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Purple Line worries immigrant community Casa de Maryland concerned light-rail initiative will threaten culture of ‘international corridor’

tive would threaten the culture of the state’s “International Corridor” along University Boulevard. The line would extend from New Carrollton

By Jim Bach and low-income populations situated to Bethesda and have several stops in College Park, passing through the @thedbk near the transit line.

Senior staff writer Casa de Maryland, a non-prof- commercial zone where “residents it organization representing the represent over 150 countries and a The contentious Purple Line is state’s immigrant community, said vast array of minority-owned small becoming a concern for members of in a letter to the Maryland Transit businesses,” according to the letter.

The organization’s main concern is immigrant communities who worry Authority that the group is conit will harm the interests of minority cerned the 16-mile light-rail initia- that, with the construction and coma new studio in Eppley Recreation Center offers Bosu balls, kettlebells and more, along with the open space to use them. rachel george/the diamondback

pletion of the project near this zone, the corridor will stand to absorb an increase in housing prices and rents on small businesses, increasing the cost of living in an area where more than 16 percent of households are below the poverty level.

Such concerns have been brought to the MTA through hearings and meetings, but it has been to no avail.

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food for people

ERC studio frees space for exercise

Stamp’s Maryland Food Co-op survives with plans to thrive

Former Pro Shop has new ways to work out

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer

By Darcy Costello @dctello Staff writer

The Maryland Food Co-op, a healthy food haven in the basement of Stamp Student Union, has undergone several periods of transition in its nearly 40 years in existence, but workers have kept the same underlying principles alive.

The co-op’s mission, “Food for people, not for profit,” is prominently displayed on a banner above the entrance, and it still rings true for a business that has pulled through financial hardship thanks to the support of loyal customers and the Stamp administration.

“We are really grateful and appreciative of our relationship with Stamp,” said Mary Schulce, a university alumna and one of the co-op’s co-owners.

“They are willing to work with us because there are a lot of people that really want us here.”

In June 2012, the co-op was due to renew its lease in Stamp for $16,000.

Unable to afford paying that price up front, the co-op negotiated a deal to pay

Gone are the chips, sports bras and water bottles — Eppley Recreation Center’s former Pro Shop is now a space to spend energy working out instead of spending money.

The ERC’s repurposed functional training studio that once hou sed a shop sto cked w it h snacks, sports drinks and workout apparel now offers a new style of workout experience for interested gym-goers.

Now, students have equipment and open floor space perfect for “freedom of movement” exercises, which plenty of students have been utilizing.

The Pro Shop had occupied the space since the ERC opened its doors in 1998. Now, students can find the food or snacks the Pro Shop would have previously offered at Sneaker’s Energy Zone See eppley, Page 3

the maryland food co-op in Stamp Student Union’s basement is paying off its lease after financial problems in June 2012. rachel george/the diamondback

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Delegate, alumna will run for lieutenant governor

Traveling the world in film, one language at a time

Ivey could be first black woman to hold position

Language House film contest plays for 300

By Alex Kirshner @alex_kirshner Staff writer After enjoying her experience as a Prince George’s County state delegate for nearly seven years, university alumna Jolene Ivey is aiming for a new job: lieutenant governor.

Doug Gansler, state attorney general and one of two consensus frontrunners for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, announced he would add Ivey to his campaign ticket last week. If Gansler wins June’s primary and the Nov. 2014 election, Ivey would become the fi rst black woman to hold the office of lieutenant governor in the state.

Ivey, 52, who pursued a career in

media and then politics after receiving her master’s from this university’s journalism college, said she would relish the transition that would take her from being one of 141 state delegates to second-in-command of the entire state.

“It’s not too often that you have a chance to be a part of something where you can make big changes for the state. One thing I like about being a delegate is that I’m able to do things that change things for people, that make things better for people,” Ivey said. “I see being lieutenant governor as being able to do that on steroids.”

To get there, though, she’ll have some work to do. Recent polling numbers show Gansler trailing Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown by a 2-1 margin in the primary race.

Brown has racked up dozens of political and organizational endorsements from state leaders such

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Del. jolene ivey (D-Prince George’s) joined on Doug Gansler’s ticket last week. photo courtesy of jolene ivey as Gov. Martin O’Malley, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Rep. Elijah Cummings.

But Ivey isn’t worried about the endorsements.

“We’re going directly to voters,” she said.

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For some, it takes 80 days to travel around the world. But for others, it takes just 70 minutes or less.

In Stamp Student Union’s Hoff Theater on Monday night, many of the 101 students and mentors from the 10 Language House clusters faced off in the program’s second annual Around the World Film Festival.

For four weeks, students directed, produced and starred in five- to seven-minute-long original films that focused on a cluster’s language and culture. Films had to

be in a foreign language with English subtitles and follow a style characteristic of their targeted culture.

Students presented their movies to a crowd of about 300 and a panel of 12 judges, who critiqued the fi lms on acting, cultural relevance, plot coherence and cinematography, said Phoenix Liu, Language House program director.

A horror fi lm depicting an Italian girl’s trip to the U.S., produced by the Italian cluster, won fi rst place, followed by the Arabic and Spanish clusters’ productions.

For the project, the biggest assignment of the semester, Liu said students had to prepare a food representative of their culture for a reception following the fi lm festival.

It was an intense few weeks of dedication, but junior Betsy Thomas See language, Page 2

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Antibiotic-resistant threats become more prevalent Overprescription causes more than 2 million infections in U.S. every year

By Zoe Sagalow @thesagaofzoe Staff writer Despite the talk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, sophomore journalism major Morgan Eichensehr was surprised when such an infection hit her family.

Several years ago, her mother developed flesh-eating Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria after a broken leg. It wreaked havoc on her mother’s leg, but the cause was even scarier: Eichensehr’s mother developed the resistant bacteria after taking repeated doses of medications for her leg that were strong enough to prevent the bacteria from responding to medications alone.

It’s a trend happening all over the country, and medical experts said the

Co-OP From PAGE 1 off the lease in $350 installments over the course of five years, Schulce said.

So far, Schulce said, business has been going well enough that the co-op can afford the installments and its monthly rent of $2,800 and has enough left over to pay its more than 15 workerowners a starting wage of $10 per hour.

The co-op has made a few changes this semester to help the business run more smoothly and draw more customers, she said.

“We’re still completely flat in terms of management; you rely on your coworkers to keep you accountable,” she said. “But the change in our committee structure is huge.”

All paid staff are considered workers and owners, meaning they have equal opportunity to provide input on the ownership of the business and share the responsibilities. This semester, the staff formed seven committees, each with a set of tasks to help operations: catering, staff and volunteer

LANGUAGE From PAGE 1 said the result was worth all the effort, especially when she learned her cluster’s film won.

“It feels really awesome,” said Thomas, a physiology and neurobiology major in the Italian cluster. “We worked really hard on our film and had a lot of fun making it.”

In the immersive Language House, students speak foreign languages about 90 percent of the time in 10 different apartment clusters, Liu said.

Students said they enjoy the opportunity to interact with a diverse group of people while improving their speaking and listening skills. Thomas said living in the house has helped

public and their doctors should take note of the dangers of overprescribing medications.

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released in April about antibiotic resistance threats, more than 2 million people in the United States get antibiotic-resistant infections every year, and at least 23,000 people die from these infections.

Amy Sapkota, a biostatistics and epidemiology professor, said if a person has an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, antibiotics are useless in treating the infection.

Herman Sintim, a biochemistry and chemistry professor, said there are a few ways that bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics. Already-resistant bacteria can pass on resistant genes when they reproduce, or spontaneous resistance from repeated drug dosages can occur.

If a person has antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Sintim said, the bacteria can be spread easily through contact with surfaces and even through the air.

Bacteria became trapped as

Eichensehr’s mother’s leg healed. Although she took antibiotics to fight infection, the MRSA bacteria prevented the antibiotics from having any impact. The bacteria entered the bloodstream, causing more problems. “ I t wa s j u s t re a l l y a w f u l ,” Eichensehr said. “They were cutting out parts of her leg because there was a flesh-eating bacteria in it.”

Finally, she said, her mother had multi-drug IV antibiotic therapy, meaning she took an especially strong antibiotic to get rid of the infection — so strong, in fact, that she took it through a heart-line because it was too strong for the veins in her arm. “ S h e ’s b e e n f i n e s i n c e ,” Eichensehr said.

She said her mother, who works at Union Memorial Hospital as a quality assurance manager, already knew about MRSA before getting it herself and was able to remain relatively matter-of-fact throughout the process.

“It was far less scary for all of us because she was a lot calmer about it,” Eichensehr wrote in a Facebook message. “I’m sure she was nervous

training, ordering and inventory, finance, maintenance, human resources and marketing and outreach.

Several initiatives have been capturing students’ attention, said Chris Litchfield, a co-owner on the marketing committee. A new breakfast menu offering specialties such as tempeh bacon has been popular, he said, though the breakfast rush has slowed during midterms. The co-op is also hosting concerts throughout the course of the semester, featuring local bands from the campus and the Washington area, he said.

Aside from the new breakfast menu and musical events, Litchfield said, the co-op staff is dedicated to community action.

“We want to be reinvested in the community here,” he said.

“We are an organization that empowers people, not just sells them food.”

Staff members have been communicating with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a labor union with more than 1 million members, to try to find ways to help local union members, he said. The co-op

staff will also vote to start what they call a “solidarity fund,” which would go toward local workers if they go on strike, Litchfield said. Volunteers would have the option to donate their food credit, which they earn every hour they work in the co-op, to the fund.

“We aren’t an isolated business, and that means being connected to people around us,” he said. “We really want to help support workers in general.”

That mission to improve the community is what makes worker-owners such as Jenna Parry, who has been part of the co-op staff for four years, proud to work there.

“I really enjoy working here,” the senior web design major said. “One of the most rewarding experiences is being able to change aspects of the business you’re working for.”

Worker-owners all have an equal share of the business and an equal say in how business is conducted, she said, which gives the work atmosphere at the co-op a communal feeling.

Its uniqueness and commitment to providing healthy and affordable food to students is what keeps loyal customers

her with conversational Italian more than formal classes have.

“The Language House is a lot of work, but it pays off because it’s literally an immersion program,” said sophomore Spanish major Anna McKeown, who is in the Spanish cluster.

“I feel like I’m studying abroad when I’m right at Maryland.”

And though projects such as the film festival are “laborintensive and very time-consuming,” senior government and politics major Karina Panyan said they help students form a tight-knit community.

It’s a bond that McKeown said the Spanish cluster developed during the production process.

“It was actually really interesting because the Spanish cluster is so large, so everyone had a very unique role [in the

film’s production],” McKeown said. “Everyone kind of added their own flair to it.”

At the closing reception in St. Mary’s Hall, which houses the program, students shared their dishes as a way to let audience members experience their cultures firsthand. Liu also hoped the reception would serve as a time for students and guests to reflect on the films’ themes and messages.

“The audience should get something to take home with them. A good film should let you think about it for two to three days — that’s what I ask students to aim for,” Liu said.

“I just want these films to stand out. These students worked hard and I appreciate that.”

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that it had happened, but she kept a level head. She knew it would be fine and didn’t let us worry too much.”

Until numerous cases of resistance occur, Sintim said, the scientific community is unaware of the particular bacteria strain.

“By the time people become aware that there is a problem, it’s not possible to contain it anymore,” he said.

Sapkota said doctors often prescribe antibiotics because their patients request them, even in cases when the patients don’t have a bacterial infection.

“Giving somebody an antibiotic is not going to do anything against a virus,” she said. This would be an inappropriate use of antibiotics, she said, and would contribute to overprescription.

“We’re worried about any and all antibiotic use,” Sapkota said.

She added that patients should treat a virus by resting, drinking a lot of fluids and eating healthy food. But patients prefer to ask for an antibiotic rather than do these things, and that’s a problem, she said.

Sintim said it’s highly probable that one year after an antibiotic has been introduced into clinics and prescribed to many patients, there will be some resistant bacteria.

“Typically, 15 years is adequate for the resistant strain to reach all the continents of the world due to global travel,” he said.

Previously, when populations became resistant to an antibiotic, researchers just developed a new one, but Sintim said there are a few reasons why the probability of developing new drugs is very low now. It doesn’t make financial sense to invest in the development of new antibiotics when there is antibiotic resistance, he said, and many classes of antibiotics have already been discovered, so it’s hard to find new ones.

“It paints a very grim picture,” Sintim said.

One solution, he said, could be for governments worldwide to “come together to fund antibiotic research for humanity.” zsagalowdbk@gmail.com

the maryland food co-op in the basement of Stamp Student Union continues to draw customers with its selection of healthy, organic food after undergoing a series of changes to its business plan at the beginning of this semester. rachel george/the diamondback co-op whenever she can. coming back, Schulce said.

“The people there are always Sara Gregerman, a junior psychology major, said she kind,” she said. “And the sandlooks forward to eating at the wiches are definitely something

I look forward to if I ever have time to eat lunch.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

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purple From PAGE 1 Casa de Maryland has urged the creation of a “Purple Line Compact” under the stewardship of the MTA. “The Purple Line has a greater chance of success if it is designed and built in partnership with the communities, especially the most vulnerable, which lie along its right of way,” the letter said. “We propose that government stakeholders work in partnership with impacted

EPPLEY From PAGE 1 on the same level, and people looking for workout clothing can visit the lower level’s “Rec Shop,” said Kate Maloney, Campus Recreation Services wellness communications coordinator.

The new studio offers a number of individual tools, including four TRX trainers, Bosu balls, kettle bells, foam rollers, stability and medicine balls, Plio rebounders and Ab Coasters — equipment officials said students had requested or had been absent in existing workout rooms.

In September alone, more than 900 students used the st ud io space a nd equ ipment, numbers officials hope will continue to rise as students expand their workout horizons.

“People can be hesitant to try out a new studio or new equipment. We all have a ten-

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communities along the Purple Line to ensure that its construction builds families rather than displace them.”

The Purple Line project carries a $2.2 billion price tag, and a crunch in transportation funding illustrated to many lawmakers the need to fund the state’s Transportation Trust Fund, which was expected to dry up in 2017 — the same time the Purple Line is expected to receive an infusion of $820 million that would also be available for Red Line use, according to the state’s Department of Legislative Services.

The General Assembly passed an unpopular incremental increase in the gas sales tax that went into effect July 1.

Despite the high cost and Annapolis’s scramble to fund the project, the Purple Line still garners support from state and university officials. In an interview with The Diamondback in April, former Gov. Parris Glendening said he “would rank that as the No. 1 project on any completion list.”

He said the current state transit infrastructure is a legacy of a time when Washington pro-

vided all the jobs. However, he said, it is now important, especially for this university, to set up public transportation channels to suburbs like Bethesda and Silver Spring that have become job centers in their own right.

“All of the existing lines run like the spokes of a wheel in and out of the District of Columbia, and that was designed and built at a time when most of the employment was indeed there,” Glendening said. “Now you have a significant growth centers, employment centers, throughout the suburbs, and the

dency to get stuck in our gym routine — work out here, do this machine, then leave,” said Brianne Rowh, CRS fitness programs director. “But this studio is a great open space for people to check out, to vary their workout experience.”

The new functional studio space is designed for exercises that allow people to work out in the “way their body actually moves,” Maloney said, perfect for sports conditioning or strengthening muscles used in day-to-day activities.

“A lot of what freedom of movement exercises do is help people to get better at the things they already like to do,” she said. “Students could use the space to improve their intramural skills or even just to make lifting their heavy grocery bags easier.”

Before the studio’s arrival, students used existing mats in the weight rooms for stretching or free body exercises, Maloney said, which are not ideal for working out.

“We were seeing students trying to take advantage of these exercises in tiny spaces and really saw the need for a new studio and equipment,” Maloney said, adding that the studio’s establishment coincides with changes in fitness trends.

T he cha nge i n stud io space is not entirely uncommon for CRS. The current cycling studio in Cole Field House was the former men’s basketball locker room, and this year saw the expansion of the Sport Club Suite in Eppley, replacing the Center for Health and Wellbeing, which relocated to the University Health Center.

“We always strive to be mindful of what people are looking for and ask ourselves what we could do to better serve them,” Rowh said.

Al Asikin, who works as an information technology coord i nator a nd network administrator for the university, said he frequently

c om e s to t he f u nc t ion a l training studio to do physical therapy exercises for his Achilles tendinitis.

“They have lots of equipment that’s not available at the main gym. Stuff like the foam rollers and the medicine balls have been great for helping with my rehab,” Asikin said. “T he name ‘functional training studio’ really says it all; you can exercise multiple body parts, not just isolated areas. It’s definitely worth it.”

B e g i n n i n g N o v. 1 , t h e functional training studio will be open until 10 p.m. to students, closing two hours before Eppley itself closes.

Rowh expects the current personal-training-exclusive hours to be phased out somewhat, given difficulties in arranging proper times for sessions with clients. A formal evaluation is going to take place, and officials may adjust the schedule for the spring 2014 semester.

ivey From PAGE 1 If Gansler becomes governor, Ivey won’t have an official vote in state matters or legislative powers.

But she said she would contribute in other ways, such as bringing people together — a skill she said she learned from raising five children.

“I’ll have a bigger voice, even though I wouldn’t have a vote,” Ivey said. “You have the bully pulpit; you have the opportunity to get a lot of different people to talk to each other.

You’re still influential.”

The primary will be held in June.

But Brown’s and Gansler’s campaigns are already dialing up attacks on each other. After Ivey joined Gansler’s ticket, Brown’s campaign released a statement pitting Ivey’s past policy views against Gansler’s.

Brown’s campaign noted that Ivey, as a delegate, has voted in favor of bills to increase gas and corporate income taxes in the state, while Gansler called the gas tax hike “unfortunate.” Gansler also repeatedly said

the corporate income tax should be lowered from 8.25 percent to match the 6 percent rate in neighboring Virginia.

But in House hearings, Ivey said she learned the state is suffering from a corporate revenue drain, so she thinks it should look into lowering the corporate tax rate. Legislators should take seriously the prospect that Virginia is outdrawing Maryland for new businesses with its lower rate, she said.

“Our state is losing corporate tax dollars at kind of an alarming rate right now,” Ivey said. “It’s really discouraging.”

Brown’s campaign calls the idea a “$1.6 billion corporate tax giveaway,” while Gansler said it would attract more businesses to the state.

Ivey also wants to focus on the state’s public education system.

Though this state is often ranked as having the best public schools in the nation, she said there is still a significant difference in results between high- and low-income students.

“I get very frustrated when I’m sitting in [House hearings] and someone sits in front of us and tells us that we have the No. 1 school system

“WHATEVER I DO IN MY LIFE, I’M NOT TRYING TO DO SOMETHING JUST TO BE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL ... TO ME, IT’S MORE IMPORTANT TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE.” JOLENE IVEY

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in the country. I really don’t want to hear it,” she said. “As long as we have this huge achievement gap, I don’t think we should be patting ourselves on the back about how great our schools are.”

Several items on Gansler’s record drew Ivey to his campaign, including his early support of President Obama, whose Maryland campaign Gansler chaired in 2008. She also praised Gansler’s support of marriage equality, citing his opinion as attorney general that the state would recognize out-of-state samesex marriages.

Ivey also played a role in passing the state’s marriage equality bill

Purple Line will connect that.”

This could be advantageous to the university too, Glendening said, because students and faculty will have an easier transit route to these locations.

Despite its concerns and its petitions to state transportation officials, Casa de Maryland has been supportive of the Purple Line.

“We strongly believe that the Purple Line has the potential to create opportunities for success beyond ridership,” the letter said. “These opportunities include economic empowerment through the creation of

jobs and strengthened small businesses, a healthy and attractive environment, and an increase in affordable housing.”

But “mismanaged, we are concerned that the Purple Line development will threaten our unique International Corridor community through upward pressure on housing and small business rents ... the very individuals the Purple Line is meant to service will be forced from the area and denied the benefits of the transit investment.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

The new functional training Studio gives students and faculty the chance to try “freedom of movement” exercises. The studio replaces Eppley’s Pro Shop. rachel george/the diamondback Before using the space, students must take FT101, a free, 45-minute informal training session with a personal trainer — something Rowh said is more akin to a free personal training session with the trainers on staff than a lecture.

The program is designed to help students feel more comfortable with the equipment, much of which they may not have seen or used before.

“Not all of what is found in the studio is the most intuitive equipment,” Rowh said.

“FT101 helps explain what each piece does and why it’s useful, so that when students return,

more than a year ago, calling it one of her proudest legislative moments.

She also pushed the state to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.

State Sen. Victor Ramirez, a colleague of Ivey in the Prince George’s County Delegation who endorses the Gansler ticket, said Ivey is a strong, unifying leader on tough issues.

“She’s someone who’s going to work 100 percent to make Prince George’s County and the state of Maryland better,” Ramirez said.

“She’s a great person to work with.”

Ramirez worked with Ivey on passing the DREAM Act, which was upheld in a statewide referendum in the 2012 election.

Before Ivey joined the General Assembly, she was a graduate journalism student at this university. She came to College Park after graduating with a mass communication degree from Towson in 1982.

Ivey had her first child when she was going through the graduate journalism program — and learned she was expecting a second child just before graduation — creating

they know what to do to get the best workout possible.”

Joe Powers, a senior kinesiology major and one of about 20 personal trainers at Eppley, helps to run FT101 orientations for students and says it’s fun seeing people exposed to the new environment.

“A lot of people are used to just lifting in a weight room, but here you have to use all of your muscles; it’s a whole body movement,” he said. “It’s fun to push people in new ways and be able to expose everyone to a new workout style.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

a challenging, unusual set of circumstances, she said.

“Babies do not play in the corner while you write papers, so it was a lot more challenging getting through grad school with a baby than I thought it was going to be,” she said.

After earning her master’s degree, she worked as a TV producer in Baltimore, appeared on the show Say Baltimore from 1983-84 and was press secretary for then-Rep. Ben Cardin, now a U.S. senator.

Ivey was elected state delegate in 2007, and her tenure will end after this term no matter the result of the governor’s race. Candidates cannot simultaneously run in the legislature and for lieutenant governor.

“Whatever I do in my life, I’m not trying to do something just to be an elected official,” she said. “To me, it’s more important to do what you love. I love doing work that has a real, wonderful impact on people’s lives, so I’ll find another way to do that.”

But, she added, “I look forward to winning.” akirshnerdbk@gmail.com

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electric From PAGE 6

NO BEARDS, NO PROBLEM After the Fillmore show, Sho Fujiwara was ecstatic — and not just because the set went smoothly. “Holy s---, I got the last beer!” he announced with mock child-like excitement, pulling his hand from a cooler full of ice water in the dressing room.

Fujiwara has been playing keyboard and guitar for Drop Electric since he joined in 2010. He and band member Navid Marvi (guitar/bass) played a crucial role in filling out the sound. Adding to their tonal contributions, the two also lend to the band’s cultural diversity, a characteristic uncommon in an indie music scene they see as saturated by white men.

“We’re not like hipsters; the skinny white dudes with beards,” said Arablouei, who was born in Iran. “We’re not a typical indie band. We’re not like … what’s that one really s----- popular bluegrass, kindof-rock band from England?”

“Mumford,” Reznikov said.

“Yeah, Mumford & Sons. We’re not that band, we don’t look like those people, and sometimes that makes people less into us.”

“I kind of have a beard,” Reznikov suggested, running her fingers along her chin.

“No, You don’t.”

The band also goes against the cultural

grain by featuring a female lead singer.

While this dynamic is less common in their musical domain, they believe it works to their advantage. Reznikov belted out notes at the Fillmore show that sailed through the venue like those of Victoria Legrand of Beach House — but with more rock and less dream pop. She said she hasn’t experienced any overt discrimination and any problems she’s faced have been within the band.

“Being a girl lead singer is hard,” she said.

“Because these guys drive me insane.”

ALMOST FAMOUS To this day, the closest Drop Electric has gotten to stardom is when NPR’s Bob Boilen came to a show and found himself wooed by their 2012 single “Empire Trashed.” Boilen called their music “epic and cinematic,” featured the song on his radio show and opened a door to future success in the industry.

Trying to capitalize on the buzz, the band set out to make a new record following Finding Color in the Ashes. They did but failed to find a label and now stands as the album that almost was. But that’s not a knock on its quality.

“It’s all my friends play in their cars,” Reznikov said.

With the release of Waking Up to the Fire, the band’s expectations are more realistic. “We’re just trying to be zen about it,” Arablouei said. “If you have too many expectations, you may get disappointed in

this industry.”

Despite the levelheadedness of its members, Drop Electric is confident the album will provide a long-awaited step up. The members listed a booking agent, a summer tour and some attention from reputable indie music outlets such as Pitchfork as what they hope to gain from the album’s release today.

“We don’t want it to make us worldfamous; we just want people to hear it,” Arablouei said.

Above all else, music is a proactive venture of passion for Drop Electric. All their music is written and mastered by the group, and the music videos they use to accompany songs, even during live performances, are handled by independent filmmakers such as Brooklyn-based director Christopher Michael Beer. They prefer to keep things in-house.

A f te r t h e s h ow, s eve ra l b a n d members and friends lounged around the dressing room drinking the last few beers and talking about how realistic Grand Theft Auto V’s gameplay is.

Eventually, a man walked in, introduced himself to Arablouei and handed him a white envelope.

“I’m sorry it’s not more,” he said. “I just wanted to give you thousands and thousands of more dollars and...”

“Don’t worry, man,” Arablouei cut in.

“We didn’t do it for the money. This is just exciting for us.” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

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D.C. on a Dime: Rock Creek Park Congratulations everyone, we have a government again! There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the shutdown and the beginning of beautiful fall weather than to take a trip to Rock Creek Park.

Whether your thing is strolling along riverside paths, admiring the flaming colors of changing leaves or stargazing late at night, Rock Creek Park won’t disappoint. Its 32 miles of trails are intertwined with history. I’m on the university’s cross-country team and our favorite trail to run is the same path former president Teddy Roosevelt loved to ride his horse on. How’s that for adding a sense of importance to your workout?

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THE DIAMONDBACK | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013

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How to fix Maryland Madness

Decipher climate change

ADAM OFFITZER I’m a passionate Maryland basketball fan and a devoted lover of Cole Field House, so Friday night’s Maryland Madness should have been cathartic for me. I arrived at Cole promptly at 6:30 p.m., giddy with enthusiasm and expecting a night of true “madness” with energy, surprises and excitement.

I walked out of Cole at about 9:15 p.m. with a very different feeling: profound disappointment. Maryland Madness, which should have been a joyous, entertaining celebration of Terps basketball, was instead a dull, overlong mess.

The night certainly had its share of memorable moments: a riveting introductory video about the history of Cole Field House; the thrill of seeing Mark Turgeon, Gary Williams and Lefty Driesell together at center court; a standard death-defying performance from Gymkana. (Seriously, how do they do that?)

But these sporadic bursts of energy were consistently deflated by a series of head-scratching, momentumkilling moments.

The spectacular entrances of the men’s and women’s basketball teams were immediately followed by halfhearted advertisements for ticket plans and the persistent promotion of the hashtag #Back2Cole. There’s nothing wrong with self-promotion — Maryland Madness is essentially one giant marketing event for the athletic department — but the presentation couldn’t have been worse. The advertisements always came right after the most energetic events, sucking the life out of the room.

The most inexcusable display of

poor event planning came at about 8 p.m. The women’s team had just been introduced, with the crowd roaring for Brenda Frese as she approached midcourt. The energy in the room was palpable; Cole was ready to explode, just like old times.

The moment was ripe for a climax.

Instead, we got nap time. First, a chair was brought onto the court for alumna Bonnie Bernstein. Any time the emcee needs a chair for a presentation, you know something is wrong. Bernstein took her seat and began a “human timeline” ceremony that lasted an unbearable half an hour. Former Terps basketball players from decades ago lined up, stretching around threequarters of the court, and each received an individual introductory paragraph.

Don’t get me wrong; it’s nice to honor our history. But the neverending timeline was a stunningly tone-deaf approach. On a Friday night after a full week of classes, the last thing any college student wants to sit through is another lecture.

The reflective glow of smartphones visible throughout Cole during the ceremony made that very clear.

Still, it’s easy to criticize and nitpick individual flaws. So let’s be constructive: How can we make this a better event? Part of the reason I felt so passionate about writing this column is because fixing Maryland Madness wouldn’t be hard or costly — all it would take is common sense.

The first fix: slimming down. Maryland Madness has no business being three hours long. Families with kids want to go home on the early side, and students want to go out and get drunk. Let’s do away with ceremonies like the “human timeline,” midcourt interviews with random alumni and students unscrambling Juan Dixon’s name. Without the fluff, we’d be left with performances from the cheer-

leaders and Gymkana, dances from the basketball teams, introductions for the teams and three scrimmages. Filling the time between those events with the fun historical videos and interviews shown on Friday would do the trick.

The second fix: adding some much-needed personality. The night’s three scrimmages were absolutely lifeless. Simple changes could elevate them to something special.

The most obvious change is music.

During the games, Cole was disturbingly quiet. Silence can be a virtue, but it has no place at a college basketball pep rally. The Mighty Sound of Maryland should be playing throughout, pumping up the crowd. Katy Perry’s “Roar” should be blasting from the speakers, encouraging a sing-along.

In fact, any kind of noise would benefit the scrimmages. Give two of the funniest players a microphone so we can hear them talking trash. Or find a charismatic student to announce the game, providing some commentary and harmless insults. Just do something to keep the crowd engaged in an otherwise half-hearted scrimmage.

Student apathy has been a hot topic lately on the campus, with Scott Van Pelt accusing Maryland students of “home-field indifference.” But students were not to blame for the deflated atmosphere at Maryland Madness.

In fact, the sold-out crowd brought a much-needed boost of spirit — filling Cole early, cheering loudly and providing standing ovations whenever necessary to honor Terps past and present.

The athletic department demonstrated true creativity when deciding to hold the event in Cole this year — next year they should use that same creativity to plan a better night.

Adam Offitzer is a senior journali s m m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t aoffitzerdbk@gmail.com.

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h e r e i s a d e b a t e ra g i n g in American society over whether climate change is a real — and whether human activity is responsible for it.

This is unfortunate. Not only is there compelling evidence that climate change is happening, there is compelling evidence that human activity is in fact to blame. Indeed, in light of the overwhelming evidence, it is extremely difficult to suppose otherwise.

According to scientific bodies, such as the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, human-caused climate change is scientifically established. Consider how 2012 was so hot that it broke thousands of heat records that have stood for decades.

Not only that, but for the last decade, with each passing year, we have gotten closer and closer to breaking those records.

The evidence is clear: Earth is hotter than it has been in recent history. While there are plenty of people who admit that the Earth has been getting hotter recently, there are some who nevertheless deny that human activity is responsible for the warming.

They cite natural phenomena, such as sunspot activity, to explain rising heat levels and avoid blaming human activity.

These alternative explanations are implausible given the scientific evidence.

Attempting to deny our responsibility for a warming atmosphere ignores the overwhelming scientific evidence for the reality of human-caused climate change.

The following scientifically confirmed pieces of evidence, when taken together, strongly support the claim that climate change is happening, and that it is caused by humans: 1. Greenhouse gases like carbon

dioxide allow heat into the atmosphere while also preventing heat from escaping into outer space.

2. Humans have produced greater and greater amounts of greenhouse gases worldwide over the last century or so.

3. Satellite data provides compelling evidence that (a) the heat entering Earth’s atmosphere from the Sun has remained steady over the last 25 years, but that (b) heat escaping from the Earth’s atmosphere into outer space has rapidly declined.

Very nearly all of the major scientific bodies that have studied climate change and its causes agree that all three components listed above have been scientifically established. Even though there is plenty of other evidence that climate change is, in part, human-caused, the facts I cite are difficult to refute for those who deny that humans are responsible for an ever-warming climate.

We might think of this as a recipe for turning Earth into a hotbox. The same amount of energy is entering the atmosphere with less and less escaping it, and the heat must go somewhere; it cannot just vanish into thin air.

Consider this: To warm a house we simply increase the amount of heat we are adding to offset the heat that is escaping. If the heat added to the house is greater than the heat escaping, the house will get warmer. Likewise, the Earth, just like our example of a warming house, is taking on the same amount of heat from the sun while retaining an increasing amount of heat annually. You might say that human activity is a kind of formula for warming the Earth’s atmosphere, and we appear to be heading toward a negative result.

Hopefully we can reverse course before it’s too late.

Jimmy Alfonso Licon is a philosophy doctoral student. He can be reached at jimmylicon01@gmail.com.

Choosing to learn, just for fun EZRA FISHMAN

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A celebration of the essay MARC PRIESTER No, I am not referring to the papers you write for your classes in an attempt to show some understanding of a topic.

The true tradition of the essay goes beyond any mere definition. It is a manifesto of the self — a conscious perception of reality and a showcase for the charismatic author as both a thinker and an artist.

The word “essay” comes from the French term “essayer,” which means, “to attempt.” This begs the question: What is being attempted?

Pinpointing an exact definition of such an expansive tradition of artistic creation and intellectual discourse is irrelevant. The products themselves are to be treasured as the pinnacles of human ingenuity and are better felt than understood.

Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was forced to navigate the treacherous terrain of a suppressed America.

He saw this suppression both physically, in its tolerance of slavery, as well as spiritually, in its indoctrination of students into conformist puppets through the lecture-based education of Harvard University.

He utilized essays as more than just systems of logical conclusions, he used them as rituals that aggregate literary tools to heighten the emotional, sensual, physical and spiritual experience of reading.

He used them to challenge the reader to move beyond the chains of common thought.

He deemed imitation to be suicide.

Though he regarded our reliance on the past as necessary, he supported limiting it. One must eventually discard parts of past teachings; we may only call our lives genuinely free when we attempt to access new schools of thought. His writing style acted as an exposition of this argument by abandoning the logical treatise and instead offering a freer format.

Logic is a powerful tool to be admired, but being rigidly argumentative alienates emotion. For populations who have been traditionally subjugated, no logical system can perfectly encapsulate the various feelings and sentiments acquainted with a life riddled by hostility. Purely logic-driven writing fails to achieve the most accurate portrayal; thus, much is lost.

But the essay can do this. It is the child of one’s experience; its form and analysis will reflect the idiosyncratic identities of authors and their communities. When W.E.B Du Bois used black spirituals and poetry in his works, he created a heightened reading experience. The reader leaves the confines of ivory tower academia and enters the consciousness of the disenfranchised.

He moves into the sweltering heat of the South and into the hearts of the oppressed. What can a paper teach

about soul? Listening to the verse and dialect of a people creates empathetic solidarity by transporting readers into the everyday labors of the struggling man.

Arguments in essays become more than logistical truths and fallacies — they are how-to guides for interacting with the world. Becoming proficient in the faculties of feeling and emotions is as significant as understanding the logical formulas embedded in argumentation. By combining these contrasting worlds, the reader is granted a richer experience by accessing both the intellect and feelings of human existence.

So what exactly is being “attempted” by the essay? It’s a sort of newfangled academic experience that asks the reader, “Have you challenged yourself today?” It asks the writer, “Are you willing to be genuine?”

A poet once stated, “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” This analogy hits even closer to home, considering our Terrapin allegiance. The essay’s relaxed structure and reliance on the personal aspects of life grants both reader and writer the opportunity to progress into new creative territories. In this vein, the essay sanctifies what humans find most precious: freedom.

Marc Priester is a junior economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at mpriesterdbk@gmail.com.

see if the professors sound interesting. I’ll take a look at the course grading scale, and see if I can either audit it or take it as a pass-fail class.

I’ll see if I know anyone in that major and find out whether they took the class and if they enjoyed it. I’ll also get someone with no connection to the subject to look at it and see if they think it sounds bearable as well. And, of course, I’ll check with the schedule I’ve made and make sure the class fits with my required courses.

After going through this process, I’ll usually have two or three classes left. When this happens, I’ll choose whichever course sounds most exciting. Usually there will be one or two classes that stand out. Once I have those, I’ll have to make an honest calculation about which sounds better: that class or sleep. If the class sounds better, I’ll register for it; if the class sounds worse, I’ll sometimes add it anyway in case I change my mind later (it’s easier to drop a class than to pick it back up).

I don’t know if I’ll end up taking an extra class this spring; I probably won’t know for sure until the add/ drop period ends on Feb. 7. However, this will be the model I’ll use in figuring it out, and I suggest making it the model you use as well. Learning is incredibly important, but at the end of the day, the college experience is about much more than classes. If taking a class will enhance your experience, do it; otherwise, just sleep a few extra hours a week.

In college, we are sometimes given a choice: to take a class just for fun or to take no class at all and have an easier semester. College is all about learning, sure, and it’s rare we get a chance to learn just for the sake of knowledge. But at the same time, a 12-credit semester is much less demanding than a 15-credit one.

Registering as a second-semester senior with way more credits than anyone could ever need and only four requirements left, I’m currently working through this question. Consequently, I would like to take you through my decision process.

First, I ask my friends whether they’re taking any interesting classes that I could take with them. I have a few friends who also like learning, and there is always the chance that I could join one of them. If I have a friend in class with me, it’s a lot more likely that I’ll enjoy it.

Second, I look through Testudo to see which classes look interesting in general. This is usually something I do when I’m bored or procrastinating; it’s a good way to be productive without putting in too much effort. If a class really jumps out at me, I’ll look into it further, even if no one I know is taking it.

Once I have my list of classes, Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting I’ll research them further. I’ll and finance major. He can be reached check course review websites to at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | DROP ELECTRIC

YOU GOTTA FEEL IT, IT’S ELECTRIC Local band Drop Electric tries to bring its experimental, genre-bending sound to the general public

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Staff writer In about two hours, Neel Singh would be perched in a power stance atop the stage at The Fillmore Silver Spring, slicing against the strings of his Les Paul with a violin bow. He would be generating sounds plenty of human beings have never heard before, with Technicolor lights flashing and a projector popping trippy art house scenes on a screen behind him.

He would be losing his mind in front of people — friends and strangers alike — playing music he helped create.

It was all going to happen soon on the night of Oct. 3. But at that moment, Singh and the rest of the Washington-based rock-meetselectronic-pop group Drop Electric needed food. And they needed it fast.

“You can go out, but you can’t bring them back in,” snapped a woman in a blue employee shirt guarding the front of the venue, pointing to a few noncredentialed friends they had in the pack as they tried to shuffle by. Singh looked at her for a moment before he said, “We can’t? Oh, okay,” and turned back to his bandmates.

Drop Electric is still a local band

and its sincerity is clear as day. On that night, they seemed to feel truly grateful to everyone who’s ever helped them land an opportunity like headlining this show at The Fillmore in Silver Spring. But while they’re polite, they’re not pushovers.

After being shut down by the gruff woman at the door (“What makes you think you have escort power?” she barked), the band congregated near the sound board. They spoke quietly for a few minutes before hushing and then herding to a back door at the left of the stage that led through basement dressing rooms to a parking lot behind the venue.

In 40 minutes, the same group emerged from the same door, smiling and with full stomachs.

DROP THE ELECTRONICA Almost as soon as Singh and his St. Mary’s College buddy Ramtin “Ramsey” Arablouei started Drop Electric in 2009, they were writing the electronic-esque tunes that would eventually end up on 2010’s Finding Color in the Ashes. Self-released, the album helped lay a foundation for the band as a contender in a Washington music scene craving a breakout group to call its own.

LASTING IMPACT | STEELY DAN

UNCOOL IS COOL

By Dean Essner @daesayingstuff Senior staff writer Not everything has to be cool.

Steely Dan, with all its studio sheen and high brow hyper literacy, its glittery saxophone solos and Weather Channel guitar riffs, is so irremediably uncool it hurts. Your dad loves it. Your uncle loves it.

Your grandma doesn’t wince when it comes over the stereo. Gin and tonics. Greek mythology. California sunshine and New York City grit. The 1970s. Steely Dan is ev-

erything we tried to throw away but couldn’t.

In Pitchfork’s famous roast of Steely Dan’s comeback record Two Against Nature, critic Brent DiCrescenzo wrote, “If you’re a regular Pitchfork reader ... why are you even curious about Steely Dan in 2000?!”

It’s an honest question, albeit one tinged with sarcasm and snark.

I will try to answer him by extending the inquiry even further: Why would anyone care about Steely Dan in 2013, when the band is no longer relevant even as a guilty pleasure or musical punching bag? The answer

In May 2011, lead vocalist and 2009 university alumna Kristina Reznikov joined the ranks, kickstarting a process of sonic evolution the band shows no signs of stopping. Its new LP Waking Up to the Fire, released today on Lefse Records, is different from anything Drop Electric has previously released.

“If we have an opportunity to make another album and have it out on a label, it probably won’t sound like this one,” Arablouei said. He already predicts that a hypothetical next album would clock in a notch heavier, likely tapping into rock sounds more than Waking Up to the Fire does.

The main reason Drop Electric won’t settle on a sound is because its members consider themselves tinkerers almost as much as musicians. In their Bethesda house, Singh, Arablouei and Reznikov s p e n d h o u rs w re n c h i n g a n d squeezing sounds out of various instruments in their home studio to match what they hear in their heads. Because they also have a practice space and plenty of instruments, Arablouei said, “Everything is done there; it’s kind of like the clubhouse.”

“We basically sit behind Ramsey and go, ‘No!’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Yeah do that,

DROP ELECTRIC GUITARIST Neel Singh performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring. joe antoshak/the diamondback that sounds good!’” Reznikov said of rock band or even EDM, neither of Arablouei, the band’s live drummer which fit the band members’ selfand the house engineer. While he perceptions. It’s indicative of where handles much of the technical Drop Electric is: both blessed and side of recording, Drop Electric’s cursed to not have found themselves writing process is an organic and securely in any one area yet. collaborative one in which the tra“Call us post-apocalyptic,” ditional chords-plus-lyrics model is Reznikov said, her expression halfabandoned in favor of discovering a serious, half-joking. bracing sound and building out from “It doesn’t bother us,” Arablouei it. Songs occasionally feel foreign added. “If someone calls us elecbut never formulaic. tronic, who cares? At least they’re This resistance to easy classifica- calling us something. Well, I mean, if tion has been something of a nui- someone called us country, I’d scratch sance in the past. When the group my head a little.” was first starting out, music critics and listeners labeled them a postSee electric, Page 3

lies in three places: nostalgia, sonic precision and the reversal of the once perennially uncool.

My relationship with Steely Dan began as a child. Whenever I hear the chorus on Aja’s “Josie,” I instantly think of driving home in the wee hours of the morning from New York City with my father — the endless row of highway lights, the way the city slowly and languidly transitioned into suburban Long Island as we passed through Queens. I recall, on one of these drives, him trying to explain to me the multifaceted meaning of the word “bad,” and how in the context of this song — “When Josie comes home / So bad / She’s the best friend we ever had” — Josie’s love of mischief is chic. I can’t hear the song now without my mind darting back to that night.

As a studio band, Steely Dan was precise in a unique, unparal-

leled way. While Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds production ebbed and flowed with loving imprecision, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan crafted their records like pedantic drill sergeants. Nothing was out of place, lending albums such as Aja or Katy Lied a sense of dryness and sterility many people found offputting, its compositions too stuffy and clean to be called rock music but not freewheeling and nomadic enough to be considered jazz.

However, we can actually call Steely Dan a pop group for these sensibilities. Pop music is conducive to exactness. What you hear on the radio is, a la Aja or Katy Lied, stuffy and clean. Steely Dan was exact, but in a knotty, revolutionary way many are too jaded to appreciate, leading to the final reason you should care about the band in 2013: Steely Dan is now as radical as it has ever been.

In writing his review of Two Against Nature, DiCrescenzo skewers Steely Dan by making an overarching generalization about what young people care about. He writes, “At work you’re too embarrassed to ask the young tech guys how the ‘web’ works. They’d snicker before cranking The Fragile back up and turning back to their monitors.” Maybe this was true in 2000, when the “web” was still an anomaly, but today, it is as naturalized as pop music. History exists in condensed form on the Internet.

The lines between cool and uncool are forever blurred.

Now more than ever is the best time to listen to Steely Dan, when there is no real measuring stick for chicness. Not everything has to be cool. Nothing is cool. dessnerdbk@umdbk.com

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FIELD HOCKEY

In rematch, improved Lady Monarchs defeat Terps Top programs meet once again in tough late-season matchup, but Old Dominion holds down offense

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer When the Terrapins field hockey team defeated thenNo. 8 Old Dominion on Sept. 6 in Norfolk, Va., the Lady Monarchs struggled to bounce back from the result. They ended up losing five games in a row, falling to a paltry 1-6 record and dropping out of the national rankings.

Since those early season woes, however, the Lady Monarchs have found their stride. They won eight straight games, and their victory over the No. 1 Terps on Sunday marked a new high for Old Dominion this season.

Old Dominion coach Andrew Griffiths served as a Terps assistant coach under Missy Meharg from 1998-99 and from 2001-04. Now in his

first season with the No. 15 Lady Monarchs, Griffiths has the team playing at a higher level, one that the Terps think is indicative of its overall talent.

“They are much imp r o v e d ,” M e h a r g s a i d .

“Andrew Griffiths is a great coach, and I think it has been taking some time for them to take on his character and his tactics, and they’re definitely improved.”

For the past 15 seasons, the two teams have faced each other twice during the regular season, and these matchups usually have had national title implications. The teams have historically been even, as the Terps are 29-26-1 against the Lady Monarchs all-time. For decades, the games between both teams were known for featuring two of the best coa c h e s i n co l l e ge f i e l d

FORWARD WELMA LUUS reacts during the Terps’ 3-0 loss to Old Dominion on Sunday afternoon. It was the Terps’ first defeat of the season. rebecca rainey/the diamondback hockey: Meharg and former Lady Monarchs coach Beth Anders.

Anders’ 561 wins with Old Dominion are the most in Division I history. Though she

is retired, the Lady Monarchs were still a tough opponent for the Terps on Sunday.

While the Terps suffered from a sluggish start, Old Dominion came out strong. The

Lady Monarchs’ aggressive style forced the Terps to make predictable passes, which led to multiple interceptions and counterattacks during the first period. Offensively, Old Dominion found its playmakers often, creating problems for the Terps defense.

“They have got a couple of players that are very, very dangerous individually,” Meharg said. “Maryland probably needed to play a little more double-teaming on them earlier.”

Lady Monarchs midfielder Rosario Villagra, who leads the team with 36 points, scored two goals Sunday. Though defender Ali McEvoy marked her for most of the game, Villagra also orchestrated Old Dominion’s offense, finding ways to distribute the ball and burst into the circle.

“She just go t th rough

our lines, and credit to her because she had an outstanding game as well,” McEvoy said. “When that happens, we just have to keep holding strong. I think we finally got it together, eventually, but she’s a great player and she just played out of her mind.”

Meharg said the Terps played well below their standards in their first matchup against the Lady Monarchs but still managed to pick up the victory. On Sunday, however, Old Dominion’s recent growth proved too much for the Terps to be able to play at that lower level again.

“They dominated in the first few minutes,” midfielder Maxine Fluharty said.

“They played an awesome game, and today, they were the better team.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Road woes continue in Sunday’s loss at Florida State Terps are 2-6 on the road, have been shut out in four of those matchups

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer When the clock hit double zeros Sunday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla., the Terrapins women’s soccer team again trudged off an opposing team’s field in defeat.

After Sunday’s 2-1 loss to No. 3 Florida State, the Terps are 2-6 on the road and have a minus-11 goal differential while away. At home, they

KASINITZ From PAGE 8 five games left.

Yes, expectations rose during a four-game win streak against spotty competition to start the season.

But take yourself back to August. Would you have considered a six- or sevenwin season successful?

I sure would have. Six victories would equal the team’s win total from the past two seasons combined and would give the Terps a chance to compete in a bowl game for the first time since 2010. They just need one win to get there, and in less than three weeks, a struggling Syracuse team, one that suffered a 56-0 loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday, will visit College Park.

Without Diggs and Long and with a variety of injuries to the team’s linebackers, the season has become reminiscent of last year, when four quarterbacks suffered season-ending

pace From PAGE 8 real well and sometimes their defenses can’t handle him.”

Pace is tied with fellow forward Schillo Tshuma for second on the team in total goals this season with five, trailing forward Patrick Mullins, whose 12 goals are tied for the most in the nation. But Pace (607 total minutes) has also played substantially fewer minutes than both Tshuma (1,036) and Mullins (1,204), making the most of his opportunities and using his 6-foot-2, 208-pound frame to overpower defenders.

The Columbia native has

are 6-2 and have outscored opponents by 17 total goals.

“It’s tough to play on the road,” goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands said. “But at the end of the day, it’s all about who you are as a team and how you play on that day.”

The Terps opened the season with a four-game home stand.

Eight of their next 12 games were on the road, however, including six road matches against ranked opponents. The Terps still haven’t beaten a ranked

team away from Ludwig Field.

The offense and defense have both been inconsistent away from home. Opponents have scored three or more goals three times, including a 5-0 shellacking against then-No. 5 Notre Dame on Sept. 26. The Terps’ defense improved against Virginia’s top-ranked offense three days later, but they still lost, 1-0.

On the other side of the field, the Terps were shut out in four of their first five road matches but have tallied a goal in each of their last three road tilts. They kept the streak alive with a 1-0 win over Miami on Thursday

injuries and the Terps were forced to play inside linebacker Shawn Petty under center for the last four games of the year.

Except this time, the Terps are a better team. They have a respectable defense with outside linebacker Marcus Whitfield and a healthy defensive line leading a stillpotent pass rush.

A n d w h i l e t h e Te r p s aren’t certain who will start at quarterback moving forward, they’ve won games with both Brown and Rowe under center. Their jobs certainly become harder without Diggs and Long, but receiver was one of their deepest positions.

Levern Jacobs, Nigel King and Malcolm Culmer have all shown flashes of potential and productivity.

A strong finish to the season won’t be easy, considering the Terps’ concentrated injuries. They are without their two best receivers, four prominent linebackers missed Saturday’s game and their two

starting cornerbacks have been out for the past month.

But thanks to its experience last year and maturity increase, the team seems more prepared to handle those setbacks.

It seems capable of winning two more games and posting a solid 7-5 record.

Still, No. 9 Clemson will likely leave College Park with a sizable win this Saturday, but the Terps weren’t in the Tigers’ class even when their talented receiving duo was healthy.

After that, the Terps have a bye and then will play three of their final four games against unranked teams, needing only one win to accomplish their most prominent goal this season.

So perhaps Edsall had a bag of peanuts and a Pepsi on that flight home to dull the pain of a dreadful Saturday. Hopefully he and the team then realized not all is lost. The Terps still have something to play for.

already equaled his goal total from 2012, when he appeared in all 24 games. In fact, Saturday night was the first time Pace didn’t appear in a game since Oct. 21, 2011, when the then-No. 3 Terps battled to a 1-1 draw at then-No. 2 North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. “We just had to cope with it,” Sauers said.

Unfortunately, the impact of Pace’s absence was compounded by a leg injury to defensive midfielder Dan Metzger, who was sidelined for the final 36 minutes of the first half, during which the Demon Deacons scored all four of their goals.

With two key players missing, the Terps’ rotation was scrambled, and they lacked

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Terrapins men’s soccer coach the composure to rebound from the early own goal and reach defensive stability.

And while not having Pace proved detrimental, Cirovski wouldn’t pin the loss on his captain.

“It would have been nice to have him,” Cirovski said Saturday. “But it was the players who were on the field who are responsible for this game.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

and against the Seminoles on Sunday, though they fell, 2-1, without injured forward and leadomg scorer Hayley Brock.

Forward Ashley Spivey scored against both Florida schools. She now leads the Terps with three road goals, at least two more than any of her other team members.

“With the loss of Hayley, everyone had to step up,” Spivey said. “I think I’ve been working hard, and it’s nice that it is coming through.”

T h e Te r p s ’ s i g n a t u re victory, a 1-0 win over thenNo. 3 Wake Forest, came at Ludwig Field; they’re still

searching for a key victory away from College Park.

The Terps have outshot only one opponent on the road, but they still managed to outshoot Duke in a 2-1 home loss. At home, the Terps’ opportunities are more plentiful.

Nine of 11 Terps starters Sunday are underclassmen.

Last year, though, six starters were underclassmen, including five freshmen, and their road record was 6-2-2.

The Terps will be given a brief respite from their travels in the coming weeks. Two of their final three regular-season matches are at home.

But with the ACC tournament held in Cary, N.C., looming, the Terps are still trying to figure out the source of their road woes.

Coach Jonathan Morgan puts the blame on himself, and Beanlands cites the quality of conference opponents. For her part, Spivey believes the problems stem from a variety of factors: inexperience, level of competition and injuries.

“I think there’s a combination of all of them,” Spivey said. “And on the road without one of your best players is obviously very difficult.”

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game at Cole.

The Terps struggle to sell tickets when playing nonconference games during winter break.

Turgeon’s theory is that moving a game from Comcast — which seats 17,950 — to Cole would attract fans to a game that isn’t otherwise well attended.

Cole sat more than 14,000 fans while it was used as a basketball arena, so if a game there sells out, the school is likely to make more money than it would in a poorly attended contest at Comcast.

Fr i d a y n i g h t h e l p e d confirm Turgeon’s optimism as a sellout crowd of an announced 11,500 packed Cole for an alumni game, ceremonies honoring former players and coaches, and scrimmages.

Turgeon believes playing at Cole could foster nostalgia and develop the fan base.

“This building has great tradition. I know I get a good feeling every time I walk in [Cole],” said Walt Williams, a Terps forward in the early 1990s. “I think it would be something that’s great.”

There is some precedent for

the Terps to play a game in Cole.

ACC rival N.C. State stopped hosting men’s basketball games in Reynolds Coliseum after the 1999 season, but the program still plays one nonconference game a year in the building.

Reynolds Coliseum, however, is still home to the Wolfpack’s women’s basketball team, while Cole is only used as an intramural indoor soccer facility and a venue for concerts.

Playing a regular-season basketball game in a gym that hasn’t held a varsity sports event in 11 years is rather unique. But Turgeon and others involved in the program think it’s worth a try.

And after Friday night, at least one of the Terps’ current players is pining to play a game that matters on the program’s former home court.

“Hopefully we can get a game here,” forward Dez Wells said. “I would play so much harder. It would just be a different atmosphere. I can’t even imagine it. It’s great. I don’t want to leave.”

t h e Te r ps, h e r ve rsa t i l ity could help the team.

Horsmon said her 6-foot frame gives her the ability to block attacks on occasion.

After Friday’s matchup, Horsmon pulled Craigo aside and offered her a few words of encouragement.

“You’re going to be great,” Horsmon told Craigo. “Have fun. Be confident. Play hard and we’ll figure the rest out.”

The freshman’s sets were higher and more accurate on Sunday. Craigo seemed to connect well with middle blocker Adreené Elliott, who torched the Eagles for 11 kills on a .429 hitting percentage.

“I was kind of mad with how I played on Friday,”

Craigo said. “Coming in today, I made my nerves go away. I felt more calm and played more like myself.”

Despite her inexperience, Craigo will now be tasked w i t h h e l p i n g t h e Te r p s return to a .500 conference record. If the offense continues to run as smoothly as it did Sunday with Craigo at setter, the Terps will be on the right track.

“You’re the quarterback,” Horsmon said. “Go to our football team and go ask Coach Edsall. Imagine putting your quarterback in with only seven practices all year, and a freshman, and go see what kind of decisions they make.”

From PAGE 8 regular-season game in Cole this season as their schedule is already set and their opponents would have had to agree to it prior to signing contracts to visit College Park.

B eyo n d t h a t , t h o u g h , Turgeon wouldn’t rule anything out.

“I think it would be great for Maryland basketball to try to do it once a year,” Turgeon said. “But ultimately in the end, I don’t know if it’ll be my decision.”

The cost of preparing Cole for a game may keep the Terps from playing there. Moving a court and hoops into the building and checking safety measures are added expenses the Terps wouldn’t have to worry about if they stay in Comcast Center.

Still, Turgeon has said he believes the team could benefit financially from the move. The Washington Post reported last week that Turgeon estimated the school could make $200,000 to $300,000 from a regular-season

CRAIGO From PAGE 8 her senior year.

A pair of freshmen playing the same position and battling injuries at different times this year, Craig and Anderson have developed a bond. The two are suitemates, and Anderson has used her early season experience to give Craigo tips about acclimating to the college game as well as to the position.

“I’m still learning,” Craigo said. “So I’ve been looking to her for all the little technical things that I’m still learning.

We’ve helped each other out back-and-forth.”

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FOOTBALL

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WRs STEFON DIGGS (LEG) & DEON LONG (LEG)

OLBs MATT ROBINSON (SHOULDER) & ALEX TWINE (SHOULDER)

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After a demoralizing 34-10 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday, Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall’s plane ride back to College Park probably felt longer than it should have.

He lost his two most electrifying players — wide receivers Deon Long and Stefon Diggs — for the season to broken legs during the game. Plus, the Terps’ once-clear-cut quarterback situation became muddled after Caleb Rowe entered the game in the third quarter to replace starter C.J. Brown, who threw two interceptions.

So it’d be tough to blame Edsall for feeling a bit down Saturday, especially after he watched four of his quarterbacks suffer season-ending injuries a year ago. But if I were on Saturday’s plane ride, I’d have suggested that Edsall perk up.

I wouldn’t say,“There’s always next year,” or, “It was out of your control.” Rather, I’d tell Edsall and the Terps that this season, despite the injuries and the quarterback dilemma, can still be salvaged.

At the beginning of the season, the Terps set a paramount goal: to reach a bowl game.

They are still in position to do that, sitting one win away from bowl eligibility with See KASINITZ, Page 7

BASKETBALL | MARYLAND MADNESS

Interest increases for winter-break game at Cole Gary Williams, Walt Williams voice support for plan

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Since the Terrapins men’s basketball team announced last month that it would host Maryland Madness in Cole Field House, coach Mark Turgeon has maintained that the Terps should play a regular-season game in the arena that housed the program from 1955 until 2002.

Turgeon has said that playing a nonconference game during winter break in Cole would

boost attendance numbers, generate national buzz and adequately pay respect to the Terps’ history. And after the third-year coach called Friday night’s Maryland Madness “one of those nights you will always remember,” it’s clear his thoughts haven’t changed.

There are logistical issues to p l ay i n g i n C o l e t h a t Tu rge o n a c k n owl e d ge s, but support for the idea is growing. Former Terps in attendance Friday certainly seemed excited about the prospect of meaningful hoops

returning to the arena.

“I think it would be great,” said Gary Williams, who coached the Terps from 1989 to 2011 and led them to the 2002 national championship.

“I think they want to play it during the break when there are not many people around anyway. That would be a way to make it feasible for the seasonticket holders and the students who want to come. It would be great to play a game here.”

The Terps cannot play a See cole, Page 7

GUARD SETH ALLEN (center) leads the Terps men’s and women’s basketball teams in the annual dance at Maryland Madness on Friday night at Cole Field House. Support is growing for the men’s team to play a winter-break game in the historic gym. christian jenkins/the diamondback

MEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

Pace’s absence felt in loss to Wake After rocky debut, Physical forward Craigo rebounds to return tonight against Drexel

Setter steps in for injured Anderson

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer In the 22nd minute against Wake Forest on Saturday night, Terrapins men’s soccer defender Jereme Raley broke the scoreless tie with an own goal. The redshirt junior attempted to clear a low cross with a sliding challenge, but the ball ricocheted off his foot and into the net.

Had it been any other game, coach Sasho Cirovski might have sent forward Jake Pace to the scorers’ table. Despite mostly playing as a substitute, the fifth-year senior has been a reassuring presence for the Terps this season.

But Pace wasn’t available Saturday because he received a red card after he got into a skirmish with Marshall defender Matt Freeman on Tuesday. The Terps captain m issed th e se co n d h a l f

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer

FORWARD JAKE PACE missed the Terps’ 4-3 loss against Wake Forest after receiving a red card last week. against the Thundering Herd and remained ineligible for the matchup with the No. 15 Demon Deacons.

The No. 4 Terps, who will face Drexel tonight at home, struggled to come back from the early deficit without

Pace’s energy and experience off the bench. Pace remained on the sideline in sweatpants and a jacket as Wake Forest racked up three more goals before halftime and held on for a 4-3 victory.

“He comes in and he’s a real

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big guy, so he has a big presence on the field,” said midfielder Michael Sauers, who brought the Terps within one goal after scoring in the 60th minute. “He holds the ball up See Pace, Page 7

After the Terrapins volleyball team’s loss to Syracuse on Friday, coach Tim Horsmon searched for the right words to describe setter Whitney Craigo’s performance.

It was the freshman’s college debut after chronic migraines sidelined her all season.

Horsmon said she’d practiced only seven or eight times before the game against the Orange.

So he took his time before finally offering an assessment.

“I think she was solid,” Horsmon said. “We’ve got to give her a chance to keep working on some things.”

After setter Julia Anderson fractured her pinky in practice, Craigo stepped in and split time with libero Amy Dion at the position over the weekend. In Friday’s match,

Craigo struggled, as did the Terps’ offense, which recorded just a .121 hitting percentage.

Craigo looked much more comfortable Sunday, though, and the team posted a .301 hitting percentage and defeated Boston College, 3-0.

“Ask me about Whitney today,” Horsmon said.

In her first game since high school, Craigo said the pace and larger stage at the college level contributed to her nervousness during play.

And she’s still a relative newcomer to the position.

Originally a middle blocker, she didn’t start setting until her junior year, when injuries ravaged her team at Avon Lake High School in Ohio.

But with Craigo as the newly initiated setter, the team won the Southwestern Conference title, which the team repeated See craigo, Page 7