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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

East Campus to break ground in spring 2013 Univ. officials outline details to City Council

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

The long-delayed East Campus development project to create a bustling college town at the corner of Route 1 and Paint Branch Parkway is on its way to officially breaking ground in spring 2013, according

to university officials.

For the second time this year, Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer presented a draft of the university’s Facilities Master Plan — a guide to development on and off the campus — to the College Park

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Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer updates the College Park City Council on the university’s Facilities Master Plan. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Final Gen Ed phase on track New courses now being developed for next year’s freshmen

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

Old Town, old history City officials seek to preserve 123-year-old downtown College Park area

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

For nearly 125 years, Old Town College Park has stood its ground.

As generations of students traverse its well-trodden roads and

dozens of city businesses open and shutter, the 125-acre neighborhood situated between the College Park Metro Station and the downtown bars has maintained its authentic charm — and city and county officials said they want to

keep it that way. The Prince George’s County Planning Department has nominated the area to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Services’ archive of sites that should be preserved.

While an official designation into the National Register next year would bring federal tax credits for rehabilitation projects, District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie

see HISTORY, page 2

Although new students are beginning to chip away at the university’s CORE requirements, officials are busy completely overhauling that curriculum and ensuring it will be ready for next year’s freshmen.

Since February, after the University Senate voted to approve the final phase of a plan that will completely revamp this university’s CORE curriculum program, a general education committee has been working to develop and approve new courses the next generation of university students will take.

And although the university’s original CORE program — which all students currently study under — has recently been criticized by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, officials are working to ensure the new program is heralded across the country as the most innovative curriculum of its kind.

Through the summer and into this semester, every department has been submitting new classes to fulfill the general education plan’s requirements. Undergraduate Studies Dean Donna Hamilton, who oversaw the committee responsible for crafting the new curriculum’s implementation plan, said the constituencies involved in putting the new plan into place have met all of the benchmarks set so far.

Although the plan, which is slated to begin next fall, was originally intended to apply for this year’s freshmen, Hamilton said implementation is on track and any roadblocks are in the past.

“I have no worries because every-

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New, free wireless Internet DOTS eliminates some downtown Route 1 stops Blue, Orange lines saw now available off campus lowridershiplastyear Eduroam accessible across the country

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

Students, staff and faculty can now connect to free wireless Internet at campuses across the globe, a new feature officials said has taken the university one step further in boosting its international presence.

Eduroam — a wireless Internet system other academic institutions use worldwide — made its debut at this university after last month’s

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arrival of Brian Voss as vice president of information technology and chief information officer. By simply entering their university login and password — just like they would when connecting to this university’s wireless network — members of the university community can now access the Internet free of charge on other campuses that use eduroam.

Students and faculty will still use

Students hoping to ride the Blue and Orange lines to their familiar downtown stops should check twice before they hop on — DOTS has cut several stops along downtown Route 1 this semester after an analysis showed few riders were actually using them.

Last year, the Blue Line bus turned right on Route 1 from Campus Drive and traveled deep into

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INTERNET from page 1 the university Wi-Fi connection while on the campus, though eduroam is now an additional network for connecting to the Internet. More than 30 countries in Europe and Asia and 21 other universities in the United States use eduroam, furthering university President Wallace Loh’s objective of making the university a more globally networked entity, officials said.

“The availability of eduroam services is yet another building block in making Maryland a part of a borderless, scholarly world,” Loh stated in a university press release.

The ability to access the Internet globally through eduroam will be especially helpful for students studying abroad, faculty doing research overseas and students visiting from other countries, officials said.

“If you’ve traveled abroad, you’ll know that one of the most sought after quantities is a free Wi-Fi connection,” Voss said.

Tripti Sinha, the Office of Information Technology’s networking and telecommunications services director, compared the availability of eduroam to having a passport.

“You live in this country, you don’t use your passport here, so you don’t need eduroam on this campus,” Sinha said. “But if you leave this campus, you’ll need eduroam.”

Once university officials decided to join eduroam, the idea mobilized in a matter of weeks — a feat Voss said was made possible by the university’s sophisticated, first-rate networking infrastructure.

Though eduroam has been available in the United States for more than two years, other campuses may not be able to implement the system as easily due to outdated networking environments, he noted.

One of the most beneficial aspects of eduroam, Voss said, is its no-cost maintenance.

“We just have to make sure all our software are up-to-date with the latest versions and so forth, but there’s no cost for the service itself,” Sinha said.

Officials said the system has worked seamlessly so far. Since the launch, OIT has even received inquiries from other schools that are now interested in launching the system.

“Success tends to breed success,” Voss said. “There’s always a sense that when major institutions start to do things, others want to do it as well.”

And eduroam’s wireless accessibility is reflective of the constant need for mobile Internet everywhere, some students said.

“Just like international cell phone services, it makes the world connected more and makes everything faster,” said freshman journalism major Teddy Amenabar. marcot@umdbk.com

HISTORY from page 1 Stullich said its main purpose is to serve as a badge of honor for a community proud of its historic roots — and its humble beginnings.

“People are proud of that history,” said Stullich, who has lived in Old Town for 17 years.

In the late 1880s, a developer named John Oliver Johnson purchased the 125 acres and named it College Park.

“This was the neighborhood that was College Park before it was the City of College Park,” Stullich said.

The neighborhood had an abundance of street cars that connected Old Town residents to Washington, according to Howard Berger, who works in the historic preservation section of the county planning department. This provided a prime location for middle-class families looking to live a suburban lifestyle, he noted.

While the site encompasses a diverse set of architectural styles, Old Town saw a majority of its residential development in the pre-World War II era, including the “Taliaferro House” on Columbia Avenue, the “Cory House” on College Avenue and the “McDonnell House” on Dartmouth Avenue.

Old Town College Park’s

development closely followed this university’s, and Greek life saw its greatest period of residential development between the 1930s and 1960s. The fraternity and sorority houses were modeled after architectural styles of other neighborhood houses, contributing to its historic context, according to Berger.

Lifelong Old Town resident Kathy Bryant said she remembered the impact the university had on the community when she was a young girl. Residents would identify houses by the professors who lived there, including her great-uncle by marriage Warner Taliaferro, who resided on the 7400 block of Columbia Avenue.

Bryant said a house on Calvert Road caught her eye every day as she walked to and from College Park Elementary School, but she has since seen the house demolished and an apartment complex rise in its place.

“I remembered the pain in my heart watching this house come down,” said Bryant, the great-granddaughter of the city’s founder. “There’s beautiful houses in the neighborhood.

The sad thing is where I grew up there were so many more and a lot of them got torn down. ... We wanted to preserve what was left.”

In 2008, Prince George’s County listed the neighbor-

Built in 1812, the Old Parish House has stood the test of time in Old Town College Park. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

hood as a local historic district. This status imposed stricter guidelines and processes for new construction and additions to houses to preserve the historic appeal of the area’s architecture.

Yet the prospect of having their home written down in county history books didn’t appease all residents, such as Sigma Chi President Jesse Warren, whose old fraternity house is located on the 4600 block of

Norwich Road.

“It’s broken down, and it’s not livable at all,” said Warren, a senior history major. “The city won’t let us knock it down and rebuild it.”

But for others, that’s a prime example of why Old Town should be preserved.

“These houses have a quality of construction that you just don’t see today,” Stullich said. bach@umdbk.com

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Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer updates the College Park City Council on the Facilities Master Plan, which includes new details for city development projects, at last night’s worksession. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

COUNCIL from page 1 City Council last night. The updated plan hammers out details to the revived 38-acre East Campus project that would bring upscale hotels, additional graduate student housing and a large music venue to the city.

“This is what we need to make this space come alive,” Brewer said.

The addition of a hotel with 175 to 200 rooms and a “white tablecloth” restaurant will give parents another place to stay when visiting their children. Graduate student studio apartments will range from $1,000 to $1,100 per bed, a rate comparable to that of the Graduate Hills complex down the road, and the Birchmere Music Hall will hold about 500 people.

However, District 2 Coun-

CURRICULUM from page 1 body involved has been so completely invested in it,” Hamilton said. “Faculty are really the ones making this new general education program, and that’s just astounding. There’s a great deal of work to be done, but everyone so far has stepped up to do the work.”

The new plan includes two new fundamental studies requirements, oral communication and analytical reasoning, as well as two “I”-series courses that focus on innovative courses and blended learning techniques. It also provides students with more options in fulfilling their distributive studies requirements and requires fewer general education credits to graduate.

This summer, the general education committee determined how the implementation workload will be distributed among the different colleges, since a

cilman Bob Catlin said the plan — to which the council granted $1.7 million in funding in May — lacked two much-needed additions: a grocer y store and a “marketrate housing” option. Brewer said additions such as these are possible for future phases of the plan.

The presentation on the rest of the Facilities Master Plan emphasized integrating the city with the university — a goal both city and university officials said is a top priority.

“I think it benefits all of us when the university isn’t just this mansion on a hill where people from the community go to work or learn,” District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said.

Brewer added that one of the Master Plan’s key goals is to collaborate with the city.

“The university wants its borders to be open and fluid, to respect the environment they’re immediately sur-

rounding,” he said.

Additional Master Plan goals included improving sustainability and maintaining the university’s status as a green school, as well as a focus on landscape design, Brewer said.

“As we look into the future, we see ourselves as an arboretum — a botanical garden,” he said. “We have been building on that so [the university] can become a place that ever ybody finds is attractive and interesting to visit.”

Brewer said East Campus is a crucial part of the plan, which he will present to the University Senate for final approval in October.

Although the project stalled last year due to budget woes, the development company Cordish Companies stepped up to tackle the plan last July, and Brewer said he hopes to have a concrete plan completed by the

majority of the plan’s courses are being developed from scratch. Hamilton said many of these courses have already been submitted for approval, and most faculty have embraced the new program fully.

History professor Ira Berlin, who chaired the committee responsible for creating the new general education program — which passed the Senate in a landslide vote in April 2010 — said he has seen faculty in his department brainstorm ideas for new, innovative courses.

And although the university’s original CORE program received a “D” from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in its grading of nearly 1,000 institutions’ general education programs, Berlin said he’s confident the new program will earn the university national recognition.

The council graded the CORE program based on how it fulfilled seven basic subjects, including science, math and foreign lan-

guage, and found the program only fulfilled the composition and science requirements.

“I don’t think when we wrote the [general education] program our aim was to satisfy [the American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s] concerns, but I think in some ways we in fact have addressed some of those concerns,” he said. “We undertook a revision of CORE because we thought it was a program that was in place for a long time and we wanted to review it, and in the end we decided that the best thing to do … was to replace CORE, and that’s what the new program does.”

Berlin said since the program has been approved, he has received calls from officials at other universities asking about the new program, which he said confirms it is an innovative and progressive model for higher education.

Students said next year’s freshmen and the following classes are at an advantage by

“I think it benefits all of us when the university isn’t just this mansion on a hill where people from the community go to work or learn.”

PATRICK WOJAHN DISTRICT 1 COUNCILMAN

end of this year.

The design of East Campus will take an additional year, he added.

“What I would love is when the weather starts to break in 2013, we will put a shovel in the ground,” Brewer said. kirkwood@umdbk.com

being under the new curriculum, since they will have more options in fulfilling their course requirements and have the opportunity to take new, cuttingedge classes.

“CORE sometimes takes away what we want to do, so it’s lucky that they get to take some really interesting courses,” junior government and politics major Bobby Taylor said.

“They’re able to choose, and it’s not like we can go back and change what we did.”

Hamilton said although there is still work to be done, she is looking forward to the day the classes are available online.

“I’m most looking forward to the day people say, ‘Yes, the new registration system is working,’” she said. “We’ve worked on this hovercraft for four years, and we’re waiting to see if the day we needed it to start, did it start?” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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Rally around the flag

Obama’s last stand

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n a night for football, who knew fashion could steal the spotlight? Miami that has led to suspensions for eight players furthered anticipation Taking advantage of a primetime ESPN broadcast Monday night for the game, which perhaps led to ESPN’s decision to broadcast their “Colat the tail end of a long holiday weekend, the Terrapin football lege Gameday Live” show from the stadium a full hour before kickoff.

By the end of an exciting game that saw seven lead changes, a fumble team unveiled flashy new uniforms inspired by the state flag in returned for a touchdown by defensive tackle Joe Vellano and 348 passing the season’s first game against the University of Miami.

The reaction was swift. At one point Monday night, “Mar yland” and yards by star quarterback Danny O’Brien, the Terps secured the victor y and the national spotlight for an entire university.

“Terps” were trending nationally on Twitter. “UniverAlthough many people across the countr y blasted sity of Mar yland” stood as number one on Google the uniform redesign, which was spearheaded by uniTrends as people across the countr y looked up the university and voiced their opinions on the new uniforms.

The Terrapins football team’s versity alumnus and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, perhaps lost on most is the unique pride of representYesterday’s Diamondback stor y about the new design new uniforms may be the ing the state of Mar yland. For decades, the univerreceived nearly five times more online views than any athletic teams have worn uniforms adorned with other article. breath of fresh air needed to sity’s the colors of the cherished state flag, which is one of Immediately following the game, ESPN’s “Sportsreenergize the entire athletic the nation’s most unique.

Center” highlights mentioned the uniforms and But now, more than ever, these uniforms — and the included Twitter reactions from prominent athletes department. national debate they have sparked — have seemingly and sports figures. Furthermore, an online poll soliciting Washington Post readers’ opinions of the uniforms has garnered more reignited Byrd Stadium and perhaps the entire Athletics Department. For a downtrodden fanbase that has suffered through some middling performthan 10,000 votes. ances in recent years, the new uniforms carr y with them a swagger befitting The verdict? It depends on who you ask.

The poll, posted on The Post’s Terrapins Insider blog, lists 49 percent of a new era in Mar yland athletics.

And with two brand new coaches leading the university’s most visible athvoters in the “Love ’em” categor y, against 42 percent choosing “Hate ’em” (10 percent said “Who cares”). Nationally, sportswriters seemed to spend letic teams — football and men’s basketball — Monday night’s season more time analyzing the uniforms than the performances of the players who opener and the packed stadium of screaming fans gives hope that this new wore them, and over whelmingly panned the new style. Perhaps predictably, era will reinvigorate the school’s reputation as an athletic power, not just a student population that loves to riot. many students and fans seemed to applaud the design.

University president Wallace Loh once referred to the athletic departBut as the old adage says, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

Even before the unveiling, the campus seemed to buzz with anticipation: ment as the school’s front porch.

If last night is any indication, it seems as though quite a few people may Byrd Stadium sold out for the first time since 2009 — and fans arrived in full force, despite driving rain throughout the evening. The recent scandal at soon be knocking on the front door.

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Textbooks: To buy or not to buy?

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ith each new class comes a new list of “required” readings.

Some are long, but list mostly cheap books; others are short, but require books you’d have to sell your dog to purchase.

Whatever the case, a semester’s worth of books costs a lot of cash.

Now, I could sit here and bitch about how textbook company executives are assholes and how the professors who see the need to require 10 books for one class can play in traffic, but I won’t.

Instead, as I enter my last year in college, it’s time to uncover the hidden and dark secret I discovered years ago: You don’t have to, and you shouldn’t, buy all the required books listed in your syllabi.

Shocker, I know. I’ll give you a second to catch your breath. (Pause.)

OK, now we’re good. During my first semester, I don’t know if I was stupid or naive, but I purchased every textbook listed for every course before I even stepped foot in the classroom. That $500 textbook

JOSH BIRCH bill turned out to be a waste of money because in that semester, I opened four of the 16 books I had purchased.

From then on, I slowly discovered a method I could use to determine whether a textbook was actually going to be “required” to pass the class, and if so, how to spend the least amount of money to get it. So here we go, make sure you take good notes.

First, wait until you actually attend one session of each class before deciding what textbooks to get. Even in my senior-level classes this year, there are brown-nosers who pile their books on their desks in the first class meeting to show the professor what excellent students they are. But if you wait, you can hear what the professor has to say about each book, which gives you an idea of which books will

be the most important.

For example, if many of the readings come from one book, you may be inclined to suck it up and buy it.

But if you’ll be done with said book only two weeks into class, then you’re probably better off bumming it from a friend for a few afternoons.

Similarly, if you know a term paper will rely on information from a specific book, it’s probably a smart idea to go purchase that bad boy.

Once you discover what textbooks you actually need, your next thought is probably about where to find them for the least money. The bookstores on the campus all flaunt that they have the lowest prices, when in fact, they don’t. I have purchased books from every book seller around the campus, BookHolders included, and have discovered they are all liars who charge a lot for books while offering “buy-back” gimmicks even though they know they won’t give you a fair price for them come the end of the semester.

So, where are you supposed to buy the damn things?

Glad you asked. Buying textbooks online is the cheapest and most efficient method I have found. Amazon has almost every book you could want for relatively cheap prices. If, however, you’ll only need the required text for two or three weeks and then you’ll be done with it, my advice is ordering it through Chegg.

As long as you return the book to Chegg within 21 days, you get a full refund (read: free books!).

Different people have different ways of determining which books to get and discovering the cheapest way to get them. But personally, I know I will not be purchasing all of my 32 “required” textbooks this semester.

If you take nothing else from this column, just remember one thing: Save yourself time and money by only getting the books that will actually be required to pass.

Now you know the secret. Just don’t tell my professors.

Josh Birch is a senior communication and history major. He can be reached at birch@umdbk.com.

O’Malley’s civil marriage support: Too little, too late

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ver summer break, thanks to the leadership and adept political skills of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that state made history by becoming the largest yet to legalize marriage for same-sex couples.

Tears, Champagne and a hint (OK, more than a hint) of glitter flowed throughout the Empire State as LGBT people and their allies celebrated both New York City pride and their major legislative victory.

But as I watched the images of loving couples celebrating their newfound freedom to marry, I found myself angry that similar celebrations did not occur this past March in Annapolis. With Democratic majorities in both houses of the General Assembly, it was upsetting that Gov. Martin O’Malley would not go further to help his LGBT (and LGBTfriendly) constituents.

Instead of forcefully advocating for the bill, he took the position of preferring civil unions, although he said he would sign a civil marriage bill if it was passed in the legislature. Yet it seems that after seeing all the posi-

tive media attention given to Cuomo in the wake of his significant legislative victory, O’Malley decided to change his tune, declaring he would sponsor the same-sex marriage bill in this year’s legislative session.

As part of his efforts, O’Malley is hosting a fundraiser tonight for Equality Maryland, Maryland’s leading LGBT civil rights organization. It is likely he will deliver remarks about how he believes that all of his constituents, regardless of sexual orientation, should have the right to marry the person they love. Yet these words ring a bit hollow, not only to his current constituents, but to any potential supporters he might have in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary if he decides to run.

There’s been heavy speculation that both O’Malley and Cuomo will throw their hats into the ring in 2016, but nationally, progressives have seen a clear contrast in leadership style and legislative skill between these two (assumed) top future contenders for the Democratic nomination regarding marriage equality — an issue many care about deeply.

MATT ARNSTINE Examining how these two men have handled the often contentious issue of same-sex marriage will be important for those of us concerned with who will emerge as a national leader of the Democratic Party.

In New York, Cuomo cajoled a reluctant Republican-controlled state senate to organize an ultimately successful vote. He assisted pro-equality supporters by recording video messages and sending out emails to his supporters. Additionally, he organized all of the leading LGBT and progressive organizations to form a coalition, which prevented infighting and misinformation and increased coordination between the groups.

In contrast, O’Malley couldn’t even swing a few Democratic members of the House of Delegates to vote his

way during the 2011 winter legislative session. Help from the governor’s top staffers was nearly nonexistent, and equality advocates found themselves with a governor unwilling to use his bully pulpit to advance their cause.

His recent support is welcome, but if O’Malley has any presidential ambitions, he better make sure he wins this legislative fight. So please, no more half-hearted efforts. With national progressives dissatisfied that current national Democratic leaders (cough cough, President Barack Obama) have not gone to the mat for issues near and dear to their hearts, they will be looking for a presidential candidate who spends political capital, who gets out in front of an issue and who is not afraid to stand up for what he or she believes in.

Governor O’Malley, if you do not get a victor y this year on marriage equality, that person certainly won’t be you.

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

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he president of the United States is going for broke. With a stagnant August raising fears of a recession relapse, Barack Obama prepares to unveil his plan for economic revival to Congress tomorrow. He likely hopes to break through in what is a desperate effort to initiate his political renaissance.

Presidential elections are supposed to be about choices, but Obama’s miscalculations have set up a referendum on his presidency in 2012. Assuming voters are still paying attention, the probability of his re-election prospects will be measured on the perceived success of his speech.

Why is the president in such a precarious situation 14 months before Election Day? There are 6.9 million fewer jobs today than there were at the beginning of the recession. Long-term unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. Economists now say the recession was worse than they thought.

The administration’s first miscalculation was assuming this was a typical recession, when actually, the Great Recession was a financial crisis caused by an unbalanced economy that depended on too much debt and too much consumption. In their book This Time Is Dif ferent, economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart examined recoveries from past financial crises and found they usually take at least seven years.

Economics is a dismal science, but the initial, fundamental misunderstanding of the situation set the stage for disappointment.

The president should not be blamed for the recession. Rather, the federal government’s ultralow interest rates, misguided regulation and economic mismanagement over the previous decade sowed its seeds.

Nevertheless, Obama is fighting for political sur vival because he failed at what he promised. His administration was seduced into believing that massive government inter vention to rescue the economy would restore faith in central planning. But nearly three years later, after spending trillions of dollars in stimulus money, unemployment stands at 9.1 percent, economic growth is stalling, and the public’s trust in government is at historic lows.

The stimulus package stopped the hemorrhaging, but its misallocation of funds — combined with an imprudent health-care bill — imposed ruinous uncertainty on the United States’ job creators. At this point, saying things could have been worse is not an argument but an admission of defeat.

Some of Obama’s supporters want him to act decisively tomorrow. Instead, he should eschew short-term fixes. For too long, the public has been misled to believe presidents can have short-term impacts on the economy.

But Obama should acknowledge that even with rapid economic growth, the combination of high overall debt, low consumer confidence and a profound structural absence of skills will cause unemployment to decline only marginally. There is no “job switch” in the White House basement for Obama to flip.

Rather, he should emphasize the fundamentals for sustainable long-term growth: a simpler tax code; a lower corporate tax rate; free-trade deals; a stronger push for his education reforms and targeted investments in research and human capital — all within a framework of entitlement reform.

Long-term thinking is uncomfortable for politicians seeking quick results, but we need a new direction, not more of the same.

Obama has been in this perilous position before. Pundits said a failure to pass health-care reform would render him obsolete. They said a national default on his watch would destroy his leadership standing. In each of these cases, he managed to hang on.

But this time is different.

Americans are about to go shopping for a president again. Unless Obama can convince the millions who are out of work and the millions more who are still struggling that he knows what he’s doing, voters will return him to the obscurity from which he rose.

Andres Feijoo is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at andres.feijoo@gmail.com.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Your fine memory is not likely to fail you as you conjure images from the past that support a current ideological project.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — What is asked of you is not likely to be anything out of the ordinary, though it may be dressed

up in fancy new clothes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — That which was lost is likely to be found — and you’ll have good reason to thank a friend who has kept you sane during the search.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — The work you do will be colored by emotional currents that you are only beginning to be aware of in a subtle but pervasive way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You want to hear the truth, but the truth itself is far more complex at this time than you or anyone else might have expected.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’ll progress according to a fixed schedule of accomplishment and study, and if either is out of balance, much is likely to be threatened.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Strategy is the key, and if you make the mistake of thinking that you can improvise everything, then success will be elusive.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll be compelled to explore issues that are not usually all that interesting to you — but now they are really heating up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — The options you are facing may not be all that exciting, but you can trust someone who tells you that they are as good as gold for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Money matters may be quite pressing at this time, but you’ll know how to put yourself in the driver’s seat in a small but important way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may not be expected to excel, but you have what it takes to surprise not only your critics but also your most vocal supporters as well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Conflict of any kind is unnecessary — and though some may seek it out for some reason, you are best to steer clear at all costs.

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ROUTES from page 1 downtown College Park, stopping at both Knox and Hartwick Towers. Now, it turns right on Regents Drive and heads into South Campus to stop at the Mitchell Building, Memorial Chapel and Montgomery Hall before heading north on Route 1 toward the University View. The Orange Line bus also now bypasses the downtown area, stopping at Elkton Hall, Regents Drive Garage and Montgomery Hall before heading back to Stamp Student Union.

According to David Allen, the Department of Transportation Services director, the department

changed the routes after examining ridership numbers, which showed most students exit the Orange Line bus at Montgomery Hall instead of continuing downtown. The Blue Line route has been altered to cater to the new high-rise apartments north of Campus Drive on Route 1. Allen was unable to provide data on changes in ridership numbers yesterday afternoon.

DOTS made the decisions, Allen said, in conjunction with student representatives from the Residence Hall Association, Student Government Association and Graduate Student Government at their annual meeting at the end of last semester.

“They all agreed this was a good change,” Allen said, adding that

their meeting at the end of this year will determine if the new routes stay or go. “We’ll evaluate any changes and do any tweaking .”

By cutting down on spots seldom used by students, Allen said DOTS is able to get travelers to their destinations faster.

“We found that we could have more runs and move more people if we didn’t go as far into the city as we have in the past,” Allen said.

“By making that the ending stop, it made that bus more efficient in carrying more people because it didn’t have to go through some of the traffic downtown.”

Graduate student Jordan Polk said the changes create a nicer route without the bar crowds.

“It’s a good thing, because let’s say you’re not coming from the

bars, it might cut down on obnoxious bus behavior — loud, intoxicated people.”

Julian Capps, outreach and marketing director for the View, said routine alterations to bus routes help DOTS better serve the campus community.

“As far as the View is concerned, we want our residents to get out and go wherever they’re going easier, faster,” Capps said.

However, not all students were happy to hear about the changes.

“I’m confused. It took me like a year to figure out the bus routes, and now they’ve changed,” said sophomore letters and sciences major Danielle Rosenthal. “They shouldn’t have done it.” foley@umdbk.com

The Orange and Blue lines are now taking different routes due to changing ridership trends. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

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SWANS @ SONAR If your Thursday evening needs a dash of crushing depression and unrelenting — but beautiful — noise, be sure to visit Baltimore for the great Swans, performing at Sonar tomorrow. Regrouped last year for a new album, the seminal experimental band has evolved from its no wave beginnings for a more refined art-rock experience.

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PREVIEW | PATTI LUPONE

A life on the stage Singer and actress Patti LuPone has spent her entire career in front of an audience

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Senior staff writer

Patti LuPone wants nothing more than to tell a good story.

Kicking off the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s 10th anniversary season Saturday night in the Dekelboum Concert Hall, LuPone will be telling a story she knows very well — the story of her own career — in Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.

“It chronicles my career from the very first time I set foot on the stage and the songs I have been singing since I was old enough to sing,” the singer and actress said.

“And then, of course, the ones that I wanted to sing.”

The songs are paired with LuPone recalling her career, including her time spent at the Juilliard School and early auditions. When asked how she could decide what to include in one career-summing performance, LuPone had an instant

answer.

“Just the truth, just the truth,” she said. “And the truth is always funny.”

The award-winning actress has thought long and hard about the roles that passed her by and hopes the audience enjoys her takes on songs that “may not be associated with [her].”

The only way to find out what those songs are, however, is to see the live show. LuPone doesn’t want to tip her hand with a set list.

“I never like to see a set list in a program because more often than not people are looking at the program and not listening,” she said.

“You make it a surprise. Make them listen. Avoid the paper.”

LuPone has a good reason to want the audience to take ever ything in — they are her driving force. She describes audiences as “an integral part” of her performances — a new group of people to listen and share her stor y with.

LuPone expressed an affection for the activity and vigor found on college campuses.

“There’s just great vibrancy and energy and life and future on campuses,” she said. “I’m hoping that music students, the kids who want to go into the business, are in the audience.”

No matter who fills the concert hall, LuPone wants to fulfill her role as stor yteller. It might well be the most important part of her job.

“The actor’s job has been done well if they told a story,” she said.

“That’s all it is, I swear to God.” Patti LuPone will perform Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Dekelboum Concert Hall in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. It will be preceded by a Champagne toast at 7:15 p.m. in the Grand Pavilion.

Tickets start at $50 for visitors and cost $9 for students. afreedman@umdbk.com

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REVIEW | GRIFF THE INVISIBLE

Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) plays Griff in the Australian export Griff the Invisible. The film explores the psychological troubles of the title character, who acts as a costume-wearing, crime-fighting vigilante in his free time. PHOTO COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB.COM

Reality bites Melody’s grasp on reality may be just as tenuous as Griff’s, but in her heart she understands the lunacy of Griff’s heroic missions.

If you were to combine the premise of Kick- But she does one thing that no one else has Ass — a regular guy pretending to be a super- ever done for Griff. She support his lifestyle hero — with the quirky relationship in (500) by understanding that his beliefs may not be Days of Summer and Black Swan’s penchant right as deemed by society, but they are right for showcasing mental instability, you may for him.

Grif f the Invisible is end up with something mostly a comedy, but also resembling the Australian VERDICT: explores heavy psychologiindie flick Grif f the Invisible. It’s director-writer Griff the Invisible is an enjoyably cal themes. Who is to say Leon Ford’s first feature- quirky exploration of newfound that Griff isn’t normal just because he sees things diflength film — and it shows romance and superhero troubles. ferently than the average great promise for the budperson? He and Melody may be playing gloriding filmmaker.

Quirky doesn’t even begin to describe Griff fied dress-up, but if it gets them through the (Ryan Kwanten, True Blood), a soul ver y day, who has the right to stop them?

Kwanten displays an ability much disconnected with reality.

On the surface, Griff is an average office to tiptoe the line between drone who has the social skills of Dwight innocence and madness Schrute and is a prime bullying target for his that may earn him a alpha male coworker Tony (Toby Schmitz, career post-True Blood.

LBF). In his spare time, he wears a black and Dermody is a revelayellow latex body suit with a large letter G on tion, imbuing Melody his chest and tries to rid the streets of crime with the same spacey style as Griff but with and injustice.

Enter Melody (Maeve Dermody, Beautiful slightly more awareness.

Kate), his brother’s girlfriend, Tim (Patrick Their chemistr y holds the Brammall, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better). film together.

Griff the Invisible’s trippy head Melody, like Griff, views the world in a different way than most: She sincerely believes in games and unusual characters will not be for the unbelievable and is constantly hurting everyone, but those that give the film a chance herself, tr ying to arrange her atoms in such a will find a sweet story about two people finding way that will allow her to walk through walls. love by realizing the way they see the world is She and Griff immediately form a connection not a problem, but a gift to be cherished. unlike anything either of them has ever known before. diversions@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

NOTEBOOK from page 10 ruled Eticha, who trained with the No. 2 Terps (4-0) this summer, eligible to play at 3 p.m.

Friday, only four hours before the Terps took the field in front of the second-largest crowd in program history.

“He only just got cleared, so we haven’t been able to announce him,” Cirovski said after the Stanford game.

The D.C. United Academy member seems set to join an already deep midfield rotation. Cirovski, looking to rebuild his team’s middle third after losing every regular starter last offseason, had been playing as many as eight midfielders a night.

With the addition of Eticha, that number should rise to nine. He has seen playing time during the second half of his first two matches, and he was the third midfielder off the bench in both occasions, coming in after freshmen Alex Shinsky and Dan Metzger.

Eticha immigrated to the Washington area several years ago and attended the Steward School in Richmond, Va. He played three matches with D.C. United’s reserves this summer and also starred for United’s under-18 team.

“He’s a hidden gem in this area,” Cirovski said of Eticha, who has four years of eligibility remaining. “He’s an unknown outside of the Capital Beltway area, but he is a player.”

the Terps to the 2005 and 2008 national titles and has six College Cup appearances and four ACC titles.

Still, the 2005 NSCAA National Coach of the Year said he wouldn’t allow the milestone to distract him from his primary focus: Friday’s ACC opener against Boston College.

“To me, it’s just a number,” Cirovski said. “Right now, the most important thing is that we’re 4-0. We’ve got to get ready for Boston College.”

MR. 300 LEE AILING Cirovski picked up career win No. 300 when the No. 4 Terps outlasted Radford, 2-1, on Sunday.

The win pushed him to No. 10 on the all-time wins list among active Division I men’s soccer coaches.

Before Sunday, he was tied with Boston coach Neil Roberts, who is in his 27th season helming the Terriers.

Since arriving at this university in 1993, Cirovski has transformed a once-struggling program into a national power. He coached

The Terps’ backline took a major hit Friday night when defender Alex Lee left midway through the second half with an undisclosed leg injury.

The senior co-captain arrived at Sunday’s 2-1 win over Radford in street clothes, and Cirovski has yet to announce a timetable for his return.

“He wasn’t ready to play today, and he’s going to be monitored throughout the week,” Cirovski said after the game. “We don’t have all the details of the testing done

“If you’re not getting the minutes, your number could be called at any time.”

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yet, with the weekend being as hectic as it was.”

Cirovski opted to start freshman Kyle Roach in Lee’s defensive slot, and in his first minutes of the season, Roach proved effective.

The Highlanders’ lone score, a 20-yard rocket from midfielder Anthony Payne in the 61st minute, was their only shot on goal.

“I think [Roach] did a great job,” Cirovski said. “He’s a testament to what I tell the guys: ‘If you’re not getting the minutes, your number could be called any time.’”

Coach Missy Meharg has moved former attacker Hayley Turner to central defense this year. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Meharg’s experiment could power backline Turner evolving in move from attack

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BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

With two wins last weekend, coach Sasho Cirovski has 300 total as a coach in his career. That mark ranks No. 10 on the all-time wins list among active Division I men’s soccer coaches. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

FERRARA from page 10 in front of 52,875 and a national television audience could mitigate the impact of any additional pressure he may face down the road.

His performance Monday wasn’t flawless — Ferrara’s short kickoffs often yielded solid field position for the Hurricanes and drew criticism from Edsall in his teleconference yesterday — but Ferrara showed his potential to help lead the Terps’ special teams as the squad looks to reach new heights under its firstyear coach.

“I have a lot of confidence in Nick,” Edsall said. “Nick has the ability, and I have complete confidence in him once we get into his range.”

T E R P S N O T E : Edsall announced yesterday that defensive end Isaiah Ross and tight end Dave Stinebaugh will have surger y in the coming days.

Stinebaugh’s shoulder surger y will end his season, while Ross’s appears less dire. Edsall didn’t elaborate on Ross’s injur y, but the junior put no weight on his left leg as he was helped off the field on Monday. cwalsh@umdbk.com

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Last season was more of the same for Hayley Turner. As a freshman forward on the topranked Terrapins field hockey team, she started frequently and contributed regularly to a prolific Terps attack, something she’d done throughout a successful youth career in England. In the team’s national championship tilt, Turner was the first to grace the scoreline.

But as the Terps attempt to defend that title this season, Turner will be asked to do the same thing: defend.

In a move that began as an experiment to try a lifelong attacking presence at central defense, coach Missy Meharg has found Turner’s conversion to be an unexpected boost for a rebuilding backline.

“Our needs on the field were for developing backfield players,” Meharg said. “Her anticipator y skills, her intercepting, her hitting, her technical skills … she’s doing tremendously well.”

Her smooth transition has been a positive in the No. 3 Terps’ (3-1) first four contests, due in large part to Turner’s offensive ability. Having spent last season at forward, Turner understands the nuances of a team’s attack, and fellow defender Ali McEvoy said that allows Turner to use her speed to intercept passes.

Turner is still adapting to some of the fundamental skills of the position, Meharg said, but both agreed the switch will benefit the Terps in the long run.

“Each game for her is a learning opportunity from that vision on the field, which is ver y different,” Meharg said. “She’s still working on

the communication piece, because she’s just not quite sure. When she starts to get experiences from game settings, then she’s going to be right on the money.”

“I miss playing forward, but it was a good transition for me,” Turner said. “I feel now that defense is probably my preferred position to attack. I feel like I’m more utilized, and I enjoy it way more.”

Three of the team’s top defenders from 2010 — Amanda Himmelheber, Alicia Morawski and Lauren Barr — are no longer with the team, so Turner’s acclimation to the defense has become all the more important. Along with returning defenders Harriet Tibble and McEvoy, Turner will be charged with keeping the Terps as a force on the defensive end.

“We just continually work together,” McEvoy said. “I think our defense has an open mind to everything, and we’re able to communicate very easily to each other, demand things from each other and keep pushing each other.”

With an attack unit still struggling to get on the same page, the Terps’ defense this season will again be critical to their postseason chances.

Turner’s development as a new defender, though, will be a variable that’s just as crucial in that effort.

“She wants to learn,” Meharg said. “She’s so athletic. She’s very fast, really fluid, and I think she’ll be very good.”

“This is my first time in the defensive line, so I see a completely different perspective,” Turner said. “Last year I wasn’t seeing things from the backfield, so it’s completely new. …

I’m still learning.” vitale@umdbk.com

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Sports

Turgeon snags top-60 F In athletic forward Jake Layman, the Terps men’s basketball team added another member to its 2012 class. See more at TerrapinTrail.com.

FOOTBALL

In his return, Ferrara looks like old self After forgettable season last year, junior opens 2011 with game winner

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

With the memory of a season spent on the bench only adding to the uncertainty stemming from a shanked chip shot just minutes earlier in the fourth quarter, the possibility of failure was very real as kicker Nick Ferrara stepped up to a potential game-winning field goal with 99 seconds left on the clock Monday night.

“I think sometimes Nick is his own worst enemy when he thinks too much,” Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall said of the junior.

If there were nerves, they didn’t show. Ferrara took advantage of the opportunity to get his career in College Park off to a fresh start, knocking home a 32-yard field goal that proved decisive and putting to rest a sophomore season he’d just as soon forget.

“It made me go harder at it,” Ferrara said this preseason of a year spent mainly watching Travis Baltz do his old job. “I’m just really a lot more focused than I was last year.

“All of last year I feel like it’s a blur. We were watching film on it and it was like I wasn’t even here last season.”

Considering the rollercoaster Ferrara has ridden since arriving in College Park, Monday’s performance in the Terps’ 32-24 victory served as a fitting transition back into the limelight.

After starting for the Terps in a successful freshman campaign in 2009, a preseason groin injury left Ferrara behind Baltz as the team’s No. 2 place-kicker last season.

And while he remained in uniform as a kickoff specialist

after his injury, Ferrara didn’t attempt a single field goal.

With that frustration fresh in his memory, Ferrara’s performance to lead the Terps over Miami proved a best-case scenario for his confidence.

“It builds up. It’s definitely a stepping stone, a first step just to build on and just keep going forward,” Ferrara said Monday night. “It’s perfect I got off on the right foot because that’s important for a kicker.”

That confidence boost became only more important for the colorful kicker considering the position he had put his team in early in the fourth quarter.

After the Terps’ offense stalled — again — in Miami’s red zone, Ferrara was unable to convert a short field goal that would have put the Terps ahead by five points.

Instead, the Hurricanes took over and marched down the field for a go-ahead field goal.

But after quarterback Danny O’Brien connected on a long strike down the right sideline to wide receiver Kevin Dorsey, Ferrara got his second chance.

And this time, despite increasingly heavy rainfall and mounting pressure as the clock ticked down, he delivered.

“It’s probably one of the most difficult things for kickers when it’s rainy weather because you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Ferrara said. “[But] as soon as I went in, I was just comfortable.”

Ferrara admitted after ward that the pressure of kicking in front of a packed stadium still sneaks into his mind — “Every single play is hit or miss,” he said — but converting a field goal of that magnitude

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MEN’S SOCCER | NOTEBOOK

Coach Sasho Cirovski called new midfielder Mikias Eticha “a hidden gem in the area.” CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Weeks after season’s start, Terps add Eticha

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

The Terrapins men’s soccer team’s public-address announcer found himself in an awkward situation midway through the second half of Friday’s 4-0 win over Stanford.

As Bob Johnson glanced at the Terps’ roster, the name of the player trotting onto Ludwig Field — No. 9 — was mysteriously absent.

Recognizing his responsibility to announce all substitutions, Johnson improvised.

“Entering the game for the Terrapins is … No. 9,” he said.

After the game, coach Sasho Cirovski identified the young man behind the number: Mikias Eticha, an 18-year-old midfielder from Ethiopia.

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Kicker Nick Ferrara hit four of five field goals Monday night, including the decisive 32-yarder.

STILL KICKIN’ Kicker Nick Ferrara’s career in College Park has been anything but steady.

Here’s a breakdown of the junior’s stats up to this point in his still-young career: Freshman (2009) FGs: 18-for-25 XPs: 26-for-26 Started at placekicker in 12 games Started at punter in five games Sophomore (2010) FGs: 0-for-0 XPs: 0-for-0 Served as kickoff specialist in 11 games after groin injury during preseason Junior (2011) FGs: 4-for-5 XPs: 2-for-2 Also started as punter vs. Miami

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