November 12, 2013

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high time for legalization

Election sees low student turnout

Gallup: 58 percent of Americans — first majority in history — support legalizing marijuana

Officials sought higher City Council vote count

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By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Staff writer EDITOR’S NOTE: A student’s name was withheld to protect her privacy because she discusses illicit substances.

Weed. Pot. Dope. Grass. Mary Jane. Cannabis. Hash.

All of these words describe marijuana, the drug that has garnered support after Washington state and Colorado approved referendums in the 2012 election legalizing recreational use.

Now, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans, 58 percent, support the legalization of marijuana, according to an October Gallup poll.

Congress still stagnating on immigration reform Slow pace frustrates state’s DREAM Act advocates

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Act, but in that time, Congress has been unable to make breakthroughs on a national scale.

The state measure allows children of undocumented immigrants It’s been slightly more than a year to attend state universities at an insince this state made strides in immistate rate and receive state financial gration policy by passing the DREAM

In this state, 53 percent of voters support legalizing marijuana for adults and taxing and regulating it like alcohol, based on a poll of 678 Maryland voters commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project and the American Civil Liberties Union.

aid. Legislators hoped the bill would provide the necessary momentum for a federal version of the bill to move forward.

The months leading up to the DREAM Act’s passage in this state showed some promise. President Obama issued a federal directive halting deportations of the children of undocumented immigrants who met certain criteria. But Obama has since drawn criticism for his hotand-cold approach, coming out in full support of the measure one day, then quieting his rhetoric another,

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BOMB THREAT — Police responded to university police and other first responders evacuated patrons from the College Park Shopping Center on Saturday afternoon in response to reports of a bomb threat at CVS at about 1 p.m. jenny hottle/for the diamondback to the parking lot outside 7-Eleven on Knox Road.

Police surrounded the property and searched the facility but did not find any evidence of explosives, Brady said. At about 3 p.m., officers took down the police tape and allowed the

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said state Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery).

“Sometimes it looks like it could happen any time now, then it gets postponed,” Gutierrez said.

Advocates of the state bill were pleased with its passage, said state Sen. Victor Ramirez (D-Prince George’s), but there’s no substantive replacement for action on the federal level.

“We have a lot of people who are living in the shadows and it’s not

Student voter turnout in the College Park City Council election Tuesday was lower than university student officials anticipated due to a range of registration issues.

Between 40 and 60 students were unable to vote at City Hall for an array of reasons, city election and student officials said.

Issues included students forgetting to change their university addresses, processing problems at the state level and typos in the registration form, said Jack Robson, Board of Election Supervisors chief. The most common issue, he said, came from students who failed to update their addresses.

TerpsVote, the university’s online registration system, automatically fills the address space with a student’s home address.

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reports of a bomb Saturday afternoon at the College Park Shopping Center.

CVS employees reported that someone made a bomb threat around 1 p.m. Mark Brady, Prince George’s County Fire Department spokesman, said police promptly evacuated the shopping center, sending students, store employees and local residents

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evacuated patrons to return to their cars and the stores.

FIRE — A College Park house fire left one person dead and another injured early Sunday morning.

SPORTS

MITCHELL BRINGS SPARK OFF BENCH Forward Charles Mitchell scored 10 second-half points in Terps’ comeback attempt against Connecticut on Friday P. 10

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T he u n iversity reduced its carbon emissions by 15 percent in 2012, putting it on track to meet its next goal of 25 percent by 2015.

In the sustainability office’s 2013 progress report released Thursday, the university reported a 2012 carbon footprint of 278,722 metric tons, a 10,803-ton drop from 2011 levels. Despite continuing sustainability challenges such as air travel and steam production, the office attributed its success to new initiatives such as commuter parking permits, the sustainability minor and campuswide recycling.

The reduction signifies meeting the university’s first Climate Action Plan goal, a “very significant”

achievement, said Andrew Muir, the sustainability office’s spokesman.

The university’s Climate Action Plan, launched in 2009, set regular targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eventually achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Having met its first goal, the university plans to move forward with new projects to meet the 2015 milestone, said Sally DeLeon, sustainability office project manager and author of the report.

“Right now, we anticipate meeting [the 2015] target, as long as we implement some aggressive programs,” she said.

Students and the rest of the university played a large role in helping meet the plan’s first goal, said Mark Stewart, the office’s senior project manager. For instance, the 76 percent recycling rate See progress, Page 3

OPINION

THIRD PARTIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS CARLSON Politics is always about winning, and in our current climate, a vote for a third party is a wasted one at best

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Third parties are inefficient, but we can make them better if we change the Constitution or work around it

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VOTING From PAGE 1 About 600 students registered to vote in the election, said Sam Rivers, campaign director for District 3 candidate and university graduate student Matthew Popkin.

Campaign officials first found issues a few days after the Oct. 7 voter registration deadline. At that time, Rivers said, about half of newly registered students’ voter information had not been processed. The initial registration problems were compounded by separate issues affecting the roughly four dozen students who came to the polls last week only to find they could not vote.

College Park City Council student liaison Catherine McGrath said she had trouble voting. T he last time she reg istered to vote was i n the 2012 election, she said.

To be able to vote, McGrath said she had to look through a confirmation email with her voter ID number.

“I figured that that was happening to a lot of stu-

dents,” McGrath said. She decided to stay at City Hall to help other students facing the same issue.

Other students were turned away because they accidentally left their home addresses on the form when they registered, McGrath said.

With all the issues facing student voting, Rivers said the polling center started to become an “intimidating place.”

“A lot of people who are registered voters didn’t feel comfortable at the polls,” Rivers said.

Robson, however, said he did not see any hostile interactions while working at the polling center. Any issues t hat a rose, he sa id, were likely the result of judges asking questions to crosscheck city addresses.

Fo r f u t u r e e l e c t i o n s , McGrath said the Student G overn ment A ssociation plans to work with city, county and university officials to solve miscommunication issues that may have caused problems in processing voters.

“The online registration system is an important tool for students because it makes

it so much easier,” McGrath said. “We need to make sure [the system] is working.”

Even with some hiccups, SGA and Greek life leaders said the turnout was a strong starting point for future elections.

SGA President Sam Zwerling said any lost student votes likely wouldn’t have a c c o u n t e d f o r t h e d i fference i n votes between Popkin and the two District 3 incumbents. Still, she said TerpsVote did not have such issues in the 2012 presidential election.

Despite issues with registration and student officials’ desi res to i mprove voter turnout in future elections, officials said they saw more Greek life participation than in past local elections.

A b out 300 students i n fraternities and sororities registered, based on reports from individual chapters, said Lindsey Anderson, SGA governmental affairs director.

“This was a great starting point, definitely, in terms of lo c a l e l e c t ion s,” s a i d Anderson, a senior English and government and politics major. “It’s a stepping

stone for the future, sending the message that the entire student body wants to be involved in the city.”

SGA and Greek life leaders contacted chapters to spread the word in the first major push for Greek students to register and vote in a local election.

Michael Sikorski, Interfraternity Council external affairs vice president, said about half of registered Greek life voters participated in the election, based on conversations he had with several chapter presidents.

“If at an average fraternity, around 30 registered, maybe 10 to 15 actually turned out and voted,” Sikorski said.

But even if just a fraction of the registered population voted, he said it sets a good precedent for future turnout and leaves room for improvement.

“I’m excited about the outcome — t he fact t h at Greeks actually did register locally and that many did go out and vote,” Sikorski said.

“We’re starting to have that expectation that as students, we engage locally, and that’s really important.”

T he SGA and Greek life governing bodies’ outreach movement targeted members of Greek life — who constitute a large portion of the District 3 population — in the interest of making members’ voices heard in the College Park community.

In the future, Sikorski sees long-term planning as potentially making a bigger impact on the community.

“An actual ‘get out the vote’ campaign could have built up expectation. For the first time, we primarily communicated through emails with chapter leaders, but in the future, part of the IFC’s job should be to work with SGA on a campaign,” Sikorski said. “We’re a huge student population, and in the future, we should continue the trend of having the city notice us and want to engage with us.”

Anderson hopes the movement continues in coming years and sees the Greek community’s voice as being very important the city, adding that the SGA will reach out to the entire student body for election participation.

And though this election movement was a great starting point, Anderson said improving long-term engagement and reaching out to the entire community could be beneficial.

“In any election, it’s hard to keep people engaged for a long period, so that’s something to focus on,” Anderson said. “And getting the entire off-campus and Greek population involved could help. Certa i n people sti l l didn’t even know about it, so getting a wider spread of people would be better.”

Rivers, a senior environmental science major, said he sees a shift in the entire voting culture would impact the student body. “ Ever yone k now s t h at voting is important, but it’s a very social movement,” Rivers said. “If you have a friend that votes, you go vote with your friends. It’s more about the culture; whether it’s supporting a specific candidate or not, it has to be an organization pushing the culture.” tamenabardbk@gmail.com, dcostellodbk@gmail.com

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Inside the residence, officials discovered “a large amount of stored materials,” From PAGE 1 piles of discarded papers, The fire broke out in a two- knickknacks and trash filling story home in the 5200 block nearly every room from floor of Palco Place at about 5:15 a.m. to ceiling, which had made the Sunday, Brady said. An 80-year- blaze difficult to fight.

There were also no working old woman made it out of the building and was taken to an smoke detectors in the house, area hospital to be treated for Brady said, adding that fire smoke inhalation. A second resi- deaths can be easily preventdent, the woman’s 82-year-old ed by ensuring smoke alarms are properly installed and have husband, died in the fire.

Officials are still investi- adequate battery power.

“It’s the law in Maryland. gating the cause of the blaze, Brady said. It took firefighters It’s just a smart thing to do,” he 90 minutes to extinguish the said. “Unfortunately, this home flames, which appeared to be did not appear to have any.” concentrated on the top floor lblaseydbk@gmail.com of the home, he said.

police officers gather at the Route 1 entrance of the College Park Shopping Center on Saturday.

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Angelo Bavaro, a freshman journalism major, said a lot of the newfound support for the legalization of marijuana likely comes from college students.

“T hat’s just part of the college experience: experimenting with things like drugs [or] sexual experimenting,” Bavaro said. “College students just want to explore.”

Young adults are more likely to experiment with drugs and become addicted because of social and cultural pressures, said Laura Place, a social worker in the substance abuse program at this university.

“This is also the age when people are most likely to start using. That’s what is sort of kind of normalized and culturally expected,” Place said.

“So people who are going to end up having a problem down the line, most of the time, have already or will be using during the college years.”

Carly Brody, a sophomore American Studies major, said she feels many students at this university smoke marijuana on a regular basis.

“This weekend I was just talking to a kid who was telling me all about it. He does use it regularly, he was just like, ‘Yeah, me and my friends smoke every day, multiple times a day,’” Brody said. “I think that people on campus definitely do marijuana for recreation and social reasons.”

Freshman psychology and speech pathology major Alexandra used to get high at least five times a week. Every day after school for the second half of her senior year of high school, she would go to her friend’s house and get stoned.

During the summer Alexandra would sneak in a smoke after her parents were asleep. She said it meshed with the ‘I don’t care’ mentality that comes with the end of senior year and the summer before college.

Now that she’s student at this university she only smokes marijuana once every couple weeks but describes drug as a

i n 2012 exceeded its 75 percent target, and the sustainability minor launched that year is now t h e u n i v e r s i t y ’s m o s t popular. More students have been biking to school, and students purchased 478 fewer parking permits, Stewart said.

Alli Giza, a junior environmental science and policy major, said students showed a “huge outpouring of support” for sustainability efforts.

“I definitely think that with all this energy to w a rd s g re e n i n g o u r campus, there is nowhere to go but forward,” said Giza, an intern with the university’s Green Dining Program, which promotes waste separation and the campus farmers market.

But Giza sa id though t h e r e ’s m o r e s t u d e n t awareness of sustainability issues, there are still challenges ahead. Levels of air travel, steam production and electricity consumption continue to worsen, according to the report.

a student demonstrates an apple pipe, a cheap and common way to smoke marijuana. A Gallup poll shows 58 percent of Americans support legalizing the drug. james levin/the diamondback relaxation method to counter her stressful course load.

“You’re very chill, very happy where you are. Physical pain, emotional pain — anything like that is reduced,” Alexandra said. “It should absolutely be legalized. There are much worse things that are legal.”

Place said she has mixed feelings about the debate over legalizing marijuana because of the existing perception that people often smoke the drug for recreational purposes. She said she understands the possible health benefits for medicinal use but isn’t confident that it would have a positive impact overall.

“A lot of people are looking for it because they think, ‘Yeah, it will help with anxiety and it will help with depression.’ Maybe that’s the case, but research is kind of ambiguous about that,” Place said.

“But one thing research is not ambiguous about is that it’s not healthy to inhale smoke into your lungs, any kind of smoke.”

But potential negative health impacts don’t concern Brandon Ronon, a senior communication major.

“There are significant findings that show that it has no cause of death in any cases and that it significantly helps people who have disorders

that require medical marijuana,” Ronon said. “If it can do any good, then it should be legal.”

Sylvie DeLaHunt, a senior aerospace engineering major, said she sees the marijuana use as an accepted truth of modern society and supports legalization as opposed to black market dealings. Lawfulness will not stop people from smoking or not smoking, she said, so it’s better to standardize the drug.

“It’s probably better if it’s legalized,” DeLaHunt said.

“Then people can control and regulate it rather than people having to do it in back alleyways and in secret.”

Craig S. Fryer, a professor in the behavioral and community health department who researches substance use among urban youth and young adults, said legality isn’t usually the biggest deterrent for people.

“People still use marijuana even though it’s illegal, so legality alone doesn’t necessarily change intent of behavior,” Fryer said. “We need to think of this in a socioecological perspective and not just having one strategy to address drug use in this country.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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dream From PAGE 1 good for the country, it’s not good for people to be living in these types of conditions,” Ramirez said. “If we can find a way to allow people to become citizens of this country, to pay a fine, to get in line, and to learn the language, I think we should.”

Ramirez said the state initiatives are “Band-Aids” that can address a small part of the immigration issue but fall significantly short of addressing the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country. Gutierrez said those immigrants are forced to live as “secondclass citizens.”

At the federal level, comprehensive immigration

For exa mple, a i r travel m i l e s h ave i n c re a s e d 47 percent since 2009, part of a 51 percent increase in emissions numbers since 2005, furthering commercial airlines’ heavy carbon impact.

As the university collaborates more internationally, more overseas flights add to emissions rates, DeLeon said.

A nd when t he u n iversity moves to the Big Ten, athletic teams traveling farther for sporting events might also worsen these rates, she said.

To h e l p m i t i g a t e t h i s trend, the University Sustainability Council i s d i sc u ss i n g promot i n g com mu n ic at ion t h rou g h teleconferencing and video conferencing instead of traveling, DeLeon said.

The report showed steam production levels also worsened: Numbers increased about 3 percent since 2011 to 6.96 billion pounds of steam.

For electricity, consumption increased less than 1 percent to 269,455 megawatt hours.

Pa rt of that i ncrease is because of the university’s innovation projects, including updating facilities and research buildings and accommodations such as air conditioning and data col-

reform is not necessarily an issue divided along party lines.

Former Republican president George W. Bush oversaw a push for such a measure, but ultimately failed to pass Congress.

Additionally, a Senate immigration bill passed on a bipartisan 68-32 vote in June, and Gutierrez said as many as 28 Republicans in the House are willing to vote on it. She said the votes are lined up, but House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is wary of bringing the vote to the floor because the more conservative elements of the Republican Partywho oppose it could threaten his speakership.

Gutierrez is hopeful that the House bill might pass in December before the 2014 midterm elections create an atmosphere less conducive to substantial reform.

Comprehensive immigration reform would likely include a federal DREAM Act like this

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51 percent increase in air travel carbon emissions since 2005

6.96 billion pounds of steam produced by the university in 2012

278,722 metric tons total university carbon emissions in 2012

lection areas, DeLeon said.

And Stewart said the campus’s power plant also added to emissions.

But despite conti nu i ng setbacks, DeLeon was positive the first Climate Action Plan success demonstrated the university was “moving in the right direction.”

“I think that people should be proud of ever y t h i ng we’ve achieved. Especially in behavior categories and community involvement … there’s a lot of work going on on the campus to build a sustainable culture,” she said. “There’s continuous improvement from last year.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

state’s, which helps create uniformity in students’ tuition rates and a more explicit path to citizenship. The DREAM Act is more popular than other provisions in the comprehensive law and could pass both chambers of the federal legislature on its own merit.

But Democrats are unlikely to support a piecemeal approach to reform, and Gutierrez said it is “myopic” and “nearsighted” to target only small parts of a bill that could affect millions of undocumented immigrants.

“If Boehner tomorrow said, ‘I’m going to bring forth the bill,’ it would pass,” Gutierrez said. “Immigration reform would be absolutely stellar for the Republicans to take action on, it’s in their interest to move forward on immigration reform.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

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Apathy not to blame for Popkin’s loss S

tudent apathy is everywhere on the campus — in every classroom, in every student group, in every job and, most certainly, in local politics.

But student apathy was not the reason Matthew Popkin lost the Nov. 5 City Council election.

The Nov. 6 staff editorial “Apathy strikes again” asserted voter turnout for the City Council elections was “shamefully low,” placing the onus on students. According to the editorial, the results were a consequence of “an unaware student body.” It’s a reasonable conclusion but a misinterpretation of what this election signifies for the campus community.

Yes, students are apathetic. Not always, but when it comes to local politics, there are only so many of us willing to channel our inner

Leslie Knope — local civic engagement requires more dedication than most students are willing to give. I wish we lived in a world where even 5 or 6 percent of the student body voted in a city council election. But that’s not the reality.

The fact is, two years ago, about 37 students voted in the District 3 City Council elections, according to Popkin’s campaign. A week ago, about 180 students cast their votes.

That’s a remarkable turnaround.

I saw the ballot boxes in City Hall.

While the glass boxes for Districts 1 and 2 sat nearly empty, green slips of voting paper nearly overflowed from the District 3 box. Relative to last election, students came out en masse to support a passionate candidate. Popkin’s campaign deserves lauding, but so do the students who made time to vote.

Communal resentment, not low turnout from university students in elections, stunts city’s future.

It’s too convenient to suggest “community indifference resulted in victories for the two District 3 City Council incumbents, Robert Day a n d S te p h a n i e S t u l l i c h .”

District 3 had the highest voter turnout, 15.9 percent. In truth, this election served as a broader expression of the College Park community: Long-term residents believe student representation (such as Popkin, a university graduate student) runs counter to their interests.

As a student, that was my im-

mediate and enduring reaction to this election. Whatever message Stullich and Day attempted to convey in promotional materials about “running as a team” against a “UMD student,” the message rang clear for students: It’s us (longterm residents) vs. them (students).

At best, long-term residents trust Stullich and Day more than they trust a recent alumnus. At worst, they view students as dangerous challenges to this city’s well-being.

This city’s future isn’t impeded by student apathy — it’s stunted by communal resentment.

I don’t mean to feed the antagonisms, and I hope the next few years will erase this sour impression. College Park’s future is undeniably brighter than when I first arrived on the campus. Knox

Village, the Maryland Book Exchange development, East Campus (just kidding) — these upcoming changes all suggest our community is heading in a positive direction.

And yes, Stullich and Day sat on the City Council that helped facilitate much of this progress.

I share some of the editorial board’s frustration. The more than 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students at this university deserve a significant voice in local politics.

But as much as students bear the responsibility to make their voices heard, it’s up to long-term residents to listen. Based on this election, that hasn’t happened yet.

Nadav Karasov is a senior economics major and former opinion editor. He can be reached at njkarasov@gmail.com.

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HEAD-TO-HEAD: THIRD PARTIES

Our flawed system

Don’t waste your vote

Third parties are ineffective, but they shouldn’t be

Often, voters must choose lesser of two evils

EZRA FISHMAN It’s a very difficult time to be an American voter. There are already plenty of laws aimed at making voting more difficult, from limits on early voting to voter ID requirements and absentee ballot rules, to name a few. Many states have established voting district boundaries that minimize the likelihood of incumbents losing — Slate has a great puzzle on its website showing how absurd these have become. And in the age of the 24-hour media cycle, it’s becoming clear just how ridiculous some of our most visible politicians are (see: Akin, Todd). On top of all these, though, is the rise of the third party, and the damage it does to our ability to make our voices heard.

Under our constitutional system, a candidate is elected president when he or she receives more than 50 percent of the electoral votes in the country. If no one receives more than 50 percent of the electoral votes, no one wins. But instead of having a revote or a runoff, like many other countries would, we would just send the top three candidates to Congress. Then, in a very strange procedure detailed in the 12th Amendment, each of the states’ delegations to the House of Representatives gets one vote, and the candidate who earns a majority of these votes becomes president.

With the rise of the third party, this scenario could very easily happen. For example, if the tea party split from the Republican Party and the Democrats were to offer up a truly awful candidate, we could end up with an electorate fairly evenly split three ways. But in that situation, the tea party candidate would lose every time — the largest party in Congress at that point, the Democrats, would either persuade some Republicans to hop over or choose to back the likely more moderate Republican can-

didate. All of those tea party voters who asserted themselves by choosing someone different would ultimately end up with nothing to show for their efforts.

While in theory these third parties offer a chance for people to break away from the Republican-Democrat binary, in practice they end up causing one of those parties to win — usually the party more directly opposed to the third party’s views. This will continue to be the case as long as the Constitution stays the way it is.

The only solutions, then, are either to change the Constitution or work around it. Some states have tried the latter by supporting the national popular vote, in which every state would send all of its electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the overall popular vote in the country, bypassing the electoral system entirely. But there is another option, in which we move to a parliamentary system like those found in many other democratic countries.

Under these systems, majority parties are often built on the consensuses of groups of smaller parties. Though this system has any number of issues, it at least allows people to vote for the candidates they actually want — and when, as of now, political parties send forward candidates we don’t want, voters can just replace them. Instead of the parties having power over the voters, the voters will have power over the parties.

Neither of these solutions will happen in the near future — the national popular vote is still 134 electoral votes short of working and constitutional amendments take years — but under the current system, third parties can’t really work. Until then, a vote for a third party candidate is not only a wasted vote, but sometimes even a vote for the opposing party.

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

CAROLINE CARLSON During elections, we clearly aren’t always offered the best candidates. Before the Nov. 5 Virginia gubernatorial election, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart compiled a clip mocking Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe, candidates in the race, for being utterly terrible — citing the Virginia election as a decision between “pond scum” and “dog poop.”

The election had Cuccinelli, who has far-right tea party attributes, competing against McAuliffe, whose sleazy business deals didn’t make him the ideal gubernatorial candidate. That election was close, with McAullife beating Cuccinelli by less than 3 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis pulled in about 7 percent of the vote, a high percentage for a third party candidate.

Voting for a third party seems like a growing trend. An October Gallup poll found 60 percent of Americans believe Republicans and Democrats do such a poor job that a third party is needed. USA Today even did a spotlight on young people’s desire to give third parties more of a say in the electoral process. However, as much as third parties shine light on issues the major parties aren’t talking about, voting for them, in some cases, seems to do more harm than good.

Libertarians do a good job of shifting Republican policy to be more liberty-oriented (and therefore more appealing to young people). Republicans could perform better among young voters if they realize that relaxing their immigration, drug and other social policies could win them more votes.

The Green Party can keep Democrats’ environmental positions in check.

But when it comes to actual elections, is voting for a third party an effective decision? If you wanted to vote for a candidate who’s likely to win less than 10 percent of the vote, then are you really trying to win?

Dissenters likely will cite the importance

of voting for yourself — of choosing a candidate who reflects your exact positions rather than voting for someone who belongs to a major party.

Although that idea sounds sweet, there comes a time when you have to realize the realities of the world of politics. As much as we have to choose between the disgusting choices of “pond scum” and “dog poop,” other options won’t win an election. The rough truth is that politics is about winning — it’s always about winning.

Maybe we should just get rid of our twoparty system and our electoral college?

Though this is another choice that sounds nice on paper, having more than two parties will mean a winner of an election could win with, say, 30 percent of the vote. Do we really want a winner who only three in 10 voters have sympathies toward? And if we establish a system based on the popular vote, do we really want populous states such as California and Texas — which lean heavily liberal and conservative, respectively — determining our president?

An exit poll from last week’s Virginia race showed that more of Sarvis’ votes would have gone to Cuccinelli, with McAuliffe still winning if Sarvis didn’t run. However, this poll also showed 5 of Sarvis’ 7 percent of voters wouldn’t even have showed up to vote in the first place. If more get-outthe-vote methods were put in place, who knows what the margin would have been?

As college students, we’re surrounded by intellectual diversity. We crave debates with other students, and many of us support third parties. As much as these parties give us alternative opinions, in the battleground of politics, the sad truth is we have to choose the lesser of two evils if we really care about winning and influencing policy.

Caroline Carlson is a junior government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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Beyond the iterative improvements, these yearly games have become part of gaming culture. It’s strangely comforting to know there’s going to be a new Call of Duty or NBA 2K each year, regardless of whether I actually play the game. For the franchises I actually follow, the annual releases are tradition. I always set aside some time in October or November to plow through the new Assassin’s Creed. I would feel weird without a new release.

More importantly, these annual installments provide a steady source of jobs in an unstable industry. Making the next FIFA or Madden might not be as exciting as creating something new, but it offers talented people job security (which is always a good thing).

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through all of its annual sequels. By constantly switching settings and allowing more experimental flourishes — from the ever-evolving present day meta-game to the pirate ship escapades of the latest installment — Assassin’s Creed manages to stay fun despite its frequent releases. Many of the franchise entries even boast impressive performance gains; the jump from Brotherhood to Revelations is startling, as is the transition from III to Black Flag.

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Every member of the Terps played an important role in their defensive structure.

The team’s attackers reacted quickly when they lost possession, running back to stop counterattacking chances.

The Terps also knew they had to slow down North Carolina’s star players to maintain their lead. In the Tar Heels’ ACC semifinal matchup against Syracuse, the Terps noticed most of North Carolina’s play stemmed from All-ACC midfielders Emily Wold, Nina Notman and forward Charlotte Craddock.

In addition to stopping North Carolina’s talented trio, the Terps wanted to make sure they countered with a balanced attack of their own.

“Three or four players predominantly played the ball with North Carolina,” Meharg said.

“In that regard, we knew that we needed to play with all 10 and not just four, and that way we can have a real advantage.”

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North Carolina had an early chance to take the lead, however, as they pressured at the start of the game and drew a penalty corner within the first three minutes. The Terps blocked Notman’s shot on the set play, though, and the Tar Heels didn’t have any more clear chances for the rest of the half.

The next time North Carolina had quality opportunities to score was in the final 10 minutes of the game.

But the Terps’ emphasis on defense during the closing moments of the game prevented the Tar Heels from cutting into their lead. The Terps’ sharp attack has led to much of their success throughout the year, but in what was arguably their most important win of the season so far, defense made the difference.

“Our first and foremost thing is we want to play as a team, and that’s exactly what we did,” Witmer said. “Just giving it our all — 100 percent — and we definitely did that.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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“IT’S JUST MENTAL FOCUS. I KNOW MY TEAM IS GOING TO NEED ME IN TOUGH STRETCHES, I KNOW I HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED AND From PAGE 10 KNOW I HAVE TWO FOULS AND HAVE TO BE A SMART PLAYER ON

to one down the stretch.

For the game, Mitchell scored 12 points and snagged three rebounds off the bench. “ C h a rl e s p l ays h a rd ,” coach Mark Turgeon said.

“Charles competes, and he was able to stay out of foul trouble [in the second half].

Didn’t get the rebounds like he wanted but really made some nice plays for us.”

With his late-game performance, Mitchell made a case to unseat center Shaquille Cleare in the starting lineup.

For much of the preseason, Turgeon was undecided as to whether Cleare or Mitchell would start in the post for the Terps, and both sophomores are likely to play significant minutes regardless of who begins the game.

Cleare didn’t do much to secure his spot on Friday, scoring four points on 1-of-4 shooting and grabbing one rebound in 19 minutes.

Mitchell was on the floor during most of the Terps’ second-half comeback, while Cleare watched from the bench.

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We need more.”

Despite Turgeon’s disappointment in Cleare, the center played most of the first half because Mitchell picked up two personal fouls. Mitchell’s foul trouble reduced him to five minutes of court time in the first half and he scored just two points before the break.

That time spent on the bench, though, meant Mitchell had fresh legs after halftime. So Turgeon decided to put Mitchell on the floor to begin the second half, hoping the Atlanta native could provide more of an inside presence than Cleare.

But the third-year coach also warned Mitchell against fouling. With an already thin roster, Turgeon couldn’t leave Mitchell on the floor if there was a chance he’d foul out.

“It’s just mental focus,” Mitchell said. “I know my team is going to need me in tough stretches, I know I have

to stay focused and know I have two fouls and have to be a smart player on the court.”

M itchell responded by playing 15 minutes in the half and the only foul he committed came with 11 seconds remaining, when the Terps were trailing by one and needed to send the Huskies to the line to extend the game.

That’s a task M itchell may have had trouble with in th e past, b ut h is improved conditioning this season helped him play clean defense. Turgeon mentioned that Mitchell lost a significant amount of weight in the months leading up to the season opener, and the sophomore was able to use his quickness to get into the appropriate defensive positions against the Huskies.

“He’s in much better shape,” guard Dez Wells said. “He works as hard as I’ve ever seen him work. It’s a different commitment to our team this year than it was last year.”

Mitchell’s conditioning and awareness both came into play during his productive second half at the Barclays Center and were especially evident on his spinning score off the feed from Peters.

Perhaps last season Mitchell wouldn’t have been light enough on his feet to twirl past Napier, but Friday, he was. He was also smart enough not to make contact with the Huskies senior, who may have drawn a charge.

After M itchell’s layup dropped through the hoop, he screamed and smacked Wells’ hand for a high-five. The Terps were still down by 10 at that point, but Mitchell wasn’t intending to let up.

And he almost helped the Terps come all the way back.

“We never got down,” Mitchell said. “We just said, ‘Keep fighting. Game’s not over, we got another whole half to go. We got to come together as a team.’” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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COACH SASHO CIROVSKI and the Terps won the ACC tournament last season by dispatching Virginia Tech, Clemson and North Carolina in a six-day span. file photo/the diamondback

EAGLES From PAGE 8 the Terps are ranked in the top five, two home losses and five draws overall could prevent them from earning a favorable seed for a national title run.

Cirovski said the College Cup is the least of his concerns right now, though. The Eagles provide a challenge, not to mention opponents

who could be waiting for the Terps in the semifinals and finals if they advance.

“The only thing on our mind right now is to find a way to be successful against an improved and athletic a n d d i sc i p l i n e d Bos to n College team,” Cirovski said.

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“Using their services gave me a fundamental education to rely on when times get difficult, as well as the confidence to do whatever I wanted to do.”

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Cou rses t h at fo cu s on s t u d e n t l e a r n i n g t e c hn i q u e s, s u c h a s t h e o n e Va rga s took, a re a sm a l l piece of wh at t he of f ice offers. In addition to classes for credit, LAS has workshops for st udents, f re e one-on-one appointments w it h c o u n s e lors, a p e e r mentor program, a returning students program, a dissertation support group and guided study sessions.

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Last year, LAS added more of a “coaching” model for its one-on-one sessions, focusing less on personality dynamics and more on strategy development with students.

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Tournament title defense in vaunted ACC starts tonight No. 1-seed Terps host No. 8-seed Boston College at Ludwig Field in quarterfinals of ACC tournament

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer Sasho Cirovski understands that the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s defense of its ACC tournament title will be a daunting task.

After Friday night’s overtime win against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., the No. 5 Terps earned a share of the conference regular-season title and clinched the top seed for the ACC tournament, which begins tonight with the quarterfinal matches.

And while the 21st-year coach noted the importance of both those accomplishments, especially considering the trials his young team has faced during this season, he recognizes those will become irrelevant when the Terps kick off against Boston College tonight at Ludwig Field.

“It’s nice to be at home,” Cirovski said. “But we know that the game is won inside the lines. We’ve seen already a lot of road victories in the ACC. We’ve already dropped two games at home this year.

So [playing at home] is very important only if we make it an advantage.”

The eight-team tournament features four other teams ranked in the top 20 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll — No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 13 Wake Forest, No. 15 Virginia and No. 19 North Carolina — as well as Clemson, which narrowly missed the rankings after receiving 53 votes.

The NSCAA will release its new rankings this afternoon.

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NCAA From PAGE 10 those three games, they would have been selected for a fifth straight year. All losses were by one goal, and the Terps outshot Duke and recorded as many shots as Boston College in those matchups.

In those key losses, problems that plagued the Terps all season — difficulties with defending corners and scoring goals — were apparent. They scored one goal total and allowed two off corners in the three losses.

The Terps advanced to the second or third round of the NCAA tournament in the past four years. Last season, they lost to Denver, 3-2, in the second round. Despite returning seven of 11 starters, last season’s promise was

FORWARD PATRICK MULLINS (right) and midfielder Sunny Jane begin an ACC tournament title defense tonight against No. 8-seed Boston College at Ludwig Field. file photo/the diamondback Deacons and Cavaliers will remain ranked after wins this weekend. The Tar Heels suffered a home loss to N.C. State on their Senior Night and could drop out of the top 25. Meanwhile, the Tigers fell to Duke and will likely remain unranked for the ACC tournament.

Last season, the Terps also claimed the No. 1 overall se e d fo r t h e co n fe re n ce tournament but overcame a field that included just five of nine teams with winning overall records.

T h i s yea r, eve ry tea m in the tournament except Boston College finished with a winning overall record.

“This is the deepest ACC field in history,” Cirovski said.

In their regular-season finale Friday night, the Eagles traveled to Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., and took the Cavaliers to overtime before surrendering the game winner in the 98th minute.

It was their fifth one-goal loss to an ACC tournament team this season.

“This ACC field is so strong and competitive this year that you can’t overlook anybody,” forward Patrick Mullins said.

“You can’t be thinking too far in advance.”

A s t ro n g p e r fo r m a n ce this week from the Terps could boost their resume for the upcoming NCAA tournament. Even though

never reached as injuries and an inability to close out games took their toll.

Morgan has already started thinking about next season and the changes the Terps will have to make. But that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten about his five seniors, including forward Hayley Brock, the third-highest scorer in program history, and defender Megan Gibbons.

For the first time in their Terps careers, they will miss out on the NCAA tournament.

“I said a few words to the team, apologized to the seniors because I thought we could give them one more shot at it,” Morgan said. “Those kids have invested a lot of time and lot of sweat and tears, and it’s a real bummer they won’t be able to go to another NCAA tournament.”

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The Terps, though, would get the ball right back. One play after Syracuse wide receiver Jarrod West made an acrobatic one-handed catch down the sideline, cornerback Will Likely made a diving catch on a ball quarterback Terrel Hunt threw in front of wide receiver Ashton Broyld.

It was his first career pick, and it set the Terps up for another long drive.

“Of course, knowing when the offense is struggling that you can just be a spark, knowing that you can be able to contribute to the whole team,” Likely said. “That’s a lot of motivation for you.”

But after moving down to the Syracuse 36-yard line, Brown threw another errant pass behind tight end Dave Stinebaugh on an out route, and cornerback Julian Whigham was there to snatch it out of the air.

“You don’t have a shot to win when you turn the ball over four times and you have as many dropped balls and as

to understand and what C.J. has to do, just like everybody else at their positions — just do what you’re supposed to do. You don’t need to do anything more or anything less.”

After a strong start to the season when the defense dominated opponents — the Terps forced six turnovers in a 37-0 win over West Virginia on Sept. 21 — things have swung the other way. In five ACC games, the Terps have turned the ball over 15 times while forcing only five turnovers of their own. They’re 1-4 in those five games.

With a matchup against a top defense looming Saturday at Virginia Tech, turnovers could once again play a key role, just as they did during the Terps’ quick start and recent slide.

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many errors as we did,” coach Randy Edsall said. “Just way too many turnovers, way too many mistakes in order to come away with a win.”

Syracuse struggled with turnovers as well, twice giving the ball right back to the hosts after takeaways, but the pattern was unsustainable. Soon enough, one team would come away with points.

And it was the Orange.

With less than two minutes remaining in the first half, Etta-Tawo made a juggling catch in the middle of the field, but as he fell to the turf, he was stripped, and the Orange recovered. A minute later, they kicked a field goal to take a 10-0 lead.

The Terps received the o p e n i n g k i c ko f f o f t h e second half and met a similar fate. Brown and center Sal Conaboy couldn’t connect on a shotgun snap, and the Terps turned the ball over again. The Orange kicked a field goal, turning a one-score game into a two-score lead after four Terps giveaways on four straight possessions.

“The ball handling was not real good, the fumbled snap was not good,” Edsall said. “I just think that what C.J. has

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By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Jill Witmer grimaced in pain as she sat on the turf of Boston College’s Field Hockey Complex during Sunday’s ACC championship.

With about two minutes left in the game, the Terrapins field hockey forward dove to knock away a pass intended for North Carolina midfielder Rachel Magerman inside the Terps’ circle, and both of her legs cramped after the play.

“Anything I could to keep it out of the circle,” Witmer said.

“I did not want them to score.”

T h e No. 1 Te r p s we re holding onto a two-goal lead with less than two minutes left, and after a quick stretch, Witmer was back on her feet and ready to support the team’s defense. Though the team’s fluid passing and strong

offense has guided it to victory most of this season, the Terps’ defensive effort was key in sealing their 10th ACC championship in program history with a 2-0 victory.

The Tar Heels generated few scoring opportunities during the first 20 minutes of the second half, so they replaced goalkeeper Sassi Ammer with an extra field player with 13 minutes left in the period. The field player advantage led to more pressure from No. 3 North Carolina, but the Terps’ attackers, like Witmer, receded into a more defensive role to help the team hold off the Tar Heels’ offense.

The Terps’ frontline used its speed to slow down North Carolina’s ball movement and block crosses and shots.

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SYRACUSE SAFETY DURELL ESKRIDGE intercepts quarterback C.J. Brown’s pass in front of wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo in the end zone during the Terps’ loss. Tim Drummond/the diamondback

Miscues doom Terps in defeat Untimely turnovers kill lengthy drives, pave way for Orange victory

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

forward jill witmer helped the Terps’ defensive effort as they shut down North Carolina’s star-powered attack in Sunday’s 2-0 ACC championship game victory. file photo/the diamondback

While calling a game a “back and forth” contest usually references teams trading scores, the Terrapins football team’s matchup with Syracuse on Saturday became defined by a six-possession stretch in the second quarter in which the Terps and Orange traded five turnovers.

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three points came out of that stretch: a Syracuse field goal to bump the Orange’s lead to 10-0 with three seconds left in the first half.

So while it was easy to bemoan a stagnant offensive effort or a defense that broke late in the game and allowed the Orange to put the score out of reach, the Terps’ inability to capitalize on turnovers — while failing to prevent giveaways of their own — made the difference in

Saturday’s 20-3 loss.

“Any time you turn the ball over that much, it’s going to be tough,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “We’ve been struggling to put the ball in the end zone, and that showed today. They’re a good team with a strong defense, and we didn’t come out and execute today. That was very unfortunate.”

The Terps’ four giveaways snuffed out a number of promising drives. After

recovering a fumble and bringing it to their own 36-yard line, the Terps drove to the Syracuse 28. On third and 10, wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo beat cornerback Ri’Shard Anderson on a post route.

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When Terrapins men’s basketball guard Roddy Peters threaded a pass through Connecticut’s defense to forward Charles Mitchell with about 14:40 left in the second half of Friday’s season opener, Huskies guard Shabazz Napier slid in front of Mitchell to block his path to the basket.

Peters’ pass left the 6-foot-8, 260-pound Mitchell in a difficult situation. He was streaking toward the rim, and Napier was positioned to take a charge, which would have resulted in Mitchell’s third foul. But Mitchell spun past the smaller defender to avoid contact and finished the play with a right-handed layup as forward DeAndre Daniels slapped his arm. Then he knocked down the ensuing free throw.

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The Terrapins women’s soccer team has dealt with suspenseful situations all season. The Terps played in two overtime games and had to wait until the final day of the regular season to clinch a spot in the ACC tournament.

In all those situations, the team largely controlled its own fate. But yesterday, the Terps were reduced to mere spectators as the 64-team NCAA tournament field was announced.

For the first time in five years, the Terps failed to qualify for the tournament.

“Everyone was sitting on pins and needles,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “[When the field was announced] the team was crushed. People were pretty emotional. Some people left without saying anything.”

While eight ACC teams made the tournament, the Terps, ranked eighth in the conference, were passed over for Wake Forest, which had a higher RPI and a better record despite not making the eight-team conference tournament.

The Terps were hoping history would repeat itself a year after

“EVERYONE WAS SITTING ON PINS AND NEEDLES. [WHEN THE FIELD WAS ANNOUNCED] THE TEAM WAS CRUSHED. PEOPLE WERE PRETTY EMOTIONAL. SOME PEOPLE LEFT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING.” JONATHAN MORGAN

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nine ACC teams were selected for the NCAA tournament. But qualifying for the conference tournament, in which the Terps fell to Virginia, 6-1, in the ACC quarterfinals, wasn’t enough for the Terps, whose biggest win was a 1-0 victory over the then-No. 3 Demon Deacons on Sept. 22.

“Obviously there’s a lot of suspense because we certainly weren’t a lock to get in the tournament,” Morgan said. “I think we all kind of knew it wasn’t about to happen.”

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