November 12, 2012

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Across campus, honoring troops Group of 21 ROTC students takes part in annual Ranger Challenge

University hosts several events in honor of Veterans Day

By Laura Blasey Staff writer

By Laura Blasey and Fatimah Waseem Staff writers

There’s a select group of college students who decide to wake up before the crack of dawn every day, endure rigorous training, go to class and repeat the process all over again.

Life isn’t easy for ROTC members.

But there are 21 seslect students who choose to make it even harder by participating on this university’s Ranger Challenge team. And even though they came in second place on Oct. 28 for the second year in a row, that extra commitment is still well worth it.

While they may not be the most heralded group on the campus, these 21 students are some of the best in the nation in the Ranger Challenge, a competition in combat skills. Over two days, this university’s final team of 11 competed against 38 other area schools in tests of fitness, problem solving and response to changing environments — just as they would in real combat.

This university’s team won in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and came in second place in 2011. This year, they came in second to Appalachian State University at Fort Pickett in southern Virginia.

Although second out of 39 isn’t a bad place to be, it was still a disappointing loss.

“It definitely sucks,” senior government and politics major Ivan Wood said. “It’s two months that I put in a lot of hard work, and not that it was all lost, but just seeing how close we came was frustrating.”

“The Army has always stressed critical thinking as our leaders try to make the best decisions at the point of contact given what they know about the terrain, enemy, their own unit’s capabilities and limitations, weather, and outside influences like collateral damage or civilian considerations,” Capt. Jonathan Villasenor wrote in an email.

They gathered in the shadow of Memorial Chapel on Friday afternoon, and one by one, they filed into the garden.

The veterans, active troops, families and friends were in no rush. They’d donned old uniforms or suits or baseball caps and made their way back to the campus for one more November ceremony to give their rapt attention to guest speakers and the Mighty Sound of Maryland.

The annual program, which concludes a week of university activities in honor of Veterans Day, helps bring together civilian and military communities, said Darcy Sessions, an Air Force veteran and junior psychology major. “I can’t tell you the value it has to the veteran who has served, with quiet events like this. It’s a tremendous service.”

Members of this university’s ROTC troop were stationed along the outside of the garden, each uniformed arm bracing a flag against the day’s cool gusts. Participants marked the end of their walk through the garden’s labyrinth by carefully placing down a marbled black stone.

The maze held their silence and reflection, memories and stories. For many of the alumni, relatives and students, the ceremony was a powerful reminder of veterans’ sacrifices.

On the campus Friday, alumnus David Meousher’s mind traveled back to his 2004 outpost in Northern Iraq, where he helped get food, water and mail to troops. A few years later, the retired National Guard sergeant was home, fighting traffic in Frederick County to earn his degree in accounting, trading his artillery for a calculator.

“With the incoming rounds, laying around in our beds, playing cards, hearing the fighting — you start to appreciate the freedom we have here,” Meousher said.

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veterans day events took place last week leading up to the holiday. University community members came out in support. fatimah waseem/for the diamondback For Veterans’ Reflections, see page 3

Terps push Kentucky to brink in Brooklyn Team falls, 72-69, at new Barclays Center in season opener

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

NEW YORK — Jay-Z sat courtside, ESPN’s cameras rolled and fans filled the NBA’s newest billion-dollar arena to the rafters Friday night. Many of them were there to catch their first glimpse of John Calipari’s latest wave of freshman phenoms, to see if Kentucky will have a chance to defend the program’s eighth national title.

But when the final buzzer sounded at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, much of the spotlight wasn’t on Calipari or the No. 3 Wildcats. It was on a makeshift collection of transfers, rookies and unheralded upperclassmen.

After poor shooting forced the Terrapins men’s basketball team to enter halftime with a double-digit deficit, Mark Turgeon’s reinvigorated squad took a late lead over heavily favored Kentucky with a 15-0 run. Though the Wildcats ultimately hit the necessary free throws down the stretch to secure the 72-69 win, the Terps proved a tenacious group capable of competing

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Police officers to train in domestic violence response

center alex len had 23 points and 12 rebounds in Friday’s 72-69 loss against Kentucky. charlie deboyace/the diamondback on college basketball’s biggest stage.

“They’re the defending national champions, so they’re going to get everybody’s best every night they come out,” forward Dez Wells said. “They got

our best, and we let it slip through our fingers. We could’ve won that game.”

Alex Len — the 7-foot-1 Ukrainian

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In the coming weeks, university and county police officers will undergo training to bolster support for and protect victims of domestic violence.

Prince George’s County recently received a $217,650 grant from the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence’s Lethality Assessment Program, which teaches officers to assess the severity of domestic violence incidents and refer serious cases to a domestic violence hotline or help center. The program is not mandated and will be implemented in 30 departments statewide, according to LAP coordinator Dave Sargent.

Sargent said the program was established as a preventative protocol, and its primary focus is to identify victims who are most likely to be killed.

“We’ve been very successful in getting high-risk victims into service,” he said. “We knew that nobody in the field had used an evidence-based approach in dealing with victims.”

On Nov. 1, Detective Samantha Milligan began training Prince George’s County Police officers in District 1,

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which includes College Park. She said most officers have now completed the training, which constitutes 60 minutes of instruction for protocol.

All Prince George’s County Police officers are slated to complete the training by Dec. 31.

“We had procedures in place already. [The state] wants to get ahead and get those who are higher risk before something serious happens,” Milligan said.

District 1 Commander Maj. Robert Brewer said the only change in protocol for the county police would be in the department’s referral process for domestic violence victims. Under the new process, officers would refer victims to a Brentwood-based domestic violence center if their call meets a certain criteria, he said.

“It’s an extra resource for the officers and those involved in domestic violence cases,” Brewer said. “We voluntarily moved to this to help potential victims.”

Because the county is still phasing in the program, University Police officers have not yet begun the training.

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training From PAGE 1 The department already has a threat assessment system in place to assist students who may have been harassed, according to University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. While the officers do not see many domestic violence cases, Limansky said it could not hurt to provide additional support.

“It’s important for the victims in making sure they are getting the right resources,” he said.

“We’re sort of ahead of the game, so this will be easy.”

Fatima Burns, a coordinator for the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program, said she feels it is important for agencies to update protocol to protect victims of violence.

SARPP has not made changes to its own protocol, she said.

Sargent said this program may save the lives of women across the state.

“We believe that because we have had such wide participation across the state that we have had an effect,” he said.

“We believe we can prevent these homicides.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE University alumnus helps wounded veterans find fresh starts Glen Silva can still remember the exact moment two years ago when he stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

The explosion sent the U.S. Marine flying through the air, and he regained consciousness on the ground moments photo courtesy of troopsfirstfoundation.org later. It was not until one soldier ran to help him that Silva even realized he was injured.

To read more of Sarah Sexton’s story, check out diamondbackonline.com.

terps forward dez wells (left) scored eight points and grabbed four rebounds in the Terps men’s basketball season opener against No. 3 Kentucky at Barclays Center, where Jay-Z (top right) made an appearance courtside. Coach Mark Turgeon’s Terps fell, 72-69, but shot nearly 40 percent in the final 20 minutes. photos by charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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the nationally-televised festivities unfold in person — with putbacks and dives for loose balls.

From PAGE 1 W he n L ay m a n n et te d a 3-pointer to cut the Wildcats’ sophomore center who drew rave reviews from Turgeon this off- lead to 53-51, “Let’s Go Maryseason for his bulked-up frame land” chants began to emerge. and improved post play — scarcely Those chants only grew louder resembled the awkward big man when Allen canned two 3-pointwho appeared generally lost last ers moments later, giving the year. Len recorded 23 points, Terps their first lead since the 12 rebounds and four blocks, early stages of the first half.

“If tonight did anything, it endominating former No. 1 recruit Nerlens Noel down low throughout much of the evening.

Adding to Len’s career night, freshmen Seth Allen and Charles Mitchell shined in their collegiate debuts. Allen committed zero turnovers in his 25 backcourt minutes and netted a pair of clutch 3-pointers. Mitchell, meanwhile, showed a willingness to corral the Terps’ many perimeter misses, finishing with 10 rebounds. The effort helped the team finish with 28 offensive boards — three more than Kentucky’s 25 defensive rebounds.

“Coach emphasized the rebounding because they’re a long team, so we just went after the ball,” forward James Padgett said.

“We did whatever we could do to get the rebound, whether it be offensive or defensive. We just played tough.”

Despite the Terps’ many positive takeaways Friday, however, Turgeon spent much of the postgame press conference focusing on the “what-ifs.” There were the Terps’ zero first-half bench points. There was the abysmal 3-for-19 mark on 3-point attempts. And, perhaps most notably, there was the team’s inability to capitalize on pivotal late-game opportunities.

After Kentucky guard Jarrod Polson netted two free throws with 7.7 seconds remaining to extend the Wildcats’ (1-0) lead to 72-69, Terps (0-1) point guard Pe’Shon Howard weaved the ball up the court with a chance at orchestrating a game-tying three.

Instead of finding a wide-open Jake Layman off a screen, though, Howard hoisted a shot over Noel’s outstretched hands that seemed to arrive after the buzzer.

“That’s not what I wanted, obviously,” Turgeon said. “He was not supposed to shoot over a 7-footer. There was a guy standing right in front of me that was wide open for a three.”

It was a heartbreaking finish to an inspired Terps comeback. After connecting on just 29.5 percent of their first-half attempts, they emerged from the break a team possessed. Hustle plays defined the Terps’ second-half comeback, as they delighted the hordes of red-clad fans — many of whom made the four-and-a-half hour trek from College Park to watch

ergized our fan base,” Turgeon said. “They showed up for the Duke game last year and the Carolina game, but everything else was just kind of show up to show up. Tonight, they showed up and they were energized and they were excited about our team.

That’s big for us.”

All in all, it was a bellwether night for a program desperate to regain its seat among the national powerhouses. All the trade-

mark signs of college basketball privilege, after all, were there: the raucous crowd, the state-ofthe-art arena, the high-profile celebrity sitting courtside.

The only thing missing? The win.

“We’re disappointed in the loss,” Turgeon said. “We fully expected to win the game coming up here and we didn’t do it.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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THIS UNIVERSITY’S ROTC troop took second place at the annual Ranger Challenge on Oct. 28. The 21-member team of students competed in an intense endurance race against 38 other brigades. The troop also placed second at last year’s competition. photo courtesy of jennifer brady

ROTC From PAGE 1 “So Ranger Challenge tries to test the Cadets ability to overcome situations and obstacles, while stressing them mentally and degrading their ability to make sound decisions as they get physically exhausted.”

But the test hardly stops there.

The U.S. is divided up into eight brigades, each with its own regional competition. The winner of each brigade goes on to compete at Sandhurst, the international Ranger Challenge competition hosted by West Point, in the spring.

Each spring, Army ROTC begins to piece together a team through tryouts. Instructors look for the best recruits, weeding out the candidates who are strong, but not strong enough, through intense trials and tribulations.

From an initial tryout pool of 43 competitors, 21 were chosen to train and 11 to represent this university at Fort Pickett, Villasenor said.

“It’s like an all-star team.

There’s a bunch of type-A personality people from four different respective year levels, and they have to work together, and they’re all hot-heads who think they’re the best at what they do and they all have to work together to accomplish a common task,” Villasenor added.

Over the summer, the team quickly set to devising a training plan to start on the first day of classes, which included a list of tasks the competition could potentially include.

“There’s a little bit of visibility going into the semester of what we need to train on specifically,” Villasenor said, noting they don’t know exactly what the competition will entail.

For more than two months,

“it’s like an all-star team. there’s a bunch of type-a personality people ... and they have to work together.”

CAPT. JONATHAN VILLASENOR Army ROTC instructor

other cadets,” added senior government and politics major Chris Stenger, the team captain.

But during the competition, it comes down to the minuscule details — something Wood said likely stopped the team short of a first-place finish. When multiplied and magnified, it’s the little nuances that can crush fi rst-place aspirations.

“We cared a lot about this event and we came in second instead of fi rst,” Stenger said.

“But I’m proud of how every single person did, how every single person performed.”

It’s a competition designed to test the skills the students learn in ROTC training and how the students will fare in real-world situations.

“It creates a certain amount of physical and mental stress that might prepare you for anything we might see later on in our careers,” Stenger said. “It gives you a little taste of that.”

“You get exposed to a lot more through the training that we have to go through — specifically on weapons and radios and all that — that a lot of the other cadets don’t get,” said Kyle Yoerg, a junior criminology and criminal justice major.

They may not have a trophy to show for it, but the experience is an achievement in itself that can carry them into a solid military career.

Such was the case for Alex Bistany, one of two female students on the team and the only female to participate in the competition on behalf of the university.

“Trying to be on that level with the guys, they defi nitely made me feel like I could do it,” said Bistany, a junior government and politics major.

“Everybody put in everything they had while they were there, and that’s all anyone could ask for,” Stenger said.

“If that wasn’t enough for first, then we’ll get ’em next year.”

practices started at 5:45 a.m. five days a week.

“It’s an endurance race, so it’s everything,” Villasenor said.

“It’s all-body.”

The day had barely started after practice was over; students still had a day full of classes and studying to tackle.

“It makes classes tough,” said senior psychology major Micah Friedman, who has been on the team for four years. “You’re very tired throughout the day.

It’s a busy schedule.”

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Reflecting on their service Veteran and active military Terps take the time to remember

“[My wife and I have] done this for so many years, I can’t even remember.

It’s a good time to just be with people who care. I’ve had 45 years of military service and I’ve been coming to these services ever since. I’ve been in World War II, I’ve seen Vietnam, I’ve been to Italy. Now when you come here, you might say I’ve seen it all, but every year coming here is a memorable experience. All I can say is God bless America and go Terps.

What else is there after you’ve seen so much?”

BILL VOGEL Veteran and 1951 civil engineering alumnus

“When there are functions like this particular memorial service, take the time and just sit through it. It’s not terribly fun, but it’s terribly important if you want to get closer to the world. There are kids dying to go to University of Tikrit in Iraq, but just can’t. Luckily, all 150 of our guys came back together. But when I came home, I realized I had been gone long … too long. … You can’t shoot howitzers in the civilian world — it’s just not a very transferable skill.”

David Meousher Retired National Guard sergeant and university alumnus

“This is a time to reflect on both sides of war, the shadows and the light, the uncertain and the certain. In 2004, I was called for active duty in Iraq — I didn’t do the actual fighting, but the smaller things — building schools, talking to locals on the ground, and establishing trust. It was an intense and revealing experience — the Iraqis we were working with on the ground could be the ones planning to attack us. We just didn’t know who stood where. But establishing trust was key. And I think that’s what’s moving this nation forward. I can’t stress how important it is to just start that dialogue. That’s how we get out of the shadows.”

JOSH PEARLMAN Army Reserve active duty and civil engineering graduate student

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Opinion

Students deserve to spend their dining points

“Sorry, you’ve reached the $40 spending cap.”

These are the words on-campus students with dining plans fear as the semester draws to a close.

Obviously, not many people are going to eat their way through $40 worth of food per day at this university’s dining halls. But what if there’s no possible way for students to spend the remainder of their money before the semester ends?

In the average dining plan, students receive roughly 1,100 points for a semester’s worth of sustenance, with 275 Terp Bucks (for snack-like purchases). Students are encouraged to consult posted target points throughout the semester to see if they are spending the appropriate amount of money each week.

For some students, it’s practically impossible to spend all their money.

Most of this university’s students are from this state, and they’re bound to visit home a few weekends per semester. Others plan weekend getaways and aren’t spending their dining points during those trips. Some choose to eat meals in friends’ apartments or at area restaurants.

The dining hall meals are already paid for. It is absolutely ridiculous that as the semester ends, students are barred from spending the rest of their prepaid dining plan.

If the $40 per day spending cap is supposed to be a punishment for students who do not make complete use of their dining plan throughout the semester, that is just as absurd.

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From purchasing groceries and talking to people in apartments, I’ve learned students are generally spending less money buying actual food from grocery stores than buying the dining hall food anyway.

The end of the semester would be a great time to get rid of unwanted points. Students have other friends who do not have their own dining plans and cannot eat at the dining hall.

Parents and families come to pick up their children at the end of the semester — why shouldn’t students be able to buy their families a giant meal?

What about finals? Students are going to be on very strange eating schedules.

Why not let them stock up one day if they’re planning on not leaving their room until a certain exam passes?

For the students who do spend all of their points, what if they run out before the end of the semester? Students with points should be able to help their friends out.

I think the ultimate question, however, is this: If the students do not spend all their dining plan money, then where does that extraneous money go?

I would hope to dining hall employees, who work tirelessly every day to ensure university students are taken care of.

But considering Dining Services spent nearly $100,000 on television menus earlier this year, I’m a bit skeptical.

So, to dining hall officials, I say this: Explain yourselves. This rule may have been a dining hall institution for years, but institutions aren’t necessarily meant to last. It’s time for students to have a real say and break free from the Dining Services’ bureaucratic chains.

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A committee for one

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ike any advocacy organization, MaryPIRG always seems to attract its fair share of controversy. But whether you view MaryPIRG’s work with pride or disdain, everyone should at least recognize the student-directed social advocacy group’s accomplishments. MaryPIRG utilized its resources to help the TerpsVote coalition register more than 4,000 students before the elections this fall, and made the fights against fracking and battling hunger and homelessness its main priorities this year.

Yet since this spring, the organization has run into an ironic roadblock: democracy — or more specifically, the will of the people.

In a referendum vote last semester, students voted it unconstitutional for the Student Government Association to continue funding MaryPIRG’s two salaried positions, which required roughly $43,000 in funds. Without additional funding to pay non-student advisers for the spring, the MaryPIRG internship program would cease to exist.

This situation has made MaryPIRG desperate for cash and strapped with an uncertain future.

In a strange move, the SGA has intervened to help aid the flagging group. By a 22 to 2 vote Wednesday, the SGA approved an ad hoc Committee for the Exploration of MaryPIRG Funding Options to “explore both long- and shortterm possibilities for the organization,” according to Friday’s Diamondback. On the surface,

working to help a struggling student group — MaryPIRG most recently received only around $1,000 in funding from the SGA — fits well within the SGA’s realm of responsibility.

However, dedicating an entire SGA committee toward the exclusive needs of one student group is both parochial and wasteful. When other student groups struggle to find funding, student leaders are forced to think creatively in establishing new

OUR VIEW

Despite MaryPIRG’s funding troubles, establishing an SGA committee to aid solely this organization goes against students’ interests. avenues of funding and formulating independent strategies for solving their financial woes. Most student groups face these difficulties: Last year the SGA had only $451,000 to allocate among more than 230 student groups, when total requests for funds topped $2.5 million. The average student group endured a 31 percent budget cut in SGA funding — and yet the SGA feels compelled to prioritize one group’s troubles above the rest.

MaryPIRG’s situation is the norm, not the exception. So it’s unclear why exactly its members deserve special treatment from the SGA. What’s also unclear is if the group’s members fully comprehend what this spring’s vote signified: The days of $43,000 in funding

are over. Students have made it decidedly clear they no longer (or never did) wish to give MaryPIRG special treatment or additional funding from the mandatory student activities fee. As the representatives of students’ interests, the SGA has an obligation to respect the wishes of its constituents. If the committee decides to give MaryPIRG supplemented funding, it would be a slap in the face to every other student group struggling financially, as well as the students who voted against MaryPIRG funding in the spring. The SGA can’t address students’ needs by ignoring their votes.

This editorial board wishes MaryPIRG the best in refining its organizational structure to adapt to these drastic changes. But the SGA should treat all organizations equally, and as it stands, there are no other ad hoc committees dedicated to this type of issue.

It’s not as if MaryPIRG has no other recourse. Outside of the SGA, organizations can pursue external grants and donations to fund their operations, which is a more appropriate and valid pathway for funding. This semester, MaryPIRG received a grant from the New Voters Project to help pay its campus organizer.

That effective effort should serve as a model for how MaryPIRG — and all other organizations — can find the funding they need given the dramatic shift in the SGA’s financial situation. The organization may suffer and experience fundamental changes in how it functions, but as we said before, that’s true of many student groups on the campus. It’s not the SGA’s responsibility to devise a new financial vision for the group — that’s MaryPIRG’s job. Preferential treatment is the problem, not the solution.

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David Oliver is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Different takes on male feminists

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am chagrined to say The Diamondback’s recent pair of articles on male feminists was another instance of male privilege at its finest.

I am male and I do consider myself a feminist. But I also recognize that, as a white male, I have the privilege to identify as a feminist.

Men are allowed to be feminists.

However, we need to pay homage to the women who have fought on the front lines in the battle against sexism well before men hopped on the bandwagon. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz stood up against the Catholic Church in the 17th century, and she was able to use her intellectual pursuits to escape the servitude of marriage. Numerous female authors like George Sand and the Brontë sisters wrote under noms de plume in order to publish their works of literary genius because it took a man to hold a pen.

Freudian implications aside, women in the past and today are changing and reshaping feminism so men may be included as part of the conversation against sexism. Feminism has not atrophied, as my peers seem to imply; rather, it has continued to be a dynamic force against injustice. Feminism not only critiques outside forces, but includes a harsh autocriticism as well. Various ethnic groups have fought for inclusion in the discourse of gender liberation throughout history, and men are certainly welcome into the fold. All are welcome who respect the boundaries and stories of feminism.

NATHAN DIZE SENIOR ENGLISH AND FRENCH

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n response to readers’ criticisms of Drew Farrell’s Nov. 8 column, “Male Feminists: An open letter on gender relations,” I would like to express my own frustration.

The idea this guy isn’t a real feminist or that he’s doing feminism “wrong” is really, in my opinion, anti-feminist. There is no one way to do feminism. The whole foundation of feminism is meant to be inclusive — not exclusive.

No one, especially self-identifying feminists, should be able to decide what feminism means for everyone or the right way to do it. As a passionate and active member of UMD Feminists, one of my favorite things about this ideology is it encourages constructive debates. Additionally, in my experience, many people are too quick in attacking men who make an attempt at feminism and fail to completely reach it, whatever that may mean (satire included!).

We should be welcoming everyone to the world of feminism. How will we ever combat the stereotype of being butch, angry lesbians if every time a man tries to side with us, we publicly humiliate and criticize his attempt? Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion and can disagree with me — but that’s the best part. I would like to urge everyone to consider a more empathetic approach to anything feminism-related (and everything in general, really).

ELEYNA ROSENTHAL UMD FEMINISTS SOPHOMORE PSYCHOLOGY

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No time to ignore politics The end of election season opens the door for debates of substance

EZRA FISHMAN Election season is finally over.

After almost two years of endless c a m p a i g n i n g , c o m m e rc i a l s, debates, polls, news coverage and witty posts on the Internet, it’s done. We are safe to leave our campaign shelters; we can look at our news feeds again. Even Tumblr is slowly becoming safe for human habitation. We’re free.

My life for the past two years has been an endless stream of (sometimes) witty banter about political views. Just ask my Facebook friends — my Timeline is 60 percent election coverage. I haven’t gone a night without checking up on my political stories. My most-watched shows are The West Wing and The Daily Show; my floor is cluttered with buttons and bumper stickers. Everything has been election, election, election. After all that, I need a break from politics, and I’m sure you all do as well.

Unfortunately, a day off is the one thing we genuinely can’t afford. After two years of campaigns, we are in almost the exact

same place. Our economy is improving, but at a snail’s pace. Three states voted for same-sex marriage rights, but the federal government still won’t recognize them. Human rights are still being violated all around the world. American women are still underpaid, overworked and forced to abide by health care decisions made by men who barely even know what a uterus is. Jobs are being lost to other parts of the world, the education gap is increasing and American businesses are being squeezed for profits by high taxes and poor policy decisions. Super PACs are given free rein to spend as much as they want on partisan advertising — and you don’t need me to tell you how that worked out. Things are really getting serious, and we need to start doing something about it.

Just like us, the government has spent the last two years focused on nothing but the election. We all knew this election would be important, so we let it slide. But it’s time for us to get them back to work. We elected our government officials — again — under the premise they would do something; now we have to make sure they get that work done.

Let’s focus on the issues. Instead of talking about which candidate is

better, let’s talk about which policy is better. Instead of attacking each other because the old white man one person supports is better than the old white man another person supports, let’s attack each other because someone’s entitlement reform program is better than someone else’s revenue enhancement plan. Let’s put the full force of our minds and efforts into getting things done and show the world we’re more than just a bunch of attack ads and inefficient electoral systems.

Most importantly, let’s do something. All that time we spent talking is time we can now spend organizing. We live in the heart of America’s political system — let’s get out there with signs and silly hats and stand for what we believe in. We are the America of tomorrow; why don’t we start embodying it today? It doesn’t matter what we argue for — women’s rights, corporate rights, tax increases, tax cuts, LGBT rights, religious freedoms, the banning of super PACs, etc. As long as we’re arguing, we’re winning.

The election season is finally over, but the fight for our future begins now.

I hope to see you all in the trenches.

Ezra Fishman is a junior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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orn today, you are not always as strong, secure and confident as you like to think you are -- but this doesn’t have to be something that gets in your way at all.

On the contrary, if you are forthright and honest with yourself, you will learn to navigate your natural uncertainty in such a way that it leads to personal discovery and growth at almost every turn -- and, in this way, it can actually prove to be an advantage rather than a liability! What is most important is that you have a life plan -- follow it faithfully and your success and contentment are all but assured, and it doesn’t matter what goals you establish for yourself, as long as they are concrete and truly attainable.

You are a generous and caring individual, but these traits may be overshadowed on at least two occasions in your life when you become obsessed with issues that take you away from what is truly important and send you down a path for which you are truly not suited. Recovery from this can be swift if you play your cards right.

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It is amazing how few cupcake stores are able to master the two most basic cupcake flavors — chocolate and vanilla. Georgetown Cupcake’s ability to produce a quality chocolate cupcake is what has made them so successful. The flavor, texture, moistness and presentation of their chocolate cupcake hits just the right note. No one is

perfect, though, and Georgetown slips up with their syrupy artificial lemon and lime varieties.

Crumbs Bake Shop has chocolate cupcakes that are inconsistent in quality — moist and rich one day, dry and flavorless the next. The chocolate cupcake from Hello Cupcake calls for a beverage and is positively shouting for more cocoa. Of course, vanilla allows for no illusions, and the true character of a cupcakery can be revealed by the vanilla flavoring it uses (vanilla bean, extract, paste and powder produce very different results). JoJo’s Cupcakes & Cream, located in Annapolis and Easton, produces a superb vanilla with the ideal crumb, as well as a mouthwatering butterscotch and a top-notch lemon. Like other bakeries, JoJo’s regularly comes up with new and exciting flavors; items such as the velvet Elvis (peanut butter banana) give Hello Cupcake a boost and Crumbs’ peach cobbler is a delight for the taste buds.

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PREVIEW | ATOMS FOR PEACE

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke set to release new material

By Matt Beinart For The Diamondback

Thom Yorke doesn’t seem to have a sense of the conventional. His storied career as frontman for Radiohead has been punctuated by spontaneous forays into art-pop, minimalist electronic, and more recently, elements of dubstep and drum and bass. They’ve all worked to make the Radiohead listening experience one that constantly redefines itself, never playing to expectations.

As Yorke prepares to release his first set of new material with side project Atoms for Peace, the question becomes whether this same knack for ingenuity will carry over from his work with Radiohead. Yorke’s 2006 solo release, The Eraser, featured the electronic tinge his band’s last few releases had taken on,

but lacked the sonic burst that made those albums so endearing. Where Kid A and Amnesiac reached for a cathartic release with their use of programmed beats and manipulated loops, The Eraser simply used electronic instrumentation to move songs along rather than bring them to life.

Following the somewhat lackluster release of The Eraser, Yorke began assembling a band in order to prove the legitimacy of this new direction. He hoped to escape the perception held by many that he was honing a sound Radiohead was ready to move away from.

In early 2009, Yorke brought together acclaimed Radiohead collaborator and producer Nigel Godrich, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and renowned multi-instrumentalists Mauro Refosco and Joey Waronker to form Atoms For

Peace. Originally, the musicians were assembled as a backing band to perform material from The Eraser. However, over time they slowly started to form into a cohesive group, and are now set to release their debut album early next year.

With the group’s first single, “Default,” set to be released on 12” vinyl on Nov. 19, it’s evident that this is more than a simple side project.

Containing obvious influences from Radiohead’s last release, The King of Limbs, the track builds on the band’s experimentation with postdubstep elements and programmed loops. While the track doesn’t sound all that different from the aesthetic Yorke worked with on The Eraser, the production quality and collaborative effort are certainly noticeable upon first listen. Containing a synth line

straight out of Kid A’s playbook and Thom Yorke’s ever-ominous vocal delivery, “Default” is an excellent indicator of what’s to be expected on the group’s debut.

While few details have been released regarding Atoms For Peace’s debut other than the album title Amok, it’s evident what direction the group will go in. This jazzy, beat-heavy electronic sound Yorke has become enamored with is almost certainly a course he doesn’t want to veer away from anytime soon.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Working with the same musicians for so long can only offer so much collaborative effort before one’s opinion becomes drowned. Having the opportunity to bring these ideas to a new group should allow Yorke to have the time and space to fully flesh out this sound.

Atoms For Peace may release one album and call it a day. They may take time away from any new Radiohead material. Where they will go from this release, no one knows for certain.

Side projects or solo efforts can be a breath of fresh air, allowing a singular creative streak to take shape where a group effort may have shut down that particular direction. Atoms For Peace seems to only solidify Thom Yorke’s passion for ingenuity and creative drive, a trait that any Radiohead fan should certainly be excited over.

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HEELS From PAGE 8 this year. We wanted to be regular season ACC champs, tournament champs and national champs. So far, we’ve accomplished two of our goals.”

The Terps (17-1-2) were coming off an emotional 2-1 overtime victory over No. 4-seed Clemson in the semifinals Friday night. A number of the Terps’ steady contributors struggled, including Edwards, and coach Sasho Cirovski was forced to use his bench often down the stretch.

But yesterday, none of the hesitance from Friday’s game was present. The Terps attacked the Tar Heels (15-3-2) early, a pressure that never relented.

It was vital, as Goodwin had given up just four goals entering the game and none since Tshuma netted the overtime game-winner in the teams’ Oct. 19 matchup at Ludwig Field.

“What was really special was for Dakota to be the guy that put the ball in the back of the net,” Cirovski said.

“He really struggled on Friday. He’s been battling a little bit of a cold and we talked to him, both the coaches and the players, and really believe in him.

He’s had a great year for us. For him to have not only the fi rst goal, but also a great game all around, is a credit to him

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and really to the culture of our team.”

After falling behind, the Tar Heels mounted few counterattacks. The Terps’ backline, which was still missing defender Taylor Kemp with an injury, allowed the North Carolina offense to take four shots, and goalkeeper Keith Cardona made one save.

T he Ter p s s t retche d t he le a d to 2-0 — the first time all season Goodwin allowed multiple goals in a game — in the 62nd minute. Tshuma took a throw-in from defender Mikey Ambrose and attempted a crossing pass that deflected off a North Carolina player and past Goodwin.

“Today, we were very sharp in all phases of the game,” Cirovski said.

“I thought we deserved the victory against one of the great teams in college soccer. Certainly, the best defending team we’ve seen in the nation.

So for us to get two goals on them when they’ve given up four all year is a credit to our total team effort.”

North Carolina closed the gap to 2-1 in the 86th minute when forward Rob Lovejoy found a loose ball in the box and fired it past Cardona. In the final 10 seconds, Lovejoy made a run at a loose ball in the box, but Ambrose headed it out of bounds and time expired. The Terps flooded the field, and Cirovski had his fifth tournament championship in 20 years.

VITALE From PAGE 8 themselves a chance to send the game to overtime in the game’s waning seconds.

Pe’Shon Howard didn’t get that gametying attempt out of his hands in time to beat the buzzer. But even with the unceremonious end, it’s still hard to be disappointed. There didn’t seem to be a feeling of despair in the arena after the guard’s shot fell harmlessly to the floor. Instead, there seemed to be a feeling of, “If we play the Wildcats again, we could definitely beat them.”

With good reason, too. The Terps nearly beat coach John Calipari’s veritable AllStar team of the nation’s top recruits with a 10-man rotation that consisted of four freshmen, three sophomores, two upperclassmen and one senior transfer, many of

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Defender Dakota Edwards embraces teammates after scoring the Terps’ first goal in their 2-1 ACC championship victory over North Carolina yesterday at Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Two-thirds of the way through their preseason goals, the Terps turn toward the fi nal objective: an NCAA Championship. The Terps find out their opponent tonight during the NCAA tournament selection show.

Cirovski acknowledged he could have put too much pressure on his team at times this season, most notably Friday night against Clemson. But his players have responded nearly

whom struggled.

Center Alex Len starred with a career-high 23 points and 12 rebounds and freshman forward Charles Mitchell pulled down 10 rebounds, but the rest of the team clearly didn’t play up to its capabilities.

“We weren’t ready for the big stage,” Turgeon said after the game. “I’m still learning how to coach my team.”

Guard Nick Faust likely won’t shoot 4-of-15 from the field again, forward Dez Wells will definitely improve upon his eight-point, fourrebound debut and the Terps surely will do everything they can to not let a winnable game slip through their fingers again.

“We’re going to win, and we’re going to win this year,” Turgeon said. “We just didn’t win tonight.”

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winner,” coach Missy Meharg said. “She’s done this before for us; she’s done it since her freshman year and it’s why she was the Honda Award winner last year.”

It was the first time since 2002 the Terps didn’t kick off their NCAA Tournament slate at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. But as it turned out, it didn’t slow them down. They handled Lafayette, 2-0, on Saturday and snuck past UConn yesterday, setting up a meeting with No. 2-seed Princeton on Friday.

“This group hasn’t been too fogged by it,” Meharg said. “I’m so proud of them for being on the road and finding a way to get back to the Final Four.”

to Georgia Tech, the Tigers racked up 436 yards and 45 points.

“Nobody’s stopped them this year. We just wanted to make sure that we could try to slow them down, not give up the big plays, and play really good red zone defense and force them to kick field goals,” Edsall said.

“We weren’t able to get the stops that we needed to make, and then when we did get the stops that we needed to make, we couldn’t make the plays.”

It didn’t help that top wide receiver Stefon D ig gs a nd lead i ng rusher Wes Brow n both sat out Saturday’s game with ankle injuries. Running back Brandon Ross managed a g a m e-h i g h 10 0 r u s h i n g yards on 16 carries, but the rest of the offense never got going. Petty threw for just 41 ya rds a nd a touchdow n on 6-of-12 passing and only two players — wide receiver Levern Jacobs and tight end Devonte Campbell — recorded catches on the afternoon.

“Offensively, we wanted to try to be able to control the football and get first downs and eat up the clock and all of that,” Edsall said. “But we just weren’t able to execute enough.”

The loss puts the Terps in a do-or-die situation for the rest of the season. They must win both of their remaining games — a home matchup with No. 10 Florida State and a road test at North Carolina the following Saturday — to become bowl eligible for the first time in two years.

If they’re going to do that, though, they’ll need to hold onto the ball.

“I just told them, ‘If you want to win, you can’t keep turning the ball over,’” Edsall said yesterday. “That’s all you can do.”

every time they’ve been challenged.

It showed Friday, and it showed yesterday. For them, it doesn’t matter.

“I think there’s always pressure, but it’s good pressure,” Stertzer said.

“Every time we step on the field, we want to be the better team. At the end of the day, we believe in ourselves and in the people to the left and right of us.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

HUSKIES From PAGE 8 and two on UConn — and the physicality only escalated as the second half wore on, with neither team seeming to grab control of the game.

But the Terps got the break t h e y n e e d e d b e fo re t h e y reached a seemingly imminent overtime period. Huskies midfielder A licia A ngelini was given a yellow card with just 2:24 left to go, giving the Terps a player advantage. Just 12 seconds later, Frazer drifted to the top of the circle and unleashed the shot that sent her squad to the NCAA semifinals.

“Mega n Fra zer is just a

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TERRAPINS 2, TAR HEELS 1

Two down, one to go

Terps accomplish second of three goals with ACC title win

Turnovers hurt Terps in lopsided road loss No. 11 Clemson cruises to 45-10 win

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

GERMANTOWN — Heading into the postseason, the Terrapins men’s soccer team boasted a roster replete with offensive weapons.

Forward Patrick Mullins was the ACC’s leading scorer and Offensive Player of the Year. Forward Schillo Tshuma was one of the top freshmen in the conference and the Terps’ secondleading scorer. Midfielder John Stertzer was a dangerous asset on set pieces.

But in the 11th minute of yesterday’s ACC championship game against No. 2-seed North Carolina, defender Dakota Edwards — who entered the game as one of the few Terps with no points this year — pushed midfielder Dan Metzger’s corner kick past Tar Heels goalkeeper Scott Goodwin to give the No. 1-seed Terps an early 1-0 edge.

They would never relinquish that lead over the remaining 79 minutes of play, as the Terps bested the No. 3 Tar Heels, 2-1, to capture their third ACC title in five years in front of 9,341 at Maryland SoccerPlex.

“It means everything,” midfielder John Stertzer said. “We set three goals See HEELS, Page 7

FOOTBALL

Coach Sasho Cirovski is doused in water after the Terps’ ACC championship victory. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Moments after his first career start last week against Georgia Tech, Shawn Petty said he didn’t feel like he excelled in any aspect of the game. On Tuesday, the quarterback decided on something he wanted to excel in at Clemson: ball security.

“Hold it high and tight,” Petty said.

“Coach always tells me, ‘You can’t turn the ball over.’”

The freshman failed to heed his coach’s advice Saturday in Death Valley, though. Petty lost three fumbles to the No. 11 Tigers as the Terps suffered their fourth straight loss, 45-10.

“The one thing that we’ve tried to stress to him is, ‘Just don’t turn the ball over. Secure the ball,’” coach Randy Edsall said after the game.

“He’s got some bad habits that we haven’t been able to get him out of in the time that we’ve worked with him as a quarterback — carrying the ball too low, not putting two hands on the ball when he goes in there. So that’s something we’ve just got to continue to stress.”

Those giveaways made an already tough contest nearly unwinnable for the injury-ravaged Terps. Twelve seconds after Clemson scored its first touchdown of the afternoon, Tigers

defensive end Corey Crawford picked up a Petty fumble and returned it 16 yards to the end zone, quickly extending his team’s lead to 14-0.

Two drives later, defensive end Malliciah Goodman sacked Petty, forced a fumble and recovered it.

Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd led his team down the field in seven plays, hitting wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins for a 28-yard score to give the Tigers a 21-0 fi rst-quarter lead.

“Offensively, you just can’t turn the ball over three times and give one up for seven points,” Edsall said. “You just can’t do that against a top-10 team in the country.”

The Terps (4-6, 2-4 ACC) did, though, giving an already potent Clemson (9-1, 6-1) offense even more opportunities to put points on the board. Boyd threw for 261 yards and three touchdowns on 18-of-26 passing despite playing fewer than three full quarters, and backup Cole Stoudt added 40 more yards and a touchdown on 5-of-8 passing. Four different receivers caught touchdown passes, and running back Andre Ellington added a rushing score to the Tigers’ total.

It was the Terps’ worst defensive performance of the season. A week after the team surrendered a thenseason-high 401 yards and 33 points See TIGERS, Page 7

MEN’S BASKETBALL

‘We’re going to win’

Despite loss, Turgeon’s confidence unwavering JOSH VITALE NEW YORK — Being angry after your team loses is something of a sports fandom staple. Losing is unbearable.

You want to turn off your phone and laptop, crawl under a rock and not come out until the team wins again.

Sometimes, though, that anguish isn’t there. You want to be mad your team lost, but you can’t force it. If the anger isn’t there, the anger simply isn’t there.

That’s how Terrapins men’s basketball fans should feel after Friday night’s events in Brooklyn, N.Y. Yes, the Terps fell to No. 3 Kentucky, 72-69, in their season opener. But if there was ever a loss that felt like a victory, this was it.

After making the 222-mile trip north to the state-of-the-art Barclays Center, the underdog Terps overcame their early nerves, rallied back from a 15-point deficit and nearly toppled the defending national champions before

a nationally televised audience.

And if you watched the first 20 minutes, you likely thought the Terps had no shot of avoiding a blowout. They shot a paltry 29.5 percent from the field, missed all 11 of their 3-point attempts and allowed the Wildcats to shoot a blistering 58.1 percent from the field and 71.4 percent from beyond the arc.

But after entering halftime down, 49-36, the Terps did something they had almost no ability to do in coach Mark Turgeon’s first season in College Park: They overcame adversity. They were unfazed by the deficit, unfazed by the opponent and unfazed by the national stage.

The Terps shot nearly 40 percent over the final 20 minutes and made a respectable three of eight 3-point attempts as their defense held Kentucky to 24 percent and 1-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. They turned a 15-point deficit with 17:21 remaining into a two-point lead fewer than nine minutes later, and they even gave See VITALE, Page 7

Coach Mark Turgeon remains confident in his Terps despite their season-opening loss to No. 3 Kentucky, 72-69, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

FIELD HOCKEY

Frazer’s late goal leads Terps past UConn, 2-1 Unseeded team will face No. 2-seed Princeton in Final Four on Friday in Norfolk, Va.

By Nicholas Munson Staff writer Every member of the Terrapins field hockey team piled into the bus for a 40-minute ride to George J. Sherman Family-Sports Complex on the University of Connecticut campus yesterday morning. Seventy minutes of play would determine if the Terps would go home early or advance to the Final Four, but the team was doing

everything it could to keep its emotions in check.

“The atmosphere had good vibes, but we still had a little bit of nerves like any team would,” forward Kirstie Dennig said. “We weren’t as hyped as we were for the ACC championship game — it was more calm, and we just got into our zone.”

T he trip back to College Pa rk wouldn’t be so subdued, though. Midfielder Megan Frazer’s backhanded

goal with just more than two minutes remaining on the game clock proved to be the clincher as the unseeded Terps toppled No. 3-seed UConn, 2-1, to advance to next weekend’s Final Four in Norfolk, Va. “What was going through my mind was, ‘This is so up and down. But I’m not going to let this be the last game I wear this shirt in,’” Frazer said. “I got the ball and there was an opportunity, so I took it.”

The Terps (18-5) should have been thankful just to be in it before Frazer’s goal. They had escaped the first half tied with the Huskies (19-3), 1-1, despite being outshot by an 8-to-2 margin.

At the halftime break, they knew the deadlocked scoreboard was deceiving.

“We really talked about wanting the ball more,” Frazer said. “We wanted all the 50/50 balls to be ours.

We weren’t playing to our potential, and that was something that we came

out to change. We planned to fight them through the next 35 minutes.”

They got just that from the Huskies.

Early in the first half, a slapped ball hit defender Sarah Sprink square in the neck, causing her to collapse on the field momentarily. She ended up getting up and getting right back to it, refusing to leave the game. The game featured five cards — three on the Terps See HUSKIES, Page 7