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Knox Village approved to replace Knox Box apts

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer A majority of the long-standing Knox Box apartments will be demolished this summer in preparation for Knox Village, a housing development unanimously approved by the College Park City Council on Tuesday night.

Knox Village is slated to offer 429 units and 1,567 beds, according to documents provided by WDG Archi-

Millions of Syrian refugees flee war

tecture, the project’s developer. WDG Managing Principal Robert Keane said the firm plans to start construction this summer in order to complete the first phase by fall 2016.

The vote for the redevelopment of the housing complexes was a “landmark occasion,” said College Park Mayor Andy Fellows on Tuesday night.

Discussions about tearing down the Knox Boxes have been ongoing for

Amnesty International hosts info table on mall

the knox boxes, a longtime housing complex around Knox Road, will be mostly demolished this summer in See knox, Page 2 preparation for the Knox Village development approved by a City Council vote. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

“How many refugees do you think there are in Syria?” Ramkesh Renganathan, a member of this university’s chapter of Amnesty International, asked students walking across McKeldin Mall on their way to class yesterday afternoon.

The answer? A lot more than many people think.

Student members of Amnesty International stood near the sundial on the mall yesterday, stopping passersby to inform them about the refugee crisis in Syria.

When Renganathan, a sophomore electrical engineering major, asked students to guess the number of refugees, most of them estimated from 100,000 to 200,000. The actual number is far greater, he said. In December, the U.N. estimated there were about 2 million refugees in Syria, while more than 600,000 had fled to neighboring countries, according to Amnesty International. The population of Syria in 2011 was almost 21 million, according to the U.N. The swelling number of refugees is the result of a civil war between government forces and rebel groups, many of which are supported by the U.S. government.

“A lot of people don’t realize what’s going on in other parts of the world,” said Sean Rotter, a junior education major. “Seeing as our government contributed to the destruction of their country and caused many of these refugees, we should be more concerned with helping out.”

Amnesty International members asked students to donate cash or text the word “SAFE” to 20222 to donate $10 to Save the Children, a charity

A DAY TO THINK ABOUT OUR FOOD Food Day returns amid sustainability push

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer Although busy college students might find it easy to grab a fast-food burger at the end of the day, this university is participating in a nationwide campaign to promote healthy, sustainable diets.

Each year on Oct. 24, groups across the country celebrate Food Day, an initiative aimed at encouraging consumers to purchase sustainable, healthy and affordable food, according to the movement’s website. This university celebrated Food Day for the first time last year, said Allison Lilly, Dining Services sustainability and wellness coordinator. The event fell on a Wednesday, which was perfect timing, Lilly said — Farmers Market at Maryland sets up every Wednesday outside Cole Field House.

In honor of the first Food Day, See food, Page 2

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer

the university’s farmers market sells fresh produce such as tomatoes outside Cole Field House every Wednesday. Dining Services will celebrate the national Food Day on this campus today as part of its effort to encourage students to adopt sustainable, healthy and affordable diets. james levin/the diamondback

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New hope after Occupy

Developer cancels golf course proposal

Activist reforms group with widened focus

After backlash, Brian Gibbons won’t release concept plan to univ

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer Occupy UMD had a brief stint at this university, but one student is picking up the faded movement’s pieces and channeling his passion for activism into new efforts.

Todd, a junior who asked that his last name and major be withheld to protect his job, is the administrator of Twitter account @ACT_UMD. He uses the account — an update to the now-defunct @occupyumd, the official Twitter account of Occupy UMD — to tweet about national and local issues, as well as opportunities for activism on the campus and in the community, he said.

“From building a rooftop garden or going to an anti-war march in D.C., there are all these opportunities to get involved,” he said. “My mission is letting students, letting members of our community in College Park, know what is happening as far as activism goes.”

While ACT UMD is not an official student group, and Todd is the only administrator of the Twitter

account, he said he hopes to see it rise from the ashes of Occupy UMD and remain a valuable network for student activists.

“It was too important a resource for students in activist circles to let it go to waste,” he said.

The Occupy UMD group formed in fall 2011 and had about 25 members at its peak, he said. It fell apart just a few months later after receiving serious backlash from outside the university and a generally apathetic reaction from the student body. A combination of hate emails and lack of support from the university community drove Occupy UMD to officially disband in December 2011.

“This campus is not a good breeding ground for radicalism,” said Andrew Bodiford, a senior government and politics major who was heavily involved in the Occupy D.C. protests.

Students at this university seem to be very career-oriented and don’t have the time or motivation See act, Page 3

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By Laura Blasey @lblasey Senior staff writer Development firm Greenberg Gibbons will not submit a concept plan or formal proposal to redevelop the university golf course.

The firm’s CEO, Brian Gibbons, sent a formal letter to university President Wallace Loh yesterday announcing the decision, which came on the eve of the intended release of Gibbons’ official concept plan for the site.

The letter follows weeks of community backlash and public pronouncements from city, county and state officials, who criticized the redevelopment idea. Last week, Loh wrote to Gibbons urging the developer to consider the community’s concerns.

In July, Gibbons, a university alumnus and parent of a current student, discussed a possible development informally with Loh.

the university golf course was recently the subject of heavy debate after Brian Gibbons announced his development firm would look at proposing a redevelopment for much of the area. james levin/the diamondback Gibbons’ initial plan included an “academic village” and connector road at the site of the golf course and was originally estimated to cost more than $100 million.

Gibbons was preparing to submit an official concept plan today but opted to withdraw the project idea entirely.

“As someone who loves the University, it was never my intent for this concept to become a political football or have the University become embroiled in political theatre,” he wrote.

“IT WAS NEVER MY INTENT FOR THIS CONCEPT TO BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL.” BRIAN GIBBONS

Greenberg Gibbons CEO Gibbons added that he will instead focus on development ideas for the Route 1 corridor. lblaseydbk@gmail.com

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KNOX From PAGE 1 more tha n a dozen yea rs, a n d D i s t r i c t 4 C o u n c i lman Marcus Afzali said he’s thrilled to be a part of the demolition. “The fact that I get to do that makes me happy beyond belief,” Afzali said.

For the past six months, the Toll Brothers development company has worked with local politicians and the City Council to win approval for the Knox development, Keane said.

“That definitely influenced the design a bit,” he said, adding the development was “a little more modern” initially. Blue-light phones will be installed on the property, and the council also revised the number of light fixtures around the buildings.

The housing complex will hold two retail spaces, Keane said, and developers hope the larger of the two will appeal to a restaurant like Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville. The

development will also boast a large outside area with a “grand staircase” modeled off the Spanish Steps in Rome.

“They want faculty, staff, s t u d e nt s, v i s ito rs — t h e whole nine yards — coming to this site,” he said. “The Toll Brothers want this to be very competitive with The Varsity and with the View.”

The development will also offer a n a rray of housi ng options, from studio apartments and town houses to more cost-effective two-bedroom, two-bathroom options for groups of four students.

K nox Village will be the sixth off-campus apartment complex constructed along Route 1 in College Park in the past decade, and plans for another are underway at the former site of the Maryland Book Exchange. But College Pa rk E conom ic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater said there are no concerns of student housing reaching a saturation point any time soon.

the knox village development will have 429 housing units with more than 1,500 total beds. Construction on the project is set to begin this summer. image courtesy of wdg architecture Village, said the project will be in a prime location near the campus and should provide great amenities.

Initially, Stullich said the developers wanted the retail space to appeal to a larger base of consumers, not just students, but she suggested

the primary focus should be on student residents.

City Council Student Liaison Catherine McGrath said the location and modern design of Knox Village will appeal to students. The developers presented the project to the Student Government

Association on Oct. 16, and McGrath said the overall response was positive.

“All of the [SGA] representatives were very excited ab out t he possi bi l it ies,” McGrath said.

in addition to nine vendors at the farmers market, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. These booths From PAGE 1 offered information for stuDining Services unveiled its dents and activities to help Sustainable Food Commit- them learn more about susment initiative, which es- tainable food.

“T he food is del icious. tablished a goal of serving 20 percent sustainable food by And it’s definitely worth the 2020. While the department money because it’s supporting had reached 10 percent at that something sustainable, and time last year, this university it’s supporting something has seen a 2 percent increase local,” said Jaime Berez, a in sustainable food since then, freshman mechanical engineering major.

Lilly said.

S t u d e nt s a l s o e njoye d “We’re seeing a lot more energy around sustainable food music from various student groups as well as an arboreissues on campus,” she said.

Yesterday, the university tum tour at the Chef’s Garden held its own Food Day Festi- by Stamp Student Union. The val, in which students could Fair Trade Festival, which will visit booths from various offer educational games and on-campus organizations, other activities for students,

will set up today in front of the North Campus Snack ‘n’ Shop from 5 to 7 p.m., and the dining halls will serve special meals. On Friday, to conclude the celebration, there will be a walking tour of the campus gardens, beginning at the rooftop garden above the South Campus Dining Hall at 4 p.m., Lilly said.

“The point of Food Day is to educate people on where their food comes from, how it is grown, what it’s grown with,” said Andrea Doukakis, a senior individual studies major and Office of Sustainability intern. “A lot of people just eat and they don’t think about where that food comes from. Food Day is a way to get people to be aware of what they’re eating and the impact of that.”

Doukakis is a member of the Lead, Educate, Act, Facilitate Outreach Team, which works to educate students about sustainability and encourage people to be “green.” The program began last semester, Doukakis said, and has since played a large role in this university’s increasing emphasis on sustainability.

“For me, Food Day is an opportunity to try to engage a wider group of people on the campus around sustainable and healthy food issues,” Lilly said. “It’s both an opportunity for dialogue and engagement in a sort of easy-to-approach way, and it’s also a good time to take a step back and look at all of the accomplishments that we’re making.”

“For a long period of time, there was an unmet demand for people to live close to campus,” Stiefvater said.

“It’s kind of been, maybe, a pent-up demand.”

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syria From PAGE 1 dedicated to helping children around the world. A dollar will buy a box of crayons, while $4 will feed a family for a day and $10 will feed a family for several days, group members told students.

“I think there are a lot of people here that care but don’t necessarily have a way to help out,” Renganathan said.

After a day of demonstrating on the mall, the Amnesty International group collected $118.73 in donations from students.

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But money can only go so far and serious attention must be paid to the victims, who have witnessed more violence than any person ever should, said Aiyah, a freshman journalism major who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her family in Syria.

“We have to focus on the mental health of these refugees and victims of the war in Syria,” she said.

Aiyah said she used to visit Syria every summer until three years ago. Before the violence started, Syria was a beautiful country with a strong sense of community,

“THERE’S SO MUCH NEGATIVITY FOCUSED ON SYRIA, BUT IT’S NICE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT THERE IS HUMANITY IN THE COUNTRY.” AIYAH

Freshman journalism major she said.

“I feel like there’s so much negativity focused on Syria, but it’s nice to remind people that there is humanity in the country,” she said. “There is love between people. When I think of Syria, I think of neighbors.”

While neighbors used to share food with one another and eat together before sunrise during Ramadan, she said,

many people now struggle to survive and must only think about themselves.

People living in Syria have few safe options to turn to; they can either live in a violent war zone or flee to a refugee camp, where they will face many other dangers, Aiyah said.

Starvation, malnutrition and disease are all issues affecting refugee camps, according to a sign displayed

at Amnesty International’s demonstration. It hung in front of two tents set up on the mall that were meant to represent the living conditions of people in the camps, where entire fam ilies are often confined to one small tent, Renganathan said.

A lthough she hopes for peace in the country, Aiyah said she can’t picture the violence ending soon.

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AMF College Park Lanes to get full liquor license Some local bowlers excited, others say full license acquisition offends them

By Natalie Tomlin @thedbk Staff writer

the merger. Bowlmor AMF is the world’s largest operator of bowling centers, with nearly 300 and revenues of Students looking for an about $450 million.

With the merger, Bowlmor alternative to the nighttime bar scene will soon have a AMF hopes to become “the new option in College Park: ultimate American leisure compa ny,” Bret t Pa rker, the bowling alley.

W i t h i n a f e w w e e k s , Bowlmor AMF’s vice chairA M F Col lege Pa rk La nes, man, and chief financial officer the bowling alley north of stated in the news release.

The pursuit of a full liquor the campus on Route 1, will beg i n sel l i ng ha rd l iquor license at the College Park in addition to the beer and alley is possibly intended wine it has sold for years, to k e e p p a c e w i t h o t h e r said College Park District 2 Bowlmor locations, which Councilman Robert Catlin. have already been selling On July 1, AMF Bowling h a rd l iquor, sa id M a r v i n Worldw ide, I nc., merged Byrd, shift leader at A MF w i t h N e w Y o r k- b a s e d College Park Lanes.

The merge also brought other Bowl mor to create new compa ny B owl mor A M F, changes, including reduced a c c o rd i n g to a B o wl m o r hours. The center used to open press release an nouncing at 9 a.m. during the week, but

A Patron winds up to knock down pins at AMF College Park Lanes. The Route 1 bowling alley is under new management and in the process of obtaining a full liquor license, which local bowlers said they are looking forward to. file photo/the diamondback now it opens at noon to draw in more bowlers during the afternoon, when it typically experiences downtime, Byrd said.

Some senior bowling leagues, such as local group The Friendly Senior League, aren’t happy about the new hours. They used to bowl in

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Leag ue members also expressed concern about the expanded liquor sales.

“I think it will bring people up here that will hang around and drink too much,” said senior league bowler Shirley Kruse.

Fellow league bowler Elton Wiser sa id sel l i ng l iquor doesn’t fit with the alley’s purpose or atmosphere.

“I don’t like it,” he said.

“It’s supposed to be a recreation center, not a beer joint or a liquor store. It’s going to bring a lot more drunks in.”

Wiser bowls four times a week — three times during the day and once at night. The bowling alley has some “power drinkers at night,” he said.

However, Catlin said he would be surprised if the full liquor license significantly changes the establishment.

“I just don’t see a bowling alley as a place where people would hang out and drink,” he said. “You can’t bowl when you’re drunk anyways.”

T he new l icen se won’t affect the area, Catlin said, because the bowling alley isn’t always busy, and it isn’t located near many residences.

“I don’t th i n k it’s a big deal; they’ve had a beer and wine license for as long as I can remember,” he said.

Catlin doesn’t think the

bowling alley is a popular spot for students now, but junior communication major Arielle Kroloff said she would definitely consider going if it transformed into a better student hangout.

“I think it’d be a good activity instead of just going to the bar,” she said. “I don’t have a car, so it’d be difficult to get there, but I’d definitely be more inclined to go if they sell liquor.”

She added that TerpZone in Stamp Student Union tends to be popular with freshmen, so a public bowling alley, such as AMF College Park Lanes, might be a better option for upperclassmen who want to drink and hang out instead of visiting the typical nightlife options downtown.

Catlin said bowling alleys in the Washington area are catering to a younger crowd, too. Bowlmor also owns a location i n Bethesda a nd another in Rockville. “[The full liquor license] certainly is something that cou ld be a t ra n sit ion for them,” he said, but added it would take “more than that” to transform the business. “[The liquor license] could be one step in making things happen, but it’s not a big step, I don’t think,” he said.

ACT From PAGE 1 for protests, with many looking for jobs with the federal government, he added.

But Todd said he didn’t want everything the members of Occupy UMD had worked for to go to waste.

So, in fall 2012, he decided to change Occupy UMD’s Twitter handle and broaden his focus to include a wide range of social justice issues.

T h i s semester, Todd worked w ith student g roup R ad ic a l Ru sh to produce the Disorientat ion G u id e, a n a n nu a l zi ne put toget her w it h submissions from student activist groups, he said.

This year’s zine features articles on topics such as safe recreational drug use, edible plants and how to be an ally to rape victims.

“We are trying to disrupt a campus filled with rape culture and stigma against drugs and alcohol,” said Tyler Kutner, one of the editors of the Disorientation Guide and a former student who withdrew from the university this semester. “We’re trying to present ideas that counter most people’s conventional thoughts. We want to get people talking.”

Changing the way people talk and think about radical issues is one of the main goals Todd hopes to accomplish with @ACT_UMD. “I want there to be more places on campus where it makes it easy to connect and share ideas,” he said, citing the Maryland Food Co-op in Stamp Student Union as an example. “It’s about creating a shift in mentality from a money culture to a people culture.”

Bodiford said he thinks the recent govern ment shutdow n may ig n ite a passion for activism among students and foster a new movement in the future.

“I th i n k Occupy was t he f i rst i n a ser ie s of m o v e m e n t s ,” h e s a i d .

“It’s grounded in an antiinequality movement, and we’re going to see another movement at some point.”

Unlike Occupy, future movements shouldn’t necessarily look to the federal government to solve society’s problems, said Ross Marchand, a senior economics and government and politics major.

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alonte Hill had his chance.

Coming to this university in 2011 with one charge of driving under the influence, the men’s basketball assistant coach was offered an opportunity to start fresh.

But with five charges Sunday on similar counts, including one involving potential drug use, Hill has squandered that opportunity. And the university’s reaction should not let him off the hook. Considering University System of Maryland policy requires employees charged with DUIs to plead guilty, no contest or accept probation, Hill’s firing seems nearly unavoidable.

The benefits Hill offers the university are unquestionably significant.

A former coach for one of Washington’s most productive basketball talent breeding grounds, Amateur Athletic Union team D.C. Assault, Hill is indeed a top recruiter.

Already, the Terps have assembled the No. 3 recruiting class in the country for the 2014 season, with

three of ESPN’s top 100 players in the nation — one of whom, guard Romelo Trimble, played for Assault.

The entirety of this year’s scholarship freshman class, guard Roddy Peters and forward Damonte Dodd, played for Assault as well.

It’s clear Hill has brought with him a torrent of talent. Such quality players put bodies in seats and put the program squarely back on the map — all of which offer much-needed financial rewards for the athletic department. And for his work, Hill deserves praise from the athletic department and student fans alike. But we don’t owe him free passes.

It’s important that the university keeps its priorities in the right place. So many times in recent memory, athletic success has trumped commonsense values, and the effects have been devastating in some cases. And while Hill’s actions don’t even begin to compare to some of the scandals of 21st century college athletics, they offer important

lessons. Athletic officials — with their high salaries and visibility — should be evaluated with the same, or more, scrutiny as typical employees. And we’re hard-pressed to think of a situation in which employees outside the myopic college athletics bubble would get away with two DUIs.

OUR VIEW

For this university to uphold its reputation, assistant coach Dalonte Hill must be held accountable for his actions.

University system policy dictates the minimum discipline for employees after a second DUI conviction is a fiveday suspension. The maximum discipline is termination. We’re inclined to favor the latter end of the spectrum.

Hill’s job entails training 17- to 22-year-olds and recruiting 15- and 16-year-olds. It reflects poorly on

this university, on the athletic department and on the larger image of college basketball that an assistant coach with two DUI charges (and three total arrests since 2008) is meant to be a role model for malleable recruits and young players.

Hill was hired by this university with one DUI arrest under his belt.

The hire was confusing given Athletic Director Kevin Anderson’s reputation for looking for family-friendly coaches with immaculate records — football coach Randy Edsall and basketball coach Mark Turgeon being the two most prominent.

We hope, and expect, the athletic department considered Hill’s past and decided to place him on a short leash and under tight scrutiny after his previous incident at Kansas State. But Sunday’s charges cast doubt on those expectations. And a severe punishment is in order to rectify the apparent lapse.

After Hill concludes his self-imposed leave of absence, we feel a season-long

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Change the name: “Redskins” must go ity. “Go Redskins,” I would shout without any thought. For the most part, I just accepted the fact that it was the team’s name. Commentary CHARLIE BULMAN from sportscasters, media outlets and In the past year — particularly the just about everyone else desensitized past month — sports media have me to the slur, and eventually I was exploded with calls from prominent too attached to the name to want to sportscasters, columnists and even think about it.

Another Onion headline, “Report: President Obama for Washington’s professional football franchise to Redskins’ Name Only Offensive If You discard the moniker “Redskins.” On Think About What It Means,” captures Monday, the savvy satirists at The the right sentiment. Unfortunately, Onion upped the ante with an eye- people must be forced to confront the popping, statement-making headline, inherent racism of the name. But once labeling the team’s owner Dan Snyder the issue’s on the table, there’s really only one viable conclusion. with an anti-Semitic term.

When it comes down to it, the Any potential conclusion to the controversy appears far off — con- name “Redskins” endorses and servatives have reflexively challenged commodifies the dehumanization Obama’s remarks as emblematic of of indigenous Americans. The prospolitical correctness, and the issue pect of dubbing African-Americans threatens to be consumed by the black “blackskins” makes most people hole of national politics. As Redskins cringe — and rightfully so. Unapologists dig in their heels, it’s worth doubtedly, there was a time when unmasking the empty logic of their average people were comfortable with degrading names. But as our defense.

In the six years I’ve followed the racial sensitivity toward Africanteam, Washington has compiled a Americans has grown, consciouscombined regular-season record of ness of Native Americans has 35-51. It’s pretty safe to say I’m no fair- lagged behind.

It’s useful to consider why. In the weather fan. Like other supporters, I stalled consideration of the implica- past few centuries, Europeans’ westtions of the franchise’s name for years. ward thrust has decimated indigenous When the thought periodically populations, crippling the human broached my mind, I felt slightly base for political organization. And uncomfortable with my complic- now, the same ethnocentric mental-

suspension is the minimum possible discipline the university should impose.

There seems to be little justification for keeping Hill on the Terps’ staff, but transparent indications of the steps he will take to rehabilitate and the comprehensive evaluation he will undergo could present a satisfactory alternative to termination.

Additionally, Hill got paid $302,000 in 2012, making him one of the highest-paid assistant coaches in the country. Under no circumstances should this be the case after the university hands down its punishment.

These situations seem unlikely, however, as both the university and Hill have now proven twice that his behavior is not being properly monitored. Hill is not fit to be such a prominent coach at this university. And though his absence might hurt players emotionally, recruiting logistically and athletics financially, it will strengthen the ethical framework and overall reputation of this university.

ity responsible for their genocide is being perpetuated by the Washington football franchise, so as not to offend Snyder’s sense of tradition.

Traditions of racism certainly do not justify their continuation. And absence of malignant intent on the part of the name’s defenders does not make it any less prejudiced.

Furthermore, the acceptance of some Native American groups now or in the past does not settle the issue. Indigenous communities are in no way homogeneous, and some groups have gone so far as to contest the issue in court.

Ironically, football has often been viewed as a uniting force.

In fact, Washington’s young quarterback Robert Griffin III has sometimes been described as a post-racial quarterback: a star so universally captivating he can transcend racial divides. Reinvigorated by RGIII’s meteoric rise, the franchise has clawed back to relevancy. But with new attention comes greater responsibility. It’s time for the team’s ownership, players and fans to consider — and ultimately replace — the blatantly offensive name.

Charlie Bulman is a so p h o m o re go ve r n m e n t a n d politics major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.

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t was my first night out at this university, and my friends and I were excited to see what College Park had to offer. This university has a huge campus, so we knew we would have to take a bus to get anywhere — that wasn’t a problem. I’d often taken public transportation before, even in other countries, so I considered myself relatively savvy in that department. All you have to do is figure out which bus you want, its arrival time and where to get off. Easy, especially since most buses tell you what stop you’re approaching, so there’s very little chance of missing it.

My friends and I boarded the Blue Line and figured out we had to get off at the Montgomery Hall stop. Having only partially explored the campus before moving in, I had no idea where Montgomery Hall was, or what it looked like. But I felt at ease, knowing each stop would be announced.

Little did I know that is not how Shuttle-UM buses operate.

My friends and I rode the Blue Line around its entire route that night because we had no idea what any of the stops were. Stop names were never displayed or announced. The bus driver simply drove around, only stopping where there were people waiting to board or when someone requested to stop. Other (older) students casually got on and off, completely familiar with the stops and already acclimated to relying on themselves to get places, as we freshmen sat in our seats, completely bewildered as we pulled into

the bus stop in front of Stamp Student Union again.

In the many instances I’ve found myself on a Shuttle-UM bus since that night, I’ve also noticed the route maps are rarely well-stocked. So unless you’re like me, now paranoid of missing my stop and therefore tracking the bus on Google Maps in real time and constantly referring back to the route maps on the Department of Transportation Services website, you’re essentially left on your own to figure out where you want to go and when you want to get there. Welcome to college life.

But this is not a hard problem to solve. Bus stop names can be displayed on an electronic marquee and announced over the intercom using a pre-recorded voice, as on the Ride On and Metro buses in the state. Or, if this university is looking to be even more cost-effective, bus drivers can announce stops themselves. Either solution reduces the confusion and anxiety new students and visitors experience when they board a Shuttle-UM bus. For the sake of my (and others’) sanity, please make the bus system a little more user-friendly.

Maybe next time I try to take the Franklin Park at Greenbelt Station Line to Target (which is about 10 minutes away by car), it won’t be a two-and-a-half-hour round-trip.

LARA FU Freshman government and politics major

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Becoming better citizens A call for civic engagement

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e Americans are feeling negative about our nation and our public life. Three-quarters of the public say the country is on the wrong track. Some of us may be especially angry at Congress, at President Obama — or both — but the roots of our discontent go deeper than that.

Maybe we are angry because we face profound problems the government isn’t addressing: persistent unemployment, climate change, violence, mass incarceration and the slow desertion of our great industrial cities, to name just a few.

Although we should expect more from the government and our political leaders, they cannot solve these problems on their own. We can solve even the most difficult problems if we are organized and active. That is not a wish — it is a finding of extensive research. But where are we going to get more active and responsible citizens?

That’s where you come in. You can be a more effective citizen. Civic engagement that improves the world almost always has three characteristics. It is deliberate: Citizens talk and listen to fellow citizens who may disagree with them. It is collaborative: Citizens actually roll up their sleeves and work together, building, saving or producing goods. And it creates civic relationships and partnerships among people who want to improve the world together.

Many thousands of college students are already active in these ways through service programs, environmental groups, faith communities and online communities.

If you are not yet involved, you should join one of these groups. If you are involved, it is time to take your engagement to the next level. You should ask why so many obstacles stand in the way of active citizens.

For instance, why does our political system cater to professionally led, well-funded interests instead of catering to citizens who deliberate and collaborate? Why do schools and colleges offer so little civic education? Why is so little funding available for citizens’ groups? Why do the news and entertainment media rarely depict citizens working together to address problems?

The only people who can overcome these obstacles are the citizens who are already active at the grassroots level, because they know what citizenship looks like and why we need more of it.

A movement of active citizens is the only thing that can address our most serious national challenges.

Peter Levine is a professor at Tufts University. Levine taught from 1993 until 2008 at this university, where he was also an associate research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy in this university’s public policy school.

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Can white critics adequately appreciate black music? Should interpretation of art be left to its intended audience? Two white guys debate the issue NO | THE CLOSER YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU KNOW

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LOVING AN ALBUM AND UNDERSTANDING IT are two separate issues. OutKast’s Stankonia earned rave reviews from the music press, but how many of those critics actually had the cultural background to appreciate the album? In other words, how can a white person review an album about being black? photo courtesy of refinedhype.com

NO ONE BUT KENDRICK LAMAR knows what it’s like to be Kendrick Lamar, regardless of race.

Black and white critics are both equally unqualified to parse his work. photo courtesy of thisis50.com

By Dean Essner @daesayingstuff Senior staff writer Criticism is like baking: Art is a batch of cookie dough, and you wield the cutter, tasked with taking a bendable, flexible mass of raw eggs and spices and shoving it onto rigid metal.

The resulting shape goes in the oven, an uncooked or preliminary analysis placed under red-hot scrutiny.

Three-hundred-and-fifty degrees. Taste buds are arbitrary; maybe you like it when it’s semi-sweet or when the outside is flaky like a croissant.

However, in criticism, you’ve already decided what the cookie will taste like back when it was just dough. That languid rigmarole in which you analyze texture, flavor and all other exterior components? It means little.

Preconception, that initial glance at the dough as you brandish your sharp, unwavering cutter, is often all it takes to inspire a review.

The type of cutter I carry, as a music critic, wa s g ive n to m e s u b consciously through my upbringing. I’m a white,

Jewish male, born and raised on suburban Long Island in an upper-middleclass household. I went to a quasi-diverse school, but most of the people I spent time with were similar to me in race and ethnicity.

As a college student, my friends are predominantly white. This is not intended.

It just happened.

As a Diversions writer for The Diamondback, I see myself as an arbiter of taste for the campus. I try to be fair and honest. If I’ve learned anything, though, it’s that I am a biased critic. The baggage I bring to a piece of art — my life up until the moment I am exposed to it for the first time — is impossible to sidestep. When I examine a piece of music, it’s through a very fine lens that has grown narrower and narrower over time. I am no longer an open book. I’ve been on this earth for nearly 20 years. I have a past that obscures the present.

This “baggage” makes us critics unqualified to review certain artists or genres. For me and my white-bread childhood, it’s hip-hop. It doesn’t mean I don’t love it. In fact, some

of my favorite albums of all time — specifically De La Soul’s 3 Feet High & Rising, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, m.A.A.d City and OutKast’s Stankonia — are vital pieces of black American art. But when it comes to interpretation, I should never be voicing my opinion.

In critiquing an album, I need to look at the message conveyed through lyrics and sonic directions. The latter component I can talk about, as long as I speak in generalities that relate specifically and pointedly to the music at hand. However, the former would require me to decide whether a story is told well and if it even deserves to be told in the first place. I am in no way a reputable enough source to determine these things. Even if I were to talk about them in abstract terms in which I outwardly acknowledge a n u n f i xa b l e d i s ta n ce between me and the music, my Caucasian presuppositions would keep me slanted. I can’t not cut up the cookies.

And I acknowledge this is the case because I am a

privileged person. Washington Post movie critic Ann Hornad ay, in he r essay “Pop culture, white privilege and widening the lens,” speaks brilliantly to this idea of how white people don’t realize how good they have it. It’s been that way for a long time, and we don’t quite deserve it. “The roots of whites’ optimism can be found in our own history,” she writes. “Like compounded interest from an investment we never made, the advantages white people enjoy derive from past racist practices and present-day unconscious behaviors that create channels no less wide, deep and real for being largely invisible.”

The key word here is “ u n co n sc i o u s.” W h e n white people criticize black music for its idiosyncrasies, which we can’t sympathize with or understand in context, we are perpetuating many lifetimes’ worth of racism. And we don’t even realize it.

We’ve cut the cookies.

They lay on the tray. Bad light. 3.9 out of 10. dessnerdbk@gmail.com

By Robert Gifford @rcgiff Senior staff writer I will never know what it’s like to be you. Even if you are, like me, white, male and middle-class, the gulf between our two experiences is one that will never be bridged. You can tell your entire life story, recount every joy and heartbreak, but I will still hear it through my own ears — your story will still be refracted through my set of experiences, subject to my own interpretations and prejudices.

Even siblings, parents, children — the people with whom we share DNA — often feel alien and unknowable. There are infinite ways of seeing the world, but we are each cursed with a single pair of eyes.

This raises an important question regarding criticism, which is fundamentally the act of one person interpreting and critiquing others’ attempts to express their experience of the world. Is it fair for people to criticize a work that exists far outside of their ranges of experience — for example, a middle-aged white critic with a liberal arts degree reviewing a young black rapper’s first mixtape?

These cultural gaps make criticism problematic. How

is a privileged white writer to empathize with the rage against institutionalized oppression inherent to so much hip-hip?

Wouldn’t it be better if it were reviewed by someone more familiar with the music’s milieu?

Maybe, but maybe not; proximity is just as likely to blur a critic’s senses as distance is. As much as critics may feign objectivity, any act of criticism is deeply personal, and things that are close to us are just as likely to blur our senses as things we don’t understand. Young black critics could hold a young black rapper’s album to an unfairly high standard because they expect more from someone who shares their backgrounds, just as a middle-aged white critic could condescendingly give the same rapper’s album a rave review just to seem hip.

We like to pretend we can set aside our subjectivity, but we can’t. No one can leave his or her own personal brand of myopia at the door, and critics are no different. There will never be an objective review.

In short, each of us is blinded by myriad biases and misperceptions. Black or white, rich or poor — trapped in our own identities, we will always get each other wrong. rgifforddbk@gmail.com

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Beanlands From PAGE 8 situations, so basically you know what it feels like and you know how to prepare for those high-stakes games,” Beanlands said.

During her recruitment, Beanlands knew she would likely redshirt in 2011 and then, the following season, compete to fill the void left by the Terps’ career leader in goals-against average, Yewande Balogun. She won the starting job and relinquished it only twice: Once to then-senior Shannon Zickler for about the first 20 minutes of the Senior Night game against Florida State on Oct. 21, 2012, and once in a game she missed to attend her sister’s wedding.

Last year also saw her debut in another sport: Quidditch. Beanlands was unable to play during soccer season, but she attended practice last spring and even traveled to a few tournaments.

“I sort of knew about them before but was skeptical of how much time I would have to actually join it and everything,” Beanlands said. “I did a project on them in the fall of last year and then I got connected with the old president, and so she is sort of the one who convinced me to join in the spring.”

For the past three years, Beanlands has moved to a different country, made her college debut and become a key component of the Terps defense. Every time she steps on the field, she welcomes the spotlight, just like she did while making game-winning saves for her youth league team more than decade ago.

“It’s a high-pressure position,” Beanlands said. “But I feel like it helps me take responsibility of things. Everyone can tell when I’ve made a mistake, and that sort of helps me be on point and strive for perfection.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

Defenders Chris Odoi-Atsem (left) and Mikey Ambrose (top right) and midfielder Michael Sauers (bottom right) all started on the backline as the Terps fell to Wake Forest, 4-3, on Saturday at Ludwig Field. Coach Sasho Cirovski contemplated changing the lineup before Tuesday’s match against Drexel, but he kept the same defense on the field and the Terps earned a 1-0 win. That marked the team’s third shutout this year. photos by alik mcintosh/the diamondback

defense From PAGE 8 at center back — were left stranded and forced to make one-on-one tackles to prevent scoring opportunities.

“Our defending hasn’t been that great in the past games after we lose the ball,” Jane said. “Guys didn’t track the people back, and everybody was out of position. This

week, Sash kind of talked about how we have to have the right mentality and every time we lose the ball, we have to track the players down and try to get it back right away.

We have to be the team that keeps the ball and hates not having the ball.”

Crognale began the season as one of the few permanent pieces — along with forwards Patrick Mullins and Schillo Tshuma up top — in

Cirovski’s lineup and started the first 12 games of the campaign. Edwards returned from a hernia on Sept. 13 against North Carolina and started the next seven games.

But after surrendering three early goals to Virginia at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., on Oct. 11, Cirovski pulled both Edwards and Crognale in favor of Odoi-Atsem and Dainkeh midway through the first half.

Neither Edwards nor Crog-

nale has seen the field since the Terps tied the Cavaliers, 3-3.

“I’m not going to address any issues about [Crognale],” Cirovski said. “He’s a good player. Dakota’s a good player. And I have a lot of good players. And right now, we’ve got players that are playing well. We played against one of the best teams in the country and dominated them for 65 minutes.”

Regardless, Cirovski found a combination Tuesday night that worked in the defensive

half. He feels his team has tremendous depth, including four center backs and six center midfielders worthy of starting.

And it’s that depth that allows the Terps to be versatile and unpredictable on a gameto-game basis.

“We have a lot of faith in all of our players,” Cirovski said.

“In certain games and certain matchups, we will go with different guys.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer The Terrapins men’s soccer team had one of its worst defensive breakdowns of the season in the final 25 minutes of the first half in a 4-3 loss to Wake Forest on Saturday at Ludwig Field.

The Terps surrendered four goals in rapid succession with defensive midfielder Dan Metzger on the sideline with a leg injury. The backline had little support from the midfield as the Demon Deacons attacked with through balls down the right sideline and sharp crosses into the middle.

Coach Sasho Cirovski contemplated making personnel changes for Tuesday’s game against Drexel after the disappointing defeat. But the 21st-year coach decided against it, making just one minor adjustment to the starting lineup: inserting midfielder Mikias Eticha in place of midfielder Sunny Jane, who, after being substituted back in, scored the eventual game-winner and his first goal of the season in the 77th minute.

Cirovski’s faith in the backline ended up paying off, as goalkeeper Zack Steffen earned his third career shutout in a 1-0 victory that was arguably the Terps’ best defensive performance of the season.

“There was a lot of thoughts about a lot of changes,” Cirovski said Tuesday. “But in the end, we felt that we were outstanding for about 65 minutes against Wake Forest. Some of the breakdowns were correctable, and we addressed those, and some of the kids stepped up tonight.”

“IN THE END, WE FELT THAT WE WERE OUTSTANDING FOR ABOUT 65 MINUTES AGAINST WAKE FOREST. SOME OF THE BREAKDOWNS WERE CORRECTABLE, AND WE ADDRESSED THOSE, AND SOME OF THE KIDS STEPPED UP TONIGHT.” SASHO CIROVSKI

Terrapins men’s soccer coach Despite having two other quality center backs on the bench in Dakota Edwards and Alex Crognale — who have made seven and 12 starts, respectively, and did not play against Wake Forest — Cirovski opted to stick with defenders Suli Dainkeh and Chris Odoi-Atsem in the middle against Drexel.

The freshmen executed Tuesday night, largely due to improved support from the midfield. Compared to Saturday’s matchup, there were substantially fewer situations against the Dragons in which Terps defenders — particularly Odoi-Atsem and Dainkeh See defense, Page 7

goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands has saved 55 shots through 16 matches this season for the Terps after recording 61 saves in 22 matches last year. file photo/the diamondback

FINDING HER WAY Goalkeeper Beanlands thrives in spotlight as Terps play at Syracuse tonight

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer As an 8-year-old, Rachelle Beanlands had it all figured out. She wanted to be a soccer goalkeeper.

After leading her team to victory in an under-9 league championship, snuffing out attacks and saving a couple of shots in the penalty kick shootout, the Ottawa, Ontario, native had a realization that started her down the path to becoming the starting goalkeeper for the Terrapins women’s soccer team.

“I was the big hero of the game, and I was like, ‘Hey, I kind of like this,’” Beanlands said. “So that’s when I sort of decided I wanted to pursue it.”

When the Terps play at Syracuse

tonight, Beanlands will jog onto the field to start the game as she has every match this season. The redshirt sophomore, who said she was nervous entering her college debut last fall, is now a fixture in the Terps lineup and one of the most experienced players on the backline.

She anchored a defense filled with freshmen and converted defenders last season, and she became a vocal leader as she grew into her role as organizer of the backline. Coach Jonathan Morgan can attest to Beanlands’ improvement since she arrived in College Park more than two years ago.

“She has just matured, and she’s having a little bit more of a voice within the team,” Morgan said. “Because she’s more connected with her teammates, it has allowed

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Defender Megan Gibbons has also seen growth in her goalkeeper’s organization skills and shot stopping. Beanlands has 55 saves through 16 games, whereas last fall, she ended up with 61 saves in 22 games.

Beanlands has been able to lean on her international experience as she grows into a more prominent role with the Terps. While playing on Canadian youth national teams, she traveled to Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico to play in tournaments such as the U-17 World Cup. She also played for the Canadian National U-20 team.

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s the final whistle blew on the Terrapins football team’s 37-0 win over West Virginia on Sept. 21, Marcus Whitfield looked around Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium for a place to go. ¶ After home wins at Byrd Stadium, the Terps usually run to the student section, jumping over padding and into the embrace of the first row of students. Then they gather in that corner to sing the school victory song. ¶ But the layout at M&T Bank Stadium on this rainy afternoon was different: The student section was in a corner, away from field level. STORY CONTINUED INSIDE

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BY THE NUMBERS MARCUS WHITFIELD Outside linebacker, No. 41

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“I THINK EVERYTHING’S IMPORTANT TO HIM … AND WHEN I SAY EVERYTHING, BEING A GOOD TEAMMATE, BEING A GOOD FATHER, BEING A GOOD PERSON, BEING A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER, IT’S IMPORTANT TO HIM. I THINK WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, I THINK HE WANTED TO BE A GOOD PERSON, BUT EVERYTHING AND HOW HE WENT ABOUT HIS BUSINESS WASN’T AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS NOW.” BRIAN STEWART

by Whitfield in high school CONTINUED FROM 1 So Whitfield located his family — including his mother, father and young son — in the first row on the far sideline, sprinted and climbed onto the railing in front of his red-poncho-wearing family members.

“They’ve been there since day one,” Whitfield said a week later. “I just went over there [to] stand there and celebrate with them.”

In a breakout redshirt senior season, the outside linebacker has emerged as a force on the field. He has 6.5 sacks, which ranks fourth in the ACC and ties for eighth nationally. As injuries have depleted the Terps defense over the past few weeks, Whitfield’s importance has grown, especially with Clemson’s high-powered offense visiting Byrd Stadium Saturday for the Terps’ homecoming game.

But while the Germantown native continues his impressive season, there’s much more going for him than his ability to overpower opposing

Terrapins football defensive coordinator offensive linemen and pressure quarterbacks.

“The beauty of what I do is to be able to see young people when they first come here and see how innocent or how shy they might be or just to see the ability in them, and then you watch them grow over two to three years, four years and to see how they develop,” coach Randy Edsall said. “Marcus is really one of those kids.”

Whitfield sat in Young Dining Hall at Gossett Football Team House on Sept. 3, the first day of his final semester at this university, surrounded by a throng of reporters, recorders scattered on the table in front of him and video cameras focused on him from all angles.

Three days earlier, he had dominated Florida International in the Terps’ season opener, making five tackles and sacking the quarterback 1.5 times in the Terps’ 43-10 win. Edsall presented him with the defensive game ball for his performance.

Whitfield inadvertently thrust Edsall and the Terps into the national spotlight when he said he couldn’t receive the actual game ball because of NCAA rules. The comments led to confusion over the governing body’s byl aws a n d E S P N c o m mentator Keith Olbermann calling Edsall “the worst person in sports.”

But Whitfield wasn’t too concerned with whether he would get the game ball — the American studies major will receive it when he graduates in December — or any of the accolades he received that week.

T h a t wa s W h i t f i e l d ’s final first day of school, and meanwhile, his 4-year-old son Jeremiah was at his first day of school in a Head Start program half an hour away in Gaithersburg.

While Whitfield has gone through his five years with the Terps trying to develop as a football player and find his way onto the field to chase down quarterbacks, he’s also juggled the task of fatherhood.

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“I think everything’s important to him,” defensive coordinator Brian Stewart said in early September.

“And when I say everything, being a good teammate, being a good father, being a good person, being a good football player, it’s important to him.

I think when I first got here, I think he wanted to be a good person, but everything and how he went about his business wasn’t as important as it is now.”

As a fifth-year senior and father, Whitfield recognizes his position of seniority on the team and the experience he brings to a defense brimming with youthful talent. He’s softspoken, so he chooses to lead by example, juggling parts of life that go well beyond the field but still producing and playing at a high level on Saturdays.

“Everybody on defense, everyone comes to knock somebody’s face off when they come to college, if you play defense especially,” Whitfield said. “Everybody looks

at me as being a leader; they all know I’m a father, that I have other things to worry about.

Everybody basically looks at how the oldest person on the team is going to act.”

It’s been like that since Whitfield’s days at Northwest High School in Germantown, where he was a dangerous receiving option at tight end in addition to a devastating pass rusher. He was a Jaguars team captain, but he wasn’t in the middle of huddles making pregame speeches or standing over o p p os i n g q u a r te rba c ks, taunting them after a sack.

After a big play, Whitfield would simply walk back to the huddle.

“He was a guy who did his job,” former Northwest coach Andrew Fields said. “Kids followed him for that reason, and certainly the talent and exposure helped in that regard. He wasn’t an outwardly spoken or iron fist-type leader. He was more of a guy that just did his job, didn’t correct others by

any stretch of the imagination, but kids followed him because he did his job and did it well.”

When Fields first coached Whitfield, he wasn’t quite sure what to make of the quiet linebacker with the explosive closing speed who regularly made up 5-yard deficits on Division I-caliber running backs and wide receivers.

Whitfield had been a solid contributor to the Jaguars, but he hadn’t yet made the next step to major college prospect.

He had to compete for playing time and didn’t always see the field. And when he wasn’t on the field, it seemed as if the shy Whitfield was simply going through the motions of being a football player, Fields said.

Fields also said the motivation for Whitfield was there, he just didn’t show it outwardly, making it hard for coaches to read what he was CONTINUED ON 3

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OUTSIDE LINEBACKER MARCUS WHITFIELD has been a pass-rushing force for the Terps this season. His 6.5 sacks lead the team and are tied for eighth nationally. Coach Randy Edsall has been impressed with his growth and maturation with the Terps. file photos/the diamondback CONTINUED FROM 2 thinking and how he felt.

They perceived Whitfield as a “lethargic” player, even though he was still making an impact on the field.

“I wouldn’t say it contributes. I would say it definitely translates,” Fields said. “I think it’s kind of the same thing. He’s not an overaggressive kid if he’s just feeling his way through things football-wise. But once he sees that daylight — or in his social life, when he gets to know people — he changes gears.”

In spring 2008, though, Fields noticed something different about Whitfield.

Things clicked, and Whitfield started performing at the level Fields expected when he first saw Whitfield’s physical tools. In his senior season at Northwest, Whitfield recorded 39 tackles, nine tackles for loss and six quarterback hurries. Rivals rated him the 89th-best outside linebacker in the country.

Fields started contacting more significant football programs about his talented player,

and Whitfield soon chose former coach Ralph Friedgen and the Terps over a group of schools such as West Virginia.

“To me, it was just a matter of whether he would get over that hump of what I define as kind of a passive, go-throughthe-motions appearance,” Fields said. “I knew if he got through that, he’s an athletically explosive kid.”

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plete impact on the field at Northwest, the same was true of the early part of his Terps career. He redshirted during his freshman year in 2009 before suffering a seasonending knee injury on his lone play in the Terps’ second game of the 2010 season.

Whitfield played in eight games in 2011, starting the final five of the season at defensive end. He flashed his potential, tying for fourth on the team with 2.5 sacks and went on to play in all 12 games last year.

This year, though, things have been different. Whitfield beat out Division II transfer Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil for the starting outside linebacker job

in training camp and sacked opposing quarterbacks 5.5 times in the Terps’ first three games.

“When I first got here, he was kind of the little shy guy, didn’t talk a whole lot,” Edsall said. “But now you just see this kid that is emerging into a young man and just has developed a lot more confidence in himself, and he handles himself with a lot more confidence.”

Early in the season, Whitfield and Cudjoe-Virgil formed a fearsome pass-rushing duo, ranking first and second nationally in sacks after three games.

Though Whitfield won the position battle, Cudjoe-Virgil still found plenty of playing time.

The two players would joke about meeting each other in the backfield and always seemed to be in the right places during the Terps’ 4-0 start. In the team’s 32-21 win at Connecticut on Sept. 14, Whitfield and Cudjoe-Virgil forced an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone for a safety.

“Marcus and I, we’ve been pretty good friends since I got here,” Cudjoe-Virgil said in September. “We worked with each other over the summer and stuff. We’re always laughing with each other. I think we’re good friends. He teaches me pass-rush techniques and CONTINUED ON 5

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IN OR OUT Who is still in contention for the ACC title about two-thirds of the way through the season?

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6-0 4-0 ACC

COASTAL DIVISION

No. 3 FLORIDA STATE — IN

No. 14 VIRGINIA TECH — IN

No E.J. Manuel, no problem. In their past two games, quarterback Jameis Winston and the Seminoles have combined to outscore the then-No. 25 Terps and thenNo. 3 Clemson, 114-14. A home game against No. 7 Miami in two weeks and season finale against rival Florida appear to be the toughest tests standing between Florida State and a potential trip to Pasadena, Calif., for the BCS National Championship. Those games could also prove vital to Winston’s Heisman campaign.

The Hokies have a legitimate chance to win the Coastal Division and reach the ACC title game. The strongpoint once again has been their fifth-ranked scoring defense, allowing only 15 points per game. With nine touchdowns against six interceptions, quarterback Logan Thomas has done just enough on offense.

Virginia Tech avoids playing both Clemson and Florida State, so its Nov. 9 game at Miami just might end up deciding who plays in the conference championship.

6-1 3-0 ACC

No. 9 CLEMSON — IN 6-1 4-1 ACC

No. 7 MIAMI — IN

Though Florida State beat the Tigers, 51-14, on Saturday, Clemson remains a legitimate threat for a conference title. Quarterback Tajh Boyd leads a Clemson offense averaging 37 points per game, good for third in the ACC. Defensive end Vic Beasley headlines the defense and leads the nation with nine sacks. Don’t count out the Tigers, who will be looking to get back on track this weekend against the Terps.

6-0 2-0 ACC

WAKE FOREST — OUT 4-3 2-2 ACC

Despite beating the injury-riddled Terps, 34-10, last week to move above .500, the Demon Deacons aren’t likely to contend in the league. A soft schedule has helped Wake Forest thus far, as the Terps are the only team with a winning record Wake has beaten. Florida State and Miami remain on the schedule, but it would be easy for the Demon Deacons to win two more games and gain bowl eligibility.

GEORGIA TECH — OUT 4-3 3-2 ACC

TERPS — OUT 5-2 1-2 ACC

What a difference a few weeks can make. Similar to what happened last season, injuries have decimated the Terps after a promising start. If it were not for Virginia missing a late field goal attempt, the Terps would be winless in the ACC. Now, the Terps, who were ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 three weeks ago, are just hoping to win another game to become bowl-eligible. Their best chance will come in just more than two weeks when they host ACC newcomer Syracuse.

4-2 2-2 ACC

5-2 2-2 ACC

The Orange has struggled to navigate through a tough schedule this season. At 3-4, the team has lost to two then-ranked opponents, Northwestern and Clemson, as well as Penn State and Georgia Tech. And it doesn’t get much easier, with every other Atlantic Division team at .500 or better. Syracuse isn’t likely to finish with a winning record, but that doesn’t mean it should be expected to roll over down the stretch. The Orange has beaten the lesser teams on its slate and are capable of earning two or three more wins.

The Blue Devils are a win away from bowl eligibility and seem poised to attain it for the second straight year. Duke has North Carolina, Wake Forest and N.C. State left on the schedule and should beat at least one of those teams. The Blue Devils will also face Virginia Tech and Miami. Against respectable competition this season, the Blue Devils have crumbled, losing at home to Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh. Expect another win or two from them but not much more.

VIRGINIA — OUT 2-5 0-3 ACC

N.C. STATE — OUT 3-3 0-3 ACC

After starting his career at Rutgers, redshirt senior quarterback Tom Savage has found a home with the Panthers. He has led Pittsburgh to a respectable record and given his team a shot at its sixth consecutive bowl appearance. However, there is not much to suggest that the Panthers, with their inconsistencies on both sides of the ball, can make the jump to the top of the ACC.

DUKE — OUT

The Eagles sit at 1-2 in the ACC, but their losses came against Clemson and Florida State, two top-10 opponents. Running back Andre Williams leads the ACC with 838 rushing yards, though the Eagles are near the bottom of the ACC in many statistical offensive categories. Look for the Eagles to finish in the middle of the ACC pack and have a shot at a bowl game.

SYRACUSE — OUT 3-4 1-2 ACC

The Yellow Jackets responded after a three-game losing streak against stiff competition with a 56-0 rout at Syracuse. Georgia Tech ranks fifth in the nation in rushing yards with more than 300 yards per game but hasn’t had a signature win yet. The Yellow Jackets have two chances left against tough opponents, with games at Clemson and against rival Georgia to finish the season.

PITTSBURGH — OUT

BOSTON COLLEGE — OUT 3-3 1-2 ACC

Miami will enter Saturday with a polished 6-0 record at No. 7. The Hurricanes have beaten respectable competition, such as Florida and Georgia Tech, but the remainder of the season is sink or swim. Their remaining five games after this weekend’s matchup with Wake Forest will pit them against No. 3 Florida State and No. 16 Virginia Tech in consecutive weeks. If they defeat Florida State, they’ll be vaulted into the BCS championship conversation with a couple follow-up wins.

Regardless, Miami will play in a bowl game this year.

The Cavaliers haven’t had much success in ACC play this season. They allowed 35 unanswered points to Duke last week after leading 22-0 in their fourth straight loss.

With three of their five remaining games against ranked opponents, the Cavaliers will be hard pressed to avoid the worst record in the conference. Running back Kevin Parks has accounted for eight touchdowns over the team’s seven games and is the lone bright spot in what is shaping up to be a dismal season.

NORTH CAROLINA — OUT

The Wolfpack is still looking for its first win in conference play, and it won’t get any easier as they travel to Florida State on Saturday. Bowl eligibility is still possible for the Wolfpack, but it will need to capitalize on some winnable games at the end of the year. It should help that quarterback Brandon Mitchell is expected to return from a broken foot this week, as the Wolfpack could use improved production in the passing game to start contending in the ACC.

1-5 0-3 ACC

—Text by staff writers Ryan Ballairgeon, Kyle Stackpole and Jacob Walker

Despite their 1-5 record, the Tar Heels have played both Virginia Tech and Miami close in their past two games. Their passing attack ranks fifth in the ACC, but their defense has been below average, allowing 30.7 points per game. The Tar Heels have dug themselves a hole midway through the season. However, with a manageable schedule and an experienced quarterback in Bryn Renner, bowl eligibility isn’t completely out of the question.

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OUTSIDE LINEBACKER MARCUS WHITFIELD celebrated the fourth birthday of his son, Jeremiah, last month during the Terps’ bye week. Jeremiah sometimes stays with Whitfield and his roommates on the football team in College Park on weekends. of the coaching staff gave Whitfield before the season started.

“The coaches expect something from me,” Whitfield said. “They know that you can play, that’s why they put you in that position as a starter.

There’s also the person behind you that’s pushing you so you can continue to play the way you have been playing.”

CONTINUED FROM 3 stuff like that. … He’s one of the leaders on our defense. We always try to find someone to talk in practice, and that’s been him.”

But Cudjoe-Virgil suffered a season-ending pectoralis injury two weeks ago. Fellow outside linebackers Matt Robinson and Alex Twine have also missed time with shoulder ailments. Inside linebacker L.A. Goree missed Saturday’s loss at Wake Forest. Freshmen, such as Cavon Walker and Yannick Ngakoue, will play an even bigger role down the stretch as the Terps try to make their first bowl game since 2010.

So not only does Whitfield’s performance become more valuable to the Terps, but also to a young front seven. It’s the role Edsall, Stewart and the rest

In addition to the responsibilities of rushing the quarterback and helping orchestrate a defense that’s struggled recently, Whitfield still works to find time for Jeremiah, who turned 4 on Sept. 27 during the Terps’ bye week.

Jeremiah, still too small to wear a Terps jersey of his own, attends most of Whitfield’s games and spends the night

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“He loves everybody on my team,” Whitfield said. “Even though some of them might scare him, they all love him.”

Whitfield isn’t sure if Jeremiah has football in his future yet, either. He’ll line up with his hand on the ground and run at people like his father does, but Whitfield said he also enjoys running with the ball. He’ll get the attention of Whitfield or other players before he runs and jumps onto an oversized beanbag chair in Whitfield’s room or gets someone to toss him onto it.

“Everybody on the team wants to be his uncle, godfather,” Whitfield said. “So

it feels [like] basically a big family. One hundred four godfathers and uncles.”

As he’s gone through his four-plus years of college, Whitfield’s had an additional responsibility most of his teammates don’t. But he’s been able to balance school, football and fatherhood and have success in each.

“It gets to a point and time, yeah I’m a father,” Whitfield said. “I guess at that point you got to make a name for yourself. You basically have another mouth to feed. It’s just been a long ride for me basically in college.”

During the Terps’ bye week at the end of September, Whitfield was shopping at a Giant when he noticed a

small boy watching his every move. It was nothing new for Whitfield, who cuts an imposing figure at 6-foot-3, 250 pounds. He knows he stands out off the football field.

Soon, the boy’s father approached Whitfield. The 4-year-old wanted to meet a football player. He asked Whitfield what position he played and what it was like to play for the Terps.

So Whitfield took a break from his shopping and started talking to the boy. He told him to do well in school and keep practicing so he might get the chance to play in college and beyond.

“People notice who you are just because we wear stuff with ‘Maryland,’ and then they ask you questions about what position, give us credit for our doing well, stuff like that,” Whitfield said. “It defi-

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nitely felt good to have one of the younger people come to me and ask me questions.”

Edsall’s been quick to praise Whitfield this season, both for his play on the field and his development off of it. Gone is the seemingly passive teenager from Fields’ days at Northwest. Now there is a key player with high aspirations juggling school, fatherhood and football.

“These are things that we expected out of Marcus,” Edsall said.

Whitfield has impressed his current coach by elevating himself to a new level.

So now, Whitfield’s former coach is no longer surprised by anything he does.

“Now, it’s not a ‘wow,’” Fields said. “Now, it’s, ‘I told you all.’” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | HOMECOMING FOOTBALL PREVIEW | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

Still going strong Even after 37 years, Terps football games hold allure for these season ticket holders

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer When George and Rhea Snowden got married, troops were just getting back from World War II, and not yet legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant had finished his lone season in College Park.

A lot has changed since then.

Their son, Jeff, moved from Montgomery County to Washington County to raise his family. Last year, they moved from their Potomac home they’d lived in since 1968 to Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg.

But on Aug. 31, Jeff drove down from Hagerstown to pick up his parents in Gaithersburg before heading to College Park for the Terrapins football team’s season opener. For the 37th straight year, 93-year-old George and 89-year-old Rhea were fulfilling their duties as season ticket holders in the Byrd Stadium stands.

“It’s wonderful, it’s wonderful,” George said during halftime of the Terps’ 43-10 win over Florida International.

“You can stay at home and see it on TV, but it’s nothing like being here. You get the feeling of the atmosphere, the excitement and so forth. That’s what we like about it.”

It all started in 1976, when t h e i r d a u g h te r, Me l i ss a Rogers, enrolled at this university. Her parents wanted to stay actively involved in her life as she entered college, about a 30-minute drive from home. So they purchased season tickets, and year after year, the couple would head to seats 17 and 18 of row HH in section 22, located on the 10-yard line in the west side of the stadium.

When George, Rhea and Jeff would trek to College Park, Jeff would go sit with his sister and

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George Snowden (left) and his wife, Rhea (right), have been Terps season ticket holders since their daughter enrolled at this university in 1976. her sorority in the student section across the field. Sometimes, the siblings would get their section of the stadium to start waving back and forth with their parents’ section.

“They were about the pomp and circumstance,” Jeff said.

“They were about the people in the stands, more about the event than the game.”

George grew up in footballcrazed Parkersburg, W. Va., on the Ohio border. He played one year of junior varsity football in high school, but the future commercial artist decided to leave any athletic exploits to his older brother and watch the game from the stands with his father, whom he called a “fiend” for football.

“I’m an artist, and I let the athletes do the football,” George said. “My brother was a football player. … I stayed in the room and drew pictures.”

The day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, George enlisted in the Navy and ended up in Washington working as an artist at the Navy Yard. As was the norm during the time, a family invited George to its home in the city for dinner after church one day, and there he saw a photograph of Rhea sitting on the family’s piano.

He a s ke d t h e fa m i ly members if they would introduce him to her. They started dating, and a year and a half later, they were married.

The couple stayed in the area, where Rhea taught Spanish to soldiers coming back from World War II under the GI Bill and George continued to work as an artist. He worked on an annual display of currency from around the world for the International

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Monetary Fund. And, Jeff said, he became known as the “king of the airbrush” in Washington.

Shortly after George H.W. Bush’s presidential portrait was taken, Jeff said, the photographer — who was one of George’s colleagues — noticed the pinstripes on the president’s suit jacket and pants didn’t match up. It would be too difficult to carve out time in the president’s schedule to have him sit for another portrait. So George retouched the pinstripes on the pants to match the jacket.

“That kind of shows, I think, how successful he was and what kind of reputation he had, what he could do,” Jeff said.

At the same time, George and Rhea were attending Terps games at Byrd Stadium year after year. From their seats in section 22, and now from the handicap seating above section 28, they’ve seen seven

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coaches patrol the Terps sideline, 17 winning seasons and a host of players come and go.

More than entertainment, though, attending Terps games allowed George and Rhea to forge new friendships and bonds with their children and the people sitting around them.

“They enjoyed it,” Melissa said. “Obviously, they were able to talk to us about it and be a part of what we were doing when we were in school and even beyond. They made great friends. They always knew the people that sat around them.”

They look forward to football season every year. While age has made it more difficult over time to make it to Byrd Stadium — they won’t attend games if the weather is too bad — it’s still part of their routine every fall. It’s only a few Saturdays out of the year, so every chance they get to go is important.

“This is the highlight of my dad’s year,” Melissa said.

“He is so excited to have football season coming and be able to go to games. That’s just the thrill. My mom goes along with it.”

“I like it very much,” Rhea said. “I didn’t think we could go this year. I said, ‘I think we’re finished,’ but we’re trying it one more year.”

The stadium experience has extended beyond the confines of the campus, too. George and Rhea channeled their children’s experiences in College Park to their own fandom, and they make sure to share it with everyone they meet.

“They’re just Maryland fans,” Melissa said. “When they meet people, they find out that that person has any ties to the University of Maryland, they immediately start talking about football and telling them that they’ve been going to the games for so long and that they really enjoy it. There’s an immediate bond.”

S i t t i n g a b ove s e c t i o n 28 on a late August aftern o o n , G e o rge a n d R h ea were watching a program they’d come to know well open yet another season.

There was the typical pageantry of the marching band, pregame introductions and cannon-fire every time the Terps scored. But most of all, they were surrounded by the family that drew them to the Terps and the people who had come to define Saturday afternoons in College Park.

“It has to be more than the competition,” Jeff said. “It’s the history of the game, the celebration, the party atmosphere or anything else associated with the event rather than just the game itself. I think that’s what roped them in, and that’s what held them as fans forever and a day.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013 | HOMECOMING football PREVIEW | The Diamondback

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No. 9 Clemson vists College Park on Saturday for the first time since 2011, when the Tigers bested the Terps in a 56-45 thriller. Here’s a quick look back at that matchup.

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Quarterback C.J. Brown made his first career start against the Tigers and responded with a Terps program-record 162 rushing yards and one touchdown.

COACH RANDY EDSALL and the Terps need to win one more game to secure bowl eligibility for the first time since 2010. file photo/the diamondback CONTINUED FROM 8

Terps tight end Matt Furstenburg caught five passes for a team-high 104 yards and a pair of long touchdowns. The Terps built a 35-17 lead but ultimately fell as the Tigers defense tightened.

Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins set a school record with 345 all-purpose yards. He also became the second freshman in Clemson history to score three touchdowns in one game.

change the culture of the program. But now his in-game coaching and team management throughout the week will be put to the test.

They can certainly win two more games. They’ll just have to shake off the shock of losing nearly a dozen contributors. And the Terps have to look to Edsall to guide them through that.

Think about it: The Terps don’t really have a clear-cut leader on the field. The most logical choice, Brown, is dealing with an unspecified injury and was pulled midway through an ineffective performance Saturday.

Other players seemingly capable of leading the team based on their play and prominence are Diggs, cornerback Dexter McDougle and outside linebacker Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil.

The problem, however, is each of

those three is out for the season with assorted injuries.

So that leaves all eyes on Edsall. It’s not like last year when the team was forced to play inside linebacker Shawn Petty under center because of an absurd concentration of injuries at the quarterback position.

Injuries this season may be more widespread, but they aren’t quite as debilitating, particularly considering the team has more experience. So now we can truly judge how Edsall’s team responds.

“It’s unfortunate that we’ve had the injuries we’ve had, but there’s nothing we can do about it,” Edsall said. “Our guys will step up and do a good job.”

In the public eye, of course, Edsall’s giving the same spiel any coach would, saying the team is focused solely on its preparation for the next game.

But it’s how Edsall handles the team behind the scenes, how

he comforts and motivates players, who may be a bit pessimistic about the Terps’ situation, that will dictate the final five games of the season.

And the results on the field will give outsiders a sense of how well Edsall is handling those responsibilities. They will allow the administration, fans and recruits to further evaluate the coach’s tenure in College Park.

Jacobs probably summed it up best Tuesday afternoon at the Terps’ media availability. A reporter asked the sophomore wide receiver if the team had looked to any specific players to lift spirits Saturday after a humbling loss punctuated by injuries to Diggs and Long.

Jacobs shrugged.

“Coach Edsall’s doing that,” Jacobs said. “Coach Edsall’s the one that’s been bringing us together.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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COACH RANDY EDSALL closed his first two years in charge of the Terps on losing streaks of eight and six games, respectively. Despite a slew of injuries to their key players, the Terps are looking to avoid a similar fate in the second half of this season. file photos/the diamondback

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For the Terps to avoid the late-season tailspins of the past two years, Edsall’s leadership becomes key AARON KASINITZ It can’t be easy for the Terrapins football team to stay positive considering its best players are suddenly about as accustomed to wearing hospital gowns as shoulder pads.

Seven key defensive players missed the Terps’ 34-10 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday, and their best receivers, Deon Long and Stefon Diggs, suffered broken legs during the game.

It doesn’t help the Terps’ cause that the quarterback situation is in flux after Caleb Rowe

replaced starter C.J. Brown in the third quarter because of apparent health concerns. Needless to say, things aren’t going as planned for the Terps.

The way a team can navigate through such disarray to salvage a season is to find some source of stability, but because of injuries and inexperience, the Terps don’t appear to have a player who can provide it. They can turn only to Randy Edsall, and the season’s final five games rest on the third-year coach’s shoulders.

The Terps are 5-2, still have attainable goals and still have the talent to earn a few more wins. It’s just the recent barrage of bad news they’ve received could knock any team on its

keister. So if Edsall can keep the Terps composed and lead them to two more victories, we’ll know his coaching chops have followed him from Connecticut.

If he doesn’t, though, he’ll deserve to face criticism. Edsall’s in his third year, and injuries can’t be the excuse anymore. Plus, the Terps themselves know they can win several remaining games even without some key pieces.

“Absolutely,” Brown said. “And we’re still capable of reaching [our goals]. We only have two losses. We can still right our own ship.

That’s all we need to focus on.”

Wide receiver Levern Jacobs echoed his

signal-caller’s thoughts.

“There’s a long season ahead of us,” he added. “So there’s still enough time to complete our goals and things like that.”

The tangible goal, of course, is to reach a bowl game — the Terps are one game away from bowl eligibility — but with three games against unranked teams remaining, the Terps should set their sights on a seven-win season.

It’ll be up to Edsall to get them there.

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