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Young voters’ attitudes shift since 2008 Youth disenchanted with this year’s election

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there are 11 swing states (gray) heading into tomorrow’s election, but President Obama is much closer to the needed 270 electoral votes than Mitt Romney. Although the candidates are in a dead heat in several polls, the election will come down to electoral votes rather than the popular vote. illustration by chris allen/the diamondback

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Four years ago, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had young voters excitedly lining up at the polls and showing up in droves at rallies, eager to help create history by electing the nation’s first black president.

This year, from the economy to social issues to young voters’ enthusiasm over the election, experts say it’s a different game, which explains why the race is so close.

So why is this year’s election so different?

Many young voters have been disillusioned by the state of the economy and the rising cost of higher education.

Die-hard Democrats are still die-hard Democrats and ardent Republicans are still ardent Republicans, but more Americans have found themselves in the middle.

According to a survey of voters aged 20 to 29 by YouGov and One Young World, See youth, Page 3

Despite neck and neck polls, Obama has easier path to victory in Electoral College

By Alex Kirshner Staff writer President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney appear to be in a dead heat with just hours to go until Election Day, but Romney will have to see major upsets in several states to earn the 270 electoral votes needed to win, data indicates.

Although the popular vote — which measures the total number of votes for each candidate — indicates voters are almost evenly split between Obama and Romney, a state-by-state analysis of the Electoral College shows Obama

with a sizable lead that will be difficult for Romney to overcome. And even if a candidate wins the popular vote, the electoral votes decide the winner. So far, Obama appears to have all but secured 201 electoral college votes compared to Romney’s 191, according to election tracking website 270towin.com.

As the electoral map sits now, 146 electoral votes are still up for grabs across 11 states: Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

Most experts and political pundits

predict Obama will win the Electoral College. In some of the most critical battleground states — including Ohio, Virginia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which all count for more than a dozen votes — Obama has a narrow margin of support, according to most polls.

Despite the statistics and numbers, some say there’s still no predicting tomorrow’s results.

“I think anybody would be crazy to confidently predict how [the popular vote]’s going to go,” said Stuart Rothenberg, a journalist with The See votes, Page 2

students celebrated on Route 1 and around the campus in 2008 after President Obama won the election, becoming the nation’s first black president. Attitudes have drastically shifted this year. file photo/the diamondback

Construction projects taking place in student-heavy areas Although Facilities Management says volume of projects is normal, students experiencing more disruption than past

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer Students remain hindered by blocked pathways and noise this semester as Facilities Management continues work to improve the campus through a number

of major construction projects.

While the university may not be undertaking more construction than usual, Facilities Management Associate Vice President Carlo Colella said many of the projects are taking place in areas

that see heavy traffic from students, which has the potential to cause more disruptions.

“In locations where there are so many students and pedestrian traffic, many more people experience the work

Sharing a passion

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Ancestor presents university’s oldest artifact

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tion projects occurring over the past year and a half, said Capital Projects Director Bill Olen: the university is in the midst of renovating high-rise

First Korean graduate honored 121 years later

Ballroom dancing competition attracts scores of students

It was a fairy tale in an Olympic arena.

University alumnus Alec Zhang lightly grasped his partner’s palm and rested his other hand on the small of her back. Long green feathers from his partner’s dress draped over his uplifted arms. The two swirled around the room as one, seeming to take flight in a fusion of graceful, intricate movements. Light

being done,” he said. “This may cause a higher amount of disturbance from the projects, but I wouldn’t call it a record amount of construction.”

There are several reasons for the vast number of cumbersome construc-

a ballroom dancing competition, called the D.C. Dancesport Inferno, overtook Stamp Student Union this weekend as 850 dancers from about 50 schools came to compete. photo courtesy of david cunningham from the chandeliers illuminated the rapture on Zhang’s face — he was singing along.

“Previously, I played a musical instrument,” Zhang said after the dance.

“Dancing allows me another way to

express music.”

This weekend, Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom was transformed into another world — a glittering, fantastical

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With the sound of professor F. Eibner’s orchestra still ringing in the chapel, Pyon Su delivered one of the class of 1891’s six graduation exercises — a speech on commerce — and graduated.

Pyon Su, one of just fewer than 50 students at the Maryland Agricultural College at the time, was a distinguished scholar in this area and the first person from Korea to graduate from any American university or college. But in his home country,

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said his descendant, Harold Su, he was a “revolutionary of change.”

On Friday morning, Harold Su presented Pyon Su’s fragile, 121-year-old diploma, now the oldest in University Archives’ collection, to Vice President of Student Affairs Linda Clement.

Harold Su, wearing white gloves to protect the artifact, reflected on his ancestor and the 1891 graduate’s journey from holding a government post in Seoul to becoming one of the earliest academics in College Park.

Pyon Su arrived in the United States as

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SU From PAGE 1 a member of the first Korean embassy in 1883, during a period of turmoil for his country. He traveled back with the delegation to Seoul in 1884, but officials rejected his affiliations with an opposing group, the “Progressive party,” The Washington Post reported in 1891. When the Korean government seized his estates and denied him re-entry, Pyon Su decided to take up residence back in the U.S. T houg h he was t he lone member of the embassy to stay back, Pyon Su soon found a community in this area by joining the Maryland Agricultural College, a school of 46 students, to pursue his interest in agriculture.

He befriended Richard Calvert, the grandson of the college’s primary founder, Charles Benedict Calvert, and gained a mentor in Daniel Ammen, a U.S. Navy rear admiral and close friend of President Ulysses S. Grant.

Although he wasn’t a citizen of this country, he earned a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture after graduation and prepared a report on Japanese culture, which was so well-received that he earned an opportunity to study Chinese agriculture.

But Su’s life was cut short at 32 — he was struck and killed by a train in the city, just four months after leaving the university, according to university archivist Anne Turkos.

His obituary in The Post read, “He was an enthusiast on the subject of agriculture, and found much in this country that was instructive. … He was a careful student and a good linguist.”

However, because the Korean government viewed Su as a traitor, the country denied his body, Harold Su said.

“It was Korean rule that if you committed treason or something, you were not accepted,” he said. “You were denied existence.”

To d a y, h o w e v e r, m a n y Koreans view Pyon Su as a

celebrity and often make pilgrimages to his grave in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Beltsville, Turkos said.

“They are coming here to pay our tribute,” Harold Su said. “It’s a tradition to respect our elderly.”

When a Korean fi lm crew set out to make a documentary on Pyon Su’s life, Harold Su and others began reaching out to the family members of those involved in his funeral to track down Pyon Su’s possessions.

Eventua l ly, a g reat-g reatgrandson of Richard Calvert, one of the pallbearers, emailed back and told Harold Su he had found the diploma in perfect condition in a drawer.

Although the crew considered donating the diploma to a Korean museum, Harold Su said, they ultimately decided this university would be the best place to preserve it.

“I hope this diploma will be a great asset to the University of Maryland and also to the Korean-Americans and Korea,” Harold Su said. “It’s an excit-

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Remembering Their History Sharon Jackson likes to say she answers the beat of a different drum.

Standing before a small audience of activists, organizers and students in Hornbake Library on Thursday, Jackson — a designer of Cherokee, Creek and Blackfoot descent — kicked off this university’s Native American Heritage Month celebrations by sharing her own family’s history and connection to Native American culture.

Wearing a traditional white and beige dress and jewelry, Jackson spoke from behind a lectern decorated with an American Indian blanket and a POW/MIA flag.

Her keynote speech centered on the place of identity in modern society and distrust of the U.S. government. Jackson said when the “aliens known as Europeans” first arrived on U.S. soil, they brought diseases that killed off millions of Native Americans.

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ing moment for my family and the university. I’m so extremely proud and honored that my family was a part of history, not only of Korean but also the University of Maryland.”

A high-resolution scan of the diploma will be mounted in Stamp Student Union’s Pyon Su Room near the colored painting of Su that currently hangs there, Turkos said. The original diploma will be preserved under the highest security in the archives, she added, and will be digitized and available to view online.

“It’s a really great thing to show to classes that are coming i n,” sa id A ma nda Hawk, a library sciences and history graduate student who works with Turkos. “It shows the kinds of things that we collect in the archives, the significance of connections between different countries. It’s just exciting to see a snapshot of our university history that most people wouldn’t know about.” newsumbdk@gmail.com

give him 235 votes, with eight states still up in the air.

Of those states left up in the From PAGE 1 air, New Hampshire and Nevada Rothenberg Political Report, on are likely to go to Obama, acCBS’ Face the Nation yesterday. cording to most polls, and Some news out lets have Obama is also up in Michigan, predicted a split between the Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. popular vote and electoral Romney would need huge finalv o te s . H o w e v e r, go v e r n- day gains to close the gap.

If results play out as polls ment and politics professor Stella Rouse said that result have suggested, four states would be left in play: Ohio, is unlikely.

“I think the possibility is Virginia, Iowa and Colorado.

Obama, who would be only 13 pretty m inimal,” she said.

“It’s someth i ng the med ia electoral votes shy of 270, would l i kes to ta l k up because it need just Ohio or Virginia to clinch the win. He narrowly creates drama.”

So far, polling averages indi- leads in all four states.

New York Times political statcate Romney is slightly favored to win North Carolina and istician Nate Silver’s projections show Obama has an 85 percent Florida, a total of 44 votes.

Winning both states would chance of winning Ohio, which

pyon su became the first person from Korea to graduate from an American university or college when he received his diploma from this university in 1891. photo courtesy of anne turkos

would decide the election.

Silver also says Obama has a 71 percent chance to win Virginia, as he leads in the majority of tracking polls in both states.

Despite dozens of polls over the past month, the race in Virginia has remained a toss-up until Election Day. “I still think the Electoral College is easier for the president to get to 270,” Rotherberg said on Face the Nation yesterday. “ It’s not impossible for Gov. Romney, but all the pieces have to fit together for him.”

With hours until the election, Romney faces a daunting uphill climb, no matter what the popular vote looks like.

“I would never say it’s a totally safe bet,” Rouse said. “I

“i would never say it’s a totally safe bet. I think [obama] has the easier path to winning given the way the electoral map looks.”

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Government and politics professor think [Obama] has the easier path to winning given the way the electoral map looks.”

However, Rouse said much c o u l d s t i l l c h a n ge i n t h e coming days.

“Anybody worth anything,” she said, “probably isn’t going to call the election for Obama at this point.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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BALLROOM From PAGE 1 world of dancing couples. More than 850 ballroom dancers from about 50 schools arrived for the annual D.C. Dancesport Inferno competition, hosted by Ballroom at Maryland, this university’s ballroom dance team.

The three-day competition was essentially a “giant fundraiser” for the ballroom team, according to club president and senior government and politics and history major Ilene Friedman. Although most participants were college students, the competition was open to anyone.

Dancers as young as 10 and as old as 60 competed in everything from traditional waltzes to sensual, high-energy sambas.

Their one unifying feature? A love of dance and the insanity that defines the ballroom community — something not even Hurricane Sandy could conquer.

Eric Karnani, a senior at New York University and interim president of his school’s ballroom club, hopped on a Bolt bus Friday night to make it to the competition.

“We jumped on a bus at 8 in the evening last night after all the power was half-restored and we came here, and we got like four hours of sleep, and we got up, and we rocked it today,” Karnani said, twirling his hands and bubbling with energy.

The competition features four styles of dance — rhythm, standard, smooth and Latin — and 19 different dances. Within each, there are four different levels of dance, each of which is allowed only certain movements. These are all written out in a giant rule book called the “syllabus.”

Friedman does not deny the craziness of ballroom dance. In fact, she embraces it.

“The first thing they told me when I joined was, ‘This is a cult,’” Friedman said. “And it totally is. It absorbs your entire life.”

Ballroom at Maryland first began in 1994 with six members, and the team has since grown to 100 members, Friedman said.

Each week, the club offers free classes to anyone who shows up.

Members range from those who come once every three weeks to those like Friedman who practice almost every day.

“Right now, I’m studying for LSATs, but when I’m not studying for LSATs, I practice two to three hours a day, six days a week,” Friedman said. “Which is not normal … I’m just crazy.”

Most club members are actually engineering or science majors, Friedman said. Thomas Wi n kler, a bioeng i neeri ng graduate student, said dancing gives his life balance.

“It’s a nice way to relax and let go and think about something completely different from research,” Winkler said. He and his partner won sixth place in the foxtrot competition Saturday.

Friedman said dancing helps members become more self-confident in their daily lives.

“You learn patience beyond anything,” she said. “You learn

youth From PAGE 1 President Obama is still the top candidate — 49 percent of respondents said they are voting for him versus Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s 19 percent, and 79 percent predict Obama will win.

But young voters aren’t as enthusiastic as they were four years ago.

In the same survey, 66 percent said they thought the national debt would hold back their generation and 35 percent thought the United States is not as highly regarded in the world as four years ago.

Another by-product of an ailing economy is that college tuition prices have risen, and 59 percent of respondents said the costs are so high that higher education doesn’t seem worth the price.

Experts suggest part of the reason also has to do with Obama’s fading celebrity luster.

“The Obama campaign realizes that Obama is no longer the fresh face. They’ll have a harder time motivating their base than before,”

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer

ballroom dancers compete during the annual D.C. Dancesport Inferno competition in Stamp Student Union, hosted by Ballroom at Maryland. photo courtesy of david cunningham to work with a team, and it’s a team with your partner. It’s fun.

You learn how to adapt. You have to learn to trust someone else.

And if you see someone going through the levels, you gain so much confidence.”

Long, sparkling dresses twirled on the dance floor in a rainbow of colors Saturday. One particularly tall dancer galloped across the floor with his partner. “See him?

We call him the giraffe,” said Ian Wong, a graduate medical student at Case Western Reserve University. Everyone in the ballroom community knows each other, he said.

“You train with them,” Wong said. “It’s a friendly rivalry.”

During the competition, partners stared deeply into each other’s eyes, their faces just inches apart. Partnership is integral, Friedman said.

“Everything is about focusing on your partner,” she said.

“If they say do a move that’s not in your routine, do it, because maybe you’re dodging somebody.

It’s honestly bumper cars. You’re going to run into other people.”

It’s difficult not to. During the competition, couples flew around the dance floor so fast they sometimes could not avoid hitting one another or even one of the 13 judges lined up around the edges of the floor, scribbling on clipboards.

In judges’ scoring, being hit by a dancer could be a major factor, Friedman said.

“If you ran into them on accident and did not apologize, they will probably not mark you back. I’m not kidding,” she said.

“If they don’t like your hair, they won’t mark you back. If they don’t like your dress, they won’t mark you back.”

Ballroom at Maryland has a “trial period” for new partners, to see if they can move well together, she said.

However, she added one does not necessarily have to like one’s partner in order to dance well with them.

“Some people hate each other, but love dancing more,” Fried-

man said. “This one couple, they danced insanely well together, but they had to sign a non-verbal contract that they wouldn’t fight.”

Others, however, get along well — so well they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. Chen Ling, 34, who joined Ballroom at Maryland as a student in 1999, said his randomly assigned dance partner later became his wife.

“While I was here, Jen, my wife, was dancing with a guy named Hose,” Ling said. “He was a weird guy. They would compete, the music would stop, and he’d just walk off and leave her on the floor.

We’re like, ‘What is wrong with you? You’re supposed to escort the lady off the floor.’ So that didn’t last very long.”

However, Ling also had to go through several partners before finding the right one.

“The fi rst time I did merengue — this was my first fiancee, which is perhaps why she’s not still my fiancee — I was trying to move my hips right, be the awkward guy doing hip motions,” Ling said. “She started giggling for five minutes and wouldn’t stop. And I was like, ‘I’m not doing this again, ever.’”

No matter how one feels about partners, Friedman said trust is key.

“The more you dance, the more you feel like each other,” she said.

On Saturday, the dancing went on past midnight, but dancers were back in the ballroom at 7 the next morning, ready to begin again.

As the night grew later Saturday, the packed ballroom only became more crowded. Despite the 40degree temperature outside, the heat inside in the ballroom was palpable. The cheers were louder, the competition thicker. Steps were more difficult; one dancer began in a full split on the ground.

Another danced sensually up her partner’s body.

“It is awesome,” Ling said of the dancing. “It has a life of its own.”

said Christopher Foreman, director of the public policy school’s social policy program.

Young voters, however, didn’t influence the 2008 election because of an increase in numbers; they constituted 18 percent of the national vote, up only 1 percent from 2004, according to The Washington Post.

Instead, it was the youth’s enthusiasm and involvement in 2008 that shifted the course of the election and helped Obama cruise to victory with 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed to secure the win. And while Obama is still projected to win the youth vote, it was much clearer who the favorite was among young people four years ago — 66 percent of voters under 30 voted for Obama versus 32 percent for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

The last presidential election marked the largest contrast between young voters and the rest of the country since 1972, when researchers began conducting exit polls. But that was in part because the population was skewed heavily

liberal, as there was a 19-point difference between the number of young voters who identified with the Democratic Party versus the Republican Party, according to Pew Research. In 2000, young voters were evenly split between the two parties.

And Obama was particularly popular among non-white voters.

The Campus Vote Project said 58.2 percent of black youth turned out to the polls — a higher turnout than any other ethnic group measured by exit polls since 1972.

Other experts say social media continues to be an important tool to attract the attention of young voters, but Foreman said one of the key differences this year is Obama has already been in office for four years, so he can no longer symbolize hope and change.

Recent polls have shown Obama and Romney are neck and neck in the popular vote. Many have questioned whether this election would leave a historical mark as one of the dirtiest elections, as both campaigns have spent millions on campaign ads

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University housekeepers work around the clock to keep this university’s buildings clean and sparkling — all while keeping their work environmentally friendly.

In October, this university’s Housekeeping Services unit earned a Green Seal GS-42 certification, marking it as an industry leader in sustainable cleaning practices by reducing waste and avoiding the use of dangerous chemicals. This university is the first public institution to qualify for this award and only the second higher education institution to win after Harvard University.

“Achieving this certification truly demonstrates the university’s commitment to create a safe environment for workers and the community that lives in these spaces,” said Carlo Colella, Facilities Management associate vice president. “It’s a testament to our values about sustainability.”

Green Seal — a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable business practices — set a stringent set of standards for attaining this award, and the housekeeping unit first began preparing for the authorization process back in September 2011, according to

projects From PAGE 1 dorms, officials have received a “large amount” of funding from the state for construction, and the first phase of the East Campus initiative involves relocating a number of facilities.

“I have definitely noticed an increased amount of construction on campus,” senior English major Kristin Hoover said. “It is an added inconvenience.”

Large projects are bound to grow in scope, Olen said, if the proposals involve several buildings or phases. For example, the Denton Community renovations comprise several parts, including the $3.65 million Denton quad renewal, scheduled to be completed by Thanksgiving.

This proposal also comprises the three-year Elkton Hall upgrades planned to be finished August 2013, which encompass mechanical system improvements, electrical outlet and window replacement, and air conditioning installation.

Work on another mu ltiphased project, the $40.3 million HVAC installation in Cambridge Community, is mainly confined to the summer months, but the underground pipe installation for the system is currently in action and will continue through the winter. The installations in

Housekeeping Services coordinator Anthony Stewart. First, staff members trained and certified operational managers Byron Coleman and Solomon Pa l mer, the depa rtment’s primary Green Cleaning representatives. Housekeepers then began putting their green plans and practices into action in July. These included replacing floor burnishers, installing more door mats to keep dirt out of university buildings and forgoing disposable materials for reusable items, such as cleaning cloths.

“We had to ensure that the areas are being cleaned with products that are not harmful to people or the environment,” Coleman said. “In addition, the materials we supply to students, such as toilet paper, are made from recycled materials.”

The unit then had to undergo a rigorous documentation period in September, logging employee training hours, chemical tracking, recycling and waste management practices and their use of environmentally friendly equipment, Stewart said. In October, one of Green Seal’s independent auditors visited the campus and staff members then conducted two more physical reviews.

Stewart said this certification is a significant step

Centreville and Bel Air halls are set to conclude by next summer, and the entire community will have air conditioning by summer 2016.

“I think the construction on Cambridge is necessary because not having air conditioning is one of the main reasons that students don’t enjoy their College Park dorm experience,” said freshman communication major Sara Sium.

The relocation of East Campus buildings includes the movement of the landscape and housekeeping departments into a brand-new $5.5 million building and landscape service building behind Comcast Center, where construction will begin in March and finish next October.

“The original building is 25 years old and has reached the end of its life span,” Olen said.

Single-building projects include the $9 million Pocomoke Building renovations, which will help unify the Department of Public Safety under one roof near Fraternity Row. The construction is set to be completed in August, a year from its starting date. Prince Frederick Hall should be finished by April 2014, with a total estimated cost of just under $71.3 million. It will fi ll the need for additional oncampus housing and will be located between Caroline Hall and the Mowatt Lane Garage.

The $128.7 million Physical

forward in keeping this university environmentally friendly.

“This means a whole lot to the campus,” he said. “Parents want to ensure that their kids are in a safe and sustainable environment while they’re here.”

Senior English and environmental science and policy major Kate Richard, the Student Sustainability Committee’s sustainability director, agreed the award marks this university as a spearhead for green institutions.

“The fact that we’re one of only two colleges to have this certification shows that we’re really leading the way,” she said. “I hope that this will inspire other departments at Maryland to make their practices or operations greener, and inspire the administration to keep seeking out the large institutional changes we need to be a sustainable university.”

Stewart said the housekeepers’ efforts join the numerous other green campaigns enacted across the campus, including the Climate Action Plan, which includes more than 40 approaches to achieve carbon neutrality.

“We have to make the campus and the world safe not only for this generation, but for the future generations,” Stewart said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Sciences Complex, which will face Cambridge Community, will be one of the most innovative physical science centers in the world when it is completed in September 2013. The extensive water main project running from Fraternity Row toward Morrill Hall is set to conclude by the end of the semester. The 70-yearold pipes were on the brink of bursting last year, causing the university to allocate $1.9 million for their replacement. According to freshman business major Dale Park, the water main project may block multiple sidewalks on South Campus, but dodging the construction is simple enough.

“You can avoid the construction pretty easily,” he said. “The working is never loud or bothers me during the times that I’m in South Campus for class.”

The second phase of the biology and psychology building renovations will begin at the end of the year and should finish by January 2014. The $5 million project will provide newer energy efficient equipment within the building.

However, several students said it can be frustrating to weather the inconveniences of maintenance.

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attacking each other — something that has turned off many voters.

“That clearly gives both sides strong incentives to do whatever they can to win,” Foreman said. “The motivation for the Republican Party to knock out even a small fraction of the Democratic vote is enormous.”

Using social media to attract young voters may not be as effective as many believed — television news, websites and newspapers are the top three sources young voters turn to for election information. Facebook came in fourth On election night in 2008, a large group of students gathered in downtown College and YouTube, blogs and Twitter Park in celebration of newly elected President Barack Obama. file photo/the diamondback took seventh, eighth and ninth places, respectively. More young college students’ lives. tion done. I have a bit of a better voters said they relied on TV comWhile Gallup polls predict grasp on the social issues and I’m mercials rather than Twitter. no change in voter turnout — admittedly poorly informed on the The disinterest may also 66 percent of eligible 18- to economic ones, so I’m not totally stem from indifference to many 29-year-olds voted in 2008 and sure how I would’ve voted,” said of the issues the campaigns are Gallup’s three-week rolling polls Jon Seligman, a junior kinesiology pushing. For example, the Repub- showed the same percentage major. “I was even less informed lican Party has heavily empha- saying they will “definitely vote” about the issues surrounding the sized preventing manipulative this year as of Oct. 28 — atti- 2008 election and was primarily voting tactics, which Foreman tudes have shifted significantly. interested in the history associated calls voter fraud and suppression.

“Unfortunately, I won’t be with Obama being elected.”

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President Obama: The better choice for students

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hocker: A college newspaper is endorsing Barack Obama for president.

We do not, however, walk into this endorsement blindly, nor do we think he is the perfect presidential candidate.

It doesn’t seem like too long ago that young voters were enthused over Obama in 2008. But the president’s gray hairs and the present attitudes of the younger demographic are an indication of how much can change in four years. While Obama has a comfortable margin of support among young voters, their excitement for voting has sharply decreased, according to a number of polls, including one from Harvard University.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this: It’s a depressing time to be a young voter — or really any voter at all.

Our economy is continually on the brink of collapse. Tuition rates are unaffordable for many and constantly climbing, but it’s also more imperative than ever to have a college degree.

And while the national unemployment rate remained below 8 percent in October, it’s at 12 percent for 18- to 29-year-olds.

We’re all desperately searching for a strong leader who will make

the often-unpopular but necessary decisions to help us recover from these grim times. Both candidates are successful men who have a real desire to lead this country and want to see people succeed.

We need a leader with detailed, concrete plans for the economy that he will follow to the end — not a series of stopgap measures to simply prevent further hemorrhaging. Quite frankly, neither candidate fits this bill.

Last summer, Obama had a prime opportunity to demonstrate why he’s the leader this country needs. A divided Congress spent weeks bickering over whether to raise the federal borrowing limit and how to craft a new budget plan, sacrificing the country’s credit rating and citizens’ well-being in the process. The final plan illustrates the selfishness that plagues the country’s leadership right now.

A series of budget cuts, known as the fiscal cliff, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2013, tactfully planned to run through the election so politicians can focus on reelection. If an alternate plan isn’t crafted before then, the country is at risk of a second recession in less than a decade. Government leaders collectively agreed to sacrifice economic ex-

pediency for political gamesmanship.

Throughout Obama’s presidency, we’ve reached crisis after crisis, precipice after precipice. Can we trust either man to not throw us off the cliff in the name of partisanship?

OUR VIEW

Though we don’t think Obama is the perfect presidential candidate, he is the better choice for the next four years.

Rather than assuming a leadership role last summer and demanding Congressional members from both parties make sacrifices for a long-term solution, Obama let the current plan slide, as long as it didn’t interfere with Election Day. When former President Bill Clinton faced a similar situation in 1995, he let the government shut down until his divided Congress proposed a reasonable plan. It was a risky move, but he held the country’s leaders accountable by making them see the consequences of their inac-

Graduating into unemployment CAMILLA YANUSHEVSKY I know a guy who graduated from this university in 2011 with a degree in Russian and government and politics.

He had a 4.0 GPA and only recently got a job — as a busboy at a restaurant. I also know a girl who graduated from this university with a degree in economics this year. She had a 3.9 GPA and is still working unpaid internships.

Nikki Muller, known for her viral YouTube video, “Ivy League Hustle,” still can’t make more than $14 an hour.

Obviously, not all universities and degrees are created equal. But an undergraduate degree in economics has one of the best returns on investment, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Moreover, Nikki Muller graduated from both Harvard and Princeton. At least she isn’t one of those private school students who flock to sugar daddies to help pay off their student debt in return for a “date.”

At a time when total student debt is topping $1 trillion and nearly one in six

borrowers defaults, I guess we should be “thankful” for the federal government’s decision to not double the interest on Stafford federal loans to 6.8 percent. I guess the federal government didn’t want a repeat of Canada’s “Maple Spring,” when students protested government tuition hikes.

With the current sizzling debate about the necessity of college degrees, incoming college students — both freshmen and sophomores — need to be strategic regarding the major they choose. Major in engineering, accounting or computer science. Students with degrees in these majors will always find jobs. If you are genuinely not interested in these areas, be fully aware that a degree in humanities and the liberal arts can leave you graduating without a job.

My recommendation is to double major (or major and minor) in one practical major, then one that genuinely interests you. For those who are stubbornly determined to make it in the humanities and liberal arts, start the internship or fellowship search very early.

For upperclassmen, you guys are stuck with your major, so work really hard as

an intern and you could become a fulltime hire. Also, understand that while college may be fun, the world outside of college is brutal. Take it seriously. You need expertise. You need to stand out.

The government that gets 80 cents back on every dollar that goes into default doesn’t have much of an incentive to fix the crisis unless students speak up and make it a presidential priority.

Some local and state governments have tried to help students out, though. In rural Kansas and Niagara Falls, N.Y., for example, local governments will help young professionals pay off student debt if they move to the areas in order to reverse declining population trends.

Relocating to communities that lack jobs in the first place just to pay off student debt? Depressing — especially when compared with European universities, public and private, that are cheaper and universities in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Belgium that are free.

Camilla Yanushevsky is a junior finance major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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tion. That’s a trait sorely needed in Washington right now.

Romney obviously hasn’t had the opportunity to demonstrate how he’d handle such a crisis, but his everchanging positions on numerous hotbutton issues — including women’s health, an issue that has received considerable media attention — should be a clear indication that he would quickly fold under pressure from his party. Even through just a few months of campaigning, Romney has failed to firmly stand by many positions, indicating he would be ill-suited to lead in such disparate times.

Despite all our criticisms, we are still cautiously optimistic about another term under Obama. His successes over the last four years have been overshadowed by the economy’s poor state, but he has promoted legislation that greatly benefits young voters — and that cannot be forgotten in the midst of all the mudslinging and massive campaign ads.

Perhaps most impressively, Obama passed historic health care reform that ensures everyone in the country has coverage. Under this law, those struggling to support themselves out of college can remain under their parents’ health care until they are 26.

He successfully froze student loan interest rates, preventing them from doubling from 3.4 to 6.8 percent, and has prioritized college affordability.

In a nation with so many struggling citizens, it’s also important to consider a candidate who can effectively empathize with and understand the plight of average Americans. We do not fault Romney for his wealthy upbringing and financial successes, but he has clearly demonstrated he cannot connect with the average American.

Obama, however, struggled before experiencing success, and knows firsthand how imperative student loans are to make it through college — he’s often articulated how both he and his wife were dependent upon the loans so many of us are struggling to receive or pay back.

Unlike 2008, there’s no celebrity in this election; there’s no sparkling, charismatic candidate. We’re left with a largely disenchanted voter base anxious about the future. But this editorial board hopes without the worry of another campaign, Obama’s second term can be more efficient than his first — and maybe he’ll finally fully become the leader he promised to be four years ago.

A house divided: Will it long endure?

RICHARD ZIPPER In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

In his speech, Lincoln expressed his belief that the nation would survive — the house would not fall, but would either become all enslaved or all free. He prophetically stated this division would be resolved by a “crisis [which] shall [be] reached and passed.”

While the divisions between us today are not as stark as they were before the Civil War, the danger is there may be no defining crisis that brings them to a rapid boil. The danger is that our divisions will persist as the water temperature gradually rises and slowly cooks us alive.

While divisions have always existed, the difference now is we have one party willing to gridlock the government, lower our credit rating and change its previous positions just to score political points and undermine our president.

As developing nations emerge into the 21st century, eager to discard their cloaks of poverty, we are facing new economic challenges and opportunities. As we face a large deficit and a high jobless rate resulting from the Great Recession, we need to make some very tough choices. But instead of rising as one to the occasion, we have one party that led Congress to the most unproductive session in the modern era — the same party that totally abused the filibuster rule to thwart any progress by the Senate.

The stated goal for all of this ob-

struction was to make the president a one-term president — even at the expense of the national interest. The goal was to block progress and then to lay the blame for the lack of progress at his feet.

If the Republican strategy of obstruction and unwillingness to compromise works and Mitt Romney gets elected, I believe the lesson would not be lost on the Democrats. But even if Mr. Romney loses, it appears that the Tea Party wing of the GOP will persist on their no-compromise modus operandi (even at the expense of the country).

So it appears to me that no matter who wins, the future appears to promise more gridlock, more division, more partisan news programs and more demonizing of each other and our associated viewpoints.

And while we dither in acrimony, the world will move ahead, making the waters of reality around us progressively warmer. As the world moves faster, we are moving slower.

How long can we last if we continue in this manner?

As I look at the electoral map, it is clear the lines between the blue states and the red states are almost exactly those drawn between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Maybe that war is still going on. Maybe we are still two different nations. Maybe the house is still divided against itself. Hopefully someday in the near future we will be able to hear the creaking timbers over all of the yelling, and elect politicians who will rediscover compromise, putting progress before ideology and nation before party.

Richard Zipper is a Golden ID student taking classes in biology. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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Weather woes: These tragedies don’t have to be all bad

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ith most unfortunate situations, there is always a way to look at the glass as half full. As Hurricane Sandy started spiraling up the East Coast, university officials prepared the campus, administrators canceled school and students cleared grocery store shelves of batteries. And I became kind of excited.

Growing up, I loved losing electricity (and as Pepco was my energy provider, this happened often). My neighbor and I would cheer in our backyards, thinking of all the fun things we could do without power, while her older sister would groan knowing she was going to miss her television shows and be without Internet access. But to us, it was an adventure.

With nowhere to be and nothing to do,

we could pretend we lived in the “olden days” — we could sleep in the basement, we didn’t have to shower and we could just play around all day long.

Perhaps I was just a weird kid, but there’s something about these kinds of situations that still thrills me. In no way do I want people to get hurt or have their homes destroyed, but I love the way these circumstances seem to make time stop. Last Monday and Tuesday followed suit.

I meticulously watched the weather reports over the weekend and calmly received multiple calls and emails from my mom reminding me to buy and conserve water (because, you know, you can live without food, but not without water).

As the chances of canceled classes grew

more likely, I once again became excited.

Some of my favorite memories occurred responding to crises. One summer, when the power was out, all of my neighbors brought any ice cream they had stored in their warming freezers to my screen porch, and we ate as much as we could. Another time, my family sat in our dark basement, listening to the thunder, playing 20 Questions: Family member edition. When Snowpocalypse hit two years ago, my friends and I built an igloo and ate cookies inside, safe from the wind and our routine lives that awaited us in the days to follow.

Hurricane Sandy swept through College Park, leaving behind minimal damage, canceled classes and the op-

portunity to create some of my favorite college memories thus far. Students on the campus were forced to stay inside (except for those few dances in the rain going to the dining halls), and truly engage with those around them. With nowhere to go and no obligations, I watched my floor and building really come together and take advantage of our time off. Perhaps we didn’t utilize our time in the way professors had hoped, but I strengthened my relationship with many of my fellow Terps.

On Sunday night we huddled together in our attractive sweatpants, sharing Oreos and chips, to watch movies in the lounge or compete in Cranium tournaments. On Monday night we sat in the hallway late into the

night, sharing fruit and talking about embarrassing middle school fashions and elementary school games.

It’s every college student’s dream to be at school without the actual schoolwork — and we got two glorious days of that. We stayed in our own little Hagerstown Hall second-floor bubble, and it was perfect. If only these breaks could come without the devastation in reality.

My heart goes out to all those affected by the storm, but I hope all of you who stayed on the campus, lucky enough to be safe from Sandy, shared a similar experience — one full of simplicity, camaraderie and happiness.

GraceTooheyisafreshmanjournalismmajor.

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This is sure to impress many of those around you, but there may be times in which you encounter someone who is actually rubbed the wrong way by your precociousness, and you will have to make an important choice: Live with it, or adjust your behavior in order to court the favor of your critics. It is not likely that the first choice will be easy -- but neither is it likely that the second will be possible! You like to do things that are new and different, and that provide both excitement and a new level of knowledge. You are quickly bored by those activities that become routine and offer nothing in the way of personal discovery.

Also born on this date are: Tatum O’Neal, actress; Tilda Swinton, actress; Bryan Adams, singer; Sam Shepard, playwright and actor; Art Garfunkel, singer and songwriter; Elke Sommer, actress; Ike Turner, rock pioneer; Vivien Leigh, actress; Joel McCrea, actor.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- The favors you’ve asked in the recent past are likely to begin paying off as this day progresses.

You have a decision to make.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- When it comes down to it, you know better than the competition how to get yourself and others out of a tricky and tiring situation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Your professional situation may not allow you to focus on your personal needs -- but they will wait while you square things away.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You may be trying to do things the old way when, in fact, the people around you are eager for both new ideas and new techniques.

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COVERAGE | HIGH HEEL DRAG RACE

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The annual High Heel Drag Race has drawn Washington residents to Dupont Circle for 26 years — and even a hurricane couldn’t stop its festivities

By Kelsey Hughes Staff writer As a Philadelphia native relatively new to the Washington metropolitan area, I am constantly learning of new traditions and customs in the city. Most recently, I was introduced to the High Heel Drag Race, an annual October event where men don women’s clothing and their best heels and speed down 17th Street in Dupont Circle, a neighborhood “synonymous with gay life” in the city, according to washington.org.

This year’s 26th annual High Heel Drag Race, which typically takes place the night before Halloween, was postponed to the following Thursday because of Hurricane Sandy. From the looks of it, turnout wasn’t affected at all by the changed date.

The actual event was set to start at 9 p.m., but a friend told me I should aim to be there three hours early.

Feeling a little silly, I arrived at one end of what was to be the raceway at the corner of P Street and 17th Street at half past 6 p.m., dragging along my boyfriend, who learned somewhat belatedly this wasn’t the kind

of drag race that involved cars. He was a bit disappointed.

To my surprise, there was already a thin crowd gathered along the sides of the road, which had been cordoned off for the show between P and S streets.

The fenced-in outdoor areas in front of the bars were overflowing with people settling in for the race. By 7:40 p.m., the streets were starting to fill up. Around this time, I ducked into a busy McDonald’s for a quick snack, and when I reemerged 10 minutes later, the crowd was so dense that I was stuck three rows back from the street.

The most unexpected part of the whole event was the ever-present sense of calmness and normalcy. I honestly had no idea what to expect before the race — what the crowds would look like, what kind of people would be there or what kind of mood there would be. The entire event was tame and controlled, especially for something taking place outside at night on a city street lined with bars.

Everyone seemed to know what to do, and I got the feeling I was the only one experiencing it for the first time.

The demographic was surprising as well — I thought I’d only see young

adu lts, but there were parents with toddlers and tons of grandparents, too.

The drag queens t hem selves were quite spectacular.

The race itself lasted only four-and-ahalf minutes, so the exciting part was beforehand — seeing all of the race participants strutting drag queens at the High Heel Drag Race dressed up as four of the five female hosts on longtime ABC show The View, even pushing a the street-turnedwheeled table in front of them. Others used colorful balloons to dress up as “The Gay Barrier Reef.” kelsey hughes /for the diamondback runway and striking poses for every willing camera, of 17th and Q streets, so I wasn’t was Inertia, a 26-year-old who once confident and seemingly oblivious close enough to the starting line at ran track for the University of North to the sharp cold. Since the race was S Street to hear the starting signal. Carolina Wilmington, propelled to Halloween-themed, there were many One minute, the streets were empty; victory in her 4-inch stiletto boots. in costume. The group outfits stole the the next, there was a quickly building Overall, the experience was inshow by far – four queens dressed up roar of cheers that rippled down the credible — everything I had hoped as the ladies from popular talk show street, and the first racer bolted past for and then some. Even my boyThe View and pushed around a table me, a blur of wig, dress and heels. friend, who had come along relucon wheels; a group of seven or eight It was impressive to say the least — tantly, said it was pretty exciting. donned long, thin rainbow-colored as someone who is supposed to be I definitely plan to return for next balloons and plastic fish decorations comfortable in the tall, pointy death year’s race, and I’m looking forward traps that are women’s dress shoes, to making this quirky event a new and went as “The Gay Barrier Reef.”

The race began promptly at 9 p.m. I appreciate anyone who can walk Halloween tradition. and with little warning. I was posi- gracefully, no less run, in heels.

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PREVIEW | HENRY ROLLINS: CAPITALISM

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Although Henry Rollins loves America, he’s fed up with corrupt politicians, so he’s encouraging citizens to get out and vote through his 50-state lecture tour

By Dean Essner Staff writer Henry Rollins is a dabbler. He’s a musician (most notably the singer of seminal punk band Black Flag), philanthropist, radio host and persuasive speaker, able to articulate his own agenda better than most politicians can. But nowadays he wants to be known as one thing: a proud American who sympathizes with his fellow citizens. “ Yo u s h a r e a c o u n t r y w i t h some really great people who are going through some unbelievably intense challenges day-to-day,” Rollins said. “A nd they bear up magnificently.”

For much of the past few years, Rollins has focused his efforts on politics. He’s written essays in publications like Vanity Fair and Huffing-

ton Post and gone on long world-spanning lecture tours. But he attests it’s all part of a tenacious, working man attitude.

“If anyone else is getti ng up at 6, I’m getting up at 4, and I’m d oi n g more p u s hup s, and I’m going in earlier, a nd I’m get t i n g more d o n e,” h e s a i d . “ T h e a du lt world pl ay s for keeps. T here’s a lot of people who aren’t paying rent a ny more; they’re paying mortgages. It gets oh-so-serious.”

Even at a ge 51, he’s sti l l relentless, l iv i ng his life at the same torrid pace as when he was a pu n k sta r. R ight now,

henry rolliNS wants you to help your country. VOTE! photo by heidi may/courtesy of mike magnuson

he’s i n the m idd le of a tour aptly named “Henry Rollins: Capitalism” to coincide with the upcoming election. In the spirit of A mer ica n equ a l ity, he’s hitting all 50 states a long the way, including tonight’s hometown Washington show at the 9:30 Club. But, despite h i s e f fo r t s, h e k n o w s there is still more political work that needs to be done, most of which will take time and patience.

“There’s no real short term to anything when we’ve involved hundreds of m illions of people,” sa id R ol l i n s. “ To b e succinct, America used to be the No. 1 creditor

nation a nd we’re now the No. 1 debtor nation, and why? Because our industry left. That’s why these towns are empty, the warehouses a re empty, we don’t ma ke stu ff anymore.”

T h rou g h a l l t he f r u st rat ion , though, Rollins knows that everything he says and does is because of the unconditional affection he has for his country and fellow citizens.

Things may seem bleak right now, but the people, whether they are shunning him or agreeing with him, make it all worth it.

“The more Americans I meet, the more I am in love with America,” Rollins said.

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JACKETS From PAGE 8 taking snaps under center two weeks ago. The offense was largely stagnant, the freshmen were inconsistent and the defense seemed somewhat disoriented.

“You can’t go out there and line up at this level after only seven practices and think that everything is going to happen the way you hope it will,” Edsall said of Petty.

The Terps allowed season highs in points, rushing yards and total yards. The Yellow Jackets bulldozed the front seven for 370 rushing yards — 111 more yards than the entire Petty-led offense mustered. And to make matters worse, the Terps lost leading tackler Demetrius Hartsfield to an apparent leg injury near the end of the first half.

Petty, for his part, tried to make the best of a trying situation. The Greenbelt native totaled 115 yards, two touchdowns — both to Diggs — an interception and a lost fumble on 9-of-18 passing.

“I feel like there’s a lot of things I could have done better,” Petty said. “I don’t think there’s anything I excelled in today.”

In the first half, he looked the part of emergency quarterback. The Terps gained just 61 yards and entered halftime trailing 20-0. Desperate for an offensive

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spark, Edsall plugged running back Wes Brown under center and ran the “Wildcrab” — the second-year coach’s take on the Wildcat formation.

The change yielded little results, however, and the Terps didn’t grace the scoreboard until Diggs corralled a playaction pass in the waning seconds of the third quarter and weaved 16 yards into the end zone for his fifth touchdown of the year.

The Terps (4-5, 2-3 ACC) came close to cutting into Georgia Tech’s (4-5, 3-3) sizable lead late in the fourth quarter, but the drive ultimately ended when Yellow Jackets safety Jamea Thomas intercepted a Petty pass in the red zone.

Minutes later, the Terps managed to avoid tying a season-low in points when Petty found Diggs for a 23-yard score as time expired. No extra point arrived due to what the referee termed “a lack of competitive advantage.”

“We had a one-on-one basically,” said Diggs, who now holds the Terps freshmen records for receiving touchdowns (six), receiving yards (721) and all-purpose yards (1,774). “That was a good way to end the game.”

That positive ending hardly overshadowed a normally stingy defense’s lapses Saturday. The Terps’ front seven, which boasted the nation’s fourth-best

rush defense entering the game, gave up more than double its previous season high in rushing yards allowed. It only forced punts on the first series of each half, and surrendered a game-high 89 rushing yards and a touchdown to senior running back Orwin Smith.

“It’s a tough offense, it really is,” defensive end Joe Vellano said. “They had different reads and stuff that we were keying on and they kind of gave us some trouble on that.”

And it won’t get any easier. With Petty now entrenched as the starting signal caller, the Terps finish the season with games against No. 10 Clemson, No. 8 Florida State and a North Carolina squad that boasts a 5-1 record since late September.

Standing in front of his team minutes after it recorded its third straight loss, Edsall had a simple message: It will need to stick together. It has little choice but to rally behind Petty, and make the best of a near-impossible situation.

“There are going to be great things that happen here,” Edsall said. “We all want these things to happen today and tomorrow, but we have to deal with the situation at hand. All we can do is come here each and every day and work as hard as we can to get better.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

VITALE From PAGE 8 With a linebacker at quarterback and a decimated roster backing Petty up, the Terps don’t seem to have much hope of notching a fifth victory this season.

So, just like Edsall’s conversation with Petty late in the fourth quarter Saturday, the final leg of the season becomes a monthlong teaching moment for the Terps. The offense has promise, the defense has talent and the team could have up to seven quarterbacks on the roster next season. At this point, the final three games are just a starting point for next year.

“We have a really good group,” Edsall said. “I told them after the game that we all have to stick together.”

Barring injury, Petty will lead the Terps’ offense for the rest of the season. Barring something unforeseen, the Terps will struggle to win each of their fi nal three games.

But Edsall won’t be mad about it, and he won’t get down on his team. He’ll continue to focus on the positives, and chalk the rest up to bad luck.

After all they’ve been through this season, what else can he do? sportsdbk@gmail.com

Goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands allowed four goals yesterday. file photo/the diamondback

CAVALIERS From PAGE 8 and had a great performance,” Beanlands said. “We let them get to us and they shut us down.”

The Cavaliers weren’t done after that first goal, though.

I n t he 53 rd m i nute, m idfielder Morgan Brian netted her own rebound to bring the score to 2-0. Twelve minutes later, forward Caroline Miller netted a wide-open shot inside t he 18-ya rd box. For wa rd Makenzy Doniak put the nail in the Terps’ coffi n in the 86th minute, hitting a shot inside the post to dig the Terps a 4-0 hole they had no time to get out of.

The loss was the worst the Terps have encountered all season. Their previous five losses were all 1-0, and the most goals the team had given up in a game before yesterday was two.

“They just had really high pressure,” Beanlands said. “It’s

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Linebacker Kenneth Tate fails to tackle Georgia Tech running back Orwin Smith on his second-quarter touchdown run. The Yellow Jackets rushed for 370 yards in their 33-13 win over the Terps. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

score w it h 18 seconds remaining in the first half came off a rebound.

The second half proved to be a friendlier one for the Terps, who got a shot off for the fi rst time in nearly 30 minutes when defender Sarah Sprink’s chance off a penalty corner was saved

by Tar Heels goalkeeper Sassi Ammer in the 44th minute.

Sprink got another chance six minutes later, though, and took advantage, lowering the deficit to one and giving sudden life to a team in need of energy.

“We were all saying that in the second half, we needed to step up our game and we wanted to win it,” Sprink said.

“We played the best hockey we could, and we felt we were dominating in the moment after that goal.”

But those high hopes were deflated in the 58th minute, when North Carolina forward Charlotte Craddock unleashed a shot from outside the circle.

The ball, again deflected off a Terps defender, sent Hunter scrambling but she couldn’t reach it in time.

Now trailing, 3-1, and with time waning, the Terps had one last chance at a comeback. Meharg pulled Hunter from goal with 5:11 remain-

just really disappointing.”

Forwards Hayley Brock and Becky Kaplan both scored for the Terps Friday night. Sunday, though, Brock managed to take just three shots while Kaplan only took one.

“They studied us well and knew how to prevent us from getting the ball,” Kaplan said.

“It was so frustrating not being able to get open like we were on Friday.”

As strong as they were on Friday, they weren’t able to reach the same level of performance yesterday. Amd as frustrating as it was, it’s something the Terps will have to deal with as they prepare for the start of the NCAA Tournament next weekend.

“I think we got caught up in the stage,” Morgan said. “Obviously it’s the biggest event any of these kids have played in. Friday, we were so good at executing our game plan, and then today, we just scrapped it.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

ing, leaving an open net, and in the 69th minute, forward Katie Gerzabek came up with the ball in Tar Heels territory and found Jill Witmer. Falling forward to keep control of the ball, Witmer tipped the ball around a diving Ammer to cut North Carolina’s lead to one.

“This team is all about fighting, and we know from previous seasons as well as this season that the game is never over until the last buzzer sounds,” Hunter said. “We really fought and gave it everything we had to tie it back up.”

But a nother defensive mistake ultimately iced the game. Sprink lost control of the ball on her side of the field, and Shealy picked up the turnover and scored on the open net.

While they came up short against their chief conference rival for the second time this season, the Terps aren’t planning to dwell on whatifs. With postseason wins over Duke and Virginia, the Terps improved their chances of locking up home-field advantage for the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, which will begin Saturday.

“It’s not the end of the road for us,” Hunter said. “We’re still working on our journey, and hopefully we’ll see them again soon.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

STATLINE

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Terps quarterback Shawn Petty’s numbers Completions in Saturday’s 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech

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FIELD HOCKEY

TERRAPINS 13

33 YELLOW JACKETS

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Hunter not enough in Terps loss

Cavs win ACC title in blowout

Tar Heels clinch ACC title with 4-2 victory

Terps fall to Virginia, 4-0, in championship

By Nicholas Munson Staff writer

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer

I f there was one tea m Nata l ie Hunter wanted another shot at, it was North Carolina.

Just a little more than two weeks ago, the Terrapins field hockey team’s starting goalkeeper was the last line of defense against the No. 1 Tar Heels.

And though Hunter tallied a careerhigh nine saves, the defense struggled down the stretch as the Terps suffered a 4-3 overtime loss.

Coach Missy Meharg started her in the ACC championship game yesterday against the same opponent.

Hunter responded with eight saves and an array of highlight-caliber plays, but was unable to remedy her team’s defensive miscues in a 4-2 defeat.

“In the first half, they counterattacked with top speed and got numbers up on several occasions,” Meharg said after the loss. “They’re a strong team, and the result is obviously disappointing.”

After drubbing No. 2-seed Virginia, 5-1, on Friday, it seemed the No. 3-seed Terps (16-5, 3-2 ACC) would have momentum going into the final game of the tournament. But there was none to be seen in the first half. They could hardly contain the faster Tar Heels (20-1, 5-0), who used their speed and long passes to spread the Terps out and gain a 10-4 advantage in shots in the half.

North Carolina had more luck, too.

The first goal of the day — a Loren Shealy score in the 29th minute — went into the net after hitting a defender, and midfielder Kelsey Kolojejchick’s

The Terrapins women’s soccer team traveled to Cary, N.C., with the hopes of winning the program’s first-ever ACC Championship. After Friday, it was off to a good start.

The No. 2-seed Terps dominated No. 3-seed Wake Forest, shutting out the Demon Deacons, 2-0, to advance to yesterday’s title game.

But when the game clock hit all zeros in their matchup with No. 5-seed Virginia, the Terps weren’t holding the trophy they coveted. Instead, they were getting ready to make the trip home empty-handed.

The Terps fell to the Cavaliers, 4-0, and missed their chance to claim the title of ACC’s best.

“Virginia was good in every component of the game [yesterday] and they really disrupted what we wanted to do,” coach Jonathan Morgan said.

“We give credit to those guys, but we just didn’t bring enough.”

The statistics certainly show it.

The Terps (13-6-2, 6-3-1 ACC) only got off nine shots yesterday — a far cry from their season average of 14.3. The Cavaliers (16-4-1, 6-3-1), who defeated top-seeded Florida State to make it to the fi nals, launched 26 shots.

Virginia started its scoring onslaught midway through the first half, when forward Gloria Douglas ran past Terps defender Domenica Hodak and sent the ball past the fi ngertips of goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands in the 22nd minute.

“Virginia just came out really strong

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Quarterback SHawn Petty jogs off the field Saturday after the Terps’ 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech. It was Petty’s first career start. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Reality check

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Terps suffer worst defeat of season Saturday; fall to Yellow Jackets, 33-13

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

COACH MIssy Meharg’s Terps fell to North Carolina, 4-2, in the ACC Championship yesterday. file photo/the diamondback

There was no talk of doomsday scenarios in Gossett Team House last week. There were no “what-ifs” or convenient excuses. There was only optimism.

Coach Randy Edsall expressed confidence in starting a former scout team linebacker at quarterback. Defenders logged long hours

studying Georgia Tech’s vaunted triple-option, knowing they’d need to take the pressure off a depleted offense. And Stefon Diggs used Twitter to rally fans around a squad that had just lost its fourth quarterback this year to a seasonending injury.

But positivity doesn’t change reality. And it became strikingly clear during an eventual 33-13 loss to the Yellow Jackets on Saturday

that no fairytale ending awaits the Terrapins football team this season.

Playing against a Georgia Tech squad that had lost four of its past five games, the Terps illustrated all the shortcomings expected from a group forced to lean upon Shawn Petty — a former two-star recruit who had never suited up for a college game and had just started See JACKETS, Page 7

Coach Jonathan Morgan and the Terps fell short of winning their first ACC title. file photo/the diamondback

FOOTBALL

A teaching moment Edsall keeps focus on positives after loss JOSH VITALE Randy Edsall could have been angry when Shawn Petty jogged over to the sideline after throwing a fourth-quarter interception Saturday. He could have yelled at his quarterback, made sure he knew what he was doing wrong and told him not to make the same mistake again.

But that’s not what the Terrapins football coach did. Instead, he simply had a conversation with the young signal caller, gave him some advice and calmly told him what to look for next time.

“It’s a teaching moment,” Edsall said after the Terps’ 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech. “That was probably the first time Shawn has seen that type of situation.”

It almost certainly was. Petty threw that interception on just his 14th career pass attempt in his fi rst-ever start. He hasn’t been a college quarterback long enough to know what the Yellow Jackets were doing on defense.

So how cou ld Edsa l l be mad?

Petty spent the first eight weeks of the season as a scout team lineback-

er and he’s only been taking snaps at quarterback for two weeks now.

Could Edsall really blame him for his miscues Saturday?

He couldn’t, and he didn’t. Edsall knows how ridiculous the Terps’ quarterback situation has been this year.

He knows how unfathomable it is to have lost four quarterbacks to seasonending injuries in the same season.

And he knows how unheard of it is to be starting a converted linebacker under center.

If C.J. Brown, Perry Hills or Caleb Rowe had posted Petty’s 9-of-18, 115yard performance, Edsall probably wouldn’t have been able to hide his disappointment after the game. For Petty, though, Edsall looked past the numbers on the stat sheet. He kept his focus on the positive aspects.

He praised Petty for his poise and coachability, complimented his grasp of the offense and credited him for his second-half improvement. In the end, it didn’t really matter what his numbers were. Any bit of success he enjoyed was going to be good enough for Edsall.

In fact, that seemed to be Edsall’s mood about his entire team Saturday. He wasn’t down, after all,

Coach Randy Edsall talks to Shawn Petty after the freshman quarterback threw a fourth-quarter interception in the Terps’ 33-13 loss Saturday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback because he had very little reason to be up to begin with. His team lost its third straight game, suffered its worst defensive performance of the season and barely stayed afloat on offense. But after everything the Terps have gone through this

season, it’s hard to be angry.

He’s not defeated, and he’s not throwing in the towel. He’s just being realistic. Three weeks ago, the Terps had a chance to make a bowl game.

Three losses and three season-ending injuries to quarterbacks later, Edsall

seems to realize that’s no longer an option for his team.

The Terps have three games left, two of which are against top-10 opponents Clemson and Florida State.

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