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Loh to leave for India on Friday with O’Malley

Officials discuss Comcast upgrade

Loh’s stops in India

Team to visit four schools in six-day trip

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

As most students are recovering from a post-Thanksgiving dinner coma Friday, university President Wallace Loh will board a plane for a six-day visit to India with Gov. Martin O’Malley to create partnerships and collaborations abroad.

Loh and a group of university officials — including Vice President for Research Pat O’Shea, business school Dean G. Anandalingam and Office of Technology Commercialization Director Gayatri Varma — will visit four Indian universities to further existing relationships and explore potential

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partnerships. Loh said the trip’s aim is to gain a better understanding of Indian culture in order to create more jobs and opportunities for students, staff and faculty in that country.

O’Malley’s delegation will visit the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, the University of Delhi — India’s top university, according to a Nielsen ranking — and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, as well as several “important research and commercial centers,” according to Jon Wilkenfeld,

Steel rigging could lead to more concerts, additional revenue University President Wallace Loh and Gov. Martin O’Malley will visit four schools in India. They leave Friday. GRAPHIC BY VICKY LAI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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A new kind of accessory Felicia Davenport (right) speaks at yesterday’s event, where more than 100 students wore hijabs. PHOTOS BY JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Students don Muslim headscarves at event

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Senior staff writer

The Terrapins athletics department is in the process of planning upgrades to Comcast Center in hopes of generating additional revenue amid growing debt problems, a university official said last week.

Most notably, the department is considering constructing steel rigging along the campus basketball arena’s roof, which would enable large concerts to be held at the venue. The project would cost about $500,000, according to Randy Eaton, the senior associate athletics director for new revenue, facilities and operations. The department is currently discussing deals with promotion companies that would offer to cover the cost of installation in exchange for the right to host events at the venue.

“We’re looking at different options, how to fund the construction that it would cost to put the rigging in,” Eaton said. “We do have an estimate that we think is feasible.”

Meetings were held with promoters

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BY REBECCA LURYE

Proposal for new American studies minor almost ready

Staff writer

While most women on this campus struggle to find the right necklace or earrings to pair with their outfits every day, dozens of women donned a new accessory yesterday: paisley, metallic, animal print and floral scarves that they hoped would reveal a sliver of life as a Muslim woman.

More than 100 students participated in this university’s first-ever Undercover as a Muslim Woman event, which invited students to wear a headscarf — also known as a hijab — for one day to understand what Muslim women who cover their hair experience on a day-to-day basis. Although many students who took part in yesterday’s event said they “felt pretty” while wearing the hijab, others

Native American studies minor several years in the making

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BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

Garage. While DOTS does not currently enforce its rule prohibiting freshmen and sophomores from parking on the campus, DOTS Director David Allen said this shortage will force officials to set strict rules on which underclassmen can take those spaces.

Rather than have department officials form a uniform policy and deal with multiple exemption requests, Allen charged the Residence Hall Association earlier this month with developing a system that best serves students.

RHA Oakland Hall senator Omer Kaufman,

For Native American students who say they are often reminded on this campus of how little their peers know about indigenous culture and history, recent progress toward creating a Native American studies minor means more than new classes.

After a nearly decade-long push for a Native Peoples of the Americas minor, proponents of such a program have cleared the first hurdle in seeing this idea come to fruition. Advocates’ push led to American studies professor Nancy Struna volunteering to draft a formal proposal, which she will present to several university officials by the end of the semester.

The 15-credit Native Peoples of the Americas minor program would educate students on a broad range of indigenous experiences of North and South America, according to the draft proposal. Once Struna completes the proposal, it will go before the College of Arts and Humanities, an undergraduate

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RHA to develop parking spot allocation plan DOTS charges body with creating solution to parking shortage from construction of Prince Frederick Hall

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

DOTS Director David Allen recently charged the Residence Hall Association with developing a parking permit allocation plan. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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With a parking shortage looming in the coming years, Department of Transportation Services officials have turned to the RHA to come up with a system for determining which underclassmen can take the limited available on-campus spaces.

The construction of the new Prince Frederick Hall — which will replace Wicomico, Caroline and Carroll Halls and is slated for completion in 2014 — is expected to take away hundreds of spaces in parking Lot U5 next to Mowatt Lane

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who chairs the body’s Transportation Advisory Committee, said he expects his committee to discuss the best plan of action for addressing the parking shortage starting as early as next semester.

“It can be anything from forming a committee, to creating general guidelines to determine qualification, to doing nothing at all,” Kaufman said. “Considering this has a tremendous impact on students, this is something we need to consider carefully.”

Kaufman added he is determined to get as much student feedback — through focus groups, forums or informal interviews with students — before the body lays out concrete ideas for a new system.

“I think it’s important for us to delineate how to create a fair system in determining who is allowed parking,” Kaufman said. “This is a crucial issue, and so it is a top priority for us to make sure ever y student has their voice heard throughout this process.”

This is not the first time the RHA has been entrusted with figuring out which students are allowed to park on the campus. During parking shortages within the last 10 years, the body was responsible for handing out permits for underclassmen who needed them in special circumstances, including jobs or disabilities, according to RHA President Corie Stretton.

“Because they have their finger on the pulse of the students, they would be the best people to make this decision,” Allen said. “I have every faith in RHA that they will come up with a good plan. They are among the most responsible student groups on campus.”

Many students said while they were concerned about the upcoming parking shortage, they were glad to hear the decision of who will be allowed to park will be left up to students.

“I like that at least other students are involved, so hopefully they can make it as fair as possible,” sophomore business major Cody Allison said. “I’d like if they dealt with people on a case-by-case basis, since I drive my car way more than most seniors, but I have to park next to [the Eppley Recreation Center] because I’m only a sophomore.”

And while RHA members said coming up with a fair system will take a lot of work, they see this as a unique chance to impact the student experience.

“This is going to be one of those issues that goes down in campus history and that RHA will be remembered for — either in a good or bad way,” Stretton said.

“This is really an opportunity for us to show how we are representative of the campus population.”

said they learned firsthand how some people negatively perceive the headscarf.

The event was organized by Muslim Women of Maryland member Sarah Mostafa, along with members of Community Roots, the Sisterhood of Unity and Love and the Nyumburu Cultural Center.

About 130 students filled the Stamp Student Union Atrium to share and listen to participants’ experiences. Although Mostafa, who covers her hair, said this campus was an ideal site for the event because of its diversity and its students’ open-mindedness, most have misconceptions about what it means to wear a headscarf and practice modesty.

“Definitely we don’t mean to simplify [a Muslim woman’s] life in a piece of fabric, but … I think it’s more interactive than if I were to just tell someone about how it is to be a Muslim woman,” said Mostafa, a senior environmental science and policy major.

Although students said they took part in the event to better understand the cultural and religious practices of Muslim women, the scarf also proved to be a flattering accessory.

“As soon as I put it on, I don’t know why but today I just felt pretty,” said Ashley Evangelista, a junior Chinese and philosophy major. “I put it on and I put my cardigan on

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MINOR from page 1 studies committee and a University Senate subcommittee for review.

“There are a lot of students on [the] campus who want to know about native peoples, and student support has stayed strong,” Struna said. “I’m taking my time now to talk with departments that have had courses, and trying to get a sense of when and how often they will continue to offer them.”

Some Native American students, including sophomore art education major Jacquelyn Grissett, said they feel students have little to no understanding of their culture and history.

“When it comes down to it, [students] don’t know real information,” said Grissett. “They go off the typical picture in their heads of cowboys and Indians. It’s a confused area in peo-

and started taking pictures of myself in the mirror.”

But nearly every student who spoke said they felt a deep sense of unity and sisterhood after seeing others on the campus wear headscarves. Senior Arabic studies and linguistics major Emily Perry said she feels closer to many of her friends who cover their hair.

“Faith is a part of who we are, and if I don’t understand that, I don’t understand my friends,” Perry said.

But for some students, such as senior Arabic studies major Safia Latif — who first began wearing a headscarf in third grade and took it off nearly four years ago — yesterday’s event provided them with an opportunity to wear the hijab in a more accepting environment. Latif said she took her hijab off after experiencing a series of traumatizing instances while growing up — including a girl who ripped off her headscarf, which left her in tears, and a classmate who flushed her shirt down the toilet during gym class.

“Today was the first time in a long time I wore it all day,” Latif said. “I was a little nervous, but it just felt completely natural. It was a completely different experience and I hope to put it on in the future and wear it for good.”

Junior anthropology major Niloufar Jebelli, who no longer wears a hijab, provided the audience with another perspective as a woman who grew up in Iran, where the government forces women to cover up in public.

“Things get harsh if you didn’t

wear it the right way, so that makes you not want to do it, and there’s still a part of me that doesn’t want to do it,” she said. “And it is beautiful, but when it’s not forced on you.”

Mostafa said while the campus is a relatively comfortable place for Muslim women to assert “modesty as an attitude,” many of these women face new challenges when graduating and pursuing professional careers.

“A lot of girls I know take off their headscarves because they’re tired of being judged by it,” she said. “They say they only want people to see them, and people only see the scarf.”

ple’s minds.”

Since there are limited resources relating to Native American history, Grissett said students are presented with few opportunities to learn about and understand the culture.

“The minor would clarify any kind of thinking of Native Americans as mainly historical,” she said. “It would make [the culture] more realistic and less of a fairy tale, and help people understand more.”

When they first proposed implementing a minor several years ago, the program’s proponents faced some ambivalence from university officials.

However, the university made investments to help fund classes relating to Native American studies. The provost’s office has given $11,000 to the anthropology department since 2009, and last year both the provost’s office and the College of Arts and Humanities donated $2,500 to the American Studies department.

And although many officials said they are optimistic they will soon see a minor offered, Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs Elizabeth Beise said long-term support from the university will depend on sufficient student demand and enrollment.

“There needs to be a large enough suite of courses to make the minor attractive to a large enough group of students,” Beise wrote in an email. “And they have to make a coherent, highquality program.”

Although only 32 students identify as Native American or Alaskan Indian on their applications to this university, current courses — including AMST 498L: Native Americans and U.S. Cinema and AMST 498K: Indigenous Thought in the Americas — are nearly filled up each semester.

“I think a lot of people will take [the minor], not necessarily being Native American, just as a general interest,”

More than 100 students wore headscarves for a day to glimpse the everyday experiences of Muslim women. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

To give those students some inspiration, Mostafa invited university alumna Zakia Mahasa, who became the first Muslim woman to preside over an American court, which she accomplished while covering her hair.

“Knowing I was trying to do it the right way was a strength because trying to do it any other way meant in my mind I would ultimately fail,” Mahasa said. “[Wearing a headscarf] is a statement that you’re secure in what you’re doing, so people may not understand — they may not even like it — but they will respect it.” lurye@umdbk.com

said Javier Vaca, vice president of the American Indian Student Union.

Dottie Chicquelo, an assistant director in the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education, who also works with Native American students and initiatives on the campus, said she would like to see community elders and storytellers serve as adjunct faculty to teach the courses.

Although Struna said she cannot speculate whether officials will choose to move forward with implementing the minor, some staff and students said they are more confident.

“I’m not even thinking that this isn’t going to happen,” Chicquelo said.

“Hopefully with this minor, their truth will be told and people will be educated about falsehoods, as well as the blessings that come out of knowing what Native people really stand for.” lurye@umdbk.com

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RHA, DOTS, Facilities Management build new bus shelters After repeated student requests, departments purchase three shelters; one already installed at Elkton Hall

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

In an effort to make frequently used bus stops more inviting, the RHA, DOTS and Facilities Management have teamed up to install three new bus shelters on the campus.

Facilities Management crews built one shelter in front of Elkton Hall several weeks ago, and the department plans to introduce two more — one outside Cambridge Hall and another near Annapolis Hall — within the next month.

Creating a larger, safer space for students to wait for buses was a “recurring concern” students have voiced to the Residence Hall Association throughout the last several years, said Omer Kaufman, chair of the RHA’s Transportation Advisory Committee.

After the RHA notified the Department of Transportation Services of the student requests, DOTS purchased two $5,000 shelters and the RHA bought one, according to DOTS Senior Associate Director David Davitaia. “[Students] really encouraged us to get more space so that it’s not as intimidating to stand in a dark, cold corner,”

COMCAST from page 1 as early as 2004, and the most recent major meetings took place this spring. Should the department end up subsidizing the cost of installation, Eaton said it would be “very safe to say” the department could recoup its expenses from the project within a year, although he said it was unclear at this point exactly how much revenue could be earned from hosting concerts.

The department hopes to decide on the project’s next step by Jan. 1.

“We’ve got to be ready to roll right as spring semester begins to get this thing rolling in order to hit our window,” said Eaton, who added that completing the renovation between August and September next year was also possible.

When Comcast Center was built in 2002, it was originally designed to include steel rigging along the roof. But the feature was phased out as construction progressed, making the building a less attractive venue for large-scale events. Without proper rigging, lights and speakers cannot be hung from the roof, as they are at popular concert venues such as Verizon Center and Patriot Center.

While the building can hold concerts as currently constructed, it cannot accommodate the type of event that could maximize revenue for the department. Additionally, department officials in the past have voiced opposition to

INDIA from page 1 assistant vice president of international programs.

This will be Loh and O’Malley’s second trip to Asia this year. Nearly 70 university and state officials traveled to China this summer in a 10-day mission that cost taxpayers $164,000, but O’Malley estimated the trip netted $85 million in business deals, according to The Baltimore Sun. Loh said he’s optimistic this trip will yield similar results at both the state and university levels.

“It’s all about three things: trade — meaning jobs — education and social and cultural relations and exchanges,” Loh said in an interview Friday.

Although India sends hundreds of its students to study at this university — 948 Indian

Kaufman said. “The primary concern was to make sure that there is enough space, and that the spaces are inviting.”

Because Shuttle-UM is a widely used service, university officials took the opportunity to make students’ overall riding experiences more comfortable, Kaufman added. After RHA brought DOTS’ attention to the need for the shelters, DOTS officials determined where to place the new shelters based on which stops were most frequently used.

“Considering that ShuttleUM is such an integral part of campus, it’s obviously a priority to make sure students enjoy it,” Kaufman said. “It’s nicer to ride a bus where you have a shelter.”

The shelters are made of aluminum and glass, and were installed with “permeable pavers to allow water runoff,” according to Bill Monan, Facilities Management’s assistant director of landscape services.

Several students said the new shelter provides a designated spot to wait for a bus, and that it eliminates overcrowding at the stop, especially during the weekends.

“I remember Friday and Saturday nights there would be whole mobs of people just

holding large numbers of events at the arena because of fears they would interfere with athletics teams’ schedules.

“The idea at the time obviously was to be able to utilize this facility for major outside events,” Eaton said. “But, that being said, this was a facility that was constructed for student-athletes. So that had to be our primary focus going into it.”

Rigging the arena, Eaton said, is a four-to-six-week process that would require the complete shutdown of Comcast Center. Given the schedule of the school’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, finding the time to take on such a project would prove difficult. The most ideal window for the process, Eaton said, would be between April and May next year.

Comcast Center’s scoreboard also poses an obstacle for possible renovations. The scoreboard, which cost $1 million, was not designed to be relocated after its installation, and Eaton said it could collapse if moved onto a platform. If not moved, it would be vulnerable to debris from construction.

Still, the added revenue could be a boon for a cash-strapped department that this week announced it was cutting eight teams unless fundraising was secured to sustain them. With an $83 million debt and hopes of maintaining a financially viable model with a smaller array of varsity teams, it may have no better option than to begin what may be a risky construction.

students traveled to study at this university this year, about two-thirds of whom are graduate students — few American students choose to study there, Wilkenfeld said.

“We’re exploring ways in which we could increase the flow of students from us to India, because India is already a major Asian power, and we need to have our students and people in general more aware of their unique culture,” he said.

“We need to have a better idea as we accommodate many more of their students and get into more research and industrial relations with them that we understand more of their culture, just like they make an effort to understand ours.”

And Loh said this university has a lot to learn from India.

While most out-of-state students pay nearly $30,000 for tuition, Loh said Indian students pay

“We all like it. It’s nice on those cold Friday nights when trying to get to Route 1.”

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crowding around,” said sophomore letters and sciences major Ketty Cho. “I think it gives it more structure and organization. … It’s convenient.”

DOTS Assistant Director Beverly Malone said that while the revamped bus stops have been in the works for several years, the result is worth the wait.

“A shelter’s more comfortable,” Malone said. “Yes, it takes a while, but it’s a good thing.”

Sophomore government and politics and marketing major Abby Dickes said the shelter came at a crucial time as temperatures are beginning to plummet.

“We all like it. It’s nice on those cold Friday nights when trying to get to Route 1,” Dickes said. foley@umdbk.com

Facilities Management officials built the first of three bus shelters to provide students with a safe and dry place to stand while waiting for Shuttle-UM buses. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Dining Services to offer students new, reusable containers In sustainability effort, officials hope to reduce dining hall waste

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

The athletics department may upgrade Comcast Center to help generate more revenue. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

“The Commission believes that the Comcast Center, Byrd Stadium and other athletic venues are viable locations that can be used to enhance revenue as well as provide venues for student entertainment,” the President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics wrote in its report to university President Wallace Loh. “An infrastructure should be put in place to maximize the use of these facilities as venues for concerts and other large-scale meetings and performances.”

Athletic Director Kevin Anderson, who was not available for comment, supports the transformation of Comcast Center into a multi-use facility,

according to Eaton.

“Kevin is committed to making this happen and using this facility and has said that from day one,” Eaton said.

Eaton said he expects the rigging project to be completed by no later than 2013, explaining that the department’s debt crisis has only heightened the importance of the initiative. Still, the department knows the importance of following through on construction properly.

“We want to make sure when we start this, we do it right from the start,” Eaton said. “We don’t want to rush into anything.”

only $300 per year in tuition.

“If they’re able to do that, I want to learn from that,” Loh said. “It’s a totally different environment. We have the same goals, the same talent of students, but we have to learn how they’re delivering education, and they want to learn about how we deliver education.”

O’Malley will be the first sitting governor from this state to travel to India, which poses a challenge for officials as well as an opportunity to discover an entirely new job market, O’Malley’s spokesperson Takirra Winfield said.

“India is actually a growing market in terms of education, in terms of a growing middle class, and we’d like to see how Maryland can learn from the things they’re doing in India and learn ways to partner with India when it comes to education,” Winfield said. “We believe in order to create a strong econ-

omy in Maryland, we have to tap into investments both here and abroad, especially in a growing market such as India.”

Additionally, Loh said the growth of India’s middle class — he estimated several hundred million people have been lifted out of poverty into the middle class in the last 10 years — provides this university with an opportunity to take advantage of that market.

“We want to explore opportunities and tap into this middle class market,” Loh said. “That is a way for the University of Maryland to be involved in a research partnership that can potentially be commercialized, and create new products and new jobs. It’s not just a research university — it’s the innovation and entrepreneurship university that is the future.”

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ON THE BLOG www.campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com OCCUPY PROTESTERS WALK 200 MILES, EAT AT CO-OP A traveling contingent of Occupy Wall Street protesters came through the campus yesterday as part of their two-week odyssey from New York City to Washington, D.C., stopping at the Maryland Food Coop to eat and speak with students from this university.

The 25 “Occupy the Highway” marchers are cobbled together from various protests on the 230-plus mile trek from Zuccotti Park, the now-famous square in Manhattan’s Financial District that played host to the genesis of the grassroots anti-corporatism movement that has now spread across the country. Two students joined the group at the Co-op and continued on with them.

“I find it really amazing that they would take the energy — it’s a logistical nightmare to walk over 230 miles,” said sophomore geography major Jordan Tessler, a member of Occupy UMD. “Especially in the middle of November, it’s just really inspiring.”

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A new Dining Ser vices initiative will allow students to buy a takeout container they can bring back in.

The North and South Campus dining halls will debut a test set of 1,000 reusable plastic containers during the next few weeks.

Officials said they are eager to see whether students reduce their use of current disposable boxes in favor of these environmentally friendly counterparts.

Planning for the program began more than a year ago, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said. After gauging student interest and learning from schools with similar programs, such as Emerson College and the University of Vermont, he said this university decided to give it a shot. If successful, this university will be the first of its size to offer reusable carryout containers.

“We do pilot programs that we’re confident in, and we’re doing a pilot just to make sure,” he said.

The two dining halls go through more than one million containers each year, and Dining Services officials said they hope the eco-friendly alternative — which cost $4,750 out of the department’s capital fund to purchase the initial 1,000 containers, Hipple said — will greatly decrease dining hall waste.

“Takeout containers make up a lot of waste in the dining halls and around the rest of campus,” said Allison Lilly, Dining Ser vices sustainability coordinator. “This is a great opportunity for ever yone to work together to change that.”

This week, the department has been advertising the option by sending informational postcards to each student with a dining plan.

Students can redeem these postcards for a free container; those without dining plans can purchase containers for a one-time fee of $5.

The non-reusable carr yout containers used by dining halls cost $0.25 each.

The new plastic containers

are similar to Tupper ware products and durable enough to last more than a year, Hipple said.

With the new system, students can return these containers to the two main dining halls and place them in a $6,000 collection machine in exchange for a token. Students can then redeem these tokens at any food line for a clean containers.

“I think each student is going to figure out their own way to deal with this,” Hipple said. “I think some students just won’t want to be bothered with it at all; I think some students will use it ever y time they get carr yout; I think most students will be somewhere in between.”

Some students said they were looking for ward to tr ying the new containers because they are both inexpensive and better for the environment.

“I’d definitely use them; it’s more eco-friendly,” sophomore letters and sciences major Peter Raia said. “That would make it a lot easier because the university wouldn’t have to keep buying disposable containers each year.”

Sophomore hearing and speech sciences major Laura Friedman predicted the program would be successful if Dining Ser vices makes it known to students.

“I think if it’s advertised well, people will use it,” Friedman said. “It’d be really awesome if it works.”

However, other students said they feel the project might not catch on.

“I think it’s a good idea, but people are just too lazy,” sophomore psychology major Nick Smith said.

“Ever yone likes to say they care about the environment, but nobody likes to do anything about it.”

Dining Ser vices officials said they designed the process as simply as possible to encourage student use.

“I think from a student’s perspective it should be real easy to use,” Lilly said. “We really hope people will want to use them.” israel@umdbk.com

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Due to an editing error, yesterday’s article “Forum addresses vacancies” incorrectly identified when College Park will receive money from the Community Legacy Program. It will be awarded the money in 2012.

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bout six years after the university commissioned consulting firm Safety and proximity to classes are two oft-cited reasons, but there’s also someAnderson Strickler to assess the local student housing market, it thing to be said for the camaraderie of living on or near the campus. Encouragrecently spent $68,500 on another study by — you guessed it — ing students to live in high-density buildings on the campus and along Route 1 Anderson Strickler, to assess the — you guessed it — local student will help College Park become the great college town university President Walhousing market. And after an extensive process including student and par- lace Loh envisions.

But the university should also be cautious. The large apartment complexes ent sur veys, focus groups, inter views of key stakeholders and an analysis of along Route 1 — The Enclave, Mazza GrandMarc, Univerthe housing situation at peer and competing institusity View and The Varsity — currently feature a vacancy tions, the company’s latest report, released Nov. 11, rate of more than 14 percent, which far exceeds the areareaches some pretty predictable conclusions: Students want air conditioning, on-site laundr y, a quality Even though a new study wide vacancy rate of 3.1 percent. The report doesn’t include housing in the planned East Campus development Wi-Fi connection and safety measures such as card recommends more student — sure to be a big draw — in its estimate of 2,300 addiaccess and security cameras. tional beds planned for construction.

But what’s surprising is the report’s recommendation housing, the university Fancy dorms are nice, but we all know what happens to build even more student housing on the campus, administration should be when a university overestimates demand for a new condespite the addition of more than 5,000 student beds in project — just look at the vacant luxury suites in the area since 2006, and another 2,300 currently in the careful when considering struction the $50.8 million Tyser Tower addition to Byrd Stadium. pipeline. Even accounting for those numbers, the report Further, there are many factors affecting the housing situconcludes the university’s housing options are not meetadditional costs. ation that are difficult to account for, such as the planned ing the demands of students. For undergraduates, there’s an oversupply of 2,050 beds in traditional rooms — which feature double-occu- Purple Line light rail network, or the city’s rent control policy, which recently pancy dorm rooms and communal bathrooms — but an undersupply of more went into effect. Loh and his administration should also realize many upperclassthan 4,700 beds in semi-suites, suites and apartments. Another 684 beds are men will always want to live off campus, even if the population included in the survey indicates otherwise. needed for graduate students.

If developers and local landlords are still willing to invest in additional student In response, the report concludes the university should plan for a new residence hall with room for 500 students — in addition to the already-planned housing developments, it’s another sign the university isn’t meeting the housing Prince Frederick Hall, which will replace three smaller dorms by fall 2014. Other demands of its students. But letting the private sector meet the demand keeps recommendations include renovating existing dorms to include extra amenities the university from taking on additional financial risks. As we’ve all seen with cuts to the athletics department, prudent financial planning is sometimes more and more desirable layouts.

If the Anderson Strickler data is correct, the university should consider inte- important than accepting projections — guesses, really — about what the future grating the recommendations into its comprehensive housing plan. The survey may hold. As the university develops its comprehensive housing plan, it may be and focus group results indicate there is a strong desire to live on the campus. wise to err on the side of caution.

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Editorial cartoon: Kevin Brooks

A smile a day should be here to stay

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ave you ever taken a lab class in which you worked closely with a few classmates for the entire semester? How about a group project on which you collaborated for a few weeks with a small group of peers?

Most of you would answer “yes,” and I expect you’ve also subsequently seen those classmates around the campus, yet they’ve acted like you’d never even met. It’s like they’re deliberately avoiding interaction with you for some inexplicable reason.

Personally, I’ve experienced plenty of unanswered “hellos” from old classmates and seen way too many pull out their phones and pretend to text to avoid eye contact as we pass on the sidewalk. But I can understand this phenomenon — we don’t usually become good friends after working together in a single class, and at such a large university, it’s inevitable students will fragment into smaller groups based on mutual interests. In fact, I’ve been doing that myself ever

OSAMA ESHERA since my first semester. It’s the only way to really make this large campus feel like home.

But for our university’s campus to start feeling like an actual community, we need members of different groups to step out of their bubbles and interact with each other. This begins by maintaining cordial relationships, at least, with our classmates after we leave the academic buildings.

In college, we focus so much on working hard to pursue our dreams, which is great. But we often forget that our very first dreams — the ones we had well before starting college — were not to be fancy doctors or glorified civil servants. Broadcast journalist Josh Levs insightfully notes that our

first dreams as kids were “to be held.

And loved. And to explore this amazing world with love in our lives.”

Though I’m not looking for love from my classmates, I think we as a community can really benefit from some friendly “hellos.” Every time we smile at someone, we help make them feel a bit more loved, which helps both parties achieve our most basic human goal: to feel acknowledged and appreciated. This sense of personal satisfaction can, by extension, help us all be more productive in pursuing our individual goals simply because we feel better.

And when we feel good, we’re better equipped to tackle our challenges.

On the other hand, every time we decline to salute a fellow Terp, our actions only serve to reinforce the artificial boundaries formed by the distinct circles that make up our campus.

Sure, we agree these different circles are necessary to make this university feel a bit more homey. And by nature, these circles are often defined by certain social, ideological or cultural com-

monalities. But if we play up these boundaries too much by minimizing our relationships with people outside our circles, we risk compromising our diversity. We try to avoid some sense of discomfort that we think will accompany reaching out to others, but that is a misplaced concern.

We understand diversity as not the mere presence of these various groups but as the positive interactions of their members’ ideas. Every time we smile and say “hello” to someone outside our circle, we extend a bridge from our group to theirs. And through that smile, we can actually help the diversity on our campus grow and flourish.

So next time you see a fellow classmate, be sure to look up with a friendly smile and greeting so you can both have a more fulfilling experience at this university.

Osama Eshera is a junior bioengineering major. He can be reached at eshera@umdbk.com.

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lthough the word “entrepreneur” denotes innovator, self-motivator and initiator, I think sometimes it’s too narrowly defined. To be an entrepreneur is to be an inventor, the creator of some form of acknowledged, exclusive intellect.

Therefore, the author or the founder of a volunteer organization is as much an entrepreneur as is the businessperson. And these days, more and more students are hoping to one day achieve this accomplished title themselves.

Amy Reinink notes in The Washington Post Magazine how today’s “sour economy … makes traditional employment seem just as risky as starting a business.” An insecure financial future is undoubtedly the driving force behind the growing number of students skipping the conventional path of finding a job.

Nonetheless, skipping over to the unconventional route could ver y well entail skipping some school time, as well, to develop an extracurricular venture. But that’s the notion of risk. It’s analyzing the opportunity

costs of advancing a well-thoughtout idea instead of going to lecture.

And surely there are tools, namely entrepreneurial classes, out there to help people harness their hopes for entrepreneurial success and self-productivity. The notion of teaching people how to start a business is noble and great in theory, but the problem with these types of courses — which are appearing more and more at universities around the country — is that they lack a crucial aspect of truly starting a business: actually letting an idea grow. Depending entirely on these classes to gain all the necessary tools for entrepreneurialism is a bet not worth making. A lot of students may in fact be entrepreneurial idealists — they want to initiate something, and they might even make the effort to sign up for some of these courses. And that’s definitely the first step. But I think placing this much focus on instruction designed to teach students about entrepreneurial spirit is a waste of time. These lessons are better built outside the classroom, even if it means skipping some class time. Too many entrepreneur-

ARIEL DOSETAREH ship classes could indeed go against the focus of acting on this principle.

Aside from this, the concept of being too centered on business guidance, such as that given in entrepreneurship centers, might create the desire to have a pitch approved before acting upon it. Was Lawrence Summers, the former secretar y of the Treasur y and ex-president of Har vard, correct in 2004 when he dismissed the idea of Facebook ever becoming a profitable concept? And what if Frederick Smith, the founder of FedEx, had listened to the economics professor who gave him a “C” on a paper that outlined the concept of overnight deliver y ser vices in a more technologically advanced age? Self-creativity can indeed be evaluated and given constructive criticism, but it can’t be taught and

shouldn’t be altered. Again, it’s that willing notion of pursuing risk in a non-classroom setting that creates the entrepreneur.

Thus, entrepreneurial classes are great beginning tools, but too much involvement in them diverts focus from the message that should be conveyed. Entrepreneurs are successful because they chase an idea they’re confident can work; they have to follow their individual paths outside the classroom. Advice is great and could be taken from anyone with experience. But by giving too much value to the opinions and lessons given in these classes, you end up in a situation where you’re being taught entrepreneurism — and I don’t think entrepreneurism can be taught. It’s a trait that can only be built through self-instigation. Indeed, it seems the most successful entrepreneurs are those who did less learning of it in class and more doing it out of class.

Ariel Dosetareh is a freshman Jewish studies major. He can be reached at dosetareh@umdbk.com.

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everal weeks before its release, a friend taught me how to activate Facebook’s Timeline feature early.

Being the nerd I am, I took the five minutes to go ahead and activate the new features. At first I simply mulled over the Timeline, noting changes I both liked and disliked.

Scrolling to the side, I skipped down to my Facebook activities from 2007, where I saw a note from my friend Jeremy that made my heart stop for a moment.

Jeremy was a longtime friend of mine, the same age as my older brother. Over the course of my life I’d seen him hundreds, if not thousands, of times. In January 2010, Jeremy was killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber. He was one of the most caring individuals I ever had the honor of meeting. He enlisted in the Marines to help protect those he loved, as well as to follow in the footsteps of his father. I was 18 at the time, and the loss of a friend was devastating. Nearly two years later, though, I had put much of that pain behind me. Despite this, I was silenced by this sudden rediscovery of an old “goodbye” letter he posted on Facebook before he left for his first round of basic training.

My experience is far from unique — many people will stumble across a long-forgotten friend’s profile. Over several years of operation, the process of archiving a deceased individual’s profile has evolved into memorial pages, which allow friends to still post on his or her wall but locks away some personal information. It’s an interesting concept — in the past, records of the deceased could crop up in a variety of different ways, such as mail still sent to the individual’s home address after his or her death. Nowadays, when people’s lives are neatly organized in what’s essentially an online social Rolodex, we leave more than just old magazine subscriptions after we pass on. These social networks are more than just the sum of their parts; they’re a collection of everything an individual wishes to put up there. Photo albums are scrapbooks for the lazy. Status updates are one-line diary entries.

I’m sure this viewpoint will be met with skepticism. There are those who would say Facebook is merely a waste of time, that it’s not as important as face-to-face interaction, that these online interactions are merely extraneous efforts best spent on other endeavors — such as actual interaction. I once held this viewpoint as well, and even though I sunk my fair share of time into the website, I sometimes felt the act was meaningless. It was nothing but a portal of personal information, compiled in a nice package via countless algorithms far beyond my scope of understanding but still very much based in logic and math.

Despite my previous conclusions, my interaction with Jeremy’s page more than a year after his death caused me to reevaluate Facebook’s purpose and potential. I no longer see the site as an ultimately unnecessary social medium. Now I see it as a panoramic snapshot of an individual’s life and interactions with those they love. Diaries and journals have persisted for thousands of years, yet Facebook allows users to chronicle even the smallest aspects of their lives. The secret joy of maintaining these journals lies in the fact that they will continue on for our loved ones to read forever.

Alex Krefetz is a sophomore environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at alexkrefetz@yahoo.com.

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It’s time to light the lights First Muppets series film in more than a decade is a success

BY ROBERT GIFFORD Senior staff writer

Nobody hates the Muppets. There are probably people who don’t care for them, who ignore them, who don’t really have an opinion one way or the other or who live in remote areas of the Amazon rainforest and have never heard of Kermit the Frog and company (although it’s probable they’ve heard someone humming “Rainbow Connection” at least once or twice). But to actively despise the Muppets, one of the most inherently un-hateable cultural institutions we have, is probably a sign of extreme mental distress or incurable crankiness.

Thankfully The Muppets, the first Muppet feature film since 1999’s lackluster Muppets from Space — which was the first film in the series made after the death of creator and university alumnus Jim Henson — does nothing to tarnish the show’s legacy and should serve as a fine introduction to the series for younger children, as well as a welcome reminder to older fans of what made it so appealing in the first place.

The film centers on two brothers: Gary, a man (played by Jason Segel of How I Met Your Mother, who also cowrote the film), and Walter, a Muppet (voiced by Peter Linz, 30 Rock). The movie doesn’t explain how one set of parents produced both a flesh-andblood child and a felt-and-string one, and it probably shouldn’t, either.

Walter, an ardent fan of The Muppet Show, tags along on a trip to Los Angeles with Gary and his long-term girlfriend (Amy Adams, The Fighter, exactly as charming as she usually is), but he finds Muppet Studios in disrepair and about to be demolished by a greedy oil executive (Chris Cooper, The Tempest).

With that setup, the “Let’s put on a show!” narrative falls nicely into place as the brothers, joined by a reluctantly retired Kermit, travel around the country, getting the gang back together for one last blowout. (“May I suggest we save time and pick up the rest of the crew via montage?” offers one character.)

It’s not a groundbreaking narrative, but Segel and director James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords) nail its execution. It’s impossible to resist a movie overflowing with great throwaway gags such as a sign describing Reno as “The Biggest Little City in the

“I had a lot of stuffed bears when I was younger, so Fozzy Bear reminds me of my childhood.”

– Samantha Ammons, sophomore, psychology

STUDENT MUPPET FAVORITES This university’s students have more reason to be excited for The Muppets than just about anyone else. After all, the university is the alma mater of Jim Henson, the man responsible for creating Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the Muppet gang.

Not surprisingly, many students have fond childhood memories of the Muppets and their adventures on film and television.

To the right is a sampling of students’ favorite felt freaks.

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“I like Gonzo because he’s a quirky oddball. He can’t really be defined.”

– Andrea Hubbell, freshman, letters and sciences “There’s a nice Kermit the Frog statue beside Stamp. I like the values Kermit stands for, like being yourself.”

– Ryan Harshman, sophomore, accounting

World” or a robot from the 1980s that self-deprecation.)

That’s why a scene like the one in offers Tab and New Coke as beverages.

What really separates the Mup- which Cooper’s oil tycoon character pets from the crowd of children’s starts rapping at the Muppets seems entertainment is that it seems to awesome rather than forced. It’s have been made with a genuine dispiriting when Al Pacino raps in sense of joy. When so many Jack and Jill or Neil Patrick Harris movies pander to kids jams on Guitar Hero in The Smurfs, but it’s great with crass when Cooper jokes and V E R D I C T : shows off his lame popless-than-stellar culture Sweet, funny and smart, The flow here. Why? nameMuppets is a great kids movie Because Pacino checking, that can be enjoyed at any age. and Harris are the warmth and aw-shucks clearly thinking about their paypurity Segel and com- checks, while Cooper seems to be pany bring to the film is enjoying the hell out of it.

That’s what separates The Muppets deeply refreshing and even moving. (It helps from nearly everything else targeted that the senti- at younger audiences: It’s not above mentality is pop-culture references, “fart shoes” and general silliness, but it’s all done tempered with wit with unadulterated enthusiasm and and gentle heart, with the best kind of winking, self-aware humor to boot.

“‘I’m not Jimmy-Jim-JimmyJim-Jim-Jim-Jim.’ Gonzo’s reactions in Muppet Treasure Island made for perfect punchlines with perfect deliveries. That’s why he’s awesome.”

– Josh Koehler, sophomore, computer engineering “Miss Piggy [is my favorite] because she is spunky and sassy.”

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what anybody had envisioned, especially considering the Terps finished 9-4 last year.

But given inherited limits on scholarships and practice time and the team’s plague of injuries this season, Edsall hasn’t had it easy.

“We’ve talked about [the shortened practice time] as a staff,” Edsall said, “and going into the season, I don’t think any of us realized how much of an impact that was going to have, especially when you’re coming into a new situation and you’re installing new systems.

“That was something that probably had a bigger impact than we anticipated.”

For very different reasons, the Terps will make the trip to Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday without center Bennett Fulper and wide receiver Ronnie Tyler.

Edsall announced yesterday that Fulper’s hamstring injury, which kept him out of uniform for last Saturday’s loss to Wake Forest, is more serious than first thought and will keep him from making the trip. Fulper’s injury is expected to take six to eight weeks to heal, Edsall said.

Tyler, meanwhile, won’t make the

trip due to academic problems. This will be the third game this season the senior will have missed while serving a suspension. He also missed two September games after being arrested and charged with second-degree assault Sept. 16.

The Terps continued to use their early exit as fuel throughout the national tournament. Even though it was unseeded, the team blew through its first-round opponent Iowa, 4-2, before knocking No. 3 seed Syracuse out in overtime to advance to the Final Four for a fourth straight year.

Awaiting the Terps there, however, were the two teams that accounted for all of the team’s three regular season losses: Old Dominion and North Carolina. The team avenged both of those losses soon enough, first dismantling the No. 2 seed Lady Monarchs, 4-0, and then completing a furious comeback against the No. 1 Tar Heels. Jill Witmer’s overtime goal — her first score since Oct. 19 — made the Terps the first unseeded team in the tournament’s history to capture the title.

“Did we overachieve with the teams in the field? Yes,” Meharg said. “If you look at both those teams that we beat this weekend, statistically, both teams had a lot of opportunities. We were just better with our

opportunities.”

While the underdog role suited the Terps well in their postseason run this season, they won’t have that luxury in their title defense. Among starters, only senior goalkeeper Melissa Vassalotti and senior midfielder Jemma Buckley are not expected to return, leaving the Terps with very few changes to make to a newly crowned roster.

Inserting a new backstop in the cage will be a mostly seamless transition for the Terps, who saw sophomore Natalie Hunter gain a wealth of experience playing alongside Vassalotti this season. The two keepers alternated starts in goal in September — each started five of the team’s first 10 games — offering Hunter ample time to prepare for a feature role in her junior season.

“I learned from [Melissa] just by watching her play and that definitely helps me out. She’s a winner and she’s a mentor,” said Hunter, who totaled 10 saves and allowed seven goals in the games she started. “It’s always been a dream to play on the Maryland field, and any opportunity I get to do that …

I’m excited and ready.”

Replacing Buckley, however, will likely be more difficult. The AllAmerican was an attacking force for the Terps throughout the season, leading the Terps with 22 goals scored, including four in the NCAA Tournament and five game winners this year.

“It opens up the opportunity for other goal scorers on the squad to be more prolific,” Meharg said. “We’ve got players on the team right now that have been corner-hitters their whole lives, so we’re going to take this spring, start to develop them and see where we are.”

With a fully intact roster and a second straight trophy under their belts, the Terps will begin next season as the prohibitive favorites to win it all again. If the team didn’t enter this season with postseason aspirations, it certainly will in 2012.

“Winning the national championship,” midfielder Megan Frazer said.

“That’s always going to be the goal.”

season had been absent in recent weeks.

Swaim amassed five shutouts through his first 12 appearances this season. He has zero in his past five. The Ellicott City native surrendered multiple goals in three of those outings, including a road loss to Clemson, which has the ACC’s third-worst offense.

“When you’re 0-2-2, you look to make a little change for the psyche of the team,” Cirovski said.

This isn’t new to Swaim.

He made 12 starts as a true freshman in 2007, surrendering less than a goal a game. His main competition in the net transferred the following offseason, leaving him the presumptive starter.

Then Zac MacMath, the top goalkeeping prospect in the country, arrived on the campus. Swaim fended off the eventual MLS firstround selection throughout the summer and preseason, and he started six of the Terps’ first 10 games that year. But he played inconsistently, and after surrendering three goals in an eventual 5-3 loss to an unranked Clemson squad on the road, MacMath became the full-time starter midway through the regular season.

With MacMath between the posts, the Terps went on a 16-game winning streak en route to the program’s third national title. Swaim redshirted the following year when MacMath returned, hoping to have a shot during his redshirt senior year.

This season, for the first time in his career, things were going according to plan. Swaim finished the regular season with the secondfewest goals allowed of any goalkeeper in the ACC, surrendering just two more than North Carolina goalkeeper Scott Goodwin. He seemed poised to help lead the Terps’ chase of a fourth national championship.

That may no longer be a possibility, however. Although Cirovski has not indicated who will start in the Terps’ third-round matchup against No. 12 seed Louisville on Sunday, Cardona seems to be the man of the moment.

“We put our faith in [Keith], and it’s paying off,” Kemp said. “He did well, and I expect him to do nothing but grow and get better from this point on.”

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MACKALL DONE? The future of defensive end David Mackall has been up in the air since Edsall announced earlier this month the sophomore would miss the rest of the season after being suspended for a violation of team rules.

Edsall offered a grim update yesterday when asked about the likelihood of Mackall returning to the team next season.

“I don’t think that looks real promising right now,” Edsall said.

A converted linebacker, Mackall started the first seven games of the

REVIEW from page 8 enough in mid-November to beat Old Dominion and Carolina,” Meharg said.

“That was a long shot in my mind.”

But after the final loss in that seven-game stretch — a 2-1 defeat against Duke in the ACC Tournament — something clicked for the Terps. Just as a midseason loss to Princeton propelled them to an undefeated run to the national championship in 2010, their loss to the Blue Devils marked a game many on the team described as the starting point of a potent finishing flourish.

“The way we trained from the minute we got knocked out by Duke, it was evident to me that there was something very deep in their intangibles, in their gut,” Meharg said. “The way they performed was just unbelievable. From that morning on, every time we trained and played a hockey match, we got better and better. It was crazy contagious. I’ve never seen a group like that.”

Wide receiver Ronnie Tyler, left, will miss his third game of the season Saturday.

season at defensive end for the Terps, racking up 30 tackles and three sacks.

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Sports

Kizer dominates in win

FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

MEN’S SOCCER

Terps women’s basketball center Lynetta Kizer had 25 points in a win vs. Saint Joseph’s.

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After a season of Swaim, Cardona could be next up Cirovski opts for freshman goalie in NCAA Tournament opener Sun.

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Coach Randy Edsall and the Terps face N.C. State on Saturday in their regular-season finale.

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‘Unfair’ criticism?

Edsall addresses complaints about expectations for players at presser

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

As Randy Edsall’s frustrating first season in College Park nears its conclusion Saturday at N.C. State, the first-year Terrapins football coach’s reflections on his inaugural campaign yesterday weren’t altogether novel or surprising.

Yes, the Terps’ 2-9 record to this point is a disappointment, Edsall acknowledged. No, he

said, it shouldn’t be seen as much more than growing pains as he puts his own mark on the program.

For the first time this season, however, he spoke out against critics of his straightlaced expectations for his players.

“I care about these young people,” Edsall said, “and I want them to be successful not only today, not only three years from now, 10 years, 15.

I want them to be successful

30, 40 years down the road. If people want to be critical of me and what I stand for, that’s fine.”

The Terps’ on-field product has yet to reflect the transformation Edsall insists is taking place within his locker room.

Still, he said, he has never wavered on his morals.

“I had a parent call me this morning … and ask me about some things about her son,” Edsall said, “She goes,

Standing on the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s practice field in August, Will Swaim had a simple analogy to describe his college career.

“It’s definitely been a roller coaster,” the redshirt senior goalkeeper said. “It’s been up, and it’s been down.”

On Sunday, that ride went for a loop.

As his starters lined up for a second-round matchup against West Virginia in the NCAA Tournament, coach Sasho Cirovski called on freshman Keith Cardona to man the goal. Swaim, who’d been the starter throughout the season, sat and watched as the No. 5 seed Terps routed the Mountaineers, 4-0.

In his first action against an elite opponent, Cardona breezed to his third career shutout in as many games, finishing with just one save as the Terps ended a four-game winless streak, their longest rut in seven years.

“I thought Keith did awesome,” defender Taylor Kemp said after the Terps clinched their 10th straight Sweet 16 appearance. “He looked confident. I’m proud of him, and it felt good to get a shutout because it’s been a

Goalkeeper Keith Cardona has three shutouts in three games this season. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

little while.”

In fact, it had been more than a month. The Terps last blanked a team Oct. 11, when they beat Adelphi, 2-0. The goalkeeper that night? Cardona. The former under-18 U.S. National Team member started against the unheralded Panthers to give Swaim some much-needed rest.

But Swaim’s benching Sunday wasn’t about fatigue. The 12-day break leading up to the game ensured that. It was about performance. The game-changing saves that marked the first half of the

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‘Coach, you just keep doing what you’re doing. I appreciate everything you’re doing for my son.’ That’s the only verification I need. I know what I’m doing is right for these young people.

“I think, unfairly, I have been criticized for that, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.”

This season’s been far from

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FIELD HOCKEY | SEASON IN REVIEW

The Terps won their second straight national championship Sunday after coming back to knock off North Carolina in overtime. PHOTO COURTESY OF JEFF CAMARATI/UNC ATHLETICS

A familiar ending to an unusual year

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

When asked whether her Terrapins field hockey team had reached all of its goals this season just days after winning its eighth national championship, Missy Meharg could do little but let out a small laugh.

“It’s hard to say whether we did or didn’t beat them,” the longtime coach said, “because we didn’t really make them.”

Turns out they didn’t need to. The unseeded Terps made an improbable run through their NCAA Tournament gauntlet, ending their season by scoring three unanswered

goals in less than 15 minutes against top-seeded North Carolina to clinch the 2011 national championship with a 3-2 overtime victory Sunday.

Their journey there wasn’t without difficulties, however.

As the Terps neared the postseason, the fact that they hadn’t set any title goals looked like a good thing. The team lost three of its last seven games entering the national tournament and at that point, a second straight national championship seemed unlikely, even to Meharg.

“Halfway through the season, I would not have thought that we were going to be good

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