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Our 102ND Year, No. 47

New Facilities Management director transitions Obama Colella faced with several challenges in first few months, fully assumes position

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

In his first four months on the job, new Facilities Management Director Carlo Colella has been faced with a series of unusual events, including an earthquake, a hurricane and a chemistry building explosion — just to name a few.

Colella, who previously served as director of Capital Projects at this university,

job, Colella said it has also provided him with valuable learning experience in a short period of time.

“In addition to what’s been anticipated, we’ve had an earthquake, we’ve had a hurricane, we’ve had a tornado warning and a chemical explosion,” Colella said.

“We’ve had a lot of unexpected events … and I think we’ve done well in responding

was first appointed to his new role on July 1 but has spent the last few months transitioning in for former Director Frank Brewer, who held that position for 13 years. Soon after his appointment, Colella faced intense on-the-job training, including the release of a report detailing staff abuse incidents in his department and others across the campus.

Although it’s proven to be an exceptionally challenging first few months on the

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CARLO COLELLA FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

GRABBING A PIECE OF THE PIE With opening of two new pizzerias, city now has half a dozen similar eateries

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

With the opening of two new pizzerias in College Park, the city’s market for pizza may reach the point of saturation in the coming months, according to officials.

The two new restaurants will occupy space in a city lined with pizza restaurants, such as Ledo’s, Domino’s Pizza, Papa John’s and Ratsie’s. Fox’s Pizza Den, a Pennsylvania-based restaurant franchise, is expected to open its doors

in December, according to owner Phil Sardelis — and Naked Pizza, an organic pizzeria, grabbed retail space along the Route 1 corridor last semester.

City Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater said the city prefers this to vacant storefronts. However, Stiefvater and some students said they’d rather see independent, diverse restaurants find a new home downtown.

“I don’t see why we would need more pizza places,” said freshman

mathematics major Joseph Burris. “There certainly is a lot of pizza available.”

But Sardelis said he plans for Fox’s Pizza Den — located at 9204 Baltimore Ave. — to get a slice of the marketplace.

With his business, Sardi’s Catering, Sardelis said he has already established rapport with this university, catering events for the baseball team and events held in the chemistry building. He said he will advertise to students and air televised athletic games at his

store to snag student patrons.

“We’re looking at the University of Maryland for our first draw,” he said. “We can be more in tune with the students.”

Sardelis said he expects prices will range from $5.49 for a small pie to $11.99 for an extra-large pie and $34.99 for a 52-slice pizza.

However, Naked Pizza plans to satisfy a much different marketplace, offering a healthy alternative to this college staple, according to

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reforms student loans Univ. officials said students should be wary of changes

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

Although some student loan holders could have an easier time paying back their debts now that President Barack Obama has reworked the post-graduate loan structure, some university officials and students questioned whether the measure is worthwhile in this critical economic climate.

Using executive authority, Obama announced last week a series of actions tailored specifically to college graduates to make their financial lives less stressful, including offering different loan consolidation options, forgiving debts sooner and capping monthly payment amounts. Although the Obama administration boasts that more than one million students will be affected by these reforms, university officials said student loan holders should be cautious moving forward with the new options because they complicate a convoluted process even further.

Additionally, some critics have said the restructure is too costly and does not affect enough students to justify potentially increasing the nation’s

see LOANS, page 2

Diamondback ad prompts student group formation With the opening of Fox’s Pizza Den and Naked Pizza, downtown College Park now has half a dozen pizzerias. City officials said they would like to see more variety in downtown businesses, although they are happy there are fewer building vacancies. MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

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BY MARIA ROMAS

A fortune in failure Clark School of Engineering spokeswoman Melissa Corley said Pecht “basically created” the concept of reliability engineering, allowing organizations like the auto industry, the military and NASA to better test their products.

Pecht was the only honoree at the annual ceremony, which has previously featured the inductions of the creator of the modern barcode and one of the major contributors to the invention of satellite radio. Corley said inductees are nominated by faculty, staff

In response to an advertisement published in The Diamondback last month, students who referred to it as “hate speech” have banded together to ask the newspaper’s advertising department to create a policy against printing marginalizing and inflammatory messages.

An advertisement called “You deserve a factual look at ... Muslim Arab Anti-Semitism” for the Facts and Logic About the Middle East organization ran on page three of The Diamondback on Oct. 19, prompting several students to form a group called End Hate Speech at UMD. Yesterday afternoon, two students from the coalition met with members of Maryland Media Inc. — the private company that owns The Diamondback — and Diamondback editor-in-chief Lauren Redding to discuss the issue. Several group members said while the meeting was cordial, they were not satisfied with the two resolutions offered. They

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Professor inducted into Hall of Fame

BY QUINN KELLEY For The Diamondback

Michael Pecht, a university engineering professor, was inducted yesterday into the Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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For Michael Pecht, failure is life.

The engineering professor is a specialist in evaluating reliability in electronic systems — how they will fail, how to fix them and when the fix will be needed. It’s called “reliability engineering,” and it’s needed for everything from laptops and wind turbines to military systems and spaceships. Pecht was inducted into the Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame yesterday for his pioneering work in the field.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011

U. Police respond to nearly 230 incidents Reported incidents last month include theft, burglary, trespassing

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

Throughout October, University Police kept busy responding to more than 230 reports of people sleeping in restricted areas on the campus, stolen bicycles and pickpocketing, according to police.

THEFT — Two suspects were arrested for pickpocketing at Byrd Stadium on Oct. 1, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said. Officers followed them into the football game at about 5:30 p.m. when they realized the two matched the description of pickpocket suspects from the previous game.

Later that day, Limansky said police received notice that bicycle parts were stolen from a bike that was locked to a rack at the mathematics building.

The parts were allegedly stolen between Sept. 18 and 19 from the south side of the building, Limansky said.

No arrests have been made.

“Students with expensive bicycles — or even not so expensive bikes — should use U-Locks to secure them,” Limansky said. “This would have an enormous effect on bike and scooter thefts.”

Later that week, two bicycles were allegedly stolen from Fraternity Row Oct. 5. The first was reported stolen from outside the Alpha Sigma Phi house, 9 Fraternity Row, and was reported at about 1 p.m.; the second was stolen from the Alpha Epsilon Pi house at 4 Fraternity Row and reported just before 10 p.m. Both bikes were secured with cable locks, Limansky said, and the lock appeared to be cut through in the latter incident.

No arrests have been made.

“People shouldn’t use cable locks to secure bikes or scooters,” Limansky said. “They are easy to cut.”

On Oct. 5, a resident of the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, returned from a vacation to find some of his property had been stolen. Limansky said the victim placed the stolen items on furniture outside his room prior to going on vacation. No arrests have been made.

TRESPASSING — A male was issued a written advisement of trespassing Oct. 5 when he refused to leave the Stamp Student Union after hours. He was told to leave by a student police aide, but refused, Limansky said. Officers removed the suspect from Stamp

at about 1:45 a.m.

On Oct. 11, a male was found sleeping in a restroom in the Plant Sciences Building at about 8 a.m.

The male has no university affiliation, Limansky said, and was issued a denial of access to the campus.

Later that week in an unrelated incident, a suspect, who had been told to leave the campus once before for sleeping in restricted areas, was issued a 10-day denial of access after being seen Oct. 15 at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex at about noon. The second suspect also has no affiliation with the university.

BURGLARY — A student’s wallet was allegedly stolen from his Denton Hall room Oct. 5 at about 10:30 p.m.

The wallet was later found, Limansky said, but was missing some of the victim’s items. The burglar attempted to use the victim’s credit card at another location, police said, but no arrests have been made.

In an unrelated incident, a suspect reportedly opened an unlocked door in Ellicott Hall and stole a laptop from the room Oct. 11 at about 8 a.m., Limansky said.

The case is still active and pending.

Two days later, a female student was asleep in the morning when she heard a noise, but went back to sleep. When she woke up, she reported that a laptop and an iPhone were missing from her Hagerstown Hall dorm room, Limansky said. The case is still active and pending.

“Most of our theft problems can be alleviated by people doing simple things like locking their doors, even if they leave just for a few minutes,” Limansky said.

STOLEN MOTOR VEHICLE — A motorcycle was allegedly stolen from Lot U1 between Oct. 5 and Oct. 6, police said. The incident was reported Oct. 6 at about 2 p.m., and is still active and pending. No arrests have been made.

ROBBERY — A victim was found intoxicated and incoherent at Byrd Stadium on Oct. 15, when he claimed he was assaulted and had money taken from him during the football game, Limansky said.

Officers attempted to obtain statements, but the victim’s mother arrived, refused to allow her son to be interviewed and took him home, Limansky said. A follow-up by investigators was unsuccessful, police said, and the mother did not wish to file a report. egan@umdbk.com

Engineering professor Michael Pecht (right) was inducted into the Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame yesterday by University President Wallace Loh (left) for his work in pioneering reliability engineering. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

ENGINEER from page 1 and students and are chosen by a selection committee based on their contributions to engineering and connection to the engineering school.

Mechanical engineering professor Abhijit Dasgupta said Pecht has used an effective management style to “actually [make] things happen,” figuring out solutions to problems others in the field thought were too complex to engineer.

LOANS from page 1 deficit, which now stands at $1.3 trillion. According to Financial Aid Director Sarah Bauder, more than 12,000 students at this university use a federal loan, a private loan or both — but the criteria for Obama’s alterations are so limited it is unlikely many loan holders will be drastically affected.

One of the new measures, available to loan holders in January, will offer students the chance to consolidate two specific types of federal loans, allowing them to write just one check a month instead of multiple ones. Though Bauder said this option sounds appealing on the surface, loan holders should be wary and understand that consolidation can alter interest rates or even the actual amount of the loan.

“Any time you consolidate a loan, all of the original terms

Dasgupta said supporting innovators like Pecht is essential to maintaining an “edge” in an increasingly globalized environment of scientific competition — and that the future isn’t in being good at what exists, but in exploring new areas of engineering like Pecht’s work in reliability. “[He’s] able to look at complex problems and figure out what kind of engineering solutions will solve that problem,” Dasgupta said.

University Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea said it was important to recognize inno-

vators like Pecht because they not only create knowledge, but also apply it to help people’s lives.

“I think it emphasizes the importance for the practical outcomes of engineering,” O’Shea said, adding the award wasn’t just for “research for the sake of research,” but a recognition of a concrete technological impact on society.

O’Shea said it was important for the university not just to pass on knowledge, but to create it and apply it to doing good things in society. Pecht, he said, was doing just that. He engages his

are gone,” she said. “[Students] really need to look into what they are giving up and what they are gaining.”

And student loan holders agreed that while combining payments could help the burden of students shouldering two or more loans, consolidation is far from a cutand-dr y process.

“A lot of people don’t fully understand what they’re signing, and then they end up in trouble,” said junior English major and federal loan holder Scarlett Gragan. “They aren’t informed about the possible negative repercussions.”

Obama’s plan also offers increased debt forgiveness.

Previously, under the Income-Based Repayment Plan, students’ remaining debt was eliminated after 25 years of payments. This new measure, however, reduces that time to 20 years. And as a bonus for those working in public ser vice as teachers, nurses and militar y mem-

bers, debt forgiveness will occur in just 10 years.

University officials said giving students incentive to work as public servants was a step in the right direction.

“I think that’s a great initiative on that end,” Bauder said.

“That intent is absolutely well placed.”

And in an additional effort to increase affordability, a new measure also allows recent graduates to pay a maximum of 10 percent of their annual discretionar y income toward loan payments. Currently, the ‘Pay as You Earn’ initiative, which Obama instated in 2010, offers a 15 percent income cap for loan holders. But given the job market’s slow growth, Obama’s measure seeks to help those with limited incomes or unemployment manage loan repayments. This measure will take place July 1, 2014.

Obama’s overall intention to encourage people to go to

students, O’Shea said, and makes sure they are “not just being entertained as tourists,” but “educated as explorers.”

Mechanical engineering doctoral student Gilbert Haddad said an internship with Pecht is what brought Haddad back to the university to get another degree; Pecht is now his doctoral advisor.

“As a professor, he’s shaping scientists and leaders,” Haddad said. “He has so many success stories.” news@umdbk.com

college and recognize its growing affordability is admirable, Bauder said. But both administrators and student loan holders agreed the new actions could spur negative behavioral changes. And some measures — such as the measure to forgive debt sooner — could just increase the nation’s deficit.

“While we’re sitting here tr ying to reduce indebtedness for students, there’s some enactment here that says, ‘It’s okay to borrow,’” Bauder said.

And others questioned whether these measures would lead people to be financially irresponsible.

“Are we giving people a break or are we teaching them to treat student loans like people treat credit cards, where it’s the expectation of, ‘I’ll just spend it because I don’t have to pay it back?’” Gragan said. marcot@umdbk.com

SPORTS

TOURNAMENT from page 8

Outside hitter Mary Cushman, center, and the Terps could end their nine-match losing streak this weekend against either Clemson or Georgia Tech. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

RITUALS from page 8 wisdom” written on the board that rarely vary from match to match. “Go Terps!” and “Win!” stand side by side, even as the second notion was absent for the entire month of October.

From there, the Terps’ rituals become even more original. They proceed to sing the school’s fight song together, only at a quickened pace. And when they finally emerge from the locker room to center court, they gather into a circle, setting their right feet together in one final show of unity before they turn to face the opposition.

The team’s traditions are not limited to the group dynamic, either. Several players have their own individual routines

they perform before taking the court. Outside hitter Mary Cushman, for instance, draws a peace sign on her wrist before every match, and the ink can linger visibly for days afterward.

“It makes me relax and when I get frustrated or whatnot, I just look at it and it’s like a calming thing,” said Cushman, who also has a corresponding tattoo of a peace sign on the inside of her ankle.

Cushman never begins a match or set without re-strapping her ankle brace and retying her shoes, and she always high-fives libero Sarah Harper first and setter Remy McBain last in her team-wide go-around.

McBain, meanwhile, demonstrates a free-throw-like approach to serving, bouncing the ball in numerals of three. The junior, who ranks

fifth all time in assists at this university, also wears her hair the same way for every match during a season.

However it comes, the Terps are hoping for an edge this weekend in matters both in and out of their control. With seven matches left in the season and a record seven matches under .500, the Terps will be looking to salvage whatever they have left of the season. The Tigers come into College Park winners of three of their last four matches, while Georgia Tech sports the conference’s leader in kills per set in outside hitter Monique Mead.

But the Terps still have confidence, and they’ll be standing in the same order they have all season on the sideline this weekend. munson@umdbk.com

spot in the semifinals in a nailbiting win yesterday, narrowly fending off a hard-charging Virginia team, 3-2, in the quarterfinals. Doing the same against the Terps (15-3, 4-1) with less than 24 hours in between games won’t be any easier.

“We’ve got a fresh pair of legs going into the semis,” midfielder Megan Frazer said.

“That’s obviously a big advantage, having not played a game the day before. … If we can run them enough, that’s going to put more pressure on their bodies.”

A tired Duke squad could prove essential for the Terps.

The Blue Devils’ offense has been much improved in recent weeks, and after averaging less than two goals per game in their first 12 contests, the Blue Devils have averaged four goals per game in their past six. The day after their loss to the Terps, they had a nine-goal outburst against James Madison, the secondhighest scoring total among ACC teams this season.

But while Duke has ratcheted up its attack, the Terps have clamped down on the defensive end. They have had little trouble holding their opponents off the scoreboard recently, allowing 6.2 shots and one goal per game in the team’s past five contests, including a regular-season-ending shutout of Rutgers.

“We’ve given up a lot of shots and goals we shouldn’t have,” midfielder Janessa Pope said.

“With Rutgers, we didn’t give up any corners and only one shot on goal, so for us as defenders, that’s just reinforcement that what we’ve been working on and what we’ve been taking a lot of time to focus on in practice is translating into games, which is all we can ask for.”

Even with the tough matchup the Blue Devils pose to the Terps, it could be far from their toughest test this week-

The No. 2 seed Terps return to College Park today as hosts of the ACC Tournament. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

end. Should the Terps move past Duke, they would likely meet top-seeded North Carolina in the championship game, provided the Tar Heels (18-1, 5-0) can defeat No. 4 seed Wake Forest tomorrow, a team they have already beaten twice this season.

The Terps’ 2-1 loss to the Tar Heels less than two weeks ago was perhaps the team’s toughest this season. North Carolina’s top-ranked defense neutralized the Terps’ attack throughout the entirety of regulation, holding the team off the scoreboard until an untimed penalty corner after the game clock struck zero.

“Their speed kind of put us on our back foot for the whole rest of the game,” midfielder Jemma Buckley said after the match. “We have to come out a

bit harder next time.”

“That’s a team you have to figure out how to play team attack against,” Meharg added. “This is not a team we can beat one on one.”

While the Terps would welcome another chance to meet with North Carolina this season, a potential finals matchup is still a long way away. The Terps barely escaped Durham with a win in October, and with a trip to the championship on the line, today’s matchup could match, or even surpass, the competitiveness of their first meeting.

Not that Meharg’s worried about what happened almost four weeks ago.

“We are as ready as we can be for postseason,” Meharg said. vitale@umdbk.com

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

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Dining Services installs calorie counting kiosks

PIZZA from page 1 eatery spokeswoman Ellen Altamirano. The restaurant, on 7413 Baltimore Ave., has not yet finalized an opening date, she said.

“We based our whole new business model around something that is common and convenient like pizza and make it better for you,” she said. “It is something that you can eat and not feel as guilty about.”

The menu offers 10, 12 and 14-inch pizzas priced at $6.99, $7.99 and $8.99, respectively, Altamirano said.

“These days everyone is being a little bit smarter about what they eat,” she said.

Altamirano said the pizzeria is a “happy medium” between mom-and-pop pizza joints and large franchises such as Papa John’s.

Some students, such as freshman letters and sciences major Molly Rosenbaum, said Route 1 is in need of restaurants like Naked Pizza.

Touchscreen devices contain nutritional information for meals

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Hungr y, health-conscious students torn between snagging a quesadilla or a sub for dinner can now compare the nutritional values of each meal inside two on-campus dining halls.

Dining Ser vices purchased two $2,500 touch-screen nutritional information kiosks, installed one device in the South Campus Dining Hall and will install one in the North Campus Diner today.

In addition to Dining Services’ online calorie counters, the machines allow students to know the calorie count, sodium content and overall nutritional value of each food item.

Although the kiosks are only just debuting, officials said they began developing them several years ago — when students first started requesting more nutritional information — to provide more accessible and thorough health facts.

“People really have been wanting and have been needing something on the spot that they can use to get the nutritional value of their lunch while they’re in the dining hall,” Dining Ser vices spokesman Bart Hipple said.

“We’ve been hearing for a ver y long time that students want more nutritional information about dining hall food.”

Previously, students could only access nutrition facts through the dining website.

But Hipple said he hopes students can make healthier choices on the go, since the kiosks also provide a more detailed food breakdown by including fat and salt content, in addition to calorie count.

Since the kiosks will be placed by the trays, rather than next to food stations, Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva said students can look up health facts without interfering with the lines.

“I think they’re going to be a nice addition to the dining halls,” Wright-Riva said. “This gives students the opportunity to get a closer look at nutritional facts without holding up service.”

While officials considered only posting a few nutritional facts on the menu boards, Hipple said he wanted to make sure students had all the information necessar y to make an informed decision

“We’ve been hearing for a very long time that students want more nutritional information.”

BART HIPPLE DINING SERVICES SPOKESMAN

about their meals.

“People focus on one or two factors and exclude all others … and that’s not healthy,” Hipple said. “There will be people who will look at just the calorie count. Other people will look at just the [carbohydrate] count or just the fat count — whatever the industr y is writing articles about this week.”

Although some students said they weren’t sure whether they would use the new technology, many said they think the kiosks will benefit students’ health.

“I think it’s really important to students to have this information available,” freshman mechanical engineering major Sean Creel said. “I think it will help people be more conscious of what they’re ordering.”

Now that Dining Ser vices has provided students with all of the information they need, senior mechanical engineering major Adam Davies said it will ultimately be up to students to make the most of the new technology.

“If it’s easily accessible, then I think people will gravitate towards it,” he said. “But it will be up to the student to judge if it’s important or not.”

But officials said since the kiosks have just been introduced, there are still improvements to be made.

“At this point, it’s nothing more than a glorified website,” Dining Ser vices Assistant Director for Information Technology Fuller Ming said of the software. “There are still some awkward parts that we need to work out.”

Wright-Riva said she hopes officials can make the technology more efficient over time.

“We’re just getting our foot in the water on this,” she said. “But we want to make it more user friendly down the road.” israel@umdbk.com

“It is something that you can eat and not feel as guilty about.”

ELLEN ALTAMIRANO NAKED PIZZA SPOKESWOMAN

“There needs to be more organic options,” she said.

“Especially if it’s pizza, because there isn’t really organic, gluten-free pizza around here.”

Hakan Ilhan, owner of Pizza Autentica, said he is more concerned about the opening of Bobby’s Burger Palace and other nearby restaurants than about competing with pizza businesses such as Fox’s Pizza Den. Owners of Ledo’s and Ratsie’s could not be reached for comment.

“We are more of a fastcasual Italian restaurant than a delivery concept,” Ilhan said.

“It will probably be a different market anyway.” bach@umdbk.com

Naked Pizza, a health-conscious eatery, is one of two new local pizzerias set to open. MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

After more than 40 years at this university and 13 as the Facilities Management Director, Frank Brewer (above) has officially transitioned out of his role and passed it to former Capital Projects Director Carlo Colella. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

COLELLA from page 1 to that.”

But Colella said one of the most important issues he will address is the allegations of employee abuse in Facilities Management, which surfaced last semester from an anonymous letter referring to the department as a “Nazi camp” and a “plantation.” He said he hopes to improve relations between staff and supervisors and foster “civility and respect” in the workplace.

“They shouldn’t feel that way, and if they don’t feel comfortable in that environment, we want to make sure that they can speak,” Colella said.

University Provost Ann Wylie said encouraging an open dialogue between managers and employees — and ensuring university staff mem-

bers feel comfortable coming forward with concerns — is a crucial aspect of Colella’s job.

“The most important thing that [Colella] can do is let the staff know that they can bring any complaints that they have forward, and that they should not fear retaliation,” Wylie said.

Although Colella led projects and building construction costing more than $1 million in his former role, he said he has become more accustomed to overseeing building and infrastructure upkeep as Facilities Management director.

“Facilities Management plays a critical role in making sure that our facilities, our infrastructure can support our academic mission,” Colella said. “It’s a big job just to keep it running well and looking good. … It’s our job.”

Part of that upkeep includes grappling with a $750 million deferred maintenance back-

log — a list of projects that currently do not have adequate funding — and to continue lobbying with state legislators for more funding.

“It’s a huge challenge, and part of our responsibility is to make really good decisions with resources we do have already, but also advocate for enhanced investments in keeping those resources working,” Colella said.

“When we look at a threequarter-of-a-billion dollar backlog, you’re not going to get all the way there, but we’re much closer.”

But Colella also said he hopes to simultaneously improve and update the campus by creating laboratories to attract top researchers and faculty and stateof-the-art learning facilities.

“It’s real exciting to be a part of it and to do Facilities Management’s part to support the campus so we can continue its rise

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said they will continue their mission to rid the paper of similar advertisements.

At the meeting, MMI General Manager Michael Fribush presented two options: MMI will provide space for the group to print a rebuttal advertisement free of charge — which the company has never done — or publish a guest column or letter.

“I’m not upset with the way the meeting went today — I don’t like the outcome, but it’s their stance, and MMI is a company, and they have their own opinion,” said junior bioengineering major and Diamondback columnist Osama Eshera, who attended yesterday’s meeting. “I wouldn’t say I’m upset, but we definitely plan to keep moving forward to make our perspective and what we believe to be the perspective of the majority of students on this campus more clear.”

Chelsea Madden, MMI’s advertising manager, said in the meeting that the name of the company indicates the organization chooses to be contentious in its carefully worded advertisements.

“It’s meant to be inflammatory,” she said. “That’s why it’s called FLAME.” However, FLAME President Gerardo Joffe said the organization publishes advertisements in about 12 university publications each month, and he has never once heard of a complaint lodged.

“If they consider it hate speech, that’s OK; I cannot help that,” he said. “However, it’s not hate speech. It’s an exposition of fact. … Everything we present is factual. The anti-Semitism, quotation from Koran, all of it — there’s not a word of hate speech in there.”

to be one of the top research universities,” Colella said. “I feel like we’ve got a great group, a beautiful campus.”

While Colella has many challenges ahead of him, Brewer said he possesses all the qualities needed to be a successful director.

“I thought he was the best person for the job,” Brewer said. “He had the right experience and training and temperament, initiative and energy — all the right things.”

And although Brewer may not be around the campus as frequently, Colella said he will continue to abide by his words of advice for a successful tenure. “[He told me] ‘remember that we’re always here to serve the campus,’” Colella said. “[He said] to think about what serves the campus best in the long run.” foley@umdbk.com

Whenever a group submits an advertisement, that message goes through a vetting process, according to Fribush, and if FLAME wants to purchase another ad, it will go through the same procedure again. The Diamondback’s editors and staff writers do not have any control over what advertisements are printed.

Fribush said advertisements are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and there is no written policy on how ads are screened before they are run.

“It’s a slippery slope,” Fribush said in the meeting. “This is not politically motivated. I don’t agree or disagree with the ad, but I agree with that they have the opportunity to say that. … To quote Voltaire, ‘I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’”

But many End Hate Speech at UMD members said while MMI and the group can agree to disagree, the coalition will continue the fight to rid the paper of “hateful ads.” The next step is to hold a town hall forum and for the group to start a petition for their cause, according to Omari Sefu, who attended yesterday’s meeting.

If these plans do not work, the coalition will host a rally, which Sefu said he hopes will show that a diverse group of students agree similar ads should not run.

“We still feel that the advertising staff should use its discretion to not run the FLAME ads,” Eshera said.

“It’s really hurtful, and it’s presented in a way that isn’t open to intellectual discussion. … It states opinions and attempts to pass it off as fact, and it completely closes the door for academic discussion.”

Senior staff writers Richard Abdill and Leah Villanueva contributed to this report. romas@umdbk.com

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Occupy needs no permit

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fter the NCAA’s Board of Directors approved a handful of changes mission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a 17-member group appointed this affecting Division I athletics last week, things are looking good for summer by university President Wallace Loh to examine the athletics intercollegiate student-athletes across the countr y — provided department’s financials. The commission’s final report is due on Loh’s desk they aren’t attending this university. News of the reforms was fol- Nov. 15. Loh will then spend the rest of the year garnering input from Athlowed by a report from The Washington Post on Wednesday revealing just letic Director Kevin Anderson and the university’s Athletic Council before how dire the athletics department’s financial situation is. The numbers releasing his decision.

The athletics department is already stretched thin: should be ugly enough to frighten many of this univerThe Post crunched 2010 numbers, released in accorsity’s 617 student-athletes. dance with the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, and According to the Post, the athletics department is on track to lose $4.7 million in the current fiscal year, Given the difficult financial determined the athletics department spends less per athlete — $67,390 — than ever y other ACC school. which ends next July. The department also predicts a staggering annual deficit increase, reaching $17.6 mil- circumstances of the athletics Florida State leads the conference with $118,814, but schools exceeded the $100,000 threshold. Part of lion by 2017. Those numbers are projections, so they department, Terrapins fans five that disparity results from a drop in revenue, but it’s could certainly prove excessive. But if attendance at last weekend’s football game against Boston College is and athletes should brace for also a result of the university fielding 27 varsity teams — four more than the ACC average, and 11 more than any indication, they may have been too conser vative. cuts to varsity teams. is required to maintain Division I status.

Those numbers also don’t factor in the anticipated The commission has remained tight-lipped about its additional expenses that may be incurred as a result of the NCAA’s new regulations. The most significant new rule grants confer- discussions, but all signs point to a reduction — possibly significant — in ences the option to provide student-athletes up to an additional $2,000 on the overall size of the department. Undergraduate students already subsitop of their scholarship. The money is designed to bridge the gap between dize athletics with almost $200 per semester, so raising the mandator y athwhat a full athletic scholarship provides and incremental expenses a student letics fee shouldn’t be an option. The fickle Terps fanbase is unlikely to surincurs over the course of a year — referred to as the full cost of attendance. render more money through tickets and donations unless the football and It’s a great development for athletes, but one that could prove costly for the men’s basketball teams excel — but that’s doubtful given the rebuilding university and its conference-leading 27 varsity teams. What remains to be projects facing both programs. Federal Title IX requirements mean any cut seen is how many sports will actually receive the additional $2,000. That mat- in women’s teams will need to be matched by the elimination of men’s proter is determined by conference, and the ACC hasn’t publicly reached a deci- grams. Excluding football and men’s and women’s basketball, the remainsion. But if the conference decides to provide every scholarship athlete an ing 24 varsity teams lost about $7.3 million last year, so if the athletics additional $2,000, this university — which grants the equivalent of about 320 department can’t find sources of additional revenue, bridging the current full scholarships per year — would face about $640,000 in additional expenses. budget shortfall could mean cutting several programs. As painful as that That’s a lot of money for a department that’s already in the red and cur- would be, it’s probably the best move.

As it stands, Loh is set to make his decision public by Dec. 31 — a day rently leans heavily on mandator y student fees — $11.1 million this year, according to the Post — to balance its budget. The additional expenses are surely marked on the calendars of Terrapins athletes and fans throughout also sure to weigh heavily on the minds of the university’s President’s Com- the region. So much for a happy New Year.

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ithin our nation, there is a constant effort by many to maintain the status quo of society’s hierarchical structures. Because unity is the primary means of empowering the have-nots, the elite divides people by disrupting the civil discourse within our populace. From corporate-produced media to strict laws limiting our First Amendment freedoms, we are increasingly thwarted from changing the entrenched status quo.

This is even exemplified on our own campus, as the freedom to exercise our First Amendment right is carefully controlled by the bureaucracy of our administration. Our initial freedom to political speech is removed once our numbers grow beyond 10 people. We must not follow policies that minimize our right to political demonstrations.

So, in response to the Oct. 31 staff editorial “Occupational hazard,” we point out that while a group requesting a permit to protest on McKeldin Mall would perhaps be sufficient for one day, in reality it’s quite useless for a movement centered around indefinite occupation. The entire purpose of protesting against existing power structures is intentionally undermined by restrictive mandates from those same power structures that serve to control or prevent such protest.

That being said, The Diamondback’s editorial staff also criticized Occupy UMD, saying they “would feel a lot better about the demonstration … if the group had done its homework beforehand.” However, the editorial staff’s assertion is mistaken in both regarding the efforts of the movement to ascertain the legal situation and whether or not the group considered their event as immediate public outcry.

Not to mention the staff’s suggestion of police asking occupiers to leave is completely false. However, University Police Lt. Robert Mueck and Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens instead participated in the group’s democratic dialogue to discuss our actions.

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God doesn’t matter

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believe in God and pray every night. I believe in God, but I don’t know what to make of Him. Talking to my rabbi, I came to realize the existence of God is something that can never be proven or disproven. Rather, belief or disbelief in God is exactly the reason why we have faith, which Merriam-Webster defines as “firm belief in something for which there is no proof.”

My friend Areeb, who is the former president of the Muslim Students Association, told me, “Prophet Muhammad didn’t come down just to teach us how to pray, he also came down to perfect our manners.” To him, religion is about teaching us how to be good people. I agree. And while I am a Jew, I consider myself a Christian the way Gandhi was a Christian — and a Muslim, Hindu, Baha’i and Buddhist. All of these religions have something to teach and are just different paths up the same mountain, as another friend

BEN SIMON from the MSA put it.

The world is getting smaller. It’s past time we come together and acknowledge we are brothers and sisters of the same human family and that we have a lot more commonalities than differences. My Muslim friends and I know we are brothers, the same way my Christian, atheist and agnostic friends and I understand this basic truth.

What I really mean by “God doesn’t matter” is that belief or disbelief in God, the name you call God or how you conceive Him or Her ultimately pales in comparison to being a good person. Good matters more than God, and when good and God conflict, it’s

essential to prioritize good in your hierarchy of values.

In fact, good and God often conflict. God was used to rationalize Nazism and the Crusades. Today, extreme faith in God at the expense of good has brought us al-Qaida and the Westboro Baptist Church.

Valuing good over God might seem straightforward enough, but I’m not so sure whenever I see ostentatious lifestyles of religious devotees that just seem fundamentally in contrast to the messages in their holy books.

I’m also not so sure whenever I am reminded that some of my friends have a deeply held belief that I’m going to hell after I die — no matter how good of a person I may be — simply because my belief about God is slightly different from theirs. Imagining myself burning in fire forever is a little bit disconcerting, and I wonder about their God’s ego for wishing that upon me for my failure to recognize Him as supreme.

But if that’s their faith, that’s their right. And in any case, I’m not upset because more and more people — folks from all religions, folks who reject religion and everyone in between — are getting it. We’re all one human family; we’re all in this together and we have a lot of work to do to heal the world and build a peaceful, prosperous future.

The beauty of faith is the freedom to choose your own path to the mountaintop. The problem, however, emerges when we emphasize our faith so much that we forget to respect the legitimacy of other paths and forget that the point of religion is first and foremost to teach us how to be good people.

So, sure, I believe in God, but who cares? Much more importantly, I believe in good.

Ben Simon is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at simon@umdbk.com.

Chick-fil-A: Fast food and homophobia

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uring my two-year tenure on this campus, there have been plenty of hullabaloos surrounding McDonald’s treatment of animals and the bizarrely colorful chicken statue that creepily looked at you outside of Stamp Student Union. Yet there’s another controversial food court tenant that, as my Jewish grandmother would say, has been “up to no good”: Chick-fil-A. Along with their delicious chicken sandwiches, waffle fries and sweet tea, Chick-fil-A is also known for being closed on Sundays because its owners are Christian. They have recently been subject to withering criticism for donating millions of dollars to virulently antigay organizations.

Over the past few years, extensive research by Equality Matters and Jeremy Hooper, a well-known gay blogger, has uncovered significant financial donations to organizations such as the Family Research Council, Alliance Defense Fund and Exodus International. These three groups are considered to be the most influential anti-gay think tank, legal defense fund

and ex-gay organizations.

The groups go beyond the social conservative mainstream and are often considered dangerous for their extremist views regarding gay and transgendered individuals. A few months ago, the Family Research Council — a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group — blasted President Barack Obama for recording an “It Gets Better” video, saying, “It’s disgusting. And it’s part of a concerted effort to persuade kids that homosexuality is okay and actually to recruit them into that ‘lifestyle.’”

Exodus International uses reparative therapy to try to “cure” gays and lesbians of their sexuality. The American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics are both strongly opposed to reparative therapy and assert it often causes patients severe emotional harm. While pop stars rarely say anything of substance (Ke$ha), Lady GaGa was spot on with her track, “Born This Way.” What I find frustrating is that Chickfil-A’s CEO Dan Cathy seemed to blatantly lie in a letter to customers

MATT ARNSTINE released this past January. He says, “Chick-fil-A has a long history of trying to encourage and strengthen marriages and families, both within our Chick-fil-A system and with our customers.”

Hooper asked the company whether Chick-fil-A’s WinShape Retreat was open to gay and lesbian couples. In their response, they said, “WinShape Retreat defines marriage from the Biblical standard as being between one man and one woman.” Later in the email exchange, they said, “We do not accept homosexual couples because of the statement in our contract.”

Cathy then sent out a press release to clarify his position, stating Chick-filA has “a 65-year history of serving families and communities without a political agenda.” How can your company donate millions of dollars to anti-gay

organizations while saying you don’t have a political agenda?

Due to the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporations will become more active in politics. This decision allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political candidates and organizations. For years, companies have made donations to politicians for financial and business reasons. Yet, when Chick-fil-A takes sides in highly charged political debate, there will be financial and public reputation consequences. Chick-fil-A is using chicken sandwiches to push a far-rightwing political agenda.

After eating Saladworks three to four times a week, I’d like to be able to devour some delicious Chick-fil-A chicken. But until Chick-fil-A either stops their donations, or even just apologizes for sending mixed messages, I’ll be staying away from the anti-gay Chick-fil-A. Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

n response to the Oct. 31 staff editorial, “Occupational hazard,” permission should not have to be granted before a protest or demonstration on this university’s campus, on other college campuses, in the United States or in the world. If the protest remains nonviolent, there is no reason to require prior permission.

Requiring a movement to get permission first is the complete opposite of what a movement stands for. That would be a childlike protest — “Mommy, can I revolt today?”

Going against authority is the essential part of a movement or revolution.

Movements grow out of unrest and unjust circumstances. The sit-ins of the 1960s and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were carried out without the permission of a higher authority by people who felt they were being wronged. If they had asked for police permission, their demonstrations may have been stopped before they began.

Requiring a movement to provide advance notice is absurd. This greatly constrains the power of a movement in its beginning stages and squelches the passion of its members. If one’s rights are restricted, or in the case of the Occupy movement, if greed and the status quo of the system is limiting one’s voice and ability to progress, then he or she should not feebly ask for permission to protest. Protesters should stand up, grab some posters and make their cause heard.

This regulation where authorities want to be made aware of protests before they happen challenges the meaning of a protest. It is one step closer to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where people follow methodical and approved methods of interaction, where straying from acceptable behavior results in severe punishment.

Asking Occupy UMD to be a mature movement and take the short amount of time it takes to fill out the online form to reserve space and request permission seems in violation of the people’s freedom to assemble. But disregarding this possible unconstitutionality, it is impossible for the Occupy UMD movement to be mature when it may not even be one month old. Don’t repress their potential before they grow larger than the 10 members acceptable for police to allow them to continue demonstrating.

Occupy UMD, keep on occupying, without permission.

MARLENA CHERTOCK JUNIOR JOURNALISM

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REVIEW | A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS

Harold & Kumar fly high with Santa Stoners celebrate a merry-juana Christmas Kumar inadvertently burns down the old one. On this bizarre journey, Harold and Kumar have the entirety of New York If you think you’ve seen lowbrow humor, City, on Christmas Eve no less, to use for brace yourself: You haven’t seen anything yet. their trademark raunchy and violent Lowbrow has reached a new low with the shenanigans.

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There’s always been something inexplica- Todd (Thomas Lennon, What’s Your Numbly endearing about the misadventures of ber?) won’t be getting them a spinoff anystoners Harold (John Cho, Saint John of Las time soon: The original twosome are still Vegas) and Kumar (Kal Penn, How I Met Your pros at eliciting laughter and equal opportunity offending. After it’s Mother). It’s a testament all over, you will have to Cho and Penn’s wellseen a coked-up baby, a honed chemistry that VERDICT: certain male appendage watching these two get recreating a famous out of one ludicrous situThe film’s tagline is “Christmas scene from A Christmas ation after another is still comes prematurely.” Turn your Story and Santa taking a entertaining seven years brain off, ignore some lazy and shotgun shell to the face. after that first fateful trip overtly offensive jokes and revel in Your IQ might drop a few to White Castle. stupid comedy at its finest. points, but you won’t The formerly inseparable pair has grown apart since their days notice until that unavoidable grin of delight fades as you leave the theater. of partying with Neil Patrick Harris.

The series has become almost too self-referHarold has a high-profile Wall Street job, a beautiful wife and a father-in-law from hell ential for its own good, however. Lines like Harold asking, “I don’t know, hasn’t the whole (Danny Trejo, Dark Games).

Kumar smokes marijuana, and that’s 3-D thing jumped the shark by now?” are amusing but ultimately showcase lazy writing. about it.

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PREVIEW | THE WAR ON DRUGS

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Touring with a rock band is hard — it means long drives, late nights, lots of impersonal hotel rooms and too much time away from home. But for Adam Granduciel, frontman for the band The War on Drugs, it can also be an opportunity for artistic stimulation.

“On tour I get a little more inspired because I get a little bit more run-down, a little bit more depressed,” Granduciel said. “I think it probably taps into something that’s a little more natural. I’ll be run-down but also totally inspired.”

The band is midway through an international tour in support of its critically acclaimed album Slave Ambient and will be playing at the Talking Head

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His time on screen comes when the movie is at its best, and the hilarity of having him beg for crack from his gay date (played by his real-life husband David Burtka) shows the Harold & Kumar series may have some life left in it after all.

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The album, the band’s second, arrived after a long period of experimentation and rearranging in Granduciel’s home studio. Deeply interested in the technical aspects of recording, Granduciel took great pains to perfect each individual sound, reflected in the band’s deeply layered, ambient approach. It should sound familiar to fans of Kurt Vile, Granduciel’s friend and former bandmate.

“I really enjoy writing songs and working on them, but I also really enjoy working with my tape machine or coming up with and processing things like 15 to 20 times,” he said. “I like playing around with different sounds and recording things different ways or manipulating things different ways.”

This process of near-obsessive rerecording pushes the band toward more

experimental sounds, giving its music a unique, wide-open feel. Toying around with ambient textures pushes what could be more straightforward music toward something different.

The album began with an 11-minute demo Granduciel recorded that served as an inspiration for the songs, such as “The Animator” and “Come to the City,” that form the core of Slave Ambient.

These songs shared a tone — looping, glistening synths under Granduciel’s wailing voice — that the band constructed the rest of the album around.

“I started building the songs off of that and processing that drone so that it was percussive and really thick, and I isolated that tone. It’s really awesome,” Granduciel said.

Between the name of the band and its oft-trippy sound, those unfamiliar with the group could, understandably, write

its members off as a bunch of stoners.

But there’s much more to the music than just druggy atmospherics — there’s a folksy, blue-collar undertone to many of the band’s songs that can be surprising to newcomers.

Still, Granduciel isn’t uncomfortable with the band’s reputation.

“I want to turn the name of the band — with, like, The Grateful Dead, where eventually it’s just The Dead — I want to just be The Drugs,” he said.

The War on Drugs will play at the Talking Head Club in Baltimore on Sunday.

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SCHNEIDER from page 8 at the horrid attendance. It’s hard to remember any sports stadium being quite that empty.

Yeah, the weather wasn’t great on Saturday. But snow didn’t stop 98,000 fans from filling Beaver Stadium for Penn State’s game last weekend. So bring a blanket. Suck it up. This is football we’re talking about, not a picnic. “[The weather] was nasty, that’s for sure. But I think, whenever you support a team or you have a team that you like, you support them regardless.” Edsall said Tuesday at his weekly press conference. “There’s only six or seven games a year you can get out and see. If you’re going to be a fan, be a fan, and be out there all the time supporting them.

“I would just say, ‘Hey, sometimes it’s not always going to be the way you want it. But just stick in there and support people and keep going.’ I know this. I’ve been an Oriole fan, and it hasn’t gone their way, but I haven’t dropped off the bandwagon. And I think that’s what true fans do.”

Memories of a sold-out Byrd Stadium for the Miami game seem years ago. It wasn’t hard for fans to turn out for the season’s first game because there was all the motivation in the world: Labor Day night. A clean slate. A bigtime opponent. High expectations for the year.

Even though those expectations haven’t been met, the student section has been surprisingly full at times this year. But just as the Terps have gone downhill on the field, attendance has as well. And don’t think the team hasn’t noticed.

“I love our school. But, you know, if you’re going to be a fan, you’re going to be a fan. If you’re going to have my back, you’re going to have my back,” defensive tackle Maurice Hampton said.

“Just like I’ll have your back anytime anything else happens. I’m not going to just leave you hanging just because things got bad.

“To deal with the fact that nobody was there last game, I mean, it was just another game where really, we were fighting for ourselves. And we saw that.”

It isn’t all that surprising. If Terps teams aren’t good, students typically stop going. Even though this university is supposedly a basketball school, attendance was so

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bad last year, even during ACC play, that university alumnus and ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt ripped fans on Twitter and his radio show.

It’s easy enough to fill Byrd Stadium on opening night for an ESPN-televised game or to chant “F— Duke” when the Terps are vying for a share of the ACC title.

A fan base’s true colors show when its team is struggling.

This season, the color most associated with this fan base shouldn’t be red, black, white or gold. It should be gray, the color of the empty bleachers at Byrd Stadium.

No, there isn’t enough of a pigskin history in College Park to make it a football school. But there isn’t a good enough fan base to make it one, either. You think that people stop coming to The Swamp when the Gators struggle?

You think Texas has empty seats at Texas Memorial Stadium during rough patches?

It seems like this fan base only wants to turn out for big-time opponents — the Dukes and North Carolinas. At real football schools, even the games against creampuff opponents are packed.

Football success isn’t the only ingredient necessary for a football culture. You need passion. You need fans who go to the games even in down years. You need supporters who care more about the game than the tailgate before it. At this point, it seems like the fan base is content to spend more time complaining about Edsall that cheering on the home team.

Sadly, this phenomenon isn’t limited to football. Students scanning and leaving to get points for the big games on the men’s basketball schedule has been a problem for years, prompting the athletics department to look into ways to keep students at the game.

It’ll be interesting to see how basketball games are attended this year if the team struggles as expected. People will want to come see first-year coach Mark Turgeon’s first few games, but what about after that?

It’s hard to tell when Byrd Stadium will again be as electric as it was that Monday night against Miami. The Terps will probably be playing before thousands of empty seats once again tomorrow.

As bad as the football team has been this year, at least the Terps are showing up. schneider@umdbk.com

NORTHWOOD from page 8 after a drama-filled three weeks of practice, they’re eager to face something other than questions about injury and eligibility, and even keener on seeing an actual opponent.

“We’re nowhere near ready for a game, but we’re going to play one anyway,” Turgeon said.

With starting point guard Pe’Shon Howard out with a broken foot, Turgeon had to reshuffle his entire team just a week ago. The injury forced the coach to move guard Terrell Stoglin to the point and teach true freshman guard Nick Faust the position as a backup.

DEACONS from page 8 game. That’s probably the most shots we’ve ever had against any ACC opponent.

But it’s still not good enough. We’ve got to start putting the ball in the back of the net.”

Fresh off a heartbreaking loss at unranked Clemson last Friday, the Terps (13-2-3, 4-2-2 ACC) emerged firing in the opening minutes before 1,826 at Ludwig Field.

Just 10 minutes after kickoff, midfielder Sunny Jane’s 7-yard bid clanked off the left post. Forward Patrick Mullins’ rebound sailed wide right.

“It definitely leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, for sure,” Mullins said.

Undeterred, the Terps continued to attack the net, registering six attempts in the ensuing five minutes.

Finally, they got what they wanted — and would need later on. In the 32nd minute, defender Taylor Kemp sent an arching cross to midfielder John Stertzer, who promptly flicked a header past Wake Forest (8-6-4, 4-31) goalkeeper Michael Lisch. The score was Stertzer’s 14th of the season and put the Terps up 1-0.

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Add in the lengthy investigation of redshirt freshman center Alex Len, which concluded Wednesday, and the Terps have had a roller-coaster first 20 practices, a period of change surpassed only by their tumultuous offseason.

This week, though, Turgeon and the Terps looked ahead.

“We’ve had a really, really good week of practice considering all the emotional stuff this team is going through,” Turgeon said.

“We’ve gotten a lot better.

Now whether we’ll show up Friday, we’ll see.”

Len, who the NCAA ruled must sit out the first 10 games of the season, will be in uniform for the Terps tonight. Even though the 7foot-1 center has had just two practices with the team since

The dominance rarely subsided for the hosts, who outshot the Demon Deacons, 14-1, in the first half.

Four Terps each got more looks than the entire Demon Deacons roster.

But just five minutes into the second half, those numbers became inconsequential. Wake Forest forward Sean Okoli darted past his Terps marker and netted a 25-yard attempt over the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Will Swaim.

The Terps nearly took the lead in the 60th minute when midfielder Helge Leikvang’s open look from distance met the crossbar.

Cirovski’s squad continued to dominate possession for the remainder of regulation, finishing the second half with six times as many shots as their opponent.

And just as it did throughout the first 90 minutes, the Terps took control of overtime.

Forward Casey Townsend nearly ended the game in the 108th minute when his header from just inside the 6-yard box caromed off Lisch’s hands and out of bounds.

“These games happen,” Townsend said. “When they’re not dropping, they’re not dropping. We were doing a lot of things right. It’s just

the end of the NCAA review, Turgeon said he will play.

The Seahawks will be the lone competition the Terps face in a public setting before the start of the season on Nov. 13.

“We’re going to approach this game like a regular-season game,” guard Sean Mosley said. “Once the lights are on and the people are in the stands, it’s a game to me.”

Mosley, Stoglin and Faust are all expected to start, but Turgeon hadn’t decided what his frontcourt will look like, saying it will change “15 times between today and tomorrow.” No matter who starts, forwards James Padgett and Ashton Pankey and center Berend Weijs will all garner major minutes.

Midfielder Sunny Jane and the Terps are winless in their past three games.

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that those final passes, those final shots weren’t where they needed to be today.”

But there were no closer calls than the two that arrived in the game’s final minute.

Wake Forest forward Andy Lubahn’s 8-yard attempt bounced off the left post with 45 seconds remaining in the second suddendeath overtime period.

On the field’s opposite end, with the clock winding down, Mullins emerged from a scramble in the box to direct a ball past Lisch. The score would’ve given the Terps the 2-1 win, but the ref-

“I want us to guard better, I want us to transition better, rebound better and act like we’ve been coached defensively a little bit,” Turgeon said of his expectations for tonight’s game. “They’re really going to test us.”

TERPS NOTE: Turgeon said Howard had an MRI earlier this week and a CT scan yesterday. He will see a foot specialist Monday, and Turgeon said he still expects the sophomore to miss 12 weeks.

He also said the team most likely will not appeal the NCAA’s decision regarding Len, who a team spokesman said is classified as a redshirt freshman with four years of eligibility remaining. ceckard@umdbk.com

erees deemed it late, ruling that the ball had crossed the end line less than a second after time expired.

“I mean, obviously, I wasn’t looking at the clock,” Mullins said. “I could hear it, and I just wanted to play it out. It was just one of the plays at the end of the game that’s difficult to make a call on.”

Yet even with their missed opportunities, the Terps left the field last night with some sense of accomplishment.

The tie secured the No. 2 seed in next week’s ACC Tournament, meaning the Terps will welcome No. 7 seed Boston College to Ludwig Field on Tuesday for the first round.

“That was our goal coming into tonight,” Townsend said. “We wanted that No. 2 seed. We thought we deserved it. But I don’t really care where we’re seeded. We just want to start the playoffs and win some tournaments.”

TERPS NOTE: The Terps will be without Stertzer on Tuesday. The team’s leading scorer received his fifth yellow card of the season in the 25th minute of last night’s game, a threshold that requires him to sit out the Terps’ next game. letourneau@umdbk.com

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Sports

Mackall out for season Lineman David Mackall won’t see any more action this year, Terps football coach Randy Edsall said. Read more at TerrapinTrail.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

Terps dominate, just not enough in 1-1 tie

Questions abound before exhibition

Team gets No. 2 seed in ACC Tournament despite result vs. overmatched Deacons

Lineup in flux after chaotic preseason

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Asked yesterday what his starting lineup would be for tonight’s opening exhibition game against Northwood, Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon playfully flipped an imaginary coin in the air before catching it against his hand.

He let out a thin smile. For a team that has seen as many personnel changes in the past six months as almost any other program in the

country, Turgeon doesn’t have many answers for what his rotation or starting lineup could be tonight.

At one point, he even half-jokingly called Seahawks coach Rollie Massimino asking whether his depthstarved Terps could back out of their game against the NAIA’s topranked team.

Turgeon will admit that his team’s first appearance in Comcast Center might not look pretty. But

see NORTHWOOD, page 7

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Midfielder Helge Leikvang and the Terps secured the No. 2 seed in the ACC Tournament. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

The Terrapins men’s soccer team faced a harsh reality last night as it sought a cause for celebration in the final regular-season game for five seniors: It doesn’t matter how much it dominates possession if it can’t score goals.

The No. 4 Terps tallied a seasonhigh 35 attempts against visiting Wake Forest. They surrendered just

six. But when the final whistle blew at Ludwig Field after the Terps had endured 110 minutes of frustration and posted their most decisive shot advantage of the season, the scoreboard at Ludwig Field read 1-1. The result marked their second tie in a three-game winless stretch.

“Sometimes ties feel like a loss,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “We played exceptionally well the entire

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FOOTBALL

Only a few fans stuck around Byrd Stadium to watch the end of the Terps’ 28-17 loss to Boston College last Saturday, their fourth straight defeat.

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errapins fans have a reputation throughout the ACC, even the nation. They’re perceived as loud, hostile and often-

times obnoxious. They can make visits to College Park incredibly difficult.

But after the turnout at Byrd Stadium on Saturday, you can’t help but wonder whether they still really deserve that notoriety.

The official attendance was announced to be 29,945, but it was probably closer to 10,000.

There were just a few dozen fans in the upper deck, and only the

first few rows of the student section were filled. It looked like a D-III football game being played at a D-I stadium.

But it was snowing and raining!

And the Terps are terrible — like 26 terrible! Why should we go?

Because that’s what fans do.

It doesn’t matter what the weather is like. It doesn’t matter whether you think coach Randy Edsall was a bad hire. It doesn’t

matter that the Terps enter tomorrow’s game against Virginia out of ACC contention and with bowl eligibility only a pipe dream. You support the team through thick and thin. You still go.

The Terps are fast becoming the Florida Marlins of the ACC. People tweeted photos of Byrd minutes before kickoff, laughing

FIELD HOCKEY

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THE MATCHUP WHO: Maryland Terrapins (2-6, 1-4 ACC) vs. Virginia Cavaliers (5-3, 2-2) WHEN: Tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Byrd Stadium T.V.: FOX 5 LINE: Terps by 2.5 DATA: Virginia has 12 players from this state on its roster, including starting lineman Nick Jenkins and safety Rodney McLeod.

VOLLEYBALL

Terps facing full weekend workload As defeat total continues to Team opens play vs. third-seeded Duke in ACC Tournament

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

The last time the Terrapins field hockey team faced Duke, the Blue Devils were the better team in every way but one.

In their Oct. 8 matchup in Durham, N.C., Duke outshot the Terps by six, totaled four more penalty-corner chances and even goaded two Terps into getting yellow cards.

In fact, the Terps finished ahead of the Blue Devils in only one statistical category that day — but it was

Forward Katie Gerzabek, right, and the Terps could face No. 1 seed North Carolina again Sunday.

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the one that mattered most. Despite Duke’s best efforts on the stat sheet, it couldn’t win the battle on the scoreboard, falling to the visiting Terps, 2-1.

Today, both teams will get a chance to relive that matchup when the No. 2 seed Terps host No. 3 seed Duke in the ACC Tournament semifinals at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. With a win in this afternoon’s game, the Terps would have a chance to clinch their fourth consecutive conference crown Sunday.

“I look back at the Duke match, and I’d love to play them again,” coach Missy Meharg said. “I think Maryland can play a better brand of hockey, and we’re looking forward to doing so.”

Duke (12-6, 2-3 ACC) clinched its

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climb, Terps cling to custom Winless streak could reach 11 this weekend

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

For the entirety of October, the Terrapins volleyball team’s results didn’t change. It played nine times and lost all nine matches. Yet no matter how bad things got during the Terps’ nine-match losing streak, the players refused to switch at least one thing up.

In loss after loss, the players never changed their order on the sideline during matches or sat down during a match. In fact, for the Terps, it’s trying times like these that lend added impor-

tance to rituals and superstitions.

“We’re not doing anything differently during this losing streak,” coach Tim Horsmon said, “but I expect them to do whatever they need to do to get themselves ready for matches.”

Whether it’s relying on physical prowess or psychological confidence, the Terps (9-16, 3-10 ACC) are all in as they prepare to host Clemson (16-8, 85) and Georgia Tech (13-11, 6-7) this weekend. In the solitude of the locker room before a match, the squad starts off game day with certain “words of

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