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Navy Yard shooting leaves 13 dead, 8 injured Suspected gunman among those found dead; police increase security around campus Monday

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At about 8 a.m., witnesses said a gunman began shooting at Building 197 in the Navy Yard in southeast Prince George’s County police Washington and moved from buildramped up security Monday after a ing to building firing at employees, shooting rampage at the Navy Yard in according to The Washington Post.

Washington left at least 13 people dead. Amid the chaos, the base and several

nearby schools and government buildings were placed on lockdown.

As of printing, at least 13 were killed and 8 injured, according to The Washington Post. Suspected gunman Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old military contractor from Fort Worth, Texas, was among those killed.

T he P ri nce G eorge’s Cou nty Police Department increased its

presence at the county’s Metro stations and was prepared to dispatch officers to Washington if needed, said Harry Bond, police officer first class. By 3:15 p.m. Monday, the county department was back to norma l operations, he sa id, except for the increased patrol at the stations.

On the campus, University Police

spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis said the department remained alert by patrolling in places where police are highly visible to the general public, monitoring campus entrances for potential vehicles on watch lists and checking more than 300 of the surveillance cameras around the campus. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Wallace loh, university president, announces police jurisdiction updates Monday. james levin/the diamondback

Univ Police jurisdiction will expand County police will join effort to enforce larger student conduct code brian bertges, a U.S. Army veteran, Penn State alumnus and this university’s veteran student life coordinator, says his position combines his passion about education and veterans. kelsey hughes/for the diamondback

serving those who serve nity Council, worked for Teach for America for four years and worked with the American Legion on veterans’ benefits.

What really allowed him to enjoy his college experience, he said, was not just academics, but also getting involved, which he believes is true for all veteran students.

“I’m very passionate about education, and I’m very passionate

University President Wallace Loh and government officials announced Monday that the University Police jurisdiction would expand to cover several areas surrounding the campus, in conjunction with the start of expanded jurisdiction for the university’s student conduct code.

Under the new policy, University Police have concurrent jurisdiction with Prince George’s County Police over Lakeland, Berwyn, Crystal Springs and Calvert Hills, as well as a lengthened stretch of Route 1 — meaning both police departments will have enforcement power in those areas.

The expansion adds about one extra

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Brian Bertges, university veteran student life coordinator, works to make troops feel comfortable on campus

By Darcy Costello @dctello Staff writer On Sept. 11, 2001, Brian Bertges was settling into his first semester back at college following a fouryear stint as a U.S. Army combat medic. The towers crashed down, the nation changed and Bertges waited for a phone call.

On inactive reserve at the time, Bertges, who became veteran

student life coordinator at this university this summer, said he anticipated getting called back into service.

“I was more than willing to go back, but I had just gotten out of the military,” Bertges said. “So I said, ‘If they call me, they call me.

If they don’t, I’m gonna get my education.’”

Ultimately, Bertges was not called to duty, but the absence of that phone call gave him the chance

to dive into campus life at Penn State. And that, he said, is an opportunity he would like to extend to veterans at this university.

“Coming back from my service, that was one of the things I was most worried about: ‘Will I fit in?’” he said.

Bertges found a home on the Penn State campus with the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. In addition to serving in the Army as a noncommissioned officer, Bertges was president of Penn State’s InterFrater-

Graduate student running for City Council this fall

Administrators seek more online courses in partnership

Popkin wants city to achieve untapped potential versity and student officials came together in a Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Workgroup that focused on solving such issues, With positions in the SGA and among other problems.

Popkin said these tensions are the University Senate already under his belt, graduate student Matthew one of the main factors holding back Popkin is now vying for a seat on the College Park. He sees College Park as a city with lost potential because it City Council.

Popkin publicly announced his holds a “first-rate public university” candidacy Monday for one of the and is located close to Washington.

Popk i n’s ca mpa ig n platform two District 3 seats in the upcomfocuses on five main areas: addressing ing City Council election on Nov. 5.

He is the first university student strained student-resident relations, to run since 2009, when District 4 improving public safety, advocatCouncilman Marcus Afzali ran as a ing for well-planned development, simplifying local transportation and graduate student.

The announcement comes at a time building a sustainable community.

When it comes to city tensions, when the city is experiencing tension between students and residents, es- Popkin said many of the ideas are pecially in the area encompassed by already present — the neighborhood District 3. In the spring, city, uni- work group released a list of 63 sug-

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matthew popkin, public policy graduate student and District 3 City Council candidate, is the first student to run since 2009. photo courtesy of matthew popkin gestions covering student relations, public safety and housing. Some suggestions are already on their ways to implementation, such as expanding the Code of Student Conduct and implementing a pilot program for oncampus tailgating, but there hasn’t been enough discussion about the other suggestions, Popkin said.

“I want to be at the forefront of See popkin, Page 3

Though lecture halls at this university can fit up to nearly 400 students, those class sizes pale in comparison to the future of higher education, if MOOC enrollments are any indication.

As the Internet becomes an increasingly relevant aspect of higher education, administrators are placing greater emphasis on offering massive open online courses, classes that are taught online and can include an unlimited number of students. Starting next year, this university will partner with Vanderbilt University to offer a new series of MOOCs focused on mobile applications and cloud computing.

The university has already partnered with Coursera to develop free

courses open to students on the campus and around the world alike.

Along with the upcoming Vanderbilt collaboration, the university will add MOOCs on terrorism and religion in addition to offering four of the five Coursera classes offered this past spring.

Adam Porter, a computer science professor, already has 25,000 students enrolled in his first MOOC, “Programming Handheld Systems with Android,” which will begin in January.

“It’s a whole new thing and a new way to approach teaching,” Porter said. “I’m more excited about teaching than I’ve been in awhile.”

Gary LaFree, who will also teach his first MOOC, “Understanding the Terrorist Threat,” said he has a few reservations about teaching to See ONLINE, Page 3

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square mile of jurisdiction for campus police, said University Police Chief David Mitchell. To better patrol these areas where students live, Mitchell said, the department added eight officers, two police cars and a patrol motorcycle.

That’s a step forward for community security, said Loh, who was joined by representatives from the city, county, state and university governments.

“Ours is a safe community,” Loh said, citing a five-year decline in burglary rates. “This initiative is to make our community even safer.”

The announcement of the new boundaries also marks the formal beginning of the off-campus expansion of the university’s Code of Student Conduct, said Andrea Goodwin, director of student conduct.

Though the expansion of the student conduct code’s jurisdiction passed in the University Senate in the spring, Goodwin said the Office of Student Conduct hadn’t started using its updated disciplinary system until a few days ago.

In conjunction with the expansion of police jurisdiction, the code’s own expansion would now begin in earnest, Goodwin said.

Because University Police has a wider jurisdiction than before, Goodwin said she anticipated the department would make more referrals to her office. Over the summer, her office hired a full-time coordinator to prepare for the possibility of a higher caseload.

University Police’s expanded concurrent jurisdiction also affects city and county residents and governments. Residents in Berwyn, for instance, will now have extra police patrols in their neighborhood.

Be fo re L o h s i g n e d t h e conduct code expansion in May, several students in the

about veterans,” Bertges said. “You put them together, and you get my job.”

In his brief time as veteran student life coordinator, Bertges has focused on student groups and helped students as individuals, said Alex Nielson, treasurer of Terp Vets. Bertges helped Nielson fix miscommunications regarding his scholarship by arguing on Nielson’s behalf with the bursar’s office.

“It makes a huge difference being able to work with someone who intimately understands what we’re trying to do [in TerpVets] and who really gets what we as veterans are going through,” said Nielson, a senior biology major.

Bertges’ ultimate goal is to make the university a top school for veterans nationally and even globally.

“I really think the university can achieve that, and we’re going to work towards it relentlessly,” he said. “I want veterans to not only feel comfortable transitioning into the

POLICE OFFICIALS David Mitchell, University Police chief, and Barry Stanton, county deputy chief administrative officer of public safety, sign legislation expanding the Code of Student Conduct and the campus police department’s jurisdiction. james levin/the diamondback University Senate spoke out aggressively against it.

Jessica Cox, a graduate student senator, called the expansion a “Pandora’s box,” worrying it was designed as an instrument to double-prosecute students for largely benign offenses. Others feared it would give Goodwin too much discretionary enforcement power.

But the officials who spoke said the conduct code’s expansion was meant to be an asset for students as much as for frustrated residents of the city.

“What this does is give us another tool to work with,” Mitchell said.

If University Police officers wanted to, Mitchell said, they could process hundreds of underage drinking cases on any given Terrapins football game day. But they don’t, he said, preferring to keep their focus on more serious cases of dangerous intoxication.

Even in those situations, M itchell said his prefer-

ence was to ensure students receive medical attention and a referral to the Office of Student Conduct — not public prosecution.

University discipline is not subject to the same public examinations as law enforcement records, which he said would let students “move forward” without a scarred record.

“It’s also for the benefit of the students that they face the student conduct board but not the normal judicial process,” Loh said.

Any public safety measures the university takes, Loh said, can only be effective if they’re done with input and cooperation from local governments and residents.

“We cannot move forward unless we move forward with our partners,” Loh said. “We cannot do it on our own, and for that matter, neither can our partners.” akirshnerdbk@gmail.com

school environment, but I want them to transfer into a career and be 100 percent ready.”

Bertges plans to focus on creating dialogue with veterans, his first order of business when he assumed the position this summer. Bertges, along with the team of coordinators, worked to revamp this semester’s new veteran student orientation, making a concerted effort to push veteran student involvement with the community.

“Brian really talks to the students; it’s just the way he is. He asks them what they’d like to see, what they’re looking for,” said Joe Alemany, graduate coordinator of veteran student life and a second-year doctoral student studying public health.

“He’s actually making strides, putting himself out there to the people he’s serving.”

Though Bertges once dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, he said he eventually realized it wasn’t necessarily being a doctor that he was interested in. It was helping people and living a life dedicated to servant leadership — something he continues to do at this university, one step at a time.

“We as people can really change each others’ lives, and

BRIAN BERTGES, coordinator of veteran student life. kelsey hughes/for the diamondback

“Brian really talks to the students; it’s just the way he is. ... he’s actually making strides, putting himself out there to the people he’s serving.”

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Graduate coordinator of veteran student life even now, being here in the college community, you can impact any person on campus in a positive way,” Bertges said.

“It’s not easy to go out of your way to help somebody, but if you make that difference in somebody’s life, you may not know it, but they’ll thank you for the rest of their lives.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

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ONLINE From PAGE 1 an audience of thousands of students.

“The subject matter of this course is potentially controversial, particularly when you open it up to the whole planet,” said LaFree, professor of criminology and criminal justice and director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. “I could potentially have more students in this one course than I’ve had in my entire teaching career.”

Professors won’t be able to have much one-on-one contact with the students because of

the large size of the courses, so the responsibility to learn is placed entirely on students, Porter said.

Most people who enroll in MOOCs don’t fit the demographic of a typical undergraduate student, Porter said. They are usually older, often with full-time jobs, and are taking the course simply because they are interested in the material.

Even though a MOOC can be a great opportunity for someone who wants to learn, Porter said, it will never replace the experience of physically attending a university.

“People grow up here on campus, they take a wide variety of classes, participate

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in activities, they have time to talk to other people,” he said.

“It’s a different experience than someone who would go into their basement for four years and watch a lot of videos. There’s a lot of value in MOOCs, but I don’t know if it’s the same.”

But there may be a happy medium between online and traditional classrooms, Porter said. He teaches an on-campus programming class as a “flipped classroom,” or a blended learning course that combines online elements with an in-class experience.

“The most valuable resource we have is that face-to-face time in the classroom where

the professors and students are working together,” he said.

Porter records videos of his lectures and posts them online for students to watch before coming to class, freeing up class time for discussion and group projects, he said.

But some students who have taken other blended learning classes said they often just create a lot of unnecessary extra work.

“I feel like it’s just creating more busy work,” said Nusheen Majidi, a junior kinesiology and public relations major, who has taken several online and blended learning classes. “It doesn’t make sense to add that in addition to the hours you’re already spending in the classroom.”

Classes taught solely online have been difficult for some students because online versions lack the structure of a regular class.

“It takes so much more willpower to sit down on your computer and listen to an online lecture,” said Eve Kronzek, a junior hearing and speech sciences major. “A lot of information is lost when you’re not sitting in front of the instructor listening to the lecture and being able to ask questions whenever you want.”

Adding an online component to a class can be beneficial, though, if the teacher knows h ow to s u p p l e m e n t i n class material with online information, she said.

Though some online courses and MOOCs seem to be encroaching on traditional teaching styles, others view the Internet as another option for spreading information — not a replacement for the classroom.

“I’m not worried that it’s going to replace the typical classroom experience where there’s a lot of exchange between professor and student,” LaFree said. “This could be quite an exciting addition to what universities do. The fact that you can take an increasing number of things just because you’re interested in them is really quite exciting.” mlistdbk@gmail.com

Health center officials propose fee increase, shuttle service

By Josh Logue @jmlogue Staff writer Students may see a slight rise in their student fees if a new University Health Center proposal for a nonemergency shuttle service is successful.

During Wednesday’s Student Governement Association meeting, health center Director Sacared Bodison proposed raising the Health Center’s student fee, currently at $38.02 for full-time students, by $2.76 to pay the $86,400 cost for a single Department of Transportation Services vehicle and driver to transport students to and from the health center during normal weekday hours during the fall and spring semester.

Bodisan said she envisions the shuttle working on a first-come, first-served basis in a five-mile radius around campus, though they have not come up with a concrete plan yet. Bodison said she wants a van or a similar

could go unutilized.

“There are plenty of students who go all four years without ever going into the health center,” she said.

University transportation officials piloted a campus taxi service in 2007, though the program was unsuccessful and pulled to divert resources to NITE Ride, according to previous Diamondback articles.

There has been no formal survey to gauge demand, but Bodison said they “get calls all the time.” Right now, she estimates one vehicle would meet about 95 percent of the the university health center could soon offer a nonemergency shuttle service for students who are too sick or live too far away to come demand she’s seen for this to appointments and pick up prescriptions. The service would require raising the center’s student fee by $2.76. file photo/the diamondback service, but as students learn it is available, one vehicle vehicle that would serve “one viding additional, individualized working all the time.”

Sophomore psychology major might not be able to keep up. or two patients max” who are help to health center patients.

“There may at times be a “If it’s available, we’re going Carolyne Obery, who visits the too sick to make their appointments, pick up their prescrip- to send the van,” Bodison said. health center occasionally for clash trying to fulfill all students’ tions or walk across the campus. “My staff has taken students help with allergies, said she is needs,” Bodison said, “but it’s She emphasized the service is places. I have taken students willing to pay an extra few dollars more than we have now.”

When asked during the SGA in no way meant to replace am- places because they just have to help fund the service, though bulances for emergencies, but no way to get there … [the she didn’t think she would ever meeting if she had any plans to would augment the university’s vehicle] is for whatever the need it. Her concern, she said, advertise the service, Bodison existing transit system by pro- students need. I want it to be is the possibility that the service said she didn’t and may never

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ELECTIONS From PAGE 1 implementing those,” Popkin added. “I want to look at the most feasible ones and get those off the ground.”

Finally, Popkin said student housing, transportation issues along Route 1 and the development of College Park as a sustainable community will all be developing issues he would work to solve if elected to the city council. He hopes to help bring Capital Bikeshare to College Park and craft a city-wide composting program, among other ideas.

Transforming College Park isn’t uniquely a city council issue, however, Popkin said. It will also require work from students, who are just as much a part of the city as permanent residents.

“Students aren’t aware of what’s going on with the city and the elections,” he said.

“That apathy has translated to, ‘We’re only going to be here for a short time.’”

Students can make a difference if they put in the effort, he said, and with his experience as a university student, Popkin thinks he is in a position to bridge the gap between the university and the city — which could be an asset to his campaign.

do so for fear demand would grow too much.

But details like advertising are what SGA Health and Wellness Director Tyler Babich is excited to see students worrying and asking about.

“It’s great to see the health center being creative to find ways to help students,” Babich said. “Students involved in figuring out what’s best is what I’m really happy to be seeing.”

In addition to the SGA, Bodison’s fee proposal was also presented to the Student Health Advisory Committee, Graduate Student Government and the Residence Hall Association.

“It’s not a one-sided conversation here, a plain yes or no. It was a real dialogue between the administration and students about the details,” Babich said. “Whatever the final decision ends up being, I’m confident it’ll be the right thing for students.” jloguedbk@gmail.com

“I’ve been working to try and bridge these divides,” Popkin said. “I think I can more effectively do that than some of the existing council members.”

Popkin is in his fifth year at the university and is currently studying public policy, with a focus in environmental and energy policy. As an undergraduate, Popkin was an active member of both the Student Government Association and the University Senate and maintains connections with both, though neither has endorsed or opposed his campaign.

The city is lacking in development that would bring it in line with the towns surrounding the university’s peer institutions, said SGA President Samantha Zwerling. And including students in the conversation, she said, could turn the shared vision of a vibrant community into a reality.

“Students make up a very large portion of this city,” Zwerling said. “We are just as important to the future of this city as long-term residents.”

At the same time, however, Popkin said his status as a student could turn off some residents who are frustrated by student behavior.

Over the past few weeks, Popkin said he has been involved in the “knocks-andtalks” with city and university officials — that educated city residents about changing city and university regulations, such as the expansion of the Code of Student Conduct. By doing this, Popkin said he wants to connect more to the nonstudent population of the city in explaining his goals for the city council.

For the campaign, Popkin said residents shouldn’t see his age as an issue but rather as an asset to provide fresh, new ideas to the council that benefit all residents.

“It’s going to be a challenge for the campaign,” he said. “But it’s also an opportunity, and if elected, I want to represent everyone and do the best for everyone, because that’s how we’re going to make College Park a better place.” tamenabardbk@gmail.com

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ur generation is completely and thoroughly impacted by the Internet. When our parents were growing up, computers were likely not a major part of their daily lives; now, you would be hardpressed to find a student who didn’t know exactly how to use (and abuse) a computer’s functions before attending this university. So it logically follows that what we are attending this university for — classes — have begun to integrate an online aspect.

It started with those few annoying professors who made you create a Twitter account so you could interact with tweets in class. And from there, it has escalated to an administrative level — this university now offers socalled massive online open courses.

These are free, online courses with no cap for enrollment. Seems fitting for how everything in our world works online, right?

Of course, the biggest fear people have with MOOCs is that the college experience will move completely online. Those fears aren’t entirely unfounded, either, according to the many columns and complaints about the lack of face-to-face social interaction among young people today, with texting and social media websites allowing conversations to take place through a nonverbal medium.

Yet does that risk truly outweigh the benefits of MOOCs? Online learning environments can allow more people access to the lessons these professors provide.

That in itself doesn’t devalue college

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courses, as some have criticized, but rather expands their reach so a larger population can benefit. This is especially important at this university, which boasts diversity and inclusion as main goals.

As for the possibility of easier cheating during a MOOC, those students aren’t getting the value out of the education and their actions likely won’t harm those taking the courses seriously.

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This generation must find a way to make college and technological innovation complement each other in our efforts to find the best learning experiences.

And those are just the benefits of a solely online classroom. Even more promising might be the possibility of a blended classroom: one that retains the traditional value of being face-toface with professors and classmates but also provides the extra, online interaction students crave in today’s society. Both aspects of the blended classroom are of vital importance to the average student’s understanding in our technologically advanced world.

For one thing, as psychologist Ana Nogales wrote in Psychology Today, “Our facial expression, physical gestures, and the emotional tone in our voice alter the meaning of our words … So when we forgo face-to-

face encounters in favor of screenspeak or emailed or texted words, our friends receive only a partial message. What’s missing are the feelings that inform the words.”

It’s clear there are benefits in communicating things to people vocally, in person. There’s an argument that things are simply communicated more effectively this way.

But we also have to realize that because students’ lives are so integrated with the Internet and other digital technologies, to keep these aspects firmly out of the classroom can have vast detrimental effects on a student’s ability to learn in that atmosphere. Plus, when students enter the job market, it’s most likely going to be expected that they can communicate professionally and effectively over a variety of sources, online and interpersonal. Shouldn’t the way we learn in college reflect that?

Realistically, we can no longer have just a physical classroom — but we also can’t afford to transition to a completely online atmosphere for students. The “college experience” in itself is one reason, as far as networking and personal relationships go. Keeping classrooms as they are for tradition’s sake is foolish, as is halting change because it’s new and different. But too drastic a change will inevitably yield damaging effects for new students. It will be important to watch this physical-online balance progress and see how institutions handle the changes that will almost inevitably come along.

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Procrastination: A procrastinator’s guide EZRA FISHMAN

only get two hours of sleep the night before a test, I try to do it somewhere in the middle of studying. There is only so much your brain can handle at one time, so taking a nap in the middle helps a lot. Plus, it’ll be easier to wake up sometime during the four hours before your test instead of in the half-hour window you’d otherwise inevitably give yourself.

Third, just start doing things.

The worst part of procrastination is the fear of getting started. Once you get going, you won’t stop. I’ve been writing this for seven minutes now, and I’m going to keep going until I hit the word count I need — all because I forced myself to actually start. Even if the things you end up doing aren’t super helpful, you’ll at least get over the hump of figuring out where to begin.

Fourth, know how to take productive study breaks. Find things that will keep you happy but won’t take a lot of time (my current trick is Daily Grace videos — they’re hilarious and usually less than five minutes long).

After each hour or so, take a short break; it’ll make the grind less grindy.

Finally, and I can’t stress this enough: Learn your lesson. No matter how many times I get myself into these situations, I always end up getting stuck here again. If I would just start doing my work earlier, I wouldn’t be here at 8 p.m. with four hours of homework left to do before class tomorrow and a column to write. I would be able to relax, get some late-night food and not be extremely stressed and exhausted. But here I am, doing it again. So don’t be like me. Learn from your mistakes the first 20 times. And, for once, get your work done ahead of time. Seriously.

When I write these columns, I normally try to give positive messages. Stay in school, don’t do drugs, get eight hours of sleep, eat your vegetables, etc.

So I would like to be writing this column about the importance of not putting work off to the last minute. About how putting work off until the last minute only adds to your stress, and how it severely diminishes your work’s quality.

And I will touch on those. But I cannot ethically write a column about not doing things at the last minute — because I’m writing this column at the very last minute, to avoid doing the homework I have due tomorrow morning that I put off until now.

So this will not be a preachy column about not putting your homework off. I really think you shouldn’t — this is going to be a long, painful night in which I will not sleep nearly as much as I want to — but let’s be honest, we’re all going to do it anyway. Instead, I would like to give you some tips about how to survive when you have put off your work until the very last minute.

First, don’t panic. You can do it. I have seen incredible feats of humankind in my three years of college, and tonight will be no exception. If you believe you can do it, you probably can. And if you don’t believe you can do it, try your best anyway; there’s usually something you’ll figure out by 4 a.m. that’ll help you get it done on time.

Second, figure out how you’re going to sleep. Sleep is extremely important, especially if the thing Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting you’re doing at the last minute is and finance major. He can be reached studying for a test. If I know I will at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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Getting involved with the RHA One of the best ways to speak up is through this governing body

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elcome back to the campus, Terps! The excitement of the new semester brings with it plenty of opportunities to make your mark on the campus. There are many ways to get involved, but if you’re interested in creating change, building community and making a difference in your hall, your community and on the campus, the Residence Hall Association is the place for you.

The RHA is one of the most successful and prestigious governing bodies at this university, and it serves as the voice of on-campus students as both a legislative and programming body, working diligently to ensure the improvement of resident life.

It’s composed of the eight-member Executive Board, Senate, and 15 hall and area councils; the organization’s work is varied and farreaching. RHA members have the privilege and opportunity to work with university administrators, tackling student issues in resident life, housing, dining, transportation and sustainability. We also work to foster community by organizing events, leading service projects and

holding town halls to gather student opinions on important issues.

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could thus be commercialized.

Mrs. Lacks’ case is interesting because while her cells were removed without her consent, they were ultimately used to benefit mankind by helping to cure various diseases.

Following this line of logic, why are so many people so opposed to the idea of using embryonic stem cells? I know it cannot be a point-by-point comparison, but the situations are similar enough.

Embryonic stem cells hold untold potential to treat a multitude of diseases. If we can capitalize on the potential HeLa cells have to help humanity, then doesn’t it logically follow that we should be allowed to use embryonic stem cells in the same manner?

People seem to be able to rationalize the theft of cells from a dying woman, who was undoubtedly conscious, but they have a problem using a small ball of as few as 100 cells no one can conclusively state is truly conscious.

These cells are the result of genetic material from two separate people.

It can be argued that because no development of a nervous system is present, that ball of cells is simply the combined genetic property of two people. As you can see, the idea of genetic ownership can be convoluted and confusing.

Hopefully as time goes on, the lines of cell ownership will become less and less blurred, and we can figure out how to use these new technologies to benefit all people.

You may have heard of the HeLa cell line, and that’s no surprise: The line is frequently used to study everything from diseases such as AIDS to the effects of radiation exposure. Without the HeLa cell, cures for many diseases would never have been discovered.

With all that impact, some people may wonder, “Where did these incredible cells come from?”

They came from Henrietta Lacks, a black woman who was receiving treatments for cervical cancer at the renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1951. While undergoing treatment for her cancer, samples of her cervix, both healthy and cancerous, were harvested without her permission.

Unfortunately, Lacks succumbed to her cancer and died, but her cells lived on. The biopsied tissue from Lacks’ cervical tumor were given to Dr. George Otto Gey, who discovered that certain cells from Lacks’ tumor were unique in the sense that they could be kept alive and reproduced indefinitely.

Gey isolated this cell line, reproduced it and made it widely available for researchers.

Almost 40 years after Mrs. Lacks’ death, the issue and her situation were brought before the Supreme Court, which ruled that a person’s discarded tissues and Ian Lacy is a senior kinesiology major. He cells were no longer their own and can be reached at ilacydbk@gmail.com.

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bike to go to SPX in high school, while Mertz said he grew up about a mile away from the convention center.

The two have been attending conventions for three years promoting First Law of Mad Science, the science fiction h o r ro r co m i c se r i e s t h ey co-author.

“This show’s sort of like a homecoming for us,” Isenberg said. “We’ve been trying to get a booth for a while.”

Drew Brockington, a designer and illustrator with a background in stationary and invitation design, was also a first-time vendor at SPX. He traveled from Minneapolis to present his art prints featuring characters from Maurice Se n d a k ’s W h e re t h e W i l d Things Are as well as original works Cat-Stronauts and the series BEACON. A relatively new self-published comic artist and writer, Brockington said this was the fourth convention — though perhaps the most important — he’s presented at in the past year.

“SPX is the crucial point for self-published people, so this was one of the goals when I started doing comics,” he said.

Vendors ranged from individual artists selling a few small homemade art prints or Xeroxed zines to larger publishers selling hardcover graphic novels for more established series. TopatoCo, a corporation that works as a merchandiser for independently published comic artists, featured several popular artists such as Jeph Jacques, creator of the long-running series Questionable Content, as well as anthologies of several popular web comics, including A Softer World and Homestuck.

Besides comics of all shapes and sizes, attendees could also purchase T-shirts, homemade plush toys, art prints, posters and even hand-carved wooden puzzles. Many unique art

If you entered the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center this weekend expecting to see Batman and the Avengers everywhere, you were in for a surprise.

Although Small Press Expo’s yearly festival, known as The Expo, is a comics convention, it has more of an indie flavor than larger conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego. Small Press Expo, or SPX, promotes a variety of styles, artists and genres, many of which challenge or expand widely held notions about comics as an art form.

Rather than focusing on large franchises such as Marvel or DC Comics, SPX showcases innovative comics and unique artwork mostly from independent artists, writers and publishers.

Though small in comparison to mainstream conventions with massive fanbases, SPX is the largest festival in the United States for selfpublished comics writers and artists. For creators looking to get a start in comics or to release their work to eager consumers, it can be a rare and exciting opportunity for artists and audiences to interact.

Since its inception in 1994, The Expo has become a major force in independent comics.

This year, the two-day festival featured more than 600 artists, creators and publishers, as well as events such as Q&A’s with some of the more prominent guests, panels on cartooning and illustration, and the Ignatz Awards, the highly coveted festival prizes.

Some artists debut books at SPX, while others simply debut themselves, as was the case with local writers Oliver Mertz and Mike Isenberg.

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styles were on display, as well as lots of creativity. Guests eagerly approached artists to gush over their work and creators of all kinds were eager to interact with their fans, newfound or otherwise.

Artist and aspiring publisher Sarah Martinez, who helps manage business operations for Interrobang Studios, has seen many conventions in the past five years — she estimates she and her fiance, artist Kevin Bolk, work about 20 to 25 conventions a year all along the East Coast and into Canada.

Though Martinez and Bolk primarily promote their work with Interrobang Studios at anime conventions, Martinez still places a very high value on SPX. “We come to Small Press specifically because this is a book convention,” she said.

Though Interrobang Studios also sells prints and art cards, Martinez noted that their primary desire is to make and publish comics. “If there’s a show where people buy books, this is it,” she said.

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This year marked senior government and politics major Kyle Jamolin’s second SPX. A huge comics fan, he recognized how important a show like SPX can be.

“SPX is a wonderful way to showcase the legitimacy of the comic book medium in telling a story,” Jamolin said. “Comic books aren’t just about superheroes. SPX showcases how comic books can be about any topic, any source, from high science fiction to daily lives of people from all over the world.” diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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defense From PAGE 8 attack. And they did. The Huskies rushed 33 times for just 25 yards, forcing the ball into Whitmer’s hands to make plays against the Terps pass rushers. The Terps rush defense is now tied for 14th nationally with 96.7 yards allowed per game.

While Whitmer (349 yards passing) and wide receiver Shakim Phillips (10 catches, 178 yards, one touchdown) had career days, the Terps defense still managed to harass the UConn offensive line and put defenders in the Huskies playmakers’ faces.

Through three games, the Terps rank first in the nation in sacks per game with 4.67.

Pressure on Whitmer helped lead to two interceptions by cornerback Dexter McDougle.

On the first one, The senior laid out down the sideline for an acrobatic catch. Then, he jumped a route and returned a pick 49 yards for a touchdown to give the Terps a 27-13 lead in the third quarter. McDougle also had eight tackles.

“It’s all the excitement,” Whitfield said. “We see someone pick off the ball, we get excited. Dex taking

it back, the touchdown. You take another step. It shows the defense is working. It’s always going to work. It’s just exciting to see all the other players around you do well.”

The excitement of the victory was tempered slightly as McDougle suffered a right shoulder injury in the third quarter and will miss the rest of the season. The Terps’ other starting cornerback, Jeremiah Johnson, is still out for six to seven weeks with a fractured toe on his left foot.

But the defense wasn’t fazed. Cornerback Will Likely stepped in for McDougle and performed well, aided by the Terps’ pass rush.

“We came in, there was no pressure,” said Likely, a freshman. “Just play together, do my cues, just do my job.

That’s what I came to do.”

Despite holding down the Huskies’ rushing attack and putting pressure on the backfield, there was still plenty of room for improvement for the Terps.

With McDougle out for the season, they’ll need more defensive backs to step up, especially with West Virginia’s spread offense up next on the schedule. Whitmer was able to shred the defense in garbage time, finding Phillips

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coach randy edsall signals for a safety after the Terps forced intentional grounding in the end zone during their 32-21 victory over UConn on Saturday night. tim drummond/the diamondback for a 75-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter.

“Once you start thinking about it, there’s a lot of mistakes that we left out on the field that we’re going to have to correct if we want to keep moving forward and keep winning,” inside linebacker Cole Farrand said. “That’s what we’re going to take on tomorrow. Hopefully we’ll fix those mistakes and be a better team for next game.”

But the end result of Saturday’s game — a win that marked the program’s first 3-0 start since 2001 — was hard to

argue with. With Whitfield and Cudjoe-Virgil getting steady pressure and making plays on other teams’ quarterbacks, there’s another dimension to a Terps team that’s struggled on defense in the past.

“We just go out there and do our job,” Whitfield said. “Our job is to go out there and do our job. Our job is to get the ball into the offense’s hand as quick as possible. … Every team has their ups and downs, but we pulled together as the full team and got the win.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

a reckless tackle in the box, and on the other, North Carolina midfielder Omar Holness ran 50 yards through the Terps midfield and defense before finishing past goalkeeper Zack Steffen.

At that moment, coach Sasho Cirovski decided he needed to make a change.

Defender Suli Dainkeh failed to close on Holness, giving up a wide-open lane to the goal.

So, for the first time this season, the 21st-year coach brought some defensive experience off his bench, replacing his freshman center-back with Dakota Edwards, who started 23 games last season and was sidelined with a hernia through the Terps’ first four games.

The sophomore’s impact was immense and immediate.

The backline tightened up and settled down. The young group’s passivity and lack of confidence dissipated, replaced with a conviction centered on Edwards experience and consistency.

The result was the best 60-plus minutes of defense the Terps have played all season, giving Cirovski’s highoctane and talented offense an opportunity to equalize the game in the 37th minute on forward Schillo Tshuma’s second goal of the game. “[Edwards] had a full week of training,” Cirovski said.

“We’ll see how [the injury] progresses this week and how he’s doing. And we’ll make some decisions for how we’re going to look on Saturday.”

Cirovski said the defense improved because of more than

just Edwards’ presence, though.

For the first time this season, his midfield consistently dipped back into their own end, relieving some of the pressure from the Terps’ young backline.

“The reason the backline did better was because the midfield gave them a lot more support with quality defending,” Cirovski said. “They weren’t left stranded as much as they have been in some previous games.”

The progress of the midfield was in large part because of the two-way play from Sunny Jane. The senior failed to log consistent stretches through the opening part of the season because he was too offense-oriented.

Against the Tar Heels, though, Jane was a different player.

“I saw the real Sunny Jane, the Sunny Jane I expect to see every game,” Cirovski said.

“He was fantastic. It was by far his best game of the year, and he was too valuable for me to take off the field. If we get that kind of play from Sunny, it will bode well for the future.”

If there’s one thing the Terps have showed this season, it’s that they’ll score — they’ve scored at least two goals in every game this season.

The key moving forward now is defense. Edwards will certainly provide reassurance in the backline, but Cirovski expects the midfield to continue to provide support as the Terps enter the heart of their conference schedule.

“It was the best game of the year for our midfield,” Cirovski said. “And that was a very good sign.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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CB McDougle has CT scan, surgery

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

OUTSIDE LINEBACKERs MARCUS WHITFIELD (right) and Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil (left) pressure UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer into committing intentional grounding in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter of the Terps’ 32-21 victory over the Huskies. They combined for 5.5 sacks in the win. tim drummond/the diamondback

PACKING PRESSURE Terps pass rushers harass UConn offense for six sacks in Saturday’s 32-21 win

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — When the Terrapins football team has needed a big, momentum-shifting play from the defense, it has delivered so far this year. And usually, outside linebackers Marcus Whitfield and Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil have been in the middle of it.

So it was no surprise Saturday night that when the Terps forced Connecticut quarterback Chandler Whitmer to commit an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone for a safety, Whitfield was closing in, with Cudjoe-Virgil close behind. The two points created a three-possession lead as the Terps defeated the Huskies, 32-21, at Rentschler Field.

The outside linebacker duo, both of whom are listed at the same position but were often on the field at the same time, terrorized the UConn backfield for much of the contest. Cudjoe-Virgil sacked Whitmer 2.5 times, while Whitfield added three sacks of his own.

“We both talk and argue with another on who has the most sacks,” Whitfield said. “It’s definitely competition between me and Yannik and the defensive line and the other pass rushers out there, which also helps us. It basically just opens it up more for both of us. We both have the speed, and we both use the speed.”

Coach Randy Edsall said the Terps entered the matchup with the goal of stopping UConn’s rushing See defense, Page 7

Terrapins football cornerback Dexter McDougle underwent shoulder surgery yesterday, less than 48 hours after suffering a season-ending injury in the third quarter of the team’s 32-21 win at Connecticut.

McDougle, a redshirt senior, tweeted yesterday morning that he underwent a CT scan and would have surgery.

“The doctors have seen my ct scan and have decided to perform surgery today on my shoulder, tunnel vision from here,” he tweeted yesterday.

Coach Randy Edsall announced

in a Sunday conference call that McDougle would miss the rest of the season, and yesterday evening, McDougle was added to the Terps’ list of players who have undergone season-ending surgeries.

The injury came minutes after McDougle returned an interception 49 yards for a touchdown in the win against UConn. It was his second interception of the game, during which he also had eight tackles. He had three interceptions in three games this year.

Cornerback Will Likely, a freshman, will start in his spot against West Virginia on Saturday in Baltimore. dgallendbk@gmail.com

MEN’S SOCCER

Sudden return of Edwards boosts D Soph. makes first appearance of season

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer It was an all-too-familiar scene for the Terrapins men’s soccer team in its 2-2 tie against North Carolina on Friday night.

Despite earning a one-goal advantage in the 11th minute, the

Terps defense — both the midfield and backline — failed to protect the thin margin.

In the next 10 minutes, the No. 18 Terps surrendered two goals to the No. 2 Tar Heels. The first came on a penalty kick after midfielder Dan Metzger committed See backline, Page 7