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After losses, Repubs looking to changes

By Alex Kirshner Staff writer A week removed from the Republican Party’s significant Election Day losses, Republican students are speculating about what went wrong — and where the party goes from here.

Despite well-funded candidates and billions of dollars pouring in from donors and super PACs, the country’s fast-growing minority population voted heavily against Mitt Romney and Republican congressional candidates, leaving the party with less power after Election Day. Already a minority in the Senate, Republicans lost two seats and failed to win races against several Democrats who had been underdogs. In the House of Representatives, Republicans held their majority but lost seats.

Hispanics made up more than 10 percent of the electorate for the first time in national history, a demographic that will only grow, government and politics professor Stella Rouse said. President Obama won more than two-thirds of See gop, Page 3

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a new perspective The Art Gallery switches it up to pay homage to music videos in display running through Dec. 14

By Kirsten Petersen For The Diamondback The Art Gallery has played canvas to poetry and paintings, but this month its walls — bathed in moody lighting — tell the story of the music video.

The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” fills the back room of the ArtSociology building’s main gallery, its thumping theme and overlapping visuals drawing visitors in to the display. On another wall, a video cuts between scenes of an aging legend strumming his guitar and a dilapidated museum — it’s Johnny Cash’s “Hurt.”

“It never stops assaulting the senses, and to me that’s brilliant,” See art, Page 2

Students who engage in non-criminal misconduct off the campus could find themselves facing additional sanctions, after the University Senate voted to consider expanding the Office of Student Conduct’s jurisdiction.

An amendment to the Code of Student Conduct, which the Senate Executive Committee considered at its meeting Monday, would expand the office’s reach to deal with activity threatening the health or safety of the community or “substantially disruptive” activity in the area off the campus within University Police jurisdiction. The change would enable the office to better address instances of hazing and violence, said Student Conduct Office Director Andrea Goodwin, but the amendment is not limited to those behaviors.

“Hazing is such a serious violation,” Goodwin said, “and if it’s happening to our students and it’s because they’re trying to join an organization that’s really a university organization, and they’re taking hazing off-campus, it’s very difficult for us to put a stop to it.”

The office has jurisdiction over offcampus conduct solely deemed a criminal offense. But disorderly conduct affects the quality of life of people who live in the surrounding community residents, said University Police spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky.

“It makes sense that the Office of Student Conduct would have jurisdiction where we have jurisdiction,” he said.

the art gallery is displaying music videos in its exhibit “What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art.” It presents 40 different music videos from the past three decades. photos by kirsten petersen/for the diamondback

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U. Police advancing technology

Student loan interest rates may spike for some

Dept. relies on security cameras to improve safety

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer

Congress looking at more permanent fix

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer A few miles off the campus, a massive complex houses the eyes of University Police — all 600 of them.

Six people constantly monitor 350 cameras on the campus and surrounding areas from inside the security operations center, residing in the $12 million, 300,000 square foot building which was once The Washington Post’s production plant. Another 250 cameras store data accessible at any time, Uni-

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university police’s cameras are part of technological advancements the department has implemented to improve efficiency. Spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said police are closing out cases more quickly. charlie deboyace/the diamondback versity Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said. These cameras are part of a move toward increased use of technology in police operations, a trend Limansky said allows police to operate more efficiently.

“We’re closing out cases much more quickly than we used to because of

these advancements,” he said. “We’ve added technology to supplement [officers], to make us more efficient.”

Outside the former plant, a painted Testudo statue hints at a university tie to the building, purchased in 2010

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Americans want long-term solutions from a Congress that has been unwilling to negotiate over the last two years, but some compromises could come with a high price tag for students.

After a politically charged debate this summer telegraphed the bitter divide between Republicans and Democrats, Congress eventually agreed to extend a provision that freezes subsidized student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent. But that extension expires next summer — and if Congress wants to avoid the same partisan gridlock that stalled

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important legislation during the last two years, it will have to bring a longerterm solution to the table.

Some of the alternatives only seem to come to the detriment of the 9.4 million borrowers taking out subsidized loans — those with higher financial need — by imposing higher interest rates and uncertainty in what the rate would be year to year.

Rather than freezing the rate at 3.4 percent, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) instead proposed students paying rates equivalent to what the U.S. pays on its own debt — 1.6 percent — plus three percentage points, which would translate to students paying 4.6 percent on

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RATES From PAGE 1 subsidized loans.

“Stopgap measures have been the norm on a multitude of issues in Washington lately, but one thing that is consistent among them is that shor t-term fixes are rarely the answer to t h e p robl e m ,” w ro te David Ward, a spokesman for the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), in an email. “Not only will th is bi l l bri ng loa n payments down for students, but by i ndex i ng student loan rates to a market rate, we provide a long-term solution to this issue.”

For the 8.8 million students who took out u ns u b sid i z e d loa n s at t he 6.8 percent rate, the move would be a financial relief.

They are poised to dole out less on repayments in the low-interest-rate environment, wh ich is l i kely to stay for at least a couple of years with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

A NEW ART GALLERY EXHIBIT examining the artistic value of music videos will be open until Dec. 14. Several of the exhibit’s videos contain interactive elements, and others display the works of Johnny Cash, Radiohead and Kanye West, among others. kirsten petersen/for the diamondback

ART From PAGE 1 curator Quint Gregory said as he looked on at The White Stripes display.

“What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art,” which opened Nov. 6 and will close Dec. 14, presents 40 different music videos from the past three decades as works of art. Featured artists, their faces flashing from every corner of the gallery, include Radiohead, Kanye West and Fleet Foxes.

“This isn’t a normal art exhibition,” Gregory said. “This is trying to push the defi nition of art a bit.”

Six videos project onto the walls of the gallery, and visitors can stand under sound domes to listen to the music. The remainder play on flat-screen televisions or laptops stationed around the room, which visitors can listen to with headphones.

Four videos are also interactive — viewers can watch a compilation of fan art for “The Johnny Cash Project” or orchestrate the animation of Arcade Fire’s “Neon Bible” video.

Visitors can even build objects into the digital landscape of the Danger Mouse and Norah Jones video “3 Dreams of Black.”

John Shipman, The Art Gallery’s director, was inspired to create the exhibition after he

watched a particularly artistic music video with his wife seven years ago.

Three years later, Shipman invited Gregory — an Honors College lecturer and associate director of the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture — to be a co-curator for the exhibition.

The two men watched hundreds of videos, selecting those that “fused” together song and video and also “transcended to be more than the two parts.”

“Most people don’t think of music videos as art. We want to change that,” Gregory said.

“They arrest you. They stop you in your tracks and keep your attention.”

Shipman said they originally wanted to showcase 49 videos, but it was difficult to obtain permission from certain record labels. While some companies demanded hundreds of dollars, some artists, like Tom Waits, were so enthusiastic about the exhibition they gave permission for the use of their videos for free. “ I t’s v e r y c o m p l i c a t e d because we’re working with the music industry, and that’s a challenge,” Shipman said. “But ultimately that worked out, and we have a great show.”

One of the videos — “Black Up” by Shabazz Palaces — came to the curators on the recommendation of senior studio

art major Samuel Margai, who works in the gallery’s office.

The video includes scenes of impoverished communities and tropical forests.

“When watching it, it’s like I’m on a hoverboard going 100 mph to different places around the world,” Margai said. “When I look at an abstract painting, this is what I want to see.”

He added that this gallery would especially appeal to the college crowd.

“This will engage a lot more students on campus, being something they can readily identify with,” he said.

The multimedia experience extends far beyond the exhibition, Shipman and Gregory said.

Ultimately, they would like to see visitors share feedback and recommend new videos using social networks, such as using a video’s specific hashtag to tweet at @ArtGalleryUMD. Shipman said the ideal visitor is anyone “with an open mind a nd a rock ‘n’ rol l spi rit.”

But gallery attendant Emily Milanak, a junior Chinese and music major, said every student can enjoy the exhibit.

“Music is a big part of our lives and appeals to people our age,” Milanak said. “There are all different genres of music here, and there’s something for everyone.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

pledg i ng to keep rates low until at least 2015.

“I foresee that interest rates will stay in the current neighborhood for at least the next couple of years,” said finance professor David Kass.

But lower-income borrowers, who are likely comfortable with the 3.4 percent rate, will see a significant jump in their repayments.

“That could deter people” from going to college, said finance professor Elinda Kiss.

“That could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

It also adds a level of uncertainty for student borrowers, who won’t k now what t he rates are going to be at any given time, Kiss added. With the fixed rates, students won’t be getting any surprises.

Federal loan interest rates would be subject to fluctuations in the economy. When the economy becomes more stable, interest rates will go up, and students will have to make bigger repayments on their loans. T he trade-off, K a ss sa id , i s t h at h i g herpaying jobs would be more readily available in a high-

“We do have economic cycles. if there is a cyclical recession… that would certainly be a much bigger burden on the students who took out the higher interest rate loans.”

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Finance professor interest-rate environment to “relieve the burden of repaying the loans.”

But high interest rates won’t a lways t ra n sl ate to h i g hpaying jobs after graduation.

A recession or u nex pected economic downturn, which citizens have seen in the last decade, wou ld leave rates locked in at a high rate in the midst of a shaky job market. “ We d o h a v e e c o n o m i c cycles,” Kass said. “If there is a cyclical recession … that would certainly be a much bigger burden on the students who took out the higher interest rate loans.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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The security operations center, housed inside the Severn Building, is manned by six officers who monitor 350 cameras on and off the campus. The University Police center has aided in closing cases more quickly than in the past. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

technology From PAGE 1 to hold university services and make room for the East Campus development. T he center operates out of a small room, its tempora ry home until the Pocomoke Building is renovated. It is a command center of sorts, with multiple large screens across the wall and smaller computer stations.

S t u d e nt s wa l k to c l a ss, across Route 1 and through Old Town daily, all in view of the center’s cameras, which can be manipulated to zoom and pan in all directions. The video is crisp and clear, allowing security to pick out faces and license plates if necessary and to run plates through an automatic reader to alert police to potentially dangerous individuals.

“The owner [of a vehicle] could be wanted, be a sex offender, on a terrorist watch list,” Limansky said. “We can put people in [the automated license plate reader] that are of interest to us.”

While technology has long been an important component of police operations, Limansky said advances have created a

more efficient force. In the past, VHS tapes had to be switched out every hour, according to Security Operations Center coordinator Caryn Russell. Now the staff can use a joystick and a lit keypad to control more than 350 different cameras. University Police keep most data for 30 days, Limansky said.

Michell Min, a junior accounting and business major, said she was surprised the university operates surveillance to that extent. Knowing police technology is constantly recording student actions is a little disconcerting, she said.

“It’s kind of like I’m being watched,” Min said. “It is a little weird; 600 is a pretty high number.”

Ca meras don’t merely monitor activity around the campus and community from stationary posts — they are also in police cars, Limansky said. These cameras constantly record and delete until the officer activates his or her lights, prompting the system to save data recorded from two minutes prior to the activation until two minutes after the lights are off.

When officers are close to the station, hard drives in the cars wirelessly upload the video to servers. Officers used to load

“It’s kind of like I’m being watched. it is a little weird; 600 is a pretty high number.”

MICHELL MIN

Junior accounting and business major VHS tapes into the trunk.

“This really turns out to help officers,” Limansky said.

“It supports their roles, supports their job.”

University Police recently received a grant from the governor’s office for a Situational Awareness Module, Limansky said. The module will allow local police and fi re departments to pool together dispatch data from a ll nea rby ju risd ictions.

Limansky said the technology is the next step in realtime information sharing between agencies.

An update to the university’s alert system is also on the horizon. Police hope to soon be able to broadcast alerts into buildings so students, faculty and staff without cell service or Internet access can still receive alerts. SMART Boards will also be able to receive the data from police, Limansky said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Goodwin’s proposal aims to encourage respectful student behavior off the campus and to improve interactions between students and residents of the city, she said. In addition, police dealing with an alcohol violation off the campus would have the option of referring the offending student to Student Conduct rather than handling it with police action.

“It’s better to have it in the Office of Student Conduct – the consequences are going to be different,” Goodwin said.

“They’re not going to involve criminal charges.”

In addition, this could ensure students in need of alcohol abuse education are referred to the appropriate resources, Limansky added.

However, several senators questioned how the office would define non-criminal misconduct and determine which areas off the campus would fall under the amendment. University Police have flexibility in their jurisdiction, which covers areas off t he ca mpu s i n wh ich students a re heav i ly concentrated — however, officers

GOP From PAGE 1 the Hispanic vote.

Romney’s ostensibly harsh stance toward immigrants hurt him among Latino voters and could force Republicans to move toward the center on the issue, Rouse added.

“This is a watershed moment for that party, and if they don’t get on board with comprehensive immigration reform, it could be a time when they don’t win presidential or national elections going forward for a long time,” Rouse said.

As minority groups turn into a collective majority, Republicans will have significant diffi culties winning national elections w ithout sh i fti ng their policies.

Romney took the majority of the white vote, but 80 percent of minorities — the fastest-growing demographic in America — went for Obama.

For Republicans, Rouse said, “That’s not a winning formula.”

The Republican primary’s tone of ultra-conservatism likely took a damaging toll on Republicans in the general election, which favors more moderation, sophomore economics

may respond to an incident farther off the campus if Prince George’s County Police request assistance.

“I would hope that the committee is as specific as possible, what constitutes off-campus and what constitutes misconduct,” said faculty senator Frank Alt. “The phrase ‘most specifically acts of hazing and violence’ doesn’t exclude other acts of misconduct.”

During the review process, the committee may need to m o re c l e a rly d e f i n e w h at types of misconduct will fall under the university’s jurisdiction, faculty senator Steve Petkas said.

“This is a confounded proposal, but one of the difficulties that it avoids is, ‘Where do you draw the line off-campus?’”

Petkas said. “It would confi ne the application of the code to the concurrent jurisdiction.”

Because the change would directly affect students, senate Director Reka Montfort said part of the committee’s charge will include gathering extensive input from students. The committee’s review process also includes legal counsel, she added.

I t’s u n c l e a r h o w m a n y cases would be affected by the change, Goodwin said, though

other institutions with similar policies experienced a heavier caseload after their offices implemented the change.

On Monday, the Senate Executive Committee also charged the review of a recent student conduct policy change — rather than requiring “clear and convincing evidence” in cases of sexual assault or harassment, the office now uses a lower standard, “preponderance of the evidence.” University President Wallace Loh signed the policy in January, placing the university in compliance with new requirements for federally funded universities mandated by the Department of Education.

However, officials noted last year this would result in the office using two different standards of evidence, depending on the type of case being examined. Senators planned to review the impact of the change on the university, which will now take place in the Student Conduct Committee.

“I think it is an important, essential issue that requires some analysis, and therefore I’m very much in favor of doing it,” said faculty senator Ellin Scholnick. “I don’t know what the outcome is going to be.”

major Josh Stonko said.

“I think the problem with the Republican Party, with the tea party, is a lot of candidates in the primaries have to go to the far, extreme right,” said Stonko, a Republican. “And then when they come back to the center, they look like fl ip-floppers.”

Conservatives were optimistic going into the election, as well-funded Republicans looked poised to beat Democratic senators and representatives, and polls showed public opinion had shifted rightward over the last four years. Although Romney was still widely believed to be the underdog against Obama, he was competitive in national polls and a win seemed within reach.

R o m n e y g a r n e re d m o re votes than Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did four years ago, but not enough to take over the Oval Office. Obama won re-election w ith 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206, but only narrowly won the popular vote.

“Romney did a lot better than I felt he was going to do, but I didn’t think he was going to win in the end,” said Tim Riddlestorffer, a Republican fresh ma n govern ment a nd

politics major.

Romney’s timid embrace of conservative policies hurt him with voters, Stonko added.

“With Romney, we saw a candidate that looked like he was entirely uncomfortable with conservative philosophy and putting that forward,” he said.

Republican campaigns and outside groups combined to spend billions of dollars in an effort to take control of the White House and Congress.

Republican super PACs this election were the richest in political history, backed by a well-endowed cavalry of donors. Conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson alone pumped a record $57 million into the race.

B ut t he f u nd i n g wa sn’t enough to win more seats or the general election. Instead, Rom ney’s pol icies towa rd minorities, including one of his self-proclaimed goals of making life so intolerable for undocumented immigrants they would choose to “selfdeport,” lost him much-needed votes. He opposed the DREAM Act as a “magnet” for illegal immigration.

When Romney tried to moderate his views in the general election campaign against Obama, Stonko said, it made him vulnerable to attacks as a “fl ip-flopper.”

“It’s an issue that a lot of conservatives know that, if we don’t move to the center on, we’re just going to lose,” he said. “The party knows they have to come up with some sort of plan.”

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The storm that wreaked havoc on the East Coast also stirred up political drama that should have been ignored

Many towns and cities are still recovering from the crippling blow of Superstorm Sandy that ravaged the East Coast a few weeks ago. Coincidentally, the storm arrived at a pivotal moment for America — the week before Election Day. In the wake of Sandy, questions about how the storm would affect the outcome of the election dominated the news. But frankly, after enduring one of the most vicious campaigns in American history, I was sick of politics.

Compared to the natural disaster that killed more than 80 people in the U.S., destroyed many towns along the coast and devastated New York City, the political ramifications seemed petty. Yet they carried so much weight. Our country had been divided by a brutal campaign, and politics were not going to be set aside, even for a moment.

The coverage of Sandy’s aftermath was full of as many attacks and accusations as the campaign ads themselves.

Articles criticized Mitt Romney for a past statement he made about how organizations like the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be privatized or controlled by the states.

Michael Brown, former FEMA director under George W. Bush, criticized President Obama for his “premature” response to the storm. Some articles said the storm would give Obama a last-minute advantage by allowing him the opportunity to step up and gain extra support, and others tracked Romney’s every move along the campaign trail.

One shining example of bipartisanship and cooperation rose from the debris. Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) worked closely with Obama on recovery in his state and even praised the president publicly for his leadership and efficient response to the storm.

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This shouldn’t have been a big deal.

I would expect anyone to put aside political differences to accomplish an important task. Yet Republicans accused Christie of betraying his party by complimenting the president on a job well done. Even in a time of crisis, the war between the two parties continued to rage. It was a testament to the vanity of politics and the flawed reality of our two-party system. If our leaders can only think about how to make themselves look good while making opposite party members look bad, nothing substantial will ever be accomplished. And in emergency situations like this one, lack of cooperation could be deadly.

It seems that, in a country supposed to be run “by the people, for the people,” very little is done for the people at all, but rather for the sake of some political agenda.

And in a country that is supposed to be united, we tend to become divided along party lines. When it comes down to it, we are a nation of Republicans and Democrats. Independent candidates get little to no attention from the media and receive a minuscule percentage of the vote each election. If there were a wider variety of candidates in each election, opposing affiliations might not be so pitted against one another.

Politics should be a platform for those who care about the good of the country and the well-being of the people, to lead and help make the nation the best it can be. Differences in ideology and opinion should not overshadow basic values of humanity and unity. Our leaders should place more focus on doing what’s right for the American people than their own personal motives. Our media should not give their foolish political squabbles so much attention, especially after a disaster, when the last thing on our minds should be political differences.

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Every little bit helps Despite all the anticipation and post-apocalyptic predictions surrounding Superstorm Sandy’s arrival in College Park, students saw little more than rain, wind and a few branches lying around after the storm hit the campus. Everyone hunkered down (and most likely got drunk) waiting for the seemingly imminent end of the world to strike. And then it didn’t.

New York and New Jersey, however, weren’t as lucky. A considerable part of the East Coast was left in shambles. But between the buildup and firestorm of commentary and articles leading up to the election and general citizen unawareness, people seem to have almost forgotten the destruction Sandy left.

There has been a significant amount of outcry about this — since when is it OK to just leave disaster victims in the lurch?

People are still struggling to find gas or get to the grocery store, and some are still living without heat and power; they have a long way to go before getting back to their normal lives. If apathy reigned, it would take years before these areas recovered.

Thankfully, though, members of the university community haven’t lost sight of what’s really important.

Students and other officials have proven they’re still willing to help.

All this week, Department of Transportation Services employees will collect critical items — including batteries, flashlights, school and cleaning supplies, blankets and first-aid kits — inside a Shuttle-UM bus situated in front of Stamp Student Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The participating departments will either leave the donations at a nearby Red Cross checkpoint or have DOTS drivers drive the bus up to the New York and New Jersey

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We applaud students and university departments for coming together to provide relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. area. Fliers are tacked on boards all over the campus, and each department involved is doing all in its power to help those in need.

For that, this editorial board is proud of the university community.

The effort is a joint effort between Dining Services, University Relations and the athletic department, and it allows the university community to come together in a massive show of support for those affected by the storm. DOTS has publicized the relief project in a number of areas, including

on its website and in dorms, as has the athletic department. University Relations will be contacting alumni for donations as well.

With a large number of students who attend this university hailing from the New York metro area, this relief effort is not only a show of support for those struggling in the aftermath of the storm, but a way for the College Park community to band together and help each other. Many students’ friends and families just had their electricity, heat and Internet restored a few days ago. Many other students’ houses were ripped apart during the storm. Superstorm Sandy didn’t just affect a few isolated people.

Its damage is widespread and won’t simply go away in a few days.

As an incentive to ensure students participate and to show this university has exhausted all of its resources, everyone who donates will receive a prize. Every donation warrants a coupon from Dining Services and the athletic department for free popcorn at the Nov. 20 Terrapins men’s basketball game against Lafayette. This editorial board urges students to come together and make sure this effort isn’t for naught. People in New York and New Jersey who need our help. They could be your classmates’ families and friends. We must band together to help them restore the sense of normalcy and ease those of us here are so lucky to have.

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Deactivating from superficiality CAMILLA YANUSHEVSKY A friend from high school took what I thought were extreme measures before entering college: He turned off his phone and would only check his text messages and emails once or twice a week. But the greater atrocity at the time, in my mind, was when he deactivated his Facebook.

I thought he was depressed. Nowadays, if anyone deactivates Facebook or takes more than 24 hours to respond to a text message, people start asking, “Are you OK?” I now understand my friend. He yearned for real interaction — a phone call, a visit, lunch or dinner in a cafe, etc. He feared what has become reality. He feared — in the words of Albert Einstein — the day when technology overlaps with our humanity.

Not only has Facebook lost value from its erroneous IPO, but it has lost what I believe was its original purpose — staying in touch with “real” friends.

For some, Facebook has evolved into a virtual game of deception, competitive and addictive. Who is happiest?

Whose profile picture gets the most likes? Who has the most “friends”?

The purpose? To make “friends” jealous. Yes, I have heard people say the word “jealous.”

On the other side of the virtual world is an increasing number of people who hide behind their monitors and fear forming and building relationships face-to-face.

It’s interesting just how much the wannabe socialites have in common with the escapists. Both retreat to the virtual world because it is relatively safe from vulnerability and they can find and communicate their current mental state. Both fall under the cat-

egory of Internet addicts.

The concept of Internet addiction, and addiction to communication technology in general, is not a difficult one to understand. Similar to an overreliance on drugs or alcohol, the Internet and our mobile devices offer instant digital feedback, for some in the form of a dopamine addiction.

Although laughed off by many, Internet addiction is now recognized as a serious disorder and will be included in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a condition recommended for further study. A study from Stanford University’s School of Medicine and a study titled “The World Unplugged” by this university have found that many students show one or more signs of problematic Internet use.

Signs include staying online longer than intended, checking email or Facebook before something else that you need to do, thinking that life without the Internet would be boring and frequently forming new relationships online.

Add carrying your phone and laptop with you frequently to the bathroom and I think you might also have an addiction to communication technology as a whole.

I was never a huge Internet junkie, but it took going away, in my case studying abroad in Italy, to spend significantly less time on my new Internet-less phone and on Facebook.

I am slowly retreating away from the superficiality of the virtual world, like my friend did, but not to his extreme.

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When you’re not in Kansas anymore Traveling provides the necessary perspective to appreciate your own (and others’) culture SARAH GORDON On a Friday evening this past March, I found myself in the backyard of a middle-class home in Masaka, Uganda. I had traveled from Washington to Amsterdam, to Kigali, Rwanda, then to Entebbe, Uganda, finally spending hours in the car traversing the countryside to our destination.

I had been moving forward for almost 30 hours, and at this point, I really had to pee. My final obstacle was a jagged wooden door leaning against a three-sided stall, and inside the stall was a hole in the ground. “The bathroom is out back,” my host dad had said to me a few minutes earlier, pointing me toward the brick-wall-enclosed space where a guard dog growled from his crate. I was prepared for some kind of outhouse, something akin to a port-a-potty, but a freaking hole in the ground?

A year of leadership classes had logically prepared me for this trip, and yet I felt a thrill of unadulterated panic. Sure, I was ready to experience Uganda; I was ready for third-world poverty and openmindedness and cross-cultural

communication. But first, I wanted to pee without a flashlight between my teeth and a pack of tissues in my hand. I wanted to wash two days of travel off my body and see my face in a mirror. Having learned everything I knew about Uganda from the comfort of a classroom or my dorm room on my laptop, I hadn’t quite considered that I’d be applying what I learned without getting to use the bathroom first.

Traveling is how we learn to appreciate the idiosyncrasies of culture — our own and those we visit. This isn’t even just comparing first and third-world standards of living, although that can definitely be jarring. It’s difficult for me to imagine how I conceptualized thirdworld poverty before I saw it with my own eyes, and frankly, I visited for just 10 days. Education isn’t complete without accompanying experience to make it concrete.

No amount of reading or watching over-budgeted Invisible Children videos could have come close to the experience of being in Uganda: interacting with the people, eating the food and watching how the world works without the comfort of my own familiar culture. At times, it was awkward, even unpleasant, but in those moments was a grain of truth I had never understood more profoundly. The world is such a huge and unknown place with so many

unfathomable quirks. Some of it is bound to make us uncomfortable, but it is imperative that we engage ourselves with other cultures and attempt to understand more than what we know already.

“Other cultures” don’t have to be Kyannamukaaka, Uganda (the village where my group did its work) or some other similarly inaccessible site.

There are brilliant cultural discoveries to be made in our own regions, even our own hometowns. It just takes a little initiative and a Google search. Attend a show at a community theater in another town. See if there are any good hiking trails within driving distance and take a day trip.

Have a latte at an independent coffee shop instead of Starbucks.

These are the kind of changes we can make every day, but the opportunities to visit those faraway places are within reach, too. My Uganda trip was entirely covered by a grant given to the university by Capital One. The prospects do exist; they are just waiting to be discovered.

Also, Lauren Conrad was in front of me in the security line on the way home in the Entebbe International Airport, so that was pretty entertaining.

Sarah Gordon is a junior neurobiology and physiology major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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who is financing or helming the project. Long ago, when the credits rolled on Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi, fans’ love for Star Wars stopped being about who was making the films because it seemed the films would be no more. As with many big fantasy universes, fans took Star Wars far beyond the homage to 1950s sci-fi serials it was originally intended to be and made it their own.

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creative puppeteer may be able to breathe some life into the once vital series.

And now that it’s in someone else’s hands, I think it’s safe to say most people adore or the possibilities are truly endless. I’ve heard Ever since George Lucas’ decision to reat least admire Star Wars in some way, which kindle his dormant relationship with such Colin Trevorrow, Brad Bird, Guillermo del is why it’s so hard not to be excited about the irreplaceable creations as R2-D2, C-3PO Toro, J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau’s names possibility of a whole new trilogy, perhaps even and Obi-Wan Kenobi with 1999’s Episode I: as potential directorial candidates, each of two new trilogies, if the news is to be believed.

The Phantom Menace, the Star Wars fran- whom would make for a wildly different But don’t be duped — this new trilogy cannot chise has been on a breakneck decline that Star Wars movie. But this is just what the possibly live up to its namesake. gave a new meaning to the classic idiom, “If franchise needs — a fresh presence at the Like many of you, I grew up watching the original helm with the desire to take a tired, old dog it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Star Wars trilogy —­­I remember and teach it new tricks. literally burning a hole through In terms of storyline, the dimy VHS copy of Star Wars rections are nearly infinite as Episode V: The Empire Strikes well. Because Sith ended where Back — and I’m sure many the original 1977 film began, experienced the same giddy with Anakin Skywalker’s full excitement I did upon hearing t ra nsfor m at ion i nto t he ev i l the news that there would be a demigod Darth Vader, Disney prequel trilogy starting in 1999. has free reign to explore a mulOh, how disappointed the titude of previously established world was. side plots and extend them into Yes, we’ve been down this feature length. road before, and the outcome As far as Disney is concerned, was grim. Full of convoluted the affection for Lucas is undenispace politics and brain-dead able. Buzz Lightyear is an obvious character arcs, the prequel Star Wars caricature, inhabiting trilogy spat in the face of the same wide-eyed enthusieverything that Star Wars asm for maintaining tranquility had become (head over to and order as any stalwart Jedi.

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On top of that, I’ll be the first to admit Disney has dance scene after another to the original trilogy so he Then came the child-pandering period, to channel the otherworldly. Every filmdone a wonderful job with some of the other produc- could continue releasing those films in new box sets. with Lucas dabbling in the field of Cartoon maker wanted their set to feel as creatively tion companies it’s bought in the past, including its After all the years in the Lucas vacuum — deNetwork animation. You could hear the col- boundless as space seemed through Star 2009 acquisition of Marvel Entertainment — leading signing bad prequels and reshaping the old material lective sigh of original Star Wars fans, both Wars, but perhaps only Disney has figured to this year’s fantastic The Avengers — and, of course, for profit — Star Wars as a film series is irreparably baffled and appalled by what had become out the formula that has come closest to its purchase of Pixar (fun story: Pixar began as the damaged. The fans have filled out the series the way of their once beloved franchise — now a achieving this feat. computer graphics division of Lucasfilm before being they wanted, and in that way, they now own the Whether or not the execution will prove watered down, 22-minute special of talking bought by Steve Jobs, developed and sold to Disney). series more than Lucasfilm or Disney ever could. figurines, sandwiched between Adventure successful is unforeseeable — Star Wars I trust Disney — which now owns about 80 has been mucked up before, and it can be For those who don’t care about the EU, the origiTime and Cocoa Puffs commercials. percent of my childhood — but there’s really nal trilogy has long since entered a state of grace, With that in mind, I’m convinced that mucked up again. But as long as the Force nothing it can do to create a more satisfying and it’s likely that nothing will reignite the flame of Disney’s purchase of the franchise can pervades, we can view this next chapter as Star Wars (reminder: Disney’s last sci-fi epic imagination Star Wars once retained to its very core. only make things better. In one regard, a bracing taste of “new hope.’” was John Carter, a complete flop). it can’t possibly get any worse, but it’s The biggest problem has nothing to do with diversionsdbk@gmail.com not outlandish to think that a new, more diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Coach Mark Turgeon challenged the Terps to hold Morehead State to fewer than 50 points Monday, and they responded. They allowed just 45 points in the win. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

DEFENSE From PAGE 8 E a g l e s e nte re d t h e b re a k trailing, 35-19.

S p e a k i n g to a g ro up of reporters a f ter the Ter ps’ home-opening win, Turgeon attributed much of the stalwart defensive effort to the team’s newfound depth. He employed m a ss s ubst it utions throughout the game, regularly subbing four or five players at a time.

T he su sta i ned pressu re forced the Eagles into a fivem i n ute s c o re l e s s s t re tc h during the first half and ultimately wore them down in the game’s latter stages. Morehead State didn’t make a field goal in the final 4 minutes and 16 seconds, struggling to summon enough energy to extend on their jumpers and attack in transition.

Turgeon noted Eagles point guard Devon Atkinson, who logged a game-high 34 minutes, seemed particularly fatigued in the game’s waning moments.

“All 10 guys in our rota-

tion can play, so it makes it ha rd,” sa id T u rgeon, who had 10 players log at least 13 minutes. “We just got to continue to work.”

In a tighter game, Turgeon said, he may not have made such large group substitutions. But the opportunity to play h is enti re rotation s i g n i f i c a n t m i n u te s n o w could prove helpful should a sudden injury arrive later in the season.

“It kind of keeps us honest,” guard Nick Faust said. “You k now you have to go ha rd every play.”

Of course, it also helped Monday. The standout defensive performance overshadowed 20 Terps turnovers and allowed Turgeon’s squad to rebound from Friday’s heartbreaking loss.

And, perhaps just as significantly, it allowed the Terps to answer Turgeon’s challenge.

“This team’s going to be fun to coach,” Turgeon said. “You can get on them and they don’t hang their head. They respond.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

continue to play in just says a lot about who he is as a person and how tough a competitor he is.”

That toughness hasn’t helped him avoid a rough beginning to his Terps career, though. While he did show some positive signs in his 115-yard, two-touchdown performance on 9-of-18 passing in a 33-13 loss to the Yellow Jackets, Petty regressed in his second start Saturday.

He did complete 50 percent of his passes again, but he totaled just 41 yards and a touchdown in a 45-10 loss to the Tigers.

Though those numbers are far from impressive, Edsall can live with them.

What he can’t live with, though, are the mistakes. Petty has turned the ball over five times through his first eight quarters under center, including three fumbles against Clemson last weekend — two of which led to fi rst-half touchdowns.

“I don’t feel like I’ve played too well,” Petty said. “Turnovers is the big problem, and that’s holding us, the offense, back, and it’s not really helping the defense either.”

Petty has two more starts to get those issues under control. After that, who knows? Quarterbacks C.J. Brown, Perry Hills and Caleb Rowe will likely be healthy by the time next season begins, and transfer Ricardo Young should also be in the mix. With all the talent and experience the Terps are getting back, there’s a good chance these next two games could be Petty’s last under center.

But if Petty is worried about it, he isn’t showing it. The Terps have the Seminoles this week and a trip to North Carolina on the horizon a week later. Right now, he’s not focusing on how tough his situation is or what his future holds. He’s just focused on the rest of the 2012 schedule.

“I’m just taking it day by day,” Petty said. “I’m trying to work hard right now so we can get these last two wins. I’m not really focused on what’s going to happen next year.”

FINALLY, A CHANCE If you ask Edsall, he’ll tell you Devonte Campbell played a lot for the Terps this season. If you look at the stat sheet, though, the tight end’s impact is difficult to fi nd.

Despite playing in all nine of the

quarterback shawn petty struggled against Clemson in his second career start, throwing for just 41 yards and a touchdown on 6-of-12 passing. He also lost three fumbles, two of which led to Tigers touchdowns. photo courtesy of andre friedman/the tiger Terps’ games, the senior had just one catch for 13 yards entering Saturday’s blowout loss at Clemson.

But Campbell fi nally seemed to break out — if only slightly — against the Tigers.

He doubled his season production in just one afternoon, catching two of Petty’s six completions for 24 yards, including a 17-yard reception that proved to be the team’s only touchdown of the game.

“I think Devonte has played quite a bit for us this year because of the two tight end package that we’ve played in,” Edsall said.

“The growth and development that I’ve seen in him the past two years has been on the upward curve. He’s gotten better, he’s worked at what we’ve asked him to work at, he goes out and practices hard.”

That hard work hasn’t translated to onfield production this season. But with all the injuries and inexperience the Terps’ offense has dealt with this season, Campbell is content helping any way he can.

“We have a next-man-up type of mentality,” Campbell said. “It is tough, but I think we’re all prepared. I think the guy behind that guy is always pre-

pared to come step in and do the job.”

INJURY UPDATE? Last week, the Terps had to take the field at Death Valley without two of their top offensive playmakers. And with just five days remaining until the Seminoles come to Byrd Stadium, Edsall doesn’t know if he’ll have them back.

Wide receiver Stefon Diggs and running back Wes Brown both sat out Saturday’s loss with ankle injuries, greatly limiting an offense already expected to struggle against a tough Tigers defense. Diggs ranks first on the team with 721 receiving yards and six touchdowns, and Brown’s 396 total yards are tops among the team’s rushers.

“I’m hopeful that Wes and Stefon will be able to play, but again, you can only go by what you see in practice and how they respond to the injuries that they’ve had.

Hopefully they’ll be out there,” Edsall said.

“I will have to wait until the end of the day Thursday to see where we are with them.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Guard Laurin Mincy led the Terps in three-point shots made last season, but she’s 0-of-3 from beyond the arc this season. As a team, the Terps are just 5-of-21. christian jenkins/the diamondback

DISTANCE From PAGE 8 out of reach, Rutan showed the impact her shooting can have on a game Sunday. She na i led th rees on back-toback possession s ea rly i n the second half to push an 18-point Terps lead to 2 4, prompting a Loyola timeout.

“I think she’s got to get more comfortable in terms of what she’s doing,” Frese said. “But she defi nitely gives us dimension from the outside when you have a great three-point shooter like she is.”

Guard Laurin Mincy was 3-for-6 from distance against Goldey-Beacom, but is 0-for-3 so far in the regular season. She was one of the Terps’ top deep threats last season in both volume and efficiency, making 40 percent of her threes on 54-for-135 shooting. Guard Brene Moseley, who is out for the season with an ACL

tear, netted 40.5 percent of her three-point shots last year.

The Terps are still shooting 54.5 percent from the floor thanks to their dominance inside. When the three-point shots are subtracted, that statistic increases to 60.8 percent.

The Terps are difficult to stop once they get inside.

But in tighter games against tougher opponents down the road, the Terps may need that outside touch to secure wins.

“I’m not worried about it being the fact that it’s so early, but we need to have that to have a special attack,” Frese said. “We have great post players inside, and we need to have that to have that inside-outside game.”

TERPS NOTE: Center Essence Townsend, who tore her ACL against Goldey-Beacom on Nov. 5, underwent a successful surgery yesterday. She is expected to miss the remainder of the season. sportsdbk@gmail.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY Randy Edsall Terps football coach

“You are going to have tough times in your life, in school and in football. It is how you deal with those tough times that determines who you are.”

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For Petty, a difficult beginning Campbell emerges; no news on Diggs, Brown

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The Terps held Morehead State to 31.7 percent shooting, including 1-of-14 from beyond the arc.

Forward Milton Chavis, who scored just 10 points after pouring in 24 against LIU-Brooklyn Friday night, was the only Eagle to finish in double figures. Chavis managed just one field goal in the first half, and the

It’s hard to imagine there is a player in college football who’s in a tougher position than Shawn Petty. The true freshman was a scout team linebacker entering the Terrapins football team’s Oct. 20 loss to N.C. State. Two weeks, two torn ACLs and one Lisfranc injury later, he was a starting quarterback.

As quickly as he was thrust into the role, it should come as no surprise he has struggled in the transition to starting signal caller. Petty mustered just 115 passing yards against a Georgia Tech pass defense ranked No. 8 in the ACC in his fi rst start, and his second game under center came in Clemson’s hostile Death Valley.

It’s not going to get any easier this week, either. When the Terps host No. 10 Florida State on Saturday, Petty and the team’s offense will be facing the nation’s top-ranked defense.

“The more and more people that I talk to in this business and have been in the business longer than I have, they’ve never seen anything like it,” coach Randy Edsall said yesterday.

“For him to come and step in the games that he has stepped in and will

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Guard Seth Allen and the Terps allowed the lowest number of points in coach Mark Turgeon’s tenure in Monday’s win over Morehead State, holding the Eagles to just 45 points at Comcast Center. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

A call to defenD

Terps respond to Turgeon’s challenge, allow fewer than 50 points in win over Morehead State

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Mark Turgeon didn’t share in many Terrapins men’s basketball fans’ satisfaction with Friday’s season-opening loss to No. 3 Kentucky.

The second-year coach was disappointed with the Terps’ defensive effort against the Wildcats and was convinced a stronger showing down

the stretch could’ve secured a milestone victory.

So Turgeon held two grueling practices Sunday, encouraging his players to rededicate themselves to the principles of defending. And to ensure his point was made, he challenged the Terps to hold their next opponent, Morehead State, to fewer than 50 points.

They wouldn’t let him down.

The Terps dominated defensively Monday night, limiting the Eagles to their lowest point total since Jan. 15, 2011 in a 67-45 blowout win at Comcast Center. It marked the lowest point total the team had allowed in Turgeon’s tenure.

“We wanted to be a lot better defensively, to put two really good halves in a row,” Turgeon said. “That was a great game for us.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Guard Katie Rutan, a career 39.4 percent three-point shooter, is 4-of-7 from the beyond the arc this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Rutan, Terps hoping for more long-range success Team shooting just 5-of-21 on 3-pointers this season

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer It took the Terrapins women’s basketball team two games to prove its inside presence isn’t going anywhere this season.

In dominant wins over Mount St. Mary’s and Loyola, the interior players have easily been the Terps’ top performers. The interior trio of forward Tianna Hawkins and centers Alicia DeVaughn and Malina Howard has combined for 100 points this season, good for 57 percent of the team’s total scoring.

But for the No. 5 Terps to be successful deeper into their schedule, they’ll likely need outside shots to fall. Hawkins, DeVaughn and Howard won’t always have at least two inches on every opposing player like they did in the first two games this season.

The Terps are shooting 5-for-21 from threepoint range for a paltry 23.8 percent. In their lone exhibition game against Goldey-Beacom on Nov. 5, the Terps were 5-for-21 from distance.

“Obviously, when you look at that statistic here right now, yeah, [it’s concerning],” coach Brenda Frese said Sunday. “I think it’s early. I think that’s a situation as we get more comfortable, more games under our belt, we’re going to see from our perimeter game shots that are going to fall for us.”

Sunday night, Hawkins and guard Katie Rutan were the lone Terps to connect from distance.

Hawkins was 1-for-3, while Rutan was 2-for-3.

Rutan has lived up to her preseason billing as the team’s top three-point specialist. After a dismal 1-for-8 performance from beyond the arc in the Goldey-Beacom game, the Xavier transfer is 4-for-7 this season.

“I’m just trying to get my rhythm back,” said Rutan, a career 39.4 percent three-point shooter. “I have to let the game flow to me, not rush anything, not force anything. Just take the opportunities when they come and make the best of them.”

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