November 14, 2013

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Loh urges addressing debts In annual speech, university president calls on Congress to compromise

By Alex Kirshner @alex_kirshner Senior staff writer

for university research.

Speaking to a crowd of about 250 in Stamp Student Union, Loh said uncertainty surrounding the federal University President Wallace Loh government budget endangers the gave his annual state of the campus future of scientific research here and address before the University Senate elsewhere. Loh urged Congress to end yesterday, laying out his long-term the series of across-the-board spendagenda for improving the university’s ing cuts known as sequestration and research and teaching while lower- stressed that the university’s fundraising the cost of attendance — calling ing efforts have become more imporfor a “grand bargain” in Congress to tant in a tenuous budgetary climate.

“This is an issue of intergenerational stave off a drain on federal funding

equity. Do we invest in the next generation, invest in education, invest in research that will improve the quality of life, or do we invest in my generation, in Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs?” Loh said.

“That is the difficult challenge.”

If the national debt is not addressed with a comprehensive legislative fix, Loh warned that the university might be forced to borrow all university president wallace loh speaks to about 250 attendees at his state of the campus speech yesterday See campus, Page 2 in Stamp Student Union. He said national debt threatens the university’s future. rebecca rainey/the diamondback

Health care rollout seeks ‘invincibles’ 18- to 29-year-olds could equalize costs for all users

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

ESPN now,” said Lisa Kiely, undergraduate studies assistant dean. “The skills he discusses in the book are skills students need for college, presented in a readable way. It’s methodical but not overly technical.”

In his lecture, the First Year Book Author Talk, Silver discussed a variety of examples — chess matches, baseball statistics, GPS routes, Russian roulette, Wall Street and even Justin Bieber search engine results — of how he applies statistic measurements in a number of fields.

An integral part of the Affordable Care Act is courting the “young invincibles,” but getting the 18- to 29-year-old demographic on board is proving to be a challenge.

Polls show young people think they aren’t at risk for illness and injury and would rather pay a fine than comply with the ACA’s individual insurance mandate and buy an insurance policy. But that approach is short-sighted, experts said, and a lack of participation from young Americans could mean higher costs for those who do comply with the law.

The insurance mandate, an integral part of President Obama’s signature health care legislation, compels uninsured individuals to use an online marketplace to compare premium prices and buy a plan that offers a number of mandatory services. Those who don’t sign up face a penalty of 1 percent of their income or $95, whichever is greater.

Getting the “young invincibles” on board with the plan could help equalize costs for everyone in the insurance pool. In a pool dominated by older, higher-risk individuals, premiums could naturally skyrocket, and the older population would put upward pressure on premiums that are not offset by younger, lower-risk people.

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nate silver, statistician and blogger, speaks at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center yesterday about metrics and analysis, topics in his book The Signal and the Noise.

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forecasting the future Statistician Nate Silver discusses The Signal and the Noise at first year book lecture

By Darcy Costello @dctello Staff writer Nate Silver, a statistician and editor in chief of the FiveThirtyEight blog, prefers to call what he does “forecasting” rather than “predicting.” The words are often used interchangeably, but to Silver, the etymology of the words makes all the difference.

Silver forecasts a future course of action not by foretelling or prophesying, as the word “predict” suggests, but through logical

metrics and analysis — something he says is lacking in media coverage today, and something he does exceptionally well.

In a lecture at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center yesterday, Silver delved into this topic, offering an overview of his book, The Signal and the Noise. A panel of faculty and students selected it as the first year book distributed to and discussed by freshmen for the 2013-14 academic year.

“What’s great about the selection is that many students already know who he is, through baseball or elections, or through

‘I worried about what would happen’

RHA votes for strengthening smoking ban enforcement Many students called sanctions nonexistent

LGBT veterans recall years of secrecy

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer Gay citizens can now serve openly in the military, but the LGBT veterans who served before the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was repealed more than two years ago often worked in secrecy, solitude and fear.

From the time Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell became law in 1993 to when it was repealed in 2010, military service members could not be explicitly asked about their sexual orientation, but they often would be discharged if they were found to be gay.

For most of the five years Matthew

matthew james, 27, kept his homosexuality a secret for the duration of his service in the Navy. James, now a sophomore community health major, feared punishment at the time. kelsey hughes/the diamondback James, 27, served in the Navy, he felt he had no choice but to remain in the closet. The isolation became overwhelming when he broke up with his partner of four years — a relationship he had kept secret from his friends and colleagues.

“I had no one to go to,” said James, a sophomore community health

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major. “Imagine going through a breakup and you can’t tell anyone.”

Other gay service members discovered each other’s secret during nights out at bars and formed an “undergraduate gay network,” he said. On his first ship of about 800 sailors, he See veterans, Page 3

supporting possible new efforts such as more RA training and a memo to the campus community.

In 2012, the Board of Regents, the

By Dustin Levy 17-member board that sets University @dustinblevy System of Maryland policies, banned Staff writer all smoking activities on campuses effective July 2013. The University During Kristen Essel’s weekly Senate approved the ban in April, f loor meeti ng, a student ex- limiting smokers to four designated pressed concern that the cam- locations on the campus. puswide smoking ban wasn’t enBut many students have felt enforced and her resident assistant forcement is inadequate. told the student there was no way “I’ve been hearing a lot of comto do so. plaints from students that this ban “I, for one, am appalled by that,” was ineffective,” said Essel, a junior Essel, the Residence Hall Asso- government and politics and history ciation’s administrative officer, major and the RHA bill’s author. said during Tuesday night’s RHA Though the Department of Resident meeting. “Resident staff should Life’s Community Living Handbook be able to enforce this. It already prohibits smoking outside a dorm is part of the guidelines.” to prevent smoke from entering the So the RHA unanimously passed building, one student living in La Plata a smoking ban resolution Tuesday Hall emailed the RHA about smoke night to try to improve the ban’s coming in through his second-floor enforcement, including upholding administrative sanctions and See rha, Page 3

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College Park couple opens Peg Leg Vintage Goods to high interest, sales Secondhand store offers affordable furniture, accessories

By Annika McGinnis @annikam93 Senior staff writer To many, they were trash — buried in a rotting house, covered with garbage — but to College Park residents Chad and Krisi Hora, they were treasure.

“The house was so bad; it was completely disheveled, completely filled with mold and garbage,” Chad Hora said, motioning to a futuristic set of round white chairs. “And then, there was this one Lucite chair.”

A “bit of dish soap” later, t he couple d i spl ayed t he now-spotless chairs in the front window of their new secondhand furniture store, Peg Leg Vintage Goods. The store, about 2 miles north of the university along Route 1, sells a smorgasbord of used furniture and accessories. It opened Friday to better-thanexpected business, which the owners attribute to city support for small businesses and a local retail “void” for vintage furniture.

“There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of actual retail

shopping in College Park and especially unique things that differ from your wide chain stores,” Krisi said.

Peg Leg is more accessible than the furniture stores on Washington’s U Street, Chad said. College Park Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater wrote in an email that the store provides a “nice alternative” to standard IK EA or Mario’s Warehouse Furniture and Mattress products, two of the few stores in College Park offering similar products.

The Horas decided to open their store after Chad ended his 11-year military career as an Arabic linguist. It was a “natural evolution” for the couple: Before joining the military, Chad operated a record store in Wisconsin, and Krisi has almost 20 years of experience working in online furniture sales and displays and interior design.

“We were like, ‘Let’s do something fun,’” Krisi said.

“The worst that can happen is it doesn’t work out and we get grown-up jobs again.”

She’d thought “about five

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“TRANSFORMATION IS NOT EASY. IT IS From PAGE 1 NOT QUICK, AND IT IS NOT WITHOUT of its research money from overseas 20 years from now. RESISTANCE.” The university lost 7 percent of its funding after sequestration kicked in in March, a figure Loh said is likely to increase as more rounds of mandatory cuts begin next year.

Despite budgetary concerns, Loh said the university would press ahead in its quest to meet several benchmarks by 2020. Chief among them, he said, is the university’s goal of attaining a 90 percent graduation rate by that year, up from 81.8 percent now.

That, he said, could place this university in the top 10 public universities nationwide.

The university is prepared to spend $600 million by 2020 on improving and building new research facilities, he said.

Plans are in the works to break ground this spring on the new Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, an oncampus facility that Loh said would be the center of a shift toward technology-inclusive learning. And the Physical Sciences Complex near the Campus Farm — a “state of the art” building, he said — will open its doors in the spring.

“There will always be lectures. There will always be on-site education,” he said, but the university needs to prepare itself for an increasingly techheavy academic future.

Looking at the student population, Loh said this year’s crop of students was “very talented and very diverse.” The median grade point average of this fall’s entering class was 4.1, and the median SAT score was 1,300 on math and reading. By 2020, Loh aims for 90 percent of the university to have the option of joining a living-learning program. This fall, about half of the undergraduate student population takes part in such programs.

Loh’s academic agenda to transform undergraduate education had three main facets: “how to educate more, educate better, educate cheaper.”

The issues Loh tackled in his roughly 50-minute address went further than those confronting students. He also delved into faculty and staff concerns, focusing for a few minutes on inequities in how the university awards tenure to certain faculty.

Of those recently hired, Loh said the proportions of faculty members of different races who received tenure or tenure-track designation varied: 67 percent of whites and 73 percent of Asians were tenure or tenure-

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track, along with 10 percent of Hispanic and 6 percent of black faculty members.

“That is a revolving door,” Loh said. “There is no reason for that disparity.”

University Senate chairman Vincent Novara said the senate hoped to engage with Loh’s office on tackling the difference and remedying it.

“Getting the tenure rates up for our faculty of color is a huge issue on this campus, and that is something that the senate would love to be engaged on,” Novara said.

Loh discussed the importance of collaboration with partners elsewhere in the state and university system, particularly the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Upon his arrival at this university three years ago, Loh said he wanted a large-scale merger of UMB and this university.

“In retrospect, I should have known that that never had a chance of success, given the politics of this state,” he said.

Instead, this university has launched MPowering the State, an academic and research collaboration with UMB that recently resulted in an expansion of the Institute for Biosciences and Biotechnology Research and a collaborative public health school between the two universities.

Loh also stressed the need to address long-term traffic concerns on Route 1. He cited state estimates that the roadway will fall into sustained gridlock over the coming decades as more developments begin in the area.

“Hopefully, before 2020, we will have addressed that issue,” he said.

After Loh spoke, the senate crowd substantially thinned on a day when the agenda did not have many items.

“Loh can see the long-term strategy of the university as well as the short term, and I think he has the right ideas here,” said Ian Mortitz, an undergraduate senator.

The president acknowledged that his goals won’t be easy to meet, but he said the university is headed toward them already.

“T h is is the agenda for transformative excellence in innovation and research,” Loh said. “Transformation is not easy. It is not quick, and it is not without resistance.” akirshnerdbk@gmail.com

people” would come during t he f i rst week, but si nce opening, about 125 to 150 people have stopped by. The couple already sold everything from its 1950s Hawaiian-inspired tiki section, mostly to college students and “hipster adults,” Krisi said.

Inside, the store is a patchwork of color and historical snapshots. Couches, tables and chairs in a mix of shapes and designs are scattered a m id modern scu lptu res, chandeliers and Aztec head decorations.

Though the couple prefers mid-century modern style, the store carries everything from 1920s and ’30s art deco pieces to French prov i ncial, Scandinavian, vintage industrial and Hollywood regency. The store is “like an amoeba,” Chad said, constantly changing.

They gather stock at estate sales or garage sales. They say their pieces are quirky but high quality. Many pieces could last at least 200 more years, they said.

Selling vintage is “envi-

peg leg vintage goods, about two miles north of the university on Route 1, offers used furniture and trinkets. kelsey hughes/the diamondback ronmentally friendly” and against the “corporate world” because they’re “taking stuff out of dumpsters and putting them back into circulation,” Chad said. He hoped this aspect, as well as lower prices and unique furniture, would appeal to college students.

On opening day, a group of students stopped in, interested in the giant Alaskan caribou head affectionately known as Monty.

“Younger people don’t want to have an apartment full of IKEA,” Chad said. “You want to have unique stuff, but you don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on it.”

At Peg Leg — named for the “quirky” tapered legs of much of the store’s furniture — chair

prices range from $25 to $35, and coffee tables go for as low as $20.

They carry high-end items, too, such as an orange 1960s soft swivel chair priced at $450.

For two people who like to “be their own boss,” College Park’s support for small business is appealing, Chad said.

The city helped them find their location, promote their store and training for a small business. Since opening, residents have promoted the store over social media, and neighbors have come in to introduce themselves, he said.

Though the store is open from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, it’s really open whenever the owners are there — which they said is almost all the time. On

T uesday morning, for instance, Ellicott City real estate agent Beverly Tutman walked in, despite the “closed” sign, and the Horas guided her to the bedroom furniture section.

“I like it all — I could put everything in our home right here,” Tutman said.

As they settle into their new home, the owners hope to reach out to customers through weekly Facebook updates on store offerings.

For the couple, finding unwanted furniture is a way of scrapbooking history, one chair at a time.

“Everything has a story,” Krisi said. “It’s almost art, in a way.” amcginnisdbk@gmail.com

Panelists evaluate black leadership in America

By Talia Richman @talirichman Staff writer When the moderator at this year’s fourth annual State of Black Leadership panel mentioned the TV show Scandal, audience members and panelists alike turned to each other to whisper about the popular series.

But further discussion of the show revealed that it highlights issues with race in American society; although the main character is one of the only black leading women on television, she is portrayed as an adulteress.

“While Olivia Pope is shown as a strong black woman, the stereotype of her being a side-chick is still slipped in there,” senior community health major Chelsea Samms said. “You don’t realize when you’re watching the show what a big societal impact that has.”

The event held last night was themed “Red, White, and Black: Being Black in America,” and focused on issues, such as those visible in Scandal, that are relevant to the black community but also affect the country as a whole. Homophobia, shift-

ing family dynamics and sexism in the workplace were all subjects the panelists addressed in a filled Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall.

During the question-andanswer portion, panelists were asked to discuss prompts such as, “When you’re black, you have to work twice as hard to get half as much.”

“There are definitely a lot of issues when it comes to being black in America, but there is also hope that these problems can be fixed,” said Raphael Oduok, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences.

“Tonight, the problems were laid out in front of us so that we can find a way to improve black culture.”

Panelist Miles Blount, a senior criminology and criminal justice major, said one thing that needs to be addressed is the way black students judge each other based on how light or dark their skin tone is.

“A lot of the time, it starts with a joke like, ‘Oh, lightskinned girls never text back.’

But the thing about jokes is that there is always a serious core behind it,” Blount said. “It’s part of a bigger issue about how we always try to divide ourselves.

If you have it in your mind that you’re different, you’re never going to come together and get

panelists Odis Johnson (left) and Kris Marsh discuss current issues for black Americans at the Being Black in America event in Ulrich Recital Hall. rachel george/the diamondback anything done.”

The other four panelists came from a variety of backgrounds — from African American studies professors and sociology professors to an anesthesiologist and a doctoral student. They encouraged students to get involved in the community and mentor black youths who struggle in the school system.

“What can you do here on the collegiate level? Go be a mentor,” said Lindsay Marsh Warren, an anesthesiologist.

“Some of these young kids haven’t even met a person in college before. Tell them your story about how you got to school and what you overcame to get here. You can’t invest

in every single child, but you can take on one kid and make it happen for them. There’s a saying that goes, ‘Do for one what you wish you could do for everybody.’”

Whitney Brogsdale, a sophomore kinesiology major, said the panelists had the same effect on her that college students often have on the young students they mentor.

“They are people we can aspire to be,” she said. “They are African-American people who are professional and articulate. We need them just like kids in elementary schools need role models.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

SILVER From PAGE 1 Silver shot into national prominence after correctly forecasting the outcome of 49 of 50 states in the 2008 presidential election. He followed up in the 2012 presidential election by accurately forecasting all 50 states and Washington, D.C. In the 2012 election season, he achieved a higher number of Google searches than Vice President Joe Biden at one point, he said.

“It’s really a testament to the power of appearing on The Daily Show,” Silver said, laughing. “But I still couldn’t beat out Justin B i e b e r. H e’s no t e ve n American.”

Senior economics major Adrian Hamins-Puertolas appreciates Silver’s use of metrics and statistics, and he said he followed Silver’s blog during the elections.

“I’m interested in the topics he’s an expert in — applying statistical reason to all walks of life. It’s

nate silver, statistician, speaks about presidential election forecasting and the greater value of statistics. really exciting that he came to campus to talk,” HaminsPuertolas said. “Everyone can learn from the application of statistics in real life.”

As in his book, Silver advocates for distinguishing the “signal from the noise,” identifying the significant information and disregarding false hypotheses, a task that can be difficult.

“The true value of statistics lies in understanding uncertainty, not in the facts,” Silver said. “You could sound smart and say untrue results, but it’s also important to know when you don’t know.”

For junior computer science major Andrew Parrish, just seeing the name “Nate Silver” in an email was enough of a draw to get him away from studying

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for his statistics class.

“They say you’ll never remember the grade you got on one test in college. I probably won’t forget hearing him speak,” Parrish said.

“It’s insanely impressive for a 35-year-old to get so much respect in the community and have such accomplishments.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

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SGA eases fund allocations process save money and cut down on groups over-requesting funds.

By Josh Logue Last night’s appeals hearings @jmlogue for the semester’s second round Staff writer of allocations began with less The semester got off to a confusion and ended with more rocky start for the SGA’s new confident officials.

After the first round of allogroup funding system. But ofcations in September, the SGA ficials said they’re working out the kinks, and the second round received criticism for failing to of fund allocations has proven communicate the changes in filing requirements that initially to be smoother.

The Student Government left 39 groups with rejected apAssociation began allocating plications. But miscommunicafunds to student groups on a tion didn’t seem to be as prevarolling basis in the spring to lent an issue in the second round,

said Andrew Aggabao, SGA Financial Affairs vice president.

Only one of the three appealing groups at last night’s hearing had unknowingly left information off their filings, compared with two in the first round.

Ballet Company M and the Gamer Symphony Orchestra were rejected for circumstances out of their control and successfully appealed for a combined $6,479.

“It’s not a miscommunication, it’s a situation that could be an exception,” Aggabao

said. “T hat’s the purpose of legislative appeals. They should really be for quirky, weird issues that come up.”

Aggabao said the SGA’s finance committee rejected 50 percent of the money requested in the second round, a drop from the 70 percent they rejected in the first round. He said the decrease may indicate that students are learning the new system.

“The system may be a little flawed right now, but I know they’re doing what they can to fix it,” said Julie Rose, Ballet Company M president.

But as students become more familiar with the new

system, Aggabao said new problems may emerge. So far, the number of groups making filing mistakes has prevented the SGA from reaching its monthly allocation limits.

“If every student group was a master of the system and applied correctly, we would have had to make a lot of cuts to these groups,” he said.

The SGA had almost $600,000 to distribute to more than 800 student groups for the year and has doled out nearly $100,000 so far. Officials had an extra $350,000 left over from the past fiscal year, but Aggabao said they are nervously anticipating

years when they don’t have that kind of safety cushion.

“In a year with such flux, we really need that padding,” he said. “If we didn’t have it, this would be a lot more rough than it is.”

It’s a potential problem Aggabao and the finance committee have been discussing for a long time, he said. One remedy they are considering is raising the student activities fee.

“We haven’t really fleshed that [idea] out,” he said. “But it’s always been on the mind of the SGA in the past.” jloguedbk@gmail.com

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MATTHEW JAMES, a veteran and sophomore community health major, says he was pressured to to keep his sexual orientation a secret while serving in the Navy. Before the government repealed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, James and other service members said they feared they would be dishonorably discharged from duty. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

VETERANS From PAGE 1 knew about 30 were gay. But there could have been more, he said.

Gay servicemen who were discovered by a commanding officer were often dishonorably or other than honorably discharged — marks that would have lasting impacts on their lives, James said.

“Any time you separate from the military and go try to get a job, they want to see your discharge papers,” he said. “If you have anything that isn’t honorable, they’re going to ask questions.”

The fear of a commanding officer discovering his homosexuality was always lingering in the back of Randolph Tidd’s mind during his nine-and-ahalf years in the navy.

“I didn’t feel the need to discuss it,” said Tidd, 44, a senior government and politics major. “I worried about what would happen.”

But when the government repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell toward the end of Tidd’s service, he chose not to come out to fellow servicemembers.

It was a personal matter that he felt wasn’t relevant to his military service, he said.

“There’s an aspect of the military that the mission is more important than the individual,” he said.

Veteran Darcy Sessions, 53, who served before the government implemented the policy, not only had to hide her sexuality but also did everything she could to appear heterosexual.

Officers from the Office of Special Investigations would go undercover at local bars and downtown hangouts to try to seduce potentially gay servicemembers or catch them flirting with other people of the same sex, Sessions said. In an effort to disguise herself as straight, she moved onto the base with a friend, a gay man.

But prejudice and her fear of being caught weren’t enough

to dissuade her from joining the military.

“The desire to serve my country exceeded my fear,” said Sessions, a sociology major. “It was in my heart to serve.”

It’s that patriotism and service that all veterans share, no matter their race, background or sexual orientation, said Joseph Alemany, graduate assistant of veteran student life.

“If you’re a student and have been in the military, we want to help you the best we can,” he said.

But LGBT veterans and active servicemembers still fa c e i ntole ra nc e d e s pite actions such as the repealing of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, said Nick Sakurai, associate director of the LGBT Equity Center.

“Just because you can legally be out doesn’t mean the culture says, ‘We want to respect, accept and empower you for all you are,’” said Sakurai, who helped organize a luncheon for LGBT veterans Friday.

He said he hopes to see more

progressive legislation supporting LGBT people in the military, such as protection for transgender service members, who a re sti l l banned from serving openly.

And it might take a long time before the culture of the military, with its long history of conservatism and tradition, catches up to the changing times, Sessions said.

“It’s tough for the troops that are having to adapt, and it’s not what they’re used to,” she said. “It’s a huge social cultural shift.”

But prog ress is bei ng made, and Sessions said if she were in the m ilitary today and could serve openly, it would be a much better experience.

“I could totally dedicate myself 100 percent without having that fear weighing over me all the time — it was a distraction,” she said.

“We’re adapting, but I’m sure it’s going to take time.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

But soon, these individuals will have to make a choice: Either pay for coverage or pay From PAGE 1 the penalty incurred for not As individuals enter the being covered under the law’s pool, said Sam Cappellanti, individual mandate. However, health care policy analyst at Cappellanti said this choice the American Action Forum, would be easy. For many young the cost of insurance should people, he said, the costs fall for older individuals. But of coverage would be much costs will have to rise for the higher than the penalty. younger generation, he said.

“It just makes a lot more “It’s going to affect them sense for those people to pay disproportionately more than the penalty,” Cappellanti any other age group,” Cappel- said. “The penalty is so small lanti said. in many cases … that it just Last month, Cappellanti doesn’t really provide the conducted a study to analyze effect that’s necessary.” the cost-benefit analysis for But Beilenson said the deciyounger people in the insur- sion isn’t that simple. ance pool. He determined the “If you’re making $30,000, least expensive plan — sup- you’re either going to pay $300 posedly the most attractive for in your taxes and get nothing this age group — will increase or pay $900 or so and get on average by more than 200 decent health coverage — percent of the cheapest plans that’s the calculus that people that existed before the act was are going to have to make,” implemented. This is partially Beilenson said. due to a mandate that enrollees It is better for young people meet certain service require- to pay for coverage, though, ments even if they don’t need because while they may think the services, such as prenatal they’re “invincible,” that isn’t care. true, he said.

“That’s a significant chunk “I can’t tell you how many of change,” Cappellanti said. patients I’ve had who have de“We found that it’s just not veloped melanoma at 18, who financially advantageous to have been in a motorcycle acpurchase coverage through the cident at 26, who have gotten exchanges.” depression at 29,” Beilenson However, Peter Beilenson, said. “All of these things, if president and CEO of Ever- you don’t have coverage … green Health Co-op, said you’re putting yourself and certain parts of the law would your family at risk.” help young people both adapt It’s true that lower-risk to the costs and get health cov- p e ople, l i ke mo s t you n g erage they otherwise wouldn’t people, w i l l help fi na nce have had. cheaper care for sicker people, The new plans are separated Beilenson said. But in some into three tiers which are based way, he said everyone has on the level of coverage. The helps shoulder a burden for bronze tier offers the lowest someone else. coverage and lowest costs of “Does it help subsidize the all plans, while silver offers chronically ill and older folks? slightly more coverage and has Of course it does,” Beilenson a slightly higher monthly cost. said. “But you could also argue Gold offers the widest coverage that the taxes that have been and has the highest costs. Low- paid by older people paid er-income people can qualify for the public schools of the for subsidies to limit many of younger people; that’s the way thoses costs, Beilenson said. our society works.”

“With the subsidy, it’s quite manageable,” Beilenson said. jbachdbk@gmail.com

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rha From PAGE 1

T he R H A will approach university administrators about possible enforcement methods they’ve discussed with Resident Life Director Deb Grandner. These include emphasis on RA training, more discussion in resident director staff meetings and a memo to the campus community.

“If we don’t do something, it appears that nothing will happen,” said Mike Lichtenberg, RHA finance officer.

“This [bill] is just one thing.

It’s not the whole thing, and it shows that we want to take a stance.”

North Hill Area Council Senator Ashley Feng, who voted in favor of the resolution along with the rest of the RHA senators, viewed it as a symbol that hopefully would make campus organizations such as the senate and Student Government Association take action. Essel also envisioned other groups taking on the RHA’s stance.

“I just hope there’s a legitimate enforcement policy and the actual rules of the smoking ban are made clear,” the sophomore geography and government and politics major said.

“It’s really vague for everyone.”

window, said RHA President Omer Kaufman. Many students are uncomfortable confronting someone smoking near a dorm, he said. This was especially critical because students have nowhere else to go to escape the smoke, he said.

The RHA’s new bill says rule violations will result in administration sanctions, Resident Life staff will actively enforce the policy, and the RHA will urge the department to better educate its staff on existing regulations.

The bill will make “all of our lives a lot easier the next time we have to communicate with administration,” Kaufman said.

Students debated how Resident Life would deal with violators, but Kaufman said the bill was more about “making sure when students are in a tough spot, they have someone they can turn to.”

“We’re here to protect those that don’t smoke rather than punish those that do,” he said, adding that Resident Life had “t remendou s resou rces” to help students deal with dlevydbk@gmail.com smoking ban violators.

Deep midfield leads to tourney win In Tuesday’s victory, Eticha becomes latest Terps midfielder to step up

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer The Terrapins men’s soccer team was locked in a scoreless tie against Boston College in the 52nd minute of the ACC tournament quarterfinal Tuesday night when Mikias Eticha collected the ball 25 yards from the goal in the middle of the field and looked to pass to his right.

Entering the game, the junior midfielder hadn’t scored in five starts and six appearances off the bench.

Not to mention, he wasn’t able to get shots off on several scoring chances in the first half, so looking to the goal wasn’t his first option.

The Eagles defenders, though, started to give Eticha more space in the second half.

He saw an opening and quickly cut back to his left foot before taking one touch and firing the go-ahead goal in the top left corner. Eticha’s quick decision completely fooled goalkeeper Alex Kapp, who made five saves

over the first 45 minutes to keep the Eagles in the contest.

The Terps went on to win, 2-0, behind yet another performance from an unexpected member of a deep Terps midfield that has experienced a resurgence late in the season with a balanced scoring attack and fresh legs. Just before the close of the regular season, midfielder Sunny Jane raised his production and scored his first two goals of the year coming off the bench during a three-game stretch.

Now, it was Eticha’s turn.

“He thought I was going to pass it,” Eticha said. “And I just cut it and shot it with my left foot.”

Coach Sasho Cirovski said he believes he has seven or eight starting-caliber midfielders on his roster, and he adjusts his lineup accordingly.

Regular starters Tsubasa Endoh and Michael Sauers both began Tuesday night on the bench, as Alex Shinsky and Jane replaced them in the starting lineup.

“I thought Alex brought a lot

of energy at the beginning of the game, along with Sunny,” Cirovski said. “But I know it’s not good for other teams’ defenses when two players of that quality come in with fresh legs.”

Eight Terps midfielders have combined for 18 goals this season, and five of those eight have scored more than once.

However, the group’s most substantial growth this season has come in its defensive half, largely thanks to the play of center midfielder Dan Metzger.

Metzger’s poise and composure with the ball facilitated the Terps’ possession, while his spacing and awareness allow him to patrol a significant portion of the field on defense.

“Dan’s playing the defensive midfield position as good as you can play it at this point,” Cirovski said. “I don’t think there’s a better defensive mid in the country at this point. He’s covering a tremendous amount of ground. He’s breaking up plays. He’s starting plays. He’s really playing at a very high level right now, and I think he’s really

become a connector for us on both sides of the ball.”

The extra depth in the midfield will prove especially useful Friday night in Germantown, when the top-seeded Terps take on No. 4-seed Clemson in the conference tournament semifinals. But the road to a second straight title will not be an easy one for the Terps.

Cirovski’s squad played to a draw on the road against both teams in the other semifinal — No. 2-seed Notre Dame and No. 6-seed Virginia — and the Tigers may seek revenge after falling to the Terps, 3-1, in Clemson, S.C., on Sept. 21.

Nonetheless, the coach said he plans on continuing to play up to eight midfielders in a game during the postseason to avoid tired legs.

More importantly, though, Cirovski believes they all deserve playing time.

“We’re confident in all those guys,” Cirovski said. “We have good depth and we use it.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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Immigration reform MIA The national political media focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been obsessive and constant. Because the law is so monumental and the website rollout has been so embarrassing, the coverage is justifiable. But other political issues have been neglected and minimized in the process: nuclear talks with Iran, national poverty levels, gun control and, most egregiously, immigration reform.

Back in June, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with a strong majority vote, 68-32. According to The New York Times, this plan would “improve border security, require employers to verify the immigration status of their workers, and provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

But in the House of Representatives, the bill hasn’t even been brought to the floor for a vote.

Where have we heard this story before? In the government shutdown, of course, when a temporary spending bill supported by Democrats and Republicans could have reopened the government — if only House Speaker John Boehner had brought it to a vote. Instead, he played the role of hostage taker, demanding cuts to Obamacare to appease the most radical members of his party’s base.

This style of governing has resulted in a stagnant Congress. A Gallup poll released yesterday found public approval of Congress at an all-time low: 9 percent.

Action on immigration reform, however, would push that number up.

MATT SCHNABEL

Americans realize the immigration system is broken and out of step with reality. They realize it’s nonsensical to have millions of undocumented immigrants living with the constant fear of deportation and to prohibit children raised in this country from attending school or college because of their citizenship status.

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Congress has a chance to salvage its approval ratings and the state of American immigration — time to do it.

Thankfully, this state remains ahead of the curve on immigration.

The state’s DREAM Act, which was passed more than a year ago, allows undocumented immigrant students, who went to high schools in this state and meet other criteria, to attend state universities at an instate rate and receive state financial aid. But state Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery) said these state reforms are often merely “bandaids” that fail to address most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in America. It’s time for this type of commonsense law to take hold at the national level.

White House leadership has been “hot-and-cold” on the issue, as senior staff writer Jim Bach wrote in yesterday’s Diamondback article “Congress still stagnating on immigration reform.” For example, President Obama gave a passionate speech on Oct. 24 calling for House action,

saying “this is the moment” for immigration reform. Since then, however, there has been minimal media coverage about potential reform and no signs from Boehner that a vote will happen anytime soon.

Whether Republicans actually like the policy, immigration reform is imperative to their party’s political future. As Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in April at a USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy event, “If we don’t do this, we can’t begin the conversation with our Hispanic voters, and all you have to do is the math. Do the math on the growth of the Hispanic voters in this country.”

Eight percent of the electorate was Hispanic in 2004. Nine percent in 2008. Ten percent in 2012. And 71 percent of those 2012 Hispanic voters selected Barack Obama.

After that election, GOP strategist Leslie Sanchez put it best. “This is a defining moment for the Republican Party,” she said. “If Republicans don’t heed this warning, we are certainly in danger of becoming politically irrelevant at a national level.”

Politicians should have the heart to support immigration reform, allowing a proper path to citizenship for those “living in the shadows” and establishing fair tuition rates for undocumented students. But even if they don’t support the policy, they should at least recognize the political advantages of action. It would be a win for Democrats, Republicans, Congress and the White House — but most importantly, it would be a victory for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who continue to wait for change.

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An open letter to open letters the greatest Celtic folk singers of this generation, she has indeed been screwed over by the music industry repeatedly, and you let thousands of little reply letters spawn in Cyrus’ defense. Whether Cyrus has control over her image or not, O’Connor’s concern came from a good place and was not at all as abusive as her respondents — at least at first.

Anyway, let’s get back to us, yes?

You and I are literally set up to call out others on their injustices and wrongdoings. While our grandparents were fighting in revolutions and against oppressive political parties, we have decided to take the higher road and meddle in the lives of largely unimportant and overpaid celebrity figureheads with no power.

Thanksgiving is awkward, but luckily we can avoid those radical old folks long enough to get our fill of gossip before going home.

Finally, a most important reminder about this enlightening open letter: I am now the best opinion on this entire matter by the sole reason that I am the most recent. If this entire incident has taught us one thing, it is that a written open letter is relevant only until the next one comes along.

I hope you will admit defeat, just like O’Connor did after her fifth letter to Cyrus.

Look, you are great. Your popularity led to me being written, and I can never fully repay you for that.

But you are outdated. The people need new opinions to latch onto, lest someone go two days without telling them what to think. I hope we can still be friends or you will at least stay online long enough for my links to you to remain unbroken. Toodles!

ERIK SHELL Dear open letters,

You’ve been getting a lot of time in the press these days. What with the Sinead O’Connor letter to Miley Cyrus, response letters to O’Connor and responses to those responses, it is getting hard to keep everything straight!

Listen — and this is hard for me to say because you are family — it needs to stop. Immediately.

OK, sorry, I guess I should congratulate you first. Congrats on being the most popular medium for criticism of others these days.

In the age of Internet bullying, I’m glad we can return to the days in which open letters won’t be published in a newspaper, but instead the public can scold people, as the name implies, openly.

It’s not really that I’m upset with you. As a fellow open letter, I have an obligation to trust and respect your content. Unless, of course, I really don’t agree with what you have to say or, more likely, I just do not want to read your rants.

On that note, I really have a hard time reading your words without bias. Someone keeps taking random, out-of-context quotes from you, enlarging them and then passing those off as your opinion. If someone did that with me, I could sound like I’m saying, “I prefer sitting on hot coals to attending Terps athletics events.”

It is not true, but who could read something that will so obviously Erik Shell is a junior classical languages upset them?

Also, how could you do that and literatures and history major. He to O’Connor, seriously? One of can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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Don’t make a B1G mistake MATT DRAGONETTE More than 10 years ago, my family and I trekked toward Byrd Stadium on a cold autumn day, knowing that a win over Clemson meant the lowly Terps would clinch a share of the ACC title. Walking into a stadium packed with more than 52,000 roaring fans only added to the moment. The Terps won, 37-20, in this last home game of 2001 and came from behind the very next week, defeating N.C. State to win the ACC title outright. I don’t think I will ever forget the euphoria of that incredible year for Terps athletics.

Let’s fast-forward to last weekend against Syracuse and compare the two games. Both were on cold autumn days — but the comparison ends there. The Syracuse game was an all-around miserable experience.

Not only were we out of contention for the ACC (understandable, given No. 2 Florida State is in our division), but the lackluster performance against a subpar Syracuse team was simply depressing. It is one thing to be outplayed, but there seemed to be no heart on the field. The crowd, if anything, was even more depressing. Students barely showed up, and those who did left even though it was mostly a one-possession game. We were neither loud nor even remotely interested in the game.

This new reality is not necessary, but it is remediable. It’s a story started by former coach Ralph Friedgen and a problem that can be solved with the help of coach Randy Edsall, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson and students. We have to fight this mess because for all the money the Big Ten has, it has even more good players and teams — some of which can fill stadiums with more than 100,000 screaming people for home games.

Football at this university had struggled in the decades before Friedgen’s time as head coach. The program had just one winning season in the 10 seasons before Friedgen’s tenure.

Friedgen led the Terps to a 5-2 bowl record in just 10 years. He turned a losing team into ACC champions in just one year. But beyond his excellent record as a coach, he rallied a fan base. Games were much more crowded than they are today, the stadium much louder. And though Friedgen had a few bad years, in his last season, he led the Terps to a 9-4 record, culminating in his fifth bowl victory, and was named ACC Coach of the Year.

Then, Anderson fired “the Fridge.”

Anderson is the only athletic director in NCAA history to fire a reigning coach of the year.

Anderson brought in Randy Edsall, whose excellent record at Connecticut made him a prime candidate. But in Edsall’s first two years, the Terps had a combined six wins,

compared to Friedgen’s nine wins in his final season. Worse, the stadium has gotten quieter since our exciting victory over Miami in Edsall’s first game as head coach.

Randy Edsall needs to rally alumni, students and fans. He needs a Friedgen-style “Are you in or are you out?” statement to motivate the fan base.

Our move to the Big Ten will give Edsall a chance to become a university leader.

Kevin Anderson must find a way to fill stadiums. He needs to do something to help recruiters and generally make the university more attractive.

And most importantly, the fans and students have to step up and be supportive. Our athletes put in a tremendous amount of work, and when they play hard, we need to be there to provide a home-field advantage.

As I have mentioned before, Terps fans have become way too apathetic during home games. Students have no right to complain about the team if they are not providing the homefield advantage — that means being loud at the games, as well as actually attending them.

If we fail to accomplish these goals and fail to develop a proper sports culture, then our university’s move to the Big Ten will be financially rewarding but athletically humiliating.

Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

As we move deeper into fall, the Residence Hall Association has been hard at work throughout the semester to improve the quality of on-campus life. Before the campus takes a much-deserved Thanksgiving break, we are taking the opportunity to hear directly from the campus community. You are invited to ask directors and advisers openly about initiatives and issues at our annual RHA Town Hall.

So far, our five RHA Senate committees have worked on a broad range of resident issues, including sustainable seafood in dining halls, Capital Bikeshare, the campuswide smoking ban, new residence halls, student conduct, sexual assault awareness, recycling efforts and gender-inclusive housing.

Additionally, our 15 hall and area councils have thrown numerous events to get to know their residents, from pancake nights to mocktail competitions to Halloween parties and decorating contests.

It is of utmost importance to the RHA to accurately assess student interest, supporting programs and policies so we can better cater to our residents — here is your opportunity to make your voice heard.

On Tuesday, join us at 7 p.m. in Annapolis Hall’s multipurpose room to hear from the directors and advisers. This is the perfect forum for input and discussion on the issues most affecting oncampus students.

Ask David Allen, Department of Transportation Services director, about parking and bike lanes.

Want to know more about Capital

Bikeshare or the Purple Line on the campus? Want to learn about the inner workings of NextBus? Find out!

Have a question about OZZI containers or the Green Tidings food truck? Colleen Wright-Riva, Dining Services director, will be ready to answer it.

Residential Facilities Director Jon Dooley will be there — ask about anything from Wi-Fi to water bottlefilling stations.

Deb Grandner, Resident Life director, will be happy to answer questions about the Inclusive Language Campaign, the smoking ban, genderinclusive housing, residence hall rules, housing selection or any other resident life issue.

Have concerns about energy use or recycling on the campus? Want to know how you can help the campus meet emissions reduction goals? Sustainability advisers Erin Schlegel and Joshua Beeson can provide answers.

All are welcome to come and talk with the directors about these important issues and any others. This is a great opportunity to make your voice heard.

As always, your concerns and ideas are valued by the RHA. Please relay any questions or thoughts to your hall or area council. We take every student’s voice very seriously and are so grateful for any and all input. For more information on the RHA, please visit rha.umd.edu, facebook.com /umdrha or twitter.com / MarylandRHA. Margaret Doyle is the public relations and outreach officer for the Residence Hall Association. She can be reached at mbdoyle93@gmail.com.

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Orthodox Jewish beatboxer Josh Leviton — aka the Orthobox — draws inspiration from his faith to deliver battle-ready beats

By Elana Dure @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback His tall figure towers over the crowd as he leans over the mic and begins his set of beats. The first chunk of his set is a dubstep sound, the next part a cover of a popular song. He closes with a beat that involves a lot of crowd interaction.

Junior aerospace engineering major Josh Leviton’s body sways to the music; his hands move to the beat.

He doesn’t look like your average beatboxer, sporting a pair of simple black pants and an untucked Oxford shirt.

Religious tzitzit strings hang from his shirttail, swinging along to the rhythm, and a black velvet kippah sits atop his head. He looks like someone making his way to a synagogue, not a beat-boxing performance.

Leviton, also known as the Orthobox, has been beat boxing for about five years. He began practicing as a sophomore in high school and learned the skill by analyzing how other beat-boxers perform and by watching many YouTube tutorials.

“That was when YouTube became a big part of my life,” he said. “I’m a product of the Internet.”

For three years, Leviton competed in the American Beatbox Championships but never made it to the finals.

He was, however, one of the top 16 beat-boxers selected, and he performed in the live battle rounds in New York City.

On the campus, Leviton tries to perform as much as he can. He has beat boxed during halftimes for the a cappella group Rak Shalom and various open mic events but hopes to expand to Washington as well.

Leviton’s beat boxing is guided mostly by his devotion to his faith. As an Orthodox Jew, his religious beliefs play a major part in his music and onstage persona. He said the courage to publicly wear his religion with pride was inspired by Jewish reggae

singer Matisyahu.

“Being an Orthodox Jew and dropping beats is pretty inspirational,” Leviton said of Matisyahu. “I saw him as one of the connectors between the two worlds.”

Leviton, who was not always religious, began learning more about Orthodox Judaism in high school.

“The personalities within Jewish culture encapsulated a type of person that I wanted to be, as they related to the world in such a meaningful way,” he said.

These personalities included rabbis, educators and stars like Matisyahu. Leviton was fascinated

by Matisyahu’s ability to perform in secular settings yet stay true to his faith. As Leviton matured and developed, both musically and religiously, he looked to Matisyahu as a role model.

Leviton’s stage name, the Orthobox, derives from his affiliation with Orthodox Judaism. At first, he wanted to go by his Hebrew name, Shlomo, but he discovered a beat-boxer from the United Kingdom had already adopted this moniker. One day, the name “Orthobox” spontaneously came to him.

He found that electronica music, dubstep and classic rock also influenced his sound, although the rock inspiration may not be as obvious in his beats.

Music was a part of Leviton’s life throughout his adolescent years. In high school, he played the trombone, baritone and trumpet. He doesn’t play any of these instruments anymore because they’re not easy to transport and “not socially acceptable to play,” he said.

Zach Schwartz, Leviton’s apartment mate, described living with Leviton as “musical.”

“Our rooms are kind of adjacent to each other, so whenever he is recording something, I hear it through the walls, so I get to do all my work and all my stuff in my room to beats,” said

Schwartz, a junior aerospace engineering major.

Leviton said beat boxing is best described as “vocal percussion” but cautioned that the art of beat boxing is tough to communicate through words and needs to be heard to be understood.

“Describing a symphony with words doesn’t really do it justice,” he said.

He makes the sounds by coordinating his vocal cords, lips and tongue. Leviton compared this arrangement to the different components of a drum set; the only difference being that all his sounds come from within and not from an accompanying instrument.

However, Leviton continuously strives for improvement.

“I always look back and say it’s not that good compared to how I feel I can do now,” Leviton said.

“Flow or sounds are always developing, maturing, I guess, into the sound I am now.”

Nevertheless, Leviton doesn’t set aside specific times for beat-boxing practices. Instead, he beat boxes whenever he has the free time to do so: to and from class, in the elevator or in the shower.

Kevin Rychik, a sophomore community health major, attests to Leviton’s shower practices. Rychik and Leviton lived on the same floor in Worcester Hall last year. At first, Rychik didn’t know the sounds in the bathroom were Leviton’s beats, but one day after he saw Leviton leave the bathroom, he finally understood what was going on.

“The acoustics were great in the shower, really good,” Rychik said.

Rychik was also impressed that a student on his floor was making a name for himself in the beat-boxing world by entering competitions and performing in shows.

During his time in the 2012 championship, Leviton lost to his opponent Steven “HeaveN” Cantor because of

a miscommunication. Leviton explained that it seemed as if two of the judges voted for him, but the emcee accidentally announced Cantor’s name instead. Before anybody was able to sort out the mix-up, Cantor began his next battle and Leviton was eliminated from the competition.

Although disappointed, Leviton did not lose hope and auditioned for the competition the next year. He was especially attracted to the nature of the competition and the mentality of the competitors.

“It is a culture of respect,” Leviton said. “Something I’ve never seen in any other forum where there is a contest involved. As much as it’s a competition and a battle, you can still battle

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QUARTERBACK C.J. BROWN returned to action against Syracuse on Saturday and has adjusted back to game speed in practice, offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said yesterday. Brown threw two interceptions in the Terps’ 20-3 loss to the Orange. tim drummond/the diamondback

HOKIES From PAGE 8 to return to his early season form. On Tuesday, Edsall reiterated his confidence in the quarterback to run the offense and said he gives the team its best chance to win.

Despite Brown’s subpar play against Syracuse, offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said Brown had been practicing well, and he was waiting for it to carry over to the field.

“He’s a veteran player that’s played in a lot of big games,” Locksley said yesterday. “I expect him to be prepared. I expect him to go out and perform to his abilities. We all need to find a way to put together and go out and execute the way we need to to win ballgames. I’ve liked what I’ve seen out of him thus far this week, and now we’ve got to transfer it over to game situations.”

Locksley said the Terps have been able to “knock some of

the rust off” of Brown, who played his first healthy game in seven weeks Saturday, and get him back up to speed.

W h i l e B row n a n d t h e offense will be facing a tough task, the Terps defense will be facing a Hokies offense coming off a breakout performance in a 42-24 win at Miami on Saturday. Previously, the most points the Hokies had scored against an FBS team this season was 29 in a triple-overtime win against unranked Marshall on Sept. 21.

But quarterback Logan Thomas broke out against the Hurricanes, throwing for 366 yards and two touchdowns, while running back Trey Edmunds rushed for 74 yards and four touchdowns.

“They’re a physical team, both running and throwing the ball,” defensive coordinator Brian Stewart said. “Offensively, the quarterback, he’s a big kid. Logan, he’s the one that makes things run; they’ve got a lot of quarterback runs that he’s pretty

good at. He can toss the ball, kind of hang in there because he’s so big. He can hang in there, wait for guys to clear and throw the ball.”

Time is dwindling on the Terps’ season, and a win over the Hokies would give the Terps a signature win and bowl eligibility.

While the setting and opponent present a distinct challenge, the stage provides a chance for the Terps to end a slide that has dominated the past month of the season.

“I think that will be a great opportunity for us and all the fans that they have there, going into a hectic playing environment,” running back Albert Reid said. “If you’re not pumped up for that type of playing environment, I don’t know what you’re even playing football for. ... Just going into Virginia Tech, that’s what we’ve been waiting for right there. That’s what you play football for.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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Layman, who missed practice with a thigh bruise earlier in the week, and the freshman began the game handling the point guard duties for the Terps.

That move allowed Wells to move off the ball, where he’s appeared more comfortable.

But the move didn’t result in improved offensive efficiency.

Peters had three of the Terps’ 12 first-half turnovers, and Wells threw an errant pass that led to a steal.

Wells was taken out with 14:35 left in the half, and the Terps’ last lead of the first half came at 13-12 about 10 minutes into the game. At one point while Wells was on the bench, Turgeon bent down and screamed at his junior leader.

“Dez and I have a great relationship,” Turgeon said. “Not a good one, a great one. So I’m not concerned about it.”

The Terps’ deficit grew as the Wildcats continued to find success from beyond the arc, and Turgeon’s team soon trailed, 28-17. Abilene Christian’s Parker Wentz was 3-of-4 from three-point range in the first half and led all scorers with 13 points at the break.

“There wasn’t concern,” Layman said. “There was just kind of frustration. We know we can play a lot better than that. That’s something we have to work on.”

Forward Charles Mitchell helped the Terps end the half on a 12-2 run and cut the deficit to one before the half.

Wells returned to the floor two minutes after halftime, and though the Terps still trailed, 44-38, with 14 minutes remaining, the offense had more rhythm and the defense seemed to be moving around faster.

At that point, though, the Terps locked in on defense and overwhelmed Abilene Christian, holding them without a point for the final 14:12. The

GUARD DEZ WELLS was benched by coach Mark Turgeon in the first half of the Terps’ 67-44 win over Abilene Christian last night at Comcast Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback Wildcats couldn’t get any quality looks at the basket and struggled with the Terps’ pressure defense.

“In the first half, we was playing the pace of the other team,” Mitchell said. “In the second half, we was playing the pace of our team.”

Mitchell also said Wells’ return to the court in the second half provided a spark.

He was vocal and helped the team get organized on defense while bringing a steady pace to the Terps’ attack.

Wells found Layman for a pair of 3-pointers as the Terps began their 29-0 run to close the contest. “[Wells] is the one that really got Jake going,” Turgeon said.

“He did a lot of nice things.”

That dominant stint, ignited

by Wells’ presence, Layman’s shooting and a stout defense, helped the Terps erase the unexpected difficulties they had with the Wildcats early in the game.

After the final horn blew, Turgeon had his suit coat back on and didn’t seem too disgruntled. He wasn’t happy with the team’s performance early, but he believes his team is more likely to replicate their effort from the final 14 minutes.

“I got a bunch of competitive guys,” Turgeon said. “I really like my team, I really do.

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By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Before the Terrapins men’s basketball team went on a dominant 29-0 run over the final 14 minutes of its home opener against Abilene Christian on Wednesday night, Mark Turgeon ripped off his black suit jacket and chucked it onto the chair behind him.

Playing against a Wildcats team just transitioning to Division I basketball, the Terps fell behind by as many as 11 points in the first half, and the third-year coach didn’t like his team’s performance. Abilene Christian shot 6-of-11 on 3-pointers in the first half, and the Terps turned the ball over 12 times before the break.

Turgeon even benched guard Dez Wells, the Terps’ leading scorer last season, less than six minutes into the game and held him out for the rest of the half because the two had a “miscommunication.”

Eventually, the Terps overcame their sloppy first half to top the Wildcats, 67-44, thanks to stifling defensive play and 19 points from forward Jake Layman. Wells returned to the floor, and the Terps held Abilene Christian to 14 second-half points after a troubling first 20 minutes.

But the Terps’ early struggles against a much smaller and less heralded opponent were blatant.

“I thought Abilene Christian was great in the first half,” Turgeon said. “I thought we were not very good. I don’t know what I did wrong, but I didn’t have us ready.”

The Terps (1-1) had trouble defending the Wildcats (0-3) on the perimeter all game as the Southland Conference team shot 10-of-21 from three-point range for the game.

Offensively, the Terps didn’t fare too well early, either. Guard Roddy Peters started for See WILDCATS, Page 7

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer After its recent skid, the Terrapins football team has the opportunity to right things this weekend against Virginia Tech.

But it won’t come easy, as the Terps will travel to one of the nation’s toughest venues, Lane Stadium, in Blacksburg, Va., to take on one of the nation’s toughest defenses.

One week after the Syracuse defense forced four turnovers and allowed three points, the Terps face a Hokies defense that ranks second in scoring defense and first in total defense in the ACC. “They are a tough defense. They are very physical, play a lot of man-to-man coverage, and when you play coverage like that, you’re confident in locking receivers down, and they’re talented skillwise,” quarterback C.J. Brown said.

“And they are going to be loading the box, so it’ll be a good test for us.”

The last time the Terps played in Blacksburg was in 2008, when the Terps dropped a 23-13 game to the Hokies. So coach Randy Edsall’s Terps will head into that hostile environment for the first time after going 3-11 on the road so far in Edsall’s first three seasons.

And for the Terps to have a chance to be successful, they’ll need Brown FORWARD CHARLES MITCHELL scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the Terps’ comeback win last night. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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