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Univ. yet to plan for 2050 env. goal On track to reach 2012 benchmark

By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer As the university approaches its first sustainability target this winter, some officials said it’s unclear whether enough progress is being made toward the golden goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

University officials said they are confident they will surpass this year’s benchmark of reducing the university’s greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent from the 2005 baseline by the end of the year, when they will also release a report on last year’s progress.

In the last year, the campus has seen the addition of several sustainability projects to get the university on track for its 2012 target. However, few plans are in the works to bring about the reductions needed to meet more distant goals, such as reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2020.

In 2008 and 2009, emissions reductions were at 11 percent, according to Office of Sustainability annual metrics reports. While the university reached the 2012 goal of a 15 percent reduction in 2010, the boost from what would have been a mere 8.3 percent reduction came from a one-time purchase of energy credits using student funds, according to the office’s 2010 report.

University Sustainability Council member Eric Wachsman said a more See GOAL, Page 3

NOTRE DAME will leave the Big East and join the ACC after the conference’s Council of Presidents unanimously voted to bring the school in. Unlike other ACC members, Notre Dame will not be a member in football, meaning it does not have to share its TV revenue with other schools, and will play in five ACC games. Syracuse and the University of Pittsburgh also left the Big East last year and will join the 15-school conference next year. file photos/the diamondback

Fighting Irish will become the 15th conference school; maintain football independence, will play five ACC teams per year

By Yasmeen Abutaleb Senior staff writer Notre Dame will be regularly facing the Terps in nearly all sports after the ACC’s Council of Presidents unanimously voted to bring the school into its conference.

The school will be a full member in all sports except football — it will play five ACC teams a year but can still

maintain its independent football status, meaning it does not have to share its TV contract with the conference’s other schools.

“Each and every member of the ACC would have loved them to be a full member, but we were all realistic that right now this wasn’t going to happen,” Athletic Director Kevin Anderson told The Diamondback yesterday. “Who knows what’s going to happen in the future,

but every school’s comfortable with that and glad they came in at the level that they have.”

Notre Dame’s admission will bring in at least an additional $1 million a year in TV revenue for every ACC school, university President Wallace Loh said. It’s the third school to leave the Big East and join the ACC in

Unclouding the mystery, one photograph at a time

Campaigns differ on education

Univ. professor aided discovery of Emily Dickinson photo

By Quinn Kelley Staff writer As a graduate student, Martha Nell Smith noticed something in a book of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and personal letters — although there was only one known photograph of the writer, she’d penned in one of her letters, “I will tell you about the picture. If I can, I will.”

Smith jotted a note in the margin: “Is there another photograph?” Then she turned the page and forgot about it.

That is, until emails from a collector began populating the university English professor’s inbox in early 2008. Smith, who has written five books about Emily Dickinson, was used to getting mail from people who thought they had discovered antiques and belongings related to Dickinson, and she was wary of this collector’s claims. But after sending him a somewhat dismissive thank-you letter, he still insisted he had

found something new — only the second known photograph of the 19th-century writer.

“I’m telling you, I really, really have a photograph of Emily Dickinson,” wrote the collector, who has since asked Smith to keep his identity secret.

The two were in correspondence for more than a year. In the summer of 2009, the collector said he would be in Washington, and Smith agreed to meet with him. They sat down for an early dinner near the White House and the collector flipped his laptop open.

“He shows me the photo and I had to work hard to remain impassive,” Smith said. For the first time, she thought, “Oh. This really could be Emily Dickinson.”

Smith said she was already somewhat convinced, but she needed scientific proof. She said the collector, who bought the relic in 1995 from a junk dealer, needed to test and verify the photo at his expense. It was after a specialist at Dartmouth University Medical School confirmed its authenticity that Smith rediscovered

Candidates feature opposing policies

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer

of their target schools because of its close proximity to the campus and high level of need — U.S.News & World Report reported 60 percent of Northwestern students were categorizedaseconomicallydisadvantaged in 2010. However, each outreach program was working independently, and the lack

Both President Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney want college to be more affordable — but the two have starkly different approaches for how to help students get diplomas.

What has become a prominent theme in this election — whether the private sector should drive economic success or if the government has an obligation to help middle- and lower-income individuals — shows its colors through both candidates’ potential education policies. Romney, who’s a strong proponent of free enterprise and less government regulation, will likely pursue a policy that puts higher education in the free market, meaning less federal help for students. Obama, however, who has run on a platform of economic equality, will look toward expanding higher education by offering more federal assistance.

The Republican mindset is to “shrink government programs with the expectation that the private sector is going to pick up the slack,” said Bill Longbrake, the university’s business school’s executivein-residence. “Whereas the Democratic side is simply, ‘Well, the private sector

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emily dickinson (left) is likely depicted in the above photograph, only the second known picture of her. photo courtesy of emilydickinson.org her note in the letter’s margins and other evidence to suggest a significant discovery had been made.

For Smith, uncovering the photo goes beyond just an academic discovery. It also serves as a memento of the poet she has loved since childhood. She read a Dickinson poem here and there in early English See dickinson, Page 2

University partners with local high school Northwestern High School Partnership brings univ. programs directly to students in need

By Laura Blasey Staff writer Northwestern High School lies just a mile up the road from this campus, but for many of its students, one mile might as well be thousands — the path to higher education is a long one many Northwestern students don’t take.

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But their teachers and members of the university community are striving to change that. Yesterday, officials from Prince George’s County Public Schools and this university held a ribbon-cutting ceremony cementing the creation of the Northwestern High School Partnership, a new pact designed to bring the university’s outreach programs directly to the

students who need it most.

Prince George’s County Schools and this university signed an official Memorandum of Understanding in March, but with the start of a new school year, the plans can move forward.

This university has had a history of reaching out to its neighbors. Many campus programs list Northwestern as one

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ate school at Rutgers University, most of her advisers said she wouldn’t have a career if she studied Dickinson. But after nearly dying in a car crash, Smith’s priorities shifted, and she said, “You know what? I’m going to work on what I want.”

Her renewed dedication inspired a graduate dissertation and one day, sparked some dialogue with a peer, Marilee Lindemann, now Smith’s partner of 28 years and director of the uni-

versity’s LGBT studies program.

“We got into this really lively conversation about Emily Dickinson and feminist theory,” said Lindemann, a university English professor. “I think of that as the first serious conversation we ever had.”

It’s only fitting the photograph contains Dickinson sitting with her arm around a woman, Kate Anthon, dressed in black. In her works, Smith has speculated Dickinson was “passionately in love” with Anthon, as well Dickinson’s own sister-in-law.

A year earlier, the collector had brought the photo to Amherst College to show the archives staff and took up correspondence with the school’s Archives and Special Collections specialist Margaret Dakin again in 2008.

“In a way, I didn’t know much about Dickinson at the time. I had not yet drunk the KoolAid,” Dakin said. “My interest in her really, really revved up after this picture came to light.”

The pair and Smith began researching and working in tandem. Over the last few

months they picked up their pace to formally present the photo and corresponding information on Smith’s website, emilydickinson. org, which went live Tuesday, as well as at the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Amherst College Special Collections.

Smith and Dakin said because the newly discovered image dates back to approximately 1859, they no longer have to base their perception of Dickinson off the original photo of her as a teenager.

“There’s only been one photograph of her that’s known,” Smith said of the original from 1847. “It would be like me being known by my 16-year-old high school yearbook picture.”

“I think what’s fascinating to me is to see a mature person there,” Dakin said. “If this is Dickinson, then we are looking at the real poet, the poet that wrote so much of the verse that’s important to us now.”

Smith said the photo also may help dispel some stereotypes about Dickinson, such as the idea that she was a withdrawn, brokenhearted poet.

“That’s not a shrinking violet

who’s looking out. She also looks very assertive and confident,” Smith said. “It’ll show she’s not a recluse. It will show she’s not writing in isolation. And it will also show she’s much stronger in this photo than in the other one.”

“You can feel the personality in that photograph. You can feel the strength in that photograph,” Dakin added.

Smith and Dakin said they hope the photo, which still belongs to the collector, will end up at Amherst College, which was cofounded by Dickinson’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson.

Lindemann said Smith has “relentless focus and discipline that comes from deep passion for what she’s doing.”

In addition to “intellectual stimulation,” Smith said she was drawn to Dickinson because of her works and passionate expressions.

“I have colleagues who tell me routinely that they’re scared to teach her because she’s too hard, and that just gets me really excited,” Smith said. “I think she’s really sexy.”

schools must pay a $5 million exit fee to leave the conference and provide 27 month’s notice, compared to a $50 million exit fee to leave the ACC. Syracuse and Pittsburgh will join the conference next year, but Notre Dame has not yet said when it will move.

“Timetable is really up to Notre Dame and the Big East conference,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a news conference. “As we said and did with Syracuse and Pitt, we’ll respect whatever is appropriate in terms of Notre Dame’s departure from the Big East, and we will welcome them as soon as they’re able to join us.”

Although ACC leaders have

previously stressed the importance of being an “all-in” conference, Swofford said the decision to admit Notre Dame without full membership illustrates the changing nature of college athletics.

“We have always been an all-in, if you will, membership.

And in more recent years we’ve discussed this with a changing landscape out there in intercollegiate athletics, a changing world,” he said. “What was best 20 years ago isn’t necessarily best in today’s world. And we talked about crossing that threshold and took that very seriously in our discussions.”

Discussions surrounding the con ference’s realign-

ment were done in “super secrecy,” Loh said, leaving many coaches surprised by yesterday’s announcement.

“I don’t think anyone’s surprised that Notre Dame’s in the conference. I think people are surprised because it seemed like it went pretty fast,” men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman said. “The dialogue, the communication and all of a sudden it picked up speed. It seemed like they moved on it a lot faster than a lot of people thought. …

But in the back of our mind, we knew the ACC is always going to look to do what can make the conference better.”

Anderson, Loh and the university as a whole have strong-

ly pushed to expand the ACC over the past year. Anderson said the newly expanded conference will help the university in more than one way.

“It will help us when Notre Dame comes and plays football and basketball, so yes, I could see where it will help us not only from a competitive standpoint, but financially as well,” Anderson said. “I don’t know if we were going to expand the conference just for expansion’s sake, but when the opportunity came to make Notre Dame a member, we all felt we needed to move on it and move on it quickly.”

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Obama has increased the number of Pell Grant recipients, made federal investments in community colleges and eliminated subsidies to banks that make student loans, solidifying his support of a larger federal role in education. Under his presidency, the Department of Education has also announced goals to boost the number of college graduates by offering more federal loans.

“I don’t think there’s any question that President Obama is the college student’s best friend,” said state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel). He added Romney’s policies would hurt those looking for easier accessibility to college.

“Romney’s position is to borrow money from your rich father,” he said. “Romney is looking out for a handful of students with rich parents.”

But Romney criticized the increased spending under the Obama administration — the debt has grown by about $5 trillion since Obama took office — arguing that increasing federal dollars to colleges only encourages them to increase tuition prices. Michael Finger, principal at communications firm Centinel Consulting, said Obama’s high levels of education spending point to him favoring more government involvement.

“Obama has a proven record of being hostile to the free market and bottom-up solutions,” he said.

Romney’s “private sector” rhetoric, combined with his vice presidential pick of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who has embraced a policy that dramatically scales back government’s role in higher education, suggests a different path toward promoting college affordability. This includes support of competition in private sector lending and supporting for-profit institutions — schools run by private companies.

However, for-profit colleges have faced intense scrutiny from congressional Democrats and some Republicans. For-profit colleges generate graduates with degrees less valuable in the job market, while leaving them with large debt burdens they have little means to finance.

Finger said the for-profit college scene, criticized largely by Democrats but praised by Romney, would likely produce more quality graduates if the government had less of a role in education.

However, Finger said he still doesn’t see substantial reform under Romney.

“Romney essentially changes h is plat for m based on t he party’s mood that day,” he said.

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Martha nell smith, a university English professor, helped facilitate the discovery of the second known photo of 19th-century writer Emily Dickinson. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

DICKINSON From PAGE 1 classes, but it was when Smith was grounded and home alone at her older brother’s house that she truly became engrossed in the poet’s work.

“I just got completely absorbed,” she said. “I stole his copy of Emily Dickinson, which I only recently gave back to him.”

When Smith went to gradu-

ACC From PAGE 1 the last year — Syracuse and Pittsburgh are slated to join the conference next year.

“There are many universities that are literally begging to join the ACC, and I don’t know that conference realignment is going to stop … not just in the ACC, but in other conferences as well,” Loh said. “What you see is the emergence of the super conference.”

Loh said the ACC’s university presidents met until about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday before they ultimately voted to accept Notre Dame. Big East

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school From PAGE 1 of a united front was doing little to improve the low graduation rate.

A mer iCor ps V I S TA , a program that mirrors the work of the Peace Corps but targets poverty in the United States, awarded the Leadership and Community Service Learning unit in Stamp Student Union with a three-year grant in 2010.

“Many students from NHS have never been to the campus of UMD,” Americorps VISTA Community Partner Liaison Shane Bryan wrote in an email. “It is our duty as a good neighbor to work with each other and ensure others have the opportunity to continue their education.”

Bryan wrote he sees an opportunity to change any negative stereotypes about Northwestern, if only the students and faculty could have additional resources.

“Northwestern High School isn’t the same school it was 10 or 15 years ago,” Bryan wrote. “While

goal From PAGE 1 sustainable and aggressive approach is necessary to offset future emissions, which will grow with the addition of new facilities.

“An aggressive, planned approach that requires investment and a new kind of thinking will be required,” said Wachsman, also the university’s Energy Research Center director.

The Sustainability Council does not release its report on this year’s progress until early 2013, but university President Wallace Loh said the office can once again meet the goal and work toward carbon neutrality, as part of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment signed in 2007.

“I su spect some people might think it’s too bold, too

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the school tends to have a negative reputation in the community, it is actually a very strong school. Administrators, faculty and staff at NHS are committed to providing a positive learning environment for students.”

Because many Northwestern students have parents who did not attend college, some said it is difficult to persuade students to pursue higher education.

“A lot of the Northwestern students don’t — I don’t want to say don’t want to learn, but they don’t really want to engage in things that will make them more prosperous because it doesn’t seem fun,” senior animal sciences major and 2009 Northwestern graduate Alenna Monet said.

Of those who do make it to college, a large portion are still ill-prepared for the challenges of higher education. Monet was an honors student and took AP classes at Northwestern, but said she was not ready for college-level classes, especially those in math and science.

“I used to get 4.0s and then I came here and it was a smack in the face,” Monet said.

Last year, 57 Northwestern High School students applied to the university and only 18 were accepted, Bryan said.

Monet said she thought if Northwestern students could interact more with university students and see more of the school, it might interest them and motivate them to go to college.

One of the many programs now united under the memorandum brings Northwestern students to the campus.

The Office of Undergraduate Studies offers three pre-college programs, all of which take in underprivileged students and help supplement the curriculum they get in high school.

Ninth graders stay in the dorms on the campus for six weeks, attending classes and learning how to prepare for a college education. Students can also receive counseling in addition to academic support. After the six-week summer session,

ambitious,” he said. “I am very optimistic because I just look at the numbers.”

The university can no longer purchase renewable energy certificates for the purpose of boosting its emissions reduction rate, Office of Sustainability Director Scott Lupin said. The credits work similarly to purchasing stocks in a market, as those who generate renewable power can sell their credits to others wishing to reduce their carbon footprint.

However, critics say they prevent universities from pursuing sustainable initiatives of their own.

Student Affairs project specialist Maria Lonsbury said the University Sustainability Council has paid constant attention to these issues to keep in line with its goals.

“We have seen sustainability efforts from across campus result in meaningful reductions in our campus’ greenhouse gas emis-

sions,” she said. “Clearly, the university’s progress is a result of a collective, concerted effort.”

Through initiatives in energy conservation, renewable energy generation and transportation, the office is chipping away at emissions, Lupin said. Last year, the university purchased more than 2,600 solar panels and is implementing plans to purchase renewable powers from solar and wind projects; Facilities Management has revamped buildings by changing hallway lighting and cooling and heating systems in sorority houses and university halls to encourage efficient energy performance; and the university has seen a significant reduction in commuting and a shift toward alternative transportation, with the use of shuttles doubling in the past six years, according to Lupin.

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Donna Wiseman, the education school dean, spoke with Northwestern High School students at Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting. photo courtesy of shane bryan students return to the campus every Saturday for additional support during the school year.

“I think it’s so important for them so early in their high school careers to start thinking about these opportunities that are available to them through the university,” said Charis Granger-Mbugua, a ninth-grade teacher at Northwestern.

Director of Pre-College Pro-

grams Georgette Hardy DeJesus said she looks forward to collaborating with other on-campus groups. The pre-college programs are successful, with a 98 percent college placement rate for the flagship Upward Bound Program, and the synergic potential is high.

“It just educates them about what college is and gives them a better hope that they can attend

college,” Upward Bound counselor Emily Rizzo said.

“I’m excited about the exposure of the students to universities,” Granger-Mbugua said.

“I think that this partnership will help them see that there are opportunities after they leave Northwestern and a lot of this is just by exposure.”

Student Union this fall and plans are in the works for composting refuse from construction and demolition, he added.

These initiatives may meet the mark this year, but the innovative strategies required for complete carbon-neutrality in 2050 are still up in the air, said undergraduate senator Matthew Popkin.

“If we can meet this 15 percent goal without substantive policy changes, this is great,” Popkin said. “But it took us from 2005 to 2012 to get to this 15 percent. To get another 35 percent in the next eight years is going to require effort, commitment, determination and detailed planning now.”

The power of planning should be enough to propel the university forward despite challenges of implementation and funds, said Popkin, the former undergraduate representative to the University’s Sustainability Council.

“The purpose is not to wait for action and allow time.

2020 isn’t very far off and soon 2050 won’t be either,” he said, adding little “serious” discussion has taken place within the Sustainability Council since it was established two years ago.

In addition, it will become more challenging to balance energy efficiency with campus needs as the u n iversity expands, said Lupin.

“As technologies adapt and change, energy and environment-friendly capabilities do inevitably increase,” Lupin said.

“You can become more efficient per square foot, but if you’re building more buildings, energy consumption will go up.”

Two large, energy-intensive facilities were added to the university in 2010: the Severn Building in Greenbelt and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology

Research in Rockville. To forge ahead with greening the campus, the university will likely work to improve the efficiency of existing buildings, procure more renewable energy and add a biomass facility to create more sustainable energy to offset some of the natural gas burned on the campus, Facilities Management Energy Manager Joan Kowal said.

If the university misses the benchmark for future goals, the coalition will likely provide recommendations and expects students, alumni and the community to keep working toward the next target.

However, Lupin said the university’s progress should keep it on track past January’s goal.

“It’s possible, but that doesn’t mean it is going to be easy to meet the 2020 goals,” he added.

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Opinion

The ‘dying industry’ deserves more credit

A couple weeks ago, I was at the Maryland Book Exchange and noticed a shelf full of T-shirts for nearly every major offered at this university. I started looking through them, and to my surprise, I could not find a single one for the journalism school. When I asked the cashier where the journalism shirts were, he laughed and replied, “People still major in that?”

In recent years, I have noticed journalism’s decreasing desirability as a major and profession as students gravitate toward alternative majors.

But this is a frightening trend, and one that affects everyone.

The future of journalism isn’t only important to people like me — aspiring journalists out there desperately searching for a job. It is important to everyone, maybe more so than we realize.

We should all be concerned with having access to good, reliable news, because it is a pivotal part of how our society functions. The press is what allows our democracy to work, by giving us a source for information about current issues and politics, so we can make educated decisions when we vote.

Even if you don’t care about current events, the news is still going to have an effect on your life. It is how we find out when a massive event, like a terrorist attack, happens; it is how we know who won best artist at the Video Music Awards or what football team won the game last Sunday. It is what people talk about; it is what connects us around the world, across the nation and here on the campus.

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papers are consolidating and laying off staff members to conserve profits that are scarce in this digital age. Now that news can be found online for free, and anyone with a smartphone or Twitter can be a reporter, why pay a professional?

Honestly, the job is too important not to.

What separates professional journalists from citizen journalists is their obligation to follow codes of ethics that drive them to remain objective, be accurate and seek multiple perspectives for every story. This is essential for readers to see the full and unbiased truth and develop their own opinions about the issues — free from persuasion.

Maybe I’m biased because I am a journalism major — and one who hopes to have a job in the future — but the reason I chose to pursue this notnecessarily-prosperous field is because I believe in it.

On a recent trip to the Newseum in Washington, I was reminded of just how essential journalism is to our society. Walking through a museum dedicated entirely to the news was like walking through a record of history leading up to the present moment.

For every critical event in the world, reporters have been there to capture it with pictures and words and bring the story to the public. Journalists can give voice to the powerless, uncover hidden truths and bring to light unknown issues.

Although journalism may seem like a dying industry now, I don’t think it will ever go away completely. People would be lost without a trustworthy source of news, and good journalism will never go out of style. So fellow journalists, hang in there — the world still needs us.

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A garage full of troubles

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inding a parking spot on this campus can be a treacherous ordeal for students and visitors alike. Between construction, various numbered and lettered lots and a Department of Transportation Services obliged to ticket any and all parking violators, confusion and frustration are frequent and, at times, unavoidable.

Fortunately, students can avoid this parking maze by buying permits for a hefty price tag of $438 a year.

With that permit should come the assurance that students will have a spot waiting for them in their assigned lot no matter the time of day.

The construction of Prince Frederick Hall, however, has eliminated about 200 spots from Lot 19 in the Mowatt Lane Garage, and it’s become painfully obvious that DOTS has failed to adequately address the parking needs of its customers.

When students pay more than $400 a year to park in Lot 19, they expect to park in Lot 19. Yet students have found parking spaces scarce or entirely unavailable all too frequently, which has forced many to try and seek parking in undesirable and distant locations, according to a Wednesday Diamondback article. Rather than finding spaces in Lot 19, many students are forced to make the 25-minute trek back to South Campus from Lots 4 and 6 near Comcast Center — the designated overflow lots for Lot 19 permit holders. If they’re lucky, they might find a space in Lot 2 behind Oakland Hall, a comparatively short 20-minute walk back to where they wanted to park in the first place.

This is an issue that affects students and this university beyond simple inconveniences. In the process of denying paying customers the service they deserve, DOTS is thrusting significant safety risks on students. On a campus in which crime alerts and suspicious activity are nothing out of the ordinary, claiming parking spaces in Lots 2, 4 or 6 are of equal value to Lot 19 is a coldhearted farce. For students living on South Campus, a 25-

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DOTS has failed to provide permit-holding students with the parking they need in Lot 19 — proving itself inept in the process. minute walk home at night across the length of the campus is an ordeal that needlessly jeopardizes their safety.

DOTS emailed Lot 19 permit holders yesterday letting them know 20 more spots will be added — certainly a step in the right direction, but not enough to rectify the problem. Unless every student who paid for a permit can comfortably find parking whenever they need it, the issue is far from resolved.

According to Beverly Malone, DOTS assistant director for communications and PR, the ratio of permits sold for every space available has decreased to 1.1 — the lowest number in years. Continuing to lower that number is encouraging, though it does not appear to reflect any improvements in Lot 19 specifically.

While Lot 19 used to include floors 2-5 of the garage last year, it is now

comprised of floors 4, 5 and half of 6, so DOTS only issued 804 permits this year, compared to 1,086 last year.

But even with the limited number of permits, DOTS clearly underestimated the student demand. More importantly, DOTS never should have issued more permits than there were spaces. Lot 19 is a resident lot, meaning most students leave their cars parked for several days before needing them again. Almost every student who parks in the garage needs a spot every day, so overbooking the lot was inevitably going to cause problems.

At the least, DOTS should have warned students of the situation before they had to cough up the money for a permit.

But DOTS’ lack of preparedness doesn’t matter anymore; it’s already issued the permits. Now, it’s the department’s responsibility to work toward a better solution.

Based on the high demand for parking in the first weeks of school, opening up an additional 20 parking spots won’t resolve the issue entirely, nor will it redeem DOTS for its initial unresponsiveness.

DOTS needs to give students a higher priority when it comes to parking on the campus. If unused parking spaces continue to line Lot U (the lot that also sits in the Mowatt Lane Garage), DOTS should expand Lot 19 until student permit holders have all of the spaces they need.

For this university to stay competitive academically and professionally, it’s essential for students with cars to be able to easily go to and from their internships or jobs in the surrounding region. The trade-off between safety and opportunity shouldn’t exist for students with cars. The students with Lot 19 permits have paid their dues — give them the service they deserve, DOTS.

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Prostitutes need more than a ‘sting’ When it comes to prostitution in the D.C. area, the blame must go elsewhere

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he Diamondback’s September 7 staff editorial, “Let’s sting prostitution,” discussed the problem of prostitution in and around College Park. Yes, this is indeed a problem. However, it is not hard to understand why this is so.

In 2006, Washington officials installed prostitution-free zones — areas temporarily policed for suspicious prostitutionrelated activity. Once identified, these zones can last up to 24 days, and anyone suspected of engaging in prostitutionrelated activities is told to disperse. This does nothing to eradicate the reality of prostitution in Washington (as of January, no arrests had been made as a direct result of the prostitution-free zones), instead spreading the problem elsewhere.

As the staff editorial mentioned, prostitution-free zones force sex workers to pursue alternate locations for soliciting customers, including hotels and websites. In the editorial, Kevin Davis, Prince George’s County assistant police chief, suggested that hotels “document those suspected of prostitution … [and] assign highly visible rooms to suspicious people, and more.” Not only are these practices hugely discriminatory, they also do little to really help eradicate the issue of prostitution. When rejected from these hotels, many sex workers will simply go back onto the streets.

The streets are not kind to sex workers, to put it lightly. According to a report from the nonprofit Different Avenues, sex workers in Washington face frequent abuse from police. This can include verbal, physical and even sexual abuse in exchange for allowing the workers to continue living on the streets. The tragic reality is the

prostitution-free zones have further marginalized and discriminated against sex workers, especially sex workers who are of color, female, LGBT community members and/or of lower socioeconomic status.

One organization doing admirable work in this field is Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive. According to its website, HIPS programs strive to address the impact “HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in sex work.” Among other things, the organization assists in safe needle exchanges and the distribution of safe-sex kits as a method of harm reduction.

The notion that the root of prostitution is “moral impropriety” is naive and simply false. Rather than blaming the individual prostitutes, perhaps one should look at the problems of the economy, which has forced many individuals out of work and into alternative methods of surviving. Or perhaps one should look at the people with the power in these situations, such as the aforementioned police officers or individuals such as Washington Councilwoman Yvette Alexander of Ward 7, who is trying to make the prostitution-free zones permanent. It is easy to write off prostitution as the product of morally corrupt or wayward individuals. But taking a step back to look at the situation on a grander scale, it is evident there is a problem at hand, but not with the individual prostitutes.

David Kramer is a junior criminology and psychology major. He can be reached at kramer.david706@gmail.com.

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Giving back beyond a day We need to channel the American courage displayed on Sept. 11

JOSHUA DOWLING Every time I donate blood, I receive two cans of cranberry juice and a little bag of pretzels to help recover. While I don’t particularly think I’ve done anything extraordinary by donating blood, I know I earned that cranberry juice. It feels like a square trade.

On my most recent trip to the Red Cross in late August, I began my traditional cranberry juice and pretzel meal when an older nurse offered me a shirt. Now, I normally deny the shirt. I don’t need a shirt saying I’ve done something nice — that just gets obnoxious. But this shirt was different; it marked the anniversary of 9/11.

Now, I always have a reticent feeling of guilt when 9/11 rolls around each year. Like many students, I was more than excited to hear I was going home early from my fifth grade class that day. When my mother picked me up from school, she shared none of the same enthusiasm. She explained through tears what had happened and how many had lost their lives. I still wasn’t able to connect, though. Thankfully, no

one we knew lost his or her life that day. But the lives lost and saved, the courage and the strength — none of it really registered in my 10-year-old understanding of the world.

Looking back and understanding how many thousands of people died that day shakes me. Moreover, whenever I think of the people who ran into the fire to help save coworkers, colleagues, friends and strangers, I can’t help but feel immensely proud to be an American. Police officers, firefighters, medical responders and even average citizens — they ran into the fire to help save their fellow Americans.

When I look back now, I get it. Sept.

11 was not just an assault on our freedoms and way of life. It was a moment of tremendous human courage. Everyday Americans became extraordinary and helped save the lives of their fellow citizens — even at the risk of their own.

I took the shirt because I was tired of pretending 9/11 didn’t affect me.

I know now that it did. I know while we must never forget the lives lost, we must also never forget the heroism and valor we showed each other. I took the shirt, not because I thought donating blood was in any way an appropriate tribute to the heroes of 9/11, but because I knew it would push me to

be more like them.

Two days ago — on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 — my Facebook news feed was covered in status updates commemorating the day, remembering those lost and promising never to forget. But we can do more to remember those lost. We can do more to honor our fallen heroes. Those who lost their lives were dynamic, inspired and courageous individuals.

We can do more. We owe those who have passed not just words, but action.

As those fortunate enough to have survived — and those even luckier who were relatively unscathed — we have a moral obligation to give back. Not just as part of the national day of service marking 9/11, but every day and in every way to better our communities.

We can do better and we must do better to honor those lost. We can all give back more — whether by volunteering or by helping our neighbors in need. We must do more than just donate blood and write Facebook posts. As we gravitate further and further away from the actual anniversary, we must continue to honor our fallen heroes by continuing their legacy of service.

Joshua Dowling is a senior government and politics and history major. He can be reached at dowling@umdbk.com.

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One alumna dropped everything to pursue her dreams; now she uses the documentary she made about her formative road trip to inspire others

By Mary Clare Fischer Senior staff writer In 2009, Alexis Irvin thought she was living her dream.

Her high school best friend had become her college sweetheart. She had survived the “boot camp” classes of this university’s journalism school and emerged with a degree in hand.

Her political interests gave way to a job doing office work for the federal government soon after graduation. Check, check and check.

But something was missing. She and boyfriend Chip Hiden both began to feel it: that lack of passion, the absence of any drive to get up and go to workplaces that left them uninspired.

The answer? Road trip.

Fifteen thousand miles, three months and an alligator scare later, Irvin and Hiden had interviewed more than 30 people about how they were living out their dreams. Their hourlong documentary, The Dream Share Project, has screened at more than 50 universities and will premiere on the campus in Hoff Theater tonight. (Spoiler alert: One scene involves the pair writing on a chalkboard in Jimenez Hall.)

Afterward, the couple will hold a workshop to help participants further analyze their dreams and figure out how to translate them into reality.

T hey shou ld k now; t hey’re doi ng it themselves.

The ultimate road trip began on Aug. 27, 2010, after a year spent choosing stopping points, saving money and gathering the courage needed to leave their safe, comfortable jobs. A tent became their bedroom, rice and beans their main form of sustenance.

“We decided to take this leap of faith with no idea where it would lead,” Hiden said. “We planned out everything as best we could, trusted in our ideas and that they would lead to a good place.”

Irvin and Hiden knew simply running away wasn’t going to help them. To make it worthwhile, they scoured local blogs, newspapers, magazines — anything that would help them find people who knew the secret to happiness.

These ranged from the obscure (a University of Iowa student originally from Swaziland who sells specially seasoned corn on the cob and plans to patent his grandmother’s hot sauce) to the athletic (an Olympic skier) to the celebrity (Louis Black, the founder of the

South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas).

One of the couple’s favorites was Kyle Berner, who worked at a record label and at Dell before managing hot dog stands. After all these endeavors proved unfulfilling, a backpacker who raved about Thailand inspired him to sell his car and buy a one-way ticket. While in the country, Berner stumbled across flip-flops made from natural, biodegradable Thai rubber.

He wrangled a deal with the supplier to make himself the only American distributor of the flip-flops and called his company “Feelgoodz.”

“I found that the microeconomy in Southeast Asia was built off of rubber farmers,” Berner said. “I fell in love with the sort of social economic impact of being able to distribute high quality products that also had this added value to society as a whole.”

Berner now refers to his products as “conscious footwear” and sells them mostly in Whole Foods, as well as a store he’s opened in Raleigh, N.C., called The Treehouse. He said the company doubles its distribution almost every year.

“It was challenging, no question,” he said, laughing. “I, like several other million people in their 20s, lived off ramen and peanut butter sandwiches for years, but I was finding my way.”

Crystal Sehlke heard about Irvin and Hiden’s program through a friend at Salisbury University. As the program director for the University Career Center and The President’s Promise, Sehlke is always on the lookout for innovative ways to show students how their dreams can turn into jobs. The Dream Share Project fit that bill perfectly.

“This shows them that you don’t have to pick a title off a shelf,” she said. “It’s something they can see.”

Sehlke was able to bring Irvin and Hiden to the campus through generous grants from the Pepsi Enhancement Fund and the Hoff Funding Board. In fact, she received so much money that she’s organized a competition among the student groups on the campus: The group that sends the most volunteers to the screening and workshop will receive $200, and all other groups who attend enter into a drawing to win another $200.

As of Tuesday morning, Sehlke said 19 groups were registered, which totals about 250 people.

In addition, Sehlke said 60 other students plan to attend The Dream Share Project screening, and she expects about 200 more to come

Clockwise from top left: Kyle Berner, founder of Feelgoodz; Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin at Mt. Rushmore; Hiden in Buena Vista, Va.; Irvin leading one of her workshops at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. photos courtesy of alexis irvin and dreamshareproject.com with their UNIV 100 classes, with which she’s been working. Her planning process for the event began in February.

“I think it’s the real-life example of real people talking about how they figured it out that works,” she said. “Real-life people talking about their passion along with the workshop materials that are like, ‘Okay, you’re inspired.

What are you gonna do about it?’”

Irvin still doesn’t know whether she’s living her dream.

She and Hiden have committed themselves full-time to this job; this campus is the first stop on their fall tour, which will wind through New England on the way to at least 29 other schools.

They’ve created an online course guiding prospective dreamers through podcasts and exercises at a cost of $25. A book proposal for The Dream Share Project was just finalized.

Yet both Irvin and Hiden have written scripts, and Irvin has some short stories and fiction in the works. Neither is giving up on former interests, but both have finally found a source of inspiration.

“I think my dreams are evolving,” Irvin said. “We love going to colleges and sharing the movie with other people, especially when somebody two or three years younger than us says it’s so great to hear this advice. I really believe that when you’re pursuing any kind of goal, once you start going after one thing, that kind of persistence and determination will start to go into other areas as well.”

Ocean Robbins is the founder of YES!, a nonprofit organization that motivates the younger generation to focus on solving global problems. Irvin and Hiden interviewed him while in Santa Cruz, Calif. Robbins participated in the project because of the “chutzpah” the couple displayed by taking such a big risk.

“I don’t think anything really worthwhile in life has as its first priority that it be easy, whether it’s parenting a child or launching a business or making a difference in somebody’s life; it usually takes muscle as well as love to get something done in this world,” he said. “But when we combine the best insights and minds we can bring forth with our muscles and our love, sometimes amazing things can happen.” mcfischer@umdbk.com

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so we wanted to look for an opportunity to put him into a game,” Cirovski said Tuesday. “We have confidence in him, and I thought he responded well.”

Tatum’s debut was not without some hiccups, though. With the Terps nursing a 1-0 lead in the 62nd minute, UMBC midfielder Milo Kapor launched a corner kick into traffic in front of the Terps’ goal. The ball struck Retrievers forward Kadeem Dacres, who caromed it off a Terps defender and past Tatum into the back of the net to tie the game.

“I didn’t do everything right,” Tatum said. “There’s things you can do better, little things. I can be better at distribution and decision-making, but it just comes with the experience.”

Tatu m’s coach at Osbou rn High School (Manassas, Va.), E r i c M a u c k , d o e s n’ t t h i n k growth will be a problem, either.

A four-year varsity player for the Eagles, Tatum started his career as a backup, and developed into a Washington Post second-team All-Met selection in 2011.

“He came up and he had to learn,” Mauck said. “He had to learn his ways from the older kids that we had. He took that and he relished in it. He learned and he took what we were doing in prac-

W h ile U M BC is ha rd ly the caliber of Louisville, California or Boston College — teams the Terps have beaten this season — Tatum was still tested Tuesday.

The gritty Retrievers attacked the box the entire 90 minutes.

It was a trial by fire, but through it all, Tatum knew what he had to do to keep the Terps undefeated.

“You have to come up with a big save at the end or something to keep our team in it,” Tatum said.

“A goalie, every game, has to make one or two saves to keep our team in it and keep the team together.

It’s a mental game.”

smarter choices,” forward Gabby Galanti said. “We just have to look at this like any other game. It’s UNC — it’s a big name. But we’re Maryland and we can play with anyone.”

While the teams’ records are similar at this point in the season, the level of competition each has faced is not.

The Tar Heels have faced — and tied or beaten — No. 22 Florida and No. 24 Marquette, while the Terps have played the likes of George Mason, Towson and five other unranked teams.

“We haven’t played the opposition that they’ve played but they haven’t played ours either,” Beanlands said.

“At this point in the season, it’s all fair game.”

The Terps have gotten the best of their southern rivals in recent seasons, though. After failing to beat the Tar Heels in their fi rst 31 meetings dating back to 1987, the Terps defeated North Carolina, 2-1, in each of the past two years.

That won’t affect Morgan’s team tonight, though. No matter what his team did last year or so far this season, he knows the Tar Heels are the toughest test his team has encountered yet.

“This is going to be the best opponent we’ve played and it’s going to be the fastest team that we’ve played,” Morgan said. “We just want to beat North Carolina.”

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From PAGE 8 spring ball for two years.”

It also doesn’t hurt that linebackers coach Keith Dudzinski spent four years under Brown when he was the head coach at Massachusetts. Dudzinski has been in offensive coordinator Mike Locksley’s ear all week, explaining Brown’s thought process and tendencies.

“It sounds like there’s going to be two pretty aggressive, pressure defenses going on,” Locksley said. “It should be fun.”

Still, it’s possible the Terps’ study aides will prove useless come game time.

Brown is a master of disguising defenses.

Though his penchant for blitzing is welldocumented, he’s an expert at masking coverages and forcing interceptions.

Also, Brown has never been afraid to completely change his defensive game plan from week to week. He realizes the Terps analyzed UConn’s first two games and could unveil completely new schemes Saturday.

“You never know with Coach Brown,” Hartsfield said. “He might just say, ‘F it,’ and run whatever.”

No matter what unfolds inside Byrd Stadium, though, one thing remains certain: The Terps’ upperclassmen will enjoy seeing their old coach. They’ll approach him on the sideline after the game, shake his hand and admire his perfectly maintained facial hair.

“That man has a mean mustache,” Francis said. “I wish my mustache was as prolific as his.” letourneau@umdbk.com

COACHES From PAGE 8 even more in men’s lacrosse.

With the Fighting Irish and the Orange joining the Terps, North Carolina, Duke and Virginia, the ACC will feature a conference loaded with six teams that consistently rank among the nation’s best. They have combined to win 10 of the

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past 14 national titles, and all six fi nished last season ranked in the top 15.

“You can look at what these teams have done traditionally and it’s really hard to argue that it’s not the best conference from top to bottom,” Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman said.

Notre Dame also boasts a men’s soccer team ranked No. 8 in the nation and a women’s soccer tea m that won the

Goalkeeper Jordan Tatum allowed just one goal vs. UMBC on Tuesday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback tices and he grew from it. He took every learning experience that he could and just put it towards his game in a positive way.”

Of course, Tatum should have at least two senior leaders to help him adjust to the college game.

Defenders London Woodberry and Taylor Kemp, who play in front of him on the backline, have become mentors for the 19 year old.

“They’re great,” Tatum said.

“T hey do a really good job of helping me command the backline, working with our freshmen [defenders] Dakota [Edwards] a nd M i key [A mbrose]. T hei r experience definitely brings a lot to our backline.”

NCAA Championship in 2010, additions that will bring just another dimension to a soccer conference that already features some of the game’s most historically successful programs.

“They play very good soccer.

They’re very well respected around the country,” Terrapins men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski said. “They’re going to be a great addition to our conference.”

“It’s another competitive

team and arguably one of the top-10 teams in the country every year,” Terrapins women’s soccer coach Jonathan Morgan said. “It’s going to really bolster the conference. Right now, the ACC is the premier soccer conference in the country. Now that you add Notre Dame to the mix, any potential recruit out there that doesn’t consider the ACC isn’t serious about their soccer.”

A No. 8-ranked women’s la-

crosse team and a men’s basketball team that earned a No. 7 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament will also join the ACC, as well as baseball, softball and women’s volleyball teams, among others.

With a flurry of conference realignment over the past two seasons, the Fighting Irish — as well as Syracuse and Pittsburgh — firmly place the ACC as one of the nation’s elite conferences.

For Frese, Notre Dame is

exactly what the league needed.

“We’re thrilled and excited to have them enter what we feel is one of the best conferences in the country,” Frese said. “From a women’s basketball end and overall, we think it’s a perfect fit for the ACC.” Senior staff writers Connor Letourneau, Daniel Gallen and Erin Egan contributed to this story. vitale@umdbk.com

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Terps coaches weigh in on Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s nationally ranked programs provide boost to conference

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer Brenda Frese remembers March 27.

She remembers her Terrapins women’s basketball team stepping onto the floor in Raleigh, N.C., to face Notre Dame. She remembers the Fighting Irish’s 80-49 shellacking of her Terps. And she remembers watching her team’s season end one step before a Final Four appearance.

But when the ACC announced yesterday morning Notre Dame would join the conference, Frese wasn’t thinking about the Terps’ loss five and a half months ago.

She was thinking about the future.

“I just thought about their rich tradition,” the 11th-year coach said. “We’re getting a heck of an opponent to be able to come into our league. I mean, I was excited. I’d rather have a great team, a phenomenal team — someone like Notre Dame — come into your conference versus someone that’s not going to help you.”

The addition of the Fighting Irish will clearly help the conference. The Notre Dame women’s basketball team has been among the best in the nation over the past five years, finishing each of those seasons ranked in the top 25 and reaching the na-

tional championship game in 2011 and 2012.

With elite programs such as the Terps, North Carolina and Duke already in the fold and Big East departures Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame joining soon, the ACC has staked its claim as one of the most talented leagues in the sport.

“Being able to add that richness to our conference and being able to gain such a tremendous team and program like Notre Dame,” Frese said, “from top to bottom, it just continues to raise the bar.”

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Terps face familiar foe

After leaving College Park to join UConn’s coaching staff, Brown will return to Byrd Stadium with the Huskies on Saturday

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Demetrius Hartsfield couldn’t help but feel a bit of deja vu Monday when he watched film of Connecticut’s recent 10-7 loss to N.C. State.

“I caught myself pausing it a few times and saying, ‘I remember this,’” the Terrapins football linebacker said.

It makes sense. After all, Hartsfield is pretty familiar with Huskies defensive coordinator Don Brown’s schemes — he ran them for two years.

Brown, whose UConn team will play in College Park on Saturday, joined the Terps in January 2009 as part of Ralph Friedgen’s staff. After Friedgen’s contract was terminated in December 2010, new coach Randy Edsall decided to retain Brown as his defensive coordinator.

The partnership lasted a month.

Wanting a return to his New England roots, Brown took the same position with the Huskies. He’d been apart from his family for two years, and his 19-year-old daughter just had a baby.

“It was kind of upsetting because I found out about it on Twitter,” defensive end A.J. Francis said of Brown’s departure. “But I understand why he [left]. He had to do what he had to do for his family. There’s no ill will.”

How could there be? Brown’s connection to the Terps could give Edsall’s squad a significant advantage come Saturday.

Six of the team’s offensive linemen — including four starters — practiced against Brown’s defense with the Terps. They understand the intricacies of his complex blitzing schemes, and they’re familiar with his unorthodox play calling.

“They know what they’re going to get,” Francis said, “because they went against them every camp and every See BROWN, Page 7

John TIllman Men’s lacrosse coach

Jonathan Morgan Women’s soccer coach

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tar Heels tough test for Terps Team looks to win third straight game vs. UNC

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer In seven games this season, the Terrapins women’s soccer team has taken 136 shots, scored 13 goals and notched four wins.

But none of that will compare to tonight when the Terps host ACC rival North Carolina — widely considered the most storied program in the sport — at Ludwig Field.

“There’s sort of a nervous excitement about us, but we’re just pumped to get out there and take it to them,” goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands said. “We know that they’re a huge opponent and obviously there’s something big that comes with the UNC name, but we’re ready for anything.”

They’ll have to be. The No. 12 Tar Heels are the first ranked team the Terps have faced this season, giving them arguably their toughest test just four days after one of their worst performances of the season.

The Terps lost to Fordham, 1-0, on Sunday, despite taking 24 more shots than the Rams.

“I was a l ittle worried a fter ou r game with Fordham,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “I didn’t know how we would respond in training and what our mental approach would be. But we came out [Tuesday] and the kids were flying.

They were great in training, too. I think we’re in a really good place.”

If they’re going to win tonight, their offense will have to be in a better place. The Terps (4-2-1) have scored just two goals in their last two contests, compared to North Carolina’s (5-1-1) nine in that same span.

“The last few days we’ve been working really hard to stay composed and make

UConn Defensive coordinator Don Brown (right) was the Terps’ defensive coordinator from 2009 to 2010. He left College Park following the 2010 season — the same year the Terps hired former Huskies coach Randy Edsall — and joined coach Paul Pasqualoni’s (left) staff. photo courtesy of the daily campus

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MEN’S SOCCER

Biding his time

After waiting behind teammates, Tatum gets his chance in goal

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer Jordan Tatum waited his turn.

When the redshirt freshman took his place between the posts at Ludwig Field Tuesday night for his fi rst career start with the Terrapins men’s soccer team, it had been 15 months since his last meaningful action for a school team.

On June 1, 2011, Tatum played 100 scoreless minutes in Osbourn High School’s 10-9 loss on penalty kicks to Riverbend High School in Virginia’s Northwest Region semifi nals.

Now, after taking a redshirt season behind former goalkeeper Will Swaim and current teammate Keith Cardona, Tatum was back on the field.

He was admittedly nervous. After all, he was making his first start against upset-minded UMBC, a team that took the Terps to double overtime last

season. But the nerves dissipated soon after kickoff, and Tatum made three saves in the No. 3 Terps’ 3-1 win over the Retrievers.

“Once you get that fi rst save, the fi rst hands on the ball, it starts to fade,” Tatum said. “You’ve got The Crew at your back, so it defi nitely helps being at home in the fi rst start.”

Tatum has started the year as the Terps’ No. 2 goalkeeper behind sophomore Cardona. The two were locked in a three-way battle with freshman Cody Niedermeier during the preseason, but Cardona earned the starting nod early. He posted three shutouts through the team’s first four games.

But coach Sasho Cirovski wants his players, backup goalkeepers included, ready for anything the season throws at them.

“It was a very tight battle between him and Keith, See TATUM, Page 7

Goalkeeper Jordan Tatum started his first career game for the Terps in their 3-1 victory over UMBC on Tuesday night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback