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University Police release annual crime statistics

Two students struck by car outside CSPAC One transported to hospital, Univ. Police say

BY ERIN EGAN

Clery Act data shows jumps in arson, drug-related cases

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Although University Police officials said overall crime on the campus and in College Park is down, annual crime statistics released earlier this month show increases in aggravated assaults, arson, hate crimes and drug-related violations from 2009 to 2010.

University Police are required to report instances of specific crimes to the U.S. Dept. of Education as mandated by the Clery Act. While statistics released solely from the department show a decrease in violent and property crime on the campus, Clery Act data pools crime reports also made to Prince George’s County Police, university coaches, mentors, faculty members and Resident Life officials.

“If someone went to the soccer coach and said a teammate grabbed his rear end in the shower, they may choose not report it to the police,” University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said, explaining why the department contacts others to get more complete crime records.

The statute was named for Jeanne Clery, who as a 19-year-old Lehigh University freshman in 1986 was raped and murdered while sleeping in her dorm room.

Although this year’s Clery Act data shows an increase in some types of crime, burglaries and incidents of breaking and entering decreased from 2009 to 2010.

While 152 such incidents were reported in 2008, only 90 requests were made in 2009 and 79 in 2010. Information for 2011 will not be available until next year.

Limansky said this decrease in crime may be attributed to changes in police officers’ patrols.

“Before, officers could go wherever they wanted to go,” Limansky said. “Now, we’ve started assigning people to specific areas for entire shifts. It’s a more

The hood of a student’s 2005 Nissan Altima was dented after striking two pedestrians walking outside CSPAC. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Two university graduate students were hit by a car last night as they were crossing the street outside of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at about 8:15 p.m., University Police said.

The students were crossing in the crosswalk from CSPAC to the Stadium Drive parking garage when they were struck by a 19-year-old student driving a 2005 fourdoor Nissan Altima. One student, 24, was

David “Sonny” Lacks speaks in Hoff Theater yesterday about his mother, Henrietta Lacks, who is the subject of the annual first-year book. His mother’s cells were taken without her permission for research JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Students learn story of first-year book from Henrietta Lacks’ son

BY MAY WILDMAN For The Diamondback

Sixty years ago, scientists used the cells of Henrietta Lacks — a poor, black woman — for research without her permission, and a book detailing this has sparked conversations about medical professions’ ethics in various classrooms across the campus.

Dozens of professors, students and residents gathered in Hoff Theater yesterday afternoon for a lecture on the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, which is the university’s first-year book, hosted by Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity Lee Thornton and Director of the university’s Center for Health Equity Stephen Thomas.

While Lacks’ cells have helped develop drugs for diseases — such as polio, cancer and hemophelia — Lacks’ son, David “Sonny” Lacks, said at the event that it is unfair companies are profiting from his mother’s cells without properly compensating her family.

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer and hospitalized at Johns Hopkins University in the racially segregated ward. Months before her death, the head of Johns Hopkins’ tissue culture research lab, George Gey, allegedly took cells from her cervix without her knowing, David Lacks said.

At a time when researchers were desperate to reproduce human cells to better understand diseases, Lacks’ cells specifically interested researchers because they continued to reproduce. This allowed scientists to continually use the cells because they would survive longer in petri dishes than normal cells.

Despite earning medical researchers who patented her cells millions of dollars, Lacks’ family did not receive any compensation from the unauthorized use of her cells, according to David Lacks.

Graduate student Alexis Williams, who studies

Gold transformed college over a decade, officials say

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transported to Prince George’s County General Hospital with a possible head injury, according to University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. The other student, 31, was not injured and was not taken to the hospital.

Limansky said the student driver, who was also driving two passengers, did not see the two students crossing in the road before he hit them. The driver was cited for negligent driving with a $140 fine. He

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After serving nearly a decade as a college dean and transforming the former health college into a nationally accredited public health school, Robert Gold has announced he will step down from his post June 30.

Gold first came to the uni- ROBERT GOLD versity to serve as the dean of PUBLIC HEALTH DEAN the former health and human performance college, and by 2007 he had turned it into the only public health school at a public university in the Washington region. After serving two fiveyear terms as dean, Gold said the school is ready for a new leader.

“I think 10 years is a long enough time and consistent with university policy,” Gold said. “And there is always new opportunity that comes from new blood.”

A 15-member committee — chaired by education school Dean Donna Wiseman — of faculty, students and alumni launched the search for his replacement Oct. 13 and will begin reviewing applications by Dec. 1. Wiseman said the university will ideally fill the position by February or March.

But Wiseman said finding Gold’s successor will be no simple task.

“He was a real visionary and really gave the [public health school] a fresh new look, a fresh new feel and excitement. And boy, that’s a lot,” Wiseman said. “It’s every dean’s dream to leave that.”

In 2005, Gold began to gain university support in combining his former college with the newly created Center for Health Literacy and Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health to build the public

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SGA votes to increase student outreach Body to move meetings to more visible location

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

After SGA President Kaiyi Xie asked members to increase student outreach and transparency, legislators voted at last night’s meeting to take two new steps toward meeting those goals.

The Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution that would offer students more opportunity to voice concerns over university issues by requiring legislators to spend at least two of their four required office hours — from Oct. 31

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to Nov. 11 — visiting classrooms and standing outside the Stamp Student Union. Additionally, the body passed a bill in a 22-6 vote to relocate its weekly meetings from Stamp’s second-floor Benjamin Banneker Room to the first-floor Prince George’s room — which sits by the building’s main entrance — once a month, in hopes of drawing more students to its meetings.

Several members, including Xie, questioned whether the fee for the Prince George’s Room — which costs the body

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A HALLOWEEN KIND OF NIGHT

Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie (top left) dressed as Moammar Gaddafi and Cambridge community legislator Landon Greer (bottom left) dressed as Aladdin for last night’s SGA Halloween-themed meeting. Meanwhile, other students enjoyed a haunted house in the Stamp Student Union last night (right). MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

GOLD from page 1 health school. The school received full accreditation last October, indicating high educational standards and enabling the university to compete for millions of dollars in research funding.

“I would say that Dean Gold was instrumental in getting the new School of Public Health approved by the University system and additionally quite central

in the school's initiative that enabled us to become an accredited school of public health in a very few years,” Elaine Anderson, chair of the department of family science, wrote in an email.

And after recruiting several nationally recognized faculty members and putting this university’s public health programs on the map, Gold said this is the right time to bring in a leader who can continue to address the growing healthcare needs of surrounding communities in the face of tight

budgeting constraints.

“We’re facing escalating health disparities in the state of Maryland, which made an enormous mound of excessive dollars in terms of health-care costs, lost opportunities, lost productivity,” Gold said. “And we’re coming … to recognize that neither the medical sector nor the public health sector can solve these problems alone.”

The substantial challenges facing Gold’s successor also provide him or her with an opportunity to increase the

scope of the school’s service to the public, he said, as well as its partnerships with community organizations.

“We need a dean to come in and build the kind of partnerships necessary across many different sectors to begin to address these issues in a significant way,” Gold said, adding that he would like the next dean to carry out more community-based intervention work.

Wiseman said though Gold’s replacement may

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ACCIDENT from page 1 was also cited for failure to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk, which has no attached fine. However, the driver must appear in court, Limansky said. His car sustained minor damage to its hood.

Pedestrians getting hit on the campus is uncommon, Limansky said.

“It’s very rare,” he said. “It’s pretty surprising, actually, given the amount people who cross the street on campus every day. It was dark and rainy, so that may have contributed to [last night’s] accident, but it’s still very rare.”

More than 50 students gathered at the scene last night as five police cars, two ambulances and one firetruck blocked traffic near CSPAC. Sophomore biology major Nell Kropf watched the aftermath unfold from her Denton Hall dorm room window.

“I saw all of the flashing lights from my room,” Kropf said. “It’s really scary. I usually just cut in front of cars all the time because we have the right of way, but this is really scary.

Pedestrians and drivers both need to be more careful.”

Staff writer Spencer Israel contributed to this report. egan@umdbk.com

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choose to take the public health school in a new direction, he or she will hopefully build on the school’s existing programs’ successes for a seamless transition.

“It’ll be a challenge to keep that moving and not miss a beat,” she said.

The candidates themselves will have to reflect a wide range of qualities, Wiseman said, including experience working in public health and the ability to maintain student and faculty morale in the face

of a tightening budget and use the school’s accreditation to its maximum potential.

“It has to be someone who has the interpersonal skills that can keep faculty excited and engaged,” Wiseman said.

“And we also want someone who can take and build on the vision, because things were going up really rapidly under the current dean’s leadership, and we want to keep up the momentum.” lurye@umdbk.com

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Army ROTC cadets particpate in the Ranger Challenge, a two-day, eight-mile race with various challenges sprinkled throughout the course. The team won second place and missed first by less than a minute. PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMUEL COOK

Univ. ROTC program among nation’s best Terp Battalion takes second in Ranger Challenge, produces some of nation’s top-ranked army ROTC cadets, boasts high graduation rate

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

Although the Terrapin Battalion, this university’s Army ROTC program, has only been on the campus for 10 years, they have already proven they are a force to be reckoned with on the national stage.

Army ROTC announced last week that the 4th Brigade, this university’s competition team, beat out 36 teams to win second place in the Ranger Challenge — a two-day, eight-mile race, which challenges contestants to compete in events such as scaling a wall or pushing a Humvee at each mile mark. Although the team won the previous three Ranger Challenge events, it fell to another university’s all-men’s team by less than a minute — a close enough time difference to be contested.

But team members said the loss has not deterred them.

Rather, it has only fueled their desire to work hard and come out with a better performance next year, they said.

“I’ve already told the team we’re going to have decisive victories. I want to kick these teams to the ground and stomp on their teeth, and get as far away from them as we can because last year we won by two hours,” said Lt. Col. Samuel Cook, the university’s Army ROTC director. “‘[Second place] is respectable, but

we have higher expectations.’

That’s what my team said.”

Although Air Force ROTC is facing drastic cuts — the national program suspended granting scholarships to cadets this year — program Commander Col. Robert Pecoraro said students are not in it for the money.

“If a student comes to me and says, ‘What kind of scholarship can you give me?’ then my question to them is, ‘Why do you want to serve your country?’” he said.

And while the Army ROTC battalion is relatively new to the campus — the program returned to this university 10 years ago through a joint program with Georgetown University and separated a year later to form the Terrapin Battalion — officials said they have seen the program grow at an unprecedented rate.

This year alone saw a 40 percent jump in enrollment, and while last year’s battalion had five women, they now only constitute nearly a third of the cadets, Cook said. The Air Force ROTC program also had to turn away more cadets nationally than any year in recent memory, said Maj. Thomas Sadiq, an admissions officer at this university’s program.

“A few years ago, people who were in the formative years of their adolescence were very scared of what was

going on in the world,” Sadiq said. “Today’s freshmen, sophomores and juniors have grown up in this world … and they want to be part of a group that has a larger mission.”

The cadet battalion has proven itself to be one of the nation’s top programs not only in the Ranger Challenge, but in the top army officers it produces, officials said.

At this university, 93 percent of last year’s graduating ROTC students received contracts for their first or second pick in fields such as aviation, engineering and military intelligence — a coveted position that comes with top security clearance. The university consistently has about 80 percent of students receive contracts, Cook said.

“This program, it’s bigger than just one event,” Cook said.

ROTC programs measure success in three ways: The quality of officers produced, competitions — like the annual Ranger Challenge — and cadet satisfaction, the rate at which cadets receive full-time employment in their desired field.

The university also graduated 42 officers last year, far more than the 15-person goal the regional ROTC headquarters sets for this university’s program. And of those officers, nearly 40 percent were distinguished military graduates, meaning they ranked in

the top 20 percent of more than 5,000 cadets.

“Some schools are thrilled to just get one or two distinguished military graduates,” Cook said.

While the program prides itself on its team as a whole, it also boasts two nationally recognized cadets: Graduate economics student Mariya Golotyuk is currently the topranked Army ROTC cadet and senior mechanical engineering major Mark Thomas holds the highest physical fitness score.

Although the program pushes cadets to succeed, Cook said the students themselves generate much of the competitiveness, since juniors and seniors mentor younger cadets.

“I joined thinking this is going to be challenging and really hard sometimes, but you sort of make peace with that fact when you make the commitment to join,” Thomas said.

Many Army ROTC students said the program’s leaders ensure students are pushed and prepared to enter the field upon graduation.

“Our cadre, they actually really do care about us,” said sophomore linguistics major Kaija Tullis. “They bring all their experience and try to make the program the best it can be.” lurye@umdbk.com

David Berlin, SGA vice president of finance, speaks at the body’s meeting last night and asks legislators to be financially responsible when voting to move its meetings to a different room for a $15 fee. MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

OUTREACH from page 1 $75 each meeting, compared to the $60 it pays to use the Benjamin Banneker Room — was worth the added cost. Although many of the bill’s sponsors said a more visible location will encourage students to attend meetings, Xie and others voiced concern over how the charge would affect the body’s already tight budget, and whether the move would actually increase student interest.

While Xie said he supported outreach efforts — an issue he focused on in his State of the Campus address two weeks ago — he questioned this particular bill’s effectiveness.

“I think they’re not treating the root cause of the problem; you’re treating the symptom,” Xie said in an interview after the meeting. “They keep saying, ‘Oh we can’t expect students to come to us.’ But then I ask, ‘What’s the effect of this bill?’ You’re just moving to a bigger room that’s more expensive, and I don’t think students are just going to stumble upon the SGA meeting in the P.G. Room.”

But many legislators said if students are not aware of where meetings are held, the SGA’s debates and legislation will cease to matter.

“If we are out of sight, we are out of mind to the student body,” said letters and sciences legislator Zane Adoum, who cosponsored the bill. “I think the location is more important than the money.”

Other legislators said too few students are aware of what issues legislators address each week — and where they debate them.

CRIME from page 1

Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity Lee Thornton (left), David "Sonny" Lacks, and this university’s Center for Health Equity Director Stephen Thomas talk at a lecture for the first-year book, called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The book discusses an ethical dilemma in the medical field. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

BOOK from page 1 education psychology, said the unfairness of Lacks’ story interested her immensely.

“This amazing series of events happening as a result of … miscommunications and lack of information for people who didn’t have enough education to be able to really understand what was happening, I think that really resonated with me,” she said.

According to Thomas, such wrongdoings to minorities were an unfortunate pattern in past medical studies. In the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, the U.S. public health ser vice told poor, black men with syphilis they were being treated by the U.S. government but were in fact exploited and used for research without their consent, Thomas said.

Thomas, David Lacks and Thornton

talked about how questionable ethical practices in medical research can be prevented today.

Although hospitals now have consent forms, Thomas said these documents can contain language that legally protects the institution more than the patient. Since such documents may be hard for some people to understand, there should be an effort to make consent more of a relationship than a legal document.

HONR100: Honors Colloquium section leader and senior government and politics major Laura Koman said she required her class to read the first-year book and write an essay on the book.

“Most of my class [is comprised of] bio majors for some reason, so this lecture is even more applicable for them,” she said. news@umdbk.com

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direct approach that helps with response time, becoming more familiar with problems in that sector, getting to know the people in that area. [Officers] become more approachable.”

However, the report also shows the largest jump in reported crimes occurred in drugrelated arrests. In 2010, there were 234 such incidents, while there were just 99 in 2009 and 64 in 2008.

“I don’t know that it’s that more people are doing drugs as much as it is we’re out walking and see people openly smoking marijuana or have drug paraphernalia,” University Police Chief David Mitchell said. “A number of times we get calls and complaints about it. We don’t have a concrete reason for [the increase of reported incidents] except that we’re out responding to these calls.”

The data shows an increase in aggravated assaults, with 15 in 2010 — nine on the campus, two in campus residential facilities, two in non-campus buildings and four on public property — compared to 10 in 2009 and seven in 2008. Arson and hate crimes have both doubled from 2009 to 2010, with 6 arsons and 10 hate crimes last year.

Limansky added that most hate crimes are also recorded as other crimes, as well.

“If there was a burglary during which something led the victim or the officers to believe that the crime was racially charged, it’s listed as a burglary and a hate crime,” Limansky said. “It usually involves malicious destruction of property, like drawing a Swastika, but it could also be, for example, someone using the ‘Nword’ and then hitting them with a bat. That would be aggravated assault and hate crime.”

The Clery Act also requires University Police to report information on murder, manslaughter, forcible and non-forcible sex offense, robbery, motor vehicle

“I’m tired of being stuck in the lost corner of the Stamp Student Union,” said David Lieb, a computer, mathematical and natural sciences legislator. “I wish we had interaction with more students, because when you get down to it, this place is dead.”

But other legislators said the body would be taking away opportunities for other student groups to use one of the most popular rooms on the campus.

“We’ve been doing a lot toward visibility and outreach with recent initiatives, so this might be overkill,” public health legislator Danielle Miller said. “And I don’t want one organization taking that room away from another student group.”

Xie and other members, however, said because the body will only use the Prince George’s Room once a month, students may get confused as to where meetings are held on a week-toweek basis.

“I don’t think having a roving meeting is what we want people hearing about the SGA,” Xie said.

While some students said they may not actually attend meetings, they appreciated the body’s effort to expand its outreach.

“We really didn’t know what they were doing, so this is definitely good,” senior electrical major Jing Guo said.

Many students said the problem was not the location of the meetings, but rather, that they do not understand how the body operates.

“I didn’t even know we were allowed to go to meetings,” said sophomore computer science major Ben Cahill. “I thought that they were closed meetings and they gave out referendums.” villanueva@umdbk.com

“There’s always going to be active crime in College Park.

Even if crime is decreasing, it still seems inevitable here.”

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theft, liquor-law violations and weapons possession.

No crimes were reported for murder, manslaughter or nonforcible sexual offenses. There were no increases in forcible sexual offenses — 10 were reported both in 2010 and 2009, a drop from the 17 reported in 2008. The majority of these reports were made to either the university’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program or Resident Life and not directly to University Police — meaning police are unable to investigate the crimes.

Junior bioengineering major Mozammil Chaudhry said he is not surprised by some of the reported crime decreases.

“Safety measures have increased, and the email system has definitely been a huge help allowing us to know when a crime on campus occurs,” Chaudhry said. “I think it’s helped increase security in appropriate areas making College Park a lot safer.”

But some students said that as a suburb of Washington, the city will always see crime, no matter how vigilant police and students are to combat it.

“There’s always going to be active crime in College Park,” sophomore business and psychology major Garrett Yung said. “Even if crime is decreasing, it still seems inevitable here.” egan@umdbk.com

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uring his first year at this university, President Wallace Loh can wouldn’t know much more than the names and titles of the highest-ranking boast what not many others can — he’s orchestrated almost an officials on their campus. Informing the community is, of course, our purentire transformation of his predecessor’s administration. With pose. But this is a rather unique situation. This year brought the most dra10 new senior administrators, Loh has surrounded himself with matic facelift of the senior management team in the university’s history. With whom he describes as the best and the brightest in higher education, the a totally different group of people in charge, it surely won’t be business as team he said will help ensure his vision for the university is carried out to its usual. The administration should make more of an effort to introduce these leaders and their ideas to the students, staff and faculty. fullest potential.

We have no reason to believe Loh and his new team However, to the rest of the campus outside the walls won’t be able to successfully lead the university, but of the Main Administration building, it’s unclear exactly who these new individuals are. According to University The university community there are many ways they can present themselves as a unified front to the campus community and allay some Senate Chair Eric Kasischke, several faculty members deserves more introduction of these concerns. have complained the appointments were made in such Loh’s upcoming State of the Campus address, which rapid succession that the university community has had to the new faces of the will be held at the Nov. 9 senate meeting, is the perfect no time to get acclimated to its new leaders.

This editorial board can hardly disagree. Over the administration team in order opportunity to address some faculty members’ worries.

In his address, Loh has said he will deliver concrete summer especially, it seemed like Loh was sending an for everyone to get on the ways in which he plans to carry out some of his goals. email to the campus community ever y other week, announcing some new administrative appointment. same page about their vision. However, since the huge administrative turnover is arguably the most influential aspect of his tenure thus Appointments were made so rapidly that each new hire far, he should take this time to expand upon what the university community simply seemed to overshadow the last.

While faculty members have bemoaned the lack of communication from can expect from each of these new hires.

Additionally, Loh should consider holding forums with the new administranew administrators, students haven’t been as vocal. Since many of the hires took place during summer break, students were even less attuned to the tors on a panel so the public can meet his new team. Devoting one afternoon to bureaucratic happenings back on the campus. Everyone suffers from a lack answering faculty members’ questions about their collective vision for the uniof information, however, and there’s been little tangible introduction to the versity could go a long way toward ensuring the rest of the campus community is new faces. The university community hasn’t gotten any real opportunity to get just as excited as Loh is about the appointments.

We’re confident the new administrative team can mesh together once they to know the people behind the shiny new name placards. Behind each new face is also a new mind, a new perspective, a new set of experiences — the list find their groove. Think of the community as a dog-sled team: People are mobilized, in place and ready to go — but optimal performance won’t be possible at goes on — that will now be leading every major section of the university.

If it weren’t for coverage in this newspaper, students, faculty and staff any level unless everyone feels connected to the leaders of the pack.

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Ending the greatest campus rivalry

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ll right punks, let’s settle this once and for all. We all know the deal: I don’t like you and you don’t like me. I’m the Shark to your Jet, the Ali to your Frazier, the Spartan to your Persian warrior.

You walk to class. I bike to class. Along the way, we have it ingrained in our minds to despise each other.

I’d say hating bikers ranks high up there among favorite Terrapin pastimes — right behind rioting and saying awful things about a Duke athlete’s mother.

Hearing the profanities and feeling the occasional orange slices thrown our way while biking past, we bikers have learned to view this disdain as mutual.

You probably know the plight of the walker well. Students constantly suffer from bikers weaving around them, either surprising them from behind or seemingly charging toward them with a thirst for blood. The windy wake left by the biker renders people agitated and resentful.

From a walker’s perspective, you probably think we bikers have no souls for violently disrupting your morning walks. I’ll even admit, sometimes bikers do indeed disrupt the

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KARASOV rules of the sidewalk.

Am I going to lie to you and say I haven’t accidentally hit someone near the kidney with a bike handle? No. But did the meandering girl on her cell phone, jumping into the line of fire have it coming? You bet your spokes she did.

Walkers, you need to realize your own limitations. Know how frustrated bikers feel when you blindly walk in front of our path. Stopping a bike’s momentum is much more annoying than stopping the momentum of your own two feet. Given the impossible amount of pedestrian traffic near campus hotspots, living here would make anyone want to stop biking.

At the same time, bikers need to reciprocate and adhere to safety and decency.

The bike seat is not a pedestal.

When it comes to biking and walking on the campus, people have confused the right of way with the right

to be an asshole.

So, we know where we stand: Bikers and walkers wish the other would go away.

No more.

“The Great Loh Push” to transform College Park into a top-20 college town should include drastic improvements to biking accessibility at the university.

Instead of having bikers and walkers constantly agitate each other due to the limitations of the campus, let us love each other, as we should. The structure of the campus should not inhibit, but rather encourage biking.

If this university actually hopes to create a biker-friendly campus, it will need to change both the biker culture and, more importantly, improve campus infrastructure.

The $30,000 double-decker bike rack extravaganza near Mowatt Lane offers some hope, as does the construction of extensive bike storage and safety measures in the Metro parking garage.

But biking on this campus needs more than these considerations; it needs a reinvention.

On the college campuses considered the friendliest to bikers, the implemen-

tation of roundabouts has made a tremendous impact on encouraging biking and protecting walkers from danger at the same time.

At Stanford, for example, roundabouts at busy walker-biker intersections allow walkers to walk safely on the perimeter and bikers to ride along the interior. On our campus, hot spots around McKeldin Mall, Hornbake Plaza and Stamp Student Union are perfect opportunities to implement trafficreducing roundabouts.

Besides construction possibilities, why not offer a bike sharing program on the campus for students who cannot afford or do not care to purchase their own bike?

In order to reduce the tension between bikers and walkers, it’ll take more than better manners. It will take initiatives to improve the status quo. In order to achieve our ambitions of making the campus more biker-friendly, the university needs to act creatively and ambitiously.

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics and psychology major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

Halloween: Beware of the sketchily-clad

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alloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”

Girls, you could probably pick this famous Mean Girls quote out even if it were a needle in a haystack, and it holds true in real life.

In a couple of days, out will come a new breed of scantily clad cougars, kittens, nurses and policewomen.

We have long outgrown our trick-ortreating years; now we devote our time to putting together showy costumes.

I’m not saying wearing a revealing costume is a bad thing, per se, but sometimes it can get girls into big messes.

With miniskirts and midriff-baring and low-cut tops not bothering to hide anything, Halloween costumes nowadays leave guys wanting more. That’s all fine and dandy until the wrong guy takes a special liking to your attire.

Especially because Prince George’s

County isn’t exactly devoid of sexual assault and other crimes, girls need to take more precaution than ever this weekend, particularly when walking to The Varsity, the University View or any other party destinations farther from the campus.

On Halloween night there will be people out there lurking the streets of the surrounding areas, scanning for potential sexual assault targets. Even worse, it’ll be harder to tell how sketchy they are because they could be disguised as the Old Spice guy or, ironically enough, the College Park Cuddler (a cult favorite in these parts).

And at the moment you find yourself in danger, what would bad luck have you wearing? Nothing but a pair of bunny ears. One thing is for sure: A crazy night out plus girls with revealing costumes plus sketchy people in disguise equals assaults waiting to happen.

You might be thinking, “So what? I

JESSICA JIMENEZ already know that.” But to fully understand the situation, you have to put yourself in the eyes of a potential criminal. Because he will most likely be a guy, try to cover up your womanly features at least while walking outside.

When you find yourself needing multiple extra layers of clothing, you’ll see the full extent to which you are prone to getting violated.

I don’t mean to write another “protect yourself while walking late at night” column. All I want to say is that it can happen to you at this time of the year more than any other. Halloween is a creep’s paradise — he or she’s not afraid of going out and really acting the part.

Back home, I lived in a calm, suburban neighborhood near a private college. Yet every single year, someone would end the night at the police station reporting an instance where a guy in, say, a male nurse costume got too hands-on. On one occasion, a girl ended up in the hospital with severe internal bleeding. The website www.neighborhoodscout.com shows this university is located in the most dangerous part of College Park. If sexual assaults happen in my neighborhood — a relatively safe environment — think of the crime that awaits around here.

So, there is an obvious solution: Always walk with a group, and either wear costumes that are less scandalous or cover up when walking outside. Once you get inside, you can go reveal that you’re supposed to be a mouse — duh.

Jessica Jimenez is a freshman journalism major. She can be reached at jimenez@umdbk.com.

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tudent groups are the heart and soul of collaborative involvement at this university. They facilitate diversity, opportunity and culture both on and off the campus. There is nothing we want more than to see student groups improve and expand upon their current successes.

While student groups may feel short on money, we want them to know the Student Government Association is here to help. Despite our own difficult fiscal times, the SGA is dedicated to serving as a resource.

This is why the Group Help fund was created — as an emergency funding option for student groups, allowing them to apply for $500 per semester on a first-come, first-served basis.

Additionally, we know that co-sponsorship is a mutually beneficial way to enhance your student group programs. Not only will your event market to a larger and more diverse group of people, but it also has the inherent monetary benefits of costsplitting. In an effort to help student group funding and encourage the interaction of different groups, we have created co-sponsorship grants.

Groups that work together on a program can apply for $250 per group for their event. This means if four groups are co-sponsoring together, they can acquire a total of $1,000 extra for their program. These grants join a number of other co-sponsorship opportunities that already exist, such as the Pepsi Funds, Hoff Funding Board and the SEE Review Board.

We would like to invite you to take advantage not only of our programs, but also of other funding opportunities. It is no secret the current funding system has left groups underfinanced, meaning the SGA can no longer be the sole source of funding.

And while the current Financial Reform Commission works to create a more efficient allocations process, we are working hard to help you find creative funding right now. In fact, in the coming weeks, the SGA Student Group Affairs Committee, along with the SGA Finance Committee, will be visiting student group meetings to present creative fundraising ideas.

Aside from helping with already involved students, we are also here to serve those of you who have yet to get involved in student groups. If you have not yet found your niche here at the university, we would love to direct you to at least one of the many student groups available.

If none of the existing groups quite fit the experience you are looking for, we are also here to help you form your own. Your university experience is what you make of it, so please let us help you when it comes to finding your personal involvement route.

For those of you who want to join us in creating opportunities for student groups, we invite you to join our Student Group Affairs Committee. As is the case with other SGA committees, it is open to any student who wants to actively participate in our work. We meet every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the SGA office (Room 0209J in the Student Involvement Suite of Stamp Student Union).

Don’t be afraid to approach us and take advantage of our services as resources, helpers and advisers. We ask that you reach out to us when you need help or advice in any way, invite us to your group’s meetings so we can better serve you and voice your opinion during SGA meetings. After all, your groups’ activities make the campus community such a great place to be involved.

Traci Siegel and Jimmy Gray are codirectors of student groups in the Student Government Association. They can be reached, respectively at siegel.traci@gmail.com or jamesdonaldgray@gmail.com.

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Want movie reviews? We’ve got movie reviews. Check back tomorrow for our takes on The Rum Diary (starring Johnny Depp), Martha Marcy May Marlene (which will probably win plenty of Oscars), In Time (in which pretty people shoot at things), Puss in Boots (the film you’ve all been waiting for) and Anonymous (in which 2012’s Roland Emmerich makes a movie about Shakespeare and fails spectacularly).

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PREVIEW | FANFARLO A WEEKEND OF SCREAMS: THE DIVERSIONS HALLOWEEN GUIDE On- and off-campus Halloween parties are always a good time, but if you’re in the mood for a change in your thrills this Halloween, these diverse area tricks and treats are guaranteed to satisfy your craving. Read on for a sampling.

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Tobi Kahn’s exhibit, ALIGNED, opens in Art-Sociology today. He practices conceptual abstraction, which combines abstraction with identifiable images. PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE STALLSWORTH

Reach the horizon Artist Tobi Kahn opens his ALIGNED exhibition tonight in Art-Sociology

BY BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN For The Diamondback

Starting today, The Art Gallery in the Art-Sociology building is a place of meditation. The front room displays paintings on handmade paper with cool, serene colors. Past the paintings is the back room, lined with 33 horizon paintings.

In the gallery, life slows down.

This absolute sense of calmness captures the work of artist Tobi Kahn. His exhibition, ALIGNED: Paintings by Tobi Kahn, will have its free public opening reception tonight from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the gallery.

Kahn is an artist and professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City whose work has been shown in more than 40 solo exhibitions.

Megan Rook-Koepsel, a graduate assistant at the gallery, said

that spirituality emerges in Kahn’s abstract quality of art and the multiple interpretations it allows.

The exhibition showcases about 50 paintings by Kahn.

“Sky & Water,” the main focus of the exhibit, features 33 paintings based on Kahn’s own photographs of horizons around the world.

“I’m very interested in being in a space at different times and seeing how the light changes the way everything looks,” Kahn said.

Kahn’s technique — conceptual abstraction — is art that has more explicit images than pure abstraction. Rook-Koepsel said every viewer will have a different interpretation of the exhibition.

In addition to tonight’s public opening reception, the gallery will host Kahn for an

Artist’s Talk on Nov. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Art-Sociology building, room 2203. This will be followed by a performance by the Odd Act Theatre Group, which will respond to the work. More presentations between Kahn and the university while his work will be in the gallery are being planned, said Jewell Watson, the gallery’s arts administration manager.

Kahn said his purpose in ALIGNED is to appreciate the world around us, which Watson said is art’s overarching message today.

“Without art, as a society, we’re dead,” Watson said. “Art inspires; art questions.”

ALIGNED: Paintings by Tobi Kahn opens tonight with a free public reception at The Art Gallery in the Art-Sociology building. The exhibition is free and open through Dec. 9. For more information, visit www.tobikahn.com. diversions@umdbk.com

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‘The beginnings are the best part of life’ Fanfarlo prepares to go on tour after ditching the cheery sound of its first record

BY ADAM OFFITZER For The Diamondback

When Fanfarlo released its new single in September, fans expected the same epic, uplifting indie rock found throughout Reservoir, its 2009 debut.

But they didn’t get it. Instead, they got the band’s newest track, “Replicate,” a dark, tense song that retains the sweeping violins from the band’s debut but almost entirely abandons percussion.

“Replicate” will not be unique among Fanfarlo’s new music in its experimentation and heavier, darker mood. Lead singer Simon Balthazar and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas said the band’s next album, Rooms Filled with Light, will have a consistently different tone and feeling than Reservoir.

“There’s quite a big change in sound for us,” Balthazar said. “I think we really wanted to experiment with a different palette.”

The band, which will be performing at the Red Palace in Washington on Saturday, had no reservations about releasing “Replicate” as its first single, since it views the song as a solid preview of what’s to come.

The single “really represents where we were going and what we’re doing right now,” Lucas said. “In terms of sound, the idea and feeling, it felt right.”

Balthazar said experimentation with old ’80s keyboards provided an inspiration for some of the new sounds on the album, which will be released on Feb. 18, although the orchestration of Reservoir will remain.

“If anything, we’re using more violins now; we’re still using quite a lot of trumpet and saxophone and clarinet,” he said of the new album. “But the sounds we’re using are a lot darker.”

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instruments,” Lucas added, “but just playing them in new ways.”

Although Rooms Filled with Light will not be a concept album, there will be a theme running throughout, both in the music and in the visual products the band creates.

“Something that’s just really captured our imagination has been playing with light, and the relationship between light and room, so that’s what we’ve been playing a lot with when we’ve been getting artwork and videos together,” Balthazar said. “The basic concept of filling a room with light is just an interesting fundamental concept.”

Lucas said the band has been working with visual artist Calvin Frederick, who will be accompanying Fanfarlo on tour to control “huge light boxes” that he created.

“When we play music live, it’s very much something we do — we create an artificial world with light,” he said.

The five-person band has begun a small, five-stop tour of the U.S. Then the band members will head to Spain for most of November, and, beginning in March, will embark on a larger U.S. tour to promote the new album.

“We love traveling in the U.S.,” Balthazar said. “We’ve done a lot if it, so it’s a good thing that we like it.”

On this fall tour, Fanfarlo will be playing its entire new album in concert. Balthazar said performing the new songs live is the most exciting part of releasing an album.

“It’s the birth of something new,” he said. “The beginnings are the best part of life.”

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launch himself into the discussion of best defensive tackles in the nation. He’s made several midseason All-America lists, including as a first-teamer on college football guru Phil Steele’s list.

What has Vellano done for the Terps? Just about everything. He’s sacked the quarterback. He’s halted offenses in the backfield. He’s even scored a touchdown, rumbling for a 30-yard score after recovering a fumble against Miami.

But more than anything, he’s made tackles. Lots of them. Fifty-two, to be exact, good for second best on the team. He makes tackles at the defensive tackle position line like a middle linebacker might — and it’s not just tackles at the line. He’s been making plays all over the place.

When the Terps played Clemson, they didn’t have an answer for speed demon Sammy Watkins, who racked up 345 all-purpose yards in a win. Vellano, who weighs a solid 285 pounds, somehow caught him from behind in the fourth quarter.

“I play hard, that’s kind of my biggest thing,” Vellano said. “I’m not the biggest, I’m not the fastest. But I try to learn throughout a game and I just play as hard as I can.”

People notice. After all, that’s what caught coach Randy Edsall’s eye when he took over as coach earlier this year.

“When you watch Joe on film, you always saw a guy that played extremely hard, and I think Joe has taken his game even to a higher level. I think he’s improved this year, and I think he’s really understanding even more, not that he didn’t before, just the technique of playing defen-

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sive line,” Edsall said. “And he’s doing a good job. That’s why I named him a captain. Because of that work ethic, because of the way he plays the game.”

Take Vellano’s effort against Georgia Tech earlier this year, for instance.

The Yellow Jackets run the triple option, an offense that gives defenses fits. Teams dread practicing for it, and playing against it is even worse.

Among the mess of runs and pitches and cut blocks, it’s easy for a defensive lineman to get lost in the fray.

Vellano didn’t. He was stout against the option last year versus Navy and had 20 tackles against Georgia Tech, the most by a defensive lineman since the NCAA began compiling singlegame tackles in 2005.

“Teams need to stop running the triple option against us,” fellow defensive tackle A.J. Francis said. “The two times he’s played against the tripleoption he has 30 tackles, two sacks and like five [tackles for loss].”

“We kept hearing his name being called,” said Paul Vellano, Joe’s father, who played the same position and wore the same number for the Terps in the early ’70s. “Like, Jesus, how many tackles are you getting here? Tackle by 72, Joe Vellano. Tackle by Vellano. Tackle

by Joe Vellano. Tackle by 72, Vellano.

It’s like, What the heck?”

Paul is a big reason why Joe is here today. He says his dad’s playing days in part convinced him to become a second-generation Terp. He’s also one of the big reasons for Joe’s not-aboutme, aw-shucks mentality.

“I always taught him and brought him up, like, Hey, don’t act like you’re surprised to be there, that you’re surprised that you made a sack. That’s your job. You’re like a back running, making a touchdown,’” Paul said.

“That’s great. That’s what you’re designed to do. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing. You’re supposed to make tackles and supposed to hold a block or to fill holes.

“When you get there, OK, fine, that’s great. Give yourself a little clap and get back to the line.”

Maybe Vellano got his blue-collar style from his days on the ice. He played hockey for years, up until the middle of high school. With practice at 6 a.m., playing four or five games a week, 50 to 60 games a year, Vellano traveled all over upstate New York and New England.

Back then, he even got some glory.

“I used to be the guy that could actually score, that’s why I liked it” Vellano said. “I was always playing line, or playing basketball setting picks and that kind of stuff. Hockey, I used to play center, so I used to score a lot of goals.”

But Vellano’s days on skates are over. Now he’s in cleats, trudging through the trenches and making plays for the Terps. He hopes he has a future in the NFL in store. After this year, he’s likely caught the eye of some professional scouts.

Will he ever admit he’s become the best player on the team? Probably not.

Even through a stellar 2011 season, he says he has things to work on.

“I’m nowhere near as good as I want to be,” Vellano lamented Tuesday.

What does he remember from his 20-tackle game against Georgia Tech?

A missed tackle.

That’s just how Vellano is.

“It’s crazy how many more plays I could have made,” Vellano said. “Football, you never quite arrive. You just got to keep going every day.” schneider@umdbk.com

Defensive tackle Joe Vellano has improved upon a sophomore season for which he earned second-team All-ACC honors. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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straight red card.

With the Terps a man down for the second time in seven days, North Carolina midfielder Enzo Martinez converted the ensuing penalty kick, evening the score at 1-1. Just a minute later, Terps defender Alex Lee went down with a leg injury.

The Terps were suddenly without two starters on the backline, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The winner would take the upper hand in the race toward the ACC regular-season title, moving one step closer to securing a No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.

So, with his first regular-season title since 2005 likely in the balance, Cirovski called on Roach.

To the casual fan, the move may have seemed odd. Roach had played just 91 minutes through 15 games this season. He’d seen action in just one of the Terps’ previous eight matches, and that was against unheralded Adelphi, hardly a squad with the attacking talent of the Tar Heels.

But Cirovski had watched as the former New Jersey Prep Player of the Year answered each challenge he’s faced since arriving at this university last spring.

First, it was getting his stamina up to a collegiate level. Then, it was moving from the forward slot, where he had excelled throughout high school, and settling into the backline.

The 19th-year coach was so impressed with Roach’s development, in fact, that he started him when Lee was unable to play in a Sept. 4 win over Radford.

“Look, [Roach] is a great soccer player,” Cirovski said. “We’re just seeing glimpses of what he can do now.”

But no glimpse was more impressive than the one Roach provided Friday. With 34 minutes still separating the Terps from their second tie of the season, Roach slid into the center back slot seamlessly.

Along with Helge Leikvang, who was moved back from the midfield to fill in for Woodberry,

with ninth-place Miami one point behind in the conference. If the Terps win, they’re in as the No. 7 seed in the ACC Tournament. If they lose or tie, they’ll need the Cavaliers to defeat or tie the Hurricanes.

Both matchups kick off at 7 p.m., but coach Brian Pensky said he’ll remain willfully oblivious of all games but his own.

“We’re not going to worry about that until our game is long gone,” Pensky said.

He added, “That won’t change one thing about how we play and what we need. Our team needs a result. If we wind up getting in because Miami loses and we lose, we’ll be very excited to be playing on Sunday and very confident in playing whoever we’re playing. We’ll be torn up that we’ve now lost three games in a row. Our focus is absolutely, 100 percent, on ourselves and not anything else.”

Pensky said he discussed the tournament scenarios with his team before Sunday’s loss at No. 4 Duke, but he hasn’t yet this week.

Still, the Terps (9-4-4, 3-4-2 ACC) know what is at stake when they take the field tonight against the Tar Heels (11-3-1, 6-2-1).

The team hasn’t missed the ACC Tournament since 2008, when its current seniors were only freshmen. Given the high hopes with which the Terps began the season, an absence from the league tournament — and perhaps the NCAA Tournament — would be a shocking end.

“I think we’re all embracing it,” forward Jasmyne Spencer said. “It’s the first-ever night game against UNC [for the seniors]. It’s a game versus UNC in general. It’s senior night. It’s kind of a make-or-break possibility for the ACC Tournament. I just think it’s one of those games every athlete lives for. I think we’re real ready and everyone’s going to get up for it and it’s going to be a great game.”

And even if they beat the Tar Heels to advance to the ACC Tournament, the road doesn’t get any easier for the Terps, who would have to hit the road for their first-round ACC Tournament game and travel to either Duke, North Carolina, Virginia or Wake Forest.

But for now, the happenings outside College Park — either Sunday or tonight — are secondary to those tonight at Ludwig Field. A win, the team knows, and it’s in.

“We’re just taking one game at a time, and we know we can win this game,” defender Skyy Anderson said. “We know we can win every game that we play, and sometimes we don’t get the result we want. But we go into every game knowing we’re going to win. That’s our mentality.”

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December. But that was just the beginning of her return to normalcy on the court.

“That recovery was a six-month deal,” coach Tim Horsmon said.

“She was in a sling and wasn’t allowed to do anything overhead.

She got back this summer, after being an all-ACC freshman player.”

“It’s always tough coming back from any injury,” Cushman said.

“But for me, it’s frustrating at times, because my shoulder is my weapon, and sometimes, you know, it’s not as strong as it was. Sometimes after balls go up and you attack them, they don’t come out as fast as they used to.”

Cushman probably didn’t expect the lessons she learned about playing through pain in the final stages of her freshman season to be so applicable to her sophomore one. After a number of Terps players suffered injuries of one form or another, she said she at least knew there was a threshold her teammates had to keep in mind as they weighed recu-

Defender London Woodberry, center, will miss his first game of the season tomorrow at Clemson, perhaps clearing the way for defender Kyle Roach’s first start. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

he helped limit the Tar Heels to just two shot attempts throughout both sudden-death overtimes.

“It’s kind of tough coming into the situation he did,” forward Matt Oduaran said. “But he prepared all season for this, and when he got his chance, he rose to the occasion.”

That occasion may come again when the Terps play Friday at Clemson. After his red card last week, Woodberry must sit out against the Tigers.

Given his performance under trying circumstances at North Carolina, Roach figures to be the logical choice to replace Woodberry at center back.

“I’d expect Kyle to go in there,” defender Taylor Kemp said Friday. “I mean, he’s been doing a great job all season. He did well today, so I think he’ll do well in that position next week.”

Still, Cirovski isn’t willing to concede the start to Roach quite yet. At practice earlier this week,

peration against resilience.

“There’s a certain degree to which you should push through pain, but there comes a time when it’s just not beneficial to you as a volleyball player,” she said. “I definitely encourage players to push through things, but there are limits to how far you should go.”

Cushman eventually made it through her own arduous recovery, and came back to summer workouts this year at full strength. She is still struggling with the injury bug, just as many Terps are, and is facing back problems. But for the Terps to compete, they need Cushman to be the vital attacker on the court. And she knows she hasn’t yet crossed that threshold.

“She’s overcompensating right now, and is having problems with her back,” Horsmon said. “So she’s really been hampered by the injuries this past year, but not a single day has she complained about it, or made excuses about it. She wants to practice every day physically, and what she’s done. … She’s exactly what we want to be about.” munson@umdbk.com

DREXEL from page 8 freshman who delivered the game’s strongest performance, but both Vassalotti and Buckley played integral parts in the Terps’ (14-3) victory.

The two seniors’ performances marked fitting ends to their regular-season home careers, as both made their first-ever starts for the Terps in a game against Drexel last season. Vassalotti’s efforts in the cage last night were vital to the Terps’ defensive dominance against the visiting Dragons (10-7), recording four saves on 11 shots and keeping Drexel scoreless for the game’s first 55 minutes.

Buckley was also a factor in the game for the Terps, adding to the team’s offensive onslaught with a second-half goal and an assist.

“It’s really exciting going into it, knowing it’s my senior night,” Vassalotti said. “The

he said the team was still looking at a “few different modifications in the backline.”

But even if Roach doesn’t earn the start Friday, don’t expect him to fret over it. After all, if there’s one thing he’s learned in college thus far, it’s how to wait.

“You’ve got to be ready to go in whenever,” he said. “If the decision doesn’t go my way, I’m still going to be ready to play.” letourneau@umdbk.com

season isn’t over yet and we have a lot more to accomplish, but it is bittersweet.”

“It’s just a little bit sweeter, I guess, on senior night to win that last home game,” Buckley said. “It’s a good feeling for us.”

Holding a four-goal lead late in regulation, the Terps also had an opportunity to get in some situational practice near the game’s end.

With just less than three minutes remaining on the clock, coach Missy Meharg pulled Vassalotti out of the cage and inserted sophomore defender Christine Knauss in her place.

With just one more game before the start of the postseason, the move wasn’t too unusual. Meharg said afterward she wanted her team to practice for a situation when the Terps would pull their goalie and put an extra player on the field if the team found itself trailing late in a postseason game. The strategy didn’t net any results,

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CORRECTION Due to an editing error, a cutline in yesterday’s article “With North Carolina, little has changed” incorrectly identified the class of midfielder Amy O’Sullivan.

O’Sullivan is a senior.

Midfielder Jemma Buckley and the No. 3 Terps play at Rutgers on Sunday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

but the Terps at least saw what could happen.

“It’s something we haven’t practiced yet,” Meharg said.

“It gives you two people up in the front field, so the concept is to get a goal. Hopefully, when the situation comes, we’ll be able to pop one in and tie it.”

The game might have been the last one in the three seniors’ regular-season home careers, but it will be far from their last ones as Terps. With

Sunday’s road contest at Rutgers and next weekend’s ACC Tournament in College Park, not to mention next month’s NCAA Tournament, each of the seniors still has plenty of field hockey left in her career.

“I love playing for Maryland,” Buckley said. “It’s going to be sad when it actually comes to an end, but hopefully [that’s] in a couple weeks.” vitale@umdbk.com

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WOMEN’S SOCCER FOOTBALL

For Terps, a win and they’re in Berth in ACC Tourn. depends on tonight

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Defensive tackle Joe Vellano has emerged as the linchpin of the Terps’ defense this season, helping to control the line of scrimmage during a breakthrough junior campaign. Vellano had a season-best 20 tackles earlier this month at Georgia Tech. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Olivia Wagner knows there’s another important game tonight.

While the Terrapins women’s soccer team takes on No. 11 North Carolina at Ludwig Field, Miami and No. 9 Virginia will battle concurrently nearly three hours down the road in Charlottesville, Va., in a game that could ultimately save — or end — the Terrapins women’s soccer team’s season.

The junior midfielder doesn’t want it to come to that.

“I don’t think that you can ever 100 percent tune anything out, but what we want to do is go in and get a win because that will be what’s best for our team right now,” said Wagner, who knows the No. 16 Terps will clinch an ACC Tournament berth with a win.

“Anything less than that will be more of a disappointment, so right now we’re just concentrating on winning. If the result helps us, then that’s great.”

The Terps occupy the eighth and decisive spot in the ACC standings,

Average Joe?

see TOURNAMENT, page 7

Not exactly, as defensive tackle has perhaps been Terps’ MVP

E

ntering this season, who did you think the best player on the Terrapins football team was?

Maybe Danny O’Brien, the reigning ACC Rookie of the Year, who looked like the best quarterback in the conference? Or perhaps defensive force Kenny Tate, who had shaped up to be a top pick in the NFL Draft?

You might have picked either.

Most people did. Almost two

VOLLEYBALL

JEREMY

SCHNEIDER months into the season, it now looks like most people’s choice was dead wrong. The best player on the team isn’t tossing touchdown passes or laying out receivers with big hits. A lot of the time, he’s just

in the trenches, holding a block so another teammate can make a play.

It isn’t always flashy, and it’s almost never pretty.

The best player on the team, if you need another hint, is defensive tackle Joe Vellano. Just don’t tell him that. The only thing the redshirt junior is better at than racking up tackles is handing the credit off elsewhere and talking about how he needs to get better.

Ask him how he feels about

A rewarding wait Freshman Roach steps up after biding time

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Cushman battling through the pain

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

see CUSHMAN, page 7

see SCHNEIDER, page 7

Midfielder Olivia Wagner, right, and the Terps have lost two games in a row. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

MEN’S SOCCER

Aching, but still playing

On a Terrapins volleyball team stretched thin by broken bones, sprains and tears, outside hitter Mary Cushman represents both the best and worst of what this trying season has offered.

The talented sophomore leads the team in kills this season with 249, averaging almost three per match. She’s also done so as she’s battled lingering injuries, enduring the aches and pains so many of her teammates have this year.

Like many of the walking wounded on this season’s Terps squad, she’ll enter tonight’s match at North Carolina less than 100 percent. But nearly a year after she first started hurting, Cushman’s memory of that injury still resonates. One day in practice during her freshman year, Cushman dove for a ball and immediately felt something was wrong.

“I felt a burn go through my arm, but I let it go at the time,” Cushman said. “I couldn’t sleep the next few nights, and I waited a week before I told the trainer.”

She proceeded to take a rotator cuff test — and failed. She had torn her labrum in her right shoulder, her doctor told her, and would need shoulder surgery after the season ended last

the prospect of being labeled the team’s top player, and he gets a little uncomfortable.

“Yeah, that’s, yeah, I mean, I don’t even really look at it like that,” Vellano said. “Just trying to do what I can.”

Vellano won’t say it, but it’s true.

In a season full of disappointment, he’s been one of the few bright spots. He’s been bright enough to

Defender Kyle Roach could start tomorrow in place of London Woodberry. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Kyle Roach understands the importance of patience.

As a highly touted freshman buried on a team loaded with MLS prospects, the Terrapins men’s soccer defender has spent much of the season in an unfamiliar position: stuck on the bench.

“Obviously, he hasn’t played that much because we don’t rotate in the back,” coach Sasho Cirovski said Tuesday.

“He’s playing behind a couple really top players.”

But Roach, a former high school Academic All-American, knew better than to sit passively as those same top players shut down numerous high-powered attacks this year. The Plainsboro, N.J., native took scrupulous mental notes, hoping he’d one day get the chance to prove his worth.

“You’ve just got to realize that your time is going to come,” Roach said. “And

you’ve got to be ready when it does.”

That time arrived early in the second half of a game at No. 4 North Carolina on Friday. Nursing a 1-0 lead over the Tar Heels, the No. 1 Terps (13-1-2, 4-1-1 ACC) suffered three major blows in rapid succession.

Defender London Woodberry was called for a handball inside the box in the 60th minute and was ejected on a

see ROACH, page 7

FIELD HOCKEY

Seniors and freshman share starring roles in 6-2 win

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

One by one, three Terrapins field hockey team seniors walked to midfield at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex for the final time in their regularseason careers as teammates cheered emphatically from the sidelines.

There, midfielder Jemma Buckley, goalkeeper Melissa Vassalotti and student assistant coach Meghan Dean were met by a mob of coaches and family members honoring them. Last night’s game, as its senior-night label

suggested, was all about the team’s upperclassmen.

Yet it was a freshman who stole the show for the Terps.

First-year forward Katie Gerzabek notched her firstever hat trick for the Terps yesterday against Drexel, scoring half of the team’s goals in a 6-2 Terps victory.

“It’s definitely exciting,” Gerzabek said. “I definitely want to keep to this performance and keep improving throughout my four years, so by my senior year, I’m even better.”

It might have been a

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Forward Katie Gerzabek scores one of her three goals.

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