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Big Ten suspends Diggs over Penn State dispute University fined $10,000, Edsall punished for failure to control team after field shoving match By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer As a result of his actions in a skirmish before Saturday’s victory over Penn State, Terrapins football wide receiver Stefon Diggs has been suspended one game for violating the Big Ten Sportsmanship Policy, the conference announced Monday. He will be unavailable for the Terps’ bout with No. 8 Michigan State on
Nov. 15 at Byrd Stadium. In addition, the Big Ten issued a public reprimand of coach Randy Edsall and fined this university $10,000. The conference determined that Edsall “failed to control his team” when Terps players initiated a shoving match with Nittany Lions players as they ran onto the field during pregame introductions. “I accept the penalties handed down by the Big Ten Conference and take full responsibility of our
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actions this past Saturday at Penn State,” Edsall said in a statement. “Our football program did not live up to the standards that we set for ourselves. Moving forward, we will use better judgment and remain composed so that we better represent the University of Maryland. We have learned from this experience and will take the necessary steps to make sure this does not happen again.” In a video of the confrontation, Diggs’ hand can be seen making contact with an official’s head. stefon diggs, Terps football wide receiver, was suspended for one game for his behavior at Saturday’s game at See DIGGS, Page 2 Penn State, which conference officials said violates their sportsmanship policies. marquise mckine/the diamondback
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By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer Though the planet’s rocks, landscapes and fossils took millions and sometimes billions of years to form the first time around, university geologists hope to recreate some of them in a matter of hours. Researchers in this university’s geology department have started a LaunchUMD campaign to raise funds for a planned 3-D printing lab for their department. Such a lab would make it possible for students
kevin miller, a doctoral student, poses for a portrait with a 3-D-printed sample. alexander jonesi/the diamondback and faculty to print and study geological formations that are otherwise not so easily accessible, said Nicholas C. Schmerr, a university geology professor. Sometimes these objects of study are too far away — such as the terrain
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This campus’s dining halls are making meals with fresh produce this semester, thanks to Dining Services’ investment in a humansized food dicer in the spring. The 4-by-4-by-5 dicer, an Urschel Diversacut 2110 stored in 251 North, debuted in the spring and used to be exclusively for sandwiches and salads. The dicer cuts 40,000 pounds of produce each month, enough to supply produce for Chef’s Feature dishes and salad bars in 251 North and both dining halls. Dining Services previously pur-
chased frozen produce for Chef’s Feature dishes, as well as vacuumsealed, precut produce from vendors, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said. But that got to be expensive, he said. “We had been trying to include fresh produce as much as we could, but it was way too labor intensive,” H ipple sa id. “For yea rs, we’ve debated about cutting and preparing produce. This is the most costeffective solution we’ve found.” The chopper requires two employees to run the machine, which moved or eliminated seven jobs, Senior Executive Chef John Gray wrote in an email. The North Campus Dining Hall serves 500 Chef’s Features a day, and the South Campus Dining Hall serves about 200. Instead of having employees cut the produce by hand, the dicer See PRODUCE, Page 2
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Minutes later, he was one of the three Terps captains — along with tight end P.J. Gallo and safety Sea n Dav is — to ref use to shake the hands of the Penn State captains before the coin toss. T h e c o n fe re n c e s a i d the decision to not shake hands was “exceptionally regrettable.” Diggs leads the Terps with 52 receptions and 654 receiving yards this season. “I sincerely apologize for my conduct prior to k ickof f t h is weekend,” Diggs wrote in a statement. “I let my emotions get the best of me a nd d id not properly represent myself as [a] student-athlete and leader of the University of Maryland football team. My behavior towards the officiating crew and the Penn State football team [was] unacceptable. I take a c c o u n t a b i l i t y fo r m y actions and will do everything I can to support my teammates in preparation for our next game against Michigan State.”
can cut 50 pounds of any vegetable in 30 seconds or less, Gray wrote. “We have to buy produce now every day,” Hipple said. “Before, for example, we could get enough green beans for a month, but the nutritional value and flavor of fresh green beans is much better.” Hipple said the price of frozen produce is not necessarily cheaper, but it is more stable. The dicer is saving Dining Services money by the amount of labor it saves, he said. “It cost $125,000 for the machine and all the accessories needed to do all the different cuts,” Gray wrote in an email. “We figured it would take about a full year of production to pay it back.” A nd with fresh produce comes the opportunity to use a variety of ways to cook the vegetables, Hipple said. Judith Hernandez, a chef and manager of the South Campus Dining Hall, said the only options are to boil o r s te a m t h e v e ge t a b l e s b e c a u s e f ro z e n p ro d u c e holds more water. “With fresh produce, you can do anything you want.
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the Urschel Diversacut 2110, a human-sized food dicer stored in 251 North, cuts 40,000 pounds of produce each month, enough to supply produce for Chef’s Feature dishes and salad bars in 251 North and both dining halls. The North Campus Dining Hall serves 500 Chef’s Features a day, and the South Campus Dining Hall serves about 200. sung min kim/the diamondback You can steam it, saute it or roast it. It give us a lot more creativity in the kitchen,” Hernandez said. “Students are not going to see the same thing all the time. They’ll see more color and flavor as oppose to a plain, steamed vegetable.” Freshman biology major Carianne Powers said she
and her group of friends are health-conscious and prefer fresh produce to frozen. “Steamed food is just less appetizing,” Powers said. “Fresh produce is crisp and tastes healthier. The kind of person who is health-conscious will notice it.” Colby Dean, a sophomore agricultural and resource
econom ics major, ag reed that fresh produce tastes better but did not detect a change from frozen to fresh produce. “More options is a good thing, and I am happy it’s fresh now,” he said, “but I didn’t really notice it was not [fresh] before.” In add ition to produce,
Dining Services is looking for other ways to use the chopper. The device can also cut about 4,000 pounds of chicken each month. “I think we’ll keep looking for more opportunities in other places where we can use it,” Hipple said. jlangdbk@gmail.com
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“HONESTLY, SEE AND THE POLICE COULD From PAGE 1 HAVE HANDLED THE EVENT BETTER. THE At the official line-up time, LINE WAS A GIANT students dashed across the street, according to Hoass. In CLUSTER. YOU REALLY the scramble of fans, at least COULD NOT MOVE two individuals fell and were AND EVERYONE WAS injured as others continued to run toward the line. Medical personnel transported one individual to the hospital, Hoaas said, and the individual was released hours later. The other injured individual declined to go to the hospital. T ish Bruce, a senior English major who arrived at 5:10 p.m., wrote in an email that two different lines formed before the official time: one near Dorchester Hall and one by the nearby bus stop. Senior Ben Silber, who was also in line, wrote in an email that the two lines began inching toward Cole while police tried to keep them back. The dash to the official line was a “minis t a m p e d e ,” t h e s e n i o r mechan ical engineering major wrote. At exactly 5:30 p.m., “the line got out of control” as the eager fans ran to Cole, falling and tripping along the way, Bruce wrote. B r u c e w rote t h at sh e heard people yelling that someone was injured, and at 5:35 p.m., she saw an ambulance arrive. “Honestly, SEE and the police could have handled this event better,” Bruce wrote. “The line was a giant cluster. You really could not move and everyone was yelling.” Silber agreed, and wrote that SEE should have let people line up earlier.
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Senior English major “ I f t hey ju s t a l lowe d people to line up when they arrived, instead of mobbing across the street (like at the [Duke] games), I think most of t h is cou ld have been avoided,” he wrote. Once t he of f icia l l i ne formed, Bruce wrote that people shoved one another and threw lost shoes around. Silber wrote that while police spread out the back of the line to keep things orderly, the crowd was still packed to the point that he could not move his arms. After each SEE event, including this one, the group conducts a “logistical report with safety management personnel,” the organization’s security director, Tony Belton, wrote in an email. “We received a report of a safety incident during Saturday’s comedy show, and we have a number of measures in place to make safety a top priority at every SEE event,” Belton wrote. Belton w rote that SEE works to inform students in advance of line times using soci a l med i a a nd works with University Police to create a safe space. jsnowdbk@gmail.com
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PRINTERs From PAGE 1 alternative to computer simulations. Kevin Miller, a doctoral student in the geology department who is also part of the LaunchUMD campaign, used the 3-D printers available in McKeldin Library’s MakerSpace to print structures of partially molten mantle rocks, which he had previously only studied on computer screens. “ We 3-D s c a n ro c k s, and try to analyze the pore space of those rocks on the computer,” Miller said. They would then analyze the different properties of the rocks in simulations but could never actually compa re t h i s to physical observations until
Economy Scholars program sorted through more than 25 trash bags to perform a waste audit. The event’s setup could have been mistaken for a fast-paced competition with three staging areas and trash cans for waste disposal, but the students slowly sifted through the bags for more than an hour starting at 5 p.m. with direction from their
they 3-D-printed the rock structures. “We can actually reproduce a n exact model that we have on the computer in our hands and in our physical experiments to compare our numerical simulations to actual real simulations,” Miller said. Using 3-D-printed materia ls ca n a lso a l low researchers to change the size of materials like these rocks and magnify them to a point at which they can be more easily observed, geology professor Laurent Montesi said. The proposed lab would be set up in the geology building, Schmerr said. They plan to buy one 3-D scanner and one printer, which he said would probably use heated plastic printing rather than the more expensive powder or resin printing. If they make
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more money than planned in the remaining weeks of the kickstarter campaign — which ends Nov. 22 — they might buy a second printer or a more expensive one. T he l ab wou ld cater to geology students and faculty in particular, but would be open to the requests of others on the university, Montesi said. This kind of technology would be especially beneficial to their department because of its ha nds-on, physical nature, he said. “O u r sc ie nc e i s a ve r y v i su a l science,” Montesi said. “We are handling reallife features, going out and collecting and testing rocks. These are actual objects that have shape.” T he te c h nolog y wou ld m a ke it possible for students to handle and study things like an exact replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, Montesi sa id. It not on ly makes their science more accessible in the classroom, but it ca n m a ke resea rch easier across long distances, Schmerr said. “If some colleague over in Europe or Asia has a really a m a z i n g fossi l t h at t hey want to share with us,” he said, “but it’s too delicate, there’s only one specimen of
it, they could scan it in and send us the shape model of it, and we could print it out here and study it.” The use of 3-D printing is increasing at this university, said Preston Tobery, an IT support specialist with University Libraries. T he McKeldin MakerSpace has been taking requests for 3-Dprinted materials for more than a year and has been open to students since September. Now, as many as 10 print jobs are requested per day. Though they continue experimenting with the technology, students are beginning to use 3-D printing more for educationa l projects, similar to the geology department’s plans, Tobery said. “At first, it was a lot of trinkets,” he said of student’s requests, which originally were often free models taken off the Internet. “Now it’s really becoming more about projects, their own designs.” For Montesi, t he practicality of this technology really comes down to one simple matter. “We can have these models on a computer,” he sa id, “but it’s really not as good as having it in your hand.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com
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ou know an election is getting competitive when you have to call in national figures to support your campaign. During the past few weeks, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown has hosted President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help rally voters. Similarly, Republican candidate Larry Hogan has hosted Republican Governors Association chairman and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie four times throughout Hogan’s campaign. Recent polls and commentary labeling this race as a toss-up say a lot about how voters view Brown, who’s fighting for the governor’s seat in a deep-blue state — one where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. Last week, the Cook Political Report classified this race as a “toss-up,” and the Gonzales Research Poll, conducted between Oct. 20-24, showed Hogan 2 percentage points behind Brown, well within the 3.5 percent margin of error. At the same time, both a Washington Post poll and FiveThirtyEight have shown Brown with a relatively safe lead. Regardless of who is more likely to win, choosing a candidate to endorse was a difficult decision. Though this editorial board has many qualms about each candidate, we believe Anthony Brown is the better choice for governor. Yes, Brown was responsible for the
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disastrous rollout of this state’s health exchange, resulting in the abandonment of a $125.5 million investment. He unjustifiably criticized Hogan for supporting “massive college tuition increases” during former Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s tenure and seems to be riding much of his platform on the coattails of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s accomplishments. OUR VIEW
Though Anthony Brown and Larry Hogan could both improve their platforms, Brown would be a better leader for this state. Though Hogan has focused his campaign narrowly on economics, he has not adequately addressed the student loan crisis or college affordability in this state. Additionally, his four years of public service as state cabinet secretary doesn’t match the breadth of government experience Brown has under his belt. We believe Brown is the stronger candidate because of his focus on college affordability as well as his more coherent platform. With O’Malley, Brown helped freeze tuition for four years during the recession, with recent tuition increases at public colleges and universities in this
state averaging out at a low 3.3 percent a year. Independently, Brown has promised to limit tuition increases to no more than 3 percent a year at these public institutions. Hogan, on the other hand, does not lay out ideas for college affordability in his campaign’s platform. Though his promise to cut waste in this state and create a job-friendly environment are admirable, Brown plans to oppose supporting any tax increases during his tenure, showing a level of fiscal restraint as well. Hogan’s promise to seek a 5 percent cut in state spending also seems broad and impossible, as that is almost equivalent to the brash spending cuts by this state during the recession. Let’s face it: This state hasn’t been performing as well as we’d like it to. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates show this state had no economic growth in 2013, ranking 49th out of all U.S. states and Washington in real gross domestic product. CNN Money also found that this state ranks second, behind only New York, in terms of highest personal income tax dollars per $1,000. Choosing a candidate is hard when both seem to have issues in their platforms and in their campaigns. We cautiously support Brown, hoping he’ll maintain this state’s reputation in terms of college affordability but improve its reputation for economic growth.
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orking toward sustainable living might be difficult, but it just might be the most important thing you ever do. In the short term, progress toward waste reduction, cleaner energy, pollution minimization and a myriad of other environmental problems poses unavoidable costs. It’s understandable that some state residents might feel as if their lives are being interrupted for the sake of a campaign that won’t deliver them “immediate” benefits. However, we must consider what’s at stake in the long term. This state leads the nation in the highest amount of premature deaths a year due to polluted air, according to a 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study. This same pollution also causes increased rates of asthma and respiratory illnesses in children and is detrimental to the health of all residents within our state. Not only do emissions from burning fossil fuels pose significant risks to state residents’ health, they are also the biggest single source of global warming pollution in the state. Sea level rise due to climate change will impact the Chesapeake Bay region drastically, rendering this state as the third most vulnerable to sea level rise. Combustion of fossil fuels has an incredibly large impact on our environment and public health, and its effects will only worsen as we continue exploiting these toxic energy sources. To its credit, the state government is making strides to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. The current Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS, mandates that 20 percent of the state’s energy come from renewable sources — wind, solar and hydroelectric — by 2022.
The Student Sustainability Committee at this university believes that the issues we face are too pressing, the time period allocated too long. The strides currently being made just aren’t enough. We can do better. We’re acting in support of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, which is working in a coalition with other environmental organizations such as Sierra Club for the club’s “Forward With 40%” campaign. It asks our state General Assembly leaders to pass a bill this spring doubling the RPS threshold to 40 percent renewable energy sources by 2025. In the process, this will reduce pollution, improve environmental health statewide and provide thousands of new jobs in clean energy. Doubling our clean energy capabilities will reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and will improve our air quality, known nationwide as the worst on the East Coast. It will create thousands of new construction, manufacturing and engineering jobs in solar, wind and other forms of clean and renewable energy. We cannot ignore the consequences of failing to act. Damaging our environment is akin to damaging ourselves, and continuing to exploit fossil fuels as a dirty energy source further will harm the fragile ecosystems we depend upon. Come the spring legislative session, we need to ensure that our legislators know that this university is committed to a sustainable, more equitable future. Sign the Student Sustainability Committee’s petition, call your local senator and delegate and come to a meeting. Join us in sparking a change for the better. Marcus Fedarko is a freshman computer science major and a member of the Student Sustainability Committee. He can be reached at marcus.fedarko@gmail.com.
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mplicit, but nonetheless fundamental, to the acceptance of resources from an institution or individual is the acceptance of the values of that institution or individual. In short, there is never an exchange of funds without an exchange of ideology. This implicit exchange is sometimes made explicit, as was the case with Florida State University in 2011. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Charles Koch Foundation promised to provide $1.5 million to Florida State’s economics department. This donation, however, came with an egregious demand: The Koch Foundation claimed the right to select a committee that would retain full control over hiring decisions and annual evaluations. The economics department caved without much of a fight, setting a disturbing and dangerous precedent of corporate encroachment into academic freedom. This university announced on Oct. 27 that the Charles Koch Foundation would be donating $1 million to the business school to partially fund the creation of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, to which the Snider Foundation donated $5 million. Thankfully, a Diamondback article from the same day quotes university President Wallace Loh as saying, “We make the hiring independently.” But donor separation from hiring decisions does not at all mean that
the Koch money comes with no strings attached. While hiring decisions may be made independently of the donors, nothing has been said about curriculum decisions. Furthermore, the Koch donation has violated a fundamental principle of open dialogue in higher education. By donating funds to the construction of a center whose political agenda is explicitly neo-liberal, the Koch Foundation is attempting to push a more conservative agenda at this university. Such constriction of dialogue should not be condoned on any university campus, and students at this university should not stand for the callousness of the Charles Koch Foundation or our campus administration. Regardless of biases exacerbated by the Koch donation, this university has dug itself into an ethical hole by accepting money from one of the most destructive private corporations on the planet. The Charles Koch Foundation is funded by the personal fortunes of Charles and David Koch, the chief executive officer and executive vice president, respectively, of Koch Industries. For decades, Koch Industries has ravaged ecosystems and economies through a business model that favors profit margins over the well-being of local communities. A recent piece in Rolling Stone by Tim Dickinson describes in detail how the Koch brothers amassed their fortune.
Highlights of their rise to power include pleading “guilty to five felonies in federal court, including conspiracy to commit fraud,” the conclusion of a Senate committee “that over the course of three years Koch ‘pilfered’ $31 million in Native oil,” “a 97-count indictment over claims [Koch Industries] violated the Clean Air Act by venting massive quantities of benzene at a refinery in Corpus Christi” and the explosion of a severely decrepit pipeline and consequent incineration of two Texan teens, resulting in what was then the largest wrongful-death decision in U.S. history. In accepting the donation from the Charles Koch Foundation, this university is condoning the historically criminal, destructive and treacherous behavior of Koch Industries and its leaders. The Student Labor Action Project at this university is currently working with other student activist leaders and organizers to develop creative methods of dissent to combat the unethical behavior of our campus administration and its Koch funders. We implore students to actively speak out against any ties between our university and destructive corporations such as Koch Industries. Chris Bangert-Drowns is a sophomore biochemistry major and member of the Student Labor Action Project. He can be reached at chrisbd0917@gmail.com.
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known fields such as entomology and atmospheric and oceanic sciences is criminally underfunded. Students and employees who might otherwise be interested in those fields are pushed away by the lack of financial incentive to get into those fields, as jobs in those sectors generally will pay significantly less than jobs in the “sexier” sciences of biology, chemistry and physics. This in turn bodes ill for the future of science. If we only concentrate on fields of study that will generate high profit margins, how will we discover what has yet to be discovered? Indeed, it is quite possible that the answers to the medical and agricultural problems we face nowadays already exist within nature. However, our continual lack of investment and the intrinsic difficulty of documenting all these eclectic forms of life are hindering our abilities to make discoveries. Considering how there are still millions of species that have yet to be discovered on Earth and how we lose thousands of species each year to a variety of manmade and natural extinction factors, it is clear that there must be a worldwide focus on these less “sexy” sciences. Failure to do so will result in gradual loss in biodiversity that could prove to be catastrophic. In the end, today’s newfound technologies have allowed us to successfully explore many of our planet’s harshest and most unforgivable terrains. Further advances in astrophysics, aeronautical sciences and medical sciences have allowed even our expansion into new planetary systems, and yet our growing fascination with these “sexier” sciences have caused us to lose sight of equally promising frontiers that lie right before our eyes.
n the annals of legend and lore, there is no monster that strikes fear into me quite as much as the Kraken. And as a guy with quite a number of irrational superstitious Voodoo Mama Juju fears, there’s absolutely nothing that can be as terrifying as the idea of a 100-foot squid that could drag you miles into the ocean. The terrifying part is that there is growing evidence that a creature like this once existed. Recent discoveries in Nevada regarding the deaths of nine 45-foot ichthyosaurs have been attributed to the possible existence of an ancient Kraken, as the vertebrae of the killed ichthyosaurs were arranged in a pattern that eerily looked like a tentacle. With so many fascinating things yet to be discovered in the aquatic world, it makes one question why there seems to be so few students engaging in less “sexy” science fields such as marine biology. Nowadays, whenever I ask someone what their major is, I always seem to get a rather unoriginal variety of similar answers, particularly if those majors are science-related. Altogether, it seems as though we have a growing obsession with these “sexier” sciences, such as biology and chemistry, and as though we are neglecting other branches that are equally important. And that is a major problem with today’s education and priority system. While I, too, am guilty as a physiology and neurobiology Max An is a sophomore physiology and major, overall around the world neurobiology major. He can be reached research and work in lesser- at maxandbk@gmail.com.
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AMY POEHLER’S Yes Please amuses and inspires. photo courtesy of voxmagazine.com Saturday Night Live. Poehler discusses her pregnancy frustrations and writes tributes to each of her Parks and Recreation cast members. She covers a lot of ground, and the disorganized nature of the writings reflects the messiness of life Poehler so often discusses. And, big surprise: Yes Please is deeply funny, often in unexpected ways. Poehler writes a series of genius haikus about plastic surgery (“We know it’s Botox/ And not your vegan diet/ Nice try, Margaret”). She recounts screaming an obscenity at a rude man on a plane. Her final chapter is entitled “The Robots Will Kill Us All: A Conclusion.” What’s more surprising is the intimacy in Yes Please. The book has the same feel as her YouTube channel, Smart Girls at the Party. Like her videos, the book undeniably is geared toward women, but Poehler’s advice and helpful morsels of knowledge are universal. She may not be a self-help guru, but Poehler is effective in elegantly offering guidance on topics ranging from career goals (“treat your career like a bad boyfriend”) to body image to
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George R.R. Martin — famous as the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, more widely known as the inspiration for the Game of Thrones show — has a new book out. No, it’s not The Winds of Winter, the next book in the series, but it is set in the same universe. The World of Ice and Fire serves as a history book and encyclopedia of Martin’s imaginary world, offering detailed looks at the various royal houses, kings, landscapes and legends of Westeros and beyond. It appeals to a cross section of two demographics: people who love fantasy worlds and people who love lengthy histories of kings and houses. Fall into both of those categories and The World of Ice and Fire will be a worthy addition to your bookshelf. But if the thought of learning the complex histories of fictional people doesn’t sound like a fun time, you might want to pass. Martin’s newest book is filled with diagrams and illustrations, including long family trees and smaller, indepth maps. For some strange reason, it doesn’t have a huge, detailed map of Westeros, but the smaller ones offer a lot of detail as to the locations of several previously vague narrative spots. Most of the artwork is beautiful and especially important in that it provides images for many of the historical figures whom readers have been hearing about for so long.
George R.R. Martin may continue to delay his next full novel, but his new guide should tide over die-hard fantasy fans. photo courtesy of nextimpulsesports.com Martin is a well-read amateur historian who has adapted many real-world political events into his book series with remarkable skill. He’s very aware of how even history is fiction, as the winners warp the events to their side and subtle intricacies are lost to legend and exaggeration. The book series’s long and intricate plot is heavily influenced by events that happened before the books began. And while Martin alludes to and at least somewhat explains these events throughout the books, many characters have different opinions on what happened, leaving the truth still a mystery. The book is intriguing, therefore, in that it doesn’t claim to offer a completely objective history, but rather is framed as an actual inuniverse history text. It’s definitely the most objective view of this world’s history we’ve gotten so far, but it doesn’t answer many longstanding questions, as the fictional author confesses his lack of knowledge on the truth of some mysteries. This is frustrating to those who were looking for new information, something the book is actually rather light on.
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From PAGE 8 only kicker in the country who’s attempted 12 or more kicks without a miss, making him a front-runner for the Lou Groza Award, given to the country’s top kicker. However, Craddock’s impact this year has stretched far beyond his achievements on the field. Coach Randy Edsall often praises the junior as one of the team’s most influential role models because of his tireless work ethic — one that has propelled him from timid and inconsistent in 2012 to virtually automatic in 2014. “How fitting to have, to me, the best kicker in the country, Brad Craddock, hit that field goal at the end,” Edsall said. “Just very fitting for us.” On Saturday, despite swirling winds and wet conditions, Craddock told Edsall his range was 50 yards from either side of the field — 7 yards less than the school-record 57-yarder he drilled at Byrd Stadium against Ohio State in early October. As the game wore on and the
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Craddock on field goals as a junior in 2014 Terps came back from nine points down to take a 17-16 lead, the chances of a potential game-winning kick became greater. Then Nittany Lions kicker Sam Ficken connected on a 48-yard field goal with 6:52 left in regulation to give Penn State a brief two-point advantage. Terps holder Michael Tart approached Craddock and delivered a simple message: “It’s us today.” After the teams traded punts on the next two possessions, the Terps took over at the Penn State 42-yard line — quality field position set up by a 15-yard return from cornerback Will Likely. Five plays later, Craddock jogged
Kicker brad craddock lines up before taking the 43-yard field goal that gave the Terps a 20-19 lead with 51 seconds left in a win at Penn State. marquise mckine/the diamondback onto the field for a kick two years in the making. “I wanted it. I wanted to be on the field. I wanted the game to come down to a kick,” Craddock said. “It’s just that mental change.” Craddock’s teammates mirrored that unwavering belief as they looked on from the sideline. “He never misses in practice,” line-
backer Jermaine Carter Jr. said. “So I had confidence, and I’m sure everyone else on the team had confidence.” During his postgame news conference, Craddock was asked when he first started to think the game could come down to a final kick. “Last night in the hotel, “ he said with a smirk. It was a response that only further
kasinitz From PAGE 8 on the field Nov. 15 when No. 8 Michigan State visits Byrd Stadium for a primetime matchup. But it’s more important to ensure players are held accountable — particularly high-profile players. And honestly, I’m sorry it took this long for Diggs to be punished. Edsall, who received a public reprimand for failing to control his team before the contest against the Nittany Lions, needed to pull Diggs from Saturday’s game, or at least keep him out for the first few drives. Or perhaps Kevin Anderson, this university’s athletic director, should have stepped in afterward and suspended the wide receiver. Taking care of the situation itself would have been a good look for an athletic department that’s been
Wide receiver stefon diggs reaches the ball toward the goal line after being ruled down during Saturday’s 20-19 victory at Penn State. marquise mckine/the diamondback riddled with behavior issues the past few months. And this has nothing to do with the Terps captains’ refusal to shake hands with Penn State players before Saturday’s coin toss. That decision was one of buffoonery and
made the school and team look bad, sure, but it’s nothing like hitting an official. The Terps’ decision to confront Penn State players after the Nittany Lions ran out of the tunnel was illadvised. The handshake debacle
was stupid. And the response from leaders in the athletic department was disheartening. Anderson released a statement apologizing for the team’s actions Saturday. Edsall took a similar recourse during his postgame news confer-
cemented the kicker’s growth over his three seasons in College Park. “You realize how much it means to you and the team. You don’t want to let them down; you don’t want to let yourself down,” Craddock said. “I just had to work as hard as I could to be as good as I can.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com
ence. Both were weak, considering they didn’t take meaningful action. That’s kind of like bumping a parked car and leaving an apology note for the dent but excluding your contact information so you don’t have to pay for the damages. Both Diggs and Edsall apologized through different news releases Monday. But again, who cares? Write-ups from the Terps’ public relations staff don’t carry much weight. Look, Diggs isn’t a horrible guy, and the incident Saturday wasn’t the worst thing in the world. Edsall and Anderson are good people, too, and they’re probably embarrassed by the situation. But I’m glad the Big Ten suspended Diggs. I just wish someone at this school would have had enough pride to do it themselves. akasinitzdbk@gmail.com
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Terps football columnist I don’t think Stefon Diggs meant to hit a referee in the face Saturday afternoon. The Terrapins football wide receiver was in the middle of a skirmish with Penn State players before the 20-19 win and the official was trying to break up the shoving match when Diggs inadvertently pushed him near the mouth. The Terps junior didn’t mean to hurt anyone. I believe he’s sincerely sorry for how the incident unfolded. And I’m sure he comprehends the seriousness of the situation. But even so, the Big Ten did the appropriate thing yesterday when it suspended Diggs for one game and fined this university $10,000. In fact, coach Randy Edsall should have kicked his star player out of Saturday’s game before it started. Making contact with an official, for a variety of reasons, is one of football’s greatest sins. Officials are unbiased moderators, and they are often the only people on the field not wearing pads. They’re also the only ones who aren’t sensational athletes. It was unacceptable for Diggs to hit the referee, even if it was a result of reflex, and the conference needed to prove there are significant repercussions for such an action. They did that yesterday. Yes, it’s unfortunate Diggs won’t be See KASINITZ, Page 7
Kicker Brad Craddock boots the game-winning 43-yard field goal in the Terps’ 20-19 victory over Penn State. With the kick, Craddock improved to 14 of 14 on field goals this year. marquise mckine/the diamondback
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For almost three decades, Dr. Schatz has remained on the leading edge of technology in the field of eye care. He has developed Contact Lens Associates into one of the largest private contact lens practices in the country, and continues to maintain it on the cutting edge of eye care technology, ensuring that his patients are always provided with the latest state-of-the-art exam instrumentation and tr treatment options, and the finest eye care possible.
Dr. Stuart D. Schatz, Optometrist, P.A. 7305 Baltimore Ave. • Suite 202 College Park Call: 301-277-6100
www.contactlensassociates.net