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Athletics dept. to spend $1M on four sports fields All will be replaced with artificial turf

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Despite the recent elimination of eight Terrapins varsity teams and an $83 million debt, the university’s athletics department is slated to go ahead with a project to spend $1 mil-

lion renovating four different on-campus athletics fields.

The department will allocate the money to switch the Bermuda grass of Byrd Stadium, the outfield of Shipley Field and one football practice field to artificial turf. It will also replace aging synthetic turf on

Plans to replace Byrd Stadium’s field with artificial turf first began in 2008.

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another football practice field. While an official construction date for the projects has not yet been hammered out, it was necessary to spruce up the fields, according to James Stirling, the university’s procurement and supply director.

“It’s getting close to the end of its

lifespan,” Stirling said of the football practice field, which will get a replacement for its 10-year-old artificial turf.

While the project — which will lay a combined 287,000 square feet of synthetic turf on the fields, according

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While this university’s number of international doctoral students is among the top 50 in the country, officials said they are increasing efforts to attract more undergraduates from other countries and enrich their experiences on the campus.

With 3,514 international students enrolled for the 2010-2011 academic year, the university recently ranked 34th in the nation among doctoral institutions with international students, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. However, only 632 of those students are undergraduates, according to Barbara Varsa, interim director of the university’s Office of International Services. Officials said they’d like to see that number increase.

She said international students comprise 8.2 percent of the overall student population, while undergraduate international students only make up 2.3 percent.

“The University of Maryland indeed is world renowned and highly respected, and the international graduate students really look at the rankings, faculty resources and proximity to D.C. and Baltimore, so it is a popular destination, but the bulk of them are graduates,” Varsa said.

As the university’s Strategic Plan calls for increased recruitment of international undergraduates, Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement charged a task force at the start of the semester with exploring not only how to raise the numbers but also how to enhance the resources available to international students to improve their

Guard Sean Mosley and the Terps couldn’t sustain a strong start against undefeated Illinois last night, falling for the third time in six games. For a recap, read page 8.

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CRS officials discuss plans for building a new South Campus rec center Design has not yet begun, but officials said newest center could open by 2019

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Students living in dorms on South Campus looking for a quick workout might not have to walk as far as Eppley Recreation Center to use weight and cardio machines in the coming years.

Campus Recreation Services officials are in the early planning phase to build a new recreational facility, slated to open in 2019, in the U4 and U5 parking lots next to Mowatt Lane Garage, CRS Director Jay Gilchrist said at the Resident Hall Association’s meeting last night. Gilchrist said he’s often fielded requests from South Campus residents asking for a gym closer to their dorms, but CRS officials had to convince other departments of the need before they began

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to devise a plan.

“Many of you start with Eppley … and then you move over [to South Campus] and it’s boom — not much going on,” Gilchrist said. “One of the things we’ve been trying to do for many years is to create additional recreational facilities on South Campus. From the time we created [the Campus Recreation Advisory Board] 12 years ago, folks from RHA have been saying we want facilities on that side of campus.”

A comparison of other Division I schools revealed that this university came up approximately 100,000 square feet short in the amount of indoor recreation space available to its students, and a new gym would bring the university up to par with

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Fighting for their future Panelists speak about “desperate” situation in Africa

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

While Africa may be thousands of miles away, it’s important for students in this country to address the drought, malnutrition and corruption plaguing the Somali people, a group of panelists said at an event last night.

The situation is “desperate,” officials told the group of 35 faculty and students — many of whom were members of the university’s livinglearning Global Communities program — at the “Humanitarian Crisis and Refugees in the Horn of Africa” lecture in Riggs Alumni Center. The event was the second of a four-part series called “On the Move: A Speaker Series on Cross-Border Mobility,” which seeks to bring global issues closer to home.

The panel was comprised of Charity Tooze, the senior communication officer for the United Nations Refugee Agency; Ahmed Elmi, chairman and cofounder of the Somali American Community Association;

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and Wanjiru Kamau, founder and executive director of the African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation.

Tooze and Elmi focused their lectures on statistics about malnutrition and information about American and Somali non-governmental organizations; however, Kamau honed in on the importance of Americans taking the time to learn about African countries and cultures.

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“You can’t afford to be saying, ‘Kenya is in West Africa,’” she said.

Senior international business major Sonaly Patel said she attended the event for exactly that reason.

“I try to learn as much as possible and try to educate others about the situation,” she said. “You need to have all of those perspectives represented

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AFRICA from page 1 to solve the issue.”

Although the event was about the Horn of Africa — which includes Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia — the panelists spoke mostly about Somalia, a countr y whose government is controlled by the terrorist group al-Shabab.

Tooze said the United Nations Refugee Agency provides Somalis with food vouchers and emergency assistance packages. However, weather conditions have prevented planes from being able to land in the countr y recently, so aid has been dropped from the air.

Global Communities; the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism; the international development and conflict management minor; and the agricultural and resource economics college co-sponsored the event.

Jessica Rivinius, communications director for START, said students of all global studies minors study crossborder mobility.

Lisa Hendricks, coordinator for the international development and conflict management minor, said the event supplemented her students’ coursework and that it is beneficial for students learning about the subjects to hear a wide array of per-

Wanjiru Kamau, of African Immigrant & Refugee Foundation, spoke at last night’s event. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

spectives from people involved with the issues.

“We’re all globally focused programs, and these topics seem to be of particular interest to our students,” Hendricks said.

Freshman histor y major Ben Cutler, who also attended the first event in the series held in October, said he enjoyed the panelists’ perspectives on the issue — and how it can affect the world at

large.

“I thought it was interesting, and it gave me a new perspective to think about the world and conflicts,” Cutler said. “As Americans, we have a responsibility to, like, step up, and we need to help shape the world around us. Through education is one of the best ways to do that.” news@umdbk.com

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However, the process is still in its preliminary phase, and design on the building has not yet begun. If all goes according to plan, Gilchrist said, construction could begin in 2018 and be completed by mid-to-late 2019.

There are two main reasons for the lengthy and uncertain time frame: affordability and the need to raise the necessary funds without increasing student fees, Gilchrist said. The university will not pay off the cost of Eppley Recreation Center — which was constructed in 1998 — until at least 2017.

With eight varsity athletics teams cut from the department’s budget, Gilchrist said CRS is facing a $300,000 hole in the Eppley Recreation Center budget resulting from the facility no longer being used by the swimming and diving teams. Though Gilchrist said the department hopes to rent the facility out to local high schools and swim groups to recover the loss, the budget gap could cause a delay constructing the gym.

Gilchrist said the university can only realistically afford 75,000 square feet of the building at this time.

Additionally, open space would become available between the new facility and Prince Frederick Hall, which is slated to be built in the business lot by fall 2014. Officials are asking RHA to help create a use for this area, according to junior government and politics major Jon Saltzman, who represents RHA on the Campus Recreation Advisory Board.

“Campus Recreation Services is looking for input for what the facility would look like, as well as the open space next to it,” Saltzman said. “Fortunately we have a lot of time, so this is something we want to handle delicately to find the best ways to gauge student opinion.”

Despite the long wait for the project’s completion, many students think the new facility would be a great addition to South Campus.

“I think it would get a lot of use,” sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Joey Samowitz said. “It’s a good idea because it’s such a hassle to go all the way to [Eppley].”

Junior biology major Erik

“In the winter when it gets icy, it’s tough to get across campus to work out.”

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Kariya agreed it would be much more convenient to have a gym closer to where he lives.

“In the winter when it gets icy, it’s tough to get across campus to work out,” Kariya said. “And Ritchie is always packed, so I’m all for it.”

But with the building set to be erected in a parking lot, some students were wary the new building would take away even more spaces in the looming parking shortage.

“I feel like parking is more important than a gym,” junior animal sciences major Grace Tucker said. “It’s a good idea, but I’d rather have a parking space than a gym.” israel@umdbk.com

The university athletics department allocated $1 million to renovating four on-campus athletics fields. The plans include installing artificial turf at Byrd Stadium. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

FIELDS from page 1 to the request for proposal — does not yet have an official start date, officials are currently mulling over price proposals from different contractors, according to Stirling.

“We’re in the process of evaluating price proposals,” Stirling said. “There’s no contract yet … It’ll take some time to complete the evaluation.”

According to Bill Olen, Facilities Management’s director of capital projects, the athletics department requested artificial turf for Byrd Stadium around spring 2008, and the Board of Regents — the 17-member board that oversees the University System of Mar yland — approved the switch that June.

Plans to install synthetic turf on the three other fields emerged this spring

but do not require Board of Regents approval because they are considered routine maintenance projects.

Olen said Byrd’s location, as well as its frequent usage, prompted the athletics department to switch to artificial turf.

“There have been ongoing main issues with Byrd Stadium,” Olen said. “It’s really hard to keep grass growing out there between the location of the field — it’s in a bowl — and the fact that other sports use it.”

Additionally, the funds will be used to add storm utility drainage piping, concrete paving and the relocation of existing utilities, among other things. The installation of turf is projected to take about 70 days at Byrd, 44 days at Shipley and 90 days for each football practice field.

However, some students, such as sophomore neurobiology major Kate Turling-

ton, said the renovations aren’t justified considering the recent upheaval.

“Unless it’s going to cut costs in the long run, it’s not fair to take that money away from the eight teams that were cut,” Turlington said. “It’s kind of like favoritism to cer tain studentathletes.”

And several student-athletes said they thought the athletics department should be spending money elsewhere, especially considering the football team’s record.

“I don’t think it’s necessar y for football, because their season isn’t that good anyway,” said freshman kinesiology major Kasey Tapman, a member of the field hockey team.

“They should spend that money on things we actually need — why’d they get rid of those teams if they’re putting in turf?” foley@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s article “Fraternities double philanthropy hours from three years ago” incorrectly identified the fraternity that hosted the carnival field day for underserved Washington youth. Alpha Tau Omega organized the event.

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Students give their input on 251 North Dining officials, RHA hear feedback on how to improve new dining hall

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

While reviews for the only all-you-can-eat dining hall on the campus have been overwhelmingly positive, some students told officials they should address the frequently long lines and limited vegetarian options to make 251 North even better.

The Residence Hall Association set up a feedback table in front of the dining hall alongside Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva and Executive Chef John Gray last night. This was the second such session the RHA held this semester and the first where dining officials were also present.

About 30 students stopped by the table to give their thoughts on how to improve the popular dining destination.

“Dining Services can send out surveys, but how accurate can they really be? How many students are actually going to respond to them?” said sophomore plant sciences and theatre major Dwight Townsend-Gray, who chairs the RHA’s Dining Services Advisory Board. “We thought it would be better to do something like this, where

“More vegetarian options would be nice. We have the same thing every week, so it would be nice if there was more options available.”

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we can interact face-to-face with students and really get a sense for what they want.”

While many students praised the quality and variety of food options available, the most common complaint of the night centered on the long wait in line to get to the food. Offering multiple pizza and pasta recipes, the Italian station especially had become the most popular destination in the dining hall, and long lines tended to materialize rather quickly, according to Gray.

But after hearing several

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students raise the same concern, Gray and Wright-Riva discussed dividing the line into two sections much like staff had already done at the “Chef’s Special” station at the back of the hall.

Another concern students brought to the table was of customers breaking the one main rule of the diner — not to take any food out. Reports of students smuggling food in backpacks and tote bags filled with take-out containers came to the forefront earlier this semester despite this rule.

“It definitely seems like

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something that could cause a problem,” sophomore electrical engineering major Andy Hines said. “I would hate for the prices to go up because people aren’t following the rules. I don’t want to see that happen.”

Wright-Riva said staff members are monitoring the issue closely, and students caught stealing food will be disciplined by the university’s judicial board. However, in response to the suggestions the diner should have a carryout option, Wright-Riva said that is “not

likely to happen.”

“It’s a sustainability thing,” she said. “Part of what makes 251 North unique is it’s a very sustainable operation, and having carryout containers would take away from that.”

Even with five separate food stations offered at the dining hall, freshman criminology and criminal justice and psychology major Sophie Levin said she believed the variety could be expanded even further.

“More vegetarian options would be nice,” she said.

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international students, held several focus groups and had a panel of international students speak before the committee.

“Most of the respondents said they felt prepared for their arrival on the campus and that they had enough information prior to coming here,” Hummel said. “But many said that we could do more with supporting them after they have arrived and getting adjusted to the campus.”

Varsa said one of the chief reasons for the disparity in recruitment is the limited scholarships the university offers to international undergraduates compared to other institutions — especially private colleges — an issue Hummel said the committee discussed.

Yajuan Zhou, an international student from China, said more financial aid opportunities would be her first choice for the university to its resources for international students.

“We seldom have opportunities to apply for scholarships,” said Zhou, a senior economics major. “Most scholarships require citizenship before you can apply.”

Several international students said while they were generally happy with the services the university provides, creating more job opportunities on

from page 1 experience on the campus.

“While it is important for our students to get experience going out and studying abroad, it is also important they get experience meeting people from all over the world here on campus,” Clement said.

The 19-member committee — which included representatives from 13 university departments including the admissions office, resident life and international services — is now finalizing its report to submit to Clement. It includes several recommendations for making the university more accommodating to international students.

Although task force member and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Mary Hummel declined to offer details on the committee’s findings at this stage, she said the recommendations will focus on the services students received prior to their arrival in the U.S. — including finding a place to stay — as well as initial transition into the university and ongoing support in both the academic and social spheres.

To garner student input, Hummel said the committee sent out an online survey to all

“We have the same thing every week, so it would be nice if there was more options available.”

Wright-Riva said officials will collect what they learned and discuss how they can use the feedback to improve 251 North for its second semester.

“We’ll get together over the [winter] break and brainstorm as a team,” she said. “We’re always looking to improve the experience for students.” israel@umdbk.com

the campus exclusively for international students would help them earn a steady income. Additionally, some suggested hosting more activities to bring international students together.

However, both officials and students noted because of their citizenship status, it is often difficult for international students to navigate through university offices or sort through necessary paperwork.

“It’s not a problem of the school, but it’s the whole system of how international students are treated in all the United States,” said junior electrical engineering major Iason Papanikolaou, an international student from Greece. “We do have to go through a lot of bureaucracy to get our work done.”

Varsa added that bringing more international undergraduates to the campus and fostering their success will create a well-rounded university experience for all students.

“International students should not just be seen only in numbers, but in their value in diversifying and enriching the campus,” Varsa said. “In this global world it is really important to have an international exchange, and that is something they bring to campus.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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A stadium solution?

Football failure

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hat are the main four professional sports in this country? For university’s proposed East Campus development.

A new stadium would also be in accordance with the university’s Facilities decades, baseball, football, basketball and hockey have been the obvious answers. But last year, something unexpected happened: Master Plan. The most recent version, released in 2007, calls for a new soccer Major League Soccer, in its 16th year of existence, averaged more stadium to be built near the existing Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. The fans per game than both the NHL and the NBA. MLS teams play a much shorter plan is being updated, however, and the latest draft instead suggests renovatschedule, so the overall attendance and revenue numbers push soccer back into ing Ludwig Field, where the men’s and women’s soccer teams currently play.

Either way, the university is looking to update its soccer fifth-place standing, but the point remains: Professional facilities for a men’s squad that frequently fills the 7,000 soccer is growing, even as the economic downturn has seats at Ludwig Field and averaged more than 4,000 kept revenues in other professional sports stagnant. fans this season.

DC United — a charter member of MLS — is one of the Building an on-campus There’s even a precedent for such development. The league’s most prominent teams. Until subpar performsoccer stadium for DC Home Depot Center, home to both of Los Angeles’ MLS ances the last couple years, the club regularly bested league attendance averages, drawing about 20,000 fans United might actually be a clubs, was built on the grounds of a California State University campus in nearby Carson. per game. But after years of playing in the outdated and viable option and budget One potential roadblock is the Prince George’s County cavernous RFK Stadium, DC United is looking for a new Council. In 2009, the body shot down plans to build a stahome. Options in Washington appear to be dwindling, solution the university dium near FedEx Field in Landover, citing unreasonable and the team is even considering a move to Baltimore.

So Cavan Wilk, a university alumnus and blogger for should consider pursuing. risk in the plan to issue municipal bonds for construction.

The county also anticipates a $133 million budget shortfall Greater Greater Washington, recently posed a question: in fiscal year 2013, but if the council could be convinced tax revenues from a new What about building a soccer stadium on this university’s campus?

Such an undertaking may seem counterintuitive given the athletics depart- complex — and the subsequently higher property values — would offset potenment’s financial imbroglio, but the construction would come at no cost to the uni- tial risks, it might be willing to revisit the issue, especially as DC United grows versity because it would likely be funded through a public-private partnership increasingly desperate to find a new home.

When all is said and done, talk of a DC United stadium on the campus may be between DC United and the state or county government. If the financial pieces much ado about nothing, but it’s the sort of outside-the-box thinking this institufall into place, the scenario actually makes a lot of sense.

The Washington Post reported last month that DC United and university offi- tion needs if university President Wallace Loh is truly going to transform Colcials have already discussed hosting future DC United games at Byrd Stadium lege Park into a top college town. The athletics department has dug itself quite while the team seeks a new complex. The university’s location within the Capital the revenue hole, so the university should aggressively pursue DC United as a Beltway and near the Metro’s Green Line — not to mention plans to run the Pur- Byrd Stadium tenant for future matches. Consider it a trial run — who knows, ple Line through the campus — make the campus highly accessible. Recent maybe that will set the ball in motion to transform the city and campus into a culdevelopments along Route 1 would prosper with the influx of fans, as would the tural hub befitting a world-class university.

It’s downright harmful when individuals seek to isolate campuswide problems to Greek life. The consequence is that many falsely believe non-Greeks don’t partake or have these issues. Eating disorders, excessive alcohol use and sexual assault aren’t Greek problems, they’re university problems. This ignorance has unfortunately resulted in Greek life standing nearly alone to address campuswide problems. Because of the Greek system’s strong sense of community and its organizational structure, it has taken the lead at our university in addressing these long-festering problems.

It seems Greeks more readily acknowledge their shortcomings than other students. Yet if this university is to ever start addressing these important issues, we need to stop blaming fraternities and sororities for all of college’s social ills. In the meantime, I’ll be living the life of a college student, without concealing it from anyone.

Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

Michael Weiss is a 1991 university alumnus. He can be reached at mweiss@videolabs.net.

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Riding the bandwagon to nowhere

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ver the weekend, Miley Cyrus released a music video in support of Occupy Wall Street. Does anybody else find this more than a little amusing?

On the one hand, it’s easy to dismiss the teenage pop idol’s move as a harmless publicity stunt where yet another artist is taking a free ride on the activism bandwagon. But in another sense, it reveals a troubling trend: The celebrity endorsements keep on coming, but absent any effort from these stars to make meaningful lifestyle changes, they are empty gestures that only devalue the movement’s message.

I have no idea whether Cyrus is still relevant or has any hit songs currently gracing the airwaves — forgive me for not being more in touch with the popcountry/post-Disney/wannabe-Britney scene these days — but I suspect her support is driven at least partly by selfinterest. She stands to gain quite a bit of publicity from connecting her name to the grassroots movement, a fact her publicist has certainly not overlooked.

Maybe her heart truly aches for the plight of the middle class, and maybe,

ALISSA GULIN to do her part, she’ll donate her earnings to the cause or start offering free concerts in “occupied” areas. But I doubt it. It’s simply hard to believe the 19-year-old singer feels any deep connection to the protests or even fully understands the greater societal issues they represent.

The video — set to her song “Liberty Walk” — is “dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in.” How nice.

Surely Cyrus does admire their efforts, but likely in a superficial “protests, cool!” kind of way. And most Americans seem to have the same attitude. The movement has become more of a pop-culture phenomenon to be parodied on South Park than a real protest to be taken seriously.

Cyrus is not alone — plenty of other

celebrities have also joined in the fun.

Some, like Cyrus, have taken the easy route and endorsed Occupy through some form of self-promotion. Take, for example, Kanye West. The notoriously arrogant rapper kept his mouth mostly shut during his brief appearance in Zuccotti Park last month — maybe it was the gold grill in his mouth that stopped him from chanting against irresponsible spending.

Others, however, have gotten down and dirty alongside protesters, such as Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, who’s been a vocal political activist throughout his career. Based on interviews I’ve read, the guy seems to actually care about the cause.

Those supporting Cyrus’ efforts would likely argue celebrities are doing protesters a favor by popularizing the movement and making it mainstream.

When demonstrators first erupted onto the streets of New York, they were rapidly written off as a bunch of hippies who like camping and playing bongos.

But with support from mainstream public figures, the younger demographic — often apathetic to politics or blissfully

ignorant of government affairs — is now familiar with the concepts of corporate greed and wealth inequality.

The occupiers’ message is ambiguous and their demands are lofty — but they’re genuine. The fundamental principles have universal appeal, and the demonstrators themselves are portrayed as a free-spirited bunch, so it’s understandable why the movement has drawn so many famous personalities. But by latching onto the movement without changing their habits, these privileged celebrities are leeching the protests of their legitimacy and further diminishing their potential to effect change.

“Don’t live a lie,” Cyrus sings over punchy house music and images of police violence against protesters. But the video itself is oozing with phony inspiration and makes a mockery of their dedication. The poor girl must have misread the memo, because the Occupy bandwagon isn’t en route to some great, big “Party in the USA.” Alissa Gulin is a senior journalism major.

She can be reached at gulin@umdbk.com.

A sensible defense of Greek life

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ver the next two weeks, Eppley Recreation Center will be filled with girls seeking to lose a few pounds. Tanning appointments at Banana’s Hair Design will be hard to come by. Ritchie Coliseum will be at full capacity with fraternity guys looking to cram in one last lifting session. And then, once everyone is in tip-top shape, the exodus will begin.

Parking lots around Fraternity Row will be emptied of their cars, and hordes of Greeks, along with a select few GDIs (non-Greeks), will begin the short drive to Ocean City or the Poconos. Indeed, the countdown is now officially underway for the premier social event of the semester: away weekend.

For those of you who have never attended one of these getaways, away weekends might seem like mysterious events. And while all are slightly different, away weekends often consist of laughing at the hotel receptionist who resembles an overly spray-tanned Snooki.

Away weekends are used to figure out whether that one-month fling is going to sizzle or fizzle. And away weekends are

about searching desperately for the one sober person to drive you and your date to Sonic at 2 a.m.

While all of this may seem strange to many of you non-Greeks, in reality, away weekends have much in common with a typical Friday night in College Park. The same basic staples apply: alcohol, tight clothing, top-40 music and plenty of Maryland Book Exchange shot glasses. Because at the end of the day, away weekends are just organized collegiate vacations designed for all involved to blow off some steam before finals engulf our lives.

But the perceived (and often real) social excesses of Greek life that away weekends represent to many outside our community are used to viciously demean and stereotype thousands of students at this university.

On this campus, many individuals believe fraternities and sororities are exclusive, socially excessive and oftentimes catty communities. True, true and more true. But I often ask myself: Is non-Greek collegiate life or the real world much different? Don’t all college students have an

MATT ARNSTINE exclusive invitation list if hosting a party at their apartments? Doesn’t your group of friends sometimes gossip behind each others’ backs? Of course.

In a more extreme sense, it seems outrageous that problems such as eating disorders and sexual assault are only talked about within the context of the Greek system, when in fact they are present throughout the entire university community. During the university’s Clothesline Project display, in which victims of domestic violence and sexual assault design T-shirts, people walk by to see how many fraternities are listed on the shirts. Yet, Greek organizations have taken action to educate new members about sexual assault and train fraternity and sorority members in bystander intervention techniques.

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s a business owner, I can say with certainty that making decisions based on emotion is a terrible practice. Sports present a tougher challenge in trying to avoid impassioned decisions. For example, saying the Terps should go for it on fourth-and-1 from their own 30-yard line might be considered an emotional call. I’m having a difficult time with my decision to no longer support Terrapins football.

I donate each year to the Terrapin Club and purchase many tickets to various athletic events. My support, however, is wavering, and it will end if administrators don’t correct the direction of the football team. My decision doesn’t depend so heavily on the two-win season we just completed.

Two wins are never acceptable but are certainly OK to deal with if the officials running a football program are humbled by a rotten season. These administrators must also remain optimistic and provide frequent communication to show concerned parties the team will improve next year. But the university’s football officials have failed Terrapin nation. Personally, I have no confidence Terrapins football will improve. Why do I feel that way? Keep reading.

I recognize opinion and perception make up much of my thought process, but a quick check of most fans (and boosters) will prove reality is close at hand. Here it goes: What the hell is with coach Randy Edsall? Does he actually think not going into sideline huddles makes his team stronger? Is Edsall communicating effectively by not letting any of his coaches comment on the previous game? Why does he get more excited about congratulating the opposing winning coach than cheering his players on after a great defensive stop? What’s with players hanging their heads on the sidelines? Shouldn’t the coach be doing something to push the players toward a win? Shouldn’t Edsall stop berating referees for bad calls and start demanding his coordinators make better decisions?

Wouldn’t saying “our” team (instead of “my” team) be a way to get all fans to buy into his program? Why are the opposing players on the sidelines during virtually every game jumping up and down, raising their hands and psyching up fans, while Edsall and his players have slumped shoulders?

Why are players concerned about being confronted by their coach? Has Edsall ever said, “I’ve not done a good job of creating a competitive football team,” or taken any sort of responsibility? Is it OK for the Terps faithful to hear him say, “We’re going to do things my way,” over and over? The coach should be saying things like: “If I don’t turn this program around soon, my tenure will be short,” and “I’ve got to fix this situation.” How many times is Edsall going to blame the previous coaching regime for his failure?

And what about Athletic Director Kevin Anderson? Did anybody ask Anderson about Edsall’s relationship with his University of Connecticut bosses? Why was Edsall’s relationship with UCONN’s athletics department so chilly? Did this university’s athletics officials know he was such an “It’s my way or the highway” type of guy? Anderson should be making statements like: “This football season has been unacceptable,” and “I will demand changes to this football program.”

My emotion has clearly gotten the best of me. And my rhetoric is not new.

However, in all my years as part of Terrapin nation, I’ve not confronted such a dictatorial coaching regime that reflects so negatively on my school. It does take time to build a great football program, but our program wasn’t in need of “building.” In fact, “we” were not “broken.” Yes, it’s commendable for Edsall to instill more discipline and concern for academics in the players.

But 18- to 22-year-old kids are individuals whose growth is being stunted by Edsall’s rules.

It’s time to admit a mistake was made and quickly change course in our football program. Are you listening, Kevin? Change coaches before the football team (and athletics department) loses even more support. It’s OK to admit a mistake was made. And don’t use money as an excuse — you found the money to pay off former coach Ralph Freidgen, didn’t you?

You want me to purchase tickets to more football games? Are you insane?

It’s sad going to Edsall’s version of a football game. Give me a 2-10 year with a humble coach who at least appears to understand a team environment, and I’ll take that over what we presently have any day of the week. Keep this dictator on the sideline and you’ll lose many more supporters. As a deeply saddened Terp, I’m asking you to please rethink your decision, Kevin.

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While piano-pop-rock group Jukebox the Ghost has a strong cult following, it’s not exactly an arena-packing U2. But when the band opened up for James Blunt in Europe in October, the Philadelphia-based trio was playing to massive stadium crowds every night.

“It was a pretty ridiculous tour,” said guitarist and vocalist Tommy Siegel.

“The top 30 biggest shows we’ve ever played were all in the last month.”

Tomorrow, Jukebox the Ghost will begin its headlining tour of North America, starting in the comfortable environment of Washington, home to its largest and most devoted fan base (the trio met while students at George Washington University).

In the U.S., the GWU graduates have become accustomed to selling out small clubs such as the Black Cat. This week, they’re anxiously anticipating their first-ever headlining show at the larger, more intimidating 9:30 Club.

“It’s a little experiment — we’ll see how it goes,” Siegel said with a laugh.

“We were kind of all debating whether 9:30 was too big, and this show will tell us if it is too big or not.”

Regardless of club capacity, the band has a big sound. Jukebox the Ghost makes loud, upbeat, sing-along music with endlessly catchy choruses and

thrilling tempo changes, not to mention alternating lead vocal performances — Siegel shares duties with pianist Ben Thornewill.

While Siegel and Thornewill rarely collaborate when initially writing songs, they have coincidentally written tracks about the same topics.

As a result, the band’s second album, Everything Under The Sun, was thematically linked — with duplicate songs about summer, the sun and insanity — unintentionally.

“It’s sort of a happy accident that it ends up

looking like a concept record,” Siegel said. “I wrote ‘Half Crazy,’ [Ben] wrote ‘Schizophrenia’ — it looks like we deliberately wrote two songs about mental illness.”

The lyrical cohesiveness wasn’t Everything Under The Sun’s only “happy accident.” Heavy synthesizers, which Siegel said were initially meant as alternate options but were simply left in by the producer in the final mixing, are incorporated

a double-edged sword.

“It’s a disadvantage in that we’ll never be a buzz band — we’re sort of perennially uncool,” he said. “But I also like that. Being separated from the hype machine means that we get to build a career and build a fan base under our own control.”

While happiness and positivity reign throughout Jukebox the Ghost’s catalog, the band still likes to sing about darker topics — as long as those topics are hidden within a catchy melody.

Siegel said one song on the upcoming album, with an anticipated release date in late spring, sounds like a happy song but is actually packed with depressing lyrics about the foreclosure crisis.

“If you’re just listening in your car, you wouldn’t really notice that,” Siegel said. “That’s the thing we like to do — you know, touch on dark subjects and kind of sneak it into something that’s fun.”

Ultimately, even though Siegel and Thornewill have both written depressing material, they’d rather stick to the fun stuff.

“For whatever reason, I think we all find it a more gratifying experience, especially when we’re touring, when we feel like the crowd’s having fun,” Siegel said. “If we’re making people feel good, then it makes us feel good.”

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At its heart, even with its more danceable tracks (with plenty more to come on the next album, Siegel said), Jukebox the Ghost remains a piano-driven, optimistic pop-rock band. That identity, Siegel said, can be

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so that’s how they were getting their buckets at the end of the game.”

Padgett played four of the best minutes of his career to start the game, scoring the team’s first six points. In each of the Terps’ first three possessions, Padgett received the ball deep in the post and drew a foul on two occasions.

He hit all four of his free throws, then grabbed an offensive rebound and powered in a basket over three defenders. His play, and the Terps’ pressure defense, flustered the Fighting Illini, who conceded an early deficit to their hosts.

After a shot-clock violation on Illinois midway through the first half, Stoglin had a chance to put the Terps up by double digits, but he missed two straight free throws. The misses nonetheless spurred a scoring surge by the sophomore: He scored nine straight for the Terps, including two 3-pointers.

At half, Stoglin and Padgett led the way with 13 and nine points, respectively, and the Terps held a 35-31 advantage.

“Our improvement since Puerto Rico is tremendous,” Turgeon said. “The first half we executed better than we’ve executed all year.”

Illinois’ full-court defense, though, started to wear on Stoglin and freshman guard Nick Faust in the second half.

Faust missed all six of his 3-point attempts and went 2-for-11 from the field. The Terps couldn’t find any rhythm in their offense, finishing with just two assists in the second half.

After guard Sean Mosley hit a layup to bring the Terps within one with less than nine minutes remaining, the Fighting Illini ripped off a 10-2 run.

That late push gave them enough of a cushion to ensure a win against the inexperienced Terps.

“Illinois did a great job defending,” Padgett said. “We were rushing and we weren’t executing.”

Instead of grabbing the signature early-season victory they had hoped for, the Terps left Comcast Center with the familiar disappointment of falling short after a surprising start.

“I have a lot of faith in our team,” Turgeon said. “I didn’t have it a week ago when we came back from Puerto Rico, but I have it today.”

scoring ability that made him a highly touted recruit coming out of Baltimore throughout his four-year career.

In Puerto Rico two weeks ago, he posted 21 points against Iona and 16 against Colorado to help pace the Terps’ offense. And don’t forget his 26-point outburst against No. 3 Villanova back in 2009.

Still, the Terps are going to need more performances like that out of the senior this year if they harbor any hopes of competing in the ACC. But beyond the occasional scoring outburst from Mosley, who was not made available for comment last night, the Terps just need him to be a consistent option.

In the Terps’ loss to then-No. 16 Alabama, he posted four points.

Against Florida Gulf Coast on Friday, he had six points.

And in five of the Terps’ six games, Mosley has eight or fewer field-goal attempts. For one of the team’s best shooters — he’s shooting 45 percent from beyond the arc — that’s simply unacceptable.

Coach Mark Turgeon placed some of the blame for Mosley’s invisibility last night on a disjointed offensive attack in the second half.

But he still recognized how important Mosley is to his offense.

“The last two days, we’ve actually put in two new plays just for Sean and we tried to run them,” Turgeon said. “Sean has to get more shots. He had six last game, he had four this game. It’s not enough.”

Stoglin’s proven he can carry the offense. But he’s also prone to reckless play — his turnovers and low-percentage shots can kill momentum as quickly as his explosiveness builds it up.

A steady second option would help temper that, and Mosley’s got to be the guy.

So the Terps should listen to Turgeon and get the ball to their captain. And when he gets the ball, have Mosley take control. Establish himself. Just shoot it.

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They had topped rival Duke, 4-2, before a record crowd of 7,957 at Ludwig Field. They were atop the ACC standings, were about to earn their third No. 1 ranking of the season and were outscoring opponents by a combined 42-12.

“We worked for everything we got early on,” forward Matt Oduaran said. “So I really wasn’t surprised by how we were able to do. I was more surprised by how we performed in October and November.”

The troubles started when midfielder Sunny Jane was handed a red card against the Blue Devils, sidelining him for their 1-1 tie at North Carolina the following weekend.

It was the first in a string of suspensions and injuries that left the Terps without at least one — and at times, as many as three — of their starters over their next four games.

Off-kilter for the first time all year, the offense sputtered. After averag-

ing more than two and a half goals through their first 15 games, they scored just one in each of those four outings.

During that stretch, they lost their stranglehold on the ACC regular-season crown and fell to Boston College in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.

“We knew the problem, we talked about it all the time,” midfielder Kaoru Forbess said. “We were getting complacent. But it’s hard to just turn things around and start playing like you did at the start of the year just because you want to. It’s not that simple.”

The Terps entered the NCAA Tournament on a four-game winless streak, their longest rut in seven years. That ended any hope of securing a top-four seed, which guarantees home-field advantage through the quarterfinals of the 48team NCAA tournament.

Still, the Terps remained committed to their ultimate goal: capturing the program’s fourth national championship.

“I’ll sacrifice the ACC Tournament for a chance to go to Alabama [for the College Cup],” coach Sasho Cirovski said after the Terps lost to the Eagles. “So all of our focus now is about getting to Alabama.”

And for at least 90 more minutes, that again seemed like a realistic possibility. After sitting out the first round with a bye, the fifth-seeded Terps returned to their early-season form with a 4-0 win over West Virginia in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

“We were finally able to put things together,” Forbess said. “It seemed like we were ready to make a real run.”

But the celebration was shortlived. Seven days later, the 12thseeded Cardinals handed the Terps their fourth elimination at home in six years.

Louisville’s senior-laden attack exposed an inexperienced Terps backline. A spate of injuries and some late-season rotational adjustments left them with just two of their five regular starters on defense.

Yet as the final whistle blew on the Terps’ 2011 campaign, no one was making excuses.

“I’m extremely proud of our team because we lost seven starters from last year and three very good underclassmen,” Cirovski said. “To come back and have the kind of year we had was special.”

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season’s successes as they return to training this week. The decisions made in the coming months could temper expectations for next year, however. As many as five nonseniors — defenders Taylor Kemp and London Woodberry, midfielders Sunny Jane and John Stertzer, and forward Patrick Mullins — could bolt for MLS. And with Townsend, goalkeeper Will Swaim and defender Alex Lee set to graduate, they could lose up to eight of 11 regular starters this offseason.

But Cirovski’s not willing to discuss a rebuilding process just yet.

And why should he? The Terps have reached the Sweet 16 each of the past 10 years. With a bench replete with top-tier talent and another well-regarded recruiting class on its way, the expectations in College Park won’t change.

“It’s tough when you’re losing at least three quality underclassmen every other year to the pros, and then you line up against a team with seven or eight seniors in a lineup,” Cirovski said. “That’s tough. But that’s what we have to do and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”

the tempo of both games,” coach Brenda Frese said after Saturday’s 114-83 win over the Roadrunners. “She’s playing at an all-time high, controlling the game, setting us up for great shots; that’s what a really solid point guard does.”

Continued stability from Barrett at point guard will be key tonight for the Terps, who face a Michigan (7-0) team that ranks 25th in the nation in scoring defense. The Wolverines have allowed just 51 points per game so far this season, offering the Terps their toughest offensive challenge to date.

“It’s who imposes their will on the other in this type of game,” Frese said. “In a game where you could limit possessions, you have to take care of the basketball. Our assist-to-turnover ratio will be really important.”

“We got to take care of the ball, get stops and get out in transition,” Barrett said. “Value the ball, value possessions on offense, get good looks and not force too many things. We know that their defense is pretty good.”

Tonight’s game will mark the first time in program history the Terps have played the Wolverines. And with a few perfect records on the line, something has to give.

“Two undefeated opponents, neither team has lost in the [Big Ten/ACC] Challenge,” Frese said. “This is what it’s all about: playing great competition.”

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BARRETT from page 8

DIVERSIONS

PREVIEW | THE HEAVY PETS

All about the songs

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior staff writer

Despite the over whelming media landscape we live in today — run by TV shows, social media and publicists — there are still bands like The Heavy Pets. The group prefers to build a fan base by word of mouth, trusting the strength of their music will draw listeners.

Tomorrow, The Heavy Pets will continue to spread the word with a performance at Baltimore Soundstage.

Given the band’s focus on live sounds and its propensity for longform solos and improvisations, it’s no surprise the group is most at home among the jam-band community, which has always had a strong culture rooted in word of mouth.

Still, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Lloyd insists the band’s focus is on its songs, first and foremost.

“How we play a show really depends on the audience, but we are definitely the kind of band that is song-first — it’s got to be all about the songs,” Lloyd said. “Some nights we really just want to cut loose and play jam stuff, but as of late, 75 percent of what we’ve been writing has no improv. At All Good Festival we had 40 minutes in front of thousands of people, mostly brand-new fans.

We played some short songs to show we could write, and then another that took it to outer space.”

As a testament to the band’s focus on songcraft, every member of The Heavy Pets writes music, allowing the band to access a diverse array of styles on- and offstage.

“We’ll write songs that could go in a million different directions but still come back to a reggae hook,” Lloyd said. “Our writing style changes from song to song — some are written from top to bottom, while others are brought to the band as skeletal ideas and we fill the rest in together.”

It all seems to have paid off, though, with records Whale and The Heavy Pets finding heavy rotation on Sirius XM satellite radio channels and helping to propel the band into a soughtafter act for music festivals, including Bonnaroo, High Sierra Music Festival and Gathering of the Vibes.

For the group’s third record, Swim Out Past the Sun, released in October, the band went in an unexpected direction, recording a full set of acoustic tracks with the same meticulous levels of detail given to electric sets.

For a band that has built the majority of its following through the freewheeling energy of the live environ-

ment, Lloyd said the group still believes in the power of the album.

“I wouldn’t say they are irrelevant,” Lloyd said. “Between Mike [Garulli] and I we’ve probably made a dozen records. It’s something we love to do — to build up songs — and it helps to get our name out there even if it is incredibly time-consuming.”

Constantly touring or heading into the studio, life in the band does eat a lot of time, but for Lloyd, there is nothing he would rather be doing. Getting the band together out of college was a minor struggle, but Lloyd understands not every band can make it as far as The Heavy Pets have.

“You have to find people that are as dedicated as you are,” Lloyd said. “A lot of people think that everyone should be dedicated, but it’s tough when you have to take that leap of faith.

“Maybe because my bond with Mike is so strong we’ve never had trouble finding people that live for music, so we’ve been lucky in that regard,” he added. “I’m pretty headstrong and I don’t think anything is going to stop me.”

The Heavy Pets will perform at Baltimore Soundstage tomorrow. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance and $12 at the door. berman@umdbk.com

The Heavy Pets have become big in the jam band community, but members also pride themselves on writing succinct songs. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HEAVY PETS

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FIGHTING ILLINI 71, TERPS 62

No second helping Wanted: more Mosley

Illini dominate after halftime, hold off Terps

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

For 25 minutes last night, the Terrapins men’s basketball team played with the type of unrelenting, in-your-face attitude that coach Mark Turgeon prides himself on.

In one of this season’s biggest nonconference tests, his Terps didn’t look like the team many envisioned finishing at the bottom of the ACC. They regularly frustrated an undefeated Illinois team into uncharacteristic turnovers and bad shots, mixing an offensive punch with it all the while.

But, much to Turgeon’s and the Terps’ dismay, the game doesn’t end after 25 minutes. With timely 3-pointers and offensive rebounds, Illinois escaped the confines of Comcast Center with a win in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, defeating the Terps, 71-62.

Facing a nine-point deficit late in the second half, the Terps (3-3) never came any closer than four in the closing minutes. The loss snapped a six-game winning streak in the annual inter-conference competition and dropped the Terps’ record this season back to .500.

“I told the guys that it’s a fine line between winning and losing,” Turgeon said. “We do not right now at this point know how to win.

We don’t know how to win against a good team, but we will. We’ve made some tremendous strides.”

If it weren’t for missed free throws, the Terps would’ve pushed their first-half lead to double digits. Instead, the Fighting Illini (7-0) kept close before leaning on a formidable defensive effort in the second half to stymie the Terps’ offense.

Guard Terrell Stoglin finished with a game-high 25 points, while forward James Padgett added a career-high 16. But Illinois, powered by guard Sam Maniscalco, outscored the Terps in the second half, 40-27. The senior hit five 3pointers and got a critical, late offensive rebound off his own miss to put away the game.

“We just stopped guarding,” Stoglin said. “They were coming off picks and weren’t exchanging, we weren’t talking or communicating,

see ILLINI, page 7

CONOR WALSH

I

t became obvious as the second half wore on last night that the Terrapins basketball team’s fate would rest exclusively on the play of guard Terrell Stoglin.

Stoglin certainly did his part, putting up a game-high 25 points and dominating play against Illinois for stretches at a time.

But after the Terps let a fourpoint first-half lead disintegrate into a 71-62 loss, it’s clear they need someone else to bear some of the scoring burden.

The answer lies in the only Terp to play more minutes than Stoglin last night: Sean Mosley.

The senior captain finished with just five points on four field goal attempts in 34 minutes of play last night, and if the Terps can expect any success this season, they’ll need him to find his scoring touch.

“Sean was saying that he felt that he should have been more aggressive,” Stoglin said. “I feel if he stays more aggressive, we’ll win the game.”

There’s no knocking what Mosley does outside of the scoreboard.

He’s a tenacious defender. He moves the ball well. He’s proven more than capable in helping out a depleted Terps frontcourt on the glass. Most importantly, he’s an emotional leader on the court.

But while the Terps certainly need those intangibles, they need a consistent secondary scorer more, and Mosley has to be that guy.

Forward James Padgett, who put up a career-high 16 points in last night’s loss, has been better in the paint than most expected, but the Terps’ lack of frontcourt depth makes consistent scoring down low unrealistic.

Freshman guard Nick Faust certainly has the talent to do it, but you can’t bank on an unpolished freshman — at least, not yet.

So, again, it comes back to Mosley.

He’s shown glimpses of the Illinois forward Mike Shaw, right, contests a shot inside by forward James Padgett. Padgett finished with a career-high 16 points on 5-for-9 shooting, but the Terps fell, 71-62, for the the third time this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

MEN’S SOCCER | SEASON IN REVIEW

see WALSH, page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Barrett offers No. 6 Terps a helping hand Point guard will be critical tonight vs. Michigan

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

Coach Sasho Cirovski saw his Terps team climb to No. 1 in the national rankings several times before a late-season rut culminated with a Sweet 16 loss to Louisville on Sunday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Looking high and low Roller-coaster season ends with devastating defeat

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Casey Townsend isn’t accustomed to losing.

The Terrapins men’s soccer senior forward won 71 games during his collegiate career, collecting a national title along the way. So it was no surprise when Townsend struggled to grasp the finality of the Terps’ season-ending, 4-2 loss

to Louisville in the third round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday.

“I thought we were going to score again,” Townsend said, his voice heavy with grief. “We had them on their heels.”

But they didn’t, and the Terps (14-4-3) made their earliest postseason exit since 2007. Sunday’s defeat was the final blow for a team that seemed destined for greatness only six weeks earlier.

After losing seven starters from last year’s Elite Eight squad, the Terps shattered expectations in the season’s opening weeks. They went undefeated through their first 12 games to forge their best start in 43 years.

As recently as Oct. 14, each of the Terps’ preseason goals — an ACC regular-season title, ACC

see REVIEW, page 7

At first glance, Anjale Barrett had little to do with the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s offensive fireworks in Miami last weekend.

As her teammates combined to score 194 points in two victories at the Florida International Thanksgiving Classic, the point guard was kept mostly quiet, finishing with just four points on 1-for-4 shooting.

But as her teammates scored and scored, she facilitated. Barrett racked up 21 assists over the holiday weekend, finishing each of the team’s two wins in double digits while committing just two turnovers.

Barrett might not be a go-to scorer.

But when the No. 6 Terps host Michigan tonight in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the senior will surely be the one quarterbacking the team’s potent attack.

“If they’re going to keep giving my teammates open looks, I’m going to give it to them,” Barrett said. “This weekend I just pushed in transition and everybody ran. When they’re running, I’m happy and they’re happy.”

The team clearly benefited from Barrett’s efforts, as at least four Terps (7-0) notched double-figure point totals in both games. In the team’s Saturday outing

Guard Anjale Barrett totaled 21 assists in two wins for the No. 6 Terps last weekend. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

against CSU Bakersfield, Barrett tied a career high with 11 assists. Six of her teammates scored more than 10 points, helping the Terps post their best singlegame scoring mark in nearly six years.

“Anjale was tremendous. She controlled

see BARRETT, page 7