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NEW SCHOOL Despite national move to include more social media in college admissions processes, university officials stick to more traditional methods scooter violations have decreased on the campus two months after a new scooter law went into effect. The law’s requirements include wearing a helmet with eye protection and carrying insurance. file photo/the diamondback

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer

On-campus scooter violations decrease After spike in October, police stops decline

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer Scooter violations are tapering off on the campus about two months after the implementation of new regulations caused officers to slap nearly 200 riders with warnings and citations.

Police observed a spike in scooter violations after new safety and registration laws went into effect Oct. 1, according to University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. Though University Police made just 45 scooter stops in September, the number jumped to

This university has prided itself on being a community of innovators — but when it comes to using social media in the application process, admissions officials say slower and more traditional methods are better.

Over the past several years, the college admissions process has evolved from paper pamphlets and snail mail to virtual tours and, most recently, Twitter and other social media platforms. Unlike many schools taking to 140-character messages and mobile apps, however, this university’s admissions office has resisted the social media trend but is cautiously optimistic about a more digital process.

“I’m always cautious. I believe in change for the sake of progress, not change for the sake of change,” said Undergraduate Admissions Director Shannon Gundy. “We’re in the business of identifying

199 in October, including citations and warnings. However, violations leveled off again last month to 64 stops, in part due to the ease of preventing violations under the law, which requires riders to wear a helmet with eye protection or a windscreen, obtain and carry insurance and display a title certification decal on their vehicles.

The initial spike was a result of officers focusing their efforts on informing scooter owners how to comply with the new regulations, Limansky said.

“We figured there would be a lot of helmet violations initially,” he said.

“I think those [numbers were high] because we would see people without See SCOOTERS, Page 2

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Percentage of admissions officers who are planning to expand their schools’ social media presence

Admissions officers who say digital processes are more effective than traditional methods

the best students for the University of Maryland, and we want to do it appropriately.”

The university has profiles on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Vimeo, but those are accounts for the school as a whole. The admissions office itself doesn’t engage in social media outreach on its own.

A recent Time magazine feature spotlighted the evolving face of college admissions — from Facebook to Pinterest, schools are doing it all.

The University of Georgia even has its own mobile app — students can view their admissions decision with a flick of their fingertips.

About a third of college admissions

By Nick Foley Staff writer The congested, chaotic Route 1 environment usually causes headaches. But one right turn off the beaten path down Berwyn Road reveals a peaceful oasis tucked away from the incessant hustle and bustle of downtown College Park.

The immediate surroundings resemble any other residential street in the

city, with green lawns and moderately sized houses. However, after continuing a bit farther, an entirely new scene develops: a series of unique storefronts and historical landmarks that have defined Berwyn Heights, a town of about 3,000 residents, for generations.

It’s a place devoid of the commercialized haunts that fill shopping centers in downtown College Park. In Berwyn Heights, the intimate, small-town atmosphere lends itself to a string of sturdy small businesses that depend on regulars.

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Dereck Paul anticipated the cramped dorm room when he signed on for his fifth semester as a resident assistant.

He guessed the task of helping a group of freshmen grow from strangers to a close-knit community would divert some time from his music and physiology and neurobiology major and his job as a marching band teacher in

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university. But between working his designated hours on duty and making himself available to residents, it can be tricky to navigate friendships on the floor, Paul said. One day, he may be aiding his floormates in organizing to buy a flat-screen TV for their lounge — another, he might be blowing the whistle on illegal activities.

If he smells marijuana, he has

Although officials were just a few steps away from beginning construction on a city charter school, dozens of residents have signed a petition that prompted the project’s planners to temporarily move the school’s location to Hyattsville.

Richard Williamson, a 41-year-old local resident, spearheaded the petition, citing traffic congestion and a potential increase in loitering as reasons to object to the school’s construction.

While the College Park Academy Public Charter School was initially slated to be built at the site of the former Calvert Road School, officials will temporarily move the school to the site of St. Mark the Evangelist School in Hyattsville, said education college Dean Donna Wiseman, who has overseen the project. The petition has garnered nearly 60 signatures so far, Williamson said.

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fishnet restaurant is one of many of Berwyn Heights’ small businesses. The town, just a few minutes away from College Park, has a more small-town atmosphere than its surrounding areas. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Senior resident assistant has served as role model, leader, enforcer for two years Germantown. Paul could guess making the long trek to South Campus to visit his upperclassman friends would eventually wear on him. The hardest thing as a senior, he said, is being an RA can be lonely job.

“It’s a little bit of a sacrifice,” said the Hagerstown Hall fourth-floor RA — but he wanted to make his senior year as busy as possible.

Paul also serves on the University Senate and RA/CA Council. Though

officers said digital admissions processes are more effective than traditional methods, and 86 percent of them are planning to expand their schools’ social media presences, according to Time and a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth study.

But Gundy said she isn’t so sure. She said the decision to keep using traditional platforms to contact students has been mostly guided by what she’s heard from students themselves, many of whom say they are uncomfortable with the idea of interacting with colleges through social media.

“I think a lot of other institutions

Officials relocate school to Hyattsville

Learning to strike a balance

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Average dollar amount admissions officers spent per student on recruiting in fall 2010

Residents petition charter school

Berwyn Heights offers up offbeat businesses Small, intimate shops and restaurants rely on regular customers

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he may be pressed for time, his parents inspired him to juggle the schedule: His mother and father, both first generation immigrants, have worked hard to open doors for their children, Paul said.

“I am trying to make the most about the opportunities that my parents gave me,” he said. “I’m doing a lot of things because I can do them.”

After an RA inspired him his freshman year, Paul decided to follow in his footsteps as a way of giving back to the

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the town of berwyn heights has a population of about 3,000 residents and is home to longtime residents, young families and students living off the campus. christian jenkins/the diamondback

BERWYN From PAGE 1 Ferhat Yalcin, who opened seafood restaurant Fishnet in November 2011, fell in love with the town while driving by, enticed by the subdued atmosphere and uncharacteristically low rent. He plans to open a coffee shop in a nearby space next year.

“People are really friendly,” Yalcin said, adding he depends solely on word of mouth to create a local buzz. “I think the word is spreading out. … We have a lot of returning people, so I’m thankful for that.”

The space — located at 5010 Berwyn Road — housed the Beautiful Day Trading Company until 2000, when the Berwyn Cafe took over. When the cafe shut its doors in January 2011, Yalcin saw a chance to carry on a tradition of small business deeply rooted in the town’s history.

“It’s a historic area, and people

who have been living here — they have been here for a long time,” he said. “In these kinds of communities, you won’t see a Walmart.”

Many of the neighborhood’s early residents, a number of whom were Welsh immigrants, staffed this university’s housekeeping and cleaning services departments, which garnered the town a gritty, hardworking reputation, according to longtime resident Jerry Anzulovic, who was born in Berwyn Heights in 1940.

“We’re the working neighborhood — the academics and the thinkers are on that side of the town,” said Anzulovic, gesturing toward the downtown area.

“A lot of people who work at the university live among us because they like it here.”

While older, longtime residents continue to thrive in Berwyn Heights, the town is also welcoming to younger families and students, according to Joseph

Danyluk, who moved to the town in April 2011.

“A younger crowd of people are starting to move in,” Danyluk said.

“It’s an up-and-coming town.”

As Danyluk walks his dog down Ruatan Street, he greets a neighbor — another man who appears to be in his thirties.

Their dogs wrestle each other on a gravel driveway as the two men discuss their Thanksgivings. These kinds of warm interactions define the laid-back atmosphere that permeates the town, Danyluk said.

“It’s got kind of a hippie vibe,” he said, adding the town is home to people of various ethnicities and cultures. “There’s four or five gay couples in the neighborhood, and everyone respects them — it’s really welcoming.”

Student residents bring a youthful vibe to the town while still remaining respectful, he said.

“They do have parties, but they keep them under control,” Danyluk said.

Living among an array of successful small businesses has sparked a community of residents who have distant plans to start up their own, he said. With a baby on the way, he hopes to open up a restaurant in a couple of years.

“With younger families, you’re going to see more of an entrepreneurship,” he said, adding he envisions stores such as a flower shop and a steakhouse. “You’re going to start to see a lot more smaller businesses.”

Several students, such as Holly Bowen, a senior environmental science and technology major, said they chose to live in Berwyn Heights because of its nearby location to the university.

“We knew we wanted to live in a house, and this house we found was pretty close to campus,” said Bowen, who lives with a group of friends. “It’s not far at all, and the neighborhood is really cute.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

down a little bit.”

More serious traffic violations, however, continue to be a concern for police. Most stops on the campus have been related to traffic and unsafe driving, Limansky said. Since the start of the year, officers have responded to people driving vehicles on the sidewalk and splitting lanes, among other cases of “borderline reckless and negligent driving.”

While cooler temperatures in the coming weeks can cause dangerous road conditions on the campus, Limansky said he expects the number of scooter law violations to continue dropping.

However, cold weather and stricter en forcement have caused some local businesses to take a hit. College Scooters experienced a loss in sales corresponding with the implementation of the laws, according to co-owner Navid Mazloom.

However, Mazloom is not worried about the laws deterring future buyers. College Scooters always recommended helmets and eye protection to customers in the past but has recently seen a boost in safety gear sales, Mazloom said. The store is stocking up on the required safety equipment.

“It was kind of hard to judge because it got really cold during the same period,” Mazloom said.

“The laws aren’t too strict. In the long term, I don’t think [the laws] will have any effect.”

helmets and just stop them.”

Police first issued warnings to help acclimate riders with the laws and then handed down citations to second-time offenders. Even with the transitional period, the scooter insurance process was frustrating to navigate, said Mikey Ambrose, a university soccer player and freshman enrolled in letters and sciences.

Ea rl ier t h is semester, Ambrose received a warning and then a citation for failing to obtain proper insurance.

Nearly a quarter of scooter stops the first month were a result of riders failing to obtain insurance, according to Limansky. Dakota Edwards, another university soccer player and freshman enrolled in letters and sciences, received a warning for driving his scooter on the sidewalk earlier this year. As a freshman, Edwards was still getting acclimated to the new laws, he said.

Many students have since sorted out their insurance and bought proper scooter equipment, and Limansky said police expect the shift in scooter stops to continue.

“Just listening to the radio, I don’t hear as many scooter violations anymore,” he said.

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Crime dips near end of semester

PAUL From PAGE 1 to call the police. It’s not a matter of making a moral stand on what’s right and what’s wrong, Paul said.

“He enforces the policies, but he’s not out to get you,” said Jimmy Perrino, a freshman business major.

With all the activities Paul has to plan, students have to take up some of the floor’s responsibilities, said Perrino, whom a few residents call “The Admiral” and treat as an unofficial RA on the floor. But when students break rules, it falls on Paul’s shoulders.

“Confronting, enforcing policy … for every RA I know, that’s the worst part of the job. Nobody likes to do it,” he said. “I’m kind of like an old dog now.”

He appreciates the humor in other responsibilities, such as watching over residents when they stumble home from parties on the weekends. When paramedics were called as a precaution for one intoxicated student, they asked the freshman how old he was. Fourteen, the student answered. And when paramedics said they would have to transport someone that age to the hospital, the 17-year-old quickly corrected himself — “He said, ‘I lied, I’m 13,’” Paul recalled.

Most students leave their freshman years with some experience dealing with — and helping — their intoxicated peers. It took more time to gain students’ trust when they came to Paul at their most vulnerable. The first time somebody approaches an RA with a roommate conflict, depression or an eating disorder, Paul said, those are the times he or she has to think on their feet.

“You can’t learn it from the book,” he said.

Often, conflicts start with a few thoughtless words. To help combat hurtful language, Paul began helping with the Inclusive Language Campaign, according to Amy Martin, the Department of Resident Life’s North Campus associate director. The initiative, which the department launched this semester, helps teach students

213 incidents in Nov. include assault, theft, disorderly conduct

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

IN DERECK PAUL’s fourth semester as an RA, he helps his Hagerstown Hall fourth-floor residents while balancing two degrees and another job. photo courtesy of dereck paul the impact of their speech.

After Martin gave a presentation on the campaign this summer, there was a lot of talk among the RAs about whether it was possible to watch every word they said every day, Paul said — but slurs can still hurt.

“There was another incident when someone said the N-word in front of me,” said Paul, whose mother is from Trinidad and father is from Grenada.

“It makes you flash back to all your issues with that word; it makes you deal with your identity, and it all happens really fast.”

Paul has volunteered to help the program grow, Martin said, but still manages to carve out time for other endeavors. He plans to complete his music degree this semester, marking 14 years of classical training in clarinet.

Residents also notice when Paul practices guitar, sometimes singing along.

“His voice is amazing,” said Matt Greene, a freshman engineering major.

Paul helps teach the marching band — including some of his own compositions — at Northwest High School, which his two sisters still attend. In the fall, he makes the hour-long drive to Germantown up to as three days a week to help prep the band for competition. A few weeks ago, the group earned second place in a state championship.

Next semester, Paul will also complete his physiology and neurobiology degree and go on to a job at Washington Hospital Center. And he may keep tabs on a few members of his floor.

“One of my residents from last year just applied for the RA job,” Paul said.

Crime continued its steady downward trend in November, with University Police responding to 213 incidents, down from October’s 228 incidents and just higher than November 2011’s 190, according to University Police.

University Police spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky said it is typical for crime rates to go down near the end of the semester. While Limansky said he expects crime to continue decreasing, he also predicted an increase in mental health calls, as students’ stress levels increase with approaching finals.

November’s incidents included an assault, disorderly conduct, theft and controlled dangerous substance, among others.

ASSAULT — Police responded to an assault call in the graduate student apartments on Tulane Drive on Nov. 17. A male student was attempting to enter his apartment at about 1:45 a.m. when he came in contact with an allegedly intoxicated student at

his front door, Limansky said.

The victim attempted to enter his apartment and was reportedly followed by the student, who allegedly forced his way into the victim’s apartment and refused to leave; when police arrived, the student was still in the apartment and he was placed under arrest, Limansky said.

While being transported, the student allegedly attempted to escape from the officer’s vehicle. He was charged with assault, burglary, failure to obey and resisting arrest, according to Limansky.

Limansky said alcohol played a big part in the student’s behavior.

“It’s every once in a while you get cases like this,” he said. “There was a lot of alcohol involved in this one.” disorderly conduct — An officer reportedly witnessed a male student urinating in public on Nov. 15 at about 11:17 p.m. The student allegedly jumped over the brick “Welcome to the University of Maryland” sign on Route 1 and began urinating.

The officer approached the student, who allegedly gave false identification when asked. He was issued a citation, and his fake I.D. was confiscated.

“It happens a lot. There’s a lot of urinating in public,” Limansky said.

“The officer usually just stops them

and writes a citation.”

Theft — A student in Queen Anne’s Hall reported his iPad was stolen from his room on Nov. 10 at about 2 p.m.

The student left his room, which was occupied by his roommate, and when he returned, the door was left open and his iPad was missing, Limansky said.

The student’s roommate said the door was locked when he left the room, and the case is currently under investigation, Limansky said. controlled dangerous substance — An officer witnessed two individuals attempting to enter the engineering building on Nov. 10 at 1:30 a.m. While questioning the suspects, the officer reportedly smelled marijuana and found a pocketknife and marijuana on one suspect, Limansky said. The suspect was placed under arrest.

The second suspect was also carrying marijuana and was previously denied access to the campus, Limansky said. He was also arrested.

Limansky said some people who have been previously banned from the campus attempt to return.

“I think it’s just a habit,” he said.

“People find a place they like to commit crimes [and they come back].” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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WINTER FILM FESTIVAL SEES RECORD CROWD From bawdy murdercomedies to heartwarming teen romances, there were student films to suit everyone’s tastes at the Winter Film Festival on Friday night.

About 100 students and their families gathered for the event, which was sponsored by the Maryland Filmmakers Club.

A bevy of emotions filled the theater as audience members laughed through the comedic films and choked up during the more serious dramas.

According to club president Peter Garafalo, it all added up to the largest film festival his club has seen to date. photo courtesy of marylandfilmmakersclub.com “We have more films screening than ever before, and, from my own exposure to the rough cuts of these films, the quality of our work is unmatched by previous years,” Garafalo said.

Once all eight films were showcased, a panel of judges picked the winners for best screenplay, best cinematography, best actor, best actress, best editing, best music and best picture. Audience members also voted for their favorite, and one film in particular swept the competition and emerged as the true winner of the festival.

Words on My Hands, a short film directed by Sarah Gizaw, took home the awards for best screenplay, best editing, best picture and audience favorite. Viewers followed a complicated romance between two teens — Melody, a girl who cannot seem to find love because she has a low, manly voice, and Matt, a supposedly mute and deaf boy.

After two trips to the podium to deliver an acceptance speech, Gizaw was overcome with emotion.

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MEDIA From PAGE 1 are anxious to be ahead of the curve, but our strategy has been to talk to the students,” Gundy said. “[Social media] is how they want to talk to their friends; they feel like it’s more appropriate with their social relationships. We’re not their friends — we’re interacting with them on a professional level. They want boundaries.”

Going digital has its advantages, though — the sheer volume of admissions material that clogs up mailboxes and inboxes is enough to drive

any college applicant insane. It’s no wonder, then, that schools choose to turn to online platforms.

The digital process is also inexpensive. In fall 2010, colleges spent an average of $585 per student on recruiting applicants, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Some for-profit institutions, such as the University of Phoenix, spend as much as 30 percent of their budgets on advertising, according to The Huffington Post.

But many students say they are in favor of this university’s selective approach to a digital application process.

Though Donna Wiseman, education college dean, recently oversaw the designation of a location for the College Park Academy Public Charter School, residents have begun petitioning to keep the school out of the area, citing possible traffic congestion and loitering issues. The school was temporarily moved to Hyattsville. file photo/the diamondback

PETITION From PAGE 1 “We want to make sure the students are accounted for and not just roaming the city,” he said.

The charter school is a collaboration between the university and the city that would enable Prince George’s County students to learn through a more interactive and technologyblended approach.

Residents also hoped to limit the amount of money spent on the school and have Prince George’s County assume financial responsibility for its construction and renovation. They also called for a traffic management plan, assurance of student and neighborhood safety and an assessment of students’ learning outcomes.

Although it’s a hiccup in the project’s progress, moving the school will also

“All in all, I think the level of Maryland’s presence online is appropriate,” said Meghan Bentz, a sophomore mathematics major. “I feel that Maryland does reach out to its students through the Internet, but not as much through social media. I don’t think that it’s all that necessary. I think email works better, so I’m glad we have that as a focus.”

Others, such as Jack Molleur, a sophomore journalism major, said a move toward social media sends the wrong message to students.

“I think reaching out to prospective students through social media could possibly come off as a little bit

give community members more time to voice concerns and provide feedback before officials forge ahead with the project, Wiseman said. Potential solutions include dividing the school into two sites or relocating it entirely, she added.

“We don’t want to put the school somewhere where people will be concerned about the traffic,” she said. “We really want to work with the community for the solution.”

Petitioners have requested revised details for the school and to change the location of the school if possible.

Additionally, they asked the school be limited to 300 students in sixth through eighth grades and that it does not open before fall 2014. Officials anticipate allowing up to 700 students, according to current plans.

While Williamson said the old Calvert Road School is a good location for the school, he’s wary of junior

high and high school students being in the area.

Initially, officials planned to open the school with 200 sixth- and seventhgraders. Each year, the school would aggregate a grade level until it served students ranging from sixth to 12th grade, Wiseman said.

Residents have also criticized the school’s planned lottery system. Students across the county can apply, and if there are more applicants than spots available, College Park students could have a slim chance of attending the nearby school.

“We feel like the city should use funding to help College Park kids,” Williamson said. “Why are we funding to build a school that has 100 slots a year when College Park might only get 5 percent of the student slots? That’s just not fair.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

“we’re not [students’] friends — we’re interacting with them on a professional level. they want boundaries.”

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Undergraduate Admissions Director unprofessional, just because it’s more casual than an email or a physical letter in the mail. It could also come off as being lazy or impersonal,” Molleur said. “I don’t think it would affect my admission decision.”

Gundy added there’s a sense of nostalgia in being able to tear open an envelope and hold a printed acceptance letter. While Gundy said the admissions office does include a fair

amount of information online, such as a copy of the printed admissions decision, she doesn’t see an end to paper mailings any time soon.

“It’s possible that all of this could change very quickly,” Gundy said.

“Each class of students we work with is very different, and we’ll change in response to that.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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completely disagree with the statement in Friday’s Diamondback staff editorial, “As adults preparing to enter the real world, students should have more choice in regards to attendance of their classes at this university.” If students want our university to better reflect the real world, attendance should be mandatory. Contrary to popular belief, just because something is mandatory does not mean you lack choice. You have a choice between following the mandated rule and reaping benefits, and going against the mandated rule and suffering penalties.

If students want to be treated like adults in the real world, it only makes sense they should get penalized for skipping a class. In the real world, you send out job applications, interview at different companies and hopefully find a suitable place to work.

To accept a job, you often choose to sign a contract requiring you to show up and work however many hours per week. Once you have s i g n e d t h e co n t ra c t , n o o n e i s holding your throat and forcing you to go to work. You have the choice to show up, get your work done, get paid and eventually get promoted, or you can decide to ditch work because perhaps tanning on McKeldin Mall or playing your Xbox is more ap-

pealing. But if you choose the latter, it’s unlikely you’ll get paid and likely you’ll face termination.

This is how the real world works, so if the university wants to cater to “adults preparing to enter the real world,” it should truly reflect what awaits us after graduation. You make the conscious choice to attend this university instead of DeVry University or some other mediocre online school where you can earn a degree from your couch in your pajamas. In college, you “get paid” through the participation or attendance points you receive for showing up to class. Now, as adults who crave choice and freedom like vampires in corny movies crave blood, each of us has a choice. Choosing to skip a class should severely affect your grade to the point where you could fail the course, regardless of how much work you may have put in on your own time.

If unexcused absences led to failure in a class — similar to how they would lead to losing your job — our university would better reflect reality outside of college and would undeniably cater to students with the undying need to be treated as “adults preparing to enter the real world.”

Achama Onuma is a senior accounting and information systems major. She can be reached at achama@terpmail.umd.edu.

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t this point, we have all analyzed and reanalyzed the athletic and economic aspects of the university’s move to the Big Ten. We understand the sentimental, traditional argument, yet believe a break in tradition is both appropriate and essential.

With litigation in the works regarding the ACC exit fee and predictions on the horizon about the move’s impact, we just have to wait until July 2014 to start seeing the various benefits and ramifications.

So we can now turn our attention to the academic side of the move. This editorial board has touched on the subject here and there, but a closer look at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, an academic consortium composed of the Big Ten’s now 12 schools and the University of Chicago, shows how the university stands to benefit from the conference’s academic resources.

Researchers will begin exploring opportunities through the organization starting July 1, 2013, one year before the university’s entrance into the conference.

The immediate access to resources the Big Ten can provide is immeasurably beneficial. For about a year and a half, this university worked to partner with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and, on March 1, the two formed “MPowering the State” to expand

research opportunities for both institutions. The expansion to the Big Ten and CIC will bolster this university’s research capabilities more than we could have imagined in the ACC. Both University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan and university President Wallace Loh have said

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Joining the Big Ten-affiliated academic consortium boosts this university’s research pedigree, a benefit worth celebrating amid the recent conference shift. they are excited about the increased academic opportunities in the CIC, saying they will far exceed those of the ACC. University Research Vice President Pat O’Shea said membership will allow for greater research collaboration between universities, which often makes it easier to obtain larger grants.

While the main factor in the move may have been the financial benefits, Loh said, the academic benefits will likely have more of an impact on the university than the athletics. Loh said: “Was [the CIC] the major reason for moving to the Big Ten? No, it was not.

But it was enough of a reason that I

don’t think I wouldn’t have wanted to lead Maryland into any other conference.” He also noted: “I respect [fans’] feelings, but, you know, what I have to weigh is their upsetness over not having a basketball game versus the advantages of joining the CIC. That’s looking at the whole picture and looking at the future.”

Additionally, Loh’s goal of extending this university’s international connections and reach will become easier once the move to the Big Ten is complete. If students want certain study abroad experiences this university does not provide, they can sign up for one of 70 programs worldwide through the CIC and pay this university’s rate for the trip. And because students can take advantage of these programs, Loh said the university can spend less money on new study abroad programs, freeing funds for other academic endeavors or scholarships — both areas that sorely need more money.

The move to the Big Ten will offer many opportunities to the university, and the switch will likely show to be the right decision. There’s still some doubt, hesitation and animosity about the move, but now there’s nothing left to do but embrace it and prepare to capitalize on the opportunities that will open up. We’re eager to see how the university and its community members reap the imminent benefits, and we hope the hostilities eventually wane so everyone can seize the opportunities to come.

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The conservative case for same-sex marriage CAROLINE CARLSON A month ago, this state made history by becoming the first to legalize samesex marriage by a popular vote. As a voter who supported passing Question 6 on the Maryland ballot, I couldn’t have been more proud of my state and more optimistic for its constituents.

As much as I’ve expressed my support for same-sex marriage over the years, I still have to explain myself every time someone asks, “But aren’t you a conservative?”

After all, how could a religion-clinging, gun-toting American support, of all things, same-sex marriage? Truth be told, I consider myself conservative mostly because I believe in limited government that doesn’t interfere with the private and personal actions of individuals. And it’s this very principle that undergirds my support for same-sex marriage laws.

Many have asked where the Republican Party should head following its devastating loss four weeks ago, and I think a good start would be embracing and having a more lenient position on same-sex marriage.

Consider this: Ohio was considered one of the most pivotal battleground states in this year’s presidential election. According to the Talk Radio News Service, only 22 percent of gay voters in the state voted for Romney. However, if gay voters in this state (as well as other swing states such as Virginia) voted for Mitt Romney by the same margin as Americans at large, Romney would have won the state by about 30,000 votes.

Appealing to the gay community could also win necessary minority votes, seeing as most Hispanic and female voters support same-sex marriage laws, according to a recent CBS News poll.

Multiple metrics have shown times are essentially changing — increasing support for same-sex marriage is becoming the norm. According to 2005 and 2012 Gallup polls, American voters were

about 12 percent less likely to support same-sex marriage seven years ago than they are to support it now. Additionally, according to a Wall Street Journal poll, 60 percent of voters under the age of 45 in this year’s election agreed that gay couples’ marriages should be recognized as valid under the law.

But numbers aside, I think conservatism and gay rights naturally complement each other. “Conservatism” and “gay rights” shouldn’t be enemies, as many progressives may think.

What could be more conservative than recognizing an individual’s desire to get married? An ideal government is one that doesn’t limit or dictate as personal a decision as choosing who to love. To those who argue marriage is a private institution that can’t be changed, it should be acknowledged marriage is already interwoven in the law, given all the licenses, Social Security benefits and estate-tax protections associated with marriage.

Conservatives and libertarians believe we should be judged by our work performance. Why would we support laws allowing individuals to be fired only on the basis of their sexual orientation? We believe in paying lower taxes and taking advantage of opportunities to pay lower taxes. Why should we endorse preventing gay couples from obtaining payroll and other tax benefits from marriage licenses?

Young voters were essential to passing same-sex marriage in Maryland. Unlike our parents’ generation, our generation grew up in a period where being gay wasn’t as taboo as it was decades ago.

We know what it’s like to have friends who are gay, and we’ve seen the growing base of support for the LGBT community on college campuses nationwide.

As a young individual who aligns herself with the political right, I hope to see more young conservatives endorse same-sex marriage and embrace individual freedom in future elections.

Caroline Carlson is a sophomore government and politics and marketing major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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Paper’s charm receives little love NEAL FREYMAN Read the morning headlines.

Take notes in class. Study from a textbook. These tasks, which only decades ago were solely confined to the realm of paper, are rapidly becoming available on a multitude of digital formats. And though our eyes may have adjusted to life on the screen, we’re not better for it.

The first display I see when I walk into a Barnes & Noble is not the new best sellers or popular paperbacks, but an elaborate presentation of the NOOK, the bookseller’s e-reader. And why shouldn’t it be placed in the forefront of the store?

The NOOK, as well its Amazon counterpart, the Kindle, is quite a machine. With the NOOK, you have more than 3 million books ready for download at your fingertips and a screen that is easily readable in the brilliant sunshine, razor-thin and lighter than any paperback. Seems like a dream come true, doesn’t it?

But this is a poor substitute for a real book. A real book is something with weight, with substance.

Sure, it’s a burden, especially when walking back from the library with a heavy load for a not-yet-researched

term paper, but it’s a worthwhile one.

You can engage with a book, caress it, write in and underline it, turn its pages and fold the corner before a break.

People can see what you’re reading and engage you in conversation. And it sure beats the hell out of a NOOK when it comes to battery life.

The transition to digital media is a sad development, really, partially spurred by people’s blind fervor to “going green” and “saving the rain forests” by avoiding any and all paper products. Paper production should be the least of our concerns when preserving our environment from human-caused global warming. An independent Swedish study found with a reading time of 30 minutes a day, a web-based newspaper showed similar environmental effects to those of a print newspaper.

These results may seem surprising, but they shouldn’t be. Contrary to myth, paper is one of the most recyclable and sustainable commodities we produce. In 2008, more than 57 percent of the paper used in the United States was recycled — compared to the rates of metal at 46 percent, glass at 23 percent, electronics at 18 percent and plastic at 13 percent — and that number is only increasing. Perhaps the Earth’s forests are being cut down, but not in the United States, and not for use as paper. The co-founder of

the environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, noted North American forests cover nearly the same amount of area they did 100 years ago, and U.S. forests have grown by 15 million acres since 1920. Where the forests are dwindling in places such as South America, the culprits are unchecked urban development and massive agricultural plots, not The New York Times Sunday edition.

It’s only a matter of time before all printed publications convert to alldigital platforms. Newsweek was the first major magazine to terminate its print edition, and its Dec. 31 issue will be the last you can rip a piece out of to use as toilet paper. I expect many other magazines, newspapers, books and textbooks will follow suit very soon, and as they switch over, the era of paper will end, which is understandable given paper is a less convenient, more expensive and less efficient way of procuring information from written sources than digital formats.

But there’s something intangible about paper — perhaps its tangibility — that makes it a better option than a screen.

If anything else, paper is real, and in a world of increasing virtuality, it’s something we need to preserve.

Neal Freyman is a senior history m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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INTERVIEW | X

MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD

D.J. Bonebrake, drummer for the legendary Los Angeles punk group X, talks about keeping things fresh after 30 years and the band’s 9:30 Club show tonight

By Dean Essner Staff writer A good deal of branches on the punk family tree trace back to X. In fact, the seminal, Los Angeles-based band should receive a paycheck every time an act nowadays pairs meat-and-potatoes rock with a rollicking Gretsch guitar.

“I hear my daughter playing new bands and there’s some good ones,” said D.J. Bonebrake, the drummer for X. “There’s a lot of creativity. But it doesn’t seem that much different than what we did. It’s from the same stream.”

When X signed to Slash Records to release its 1980-debut, Los Angeles, West Coast punk was still an anomaly.

Fellow California-based group Black Flag was still a year away from putting out Damaged, while the East already had

veteran act, equipped a well-established scene with a prolific backin place, centered around ground of studio material, New York’s CBGB club, make its old songs sound where acts such as The less like relics and more Ramones, Television and like time-strengthened Patti Smith were getting classics? Cutting a new their first exposure. record is certainly an But Los Angeles tranoption, yet Bonebrake s c e n d e d ge o g ra p h y attests that playing live is because it was faster his first and only day job. and heavier than any“We’re doing other thing that came before th i ngs a nd ra isi ng it. And as soon as Exene families, and to take Cervenka’s iconic howl enters on opening track VETERAN PUNK ACT X helped to establish the California punk scene and paved the way six months off to write “Your Phone’s Off The for numerous hardcore acts that followed in its footsteps . photo courtesy of madinkpr.com a record and record is a Now, more than 30 years removed lot of work and no one pays you to do Hook, But You’re Not,” sandwiched in between Billy Zoom’s razor-blade guitar from that initial release, X still has its that,” he said. “You know, ‘I’ll take riffs and Bonebrake’s epic pounding, it original lineup intact. However, it’s six months off and make a record or becomes apparent the album is unlike been a challenge keeping audiences paint a painting.’ That’s part of the excited about the future. How can a problem there.” anything preceding it.

REVIEW | GRACE/CONFUSION

ATTACK ON MEMORY TAPES

By Alicia McElhaney For The Diamondback If there were ever an album to make one feel like a tripped-out hippie girl with dance fever, Grace/ Confusion, the newest release from Memory Tapes, would be it. A wispy, atmospheric air mixes with dance beats on the a lbu m, creati ng a perfect dance-club-goes-downthe-rabbit-hole vibe.

G ra ce/Co nf u s io n i s Memor y

Tapes’ (t he mon i ker for Day ve Hawk) third album and the most experimental by far. One of the ea rly pioneers of the ch i l lwave (or glo-fi) genre, Hawk’s music is characterized by the heavy use of synthesizers, looping, filtered vocals and simple melodies. On his most recent and second full release, Player Piano, Hawk’s music is too easily trapped by the limitations of the genre.

It’s rare that an artist can so topple a

genre’s constraints, especially one he helped create. However, with Grace/ Confusion, Hawk does exactly that, blowing past whatever preconceived notions audiences once had.

The album opens with hazy, processed guitars and an electronic beat on highlight track “Neighborhood Watch.” The distorted vocals are reminiscent of those of The Beatles circa “I Am the Walrus,” and, when mixed with the hallmark dance beats typical of Hawk, they offer up an

eclectic pairing of styles that results in the album’s shining moment.

The album peaks with its second track, “Thru the Field.” More upbeat than the opening track, Hawk creates a modern-day tribute to glo-fi heroes New Order and Depeche Mode. It’s bouyant, and the electronic backbeat harkens back to these bands’ glory days, while the vocals remain as hazy and as typically Hawk as possible.

Then things get a little weird. The songs become more trance-like, and Hawk’s once-strong vocals fall into echoed, blissed-out riffs. Dance beats morph into long, dreamy messes hellbent on making listeners feel as though they are falling into Wonderland.

The thing is, though, Hawk knows the songs are muddled and substan-

If this is the case, when the band plays the 9:30 Club tonight as a stop on its Guitar Slingers Ball tour that it’s co-headlining with fellow punks The Reverend Horton Heat, it will be a fine retrospective gallery of such paintings, a celebration of a band that first blazed what has since become one of the more well-trod paths in musical history.

And according to Bonebrake, the group has only gotten tighter and fiercer with age.

“When we’re playing live, we have a spark,” he said. “There’s something that happens and it’s a really good band and some people say that we’re better now than when we were younger.”

X will play the 9:30 Club tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

dard. In an interview with MTV Hive, he said: “At the time I made this record, I felt like a mess. I wanted the record to seem like a mess. … I wanted to do it intentionally as being representative of my state of mind.”

Whether this is Hawk’s way of acknowledging much, though not all, of his new album is shoddy is still up in the air. However, he succeeded in making an incredibly self-aware piece of work that is both graceful and confusing. It’s an aesthetic album — while the music is not earthshattering, it does act as an intricate and unique piece of art that makes listeners think, at least until they get sick of the trance-y beats and vocals. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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almost midway through the second.

“I knew we would compete, and I knew we would leave it all out there,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I’ve been a part of a lot of special teams in games. There’s no question I felt like we could come in here and we could win this game. I felt like from our team’s end it doesn’t matter the number of players you have, it’s about how hard you compete and how hard you work.”

Both times the Terps (4-2) got within striking distance of the Huskies (7-0), though, the home team responded.

UConn posted a 10-0 run after the Terps closed the fi rst-half lead to two.

When a 15-point edge dwindled to seven with 12:59 left, the Huskies scored eight straight points.

“That’s what Connecticut does,” Frese said. “They give you that knockout punch. You see teams come in and never recover. I love the fact we felt like we were able to withstand a lot of those runs and continue to just keep competing.”

Despite the final score, the Terps were by far the stiffest test UConn faced this season. The Terps held the Huskies, who entered the game shooting 57.9 percent from the floor, to 38.3 percent. Leading scorer Breanna Stewart still posted 13 points, but they came on 4-of-12 shooting. And though Dolson led the Huskies with 14 points and eight rebounds, she shot less than 50 percent for just the third time this year.

It led by as many as 19 late in the game, but UConn — which shot 9-of-27 in the second half — outscored the Terps by only two in the final 20 minutes.

“They were pretty resilient in their own right,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “They made some shots, runners and a couple things. I think when those go in you get confidence.”

The Terps’ undoing, though, proved to be turnovers. They committed a season-high 26, and 18 of those came in the first half. Thomas felt pressure nearly every time she touched the ball and was goaded into eight giveaways. UConn guard Kelly Faris had eight steals and continuously harassed Terps ballhandlers in the backcourt.

Thomas had struggles similar to those she suffered in the Terps’ first loss Nov. 17 at St. Joseph’s. Last night, Thomas scored six points while shooting 2-of-12 from the floor in 36 minutes. It was just the 10th time in 73 career games the forward failed to reach double figures.

“I think it was just myself and just in my head and just overamped,” Thomas said. “They didn’t do anything that we haven’t seen all year. It just came down to us hitting shots.”

For UConn, Faris was a difference maker. In addition to her eight steals, the senior scored eight points on 4-of-6 shooting, dished seven assists and grabbed seven rebounds. When the Terps appeared to be closing the gap, Faris made

the Patriots in Sunday’s BB&T Classic. The guard poured in a season-best 14 points, grabbed five rebounds and dished out four assists. He made 7-of-10 free-throw attempts and scored nine of his 14 points in the final 18 minutes of the game.

Those numbers are a product of Faust looking less at his stat line and more at the win column. He hasn’t come anywhere near replicating his 15-shot barrage on the season’s opening night, averaging fewer than nine attempts per game in the team’s past six. He hasn’t topped the 10-shot mark in any of those games.

Instead, he’s doing whatever his coach wants him to do. Whether it’s sharing the ball — he’s averaging nearly three assists per game this season — or rebounding — he ranks first among the team’s guards in that category — Faust said he just wants to win.

“I’m trying to make the right play and get guys involved.

Coach and I sat down and he basically just told me to keep making the right play,” Faust said. “The last few games Dez [Wells] has been hitting nonstop, so I have been milking him. I try to do whatever I can, and I try to make my plays when I need to.”

T ho se pl ay s h ave come on the defensive end, too.

Turgeon has spoken often this season about how he wants each of his players to improve as individual defenders, and Faust’s effort in two consecutive wins away from Comcast Center shows he’s heeding his coach’s words.

“Nick was great,” Turgeon said. “He was good against

“Nick isn’t caught up in scoring; he is caught up in winning.”

MARK TURGEON

Terrapins men’s basketball coach Northwestern defensively, and he was great in the two practices leading into this game. I anticipated that he was going to play well defensively. That is great growth for him.”

The growing process is far from complete, though. Despite taking fewer shots per game, Faust still hasn’t gotten those jumpers to fall. The guard has only topped the 40-percent shooting mark twice in seven tries, and he’s shooting just 36 percent from the floor and 24 percent from beyond the arc so far this season — percentages that rank near the team’s worst.

“It’s early in the season, maybe. I’m not really sure,” Faust said. “I’m just pushing through. I’m not worried about it. It will start falling as long as I just keep staying in the gym.”

The Terps know Faust can score. He ranked third on the team in scoring as a freshman last season, and his 11-points-pergame average so far this season is more than two points better than what he averaged a year ago.

But Turgeon doesn’t want his star guard focusing on individual numbers and accomplishments. After an early season meeting and a six-game maturing process, Turgeon wants Faust’s focus to stay exactly where it is right now.

“Nick isn’t caught up in scoring; he is caught up in w i n n i n g,” T u rge o n s a i d .

“That took a long time. We are finally there.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Forward TiannA Hawkins notched team highs with 14 points and 10 rebounds last night, but even she couldn’t overcome an unrelenting UConn defense in a 63-48 loss at the XL Center in the Jimmy V Classic. charlie deboyace/the diamondback a defensive stop and swung the momentum back to the Huskies.

There were still hallmarks of earlier Terps performances present last night.

Forward Tianna Hawkins had team highs with 14 points and 10 rebounds, and the Terps outrebounded UConn, 39-35. Guard Chloe Pavlech scored all 10 of her points in the second half. The Terps’ defensive pressure forced 17 Huskies turnovers, tying their highest total all season.

While the Terps were still turnover prone and flustered under intense defensive pressure, they could only see the positives afterward. After all, they know they might not see a team with UConn’s talent level again until the NCAA tournament.

“For us to come into a hostile environment like UConn and compete with them,” Hawkins said, “that says a lot about our team.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Defender Taylor Kemp said, “For me and the seniors and everybody on this team, [the College Cup] means everything right now.” The Terps will play Georgetown on Friday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

KEMP From PAGE 8 days in training this week, and we could see that he was ready to go,” Cirovski said. “I’m delighted that not only he came in and played, but my gosh, what a difference he made. He was fantastic tonight.”

But for Cirovski and Mullins, Kemp’s presence has been critical to the Terps’ postseason run. In the Terps’ 2-1 win over Brown in the second round on Nov. 18, Kemp sparked the team to a second-half rally with a sterling halftime speech.

“Brow n outplayed us i n that first half,” Mullins said. “[Kemp]’s leadership really led us throughout the locker room. He’s been doing that all year long, whether he was in the game, off the field.”

For a while, it seemed uncertain whether Kemp would actually reach that point. A sports hernia sidelined him for the better part of October, and he underwent surgery Oct. 18 in Germany. He returned Nov. 6 in the ACC tournament quarterfi nals against Virginia Tech and played 90 minutes.

But Kemp didn’t start in the semifinals against Clemson and logged only three minutes off the bench. He sat and watched the Ter ps cl i nch the ACC Championship against North Carolina two days later. Then, he sat through NCAA tourna-

ment wins against Brown and Coastal Carolina.

“We all want him on the field, but he embraced the role that he had,” Mullins said.

“Unfortunately, he couldn’t be out there, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t an integral part of the team. That didn’t mean he wasn’t going to be the best leader he could be.”

Kemp was determined to return to the field and join defenders Jordan Cyrus and Dakota Edwards along with fellow senior Woodberry on the backline. It wasn’t always easy, he said, but he’s been reliable in crunch time.

“You always wonder, ‘Is it actually going to pay off? Is it really going to matter?’” Kemp said.

“This year, I couldn’t imagine a better year for this team.”

In advancing to the College Cup, the Terps kept alive a streak of every senior class since 1997 being on one of the fi nal four teams remaining in college soccer.

Despite that accomplishment, Kemp isn’t content with simply playing No. 3-seed Georgetown this weekend.

“This season is one that isn’t done, for one, and it’s something that I will never forget,” Kemp said. “This team is something that has meant as much to me as any team I’ve ever been on. For me and the seniors and everybody on this team, it means everything right now.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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“Im bout to go make sandwiches cut them up and sit in some grass and eat em.”

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012

TERRAPINS 48, HUSKIES 63

MEN’S SOCCER

Healthy Kemp proves key asset Defender strong in return from injury

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer Sitting in a dimly lit press tent near Ludwig Field moments after the Terrapins men’s soccer team clinched a berth in its first College Cup since 2008 on Saturday, Patrick Mullins could only shake his head.

Coach Sasho Cirovski was ex tol l i ng the va lue of defender Taylor Kemp, who had been hampered by injuries all season, and Mullins was nodd i ng a long. A nd when Cirovski stumbled over his words to describe Kemp’s absence, Mullins summed it up poignantly.

“Too long,” Mullins interjected, voicing the thought percolating in everyone’s minds about Kemp’s extended absence from the lineup this season.

As he has all season, Kemp showe d Sat u rd ay why he was on the M AC Hermann Trophy watch list before the season started and why he still

earned Second Team All-ACC honors despite playing in just 11 of the Terps’ 23 contests.

The Highlands Ranch, Colo., native was invaluable in the No. 2-seed Terps’ 3-1 win over No. 10-seed Louisville, and the Terps will be counting on him for another stellar performance at the College Cup in Hoover, Ala., this weekend.

“I can’t even describe it,” Kemp said. “I’m emotional.

After the game, I just couldn’t stop smiling.”

In his fi rst start since Nov. 6 and first appearance since Nov. 9, Kemp assisted on defender London Woodberry’s goal in the 34th minute to give the Terps a 1-0 lead over the Cardinals. It was his sixth assist of the year, and it came in just his 11th game. Kemp was dangerous from the outside all night, serving plenty of chances into the Cardinals’ box.

“He had a couple of good See KEMP, Page 7

Forward Alyssa Thomas committed a team-high eight turnovers in the Terps’ loss to Connecticut at the XL Center. She scored just six points on 2-of-12 shooting. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Out of conntrol

No. 9 Terps can’t overcome season-worst 26 turnovers in loss at No. 2 Connecticut

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a little more than 15 minutes left in last night’s game, Connecticut center Stefanie Dolson stood at the foul line for two shots. She made the fi rst and missed the second.

Terrapins women’s basketball forward Alyssa Thomas leapt into the lane and came down with the rebound, but play

was halted — Thomas had committed a lane violation, and Dolson would get another chance.

Dolson would miss her next attempt, too, but Thomas’ error was indicative of the sloppy play that plagued the Terps all night. Outmanned and outgunned by a powerful UConn squad, the No. 9 Terps fell to the No. 2 Huskies, 63-48, in the Jimmy V Classic before 11,645 at the XL Center in Hartford.

But t he postga me mood was fa r from somber. The Terps — down two starters and playing their first game without guard Laurin Mincy — held their own for most of a game on a national stage against an elite opponent.

Although they never led, the Terps had the Huskies within two points late in the first half and within seven points

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Faust becoming player Turgeon wants him to be Guard doing ‘whatever I can to help the team win’

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer Mark Turgeon had reason to be concerned about Nick Faust after the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s season-opening loss to then-No. 3 Kentucky. The second-year coach watched from the sideline as the guard struggled through a 4-of-15 shooting night, continually forcing shots over a stifl ing Wildcats defense.

Turgeon wasted little time addressing the sophomore’s 27-percent effort from the floor. He sat down with Faust soon after the game to have a discussion about the changes he’d like to see in his on-court mentality.

That change has been a process. But 25 days and six victories later, Faust looks as though he’s fi nally becoming the player his coach wants him to be.

“He told me it’s not about points per game; it’s about points per shot,” Faust said after the Terps’ 69-62 win over George Mason on Sunday. “I feel as though that hit the spot. Lately I’ve been trying to do whatever I can to help the team win.”

He showed it in the Terps’ win over See FAUST, Page 7

Guard Nick Faust scored a season-high 14 points and totaled five rebounds and four assists in the Terps’ win vs. George Mason on Sunday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

See HUSKIES, Page 7

Defender Taylor Kemp, who missed 12 games this year with an injury, notched an assist in the Terps’ win over Louisville on Saturday. It was his first appearance since Nov. 9. charlie deboyace/the diamondback