The Diamondback, November 5, 2015

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Univ professors donate $23,334 to Democrats In 2016 election cycle, Hillary Clinton receives $8,838 in total contributions from 5 professors

By Jon Banister @J_banister Senior staff writer Amid an election cycle that has featured unprecedented campaign fi nancing, more than 30 university professors have donated to support 2016 runs for office.

T h e m ajo r it y h ave g ive n to

Democratic candidates, suggesting a left-leaning ideological trend among those who donate to political campaigns.

Of the 31 university professors whose 2016 cycle contributions The Diamondback found in the Federal Election Commission database, 26 donated to Democrats for a total of $23,334. Professors who gave to Re-

publicans tended to donate larger sums, however, with five donations totaling $8,000.

The trend proves consistent with Maryland’s 2014 state elections cycle.

Thirty-four professors The Diamondback found in the State Board of Elections database contributed $9,159 to Democratic candidates, while five professors gave a total of $1,055 to Republicans.

Government and politics professor HILLARY CLINTON speaks during an Anthony Brown rally at Ritchie Colosseum on Oct. 30, 2014. Five university See DONATIONS, Page 2 professors have donated $8,838 to the presidential candidate during this election cycle. file photo/the diamondback

CITY ELECTION 2015

Bomb scare prompts evacuation Suspicious package part of Halloween costume

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi Staff writer

Patrick Wojahn, winner of Tuesday’s mayoral election, speaks at a City Council meeting Wednesday night. Wojahn, currently serving as a District 1 councilman, will take office Dec. 7. tom hausman/the diamondback

Wojahn’s the winner District 1 councilman defeats Denise Mitchell to become city’s first openly gay mayor

District 3 Stephanie Stullich, Robert Day re-elected, beat alumnus Ryan Belcher

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in decades, Wojahn came away with 1,267 out of 2,222 votes, defeating District 4 Councilwom a n a nd M ayor P ro Te m District 1 Councilman Patrick Denise Mitchell.

“I’m humbled and honored Wo j a h n w a s e l e c t e d m a y o r T uesday, becom i ng the fi rst people are giving me the opporopenly gay man to win the office tunity to carry out our goals for in College Park.

In the most competitive election See MAYOR, Page 3

Stullich, who has served on the council since 2007, is excited to be re-elected and said she hopes to help steer the city in In the most contested City Council the right direction.

“It’s been a great experience election in more than 20 years, the official election results show incum- being on the City Council,” she bents Stephanie Stullich and Robert said. “There’s a lot of change in Day were both re-elected to District 3 College Park City Council seats.

See COUNCIL, Page 3

Gov. Hogan reflects on first year in Annapolis

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer

GOV. LARRY HOGAN gives his acceptance speech on election night in November 2014 at a watch party held in Annapolis. He upset then-Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown by 5 percentage points. file photo/the diamondback

Ask Republican Gov. Larry Hogan about his proudest accomplishment in the year since he was elected, and he’ll have trouble choosing one.

“That’s not a question I get a lot,” he said, laughing.

The governor was elected in a surprise victory Nov. 4, 2014, defeating then-Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown by 5 percentage points and capturing 20 of 23 counties in this state. Since then, he’s cut fees and spending throughout the government, attempting to stay true to his economic campaign message.

That’s not what he chooses as his proudest accomplishment, though.

“You know what? It’s that a majority now believe we’re headed in the right direction and that the state is on the right track,” Hogan said, calling from his desk in the State House in Annapolis. “We haven’t solved all the problems, but I’m most proud we’ve been able to turn things around as quickly as we have.”

A recent Washington Post-University of Maryland poll showed Hogan had a 61 percent approval rating in the state. In the same telephone poll, conducted from Oct. 8 through Oct. 11, 52 percent of residents said they believed the state was “going in the right direction.”

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A Halloween costume accessory spooked an individual and prompted a response from University Police on Tuesday.

At 1:09 p.m., University Police received a call for a cardboard box with “bomb” written on it in the grass next to the Shuttle-UM facility on Paint Branch Drive, said University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

Officers arrived at the scene and shut down the roadway, and people inside the facility were told to evacuate.

The Prince George’s County Fire Department’s bomb unit also responded to the scene to investigate the box. The box contained fl iers for cookies for sale and a shipping label with a campus address, Hoaas said.

Investigators went to the address, and the student living there said his friend had asked to use the box as an accessory for his Halloween costume. Hoaas said the student’s friend did not throw the box away, and it was left at the facility with no malicious intent. The investigation has been closed.

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ELECTION NIGHT SURPRISE A year ago, most expected Brown to win the election, in part because of the lack of polling close to election day. The Washington Post’s and The Baltimore Sun’s most recently conducted polls had been between Oct. 2 and Oct. 8, 2014.

In the weeks after the election, the governor-elect declined to release his budget proposal, leaving many in the state nervous about where the funds would be apportioned, government and politics professor Stella Rouse said. On a bus tour of the state, Hogan See HOGAN, Page 7

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The final days of Cory Sanders’ bid for a District 1 City Council seat were marked by controversy.

The Washington Post published an article Oct. 30 highlighting errors on Sanders’ resume and discussing a lawsuit fi led against him by his former employer.

A copy of the article — marked up in red ink — later appeared on some College Park residents’ doorsteps.

On T uesday, when unofficial numbers were announced, Sanders lost by almost 400 votes to former Councilwoman Christine Nagle and more than 500 to incumbent Fazlul Kabir.

But by the time all the absentee votes were counted and the official results were released at about 8:30 last night, that gap no longer mattered. At 4 p.m. yesterday, Sanders was “deemed to have withdrawn” due to errors in his See SANDERS, Page 7

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CRIME BLOTTER A n officer fou nd a man sleeping inside the building in a chair near the entrance, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Un iversity Pol ice re- Rosanne Hoaas said. The sponded to reports of rape, officer identified the man, a hate bias incident and a who had been issued a trestrespassing incident, among pass notice in August 2010.

The man was arrested other incidents in the past week, according to police and charged with school trespassing. reports.

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime Staff writer

RAPE

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Un iversity Pol ice responded to Commons 3 on Monday at about 4:15 p.m. for an incident involving rap e, a c c o rd i n g to t h e daily crime and incident log. The rape allegedly occurred on Oct. 7 at about 1 a.m., and the incident is under investigation.

A n officer met with a woman in the lobby of University Police headquarters for a report of vandalism, Hoaas said.

The woman had parked her vehicle in Lot 15 on Oct. 27 at about 8 p.m. When she returned to her car at about 9 a.m. the next morning, the left side mirror was removed from the car and damaged.

HATE BIAS University Police filed another report of vandalism Un iversity Pol ice responded to Cumberland Oct. 28 at about 7:30 p.m.

Hall on Saturday at about after an offi cer responded 1 p.m. for a report of a hate to the same parking lot, Hoaas said. bias incident.

A d river pa rked thei r Students found a swastika drawn in black marker vehicle on Oct. 26 at about on their dry erase board. 6 p.m. Two days later at They also reported other about 4:30 p.m., the driver swasti kas on two f l iers returned to the vehicle to and a poster near the el- find the front windshield evator. T he item s were shattered.

On Satu rday at about removed, and the case is 8:30 a .m ., Un iversity still active.

Police received a report of a vandalism incident at the TRESPASSING University Golf Course.

Un iversity Pol ice re- Between 6 p.m. Friday and sponded to Van Munching 8 a.m. Saturday, a range cart Hall on Oct. 29 at about was damaged and the equip12:30 a.m. for a report of ment was disabled. trespassing, according to police reports. jcampisidbk@gmail.com

From PAGE 1 James Gimpel said this Democratic tilt reflects a long-standing and well-known national trend: University professors are overwhelmingly liberal.

About 60 percent of university professors identified themselves as far left or liberal, according to a 2013-14 Higher Education Research Institute survey of more than 16,000 professors at 269 universities.

In comparison, about 13 percent described themselves as far right or conservative.

Gimpel, who specializes in elections and political behavior, cites two main reasons for this liberal slant. Conservatives are less likely to pursue academia as a career because their views will not be as strongly embraced, he said, so they are underrepresented in the hiring pool. Some also argue that there is active discrimination in the hiring and promotion process at most universities against those who have vocal conservative views, he said.

“It just so happens that most people going into academia are on the left, so those are the voices you hear,” Gimpel said.

“There aren’t a lot of people who want to go into academia who are on the right, and that mixed with discrimination keeps conservative voices pretty muted on most university campuses.”

Because of the potential for discrimination, Gimpel said, professors with conservative views are less likely to want to make those public by contributing to political campaigns, so they could be somewhat underrepresented in fi nancing records.

Chemistry professor William Walters, who has donated $500 to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and $1,000 to Republican neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s campaign, said he does not see any hiring bias at the university. He said conservatives do not seek out

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academia because they are more likely to find high-paying jobs in the private sector, he said, adding that he has no problem being among the minority of professors at the university with conservative viewpoints.

“Any faculty member who is uncomfortable being in the m i nority shou ld n’t be on the faculty,” Walters said.

“Anybody who can’t make their own minds up on what they’re doing has no business being a faculty member at this university.”

Also on the Republican side, three professors have given a total of $3,800 to Carson, who led the Republican primary in the latest CBS News/New York Times national poll.

“Most of what he says makes sense,” Walters said. “He understands the health care system better than anyone around. He has an experience that is much more what I would call wildly American than most of the people running.”

Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former HewlettPackard CEO Carly Fiorina have each received one contribution from professors at this university.

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has garnered the most financial support from university professors, with five giving a total of $8,838. Three professors have contributed to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for a total of $1,196.

Journalism professor Kevin K lose, former dean of the journalism school, has given $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign.

This is his fi rst time contributing to a political campaign, he said, and he never publicly supported candidates during his 25-year reporting and editing career with The Washington Post.

“It’s certainly time for us to have a woman president; perhaps it’s overdue,” Klose said. “Mrs. Clinton is as plausible and good a candidate for president as I think we’re

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Martin O’Malley has not received a ny contributions from university professors, though he does boast two notable donors with university ties. P.J. Hogan, who lobbies in Annapolis for the University System of Maryland, has given O’Malley $250, and Under Armour CEO and alumnus Kevin Plank has given O’Malley $2,700, the maximum allowable contribution for a single quarter.

T he lack of support for O’Malley reflects an attitude donors have about only giving to campaigns they expect to be competitive, Gimpel said.

“It’s no sign that they hate Martin O’Malley,” he said. “It’s just a sign that they’re calculating they want to support someone that’s eventually going to win and that’s not going to be him.”

While the bulk of campaign money has been given to candidates running for president, there are also three competitive congressional elections in the state that several professors have fi nancially supported a candidate for.

In the race to replace U.S. Sen. Ba rba ra M i k u lsk i, a Democrat from this state, university professors have on ly cont r ibuted to Rep. C h r i s Va n H o l l e n , w i t h four donors giving a total of $4,650. Rep. Donna Edwards

has received a donation from one administrator in the engineering school.

S eve n profe ssors h ave donated to candidates in the race for the Prince George’s County-based 4th Congressional District. Three professors have given a total of $1,600 to former Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey; three professors have given a total of $3,250 to state Del. Josaline Peña-Melnyk, and one professor has given $1,000 to former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.

Five professors have donated to candidates running for the Montgomery County-based 8th Congressional District. Four professors have donated to state Sen. Jamie Raskin for a total of $1,075 and one professor gave $1,500 to state Del. Kumar Barve.

Across all elections, far more university professors support Democratic candidates, at a rate of roughly 5-to-1. While the political ideologies of young adults are shaped by a number of factors beginning long before they enroll in college, Gimpel said, professors’ liberal perspectives likely have some influence on students’ opinions.

“There’s definitely a scarcity of conservative and Republican views in the classrooms of many universities around the country,” Gimpel said. jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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From PAGE 1 the city over the next two years,” Wojahn said. “I want to bring in the community’s vision and show people we’re moving forward.”

The final tally was announced Wednesday after all absentee ballots were counted and all ballots were deemed valid by the city’s Board of Election Supervisors.

Mayor Andy Fellows has supported Wojahn’s run from the beginning. When endorsing him, Fellows cited Wojahn’s experience as a four-term councilman, his proven record of accomplishments and his positive energy.

“More than any other mayor in my memory, he has the ability to bring the whole city together,” Fellows said.

Mitchell said she is “truly humbled” to have served on the City Council for the past six years.

“What am I going to do? I’m going to keep my eye on the council,” she said. “I’m going to be at the podium making my comments.”

Wojahn has touted his accomplishments, such as founding College Park Day and forming the Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Workgroup, throughout the campaign. He plans to continue moving the city forward by bringing more amenities, high-quality developments and businesses to College Park.

“The university is making a historic investment in our city and is on board with turning College Park into a top-tier college town,” Wojahn has said.

“I want to see the city that I live in turn into something great, something we can be proud of and that serves all its residents — both students and long-term residents.”

District 1 resident David Toledo said he was happy to see

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DISTRICT 2 p.j. brennan monroe dennis 83 daniel blasberg jr. vivian conway 68

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In the most competitive cit y ele ction in de cades, candidates spent large sums on yard signs, stickers and fliers urging voters to choose them at the polls.

Here is the breakdown from the pre- election campaign finance reports that show each candidates’ total expenditures and how much they spent per vote.

total spending

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KABIR $1,609.47 $2,978.20 NAGLE $735.93 SANDERS

$2.29 $5.22 $4.33

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$327.73 STULLICH DAY $505.01 RIGG $2,074.67 $1,627.20 BELCHER $30 MCCENEY

$0.78 $1.29 $4.40 $0.75

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$293.19 $882.64 $50 $384

$473.25 COOK $2.57 $4.56 $752.55 KUJAWA $2.89 $378.91 HEW $34.97 GREGORY $0.74

BRENNAN $1.73 $6.17 DENNIS BLASBERG $0.60 $5.65 CONWAY

graphic by evan berkowitz/the diamondback Wojahn elected.

“I like that he is more progressive with working with the University of Maryland to take advantage of the relationship and developing the downtown area,” said Toledo, 25.

Also the director of government relations at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Wojahn plans to make it easier to both walk and bike in the city while working to make College Park a more sustainable place to live.

Wojahn will face some challenges moving forward from this highly competitive and divisive election. The City Council he will serve with until he officially takes over as mayor Dec. 7 was evenly split on endorsing him over Mitchell.

Some of his supporters — District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan

and District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich — were reelected Tuesday, though District 4 Councilman Alan Hew was not.

The council members who supported Mitchell — District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir, District 2 Councilman Monroe Dennis and District 3 Councilman Robert Day – were all re-elected.

“He has a big job ahead of him, and that’s bringing the council together,” Day said. “He’s made a commitment to bringing us back together, and that’s going to be a great thing for the city.”

The College Park community has felt the division during this election cycle — the first time in more than 20 years that every seat was contested. Personal attacks became common on

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community listservs, and campaign materials were distributed by a man who said he does not “think homosexual marriage is real” and that Wojahn has “his own agenda.”

“In years past, being gay would’ve been an automatic disqualifier for office in the court of public opinion,” said Wojahn’s husband, Dave Kolesar, the first person Wojahn thanked in his speech.

“With the younger generation, we all just shrug our shoulders.”

Wojahn said he hopes to heal the divide and work toward unifying College Park. He said his first priority is to meet with all the council members to see what elements of their platforms the council can work on together.

“Whenever we have a heavily contested race like this, it’s going to be a challenge to unite everyone,” he said. “But I’m ready to take on that challenge.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

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Day, who endorsed fellow District 3 candidate and 2015 u n iversity a lu m nus Rya n Belcher, said he’s slightly disappointed in the election results.

“I backed Rya n, a nd I wanted to see Ryan get in. I thought he would have been a great addition to our City Council,” said Day, who has served as a councilman since 2011. “Stephanie and I have worked together for a while [and] we have to continue to do that.”

Day sa id he bel ieves he was able to garner much of his support from students in the area. In the weeks leading up to the election, he and Belcher visited fraternity and sorority houses during their chapter meetings.

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r y school teacher Rober t McCeney a nd Joh n R ig g, Calvert Hills Citizens Association president.

O f f i c i a l re s u l t s l i s t e d Day with 393 votes, Stull ich w it h 42 2 , R i g g w it h 380, McCeney with 40 and Belcher with 370. “ We l o s t b y a c l o s e margin,” Belcher said. “We engaged t he com mu n ity, and we’re proud of the votes we got.”

In District 2, the secondmost contested race, i ncumbents P.J. Brennan and Mon roe Den n i s defeated College Park residents Daniel B l a s b e r g J r. a n d V i v i a n C o n w a y, w i n n i n g w i t h 169 and 143 official votes, respectively.

District 4 winners were Mary Cook, a councilwoman from 2007 to 2009, and D u s t y n B u rk a r t K ujawa , project manager for an aerospace engineering company.

Christine Nagle, a councilwoman from 2009 to 2011, and incumbent Fazlul Kabir won in District 1.

Day sa id that because severa l i ncu mbents were re-elected, the council will have to work hard to resolve divisions that are a result of communication issues and have ex isted for the past couple years.

“We got a lot that we need to work on,” Day said. “It’s not l i ke it ca n’t be done.

I ju s t t h i n k t he re h a s to be better com mu n ication between the group.”

Stullich said that while Day’s and Belcher’s campaigns targeted students, she does not bel ieve that a nyone on the cou nci l or any of the candidates are “anti-student.”

“A lot of times, we’re in our own different worlds.

T he long ti me residents k now each ot her a nd t he students know each other, and we don’t connect nearly enough,” she sa id. “But I think for the most part, we want the same things.” kmaakedbk@gmail.com

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which means he’ll need to collaborate with both the City Council and the university, taking into account a variety of perspectives.

In five years, Wojahn, the City Council and the university will have either actualized or fallen short of their joint District 2020 Vision, a mission to transform the city into a vibrant top-20 college town by the turn of the decade.

OUR VIEW

Wojahn and the City Council must seek progress and growth through compromise.

It’s a vision that requires forward thinking but also necessitates compromise.

And after the most-contested election in more than 20 years, which gave rise to uncharacteristic sniping among the candidates and their supporters, officials will have to put aside their considerable differences and come to the table with progress in mind.

That progress should reflect the most pertinent needs of all of College Park’s diverse populations,

who sometimes have divergent ideas of what changes, if any, should come to the city.

With the election of civic association leaders to the council, longterm residents gained a channel to air their concerns about rapid redevelopment.

And while the university community lost out on a chance to vote for 2015 alumnus Ryan Belcher, billed as a voice for students, it found an advocate in incumbent Robert Day, who campaigned with and endorsed Belcher in the run-up to the election.

A divide still exists between residents and students, whether real or merely perceived, presenting a major roadblock toward this city becoming a top college town. As Wojahn takes the top job in City Hall and the newly elected council members join him, they’ll need to navigate the spaces among their constituents with care and understanding, mindful that there’s no consensus yet as to what College Park should or will be in 2020.

However that vision manifests itself, this editorial board remains confident that Wojahn can see it through. Though a bit uncertain, the future still looks bright.

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MATT SCHNABEL, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a managing editor, deputy managing editor, copy editor and diversions writer.

Jordan Branch, managing editor, is a senior government and politics and journalism major.

She has worked as an assistant managing editor and copy editor.

NATE RABNER, deputy managing editor, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.

Patrick An, opinion editor, is a senior physiology and neurobiology major.

He has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

MATT DRAGONETTE, opinion editor, is a senior finance and government and politics major.

He has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

Legal weed is not the end of the fight

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egal marijuana is inevitable in America.

It’s coming. Just like samesex marriage, the writing was on the wall when the first states lifted the ban on the sale and recreational use of cannabis. Arguably, legalizing pot nationwide could have been treated as a decided event back in 1996, when California became the first state to permit medical marijuana.

And this social movement that has seen the further relaxation of drug policy in the United States, particularly when it comes to legal marijuana, is unquestionably a positive force. Too many people have had their lives ruined by felony convictions resulting from the use of a relatively harmless drug when compared to alcohol and tobacco, with shamefully racist divides in who is prosecuted and who is not.

This should be obvious to most by now. Indeed, a majority of Americans are in favor of legalizing weed.

But that does not mean there is nothing left to fight for in marijuana policy and law. The problems of marijuana regulation will not be solved overnight with the basic legalization of the drug, just as LGBT discrimination wasn’t solved with the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage.

As soon as marijuana becomes legal in every state and federally, it becomes a commodity. Not that it wasn’t before, of course. An entire network of underground markets

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ours after the city’s elections polls closed Tuesday night, mayoral candidate Patrick Wojahn and his supporters celebrated a hard-won victory at — of all places — Terrapin’s Turf.

There is no small humor in envisioning College Park’s new mayor struggling to flag down a waitress or fighting students for space at the bar during one of the sort-of nightclub’s busiest weeknights.

At the same time, there is something symbolic about Wojahn, who staked his campaign in large part on his redevelopment record, partying at Turf, which replaced the longvacant Santa Fe Cafe in fall 2013 to thunderous student fanfare.

In the two years since, a host of new storefronts and housing units have cropped up along Route 1, with hotels, apartments and more businesses to follow.

Some investments have proven wiser than others — certain retail spaces have changed hands twice during the class of 2016’s undergraduate careers alone, while others have nestled securely into the College Park experience.

With Wojahn, the city has elected a mayor who has promised to advocate the latter sort of development,

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is based around the trade of illegal substances — weed included. But, there’s a difference between these so-called black markets and the ability to legally buy and sell a p ro d u c t — n a m e ly, t h e i n f l u x of capital and the solidifying of branding that would be used to advertise and grow consumer bases.

In other words, legal marijuana is the next hot investor item, and bigbudget entrepreneurs are already lining up. As with any such opportunity, there are some with more noble goals than others.

Take, for example, the recent ballot initiative in Ohio. Ballot Issue 3 would have allowed for the legalization of recreational marijuana. In case my surely dexterous subtlety concealed my opinion on that issue up to this point, I assure you that I think it’s a good idea.

Legal weed is a good thing.

Unfortunately, ballot initiatives do not happen in a vacuum. They need funding to pay for advertising to gain public awareness and support. And this particular initiative received sufficient funding because its passing would only allow for a group of 10 farmers to grow cannabis plants, which means that only they and their investors would be able to profit from the sale of the newly legalized drug.

If you’ve guessed by now that the financiers of the ballot initiative and the farmers are one and the same, you’re right on the money.

Maybe you don’t think this is a particularly big deal. Maybe instead of condemning the manipulative

plutocrats who have hijacked a pressing social movement for their own personal gain, you think the forward-thinking early adopters ready to help popularize a humanist concern should be rewarded for their investment.

I, though, would firmly disagree.

If nothing else, this should serve to show the dangerous influence of capital on U.S. politics, even in supposedly progressive issues.

There is nothing wrong in the abstract with allowing individuals to profit from the sale of marijuana, at least not in an economy that permits the same for alcohol, tobacco and other narcotics. Yet it is comically immoral and ridiculously corrupt to provide the public with the option to accept a new product into the condoned trade of goods and services, only if they in the same move deny themselves the right to profit from it. That is not legalization; it is monopolization.

Ohioans were right to vote down Ballot Issue 3 for this reason, as should any state faced with similar circumstances. And all of us should be wary of the degenerative force of economic self-interest in any policy push, especially the ones we see ourselves as most aligned with.

Marijuana legalization is good.

Marijuana legalization resulting from a fair and open democratic process that gives no special economic advantages is better.

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Through vaccines’ history, only a few decades of debate

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t was the early 1790s, and Dr. Edward Jenner was puzzled.

Around 10,000 B.C., as humans were first organizing themselves into sedentary agricultural societies, smallpox emerged. Each subsequent year — which is to say, for the vast majority of human history — it ravaged populations worldwide.

Its signs and symptoms are a universal common denominator among human remains throughout antiquity. It killed Egyptian pharaohs, wiped out indigenous populations and swung the tides of wars. Jenner noticed that in the center of the swath of destruction, amid the unpleasant and untimely deaths, there stood above it all an unaffected population: English milkmaids.

Jenner, a family doctor with an inordinate fascination with birds, made the tiniest of ripples in the field of science with his careful study of the life cycle of the nested cuckoo. He also, of course, treated patients. As a country doctor, Jenner often braved the elements; in his journal, he recounts somewhat fondly nearly losing his life in a blizzard en route to a patient’s home. Of course, history remembers him as far more than an excellent, dedicated physician.

A quick crash course in immunology: When the human body comes in contact with a disease, there are two main steps that must occur. The immune system must first recognize the cause of the illness. Once it knows “what to look for,” the fight for survival can commence. Modern vaccines are akin to “Wanted” posters; they show the body a “picture” of an illness so the immune system recognizes the real thing quickly. Prior to Jenner — in fact, starting in about 1,000 A.D. — a much different method was used. Referred to as “variolation,” the early disease-prevention technique essentially consisted of exposing at-risk people to ground-up smallpox scabs and hoping the resulting infection didn’t kill the patient. If they survived, they were immune to future disease. This method

was just as dangerous as it sounds.

In 1792, for instance, there was a smallpox outbreak in Boston in which 232 unlucky souls contracted the disease, thus triggering a rush to variolate. More Bostonians died as a result of the variolation than did as a result of the original outbreak.

Jenner had a different idea. He saw that the milkmaids in his town who’d contracted cowpox never seemed to get smallpox. Cowpox — a significantly less threatening relative of smallpox — was rarely fatal.

Jenner wondered if variolating with the safer cowpox would still confer immunity. Because it was the late 1700s and medical ethics were, shall we say, a work in progress, Jenner simply grabbed an 8-year-old boy named James and went at it.

Jenner scraped at a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid and then rubbed it in two cuts on the boy’s arm. Nine days later, Phipps “spent the night with some degree of restlessness, but on the day following he was perfectly well,” according to Jenner’s notes. This was not enough, however; Jenner had to see if the boy could still get smallpox. He thus drew some “variolous matter” from a smallpox sore, and cheerily injected it into young James. No disease followed. Jenner repeated it with a second injection.

No disease. It seemed that Phipps was immune.

In 1977, a Somali hospital worker named Ali Maow Maalin woke up with a fever and a headache. A month later, he was discharged from the hospital, and to this day he is known as the world’s last naturally acquired smallpox case.

Jenner himself spent most of his life surrounded by smallpox.

In 1823, at the ripe old age of 73, he dropped dead of a stroke. Appropriately enough, the disease he played a principal role in exterminating was unable to bring him down. Today, vaccines are a hotbutton subject of a debate fueled by emotion, rather than science. Jenner’s story should serve as an illustration of how far we’ve come, and turn the focus back to the science.

Jack Siglin is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at jsiglindbk@gmail.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

City Council campaigns disappoint

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recent Diamondback article about the highly contested College Park City Council elections made reference to a woman who said she would not be voting for mayoral candidate Patrick Wojahn because of his sexual orientation.

The information the woman shared should be highly enraging to many people who do not like to have others force their sense of morality on them. However, a much uglier turn of events occurred during this election cycle that deserves our attention on how this city runs campaigns. I was all set to vote for Cory Sanders as one of two City Council members from District 1 until I saw the Diamondback article citing “inaccurate information” in his campaign materials.

That information was inaccurate, all right. It was inaccurate in the same way that George O’Leary had “inaccurate information” on his resume when he was hired as head football coach at Notre Dame in 2001. This information resulted in his resignation five days after he was announced as the coach because his resume stated he’d earned three varsity letters at the University of New Hampshire when he never did. This “deceit,” however, did not seem to affect O’Leary’s excellence in coaching college football, especially in 2010, when he became the first coach in University of Central Florida history to lead the team to become nationally ranked.

In the case of Sanders, the claims of his misleading credentials are unfortunate, but this incident is

no proof that he would not have been able to accomplish great things as a council member. It said nothing of his goals for this city or the dedication he had for his constituents, which I believe was ironclad. His opponents, however, have sent reprints of a Washington Post article about Sanders’ alleged misdeeds to homes in North College Park in an apparent effort to discredit both Sanders and Wojahn. If Sanders lost his race because of the smear campaign against him and the attacks on his character, all it reveals is our city’s sensationalist campaign tactics and its cutthroat, seedy nature.

It’s one thing to have had a contested election. If all things were equal, such competition would have been welcome in this city that a police officer once described to me as “the people’s republic of College Park.”

However, all things weren’t equal in this election — not by a long shot.

We have grown numb to the rancor in national politics, whether it comes from Washington or anywhere else.

To have a microcosm of that rancor erupt in this College Park election is disappointing to say the least.

I cast my votes in this election; I haven’t missed one since 1992. But this time, I voted while angry about the shameful run up to the election in a city that I’m proud to live and socialize in.

Mike Sarzo is a 2000 alumnus of this university. He can be reached at msarzo@yahoo.com.

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HOGAN From PAGE 1

CORY SANDERS has “deemed to have withdrawn” from the City Council race after failing to respond to a request about his campaign finance reports. photo courtesy of cory sanders

SANDERS From PAGE 1 campaign finance reports.

Col lege Pa rk City Code states that i f a ca nd idate fails to respond to a request a b o ut c a mp a i g n f i n a nc e repor ts f rom the Boa rd of Election Superv isors within three days, they are deemed to have withdrawn their candidacy for office, sa id ch ief of the Boa rd of Election Superv isors Jack Robson.

Robson sa id there were numerous issues with Sa nders’ report, wh ich were pointed out by a city resident. Campaign finance reports have a lways been public, but this is the first year they were published on the city’s website.

Sanders’ initial campaign finance report, filed Oct. 14, showed he had zero expend itu res. H is pre-election report, filed Oct. 26, showed h e h a d s p e nt $7 35 .93 on yard signs.

“An inquiry was received from a voter by the board as to why some campaign media the resident had received did not show on the report,” Robson said. “Our question was, the only expenditure was signs and an

inqu i ry was sent about the other material voters had received.”

A resident wrote she received mail from Sanders’ campaign, according to an email provided to The Diamondback.

In an Oct. 31 email Robson sent Sanders, he wrote that he had “been e m a i l e d ph oto s of t h e f lyers [sic] a nd ma i lers that the voters were q u e s t ion i n g.” He a l so w rote that Sanders has a website, “the cost of which was not reported.”

Sanders responded that h i s website wa s “done for free at no cost.” He w ro te t h at h e w a s i nvoiced for the mail after he sent in his campaign finance report. The fliers, he wrote, were distributed on “regular printi ng paper that I’ve had awhile and didn’t represent a cost since the paper was purchased months in advance and not for campaign purpose.”

Robson said he asked Sanders for a corrected report three days ago.

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avoided addressing any major policy questions.

H is ca mpa ig n platform focused on what Hogan called the “things people care about” — essentially, economic and job issues. Social issues, for the most part, weren’t addressed, and Hogan has said publicly he won’t try to change existing laws.

“He’s been very strategic in the issues he’s tackled and how he’s handled them,” Rouse said. “Cutting tolls and expenses statewide is popular across party lines. Not totally nixing the Purple Line project and keeping the program alive was a positive step. Other issues won’t necessarily be as easy, moving forward.”

BALTIMORE UNREST Ninety days after his inauguration, Hogan was hit with an unexpected problem.

“Ba lti more City was i n flames,” he said.

The city erupted in protests in late April after 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from injuries he suffered while in police custody. The protests later turned violent.

After preparing for days, Hogan said he “got the mayor to allow us to declare a state of emergency” and signed an executive order for deployment of the National Guard and local law enforcement, which brought about 4,000 people into the city.

There were no more injuries the rest of the week, Hogan said, and the people of Baltimore “thanked the state” for coming in to stop the violence.

The governor’s response was greeted with satisfaction — for the most part — across the state, Rouse said. Baltimore is typically self-contained in how it’s run, so the governor’s intervention could be “looked at in a number of

ways,” she said.

“He made some public appearances, tried to stick by the leadership there without taking over,” Rouse said. “He was put in a situation very early on in his term, and he kind of did exactly what he was supposed to do.”

For government and politics professor Robert Koulish, however, the governor’s response to the Baltimore protests left something to be desired. Hogan was publicly critical of the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, while she was on the front line, he said.

“Hogan appeared to me to be kind of bullying his way in, trying to get headlines,” Koulish said. “I think the mayor was quite busy during that time, and if he was going to be critical at that moment, it should have been behind the scenes. It left a bad taste in my mouth, minimizing what was going on.”

CANCER DIAGNOSIS Five months into his administration, Hogan faced another roadblock. On June 22, he appeared before the state in a press conference and announced he’d received a “life-changing” diagnosis: advanced and aggressive nonHodgkins lymphoma.

The diagnosis, he said, came the Friday before Father’s Day weekend. He told his wife that night and shared the news with the rest of his family before Monday, he said.

“I’ll be honest; my communications team was telling me not to do a press conference,” Hogan said, “but I’m a big believer in transparency and honesty. I wanted people to know exactly what I was going through.”

Despite the shocking news, he presented a strong face during the press conference, taking on the persona of a “happy warrior” and showing strength, Koulish said.

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Gov. LARRY HOGAN delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the state General Assembly on Feb. 4. photo courtesy of the office of the governor th is a nd beati ng th is a re much, much better than the odds I had of beating Anthony Brown,” Hogan joked in the press conference.

O ver t he cou rse of h i s treatment, Hogan said, he’s seen instances of “incredible strength and courage” from other patients, particularly children, that have inspired him to continue.

“One in three people in A mer ic a a re a f fe cte d by cancer — maybe they have a family member, loved one or close friend affected by it,” Hogan said. “If I’m going to go through this battle, then I’m going to use it for some good: to bring awareness and visibility to the fight people are going through, too.”

Hogan has raised money for the Rona ld McDona ld House, attended fundraisers and taken child cancer patients to Redskins, Ravens and Orioles games.

LOOKING AHEAD Moving forward, Koulish and Rouse said they predict the governor will have more challenges to face. Traditionally, “sophomore year” becomes more difficult for governors and mayors, Koulish said, adding Hogan might have trouble staying true to his eco-

nomic message and keeping his distance from social issues.

“We’ll see next session what comes up,” Koulish said.

“There’s going to be trafficking bills and probably plenty of opportunities for him to step in it going forward. You have to say he’s had a pretty positive first year — we’ll have to see what happens.”

A Baltimore Sun report f ro m M o n d a y fo re s h a dowed what Rouse expects to be a contentious issue in the coming months: what to do with the state’s budget surplus. This year, legislative leaders expect to take in $500 million more than budgeted a nd pred ict a nother $215 million surplus next year, according to the article.

Democrat leadership hopes the surplus will go toward school systems, but the governor has declined to elaborate on where the money will be spent, the article said.

“A deficit is much easier to deal with than a surplus, as a Republican,” Rouse said.

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SHRINKING FOOTPRINTS Campus Sustainability Report lists univ sustainability accomplisments

By Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer In recent weeks, university dining halls introduced a su sta i n able compa ny’s “drink of the gods” and local beef from cows raised on the Campus Farm.

These products have helped Dining Services meet its environmental goal five years ahead of schedule, with 20 percent of food served considered sustainable, according to the 2015 Campus Sustainability Report, released Oct. 21.

S a l ly D e L e o n , p ro j e c t manager of the sustainability report, said the campus

yerba mate tea machines from a sustainable company sit in the South Campus Dining Hall. Dining Services reached its environmental goal five years ahead of schedule. rachel george/the diamondback

“should be proud of what we have accomplished.”

T h e u n i v e rs i t y s c o re d higher than last year in 28 different categories, according to the report.

The campus carbon footprint decreased 22 percent since 2005 and the university is on track to meet the goal of a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of this year. The university still needs to meet its goal of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2020, according to this university’s Climate Action Plan, published in 2009.

“We should be motivated to keep working because, for some projects, we are still far off from our goal,” DeLeon said.

The university achieved an institutional waste diversion rate — redirecting trash to composting and recycling rather than into landfills — of 89 percent, up 11 percent from last year’s report. Additional construction programs on the campus contributed to this increase, said Bill Guididas, coordinator for the University Recycling and Solid Waste Program.

The League of American Bicyclists named this university a gold-level Bicycle F r iend ly Un iversit y, t he highest recognition the organization has given to any college or university in the mid-Atlantic, according to the report. There are only 12

schools that have received the gold level or higher. In 2014, 4,434 bikes were registered, more than any of the past four years.

Sustainability programs also expanded in the past year. T he Partnership for Act ion L e a r n i n g i n Su stainability, a program that started in 2014, offered 29 courses with more than 400 enrolled students. This initiative is administered by the National Center for Smart Growth at this university and is designed to get students involved in helping local governments improve sustainability. In total, 80,000 hours of assistance were provided to both College Park and Fred-

erick County.

“We were really pleased with the first year,” Maggie Haslam, PALS spokeswoman, said. “We received a lot of great feedback from faculty and students. Frederick is already implementing recommendations and strategies that faculty and students presented to them.”

A s o f n o w, PA L S w i l l partner with Howard County and Southwest Partnership in Baltimore in 2016.

More tha n 3,700 Sma l l Footprint Pledges — a comm itment from u n iversity c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s to maintain an environmentally friendly lifestyle — were taken on the campus from

2014 to 2015. These pledges contributed to a total savings of 23,000 pounds of waste, 5.7 million gallons of water and more than 275,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Although there are programs and minors for students interested in sustainability, Aynsley Toews, the project manager for the Small Footprint Pledge, said the program wanted to reach a different demographic.

“We wanted to do something really easy and simple for students who might not have done a ny th i ng w ith s u s t a i n a b i l i t y b e f o r e ,” Toews said.

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REVIEW | NANDO’S PERI-PERI

ESSAY | THE CHIPOTLE CILANTRO PROBLEM

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nando’s is defined by its chicken and its flavor, two categories in which it shines. The dining experience at the newly opened spot is rare on Route 1. erica bonelli /for the diamondback

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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.” –Edwin Hubble.

In the 15th century, Portuguese explorers set out for Africa with their five senses; their sense of taste taking command. There they would find the spicy peri-peri pepper that would become the science behind the flavors of the heat-filled menu of Nando’s PeriPeri restaurant.

As those Portuguese explorers first set foot in Africa and discovered the peri-peri pepper glistening blood red in the hot African sun, so did the starving students of College Park set foot inside Nando’s Peri-Peri. Their eyes bulged at the sights, the smells — it was an oasis in a fast-casual food desert. At their first taste, they were hooked. They broke free of their Chipotle chains, their Slices shackles, and indulged in a fulfilling feast that some might have felt was the baptism of the first true dining establishment in College Park.

Walking in, the colorful and comfortable vibe is enthralling. What was once a dreary whitewashed pizza joint that came alive only in the night has become a thriving community of patrons soberly basking in the sunlight and the steam of the fresh butterflied chickens being charred to perfection.

On ceramic plates there are inviting appetizers, flavorful main meals and unique desserts — a stark contrast from the shiny silver bowls brimming with taco fillings or the grease-stained paper plates that litter the streets on Sunday

mornings. The menu is made up of a variety of options, but many include the peri-peri pepper as their signature base. A snack, the Peri-Peri nuts with the signature peri-peri salt, were much more interesting than a bowl of nuts would seem. This combination of spice-roasted almonds, waxy cashews and sweet macadamias was toasty and rich with a kick from a dusting of the signature pepper that pervades the Nando’s menu.

The spicy mixed olives were bathed in a red pepper and garlic marinade that cools your taste buds with a tang.

The chicken is the star of the Nando’s menu. As you enter the beaming restaurant, the butterflied chickens bask on the open grill, caramelizing with flavor.

They go through an intricate process to produce that juicy, flavorful, chargrilled taste. When the chickens arrive, they are steamed and then cooked in a rationale oven made for Nando’s. Chefs baste the bottom of every chicken with the lemonherb sauce, marinate it for 24 hours, then dollop your sauce of choice on top and grill. The sauces include plain, lemon and herb, mango and lime, medium, hot or extra hot. The more peri-peri, the spicier the chicken. Unhappy with your choice of sauce? Nando’s has a wall of different sauces for dipping and adding flavor.

Unfortunately, if it’s flavor you’re looking for, these sauces don’t do the job. They were nearly indistinguishable except by heat, which overwhelmed any flavor potentials. The flavor of the chicken definitely comes from the grilled smokiness and the caramelized marinades. When you get it, feel free to use your hands to pick it up and dig into the juicy breast.

This may be the only real, wholesome piece of chicken you can acquire in College Park.

To accompany your chicken, choose from sides including Peri chips (french fries) with a side of Perinaise (Peri-Peri Mayo), flame-grilled corn on the cob, a Portuguese roll, garlic bread, macho peas, Portuguese rice, coleslaw and red skin mashed potatoes. The fries were classic, as you would expect, but dusted with the peri-peri salt for a little heat reminiscent of Old Bay fries on a Terps game day.

Vegetarians, don’t fret. The portobello mushroom with halloumi wrap was filled with flavor from the perfectly grilled salty halloumi, the tenderness of the earthy portobello, crunchy lettuce and a burst of flavor from the lemon herb sauce inside.

Accompanied by a side of corn, this meal can stack up against the army of chicken choices on the menu.

For dessert, the signature Portuguese egg tart or “naughty natas” was a sweet balance of rich cream, with a soft flaky exterior dusted with cinnamon and sugar.

In true Nando’s spirit, the tart is grilled just like the chickens.

While for many of this university’s students this might seem like a “Treat Yourself” establishment, the price of a half chicken and side is almost identical to that of a steak burrito bowl with extra guacamole from almighty Chipotle.

Nando’s brings to College Park a light in a dismal darkness of fast food, a place you can bring your parents when you get sick of Busboys and Poets and a lively diverse atmosphere that might make you forget you have three exams next week and a paper due two hours ago. The authentic, interesting and flavorful menu of Nando’s is a much welcomed face in the dull or overseasoned College Park restaurants. ebonellidbk@gmail.com

I regret to inform you that your masterpiece is a lie. You see, the first bite fooled me into thinking that I had found bliss and true love, but you turned out to be a bigger disappointment than the tilapia served in the f------ South Campus Dining Hall.

You tickled my taste buds in that first bite — a perfect mixture of guacamole, sour cream and just a hint of corn.

However, I proceeded with my usual caution as my fork dove deeper into my sacred burrito bowl.

My fork led me to a newfound dread, the subject of this open letter: cilantro.

Fo r t h o s e o f yo u w h o don’t know, cilantro is an herb derived from coriander leaves. Cilantro is common in Spanish and Mediterranean foods, and unfortunately for you Chipotle, it has found its way into your establishment.

I am not alone in this hatred. Scientists have found that certain percentages of populations are “genetically wired” to have an aversion to the taste of cilantro, acco rd i n g to a n a r t i c l e o n gizmodo.com . In fact, culinary goddess Julia Child also took offense to the taste.

And in case you didn’t know, she has a movie about her mastery of cooking.

However, Ms. Child and I are not the only ones with a strong affliction to the taste.

Many of you live among us and are lucky enough to never have encountered the horror. Those who are less lucky find themselves speaking out on various media platforms. There is a Face-

book page entitled “I Hate Cilantro” with more than 18,000 likes, and there is even a website, ihatecilantro. com , where fellow cilantro haters can vent about the herb’s ubiquity.

To me, cilantro tastes like a very soapy and metallic stinkbug. No, I haven’t tasted a stinkbug before, but cilantro tastes how the horrid creature smells.

The word “coriander” is derived from the Greek word “bedbug,” as the smell was often compared to that of bugs found in bedclothes, according to a New York Times article.

But my woes have only just begun.

Not only is cilantro present in the purity of your white rice, but it is also found in your corn salsa. To make matters worse, many customers are living in a world of ignorance. Those who do not share my repugnance to the taste have suggested I order the brown rice instead, claiming it does not have cilantro in it.

LIES. The brown rice also contains cilantro. I have checked our local Chipotle establishment multiple times, and each time my heart was brutally broken.

Chipotle, I’m not asking for an entire menu revitalization here. I’m trying to help you. Think of how m a ny c u s to m e rs ’ h ea r ts have been crushed because of this nonsense. It could be cost-effective to develop a brown or alternative rice that truly contains no cilantro.

Customer satisfaction would increase, and my taste buds could once again rejoice in the magnificent burrito bowl. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

FEATURE | TERPZONE’S REPUTATION

THE CURIOUS CASE OF TERPZONE TerpZone should be a popular on-campus hang out spot, so why is there a stigma attached to it?

By Cameron Neimand @kneemund Staff writer Offering billiards, bowling, video games and 50-inch plasma screen TVs, this university’s TerpZone possesses several integral elements of the collegiate hangout spot of fantasy. Located on the basement level of Stamp Student Union, TerpZone attempts to provide an entertainment-fueled safe haven for the overstressed university student in their minimal, seemingly nonexistent downtime. For Skippy Dunbar, a freshman in the engineering school, TerpZone succeeds in this mission.

“It’s a good place to relax,” Dunbar said. “I just come here in my free time.”

Antonio Sierra, a sophomore mechanical engineering major who said he visits TerpZone four out of five weekdays on average, enjoys the atmosphere.

“It’s not super quiet like a library, but, I mean, I don’t mind all the noise,” Sierra said as he sat in one of TerpZone’s many cushy black lounge chairs. “I think this is probably where I do most of my work.”

However, TerpZone often carries a negative connotation among students at this university. There is a sentiment around the campus that TerpZone is, well, kind of lame. So why does a place that receives endless praise from the majority of students who frequent it still continue to get such a bad rap among the university population? Suhayla Ahmed, a junior finance and government and politics major, said she has had “a lot of fun” in her four visits to TerpZone, but has an idea on where it gets its reputation.

“I think it might be because it fits the scope of ‘good, clean fun,’” she said.

Alec Taylor, a senior econom-

a bowler stares down the lanes located inside TerpZone. file photo/the diamondback ics and finance major and Terp- sistant in on-campus housing.

“As an RA, I was ‘strongly Zone regular, similarly feels that TerpZone doesn’t allow for col- encouraged’ by the Departlege’s idealized illicit adventures. ment of [Resident] Life to bring “It’s not the typical bar scene new students to TerpZone and I or whatever, the typical college felt compelled to act like it was social scene,” Taylor said while the best place to be on a Friday playing a game of billiards with night,” Welwood said.

Welwood also describes Terphis friends. “College kids don’t like to hang out and play pool. Zone as “the JaMarcus Russell of College kids like to go out and Maryland facilities,” a reference to the untapped potential of both drink.”

Senior communication major the hangout spot and the former Ryan Welwood said his lack of first overall pick in the NFL draft appreciation of TerpZone stems who is considered to be one of from his time as a resident as- the biggest busts in history.

“While TerpZone definitely has potential to be a good hang out spot for on-campus students, it simply hasn’t gotten there yet,” he said. “Hopefully in the future they can reach the level of chill that the school thinks they’re already at.”

Among those who hold a positive view of TerpZone, Dunbar, Sierra and Taylor all mentioned the price of billiards and pool as another negative.

“If you’re a regular, then I would assume that you’re being charged too much,” Sierra said.

During the midday special, billiards costs $2.50 per hour, bowling costs $1.75 per player per game plus $1.00 for shoes and video games cost $2.50 per hour. For students like Sierra who visit multiple days a week, those costs start to add up, and it seems unfair to charge regular users the same amount as someone who comes in on

an infrequent basis. A possible solution, explained by Sierra, would be a sort of subscription service, “where you get access to all the things but you’re only paying for one price.” The plan could work sort of like a gym membership, where a monthly or yearly rate provides access to all equipment.

While there certainly are polarizing opinions on the validity of TerpZone as a desirable destination, many seem to be indifferent about the subject. Several of the students present during my trips to TerpZone declined an interview, usually saying that it’s somewhere they almost never go and that they just happened to be there on that day.

With TerpZone, this university might have a hidden gem, but the existing negative connotation still keeps this diamond very much in the rough. cneimanddbk@gmail.com

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Gray brings athleticism, strength to OL as starter Former four-star recruit joining line against Badgers

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer Terrapins right tackle Derwin Gray hasn’t started a game, but there’s already a tall tale surrounding the redshirt freshman’s strength.

Gray has never pushed someone’s sternum through the back of their body, but that’s what center Evan Mulrooney thought he saw one day.

Even if Mulrooney was exaggerating, Gray showcases that ferocity in practice every day. When Gray faces Mulrooney in pass protection drills, Gray surprises his older teammates with the power of his pushes.

“The dude punches like someone has a gun to his head,” Mulrooney said.

Gray will bring that brute force and athleticism to the Terps offensive line this Saturday when he makes his first career start against Wisconsin. While Gray will be the least-experienced lineman, he’ll have a chance to showcase his impressive skill set that made him a consensus four-star recruit.

“He’s one of the most athletically gifted people I’ve ever met in my life,” Mulrooney said. “You look at the guy, and it’s just like, ‘Jesus Christ. Where did you come from? What happened that made you this size and this athletic?’”

The 6-foot-5, 328-pound tackle wasn’t cleared for practice until the second week of the season after still recov-

ering from a torn left labrum he suffered in April.

When he returned, he worked his way to backup right tackle and made his college debut against thenNo. 22 Michigan on Oct. 3.

But he was still stuck behind another highly touted redshirt freshman, Damian Prince.

Then two weekends ago against Penn State, Prince hurt his ankle. This past Saturday, Ryan Doyle moved from left guard to right tackle and Maurice Shelton started in the interior. Gray played about 25 snaps, interim coach Mike Locksley said. But Gray wanted more.

“Derwin has been chomping at the bit to get in all season,” Mulrooney said.

“Even after the game, he was like, ‘Man, I wish I had gotten to play all game.’”

This week, Gray will get his chance. Locksley believes he’s ready.

“We’ve always known that Derwin has the talent,” Locksley said. “What he has to do is put together the mental part, and Saturday, he took a step forward.”

Gray joins an offensive line that’s been depleted by injuries. Guard Mike Minter started the first three games before a torn labrum sidelined him for the season.

Over the past three contests, the unit has also learned a new blocking scheme that emphasizes quickness and blocking linebackers and the secondary.

As the new-look offense has developed, the offensive line has cleared holes

for quarterback Perry Hills to run. Against Iowa, Hills became the first Terp in 10 years to have three consecutive games with 100 rushing yards or more.

But after allowing no sacks through the first three games, the Terps have surrendered 16 in the last five games.

“You’re seeing [the offensive line] start to get to the second level more with some blocks,” Locksley said.

“It’s really sprung us to be able to get the run game kind of going, but we also got to get the passing game going and we’ve put a lot of energy to get that corrected on the back end.”

Gray’s athleticism makes him a perfect run blocker for the Terps’ offensive scheme, Locksley said, and the Terps hope that vigor Gray brings to pass-protection drills will translate to the game.

His ascension up the depth chart didn’t surprise defensive end Yannick Ngakoue.

G ra y m a d e a n a m e f o r himself at Friendship Collegiate, where he teamed up with Ngakoue.

After playing with Gray in high school, Ngakoue knew the lineman would get his chance someday. It was just a matter of when.

“I always saw the potential and everything he can possibly be,” Ngakoue said. psuittsdbk@gmail.com Senior staff writer Ryan Baillargeon contributed to this report.

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By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer Terrapins football defensive end Yannick Ngakoue had heard about “the pass-rush guru” — the former All-Pro defensive end from Atlanta who’d been training prospective professionals for years, imparting lessons learned from his nine years in the NFL. So when Ngakoue learned the Terps were shifting to a 4-3 defense and he’d be transitioning from linebacker to defensive end, he decided to test the validity of those rumors. He wanted to meet Chuck Smith.

This past summer, Ngakoue dipped into his savings, packed his bags and traveled to Atlanta.

The results have been impressive. After two promising years with the Terps, the Bowie native has emerged as one of the leaders of the defense and is quickly approaching the program’s singleseason sacks record. “[Smith’s] a unique guy that talks about pass rush 24/7,” Ngakoue said. “It’s helped. It’s obviously working.”

After a summer working with Smith, Ngakoue has recorded 26 tackles and a

team-high 10.5 sacks through eight games.

Yesterday, reporters asked Ngakoue questions pertaining to his personal achievements: Do you think about being a potential All-American? Do you think about going to the NFL? Nga ko u e ’s a n swe r wa s uniform: No. “At the end of the day, I want to go down in history of being a player that’s been to a bowl game consecutive times,” Ngakoue said. “I came here my first year, we went to a bowl game and we played against Marshall. Last year, we played against Stanford, and it would be great for my junior year to be able to go to a bowl game.”

To qualify for a bowl this year, the Terps need to win all four of their remaining contests, starting with Saturday’s homecoming bout against Wisconsin.

The Badgers come to College Park with an average of 409.3 yards per game, fifth-best in the Big Ten. After Ngakoue compiled a combined 18 tackles for loss at linebacker the past two seasons, Terps coaches asked him to slide up to the line.

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“Going through the transition of being a stand-up guy to putting his hand in the ground, it’s been a bit of a transition,” defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski said.

“He’s done a great job.”

Smith’s training proved valuable in the switch. Ngakoue worked on his spinning and learned how to chop block. And their relationship hasn’t ended with Ngakoue back in College Park — he said he still keeps in touch with Smith.

Plus, the junior has spent extra time in the film room with assistant coach Chad Wilt, who has provided a bevy of tips.

Cornerback Will Likely said Ngakoue’s mentality has an infectious effect on the rest of the team.

“He’s hungry. He’s one of those type of people that you don’t have to look around and see what he’s doing,” Likely said. “You can bet if you don’t see him, he’s probably out on the field working out or something.”

Ngakoue didn’t even know that he’s 2.5 sacks away from tying the program’s singleseason sacks record until Wednesday. A team official had to tell him.

For Ngakoue, it’s all about the team. Whether he’s staring down the quarterback crouched with his hands on his thighs or his hand planted in the dirt, the end goal remains the same.

“I just want us to win to try to get to a bowl game,” Ngakoue said. “I would trade in the stats to get some wins.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Maryland vs. Wisconsin

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has been a bright spot in the Terps secondary. While he doesn’t have any interceptions, the junior leads the Terps with 10 pass breakups, seven more than the second-highest total on the team. Likely’s explosiveness in the return game could prove crucial Saturday against a Wisconsin team that’s first in the nation in scoring defense.

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will make his first career start Saturday and join a unit that’s allowed quarterback Perry Hills to rush for 100 yards or more in three consecutive games. Mental errors have been a problem for Gray, but if he can eliminate those mistakes, he has the talent to hold his own.

per game. The Badgers have allowed eight points per game since a seasonopening loss to No. 7 Alabama.

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through the air, their lowest total this season.

Running back Corey Clement

returned from a sports hernia injury last week and rushed for 115 yards on 11 carries against Rutgers.

Clement, who is listed as the backup on the depth chart, might have limited touches Saturday. But Clement is a big-play threat, as he averaged 6.5 yards per carry last season.

Linebacker Joe Schobert is third in the Big Ten in sacks (9.5) and second in tackles for loss (14.5). The former walk-on leads a Wisconsin team that ranks third in the nation in total defense. The senior is also second on the Badgers with 56 tackles.

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ON THE RECORD “I remember walking in there and understanding why they’re all so large. It’s because they’re sponsored by Johnsonville sausages. ... I’ve never been more jealous of a football team in my life.”

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RYAN BAILLARGEON: 31-10 WISCONSIN The Badgers’ stout defense shuts down a struggling Terps attack that can’t correct its turnover woes.

JOSHUA NEEDELMAN: 31-17 WISCONSIN The homecoming festivities will give way to disappointment for Terps fans.

PHILLIP SUITTS: 24-10 WISCONSIN For the second consecutive week, the Terps offense struggles against a top-tier defense.

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spent hours playing games in that house. With Craddock’s sisters, Alanah and Jacqui, they’d play Monopoly, Squatter and card games such as 500.

“He loves being around people, really,” Leonie said.

“People that he has attachment to. Family is very important to him.”

Since coming over from Australia, Craddock said his social circle hasn’t expanded much past his teammates. The Terps have become his “American family,” his mom said.

Back in Australia, the Craddocks had invited friends over for the Terps’ contest against N.C. State. Their friends had never watched American football before.

Trailing by two points and with the announced crowd of 40,217 hanging on his every move, quarterback Caleb Rowe, the third signal-caller used in the game, led the Terps into kicker brad craddock gets roughed up while attempting a 36-yard field goal during the Terps’ 31-30 loss to Penn State on Oct. 24 at M&T Bank Stadium. alexander jonesi/the diamondback field-goal range.

With six seconds remaining, Craddock jogged onto the field.

Leonie and Raymond had ent’s Adelaide, Australia, a dubious rookie into the “Our friend turned towards home and boot a soft 6-inch just woken up one May 2012 Terps’ leader.

Some might find it hard to McDonald’s Australian-rules morning when Craddock me and said, ‘Is this a good thing From PAGE 14 believe when looking back at football through the frame of burst into their bedroom. if Brad kicks for the game?’”

Wi t h l a p to p i n h a n d , h e Leonie said. “I turned to her About a year later, Crad- how his journey started. But it his bedroom. s h owe d h i s p a re n t s t h e and said, ‘Only if he gets it.’”

And if Craddock couldn’t all began with The Miss. dock didn’t miss either of his The freshman kicker ap“If that hadn’t happened,” find a football, he’d grab a pair scholarship offer email from attempts during the Terps’ homecoming game against Craddock said, “I wouldn’t be of rolled-up socks from his former special teams coach proached the attempt the same way he had the first 12 attempts drawer and send them flying Andre Powell.

Clemson. He didn’t miss his where I am right now.”

“I think I’m going to be a of his career and the two he across the house. only field goal in 2014’s contest “He was allowed to do it,” Terp,” Leonie recalled Crad- made earlier in the game. He READY TO FLY against Iowa, either. The reignwaited for the snap, took three said his mother, Leonie. “The dock saying. ing Lou Groza Award winner steps and swung his right foot.

“We cried.”

The young boy couldn’t rule was he had to be straight hopes to keep the streak going Saturday when the Terps host get enough of kicking. When on the door.”

“YOU SEE THESE ‘SICK AS A DOG’ As he got older, Craddock Wisconsin in this year’s home- his father, Raymond, wasn’t GUYS EVERY DAY. around to return his volley, started playing competitive coming game.

To this day, Raymond isn’t Australian-rules football.

Craddock would line up at I n t h re e ye a rs , C ra d ... AND YOU PRETTY dock has transformed from the family room in his par- He’d record as many as 20 kicks sure what caused him to faint MUCH LOST THE per game, striking balls to his at the Subway on Route 1 in GAME ON A 33-YARD College Park. But he knows it route-running teammates.

FIELD GOAL YOU “Kick [the] ball end over end, rattled his son.

Raymond accompanied running start,” Craddock said.

SHOULDN’T BE “We never kick a spiral; there’s Brad for his first few days in MISSING. IT WAS College Park in summer 2012, no point. Its not accurate.”

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“I was sick as a dog,” Crad- “Because I hit the meat, that already made the transition to college football, so finding dock said. “It was dreadful. The ball would’ve gone a long way.”

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H e ’d l e t h i s A m e r i c a n recruiting visits. The Aussie fret. After all, he had just was ready to board a plane to started learning placekicking. family down.

“You see these guys every whichever school offered a MON.-FRI. 10AM-7:30PM • SAT. 10AM-7PM • SUN. 11AM-4PM day,” Craddock said. “And you “I THOUGHT I scholarship first. pretty much lost the game CRUSHED IT” Former Terps coach Randy on a 33-yard field goal you Edsall was one of the coaches 4431 Lehigh Road • Next to Cafe Hookah Early in the morning Oct. shouldn’t be missing. It was to receive the highlight clip.

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NO REGRETS Leonie and Raymond went to church after the Wolfpack game, but they rushed home when Leonie received a text message from her son: “Can I talk?”

“He was just upset,” Leonie said as her voice softened. “We … we just wanted to be with him, really.”

Craddock got through the rest of the season — talking with his parents every day — before returning home for winter break. Within a week, he was back in the swing of things, catching up with his “mates” and enjoying the beach.

But when he first got home, his parents said he looked “terrible” and “worn out.”

The kicker pondered his future. Why go back to the harsh realities of big-time college football? Without any expectations weighing him down, he felt at peace in Australia.

Then he watched the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl.

A back-and-forth contest had come down to the final play. With LSU clinging to a 24-22 lead, all eyes turned to Clemson kicker Chandler Catanzaro. He drilled the 37yarder through the uprights as time expired and fell to the turf. But unlike Craddock two months ago, Catanzaro wasn’t lying alone. His teammates covered him in a dogpile.

“It was just like, ‘That’s what I want,’” Craddock said.

A couple of days before he was scheduled to return to College Park, Craddock sat with Leonie and Raymond in the family room where they’d spent countless happy hours playing games.

Looking back on it three years later, Craddock said he knew he wouldn’t have stayed home. But he still needed some convincing.

“It doesn’t bother us whether you come home or if you want to go back. We will back you regardless of what you do,” Leonie recalled telling her son. “But all we want you to be able to do is say you have no regrets.”

He couldn’t say that, though. The pain from The Miss hurt too much. So Craddock asked his parents to help him find a coach.

‘THIS GUY’S A GENIUS’ Matt Stover, sixth all-time in NFL field goals made, had to urge his new pupil to slow down. Craddock was kicking too much.

Craddock initially didn’t know much about Stover but was put into contact with the two-time Super Bowl winner through former NFL kicker Michael Husted. In the past, Stover had mentored future NFL kickers Mason Crosby and Phil Dawson.

The two met on a chilly February 2013 day at St. Paul’s School’s field. Craddock “didn’t know what to See craddock, Page 13

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“We didn’t need the music to get us pumped up for this,” defender Sarah Sprink said. “It’s postseason.”

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craddock From PAGE 12 fix,” but after his first session with Stover, he sent a text message to his mother: “This guy’s a genius.”

Using Kickertips.com and SmartMotion, Stover broke down Craddock’s technique frame-by-frame.

“The first session, I blew his mind,” Stover said. “He had no idea what he didn’t know. And I was able to share with him just by watching two or three kicks exactly why he missed left, why he missed right and what his real issues were.”

Craddock was instructed to kick 900 balls over 10 weeks, but Stover said the Australian was on pace to kick nearly 1,200 balls.

Stover noticed Craddock’s natural motion pulled the ball left, so he urged his student to utter a mantra before he kicked: “left arm.”

With a solid grasp of Stover’s techniques, Craddock showed improvement in 2013, going 21for-25. But he wasn’t satisfied.

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The two referees stationed on opposite sides of the uprights raised their hands in the air.

Forty-three yards away, Craddock jumped in the air and pumped his fist as his teammates chest-bumped him. A little more than two years after The Miss, Craddock had sealed the Terps’ first win over Penn State in 53 years.

“That was massive,” Leonie said. “There was a lot of healing done in that game.”

Stover wasn’t happy with the kick, though. He worried it veered too much to the left.

But he wanted to test Craddock, so he asked the then-junior if he still wanted to partake in their scheduled session later that week. Craddock said yes.

“I said, ‘Dude, you just kicked the game-winning field goal, why do you want to get together?’ Stover said.

“He said, ‘I want to get better.’

And I went, ‘Holy cow.’

“Brad wants the ball. Even though it’s just for a splitsecond. Whenever he gets it, he wants the responsibility of that ball on his foot. And he knows every time he kicks that ball, it’s for the team.”

Craddock went 18 of 19 last season en route to earning the Lou Groza Award, given to the best college kicker in the country.

FROM VILLAIN TO HERO On Oct. 26, Craddock resembled a politician at the team’s weekly media availability. He could only walk for so long before someone offered a handshake or started a conversation.

He charmed the local media, chatted with wrestling coach Kerry McCoy and even offered a reporter a slice of pizza.

“Brad made himself what he is today,” Edsall said in August. “When other people see that, there’s a tremendous amount of respect for him. So then when he speaks, they listen.”

The 2015 campaign hasn’t been easy on Craddock.

Through eight games, the Terps have only two victories and need to win all of their remaining contests to qualify for a bowl game. In the middle of the season, Edsall, Craddock’s most vocal supporter, was fired.

Later on Oct. 26, Craddock sat with a reporter in the Tyson Tower press box, gazing through the glass at Capital One Field. He hasn’t forgotten about The Miss. He hasn’t forgotten about letting his teammates down.

“It still burns me,” Craddock said.

The senior has no regrets.

The Miss knocked him down, but he picked himself up. In a foreign country, with an infamous reputation, he forced himself to improve. He got a coach, worked until he became the best kicker in the country and then worked some more.

“It’s a rough job from the sense of you’re a hero, you’re a villain,” Craddock said. “I like it, though. I like the pressure.”

Craddock concedes he’s thought about life after college. He’s expressed interest in playing professionally. But for now, he has a singular focus. In two days, his American family hosts Wisconsin at Byrd Stadium.

It’s homecoming. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Craddock has come a long way since N.C. State miss Kicker has buried first impression in past three seasons RYAN BAILLARGEON

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“Brad Craddock is the worst kicker in college football.”

I must’ve uttered this phrase a dozen times during the Terrapins football team’s 2012 season. Come to think of it, I might’ve said it 12 times on Oct. 20, 2012 alone.

Standing on the aluminum seats in the student section of Byrd Stadium that fall night, I didn’t know what to do with my hands as Brad lined up for the potential game-winning field goal. Should I cover my eyes? Should I rest them on my head? Should I cross my fingers out in front of my body?

Three years later, I can’t recall what I ended up doing.

But I do remember what I did with my hands moments later. First, I placed them on top of my head in disbelief. Then, filled with rage, I pointed out to the turf where Brad was laying.

How could a kicker miss a 33-yarder? That’s his job. He’s supposed to kick that over and over every single day in practice. How can that not be second nature to him?

I know nothing is a chip shot, especially in college, but he had to make that. The Terps had overcome so much to put Brad in a position to boot a 33yarder to win the game.

Earlier in that contest against N.C. State, the Terps had watched two quarterbacks exit with season-ending injuries. Still, they rallied from a 17-9 deficit late in the third quarter. And after allowing the go-ahead field goal with 32 seconds left, their fourthstring quarterback had improbably moved the ball 60 yards in 30 seconds into fieldgoal range.

But six games into the season, Brad, a freshman at the time, had been wildly inconsistent. That day alone he’d drilled 36- and 48yarders but had missed an extra point.

And with the game on the line, the converted Australian punter yanked his attempt, sending the kick off the left

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kicker brad craddock lays on the turf with his hands in his facemask after he missed the potential game-winning kick against N.C. State on Oct. 20, 2012. file photo/the diamondback post. No good. Game over. My freshman homecoming was ruined. His freshman homecoming was ruined.

I cursed his name as I slogged to the exit. It wasn’t the first time I had done that during that season, and it wouldn’t be the last.

Sports have this weird ability to make us feel like we know the players, even as fans who have never said a word to them. We read s to r i e s a b o u t t h e m . We wa tc h t h e m a d d re ss t h e media. But most importantly, we watch them every game. We feel like we have a relationship with them.

And when they let us down, we feel victimized. It’s as if one of our good friends promised to hang out, only to make last-minute plans with someone else.

That was my relationship with Brad. I didn’t actually know him, and he certainly didn’t know me, but over and over I felt as though he’d let me down.

I’ve grown up around Terps football with Brad. We both knew little about the program when we arrived in College Park in 2012. We’ve experienced the trials and tribulations of the past three-plus years. And now, our Terps careers are winding to a close as we watch the team stumble through a forgettable season.

On Saturday, he’ll trot onto the field more than three years after missing that kick. He’s since won the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the best college kicker, and he’s almost definitely NFL-bound.

And over the past three seasons, he’s been as reliable as they come. I’ve asserted, “Brad Craddock is the best kicker in college football” multiple times.

I’ve learned in the three years since Oct. 20, 2012 how premature my assessment of Brad was, and it’s about time I apologized.

I’m sorry, Brad. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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THE OUTSIDER Craddock’s freshman-year homecoming miss drove the Aussie to become the nation’s top kicker

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s he walked up the stairs Oct. 22, 2012, Brad Craddock could hear his COMM107 classmates chatting. There was a test that day, but it was a tight-knit group. They were always talking.

The last time the section met, Craddock was a relatively unknown kicker on the Terrapins football team. But after the Australian’s 33-yard game-winning attempt against N.C. State careened off the left upright and spoiled the Terps’ homecoming comeback, Craddock became College Park’s persona non grata. “Everyone knew who I was,” Craddock said.

Two days later, he walked up to the classroom door.

The chitchat stopped.

“You could hear a pin drop,” Craddock said. “I sit down, and the teacher didn’t know what to say. She just hands out the exams.”

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