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alumnus peter kramer (above) was arrested and allegedly beaten on March 3, 2010, the night about 1,500 people flooded McKeldin Mall and Route 1 to celebrate the Terps men’s basketball victory over Duke to clinch the ACC regular-season championship title. Kramer said he did not know there was a game that night; he was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and subsequently arrested that night, he said. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Learning to push through Student arrested and beaten in Duke riots recalls experience in light of officers’ trials

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer After a night full of studying, Peter Kramer decided to take a walk down Knox Road to Santa Fe Cafe to celebrate a friend’s birthday.

Moments later, the then-21-year-

old, who goes by “Tripp,” found himself on the pavement, handcuffs around his wrists and a tactical police boot pressing his face to the concrete.

It was March 3, 2010, and the Terrapins men’s basketball team had just upset rival Duke, 79-72, at Comcast Center to win the ACC regular-season

Championship. More than 1,500 students flooded McKeldin Mall and Route 1 to celebrate. But they were quickly met by officers on horseback, wielding shields and pepper spray.

Kramer didn’t know there was a basketball game that night. So he hadn’t anticipated a riot — where those cel-

ebrating destroyed property, set a tree and trash can on fire and yelled at officers — or being one of 23 students arrested in an incident that would tarnish their relationship with the Prince George’s County Police Department.

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Students dissatisfied with Dining procedures Diners with dietary restrictions say food mixes

By Bradleigh Chance Staff writer Although the university has gained recognition for its vegetarian, kosher and allergy-friendly options, some students say dining hall procedures are falling short.

Michaela Gallagher, a freshman psychology major, has two major dietary restrictions: she can’t eat meat, and she is also gluten-free. This combination limits her options and makes dining on the campus difficult.

“If you get something that’s con-

taminated even the smallest amount, it can really be harmful,” Gallagher said. “The smallest amount has a huge impact on whether or not you get sick — workers at the Diner just don’t understand that.”

From a gluten-free standpoint, Gallagher said, the services sometimes fail to meet students’ needs. Some staff members are uninformed, the labeling is “atrocious” and the restrictions cause the meal options on Dining Services’ expansive menus to dwindle See food, Page 3

Positioned between 7-11 and Greenbelt Road, the Enclave apartment building has managed to carve out a niche amid a slew of luxury housing options in the city, despite its relative distance from the campus.

In the months following its fall 2011 opening, the apartment complex, which has seen a slew of management teams, struggled to attract students. The building’s leasing rate of its 369 beds stood at just more than 50 percent in February, but since Star Management Group took over in July, focusing heavily on customer service and employing a “guerrilla” marketing campaign, the rate has spiked to 89 percent, according to manager Josh Parini.

Before then, however, the building had also hired a North Carolina-based firm in December after scores of residents complained of mold-infested carpets and shoddy maintenance, determined to address concerns and raise the building’s dismal occupancy rate. In July, after an onslaught of “false promises” and disagreements in pricing, however, the ownership again sought a fresh start and fired the company.

“It was a lot of confusion,” Parini said. “Pricing-wise … they went in and basically gave very, very low rent.”

The competitive rent prices, compared to the University View and The Varsity, were enticing for Adam Duvall, a junior computer science major.

“It’s cheaper here definitely than The Varsity, but the extra price would probably be worth it because it’s closer to campus,” Duvall said.

“I would probably look elsewhere before renewing just because of the distance and overall quality.”

When Star Management took over, the new management distributed flyers at local businesses and on the campus, bolstered their Internet

dining services’ food in places like the pasta and salad bar sometimes mixes, several students said, which can make adhering to strict diets, such as vegetarian and gluten-free ones, a challenge. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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Creating an interconnected campus, one app at a time Student launches Facebook app TerpSocial to help foster connections among students on the campus

By Laura Blasey Staff writer It started with a bet — senior computer science major Vik Bhandari and a friend each created a profile on the

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Although Bhandari lost the contest, it gave him the inspiration for what would become TerpSocial, a Facebook application geared toward con-

necting students with others on the campus. The idea for the service, which launched last week, sprang from Bhandari’s frustration with OkCupid’s limitations: he could not narrow down the pool of potential dates by school.

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KRAMER

there the night he was arrested.

“The officer that testified against me in court was not the From PAGE 1 same arresting officer in College The county eventually settled Park that night. I had never 10 civil suits with former student seen him before in my life, but John McKenna, whose beating he claimed to be the arresting was caught on tape and went officer,” Kramer said. “My atviral, and others involved in the torney asked him very simple postgame riot, according to The questions like what color I was Washington Post. Settlements wearing and what I was doing and with McKenna totaled $2 million, he couldn’t get any substantive and the other nine totaled $1.6 answers. He just kept saying he million, The Post reported last couldn’t recall.”

Prince George’s County Police month. Kramer neither confirmed nor denied whether he denied to comment on the case, but noted the department has was one of those 10.

And just last month, county since changed some of its policies.

“Arresting police officers no officer James Harrison was found guilty of second-degree assault, longer pass along their arrest a charge that could bring up to 10 booking [and] charging responsiyears in prison; his sentencing is bilities to other police officers,” a scheduled for Dec. 14. He, along department representative wrote with officer Reginald Baker, who in an email. was acquitted of all charges, are Kramer was found not guilty. both suspended but still being paid by the department. They But that was only half the battle.

The Phoenix, Md., native rewere on trial for their involveturned to school after his arrest ment in McKenna’s beating.

Although Kramer said he didn’t hoping to speak with the Office follow the trial very closely, it has of Student Conduct to ensure he resurfaced memories of a night wouldn’t be expelled.

Kramer called John Zacker, that forever changed him. student conduct dean, to explain When Kramer walked past his side of the story.

Zacker, now the student 7-11 that night, he asked a group of Prince George’s County Police affairs assistant vice president, officers if he could walk into Santa denied to comment on the case, Fe. One told him to “Go that way,” but said the 2010 riot disciplinKramer said, but he didn’t know ary action cases were treated the same as all others. which direction that was.

When police file a report, the “I asked him for an explanation and he grabbed me by my collar, office confers with police and socked me in the face, threw me looks at the report filed, Zacker to the ground and I got a boot on wrote in an email. If a student my face,” Kramer said. “There faces disciplinary action, he were two officers restraining me added, he or she is asked to schedand I got a baton up against my ule an interview with the office.

Kramer did not face any uniface and my mouth.”

Police loaded Kramer into a versity sanctions, but said he paddy wagon and took him to struggled to explain his story to the Hyattsville Justice Center, professors and peers.

“Around campus when I talked where he stood with handcuffs in a cement holding cell during his to faculty about it, I got the imthree-hour stay. He said officers pression that they didn’t think I mocked detainees and discour- was telling the truth,” Kramer said. “You feel so alone and isoaged reporting injuries.

“It was humiliating,” Kramer lated and alienated when people said. “[The officer] took my ID aren’t on your side.”

He regularly visited with psyand said he wanted to make sure I got expelled for rioting. It was chologists and therapists in the months following the incident. so surreal.”

“There was definitely a big The then-junior panicked about losing his five-and-a- change in me after that,” Kramer half semesters’ worth of credits said. “Those sorts of things at this university. There were never really leave you. I’ll never about 15 others in his holding forget those things that hapcell, many of whom he guessed pened to me. Those memories were among the 23 students ar- don’t go away overnight. Even rested that night. But Kramer if the feelings aren’t there, the was too upset, too anxious, too lesson still is.” distraught to ask.

Kramer found comfort in “I didn’t know anyone else’s story in that room. I only knew Michael Olmert, his prime-time my own, but I knew we were Emmy Award-winning English all going through something professor. Kramer, an English similar,” he said. “There was major, took four courses with Olmert, including a three-week some comfort in that.” class in London, where Olmert, Kramer was charged with dis- Kramer and 13 other students all turbing the peace that night. He lived together.

Olmert, who has been teachwent to court on Aug. 6, 2010, with his private attorney Carl E. ing at this university for 26 years, calls Kramer one of his best stuTuerk Jr. Tuerk did not respond to dents. He volunteered to be in Olmultiple phone requests for mert’s play readings and earned all “A”s in his classes. Kramer and comment.

County police officers Michael his mother, Kathy, had dinner Quail, the complainant, and Pfc. with Olmert a few times, and Victor Dobro, the witness, were in the professor said he sees Kramer court, according to court docu- “like a nephew.”

“I believed him because I had ments. Kramer said he does not remember either officer being no reason not to believe him,”

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THE PRINCE GEORGE’s COUNTY POLICE DEPARtMENT has modified its riot response tactics since the one that erupted after the 2010 men’s basketball victory over Duke. Now, officers do not use weapons with pepperball projectiles, the department keeps track of officers who are on duty when civil disturbances are likely and post-riot videos are analyzed for misconduct. file photo/the diamondback Olmert said. “I noticed for the rest of that semester he was really quiet and really down. He was going through a lot.”

Kramer said he was afraid of being alone, of something happening to him if there weren’t others around.

The biggest change in him, though, was his perception of law enforcement. After video tapes emerged of the riot, officers faced accusations of brutality and excessive force.

“It came to a point where people became defiant. People started endangering innocent civilians and police officers.

Our objective at that point was to restore peace in that community,” Prince George’s County Police Chief Roberto Hylton said in a press conference on March 4,

2010. “I think that everyone needs to understand that we wear a uniform for a specific reason. Everyone can identify who a police officer is. A uniform — that should prevent this type of event.”

Despite the setbacks, Kramer still graduated on schedule in May 2011.

He now has a fellowship at Devine Mulvey, a Democratic media firm, composing music for its advertisements.

He manages his psychological stress through music and even has a few songs of his own online, including “Ate My Soul,” which has more than 1,000 views on YouTube.

That song has a soothing beat that highlights his singing, but the lyrics read, “I can’t stop my

head, can’t stop my head. It ate my soul.”

K ramer said the connection between the lyrics and his psychological experiences was unintentional.

“I wasn’t channeling those riot incidents directly when I wrote it,” he said. “But you can’t divorce yourself from the circumstances of your own life, especially when you’re creating something like that.”

Consciously and subconsciously, Kramer’s life has been permanently altered. And so has the county police department.

The department has since altered its riot response tactics.

It videotapes roll calls to know which officers are on duty on nights it anticipates civil disturbance, including the home

Duke game every year. Officers have identification numbers visible to avoid confusing who is present.

The department also stopped using weapons that deploy pepperball projectiles, officials said, and footage of post-riot videos is examined for misconduct.

“Our unprecedented hiring of a civilian inspector general with complete oversight of our use of force disciplinary and training matters has also served to ensure compliance with the very best police practices in the nation,” the department said.

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FOOD From PAGE 1 dramatically, she said. If a value meal comes with bread and staff put the food on her plate, she needs to ask for a new plate. And at stations like Cluckers, where the sides are kept in containers close together, food can easily get mixed together before she ever steps in line.

Accommodating students with dietary needs is integral to Dining Services’ mission, spokesman Bart Hipple said. However, it can be difficult for staff to anticipate those needs.

“We give people with restrictions many opportunities to identify themselves — they just need to speak up,” Hipple said. “We try to educate students with dietary needs by giving them tours of the dining hall and explaining the possibilities of cross contamination … Students have to take responsibility for knowing how serious their allergy is and working with us to make sure it doesn’t happen.”

In addition to the options served in the dining halls, the department can prepare meals from frozen, gluten-free products for those who call in advance.

“The students need to be willing to self-identify themselves and make this a partnership,” Hipple said. “We have a student on campus who has dairy and gluten restrictions, and our chef is actually writing this student a monthly diet plan.”

But that communication with the dining staff is not always easy during busy lunch and dinner hours, Gallagher said.

“If there’s a language barrier, that can be an additional problem,” she said. “It turns into a huge ordeal and the supervisor comes out — everyone’s waiting in line and it’s really embarrassing.”

Other students, such as freshman architecture major Mira Rosen, keep kosher. The set of requirements includes only eating meat from animals killed according to a strict set of guidelines. Although Hillel provides a kosher dining plan, she chooses to eat at the dining halls out of convenience.

“At the pasta bar, they use the

same spatulas as they do for the meat,” Rosen said. “I never say anything, but I would prefer if they used a separate spatula for me.”

Serving approximately 25,000 people a day, Hipple said it can be difficult to accommodate every preference and allergy on the spot.

“I think the staff is very good about keeping the spatulas clean,” he added.

Students said they had also noticed some inconsistencies in how different dining halls and stations account for dietary restrictions. For example, the stir-fry station Seasons 12 has vegan cooking spaces that don’t allow for contamination; in another area of the South Campus Dining Hall, veggie burgers are heated in the same area of the grill as a burger or chicken sandwich.

And Sprouts at the Diner is a great option, Rosen said, but Dining Services should expand and make all of those choices available on the other side of the campus. Because the dining halls do not provide kosher meats, Rosen remains vegetarian.

“Sprouts is incredible, and it’s always so busy,” Rosen said.

“They should definitely have one on South Campus because it’s not fair for vegetarians living on that side of campus — without it, their choices are really limited.”

More fresh fruits and healthier options would solve a lot of problems, said Sarah Miles, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences. Though she tried being a vegan, it turned out to be impractical on the campus, she said.

“I was bored with the selection, so I just started eating meat,” Miles said. “I felt like I wouldn’t be very healthy eating the same stuff over and over.”

Dining Services is capable of reacting to students’ requests and is just waiting for that necessary feedback, Hipple said.

“South Campus has a smaller dining hall, but we would consider finding space to meet student demands,” Hipple said. “Sprouts is relatively new — if we’re feeling significant pressure to open one, we will, but there’s not currently enough space in the South Campus Dining Hall, so something else would have to close.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

APP From PAGE 1 friends of friends, instead of connecting them with strangers. Users download the TerpSocial app to their Facebook profile and can choose from a variety of activities, from bowling or hitting the clubs downtown to creating their own options. The application allows them to find others looking to do the same — users also have the option to filter by gender so they can plan a girls’ night out or an all-guys pickup basketball game. “ T h a t ’s h o w we m e e t people right now,” Bhandari said. “You go for dinner with a friend and you happen to meet a third person, or you go to a poker night or a movie night and meet a friend of a friend. That’s just how we make friends naturally.”

Nearly 100 people have downloaded the app since Bhandari launched its beta version nine days ago and began chalking advertisements around the campus.

While Bhandari’s computer science classes gave him a good foundation, he is largely selftaught. It was the hours and hours he put in on his own that gave him the ability to create meaningful technol-

ENCLAVE From PAGE 1 presence and outfitted students with free merchandise, such as backpacks emblazoned with “The Enclave,” to help create buzz. The occupancy rate rose from 72 percent in July to 89 percent by the end of August.

The management has also worked to get to know each of the apartment’s student residents by name, greeting them upon entry and holding mixer events in the lobby in the hope of creating a more intimate relationship with the clientele, Parini said.

“Sometimes people are

ogy. Bhandari said he spent 16 hours a day every day for two weeks creating one of his first projects, an app called Campus Maps that provides a blueprint of this university’s grounds.

“My mother was a little confused at first, then I showed her that I had 7,000 downloads. I’ve changed something,” he said. “My friends have come to understand that some weekends, Vik goes AWOL.” He has since made a second version of that free app, mapping out the University of Virginia’s campus.

Bhandari also created an app for the UMD Stock Market C h a l l e n ge , a n d wo rke d with engineering professor Jeffrey Herrmann on an anthrax screening app called eMedCheck.

“Vik took a prototype app, revised it and improved it significantly, and then prepared it for submission to the iTunes App Store,” Herrmann wrote in an email.

“He worked very hard on every detail of the user interface and its functionality.

I enjoyed working with Vik. We went through multiple iterations before it was ready to release, and he was able to develop creative solutions to the challenges we faced.”

“My mother was a little confused at first, then I showed her that I had 7,000 downloads. I’ve changed something.”

Bhandari has had a passion for confronting the challenges of making apps since his sophomore year. As he began looking at jobs and internships in the computer science field, he made a list of all of the possibilities and requirements, exploring each one on his own time. He didn’t make it through the entire list, though — once he got to iPhone applications, he knew where we wanted to concentrate his skills.

“I can have a vision and implement it,” he said. “I like having that control over that and being able to give it to people.”

Bhandari’s friend Nicholas Soto, a sophomore biochemistry major, said if he had to pick one word to describe Bhandari, it would be “committed.”

“He puts in hundreds of hours into working on these programs for fellow Terps, which are great and really helpful; plus, they don’t cost us a thing,” Soto said.

“I knew Vik in high school,

and he was always a fun guy to hang around. When I use these apps, I’m reminded of the hard work and dedication put behind them. I can’t wait to see what improvements he makes and what he comes up with next.”

Bhandari is working on expanding both his TerpSocial and Campus Maps applications. He said for the future, he envisions one app for students that includes maps, events and a feature designed to facilitate textbook swapping between students — something he wishes had existed during his freshman year.

Stories of computer scientists who quit their jobs to create apps with no guarantee of a paycheck are inspiring, Bhandari said. He hopes to freelance for part of the year and spend the rest of his time doing what he loves to do, perhaps eventually launching a business.

“It’s about finding what you’re passionate about,” he said. “Its gotten so much bigger than what I expected.”

scared to talk to managers; sometimes they feel that management doesn’t relate to students,” Parini said. “We got down to their level and said, ‘Hey, we’re all here together.’”

Although the management has worked to improve residents’ living experiences, several students, such as sophomore mathematics major Madison Hawkes, said the building’s distant location leaves them feeling disconnected from the campus and major city attractions.

“It’s really new, but the distance I don’t like, and I think a lot of people don’t like that,” Hawkes said, adding she needs her car to access

grocery stores and restaurants. “I’d probably rather live in a really crappy place that’s close to campus.”

While management has improved since moving in, she said, several initial problems made her apprehensive about the living situation.

When she first moved into her apartment, she discovered the previous tenant had left many of his or her possessions behind. When she approached management, they asked her to clean it out herself.

“The person left their j u n k ,” s h e s a i d . “ T h ey wouldn’t throw it away, so I had to throw it away.”

Hawkes added she’d be

more inclined to renew her lease if the retail spaces on the lobby level were full of shops and restaurants. The building is aiming to create a peaceful, upscale environment for students, Parini said. Despite more successful efforts to fill beds, three retail spots on the lobby level of the building remain vacant. Parini said the team is in talks with vendors and hopes to add a coffee shop, a brewery and a dessert shop.

“We’re working on new strategies to make this an exclusive, boutique-type of luxury living where students can come here to study, get good grades,” Parini said.

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BEARS From PAGE 8 Dakota Edwards and Jordan Cyrus have already made significant impacts on a so far charmed season in College Park.

For Cyrus, it was just the question of finding a home. A dynamic goal scorer in high school at Norfolk Academy in Virginia Beach, Va., he began the season as a reserve forward and scored two goals in the Terps’ Sept. 2 rout of California. But when Kemp went down with an injury, coach Sasho Cirovski inserted Cyrus into the right back spot and watched the redshirt junior thrive.

“Jordan’s been fantastic,” Cirovski said. “He’s another one where the light switch kept going on and off all the time. … This time he’s really been more focused, and he’s been extremely consistent. He’s gotten stronger every game.”

Cyrus has made 11 starts for the Terps and grown more comfortable each time out. He said Cirovski didn’t know where to play him early in his career because of his versatile skill set. But for now, he’s found a home at right back where he can concentrate on shutting down opposing offenses while still setting up teammates for goals.

“It feels good having a position

TIGERS From PAGE 8 of the freshmen today and said, ‘Oh, it’s your first Final Four. I remember when it was my first and how exciting it was.’”

The Terps (18-5) will be hard-pressed to make it to another title game. In an Oct. 2 road game against the Tigers, the Terps held a 2-1 advantage at halftime before Princeton stormed back and ultimately notched the 3-2 win. Forward Kathleen Sharkey, the NCAA leader in goals with 35, tied the game with the assist from two U.S. Olympians, Julia Reinprecht and Katie Reinprecht.

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where I can just focus on it and not worry about anything else,” Cyrus said.

Joining Cyrus in front of goalkeeper Keith Cardona is Edwards, another player who’s had a lower profile for most of the season, even though he started 16 of 17 regular-season games next to Woodberry at center back. But any and all anonymity the freshman had playing alongside the Terps’ top defenders evaporated when he scored his first goal of the season — and of his career — in the ACC championship game against North Carolina.

“He has great physical abilities,” Cirovski said. “He’s strong, he’s fast and he understands his job is to defend first. He doesn’t do too much. He wins the ball and gives it to the right people, and he does a great job of that.”

On a backline that was in flux before the season started — Ambrose and Edwards both beat out returning Terps for starting jobs — the Terps haven’t missed a beat despite rotating players in and out because of injury or game circumstances. Whether it’s Cyrus filling in for an injured Kemp or midfielder Helge Leikvang subbing in for Edwards late against Clemson, the Terps have seen the same success on the field.

“We’re all good players, so when one of us drops, one of us will rise and take

control and pick up where the other person left off,” Edwards said.

For a team hungry for a deep postseason run, contributions and impacts from players like Edwards and Cyrus have been key, especially as goals come at a premium for the offense. With Hoover, Ala., and the College Cup as the end destination, it’s clear the Terps are dead set on arriving there.

“I look at it like this,” Cyrus said. “At the end of the day, this tournament, everybody starts out with the same record.

Nobody on our team has been to a Final

Four even, so I view it as a chance to do something we’ve never done before here and make history. It makes me really antsy to start playing again.”

TERPS NOTE: Kemp’s status is still uncertain for Sunday’s game. He played 90 minutes Nov. 6 in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, just more than three minutes in the semifinals and sat out the championship game after sitting out a month with a sports hernia. Cirovski said Kemp’s current injury is “non-hernia-related.”

A little more than six minutes later, Sydney Kirby scored the go-ahead goal that dealt the Terps their second loss in three games.

The Tigers hold the best scoring margin in the nation and lead the NCAA in points per game, goals scored and assists per game. The team also has the second-highest winning percentage in the country and is riding a 12-game winning streak.

“We’re going to want to seriously slow down the pace in the midfield and keep the speed down,” Meharg said. “At the same time, I’m confident in our ability to put a lot of pressure on their backs. I want to cut off the stream to their key players.”

Though they may not be the favorite against the offensive juggernaut, a number of Terps said they couldn’t care less. The squad entered last year’s NCAA tournament unseeded, but beat the three top-seeded teams en route to a seventh NCAA title.

“It’s nice being the underdog,” said forward Jill Witmer, who leads the team in scoring with 14 goals. “When you’re No. 1, you’re kind of a target. Now, we can go in there and beat the other teams out because we want to prove that we deserve that top spot.”

The odds may be somewhat against them, but the Terps said they got all the motivation they would ever need from their performance in the ACC tourna-

ment semifinals. The Terps played 70 minutes of their best hockey against Virginia, which had come from behind and beaten them in the regular season.

At the final whistle, they had more than twice as many shots as the Cavaliers and twice as many penalty corner opportunities, and it showed through a crooked 5-1 score in favor of the Terps.

Now, they want to do the exact same thing to the Tigers.

“I still say — and I know that they would agree — that their best hockey has yet to be seen,” Meharg said. “We’re just looking to put that together right now.”

the top teams in the nation, including No. 3 Virginia, No. 10 Wake Forest and No. 13 North Carolina — all highly esteemed ACC programs.

Those victories — and even some hard-fought losses — have readied the Terps (14-6-2) for whatever challenge they might face in the NCAA tournament.

“Our league is the best league in the country,” Morgan said. “ T h e we e k i n a n d we e k o u t competition that we face, that’s what prepares us for this tournament. I feel like we’ve played the best teams in the country, so whoever we play moving forward, our team shouldn’t be shy, shouldn’t be nervous, shouldn’t doubt themselves, because we’ve played and beaten the best teams in the country.”

Playing like the team to beat is an idea Morgan tried to reinforce to his players during practice this week. Coupled with a fully committed mentality, the Terps have a chance to advance to the semifinals to face either top-seeded Stanford or Santa Clara on Sunday.

“We certainly have to reiterate that it doesn’t matter who is in front of us,” Morgan said. “We can beat whoever.”

The Terps lost, 1-0, to Oklahoma State in last year’s tournament, a fate they’re hoping to avoid tonight.

When they step onto the pitch in California, they’ll be focused on simply giving their seniors at least one more game together before they have to hang up their cleats.

“We haven’t really looked at future teams yet because we’re taking it one game at a time, but I think we’re all really confident and excited,” forward Becky Kaplan said. “I’m just ready to play because I believe we’re going to win.”

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Opinion

YASMEEN ABUTALEB Editor in Chief

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On the Internet, it’s tough to have an opinion unless you’re surrounded by people who already agree with you.

Check out some YouTube comments on pretty much any video and you’ll see why. Better than anything our society has yet created, the anonymity and immediacy of the Internet have enabled the ultimate forum for groupthink, where social control via downvoting and defriending makes it clear that you are stupid if you are a Republican, and Justin Bieber doesn’t make good music because teenage girls like him.

On the Internet, you surely achieve instant gratification for expressing popular opinions. You don’t have to have ever heard a Nickelback song; All you need to know is it’s a social requirement to hate them.

I believe there is strong support for the argument that hating art without sampling it is dangerous — and most people who say they hate Chad Kroeger and company made a conscious decision to do so heavily influenced by social factors, forcing them to retroactively dislike “How You Remind Me.” However, Nickelback is certainly of less consequence than personal beliefs and ideologies that seem to increasingly come about by the same means.

Oh, look, a quote by a feminist on Tumblr. I will reblog it because I agree.

Now I am a feminist. How about this: A comic pointing out a contradictory element of a religion here on Reddit. I will upvote and now I know God is not real.

I use these two examples because I too tend to agree with feminists and atheists, but fear people are now using memes, GIFs, quotes and the “like” button to acquire such beliefs without learning about them.

There is no doubt the streamlined sharing of just what is important to you is one of the great triumphs of social media and the Internet, but we are drawing nearer to the point of existing in

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an echo chamber that silences criticism.

And no matter how biting, witty and poignant a quote is, it’s almost always a simplified thesis of some larger work.

This doesn’t mean we should be sharing full books on Twitter; perhaps it’s simply time to question how we know what we claim to know. The real fault of online activism like KONY 2012 is not that it seemed mainly focused on making a viral video. Sharing information is absolutely activist. The problem is the information given is demanding you think this way or feel guilty, playing on your emotions, creating the belief that people in other countries have it bad because not enough privileged white people care.

Look at thoughtcatalog.com, the leader of the thoughtless revolution.

While the site claims to be a place where “important conversations happen,” I have yet to see a challenging piece.

Their “about” page claims that reading the site’s always-vetted, sometimesedited content “will probably make you more interesting.” While this is certainly untrue, it accurately reflects the mindset of all tastemakers: To be interesting is to think like us, because everyone in this camp is doing it right.

In reality, most of their posts exist only to confirm what you already think and encourage you to eat ice cream in your bed like any other good, tortured soul.

Thoughtcatalog.com will undoubtedly make you less interesting.

The Internet is a beautiful place where everyone can participate in the discussion — where a sad sack of slobs calling someone’s taste in music stupid is considered commentary. Post a Facebook status about how cool Batman is and you hardly wait 30 seconds before people have started agreeing with you.

Better to learn with a quick glance at quotes on a Google image search; it leaves more time for cat videos. Let somebody else do the thinking for you.

Getting reblogged feels better.

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fter what seemed like years, the dust has settled. Politicians — and active citizens — have (mostly) put their claws away, and talk has shifted to policy making instead of votes. The election season we all loved or hated is finally over.

After putting it off for as long as seemingly possible, attention is back on the impending fiscal cliff, a series of tax hikes and drastic cuts set to go into effect at the start of the new year. But there was one critical story line that got lost in the shuffle of the various national and state races going on: Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for a status change from a U.S. territory to the 51st state.

Obviously, the implications of such a move are beyond our realm of expertise right now. It doesn’t seem likely Congress will take this up any time soon — after all, the body isn’t required to act on the vote, even if 61 percent of Puerto Rican voters supported it.

But the vote shows there are battles and issues brewing far o u ts i d e o f Wa s h i n g to n t h a t warrant more attention and action. It’s troubling that the story got so little attention, especially when you consider what the simple desire for statehood could mean.

Yes, lawmakers’ and President Obama’s primary focus should be on avoiding the fiscal cliff and crafting more long-term budgetary solutions over the next few weeks. And it’s reassuring to see students seem to be

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Everyone’s cause has some significance, and many people are able to articulate that to members of Congress. Pay attention to things you may not deem important right away — it might be worth it. taking more of a vested interest in the negotiations, especially because our futures are on the line. Apathy will always exist, but it seems like the election cycle ignited the sort of passion and care sorely needed among young people. Unfortunately, that passion hasn’t transcended far enough for many.

On a national scale, the Puerto Rican vote isn’t a primary concern. But it’s an issue that illustrates how there always needs to be those willing to take up less prominent issues and educate those who may not otherwise learn.

Campus activism this election cycle illustrated the beauty in having a democracy in which people are free to advocate for various issues. Students on the campus were passionate about legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, and it passed. Students wanted to see undocumented students living as state residents pay in-state tuition at state colleges to increase their opportunities, and the DREAM Act passed.

This state was able to see such a historic election because groups of people took up different issues and assumed responsibility for educating others. And just because the craze of the election has settled, the desire for change and willingness to educate can’t disappear.

When you open up Facebook and scroll through your news feed, you likely see people posting statuses about several different causes.

An issue that seems minute to one person could be incredibly important to another. There are many bills that wouldn’t pass through Congress if it weren’t for people willing to call up lawmakers and articulate why the legislation may be important. Maybe making Puerto Rico the 51st state isn’t important to many of us here — but it is to 61 percent of Puerto Rican voters.

And by delving beyond the stories we continually see splashed on front pages, we’ll come to find there are numerous causes worth taking up.

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Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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It’s a win-win situation, right?

The Student Government Association, with the generous support of university President Wallace Loh’s office and the Division of Student Affairs, has put together Maryland Invests: College Affordability Essay Contest in order to urge state legislators to prioritize higher education and keep college affordable. Although it has been reported Gov. Martin O’Malley’s current budget plan would result in a 3 percent increase to in-state tuition, the fate of the budget, and consequently our tuition, rests in the hands of our legislators in Annapolis. This contest is our way of demonstrating to our representatives the importance of valuing higher education. If we make a statement, we can make a difference.

Last year, the General Assembly voted to cut education spending, which would have increased tuition by more than 10 percent. Legislators only changed their minds during a special session after students at this university rallied to keep tuition affordable. This year, we want to make our voices heard loud and clear early on to prevent them from making the same mistake.

Following today’s submission deadline, the SGA and administrators from around the campus will select a group of finalists and eventually the winners. On the first day of the legislative session, the SGA will deliver a book composed of all of the finalists’ essays to each member of the General Assembly. By providing our legislators with firsthand testimonies, we as students can show

them the importance of receiving a college education and the direct impact tuition increases will have on us.

When we reached out to all of the deans about this contest, every single one of them expressed support. Jayanth Banavar, the computer, mathematical, and natural sciences college dean, called us to express how excited he was about it, saying, “This can embody the spirit of this university.”

He’s right. Beyond the potential you have to influence the state legislature’s decision on our tuition rates next year, you can change the culture at this university and in this state. You can ensure our administrators and policy makers listen to the student voice before they make important decisions.

Whether your family can afford your tuition or not, we’re part of a community here at this university, and many of our peers are struggling to pay tuition. This is your chance to stand up for them and show legislators we can’t keep putting the burden on the backs of students.

All you need to do to make a difference is write a 400–500 word essay telling state legislators why they should help keep college affordable. You can tell our representatives in Annapolis to put their money where their mouths are and prevent more tuition hikes.

Don’t sit back while Annapolis debates the value of our educations. Take a stand. Be the difference — and win some awesome prizes while you’re at it.

For more contest details, please go to mdsga.com/MarylandInvests. Submissions are due today.

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Money for safety won’t be wasted ALEX McGUIRE If you happen to venture south past Stamp Student Union on a typical Friday or Saturday night, any of the South Campus Commons buildings tend to be prime places to let loose, assuming you know someone who can swipe you in. If you happen to go a little bit farther south, you’ll probably end up scrounging a beer or two from a party at one of the lovely Knox Boxes. We’re all familiar with those complexes — but do we feel safe in them?

As a resident of one of those brick Knox Box structures, I have generally felt safe due to the vast amount of people traipsing up and down the road. Of course, there’s always our street’s favoritism with Prince George’s County Police on weekends (and during field parties), simply because of its reputation.

But this comfort was threatened when a student was beaten and robbed by three 18-year-olds a few doors down from me Sunday morning. Luckily, the police caught the individuals about an hour after it happened. But the mugging —

as well as other recent off-campus crimes in the Berwyn House Road area — could have been prevented if there was a dominant police presence to scare off criminals.

We’ve all noticed the increased patrol presence around certain events during the academic year. Police cars stuffed the Bank of America parking lot across from R.J. Bentley’s on homecoming weekend; geared-up officers packed Ritchie Coliseum after the Duke basketball game back in January. It’s easy to say the solution to increasing regular patrols around vulnerable offcampus areas is to have more funds, such as the recent grant for protection against domestic violence, directed toward the surveillance of different problem areas in College Park.

But the question would still remain: Is the best use of taxpayers’ dollars to invest them in increased patrols?

Old and new studies of cities with even larger populations and crime rates than ours have found the answer to be yes. About 40 years ago, there was a federally funded pilot program in St. Louis. The city’s police chief assigned pairs of officers and volunteers to the city’s high-crime areas.

Over the course of five months, the crime rate dropped 17 percent in the surveyed areas. Among other achievements, the teams interrupted a rape,

prevented a shooting, recovered a stolen car and apprehended numerous armed robbery suspects.

Similar results have recently been found in other large cities. Temple University teamed up with the Philadelphia Police Department in 2010 to create the Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment: 120 officers patrolled 60 areas around the city, all day and all night. After three months, relative to the comparison areas, violent crime decreased 23 percent. This reduction indicated the foot patrols prevented 53 violent crimes during the summer trial period. The project received acclaim and won an award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The patrols worked for St. Louis and Philadelphia, two cities vastly larger than College Park. This effect would be of a much greater magnitude in our incredibly small city if we applied the same idea. Beat patrols of our tiny college town wouldn’t even require that much funding — it would only require dedication and some gas money. It costs about $60 to fill up each police cruiser. Isn’t that worth crime prevention and a calmer state of mind?

Alex McGuire is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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orn today, you are not the kind to accept criticism with tremendous grace. In fact, you may at times come completely unglued when someone offers up his or her honest opinion of your work or performance -- and for this reason it is best that you adopt a strict policy of discounting anyone’s opinion. You insist on remaining free of the kinds of ties that result in nothing but personal debt of one kind or another, so deep is your desire for complete independence and autonomy. The risk, of course, is that you may be alone for much of your life.

You never try to conceal your feelings from others -- nor could you if you tried, they are so volatile and prevalent. You feel strongly about most things, and there are times when it may seem you do not even prioritize. You can be joyous or desperate at the drop of a hat.

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By Dean Essner Staff writer Mental illness is a modern movie stigma. Many directors have tried and failed to make a film covering the concept, with their efforts undercut by obvious ploys to tap into either viewers’ sweet tooth or tear duct.

Silver Linings Playbook, the new film by David O. Russell (The Fighter), dares to invoke this theme. But, unlike most of its innumerable counterparts, it’s truly life-affirming.

Bypassing both schmaltz and overt melodrama, it’s a gorgeous little beacon of positivity that is more genuine than just about any other movie you’ll see all year.

The film opens up with Pat Solitano’s (Bradley Cooper, Hit and Run) exit from a Baltimore mental institution, where he was sent via court order after brutally assaulting his wife’s (Brea Bee, The Best and the Brightest) lover upon discovering them having sex. Pat comes home to live, once again, with his sweet, sympathetic mother (Jackie Weaver, The Five-Year Engagement) and brash, outspoken father (Robert De Niro, Freelancers), all while vowing to rekindle his marriage despite the months apart.

Throughout most of the film, Pat is crippled by unending delusions, ranging from day-to-day social awkwardness — he has a knack for asking deeply personal and highly inappropriate questions to the wrong people — to recurring violent rages that stem from hearing Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour,” which was

playing when he first discovered his wife was cheating on him.

The first “My Cherie Amour” scene, aptly set in a therapist’s office — in which Pat smashes a bunch of shelves while the song floats softly through an overhead speaker — is a perfect chokeon-your-laughter sequence.

It’s essentially a microcosm of the entire film; Russell is able to deftly walk the tightrope between comedy and crushing sadness without ever teetering completely over into either camp.

While Pat struggles to recover his old life, he grows close with Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence, House at the End of the Street), a friend of his wife’s who is still emotionally bruised by the recent, accidental death of her husband. Their relationship comes to fruition when Tiffany agrees to give Pat’s wife a letter from him in exchange for his participation in a dance competition with her. But Pat’s father, who believes Pat is good luck for his beloved Philadelphia Eagles when they watch games together, doesn’t approve, imploring his son to stay at home more, especially on Sundays.

Lawrence and Cooper are si mply st up endou s here, playing the most unequivocally quirky characters of their, so far, hodgepodge acting careers.

This is especially apparent during the dance rehearsal scenes which shine with a deep, natural sexiness free from the contrivances of flesh desire. A waltz may foster physical attraction between two partners, but this is more like calculated swaying to keep from crying.

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The supporting cast of the film is excellent as well, with Chris Tucker (Rush Hour 3) and John Ortiz (Jack Goes Boating) giving near-perfect comedic performances. But the surprising one of the bunch is the bedeviled Robert De Niro, who gifts us with his best and most honest work in years as the gambling, conniving sports nut daddy. In essence, his relationship with the Philadelphia Eagles is the turbulent bedrock for the entire movie, as he attempts to hinder Pat’s emotional progress by trying to convince him Tiffany is as destructive and unstable as he is. And this is just so Pat can sit in the living room chair and cultivate the positive mojo for his beloved football team.

In the end, all the credit for this aching tale goes to Russell, who has such a knack for making his films feel intimate and homespun. In fact, many of the sequences in Silver Linings Playbook end up being subtly cyclical: Mundane set pieces like a house or a store strip or a pothole constantly reoccur.

Characters evolve, but the exterior stays quiet and unwavering. In fact, had Russell chosen to put his movie in the heart of Philadelphia, as opposed to its suburban fringe, everything would have felt a bit louder and more claustrophobic.

Instead, it amounts to a stylistic touch that pays off and exists as another small example of why Silver Linings Playbook may be the best film of the year. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

By Kelsey Hughes Staff writer Monotone acting, brooding stares and some actual good moments round out The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, the very strange and somehow captivating finale to the five-part Twilight saga.

This installment picks up where Part 1 left off — Edward (Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis) and Bella (Kristen Stewart, YOUR TOLERANCE for the surprisingly non-horrible finale to the Twilight saga can largely be determined Snow White and the Huntsman) by whether you find this photo sickening or swooningly romantic. photo courtesy of filmofilia.com have just had their half-human, sex, lengthy make outs and creepy kind of protective love half-vampire daughter, Renes- the requisite Taylor Lautner with her — is every bit as strange mee, and Bella adjusts well to (The Twilight Saga: Breaking as it is in the book. But the way ­ art 1) strip tease (cue the movie pokes fun at itself in her new life as a vampire. But Dawn — P when a fellow vampire incor- the woos and shrieks), all set to this scene, clearly pointing out rectly tips off the Volturi — a a hip indie soundtrack. And of everyone is aware how weird it is, terrifying group that controls course, there is an abundance works both as a funny moment the vampire world — that the of scenes of actors smoldering for all of the characters and a way Cullens are breaking a vampire intently at one another rather to make light of a rather uncomrule, the Cullens form a group of than supplying any dialogue. All fortable plot point. allies to face off in a final battle. the elements are in place for your Furthermore, the final battle For those who (justifiably) dis- typical Twilight film. may well be the most interBut to be honest, it’s not as esting part of the entire film. liked the previous movies, this edition contains many of the bad as it sounds.

Without giving too much away, It’s downright funny in some it’s gripping, heart-wrenching same frustrating components.

Stewart remains every bit as parts — and for possibly the and surprising, to say the least. unenthusiastic and downright first time in the history of the At the end of the day, it is still uncomfortable as an actress as series, it’s actually supposed to a Twilight movie. It’s by far the she’s always been. In one great be funny. Stewart, Cullen and best of the series — straying early scene, Bella is supposed Lautner all have moments that from the plot as penned by Twito be a crazed, bloodthirsty will make audiences laugh out light author Stephenie Meyer monster learning to hunt, but loud. Most humorous, as usual, is a wise decision on the filmStewart’s attempts at appearing is Billy Burke (Freaky Deaky), makers’ parts. It retains all the vicious and calculated come off who plays Bella’s father. Burke elements that made it popular as a strange attempt to seduce perfectly pins down the role of while interestingly expanding a clueless but well-meaning beyond the re-re-recycled plot her frightened prey.

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student-athlete, the dedication of his players and the emotions of Senior Day. His message was clear: When the Terps host the No. 10 Seminoles tomorrow, he wants a full crowd there to support them.

“I would love to see the place filled this weekend to pay respect to these seniors most especially, and also to this team for how they are battling and how they’re handling everything that has happened to them,” Edsall said. “That’s why you want to see people out there just appreciating how hard these kids have worked at what they’re doing, because they’re spilling their guts to try and get a win and trying to do things the right way.”

The athletic department is trying its best to make Edsall’s vision a reality. It dubbed tomorrow’s contest the team’s semi-annual Blackout game and it is offering students Tshirts and chances to win a 2013 Lexus CT 200 Hybrid or free tuition for a semester.

But even that might not be enough for the Terps to improve upon an average attendance of fewer than 37,000 in a stadium that holds 54,000.

Top play ma ker Diggs is listed on the injury report as probable after missing last week’s game with an ankle injury, but C.J. Brown, Perry Hills, Devin Burns, Marcus Leak, Caleb Rowe, Demetrius

struggling through defensive lapses and not communicating enough on the court.

Turgeon said the Terps spent much of the preseason focused on the offense, which may have contributed to a forgettable first-half defensive effort against the Wildcats.

After Kentucky shot 58.1 percent through the first 20 minutes of an eventual 72-69 Wildcats win, Turgeon decided to use the next couple practices perfecti ng the defense. It paid off in the Terps’ 67-45 blowout of the Eagles on Monday — the first time in Turgeon’s tenure they held a team to less than 50 points.

Still, Turgeon said, the home-opening victory left plenty of room for improvem e n t. Fo r w a rd C h a rl e s M itchel l m i ssed severa l layups and finished 1-of-5 shooti ng. Poi nt g ua rd Pe’Shon Howard didn’t shoot once the entire game.

And though forward Dez Wells improved upon Friday’s 2-of-12 shooting performance, Turgeon said it’s still clear the Xavier transfer wasn’t necessarily expecting to play this season.

So when the second-year coach started practice on Wed nesd ay, he pl a n ned a laundry list of drills he figured would help the Terps not only prepare for tonight’s meeting with the Blackbirds, but also for higher-profile opponents they’ll face later in the season.

T hat pla n was qu ick ly foiled, though, when the Terps struggled to complete a full-court defensive drill to Turgeon’s standards. The

Wide Receiver Stefon DiGGS waits to receive a kick in front of a sparsely filled Byrd Stadium student section. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Hartsfield and, most recently, leading rusher Wes Brown, are still out for the season. Converted linebacker Petty, who is also listed as probable, should still start at quarterback.

“I’d be lying if I didn’t say I prefer when there’s more people here, but it’s just the nature of the beast,” defensive end A.J. Francis said. “People like to come see winners, and when you’re not doing that, people aren’t going to spend their money and stand in the cold and stand in the rain to come see you play.”

The Terps (4-6, 2-4 ACC) do have a chance to earn bowl eligibility in their final two games, but getting halfway there tomorrow will be no easy task.

Florida State (9-1, 6-1) comes

to College Park as the clear favorite to capture the ACC crown.

Quarterback E.J. Manuel is one of the best in the conference, running back Chris Thompson is second in the league in rushing and the Seminoles’ defense ranks No. 1 in the nation.

If the Terps were to win tomorrow, it would be one of the most monumental upsets this season. But according to Francis, the slim chance of an upset won’t be enough to convince fans to show up.

“If it snowed at Alabama vs. Auburn, I guarantee you it’d still be a sellout because Alabama is a good team and p eople a re goi n g to go to that game no matter what,” Francis said. “If a typhoon comes through Oregon State

vs. Oregon, it’s going to be a sellout because those are two good teams. That’s how it is.

When you have a good product on the field, people come out. In recent years, we haven’t always put out a good product.”

D espite recent h i stor y, Edsall still wants to see Byrd decked out in black tomorrow. He says his team hasn’t stopped fighting, and he wants fans there to help send off the Terps’ 17 seniors the right way.

“These players are just going out and playing each play like it is the last play they are ever going to play. For some of these guys, they have two games left in their careers, and it’s over,” Edsall said. “Nobody sees it except us and the coaches here, but these guys have come to work every day and done all of the things that we have asked them to do. That’s why I would like to see a sold-out place here and a great environment for this last home game.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

exercise was supposed to last 12 minutes. It took 40.

“We couldn’t get out of it,” Turgeon said. “So that’s where we are. Everybody’s excited about Maryland basketball, but we’re nowhere near where we can be and will be.”

That 40-minute exercise in patience wasn’t all negative, though. As the drill persisted and players continued to make mistakes, a number o f Te r p s b e g a n h o u n ding their teammates. They begged them to execute, to focus harder on the task at hand. Turgeon sat back and watched, impressed with their competitiveness.

“We do bubble drills, we try to kill each other in that drill,” center Shaquille Cleare said.

“Boxing out drill, we try to kill one another in that drill.

So it’s like we want it so bad.”

W hen the Terps arrive to practice, they go over the team’s “Thought of the Day.” Yesterday, the thought was, “Set a high standard for yourself and your team.”

Turgeon said his squad has already set that standard. It was apparent in the 12-minute drill that lasted 40. It’s apparent whenever players get on each other during games for taking an ill-advised shot.

It’s apparent whenever a Terp stays after practice to perfect his shooting form.

And though Turgeon is far from content with where his team may be two games into the season, he has no complaints about its intangibles — the work ethic, the camaraderie, the desire.

“We’re not [great] yet,” Turgeon said. “But if we expect to be and we work hard, then we’ll have a chance to be.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Forward Alyssa Thomas is one of the players the Terps will rely on to open things up from the outside. christian jenkins/the diamondback

HAWKS From PAGE 8 cushion to adjust to it. I think if we buckle down and get all the kinks worked out now, I think we’ll be really good for later on.”

Right now, the game plan is simple: Pound the ball inside a nd ex ploit centers A l icia DeVaughn’s and Malina Howa rd’s a nd for wa rd T ia n na Hawkins’ size advantages. It’s worked, too, as they’ve combined for nearly 60 percent of the Terps’ points this season.

“I’ve liked, obviously, how we’ve been able to dominate the glass,” coach Brenda Frese said. “Our bigs have done a tremendous job, really being active inside. I think our team has understood the game plan early against these teams to be able to get it inside.”

While the Terps’ guard play hasn’t been heavily leaned on yet, that time will come. ACC foes will be able to match the size and skill inside. Then, the Terps (2-0) will lean on Rutan, guard Laurin Mincy and forwards A lyssa T homas and Tierney Pfi rman to spread the floor and make plays.

“This team has been selfless,” Frese said. “We’ve asked them to give the ball inside and understand the game plan. It is at some point going to get matched, and our guard play is really, really talented and

obviously really good. Our guards are going to have their opportunities as well.”

So far, the impact of the Terps’ guard play has been seen in measured doses. Rutan hit back-to-back threes in the second half against Loyola to force a Greyhounds timeout.

Mincy has been assimilating into the point guard role and has almost as many assists as points. Freshman guard Chloe Pavlech has seen time at point guard as well and scored her first career points against Loyola, fi nishing with six.

With so much focus on the Terps’ bigger players down low, it should eventually be easier for the guards to get open looks and have the opportunity to connect from distance. Last season, the Terps shot 35.1 percent from three-point range.

“It’s going to be helpful for later down the road,” Howard said. “It’s going to open up for the outside and be very good for the inside-outside game.”

For everything to work against the Hawks (1-1) and for the rest of the season, though, the Terps will need to respond to the changes in the game and each other’s presence, something Frese has highlighted so far this year.

“We’re sharing the basketball,” Frese said. “We’re being really unselfish in terms of how we play. That’s a real positive in terms of what we’re doing.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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“Every time I take Charles [Mitchell] out, he’s pissed. If he played 39 minutes and 50 seconds and I took him out, he’d be mad.”

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FOOTBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

A chance to prepare for future

Big crowd for Senior Day? Edsall hoping so

Tougher competition awaits Terps after road game vs. St. Joseph’s

Terps host No. 10 Florida State Sat.

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer

The Terrapins women’s basketball team has started the year in juggernaut-like fashion, nearly doubling the point totals of its opponents through its first two games.

Though not always seamless, its play has been dominant and has set the tone for a team looking for another deep postseason run.

The No. 5 Terps know they’ll meet a team with the same skills at some point, though. While it might not be tomorrow at St. Joseph’s in Philadelphia, it will happen down the road, and they’re going to have to be ready.

“I don’t think we’ll have to change our game,” guard Katie Rutan said. “We just have to change our approach and fi x the little things. We’ve got to fi x them early so it doesn’t show in later games where it’s better teams and we don’t have the

The fi rst 17 minutes of Randy Edsall’s weekly press conference Tuesday were nothing out of the ordinary. The secondyear coach fielded questions about the progression of quarterback Shawn Petty, the health of wide receiver Stefon Diggs and the challenges Florida State presents his Terrapins football team this weekend.

But Edsall’s tone seemed to change when a reporter asked about the atmosphere surrounding Terps football and what he expected from the Senior Day crowd tomorrow. Rather than giving his usual curt, calculated response, Edsall decided to get some things off his chest.

For six uninterrupted minutes, Edsall spoke. He talked about the pageantry of college football, the difficulty of being a See SEMINOLES, Page 7

Coach Mark Turgeon placed a strong emphasis on improving his Terps during practice this week after a 1-1 start to the season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

See HAWKS, Page 7

Behind the Curve

Turgeon says Terps still have a lot to learn as they prepare for LIU Brooklyn

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

Wide receiver Stefon Diggs catches a touchdown pass in a nearly empty Byrd Stadium. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Mark Turgeon was a bit perplexed when he heard the Los Angeles Lakers fi red coach Mike Brown on Friday after a disappointing 1-4 start.

They have so many new pieces, he thought. Five games hardly provide enough time for a coach to

install his schemes and get a starstudded group operating as a unit.

Turgeon should know. Even as the Terrapins men’s basketball team prepares for tonight’s matchup with LIU Brooklyn, the second-year coach is still learning how to incorporate four freshmen and two transfers — one of whom was just cleared to play last week — into a group that returns only four

scholarship players from last year.

And though the Terps nearly upset No. 3 Kentucky and routed Morehead State in their first two games, Turgeon said yesterday he feels his team is “way behind the curve” in grasping certain aspects of the game. It is still making costly turnovers, See BLACKBIRDS, Page 7

Center Alicia DeVaughn and the Terps have dominated teams on the interior so far this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

TOURNAMENT CENTRAL

One team is starting its NCAA slate, one team is continuing its title quest and another has a chance to capture a championship this weekend WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

Fear of losing motivating Terps Team doesn’t want second-round game vs. Denver to be its last

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer When the Terrapins women’s soccer team steps onto the field at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium in Stanford, Calif., tonight, its biggest source of motivation won’t be its desire to win.

It will be its fear of losing.

The No. 4-seed Terps feature six seniors — three of them definite

starters — on their roster. And when they face unseeded Denver tonight in the NCAA tournament second round, those six seniors won’t want it to be the last time they step onto the pitch together.

“The finality of it definitely makes them motivated to play,” coach Jonatha n Morga n sa id.

“There’s a lot riding on it and there’s so much finality to it if you don’t get the win.”

That same do-or-die mentality carried the Terps through their 2-0 win over Stony Brook in the first round of the national tournament last weekend. But even if it does motivate them, Morgan doesn’t want his team to even think about the possibility of losing to the Pioneers.

After all, they’ve beaten some of See PIONEERS, Page 3

FIELD HOCKEY

Final Four nothing new for Meharg Terps face Princeton in fifth straight trip to semifinals

By Nicholas Munson Staff writer On Sunday afternoon in Storrs, Conn., Missy Meharg accomplished something any NCAA sports coach strives to achieve. She clinched a trip to the Final Four.

But outside of the lingering excitement from the previous afternoon, Monday was a relatively typical day at the Terrapins field hockey

coach’s Severna Park home. Meharg straightened the house, went shopping and took care of her dogs.

“It’s always a bit chaotic after you qualify,” said Meharg, whose Terps will face No. 2-seed Princeton today in Norfolk, Va. “You just don’t know whether you’ll qualify or not, so you’re always kind of scrambling a bit and getting organized.”

It’s a routine that has become a near-annual tradition for the

25th-year coach. Meharg earned her fi fth straight Final Four berth — and 15th overall — when the Terps beat No. 3-seed Connecticut, 2-1, in the quarterfi nal round. Her eight seniors have fi nished each of their three previous seasons in the NCAA championship game.

“It doesn’t get old,” midfielder Janessa Pope said. “I looked at one See TIGERS, Page 3

Defenders Jordan Cyrus and Dakota Edwards (left to right), though lesser-known than some of their Terps teammates, have made noticeable impacts on the team’s backline. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Unheralded Cyrus, Edwards key backline Terps host Brown in NCAA second round

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer When the All-ACC teams were announced Nov. 8, it was no surprise the list was peppered with names from the Terrapins men’s soccer team. The Terps had clinched the ACC regularseason title and finished the regular season ranked No. 2 in the country, so it was expected that at least six players would be recognized.

The obvious choices, such as forward Patrick Mullins and midfielder John Stertzer, were on the first team, and key defenders London

Woodberry and Mikey Ambrose were on the second team with forward Schillo Tshuma. Even defender Taylor Kemp, who missed half the season with a sports hernia, garnered second-team honors.

But as the No. 2-seed Terps begin their NCAA tournament journey Sunday evening in a second-round matchup against unseeded Brown at Ludwig Field, their hopes could hinge on the play of two defenders not recognized by the other coaches in the conference. In fact, defenders See BEARS, Page 3