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Mugging on Friedgen to return for 2011 season Mowatt stairs After uncertain year, Anderson announces coach will remain for final year of contract unsolved

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Student robbed of ID, cell phone in garage

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

University Police are looking for a man who robbed a student of her cell phone and student ID card in a Mowatt Lane Parking Garage stairwell late Wednesday night.

Around 11:42 p.m., a man came up behind a student as she walked down the stairs near the garage’s first floor east exit — nearest to South Campus Commons 6 — pushed something into her back and demanded that she turn over what she was holding, police said.

The robber, who police described only as a man standing between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall and wearing dark clothing, fled with the student’s ID and phone across the garage toward Mowatt Lane.

The student called police within three minutes of the incident, according to a crime alert; police have said their chances of making an arrest improve when they are alerted quickly.

However, although investigators reviewed video footage of the garage yesterday, police spokesman Ken Leonard said they had not yet identified a suspect as of last night.

Leonard urged students to keep their heads on a swivel when traveling on foot late at night, even in familiar locations that seem secure.

“The police department always recommends that students and citizens are aware

Terrapin football coach Ralph Friedgen will return for the 2011 season, Athletics Director Kevin Anderson announced yesterday, solidifying — at least for another year — his future in a program approaching a major crossroads.

The Terps’ recent on-field struggles, coupled with the naming of offensive coordinator James Franklin as the team’s coach-in-waiting, had cast doubt on Friedgen’s future with the program. As recently as the past week, Anderson was noncommittal about Friedgen’s status, declining to say whether the

10th-year coach would return next season after the Terps’ victory at Virginia on Saturday.

Yesterday’s announcement, which came two days before the Terps face Florida State in a crucial ACC matchup, gave a sense of closure to a question Friedgen often wondered aloud this season.

“Based largely on the improved performance of our team and student-athletes this season, Coach Friedgen will be our head football coach next year,” Anderson said in a release. “Once this season is complete, Ralph and I will sit down to discuss the current state and future

see FRIEDGEN, page 8

The announcement that Terrapin football coach Ralph Friedgen will coach for another season came just two days before the Terps’ matchup against Florida State tomorrow. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

WEIGHTLESS WONDER On-campus space simulator ranked among ‘coolest’ college labs in country

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Some students may wonder what it would feel like to walk on the moon, but Josh Fogel knows — in fact, existing in a weightless environment is just a part of his job.

The junior aerospace engineering major works at the university’s Space Systems Laboratory, a facility Popular Science magazine recently judged the fifth-coolest college lab,

where he gets to scuba dive in a pool that simulates weightlessness, operate high-tech robotic arms and experience first-hand what it would be like to live in outer space.

During his last three years working as a graduate research assistant at the lab, Fogel has been involved in tasks other students can only see in movies, such as building a two-story lunar habitat and simulating a moonwalk in a high-tech space suit for onlookers at Maryland Day.

Fogel said lab activities ranging from participating in nationally-recognized research projects to cleaning the weightless simulation pool — he was certified as a scientific diver about a month ago — give him the opportunity to gain real-life experience he could never obtain in a classroom.

“Sometimes in classes it’s a little daunting all the stuff they want you to know,” he

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Univ. Police arrest man carrying knife Officials say man tried to attack an officer

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

As University Police officers drew their guns on a man carrying a knife near their Route 1 station yesterday afternoon, they weren’t just making a routine arrest.

They were saving MAKOLO MBOM one of their own.

After a brief foot chase down Route 1 at around 3:40 p.m., at least two officers arrested Makolo Akeuh Mbom, 24, of Greenbelt, who allegedly announced repeatedly that he had come to kill an officer who arrested him last month.

Mbom had been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and a weapons offense after officers arrested him on Yale Road on Oct. 8, police said.

Court records show he was released on $15,000 bail Oct. 12 but police said he was banned from the campus.

Police then responded to a call yesterday, possibly from a university employee, reporting a man walking down Route 1 with an exposed knife.

“The citizen’s decision to notify Police immediately of a suspicious individual likely helped prevent a violent encounter between Mbom and police,” University Police spokesman Ken Leonard wrote in

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For O’Donnell, a weekend to win Terps’ field hockey star looks to cap successful career with second national title

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

It was three years ago when Katie O’Donnell realized what Hall of Fame coach Missy Meharg knew from the moment she first saw O’Donnell play: She could become one of field hockey’s all-time greats.

On Sept. 22, 2007, in what was just her second-ever ACC match and ninth overall at the Division I level, O’Donnell burst onto the collegiate scene with a definitive performance that belied her inexperience.

During a game against Wake Forest, O’Donnell received a pass from defender Ameliet Rischen and looked up to see that only Demon Deacon goalkeeper Crystal Duffield stood between her and the goal.

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O’Donnell sprinted toward the cage, gaining entry into the shooting circle. Alone with a charging Duffield, O’Donnell faked left, sending Duffield flying in her direction. But with a deft flick of the wrists, O’Donnell pulled right and fired a shot into the empty cage, giving the Terps a decisive lead in the game’s 59th minute.

“The crowd went crazy,” O’Donnell said earlier this month. “That was the time that I was like, ‘I do belong here.’ … That was my ‘aha!’ moment.”

O’Donnell paced the Terps with two goals in their 3-2 victory over the Demon Deacons that day. She scored the game’s first and last goals, including the game-winner off her secondhalf breakaway.

Since that day, O’Donnell, a 5-foot-2inch, Blue Bell, Pa., native whose

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teammates and coaches simply call “Odie,” hasn’t stopped scoring. Her name sits atop nearly every statistical category in program history, and her 310 career points are an ACC record.

With this weekend’s Final Four, which begins today, O’Donnell will likely add to those astounding numbers, distancing herself from future players.

But of more importance to O’Donnell is the opportunity to win a second national championship, something that would further cement her legacy as one of the sport’s all-time greats.

“Odie — what can you say,” Meharg said earlier this season.

“She’s probably one of the most special field hockey players I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. She

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010

City considers charging more for on-street parking permits Higher fee would target households with more than two cars in effort to reduce overcrowding, officials say

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

Some students may pay more for off-campus parking permits as College Park officials look to clear streets they feel are overflowing with parked cars.

At Tuesday night’s College Park City Council meeting, District 1 councilmembers Patrick Wojahn and Christine Nagle suggested a graduated permit pricing system that increases the parking fees for households that buy on-street resident parking permits for more than two cars.

“When a house has more vehicles parking on street it creates a burden on the neighborhood,” Wojahn said.

“You generally have space for one or two cars in front of your house. When you have a third, fourth and fifth car ... it can take away from parking spots in front of other peoples’ houses.”

Selling on-street parking permits for just $10 — a fraction of the fee charged on the campus or in private lots — has made it

ROBBERY from page 1 of their surroundings anywhere on campus, but especially late at night,” Leonard said. “In a garage, make sure you’re aware of the exits and emergency phone locations, especially if that’s a common parking place for you.”

Students who use the garage offered mixed reports about how safe they feel while walking to their cars.

“I feel like on campus nowa-

too easy for each student in a rental house to have his or her own car, said Jim Miller, the city’s parking enforcement manager.

“In the student-based areas, quite frankly the permit program for which we just dole out permits for 10 [dollars] apiece is actually considerably low. Most college [towns] will charge anywhere between 25 to 75 [dollars] every six months for a residential permit,” Miller said.

On the other hand, he added, people who have taken the low permit costs for granted could be upset by any increase.

“I can almost guarantee you’d get negative feedback from year-round residents [and] probably some resistance from students, but they understand things aren’t cheap; they’re paying tuition,” Miller said.

But District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said the city’s long-term residents would appreciate the graduated fee system’s goal of reducing the number of cars parked on the street.

“As Mr. Miller pointed out, a

days you never really know at night,” sophomore French and international business major Sam Kruse said. “This is kind of like an isolated spot. There’s so many upand-downs in this garage.”

Kruse frequently drives his car to Annapolis for work and by the time he gets back — usually around midnight — he often walks alone through the garage.

“There’s no one to see anything,” he said. “I can definitely see how [the suspect] would get away with [the robbery].”

Senior math major Ashley Cannon makes daily trips to her

lot of residential areas of the city were not built in a way to accommodate a lot of rental houses on the street,” she said.

“If you have rental houses, it really becomes quite a problem with so many cars. Quite a few people would think it’s necessary and overdue.”

Officials haven’t yet ironed out how much more than $10 the third, fourth or fifth permit per household would cost, and the council has not yet identified the meeting at which the council will vote on the issue.

Students who park their cars outside their off-campus rental homes had differing views on the issue.

Junior fire protection engineering major Ryan Blondino, who lives in Old Town and currently has a parking permit, said he does want to see congestion and parking issues in the city addressed but doesn’t think the proposed graduated permit pricing system is going to make a difference to anything but the city’s revenues.

“Personally, I don’t like it. I would like to see the conges-

car in the garage as late as 2 a.m.

She said, until now, she never thought twice about safety there.

“I guess I should be nervous now,” Cannon said. “I’ll probably make my boyfriend get the car now.”

Wednesday’s robbery was the first reported on the campus since three men robbed a student near Anne Arundel Hall at 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 3. Police arrested a 19-year-old New York man on Nov. 1 and charged him in connection with that crime. present@umdbk.com

Some city officials believe selling parking permits for just $10 encourages students to bring their cars to school, leading to overcrowded residential streets. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK

tion cleaned up, but raising the price of parking permits isn’t going to do that,” he said.

Connor Dolgon, a sophomore philosophy major who has a parking permit for his Old Town apartment complex’s private lot,

ARREST from page 1 a press release.

For yesterday’s incident, Mbom now faces charges of first- and second-degree assault, trespassing, disorderly conduct, carr ying a dangerous weapon with the intent to injure and carr ying a dangerous weapon on school property, which Leonard said will likely keep him in jail longer.

“Obviously, now he’s threat-

said he has regularly had trouble finding a parking space on city streets — and is regularly issued parking citations — and that he supports a plan that might help resolve the neighborhood’s overcrowded street parking.

“I don’t think it’s a bad idea because there are a lot of cars,” he said.

ened a law enforcement officer,” he said. “He had the means; he had the knife with him; that was his intent.”

In last month’s incident, officers noticed Mbom standing under a tree near the police auxiliary building, Leonard said, and he allegedly started screaming and acting disorderly when officers asked him why he was there.

“I’m waiting for you to go to your party,” Leonard alleged that Mbom said.

Mbom allegedly dueled with four officers before he was even-

tually detained.

Leonard would not release the name of the officer who Mbom allegedly returned to take vengeance on.

Adam Sugarman, a junior kinesiology major, said he wasn’t surprised to hear about a violent encounter after noticing an increase this year in suspicious people he suspects don’t attend this university.

“I haven’t seen stuff go down like it’s going down this year,” he said.

Staff writer Amanda Pino contributed to this report. mccarty@umdbk.com

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SGA to tighten spending cap in elections Representatives also voted on stricter penalties if candidates break rules

BY SARAH MEEHAN Staff writer

In an effort to even the playing field for this spring’s election, the SGA approved two by-law changes Wednesday that representatives hope will attract a more diverse group of candidates.

The Student Government Association’s Constitution and By-Laws Committee, which was charged with revising election rules in light of problems that arose in last year’s race, voted overwhelmingly in favor of lowering the amount of money candidates may spend on a campaign and establishing punishments for those who break election policies.

By lowering the spending cap, the body hopes to attract more qualified candidates who may not have had the funds to compete in previous years.

“My hope, as a member of [the Constitution and By-laws Committee], is that more people will participate from a

more diverse background, that everyone feels welcome to try to run for office,” said Speaker of the Legislature Kevin Ford. “I think this also makes it more transparent.”

The new rules mandate that each running party may spend no more than a total of $3,000, whereas last year a party could spend up to $4,000.

Executive candidates running alone cannot exceed $600 in expenses and legislative candidates may not spend more than $150, as opposed to last year’s limits of $800 and $160, respectively.

SGA representatives said lowering the spending cap was an invitation to more students to take part in elections. Although the candidates are typically members of the SGA, any undergraduate student can run.

“The SGA should be a truly representative group on campus and one that crosses socioeconomic boundaries,” Ford said.

SGA Chief of Staff Michelle

McGrain agreed with Ford that parties with greater financial means often have an unfair advantage.

“The candidate spending the most money isn’t necessarily the best,” McGrain said.

The proposed cap may not directly impact SGA presidential hopefuls. In last year’s election, both the SKYY party and Your Party — which received a majority of the votes — spent about $3,000. Natalia CuadraSaez, who ran for president against candidates from those two parties, reported spending $0, relying on more costeffective tactics, such as spraypainting shirts.

The SGA also spelled out penalties for candidates who break election rules, including defacing other parties’ campaign materials, bribery or early campaigning.

In previous years, punishments were left to the discretion of the Election Board, but the new rules leave no room for interpretation and were instated so all candidates

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understand the consequences prior to election season.

“We specified fines and penalties rather than letting the Election Board come up with them,” McGrain said.

Last year, Cuadra-Saez’s STARE party was forced to disband after submitting paper work late. She was later fined $120 by the Election Board for referring to STARE as a “party” in a Diamondback stor y announcing her candidacy.

In addition, SGA President Steve Glickman was accused of carrying a laptop around the campus to illegally solicit votes. Glickman was found not guilty by the Election Board.

The new rules specify that candidates can be fined, sanctioned or dismissed by the Election Board, depending on the severity of their offense.

The SGA hopes to avoid similar situations by making the rules clear in advance, representatives said.

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LAB from page 1 said. “[The lab] is just a great way to have hands-on work that’s very important.”

But Fogel’s typical duties represent only a handful of the activities that occur in the string of obscure buildings located across Regents Drive from the campus farm.

Lab director and aerospace engineering professor David Akin said the lab was founded in 1992 to design space technologies that do everything from fix broken satellites in orbit to explore Mars and the moon.

“The research focus of the lab is to better understand how to do useful things in space,” Akin said.

In addition, the Space Systems Laboratory is the world’s only university lab with a neutral buoyancy facility — a pool designed to mimic the weightlessness felt in space — a key factor in the Popular Scienceselection.

The lab is staffed by graduate students and a dozen undergraduate students such as Fogel who work as research assistants, Akin said. Undergraduate students can start early — Fogel was hired during his freshman year — and volunteer or work for academic credit or money depending on their skill levels and experience.

Akin said the hands-on atmosphere of the lab presents students who may not learn well in the classroom with a unique opportunity to thrive in a different kind of environment.

“Some people learn best when

they get to do things with their hands,” Akin said. “We see people come in here who may not have been excellent students but when they get into the lab environment it helps them understand and motivates what their undergraduate classes are for.”

But not everything is sunny at the bustling lab.

Akin said funding constraints have limited the number of undergraduate students accepted — there are only 12 undergraduate students in the lab this semester as opposed to more than 20 in the past. Akin said the program is extremely competitive.

“I can probably take one student in 10 who wants to get into the lab,” he said.

Graduate student and lab researcher Barrett Dillow said the graduate students get along well with the undergraduate assistants, but he added that the graduate students sometimes have to remind their younger peers to slow down.

“The undergrads are really enthusiastic,” Dillow said. “Because of that enthusiasm, it’s difficult to remind them that they can’t spend 24 hours a day on a project even if they’d like to try.”

Fogel said he looks forward to seeing what’s in store for him every week.

“By the end of the day, even if you’re not interested in the engineering stuff, it’s really cool that you’re able to do it,” Fogel said of the lab activities. “It’s almost a way of helping me see what’s coming in my future.” saravia@umdbk.com

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Deteriorating priorities

The wrong approach

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The campus does indeed have many old buildings (more than 32 percent lthough this university likes to claim it’s “unstoppable,” when it comes to repairing an aging campus, it has been anything but. of all university buildings are more than 50 years old). And old buildings do, Since the end of last month, the campus has been seemingly in fact, deteriorate. But in order to find the true cause of this university’s besieged by a barrage of facility failings that have not only disrupted crumbling infrastructure, one need not look any farther than the Main the lives of students, faculty and staff, but have also necessitated expensive Administration building. Were it not for the lack of foresight on the part of university administrators, the university would not face a daunting $650 milemergency repairs.

Late last month, university employees discovered a deteriorating heating lion backlog in deferred maintenance projects nor the numerous emerand cooling system in the Bioscience Research Building that was causing gency projects now plaguing the campus.

According to Vice President for Administrative vibrations intense enough to affect teaching and Affairs Ann Wylie, administrators in previous years research. Around that same time a water main running have forgone maintenance needs in order to balance the from Taliaferro Hall to Route 1 also broke, cutting off University officials must university’s budget. Indeed, the Facilities Master Plan water to the Leonardtown Community and Fraternity states that it is a standard practice to set aside 2 percent Row for more than 24 hours and forcing some students to address growing campus of a university’s budget for upkeep. Yet, according to either forgo showering or attempt to bathe themselves infrastructure problems Wylie, for “30, 40 years, the university has been unable using water bottles. And if that weren’t enough, Facilities to do that.” Although this university has faced serious Management officials have recently become concerned that for too long financial difficulties in recent years, it seems that by putthat the retaining wall between the Art-Sociology buildhave been placed on ting minor maintenance problems on the back burner, ing and Tawes Hall — which acts as a “sort of dam” — the back burner. small problems have morphed into serious failures. may be deteriorating.

Adding insult to injury is the fact that administrators All told, the cost of these emergency repairs from one knew maintenance was desperately needed on this campus, but they just month alone approach $3 million.

And while this editorial board recognizes that problems occur, the deteriora- chose to ignore it. For example, the water main that broke in late October has tion of at least two major systems is not an aberration or a fluke, but rather a broken six or seven times since 2005 alone, according to Baker. It is not clear sign of an increasingly dangerous and unstable campus. Indeed, according to why any of the previous times hadn’t signaled to officials that something was Jack Baker, the university’s director of operations and maintenance, Facilities wrong and in need of repair.

Ultimately, the culprits behind what the Facilities Master Plan call the “critiManagement is dealing with more emergency facility renovations this year cal” issue of deferred maintenance are administrators — both past and presthan in previous ones.

State officials such as Matt Klein, the Capital Budget manager at the State ent. This is an appalling lack of foresight.

As the university enters a new era — one under the leadership of new uniDepartment of Legislative Services’ Office of Policy Analysis, have pointed to the university’s “very old infrastructure” as the cause for many of the facility versity President Wallace Loh — we hope, for the safety of students, faculty and staff, that future administrators will rethink their priorities. failings seen this year. But that is simply not the case.

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Editorial cartoon: Ian McDermott

Incentives: A universal struggle

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f asked to describe this university, or any institution of higher education for that matter, I’m betting the first thought that comes to mind isn’t Enron. Of course not, right?

A symbol of all that is wrong with the modern business landscape, Enron’s collapse has become the primary method of teaching unethical behavior in the workplace environment. Dishonesty, greed and lack of empathy are all expressions used to describe the egregious actions of Enron executives who were convicted of manipulating financial documents that subsequently resulted in the loss of millions of investors’ dollars. So why would I ever dare compare Enron with a highly distinguished institution such as this?

My comparison lies in the belief that the motives that drove the behavior of Enron’s executives are not due to an innate human selfishness, as conventional wisdom may like us to believe, but something else. When forced to take a closer look at the Enron debacle, a far more pressing issue appears. This issue does not solely exist in executive offices

DEKUNLE SOMADE of multibillion dollar corporations but in our educational system as well — it is an often overlooked but powerful phenomenon that occurs when incentives do not serve their intended purpose.

Incentives are utilized in all walks of life and act to elicit a desired behavior from an individual. We see it all the time.

When Bobby takes Jane out on date she enjoys, Jane rewards Bobby with a kiss.

The kiss, a token of appreciation for the nice outing, reinforces what Jane expects from Bobby. By directly connecting the good date with the reward of a kiss, Jane has communicated to her companion that this is what is expected of him.

Far too often in our quest to create quantitative metrics to assess academic

performance, we unintentionally reward students for behaviors that do not align with the real purpose of education. From childhood, an “A” letter grade is an indication of mastery of a particular subject.

The first time we get our cherished “A” for correctly reciting our times tables, we are praised by parents and rewarded for a job well done, thus initiating our lifelong association of academic achievement with the attainment of a good letter grade.

The power incentives have in controlling student behavior is constantly demonstrated on college campuses.

Career fairs, internships and elite programs all place a strong emphasis on high GPAs but not on empirical knowledge (such as examples of real world usage of course work), personal projects related to pursued fields or even achievements outside of the classroom that demonstrate comprehension.

How might this alter the learning process? Like all human beings, students also respond strongly to incentives. I recall several instances while studying for exams in which I would ask class-

mates to explain why certain steps were needed to get a particular answer that, while correct, just didn’t make sense.

Peers would often respond, “Dekunle, it doesn’t matter, that’s just how it’s done.”

We have become so fixated in obtaining rewards associated with high GPAs that the fundamental principle of education is no longer relevant.

So I ask the question: How much different is that from the fall of Enron?

Arthur Andersen, the firm that performed Enron’s audits, relied on Enron for 27 percent of its revenues. The firm was so highly dependent on this income that Andersen’s incentives did not align with its responsibility to accurately assess Enron’s financial record.

While the education and financial systems may appear two seemingly unrelated entities, they both address the importance of utilizing incentives to influence correct behavior.

Dekunle Somade is a senior finance major. He can be reached at somade@umdbk.com.

The Presidency: Only the cool need apply

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fter writing two bestsellers, President Barack Obama has decided to diversify. Earlier this week, he became the first sitting president to release a children’s book. In Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, which he wrote between his election and inauguration, he honors some of the greatest American heroes whose traits, he says, reflect those he sees in his daughters. Truly a book for children, all proceeds will go to the children of fallen soldiers.

Just chalk it up as one more thing that gives Obama more swag than the rest of us.

He writes bestsellers, rides bumper cars with his daughters, fills out March Madness brackets, plays pickup basketball with soldiers in Iraq, wins Grammy Awards, collects comics, loves The Wire, applied to be in a pin-up calendar at Harvard, and, oh yeah, runs the free world in his spare time.

Even if you don’t like the guy’s politics, you have to admit — he’s pretty cool.

Have presidents always been this cool, or is Obama the first to bring

smoothness to the White House?

Let’s take a look.

Everyone knows the basics of presidential trivia — William Henry Harrison was president for about ten minutes before he caught pneumonia while giving the world’s longest inauguration speech and died a month later; Grover Cleveland was bullied into running for a second non-consecutive term by his wife; and big-boned William Taft got stuck in a bathtub.

But did you know that Harrison had studied to be a doctor (the only president who did), and despite his medical background, refused to wear a hat, don a coat or stop talking, thus leading to his untimely demise?

Did you know that Cleveland personally answered the White House phone?

And Taft didn’t just bring his own bathtub with him to the White House, he also brought his favorite cow, Mooly Wooly.

Each of our presidents (even the relatively obscure ones, such as John Tyler) have stories that make them seem a little cooler than just stodgy white guys in wigs.

BETHANY OFFUTT Tyler, for example, had fifteen kids. Yikes.

John F. Kennedy reputedly had an affair with a gal named Tempest Storm, a “burlesque dancer” back in the day who’s now making a comeback — at age 82. Hope those high kicks don’t reinjure that hip she broke last June.

John Quincy Adams used to swim in the Potomac River in his birthday suit (which eventually led to the first ever presidential interview by a female journalist — but that’s another story). He also had a pet alligator.

Our first three presidents (George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson) were into collecting and playing marbles. Those were the days.

Some guy pulled a gun on Andrew Jackson but misfired. So he whipped out another pistol and pulled the trigger —

and again misfired. Step aside, Chuck Norris/Jack Bauer — Jackson made guns jam just by looking at them.

When the Prince of Wales visited the White House, he brought so many people with him that James Buchanan had to sleep in the hall.

Gerald Ford, both a former vice president and former president, was elected to neither office; two jobs that he was actually hired for, however, were park ranger and clothing model. Work it, Gerald.

Ronald Reagan was the only president to ever wear a Nazi uniform (Calm down, it was in a movie).

Benjamin Harrison, the first president to use electricity in the White House, received a hearty shock one day; afterward, he and his family often refused to touch the light switches and instead slept with the lights on.

Yep. Looks like coolness just goes with the territory.

Bethany Offutt is a junior criminology and criminal justice and psychology major. She can be reached at offutt@umdbk.com.

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ost people who have been to a liquor store, college parties or just read The Diamondback lately know that Four Loko and similar alcoholic energy drinks, such as Joose, have come under strong criticism from officials. Referred to by some as “blackout in a can,” these drinks can contain the equivalent of about six beers and several cups of coffee in a single can. Many college students have been sent to the hospital because of this drink, yet our government is taking the wrong approach in handling this.

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced he was working on finalizing a bill that would ban alcoholic energy drinks nationwide.

Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a stern warning stating these drinks are dangerous and threatened to make them illegal very soon. But lost in all this fearmongering by government leaders is a simple fact that is too often overlooked: Prohibition doesn’t work.

If the FDA, Schumer or other government leaders actually think college students and others will not figure out for themselves how to mix alcohol and caffeine, then they are seriously deluding themselves and need a lesson regarding the effectiveness of blind prohibition.

The sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol became illegal in 1920, and it took just more than a decade for the government to realize this was a complete and utter failure that led to more risks for consumers as well as a huge upsurge in organized crime. More recently, despite extremely harsh laws stemming from former President Richard Nixon’s “War on Drugs,” the use of marijuana and other controlled substances persists, and we continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and put millions of using Americans away in prison. Prohibiting a substance might look great politically, but it generally does not alleviate the problem.

Instead, it creates new ones.

Once the government feels it has the power and responsibility to ban a legal drink, we are on a slippery slope toward becoming an unfree society.

What is to stop federal agents from busting bars for mixing up a popular alcoholic energy drink with similar effects to Four Loko, such as vodka and Red Bull? Should anything that might contain caffeine and alcohol now be banned? Paternalistic legislation reflects a government that does not trust its own citizens to make responsible decisions for themselves.

Besides being ineffective, such laws are antithetical to the continued maintenance of a free society.

The solution should be better education and easily accessible information. I personally had no idea about the outrageous amount of caffeine and alcohol in each can of Four Loko, and I am sure if many other college students knew what was really inside the can, they would probably be hesitant before dangerously consuming so much in a short period. Rather than prohibiting the drink outright, we should have reliable information that allows people to make an informed decision.

Just as one cannot buy a pack of cigarettes without reading a warning label about the potential dangers, perhaps warning labels on dangerous alcoholic beverages such as Four Loko would be a route worth pursuing. But outright prohibition has not, does not and will not solve our problems. It is time for politicians to realize this and propose sensible policies that work to control the usage of this and other potentially dangerous substances.

If you agree and want to push our government to invest in more important things such as education rather than incarceration, consider getting involved with Students for Sensible Drug Policy at this university. Logic as well as history show the current route is the wrong one to take.

Brandon Levey is a junior history major and the co-president of the university’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. He can be reached at brandonalevey@gmail.com.

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Of love and other demons Maryland Opera Studio tackles a Spanish-language opera at CSPAC

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Staff writer

Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez said, “The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line.”

Just because the author, famous for works including Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, stopped writing does not mean his works have stopped inspiring.

The Maryland Opera Studio can attest to that, as it presents an opera inspired by Márquez’s works.

Beginning tonight, the Opera Studio will be performing composer Daniel Catán and librettist Marcela Fuentes-Berain’s Florencia en el Amazonas (Florencia in the Amazon) — a contemporary opera involving love, secrets and environmental disasters that turn the characters’ worlds upside down.

The opera follows a group of travelers as they take a boat from Colombia to Brazil via the Amazon River to reach an opera house in Manaus, where they will hear famous singer Florencia Grimaldi perform. On the way, they fall in love, hide their true feelings and face unexpected fears.

The graduate students performing Florencia have been working on the show for months.

“They received their assignments last spring, and they had the summer and before school started to learn the music on their own,” said Justina Lee, the Opera Studio’s music director.

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Monica Soto-Gil, a graduate student performing in the opera, discussed memorizing the opera before hitting the stage for rehearsals.

“It takes a lot of time because there’s quite a lot of music to learn, but hopefully at this level, your musicianship is good enough,” she said.

For the piece, which will be the students’ recital performance, the studio tried to pick a work that would both interest and challenge the performers.

The spring operas are in “Italian and German, so we didn’t want to pick something that was in that language,” said Laura Lee Everett, the Opera Studio’s coordinator. Florencia is a Spanish-language opera.

Soto-Gil has found the use of Spanish in an opera enjoyable.

“I’ve never done an opera in Spanish, which is my first language, so it’s quite a treat for me,” she said. “I’m really enjoying that … It was really easy for me to memorize.”

Another draw for the Opera Studio was that Florencia is a contemporary piece.

“It was written by a living composer that they can interact with, which is a very different experience from listening to recordings … that have been done for 200 years,” Everett said.

Director Leon Major’s theatrical background is having a large impact on the performance; the performers in the opera take theatrical classes as well as voice instruction.

“A lot of singers become these talking heads from the neck up,” Everett said. “It will be a compelling story as opposed to watching someone stand there and sing and not really convey it to you.”

She added that the theatricality of Florencia helps make it more understandable even though the performance is in a foreign language.

Soto-Gil said “you have to act as well,” and recalled a non-singing rehearsal in which performers wore masks so they could solely focus on their movement.

Florencia en el Amazonas follows a group of travelers on an Amazon River boat trip from Colombia to Brazil. The opera starts tonight and runs through Tuesday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO/CORY WEAVER

Lee feels the story will grip its audiences and hopes it will draw students to come see the show.

“You see each of the characters’ desires and needs and wants and how they’re met while they’re traveling and the stuff that happens when they encounter a rough patch on the river,” Lee said.

“The story is very interesting and touches on everybody’s human condition. We all can identify with a lot of these characters and what they go through: to be in love, to not be in love. What comes first, your career or not your career? What happens when love grows old? How do you rekindle it?”

Those working on the show hope audiences will appreciate the medium, rather than avoid it because of its potential unfamiliarity.

“The text is exquisite … It’s beautiful poetry set to beautiful music,” Everett said. “It’s a great opportunity for [students] to explore this.”

Lee believes opera carries an emotional weight that will inspire students.

“I think they would like it,” Lee said. “There’s something about the human voice — singing, too, and music, that expresses things that you cannot say in words.”

Florencia en el Amazonas runs through Tuesday at the Ina and Jack Kay Theatre in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Tickets cost $25, $9 for students. afreedman@umdbk.com

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O’DONNELL from page 1 loves competition. She loves to be the one to finish a game, and she wants the responsibility of that.”

O’Donnell’s need to excel isn’t anything new to the people who have known her since she was young. Her mother, Kathy O’Donnell, said Katie has been competitive almost since birth.

Kathy O’Donnell can remember a tiny Katie trying to play sports with her older brother and two older sisters at a young age.

O’Donnell’s older siblings, all of whom played varsity athletics in college, never took it easy on her, whether it was in “soccer, checkers or cards.”

“That’s the kind of player she is,” Wissahickon coach Lucy Gil said. “She just takes things into her own hands and says, ‘All right, we’re going to win today.’ … She’s also very pragmatic and knows that she has to make her team better. And she has what it takes to do that.”

After shining in high school, Meharg said it was a no-brainer to recruit the highly touted O’Donnell. And once she did become a Terp, her career reached new heights.

Last season, she won the Honda Award, field hockey’s equivalent to the Heisman Trophy. A month ago, O’Donnell received the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year honor, joining the company of such distinguished ath-

“It’s just about everything,” Kathy O’Donnell said when asked about what winning means to her daughter. “When she loses, she gets upset. Not like she pouts or anything like that, but she won’t stop thinking about it.

Before she plays a game, she thinks about her game. Sometimes, she’ll dream about different moves that she’ll make or things like that.”

O’Donnell’s competitive spirit continued throughout high school. As a freshman starter on Wissahickon High School’s varsity field hockey team, O’Donnell and her teammates faced a 3-2 deficit in an elimination-style district playoff game. O’Donnell, even at her young age, took control, scoring two unassisted goals to give her team a 4-3 victory.

letes as Venus and Serena Williams and Mia Hamm.

All the accolades and awards are well deserved, according to Meharg and O’Donnell’s teammates, who can’t say enough about their captain’s leadership.

“Odie is a huge leader on the field,” defender and fellow senior Amanda Himmelheber said.

“Whenever the rest of the team is down, she always steps up her game, and it forces everyone else to step up their game as well.”

But despite all of O’Donnell’s success, her career hasn’t been without its lowlights. In last year’s national championship, O’Donnell was held without a point during the Terps’ last-second 3-2 loss to North Carolina.

The loss was hard for O’Donnell, but it was even tougher for

the team’s seniors, who ended their collegiate careers in defeat.

O’Donnell doesn’t want to suffer the same fate. “[A national championship] would just be the icing on the cake” for O’Donnell, her mother said. “It was so disappointing last year when we really were the better team, and we didn’t win.

She saw the seniors and how heartbroken they were. They were saying things like, ‘This is it. We lost.’”

O’Donnell had already won a national championship with the Terps in 2008, but last year’s title loss stands out in a career otherwise defined by winning, With just two more victories this weekend, 2009’s disappointing finish can be easily forgotten.

The Terps play Ohio State

tonight, and if they advance, a match against either secondseeded North Carolina or thirdseeded Virginia awaits in Sunday’s championship.

For O’Donnell, whose lifelong drive to succeed has become just as much a part of her identity as the records she holds, the Terps’ season-long goal of winning the program’s seventh national title isn’t just a desire — it’s a necessity.

“Absolutely no losing,” O’Donnell said after the Terps’ first-round victory over Massachusetts last Saturday. “My last game — I want it to end in a win.

The only way to have that happen now is to win the national championship.” jengelke@umdbk.com

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PITT from page 8 boards, though, did the Terps no favors. Pittsburgh finished with a lopsided 49-28 rebounding advantage, punishing the Terps with a handful of secondchance points that kept the Panthers ahead even as they struggled from deep.

“When they have [heights of] 6-9, 6-10 all over them, we did the best we could,” Gary Williams said. “This is a ranked team, this is the

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fourth-ranked team in the country. It’s not some team with a losing record.”

A win might not have materialized for the Terps, but a confident showing on a national stage didn’t go unnoticed by their coach.

“Going into the game, we felt we could win the game,” Williams said. “It’s a tough game to play at this point in the year. … I think our guys figured out that when we go hard, we’re pretty good.”

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“Last year, it came down to special teams when we didn’t kick the ball out of bounds and [Florida State punt returner Greg] Reid got a good return,” Lee-Odai said of the Terps’ 2926 loss. “We pretty much had the game until then. This game is going to be a battle of special teams and field position, and whoever wins those two areas will come out victorious.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Midfielder Doug Rodkey, right, has added a veteran perspective to a young Terp team.

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In year No. 6, a shot at title No. 3 Rodkey bounces back from injury to emerge as Terps’ leader

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Arguably the signature moment of the Terrapin men’s soccer season last year came against then-No. 2 North Carolina on Sept. 25, 2009, when defender Kevin Tangney headed in the game’s decisive goal in the final two minutes and caused a raucous celebration at Ludwig Field.

Yards away and moments earlier, though, midfielder Doug Rodkey hobbled to the sideline in pain after trying to trap the ball with his right foot.

He thought it was just a cramp. But later that night, Rodkey learned he had broken a bone in the foot, ending his senior season just five games in.

Warming up against the Tar Heels before the ACC Championship this weekend, Rodkey blended in with the rest of the No. 3 Terps. His small 5-foot-7 frame and cherubic face offered no hints that he was one of the team’s

more senior members.

This weekend, the 23-yearold Rodkey will begin his quest for something no male athlete has ever accomplished at this university: three national championships. The diminutive midfielder enters his sixth NCAA Tournament Sunday when the team faces Pennsylvania at Ludwig Field.

Were it not for his fateful fall last September, Rodkey admits, he wouldn’t be here.

“I thought I was done,” Rodkey said. “I was devastated. I didn’t think I was coming back.”

The fifth-year player had already redshirted the 2006 season because of an injury to the same foot. So when trainers told him he probably wouldn’t be able to return, Rodkey couldn’t believe his quiet but productive career with the Terps was done.

Weeks later, coach Sasho Cirovski discovered Rodkey might have a chance at returning. With the early injury, Rodkey ultimately fell short of

playing in one third of the team’s total games, clearing his way for a chance at a medical redshirt.

“If it had happened a game later, he wouldn’t have been able to come back,” Cirovski said.

Rodkey now balances the workload of three-hour-long graduate classes in a public policy program with the rigors of the team’s training. But after looking at the Terps’ talentpacked roster for this season, the decision to return was easy.

“I would like to say that I would come back either way, but at the same time, you look at the team, you know how good the team is, and you want to be a part of that,” Rodkey said. “We knew after last season that we could have a great year.”

Known as a shifty outside midfielder who routinely sets up Terp attackers with picturesque crosses from the right side, he’s become equally valued for his veteran presence.

“You can go to him about

anything,” for ward Casey Townsend said. “If you ever have a question, you can go to him. He really helps the young guys.”

And with a completely new coaching staff this season, Cirovski has even turned to the New Jersey native for advice.

“He’s a great reference point,” Cirovksi said. “Sometimes, I have to bring him into the office and ask, ‘Doug, what did we do this week last year?

What did we do in ’05?’ He’s been my quasi-assistant here.”

With the Terps’ start of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, Rodkey has set his focus on creating one final championship memor y.

“The fact that I could be a part of three teams that were that good and to be a part of Maryland history would mean the world to me,” Rodkey said.

“I’ve been here so long, this school and this team means so much to me.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Sports

Terps get revenge on TU The Terrapin women’s basketball team pulled away in the second half last night to beat Towson, 72-47.

Read the recap at diamondbackonline.com/sports.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

FOOTBALL

Terps’ hopes for upset of Panthers end with a clang

Friedgen will return in ’11 FRIEDGEN from page 1

Team struggles with free throws, in close 79-70 loss to No. 4 Pitt

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

NEW YORK – With less than two minutes remaining in the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s game against No. 4 Pittsburgh last night, forward Jordan Williams rose to the rim for a follow-up dunk over two Pittsburgh defenders.

The sequence that followed — a foul call, a trip to the freethrow line, a clang off the front rim — seemed fitting for the Terps, whose struggles from the line ultimately denied them their upset bid against the Panthers in Madison Square Garden. In their 79-70 loss, their first of the season, the Terps missed their first seven shots from the charity stripe, going without one until early in the second half.

The Terps will face No. 13 Illinois later today in the thirdplace game of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer.

“If we hit our free throws tonight, we win the game,” Williams said. “That’s the No. 4 team in the country. I think we’re No. 3 — you have to believe that going into the game. We were with them.

There was no point in the game that people in the crowd thought, ‘Oh, that game is over.’”

Williams (14 points, eight rebounds) missed five of his seven chances, including his first four, as the team finished 14-for-30.

“We’ve got to make our free throws, but what do you do,” coach Gary Williams said.

“We work hard at our free throws … [but] we were horrible tonight.”

Despite the shooting woes, the Terps held a lead for a good part of the first half until mounting foul problems allowed Pittsburgh to end the first half on an 11-2 run and a four-point lead.

The run continued after halftime, with Pittsburgh extending its lead to double digits as Williams and guard Adrian Bowie each picked up their third foul.

Despite the growing deficit, the Terps found a way to narrow the gap with a 14-2 run punctuated by a three-point play by forward Dino Gregory.

They managed to tie it up at the 12:47 mark in the half, but misfires from the free-throw line and errors on the defensive end ensured the Terps would never take the lead.

“We just have to make our free throws, it’s just the small stuff,” Jordan Williams said.

“We have to stop making dumb fouls, stop letting them make it in the last three seconds of the shot clock. We just have to be smarter.”

Improved guard play was a bright spot for the Terps, with guard Cliff Tucker leading all scorers with 17 points and the team committing just nine turnovers.

A weakness on the

see PITT, page 7

Forward Dino Gregory, top right, and the Terps were outrebounded 49-28 in their first loss of the season last night. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Guard Adrian Bowie, left, and the Terps held a lead throughout much of the first half against No. 4 Pittsburgh. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

of the program.”

The Terps are 73-49 in Friedgen’s nine-plus years as coach, including six bowl games and an ACC Championship.

A program-worst 2-10 record last season, though, led many to question Friedgen’s future with a program he helped resurrect. Rumors swirled last offseason that then-Athletics Director Debbie Yow was attempting to raise the necessary funds to buy out the remaining two years in Friedgen’s contract, but he was eventually retained.

A lagging economy and an athletics department struggling financially made the prospect of buying out Friedgen’s or Franklin’s contract after this season unlikely. Complicating the situation is the fact that Franklin, who was named the team’s coach-in-waiting in February 2009, will be owed $1 million if he does not assume head coaching duties after the 2011 season.

“I’m excited about the direction of our program,” Friedgen said yesterday in a release. “We have a great of bunch of kids and a tremendous staff [sic]. I’m thankful for all the hard work they have put into this season. Right now, we’re just concentrating on Florida State.”

Even after Yow said earlier this year that a seven-win season was a “reasonable” benchmark for Friedgen to reach in order retain his job, Friedgen repeatedly told media and recruits alike that he would return for the 2011 season.

“Yeah. I tell [possible recruits] I’m planning on being here,” Friedgen told The Washington Post earlier this month. “That’s me. That’s what I tell them. That’s really out of my hands, you know what I’m saying. All I can do is worry about winning the next game, so that is what I concentrate on doing. [If] the powers that be think that’s good enough, fine. If the powers don’t, then I won’t be here.”

With Friedgen’s contract set to expire after next season, though, questions still remain about the long-term direction of the program.

Friedgen, 63, has said he will coach as long as he enjoys it, while Franklin has come under scrutiny for questionable play-calling and the team’s offensive inconsistencies.

Anderson admitted in an interview last month that Franklin’s coach-in-waiting status limits the program’s future options, and his decision on the Terps’ coaching position — particularly, whether to hire from inside the program or hire an outside name — could define the early part of his tenure as athletics director.

Asked to comment about his expectations for his role with the program in the coming years, Friedgen declined to speculate.

“I don’t know,” Friedgen said. “It is what it is.”

Senior staff writer Kate Yanchulis contributed to this report. schneider@umdbk.com

FOOTBALL

Terp tandem leads in its special way Lee-Odai, Williams make impact on special teams

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

As they sprint down the field from the same position on opposite ends of the kickoff formation, Terrapin wide receivers LaQuan Williams and Emani Lee-Odai are difficult to tell apart.

Williams is an inch shorter and his No. 3 jersey lacks the the ‘8’ stitched into the back of Lee-Odai’s No. 83 jersey.

Besides that, there’s little to separate the rangy, muscular frames soaring downfield as their long dreadlocks bounce up and down.

And now, thanks to a newfound appreciation for the importance of special teams from both, they have nearly equal status as the unit’s captains and best playmakers.

Entering tomorrow’s crucial prime-time showdown with Florida State, coach Ralph Friedgen readily admits the Terps’ special-teams play has helped key their success this season. He also points out that Lee-Odai and Williams are a big reason why.

The senior duo — both of whom are on the field for kickoffs, punts, and punt returns —

not only bring leadership and experience but a presence to the unit not fully measured by their combined 18 tackles and two blocked kicks.

“They are what I call hardcore special teams guys,” Friedgen said. “They make plays every week, and they are so unselfish. They could be complaining and whining about playing receiver, but they aren’t doing that, and it’s one of the reasons we are winning right now.”

Special teams coach Charles Bankins has always been slightly miffed about the multitude of weekly accolades for offensive and defensive players to earn, while special teams players rarely receive recognition.

But since taking over the unit, Bankins has taken matters into his own hands. The team hands out numerous weekly awards, but none are as creative or as coveted as the ones Bankins hands out.

None of the other awards are accompanied by props either.

Players with the week’s biggest hit on special teams win “The Hammer” award and the honor’s accompanying sledgehammer. Players who make

Wide receivers Emani Lee-Odai, above, and LaQuan Williams have a combined 18 tackles and two blocked kicks for the Terps this season. The team faces Florida State tomorrow in a crucial conference matchup. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

game-changing plays on special teams earn a distinction as the “The Heavyweight Champion of the World” as well as an authentic heavyweight belt for as long as they can hold it.

“We compare it to that scene from [the movie] 300 when they run at each other in the battle,” Williams said. “We look at it like we are warriors going to war, and we are going to do whatever it takes to make a play.”

The awards have become both a source of pride and the grounds for a friendly competition between Williams and LeeOdai. And for two players with the speed to outrun opposing coverages and the strength to

stop a returner in his tracks, the accolades have come often.

Before last week’s game against Virginia, Williams held a slight edge in combined hardware. Then Lee-Odai smacked Virginia’s starting running back, Perry Jones, on a kickoff as Jones tried to block him, knocking Jones out of the game for good and giving the Terps momentum in a close game.

“You never want to glorify knocking someone out,” Bankins said. “But that was a big play because not only did it set the tone, but it got us out of the fog we were in at the time and woke us up.”

Lee-Odai, who won both the sledgehammer and the heavy-

weight belt for that hit, plans to run out of the tunnel tomorrow with both in hand.

When both players arrived on the campus, though, special teams success seemed like a secondary concern.

In 2006, Lee-Odai and Williams joined the program as lightly recruited players before spending their true freshman seasons away from the wide receiver position. Lee-Odai redshirted, while Williams started his career as a defensive back.

The next season, both were buried on the wide receiver depth chart.

They were presented with a dilemma: get on the field with special teams, or wait their turn

for a shot on offense. Both chose special teams, but not without reservations.

“I really didn’t take it seriously or think of it as a real job until last year,” Lee-Odai said. “I used to get caught up in wanting to play receiver, but at the end of the day, special teams is what gets people looks at the next level. So when I wasn’t getting shots at receiver, I thought I might as well give special teams my all.”

“I’m not going to say I just went through the motions,” Williams added. “But I definitely wasn’t giving it my best every single play. Now I tell

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