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Regents may have violated Open Meetings Act in vote

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer After many criticized the Board of Regents for meeting behind closed doors to endorse the university’s move to the Big Ten, a complaint was filed to the state’s Open Meetings Compliance Board this week.

The 17-member ruling body of the University System of Maryland may have violated the state’s Open Meetings Act, which requires state and local bodies to hold public meetings and remain transparent when convening to vote. If the regents are found to have been violating the act, the Open Meetings Compliance Board, which does not have

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the authority to enforce punishment, can issue an opinion condemning the vote to springboard a potential lawsuit. If the case does make it to the courts, the Board of Regents can be sued for attorney fees and be forced to take a public vote, said Student Press Law Center Director Frank LoMonte.

Even if the board is reprimanded, however, it would not have an effect on the conference move because the decision ultimately rests with university President Wallace Loh. “The whole argument is very moot as to whether it did or didn’t [violate the act], because if the power rests with [Loh], and let’s say the process may have been defective … how do you cure the situation?” said sports lawyer Bradley

chancellor brit kirwan and the Board of Regents may have violated the Open Meetings Act. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Shear. “You don’t have to cure the situation if the regents don’t have to OK the move and even if someone says, ‘Yes you do,’ you just See meeting, Page 2

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How I Met Your Mother star speaks to full house in Stamp Student Union Grand Ballroom

By Beena Raghavendran Staff writer Independent film culture nowadays tends to focus on cynicism and darkness. Josh Radnor doesn’t understand that.

“Shouldn’t every movie be crowd-pleasing?” asked Radnor, star of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, to a full house of 800 last night.

Radnor spoke on this philosophy of hope and feel-goodness in film and television — and answered students’ pressing questions about the 7-year-old sitcom, in which he plays Ted Mosby. Students stood in line for hours waiting to enter the Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom for Radnor’s 8 p.m. lecture, which was Student Entertainment Events’ semester lecture. One attendee overheated and fainted while waiting to see him, SEE representatives confirmed.

“What normally happens in this room?” Radnor asked the packed room, looking around the Grand Ballroom as students shouted answers at him. “Puppies? Really? Man, college has changed!”

Radnor’s talk came after the September release of his second film, Liberal Arts, set at his alma mater Kenyon College in central Ohio. It’s the story of Radnor’s character who starts a relationship with a 19-year-old student in an expression of life after college.

It’s a film he hopes transcends time.

“I’m trying to make movies that would feel fresh and relevant 10 years from now, 15 years from now,” he said in an interview before the lecture. “I want them to feel classic.”

Radnor also read his essay on his directorial outlook he wrote for the release of his debut film, happythankyoumoreplease, and published in The Huffington Post, adding movies don’t lose their sophistication from veering away See radnor, Page 3

Univ. remembers the Great Fire of 1912 Officials will reenact events today on 100-year anniversary

By Laura Blasey Staff writer Ten decades, 1,200 months, 5,200 weeks — 100 years have gone by since 1912. But as difficult as it is to imagine the world on Nov. 29, 1912, it’s even more difficult to imagine a campus almost entirely burnt to the ground.

The smell of smoke may be long gone, the ashes of the old campus buildings long swept away, but the memory of the Great Fire at the Maryland Agricultural College, this university’s former name, was never extinguished. And today marks the 100-year anniversary of the event that nearly

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The University Archives are commemorating the anniversary with several special events, according to university Archivist Anne Turkos. Chalk outlines and commemorative plaques have been placed where the burned buildings once stood on South Campus. Additionally, archive staff members will be live-tweeting the major events of the fire starting tonight, with the fire’s outbreak.

“It was such an important part of our history that we need to commemorate it in an important way,” she said.

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Kentucky school will replace university in conference

By Laura Blasey Staff writer The University of Louisville will join the ACC in 2014, replacing this university and bringing the conference’s planned membership up to 15.

The ACC Council of Presidents voted yesterday to extend an invitation to the Kentucky school, and Louisville promptly accepted at a news conference held at the university.

“With the addition of the University of Louisville, the ACC continues to be well positioned for the future competing at the highest level in all facets of the collegiate experience,” the ACC Council of Presidents said in a joint statement.

Although Louisville joined the Big East in 2005, it has sought to leave the conference for several years. The Cardinals were passed over last year by the Big 12 in favor of West Virginia University.

“When it became apparent to us that we needed to make a move, the ACC is the perfect fit for us and we are so elated to be joining this prestigious conference,” Tom Jurich, Louisville’s athletic director, said in a statement.

The move was motivated by both athletics and academics, Louisville President James Ramsey said in a news conference.

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Keeping up the fight Food, Inc.’s Eric Schlosser speaks as part of series

By Alex Kirshner Staff writer Eric Schlosser’s investigative journalism on the fast food industry has won him critical acclaim — but as students found out last night, there’s a lot more to his story.

His reporting has taken him to meatpacking plants, nuclear bunkers and the ranks of The New York Times best-sellers list. And last night, it took him to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, where he spoke before a sold-out crowd of 300.

During an interactive talk moderated by Sheri Parks, arts and humanities associate dean, Schlosser discussed America’s political and economic climates, the state of the food industry and his journalistic work.

He’s made it his mission to hold corporate fastfood leaders accountable for the hazards of the industry. But his work has made him plenty of enemies along the way.

“The fast-food industry has been very personally critical of me and trashing me personally, and I don’t enjoy any of that,” he said in an interview before the event.

It hasn’t always been easy, but Schlosser’s investigations have made him the face of the movement to tame what he called the “unchecked corporate power” of the nation’s largest fast-food chains and all of the destructive practices he says come with the industry.

“I would love it if people agree with me, but if, at least, they disagree with me, they disagree having seen a different point of view,” he said.

While Schlosser spends much of his time

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people who’s antagonistic and likes yelling,” he said. “I think From PAGE 1 we should have a debate on issues in this country, and too often working to improve the quality there’s only one point of view of the nation’s food, he said being put across, and I think a lot the opportunity to come to the of what I’ve tried to do is provide campus presented a different an alternative point of view.”

A heightened profile, though, way to connect with audiences.

“A lot of my work, I’m by hasn’t driven Schlosser’s investimyself in my office writing, and gations. He usually looks for subto engage with other people on jects, he said, that begin outside these subjects and go to uni- the public spotlight.

“I’m really, really fortunate, versities is really a pleasure,” in that, at the moment — and it he said.

Parks, the moderator, said the can always change — I’m able event was designed to focus on to write about things that I care more than just Schlosser’s time about,” Schlosser said. “I try to write about things that I think in journalism.

“We want to go beyond the the mainstream media is not books,” Parks said, and focus writing about in the right way.”

Schlosser’s interest in the on “the big picture.”

T h roug hout h is ca reer, process behind American fast Schlosser has extensively food ultimately turned into focused on the food industry, several books and documentawhile also undertaking signifi- ries. Of those, Fast Food Nation cant projects on nuclear weapons and Food, Inc., the latter a documentary on food processing and America’s prison systems.

His exposes on meatpack- which he narrated, have become ing and fast food, he said, have two of the most cited works on earned him harsh derision from the topic.

It has been a decade since Fast leaders in the industry, which he tolerates but does not enjoy. Some Food Nation was published, and groups have gone so far as to send Schlosser is pivoting to difpeople to intentionally disrupt ferent topics. His next work is Command and Control, a book Schlosser’s book readings.

“I don’t relish it. It’s not like on nuclear weapons due out in I’m one of these talk-show 2013; he noted the weapons have

meeting From PAGE 1 have a revote.”

O n N o v. 19, t h e b o a r d overwhelmingly supported the move with only one opposing vote, shortly before the Big Ten Council of Presidents unanimously voted to bring in the university as its 13th member. Later that day, Loh publicly announced the university would be parting ways with the ACC, a conference it helped found nearly 60 years ago.

“Under current USM policies on intercollegiate athletics, UMCP’s move to the Big Ten did not require the approval of the USM Board of Regents,” Board of Regents Chair James Shea and Chancellor Brit Kirwan wrote in a joint statement. “However, it was important to both the university and the system that the Board of Regents deliberate on a move of such significant magnitude.”

There are 14 permissible ci rcu msta nces for when a public body ca n request a closed meeting, ranging from

eric schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, speaks to a crowd of about 300 last night at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at an event moderated by Sheri Parks, an associate dean in the arts and humanities college. The journalist, whose next book will be about nuclear weapons, spoke about the country’s economic climate, fast food and his work. christian jenkins/the diamondback been the subject of “historical amnesia.”

While food is no longer his predominant writing focus, Schlosser said he would like to stay somewhat involved with the issue.

“As a citizen, as someone who cares about the exploitation of foreign workers and food safety and things like that, I’ll write an op-ed every now and then, or I’ll go and testify or try to be useful,” he said.

Schlosser’s conversation last night was the second installment this semester in a series of lectures put on by the arts and humanities college, all part of the Dean’s Lecture Series. Tickets sold out quickly, officials said.

“I thought it was really interesting,” said sophomore history major Martin Eddy. “A lot of the topics that Eric was talking about I think have a lot of relevance.”

Although Schlosser hopes Americans choose food from

providers who uphold ethical practices, he said he doesn’t question where every meal comes from.

“If someone invites me over to their house, I won’t interrogate them about where the chicken came from,” he told the crowd.

Schlosser said the food industry has made progress in the 10 years since he wrote Fast Food Nation, but there’s still more to be done.

“I think there’s been enormous

change in the last 10 years. I find it very gratifying,” he said. “But it hasn’t gone far enough.”

Still, Schlosser expressed hope that classic, greasy fast food will decline.

“I think very much this is not the food of the future, and I don’t know how long it will take for the system to change,” Schlosser said, “but I’m optimistic it will change.”

personnel matters to other sensitive issues; Loh presented the regents with confidential financial information from the Big Ten. LoMonte, however, said he doesn’t see the vote meeting any of the requirements.

“I haven’t seen them cite which exception applies,” LoMonte sa id, add i ng the board still needed to give adequate notice its meeting was going to be closed even if it did follow the law.

“I don’t think they’re claiming they’ve done either of those things,” he said. “They didn’t

follow any of the legal formalities to close the session in the fi rst place.”

The purpose of the act is to ensure governing bodies rem a i n t ra n spa rent, sa id Stephen Sachs, a former state attorney general, who said he didn’t have an opinion on whether the move violated the law or not.

“T he spi rit of the Open Meetings Act is that the government should operate in the open — those were the words,” he said. “But, and it’s a very important ‘but,’ there are very legitimate exceptions to that

and definitions are important.”

Tom McMillen, who cast the Board of Regents’ one dissenting vote, was irked by the secrecy surrounding the whole decision. With the Big Ten requiring Loh to sign a nondisclosure agreement to prevent rumors of the move from spreading while they were still negotiating, there was no public discussion before the move was fi nalized.

“These big money conferences are forcing these university presidents to really kowtow,” McMillen, a Terps basketball standout in the

1970s, said. “The flow of information is very limited.”

McMillen said he wasn’t comfortable with the process remaining confidential until the decision was announced, and he wanted more input from the public and the student-athletes who are directly affected by such a move.

“Ultimately, you can only treat student-athletes like cattle for so long; they just have no input on this at all,” he said.

“It’s place of higher education, not a sports franchise.”

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fire From PAGE 1 The Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College yearbook, printed a poem in 1897 from an unnamed student that read: “But what in the midst of night, Within this place of learning, Some sleepy crier, Should call out ‘fire!

The M.A.C. is burning!’”

It was only speculation, listing “what ifs” in meter and rhyme. But the M.A.C. would not have to wait long to fi nd out — just 15 years later, it actually happened.

According to newspaper articles and fi rsthand accounts, the details of the fire are hazy — no one knows for sure where or how it started. But there were too many variables, too many mistakes for the fire to be a minor event.

T he even i ng of Nov. 29, 1912, was a chilly one. There were about 50 people on the campus, and the cadets who had stayed for Thanksgiving, as well as their dates, were assembled in the barracks, ready for an evening of dinner and dancing.

However, the festivities were interrupted at about 10:15 p.m. by an announcement that the adjacent building was on fi re.

Some said it was the result of an electrical shortage. Some said the fi re started from some oily rags.

Lee “Duck” Pennington, a sophomore at the time, said in a firsthand account to the University Archives in 1973 that he heard the fi re started when a couple of cadets accidentally threw a lit cigarette or match into a trash can in one of the dorm rooms.

As the fi re spread to the barracks, the ceilings began to cave, and students and their dates rushed out into the cold late-autumn night.

The dorms, dining hall, offices and academic buildings were soon crumbling as the fire burned on, according to The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun. “For those who fi nd the soul thrilled by the awe-inspiring rush of roaring, leaping, gleaming flames crowned by billowing, eddying clouds of smoke, the spectacle was grand, indeed,” an article in then-student newspaper The Triangle, read.

As hard as students and administrators tried to stop it, there was too much working against them. A strong wind fed the flames, spreading them from building to building.

They tried to bring in fire trucks from Washington, but no arrangements had been made to get the trucks out of the train they had been sent in.

“They just had to sit there on the tracks while the barracks burned,” Pennington said in his account.

They tried to put the fi re out using the campus water tower but made the unfortunate dis-

“For those who find the soul thrilled by the aweinspiring rush of roaring, leaping, gleaming flames ... the spectacle was grand, indeed.”

Students gain Balt. bus Following RHA vote, DOTS route to admit students on Saturdays, Sundays

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Maryland Agricultural College student newspaper

covery that there was barely any water left because of an accident. Students celebrating after beating St. John’s of Annapolis in a May baseball game, Pennington said, accidentally shot a bullet into the water tower. University officials patched up the hole temporarily but decided to drain the tower for a full repair on Nov. 29, when most of the students would be home for Thanksgiving.

They tried to form a bucket br igade, but t he d ista nce between the pond, now McKeldin Mall, and the burning buildings was too great for the small buckets to be of any help.

As a last-ditch attempt, the students and a janitor threw water onto the Science Building to keep it cool and wet as the fi re approached it — an effort that was successful in saving what is now known as Morrill Hall. There are rumors that today, if you sit quietly in the attic, you can smell smoke and hear the cadets marching and shouting outside.

Despite their small victory, almost nothing was left of the school. The buildings were in ruins, and what wasn’t easily carried to safety by students was pilfered by looters.

“It was just wiped out. The whole th i ng was w iped …

Nobody had any uniforms or anything,” Edwin Powell, a junior during the fi re, said in a 1973 eyewitness account.

M i racu lou sly, ever yone survived. Local families took students in and offered them clothes to wear.

But within days of the fire, then-college President Richard W. Silvester, who had spent years helping the school grow into a prestigious farming and engineering institution, resigned in despair, citing “illness” as his official reason for leaving.

The Post estimated that the damage cost $150,000 — about $3.6 million today. None of it was covered by insurance.

By Dec. 2, 1912, all the students assembled at the site, along with their teachers and ad m i n i st rators. Wit h t he help of alumni eager to begin rebu i ld i ng a nd refor m i ng the Maryland Agricultural College, the university was almost entirely rebuilt from the ground up.

“It was a very devastating event. There was some doubt that the college would reopen, but there was a lot of determination to reopen, so it moved forward,” Turkos said. “It was an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start fresh.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE “kept one on one’s toes” Moreland Perkins, 1927-2012 Moreland Perkins, a retired university philosophy professor and former mayor of Riverdale Park, died of pneumonia Nov. 7. He was 85.

The Baltimore resident was known for testing many fields throughout his life. Within the classroom, he taught university students the twists and turns of philosophy from 1967 to 1986.

“He impressed one with his passionate attachment, not only to knowledge but to wisdom,” retired philosophy professor John Brown said.

“He kept one on one’s toes by the incisiveness of his criticism.” photo courtesy of john brown His tumble into the political arena in 1987, after being elected mayor of Riverdale Park, was a short one — he resigned within one year due to friction between town councilmembers, according to The Washington Post.

But his accomplishments in the world outside politics — especially in his 39 years at this university — underscored his command of philosophy and literature. He helped students craft their doctoral dissertations. A Moreland Perkins Fellowship in Philosophy was established in Perkins’ honor when he retired in 1986.

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Next semester, students will have cheaper public transportation to Baltimore than to Washington, following a decision by DOTS to allow already existing routes to carry students on the weekends.

The Residence Hall Association recently passed a bill allowing buses that are already driving to Baltimore to be used by students on Saturdays and Sundays.

Funded by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, three buses shuttle faculty from Stamp Student Union to Baltimore daily, free of charge, and then service the area before returning in the evening, according to David Allen, Department of Transportation Services director. The RHA approved a bill that will allow students to catch the shuttle to Baltimore at 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and from Baltimore to the university at about midnight.

“When I informed RHA that this was already happening, they were interested,” Allen

said of the route to Baltimore.

“Any resolution that RHA or SGA makes holds weight with us; however, with this situation, we were leaning towards letting this happen anyway.”

The RHA is always working to secure more transportation options to popular locales, RHA President Sasha Azar said.

“It’s great for us to be able to tag onto these buses that are already running,” Azar said. “If students have family in Baltimore, they can come down on Friday and ride back the next day.”

The city seemed an obvious choice for the RHA to pursue because the shuttles already set out from the campus daily, and because many students consider the area inaccessible.

“It’s either go to Union Station or Greenbelt to catch the MARC train or Amtrak,” freshman journalism major Marco Carralero said. “Amtrak is expensive, while MARC doesn’t run on weekends, so it’s a hassle to get home on the weekends without a car.”

Additionally, it’s often difficult to coordinate with parents’ schedules to get a ride home, stu-

dents said, so the shuttle will be a welcome convenience.

“The new bus to Baltimore will help those of us from the city,” said Max Grossfeld, a junior journalism major. “Traffic on I-95 is miserable Friday afternoon and gas is expensive, so any way to reduce either of those stresses would be great.”

Freshman psychology major Breechaye Milburn said she looks forward to taking advantage of the routes when her mother begins working in Baltimore instead of Laurel.

“I probably will see my family more often because I can easily be picked up from that area,” Milburn said.

In addition, both Baltimore natives and those unfamiliar with the area will have the chance to access the cultural and academic opportunities at the “heart of the city,” Milburn said.

“There is so much to experience there,” she said. “The downtown atmosphere, shopping and restaurants, the Inner Harbor and tons more. It’s one of my favorite spots.”

While the shuttles will not carry students during the

week, they still may aid students looking to get involved in the university’s partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, said Chris Lane, a sophomore psychology and theatre major.

“There are so many new ventures, internships and research being conducted through the partnering campus in which students will have access to now,” Lane said.

Sophomore psychology major Hannah Kolman agreed this will be good for students who are not from Baltimore.

“These students will be able to see what the city has to offer,” Kolman said. “I really hope people take advantage of it.”

According to officials, this is just one example of the many ways university departments work together.

“I’m sure more things like this are going to be coming up later on in the semester,” Azar said. “RHA and DOTS work really well together.”

Staff writer Teddy Amenabar contributed to this report. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Josh radnor, who plays Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, spoke to students at Stamp Student Union last night on the merits of feel-good movies. He also answered students’ questions about the popular sitcom. Students stood in line for hours waiting for the event, which was Student Entertainment Events’ semester lecture. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

radnor From PAGE 1 from darker themes.

“It not only articulates my feeling about art but about life,” he said.

Radnor opened up the remainder of his lecture for a question-and-answer session.

Many inquiries centered on Radnor’s experience on How I Met Your Mother, a role he landed after performing on Broadway and acting in a few television pilots. When he auditioned for the role of Ted Mosby, Radnor said, it just felt right to him.

“If you read someth i ng and you can memorize it very

louisville From PAGE 1 “The University of Louisville is honored to join the ACC, a conference with a long history of excellence in athletics and academics,” said Ramsey. “The ACC will be a great home for U of L and our commitment to great academics, groundbreaking research and top-notch athletic teams.”

Louisville — which now faces a $10 million exit fee — will become the seventh school to leave the Big East

easily, that means the writing’s really good,” he said. “How I Met Your Mother, for whatever reason, was the easiest script I ever had to memorize.”

Students’ questions ranged from on-set memories to career history to advice on heartbreak.

And attendees said they could understand how his films’ theme of hope came through in his signature character.

“It’s funny how much of a hopeless romantic he is,” said Tom Frances, a sophomore biology major. “After all these years, he never gives up hope.”

R a d n o r i s fo n d o f Te d Mosby, he said before the lecture, and can’t imagine any other actor playing him.

“I kind of think of him like my

annoying younger brother, like his behavior kind of gets under my skin,” Radnor said. “But I can’t help but love him. He’s such a good guy. People like him are in short supply in television.”

H o w e v e r, h e ’s o f t e n stumped by questions concerning the subtleties of the sitcom because unlike his audiences, Radnor said he hasn’t picked up on all the nuances.

Once, he tweeted about a pair of green shoes he sported in a movie and was then bombarded with followers’ replies about why he wasn’t wearing his classic red cowboy boots, Radnor recalled.

“Fans know it better than we do,” he said. “There are so many things that I don’t

for the ACC. Former Big East members the University of Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech are already in the conference, and the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University are slated to join in the coming years, along with the University of Notre Dame, which will not join for football.

The Louisville community seemed to support the move, as many questioned the health of the Big East and whether membership was financially beneficial. According to Louisville’s student newspa-

per, The Louisville Cardinal, many are eager to leave the Big East for the ACC — standing in contrast with students’ stunned reactions to this university’s planned move to the Big Ten for similar reasons.

“I haven’t come across a school like this in a long time, that has so much to offer, and so little interest by people. … The SEC should be after them; the ACC should be after them; the Big Ten should be after them,” Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said before the transfer, according to The Cardinal.

“I can’t help but love [ted Mosby]. He’s such a good guy. People like him are in short supply in television.”

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even remember.”

But that ignorance didn’t d i sappoi nt fa n s, such a s To w s o n s t u d e n t K e l s e a Harris, who said she had been waiting in line since 4:45 p.m.

Harris said she was moved by Ted Mosby’s relatable nature.

“He’s like every person,” she said. “He’s like the Average Joe when it comes to love.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

The University of Connecticut was eyeing the open space in the ACC, but the conference ultimately chose Louisville, which has a reputation for boasting a strong athletic budget, according to ESPN and the Office of Postsecondary Education’s Equity in Athletics. In the 2011-12 school year, the Louisville athletic budget was $84.4 million — higher than that of any of the ACC schools, including this university’s $57.5 million athletic department budget. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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YASMEEN ABUTALEB Editor in Chief

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Walking out of the airport and driving up my childhood driveway last week, I felt like I was stepping out of an alternate reality — as if College Park, Tydings Hall and the all-consuming stress of college life were nothing but distant pieces in a snow globe. Even if it was colder in my hometown, Minneapolis, shaking it up and stepping outside my insular daily routine provided the warmth of a fresh perspective.

On one hand, it was a return to the life I knew so well for 18 years, and on the other, it’s undeniable how some things have changed forever. For many of us, the sense of change we experienced over Thanksgiving weekend offered old reminders of why we left home in the first place and what we hoped to accomplish in college and life when we left our childhoods however long ago. Our old dreams and aspirations confronted our current perspectives, creating mixed feelings of clarity and jolting terror: What do I want in life?

What do I live for?

Answering these questions often gets buried deep beneath the avalanche of responsibilities we face in our little individual snow globes. What we truly care about in life takes a backseat to immediate priorities and the pressures of five-year plans. This next test will decide your medical school application’s fate; failing this upcoming project will submerge any hopes of landing a decent job; breaking up with your girlfriend will destroy your best hope for marriage — or so you think. In the daily battle against stress, we figure putting our heads down and sublimating our anxieties into studiousness or partying will allow us to survive the perils of college unscathed. We remain positive through numbness.

Though when it comes to enduring

less trivial pains than poor grades or future jobs — e.g., the death of a family member, chronic depression or an anxiety disorder — it’s easy to start believing your performance in school and most things in life have lost any significance. Slowly, giving up seems more like an inevitability than a choice — whether this means you throw away your college education, your relationships or, if things turn sour enough, your life.

If you’re feeling hopeless and lost amid the craziness of life, you’re not alone — in a 2009 survey, nearly 30 percent of college students reported feeling “so depressed it was difficult to function.” In another 2008 survey, more than 50 percent of college students admitted to contemplating suicide at some point during their lifetime. No matter how small or severe your distresses or frustrations may seem, they’re valid — never forget that. And going to the counseling center or mental health center is a sign of strength, not weakness.

Sometimes simple reminders can suffice. As finals approach and you finish your first, fifth or whichever semester of college, remember what exists outside of the college bubble — outside of the suffocating snow globe we call campus life. To quote the old Hebrew proverb: “This too shall pass.”

If going home for Thanksgiving didn’t remind you of your priorities in life, take the time today to reflect on your passions. In Stamp Student Union’s Atrium, the Help Center, the peer counseling and crisis intervention hotline on the campus, is hosting a “Reasons I Live” event today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Share the reason you live with the world and, most importantly, with yourself. Your life may change, but never lose sight of your priorities — let your passions live on.

Nadav Karasov is a junior economics major and the training director for the Help Center. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

GUEST COLUMN

The sky is falling for traditional America

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ust a few weeks ago, I sat staring at my TV screen, anxiously awaiting the results of the 2012 presidential election. Flipping periodically through the channels, I watched Fox News as Bill O’Reilly rationalized exit poll results, lamenting: “It’s a changing country. The demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional America anymore. … The white establishment is now the minority.”

Knowing Fox News’ and O’Reilly’s ideologies, this sentiment was not terribly surprising. However, this week, as I sat staring at a movie screen, anxiously awaiting James Bond’s latest exploits, I was shocked to realize the film’s message was nearly the same as O’Reilly’s.

Throughout the movie, Bond fights against change: his aging body, new technology, shifting roles of women in society and the workplace and the changing demographics of the film’s Anglo-American world. (While Bond is obviously a British franchise, the film had an American-owned production company, two American distributors, an American writer, American producers and a director whose first feature film was American Beauty.)

The movie is obsessed with proving “the old way is better” and rejects encroaching challenges to “traditional” worldviews. Skyfall rejects fancyschmancy technology such as computers and shames the new Q, a software wunderkind. As Bond informs the young Q, “Youth is no guarantee of innovation.”

Skyfall rejects the idea of women having equal status in the workplace.

At the beginning of the film, Bond works with a female field agent and under a female MI6 director. By the end

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of the narrative, the director has been killed off — replaced by a man — and the field agent has been demoted to a secretary position.

And Skyfall rejects homosexuality and minorities in the same breath, portraying the arch villain, Raoul Silva, as a deranged Hispanic computer hacker.

(A minor villain is ostensibly Arab and hostile fighters are largely Asian or black.) Silva has both inner and outer deformities. On the outside, Silva’s face and jaw are disfigured by a botched suicide attempt. On the inside, Silva is both gay and a crazy murderer. But since the villain is the only gay character in the film, these two traits are presented as synonymous.

At the end of the movie, Bond and the “old way,” symbolized by his aging childhood manor, are literally under siege by a largely nonwhite army of cyberterrorists. As if this metaphor wasn’t heavy-handed enough, the finale is dragged out into a nearby church — the oldest “old way” in the book — where Silva is killed, and, presumably, sent straight to hell.

Just before the credits roll, we see Bond on a rooftop with the red, white and blue Union Jack unfurling behind him. “Don’t worry,” the film seems to say. “Bond is here to protect traditional Anglo-Americans from the scary minorities.”

I often hear pundits on Fox News complain about the liberal messages Hollywood sends to kids. But I wonder how they felt watching Skyfall. For a second there, I thought someone was projecting Fox News in the movie theater.

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ust as everyone started to get over the initial shock of university President Wallace Loh’s announcement we would be leaving the ACC (after helping found it nearly 60 years ago) to join the Big Ten, we were hit with another bombshell: The ACC slapped the university with a lawsuit to ensure it pays its full exit fee of more than $50 million.

The lawsuit calls out Loh directly by saying he “freely participated in discussions and votes” when it came to hiking the exit fee from $20 million to $50 million in September after ACC presidents voted to bring Notre Dame into the conference in all sports except football. Loh, however, has said he believes the fee is punitive and potentially illegal, and when asked about paying the exit fee, has simply said he will discuss it with ACC officials.

Those statements have hardly fazed ACC Commissioner John Swofford, who said in a statement, “There is the expectation that Maryland will fulfill its exit fee obligation.”

The lawsuit seems like more a formality than anything else; it’s coming from a conference that’s afraid this university’s departure will trigger a domino effect for other schools to leave. After all, Clemson and Florida State officials haven’t been subtle about their desire to explore other options and potentially bolt if the opportunity presents itself. In the end, though, the lawsuit seems like a waste of time, money and effort — it goes

unsaid that the ACC wants to enforce the exit fee to show other schools it isn’t easy to leave the conference, and university officials undoubtedly have to at least try to negotiate a lower fee.

Once the lawsuit, or negotiations, is said and done, university officials need to be transparent in how the university will pay the fee. They have to remain tight-lipped as long as the case is open — sports lawyer Bradley Shear told The Diamondback the university could file

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Whatever the university ends up paying for leaving the ACC, we expect greater transparency as to how the exit fee will be paid. its own countersuit against the ACC, arguing the $50 million fee is punitive (it’s three times the ACC’s annual operating budget) and goes beyond compensatory damages — but once the final fee is settled, the community needs to understand where that money is coming from.

When explaining why the university made the move, Loh and Anderson said they wanted to be able to ensure the athletic department and university’s financial future. After cutting seven teams to prevent a $4.6 million deficit in fiscal year 2011, the department’s budget woes are no secret — Sports Illustrated even called the depart-

ment the most dysfunctional in the country. It’s experienced such monumental changes in just two years that it’s hard to keep up. And that’s why the onus falls on administrators to explicitly explain how the university will pay for the fine.

If we’re looking at history, the odds are in the university’s favor. Few schools, if any, that have left their respective conferences have paid the full exit fee, and most lawsuits resulting from realignments have ended in negotiations. But the ACC had to make its move quickly to “protect its turf,” Shear said.

Either way, Loh has assured the university community that even if it is hit with the steep fine, the university can afford it and will still reap all the financial benefits of joining the Big Ten. In fact, the fine has been taken into account, Loh said, and the Big Ten’s lucrative revenue stream will more than make up for it.

This editorial board has supported the move, despite the history and tradition behind the university’s membership in the ACC. The financial benefits, which will allow the university’s academics and athletics to improve and put more resources at their disposal, are unmatched in the ACC. The university is expected to make $100 million more in its first six years in the Big Ten than it would have in the ACC, but having to pay the full fine would mean half of that is gone.

We want to believe administrators’ statements that we’ll be fine either way — but we first have to see how and why we will be.

Education without privilege ERIK SHELL Along with Marc Priester’s Oct. 15 column about the legitimacy of English majors, I want to expand his theme of cooperation and understanding to all of the arts and humanities department.

I started thinking about this when I read a post on a website with user-generated content, which asked a very odd question: Are arts and humanities degrees for privileged people? Within the thread, the author explained his point using the examples of immigrant families and lower-income households. He said you don’t find those people in the humanities because they know they won’t get jobs and concluded by saying these degrees were “low utility,” unable to match the job placement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees.

First off, I tip my hat to this university and every other institution of higher education. They have successfully, albeit destructively, convinced the masses the majority of humanities majors are failures. They aren’t wrong, either. According to the standard set by universities, a majority of postgraduate arts and humanities majors are complete failures.

But here’s the criterion: the ability to land a job as a professor.

Everything short of the academic ivory tower is a statistical flop. This means that low-utility jobs such as museum curator, consultant, politician and CEO are unworthy of recognition.

But you don’t hear that side of the story.

All you hear is colleges reporting lower success rates for humanities students.

That dispels the myth of low job security, but what about the degree as a privilege?

My favorite feminist website (everydayfeminism.com) has recently been posting articles listing things privileged people take for granted. These demographics include middle-class, Christian, heterosexual and cisgender privilege — the last one being where your biological sex matches your gender identity. As I meet all four of those qualifiers, many of the examples of privilege opened my eyes: the ability to buy anything advertised on TV, expectations of time off to celebrate my holidays, congratulations on wedding announcements and the use of public restrooms without fear of arrest.

I’m not advocating a monk’s existence, escaping to solitude in order to destroy all social privilege. But these privileges exist, and being aware is an important step in coming to grips with world inequality.

But do the humanities really qualify as a privilege? They aren’t reserved for the rich. I know multiple people working night and day to support their arts and humanities degree. Nor are they reserved for any one race, gender, religion, age or any other title in anti-

discrimination statements.

Where, then, is the tension? Why do North and South campus have this seemingly hostile understanding between them?

Frankly, it’s from people like the user at my column’s beginning.

STEM majors are down there past Stamp Student Union doing magic things with numbers I couldn’t dream of and would make someone with synesthesia weep with joy. Yet down on McKeldin Mall, we churn out 20-page papers every week, changing history itself one argument at a time. The common denominator is this: We all work hard.

I get very upset when I hear this stereotype of arts and humanities majors skating by on their parents’ money.

Those in the humanities are the future politicians, CEOs and educators of your children, and anyone who would wish a lazy, entitled and uneducated teacher on an entire generation does not have the future’s best interests in mind.

It’s comparable to a poor engineer who designed a bridge that is on my way to work. I’ll drive on that bridge every day, and I sure won’t assume someone with a “privileged” engineering degree designed it. Our collective future is in each other’s hands, and it’s time we start believing in the other’s hard work.

E r i k S h e l l i s a so p h o m o re classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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ESSAY | COLLECTING CDS

avoiding iTunes for years.

But on Nov. 19, the band released its entire discography on iTunes. AC/ DC joins other major acts like The Beatles and Radiohead, two bands which were opposed to digital music but have had a Some still see value in physical copies of music despite digital trends change of heart over the years, according to TIME. if they make great music, I want

By Kelsey Hughes As more and more of these artists to support them so they can keep Staff writer making music,” said Klaverweiden, give in to the digital trend, it’s hard to see the value of physical music, which Jordan Klaverweiden owns at a junior geography major.

Buying a physical copy encour- can be bulky and prone to damage. least 400 CDs. When coupled with his record ages listeners to appreciate the entire In turn, recent trends have shown collection, he said, the number of album as a work of art, as opposed to people are moving away from the CD. In 2010, Nielsen SoundScan data physical copies of music he owns buying digitally, which prompts many indicated that between 2007 and nears 700. He buys them from any- to just purchase singles, he said.

A n g u s You n g, g u it a r i s t for 2009, the percent of albums bought where that sells music in an effort to classic rock band AC/DC, voiced physically on CD shrunk from 90 support musicians.

“Making music is their job, and this belief as his explanation for to 79 percent, while digital albums

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jumped from 10 to 20 percent in the same time. Between 2000 and 2009, CD album sales dropped 50 percent, according to Mashable. The decline of the CD seems inevitable.

But for several students like Klaverweiden, there is and always will be a place for CDs, records and cassettes.

Liz Williams, a junior microbiology major, says keeping CDs around is more for security than anything else.

“With programs like iTunes, you can lose your data,” she said. “If you get a new computer or lose your iPod and don’t have a proper backup, all that stuff is likely gone.”

Not everyone is a fan of the CD, which celebrated its 30th anniversary of release in October. Phil Mulliken, general manager of this university’s student radio station, WMUC 88.1 FM, said he usually stays away from

CDs because of their fragility and size.

“I don’t really buy CDs because I think they’re kind of flimsy; they don’t feel very good,” he said. “But if you get a record, they feel a lot larger, and they’ve got nice big art on them.”

Mulliken said he owns about 250 records and some cassettes, most of which he’s found at garage sales or inherited from his parents. He said though his digital collection is much larger than his physical one, he’ll generally buy records of albums he already owns digitally to support artists, similar to Klaverweiden.

“I like supporting the artists, and I like collecting the actual thing,” he said. “There’s something about having a vinyl record instead of having a digital copy.” diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Jesse Cohen — a former College Park resident — and Eric Emm of Brooklyn duo Tanlines create a shared identity around stripped-down yet danceable music

By Adam Offitzer Staff writer Jesse Cohen was born in College Park and raised there for the first five years of his life. While memories from that early childhood time are hard to come by, Cohen certainly remembers going to Soaps Laundry, which he used to refer to as the “laundromat pizza place arcade,” and is now known to all of us as Laundry World. But after moving to New York 10 years ago and starting up the electro-pop-rock duo Tanlines with his friend Eric Emm, Cohen now has a bit more of a traditional indie-rock home: Brooklyn.

“As much as I agree that the Brooklyn music thing is a cliche, and as much as I’m one of the bands that doesn’t understand how to talk to a journalist about it, I definitely think that it is a part of why we continue to be able to play music now, and it’s something that I’m definitely grateful for,” Cohen said. “Coming up in Brooklyn … there were a lot of places we could play; there were a lot of shows, and there were a lot of opportunities.”

Cohen and Emm certainly took advantage of those opportunities, as Tanlines is now on a national tour that has taken them from Austin, Texas, to New Orleans to New York and, this Friday night, to Washington at Black Cat.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., band tanlines blends indie esoterica and minimalism with a hooky, enjoyable pop sensibility. It’s the best of both worlds. photo courtesy of theblock-mag.com The duo released their debut fulllength album, Mixed Emotions, in March and quickly gained praise from tastemakers such as Pitchfork, Stereogum and The A.V. Club. The album balances heavy electro-pop synthesizers and booming drum beats with more traditional indie-rock melodies and guitar chords, creating its own unique fusion of dance and rock music. It’s all far more thoughtful and layered than the music you hear on the Top 40, but it’s also got an indisputable element of pop to it.

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“There’s some great stuff that is just stupid and fun, and there’s some great stuff that is just avant-garde and really mind-blowing, but the things that we have a most meaningful relationship with manage to be both things at once.”

Cohen and Emm released an EP titled Settings in 2010 that built buzz in the Brooklyn music scene. Specifically, Cohen said, a song called “Real Life” became “the first song we ever played where we performed it and people kind of sang along. And that sort of changed things for us … because we

saw we wrote songs that people connected with. And we wanted to write more songs like that.”

The two have developed a “sibling relationship,” Cohen said, with shared experiences, beliefs and senses of humor but different overall personalities and music sensibilities. This blend has become a defining aspect of Tanlines’ image (the album cover is a black and white shot of their faces), and it’s a primary reason they decided to tour as just a duo, without a backing band of any kind.

“We ultimately decided that right

now, we want people’s first impression of us to be this thing that we had been doing for a couple of years basically in and around New York,” Cohen said.

“For better or for worse, people will either enjoy it and accept it, or they’ll be like, ‘These guys stink — they run a lot of samples and tracks.’ But I think it’s the most honest and pure way to do what we do. And I think there’s always time to expand that format.”

Cohen has tried to build the band’s identity on Twitter — Tanlines’ tweets are almost entirely composed of jokes and behindthe-scenes pictures, along with the typical self-promotional concert announcements. He understands that developing a personality for the band is crucial to gaining long-term fans.

“You want the songs to stand on their own because 90 percent of the people hearing the music won’t have any idea who’s making it and who we are,” he said. “But in terms of building a relationship with the fan base over a long period of time, I do think it’s important to get as much of our personalities into the mix as possible. And to have a really open relationship with the people who listen to our music.”

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By Nicholas Munson Staff writer It’s hard to find a college team disappointed after making the fi nal four.

But the Terrapins field hockey program isn’t like most teams. Accustomed to greatness, the squad had played in the NCAA title game the past four seasons and had its sights set on a third straight championship. But those hopes faded in the semifinal round nearly two weeks ago. No. 2-seed Princeton shook off two Terps rallies and clinched a trip to the fi nals with a 3-2 victory on a penalty stroke in overtime.

“It was a disheartening way to finish a game,” coach Missy Meharg said. “In my coaching opinion, and I heard it from a lot of my colleagues, too … it was probably the best field hockey game in the NCAAs that people had ever seen. But it was a very disheartening, and quite numbing, fi nale.”

So what went wrong? Maybe they simply ran into an overpowering opponent. Princeton boasted an offense that led the NCAA in several statistical categories — goals per game, points per game and scoring margin — as well as a defense that allowed the fewest goals per game.

Or maybe what hurt them most was how long it took players to gel on the field. The roster was never complete during the first half of the season because of other commitments.

Defender Sarah Sprink was playing for the German Under-21 National Team during the Terps’ fi rst four games. Forward Katie Gerzabek, midfielder Maxine Fluharty and defender Ali McEvoy went to Mexico for more than two weeks to compete in the Junior Pan-American Games. Defender Colleen Gulick also missed the Terps’ Sept. 30 rout of Temple because of a professional cycling race in Colorado.

“It was hard because we had so many people going away, and to be honest, we had some bumps in the road because of that,” Gerzabek said. “It was really hard to finally get into a groove.”

The squad, which featured six freshmen, also had to adjust to life without two key players from

CORNHUSKERS From PAGE 8 recorded her third doubledouble of the season with 21 points and 12 rebounds against the Cornhuskers (5-2). Center Alicia DeVaughn chipped in eight points and eight rebounds.

On the outside, Mincy had a breakout performance. In 23 m i nutes, she scored 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-4 on threepoi nt shots. E nter i ng t he game, she’d shot 1-of-9 from beyond the arc. Playing at her normal shooting guard position instead of point guard, Mincy was able to move off the ball and use other players to generate open looks.

“It was special to be able to see everything going,” Frese said. “When you talk about leading up to this point, sometimes we’ve had our post game or our guard game, but never together. That’s what you’ve got to be able to have.”

But injury cut Mincy’s night short. With about 15 minutes remaining, Nebraska forward Emily Cady stole the ball from her at halfcourt and Mincy fell to the ground holding her right leg. She didn’t return to action, but was seated at the end of the Terps’ bench with a bag of ice on her right knee as they sealed the game. There’s no official word on the severity of the injury, but Mincy will be

“It was hard because we had so many people going away, and to be honest, we had some bumps in the road because of that. It was really hard to finally get into a groove.”

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Terrapins field hockey forward last year’s championship team — midfielder Jemma Buckley, the team’s goals and points leader last season, and starting goalkeeper Melissa Vassalotti.

“We had a new team and some new coaching staff, and we had a lot of different things that we knew were going to be tough from the start,” midfielder Megan Frazer said. “It changed mostly; it was a different team from what we had.”

But even with all of the obstacles, the Terps were still just one goal shy of playing for the national title. The Terps rallied midway through the season, winning six of seven games before the ACC tournament. Two of their best performances came during the NCAA tournament’s first two rounds, when they defeated Lafayette and No. 4-seed Connecticut on the road.

“T hat was one of the greatest feats,” Meharg said. “We didn’t play a great match, but we found a way to win. That was the Maryland-type mentality that we have a tradition of having.”

Their fortunes next year remain unknown.

The Terps will lose eight seniors, including cocaptains Frazer and Janessa Pope. But Meharg, always a strong recruiter, hinted she has “a great class coming in.” The team will also welcome Welma Luus, a two-year veteran of the women’s tennis team and former forward of the South African Under-18 team.

“Every team is in the same position that we are; everyone is losing people,” Gerzabek said.

“But we have to create the excellence that we know our team has. We all have to work hard.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

evaluated today.

In addition to Mincy’s injury, Frese said some of her players also experienced cramping, and Pavlech missed a portion of the second half after limping off the court. The Terps were left with two bench players in a fast-paced game.

“Both teams were fighting.

It was really physical and it was a track meet,” Frese said.

“Both teams were getting up and down the floor so I think it really impacts your legs. I was concerned from our end as well because our lack of depth when we had a lot of players go down.”

But the Terps were sti l l able to overwhelm a Nebraska team boasting two players on the early season Naismith and Wooden award watch lists.

Moore and forward Jordan Hooper led the Cornhuskers with 17 and 15 points, respectively, but it was no match for the Terps down the stretch.

Despite a lack of depth, the Terps’ talent showed. And with a road matchup with No. 2 Connecticut looming Monday, they proved they can go into a hostile environment and put together a complete performance.

“It just felt like offensively, it came to us in the beginning,” Hawkins said. “They eventually started boxing out more, but as the game went on, they continued to fight the whole game. We just needed to fight back.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Youth movement

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer Entering his fi rst season at the helm of the Terrapins women’s soccer team, Jonathan Morgan had 31 players on his roster. Fifteen of those players were seniors, juniors and sophomores. The other 16? All freshmen.

The fi rst-year coach’s team — like himself — was rife with inexperience, and many of his players were fresh out of high school.

Despite that youth, preseason polls had high hopes for the Terps. They began the season ranked No. 13 in the nation and had NCAA tournament expectations.

But the hype soon caught up with the young Terps. Their ranking quickly plummeted after a scoreless tie with Villanova on Aug. 19 and a 1-0 loss to Ohio State one week later, and they eventually fell out of the top 25 altogether.

Originally, Morgan looked toward his veterans to carry the load. But seven of the team’s 11 upperclassmen battled injury all season, leaving them unprepared to play significant minutes in each game.

As games passed, the key to the Terps’ season became clear: Their freshmen were going to have to grow up. And quickly.

“We found a way to work with the injuries,” Morgan said. “We have a lot of depth, so thankfully fi lling those holes wasn’t hard, but it takes a while to build that chemistry.

You get settled into a group of 11 and then you lose a personality. It was tough.”

The team’s personality took its biggest hit when it lost standout senior defender Megan Gibbons for the season to a torn ACL suffered in a Sept.

6 win at Alabama. Couple that with oft-injured midfielder Danielle Hubka’s frequent trips in and out of the lineup, and Morgan had no choice but to give his freshmen more playing time.

But as the Terps (14-7-2) shuffled freshmen into the lineup and battled their way back into the national rankings, they were able to unearth some gems. Freshmen defender Shannon Collins and midfielder Ashley Spivey each started all 23 games, and defender Erika

Nelson made the starting lineup for 17 games.

“We had some pleasant surprises in that group, like Erika Nelson and Shannon Collins,” Morgan said. “They didn’t have the best resumes coming in, but they became full-time starters and each did an outstanding job. Then we had Ashley Spivey, who had the most decorated resume, and she totally lived up to it.”

Together, those three freshmen contributed 5,206 minutes, compared to the 4,674 minutes played by more seasoned players such as forward Hayley Brock, forward Becky Kaplan and midfielder Olivia Wagner.

Eleven other freshmen also saw consistent minutes for the Terps this season. Overall, freshmen combined to score 10 of the team’s 45 goals.

“It’s so important [the freshmen play] because everyone on our team works so hard day in and day out in practice and sometimes you don’t get to see [the freshmen] in games,” Wagner said earlier this season. “When they get to get into the games and actually show what they’ve been working on, it means just as much as winning.”

But that heavy reliance on young players affected the Terps in the postseason. The team managed to play its way into the ACC championship match, but it lost, 4-0, to Virginia.

The team’s season ended in the second round of the NCAA tournament, where it blew a 2-0 lead in an eventual 3-2 overtime loss to Denver.

“Our goals got heavier and loftier as the season went on, and we had such high expectations for ourselves that ending the season the way we did left a real bad taste in our mouths,” Morgan said. “It was cut short and we’re disappointed.”

Although the Terps are still mourning that loss in Stanford, Calif., they may not have gotten there if it weren’t for the 14 freshmen who saw playing time this season.

And with that group of players slated to stick around for three more years, it looks as though Morgan’s young team has a bright future.

“Moving forward with this group is really exciting,” he said. “If they want to be great, they are really going to be very great.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Forward Dez Wells scored a career-high 23 points on 9-of-11 shooting in the Terps’ 77-57 victory over Northwestern at Welsh-Ryan Arena in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday night. photo courtesy of meghan white/the daily northwestern

WELLS From PAGE 8 against the Eagles.

“He was embarrassed with the way he played Saturday,” coach Mark Turgeon said shortly after Tuesday’s 77-57 win.

“That’s what true competitors do. They bounce back.”

It’s nothing new for a player who has experienced his share of adversity the past year.

There was the brawl during December’s

Xavier-Cincinnati game that left him suspended for four games. There was his August expulsion from Xavier, which came amid a sexual assault allegation that a grand jury ultimately did not pursue.

And, on a smaller level, there was the 5-of-18 shooting slump over two games that opened Wells’ Terps career.

A meeting with Turgeon helped the sophomore move past those early struggles. About seven hours before a Nov. 16 win over LIU Brooklyn, Wells sat in his second-year coach’s office and admitted he felt pressure to produce.

“You don’t have to be the guy every night for us to be successful,” Turgeon later recalled telling him. “You just have to be Dez Wells.”

Wells responded with a breakout performance that night against the Blackbirds, chipping in 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists. He gushed in postgame interviews about his love for his teammates and his appreciation for Turgeon’s reassurance.

But after the Georgia Southern disappointment, no heart-to-heart was in order. Wells arrived to Sunday’s practice “a totally different kid,” Turgeon said.

He was dialed in, intent on moving past a woeful outing.

“You have to respond,” Wells said.

“When you don’t play good, you have to respond. You can’t just sit around and pout about it.”

Respond he did. Aggressive and motivated, Wells carried his new squad to a much-needed road win before a national audience. He sliced through traffic with ease, using his NBA-ready frame to overpower diminutive defenders.

It hardly mattered that the Northwestern student section greeted him at the free-throw line multiple times with derisive “No means no” chants — a reference to the allegation that triggered Wells’ expulsion.

By the time he drained his fourth consecutive attempt, the chants had already faded. Nothing was going to stop the Terps’ explosive swingman from putting the finishing touches on a memorable showing.

“You’ve got to have tougher skin if you’re going to play this game,” Wells said. “So I just wanted to do what I had to do for my team.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

STATLINE Terps women’s basketball forward Alyssa Thomas’ performance in a 90-71 win at Nebraska last night

25 8 Points

Assists

6 Steals

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“How about that win? I can really get use to playing in the BIG 10. The atmosphere in the arena tonight was ridiculous, I love my team!!!”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Wells gets redemption in road win

TERRAPINS 90, CORNHUSKERS 71

Thomas comes up B1G

Huge night from star forward fuels Terps in rout of future conference foe Nebraska

Forward’s career-best 23 points keys Terps

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Dez Wells stepped onto an empty Comcast Center court late Saturday evening intent on moving past arguably the worst performance of his collegiate career.

As the janitorial cleaning staff picked up trash in the seats surrounding him, the Terrapins men’s basketball forward netted pull-up jumpers and darted across the hardwood for breakaway layups.

Wells was attempting the shots he felt he should’ve hit more than an hour earlier against Georgia Southern, a game in which he tallied a season-high five turnovers and a season-low seven points.

Tuesday night, Wells got his first chance at redemption when the Terps faced Northwestern in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge in Evanston, Ill. And this time, he wouldn’t disappoint.

The Xavier transfer was the Terps’ catalyst all night, muscling his way into the lane for easy layups and pulling up for the occasional jumper. He hit his team’s first two buckets and singlehandedly went on a 5-0 run midway through the second half to give the Terps a 13-point lead.

The Raleigh, N.C., native finished the night with a career-high 23 points on 9-of-11 shooti ng — the perfect remedy to his forgettable showing See WELLS, Page 7

Forward Alyssa Thomas scored a season-high 25 points and added eight assists, six steals and five rebounds in the Terps’ 90-71 victory over Nebraska at Bob Devaney Sports Center last night. photo courtesy of kat buchanan/the daily nebraskan

After getting locked in a back-and-forth battle against Nebraska last night, the Terrapins women’s basketball team needed a boost. The Cornhuskers wouldn’t let the Terps build an early advantage, answering nearly every basket and never letting coach Brenda Frese’s squad lead by more than five points in the fi rst 15 minutes.

T hen, the hosts tried to separate in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Guards Lindsey Moore and Rachel Theriot hit consecutive 3’s to give Nebraska a 31-27 advantage. With a loud home crowd at the Bob Devaney Sports Center behind them, the Cornhuskers seemed poised to take control.

But after Frese’s 30-second timeout with 4:53 remaining in the fi rst half, guards Laurin Mincy and Chloe Pavlech hit back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers. And just less than two minutes after Frese’s timeout, the Terps held a 38-33 lead, forcing a Nebraska timeout.

The No. 11 Terps never trailed the No. 21 Cornhuskers again, using forward Alyssa Thomas’ stellar performance to pull away for a 90-71 victory in Lincoln, Neb. The win marked the Terps’ sixth-straight triumph in the

ACC/Big Ten Challenge and their 10th straight against Big Ten teams overall.

“Coach has just told us to attack,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t really guard us out on the wing, so whenever we get the ball, we just attack the basket.”

After a quiet start to her season, Thomas broke out in front of a nationally televised audience. The Harrisburg, Pa., native scored a season-high 25 points, distributed a career-high eight assists, tallied six steals and grabbed five rebounds.

It was the type of all-around performance Frese expects from her star in big games.

Thomas controlled the tempo by bringing the ball up the court, often taking the ball to the rim herself or passing out to the wing for open jump shots.

“What didn’t she do?” Frese said. “That’s what separates her.

That’s what makes her so special. … She just did a tremendous job commanding a presence, understanding when we needed her on the wing, inside, on the point.

Just whatever this team needs her to do, she’s going to fight to be able to help this team.”

The Terps (4-1) also displayed their most complete inside-outside performance to date. Forward Tianna Hawkins See CORNHUSKERS, Page 7