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the final countdown The candidates’ political records, interviews and debates largely speak for themselves.

Below is a breakdown of how each man stands on some of the most contentious and talked-about issues this election cycle.

With voters flocking to the polls today, President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are wrapping up some of theKirshner most bitter, expensive campaigning in recent history. By Jim Bach

By Alex A With voters flocking to the polls today, President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are wrapping up Staff writer Senior staffchallenger writer some of the most bitter, expensive campaigning in recent history.

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After announcing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his Obama has used education as a microcosm of his running mate, Romney embraced much of Ryan’s budget much broader agenda to strengthen the middle class plans, which propose drastic cuts to government spendby expanding Pell grants, putting caps on monthly ing. Those cuts include reducing spending on Pell grants. student loan payments for quality borrowers and Romney has touted Ryan’s budget as “marvelous,” but providing more outreach for students to learn about has said the Pell grant program could continue with loans the costs of going to college. rising parallel to the rate of inflation.

The federal government has steadily absorbed During the primary, however, Romney said the governmore of the student loan market, with the Department should not wade into the issue at all. ment of Education issuing 93 percent of loans in 2011.

At an April campaign event, before he chose Ryan, A few years earlier, the private market accounted for See romney, Page 3

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Linebacker Hartsfield tears ACL; fifth player this season to suffer knee injury Injury raises questions about team’s training, cleats, practice on new turf field

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer

monster energy may be linked to five deaths, though the FDA cannot prove the drinks caused the fatalities. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

FDA looking into claims MonsterEnergy caused deaths

By Sarah Tincher Staff writer Whether they’re in need of a jolt before a night of partying or a pick-me-up while studying, many students fight to stay awake by reaching for a Monster Energy, Red Bull or AMP. Consumers know a crash will likely follow their burst of energy, but some say there may be more serious consequences of using caffeinated beverages.

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of fatalities linked to the consumption of Monster Energy, so far finding claims of five deaths caused by the consumption of the energy drinks, according to recent reports.

While the FDA has said it cannot prove Monster Energy caused these deaths, including that of a 14-year-old Hagerstown girl, university health officials said they are not convinced the drinks are harmless because the FDA does not regulate them.

There have been no reports of caffeine toxicity at this university, according to Amanda Long, the university’s alcohol program coordinator, and the University Health Center has no energy drink-specific campaign. However, the staff provides information See drinks, Page 3

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Things continue to go from bad to worse for the Terrapins football team. The program has already lost three quarterbacks to seasonending ACL tears, and yesterday it added top linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield to that list.

Coach Randy Edsall announced yesterday the senior would miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, ending his Terps career. He suffered the injury with 2:20 remaining in the second quarter of the team’s 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday, Edsall said.

“This is another tough loss for the program,” he said in a statement. “Demetrius is a captain and has been a leader of this defense both on and off the field.”

Hartsfield is the fifth player the Terps have lost for the season because of an ACL injury.

Quarterback C.J. Brown and defensive end Andre Monroe suffered torn ACLs in preseason practice; quarterback Perry Hills was hurt in the team’s loss to N.C. State on Oct. 20, and quarterback Caleb Rowe was lost for the year a week later in the team’s loss at Boston College.

There is evidence the new FieldTurf Revolution field at Byrd Stadium could be to blame for

starting linebacker demetrius hartsfield tore his ACL in Saturday’s loss against Georgia Tech, making him the fifth player to suffer the seasonending injury. Quarterbacks C.J. Brown, Perry Hills and Caleb Rowe and defensive end Andre Monroe all tore their ACLs. charlie deboyace/the diamondback the injuries, though. Hewett said recent studies show ACL tears are “something like 63 percent more common” on turf surfaces than they are on grass, and Brown, Hills and Hartsfield were each hurt on Capital One Field.

FieldTurf Revolution officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.

“You could say if their foot had been on grass and the grass was wet, maybe there’s enough give

there between the shoe and field surface that the foot might have slipped before the knee gives,” Hewett said. “When you plant your foot with a real flat foot and you’re dug into the turf, then you twist your body, what happens is — with your foot planted like that — instead of the ball of your foot being up and your foot rotating, your knee See ACL, Page 2

Three restaurants to open on College Park block Ovo Asian, Ivy Noodle and unnamed Italian restaurant will take spots across from CVS

By Nick Foley Staff writer A trio of restaurants will soon debut just steps away from each other on the block of 7313 Baltimore Ave., across from CVS Pharmacy — an unprecedented number of new openings for one block in the city.

Ovo Asian, Ivy Noodle and an unnamed Italian restaurant should all be open by the beginning of 2013, according to Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater.

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Although some students said they will be happy to see new dining options nearby, Stiefvater said restaurants in that particular area have faced difficulty in the past.

The 7313 block of Baltimore Ave. has historically seen the highest turnover of any downtown shopping center in College Park, Stiefvater said, a direct result of its location from the campus, distant compared to local staples such as Chipotle and Jason’s Deli.

“The rent is not cheap in College Park,” Stiefvater said. “It’s across the street from the shopping

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center with all the big names. … It’s a little bit farther from the campus than those places, which makes it a little more difficult to attract people.”

Ovo Asian, which will open sometime next month at 7313-E as the city’s only vegetarian restaurant, will serve vegan and vegetarian foods with an Asian emphasis, Stiefvater said.

“It will be the only restaurant focused on vegetarian food in the city,” Stiefvater said. “It sounds like they’re going to try and do an innovative take

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Ivy Noodle will occupy the spot formerly leased by District Dumpling, which closed its doors about two-and-a-half months after opening. The Asian-specialty concept failed to create a buzz in the crowded restaurant scene, Stiefvater said.

“I don’t think a lot of people really knew about them,” he said.

“It didn’t seem like they did much advertising. … It just wasn’t very crowded in there.”

Because of the “healthy amount of Asian restaurants downtown,” Ivy Noodle should seek to develop a creative concept if it wants to survive in the city, Stiefvater said, adding the restaurant is on track to open in a few weeks.

The last space in the bustling block of businesses will be filled by a still-unnamed Italian restaurant scheduled to open early in 2013, Stiefvater said. It’s still unclear whether the restaurant will be casual or upscale, and the owner has yet to start renovating the space’s interior, he added.

“We have a lot of Italian restaurants downtown, so unless they decide to go a bit of a different route, that could be difficult,” Stiefvater said.

Several students, including junior atmospheric and oceanic science major Katherine O’Brien, said they hope for an option that would stand out among the typical fast, casual fare.

“I would love to see a nice restaurant with the tablecloths and the glasses,” O’Brien said.

Elizabeth Chagnon, a junior psychology and women’s studies major, said she is still missing a kosher restaurant in the area.

“We have a major Jewish population on this campus, and they have nowhere to go to get kosher food,” Chagnon said.

“We don’t really need another Asian place.”

rotates, and that basically ruptures your ACL. While fans have begun to criticize and question Edsall and the Terps’ training staff for the rash of injuries, there’s no concrete evidence to prove a particular type of training can help prevent noncontact ACL injuries, according to Tim Hewett, a sports medicine professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

ACL injuries — which are noncontact about 70 percent of the time — occur when players attempt to plant and cut off a flat foot, Hewett s a i d . T h o u g h t h e re a re studies showing strengthening core stability can help train a player to plant on the balls of their feet rather than flat-footed, Hewett said they’re little more than theories as of now.

“There are techniques and neuromuscular training programs you can use to decrease relative risk, but these have not been validated in football,” Hewett said. “They are potentially preventable, but at this point, we don’t really know.”

Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield leads the Terps in tackles this season with 78. He’s also recorded 3.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries and an interception. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Hewett said he knows one thing: Contact ACL injuries are not preventable. No matter what type of training regimen the Terps implement, the injuries to Hills, Rowe and Hartsfield were unavoidable.

Hills suffered his injury on an illegal hit in the back from N.C. State linebacker Rickey Dowdy; a Boston College defender pulled Rowe down from

MORE ONLINE alumnus with non-hodgkin’s lymphoma fights for affordable health care For Ashwani Jain, the fight to keep health care affordable is a personal one.

The 2011 alumnus was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 13, forcing him to undergo four months of chemotherapy and several surgeries to remove the cancer from his body.

“Because I was covered under my parents’ health insurance, I was able to take preventative measures that helped my doctors discover my tumor at its early stages,” Jain said. “Back then, millions of Americans did not have that luxury.

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behind, and Hartsfield’s knee buckled while making a play during Yellow Jackets’ quarterback Vad Lee’s 2-yard rush late in the fi rst half.

Edsall has refused to place any blame on the field or the team’s training staff, though.

Wes Robinson has been head trainer with the Terps for six seasons, and Strength and Conditioning Director Drew Wilson

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has been on Edsall’s staff since he coached at Connecticut. And for all three, these are likely unprecedented circumstances.

“I’ve been with Drew for five years and I know what he does with our program and I see the effects that is has on our guys here and the difference it’s made,” Edsall said Oct. 28. “So I don’t think it has anything to do with that.”

It doesn’t change the fact the Terps now must play what are likely their final three games with a depleted roster. A ninega me sta r ter t h i s sea son, Hartsfield leads the Terps with 78 tackles — 23 more than second-leading tackler Cole Farrand. He also recorded 3.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries and an interception.

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“i feel terrible for him because i know how much the game means to him. to have his senior year cut short is just disheartening.”

RANDY EDSALL

Terrapins football coach ra n ked No. 15 i n prog ra m history with 338 tackles. “ I fe e l te r r i b l e fo r h i m because I know how much the game means to him,” Edsall said. “To have his senior year cut short is just disheartening.

We will be here to support him through the rehab process and help him with his transition towards the next stage of his career.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

CORRECTION Due to reporting and editing errors, Monday’s article, “First Korean graduate honored 121 years later,” incorrectly stated the name of Pyon Su’s descendant, Harold Pyon, and misidentified Pyon Su by his first name rather than his last, Pyon. In addition, the print headline incorrectly stated the historical significance of the 1891 alumnus’s diploma to this university. The artifact is the oldest diploma in University Archives’ collection.

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romney From PAGE 1 Romney told a crowd of students, “Borrow money if you have to from your parents.”

Romney has advocated less government involvement in payment for higher education than Obama.

“There’s a tremendous difference” between the two men’s visions on the government’s role in higher education, said Rouse, a government and politics professor.

Health Care

Romney has been a harsh critic of Obama’s health care reform, the Affordable Care Act, and often referred to it as “Obamacare” while campaigning and debating the president.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney engineered and signed into law a universal health care plan that was costly for insurance companies, but made health care more accessible for Massachusetts residents who previously couldn’t afford it.

“Romneycare,” Obama has said, became the basis for the president’s health reforms, which were signed into law in 2010 and upheld in the Supreme Court over the summer.

Romney has contested that claim and said his law was effective for Massachusetts, but not necessarily the entire country. He has not clearly indicated how much health care would change if elected.

Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised Romney on the Massachusetts law and Obama on the federal bill.

“The truth is that the Affordable Care Act is essentially based on what we accomplished in Massachusetts,” Gruber told MSNBC earlier this year.

“It’s the same basic structure applied nationally.”

Romney has adopted Ryan’s calls for Medicare to become a premium support program, which would give consumers more choice and reduce government costs.

This could weaken the current Medicare system, said finance professor David Kass, with more senior citizens looking for insurance in the private market and paying higher premiums.

If Romney wins, he likely would have to negotiate terms with Congress. But his track record in Massachusetts working with a primarily Democratic state legislature will help him find a middle ground, so he will “find a way to work with Democrats and come across some bipartisan program,” Kass said.

Immigration Romney advocates a harsher response to illegal immigrants than Obama, though it is still unclear whether he would uphold Obama’s summer directive to prevent hundreds of thousands illegal immigrants, who came to the U.S. as children, from being deported.

In a January Republican debate, Romney outlined a plan to make professional life so difficult for illegal immigrants seeking work in the country that they would opt for “self-deportation.” That would prompt them, Romney hopes, to leave the country voluntarily.

Romney’s proposal includes the implementation of a computer database that would tell employers whether prospective workers were residing in the country legally or not. He has also proposed punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, preferring to see American citizens hired in their places.

While both candidates will likely favor a strict enforcement policy, Romney’s positions thus far indicate he will be more aggressive in his immigration measures, said government and politics professor Robert Koulish.

“I think that Romney would put more money in terms of adding to the border patrol and he would put more money in terms of trying to extend the border fence down on the U.S.-Mexico border,” Koulish said.

“He would focus more on those things than Obama.”

Before the general election campaign, Romney called the Texas DREAM Act a “magnet” for illegal immigration and said, “It makes no sense.”

However, Koulish said he believes a federal DREAM Act bill will be on the table regardless of who’s elected, and Romney may put his signature on an immigration bill even if it deviates from traditional

drinks From PAGE 1 on caffeine in its general substance abuse education and Long said they will consider doing more to arm students with information about stimulants.

“We’ve talked about it in the past,” Long said. “We want to make sure students are aware that there are risks associated with energy drink consumption.”

The FDA does not currently regulate caffeine in energy drinks because the ingredient is a “dietary supplement” rather than a nutrient. The beverages typically have about 160 mg of caffeine per 16 fluid ounces, an amount considered safe.

The FDA has only cracked down on the use of caffeine as an additive to alcoholic beverages. Reports of caffeine-related deaths in 2009 prompted the agency to ban drinks such as Four Loko and Joose in 2010, at a time when multiple reports had found the prevalence of mixing alcohol and caffeine was as high as 26 percent among American college students.

There had been no such scrutiny for non-alcoholic caffeinated beverages until the mother of 14-year-old Anais Fournier, of Hagerstown, sued Monster Beverage Corp. for wrongful death after her daughter consumed two 24-ounce cans of Monster Energy in a 24-hour period. Fournier went into cardiac arrest hours after consuming the second drink, and died six days later on Dec. 23, 2011, according to court documents.

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“Anybody that woke up out of a coma might think there’s a lot of similarities. Anybody who’s watched Romney campaign for the last two years knows it’s not true.”

STELLA ROUSE

Government and politics professor proposals for the federal DREAM Act. Stella Rouse, a government and politics professor, said Romney’s reluctance to embrace “comprehensive immigration reform” has hurt him among Latino voters.

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Romney has called for “peace through strength” from the American military and has been a fierce advocate of an aggressive military and increasing the defense budget.

Romney has issued statements to the Iranian government and insists he wouldn’t allow the Islamic Republic to develop a nuclear weapon — a vow Obama echoes.

However, Romney has previously criticized Obama for publicizing a firm 2014 exit date from Afghanistan. Romney has since agreed with Obama and said he would like to withdraw troops by 2014, contingent upon military commanders’ assessments.

While their platforms are starkly different on most issues, they share several foreign policy views.

They agree the United States should not stage a direct military intervention in Syria, and should levy heavy sanctions on the Iranian economy and promote democracy wherever possible.

Neither candidate seems to advocate military action in Iran to combat its potential to acquire nuclear weapons, but Israel studies professor Paul Scham said Romney’s constituency is more eager for such intervention.

“I don’t think Romney wants a war,” Scham said.

“I think some elements of the Republican Party do.”

Romney’s foreign policy positions are not as similar to the president’s as they appeared to be during their final debate, Rouse said.

“Anybody that woke up out of a coma might think there’s a lot of similarities,” she said. “Anybody who’s watched Romney campaign for the last two years knows it’s not true.”

The two candidates have strikingly different ideas of how much money should be spent on the military.

Romney says he will increase defense spending by $2 trillion over the next decade. The military has not asked for additional dollars.

Voter Demographics

Romney’s most reliable supporters in this election are white, working-class men.

That group favors Romney to Obama by a ratio of nearly two to one; the exact polling margin is 55 percent to 28, according to a recent study by the Public Religion Research Institute.

“The Republican Party traditionally appeals more to men when they make arguments about business and about lowering taxes,” Rouse said.

Southern white conservatives, polls find, do not support Obama and, for the most part, are firmly in Romney’s corner.

Romney is leading Obama in the male vote, with 55 percent to Obama’s 43, according to Politico.

However, Romney has struggled with the women’s vote, trailing with 43 percent to Obama’s 54.

“Generally, Democrats have a built-in advantage with women, and women tend to be more liberal than men to begin with,” Rouse said.

Additionally, Romney is trailing Obama 24 percent to 73 among Hispanics, according to a Latino Decisions poll released Monday. However, a portion of the Latino vote could swing in Romney’s favor if Cubans, who tend to vote Republican, show up to vote in Florida. This could give Romney the state’s crucial 29 electoral votes.

“He has Cubans and perhaps some upscale Latino voters,” said Christopher Foreman, a public policy professor. “If Romney can keep Obama’s margins down among Latino voters, that would help.”

In demographics that strongly favor Obama, including the black vote, Foreman said Romney needs to “bite into as much as he can knowing that he’ll lose most of it.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

According to the autopsy report, the cause of death was “cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity.”

Monster Beverage Corp. released a statement Oct. 23: “Neither the science nor the facts support the allegations that have been made. Monster reiterates that its products are and have always been safe.”

In a statement, FDA spokeswoman Shelly Burgess said energy drink manufacturers held the responsibility to investigate accusations of dearth or injuries associated with their products, according to The New York Times.

“She said that the agency was still looking into the cases but had yet to establish a causal link between the deaths and the drink,” the Times reported.

But several students said the risks are not on their minds when they reach for their caffeine crutch of choice.

A self-proclaimed Monster consumer, junior communication major Bobby Blanco said he didn’t think the university should take up the responsibility of regulating the consumption of energy drinks.

“If it’s an issue, I don’t think it’s the university’s issue to deal with,” he said. “It should be up to the company to put a warning label on it — like cigarette companies do.”

Blanco added he wasn’t alarmed by just a handful of reports.

“They were probably more special cases,” he said. “They may have been on other things.”

However, use of caffeinated drinks is associated with serious consequences — from 2005 to 2009,

obama From PAGE 1 25 percent of such loans.

“Obama has done a lot for higher education in terms of loans,” said government and politics professor Stella Rouse.

He has also pledged to make permanent the American Opportunity Tax Credit, a tax code provision that allows parents of students going through college to claim exemptions of up to $2,500. This expanded upon an already existing exemption by increasing the income threshold for eligibility and allowing filers to claim a larger exemption.

Under his administration, the Department of Education has announced plans to see the percentage of college graduates increase substantially over the next decade to about 60 percent. It was 40 percent in 2010, according to a summer press release by the Department of Education.

Health Care

The Supreme Court upheld Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act this summer, ensuring one of the administration’s largest legislative initiatives will remain intact if he keeps a hold on the White House.

Some analyses report without changes, the Medicare budget will cause the program to go bankrupt before younger generations can claim the federal benefit program.

The Obama administration has vowed to keep Medicare solvent through a mix of revenue increases and cutbacks in payments to providers, said finance professor David Kass.

“Under President Obama, the structure of Medicare in the foreseeable future would pretty much be the same,” Kass said. He added, however, “there is a need, certainly, on both parties to contain costs on government programs such as Medicare.”

Another provision in the bill, known as the “individual mandate,” which the Supreme Court deemed permissible under congressional taxing powers in its summer ruling, would levy a penalty on individuals who choose to remain uninsured.

While young adults can remain under their parents’ plans until they are 26, the population of low-risk individuals, known as “young invincibles,” would be penalized if they don’t receive coverage from their employers in time.

Immigration

To determine how Obama will pursue immigration policy should he win re-election, government and politics professor Robert Koulish said to “follow the money.”

“You look at the immigration budget as part of the federal budget for 2013, and you kind of get a sense of what the Obama administration’s priorities would be in the new administration,” Koulish said. “A new Obama administration would be continuing to focus on enforcement priorities, which it did during the last four years.”

Obama has overseen a faster rate of deportations of undocumented immigrants than his predecessor, George W. Bush, signaling enforcement will remain the priority.

But in the last year, Koulish said, federal money is trending more toward efforts that highlight a path to citizenship. Obama has cited an absence of comprehensive immigration reform during his four years as one of his biggest mistakes, meaning he could change gears if he stays in office, Koulish said.

Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals directive issued in June, which halts the deportation of undocumented citizens who pursue a path to citizenship while helping them secure working papers, may foreshadow a push for a comprehensive reform.

Regardless of who is in the White House, Koulish said a push for a federal DREAM Act, which would help eligible students “regularize their immigration status,” is inevitable in the next four years, noting Obama is more receptive to the “civil liberties” of immigrants than his counterpart.

Defense/Foreign Policy

Although the Obama administration has seen foreign policy successes that include ending the war in Iraq and overseeing Osama bin Laden’s death, Obama will still have to answer to unrest in

there has been a tenfold increase in the number of emergency room visits involving energy drinks, according to a report conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The agency found there were 13,114 visits in 2009, compared to 1,128 visits in 2005. “[Energy drinks] prove the greatest risk for uninformed consumers,” Long said. “The problem is that a lot of people might have undiagnosed heart conditions, making them unaware that the drinks could cause serious problems for them.”

Still, the drinks remain popular on the campus, where university shops sell at least

“This election has always been a mobilization election. It’s a matter of mobilizing the people who are already favoring, as opposed to winning new voters.”

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the Middle East and devastating cuts to the Pentagon budget expected to kick in at the start of 2013.

Abroad, Obama and Romney would pursue similar policies, said Paul Scham, an Israel studies professor, but would carry out their policies in drastically different ways.

“I think the substance of the two wouldn’t be that different, but I think the style would be and that might make some big differences,” Scham said.

Both candidates would work to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but neither would likely pursue military action to do so, Scham said. Obama’s constituents in the Democratic Party are “dovish,” Scham said, making them unlikely to support any military intervention. Instead, Obama’s policy suggests negotiations and economic sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a perpetual foreign policy struggle for whomever has occupied the Oval Office, will remain one of Obama’s most daunting challenges.

On the domestic front, the federal budget is slated for deep cuts on Jan. 1 as a result of failed budget negotiations in last summer’s debt limit debate, and the Department of Defense is set to absorb more than $500 billion in cuts over the next decade.

While lawmakers will most likely come to the table at some point to negotiate less severe defense cuts, Scham said an Obama budget plan would probably cut deeper to spare cuts to social programs, but maintain a level of reductions that keeps future deficits from skyrocketing.

Voter Demographics

This year’s campaign hasn’t been about swaying the electorate for either candidate to win, but rather energizing the voter bases and ensuring supporters show up to voting booths.

“This election has always been a mobilization election,” said public policy professor Christopher Foreman. “It’s a matter of mobilizing the people who are already favoring, as opposed to winning new voters.”

For Obama, that means keeping his hold on a base made up of strong support from minority voter blocs.

“The president has had the strength of the African-American vote since Day One,” said marketing professor Hank Boyd.

He added while Romney may have an edge with Cuban-Americans, who tend to vote Republican and could ultimately propel him to victory in Florida, Latinos strongly support Obama. Rouse said Obama has run an effective campaign to draw in more Latino votes, citing his summer directive as a crucial measure.

“He’s done a good job with his campaign and grassroots efforts to woo Latinos back,” Rouse added.

Young voters also heavily favored Obama in the last election. However, the landscape may have changed for this group in the face of harsh economic conditions, and several polls have shown they may not flock to the booths with the same enthusiasm as in 2008.

“They were highly motivated four years ago and may be less motivated now,” Foreman said.

The rise of early voting has also provided a boon to voter turnout, which plays to Obama’s advantage because it draws in more minority voters, Boyd said.

“I think it’s going to be a decisive factor,” Boyd said. “Things happen on Election Day, so if you can take someone who tends to vote for you and you lock up their vote early, that helps. That frees up lines, it doesn’t look as daunting and maybe you gain more votes than you would have before if there had been long lines on Election Day.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

three brands of energy drinks and see spikes in sales around midterms and finals, said Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple. While the reports are cause for concern, he said, caffeinated beverages don’t make up a large portion of the department’s business.

“We do discuss it in our industry, what to do about this and how to monitor and control it, [but] we do have to understand that our students are also consumers,” Hipple said. “They’re smart people, and they can make informed decisions.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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VOTE When the medium is the message When watching a movie or TV show, it’s much easier to focus on the acting and the characters themselves instead of completely absorbing the plot. We tend to evaluate rather than participate.

When I was watching the third presidential debate (without playing the drinking game), I tried my hardest to focus on the candidates’ foreign policy views.

However, I could not help myself from focusing on President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s body language during the hour-and-a half scuffle. Had I heard it on the radio, I would have been forced to focus on what the candidates actually said. Depending on the medium through which they are presented, things can undoubtedly be perceived differently.

In a journalism ethics class last year, I learned about Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering philosopher of communication and media theory. Outside of academia, he is known for predicting the Internet nearly 30 years before it was invented. To anyone who has studied any media-related field, he is known for his radically complicated theory asserting, “the medium is the message.”

“The medium is the message” claims the form of communication, such as a TV or newspaper, embeds itself in the message it conveys. This interdependent relationship allows the medium to influence how the message is perceived. McLuhan’s foremost example is a lightbulb and its effect on the surrounding environment. It has a socially desirable effect because it allows people to take advantage of added hours of light during nighttime. Its mere presence essentially creates an environment.

A more practical example would be a n ews b roa d cast reporting a terrible crime, such as murder.

The visual s to ry m i g h t be less about t h e co n te n t or news itself than changing the audience’s

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attitude toward crime. It’s the visual aspect of the broadcast — brought straight to your home — that makes the story so compelling. Audience members might not experience the same change in attitude if they absorbed it over a radio broadcast or newspaper story instead of a TV broadcast.

The recent debates reinforced this concept. When we watch a debate on TV, we are distracted by Obama’s and Romney’s gestures and interactions.

We take note each time Obama says, “Let me be clear” and Romney says “small business” or “private sector.”

We observe each candidate’s politeness and professionalism, while knowing the entire time they would love to jump across the table and strangle each other. When watching TV, we are accustomed to seeing a showcase of action and reaction, but in a political setting this habit causes us to disengage ourselves from reality. Focusing on this acting makes us miss the general message. If we absorbed the debates via radio or newspaper, we would have fewer distractions or bias to turn us away from understanding each candidate’s message.

Of course some of you will think this theory is just academic mumbo-jumbo that should not be related to contemporary situations, but you can’t help but notice how TV and other visual media provide more material than print or radio. Being able to see and hear something is a more engrossing experience than having just one. Don’t let the medium influence the message to the point where the message’s aspects become completely askew.

Always be open to interpretation, but not too much.

Alex McGuire is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

Don’t ignite the smoking ban CAROLINE CARLSON To be honest, I think smoking is disgusting. I can’t stand the smell of tobacco and find it hard to be near anyone who decides to light up a cigarette. But as much as I hate dodging smoke from students’ cigarettes in front of McKeldin Library every day, I would never force someone to stop smoking just to supposedly increase the “social welfare” of the student body.

This summer, the University System of Maryland passed a smoking ban on all tobacco use — including cigarettes, cigars and hookah. The ban, which will take full effect in June, replaces the established policy that students can only smoke if they’re at least 25 feet away from a building. Last week, the University Senate struggled to find a way to enforce the ban, with some members claiming it would be too impractical to strictly impose the ban on every single smoker on the campus.

Although smoking bans on campuses have vastly increased over the past few years, this ban is an infringement on individual liberty.

Supporters of smoking bans typically bring up several arguments to justify them, but each is flawed.

Consider the argument smoking hurts nonsmokers’ right to “clean” air. Shouldn’t we all be entitled to have smoke-free air throughout the campus? Well, no. In short, outdoor air is public air, therefore common property. I should have every right to smoke in it, as you have every right to find a different place to sit or stand if you’re bothered by smoke.

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What about secondhand smoke?

As we all know from public service announcements, “secondhand smoke kills.” But again, we have to study the specifics before blatantly saying smoking will automatically result in serious harm toward others. A 2006 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study concluded secondhand smoke is “a serious public health problem.” Sadly, many universities across the country used this study to defend smoking bans.

However, the study offers many conclusions about continuous exposure to smoke results in serious health effects. There is no evidence showing just occasional exposure outdoors results in serious physical harm.

Although the University Senate has expressed using a friendly policy to implement the ban, such as simply promoting a “respect-based” policy, I find this approach inefficient and somewhat useless. Although this strategy may persuade a small number of people to not smoke, most smokers already know the dangerous effects of smoking, which are widely publicized. The majority of smokers obviously choose to smoke because they think the benefits exceed the costs, and telling them information they likely already know about smoking will not, from their perspective, increase this cost.

Even if we argue smoking is bad because it promotes the risks of secondhand smoke and “unclean air,” at the end of the day, are these risks high enough to justify prohibiting one’s right to smoke?

Moving to a different spot outdoors when you’re annoyed someone near you is smoking is a much smaller expense to the nonsmoker than telling the smoker he or she has to drive or walk completely off the campus just to light up.

Although it might b e to o l a te to change this policy, the only way to p reve n t p e o p l e from having the right to smoke is to insist the Unive rs i t y S e n a te continue implementing a light enforcement p o l i c y, r a t h e r than pointlessly punishing people for something they should have t h e r i g h t to d o anyway.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Dad, EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter was anonymously sent to The Diamondback.

Dad, I want to begin by letting you know this is a selfish message: I need to tell you about the pain I am feeling, even though I know it will be difficult for you to hear it.

I’m asking you to ignore your values in order to vote for the future that is best for me. I’m not asking you to change your values or pretend to feel differently. I know it takes time to change, and I’m not trying to rush that. But I’m asking you to vote in the way that is best for my future, even if that is not the way you currently feel.

This is about the upcoming referendum on same-sex marriage. I know you haven’t decided how to vote. I am grateful you have been honest and we have been able to talk about it.

At the same time, in order to be fair to you, I need you to fully understand the emotional implications of your indecision. I am going to marry another man and build a family with him. I will raise children with him. I will love him. I hope you will love him, our children and me — just as much as you will love John, Dan and the wives and children they have.

I understand this is a big adjustment for you, and it takes time. I know you want to eventually feel equal love and support for me as you do for my brothers, and I hope you will.

I know you do love me. But I can’t help it — your voting decision feels like a test of how strong your love for me truly is. If you do not vote for me to be able to marry, then no matter what else is said, it will feel like you do not love me equally. And that is a source of horrible pain.

The feeling I have now — and have had over the last weeks as we have talked about this — is the same kind of feeling I fought for six years, when I knew I was gay but had not dared to tell you. This feeling is fear — the fear you cannot love me equally. As long as your vote is uncertain, I am battling that fear and feeling that pain. It is tearing me up inside.

I know you say you need time, but the timing of the referendum is not up to you or me. Even if you really do think less of me for being gay, or will never view my partner in the same way, I hope you can still vote for my future. You can show you want me to have the best life I can possibly have, even if you don’t agree with all its aspects.

You’re an amazing father in so many ways. You work extremely hard to support me and have provided so much for me. You strive to be the best you can possibly be.

You work so hard to give me the life I want, and yet you debate whether to vote for the very future for which you work.

I need to know you love me enough to vote for marriage. I hate the dissonance of this situation and the knot it has produced in my stomach. I want it to go away. Again, this message is selfish — I’m asking for something you may never be able to give me. If you can’t, I will still love you just as much as I always have.

But, Dad, I will be completely honest with you: If you can’t do this, I’ll feel as if you don’t love me as much as you love my brothers. And if that is how you truly feel, then I guess I can’t do anything to change that. I am who I am, and that’s all there is to it.

I can’t change how you view my future partner, but I can tell you this: He will be an amazing human being, and I will strive to have the same love for him as you have for Mom. The fact that he is male will have no effect on my efforts to imitate the amazing bond you have with her. I will strive to be in a marriage just like yours. Not a civil union or domestic partnership, but a marriage.

Love, Your son.

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ESSAY | THE CANDIDATES’ FAVORITE TV SHOWS

PRESIDENTIAL POP-CULTURE PICKS President Obama and Mitt Romney recently named their favorite TV shows. What do their choices — especially their agreement on sitcom Modern Family — say about the campaign?

By Beena Raghavendran Staff writer Pushing aside the muddy puddles of foreign policy, taxes and abortion, it seems only one thing can unite President Obama and his challenger in today’s election: Modern Family.

In an interview with TV Guide, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney revealed their favorite television shows,

among other pop-culture tastes.

Obama loves Homeland, Boardwalk Empire and The Wire. When watching with Michelle and the kids, he said his favorite is Modern Family. Romney, too, watches Modern Family, in addition to 30 Rock and NCIS, and he loves Friday Night Lights.

There was, of course, commotion over the fact Romney doesn’t support lega l izi ng sa me-sex marriage, making it strangely ironic that his favorite show features a gay couple.

Steve Levitan, Mo d e r n Fa m i l y creator, tweeted Aug. 28 in response to Ann Romney saying Modern Family is her favorite show: “We’ll offer her the role of officiant at Mitch & Cam’s w e d d i n g. A s soon as it’s legal.”

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son, who plays Mitchell on the show, is gay. He tweeted Aug. 29 he is happy the Romneys love Modern Family, and he hopes “it sparks something in them! #Equality.”

But Romney shouldn’t be criticized too harshly. If there’s anyone who understands a classic American family, it’s got to be him — a staunch Mormon, father of five sons and the son of a Michigan governor.

The candidates’ unintended agreement also prompts the immediate claim: Modern Family is one of the most cliche television shows they could’ve chosen. That means the most powerful men in the world could be buying into ABC’s stereotypical formula for a traditional American family.

And it’s partly true. Despite its great writing and brilliant use of overarching themes, stereotypes abound.

Sofia Vergara’s character, Gloria, is the ultimate aggressive Latina mother. Ty Burrell’s Phil Dunphy is the classic crazy white dad. Mitchell and Cameron are quintessential gay men, from Cameron’s hand motions and loud shirts to the hidden humor in Mitchell’s lines.

Breaking stereotypes does not get ratings and does not further te lev i s ion s u cc e ss.

People want to see

generalizations because generalizations are relatable and perfect for unwinding during prime time.

The candidates no undoubtedly no show can wholly characterize “the American family” because for the 311 million Americans, the idea of a family is unable to be pinned down to a halfhour slot on Wednesday nights.

Though the show does drive home key stereotypes, that’s not its inherent purpose. It cleverly emphasizes the beauty observed when these stereotypes are broken.

Cameron gets a job, a nd happiness i s e v e r ywhere.

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friend. When characters live beyond their social norms, they find success.

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Goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands has recorded 57 saves in 19 starts in the net for the Terps this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Beanlands struggles on biggest stage of season Goalkeeper allows career-worst four goals to Virginia

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer R a chel le B e a n l a nd s h a s pl ayed for t he Ca n ad i a n w o m e n’s n a t i o n a l s o c c e r p ro g ra m . S h e w o n a gol d medal at the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship in Costa Rica and another at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2011.

But nothing could’ve prepared the redshirt freshman goalkeeper for what she saw Sunday.

Beanlands faced a season-high 26 shots in the ACC Championship, allowing four goals en route to the No. 2-seed Terrapins women’s soccer team’s 4-0 loss to No. 5-seed Virginia. After surrendering multiple goals in just two games earlier this season, Sunday’s outburst marked the first time in her college career she let up more than two scores.

“It was a huge game and you don’t get a lot of opportunities like this,” she said Sunday. “It was just really frustrating.”

The first goal came when C a v a l i e r s fo r w a rd G l o r i a Douglas sped past defender Domenica Hodak in the 22nd minute, faced Beanlands oneon-one and slid the ball past Beanlands’ fi ngers.

“It’s difficult for any goal-

keeper, regardless of how much experience they have,” said coach Jonathan Morgan, whose Terps earned a No. 4 seed yesterday in the upcoming NCAA tournament. “All you can do is make yourself big and try to take away the angles.”

Although two more of the Cavaliers’ goals came in a oneon-one fashion, Beanlands managed to save several other balls from crossing the goal line.

She finished the day with five saves, marking her fifth highest total of the season.

“She had a very good game,” Morgan said. “She had to save our butts a few times. She had a pretty good day and she came up big for us.”

Sunday wasn’t the fi rst time Morgan saw a silver lining in Beanlands’ performance, though. She has recorded 57 saves this season over her 19 starts and has saved 74 percent of the shots she has faced. Beanlands ranks sixth in the conference in goals allowed average and fourth in saves.

But even though Beanlands has a solid stat sheet, the Terps were unable to squelch a potent Cavaliers offense.

Beanlands may have allowed four goals, but according to her teammates, none of them were

her mistakes.

“She was absolutely terrific,” forward Becky Kaplan said.

“The ball had to go through the entire team before it got to her, so it wasn’t her fault. There was a lot of one-on-one with the keeper and there’s not too much you can do in those situations.”

Still, the Ottawa, Canada, native was striving for something more. She’s been all over the world and has graced dozens of different fields, but the game on Sunday was one of her most important matches.

There was a breakdown of communication and Virginia’s offensive line attacked with a vengeance, but Beanlands and the Terps will have a chance to redeem themselves Saturday when they host Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

And Beanlands can’t wait until they do.

“I just try to stay focused and visualize myself making saves and making positive plays, but [Sunday] I couldn’t save them all,” Beanlands said. “Unfortunately, it didn’t go our way but hopefully we get another chance to be in a high pressure situation and next time, we’ll come out on top.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

players’ ACLs properly.

But according to Tim Hewett, a sports medicine professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, these accusations have no basis in reality. He said contact ACL injuries are completely unavoidable, and recent studies show there’s no proven link between training methods and ligament strength.

Sure, you could make the argument the players aren’t training the right way. After all, more than 70 percent of the NFL’s ACL injuries are of the noncontact variety according to Hewett, a number that’s probably not too different in the college ranks. But Hartsfield and quarterbacks Perry Hills and Caleb Rowe were hurt after colliding with opposing players. No stretch could have saved them.

A different playing surface couldn’t have saved them either. The Terps’ new FieldTurf can’t be held accountable for what happens in the normal course of a football game. Players get hurt. It happens. Blame opposing defenders for injuries, not the ground they happen to be playing on.

Yes, ACL injuries are about 63 percent more likely to occur on field turf than grass, according to Hewett. But if Capital One Field is such a dangerous place, why aren’t the training rooms of the Terps’ home opponents fi lled with players rehabbing torn ACLs? And don’t blame Under Armour. The apparel company has long been one of the Terps’ biggest allies, outfitting their teams with some of the most talked-about uniforms in the nation. Founder and CEO Kevin Plank

From PAGE 8 with 13 points. “ I t w a s a g r a n d t i m e ,” Pfirman said. “The scrimmages against the practice squad got my nerves out, so coming into today, I had a different mindset and pushed through and just played my game.”

Frese said the trio of firstyear players didn’t look like they were playing in their fi rst live game action for the Terps.

Instead, she saw confidence and comfort in the Terps’ offensive and defensive schemes.

With the Terps’ Oct. 30 exhibition against Catholic canceled because of Hurricane Sandy, l a st n ig ht’s m atchup w it h Goldey-Beacom was the lone in-game look Frese has before the Terps host Mount St. Mary’s in Friday’s season opener. And while the stat sheet may have had shortcomings — the Terps shot just 5-for-21 from threepoint range — Frese was content focusing on the positives.

PREVIEW From PAGE 8 past three seasons, the team’s true leader will be senior Josh Asper. Ranked No. 4 at 165 pounds, Asper is undefeated in his past 34 dual matches.

“He’s done everything that we’ve asked him to do, [but] he’s not perfect and that’s an area that I think is most important for him,” McCoy said. “He

forward Tierney Pfirman had 13 points, four rebounds and three assists in 21 minutes in her first career appearance for the Terps in their exhibition win last night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback “We were able to play a lot of players a lot of different minutes and combinations,” Frese said. “[It] defi nitely will help us and

makes mistakes and he learns from those mistakes, so it’s a good lesson for the other guys.

You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to be working hard to be perfect.”

Asper believes he still has room to improve as a leader, though, particularly vocally.

“In some instances, I need to take the initiative with some guys and be more vocal,” Asper said. “I need to point these guys in the right direction, and then

get us prepared for our upcoming game on Friday.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

their hard work and the wrestling will take over from there.”

He sta r ted that trend Sunday. Asper won his first duals match of the season, 5-3, over West Virginia’s Bubba Scheffel, helping the Terps to a season-opening victory over the Mountaineers, 24-10. The Terps also dismantled Johns Hopkins, 40-6, to sweep the annual Terrapin Duals.

The undefeated start wasn’t perfect, though. Seven of the

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Defender Taylor Kemp, a senior captain, made his first appearance since Oct. 5 in the Terps’ first loss of the season on Thursday.

He had missed the team’s previous six games after having surgery in Munich to repair a sports hernia. file photo/the diamondback

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graduated from this university. There’s no way he would do anything to harm his signature school.

Still, there have been rumblings that their equipment could be at fault here. One person even suggested Hills’ injury could have been avoided if he was simply wearing a different pair of cleats.

Take a cursory glance at the hit Hills endured against N.C. State, though, and it’s easy to see how far from the truth that is. Wolfpack linebacker Rickey Dowdy blindsided Hills after a second-quarter interception, spearing him — illegally — in the back and sending him sprawling to the turf. It wouldn’t have mattered if Hills was wearing plushy slippers and standing on a cloud of rainbows; he was tearing an ACL on that play, no matter what.

Terps defensive end A.J. Francis agrees. He heard the accusations and conspiracies, and he fought back. He reiterated that quarterback Devin Burns and wide receiver Marcus Leak were being tackled when they suffered their season-ending injuries, blamed Brown’s injury on little more than bad luck and called the notion of anything otherwise idiotic and insulting.

“Football is violent… Ppl get injured…

It happens,” Francis tweeted yesterday.

“Coaches, Strength & Conditioning, Turf Field, none of that has anything to do with it.”

Francis gets it. These injuries aren’t a result of coaches’ incompetency. They aren’t a result of faulty turf or equipment. And they aren’t a result of a higher power’s weird obsession with making the Terps suffer.

They’re simply a result of this season’s unending misfortune.

games of the season, Kemp was in and out of the lineup for the majority of September. He sat out the Terps’ 6-0 win over California on Sept. 2 but started five of the Terps’ next seven games, tallying four of his five assists.

After playing 74 minutes in the Terps’ Oct. 5 win over Virginia, though, Kemp would miss the Terps’ next six contests.

Coach Sasho Cirovski knew something was ailing Kemp throughout September, but he wasn’t able to pinpoint the problem. Soon, the Terps found their answer after an earlyOctober MRI: Kemp had a sports hernia. He’d require surgery, leaving the rest of his senior season in doubt.

Through Cirovski’s network of contacts in the sport, the Terps tracked down a hernia specialist in Munich.

“As soon as we discovered this could be an option, there was a sparkle in his eye, and he couldn’t wait to get back, to do anything to get back to this team,” Cirovski said. “He was dying a slow death on the sideline. I think this has reenergized not only him, but our whole team.”

Kemp flew to Germany on Oct. 16 and underwent surgery two days later. The Highlands Ranch, Colo., native was an ocean away from his teammates when the Terps notched an overtime win over then-No. 2 North Carolina.

“That was killing me,” Kemp said. “The coaches knew that. My parents knew that.

Everyone knew that. I would have done anything to get back on the field. All I wanted to do was play. It’s my senior year, and I love

Terps’ matches with West Virginia were decided by three points or fewer.

But for McCoy, battling through those tough and ugly victories says a lot about his team’s character.

“They went out there and they got the job done,” McCoy said. “The guts and grind they had to go out and get a takedown with 30 seconds left or to ride a guy, that shows what level we are and we’re only

this team. I believe in this team.”

Kemp’s teammates have taken notice, too.

Cirovski said earlier this year that Kemp led by example early in his career before becoming a more vocal leader this season. Now, Kemp was back to leading by example in the aftermath of his injury.

“It shows his leadership, what a competitor he is, how fast he wanted to get back on the field,” midfielder John Stertzer said. “I think it shows everyone the love he has for this team and this program and shows the type of person Taylor is.”

Kemp couldn’t be returning at a better time, either. The Terps went winless in consecutive contests for the fi rst time this year when they drew on Oct. 27 with Clemson and lost at Wake Forest on Thursday. Tonight, the Terps face Virginia Tech, a team that erased a 2-0 deficit yesterday to beat N.C. State in a play-in game at Ludwig Field. And the Terps will be missing Woodberry, a key cog in the backline.

Cirovski said he can’t wait to have his backline back to full strength. But tonight, Kemp’s return will have to suffice.

As for Kemp? He has no regrets about his decision to fly to Germany in the middle of a soccer season.

“It was a crazy couple of days,” Kemp said.

“I was incredibly happy that I had the opportunity to do it. It was a cool experience. I’m just happy I’m back on the field. It was tough juggling my classes and soccer and figuring out all the stuff I had to get done, but in the end, I would do it again. It was worth it.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

going to get better. You may not wrestle to the best of your ability, but if you get your hand raised, that’s a good thing.”

That’s the message McCoy wants to get across to his team this season. It’s not about how the Terps get to the national championships. It’s about getting there and winning them.

T hat path will continue when the Terps head to Brockport, N.Y., this weekend for the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold

Classic, a tournament that saw the squad finish second to Oklahoma by 7.5 points in 2011. Last season, McCoy said his team had little expectations of toppling the Sooners.

This year, there’s no such doubt.

“Our guys need to focus on winning that tournament,” McCoy said. “We’re going up there to win.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

BIG NUMBER

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TERPS WHO ARE OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield was the eighth Terrapins football player to suffer a season-ending injury this year.

Five of them, including Hartsfield, are out with torn ACLs.

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FIELD HOCKEY FINALLY BACK TOGETHER After losing players to national teams, the Terps field hockey team is back together for postseason play. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Mincy solid in lone exhibition Guard leads No. 5 Terps past Goldey-Beacom in 84-46 blowout

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

GUARD Laurin Mincy totaled nine points and six assists in the Terps’ 84-46 exhibition win over Goldey-Beacom at Comcast Center last night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Goldey-Beacom tried to make things interesting last night against the Terrapins women’s basketball team.

With 3:36 remaining in the fi rst half of the teams’ exhibition game, Lightning guard Ashley Rosario scored on a fast break to cut the Terps’ lead to 32-27.

But that was the closest Goldey-Beacom would come to capturing the upset.

Relying upon strong post play and guard Laurin Mincy’s hot outside shooting, the No. 5 Terps overwhelmed the Lightning in an 84-46 blowout win at Comcast Center.

“I thought some parts looked really good tonight,” coach Brenda Frese said.

“I thought, especially the second half, we were able to kind of get into a flow and get comfortable. I thought the first half

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looked like an exhibition game.”

Many questions entering the game revolved around who would start in place of injured guard Brene Moseley, who was projected as the team’s main distributor before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in late October. Mincy started at point guard and scored nine points — all on 3-pointers — while dishing six assists. Backup Chloe Pavlech (zero points, four assists) also saw extensive time at the point.

“Obviously, it’s something we’ve got to work through and get comfortable with,” Frese said. “I thought Laurin really was able to get into a groove eventually and know how to run our team and when to get shots. I thought Chloe did a really nice job for a freshman debut. She showed a level of toughness.”

But it was the Terps’ ability to post up a Goldey-Beacom squad boasting just two players over six feet tall that made the

difference for the Terps. Forward Tianna Hawkins picked up where she left off last year, posting a double-double with 20 points (9-for-13 shooting) and 15 rebounds. Center Alicia DeVaughn, who spent the offseason working on her offensive game, scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

“It’s starting to come with the flow of the game,” DeVaughn said. “I’m starting to be more aggressive and offensive-minded and attacking.”

Frese also got her fi rst look at her freshman class, as Pavlech, forward Tierney Pfi rman and center Malina Howard (eight points, seven rebounds) each played significant minutes. Despite rolling her ankle midway through the first half, Pfirman emerged as an offensive threat and finished See LIGHTNING, Page 7

FOOTBALL

Backline gets help it needs As Woodberry leaves, Kemp returns in time for ACC tournament

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer As soon as it happened, the Terrapins men’s soccer team found a silver lining.

Defender London Woodberry was issued a red card in the 65th minute of the Terps’ Thursday matchup at Wake Forest. The Terps would miss a key member of their backline for the rest of the eventual 4-2 loss. Woodberry would also be suspended for tonight’s ACC tournament quarterfi nal against No. 9-seed Virginia Tech. For an already depleted backline, it appeared things would only get worse.

But as Woodberry sullenly walked off the field at W. Dennie Spry Soccer Stadium, a familiar face waited at the scorer’s table.

Defender Taylor Kemp checked in for the Terps, making his first appearance since a 1-0 win over Virginia on Oct. 5.

And while Kemp couldn’t rally the team to a comeback win over Wake Forest, the No. 1-seed Terps now have a senior captain back for the postseason run.

“It felt awesome,” Kemp said. “It was what I was hoping for when I found out my injury and there were questions if I was going to be able to be back. So to actually complete the process of getting better and actually be back on the field, I was so excited. I can’t wait to keep moving forward from here and be on the field again.”

After starting the Terps’ first two See BACKLINE, Page 7

Coach Randy Edsall (top, center) and the Terps have lost five players to season-ending ACL tears this season — (clockwise from top left) quarterback C.J. Brown, defensive end Andre Monroe, quarterback Perry Hills, linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield and quarterback Caleb Rowe. Hartsfield is the latest casualty, suffering his injury in Saturday’s 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

What’s to blame for the Terps’ five ACL injuries? Nothing but bad luck.

JOSH VITALE There was an Internet fi restorm today after coach Randy Edsall announced linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield would be the fi fth member of the Terrapins football team to miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL. Fans took to Twitter to blame everything from the training staff to the new turf field to Under Armour’s equipment. Conspiracy theorists

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flooded message boards with crackpot ideas ranging from the existence of an “Angry Maryland Quarterback-Hating God” to a change in the gravitational pull around College Park. Some even suggested Edsall hadn’t mentally prepared his team well enough to avoid injuries.

For everyone who shares these opinions, I have one pressing question: Are you serious?

Do you really believe the team’s strength and conditioning staff has simply neglected to train its players for one of the most common injuries in football? Doesn’t God have better things to

do than ruin the Terps’ season? And can you honestly blame a torn ligament on a lack of mental preparedness?

Of course you can’t. Every Terps-centric argument and theory littering the Web is ludicrous.

The Terps’ training staff is receiving a lot of flak for its alleged role in “ACLmageddon.”

People are suggesting the staff is doing something wrong, that they’re not training their See VITALE, Page 7

What it takes to win it all After 31st-place finish last season, Terps already focused on nationals

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

Coach Kerry McCoy said last year, the Terps “spent six months focused on winning dual meets, two weeks focused on winning ACCs and then the last two weeks focused on performing at nationals.” charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Despite winning its second consecutive ACC title in March, the Terrapins wrestling team ended last season far from where it wanted to be. Thirty places, to be exact.

The Terps finished No. 31 in the NCA A tou rna ment last season, ending their run of two consecutive top-20 fi nishes.

So as the Terps entered the 2012-13 season, coach Kerry McCoy didn’t want his team to focus on what it takes

to reach the national championships.

He wanted it to focus on what it takes to win it all. “[Last season], we spent six months focused on winning dual meets, two weeks focused on winning ACCs and then the last two weeks focused on performing at nationals,” the fi fthyear coach said. “We want to be focused on performing at nationals for seven months.”

Despite graduating key wrestlers, including 157-pound Kyle John, who won an individual ACC Championship last season, the No. 15 Terps have the

talent they need to reach their objectives. They return eight starters from a squad that fi nished 15-1 last season, giving them one of the most experienced rosters in the ACC. Anchoring those returnees will be 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock and 197pound Christian Boley. Each ranked No. 10 nationally in their respective weight classes, and the pair combined to finish 58-9 in individual bouts last season.

But just as he has been each of the See PREVIEW, Page 7