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Loh vows university will lead the nation In annual State of the Campus address, univ president pushes further

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer

the Board and Brew, a board game cafe located under The Varsity, will add craft beers to its menu in about two weeks. tom hausman/the diamondback

Board game cafe secures liquor license from county Board and Brew to sell craft beers in two weeks

By Jordan Branch @thedbk For The Diamondback T he Board and Brew will add craft beers to its menu in about two weeks after receiving a beer and wine license Oct. 28.

This was the board game cafe’s second attempt at obtaining a license, said Ben Epstein, co-owner of The Board and Brew.

T he Board and Brew, located under The Varsity, initially was in competition with three other establishments for the beer and wine license. Two establishments dropped out, and the remaining competitor already had a beer and wine license and was pursuing a full license, which includes liquor.

The competitor offered to transfer its existing license to The Board and Brew if the cafe dropped out of the competition for the full license. To avoid the risk of losing again, The Board and Brew accepted.

The Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners, which Epstein said had encouraged The Board and Brew to reapply for the license, approved the transfer.

If the craft beers sell well, Epstein said the cafe would reapply for the full liquor license so it can sell spiked milkshakes and Irish coffee.

Epstein said he wants beers that are “iconic for their specific type.”

“We want a stout that anyone who has it would be like, ‘That’s a damn good stout,’” Epstein said.

“We wa nt a n I PA that’s rea l ly hoppy, that people who like IPAs would just be in love with.”

The craft beers will cost between $4 and $7 with potentially one cheaper option, he said.

Having a beer and wine license, Epstein said, is important for competing with other businesses in the area, most of which have liquor licenses.

When Epstein brainstormed names for the cafe, “brew” referred to coffee.

But he soon realized that people sometimes assumed that meant beer, and some customers have left the establishment after discovering it’s not on the menu.

“Let’s face it, when people go out and hang out with their friends, they want to have a drink. And that’s not just college students,” Epstein said.

The Board and Brew staff is now being trained to serve alcohol, Epstein said. The cafe will ID everyone and use an ID scanner if staff See brew, Page 3

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FINDING CLOSURE ON A CLOTHESLINE Sophomore hearing and speech sciences major Jackie Berges reads a T-shirt in Hornbake Plaza. The CARE to Stop Violence office of the University Health Center held its annual Clothesline Project yesterday. The project is geared toward raising awareness for sexual assault and domestic violence issues and offers survivors a chance to make a T-shirt with a message of their choice, which will be hung at the next event. The T-shirts date back as far as 12 years.

Marylanders push for their right to die National death with dignity debate plays out in state politics

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer First, he swallowed 19 pills.

When that didn’t work, he tried to slash his wrists, but the tremors in his hands made that impossible.

So finally, 90-year-old Alex Fraser took the gun that always sat nex t to h is bed a nd shot himself, ending his battle with Parkinson’s disease.

“My father taught me that every person should have the choice about how they die,” said Alexa Fraser, his daughter, who lives in Rockville.

“Futile or needless pain and suffering at the end of life was, to use his words, stupid.”

Fraser said she only wishes this state had a “death with dignity” law in place, which she said would have enabled her father to die peacefully and surrounded by family, instead of violently and alone.

The death with dignity, or physician-assisted dying, movement has recently garnered national attention following 29-year-old Brittany Maynard’s public decision to end her

life after being told her terminal brain cancer would afford her only six months to live. The video she posted detailing her choice has received more than 11 million views.

Maynard, who died Nov. 1 after taking a lethal and legal dose of prescription medication, moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s Death with Dignity Act. “I’ve been reading about Brittany Maynard and the idea that her mother and husband and stepfather could be there with her and know she was going peacefully and See dEATH, Page 2

Health center now shuttles some off campus DOTS partnership will allow students to make local appointments

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer Students requiring medical services not provided by the University Health Center can now take shuttles to off-campus appointments free of charge, thanks to a partnership between the Depart-

ment of Transportation Services and the health center.

This program, which was launched in September, is intended “to provide transportation to students who may need to go off campus for specialty care, imaging” and other services not provided by the health center, Director David McBride wrote in an email.

Health center administrative assistant Danielle Lewis, who coordinates the shuttle program, said it was designed to assist students who are not from the area or do not have a car and therefore have no other

Rethinking the magnet in push for engineering innovation Graduate student receives praise for research

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer In more ways than one, the work of graduate student Sean Fackler has attracted a lot of positive attention.

A doctoral student in materials science and engineering, Fackler has won three awards in his field this past year from the Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet workshop,

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convenient means of reaching an off-campus doctor.

“Instead of having to pay a taxicab, or using an ambulance or waiting for a friend or a family member to come, [the health center] initiated this service to help students get off-campus to appointments,” Lewis said.

When sophomore government and politics major Meredith Lightstone suffered an eye ulcer several weeks ago, she was told the health

University President Wallace Loh gave his annual State of the Campus address yesterday before the University Senate, promising that this university will join the ranks of the top public research universities in the country over the next six years.

“To be called a flagship is not just an empty phrase,” Loh said. “The future of Maryland’s economic vitality and quality of life depends upon the quality of the research university.”

For this goal to be met, Loh urged the university to keep its best graduates in the state after graduation.

He mentioned that states with top public universities, such as California, Michigan and North Carolina, are able to recruit two-thirds of their graduates, whereas this state only recruits a third.

“We will have programs that will enhance the premium education that [students] get here,” Loh said.

“An education that is superior to any other education that they can get in this state or … compared with our peers.”

In 2007, the university published the Strategic Plan for the University of Maryland, which outlines the university’s goals and actions for the next 10 years. Loh referred to this plan several times throughout his roughly one-hour address.

This state produces some of the most qualified high school students, Loh said, which makes attracting these graduates to the university a greater priority for the administration.

“We have perhaps the most credentialed, the most talented group of freshmen in the history of this university,” he said. “We have brought in one-third of the best high school graduates of the state, compared to about 25 percent back in 2007.”

Senate Chairman Donald Webster agreed with Loh’s goal to become a top-10 public university and noticed the improvements the university has made during his 40 years here.

“I don’t see why we shouldn’t or can’t,” Webster said. “We have made a lot of right moves; we have got a tremendous campus, wonderful faculty, great students.”

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His work deals with magnets, specifically in finding ways to develop efficient alternatives to expensive metals often used in making them, which could one day be used in electric cars and other technologies.

People use magnets every day, Fackler said, and more than simply for refrigerator decoration. Magnets See magnets, Page 3

Sean Fackler, a doctoral student, holds up the combinatorial library used in the experiments. sung min-kim/the diamondback

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University president Wallace Loh gives his State of the Campus address to the University Senate and faculty in the Stamp Colony Ballroom last night. Loh said this university will become one of the top public research institutions over the next six years. tom hausman/the diamondback

Campus From PAGE 1 Since the plan was written, the country has undergone a recession that has resulted in budget cuts toward faculty research funding to universities across the country.

Last year, research funding for this university totaled $480 million, which was a 3 percent increase from the preceding year, Loh said.

“When you remember that the pie is shrinking, for us to proportionally grow is a remarkable tribute to the dedication [and] engagement to our research faculty,” he said.

To combat this, Loh said the university must augment its efforts through partnerships, such as MPowering the State, which is a joint initiative between this campus and the University of MarylandBaltimore that encourages collaboration on innovative research projects. MPower’s work resulted in funding for 30 percent of the faculty’s research proposals — $79 million, Loh said. “ T h i s i s at t he fa c u lt y level. Faculty with shared interests are coming together, submitting proposals,” Loh said. “[These are] projects we probably could not have gotten, grants we could not have gotten if we operated by ourselves. Partner or perish.”

Loh also said this university is becoming a more innovative university that applies the results of fundamental research to solve the major social

and economic issues that our society faces. At this university, 90 successful high-tech companies have launched in the past four years, Loh said. “ We a re on a n upwa rd trajectory,“ Loh said. “[The University Senate] passed a policy that allows promotion and tenure to consider innovation, creating startup companies that make a difference, to be a positive factor in promotion and tenure.”

B ecau se t he u n iversity is becoming more engaged with research and innovation, Loh stressed the importance of creating, improv i ng a nd ma i nta i n i ng l iv i ng-lea rn i ng faci l ities that a re conducive to the s u c c e s s of f a c u lt y, s t a f f and students.

Over the past four years, the university’s budget for capital construction projects has totaled $850 million, which includes completed projects, such as Prince Frederick Hall and the Physical Sciences Complex, and future projects such as the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center and the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation.

“T hese facilities enable u s to prov id e ab solutely p re m i u m e d u c a t i o n a n d learning and teaching opportunities for students and our faculty,” he said.

Additionally, Loh assured the audience that the university’s recent move to the Big Ten secured the future of university athletics for the next 50 years.

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“INSTEAD OF HAVING TO PAY A From PAGE 1 TAXICAB, center did not have the caOR USING AN pability to properly treat her.

AMBULANCE OR However, the center offered WAITING FOR to shuttle Lightstone to an ophthalmology specialist in A FRIEND OR A Silver Spring.

FAMILY MEMBER “I had no idea that that was TO COME, [THE even an option,” Lightstone said. “I figured that I would HEALTH CENTER] have to get a taxi or call a INITIATED THIS friend to drive me.”

SERVICE TO HELP Lightstone said the health center also arranged her apSTUDENTS GET pointment in Silver Spring OFF-CAMPUS TO and transported her there in a matter of hours.

APPOINTMENTS.” “Bei ng a n out-of-state student, it isn’t exactly easy to just go to Silver Spring to a doctor’s appointment without a car,” Lightstone said. “I thought the whole experience was great in terms of how they handled it.”

The health center has contracted DOTS to provide a university paratransit van for this program. Lewis said one van is designated to serve as the medical transit vehicle, and the appointments and transportation are coordinated by the health center.

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“FACULTY WITH SHARED INTERESTS ARE COMING TOGETHER ...

[THESE ARE] PROJECTS WE PROBABLY COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN, GRANTS WE COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN IF WE OPERATED BY OURSELVES. PARTNER OR PERISH.” WALLACE LOH

University president L oh cong ratu l ated L a r r y Hogan on winning the gubernatorial race last night and said he looks forward to working with Hogan’s administration to better this state.

“T hat does have a huge impact on the relationship on the state legislature and state government for the next four years,” said Ryan Belcher, an undergraduate senator and environmental science and government and politics major. “That was a really good way to start that relationship.”

Loh did not speak at length on the recent changes to the sexual misconduct policy a nd procedu res or on i ncreased security in the wake of February’s data breach. kmaakedbk@gmail.com

could absolutely improve,” she said.

Lewis said the shuttle is late at times, but most students have been patient with the new program.

“If they don’t have any other transportation, and they don’t have to pay a cab, and it’s a free service, then they’re usually willing to wait,” she said.

The program was proposed last year and funded through the student health center fee, McBride wrote. At the end of the year, a committee will evaluate the program to see how many rides have been provided and whether it will continue, Allen said.

The program provides an average of two rides each business day, according to DOTS records, and McBride wrote that 77 total rides were provided for students in September and October.

Lewis is confident that the program will continue.

“It’s been going very well and I think that students are appreciating it,” she said.

“It’s been a good partnership so far.”

“We show up when they ask us to show up and take people where they ask us to take people,” DOTS Director David Allen said. “We’re like a hammer to a carpenter, we’re just a tool.”

L ig htstone sa id wh i le she did not experience any inefficiency, there seemed to be a disconnect between the shuttle drivers and the health center.

“It’s something that they lschapitldbk@gmail.com

not worry — oh, how wonderful that would’ve been,” Fraser said. “I wish I could’ve been there with [my father] in a loving way.”

A long w it h O regon, Washington and Vermont also have laws that allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill adults fatal doses of medication.

In Montana, the Supreme Court ruled that state law does not proh ibit endof-life care, while in New Mexico, a district court judge ruled that terminally ill, mentally competent adults have the right to endof-life drug prescriptions.

But in this state, assisted suicide is considered a felony.

It was banned in 1999 following a 28-19 vote in the state senate.

Fifteen years later, the d ebate over a p erson’s right to die was brought up in this year’s gubernatorial election when, during her failed run for the Democratic nomination, Del. Heather Mizeur pledged her support for a law allowing physician-assisted suicide.

“We want to continue to keep the conversation going after Heather really helped us to bring it up,” said Brandi Alexander, the regional campaign and outreach manager in this state for advocacy group Compassion & Choices. “It’s a right that terminal patients should have.”

Compassion & Choices has this state listed as a “state in progress,” meaning it is in the beginning process of becoming a “campaign state.”

“T he most important part of transitioning to a campaign state is building support on the ground,” Alexander said. “Many people have reached out to me from

Maryland saying they want to get involved in this.”

Advocates said they will eventually push for death with dignity legislation, something that might be more difficult after Tuesday’s surprising defeat of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown by Republican Larry Hogan. Brown had previously voted against prohibiting physician-assisted suicide while he was a Prince George’s County delegate.

Opponents, such as those affiliated with Maryland Right to Life, said physician-assisted suicide should remain banned.

“The last thing we should do is follow the example of a few states that are helping people end their lives, instead of helping them see their value and humanity,” said Jeffrey D. Meister, the group’s director of administration and legislation.

“This isn’t something we want in Maryland.”

M e i s te r s a i d s t u d y i n g Oregon, which has allowed physician-assisted suicide since 1997, highlights the problems with legalizing assisted suicide. Meister said it “threatens all people’s access to wanted health care” and “affirms the worst fears of a patient questioning his or her own dignity by helping one end one’s life.”

The group has an active petition urging people to “Help us Stop Doctor Prescribed Suicide From Coming to Maryland.”

“T h is is not someth i ng t h a t ’s c o n c u r r e n t w i t h Ma ryla nd’s reputation as a health care leader in the nation,” he said.

Public support for the practice, however, is growing. A 2013 Gallup poll found 70 percent of Americans are in favor of legalizing medical assistance to “end a [terminally ill] patient’s life by some painless means” if the patient and his or her family request it.

Susan Dwyer, a philosophy professor who teaches a class

on contemporary moral issues, said the question of physicianassisted suicide is going the way of same-sex marriage.

When she first started teaching on the topic more than 20 years ago, public opinion was split about 50-50, and now “it’s like a no-brainer,” she said.

“I would anticipate that over the next 10 to 15 years, we’re going to see a movement toward more states enacting legislation legalizing physician-assisted suicide,” Dwyer said.

For some state residents, t he i ss u e i s more t h a n a hypothetical.

Catherine Weber, a 70-yearol d A n n a p ol i s re s i d e n t, watched her husband die of aggressive lymphoma eight years ago. Carl Weber, her husband of 23 years, was a founding faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who taught biological sciences.

Now, Weber herself is battling metastatic cancer that has spread from her breast to her bone marrow.

While she is in stable condition, her illness is terminal, and she said she doesn’t want to die as her husband did.

“The time will come where I’ll be at the end of the path,” Weber said. “The thought of being able to call it quits at that point would really lead to a lot of peace of mind. Nobody knows what they will do at the end, but to know that this is a possibility is really reassuring.”

Weber works with Compassion & Choices as a member of this state’s action team. Together with other members, she is working to educate people on what the death with dignity movement is in hopes of prompting legislation.

“Most people I’ve talked to said it could never happen in Maryland,” Weber said. “But I don’t take a ‘can’t happen’ at face value.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

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Univ students question amenities magnets for chronic illness at health center

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Study: 42 percent of U.S. colleges have care shortcomings

The University Health Center, located on Campus Drive, provides a range of health services to students at this university.

Treatment for chronic illnesses such as diabetes, however, might be lacking, according to some. james levin/the diamondback

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer If Ben Shuster wants to k e e p h i s d i a b e te s u n d e r control, he has no choice but to travel.

T he Un iversit y He a lt h Center doesn’t have an endocrinologist on staff, so it’s off to Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, which is a 27-minute car ride.

“I n a n emergency, I do think they could take care of me,” said Shuster, a junior physiology and neurobiology major. “But they don’t have many specialists and that makes it more difficult.”

The health center might be lacking some amenities, but many across the country are missing even more.

About 20 percent of U.S. adolescents have ch ron ic illnesses, but 42 percent of U.S. colleges do not have a system equipped to identify these students, according to a study released in Pediatrics last week.

Health directors from 153 U.S. colleges, not including this university, responded to the survey, answering questions about the effectiveness of their care for students with common chronic conditions such as depression, diabetes and asthma.

About 83 percent of health centers could care for students with asthma and 69 percent could help students with depression who r e q u e s t e d t h e r a p y. T h e

The health center hopes to study also found that only 51 percent of centers could make that transition easier for c a re for st udents w it h students through a new healthcoaching program within its Type I diabetes.

However, this university health promotion department.

“I would like to do more can confidently handle a wide range of ailments and collection of medical inforconditions, including the mation before students arrive ones in the study, with its newly on-ca mpus so that primary care, University we can do outreach to make Health Center Director David students with chronic condiMcBride wrote in an email. tions aware of our services,” “I’ve on ly used them McBride wrote.

Although a data collection once to do blood work,” said Shuster, who was di- of electronic medical records agnosed with Type I dia- does exist, the health center has not systematically filed betes in ninth grade.

Shuster also goes to the the information yet, he wrote.

But A l l a n sa id suppor t health center for insulin.

H e t a k e s t wo t y p e s of doesn’t just come from serinsulin to manage his dia- vices offered. Awareness can betes, though the campus play a large role in a student’s pharmacy sometimes runs experience with a chronic out and he has to go a day condition at this university, she said. or so without it.

“It’s a very personal issue,” “It’s scary,” said Emily Allan, a junior accounting Allan said. “It’s important to and finance major with educate your friends of the symptoms so that they can at diabetes.

Allan said she usually least help you in an emergency gets her insulin from a re- situation.” liably stocked pharmacy at home because her family mhorndbk@gmail.com lives about an hour from the campus.

“If I was out of state, I don’t know what I would do,” Allan said.

Another issue the study addressed is the transition from pediatric care to adult care. Only 24 percent of the colleges surveyed said they contacted students to make a fi rst-time appointment, and a majority of the colleges that answered “yes”

By Morgan Eichensehr were small private colleges. @M_Eichensehr Staff writer

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are essential components of everything from electric motors to laptops to smartphones. Current technology depends on them, and the market relies on rare-earth elements for their production.

While these magnets are strong — 10 times as powerful as refrigerator magnets — they are expensive and Sean Fackler, a doctoral candidate in material science and engineering, demonstrates his of ten d i fficu lt to obta i n, research funded by the U.S. Energy Department on a presentation board. sung min-kim/the diamondback Fackler said. With his research, Fackler has shown funded by the U.S. Energy natives to rare-earth magnets how other elements, when Department, found the best demonstrates the practical combined, can also make concentrations of different applications of their field. combinations of elements by strong magnets.

“There’s sort of two schools “ T h e i d e a i s i r o n a n d using a technique similar to in materials sciences. One is cobalt are common magnets, one used in the pharmaceuti- let’s try to fi nd the best posbut when you mix it with a cal industry, in which many sible material for what you’re third element, it sudden- concentrations of a drug are trying to do,” he said, which ly b ecomes a p er m a nent tested at once. often involves “imagination One small wafer called a [running] wild on the perimagnet,” Fackler said.

Using a group of elements combinatorial library holds odic table” in a search for the known as refractory metals, hundreds of samples with perfect element. But these Fa c k l e r te s te d d i f fe re nt different concentrations of perfect elements for a given combinations of elements various elements. They are solution don’t always exist in and found that vicalloy — then analyzed in a process large quantities. an alloy of iron, cobalt and ca l led sputter i ng, wh ich “The other part is saying vanadium — has the poten- measures the magnetic prop- you know that material is tial to be twice as strong as erties of each combination very good, but can we make a fridge magnet. Previously, and determines the strongest something just as good from such an alloy was thought to one, Fackler said. the m ateria ls we a l ready Fackler works in the lab of have?” Cumings said. be only half as powerful as an ordinary magnet, he said. Ichiro Takeuchi, a materials The refractory metals are While still not as power- science and engineering pro- much more readily availful as rare-earth magnets, fessor, who said this method able tha n ra re-ea rth elethis finding showed alter- of quickly testing many differ- ments, and they have the native magnets can be much ent compositions is critical in added benefit of being able to more powerful than previ- finding the best alternatives to operate at high temperatures, ously thought. By finding rare-earth magnets. which Fackler said is essen“We fou nd some i nter- tial for use in the motors of even stronger magnets or by putting research into other est i ng proper t ies i n t h i s electric cars. alternatives, the way magnets particular compound that Fackler said he knows there are used in technology could he studies, and it’s particu- is a long way to go before larly interesting because we non-rare earth magnets are change, Fackler said.

“I fou nd k i nd of a side found a wider range of com- widely adopted, but hopes effect of this new fabrication positions beyond what was t h e i d e a o f u s i n g o t h e r method, that it increased the previously known,” Takeuchi magnets will stick. magnetic strength by four said. “The way Sean looks at “We didn’t make the whole times,” he said. “In principle, things gives us a good idea of solution,” he said. “This only I found something that could how different compositions says that with a little more improve it four times. If you give different properties.” engineering, you could make John Cumings, a materials an alternative. If we want it could apply this and scale it up, then suddenly you have science and engineering pro- badly enough, we can find an a competitive magnet that fessor who was not involved alternative.” in Fackler’s research, said this could mix up the market.”

Fackler, whose research is discovery of potential alter- jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

RHA members discuss changes to housing rate programs,” said Sree Sinha, RHA president.

Some living-learning programs, such as Digital Cultures and Creativity and Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, are housed in newer dorms like Prince Frederick Hall. Because the rooms in that dorm are more spacious with some featuring semi-private bathrooms, the rooms will likely be more expensive for students next year.

Sophomore computer science major Paul Gregg, a member of ACES, lives in Prince Frederick Hall and said it can be beneficial for students in living-learning programs to live with their program peers.

This is because students are often in the same classes and living together helps build a sense of community, he said.

However, Gregg said he might not want to live with his program if it means he will have to pay more for his room.

Sa sh a Ga lbre at h, R H A Resident Life Advisory Team chairwoman, said she had discussed similar concerns with Resident Life officials.

“We don’t want to railroad students into having to choose between not getting to live with their program and living in housing they can’t afford,” Galbreath said.

Glowacki said he is opening conversations with the Office of Student Financial Aid to look into the potential of providing subsidies to living-learning students with certain housing needs or financial restrictions.

Galbreath said it is also possible that students in ACES or DCC who don’t want to pay to live in Prince Frederick could be placed in the neighboring Caroline Hall at a lower cost.

“Sure, they’re not going to have that same sense of community, but they will still get full access to Prince Frederick and their living-learning programs,” she said.

A nother ACES student, sophomore computer science major Nick Davis, said he wou ld n’t m i nd l iv i n g i n cheaper housing outside of his living-learning program’s assigned dorm.

“I don’t think it’s a necessity to live there,” he said.

“There’s a million ways to keep in contact.”

Some RHA Senate members also expressed concerns about so cio econom ic d iversity within the dorms under the new system. They said they did not want a situation in which wealthier students would be

living primarily in the newer dorms while those with less economic flexibility were left in older, less desirable spaces.

Si n ha sa id she was not wor r ied ab out econom ic communities cropping up, however, because none of the buildings on-campus feature only one type of room.

“So within one hall, one floor, and even within one unit, there will be different rooms and that means that students of various economic means can live all over campus, wherever is most convenient and appealing to them,” she said.

Rates might also come together as housing renovations take place during the next several years and rooms are more standardized in quality, Glowacki said.

Glowacki said the overall goal of the differentiated rates was to create a more egalitarian structure so that students feel pricing is more fair and that their ability to live in quality housing isn’t dependent on their ability to pay.

RHA will continue to work with Resident Life on the plans for implementation of the new differentiated rate structure, Sinha said. They will continue working out the issues they’ve encountered so far, and any more that may come along the way, she said.

have fun and drink, but also to be safe,” Epstein said.

Senior chemical engineering major Samantha Fokin said she worries the addition of beer could harm the cafe’s low-key atmosphere.

“It would be a fun alternative to the bars where you can just have a couple of drinks with friends and play games,” Fokin said. “But on the other hand, I feel like it could have the opposite effect where people come

in and get sloppy and mess up the feel of the place.”

But aerospace engineering graduate student Brooks Muller, who goes to the cafe a couple of times per week, said he doesn’t think the beer and wine license will be a problem.

“You’re not coming here to get wasted; you’re coming to play games with friends and have fun,” Muller said.

M a i nta i n i ng t he ca fe’s current atmosphere is es-

sential, Epstein said.

“The whole point of this place is just to be a really chill, relaxed place that people feel comfortable spending hours in, whether it’s studying on their computer or playing games,” Epstein said. “We want people to feel comfortable playing for hours. From the couches to the music, the whole point is taking it easy.”

Though some would pay less in structure with differentiated rate, plan not flawless

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Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series

Walter Isaacson

Biographer, Journalist and CEO of the Aspen Institute Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:30 PM GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL THE CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER “Genius expert” Isaacson is credited with unlocking the codes of innovation and the people who dream and execute game changing breakthroughs. His biography, “Steve Jobs,” broke U.S. biography sales records and his latest book, “The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” is nominated for a National Book Award.

TIME magazine named him one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. A former CEO of CNN and now the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, his work fosters leadership based on enduring values and nonpartisan approaches to critical issues. He argues that the future belongs to those who can appreciate the arts, the humanities and the sciences.

This event is free (ticketed) and open to the public.

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Starting next year, Resident Life could implement a new rate structure that would allow students to pay different prices for different types and amenities of on-campus housing, but some student representatives are concerned about certain economic issues presented by this plan.

Mike Glowacki, assistant to the director of the Department of Resident Life, said under the new structure, the base rate for a standard double room on the campus will be about $3,356.50 per semester. About 28 percent of residents will pay the base rate. About 40 percent of students will pay less than the base rate and about 32 percent will pay more, based on certain room amenities.

During a Nov. 4 Residence H a l l A sso c i at ion S e n ate meeting, student senators discussed their apprehensions regarding the plan.

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sorships. Yes, these positions might lean libertarian, but they represent additions to existing positions, not replacements.

The original agreement at Florida State, for example, “called for the Koch Foundation and FSU to raise up to $6.6 million for six faculty positions.”

This, by the way, has been reduced to two because of the depressed economy.

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Concerns over the political influence of the recent Koch Foundation donation are unwarranted.

In describing the aftermath of the Koch agreement with Florida State, economics department chairman Bruce Benson additionally estimated that “of his staff of 30, six, including himself, would fall into Koch’s freemarket camp.” The theme in that case seems to be a focus on individual placements, not departmentwide or curriculum-wide control.

But isn’t this problematic for academic freedom at large?

Not entirely. As university President Wallace Loh stated, “we make the hiring independently.” Koch appointees will not choose faculty positions, and the curriculum isn’t likely to sway strongly in a political direction if the chosen faculty members don’t all subscribe to a particular ideology.

To criticize the Koch financial agreement with this university would mean we’d also have to fundamentally criti-

cize major donations from every single liberal-leaning donor, which could exist at several universities. Liberal philanthropist George Soros, for instance, has donated to all Ivy League universities as well as Bard College.

If we examine the ratio of Democratic to Republican professors in different academic departments, we find that the left-of-center viewpoint has a suffocating presence. Economic departments nationwide have about a 3-to-1 ratio, while anthropology’s ratio is a whopping 21.1 to 1.

Ideological uniformity in any social setting is inherently unhealthy, in that it leads a group to repel newcomers who are different. Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook write in the Annual Review of Sociology that “homophily (sameness) limits people’s social worlds in a way that has powerful implications for the information they receive, the attitudes they form, and the interactions they experience.” Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern provide theory and a case study to show that, once an ideology dominates a department, “the professional pyramid and departmental majoritarianism function together effectively to exclude scholars opposed to [that] ideology.”

We aren’t arguing for the Koch brothers to financially control academic centers at this university, but we aren’t complaining about their hefty donation, either.

With an apparent lack of ideological diversity in academia and a strong desire to improve entrepreneurship and innovation programs at this university, we don’t mind receiving a small dab of Koch.

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herever Charles and David Koch’s money goes, controversy seems to follow.

For instance, the Koch Foundation’s 2011 $1.5 million gift to Florida State’s economics department came with a stipulation that a Koch-appointed advisory committee would select professors and conduct annual evaluations. Angered by the potential political influence over faculty member selections, students on college campuses across the country took part in the “UnKoch My Campus” campaign, an effort to hold the Koch brothers accountable.

Concerns over corporate influence also reached this university after the Koch Foundation donated $1 million to help create the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets. In response, Student Labor Action Project member Christopher Bangert-Drowns wrote to The Diamondback and asserted that, when it comes to the private funding of academia, “there is never an exchange of funds without an exchange of ideology.”

Though it’s understandable for some to fear the use of financial clout to secure ideological influence at large public institutions, concerns over the recent Koch donation seem a bit over the top.

The Koch’s 2011 gift to Florida State’s economics department was indeed a huge Koch-funded foray into higher education, but a closer look doesn’t seem to show the Koch brothers sought “full control of the curriculum.” In fact, the Koch Foundation follows an academic pattern of investing funds into a handful of slots devoted to free-market profes-

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Washington Post and The New York Times, listening to C-SPAN and NPR, being informed about foreign policy, caring about the big issues — those are good habits. Just as important, but less immediately cool, is regular attendance at city council meetings. You can make a difference there in a way that you probably can’t at a national level, no matter how much organizing, fundraising and campaigning you do.

The College Park Academy is a new model for middle and high school — should we expand it or eliminate it? Or do we need more time to figure it out?

Starting a municipal Internet service provider would likely be a tremendous boon to citizens who are otherwise at the mercy of big cable providers — Verizon and Comcast. How expensive would it be? Is it technically feasible?

How can we make sure that the waste generated by College Park residents is managed effectively? How efficient is our recycling program, and how wellinformed are residents about what can and can’t be recycled?

What can we do to reduce crime and increase public safety (and the perception of safety) while we grapple with the issues of police brutality and overreach that seem to pervade police forces throughout America?

None of the countless issues critical to our daily lives is over and dealt with. None of these were really on the ballot. They are mundane, inglorious, even boring, but they are the issues that will shape the future of this city.

In countless places across the country, good governance at the local level will shape the future. That takes real effort by real people — people like you.

You alone probably can’t get marijuana legalized in this state or force a switch to a flat tax. But you might be able to improve attendance at the farmers market, make sure we are recycling and maybe even ensure that the plans for the development in College Park bring us a more prosperous future.

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or a Democratic student, today seems like a sad day. All the headlines shout about Hogan and the Republican Senate. Some will say that this is really a good thing — Republicans will be forced to legislate; they can’t just bash Obama anymore. I don’t buy it.

We lost. Lost badly, despite so much in our favor — popular positions on social issues, economic growth, a poorly rolled out but ultimately effective new health care system.

Still, real politics is mostly lots of little things that add up.

It’s hard to draw your eyes away from the national news, the headlines and big decisions. Local matters are much harder to think about.

They’re so boring and unavailable.

Great journalists don’t tend to cover local politics and local issues, mostly because no one will buy papers that cover that boring old stuff.

If we want to make the most difference, we have do it locally.

What are the major issues facing College Park? Mostly, they are perennial issues that face local governments everywhere: zoning, ordinances, schools, waste management, family services, business development programs, law enforcement.

These are issues that we don’t know much about or pay much attention to. We might know about the Florida gubernatorial race but not about how plans are made for roads to be paved and streetlights timed.

We assume that garbage collection will be timely and efficient — but how much should it cost? Who approves new building construction, and how will it affect us?

The work and decisions of state and federal politicians will have real impact on our lives — there’s no denying it. Still, that impact is Rob Cobb is a senior computer not proportional to the amount of engineering major. He can be reached a attention we pay to it. Reading The rcobbdbk@gmail.com.

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his past Saturday, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old who suffered from glioblastoma, a terminal brain cancer, ended her life by doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon. Her passing garnered widespread controversy on the ethics of euthanasia.

The dissenters, most of whom were religiously affiliated, opposed Maynard’s choice and her advocacy of promoting death with dignity laws, which currently exist only in Oregon and four other states. Some believe death by the hand of anything other than nature is abhorrent and were disappointed that Maynard did not “find the courage to live every day to the fullest until God [called her] home,” as Janet Morana, the executive director of Priests for Life, said in an interview with U.S. News & World Report.

More sensible opponents, however, pointed to how condoning acts of euthanasia is a slippery slope that would open the doors to accepting more lax circumstances of “dying with dignity.” Their worries are reasonable, consid-

ering how countries such as the Netherlands have already allowed euthanasia to extend to those suffering from psychological conditions such as depression, but this type of legislation was not what Maynard supported, nor was it something she advocated.

Those who criticized Maynard for what she did are clearly out of touch with the realities of imminent death and terminal illness, but so are those who supported her for something she did not do. Her decision to take charge of her fate was enviable; however, her decision to die on her terms was not an option she readily had at her disposal, nor was her death an act of liberation or selfless protest toward states without to Death With Dignity laws, as so many believe or paint her story.

On the contrary, when faced with the encroaching death in the midst of suffering excruciating pain and potentially fatal symptoms, avoiding the pain — not only for Maynard, but also for her family — by accepting her fate early was not only the most logical decision but also the only recourse her body and her disease allowed.

Indeed, her illness had stripped her liberty well before she knew she had to end her life. This sentiment is not novel and certainly did not

deserve the amount of criticism Maynard and her family received, because the idea that life should not be lived without liberty is a cornerstone of our country.

Suicide has such a powerful effect on society because it produces irreparable damage not only to the dead but to those around them as well.

In Maynard’s case, her death was partly due to the consideration, and not negligence, of her family. Her advocacy was not aimed at the right for people to end their lives, but to end their torture.

Although Oregon’s law is called the Death with Dignity Act, I do not believe dignity is something one can claim or exercise in death. Dignity is left in the world of the living and determined by the actions of one’s life.

Although one cannot die with dignity, dying itself is not indignant, as Maynard’s dissenters might think.

What is indignant is hiding behind the Bible and fear to legally bind the terminally ill and their families to physical and psychological pain until death slowly arrives. What is indignant is calling this fate a life fully lived.

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f you’ve seen the thumbs-up graphics all over the campus and along Route 1, you might have thought they were designed to spark conversations about consent. You’re right, but the meaning runs deeper than that.

This university’s Rule of Thumb campaign takes root from a 19thcentury criminal case out of North Carolina, State v. Rhodes, in which the court ruled A. B. Rhodes had the right to beat his wife Elizabeth with a switch — that was no wider than his thumb. A bit of judicial trivia that seems abhorrent now, this ruling reflects a long history of violence in our culture that informs our attitudes toward sexual and relationship violence today.

Just as the notion of “the right to beat your wife” has long since been abolished, we are working toward a culture change that no longer accepts a world in which young women are at high risk of sexual violence, especially on college campuses.

I have been working toward this since I started as the Title IX officer and director of the Office of Sexual Misconduct & Relationship Violence six months ago. By definition, my role is ensuring this university is in compliance with federal law. However, it’s important to know that I view compliance as the bare minimum of what must be done. It is the floor upon which everything else is built to cultivate and sustain a respectful learning and working environment for everyone in the campus community. Whether it’s participating in bystander intervention training or volunteering as a member of the Standing Review Committee to adjudicate student sexual misconduct cases, everyone has a role to play in ensuring this university is a place free from sexual misconduct.

Here’s an overview of some of the changes we have made so far: • University President Wallace Loh has approved an updated and revised sexual misconduct policy that provides clarity on definitions of terms and adds new terms, including coercion, responsible university employee, dating violence and stalking. The policy sets clear guidelines for reporting sexual misconduct, highlights where to find on- and off-campus resources and provides new procedures for investigating and adjudicating student complaints. The new policy and procedures are in effect on an interim basis while the University Senate reviews them.

• A mandatory online training for all undergraduate students titled “Sexual Misconduct Prevention” launches this week and must be completed by Dec. 10.

The purpose of the training is to create awareness about what constitutes sexual misconduct, educate the student body about the potential consequences for violating the policy and highlight available resources and reporting options. It also provides information about what students can do to help prevent sexual misconduct.

• In-person bystander intervention training for the campus community will also be available later this academic year.

• The UMD Sex Positive App is available for download as an additional resource for students.

• This university is participating in the White House’s “It’s On Us” Bystander Intervention Campaign in collaboration with the Student Government Association.

Become part of this university’s awareness and education campaign to end sexual assault on the campus.

Catherine Carroll is this university’s Title IX Officer. She can be reached at TitleIXCoordinator@umd.edu.

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the director we deserve Running down the films of the enigmatic auteur who helped bring together the blockbuster and the art house for a generation of moviegoers

christopher nolan directs from behind an IMAX movie camera. The director helped popularize the large-format filming and projection style with his Dark Knight series of films. The writer-director’s latest, Interstellar, opens in wide release tomorrow.

By Jonathan Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan’s newest film, Interstellar, gets its wider release in most theaters tomorrow, and if early critical reviews are to be believed, it’s another combination of crowd-pleasing blockbuster and genuinely good filmmaking.

After his first film, Following, Nolan burst into the critical sphere with the fantastic Memento, a thriller about a man who can’t form long-lasting memories and only knows what he’s left for himself in notes and tattoos.

The story is told simultaneously forward and backward through two rotating timelines, one in black-andwhite and the other in color. It’s a confusing ride for many, but the film reveals its genius on multiple rewatches, as every piece fits together perfectly.

Nolan followed up Memento with Insomnia, a more traditional dark thriller starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank. It’s a good film, but a bit more removed from the

rest of Nolan’s work, likely because he didn’t write the script.

Next up was one of Nolan’s most underrated films — and one of my personal favorites — The Prestige.

Chronicling the battle between two rival performance magicians, told out of chronological order, full of twists and misdirection and all dedicated to the love of filmmaking and storytelling, this film has stuck with me in how perfectly it captures the rapturous feeling of entertaining, of creating something that others enjoy and find meaning in, even if it’s all ultimately an illusion. The Prestige wouldn’t be Nolan’s last film dealing with the theme of filmmaking itself — that would come later.

At this point Nolan had established himself as a promising director with four good films — and arguably two masterpieces — under his belt. Hollywood then handed him the reins to the famous (and infamous) Batman remakes featuring Christian Bale’s gruff-voiced hero. Batman Begins showed an interesting new take on the hero while still feeling like a

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OK DRONE Recent music video displays potential of drones for art

By Leo Traub @leotraub Staff writer For years, drones have been a hot topic for their controversial use in airstrikes during times of war. But last week, power-pop band OK Go proved drones could be used for a far less morbid task: filming music videos.

OK Go’s latest video for “I Won’t Let You Down” off their latest album, Hungry Ghosts, fulfills its titular promise with a music video that wows.

The band members, along with more than 1,500 volunteers, ride Honda personal mobility devices and coordinate dancing with umbrellas in an unbeliev-

able feat of mass choreography. The entire shot, timing in at five minutes and 20 seconds, was made possible only through drone filming technology.

At the beginning of the video it’s impossible to tell that a drone camera is doing the filming because the shot is held steady at a few feet off the ground.

Then, just after the one-minute mark, the camera flies into the air, giving us a bird’s-eye view of the band and dancers’ choreography. The video does this a couple more times, including a final aerial shot that ends nearly half a mile in the air with a pan over Tokyo, where the video was filmed.

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comic book story, but when Nolan released The Dark Knight, everything changed. Heath Ledger’s Joker has already become iconic as one of the best movie villains of our generation, and the dark and fairly realistic take on the Batman mythos was wholly original. Even taking into account the film’s holy status among certain populations of film fans, it’s still a great film and probably to date the best superhero film out there.

Less so would be the final film in the series, The Dark Knight Rises, which was quite muddled plot-wise and brought up an interesting villainous plan to hand justice to the disenfranchised masses only to be revealed as a cover for a cliche super-bomb. It also had some unfortunate implications that both the government and the people are inept and only rich millionaires working on their own can set things right.

Nolan is also derided in some circles for the effect that his Batman trilogy has had on the film industry, particularly with regard to tone. The movies are dark, gritty and more tethered to

by using a drone instead of an expensive filming crane. The band utilized both outdoor and indoor spaces, and the camera moved backward through a narrow doorway, two techniques that would be difficult, if not impossible, with a large crane. Then the camera swivels in a couple of 360-degree spins that would reveal the base of a crane if it were being used. Last but not least, the half mile-high shot at the video’s end is totally out of any terrestrial machine’s range.

The beauty of these filming techniques is in the way the drone camera’s novelty neither overpowers nor succumbs to the rest of the video. The focus of the music video is on the synchronization of the dancers, not on the quirkiness of the camera. But the drone is not entirely lost either; it’s impossible to watch the video without wondering how they accomplished such ambitious camera angles.

OK Go’s video is not the first piece of film to employ a drone camera. Movies such as Iron Man 3, Skyfall and The

reality than most comic books. This was praised at the time they were first released, but now the pendulum of public opinion seems to have swung back to light-hearted and fun comic book movies: Consider the critical and audience reception to Guardians of the Galaxy, for example. Without Nolan, we probably wouldn’t have the awful Zack Snyder DC films and their cynical appeals to a sometimes uncomfortably machismo audience.

In between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan made Inception, a story thankfully independent from any existing franchise that nevertheless managed to create a compelling world. Journeying into another person’s mind, creating elaborate sets, having each individual person on the team devoted to something different to create this grand illusion, trying to subtly plant an idea in someone’s head afterward — Nolan made another metaphor for filmmaking.

Inception is a good film, but it’s hard to not imagine the further, weirder possibilities of a dream-world where logic doesn’t exist.

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Nolan’s films are also often criticized for being cold, cerebral puzzles with characters serving more as plot devices than actual people. There’s something in that criticism, as you’re not likely to come across a feel-good Nolan film, nor one with a completely straightforward narrative. Nolan’s characters don’t stand with the best of cinema’s (can anyone remember the names of people from Inception?), but his stories are still powerful and worthy of their acclaim. It’s hard to find better films in our generation with mesmerizing, puzzling plot twists, interestingly nonchronological storytelling and massively amazing set pieces.

Wherever you stand on the legacy and merit of Christopher Nolan, it’s hard to argue that he’s not a talented director. He’s not going anywhere, and with Interstellar, he seems to be doing more of what he does best: making crowd-pleasing blockbusters with a high-minded approach and a flair for the dark and puzzling. jraederdbk@gmail.com

OK GO, a band known for its elaborate and complex music videos, recently used drone technology to film a long, intricate dance set to its current single “I Won’t Let You Down.” photo courtesy of adverblog.com Hunger Games have all been cited as using drones for filming. But the drone shots are often brief and indistinguishable from the rest of the movie, losing the novelty inherent to the shot.

Other short-form videos have also successfully used drones for innovative scenes that play to the technology’s singular advantages: YouTube videos like “Superman with a GoPro” and “Fireworks filmed with a drone” illustrate creative uses for drone cameras’ unmatchable versatility. House duo Booka Shade’s music video for “Crossing Borders” uses a drone with seven

cameras to create a trippy “little planet” effect. Other amateur videos feature tracking shots that fly through forests and over creeks and other terrain that would make a dolly shot impossible.

OK Go’s music video is another example of how the innovation of drone filming can be used to successfully complement a film’s subject matter.

Though such novel use of the filming technique is so far largely constrained to YouTube, it surely won’t be long before more studios begin to use drones. ltraubdbk@gmail.com

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knights From PAGE 8 ball from midfielder Alex Shinsky for his team-high eighth goal of the year.

“Mael was very classy when he scored his goal — very muted, did not want to celebrate,” Cirovski said.

“Showed class and humility that defines him as a person.”

The lead was short-lived, however, as Rutgers struck back in the 23rd minute to tie the game when midfielder Rayon Gibbs converted past goalkeeper Zack Steffen. It marked just the fifth goal Steffen had allowed during the winning streak.

The teams traded shots over the ensuing minutes.

For the first time in weeks, the Terps failed to dominate the possession battle.

I n t h e 3 3 rd m i n u te , Cirovski opted to insert forwards George Campbell and David Kabelik into the game for midfielders Michael Sauers and Tsubasa Endoh.

Campbell and Kabelik began the season in the starting lineup but were eventually replaced due to inconsistency.

On the night the Terps clinched the conference championship in their inaugural Big Ten season, though, Cirovski’s decision to play Kabelik and Campbell paid dividends.

Campbell contributed first. About four minutes after checking into the game, he blasted a shot past Rutgers goalkeeper David Greczek to give the Terps a 2-1 lead going into the half. It was his third goal of the year.

Rutgers scored in the

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90th minute, but it proved futile, considering Kabelik had scored about 17 minutes earlier to give the Terps a two-goal cushion.

“It’s a big deal to win this championship, but we just know it was the closer to the regular season,” C i ro v s k i s a i d . “ We ’ re lo oking forward to the conference championship.

Hope we can make Ludwig packed again.”

Through six games of its 2014 campaign, the Terps had just one win. Now, with the postseason looming, Cirovski’s team will enter the Big Ten tournament as the top seed.

“The guys came with their championship fiber coming through,” Cirovski said. “I feel like a proud papa today.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

midfielder Michael sauers rears back to kick a pass in the No. 17 Terps’ 3-2 victory over Rutgers last night. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

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the first time since the 2012 ACC tournament. The Terps lost in the finals that year to North Carolina.

Meharg said fatigue didn’t play a factor in that loss, though. Plus, unlike the ACC tournament, in which the Tar Heels rested the first day, no teams received byes in the Big Ten tournament, so both teams that reach the championship will be p l ay i n g u n d e r t h e s a m e circumstances. “ I f i t c o m e s to t h r e e games, we will be ready,” Gerzabek said.

The Terps carry a lot of momentum too. Six weeks ago, when the Terps traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, they had a 5-2 record. They haven’t lost in the 11 games since.

And they are hoping their familiarity with the complex — courtesy of the wooden t u r t l e — w i l l h ave t h e m well-prepared to make a run toward this school’s first Big Ten title.

“It would be kind of fun for them to win back-to-back championships in two different leagues,” Meharg said.

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FOWARD KATIE Gerzabek (top), defender Kasey Tapman (left) and coach Missy Meharg face No. 8-seed Ohio State in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today in the Big Ten tournament. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

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class. He won the starting job his freshman season, finishing second in the ACC championships and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA championships. A year later, Alexander returned to the national tournament after compiling a 25-11 record.

Still, Alexander enjoyed his time away from team competition last year, working to hone his craft.

“I just go out there now, and I’m ready to go out and wrestle, win or lose,” Alexander said. “Because when I step off the mat, what matters is me being out there and doing what I love.”

In Alexander’s absence, then-freshman Tyler Goodwin

past games don’t mean much in the postseason.

“It’s do-or-die time and everyone is out for blood, especially against Maryland,” fo rwa rd K a t i e G e rza b e k said. “We definitely have the bullseye on our back, but we are ready to step up to the plate.”

During the regular-season matchup with M ichigan, the Terps learned the ball doesn’t roll as smoothly on Ocker Field as it does at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. As a result, the Terps will likely resort to using seven players on their penalty-corner attacks instead of eight to prevent fast breaks off bad bounces.

That experience has helped the Terps prepare for what to expect this time around.

“The field’s a lot newer than what we have been playing on,” defender Kasey Tapman said.

“It’s a little more bouncy.”

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wrestled at 133 pounds. Despite earning an NCAA berth last season after making the ACC tournament semifinals, Goodwin moved down a weight class. He’s currently competing with 125-pound Josh Polacek for the starting job.

Even so, Alexander’s spot in the lineup isn’t guaranteed.

After starting at 125 pounds last year, 133-pound Billy Rappo bulked up to wrestle in the higher weight class this season.

Rappo wrestled the final two bouts of the Terrapin Duals at 133 pounds and pinned both of his opponents.

“He’s a lot healthier; he’s having fun with the sport again,” 141-pound Shyheim Brown said

of Rappo. “That’s going to take him to the next level.”

The Holland, Pennsylvania, native will also benefit from wrestling against Alexander regularly. In the Wrestle-Offs, Alexander earned a 2-0 decision.

The two wrestlers will continue to battle with the hopes of representing the Te r p s i n t h e 1 3 3 - p o u n d weight class. Alexander did so for the first time in more than a year on Sunday, and he returned with a commanding victory.

“It’s great to be back out here with these guys in front of the fans again,” Alexander said. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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the blame for it and be like, ‘Hey, this is my job as a coach. I should’ve had them ready.’ It’s really good to know that you have that kind of support.”

Aird said his time spent under coach Russ Rose at reigning NCAA champion Penn State taught him to be accountable as a coach.

But Murray pointed out players should also take responsibility for their actions. “ I t ’s o u r j o b t o o ,” Murray said. “We have to execute. We’re the ones on the court; we’re the ones playing. He’s a great guy, and he does that for us because he feels like he

has to. As a player, I put responsibility on myself too, and so he shouldn’t have to always do that for us.”

But with every loss, Aird has continued to shoulder the blame.

O n S a t u rd ay n i g h t , however, the Terps took on No. 14 Nebraska and put together an impressive effort. In each of the first two sets, they challenged their elite rivals until the end. They ultimately lost the match, 3-0, but showed flashes of genuine improvement.

And Aird didn’t accept any recognition.

“Credit to the kids,” he said. “I don’t think it was about me.” jmwalkerdbk@gmail.com

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WRESTLING

MEN’S SOCCER | No. 17 TERPS 3, SCARLET KNIGHTS 2

Alexander earns win in return Junior opens season with victory after redshirting last year

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

“It’s an incredible feeling. To think where we were a month ago and where we are now, it’s an especially proud feeling,” Cirovski said. “That’s hard to describe.”

The victory over the Scarlet Knights (5-11-1, 1-6-1 Big Ten) mirrored the Terps’ performance throughout the streak. They scored first and never trailed. The Terps (11-5-2, 5-2-1) outshot Rutgers 17-7. And they received goals from three different players.

Midfielder Mael Corboz, who transferred from Rutgers after his sophomore year, scored the opening goal in the fifth minute, finishing on a

Minutes before the Terrapins wrestling team kicked off its season at the Terrapin Duals on Sunday, its wrestlers sat in chairs or stood near the bench.

But 133-pound Geoffrey Alexander prepared for his first match using a different approach. He paced in circles around the mat, eager to wrestle in team competition after redshirting a year ago.

And when the referee blew his whistle to start the match between Alexander and Johns Hopkins’ Christian Vallis, the wait was over. Alexander, who finished 25-2 last season while wrestling in open competition, easily beat Vallis with a second-period pin.

Moving forward, the redshirt junior will aim to continue winning by building off his success in individual tournaments last year.

“It was great,” Alexander said after the Red & Black Wrestle-Offs on Oct. 26. “These open tournaments, you go there and there’s tons of fans, but you never really have that home crowd and that team really behind you supporting you.”

While Alexander’s second match this weekend didn’t end with the referee slapping the mat, it produced the same result. He outlasted Kutztown’s Travis Roper to secure the 8-2 victory.

“We’ve got a really good opportunity because Geoffrey Alexander was one of our more successful guys,” coach Kerry McCoy said.

Throughout his career, Alexander has performed well in this weight

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MIDFIeLdER MAEL CORBOZ dribbles through Rutgers defenders in the Terps’ 3-2 victory last night that clinched the Big Ten regular-season title and the top seed in the conference tournament. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

A TURN TOWARD THE TOP Terps beat Rutgers to claim Big Ten regular-season title, extend winning streak to eight games

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer On Sept. 19, the Terrapins men’s soccer team fell, 1-0, to Michigan State in front of more than 6,000 people in its Big Ten home opener.

A Spartans defender blocked defender Mikey Ambrose’s last-ditch header attempt with less than a minute remaining, and coach Sasho Cirovski could hardly hide his disappointment after the game.

The next few weeks were marred by inconsistency and frustration. The Terps dropped a heartbreaking 1-0 game to Georgetown on

Sept. 30 before falling again, 3-2, five days later at Northwestern. Cirovski earned a one-game suspension for angrily confronting the officials after that loss.

Something changed at that point, though.

The Terps beat then-No. 3 Penn State, 4-0, on Oct. 12 and then kept winning. They didn’t drop a game the rest of October and gradually played themselves back into postseason contention.

Last night marked the triumphant conclusion of the No. 17 Terps’ turnaround, as they defeated Rutgers, 3-2, to extend their winning streak to eight games and clinch the Big Ten regular-season championship.

VOLLEYBALL

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Aird takes blame for weekend’s struggles First-year coach aims to keep pressure off young team after losses to Iowa, Nebraska

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer The Terrapins volleyball team had just lost in straight sets to Iowa, and coach Steve Aird said it was entirely his fault.

The Hawkeyes, who entered 13th in the Big Ten standings, were a team the Terps expected to defeat. And when they were unable to win a single set, it came as a disappointment.

Despite the Terps’ lack of execution and 11 service errors, Aird accepted responsibility for the team’s struggles, as he has all season.

“He’s got my back and I know that no matter what,” middle blocker Hailey Murray said. “And so I know he’s going to be behind me and I can always go into his office and talk because he loves us.

He’s all about us and we’re his family and I really like that.”

Aird was a member of the Penn State men’s volleyball team from 1997 until 2001, so he knows what it’s like to be a player. He believes that in the face of criticism, players need to know their coaches have their best interests at heart.

“When I was a player and we won, I always thought it was because I was a pretty good player,” Aird said.

“When we lost, I always thought it was because it was on me as a player.

I think our kids feel that way, but I’m going to wear it when we don’t do well, and when we do well, I’m happy for them.”

He uses this philosophy to weather the challenges presented during his first season as a head coach.

“I WANT DESPERATELY FOR THEM TO FEEL WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WIN A MATCH OR WIN A BIG MATCH OR HAVE A GREAT MATCH AND FEEL LIKE THEY’VE IMPROVED.” STEVE AIRD

Terrapins volleyball coach

He inherited a team that finished second-last in the ACC last year and has transitioned to the nation’s premier volleyball conference. The Terps have also been without outside hitter Adreené Elliott, whom Aird dubbed his best player, since the seventh match of the year.

The Terps have lost 13 of their last 15 matches, recently endured an 11match losing streak and have been swept in 10 of their 14 losses.

And at times this season, the constant defeats have worn on Aird.

“I want desperately for them to feel what it’s like to win a match or win a big match or have a great match and feel like they’ve improved,” Aird said. “That’s what I want more than anything for them.”

But during the rough stretches the Terps have endured, more often than not, Aird has stood after matches and accepted the blame for the team’s miscues.

“It just shows how much he cares about the program and that he’s able to put himself out on the line for us,” middle blocker Ashlyn MacGregor said. “He’s the one that’s able to take See aird, Page 7

The Terps celebrate one of midfielder Maxine Fluharty’s two goals in the Terps’ 4-1 victory over Iowa on Saturday in the regular-season finale. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Terps open play in first Big Ten tournament as top overall seed Team takes on No. 8-seed Ohio State in Michigan this morning

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Six weeks ago, the Terrapins field hockey team boarded a plane to Michigan in search of its first Big Ten win after dropping its conference opener at Northwestern on Sept. 20. And more than a month after the Terps claimed the victory over the Wolverines, the trip still holds significance.

The visit provided the Terps with an opportunity to get acclimated with the field they would be coming back to for the Big Ten

tournament. And in an effort to make the players study the environment more, coach Missy Meharg hid a wooden turtle at the complex.

Meharg has a picture of the turtle’s hiding spot saved on her phone, and she plans on figuring out a fun gift for whichever player finds it.

“We brought the turtle and kind of put it there so they would start to look around,” Meharg said.

“Kind of a hide-and-seek type thing, so they would take in more information on the playing surface and the playing stadium and everything else.”

Now, in their return to newly renovated Ocker Field — a $13.5 million facility — the No. 1-seed Te r ps w i l l l o o k to c l a i m t h e school’s first Big Ten tournament championship.

The Terps open play at 10 a.m. today with a matchup against No. 8-seed Ohio State. The Buckeyes — coached by Meharg’s longtime friend and former roommate, Anne Wilkinson — struggled to slow the Terps offense in a regular-season 6-0 loss.

Still, the Terps players realize See tournament, Page 7

TERRAPINS BASKETBALL PREVIEW

The weight of a program rests on his shoulders, but

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STAYING MELO UNDER PRESSURE

Meet the freshman whose ‘uncanny ability’ to remain unnerved has those around him confident he can live up to hype as the program’s savior

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

M

elo Trimble knows why more cameras and voice recorders are pointed toward him than anyone else at Xfinity Center. But, as always, he remains calm.

It’s Oct. 21, Terrapins men’s basketball media day, and dozens of reporters gather around the 6-foot-2 freshman point guard with a freshly cut fade as he sits at a gray circular table. Clad in his white Terps No. 2 uniform, Trimble sits tall as media members spout question after question about his sky-high expectations.

In April, Trimble, ESPN’s 29thranked recruit in the country, became the first Terps signee since 2003 to play in the McDonald’s High School AllAmerican Game. He’s since been labeled by some pundits as this year’s most important freshman in the country. And a win-starved fan base that’s watched the Terps miss the NCAA tournament each of the past four seasons has labeled Trimble as its savior.

Nationally and locally, college basketball fans and experts know about the pressure Trimble faces. They know what’s been said about the 19-year-old from Upper Marlboro and the role he’ll play as the Terps starting point guard.

But with the team’s season opener looming Nov. 14, a question remains regarding the local kid who has the weight of a once-prominent program planted on his shoulders.

Out of the spotlight, away from the reporters that stare him down on this media day, who is Melo Trimble?

GUARD MELO TRIMBLE smiles as he answers questions at the Terps’ media day Oct. 21. Trimble, a freshman, was ESPN’s 29th-ranked freshman in the country coming out of Bishop O’Connell High School. christian jenkins/the diamondback

HE’S SHY Kim Trimble was nervous her 5-year-old son would have trouble making friends while growing up in Upper Marlboro. Melo was studious and friendly but reserved around others.

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I wouldn’t try out for teams,” Kim Trimble said. “So I brought him out for pee-wee flag football and then for pee-wee basketball.”

Basketball became the sport that stuck, and Melo Trimble’s venture onto the hardwood as a youngster kick-started a rise to prominence.

Soon he was spending hours in gyms each week and making his mom drive him to Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia,

at 5 a.m. so he could shoot 100 shots before school started.

Kim Trimble doesn’t tell the story of how her son started playing hoops because of what it produced on the court, but because of how it characterizes him off it.

Trimble’s not the loudest or most outspoken in a group, O’Connell coach Joe Wootten said. He is, though, someone who develops extremely close bonds with his

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“MELO’S A UNIQUE YOUNG MAN. HE KIND OF JUST STAYS AT THE SAME PACE, THE WAY HE PLAYS. HE DOESN’T GET EXCITED; HE DOESN’T GET UP; HE DOESN’T GET DOWN.” MARK TURGEON

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“He’s been everything and more than advertised for us,” Turgeon said.

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GUARD MELO TRIMBLE responds to questions after participating in Maryland Madness on Oct. 17. The Terps open their regular season Nov. 14 against Wagner. christian jenkins/the diamondback

TRIMBLE From PAGE 2 friends and grin and blush at compliments about his oncourt performances.

“He was such an everyday guy,” Wootten said. “So humble.”

HE’S TALENTED Mark Turgeon was acting like a 5-year-old.

The Terps coach was at a session of intrasquad scrimmages at O’Connell along with a handful of other Division I coaches, and he couldn’t keep himself from smiling and clapping. He watched as Trimble, then an underclassman, routinely sliced into the line to make plays for teammates, buried nearly every shot he launched and played gritty defense.

Opponents would doubleteam the young guard, and he always seemed to make the right play.

Turgeon bounded over to Wootten with a smile on his face as the games continued, and he leaned in close to the O’Connell coach. “‘I love him, I just love him.

He’s unbelievable,’” Turgeon wh i s p e re d . “ ‘ D o n ’t te l l anybody, though. I don’t want anybody recruiting him.’”

Turgeon couldn’t keep his admiration for Trimble a secret, but it didn’t matter.

The Knights star spurned offers from Villanova, Miami and Notre Dame to commit to this university in December 2012.

The most noticeable thing that makes Trimble a threat on the floor is his shooting ability, his coaches said. But perhaps the more valuable trait is his steady

composure in all situations.

“Melo’s a unique young man,” Turgeon said. “He kind of just stays at the same pace, the way he plays. He doesn’t get excited; he doesn’t get up; he doesn’t get down.”

Trimble’s top two attributes were most on display when he led O’Connell into the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament final against Benedictine (Richmond, Virginia) as a junior in March 2013. Entering the game, Wootten knew their opponent was bound to throw two or three defenders at Trimble on each possession because he had dropped 28 points the previous night.

The game was on a big stage, too, with about 4,500 fans squeezed into the gym at Frostburg State University.

Trimble, though, never faltered. He accepted the double

teams and hit his first shot.

Then his second. And another.

“He was nailing shot after shot and he finally missed one and the whole crowd went ‘whoa,’” Wootten said. “It was just such a show.”

Kim Trimble wasn’t able to watch the game, but she knew all about her son’s 17 first-quarter points.

“I was getting all kinds of text messages,” Kim Trimble said. “People were calling me saying, ‘This is unbelievable.’”

Trimble finished with 34 points that night in an O’Connell win before the largest crowd he played in front of all season.

And now that he’s in College Park, Trimble’s steadiness and scoring ability has seemed to translate. In the Terps’ exhibition opener Saturday, Trimble scored a game-high 19 points and dished out five assists to two

As word about Trimble’s success at O’Connell spread, the rumors started swirling. Would the Knights’ best player, like so many other local talents, bolt from his high school to attend a nearby basketball powerhouse like Oak Hill Academy or Montrose Christian?

“I never had a conversation with him about it,” Wootten said. “I know Melo so well and I know his mom. I know what their values are.”

Trimble stuck with Wootten and his Knights teammates and experienced great success, earning his way onto the McDonald’s All-American team.

Trimble, who lived with both of his parents, an older brother and a younger sister growing up, has always been that way. His teammates — whether on the Knights, his D.C. Assault AAU team or his younger recreational squads — have typically been his best friends, and his coaches were his closest confidants.

That tendency to grow tight with teammates followed him to College Park, where he and fellow freshmen Dion Wiley and Jared Nickens have leaned on one another during their transition to college life and Division I basketball over the summer. The trio spends nearly all of their time together, and just before this semester started they each

got tattoos on their legs that read “MBK” for “My Brother’s Keeper.”

Wiley and Trimble, who both lived in Prince George’s County as kids, have a special bond that hints at their loyalty. They each had offers to leave the area to play Division I hoops but stayed at home to help rebuild a fledgling Terps program.

“That’s one of the reasons why we’re so close,” Wiley said.

“This year, since we started in College Park, June 2, we’ve really gotten close — me, him and Jared,” Trimble added. “We’re like brothers. You’ll never see me without one of them.”

HE’S HYPED Doug Williams, outfitted in a red Terps collared shirt, settled into his seat a few dozen rows behind the baseline as fans began trickling into Xfinity Center about 20 minutes before the start of the Terps’ exhibition opener against San Francisco State on Saturday.

Williams has been a season ticket-holder since the 1970s.

He’s watched icons like Len Bias and Juan Dixon. And he feels he can get a sense of what the Terps need to do each year to have success. So when Trimble’s name comes up in conversation, Williams chuckled and stared at the court where the two teams were warming up.

“If he doesn’t have a good year,” Williams said, “we’re gonna really suck.”

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TRIMBLE From PAGE 3 Several rows down, Stanley Rodenhauser, who’s had season tickets for 40 years, expressed a similar thought. “[Trimble’s] going to have a lot of pressure on him,” Rodenhauser said.

Rodenhauser pondered former Terps point guards who entered college with the same expectations Trimble faces. He came up blank.

Then he adjusted his thought process and mustered two comparisons to young guards who shouldered relatively heavy burdens.

One was John Lucas, who ended up becoming the first overall pick of the 1976 NBA draft. The other was Steve Blake, who led the Terps to the program’s only NCAA title in 2002.

Trimble knows all this. He understands the comparisons and the hope and the history.

In early May, Seth Allen became the third guard and fifth Terps player to transfer from the program in the aftermath of a disappointing 17-15 season, leaving a glaring hole on the roster fans yearn for Trimble to fill.

“There’s way more pressure because we had a lot of people to leave last year and people were saying, ‘Oh yeah, but we going to get Melo,’” Trimble said at media day. “A lot of people are really counting on me.”

Trimble’s known for a while what stands in front of him. On the day news of Allen’s departure broke, he retweeted dozens of fans. “@_STAYMELO also when picking a number, you should be 24 cuz like Jack Bauer, you’re here to save us,” read one. “@_STAYMELO SAVE US MELO PLEASE SAVE US!!!!!!!! RETURN US TO GREATNESS AGAIN. THESE LAT 5 YEARS HAVE KILLED ME PLEASE BRO. DO W/E U GOTTA DO,” read another.

And another: “Jackie Robinson had less pressure than @_STAYMELO #TerpNation.”

HE’S UNFAZED Ask his mom or his coaches or his teammates, and they’ll say Trimble is the perfect person to handle such pressure. His most unique trait, those close to him contend, is his steady demeanor.

“His AAU teammates called him ‘Poker Face,’” Kim Trimble said.

“Never ever gets to him.”

“It’s an uncanny ability,” Wootten added. “He never gets rattled.”

Trimble, though, concedes at times this spring he’d gotten “bigheaded,” and the praise rolling in has made him nervous at times. But it never shows. No one around him has ever seen his confidence waver.

After several weeks of practice, Trimble said his nerves have subsided because he’s played with established players like Dez Wells and Jake Layman, and those veterans have responded by telling the young guard that he already has the talents of an upper-echelon contributor on the college level.

“Melo’s a really good player,” Wells said. “He won’t have any issues.”

Trimble provided glimpses at both his ability and level-headedness Saturday when he took the court in a competitive game as a Terp for the first time. In front of Williams and Rodenhauser and other Terps faithfuls, Trimble rose up to release from behind the three-point line just to the left of the top of the key and fired his first shot.

It clanked off the back of the rim.

Several possessions later, Trimble caught a pass in the same spot and released his second shot.

It ripped through the net for his first points.

“Melo Trimble’s a strong dude mentally,” Wiley said. “He’s not going to back down.”

That attitude is one of several topics Trimble broaches as he spews responses at media day. And while he discusses all of his accolades and aspirations, he makes sure to look each reporter in the eye. He smiles while offering softspoken answers about his commitment to playing point guard and his new diet since joining the Terps.

But one question stops Trimble from rambling.

“Are you prepared now to handle all of the expectations and pressure thrown your way?” one reporter asks.

Trimble stares straight at the inquiring man with a small camcorder and nods.

“Yes I am.”

guard Melo Trimble dribbles behind the three-point line during a scrimmage at Maryland Madness on Oct. 17, his first as a member of the Terps. christian jenkins/the diamondback

“THERE’S WAY MORE PRESSURE BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE TO LEAVE LAST YEAR AND PEOPLE WERE SAYING, ‘OH YEAH, BUT WE GOING TO GET MELO.’ ... A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY COUNTING ON ME.” MELO TRIMBLE

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NEW KIDS ON A B1G BLOCK Meet six of the Terps’ most anticipated Big Ten opponents

MICHIGAN STATE

OHIO STATE

2013-14 record: 29-9, 12-6 Big Ten

2013-14 record: 25-10, 10-8 Big Ten

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Forward Branden Dawson: Dawson is capable of becoming a star for Michigan State, but first he will have to overcome the injury bug. In 2012, he tore his ACL. Last season, he missed nine games with a broken hand, though he managed to start 23 contests.

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Guard Shannon Scott: Scott began last season in a starting role but was benched after the Buckeyes suffered a losing streak in Big Ten play. He averaged 26.8 minutes, 7.5 points and two steals per game last season, all improvements over his first campaign at Ohio State.

2) Guard Travis Trice: Trice’s greatest asset could be his experience, as he’s played 95 games during his first three years with the Spartans. Last season, he started eight games.

This year, Trice presumably will take over as the starting point guard.

2) Guard D’Angelo Russell: Russell has yet to play in a college game, but Ohio State is excited about his potential. The 6-foot-5 freshman is lauded as a versatile shooter as he enters his first campaign with the defensive-minded Buckeyes.

Season outlook: The Spartans have made the NCAA tournament every year since 1998. In that span, they’ve reached the Final Four six times and won a national title. The Terps play at Spartans on Dec. 30 and host them Jan. 17. — Alex Flum

Season outlook: After a second-round exit from the NCAA tournament in the 2013-14, coach Thad Matta will likely have his team motivated. The Terps return to Columbus, Ohio, where they fell, 76-60, last season, to play the Buckeyes on Jan. 29. —Callie Caplan

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PENN STATE

2013-14 record: 28-9, 15-3 Big Ten

2013-14 record: 16-18, 6-12 Big Ten

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Guard Caris LeVert: LeVert, recently named a member of the beat writers’ preseason All-Big Ten team, could soon become the face of Michigan basketball. Last season, the 6-foot-7 junior started all 37 games for the Wolverines and averaged 12.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Guard D.J. Newbill: As a junior, Newbill led the Nittany Lions with 17.8 points per game and finished second on the team with 4.9 rebounds per game. At the conclusion of the 2013-14 season, the coaches and media named him to the All-Big Ten second team.

2) Guard Derrick Walton Jr.: Walton will be part of a flashy backcourt alongside LeVert this season. As a rookie last year, he played in all 37 games for the Wolverines and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.

2) Forward Brandon Taylor: The 2013-14 season was a breakout year for Taylor, who had the highest free-throw percentage (87.7 percent) and tied for the most 3-pointers (46) on the team. He was also a defensive asset with 36 blocked shots, second on the team.

Season outlook: The Wolverines are looking to make the NCAA tournament for the fifth consecutive season. They travel to College Park on Feb. 28 to face off against the Terps in a marquee matchup for coach Mark Turgeon’s squad. —Alex Flum

Season outlook: Often overlooked in the Big Ten, Penn State has some of the conference’s top individual players in Newbill and Taylor. The Terps play the Nittany Lions twice in 10 days, first at home on Feb. 4 and then at Penn State on Feb. 14. —Callie Caplan

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RUTGERS

2013-14 record: 30-8, 12-6 Big Ten

2013-14 record: 12-21, 5-13 American Athletic Conference

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Center Frank Kaminsky: The preseason All-American big man led the Badgers with 13.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game last season. He was named first-team All-Big Ten and the NCAA Tournament West Regional Most Outstanding Player.

PLAYERS TO WATCH: 1) Guard Myles Mack: Mack played in all 33 games, starting 32, as a junior for the Scarlet Knights in the 2013-14 season. His accuracy from the foul line (89.5 percent) ranked ninth among Division I players, and he led Rutgers with 14.9 points and 4.3 assists per game.

2) Forward Sam Dekker: As Kaminsky’s partner in the frontcourt, Dekker will take on a lot of responsibility on offense this season. The junior forward was named second-team All-Big Ten in his 2013-2014 campaign, averaging 12.4 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.

1) Guard Bishop Daniels: Daniels is set to make his Scarlet Knights debut in 2014 after leaving the University of Miami as a redshirt freshman and enrolling in junior college for one year. His arrival at Rutgers should allow Mack to play off the ball in his natural position.

Season outlook: The Badgers return six of their seven rotation players from last season’s Final Four team, including four starters. They visit College Park toward the end of the season on Feb. 24. —Kyle Melnick

Season outlook: After struggling to win games in the AAC, the outlook for Rutgers as it enters its inaugural basketball season in the Big Ten is not positive. The Scarlet Knights visit the Terps on Jan. 14 and host coach Mark Turgeon’s squad March 3. —Callie Caplan

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WHERE’S THE CONVICTION?

It’s unacceptable for Turgeon to say he feels ‘zero pressure’ to make NCAA tournament considering history, legacy of Terps program

COACH MARK TURGEON (RIGHT) has yet to lead the Terps to an NCAA tournament appearance in his three seasons in College Park. His predecessor, Hall of Famer Gary Williams (left), guided the program to seven Sweet Sixteens, two Elite Eights and two Final Fours.

DANIEL POPPER

Men’s basketball columnist Just more than two weeks ago during Terrapins men’s basketball media day, Mark Turgeon stood at a podium in front of a crowd of reporters. Two questions into the coach’s news conference, an inevitable inquiry arose.

Do you feel any pressure to make the NCAA tournament?

It’s an achievement that’s eluded Turgeon in each of his three seasons in College Park.

It’s also the annual expectation of the team’s loyal fan base, one established by Gary Williams, who led the Terps to 14 tournament appearances in 17 seasons from 1994 to 2010. During that span, the Hall of Famer coached in seven Sweet Sixteens, two Elite Eights and two Final Fours. He also claimed the program’s only national title.

Those are big shoes to fill. There’s no denying that.

So after three years of coming up empty, including last season, when the Terps finished 17-15 and missed postseason play altogether, how

heavy is the weight on Turgeon’s shoulders?

“I feel zero pressure,” he said.

Seriously?

That was far from the response I was expecting. And it’s not the response Terps fans deserve.

In all fairness, Turgeon admitted later in his answer that making the NCAA tournament is “our goal every year.”

That’s all fine and dandy. But feeling “zero pressure” to achieve that goal and give the majority of this university’s students their first March

Listen, I’m not saying fans should expect Turgeon to run the program at a similar level to that of Williams in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It’s going to take more than three years to return to that kind of prominence, especially given the events of this past offseason, when five rotation players transferred from this university.

But it’s vital for those kinds of expectations to exist among team members.

And that starts with Turgeon.

“I feel pressure every year to get the most out of my team,” Turgeon said. “And in most years, we do that.

enough to gain. Not to mention, words only go so far, and the real progress will come on the court after the Terps open their season Nov. 14 against Wagner.

But plain and simple, this is a basketball school. And Turgeon’s response should have mirrored that sentiment by sturdily reassuring the public without a shadow of a doubt that he intends to take the steps necessary to return this program to what it once was: a legitimate player in the national collegiate landscape.

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“I FEEL PRESSURE EVERY YEAR TO GET THE MOST OUT OF MY TEAM. AND IN MOST YEARS, WE DO THAT. SO THAT WILL BE THE SAME THING WE DO THIS YEAR; WE DO THE BEST WE CAN.” MARK TURGEON

Terrapins men’s basketball coach Madness experience is unacceptable for the coach of a program with the legacy and history of the Terps.

Under Williams, particularly the middle years of his tenure, this team was a perennial threat to make noise in the NCAA tournament. Qualifying became an afterthought.

It wasn’t a question of making it to the Big Dance. It was a question of how far the Terps would go.

So that will be the same thing we do this year; we do the best we can.”

Where’s the conviction? When d i d d o i n g “ t h e b e s t we c a n ” become an adequate proposition from the men’s basketball coach at this university?

I don’t think Turgeon should have stood there making grand claims or setting unreasonable objectives.

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Williams answered a question about the pressure of heightened expectations at the Terps’ 2009 media day.

“I always want expectations. … I’d like to be ranked No. 1 in the country going into the season because that gives you an enormous amount of clout going out there on the court,” he said. “That’s why you come to this level.”

Those words oozed confidence and

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the Terps have qualified for the NCAA tournament since 2010. swagger. Williams didn’t discount the pressure. He didn’t shrug it off as nonexistent.

He embraced it.

Don’t get me wrong: Williams and Turgeon are different coaches. More importantly, they’re different people with different personalities.

But if the Terps fail to qualify for the NCAA tournament this season, yet another senior class will graduate without the experience many previous students took for granted.

So a sense of urgency would be nice, Mark. dpopperdbk@gmail.com