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County police $8 transcript fee now implemented charge one with Knox Box thefts SGA condemns fee amount; students not consulted before charge imposed

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Students who need transcript copies to apply for internships, jobs or graduate school may be unpleasantly surprised to learn those once free documents now come with a hefty price tag.

As of Oct. 4, the Office of the Registrar now charges students an $8 fee for each official transcript request, although the first transcript printed will not be charged for current students. Last night, Student Government Association legislators unanimously passed a resolution condemning the fee. Some members called the fee an unfair financial burden on students that was imposed without notifying students or consulting student leaders.

“It’s just really unnecessary; it’s sudden and excessive, and we weren’t given any warning and didn’t give any input,”

Washington resident charged with burglary, trespassing

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

One of the two men handcuffed on Knox Road at about 9 p.m. Tuesday night was charged with fourth degree burglary and two counts of trespassing, according to court documents.

Andre Gore, 32, was arrested and has a bond set for $25,000, Prince George’s County Police Spokesman Cpl. Larry Johnson said. He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 9. The other man handcuffed at the scene, who police declined to name, was not arrested or charged.

Gore, a Washington resident, was arrested after a student recognized him

from wanted posters hanging in the area in connection with several recent Knox Box burglaries. The student called police when he saw Gore trying to enter an apartment through a window Tuesday.

County police originally suspected Gore because of his record with burglaries, Sgt. Trevell Watson said.

“Gore was definitely the person of interest in this case,” Johnson said.

According to court documents, Gore has been charged 18 separate times for criminal cases. Sixteen of the cases are closed.

The most recent before Tuesday’s arrest involved charges of third degree burglary, fourth degree

Student Government Association legislator Godly Jack speaks at last night’s meeting about the university’s new $8 fee for all transcript requests.

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Univ. alumna competes on CMT’s Sweet Home Alabama dating show

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

House committee threatens to put loans on chopping block Staff writer

As Republicans threaten to construct a plan that cuts funds for Pell Grants, the SGA and MaryPIRG are lobbying to ensure these crucial loans for higher education remain a staple for future generations.

After this summer’s debt ceiling debacle, funding for Pell Grants increased by $17 billion, leading many to believe that the grants that award up to $5,550 a year to lowincome students for college tuition were saved.

But a House Appropriations Committee announcement Sept. 29 has put these loans on the chopping block once again, Businessweek reports. Student Government Association members and members of this university’s chapter of MaryPIRG said they will

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Groups mobilize to protect Pell Grants

BY MARIA ROMAS

CMNS legislator Godly Jack, who sponsored the resolution, said in an interview yesterday. “Even if there were budget cuts and even if there was some hole that needed to be filled, we would still like to know and give input into it.”

Budget cuts ultimately forced officials to begin charging students for access to their transcripts, according to Chuck Wilson, Associate Vice President for Records, Registration and Extended Studies.

“What it came down to is that we could no longer provide this free service or sustain this free service with the everincreasing costs of supplies and labor,” he said. “We researched what other institutions were doing and this university decided that the $8 was a fair fee.”

Wilson said the decision to not send out a notification to students was standard

Stefanie Williams has been publicizing her search for the right man since she was a student at this university, sharing her dating woes and triumphs with friends and coworkers. But today, her search hits the national stage.

Although Williams has made a career out of sharing her love life experiences by creating a blog and eBook, the 2008 university alumna took her search for love to another level this summer after being chosen to compete on the second season of the reality dating show Sweet Home Alabama, which airs tonight on CMT. But Williams said she was not looking for love on the show — she was just looking for some time for herself after a rough breakup.

“I went through some typical horrible girl depression, like, ‘I’m never getting married, nobody’s gonna want me, I’m the only single one of my friends,’” Williams said.

With some encouragement from her mom and friends, Williams applied online for the show’s second season, hoping the experience would provide her with a hilarious blog post at the least. And while Williams said she worried about getting along with the other women on the show or looking bad on TV, she said her previous experiences prepared her for anything thrown her way.

“With all the stuff written about me, this was a walk in the park at the end of the day,” she said.

After Williams was chosen for the show, she traveled to Alabama to compete with 21 other women for the heart of an unknown bachelor, who the women later learned to be former Clemson

fight the proposed decrease.

SGA President Kaiyi Xie and Samantha Zwerling, MaryPIRG president, cosigned a letter Tuesday to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (DMd.) — a member of the so-called supercommittee, a special 12-person deficit cutting panel.

The House Appropriations Committee’s plan would cut $3.6 billion from Pell Grants, eliminate eligibility for those who did not receive a high school diploma and cut the semesters students can receive money from 18 to 12, according to Businessweek.

The letter sent yesterday asks Van Hollen to use his power on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, which takes into consideration recommendations from

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Council likely to support increasing recycling Next week’s vote could bring more receptacles to downtown

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

Downtown College Park may soon feature more recycling receptacles if the city council votes in favor of a new program next week. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Students strolling around downtown College Park may soon have more places to recycle, as the College Park City Council will likely support an almost entirely cost-free recycling program.

At Tuesday night’s work session, council members discussed the pos-

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Although the council won’t vote on the matter until next week, several council members expressed support for the proposal and said it would help increase the city’s sustainability, as College Park currently

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only has one public recycling bin.

The new recycling stations would consist of either two or three receptacles, at least one of which would be a trash can to minimize contamination of recyclables, said city Director of Public Works Robert Stumpff, who spoke at Tuesday’s council meeting.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011

Univ. researchers work to advance smart systems

$1M agreement awarded to team to make technologies easier to use

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

As cars and buildings become increasingly advanced, university researchers are working to make these structures simpler to use.

A $1 million agreement, which was announced last week, between National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Institute for Systems Research in the engineering school will help the engineering firm create ways to improve communication between cars and buildings and their computer systems, similar to how limbs respond to the brain. Officials said the agreement will promote university research as well as help NIST develop new standards and measurement tools that companies can use to design future smart systems more efficiently.

Smart systems are tailored to perform specific functions, such as operate a GPS in a car or electronically control windows in a building, said Mark Austin, an engineering professor and co-principal investigator for the project.

University officials said the collaboration between this university and NIST will help advance both university research and smart systems technology as a whole.

“Future engineering systems will depend on our ability to marry computation with physical design,” ISR Director Reza Ghodssi wrote in an email. “All of these systems have an indirect effect on our economy and therefore, this new collaboration between the University of Maryland’s Institute for Systems Research and NIST will be quite significant.”

The research, which will be conducted by university faculty and students, will serve as a launching point for companies

to develop more complex smart systems in the future.

“It’s really providing the underpinning foundation for manufacturers to create these systems,” said NIST engineering laboratory director Shyam Sunder.

The agreement grant will be administered over three years and enable manufacturers, who don’t know enough about the smart systems, to make them reliable and allow them to design better systems, said engineering professor John Baras, who founded ISR. “The complexity of these kinds of systems is great,” Baras said. “Because there’s not going to be any one platform for these systems, we have to make them interoperable so they work together.”

If university researchers and NIST develop successful models companies can use to build more efficient smart systems, Austin said, the agreement would create opportunities for companies to create even more innovative and progressive models in the future — such as more energy-efficient buildings or technologies that can monitor diseases in the body.

“These systems cover a whole bunch of smart things, but we want to build smarter devices,” Austin said.

Some of the specific project proposals made by university researchers include creating a system that can save energy by sensing human activity in rooms, as well as a system that can generate energy for a building without relying on power grids, officials said.

“A lot of what we have to do is figure out how to model these systems,” Austin said. “Part of the research is to figure out what kinds of models will allow the cyber and physical systems to be designed on the same footing.” saravia@umdbk.com

Eight Prince George’s County police vehicles respond to a call from Knox Box residents Tuesday night, which resulted in the arrest of one man in connection with recent burglaries in the area. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

ARREST from page 1 burglary, trespassing and a false statement or identity given to police. This case is still open and active.

Gore has also been charged with 10 separate incidents of fourth degree burglar y, two incidents of second degree burglar y and one incident of first degree burglar y, according to official court documents.

He has also been charged with two counts of first degree

assault, two counts of second degree assault, attempted first degree murder, two counts of malicious destruction of property, two counts of a concealed and dangerous weapon, motor vehicle theft, possession of controlled dangerous substances and alcohol in unauthorized areas, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, seven counts of false identification or information provided to police and nine counts of trespassing.

Watson said another person was arrested on Friday also in connection with break-

ing and entering in College Park. According to Johnson, that arrest was not related to break-ins at the Knox Box apartments; it was made for burglaries in Northern College Park.

More information on that arrest could not be released as the case is still being investigated, Johnson said.

Although Gore’s arrest is associated with the recent string of Knox Box burglaries, some residents said they are still ner vous about future break-ins.

Junior economics major and

Knox Box resident Michael Wojciechowicz said he’s not sure whether this arrest will stop crime in the area.

“I’m glad that [police] caught someone with such a long rap sheet, but the crimes are still going to happen,” Wojciechowicz said. “If criminals know the police are only on the lookout for underage drinkers and parties, and if the police isn’t doing its job and protecting us, criminals and robbers are still going to break into people’s houses.” egan@umdbk.com

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money for little, petty things like this.”

Junior biology major Davis Abongwa said this fee presents an extra financial burden for him because he plans to go to medical school upon graduation. He noted that pre-med students have to apply to about 20 different schools — which is already a ver y expensive process — in order to have a decent shot at acceptance. Each application requires a copy of his transcript, he said.

“I don’t think that’s fair at all,” Abongwa said. “Twenty times eight, that’s $160 on top of other expenses. …It’s not a logical fee.”

other committees, to maintain the same level of funding for the program.

“We heard testimony last year from various people — even if you cut a program’s funding by only a few hundred dollars, some students still won’t be able to come here,” Xie said. “That’s what we want to prevent.”

Pell Grants have helped put millions of students through college annually, a fact the letter serves to highlight.

“If this Congress is serious about job recovery, reducing access to college is the wrong approach, yet several proposals in Congress seek to cut Pell Grants and student loan benefits,” the letter states. “Now is the time to invest in Pell Grants as well as keep the cost of student loans low, enabling more qualified students to stay in school, graduate, and enter the workforce with the skills that our economy demands.”

Bridgett Frey, a spokeswoman for Van Hollen’s office, said he is a staunch supporter of the program and will carefully weigh all options before making a decision.

“Congressman Van Hollen is looking at all of the recommendations he receives for the Joint Committee and appreciates input from students in this process,” Frey wrote in an email. “He is a long-time supporter of Pell Grants and student assistance.”

Members of both the SGA and MaryPIRG said they hope the committee can develop a deficit reduction plan that spares funding for higher education loans.

“The main idea is to keep student aid off the negotiation table,” Zwerling said. “In general, when the government is talking about cutting things, it’s easy to say we will cut [funding for higher education] rather than Medicare or Medicaid. But we kind of need to look at it as an investment in our future and as making sure America stays on top and can continue to compete in the global economy.”

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The Student Government Association passed a resolution condemning a new mandatory fee for transcript requests. On Oct. 4, the Office of the Registrar instituted the new $8 fee for transcripts. Students could previously ask for them without a fee. MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

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practice at other universities, noting that doing so might have caused an influx of transcript requests before the deadline that the office may not have been able to fulfill all of them in a timely manner.

“Again, we consulted with a lot of universities about the best ways to roll this out,” Wilson said. “We found that the rate was ver y comparable and, in fact, more reasonable than some.”

The financial cost of providing copies of official transcripts is not as simple as buying copy paper, ink and stamps, Wilson said. The

university’s Office of Information Technology provides the technology to transfer online requests to the Office of the Registrar, which are then processed by staff members. Additionally, officials have to pay for mailing costs and security paper for the transcripts.

The money generated by the fee would go toward the various academic affairs ser vices throughout university, which have had their budgets slashed during the past four years, Wilson said.

However, Jack said officials still should have consulted student leaders before implementing this fee and hopes to discuss and negotiate the fee with administra-

“I think the school loses credibility when they make students pay more and more money for little petty things like this.”

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tors, a prospect Wilson said officials are ver y open to.

Even if other universities are charging similar fees, Jack said $8 is too steep for

students and may even discourage some from applying to multiple internships, jobs or post-undergraduate programs.

“It’s unfair to us students,” Jack said. “It’s so much money coming out of students’ pockets.”

And to several students, the news of the fee came as a huge surprise.

“I think that’s ridiculous,” said sophomore finance and accounting major Nick Springmann. “Students are already charged enough as it is. It’s not going to prevent me from applying for jobs because I have to do it, but I think the school loses credibility when they make students pay more and more

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WILLIAMS from page 1 quarterback Tribble Reese.

“I definitely played up the Clemson-Maryland thing a lot and I had no trouble giving him grief for being a Clemson football player,” Williams said. “I’m sure Maryland’s not pumped they’re getting acknowledged on this dating show.”

And although friends said they were eager to watch Williams on the show, they said she stopped surprising them years ago.

“She’s dated celebrities in their own rights; she’s slept with Hollywood stars I see on TV literally every day,” said Melissa Weiss, a friend and former copy editor at The Diamondback.

“There’s nothing she could do to shock me anymore.”

Williams said she’s no one new to fame. She began dating athletes — or “chasing the jersey” — and receiving attention for her online writing as a student and opinion editor for The Diamondback.

She said she experienced her first instances of backlash onand-offline after she used her semester-long experience as a member of Kappa Alpha Theta to write a few scathing columns about pledging.

“I was like the antichrist; they

still don’t like thinking about me,” Williams said of her former sorority sisters. “After I did that [column], I think I lost 90 friends on Facebook like that.”

Williams said she gained another taste of notoriety during the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax, when she wrote columns defending the players, one of which was later published in the book Until Proven Innocent.

“She’d been doing a lot of writing supporting the guys, and not even as some sort of weird groupie, but she studied the case and I think something in it resonated,” Weiss said.

Williams added that her outspokenness about the case also came from loyalty to the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team, which she managed as a freshman.

In fact, friends said her column, blog and book have always been more than funny stories about one woman’s hapless, but star-studded, love life.

“She’s admirable in a way that she takes a taboo subject and puts it out there,” said Virginia Zint, a friend of Williams who first encouraged her to apply to be on Sweet Home Alabama.

Williams wouldn’t exactly call herself a champion of women’s rights — she said she hates “getting all feminist on you because really, that’s gross. I shave my legs, I get waxed, I wear makeup, I own only bras

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that have enough padding to be bullet proof” in a Monday blog post. But Zint said her writing has helped spark a new kind of dialogue about sex — that it should empower women.

“Being sexual as a women isn’t something a lot of people really talk about, and she just comes out and says ‘This is how it is and you shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it,’” Zint said. “The blog, the book, I think they really started a conversation about sex and that it’s OK to talk about it; that people all over the world are having it and it’s fine.”

But some readers, through online comments and even one who made an angry phone call during a radio show, accuse Williams of being fake or superficial based on her affinity for athletes — and for blogging about the juicy details of her sexual exploits with them.

“Really, she’s very much herself and she knows who that is and she makes no apologies about it,” Weiss said. “She’s very sure of herself and it may just not be in a way that people are accepting about.”

Williams said now that Sweet Home Alabama is finally airing, she can begin to settle back into her old routine, which consists of bartending, working on a fiction piece inspired by the same breakup that brought her to Alabama

University alumna Stefanie Williams was chosen to compete on Sweet Home Alabama, which airs tonight, for a chance at love. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEFANIE WILLIAMS

and jet-setting to Los Angeles to visit a few friends — and a new man.

And as Williams jumps back into blogging and dating, her coworker Jen Gargano said she

is not surprised a taste of reality TV did not faze her friend.

“I don’t think much would change Stef; she is who she is,” she said. “Even if one day her book or blog blows up and

she becomes famous, she’s ver y grounded and humble and I don’t think she’d ever change.” lurye@umdbk.com

At last night’s work session, the College Park City Council heard a proposal to install more recycling bins around the city for a one-time $10 fee. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

of Terps fans flooded the city for the homecoming football game.

“I was [downtown] Saturfrom page 1 day and I saw hundreds and city would have complete con- hundreds of beer cans and trol of the program. Each sta- bottles by The Varsity and the tion would bear the City of Col- University View,” he said, lege Park seal to create “a high adding putting out temporary profile and very public demon- recycling cans on game days stration of its support of the re- is also something the city should look into. cycling message.”

“The reality is that the Stumpff, who first spoke to the council about the proposal amount of cans and bottles that in February, said vendor repre- were thrown out were 10 times sentatives would work with city greater than the capacity of the officials to designate locations containers around,” he said. that would benefit most from “It’s not an everyday problem, but homecoming was huge. … the stations.

“We’re looking at different If I were up Sunday, I could have places in the city,” he said. made more money picking up “We’re looking at not just down- cans and bottles than I make in town, but in the North College my salary here in a year.”

Student Government AssociPark area, also.”

District 2 Councilman Bob ation Director of Sustainability Catlin said the need for more Michelle Kim said the city’s available recycling in the city support of the program shows was especially apparent during it is making an effort to bring last weekend, when hundreds more sustainable practices into

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the community.

“I think the city is definitely trying,” she said. “I think it’s really great that they’re trying and that maybe students could be more engaged in terms of driving those sustainability initiatives.”

Because the university’s sustainability fund — which comes from the student sustainability fee — is limited to on-campus project proposals, it can be difficult for students to launch projects within the city, Kim said.

She added that students should look into extending project guidelines to include the surrounding community.

But Kim said she believes many people will take advantage of the cost-free recycling stations once they are in the city.

“I think that if they’re everywhere and if they’re single stream, people will use them,” she said. kirkwood@umdbk.com

Dining officials launched a volunteer program last week in which volunteers educate students on proper food waste disposal to promote sustainability. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Dining Services officials launch new sustainability initiative Officials, student volunteers educate on food recycling

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

While students may not think about what happens to their food after throwing it in the trash, a group of Dining Services officials and student volunteers are hoping to help the environment by promoting efficient waste disposal.

Officials launched a volunteer program last week aimed at teaching students how to best

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dispose of their waste in the campus’ dining halls. After Dining Services Sustainability Coordinator Allison Lilly learned last semester that neither the kitchen staff nor students knew proper waste disposal techniques, she was inspired to create the program to promote better sustainability practices.

“It’s about helping to get the student community involved with educating each other,” Lilly said. “If people are telling other community members, that’s a whole different level of support than a [sign on a table].”

The program, which runs until mid-November, stations student volunteers in each campus dining hall twice a week, where they work to encourage students to pick up a tray instead of carrying out. If students choose to take their food to go, volunteers inform them of how to properly dispose of their waste in a compost or recycling bin, rather than simply throwing it all away in the trash.

Because Dining Services generates more waste than most other departments on the campus, Lilly said she has worked hard to promote a culture of green dining, which began with educating the kitchen staff.

Many of her efforts, she said, have been focused on educating the kitchen staff and evaluating the efficiency of waste separation in the kitchens.

After the staff better understood efficient waste disposal, she said the next logical step was to engage students.

Although volunteers aim to inform students and promote more sustainable dining practices, Lilly said it’s easiest to simply eat in, since the dining staff separates the waste on trays for students.

“The best way to have your stuff separated is to just get a

tray and let the kitchen do [the separating],” Lilly said. “We want to remind students that they’re paying a fee [for a carryout container].”

Dining Services officials said one of the biggest challenges in promoting sustainability is changing student behavior.

Many students, they said, opt for bagasse carryout containers, only to eat their food in the dining room and throw away their leftovers in the trash.

“It’s about very simple actions,” said Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple. “Put your tray on the tray return belt and then we will do the rest for you.”

Julia Carbonetti, a junior English and environmental policy major who is a program volunteer, said she’s seen varying student attitudes so far.

“Some people don’t seem to care, while others stand there and read the signs so they know what goes where,” she said.

“Some people just toss [their trash] in one of the holes and hope for the best.”

Lilly said it’s still too early to gauge the program’s success, but she is looking to spread the program to other areas on the campus, such as Stamp Student Union’s food court and Dining Services’ catering business.

“It’s very clear that this university has a lot of people that are into sustainability,” she said.

“This is just part of a community and campus effort.”

But Hipple said the success of any dining initiative ultimately comes down to students actively responding to the program.

“We can only do so much,” he said. “We have to get the students to buy in and to want to do this.” israel@umdbk.com

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arlier this month, the Office of the Registrar began charging students $8 to come from somewhere, and often, no solution is particularly attractive. We’re for each official transcript request — without informing the student more troubled, however, by administrators’ surreptitious decision-making body of this decision. Although the first document is free under the new process, both in choosing the amount of the fee and in deliberately not informing system, students could previously request the documents without incur- students of their action.

Officials should have emailed students explaining why they needed to implering any expense. It must have been an unpleasant slap in the face for anyone who called or walked into the Office of the Registrar hoping to quickly knock out one of ment the new policy. Chuck Wilson, associate vice president for records, registration and extended studies, said he was worried that if they their graduate school application chores and learned they had sent such a message before the fee became effective, owed even more money for an already costly process. the office would have been flooded with more requests Last night, the Student Government Association unanithan it could handle, as mass numbers of students tried to mously passed a resolution condemning the $8 fee as We understand why the dodge the fee by submitting requests earlier than they oth“unnecessary” and “excessive.” We agree with SGA legisnewly imposed fee for erwise would have. This justification makes sense; offices lators and other students who argue the fee will likely can only process a certain amount of work. But that choice translate to a hefty financial burden on students applying requesting a transcript is obviously stemmed from not wanting to lose the revenue to more than a handful of graduate programs. Out of confinancially necessary, but — it’s a sneaky maneuver, but one we can accept. What’s cern for these students, we feel the $8 fee is high, but not is that officials didn’t inform students at all; unreasonable. We’re more concerned with the way offiofficials shouldn’t have kept problematic they should have at least sent a message the day the fee cials implemented it.

Officials said they instituted the fee in the face of students in the dark when went into effect.

Although SGA representatives bemoaned the lack of immense budget cuts and that they felt the amount was making the decision. student input in the decision, this editorial board sympaappropriate because it was on par or less than what other thizes with officials for wanting to address this financial institutions charge. Indeed, students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, pay $9.25 for each document; University of Califor- issue quickly and efficiently. We don’t believe student approval was necessary nia, Los Angeles students pay $10. We understand this rationale — everyone is for this action, but officials shouldn’t have neglected to inform them of the decision they ultimately came to. on a fairly equal playing field if everyone pays a similar fee.

Even if officials ultimately decided to charge the same amount, involving stuNevertheless, making choices simply based on the decisions of others is not an ideal way to formulate policy. Some of our peer institutions and several other dents — via the SGA, at the very least — would have gone a long way toward schools in the state do not, in fact, charge a transcript request fee. Towson Uni- reducing student frustration at this unexpected fee.

A shrinking budget is one of the most difficult issues facing our university. Serversity and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for example, only charge stuvices cost money. Fees happen. Students understand that, but they are not out of dents for rush-processing or delivery services.

This editorial board fully understands the incredible strain budget cuts can line in asking they not be kept in the dark about the reasoning behind decisions have on departments — our own finances were slashed dramatically this year. that so directly affect them. In the future, officials should be more upfront and not Sending transcripts involves plenty of expenses: paper, ink, stamps, technology try to hide the bad news. We won’t kill the messenger. to process online requests, mailing costs and labor, to name a few. The money has

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Occupy the march to change

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n Sunday, I headed to Washington’s McPherson Square to observe the Occupy DC movement because I wanted to form my own opinion of the group rather than rely on media depictions or other people’s stereotypes. Although I enjoyed the relaxing environment of urban camping on a beautiful day, my attention was soon diverted when someone suggested I check out the Right2Know march taking place at nearby Lafayette Park, in front of the White House. “Quick, new column material,” I thought, as I followed my curious nose to the demonstration.

As it turns out, the Right2Know group had just arrived after a two-week 300-mile march from New York to Washington. Their cause: to mobilize policy efforts for labeling genetically modified organisms on products.

Their message: As Americans, we have the right to know what’s in our food and to choose safe, healthy food for our families and ourselves.

You probably know about the trendy push toward organic foods, but

JENNIFER SCHWARZ did you know the push against GMOs is at the core of the movement? GMOs are engineered organisms whose genetic material has been changed in a way that does not occur naturally.

They can make our tomatoes plumper, increase crop yields and make plants resistant to pesticides or herbicides.

GMOs are intended to improve our lives, but we don’t have any idea what long-term affect GMOs will have on our bodies or the environment.

The United States is the world’s largest commercial grower of GMO crops. More than 70 percent of processed foods here contain genetically engineered ingredients, and unlike the European Union, we don’t mandate the labeling of genetically modified food.

The Right2Know rally was symboli-

cally coordinated with Sunday’s World Food Day, but it was also part of the coordinated effort Millions Against Monsanto. Monsanto is a multinational biotechnology corporation and the largest agricultural seed company in the world. I first learned of Monsanto from the documentary Food Inc., which villainizes the corporation for putting small farmers out of business by monopolizing the agricultural food market.

Monsanto has also spread GMOs to Africa, Asia and South America, but more startling is talk about how the company collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture when conducting an environmental assessment on its own Roundup herbicide product. Although the general public overwhelmingly supports GMO labels for food products, Monsanto has mounted a successful lobbying campaign, so it remains to be seen whether Congress will take action. If the past is any indication, money will probably speak louder than the voice of the people — but at least there’s hope for reform.

Back at the Occupy DC group in McPherson Square, a sign posted around the central monument explained one person’s justification for joining the movement. It read, “I wanted to register my support for the protest of the corruption in our country’s financial system and the policies that enable such corruption.”

To me, that statement summarizes the overarching theme of a movement that lacks specific goals. But just down the street, the Right2Know rally was making specific demands while protesting the corruption of Monsanto and the government that enables such corruption.

GMO labeling is a specific example of the broad grievances held by Occupy DC protesters across the country. It’s time for the occupiers to realize Washington is where politicians and lobbyists operate. It’s time for the national Occupy movement to begin the march on Washington — then true change can begin.

Jennifer Schwarz is a senior environmental science and policy major.

She can be reached at schwarz@umdbk.com.

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t seemed to be happening in slow motion. I watched the social train wreck, unable to look away. A tiny brunette was cornered halfway out the door of the party, as a blonde with astonishingly large hair said the most dangerous sentence in our generation’s vocabular y: “So, I noticed that we’re not friends on Facebook anymore.”

The brunette’s eyes grew wider than Bambi’s. She knew all was lost and she may as well give up now.

“Well, um,” she began, but to no avail.

“I mean, I just like, I didn’t do anything to you,” asserted Amber, the big-haired blonde, as she crossed her arms. “So I don’t get what I did to deser ve this, like, behavior.”

It was too much to watch; the brutality had gone on long enough, so I pushed the brunette out the door and said goodbye to big-haired Amber as I hurried out. When the brunette thanked me for white-

knighting her, I asked her to explain the predicament as compensation. It was explained that Big Hair and Brunette had grown apart. After repeated efforts to patch the friendship, Brunette de-friended Big Hair on Facebook.

I gasped — such braver y and audacity. I admired her boldness, and asked what led her to pull the trigger (or click the button, as it were).

Brunette (named Jane) explained she didn’t want to be insincere. She just felt the word “friends” no longer reflected the true state of her relationship with Big Hair. Jane had grown tired of Amber’s status updates such as “Neeeed coffee soooo tired,” “Out with the girlzzz!” and “Omgggg dayyyglowwww,” especially considering they were no longer close enough to share such intimate details in person (a recent photo album quoting that Kenny Chesney song about summer and

LAURA FROST wine was particularly egregious).

I nodded my head in understanding. It is a sad thing when Facebook friendship and real friendship do not line up anymore, but I think Jane clearly did the right thing. Ever yone knows if something happens in real life, it isn’t real until you make it “official” on Facebook.

For the fairness of the “friendship,” Jane had to end things.

Unfortunately, we made the mistake of standing directly outside the party while discussing these issues.

Before long, Big Hair overcame the wind drag of her luscious locks and was standing right beside us.

“Look,” she began, while waving a

red cup wildly, barely missing her explosive curls. “It’s just like, I mean, I just can’t, like, tag you anymore. So like, can we just be Facebook friends again?”

“But we’re not in pictures together anymore because we’re not friends in real life,” Jane slowly explained. “So why would you need to tag me?”

“What?” said Big Hair. “Real life?

I’m just talking about Facebook.”

It was time for me to go. My work, as far as I could tell, was done. Jane clearly doesn’t understand the core issue — that real friendships and connections have been replaced by interaction via social networks. I hope Jane sees the light some day, for her own good. And before Big Hair’s big hair takes her out.

Laura Frost is a junior government and politics and journalism major.

She can be reached at frost@umdbk.com.

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onjour! Today I continue to explore clichés about the civilizations on every continent of this planet. But instead of exploitation, let me take this opportunity to disabuse you of a cliché that hails from the fifth continent. This cliché is about the auk.

In cartoons, we see auks and penguins sharing the same ice, but in reality, they do not. First, auks live in the northern hemisphere and penguins in the southern hemisphere.

Second, auks can fly and penguins cannot. It’s a great example of how we are born full of assumptions. It’s as if you, the American, are traveling in Europe and someone asks if you’re Canadian. You might be upset and answer, “Hey, guy! I’m not a lumberjack. Do I look like I’m wearing a plaid shirt and pants with suspenders? Furthermore, I don’t wrestle bears.”

Actually, I suppose I was born in a cabbage patch inside a garden full of clichés. In one little corner, I can find clichés about Asian civilizations, in another, African and in the middle, America is separated from Mexican clichés by a fence. It’s a veritable garden of clichés, and certainly no utopia.

However, I’m not pretentious enough to lecture you, even if my ego is bigger than Greece’s debt load. You’re free to question things yourself.

Let’s talk for a moment about politics. In fact, I was wondering about our ancestral heritage. At first sight, you may think absolute monarchy and current democracy are totally different. Gad! (Bollocks!) Think again.

Plenty of democracies have serious problems with corruption. Indeed, most political parties are illegally subsidized by arms sales. We can’t but wonder if democracy didn’t create corruption. Indeed, absolute monarchies never have problems of corruption.

Just ask Caesar. Okay, you can't talk to Caesar, but if you could, he may have answered, “I already stole all of Europe’s money. Why would I steal my own cash? You’re crazy, buddy.”

By the way, I know Caesar was an emperor, not a king. How many kings do you know except Burger King and Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings?

Then, the right of cuissage (“law of the first night”) isn’t a bygone idea, I don’t think. Take the Dominique Strauss-Kahn story, for example. It bears a striking similarity to Molière’s “Don Juan,” no? Buckle up and follow me. Don Juan wants to practice the ancient right of cuissage; he hunts for prey, which eventually gives in. He renders her defenseless with his seductive political and financial power. Does Don Juan not remind you of the erstwhile IMF boss?

Concerning the United States, I’d like to discuss the first Western movie that I watched, My Name is Nobody. I suppose these were my first images of America. Today, I ask myself, could America still exist in such a rustic state? Suburban gangs don’t ride horses, but they do drive roaring cars (which, incidentally, have horsepower). Was the Gold Rush simply supplanted by the conquest for oil?

The sheriff is still here to maintain order in the county.

To conclude, we can’t ignore our heritage, we can’t forget our past. The only thing we know is that tomorrow is born in the garden of yesterday, laden with yesterday’s mistakes but infused with accomplishments. We can only hope that the larvae of utopia will transform into a butterfly of accomplishments, because as I always say: The greatest accomplishments are born of utopian dreams.

Sebastien Vilfayeau is an intern in the fire protection engineering department.

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DIVERSIONS FRIDAY: Check back tomorrow for a pair of reviews — one for Johnny English Reborn (it’s better than you think), and another for The Skin I Live In (with Antonio Banderas in creep mode). Also, Halloween is on its way, so we’ll fill you in on the annual Zombie Walk in Silver Spring, which uses real zombies! (It does not use real zombies.)

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PREVIEW | VELOCITY DC DANCE FESTIVAL

BY BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN For The Diamondback

The VelocityDC Dance Festival will bring together a melting pot of world-class dancers to celebrate the art form’s growth in the area.

Following two sold-out seasons, the third annual festival, which runs today through Sunday at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harmon Hall in Washington, presents four days of multiple genres of dance.

VelocityDC is presenting three programs, each featuring a diverse mix of dance genres. Highlights include a Sri Lankan dance

by Asanga Domask and pieces from VelocityDC veterans including the Washington Ballet, Urban Artistr y, Edgeworks Dance Theater and Flamenco Aparicio.

Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround, a Washington company that combines the formalism of choreography with improvisation, will present a piece, “Green” — in which company members innovatively dance with grass — 45 minutes before curtain in an upper lobby of Harman Hall today, tomorrow and Sunday.

This is one of several pre-shows throughout the weekend.

Urban Artistry founder and executive director Junious Brickhouse said Washington’s diversity is accurately reflected in the lineup.

“D.C. is built on diversity, and to have a festival talking about art and to not have that kind of diversity would be criminal,” Brickhouse said.

Tickets are $18, and Peter DiMuro, choreographer and director for VelocityDC, said that affordability articulates one of the

ON THE MOVE VelocityDC Dance Festival brings all types and styles of dance to the nation’s capital

Chong Sun will perform as a member of the Washington Ballet, one of the VelocityDC Dance Festival’s veterans. Other groups include Urban Artistry and Edgeworks Dance Theater. PHOTO COURTESY OF WASHINGTON BALLET STUDIO COMPANY

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Science and technology are not common aspects of dance; movement and people are. To explore how, through dance, technology is affecting our lives, Nathan Andary is bringing them all together.

Andar y, a choreographer and graduate student in dance, will debut his new project, Going Viral, in a joint Master of Fine Arts Thesis concert today in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts

research on HeLa cells, which have been used for research on diseases, chemical and toxin reactions and a number of other tests. “[The] cells were taken and used to understand more about what she was going through and to understand more about the human condition from a cellular perspective,” Andary said. “That same kind of process is what’s being employed with this idea of Going Viral. That’s why we’re looking at the human condition through a technological lens.”

Center. It will take place on the same bill as Vaudevival: Old is the new New, a separate performance choreographed by graduate student Emily Oleson.

“The piece itself started with my interest in how technology and dance would interact,” Andar y said. “Because dance uses a human form, the human body for its mode of expression.

Inherently, it’s organic, and that is counterintuitive to something that becomes technological.”

Andary said he was inspired by

group’s goals: to bring arts appreciation to the next generation.

To further attract young people to the arts, VelocityDC has implemented a new pre-festival program at 6:45 p.m. today through Saturday. The series, RAMP-to-Velocity, aims to preview up-andcoming dancers in the area, DiMuro said.

The festival also encourages wider awareness of different dance forms in the dance community itself; Helanius Wilkins, the artistic director, founder and choreographer of Edgeworks Dance Theater, said companies take advantage of the collaborative festival to work with other styles of dance.

“There are very few opportunities where we are able to cross pathways and share this same stage space and come together for an event, so there is a wonderful energy around that that we ver y much enjoy being a part of,” Wilkins said.

Brickhouse said VelocityDC’s open atmosphere and beautiful annual presentation sets it apart from other festivals.

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re doing flamenco or ballet or hip-hop or breakdancing,” Brickhouse said. “They say, ‘This is D.C., this is art, this is dance; come one, come all.’”

The VelocityDC Dance Festival takes place tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall in Washington. Tickets cost $18. For more information, go to www.velocitydc.org. diversions@umdbk.com

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PRESEASON from page 8 Maryland, we were always an underdog, but we’ve found some way to get through and use it as motivation to work hard each and every day at practice.”

Still, Turgeon will lead a team featuring no proven post threats and just one player who has started more than 15 games.

“I’ve taken over programs that were in bad shape,” Turgeon said.

“This program is not in bad shape.

OK, it’s not. It’s not where we want it to be and it’s not where it was 10 years ago, but it’s not in bad shape.

So we’re closer to where we need to be.”

With forward Jordan Williams off to the NBA, no Terps earned preseason All-ACC honors. North Carolina led the way with preseason Player of the Year Harrison Barnes, along with fellow preseason All-ACC members John Henson and Tyler Zeller. Duke guard Seth Curry, Miami guard Malcolm Grant and Virginia forward Mike Scott filled out the preseason All-ACC list.

Terps freshman guard Nick Faust, a highly touted recruit who decided to stay with Turgeon this spring despite Gary Williams’ retirement, received one vote for preseason rookie of the year.

Duke guard Austin Rivers won the newcomer honor handily, with 57 of the 59 votes.

Despite low expectations for his team, first-year coach Mark Turgeon said the Terps’ program “is not in bad shape.”

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did, and I think they’re starting to figure out that it needs to come from them if they want to be good at the level that they want to play.”

McBain, the team’s primary setter, is doing all she can to fill that role. She recently ascended to fifth all time in assists in school history, a testament to how crucial she is in the offensive flow.

Off the court, McBain, along with Lee and other returning players, developed ways to acclimate the freshmen to the team before the season began.

“We made them earn their practice shirts so they understood what it meant to be on our team,” she said. “We did many team-bonding experiences, as well.”

Only three upperclassmen might not be enough, however. Senior setter Sharon Strizak has been sidelined with a knee injury this season, and the Terps’ lack of depth became painfully obvious when freshman outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher sat out two weeks ago with concussion symptoms.

“I think they’re feeling a lot of pressure from [the injuries],” Horsmon said.

“They’re feeling like they need to do a little bit more than what they’re comfortable of doing. You got players playing a little out of position and doing some things that they shouldn’t have to do, but that’s part of the game. There are a lot of teams going through this, and we need to be better for it.”

The team’s razor-thin lineup is, however, opening doors for freshmen. Freshman Catie Coyle, who had appeared in just one match beforehand, saw the floor against Duke on Saturday. The middle blocker recorded three kills and three blocks after having accumulated little game experience before the match, perhaps hinting at the potential that lies on the team’s bench.

“We have a lot of good, young kids on our team that we’re building,” Horsmon said. “The upperclassmen and the young kids are all part of that, so whether they’re learning from them or those opportunities arise for the young kids, they need to take advantage of them and execute.”

Experience still leads the way in guiding the younger players. McBain and Lee, the only active players on the squad to have played more than one year in a Terp uniform, understand the importance of their roles on the team.

“Being upperclassmen, we’re expected to make the bigger players and take the pressure off the younger girls,” Lee said.

“It’s part of our job description to do that.”

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month. “The first game I was asked to start, I was a little nervous. I wasn’t as confident as I should have been, just looking at the crowd and stuff.

I’ve never played in anything like that.”

The freshman trio has been far from perfect, of course, as last weekend’s matchup with No. 8 Clemson demonstrated.

While Goree led the Terps with 12 tackles and a sack, and his linebacker accomplices were plenty serviceable, the team’s defense was porous and surrendered 49 points to the vaunted Tigers attack.

The Tigers’ explosion can’t be pinned entirely on the freshmen; the defense, as a whole, was overmatched. But the young Terps learned the hard way what can come of missed tackles and blown assignments.

“It’s not testing their athleticism, it’s just testing their foot-

With two games left, ‘desperation’ reigns Terps may need win vs. Duke or North Carolina to secure place in ACC Tournament

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Only six weeks ago, expectations — not desperation — had come to define the Terrapins women’s soccer team’s season.

After posting the best record in program history and earning their first No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2010, the Terps had their sights set on advancing beyond the NCAA Tournament’s second round and Sweet 16, where their previous two seasons had ended. After a scoreless tie with No. 1 Stanford in late August, the Terps were ranked as high as No. 3 nationally.

But a spell of injuries and bad luck has plagued the No. 15 Terps since, sending them tumbling down the rankings and miring them in the middle of a competitive ACC. Sunday’s game at No. 6 Duke and Oct. 27’s date with No. 8 North Carolina, which only a month ago could have been seen as preparation for the ACC Tournament, now might determine whether the Terps’ season stretches beyond this month.

“Right now, we’re desperate,” forward Ashley Grove said. “That’s the only feeling we should be feeling right now. … If we don’t get at least a point or two out of these last two games, we could be done for the ACC Tournament. If we don’t make the ACC Tournament, who knows if we’re going to make the NCAA Tournament.”

Coach Brian Pensky has talked about desperation at other points during the year, but now it’s a necessity for the Terps. Where it once applied to end-of-game situations, it now applies to, potentially, the end of the Terps’ season.

“Whether or not we’ve been playing absolutely in desperation, I think sometimes we have, and sometimes we haven’t,” Pensky said. “We’re at a stage where everything we do needs to be a little bit desperate.”

The team’s situation warrants that attitude and thought process. The Terps are in sixth place in the ACC, and only the top eight teams in the

ball IQs,” Vellano said. “Stuff happens fast out there. You can rewind game film all you want, but it’s a different game when you’re playing. I think they’ve done a great job, and getting that game experience is key.”

And although it’s no secret the Terps will welcome the return of their more seasoned linebackers, the experience being gained by Goree, Rowson and Twine should prove invaluable to their future.

“Those kids are giving us everything that they have … and we’ve already got some things going in our mind on what we do when those [original starters] come back,” coach Randy Edsall said Tuesday. “The one thing that I know is while Kenny, Demetrius and Darin aren’t in there, we’re getting some valuable experience and playing time for some young men who are going to be around here for a long, long time.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

Defender Megan Gibbons and the Terps were ranked as high as No. 3 after an early-season draw with Stanford. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

conference advance to the postseason tournament. But the Terps’ loss to Miami on Sunday allowed the Hurricanes back into the race, creating a situation where nine teams are vying for eight spots.

“All of us, our backs are against the wall,” defender Remi Kriz said.

“We don’t want our backs to be against the wall, so we’re going to fight and we’re going to be desper-

ate. We want it. That desire is there.”

Grove, a senior, has seen the Terps evolve from a mediocre team at the bottom of the ACC to one of the top teams in the nation. But she said Tuesday that she feels the team got comfortable with its No. 3 ranking and lost some of its edge.

“Every year, except for this year, we’ve always been the underdogs,” Grove said. “We’ve been that team

TOWSON from page 8

Linebacker Lorne Goree finished with a teamhigh 12 tackles Saturday in a 56-45 loss to Clemson. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

reached five times in 15 games. The team got nearly all of its players involved, as six different Terps scored in the game. Forward Lindsey Puckett and midfielder Danielle Kauffman each netted their first goal of the season.

“We’re starting to jell,” Meharg said. “Having six different goal scorers is exciting and it’s what we need right now.”

“It was really special since it hasn’t happened yet this year. It’s a good feeling,” Puckett said of her goal.

“We had a lot of good energy coming out from everybody.”

Perhaps more impressive than the six goals was the team’s continued strong defensive play. The Tigers’ offense had averaged 11.4 shots per game coming into last night’s game, but the Terps’ defense stifled their attack, holding it to just one shot in a shutout.

Another low-scoring effort from a Terps opponent pointed to a positive trend in the team’s backline success.

After allowing five goals on 14 shots in

trying to get to the top and right now we’re back at the bottom. We’re that team trying to get to the top again. I think our team performs and our team works together and our team lives and breathes soccer the best when we’re coming from behind, and right now that’s what we’re doing.”

Although playing with their backs against the wall might be how the Terps prefer to play, the Blue Devils won’t make it any easier. Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell has 10 shutouts and boasts a 0.39 goals-against average. On offense, forward Kelly Cobb has five game-winning goals on the year, tied for first in the ACC. The Terps have shown up against top competition this year, but their postseason uncertainty heightens their urgency heading into the Duke match. In the latest update to the RPI released yesterday, an important criterion in the NCAA Tournament selection process, the Terps are No. 28.

Duke and North Carolina are Nos. 4 and 6, respectively. Wins in either of their final two games would all but solidify the Terps’ third straight tournament appearance.

“Really, from here on out, it’s for real,” Pensky said. “These last two games, as it relates to our ACC Tournament hopes and, therefore, our NCAA Tournament hopes, every game matters. Hopefully, then we’re playing in the ACC Tournament and that matters, and then the NCAA Tournament.”

The players are confident they will be playing into November. Grove said she knows the team has the talent to win the ACC and NCAA tournaments. It just comes down to the play on the field.

“The fire under our butts, I think that’s what desperation is,” Kriz said.

“We’re all soccer players. We’re all athletes. We’re at the level right now where we know what we need to do to win. We know how to pass. We know how to shoot. We know the fundamentals. It’s all what’s in our hearts and all what’s in our heads at this point.” dgallen@umdbk.com

a loss to No. 1 Old Dominion this past Friday, the Terps have now allowed just one goal on eight shots in their past two games.

“Those are the statistics that we’re looking for that show that we’re organized back there and dominating,” Meharg said. “You’ve got to fight for yourself, fight for your teammates and individual defense is the first step. …

They’ve really made it personal.”

“The defense really stepped up today,” defender Hayley Turner said.

“Communication-wise, it was just spoton and this is what we’ve been working on. … It was just really good for it to finally come together.”

The win tonight is another step forward for the Terps after their loss to the Lady Monarchs last week, but they will have little time to dwell on their victory.

A tough matchup at No. 2 North Carolina awaits the team Saturday, but what the team learned against the Tigers last night will make the road trip with them.

“What we did [yesterday] is definitely what we’re going to step up to UNC,” Turner said. “Try to make it better and just keep building from it.” vitale@umdbk.com

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Sports

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps to don ‘shellmets’ After a long wait, Terps fans will get a look at the football team’s white helmets Saturday.

For more, check out TerrapinTrail.com.

FOOTBALL

Terps are voted ninth in ACC poll

North Carolina, Duke picked to finish on top

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Following the only coach to bring a national championship to College Park is pressure enough for new Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon.

And given the roster he inherited from his predecessor, Turgeon won’t face many of the same high expectations often saddled on Gary Williams’ former teams.

The Terps were picked to finish ninth in the ACC’s preseason poll yesterday, the lowest ranking for the program in the 42-year histor y of the poll.

North Carolina garnered the top spot almost unanimously, with Duke trailing right behind.

Only Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and Boston College, all programs in the middle of massive rebuilding projects under relatively new coaches, were picked to finish worse than the Terps.

Turgeon, of course, is already used to the little respect the Terps have received across the country.

“I’ve heard it a lot,” Turgeon said at the team’s Media Day last week. “And then you pick up the [preseason college-basketball] magazines and they seem to agree with everyone. … What the magazines have come out and said hasn’t hurt our recruiting.”

“I don’t care where we’re ranked; at the end of the day, it’s where you finish,” guard Sean Mosley said at yesterday’s ACC Media Day in Charlotte, N.C. “A lot of teams that are underdogs usually finish on the top, like my freshman and sophomore year. Ever since I’ve been at

see PRESEASON, page 7

LOW ON THE POLL The Terps were voted ninth in the preseason ACC poll, their lowest finish in the history of the poll. Parentheses indicate number of first-place votes.

1. North Carolina (57) 2. Duke (2) 3. Florida State 4. Virginia 5. Miami 6. Virginia Tech 7. Clemson 8. N.C. State 9. Terps 10.Georgia Tech 11. Wake Forest 12. Boston College

GARY EXCLUSIVE For the highlights of a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with former Terps men’s basketball coach Gary Williams, go to TerrapinTrail.com.

Freshman linebackers Lorne Goree, far left, Alex Twine, second from right, and Mario Rowson tackle Clemson tight end Dwayne Allen during the Terps’ 56-45 loss Saturday. All three of the team’s original starting linebackers are out with injuries. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

In with the new With linebacking corps depleted, Terps turn to three freshman starters at position

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

Even as the Terrapins football team came into this season noticeably thin at linebacker, it could at least take solace in the top-heavy talent available at the position.

With proven playmakers in Kenny Tate and Demetrius Hartsfield joined by Darin Drakeford — who had 36 tackles last season, the most by a non-starter — it seemed a given that the linebacker corps would carry on the ever-dependable tradition of past units.

That proved true in the team’s season-opening win over Miami, when Tate, Hartsfield and Drakeford combined for 38 tackles, a forced fumble, a sack and an interception.

But that was also the last time the trio would be together for an entire game. Drakeford has made just two tackles since suffering an ankle injury against the Hurricanes, and he hasn’t appeared in a game since Sept. 24.

And with Tate and Hartsfield each

Linebacker Darin Drakeford is carted off the field during the Terps’ game against Miami on Sept. 5. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

going down in recent weeks, the Terps have been left with what would have been a worst-case scenario for the coaching staff entering

VOLLEYBALL

the season: three freshman starting linebackers.

With Lorne Goree, Mario Rowson and Alex Twine all now

plugged into the starting lineup, though, things haven’t been as bad as initially foreseen.

“That was kind of a depth concern at the beginning of the year,” defensive tackle Joe Vellano said. “They probably never thought they’d be sitting here starting these games like that. I thought they’ve truly done a great job just learning, adapting.

They’ve still got to go to school; it’s not just football transition, it’s kind of a life transition, really.”

The freshman corps has been together since midway through the third quarter Oct. 8 against No. 20 Georgia Tech, when Hartsfield left the game with an undisclosed injury.

With their help, the Terps held the Yellow Jackets’ high-octane offense scoreless after Hartsfield’s injury, a defensive effort that nearly allowed the Terps to engineer a remarkable second-half comeback.

“I do feel like I’m getting more comfortable,” Goree said after the team’s win over Towson earlier this

see FRESHMEN, page 7

FIELD HOCKEY

Upperclassmen help lead youth movement As inexperienced team struggles, trio pitches in on and off court

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

The Terrapins volleyball team is stuck in a deep rut.

Mired in a five-match losing streak as their roster has dwindled to only 12 active players, the Terps have won just three of their last 11 matches. The nearfuture doesn’t look much better, either: Matches against ACC heavyweights Florida State and Miami loom this weekend.

Coach Tim Horsmon, however, believes his team’s struggles all stem from one issue: youth.

“It’s all about these kids learning how to win, because they don’t have that experience,” he said. “We have a lot of young players, and not many upperclassmen to lead them.”

The Terps (9-12, 3-6 ACC) have just three available

upperclassmen on the roster in senior outside hitter Maddi Lee, junior setter Remy McBain and junior middle blocker Caitlin Adams. Adams is also in her first year as a Terp, having transferred from Texas A&M last year. Three sophomores and six freshmen comprise the other nine available players.

With his team’s makeup, Horsmon said, the lack of experience points to a need for leadership.

“The leaders and the captains on this team, and the upperclassmen, are trying to figure out how to lead,” Horsmon said. “They want to make this program their own, and they have those expectations to do so. But that can’t always come from the coaches. I think the first couple of years [for them], it

see LEADERSHIP, page 7

Forward Jill Witmer had one goal during the Terps’ 6-0 win against Towson last night.

The team plays No. 2 North Carolina on Saturday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

No. 3 Terps blank Towson, 6-0 Despite rain, team matches season-high mark

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

The rain poured down unabated for much of last night, soaking the playing surface at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex and leaving many of the 212 in attendance searching for cover.

But almost nothing from above or in front of it could slow down a torrid Terrap-

ins field hockey attack. The No. 3 Terps unleashed an offensive barrage against in-state rival Towson, scoring three first-half goals under a sometimes-constant rainfall en route to a decisive 6-0 victory. The team is now 27-0-2 against the Tigers, having won 24 straight in the series.

“I think the rain and the mist and everything from the beginning of the game

really made the field just play beautifully,” coach Missy Meharg said. “All in all, I thought we played consistently for 70 minutes, and that’s what we’re looking for.”

The Terps’ (13-2) six goals against Towson (8-8) last night matched their highest offensive output of the season, which they’ve

see TOWSON, page 7