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166 student-athletes would be affected by recommended elimination of varsity teams

ANALYSIS: Decision day for Loh years in the

making for oversized athletics department

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A university commission charged with addressing the mounting financial issues of the school’s 27-sport athletics department has recommended the elimination of at least eight teams, according to a report of the panel’s findings released yesterday.

In the President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics’ 27page report, the group recommends university President Wallace Loh cut, “at a minimum,” the men’s cross country, men’s indoor track, men’s outdoor track, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, women’s acrobatics and tumbling, women’s swimming and diving and women’s water polo programs by July 1, 2012, to help balance the department’s $4.7 million deficit. There are currently 166 student-athletes on those teams.

To combat the deficit, the report issued three recommendations: reduce expenses by reducing the number of teams and the cost of administration, increase fundraising activities and reinvest resources in the remaining teams to enhance student-athletes’ performance on and off the field.

Loh said the report has been sent to the athletic council, the Senate Executive Committee — the University Senate’s most powerful committee — and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson for review. The senate and athletic council’s recommendations are due by Friday to Loh, who is set to make a decision in the coming weeks.

In an interview with The Diamondback last night, Loh said he plans to meet with every studentathlete and coach who wishes to see him before determining which teams will be cut.

“I need to balance, on the one hand, the need to inform students as soon as a decision can be made, but, on the other hand, not rush the

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The swimming and diving teams (above) are among those recommended to be cut. University President Wallace Loh (bottom left) released his athletics commission’s report last night, which highlights eight varsity teams that may be removed to save the department an estimated $5 million. The men’s tennis team (bottom right) is also on the chopping block, along with men’s indoor and outdoor track and women’s water polo, among others. FILE PHOTOS/THE DIAMONDBACK

Since reports first surfaced last week that university President Wallace Loh’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics would recommend cutting the Terrapins swimming and diving teams, athletics teams throughout the university held their breaths for an indication of which would ultimately have a future in College Park.

Last night, they got their answer.

And as painful as it may be, it shouldn’t be a surprise: Eight teams, at a minimum, have been recommended to be cut from the university’s total of 27.

The report, sent to Loh on Friday and released to the public last night, seeks to identify ways to salvage the athletics department’s finances. The department’s deficit is expected to total $4.7 million this fiscal year and more than triple to upwards of $17 million by 2017 unless cost-cutting measures — such as those identified in the report — are seen through.

With a department battling numbers so drastically in the red, it should come as little surprise to the university community that cuts will be made. Early reports last week speculated that as many as 10 teams could ultimately be eliminated, and the commission’s recommendations for austerity measures include only a bare-minimum list of expendable programs.

At least 166 student-athletes could be affected and about $5 million of the athletics department’s $57.7 million budget could be saved if these recommendations become a reality. By cutting eight teams, the university could conceivably cover its $4.7 million deficit and actually have a fighting chance at getting ahead.

These recommendations have been a long time coming, spanning back more than 17 years ago to when former Athletic Director Debbie Yow, who now holds the same

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RYAN MCCANN, 1991-2011

‘He had such a big heart’

BY REBECCA LURYE

Senators say body unlikely to reconsider the debate

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Whether entertaining roommates in Hagerstown Hall, drumming in formation in his high school band or alone tapping out whatever rhythm came to mind, Ryan McCann truly marched to his own beat.

“Ryan had to always do things his own way, and his way was always the most difficult way you could do things,” his mother Karen McCann said with a laugh.

McCann, a junior biology major at this university, died Nov. 4 of injuries he suffered in a car accident in Silver Spring.

Born in Havre de Grace on March 14, 1991, McCann grew up in Mt. Airy with his two brothers, Sean and Brendan McCann, and parents, Karen and David McCann.

After graduating from Linganore High School, he brought his academic motivation and a passion for drumming to this campus.

“I don’t think he realized not everyone enjoys the sound of just drums,” McCann’s girlfriend of more than four years, Tasha Tully, said with a laugh. “I don’t think [his playing alone] was ever really structured, which is pretty much how Ryan lived his life — unstructured and in his own way.”

At this university, friends said McCann

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Students fight new GPA policy

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Student leaders have garnered more than 1,800 petition signatures urging the University Senate to reconsider implementing a new plus-and-minus GPA system, but senate officials said it’s unlikely

the body will overturn the decision.

Although several student senators and the Student Government Association voiced concerns about the policy change, the senate ultimately passed the legislation Wednesday. Some student

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Fifty years of peace Campus event celebrates Peace Corps anniversary

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Ryan McCann, a junior biology major, died Nov. 4 of injuries he suffered in a car accident. He was known by family and friends as a loving man with a passion for science and playing the drums.

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Carrie Hessler-Radelet was 26 years old and serving in the Peace Corps in Samoa when her host mother, Losa — who already had nine children — became pregnant again. She had given birth to all of her children on the floor of her home, with no midwife or prenatal care.

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for her next delivery. And without care from a Samoan medical center, Losa may not have survived the labor after she went into post-partum hemorrhaging.

“She would have died if she wasn’t with the midwife,” said Hessler-Radelet, who is now Peace Corps deputy director. “Now she’s thriving. That whole nine months of going through that pregnancy with [Losa] was transformational. I found

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CUTS from page 1 thing, because I need to listen to all students and coaches,” Loh said. “After I meet with them, I need to sit long and hard. This is a very, very difficult issue, and it deserves very, very careful consideration. … I need to study it and think about it and pray over it, so I cannot say now when [I’ll make a decision].”

In a letter to the Terrapin Club, the university’s athletics booster organization, Anderson reiterated that the report “contains only recommendations, and no final decisions.”

“I want to make one thing perfectly clear, I do not wish to eliminate any athletic program, not a single one. I have devoted my professional life to building athletic programs and to enhancing the student athlete experience,” Anderson wrote. “While I would not wish these circumstances on anyone, I was brought to Maryland to lead, and I am prepared to make the hard decisions necessary to make Maryland Athletics a model department with respect to academic, competitive and financial success and stability.”

The commission weighed a number of criteria in determining which sports should be cut. According to the report, a sport’s competitive success, attendance levels and history at this university, among other factors, were considered in the decisionmaking process.

Although reports that the swimming and diving and water polo teams would be cut began circulating last week, student-athletes said learning the commission’s official recommendation still came as a shock.

“We kind of heard rumors about it and then the swim team had their meeting before us,” said sophomore Allie Hill, a member of the water polo team and Baytown, Texas, native. “Whenever we heard, pretty much ever yone was upset. A lot of people were cr ying because that’s why a lot of us came here to play, and it just got taken away.”

Although eight sports were

recommended to be discontinued, several stipulations were included for their proposed phasing out. Most notably, all athletic scholarship commitments to current student-athletes and signed recruits in eliminated sports would be honored through graduation, and affected coaches would have their contracts upheld.

Senate Chair Eric Kasischke, who served on the 17person commission, said because “student-athletes are the ones caught in the middle by this whole situation,” the group carefully considered the department’s budget woes before recommending teams for elimination.

“It was a very difficult process,” Kasischke said. “We realized that given the status of the athletics department, they couldn’t be running this deficit, meaning we had to make some very hard decisions.”

If the university effectively implements these recommendations, the commission said the university can expect to see a balanced operating budget in 2015 and a budget surplus in 2019.

In his State of the Campus address last week, Loh said the athletics department had created an illusion of having a balanced budget in recent years by regularly tapping into reser ve funds. Since 2006, however, revenues in men’s football and basketball and in fundraising have fallen sharply, according to the report.

As a result, from 2006 to 2010, the department relied on its savings to balance the budget. As the department grappled with a $4.7 million deficit this year, it was forced to borrow $1.2 million from non-state auxiliary funds.

Even more ominously, operating deficits are expected to amount to more than $17 million by 2017, according to projections in the report.

The trickle-down effect on Terps student-athletes, as the report indicated, has become apparent. Among the 12 current ACC schools and future members Syracuse and Pittsburgh, this university ranks 13th in expenditures for its 750-plus student-athletes.

Academic advisors are

“This is a very, very difficult issue, and it deserves very, very careful consideration.”

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responsible for an average of more than 155 student-athletes each; the optimal level, according to the report, is about 90.

If Loh accepts the commission’s recommendations, a “reinvestment of funds” will result in the university spending an average of $107,849 for each of its 529 remaining athletes, moving it to sixth out of the 14 ACC schools in terms of financial support per athlete.

Although the report points to a significant decline in fundraising as a major contributing factor to the budget crunch — officials raised about $9 million in 2011, a decrease of about 40 percent from 2008 levels — it says it is “confident” the Terps football and men’s basketball teams will become nationally competitive in the coming years, an important factor in the athletics department’s bottom line.

Even as officials struggle to balance the athletics department’s budget before it becomes increasingly unmanageable, Loh said in his statement to the university that his primary concern is for the school’s student-athletes and coaches.

“A first-rate athletic program is a vital part of a firstrate university,” the statement said. “And so, to the Terrapin family everywhere, I pledge this to you: I will work with the Athletics Department to ensure continued excellence both academically and athletically, and to provide the very best experience and support for our student-athletes. They deserve nothing less.”

Staff writer Daniel Gallen contributed to this report. abutaleb@umdbk.com, schneider@umdbk.com

PETITION from page 1 leaders argued administrators did not give students enough notice or seek adequate input before making such a sweeping change, but senators said the policy change is now in the hands of university President Wallace Loh. “We did not have a clear barometer of what [undergraduates’] wants were,” said undergraduate senator Aaron Fagan, who formed the Facebook group “University of Maryland Undergrads Against GPA Reform.”

“We’re just saying, ‘Slow down, and let’s make sure we hear from everyone before we go through with this,’” Fagan said.

Undergraduate senator Zachary Cohen said that at the next senate meeting, which is in December, he plans to make a motion for the senate to reconsider the body’s vote. If signed, it would begin next fall and affect both incoming freshmen and students still attending the university. The current system awards students the same number of points for different variations of the same letter grade. Under the new policy, 0.3 more points will be allotted for a plus grade and 0.3 less points for a minus grade, with the exception of an A+, which will still receive 4 points.

Because Loh has not yet signed the policy — meaning it is not yet official — SGA President

ANALYSIS from page 1 position at N.C. State, first took over the department. Under Yow’s tenure, athletics teams did exceptionally well, capturing 20 national championships.

But her push for success on a national scale, to put this university on equal footing with the Stanfords and Virginias of the NCAA, likely spread the department’s finances too thin. Only Boston College and North Carolina support more teams at the varsity level, and the Terps’ 27 squads soon became untenable amid lagging donations, a slumping economy and the university’s underachieving bigticket sports.

At the time, Yow’s massive

Kaiyi Xie plans to meet with Loh to discuss the issue.

“I would rather that the actions came from the senate because that’s where the voice and the shared governance is, but if not then [the SGA] will try to cover it with Dr. Loh,” Cohen said.

Cohen posted the petition “University of Maryland Senate: Reconsider the Implementation of the Plus/Minus Grading System” on www.change.org Thursday afternoon. It asks the senate to reconsider the vote on the basis that students were not given enough chance to provide input..

However, Senate Chair-elect Martha Smith said the policy was passed in 2005, but administrators held off implementing the new system because they were in the midst of completely overhauling the core curriculum. The senate announced in the spring that this policy would be up for review and change was advertised on the body’s website. Smith said many students she spoke to were well aware of the potential change, and supportive.

While the senate is not required to take petitions into account, Smith said she would be open to reading its text.

“We always want to keep the avenues of communication open,” Smith said. “I’m just curious how familiar they are with the proposal.”

Nonetheless, some student leaders said other important university issues such as the new Fa-

expansion was covered by tapping into the department’s reserve fund, which covered any shortfalls at the end of each fiscal year. But when that fund was emptied last year, the department had to borrow $1.2 million from the university to cover the deficit.

The cost of the university’s ambition may be at least eight Terps teams. The cuts are no doubt extremely painful to the officials who had to recommend them and to the athletes who could soon be without a team. But given the magnitude of the department’s situation, these cuts could ultimately benefit each remaining student-athlete and give the university the opportunity to stem the bleeding and rebuild.

Most saliently, the university

SGA President Kaiyi Xie discusses the body’s position on the proposed plusand-minus GPA scale.

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cilities Master Plan and the Purple Line were better publicized through email listservs.

“I don’t know if it’s the administration’s fault for not advertising it or the students’ fault for not paying attention, but I feel like a lot of people were taken by surprise and felt like they were too uninformed,” said sophomore psychology major Julie Thompson, who signed the petition.

However, Smith and Senate Chair Eric Kasischke said the SGA did not inform the senate body it voted to condemn the policy’s implementation at its Nov. 7 meeting until the senate meeting’s vote two days later.

“If they never send any of their resolutions, how is the senate supposed to know this?” Kasischke said. “We want to improve communication with the SGA … but it’s a two-way street.” villanueva@umdbk.com

ranks last among ACC teams in spending per athlete.

According to The Washington Post, the university spends $67,390 on every student-athlete. In comparison, Florida State spends $118,814, and five other conference schools top $100,000 per student.

The NCAA mandates supporting at least 16 varsity teams to maintain Football Bowl Subdivision status, and the university appears headed closer to that minimum.

Although the athletic future of scores of this university’s student-athletes only recently became imperiled, Loh’s looming decision on what to keep and what to cut was set in motion long before yesterday. redding@umdbk.com

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University launches Future of Information Alliance this week Representatives from every academic department will address constant changes in information technology

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

As methods for gathering and dispersing information evolve, leaders from every academic department at this university have teamed up to form a new alliance set to tackle the ever-changing field of information technology.

Today marks the launch of the Future of Information Alliance — an interdisciplinary, campuswide initiative to address effective strategies for obtaining and spreading information. The new collaboration operates under three main goals: inviting annual high-profile visitors to the campus, giving grants to forge transdisciplinary research teams that involve at least three university colleges and utilizing the Internet as a forum for researchers to talk

about their ideas, iSchool Associate Dean and Alliance Co-director Allison Druin said.

The alliance’s weeklong kickoff will include a series of panel discussions in Stamp Student Union featuring university panelists and three global leaders in the information revolution: Google “director of user happiness” Dan Russell; Microsoft human-computer interaction Manager Mary Czerwinski; and former Twitter chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury.

These events will provide a forum for university faculty, staff and students to brainstorm effective solutions to information challenges to the university and greater society.

The idea for the initiative formulated a year ago at the Future of Information Forum, during which university faculty, staff and

doctoral students discovered commonalities between different departments that were working to research issues linked to evolving information, journalism professor and alliance co-director Ira Chinoy said.

“It was very clear that people had a lot to say to each other and had a lot of common ground,” Chinoy said.

Although it was designed to address challenges in the world of information, Chinoy said the alliance is not intended to solve problems exclusive to this university.

“It isn’t specifically to solve problems we’re having here; it’s to address problems and identify challenges and opportunities in general,” Chinoy said. “We’re starting this conversation at the university with the idea it wouldn’t be limited to the university.”

Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea said the alliance will serve as a model for other universities and other global parties interested in researching the field.

“This is meant to be a global engagement,” O’Shea said.

“We’ve got the broad area of skills and location to really have a strong influence on the world as a whole.”

Because news consumers have begun branching out from mainstream news outlets and seeking information from new media sources, such as social media websites, this shift will inevitably change the way people think and work, O’Shea said.

“How we assess information is changing very rapidly, and we need to understand how to use that,” O’Shea said. “It’s a great

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unknown, and it’s something a great research university should be involved in.”

In the face of these changes, Chinoy said cross-disciplinary collaboration is more important than ever.

“One thing we may find is that in one part of the university there are people wrestling with the idea of information while the other side has found a solution already,” Chinoy said. “Information cuts across all disciplines and is in some ways a topic that’s hiding in plain sight.”

Students have played a critical role in the formation of the alliance, Chinoy said, adding he hopes they actively participate in discussions this week.

“I constantly learn from my students; they’re constantly bringing new tools to me and

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my life’s calling. She changed my life entirely. She really spoke to my heart.”

More than 50 people listened to Hessler-Radelet’s story last night in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps at Stamp Student Union, and many student attendees said they felt that call, too.

“I want to have a job where I can feel like I’m actually making a difference,” junior sociology major Jacqueline Tobar said last night. “I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and the more I heard about it, the more I realized that it’s what I want to do. It’s the right time.”

A panel of former Peace Corps volunteers joined Hessler-Radelet to speak about their experiences abroad and share stories about women, such as Losa, who stood out during their years spent volunteering.

“My first impression when I arrived is that women work ver y, ver y hard ever y day,” panelist Skyler Badenoch said. “It gave me so much more respect.”

This university was ranked No. 24 on the Peace Corps’ annual list of the universities that produce the most volunteers for the organization.

Since the Peace Corps’ inception 50 years ago, 1,076 alumni from this university have volunteered.

The experience is lifechanging, Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams said, adding he hopes more people sign up for the two-year experience like he did.

was likely one of the only students to fit a drum set in a North Campus quad, where he convinced three roommates to reconfigure a cramped Hagerstown Hall dorm room — four dressers and desks and two bunk beds — to accommodate drums he sometimes played into the early mornings.

“He had a blast doing it,” said Andrew Garavito, who lived on the Hagerstown third floor that year. “People would come down and say, ‘OK, who has a drum set?’ and we’d say ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

Although McCann had an active social life, he was an equally dedicated student and often skipped parties to study. His friend and former resident assistant Mike Mazzarella said he remembers being amazed by McCann’s keenness for science.

“I remember it just blowing my mind because it was such an intense concept that not many people could wrap their heads around, and that was really cool,” said Mazzarella, a 2011 alumnus.

Since his sophomore year, McCann spent hours working in university researcher Charles Delwiche’s lab, perfecting complex and sensitive procedures to measure genome sizes in cells.

“He was extremely bright, hard working, dynamic and funny. He wasn’t afraid to tell me if he thought I was wrong,” Delwiche said in an email, adding that McCann’s work will appear in at least one scientific journal.

The junior also tutored his friends, and once taught nearly a semester’s worth of material in one night to help them pass a biology final, said senior finance and psychology major Brendan

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“The Peace Corps makes you feel at home,” Williams said. “It opened doors that I didn’t even know existed.

Wherever Peace Corps volunteers are, they share something in common: They share the spirit of ser vice.”

Although last night’s panelists ser ved in all corners of the globe, their discussion centered on empowering women across the world.

“This is so important because gender inequality is critical and present in every single country, including our own,” Hessler-Radelet said.

“Gender equality and women’s empowerment are mission critical to Peace Corps.”

Williams praised the university’s recruitment last night, noting that 50 university alumni currently ser ve

abroad for the organization.

Ben Burnes, the Peace Corps recruiter for this university, said he hoped the event inspired students — regardless of their academic backgrounds — to consider joining after graduation.

“Our recruitment comes from a variety of disciplines,” said Burnes, who ser ved in the Peace Corps in Tanzania for two years. “We get people from the science departments, health department, education department and engineers. I want to increase the volunteers from the university because I really think we could be in the top 10.”

Badenoch said he hopes future volunteers work to change gender inequalities that exist all over the world and create opportunities for

“Wherever Peace Corps volunteers are, they share something in common: They share the spirit of service.”

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underprivileged women.

“One of the most important things that I came away with during my time in the Peace Corps was that intelligence and ability is equally distributed around the world,” he said. “But, opportunity is not.” egan@umdbk.com

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“This is meant to be a global engagement.

We’ve got the broad area of skills and location to really have a strong influence on the world.”

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bringing me things I didn’t know about,” Chinoy said.

“The student perspective is really important.” saravia@umdbk.com

George, who lived on McCann’s floor two years ago.

Outside of academics, friends said McCann was always happy to offer sound advice and a smile when they needed a confidant.

“I could go to him with anything, and he’d have the most onpoint, best advice for any situation,” said George.

Friends and family said remembering McCann’s “contagious laugh” and endless jokes will keep them smiling.

“He just had this outrageous sense of humor, outrageous love of life,” Karen McCann said. “In his short 20 years, we have enough Ryan stories to last us forever.”

His friends continued to share those happy memories with her.

“I think every kid that lived on the third floor of Hagerstown Hall that year came to the funeral hall Monday evening, and every one of them just told me how much they loved him and how he made them smile,” Karen McCann said.

McCann had long planned to apply to medical school, and his family asks any memorial contributions be made to Doctors Without Borders, an organization exemplifying his compassion.

“Ryan was a lover,” said Tully, a West Virginia University alumna who planned to attend graduate school at this university. “He had such a big heart and he loved his friends and family so much. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for him and I’m so thankful for the time he shared with me.”

McCann is survived by his parents David and Karen McCann; brothers Sean and Brendan McCann; grandparents John and Marilyn Gradoni, James Edward and Clara Worden McCann; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. lurye@umdbk.com

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uring his State of the Campus address last week, university President what exchanges were made.

Other details of the fund haven’t been revealed, either, such as how Loh deterWallace Loh unveiled a glittery surprise: A $10 million pool of funding that will allow the university to continue progress on a number of exist- mined which initiatives would receive how much money. He said he will reserve $4 ing initiatives. The announcement received a warm response from the million for “educational excellence” — most of which will be used to catapult the audience, yet it’s also given rise to a slew of unanswered questions. Namely, where revamped general education curriculum into full effect. With another $4 million from the pool, he said, researchers from different departments will tackle the “major exactly did this money come from? issues of the 21st century,” which mirrors his oft-stated priorLoh’s answer is frustratingly vague. A portion of the fund ity of interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, $2 million will — though we don’t know how much — came from the go toward increasing financial aid for students. We underincreased revenue from this fall’s tuition increase. Loh said some of it came from a special presidential fund set up by While university President stand why the new curriculum warrants extra funding, especially because officials in charge of the project said full impleProvost Ann Wylie before he arrived — though, again, we don’t know how much. Loh generated the rest through an Wallace Loh’s ability to find mentation wouldn’t be possible without it. However, the decision to spend more money on research than on student aid is “innovative” approach to reallocating budget funds, he said. an extra $10 million in disappointing. The university continues to obtain research It’s no secret the university is still reeling from the recession. Employee furloughs aren’t exactly a distant memory, funding is exciting, we’d like grants, but meanwhile, Pell Grants are once again in danger being slashed, student loan debt is skyrocketing and there and there’s no guarantee state funding will remain stable. to know how he reorganized of is greater competition for federal aid.

Budget shortfalls pervading all corners of the campus are We hope administrators have been more forthcoming to severe and getting cumulatively worse as expenses continue the budget to do so. faculty members about the details of this fund than they’ve to rise faster than revenues — just ask the varsity athletes who learned last night their teams will probably be eliminated. Loh said his creative been to the student body. Loh hopes to encourage other university departments to approach reexamining the budget should be a model for officials in other depart- follow his lead and scrutinize their respective budgets, but that’s a tough expectation ments looking to stretch their dollars, but how can it be when the rest of the univer- without letting us in on how he did it. While we commend Loh for leading by example and inspiring others to think outside the box, the fund’s impressiveness is comsity community knows so little about the fund?

Loh’s been rather tightlipped about where he found the rest of the money, what promised by his lack of transparency. His objectives are clearly admirable; dispenspercentage of it is destined for which initiatives and, most importantly, what we’re ing this extra money will bring tremendous benefits to many different segments of giving up in return. It’s hard to believe administrators simply scrounged together the university. The increased research funding, additional financial aid awards and $10 million from under the sofa cushion. If funds were that easy to shuffle around, completion of the general education plan are obviously worthy and desirable effects other university and government officials wouldn’t be having such a hard time of of Loh’s (somewhat mysterious) reallocating ability, but at what expense? We hesiit. Something, it seems, must have been sacrificed or downsized to accumulate tate to label the fund an absolute achievement without knowing the full story.

At this point, Loh’s fund is somewhat akin to a Chicken McNugget — appealing at this money. Whether that means making personnel cuts, reducing the size or scope of various programs or scaling back on deli meat at luncheon receptions, it first bite, and tasty, for sure — but the specifics are a bit murky, just as they are with seems something must have been forsaken — the community deserves to know this fund. Before chowing down, we should probably know all the ingredients.

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he university’s acrobatics and tumbling squad was the fifthworst team in the country last year, but you bet your Maryland pride our Lady Terrapins weren’t embarrassed; you see, they were also the second-best team because there are only six programs in the entire country.

The universities of Oregon, Baylor, Quinnipiac, Fairmont State and Azusa Pacific round out the murderer’s row of acrobatics and tumbling squads, so perhaps the university’s string of four national championships in five years isn’t so impressive, after all.

Now, no offense to the acrobatics and tumbling team is intended — you see, I was foolish enough to glance at the athletics department’s finances, which has turned me into a bit of a nihilist.

According to The Baltimore Sun, women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese earned $957,523 in 2010. What did the university get in return for that nearly million-dollar investment? We — students paying an athletics fee, fans buying tickets and merchandise, alumni donating money — made Frese this state’s third-highest paid employee last year, and in return, her program lost the

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HAXEL school $1.7 million. To put things into perspective, that’s enough moolah to pay for a year’s worth of in-state tuition and fees for 197 students. So naturally, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson extended Frese’s contract this summer, ensuring at least one toxic asset will remain on the books through at least 2017.

If this were capitalism, Anderson and Frese would be fired. If this were a democracy, they’d be voted out of office.

But it’s neither — it’s big-time college athletics, where ESPN tells you what time to start your game, and success is measured by how many obscure sport championships your team wins.

Student-athletes are the suckers in the collegiate athletics exchange: Coaches and administrators trade athletes’ talent for a profit — look at Randy Edsall or Mark Turgeon, who left their players in a heartbeat when the big Terrapin bucks

came calling. And don’t kid yourself: Non-revenue sports would be exactly the same if there were enough fan interest to make it a profitable venture.

Like junkies fiending for a fix, schools will do anything to score some cash. Sell your home game to Florida State, or Notre Dame — just one more time — I need the money, man. Maybe Kevin Plank will hook me up with the good stuff, or I can pawn a couple varsity teams — I’ll get them back, I swear.

The athletes are no different. They sell their talent for a full or partial scholarship, or for abstractions like “leadership” and “glory.” Then they cry foul when the school places more value on a jump shot than a butterfly stroke.

For too long, Anderson and his cohorts across the country have squeezed the soul out of college sports.

Maybe it’s time for the nuclear option: Eliminate the athletics department and its $58 million budget. Fire the more than 180 leeches working for Anderson.

Make every program self-sustaining — if fans care about a sport, there will be enough revenue to field a competitive squad. If not, establish a club team.

There are plenty of students who play for

love of the game. Why should the rest of us subsidize a sport we don’t care about?

Back to our beloved acrobatics and tumbling squad: At Quinnipiac, members of the volleyball team filed a lawsuit after the school cut the program to save money. A federal judge ruled last summer that Quinnipiac couldn’t count its acrobatics and tumbling squad against Title IX numbers because it’s not an NCAA-recognized sport. This state is in a different federal district, so the ruling isn’t binding here, but the case sets a precedent that could be very dangerous should members of the water polo team go fishing for attorneys.

After the financial meltdown, we all marveled that so many people mortgaged their futures for homes beyond their means. Athletics departments across the country have been playing that game for years now, and the market’s about to crash. You bring the soda, I’ll bring the popcorn: This leaning tower of Anderson will crumble eventually.

Like I said, man — nihilism.

Christopher Haxel is a senior English major. He can be reached at haxel@umdbk.com.

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or many Americans, ‘tis the season to fight for religious respect, recognition and political correctness. Instead of cheer and joy, the holiday season can sometime spark friction between different groups with religious and non-religious affiliations. In turn, the supposed most wonderful time of the year becomes the annual war on Christmas.

It’s undeniable that Christmas is, to put it nicely, overrepresented among religious holidays at the end of the year.

Though this country is technically secular, the media, economy and even the government promote this holiday.

The First Amendment prohibits both the establishment of a national religion and the preference of one religion over others or over non-religion — and vice versa. That said, it seems odd that Christmas is a recognized federal holiday, but Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other concurrent religious holidays are not. Furthermore, it is common for public elementary school students to perform “holiday” concerts comprised entirely of Christmas songs. In my hometown, an

inescapable nativity scene is set up every year in the town center. These displays of Christmas can be seen as an endorsement of a particular religion, which some would say is unconstitutional.

From the media to Macy’s, the perpetual reminder of Christmas also creates a sort of religious hierarchy. It’s nearly impossible to avoid the Christmas hype without refusing to watch TV, listen to the radio, access the Internet or even walk outside. Meanwhile, other religious symbols, such as a menorah for Hanukkah or colorful African cloth for Kwanzaa, are nowhere to be found.

This implicit message — that Christianity is the preferable religion — is not one I would want instilled in young children, or anyone else for that matter. But while invoking unconstitutionality or religious hierarchy is indeed a powerful argument, some Christmas-complainers fail to consider that for many people, the holiday is a strictly secular celebration.

For Christians, the holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. My family, and many others across the country, still take part in Christmas traditions such as

BRITTANY CAMPBELL exchanging gifts, tree decorating and hanging stockings. But we do it for reasons of tradition rather than religion. In this sense, the argument that Christianity is the endorsed religion during the holidays is void because, for some people, there is no religious attachment.

But whether the meaning of Christmas has a religious connotation or not, other beliefs are still barely represented, and I don’t know of a solution to the problem. It’s an awkward situation: When private practices — such as opening presents or sitting on Santa’s lap — become so public, it risks excluding those who don’t share the practices of the majority.

Much of the fervor is due to the retail market and the media exploiting Christmastime to attract the most people and increase profit. This may be politically,

and even morally, incorrect, but it’s completely legal. Fostering a sense of inclusion for different sets of beliefs is never easy.

Though the Christmas controversy is vexing and troublesome, arguing over it is against the holiday spirit. The disproportionate shoving of Christmas into our faces can be unjust and offensive to people, but it does not deprive anyone of their freedom. Whether you are religious or not, the holidays are apropos of honoring and commemorating your religion or lack thereof, traditions, values and fortune, whatever they may be.

Every year, I look forward to Christmas music and my brother’s spot-on rendition of “Mr. Grinch.” We’re both away at school, so I’ll have to wait a few more weeks to enjoy the tradition this year.

You see, to us, the holidays are about family, and that’s all we will ever need them to be. As long as my brother doesn’t try to sing anything else.

Brittany Campbell is a government and politics and philosophy major. She can be reached at campbell@umdbk.com.

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n reference to the article published Nov. 7, “NextBus system behind on time,” NextBus is working diligently with the Department of Transportation Services to correct any problems students might encounter. The GPS trackers onboard each bus, as well as the data modems in each electronic sign, communicate with our system over a commercial cellular data network. Although we have discovered the core issue had to do with this cellular service and coverage of a major carrier, we take full responsibility for fixing the problems — and fixing them quickly.

We have already replaced the cellular modem in the NextBus electronic sign on the East side of Campus Drive at Stamp Student Union with a modem using a different cellular carrier. This sign is no longer experiencing connection problems as a result (i.e. showing the message “Registering…”), and we are moving speedily to replace the modems in the other two electronic signs as well.

In regard to improving the communication link between the buses and our system, we have discussed improving the backhaul communication channel to increase the available bandwidth with the carrier. We have seen that data usage during peak times over whelms the backhaul channel and results in less than ideal performance. On Oct. 27, the carrier performed an upgrade of the backhaul, and we have noticed a significant improvement. This backhaul is used by all subscribers on this carrier’s network and this upgrade should be noticeable to iPhone and other smartphone users, as well.

Finally, we are adjusting the polling rate (how often we take GPS location data from each bus) to improve the overall operation of NextBus on the campus.

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ould you want your surgeon to have cheated on his tests in college?

Of course not. A more difficult question is, “Would you want your surgeon to take Adderall before surger y?” I would reply with, “Of course!” The same could be said for the scientist tr ying to cure cancer, or the businessman making a sale.

Granted, this only applies if the professional knows the effects of Adderall on his or her body and is confident this will help his or her ability to successfully complete the task. Yesterday’s article “Blame it on the Adderall” gave a good over view of the problem of Adderall abuse on the campus.

This problem, I feel, stems from the general fact that outside of college, where our skills are used to accomplish actual goals — and not just to regurgitate information on a page — Adderall doesn’t really seem like cheating at all.

If students weren’t competing with each other in class, I don’t think any student would consider taking Adderall as cheating. Drug abuse can cause many negative effects on the body and should be discouraged. The only way to do this, however, is to change the culture surrounding the importance of productivity in our society — a daunting task.

IAN GLEANER JUNIOR BIOLOGY

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Drake underwhelms on second album, Take Care

BY JOSHUA AXELROD For The Diamondback

Whenever Drake’s name is on a song, the word “featuring” should preface it. The Canadian rapper is tolerable, even bordering on compelling, for a verse at a time, but full tracks of him rapping about women, money and alcohol don’t quite have the same effect.

Drake’s sophomore album, Take Care, does nothing to change this impression and, in addition, is oddly bipolar. It seems Drake is trying to

croon like John Legend and tratingly switching back and rap like T.I., mixing R&B and forth.

Or better yet, he should just hip-hop elements throughout focus on his the album, raps and but rarely V E R D I C T : drop the seamlessly. synthThe thing Take Care is a step back for Drake, infused is, he does- whose occasionally strong work is R&B alton’t have overshadowed by ineffective R&B, gether.

Legend’s unnecessary cameos and a Why does pipes or a sense that this is just another every rapflow as polgeneric hip-hop/R&B album. per think ished as those of his rap counterparts. these verses, dripping with fake It makes you wish he focused sounds and R&B sensibilities, on one style or the other add anything to the proceedinstead of constantly and frus- ings? They stop a song in its

Not even Drake’s devilishly good looks can save Take Care from being a mess of an album with way more guest appearances than good songs. PHOTO COURTESY OF ACESHOWBIZ.COM

tracks, which is especially evident on the two inexplicably long and boring interludes, “Cameras/Good Ones Go” and “Marvin’s Room/Buried Alive.”

This is a particularly sad truth because when Drake gets a full head of steam on a rap verse, the album comes alive. Songs such as “Underground Kings” use Drake’s trademarked enunciating style from start to finish, and that’s what people are paying (or pirating) to hear. The album really gets going, as Drake says in the egotistical but engaging “Headlines,” when “the real is on the rise.”

Take Care is full of cameos, though some of them are downright bizarre. On the already lackluster “We’ll Be Fine,” Birdman shows up at the end and just talks. There’s no rapping involved, just him building “Drizzy” up and telling him to “take care of the business.” Small contributions from Rihanna, Rick Ross and Stevie Wonder are also pretty useless.

Collaborations are responsible for the album’s two best songs, however. Drake and Lil Wayne reunite for “HYFR” (the acronym is too dirty to spell out), which is sure to be the album’s party anthem. On “Make Me Proud,” Drake verbally spars with the firecracker Nicki Minaj, who comes close to upstaging him with her huge voice and personality.

Getting outshined on your own album is pretty embarrassing. So is releasing something that fails to distinguish itself from other (much better) hip-hop offerings.

Drake, take a little more care next time. diversions@umdbk.com

BY MARY CLARE FISCHER Staff writer

If there is one person who embodies both the bizarre and the creative impulses inside every human being, it might be Lady Gaga. With her ridiculous costumes and blunt words, she lives life as she wants to — by her own terms.

Now, imagine the spirit of Lady Gaga in a flamboyant, Filipino male poet.

“I like to see how far I can go with crowds sexually, or as far as I can push that,” said the “Lady Gaga of spoken word poets.” “There’s always the line; what do I have and how far can I go?

Even if I’m teaching sixth graders, they always wind up writing about Red Bull and bongs.”

This “Lady Gaga” is Regie Cabico, champion of the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam in 1993 and prizewinner in the 1993, 1994 and 1997 National Poetry Slams. While he has continued to perform since then, he also volunteers, teaching the art of the spoken word to everyone, from gay youth groups to psychiatric patients to students at this university tonight in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Cabico didn’t think he’d be a poet until after college, when he was auditioning for acting gigs in New York and unhappy with his options.

He started reading anthologies and copying the poets he enjoyed reading. Then he was accepted into an advanced poetry workshop, and his career exploded.

“When I started, people were rewarded for being

queer or of color or a woman,” Cabico said. “If you brought your freakish side, it was like, ‘Wow, this is cool.’”

Though Cabico has certain inspirations — falling in love, breaking up or seeing a truly great work of art — he doesn’t always have a certain method of writing or presenting. Like a true performer, sometimes he improvises.

“It’s like cooking,” he said.

“You just try to get different recipes. You have an understanding of food and spices and the way they work together. You know your meats and your vegetables, but then it’s, ‘What do I want to try?’”

Lately, Cabico has tried increasingly to spread his love of words and acting through teaching, a profession at which he didn’t expect to excel.

“I love being able to pull a performance out of a poet or a non-performer or a non-poet,” Cabico said. “It’s not simple.

Sometimes it’s frustrating, but when people write together and read together, there’s something powerful and healing about that.”

Ultimately, Cabico said he hopes his audience will simply remember his work in contrast to the superficial television shows that viewers immediately forget.

“You want to give people a doggy bag, something they can take home and think about,” Cabico said. “If I left some indelible moment, that is magical; that is a power; and that is something that as beings, we want. We want to leave something behind.” diversions@umdbk.com

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ADAMS from page 8 were banged up during the week, so that’s why he got an opportunity. He did well with his opportunity.”

Adams’ benching has been an oft-discussed topic on message boards and across the blogosphere this season. After serving a suspension in the Terps’ season opener for a violation of team rules and enjoying a 12-carry outing in his return against the Mountaineers, Adams has never been able to thrust himself back into the rotation, playing only sparingly.

Against both Temple and Towson, he received three carries. For the next five weeks, he got just one — a third-down, red-zone run against Boston College that resulted in both a first down and a fumble, which the Terps recovered.

In losses to Florida State and Virginia, Adams never stepped foot on the field. His absence has drawn the ire of Terps fans across the country, and a sign reading “FREE DJ ADAMS” even appeared on ESPN’s College Gameday at Stanford on Saturday morning.

Still, while Adams was one of the lone bright spots in an otherwise embarrassing loss Saturday, it seems his appearance was made possible by a sheer dearth of alternatives for Edsall. Freshman running back Justus Pickett didn’t touch the ball outside of kickoff returns, an absence likely linked to injury.

Similarly, running back Davin Meggett, perhaps the Terps’ most consistent offensive performer all season, had just four carries in the second half and nine in the game — a far cry from his average of 15 rushes per game before Saturday.

Early Saturday, Edsall appeared hesitant to turn to Adams. Fullback Tyler Cierski, who had one carry all season entering the game, had two carries before Adams ever touched the ball.

In a teleconference Sunday, Edsall said Adams’ performance Saturday did nothing to make him regret relegating him to the bench for much of the year. And in the team’s two-deep released yesterday, Adams was again nowhere to be found.

But in a season that seems to get worse every time the Terps step foot on the field, Adams’ successful and long-awaited return to the field Saturday gave the Terps something positive to point to.

“It was good to see D.J. back out there,” wide receiver Quintin McCree said. “He hasn’t been back out there the past couple games, but to see him come out there and never lose the touch of the ball … it feels good seeing him back out there.”

“He showed what he can do,” quarterback C.J. Brown said. “He took advantage of his opportunity, and that’s all you can ask.”

Despite a strong game Saturday, running back D.J. Adams was not listed on the Terps’ two-deep released yesterday.

TOURNAMENT from page 8 the top five seeds. Just two days after besting Boston College in the ACC Tournament Championship, North Carolina earned the No. 1 overall seed.

The Eagles, meanwhile, received the No. 4 slot, a major coup for a team that entered last week’s matchup against the Terps as the No. 7 seed in the ACC Tour-

nament. Their stunning quarterfinal win likely denied the Terps home-field advantage and a clearer path to Hoover, Ala., the site of this year’s College Cup. “It’s a little disappointing,” Townsend said. “But we know we brought that upon on ourselves.

We didn’t finish the season like we wanted to, and that’s kind of the price we have to pay.”

But the Terps aren’t fretting over it. They have plenty ahead of them to worry about.

The Terps’ region includes four top-25 teams — No. 6 UCLA, No. 13 Boston College, No. 14 Louisville and No. 22 Bradley — as well as Virginia, the squad that handed them their first loss of the season.

With that in mind, Townsend said he expects this week’s practices to be intense.

“This is it,” he said. “It’s time to put everything we have on the line.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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TURNOVERS from page 8 taking just five shots and finishing with seven points. But after committing two turnovers in the game’s first six minutes, the freshman didn’t have another the rest of the way, and he gave the Terps a boost on the defensive end with his disruptive length.

“I thought Nick was just OK tonight,” Turgeon said. “I thought he was pressing.

He shot some ill-advised shots, which

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we’ve been working on.”

But with Howard likely out until at least January, and Stoglin entrenched as the team’s go-to scorer, Faust seems likely to be the team’s go-to point guard, no matter how many growing pains he endures — or sprints the team runs.

“He’s doing a great job at running this team as a point guard as a freshman,” Mosley said. “No matter what year you are, you can step up and make big plays for us.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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Terps clamp down on Rodgers in win vs. No. 10 Georgetown

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

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In their two meetings last season, Georgetown star Sugar Rodgers was nothing but a giant thorn in the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s side.

The two-time All-America guard scored 55 points in two wins against the Hoyas’ regional rival, including a 34point performance in an NCAA Tournament blowout that ended the Terps’ season.

But only months after transforming into an unstoppable force against the Terps, it seemed at times Sunday as if Rodgers was barely even on the court in the No. 11 Terps’ 72-53 rout of the Hoyas.

Normally the key to No. 10 Georgetown’s offensive attack, the sweet-shooting Rodgers was almost completely neutralized by the Terps’ defense, scoring just four points on 1-for-12 shooting, including an 0-for-4 performance from beyond the arc.

Rodgers’ frustration in Comcast Center was palpable as she left the floor before the game’s waning seconds ticked off in the second half, having fouled out in the game’s final minute.

Her performance Sunday stood in stark contrast to her final stat lines against the Terps last season, when she shot better than 53 percent from the field in the two games, including a 10-for-17 mark from beyond the 3-point line.

The Terps’ defensive efforts stood as a testament to how much they’d improved in the offseason, coach Brenda Frese said. That couldn’t have been any better exemplified than in the 19-point victory Sunday.

“We’re in some of the best physical shape we could possibly be in,” Frese said. “When you talk about being in that kind of shape, that allows you defensively to do a lot of things, and this team as a whole has committed themselves [to that].”

Georgetown coach Terri Williams-Flournoy wasn’t so quick to hand credit to the Terps’ defense, however. Noting that Rodgers is “one of the best players in the countr y,” Williams-Flournoy said, “Sugar won’t have these types of nights [again]. It just won’t happen.”

“I think they did an OK job on Sugar; I think Sugar just had an off night,” WilliamsFlournoy added. “Sugar still got up 12 shots, but she missed some free throws.

Sugar Rodgers never misses free throws.”

“Like coach said, I just had a bad shooting night,” Rodgers said. “[The defense] was OK, but I know I can shoot.”

Frese noted Rodgers “showed that she was human” Sunday, but she still couldn’t understate her pleasure with her team’s defense. Georgetown may have been quick to downplay the Terps’ defensive prowess, but Frese said that

“There’s special things ahead for this team, as long as we stay hungry and humble in our pursuit.”

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even without double-teaming Rodgers, the Terps’ individual defenders were able to corral her all afternoon.

“The only time we tried to double her was off of ball screens,” Frese said. “But a lot of her play was just slashing to the rim, and I thought Laurin [Mincy] and Kim [Rodgers] did a tremendous job of staying in front of her.”

Sunday’s victory over Georgetown was just one win in a long season, but a stifling defensive effort against one of the game’s brightest stars showcased the Terps’ realistic expectations of grabbing many more.

“There’s special things ahead for this team, as long as we stay hungry and humble in our pursuit,” Frese said. “With every practice and every game that we play, we get to create our new identity, and we want to build on this.” vitale@umdbk.com

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Terps get No. 5 seed in NCAAs Team has first-round bye despite late slide

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Gathered around a television screen inside a Comcast Center conference room yesterday afternoon, the Terrapins men’s soccer team understood the importance of tempered expectations.

The No. 4 Terps are in the midst of their longest winless streak in seven years. They haven’t won since the middle of October. And their first foray into postseason play ended with a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to Boston College in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals Nov. 8.

So when they turned on the NCAA Tournament selection show yesterday, the Terps (13-3-3) knew they weren’t going to match last season’s No. 2 overall seed. They even figured their chances of securing a top-four seed, which guarantees home-field advantage through the quarterfinals, weren’t very good.

The reality of their tournament future proved as grim as their present. The Terps, as they’d feared, received the No. 5 overall seed, giving them a first-round bye and setting up a second-round matchup against the winner of Thursday’s Xavier-West Virginia match at Ludwig Field on Sunday.

The Terps are familiar with the Mountaineers (10-7-1), who topped then-No. 1 Connecticut less than a month ago. The team beat West Virginia, 3-1, on Aug. 29.

The Musketeers (12-4-4), however, are still a bit of a mystery. They shocked No. 8 Charlotte en route to their second straight Atlantic 10 Tournament title Sunday, cementing a spot in the 48-team field.

“I’m not familiar at all with Xavier,” forward Casey Townsend said. “I just know that whoever we play, that first game is going to be a real challenge.”

ACC play, as yesterday’s field showed, should have them more than prepared. Six of the conference’s nine teams qualified for the tournament, and three landed among

see TOURNAMENT, page 7

Running back D.J. Adams finished with 55 yards on 16 carries in the Terps’ loss to Notre Dame on Saturday night.

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Benched, now back?

Adams contributes heavily vs. Notre Dame, but sophomore’s return may not last long

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

LANDOVER – With the Terrapins football team trailing by 17 points midway through the second quarter of Saturday’s loss to Notre Dame, a forgotten figure wheeled out of the

backfield and hauled in a pass for an 8-yard gain.

After running for 11 touchdowns in last season’s 9-4 campaign, he’d been relegated to the bench for much of the season. Since grinding out two touchdowns Sept. 17 against West Virginia, he’d received a mea-

ger seven carries between that loss and Saturday’s kickoff.

But there at FedExField, running back D.J. Adams again found himself in the rotation Saturday, gaining 55 yards and scoring a touchdown on 16 carries. It was a reappearance in a stagnant Terps offense, coach Randy

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Faust, Terps keep it clean in win After turnover-filled exhibition, lineup rearranging works vs. Seahawks

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Guard Nick Faust committed two turnovers in the Terps’ game Sunday against UNC-Wilmington, but he was relatively errorfree after an inconsistent start. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Fed up with his team’s nearly two dozen turnovers in a Nov. 4 exhibition against Northwood, Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon last week introduced a new saying to his squad’s lexicon: “second loss of ball.”

It sounded like nonsense at first to the Terps. But a handful of sprints later, they understood. Every time a player committed two turnovers in practice, the team lined up from the baseline and sprinted to one end of the court and back.

Did it work?

“Oh, yes,” forward James Padgett said. “Definitely.”

It showed Sunday night in the Terps’ season-opening win against UNC-Wilmington. After they started the game with two turnovers in the first three possessions and seven before the 10minute mark, the Terps settled into their offense.

Turgeon’s saying wasn’t anything new — he learned it as an assistant under current North Carolina coach Roy Williams while at Kansas decades ago — but with his team lacking a true point guard, he decided it was worth dusting off.

“All of a sudden, when you’re running for the second [turnover], you become very aware and you start making the easy play,” Tur-

geon said. “I think it’s really helped us. As the week goes on, we ran a lot less sprints.”

When reporters brought up the new practice philosophy Saturday, guard Sean Mosley couldn’t help but let out a huge smile.

“I just don’t like running as much,” Mosley said. “It’s one of those discipline things. It’s a great thing for us because we’re taking care of the ball more than we were before.

“As soon as you make that second turnover, he just says, ‘Baseline.’”

After guard Pe’Shon Howard went down with a broken left foot nearly three weeks ago, Turgeon was left without a true ball handler on the Terps’ active roster.

He decided to start guard Terrell Stoglin at point in the team’s exhibition game against Northwood, but the sophomore committed five turnovers and had trouble finding his own scoring touch as the team’s conductor.

So the first-year coach turned to Nick Faust, his highly touted freshman shooting guard, to run the offense in his first collegiate game.

“I know everyone’s going to make a big deal about it, but it’s not a big deal,” Turgeon said Saturday. “It’s what we think we need to do.”

Faust wasn’t impressive offensively in his first game,

see TURNOVERS, page 7

Edsall said, born more so out of necessity than confidence in the bruising sophomore.

“I thought he did some productive things,” Edsall said after the game.

“We had a couple of other guys that

see ADAMS, page 7