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Real estate Students submit policy extension woes add to deficit

Advocates hope U. Senate will extend Good Samaritan policy to include drug overdoses

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

County prepares for $133 million shortfall

For many student activists, winning the four-year fight to implement a Good Samaritan policy in March was only the first half of the battle — they have officially begun the second round to extend the policy to include drug use.

Undergraduate senators officially submitted a policy to the University Senate Nov. 18 to extend the Good Samaritan policy — which protects dangerously drunk students from university sanctions if they call 911 for themselves or a friend — so students are also protected if they overdose on drugs. Although students pushed for an all-inclusive policy

when they first began lobbying for Good Samaritan legislation four years ago, they ultimately focused on only getting an alcohol-related policy passed first. With a formal extension proposal now in hand, they are setting their sights again on establishing the policy they had once envisioned.

Tomorrow, the Senate Executive Committee, the body’s most powerful

committee, will review the proposal and vote whether to move the legislation forward to the Student Conduct Committee for extensive review.

Undergraduate student senator Brandon Levey, who drafted the proposal, said student activists adjusted its wording in hopes of persuading older

see POLICY, page 3

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Following the nationwide trend of struggling housing markets, Prince George’s County and the City of College Park are facing further economic uncertainty that can be attributed to ailing real estate.

In addition to shouldering about a $700 million debt, the county faces a $133 million budget shortfall for the 2013 fiscal year, according to Thomas Himler, the county’s budget director. A struggling real estate market and lower assessed values on property

A new kind of Full House Univ. alumnus co-writes webseries with former 1990s stars

BY SARAH MEEHAN Senior staff writer

see DEFICIT, page 2

Senate, SGA struggle to communicate

Body leaders hope to resolve problem

University alumnus Jordan Rozansky grew up watching Full House, but never imagined that one day he’d work alongside the actors he once watched from his living room.

But just two years after graduating with an English degree, the 2008 graduate found himself working as a script consultant for Ryan Reynolds’ production company, Dark Trick Films, and launching his own fivepart web miniseries called Can’t Get Arrested. The show, which releases its final episode next week, follows unemployed ’90s actors — including Full House stars Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron and Saved by the Bell actor Dennis Haskins — through wild paparazzi schemes to regain the fame they

see SHOW, page 2

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

After several student leaders claimed they were overpowered in the University Senate debate to implement a plus-and-minus grading policy next fall, SGA officials and university senators said they plan to discuss how the two organizations can communicate more effectively going forward.

Although Student Government Association members were adamantly opposed to approving a new grading policy — and the body voted to condemn the policy Nov. 7, two days before the senate ultimately voted in favor of it — they did not inform the

University alumnus Jordan Rozansky (left) co-wrote a web miniseries starring former Full House star Dave Coulier (right).

PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN ROZANSKY

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see BODIES, page 3

The tale of the trail Alumna films documentary on hiking the Appalachian Trail

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

University alumna Katherine Imp (right) and two friends hiked the Appalachian Trail. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT LLC

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, they were known as the Traveling Circus — a name intended as criticism for university alumna Katherine “Ringleader” Imp, her brother Brandon “Monkey” Imp and best friend Emily “Lightning” Ginger, but one the extroverted group came to embrace.

As it turns out, that Traveling Circus has quite the story to tell, and Katherine

Imp, a 2006 graduate of this university now practicing law in Chicago, is hoping others will soon listen.

Imp produced a documentary film called Beauty Beneath the Dirt, about hiking the 2,178.3 miles of the Appalachian Trail with her brother and Ginger. The film focuses on how the challenges of the hike affect the relationships among the trio, a topic Katherine Imp said is different from most outdoor documentaries and will engage a wide variety of viewers.

“The trail was an adventure, but the film was just as much of an adventure,” she said. “At first I just thought of it as a home video, like where you film your family opening Christmas gifts, but as it started to unfold, I realized there are so many aspects to making a documentary. … It’ll make people laugh and cry and, at the end of the day, think about their own relationships and their own life.”

Although she had never backpacked

see TRAIL, page 7

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are two contributing factors to this gap in revenues and expenses, Himler wrote in an email. Many officials said they do not see the problem fixing itself anytime soon.

Thus, the county will need to cut spending and explore new options for raising revenue next year — difficult decisions county officials will need to make in the coming months, Himler wrote.

“We expect future budgets to be challenging due to limited revenue growth and expanding ser vice needs and costs of providing such ser vices,” he wrote.

Although the depreciation of housing values in the city ultimately af fects the county’s overall deficit, the university’s presence — as well as its large number of employees — has lent a hand in assisting the area’s economy, according to Himler.

Ever y three years, the state’s Department of Assessments and Taxation assesses the property values of homes — the city is in the second year of this cycle — and the city will collect a small portion of that value through real property taxes. Real property tax comprises 52 percent of the city’s revenue, city Finance Director Stephen Groh said.

Although the city expects to pick up $262,000 in new revenue from The Varsity apartment complex’s property assessment, development projects of this magnitude are few and far between in the near future.

“There’s nothing else in the pipeline,” he said. “There are no new projects anticipated to open in the next two years.”

“We will continue to have very, very weak home prices for quite some time. ... I wouldn’t look for the county to make up a shortfall anytime soon.”

CLIFF ROSSI BUSINESS SCHOOL TEACHING FELLOW

Cliff Rossi, a teaching fellow at this university’s business school, said he does not expect the housing market to get better anytime soon and anticipates further uncertainty in the coming years.

“We will continue to have ver y, ver y weak home prices for quite some time,” he said.

An increase in the supply of housing due to foreclosures combined with a decrease in demand due to uncertainty from potential homebuyers will further depreciate housing values and make it harder for the county to close the gap in the budget, he said.

“I wouldn’t look for the county to make up a shortfall anytime soon based on home price appreciation,” he said.

However, the city has a balanced budget for the upcoming fiscal year, according to Groh. He added that the county’s climbing expenses for public safety and education make it harder to balance revenue and expenses.

“The county is so big that they have a lot of costs that we don’t have.” bach@umdbk.com

CLARIFICATION A map of India in Wednesday’s paper with the article, “Loh to leave for India on Friday with O’Malley,” did not include some disputed territory. The map was not intended as a political message about the disputed areas, but simply a visual representation of where university President Wallace Loh visited.

University alumnus Jordan Rozansky (right) co-wrote and co-produced the miniseries, Can’t Get Arrested, which features Full House actors Dave Coulier and Jodie Sweetin, as well as other 1990s sitcom stars. PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN ROZANSKY

SHOW from page 1 enjoyed nearly 20 years ago.

“This was kind of capitalizing on me growing up on Full House,” Rozansky said of the series. “It’s really strange and very cool. … It’s the same people you grew up watching.”

Although Rozansky said he never knew what career path he wanted to take while he was a student at this university, he never imagined he’d one day be writing comedy or tweaking scripts with Coulier.

“I didn’t really think of comedy writing as a viable profession,” Rozansky said.

“It still seems kind of absurd to me that someone can get paid to write comedy.”

Dan Fink, a friend who graduated with Rozansky, said he couldn’t see him working in any other field.

“I’m not surprised that he ended up doing something like this because he was always a really funny guy; he’s a really good writer and has a great sense of humor,” Fink said. “I don’t know what

else he’d be doing.”

Before jetsetting to the West Coast, Rozansky returned to his hometown of Miami for a year, during which he spent his days working in commercial real estate and his nights immersing himself in late night talk show comedy.

As his interest in comedy grew, he began networking in New York and Los Angeles and building his own portfolio, which consisted of stacks of notebooks filled with bad jokes and mock scripts.

“The first few pages of those notebooks are 99 percent terrible jokes,” he said. “The more you write, the more you understand how to write, and eventually it just became a matter of, ‘Gotta get to L.A.’”

By Januar y 2010, Rozansky mustered the strength to leave the real estate business for a chance to mingle with movie stars.

“I spent a year just really taking it ver y seriously and writing as fast as I could and filling up notebooks with jokes, and eventually you just have to make the move,” he said. “I jumped in a car

with a friend and drove from Miami to L.A. and just tried to do whatever I could.”

That drive eventually landed Rozansky the job writing and co-producing his miniseries, which took about six weeks to complete, he said, and provided him with plenty of laughs along the way.

“Ever ything the guys said was so funny,” Rozansky said. “We have so many ruined takes because people are laughing at what Dennis was saying.”

The comedy shows through in the final product, Fink said.

“It’s pretty funny — it’s good tongue-in-cheek humor; it’s good stuff,” Fink said. “It’s pretty cool knowing Jordan is the guy who produced it.”

Because the team worked so well together, Rozansky said he hopes they will collaborate again in the future.

“We don’t know what the next thing is but we know we all want to work together again, so I’m sure the whole team from Can’t Get Arrested will be back together and working on

“It still seems kind of absurd to me that someone can get paid to write comedy.”

JORDAN ROZANSKY DARK TRICK FILMS SCRIPT CONSULTANT

something in Januar y or Februar y,” he said.

Although it took Rozansky several months before he could produce a show of his own, he said the grunt work paid off, noting that Hollywood is not as exclusive as it often seems.

“I think the entire industr y gets a bit of a bad rep, and it’s looked at as a ver y closed off, ver y difficult to get into industr y,” Rozansky said. “But I think if you’re willing to take that jump and work hard, it’s more accessible than people realize.” meehan@umdbk.com

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POLICY from page 1

University Senate Chair Eric Kasischke (left) and Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie will meet to discuss how the bodies they head can effectively communicate before passing legislation that affects students. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

BODIES from page 1

senate of their stance on the grading system until the day of the body’s Nov. 9 vote.

While the two organizations do not have a formal system of exchanging information — which leaders said has not caused significant problems in the past — SGA President Kaiyi Xie said he plans to meet with Senate Chair Eric Kasischke and Chair-elect Martha Smith to discuss opening new channels of communication and collaboration between the two organizations — especially on issues that directly impact students.

“There is always room for improvement, but we’ve seen the consequences of that miscommunication, so we want to work together to improve it at this point,” Xie said.

The senate’s decision to move for ward with the new grading system drew criticism from the SGA and several undergraduate student senators, who said faculty senate leaders did not solicit enough student input before making their decision. Senate leaders said they were largely unaware of student concern regarding the grading system until two days after the vote, when the SGA spearheaded a petition

opposing the policy that garnered hundreds of student signatures. And while the SGA often votes on whether to support senate legislation — including a policy that requires all scooter riders wear a helmet — the body does not formally send the results of its final vote to the senate, and many times does not inform the senate at all of its stances on various issues.

The SGA has not sent the body the results of any of its votes regarding senate legislation — including the resolution condemning the grading policy — but SGA members also said the senate does not adequately inform students of important issues before the body votes.

Although Kasischke said the senate website provides information on all legislation to members of the university community, he noted the senate does not typically reach out to students.

“We rely on people coming to us and informing us,” Kasischke said. “What we do is provide a forum.

Therefore the question that I’m tr ying to focus on and tr y to answer for people is: If people want to influence decisions made by the senate, when is the best time to do that? How can we facilitate communication between the two organiza-

tions to make sure we get the information from the SGA in a timely fashion?”

Many student leaders said they believed the time for conversation should come long before the final vote.

Xie’s predecessor, Steve Glickman, said there were never any significant miscommunications during his two years as SGA president, but said this was mainly because he ensured a member of his cabinet sat on the Senate Executive Committee — the body’s most powerful subcommittee — which the SGA has not done this year.

But Xie said he believed the senate should be the body to take the initiative by reaching out to the SGA. “I think actually being a representative body requires engagement and outreach,” Xie said. “I feel they should be more proactive. Maybe we should keep a sharper eye on the senate website, because it is a twoway street. But I do think they have an obligation to reach out.”

Some undergraduate senators said they also noticed the barriers in communication between the senate and the SGA, especially in the aftermath of the grading policy debate.

“It’s really disconnected on both fronts,” said Alex

“It’s really disconnected on both fronts. We aren’t getting any of the SGA polls they do until really late, and vice versa.”

ALEX MILETICH UNDERGRADUATE SENATOR

Miletich, an undergraduate senator. “We aren’t getting any of the SGA polls they do until really late, and vice versa; the senate is probably not doing the best job of informing the student body of these issues until they are ready for the final debate, which is oftentimes too late because most of the work is already done in the committees.”

Undergraduate senator Seda Tolu said improving communication with the SGA would help both organizations ensure the student voice is fully represented.

“Senators don’t have that great collaboration, but we have the voting power,” Tolu said. “It’s an issue I think needs to be addressed, and it needs efforts from both sides.” villanueva@umdbk.com

senators to vote in favor of the legislation. In the proposal, Levey recommends a policy that would not protect students who have been accused of manufacturing or selling drugs, but rather, one that would only prevent punishment for students with “no prior disciplinar y record relating to drugs.”

“The university’s not sanctioning drug use, but really just trying to save lives,” Levey said. “Once we get through the SEC on Tuesday, we’re hoping the full senate will get to take it up later this year and arguments for it will outweigh arguments against it.”

Senate Chair Eric Kasischke said because of the legal complexity such a policy would pose, senators will likely seek input from outside sources, which may mean it will take months — or even years — for the senate to vote on the proposal.

“This is a complex and emotional issue and so just like the first amnesty policy, it took a while, and I think this one’s going to take a while, too,” Kasischke said. “The other thing about this one is we are probably going to seek the opinion of university council … so there are some legal ramifications we have to understand.”

Levey said he already reached out to the Board of Regents — a 17-member governing body that oversees the University System of Mar yland — and received approval to propose such a policy.

“We’re hoping to do this swiftly. The vast majority of student senators are on our side, but there are still some people who don’t want to change [the policy] because they don’t want any problems with the state … but we have an OK from the state to do something

“This is a complex and emotional issue and so just like the first amnesty policy, it took a while, and I think this one’s going to take a while, too.”

ERIC KASISCHKE UNIVERSITY SENATE CHAIR

like this,” said Lauren Mendelsohn, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and a Diamondback columnist.

About 50 universities nationwide have adopted an all-inclusive Good Samaritan policy, including the University of Florida, Washington College in Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Cornell University, according to the SSDP national website. In his proposal, Levey also points to states that have signed the legislation into law, including New York, New Mexico and Washington.

Senate Chair-elect Martha Smith said even though the proposal is contentious, she is open to listening to arguments on all sides of the debate.

“I would think that we would have to consult with university lawyers because there are all sorts of liabilities, but the most important thing is the health and welfare of our students,” Smith said.

“I think that like any other piece of legislation, it deser ves a thorough airing, and we want to work to formulate a policy that does promote the health and welfare of our students, even when it includes something ver y complicated like this.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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Rigging some revenue

SOPA will create a firewall

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midst university President Wallace Loh’s decision to cut eight varsity teams ter, which opened in 1985 and seats about 10,000, was the 18th highest grossing in response to the athletics department’s budget troubles, the Intercolle- venue in the world among those seating 10,001-15,000 in 2010, according to Billgiate Athletics Commission’s suggestion to install steel rigging at Comcast board. Verizon Center in Washington — which seats 20,000 — was ranked the ninth-highest grossing venue of the decade.

Center is perhaps the most promising recommendation.

Comcast Center seats 17,950 for basketball games, so seating for a concert would put The rigging is estimated to cost $500,000 and would allow lights and speaker systems commonly used during concerts and other events to be hung from the arena’s ceiling. it in line with Verizon Center. The university’s location — about two miles from the nearest Metro station — certainly seems more convenient than the Despite the price tag, Randy Eaton, senior associate athletic diPatriot Center, which is almost six miles from the nearest rector for new revenue, facilities and operations, says the uniMetro station. Although Verizon Center is in Washington’s versity could reach a deal with a promotions company to pay bustling Chinatown neighborhood, the university has plenty of for the installation in exchange for event revenue. Even if the The university should parking and is located just inside the Capital Beltway. university foots the bill, he estimates it would take less than a This editorial board supports the installation of steel rigyear to recoup the installation costs. Eaton predicts the univer- install rigging to hold large ging at Comcast Center. In addition to bringing revenue for sity would likely profit at least $500,000 per year from holding events at Comcast Center, the university, more concerts and other events on the campus more outside events on the campus, which begs the question: as well as aggressively would be a welcome change of pace for students and could Why are we not doing this already? boost the economic viability of further development in The steel rigging was actually part of the original plan for move to pursue additional help downtown College Park. Since opening in 2002, Comcast Comcast Center — which cost $125 million and opened in Center has welcomed more than 2 million fans, but that num2002 — but was phased out to save costs. Eaton explains: “If sources of revenue. ber is dwarfed by the more than 30 million who have visited there were things that were found during the construction process, that were either left out or could have been improved to help our student- Verizon Center since it opened in 1997. Concertgoers have to eat and drink, too, and athletes, it probably was a no-brainer to value-engineer something out to improve holding events year-round could help local businesses withstand the summer revthe atmosphere for our student athletes and our coaches.” In other words, the ath- enue drought when students are away from the university.

Despite the potential benefits of holding more concerts, there could be some pitletics department made a decision to avoid holding large-scale events at Comcast Center — which houses facilities for men’s and women’s basketball, gymnastics, falls: Students will have to move their cars more frequently, and the university will be wrestling and volleyball — for fear they would interfere with the student-athlete ex- competing directly with Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which manages perience. That line of thinking is noble but shortsighted, and it’s partially to blame both the Patriot Center and Verizon Center and has established a successful track record in the area. The university shouldn’t expect such lofty attendance numbers as for the department’s budget troubles.

Eaton says the university held talks with promoters as far back as 2004, and as recent- those enjoyed by Verizon Center, but every little bit helps.

It’s time for the athletics department to stop dragging its feet: Whether the unily as this spring. It seems just two years after Comcast Center opened, the department realized not installing the rigging was a mistake. But seven years later, nothing has been versity signs a deal with a promoter or funds the installation itself, we need to begin done to correct the problem. If Eaton’s estimate is accurate, the university has lost out holding more events at Comcast Center as soon as possible. Even the student-athletes, who may be inconvenienced from time-to-time, should support the effort. on at least $3.5 million in potential revenue the past seven years.

That number is probably conservative, because two other venues in the area are After all, if the athletics department continues to bleed money, some of those teams among the most successful in the world. George Mason University’s Patriot Cen- may not even be around in a few years.

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Editorial cartoon: Nathan Tucker

We’re voting with our dollars

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s the season of holiday spending begins, you should understand that when you give the cashier your dollar or credit card, you are casting a vote. Many times you are casting a vote against your own interests or beliefs.

In January 2010, the Supreme Court decided corporations are free to spend as much money as they want on advertisements to support or trash candidates, or influence other issues of public debate — they just cannot directly contribute to campaigns. Money is power and this decision, which unraveled established precedent, has significantly shifted the power from individual citizens to corporations.

So when you spend your money, you may be filling the coffers of a corporation and its owners, who will use your money to promote organizations you may consider evil, make contributions to candidates you oppose or finance political advertisements which could,

RICHARD ZIPPER at best, be described as deceptive.

Of course, companies and their owners have every right to support whatever they want, but you might want to know that eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich will go to support a company and owners who are strongly opposed to gay marriage. Going to Curves to work off that Chick-fil-A will fill the bank account of the owners’ strong support for antichoice evangelical organizations and buying at Home Depot will repair the bank accounts of Republican politicians.

Determining which company supports what is no easy task. It’s not uncommon for companies, industries or political affiliations to be writing the scripts and providing the voiceover for front groups portraying

themselves as grassroots. For instance, the Heartland Institute, which questions climate change, is supported by ExxonMobile, the Walton Family Fund and various rightwing foundations. Then there is the Center for Consumer Freedom — which defends the rights of consumers to choose to eat, drink and smoke as they please — that’s funded by the restaurant and alcoholic beverage industries. These groups are numerous and their names (Americans for …, Citizens for …, etc.) attempt to hide the ventriloquist behind the curtain.

If you want to become more informed, I suggest: www.betterworldshopper.org (available as an app: Better World Shopper) and www.sourcewatch.org. Please note, the Better World Shopper app just gives companies a letter grade. If you want more details behind the grade, you need to go to their site.

In the meantime, if you really want to do good while giving for the holidays, you may want to consider shop-

ping online at fair trade sites such as www.tenthousandvillages.com, www.serrv.org or www.thehungersite.com.

Another alternative, one of my favorites, is to go down to the Smithsonian Museums in Washington.

The gift shops are usually not as crowded as the stores, they have unique items and spending some time in the museums is always fun, interesting and inspirational.

The shape and direction of the society you live in is not just decided by who gets elected to office, but by who has the money. Until laws are passed to make the funding of front groups and political advertising more transparent, deciding who to spend your money with will be a challenge. I hope you find the references I gave you helpful. I believe the small decisions we individually make can collectively have a large impact.

Richard Zipper is a Golden ID student taking classes in biology. He can be reached at zipper@umdbk.com.

The social cost of technology

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hen sitting with my fam-

ily at Thanksgiving, I noticed the conversation had died down a little while I was busy getting stuffing, and soon realized more than half of the people seated were either texting, searching the Web or somehow preoccupied with their cell phones.

My phone wasn’t even in the same room, because I figured nobody besides the people with me would have a reason to call me on a holiday.

Conversation soon picked up again, but the topic had switched from my cousin’s trip to China to some of the new iPhone apps. I felt left out of the discussion, not because I don’t have an iPhone, but because our family talk at this once-a-year occasion was no longer focused on the family.

Technology is a wonderful thing: Machines and computers make it possible to create things efficiently and access information quickly, and cell phones can save lives in times of crisis. But we should not be so quick to dismiss the less positive influences

these tools have had on society.

As I obser ved with my family, we’ve become incredibly occupied with, and sometimes even dependent on, our cell phones. We tune out the outside world and focus our attention on that text message or video in our hands. Instead of talking with the people around us, we talk to people who are not there — who could ver y well be doing the exact same thing — and normal conversation becomes less frequent and more awkward. Face-to-face interactions in general become taxing because we’re used to texting through a machine that won’t show our facial expression or intonation to the other person. We even use our phones as distractions so new people don’t talk to us in the first place, which only perpetuates the cycle and worsens the damage to our social interaction skills.

Further, we’ve been brainwashed into thinking we need a lot of unnecessary gadgets. Sure, if you have a computer-oriented job, travel often

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or are trying to learn Portuguese on the side, then an iPad is perfect for you. But does a college student who already has a laptop computer, a functioning cell phone and who hardly travels out of the area really need one? It’s certainly possible, but what’s more likely is that it’s just wanted, rather than needed. Thanks to the media’s and technology companies’ bombardment with “newer,” “better,” “must-have” items, we’ve found it harder to distinguish the necessary from the superfluous.

Perhaps one of instant technology’s worst effects on society is our loss of interest in hobbies and active group activities. The time that used to be spent riding bikes, playing chess or baking a pie is now spent tweeting or

checking Facebook. Our generation has little interest in learning to sew or reading classical novels for pleasure, often seeing such pastimes as “lame.”

Young people are spending less time playing with friends outside and more time playing games on their phones.

This is not only damaging socially, because group activities help us learn how to interact with others, but is damaging to our health as well, because humans were not built for a purely sedentary lifestyle.

I realize people are not about to put down their smart phones forever to go back to the “good old days,” especially because we’ve become accustomed to having everything at our fingertips. What I do wish, though, is that people would realize the disconnect between them and their environment, and that when they did, they would put down the phone and experience life.

Lauren Mendelsohn is a junior psychology major. She can be reached at mendelsohn@umdbk.com.

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erhaps I don’t give my peers enough credit, and you all have actually heard of Congressional Bill HR 3261 — the “Stop Online Piracy Act” — currently making its way through the House of Representatives. Its abbreviation, SOPA, showed up in a recent editorial cartoon here in The Diamondback, so I guess people are at least vaguely aware of it, but the content of the cartoon made me wonder if anyone actually knows what it is.

Though this bill is moving rapidly through the House (it was given a hearing not long ago), I have hardly heard a word spoken about it in a public forum. This is why I am writing about it: SOPA is, in effect, a firewall on the Internet use of American citizens.

The bill is designed to do two main things. First, it would make it a felony to stream copyrighted content, carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison. Ever torrent a song? Congratulations, you are now a felon, and could potentially go to jail. The second part of the bill would give the Department of Justice the right to block any domain it deems devoted to “infringing purposes,” and demand any and all search engines or social networking sites remove any hints of a blacklisted site from their search results. A site can also be put on this blacklist due to the content posted by its users, if the Justice Department deems it infringing enough. Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has called the bill “draconian.”

To make this a little more relevant to some of us, consider this; some people make a Facebook fan group devoted to a particular band, and they post videos and song links on that group’s page. Because the makers of the page are not the actual copyright holders of that band’s songs, their group could be deemed an infringement on copyright, and the government would have grounds to put up a firewall on the entire Facebook domain. Bigger Internet companies — such as Facebook, YouTube, etc. — with more robust legal departments would likely want to avoid that possibility altogether, and the only way they could would be through personal censorship. So, if a Facebook administrator thinks something you post could get the Justice Department’s attention, they would likely delete it or lock your account themselves to spare the rest of their website, which their Terms of Use already gives them the authority to do.

SOPA is the House incarnation of Senate bill S.968 “PROTECT IP Act,” which has been informally referred to as the “Justin Bieber Bill.” Under the constraints of the bill, the young pop star would have been considered a felon because he made his fame and fortune by singing copyrighted songs on YouTube. Both of these bills pave the way for an American firewall, the likes of which we’ve all heard of in countries like China and Iran. Though this law only authorizes censorship on the grounds of copyright infringement and not political or moral views, it is still a step toward the restriction of information that any American should be appalled by. Please, write or email your Congressmen; tell them to oppose these bills. I know it seems like an exercise in futility, but if this government is supposed to work, we have to believe in the power of the constituents over our representatives.

Stephen Rane is a junior English and linguistics major. He can be reached at srane@terpmail.umd.edu.

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To orgasm or not to orgasm: That is the question. Normally, this wouldn’t even be a question, but when you ejaculate ink every time you climax, it’s something to think about.

Luckily, this disorder is not real, but it did make for an intriguing short story (“Squidgirl”) — something this university’s literary journal, Stylus, prides itself on publishing.

For 17 years, the editors of Stylus have published a yearly issue in the spring, filled with select art and literature pieces written by undergraduate students. Though editor in chief Dylan Bargteil estimated students submit more than 200 pieces of poetry and a fair amount of prose each year, he believes few outside the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House know of Stylus.

So this year, he and the other editors are brainstorming better ways to advertise the journal, starting with an interactive chalking event Friday in front of McKeldin Library where students can write poems, paragraphs or just draw whatever they come up with.

“I feel like there’s a lot of room for growth in the arts communities on campus and so one of the things I’d like to

pursue is novel ways to engage three verdicts: accept, reject or the student body in commu- revise and resubmit.

While the “revise and resubnity arts,” Bargteil said.

“Rather than just writing, ‘Sty- mit” alternative may be a nice lus: Submit by Jan. 31’ every- way to help those whose pieces where over campus, we’re hav- aren’t quite ready to be pubing the students engage with lished yet, prose editor Nick each other and us through this Lyle said his editorial board uses this option too much. different medium.”

“Though I end up explaining at Last year’s issue of Stylus, every meetwhich came ing that we’re out in April, not a workincluded four shop, during prose, 15 the discuspoetry and 12 sion of a art pieces piece, people along with the seem to fall in winners of the love with the Cabrini Art idea of salAward and the vaging a winners and piece that finalists of the isn’t very annual good,” Lyle JiménezCHERTOCK said. “I have Porter Liter- MARLENA STYLUS POETRY EDITOR to reiterate ary Prize. that we can The review process is extensive, with an edi- only revise and resubmit pieces torial board for each section that are publishable as they are meeting monthly to evaluate but could use some small tinkerevery submission. After discus- ing or improvement, not to sion, the board comes to one of improve a piece that we would

“Creative writing is a way to share different opinions, insights and details about real or fabricated obstacles.”

otherwise reject.”

Bargteil said the submissions are judged mostly on choice of language, characters and style — pieces that are too standard or experimental are turned down — but the process changes based on who holds the editor positions each year.

Interestingly enough, the pieces that are eventually published tend to revolve around a common theme: Two years ago, it was sexual frustration; last year, it was vulnerability.

“Creative writing is a way to share different opinions, insights and details about real or fabricated obstacles,” said Stylus poetry editor Marlena Chertock. “It is an important way people share their voice, their struggles, their life with others.”

Yet several editors said they wished more diverse voices would submit their work to Stylus. Bargteil is a math and physics major himself and hopes to encourage his peers in the “hard sciences” to express themselves through different venues.

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“Why would hard sciences feel compelled to look down upon humanities?” he asked. “I don’t have a good answer to that.”

For all writers, regardless of whether they choose to submit to Stylus or not, the journal is a resource to test their skills and see how others respond to their words.

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Cha, who submitted two pieces to Stylus for review this year, said her submission wasn’t to see if she could write. She knows she can. It was more about simply speaking to others through a different medium.

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Student causes solicit funds Univ. launches environmental council to solve global issues

New fundraising campaign, iMpact Maryland, allows alumni to donate online to four student organizations

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

Student groups struggling to sustain their programs have found a new audience to help fund their causes: university alumni.

Although many alumni make regular donations to the university, they previously have not been able to direct their money to specific student-led causes.

But after the university’s alumni association office launched iMpact Maryland — an online fundraising campaign that allows student groups to corral alumni for private donations — two weeks ago, student activists said they have found a new outlet to aid them in carrying out their campaigns in the face of dwindling funds.

After the Student Government Association cut funding for several student groups last semester, leaders of these clubs said they found it increasingly difficult to find sources of revenue. While Alyson Goff, coordinator for student philanthropy, said iMpact Maryland did not directly stem from the SGA’s cuts, it provides students with an opportunity to reach out to a previously untapped audience.

“Our students and our young alumni were telling us they wanted transparency,” Goff said. “They wanted to support specific causes instead of just donating to the university and

not really knowing where their money was going.”

Officials were inspired to start the program after a 2009 university study found many alumni were interested in learning about and contributing to student causes. Since iMpact Maryland is still a new endeavor, only four organizations are participating in the pilot program: Terpoets, Maryland Equestrian Club, Engineers Without Borders and the Public Health Garden. The groups’ online donation requests range from $500 to $5,000 to cover various costs, including a Public Health garden bioretention area and a pedestrian bridge in Ethiopia for Engineers Without Borders.

Student leaders said the initiative allows interested alumni to learn more about their causes, which may help them develop a solid support system in the future.

“I know how important it is to connect to alumni because they’re always so willing to help student groups, especially if they were part of an organization,” said Maryland Equestrian Club fundraising Vice President Courtney Feeley. “There wasn’t really a program or a way to do that before, so I thought I would definitely take advantage of this website and see how it went.”

Feeley said her club’s request of $500 will go toward the group’s operational costs,

which include caring for the horses at the campus farm.

The website also provides students with a place to offer more information about their causes by providing them links to individual group websites and social media profiles.

One of the most exciting aspects of the program, student leaders said, is the groups themselves determine their own campaign goals and marketing strategies.

“We’re always looking for avenues for funding,” said Terpoets Vice President Jonah Potasznik, adding his group’s donations will go toward paying for future events. “This seemed like a great way to personalize those methods of funding.”

Although students said they will not be able to determine how successful their fundraising efforts were before next month, leaders said simply being a part of the program provided them with another way to publicize their causes.

“We’re really looking forward to seeing how it pans out and hope that people who are unfamiliar with us will learn about us through iMpact Maryland,” said Terpoets president Jihan Asher.

Student organizations can submit their applications through the website impact.umd.edu. marcot@umdbk.com

ON THE BLOG www.campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com A REAL CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER Sarah Emoto decided to run across the country “for fun.”

Emoto, who graduated from the University of Redlands in California last spring, ran through College Park along Route 1 Saturday.

She’s made pitstops at a variety of police stations along the way, this university’s included.

Read more at The Diamondback’s news blog, Campus Drive.

New coalition deviates from other similar groups by focusing on broader issues, like climate change

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Starting next semester, faculty across the campus will unite in the university’s new Council on the Environment to promote environmental sustainability beyond the campus borders.

Unlike other university environmental initiatives that look to improve eco-friendliness on the campus, the new council — which will draw on university researchers and faculty from different departments — will work to solve global environmental issues, such as climate change.

The university announced the creation of the coalition Nov. 14, although no council members have been selected yet. Atmospheric and oceanic science professor Antonio Busalacchi, who will chair the body, said he is in the process of meeting with college deans to determine who will sit on the council, and he hopes its members will be finalized by Januar y.

The council will provide a forum to incorporate the multidisciplinar y collaborations the university has to offer on environmental issues, Busalacchi said.

“The university has a tremendous amount of expertise and excellence across the natural, physical and social sciences as they pertain to the environment,” Busalacchi said. “It’s really to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.”

While the council will address some local and campus-level environmental issues, University Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea said it will be important for the council to ultimately focus on broad-based,

global environmental issues.

“We all share a common environment,” O’Shea said.

“This council is not just focused on the local issues for the campus; it’s meant to be globally engaged.”

In addition to bringing together researchers across the campus, Busalacchi said the council will help the university better take advantage of existing partnerships with state and federal agencies looking to solve environmental issues, such as NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy.

“In some sense we have a responsibility to utilize and nurture those relationships,” Busalacchi said.

The council will report to O’Shea and Provost Ann Wylie, and O’Shea said the combination of federal agencies and university experts would be critical in putting the university at the forefront of global environmental initiatives.

“We’ve got broad-based expertise on campus, but nearby we have the largest concentration of earth scientists in the world,” said O’Shea. “We have some unique strengths at the university and in the region we want to take advantage of.”

However, university and federal experts will not be the only ones involved with the new council — Busalacchi said students will also be critical to its success.

One of the major goals of the council will be to assess gaps in different college curricula to determine how to teach all students more about local and global environmental issues, Busalacchi said.

“We want to look at what programs in terms of education we need to put in place so our students can be more competitive and conscien-

“One thing for sure is the climate and the environment are changing, and we need to be able to adapt.”

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tious,” Busalacchi said.

Busalacchi also said the council will look into holding a public lecture series to involve the university community in discussions about environmental issues and controversies.

“We want to raise the level of discourse on environmental issues across campus,” Busalacchi said.

Outside of the university, O’Shea said the council will play a critical role in helping solve global environmental issues that can’t be ignored.

“One thing for sure is the climate and the environment are changing, and we need to be able to adapt,” O’Shea said.

“The environment we live in is fundamentally important for our future.”

Busalacchi said the council’s launch demonstrated the university’s strong commitment to addressing problems associated with the environment at both local and global levels.

“It’s making a strong statement about the university’s commitment to the environment,” Busalacchi said. “The university sees this as a serious issue for the campus and going up and out of the campus to the state, nation and internationally.” saravia@umdbk.com

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Katherine Imp (middle) and friends hiked the APPALACHIAN Trail and produced a documentary film about the experience. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT LLC

TRAIL from page 1 before the trip, Katherine Imp said she led canoeing trips while working for a wilderness organization called Outward Bound after graduating with a degree in criminology and criminal justice.

“That’s kind of what inspired me to do this trip even though it was in a totally different realm,” she said.

“I’ve always been interested in film and outdoor adventure, and so sometime during my first year at law school I decided to take those interests and combine them and make something out of it.”

In March 2010, the trio set out on the hike, which they completed five months later.

About 2,000 people attempt a “thru-hike” of the trail ever y year, and one in five succeed, Katherine Imp said.

None of the hikers had experience with film and, because the group averaged 20 miles a day, they said the most difficult part of the experience was juggling the physical aspect with the added task of capturing the journey.

“We were physically exhausted all the time, and so taking the time to stop hiking and set up a camera and do a shot was hard,” Brandon Imp said. “Ever y single time we

would do a take, it could be 30 seconds of filming but take an hour to set up and get ever ything ready.”

Jason Furrer, a friend of the Imps who helped produce the film, said he hiked parts of the trail with the group, teaching them about film techniques.

“I had just graduated from film school, and it sounded like a ver y interesting project, one that would be a great experience for me,” he said.

Brandon Imp, who had just graduated from college when the group set out, said the isolation from society for months was the most difficult thing to cope with.

“I was a recent college grad and I had my whole career set up ahead of me, but I decided upon graduation to leave society and forget about all the connections I made during college in order to do this hike,” he said. “I think that was the hardest part, accepting the fact that I was forgoing opportunities to do this hike.”

However, Katherine Imp said hiking the trail in a group rather than alone made for shared memories that only added to the experience.

“I really think this film is relatable to ever yone, not just people that live on the East Coast or enjoy outdoor adventure, but anyone who has family or friends and experiences with people they love will

“We were physically exhausted all the time, and so taking the time to stop hiking and set up a camera and do a shot was hard.”

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enjoy this film and identify with it,” she said.

She hopes to get the film picked up by a cable television station and is looking into distributors. Within the next year, she hopes to hold a screening of the documentar y at the university.

Jamie Rowe, a 2007 university alumna and friend of Katherine Imp’s, said she visited the group on the trail and got to witness the transformation from experience to final product.

“For me, it was really cool to be there firsthand and then to see how they turned that into the movie,” she said. “It’s a really exciting por trayal of what life is like on the trail.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

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CARDINALS from page 10

Will Swaim, who hadn’t recorded a shutout since late September and was benched before last Sunday’s match.

“We had to reshuffle some players and had a makeshift backline,” Cirovski said. “And against two of the best forwards in the country and a team that’s as experienced and efficient as Louisville, it was almost too much to ask for.”

The Terps’ inexperience on defense began to show in the 19th minute, when Cardinals forward Colin Rolfe played a through ball between two defenders for midfielder Nick DeLeon, who beat the onrushing Cardona for the early lead.

“Going over it in game film, we noticed they played a pretty high line,” said Rolfe, who led Louisville with three assists and a goal. “There was a bunch of room behind, and our guys in the back did a great job recognizing it and playing some good balls.”

Just six minutes after DeLeon’s tally, the Terps’ backline took another hit when defender Marquez Fernandez left with a leg injury. With two of their five regular starters remaining, the Terps’ defense managed to stymie Louisville for the remainder of the first half.

Forward Casey Townsend headed in a cross from midfielder Patrick Mullins in the 34th minute to even the score at 1-1 heading into halftime. The goal was Townsend’s 17th on the year, and moved the senior into a third-place tie on the Terps’ career goals list with 43.

Cardona opened the second period in style, delivering a diving save to maintain the tie.

Costly errors, however, would soon define the freshman’s fourth career start.

As Rolfe corralled Kenney Walker’s long ball in the 52nd minute, Cardona stayed rooted

WOLFPACK from page 10

rumbled for a 46-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter, the Terps’ remaining offensive drives ended in three punts, two interceptions and a fumble.

And for every offensive mis-

to the end line. The forward’s ensuing 20-yard bid seemed well within Cardona’s grasp, but he struggled to set his feet as Rolfe’s ninth goal of the season trickled in off his gloves, leaving the Terps with a 2-1 deficit.

“Keith made a couple saves in the game that really kept us in the game,” Cirovski said.

“Unfortunately, we just gave him too many opportunities. He wasn’t the reason we lost tonight. He’s a young man with a bright future.”

Forward Matt Oduaran’s close-range strike secured the game’s second tie in the 68th minute, but it would be for naught. The Terps’ backline appeared off-kilter and overmatched in the game’s final moments, and the senior-laden Cardinals capitalized.

Rolfe notched two assists within a five-minute span to help capture Louisville’s second straight appearance in the quarterfinals. Defender Daniel Keller converted a Rolfe cross in the 79th minute, and midfielder Michael Roman scored in the 84th to give the Cardinals an insurmountable 4-2 advantage.

“I thought we were going to score again,” Townsend said.

“We had them on their heels.

They got that third goal, which was a little bit unfortunate for us. We had to force it, and they got another one on the counterattack. So … yeah.”

Louisville will play UCLA on Saturday for a chance to travel to Hoover, Ala., for the College Cup. The Terps, meanwhile, must stay and reflect upon their fourth elimination at home in six years.

A team that once seemed poised to capture each of its preseason goals — ACC regular season title, ACC tournament title, NCAA championship — will instead enter the offseason empty-handed.

“Our time will come,” Cirovski said.

Forward Matt Oduaran, left, celebrates his second-half goal, which evened the score at 2-2.

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Midfielder John Stertzer, second from left, reacts after losing the ball during the Terps’ loss last night. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

step, N.C. State had an answer. Led by quarterback Mike Glennon (306 passing yards and six total touchdowns), the Wolfpack (7-5, 4-4) reeled off five unanswered touchdowns to erase the Terps’ lead late in the fourth quarter and take an eightpoint lead of their own.

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As a fitting end to the game, the Terps’ final drive ended with an interception by Wolfpack cornerback C.J. Wilson, who went 59 yards down the sideline for a touchdown to cap off an extraordinary N.C. State comeback and nightmarish Terps season.

“Definitely probably one of the

worst feelings I have ever had as an athlete,” linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield (18 tackles) told reporters after the game. “Definitely one of the worst.”

Only making matters worse for what has become a weary program and athletics department, the Wolfpack presented longtime Terps Athletic Direc-

tor Debbie Yow, who now holds the same position at N.C. State, with the game ball.

It was the Wolfpack’s first win over the Terps in either football or men’s basketball since Yow’s departure in 2010.

And as Yow and N.C. State celebrated the win and looked ahead to their bowl game assign-

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ment, the Terps slunk off the field for the last time this season to ponder the changes that must be made this offseason.

“It was really tough,” Edsall said of the game. “We needed to make the plays that we didn’t make.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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seconds as the Eagles slowly narrowed the gap.

“I’ve never missed that many free throws in my life,” said Stoglin, who went 12-for-21 from the line. “We thought we had the game because we were up so much. But as I was telling guys in the huddle, ‘The game’s not over.’ They can come back, and they showed that.”

Turgeon attributed Stoglin’s late misfires to exhaustion, as the sophomore often looked to dissect the press by dribbling through multiple defenders himself. But the first-year coach also said his team started to lose composure against the Eagles’ defense.

“Our guys lose confidence really fast and you can see that in the course of a game,” Turgeon said. “We can have it one stretch and two minutes later we don’t have it.”

“We were just trying to get the ball past half court instead of attacking them,” guard Sean Mosley said. “We could’ve taken the lead up to 20 or 30 points. We settled and didn’t attack.”

Florida Gulf Coast guard Brett Comer scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half and closed the deficit to four with a reverse layup with less than a minute remaining.

After two missed free throws by Stoglin, the Eagles had a chance to draw even closer.

But guard Nick Faust made his third steal of the night and Stoglin hit a free throw to close the contest.

“I’ll be honest with you, we built the lead and I was really proud of our team,” Turgeon said. “We guarded, we were executing, they were changing their defenses and they were handling. … If we had handled the press, we’re really, really happy right now.”

For ward James Padgett had 11 points and four rebounds, while Faust added eight points, five rebounds, four assists and two blocks. But Turgeon was most pleased by walk-on-turned-scholarship forward John Auslander, who played a season-high 20 minutes.

The 6-foot-7 for ward scored six first-half points and was rewarded with a secondhalf start.

“He’s in the right position, he knows every play, he knows where the holes are in the zone,” Turgeon said. “He does everything right.”

Auslander’s time dwindled in the second half as Turgeon turned to a guard-heavy lineup to combat the Eagles’ press. The same defense that plagued the Terps against Iona in Puerto Rico came back again, and forcefully.

To Turgeon and the Terps, it’s just another small step in the learning process in a season that’s sure to be full of them.

“We panic and we pick up the dribble when we don’t need to,” Stoglin said. “We were waiting for the double team to come instead of just going.”

two really good wins.”

The Golden Panthers (3-3) stuck with the Terps (7-0) through the first part of their game Friday, knotting the score at 17 at the midway point of the first half. A 27-13 run by the Terps to close the half ended any threat Florida International posed, though, and the team rolled to its third win by more than 30 points this season.

The Roadrunners (2-5) saw similar early success against the Terps, cutting their lead to just one as the game neared the seven-minute mark of the opening half. But as halftime drew close, it was clear CSU Bakersfield didn’t have the firepower to keep up after the break.

With only eight Roadrunners seeing action in the game, the Terps’ offense met little resistance in the second half, scoring a season-high 61 points. Six players ended the game in double figures, while the team’s commanding size helped rack up 25 offensive rebounds.

“We came out and we crashed the boards,” said guard Laurin Mincy, who finished the weekend with a team-high 38 points, including a career-high 23 against CSU Bakers-

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Coach Brenda Frese and the Terps are set to face an undefeated Michigan team Wednesday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

field. “We did a great job pushing the ball in transition. They only had [eight] players and we have a lot of depth, so we were able to wear them down.”

For Frese, the true test this weekend was her team’s ability to play effectively with games on back-toback days, not necessarily the competition itself.

“Playing at 6 o’clock the first night then a 2 o’clock [afternoon] turnaround [is tough],” Frese said. “I thought they did just a terrific job in terms of their recovery, getting enough sleep, being prepared to play against a style of play that was really physical, full-court pressure, active defense and a run-and-gun style of play. I thought our depth was really able to wear out Bakersfield.”

The Terps will face Michigan in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednesday night in Comcast Center. The Wolverines will be the team’s first major-conference opponent since its win over Georgetown on Nov. 13, offering the Terps one of their more difficult tests of the young season.

“The Big Ten conference is obviously an exciting matchup for us,” Frese said. “The competition continues to get better.” vitale@umdbk.com

WRESTLING

No. 12 Terps sweep Northeast Duals for first time

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

Day after day, the Terrapins wrestling squad has pinned down its competition this season. Thanksgiving weekend was no exception.

The Terps maintained their undefeated record Saturday, overtaking Central Michigan, Bucknell and Northern Iowa at the Northeast Duals in Troy, N.Y. The No. 12 Terps (6-0) won 25 of their 30 matches in their first undefeated showing at the Northeast Duals competition in program history.

“It’s really exciting,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “Every time we step on the mat, we want to win, and we’re doing the right thing and really showing our competition. We’ve always had one loss at this event in the past, so it was great to come out undefeated this time. We really dom-

inated the competition and that’s what our expectations are.”

165-pound Josh Asper and 197pound Christian Boley kept their individual undefeated records intact with three wins each at the Northeast Duals. No. 2 Asper improved to 10-0 while No. 20 Boley climbed to 9-0.

The team’s first contest in New York against Bucknell proved its dominance. The Terps won all 10 matches and defeated the Bison, 40-0 — an indication of how the rest of the day would go.

After back-to-back major decisions for 149-pound Ben Dorsay and 157pound Kyle John, Asper pinned Bucknell’s Doug Kellermeyer to move the Terps’ lead to 27-0.

The Terps then took nine of 10 matches against Nothern Iowa, defeating the Panthers, 37-6.

Frank Goodwin, who was injured for the first three matches of the sea-

son, earned his first victory at 141 pounds over the Panthers’ Seth Noble, and increased the Terps’ lead to 12-0.

Dorsay earned a decision and John earned a major decision just before Asper defeated Rile Banach to give the Terps a 24-0 lead. No. 6 heavyweight Spencer Myers closed the competition with a major decision over Panther Ryan Juach.

The Terps took their third competition of the day over No. 21 Central Michigan, 23-15, and won six of their 10 matches. “[Saturday] was the best we’ve competed this year as a team,” McCoy said. “We definitely had some flashes of brilliance.”

And “brilliant” was the only way to describe the conclusion of their dual with Central Michigan.

After back-and-forth matches during which the lead jumped from

team to team, Boley clinched a Terps victory with a major decision over Chad Friend.

“I knew that was a solid Central Michigan guy but he wasn’t someone that I didn’t feel like we couldn’t beat,” McCoy said of Boley’s final win. “[Boley] started a little slow, but then he started to open up. After the first period, he scored some big points. That’s the thing with wrestling, anything can happen.”

The Terps will have their first home match of the season Friday when they take on No. 14 American at Comcast Center.

“That’s going to be a big match,” McCoy said of the so-called “Battle of the Beltway.” “They’re ranked pretty high and they have some nationally ranked guys. We’re fired up about it.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Cardinals leave Terps with nothing to play for

Season of great promise ends unfulfilled with 4-2 loss in Sweet 16 at Ludwig Field

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

It wasn’t supposed to end like this.

A Terrapins men’s soccer season that began with the best start in 43 years expired suddenly last night after a 4-2 loss to No. 12 seed Louisville in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, the squad’s lofty dreams undone by a makeshift backline and a potent Cardinals attack.

The defeat at Ludwig Field marked the earliest postseason exit since 2007 for the fifth-seeded Terps, who won just one of their final six games after an 11-0-1 start.

“I feel terrible for our guys because I think they’ve played some great soccer this year,” coach Sasho Cirovski said after the game. “You know, they played some of the best

soccer I’ve seen in years here. But unfortunately, we just couldn’t put together a defensive performance worthy of advancing.”

Cirovski’s troubles against last year’s national runner-up started long before opening kickoff. Defender Alex Lee aggravated a nagging thigh injury in the opening minutes of the Terps’ (14-4-3) second-round win over West Virginia last Sunday, sidelining the senior captain for the Sweet 16 battle.

Backup center back Kyle Roach was also unavailable after pulling a quadricep during warm-ups.

That forced Cirovski to slide midfielder Helge Leikvang to the backline, where he lined up in front of goalkeeper Keith Cardona. Cirovski again started the true freshman over senior

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Coach Sasho Cirovski and the Terps won just one of their final six games this season.

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WOLFPACK 56, TERPS 41

Complete collapse Terps allow 42 unanswered points in finale

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

It would be difficult to sum up the Terrapins football team’s abysmal first season under coach Randy Edsall any better than its second-half performance did Saturday in Raleigh, N.C. After building a 27-point lead over N.C. State early in the third quarter, the Terps appeared well on their way to their first win in nearly two months.

But with three second-half turnovers and a sudden inability to stop the Wolfpack’s offensive attack, the Terps fell apart.

N.C. State rattled off 42 points over the game’s final 21:57 to finish their regular season with a 56-41 victory — the second-largest comeback ever in ACC history — that will likely go down as the Terps’ worst loss in a season riddled with unsightly performances. The defeat marked the team’s seventh straight by a doubledigit margin.

“All of the sudden, we could not make a play,” Edsall said after the game.

A positive result at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday would have done little to lessen the sting of the Terps’ disappointing season.

It would have, however, at least given them something to build off entering the offseason.

Entering halftime Saturday, it seemed the Terps had finally put it all together.

Paced by three touchdowns from quarterback C.J. Brown and defensive scores from defensive backs Dexter McDougle and A.J. Hendy, the Terps (2-10, 1-7 ACC) cruised into the locker room at halftime with a lead for the first time since Oct. 15.

But as they did that night against Clemson, the Terps lost their way in the second half.

After running back Davin Meggett A group of N.C. State players swarm running back Jeremiah Wilson during Saturday’s season finale.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps fade but don’t fall to Eagles Unbeaten Terps add two

Florida Gulf Coast comes within four points before losing, 73-67

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Friday’s game against Florida Gulf Coast offered the Terrapins men’s basketball team a chance to return home and flee the lingering disappointment of last week’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off. And for some of Friday night, the young team seemed to leave it all behind. Playing selflessly on offense and with vigor defensively, the Terps built their largest lead of the season against any opponent.

But after a 16-point second half lead dwindled to just four in the final minute of an eventual 73-67 win, coach Mark Turgeon addressed the media after ward with measured happiness.

“It’s just like a day at the park,” Turgeon said. “Real easy for us.”

The Terps (3-2), with their fourth different starting lineup in five games, needed nearly 10 minutes to claim the lead against the Eagles (2-4).

After walk-on guard Jonathan Thomas nailed a 3-pointer midway through the first half, the Terps

seized the lead and held onto it for the rest of the way.

Coasting with a double-digit advantage in the second half, the Terps saw Florida Gulf Coast inch back into the game with a disruptive full-court press. Turnovers and missed free throws narrowed the Terps’ lead from as many as 16 to seven and then to four with just 47.6 seconds left.

Guard Terrell Stoglin, who led all scorers with 24 points, missed six of his eight free throws in the final 75

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more blowouts in Florida

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

With two off days in Miami before the start of the Florida International Thanksgiving Classic, the Terrapins women’s basketball team had time to relax and celebrate the holiday weekend.

The vacation didn’t stop when the games started, however.

The No. 8 Terps cruised to two victories over the Thanksgiving weekend, defeating Florida International,

84-52, on Friday before their offense exploded in a 114-83 rout of CSU Bakersfield on Saturday. The team’s 114 points marked its highest singlegame scoring output since scoring 118 against Appalachian State on Dec. 1, 2005.

“Some great temperatures down here, a chance to take the team to the beach and just take their minds off school and basketball,” coach Brenda Frese said. “And definitely

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