, Page 7

MiDfielder Cory Ryan said the Terps’ light practice should help the team tonight. file photo/the diamondback

Defender Marquez Fernandez was one of six Terps defenders who played in Tuesday’s 2-0 win over Colgate.

Coach Sasho Cirovski said he wants to give reserves more on-field experience. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

offensive weapons all over the field — even the backline.

And last year, key late-season injuries forced coach Sasho Cirovski to shuffle his lineups — leaving a makeshift rotation exposed during a 4-2 loss to Louisville in November. So Tuesday night against Colgate, Cirovski started a largely second-string lineup that likely won’t be seen again this year.

“Last year, late in the year, we had to start some guys that hadn’t really ever had a start, and I want to avoid that in case we have to rely on that,” Cirovski said. “I have tremendous confidence in them. For the most part, See SHUFFLE, Page 7

FIELD HOCKEY

Dominant win refreshes No. 6 Terps Crucial Saturday matchup vs. UNC looms

By Nicholas Munson Staff writer The Terrapins field hockey team historically has never had any trouble dismantling Towson. The in-state rivals have met 30 times since 1974, and the Terps have never lost.

So when the then-1-14 Tigers came to College Park on Tuesday, the Terps had a chance to flex their offensive muscle. And with a crucial matchup against No. 1 North Carolina looming Saturday, it might have been exactly what they needed.

The No. 6 Terps got off to a blistering start at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, scoring six goals in the first 19 minutes. They scored eight overall

in the first half — three from midfielder Maxine Fluharty — and 26 shots at Towson goalkeeper Tashani Dickson.

T he goa ls d id n’t ta ke long to develop, either. With the Terps’ lead up to four, coach Missy Meharg subbed forward Jill Witmer into the game out of a timeout. She stole the ball immediately and, 28 seconds after she entered the game, deposited a shot in the back of the net.

The situation repeated itself for the team’s next goal, too. Forward Kirstie Dennig entered the contest with a little more than 18 minutes of play and, in less than 20 seconds, scored her first goal of the season See REFRESH, Page 7

Midfielder Maxine FLuharty notched her first career hat trick in the first half of the Terps’ 9-0 victory over in-state rival Towson at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex on Tuesday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback