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Univ. teams to SGA, U. Senate consider syllabi policy compete for energy grants

Change could require professors to post syllabi earlier, with more course details

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Up to $300,000 will be awarded to ACC schools

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

This university will soon be sending new teams to face off against its ACC rivals: groups of entrepreneurs presenting business plans for environmentally friendly companies, seeking $300,000 in prizes from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The DOE announced Tuesday it selected this university as a regional leader, along with five other schools nationwide, in the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.

Unlike nearly all the other selected universities, the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute plans to draw on as much participation and expertise from other regional schools as possible; officials said participating could boost the school’s prestige, help students network and even lead to research breakthroughs.

“Our thought was, you look at the ACC in the sports world, we often see some of the most amazing performances and incredible achievements in sports,” said Dean Chang, the director of Mtech business venture programs. “What if we could borrow that effect and put it towards tackling our country’s toughest problems like clean energy?”

Moving forward in the competition, the institute will compete against all of the ACC schools in the southeast region — including Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest — and collaborate with nine engineering

SGA legislators met last night to discuss 11 proposals that will be debated next Wednesday.

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To alleviate some uncertainty that comes with registering for courses, SGA executives are working with the University Senate on a policy that would require professors to post more comprehensive syllabi sooner to prospective students.

Earlier this month, Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie submitted a proposal to the Senate Executive Committee calling for additional requirements for course syllabi — including a detailed list of the topics the class will cover and grading scale information — and setting a “hard deadline” for which professors should make their preliminary syllabi available to students.

Xie said having these new requirements would not only help students to better know what to expect for the semester, but would also allow students to determine whether that course is right for them before classes even start.

“I had a class where the syllabus only said, ‘There will be three exams and a final,’ and I don’t think that’s helpful,” Xie said, adding, “When you’re talking about choosing classes, that usually happens months before you start taking a class. And oftentimes when you’re taking the class and realize, ‘Oh gosh, I’ve been in this class for so long and it’s not for me,’ it’s too late.”

On Monday, the SEC referred the bill to the Senate’s Educational Affairs Committee

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Where’s the party at? Chesapeake Bay barriers With police’s crackdown on underage drinking, students look for other nightlife options

BY ERIN EGAN AND NICK FOLEY Staff writers

Editor’s note: Because this article discusses underage drinking, some last names have been withheld.

With a $30,000 grant to crack down on underage drinking in University Police’s back pocket, some students said they will continue partying — just more carefully.

Many underage students said they have cut the downtown bars from their nightlife options, choosing apartment and house parties instead. But police officers have nevertheless continued to find fake IDs, seizing 15 from regular house calls and other interactions with police officers this month, according to police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. No IDs have yet been taken from randomized ID checks in the downtown bars, he said.

Limansky said he did not have comparison data from previous semesters available yesterday.

Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention awarded the department the grant this year, which allows police to work later hours and provides them the manpower to break up more parties this semester, officials said.

For freshman letters and sciences major Laura, her nightlife plans are now always up in the air.

Because of the department’s increased enforcement

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At lecture yesterday, about 400 students learn pros and cons to conserving the Chesapeake Bay

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Although students continuously hear about the degrading environment and the harmful effects of global change, few knew they could actually help

solve the problem.

But when agricultural and resource economics professor Douglas Lipton spoke to a crowd of about 400 students yesterday in the Biosciences Research building about pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, he

challenged audience members to think critically about whether it would be worth the potentially millions of dollars to restore the bay.

Lipton informed the crowd of

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Professor Douglas Lipton speaks yesterday about conserving the bay.

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Café Hookah readies for next month’s opening on Route 1 Lounge will feature Mediterranean theme

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Students will soon be able to walk just a few feet off the campus to enjoy an Arabian night.

Café Hookah, a Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean-themed hookah lounge, is slated to open in downtown College Park within the next month, according to owner Abid Khan. Although many restaurants and businesses have come and gone in recent years, Khan said his

unique business model combined with low operating costs will ensure the cafe survives.

“We do not have a complicated inventory,” Khan wrote in an email. “Not only was the location fortuitous for us, but we had the savvy and good judgment to jump on it when we had the chance.”

City Planning Director Terry Schum said the café’s proximity to the campus is an ideal spot for a tenant

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Café Hookah, set to open within the next month, will host open-mic nights. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Abid Khan, owner of Café Hookah, which is slated to open within the next month, obtained a permit to open his hookah lounge downtown. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Students took advantage of the opportunity to learn self defense last night as part of “We Will Fight Back,” an event hosted by the Theta Nu chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. In addition to learning how to protect themselves if attacked, students also saw protective weapons firsthand, including a stun gun and pepper spray. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

which bay businesses generate the most profit. from page 1 Although many questions had no right or wrong answer, the costs and benefits of im- Lipton said simply trying to proving the bay — a question answer them would help stucurrently being debated in dents and policymakers gain U.S. Congress — and pointed a better perspective on what to everyday activities that con- would be gained by improvtribute to pollution and disrupt ing the bay, and how much fish and plant life, including money should be funneled showers and even rain that into the efforts.

Lipton also pointed to the runs off the campus.

“What happens on campus fact that the bay’s pollution afends up impacting the bay some fects everything from comway or another,” Lipton said. “If mercial and recreational fishsediment is getting into the bay, ing to waterfront real estate.

Although policymakers other things are as well.”

Lipton encouraged the stu- have long debated whether it’s dents to question the bay’s worth spending money to revalue to society and the envi- store the bay, its declining ronment by using clickers to state has become such a pressanswer questions through- ing issue that organizations out the lecture, including such as the Environmental how much they thought a Protection Agency have set up bay-front house costs and studies to measure the costs

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and benefits of restoration.

“As we try to clean up the bay it’s going to cost us more and more,” Lipton said. “The question is: What are the benefits we get from that, because eventually that benefit curve is going to taper off.”

Students said the lecture was an important reminder that the bay is a direct window into human impact on the environment, especially for university students who live close to it.

“All we hear all the time is that the Earth is affected by us and the things we do,” junior pre-nursing major Ashley Neiderer said. “The Chesapeake Bay is tangible to us and we can see the impact directly.”

Senior biology and psychology major Matthew Mickler said he came to the lecture to gain a different understanding of such a popu-

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“I thought it would be nice to get a different perspective from what I’ve been hearing in class,” Mickler said.

Lipton said the lecture met the goal of the university’s Marquee classes and lectures — a series devoted to helping students in non-science majors better understand critical environmental issues in society — by providing students from all academic backgrounds insight on real-world science issues, such as restoring the bay.

“An art major can gain value from taking science classes because they’re involved [in the issues],” he said. “They’re here on campus to learn so they can apply these types of skills to whatever career they pursue.” saravia@umdbk.com

catering to students.

“That’s an area that’s always been student-oriented,” Schum said. “[The location] makes perfect sense.”

Khan said Café Hookah will provide an “Arabian Nights”-style atmosphere, but he noted the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean culture will not dominate the restaurant’s mood. Instead, Khan said he also hopes to showcase student talent and creativity by hosting open-mic nights for stand-up comedians, musicians and poets.

He plans to include plasma TVs for movie nights and sports viewing.

The café will also feature artwork by local artists along its walls, and Khan said he plans to change the displays periodically.

“The rest is up to the students to make it what they want it to be,” Khan said.

Khan said he plans to offer a variety of tobacco and non-tobacco hookah flavors, as well as snacks from various businesses, including Krazi Kebob, for students to enjoy.

“I’d feel like I’m sharing a lot of fun and positive, healthy aspects of the cultures from that part of the world,” Khan said. “The base of [the store] is somewhat rooted in the Middle Eastern cultures, but at the same time it is not only limited to that, because I believe there is no fun in exclusivity.”

Although Prince Café — a restaurant that also offers hookah to patrons — sits just a mile down

the road from Café Hookah, Khan said that his business model differs and that he should not face competition for the same customer base.

Prince Café owner Ehab Asal said because his restaurant offers an entirely different menu and environment, he does not foresee decreased patronage.

“I have Indian food with hookah, and my concept is completely different from every place else,” Asal said. “I’ve had successes from three [stores] in D.C., one in Virginia, one in Maryland.”

Students said the addition of a hookah café so close to the campus will offer underage students an alternative to the bar scene, an especially crucial development as university and county police crack down on underage drinking.

“A lot of people are afraid to go out,” junior elementary education major Raakhee Mallick said. “We don’t really have anything else like this in College Park.”

But others, such as freshman letters and sciences major Hugh Davis, said they are not attracted so much to the café’s atmosphere as to its differences from the typical restaurant business model.

“Route 1 is kind of contrived with its meal options,” Davis said.

“This guy sounds really sincere about his business.”

Café Hookah will operate from noon to 2 a.m. Monday through Wednesday and will extend its hours to 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. It will be closed Sundays. bach@umdbk.com

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GSG pushes for cheaper catering prices in Stamp

BY LAUREN HICKS Staff writer

The SGA discusses 11 new bills on the agenda to be voted on next weekend. MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

SYLLABI from page 1 to discuss with Xie and decide the next steps, according to senate Director Reka Montfort.

SGA Speaker for the Legislature Carson McDonald also sponsored an SGA bill this week supporting this proposal, which was introduced at last night’s meeting and will be debated next Wednesday.

Presently, the university’s Faculty Handbook of Policies and Resources sets some guidelines for the information mandated in class syllabi, including a general description of the course, required textbooks, course outline and grading procedures. However, it does not include any requirements for making preliminar y syllabi available.

Some senators said while they understood the concern about having more course information available earlier, they noted many professors do not have their syllabi ready until the final weeks before the semester begins.

Moreover, those syllabi are heavily subject to change.

“The arguments against it are that faculty revise their course content and change it slightly from term-to-term and year-to-year,” senate Chair Eric Kasischke said. “A student might look at a syllabus posted from the term before and think that’s how it’s going to be, and if it changes, they might be upset.”

Business professor Francis Alt, who chairs the Educational Affairs Committee, said courses often deviate from the set outline as the semester goes on, especially those that deal largely with current events.

“Even within a semester, there’s a difference in content and teaching styles for the same course across sections and also instructors,” Alt said. “As long as it covers the broad framework and the same material, that’s acceptable, but it wouldn’t reflect any changes that would be coming down the pipeline.”

Xie said he acknowledged this, which was why he worded the bill to only having a “preliminary syllabi” available early enough.

“It’s important to maintain flexibility, but students have the right to know about the

“Students have a right to know about the things [professors] won’t change, like the grading scale” KAIYI XIE

University Police Chief David Mitchell discusses the harm of underage drinking at the meeting. MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

After the first three Student Government Association meetings of the year came and went without any legislators introducing bills, President Kaiyi Xie urged members to start proposing new legislation. At last night’s meeting, legislators proposed 11 new bills that will be voted on next week. Below is the breakdown of each piece of legislation.

An Act Regarding Crabfest: If passed, this bill will require SGA members to help with annual Crabfest and will transfer $3,000 from legislative reserves to the event.

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things that won’t change, like the grading scale, and I think that’s something professors should definitely be able to provide,” Xie said.

And Alt and Kasischke both agreed there is a widespread demand from students to see class syllabi ahead of time as they are making course selection decisions. Kasischke, a geography professor, said faculty in his department typically post their preliminary syllabi online for that very reason.

Alt said students often request to see the syllabi for his spring classes in the middle of the fall semester.

While he would not have one ready then, he said he sends them his current syllabi with a reminder it may change the next semester.

“I’m certainly in favor of improving communication between professors and students regarding the content of their courses,” Alt said. “I wouldn’t want any of my students to come in and after one class say, ‘This isn’t the class I was looking for.’ I don’t think any professor wants that and I don’t think any student wants to shop around. If syllabi help students make course selections better, than they should have that available. But the question becomes: How soon should it be available?”

And Alt said the student representatives on the Educational Affairs Committee had already brought up the topic of having earlier access to syllabi at the start of the semester, before the bill was submitted. With this amount of interest, Alt said he expects this proposal to take up most of the committee’s agenda at their next meeting.

“It’s going to be a very lively discussion,” Alt said. villanueva@umdbk.com

A Resolution Concerning the Campaign for Affordable Textbooks by the Textbook Rebellion: If passed, this resolution requires SGA to raise awareness and fully support the push for more affordable textbooks.

A Resolution Supporting the College Park Boys and Girls Club: If passed, this resolution requires SGA to support the city’s Boys and Girls club and will search for non-profit organizations needing volunteers.

A Resolution Supporting Increased Transparency in the Student Fee Setting Process: If passed, this resolution urges the SGA to provide all students the time to study proposed student group fees and will make the Committee for the Review of Student Fees more open.

A Resolution Urging the Department of Transportation Services to Implement a Prudent Scooter Helmet Enforcement System: If passed, this resolution requires the SGA to urge the university and DOTS to implement a helmet and helmet education policy.

A Resolution Endorsing the Facilities Master Plan 2011-2030: If passed, this resolution endorses the new Facilities Master Plan and recognizes the dedication of all parties involved.

A Resolution Reaffirming Support for the Utilization of the Wooded Hillock for Ecological Education and Research: If passed, this resolution supports student groups and classes to use the Wooded Hillock for an educational purpose, but only if it is used in an eco-conscious manner.

An Act Co-Sponsoring Alpha Phi Omega’s Fall Invasive Plant Removal: If passed, this act will co-sponsor APO’s invasive plant removal day to be held on Oct. 8.

A Resolution Supporting Standards for Class Syllabi: If passed, this resolution requires the SGA to support standards for class syllabi — such as including a rough grading breakdown, a list of major topics included and if a plus or minus grading system is used.

An Act to Make the SGA Legislative Agenda Public in Stamp: If passed, the SGA will display its legislative agenda near the entrance of the Stamp Student Union.

An Act Co-Sponsoring College Park Day: If passed, this act will allocate $396 from legislative reserves to fund a shuttle that will run from Stamp to College Park Day on Oct. 22.

Solar Decathlon progress University team wins first place for house’s architecture

GSG members — who said they spent about 20 percent of their budget on food at meetings and events last year — have voiced concerns to officials about the costs of Stamp Student Union’s mandatory catering services.

Organizations wanting something to munch on during their meetings are required to purchase food from the student union’s five catering companies or the food court’s fastfood eateries. At a meeting last semester, the Graduate Student Government passed a resolution to push for competitive pricing and the elimination of delivery fees for the student union’s catering services. GSG President Anna Bedford met with Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens and Dining Services Senior Associate Director Joe Mullineaux on Tuesday to discuss the issue.

“The high costs of food in Stamp leads to student events either being forced to limit the number of attendees, not provide food or be held in a less centralized location so that less expensive outside vendors can be used,” said Aaron Gerratt, GSG vice president for financial affairs.

While the meeting didn’t result in any definite conclusions, it mainly served as a step-

GRANT from page 1 school deans, students, faculty and researchers on the campus.

According to the program summary, teams will participate in yearround workshops, meetups and sessions.

At each of the three annual competitions, teams of university students, researchers and members of the surrounding community will submit an executive summary and business plan online to their university to move on to the regional event.

This year’s regional competition will be held on the campus with a prize of $100,000 for the winner; an additional $20,000 each year in federal funding covers the cost of running the competitions. This summer, the winners in each of the six national regions will then face off in Washington for a grand prize, which the Department of Energy did not identify in its press release.

University officials said the Department of Energy trusted Mtech to lead the competition in its region because of the research center’s track record.

“Our concept for our region sort of captured the imagination of the Department of Energy,” Chang said.

Mtech has contributed

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on fake IDs, she said she decided not to purchase one.

“I feel like I’d be scared to get in legal trouble,” she said. “We don’t know people who have houses, so it’s all word of mouth,” she said. “I mean, it’s fun, but I feel like a lot of stuff just ends up getting closed.”

Some students — such as freshman engineering major Max — said the threat of police enforcement has not stopped them from partying.

Rather, they are depending more heavily on fra-

ping stone for further discussion, Bedford said.

The five catering options are Good Tidings Catering, Pick It Up at the Shops, Goodies-to-Go delivery, Adele’s and the Maryland Food Co-op, and Gerratt said these prices do not compare to off-campus fare. Dinners, which feature an appetizer, main dish and dessert, cost more than $22 per person from Good Tidings and more than $25 per person from Adele’s. Deli platters cost $13.95 per person from Good Tidings and $7.25 per sandwich from Goodies-to-Go. “Using on-campus services usually turns out to be the most expensive route for getting food to events,” Gerratt said. “A basic box lunch from Goodies-to-Go, for example, is about 20 percent more than a boxed lunch from Jason’s Deli, but Jason’s Deli cannot be used in Stamp.”

However, GuenzlerStevens said the prices follow the market rate of restaurants and graduate students have a wide range of choices, from “china and linens high-end catering” to the “Sbarro kind of catering.”

“One of our aims is to help folks understand that wide menu of options with very different price points,” said Guenzler-Stevens.

Additionally, she said the requirement stems

from a liability concern that the student union could be blamed for providing unsafe foods to students — even if it was not the vendor — and the mandate is necessary to support the student union’s businesses by proving student patrons.

Bedford also noted that the delivery prices seemed unfair. Students are charged for delivery to nearby rooms in the student union when off-campus vendors will often waive delivery charges if the group spends a certain amount of money, Bedford said.

“We had a case where there was an event at the alumni center that was charged an off-campus delivery fee even though it was oncampus, which is why we had to use one of those catering groups,” said Bedford. “We thought that was ironic and unfair.”

But GuenzlerStevens said this helps front the labor cost of producing and packaging the food.

“Part of the issue is that there is a cost associated with it. If you have labor delivering that, then who is going to absorb the cost?

There has got to be some way to pay for that,” said GuenzlerStevens, who also said there are pick-up options for groups that do not want to pay for delivery.

an estimated $25.7 billion to the state’s economy and produced two companies on the Inc. 500 list — a measure of fastestgrowing businesses — according to Chang.

“I think it’s sort of further confirmation that we have a great system for innovation and entrepreneurship on our campus,” engineering school Dean Darryll Pines said. “It’s an inspiration to our students.”

And while Chang said the prize money is an important incentive, the possibility that students at this university could develop a game-changing energy source is worth more than the money.

“This is one of our planet’s biggest challenges, is renewable energy or clean sources to get away from fossil fuels,” Chang said.

Hilary Staver, a campaign director for Clean Energy at UMD, said she was glad the government was subsidizing clean energy research because of its benefits to society and the environment.

“Those benefits and costs are not often included in the price, so I think it’s appropriate for the government, which is charged with the public good, to be fostering these kind of technologies,” she said.

And even if the university doesn’t make it to the final round of competi-

“I think it’s sort of further confirmation that we have a great system for innovation.”

ternity, apartment and house parties as their nightlife staples.

“Sometimes we’ll go to the frats; sometimes we’ll go to apartments,” he said. “It’s a different thing every night.”

Yet, police are patrolling these areas as well and have responded to 70 alcohol violation incidents. Of those, 50 individuals received citations for underage drinking, according to Limansky. This includes tailgating at football games and open container violations on city streets, Limansky said.

There was only one party — located on the 4600 block of Norwich

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tion, Chang said the program will expose students to research expertise and industry contacts.

“If [a company is] part of the competition, [it gets] an early preview of some really promising technologies, which you could commercialize and turn into a very promising business down the line,” Chang said.

In addition to each regional competition involving 11 ACC schools’ winners, Mtech will keep with its athletics theme and set aside funding for two to four at-large bids, or outside competitors.

Staver, a senior environmental science and policy major, said she is curious to see what kind of business plans students develop.

“It sounds like a great program and exactly the kind of program that we need right now,” she said. lurye@umdbk.com

Road — where police issued multiple violations for underage drinking.

Limansky said the charges are still pending.

While some students said using false identification may not always be worth the risk, junior hearing and speech sciences major Heather said the recent crackdown should not deter students from going out and enjoying the college nightlife.

“I don’t think anyone should be scared away from going to the bars,” she said. “It’s not a reasonable way to regulate underage drinking.” egan@umdbk.com, foley@umdbk.com

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Proposing a policy that covers all substances involves a highly-polarized discushanks to the incredible devotion of past and present student activists, this university joined almost 100 other institutions that value student sion about drug use, including the possible legal ramifications of such a statue. safety above anything else when the University Senate passed a Good While underage drinking is a misdemeanor, drug charges are often a felony. Senators even admitted this community is far more accepting of underage drinking Samaritan Policy in March.

The policy, which protects dangerously drunk students from university sanc- than illegal drug use. In addition to fighting for a policy, students will be fighting tions if they call for help for themselves or a friend, took three years and the ded- the taboo nature of drugs themselves among older administrators.

Examining whether that attitude is fair or not is for ication of many to come to fruition. Now, just six months another editorial — it will ultimately be up to SSDP to after the initial vote, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy tackle it and knock it down. The only way to get this passed and other student groups are gearing up for another battle — one that will pose a new set of challenges and likely We support student advocates’ is to present a united front of students, faculty and staff members, police, administrative officials and others membe far more contentious than the first. intentions to push for an bers of the community. If students can demonstrate wideStudents have long argued that any Good Samaritan spread support, it will be easier to sway the senate. policy is essentially useless in removing the barriers to expanded Good Samaritan We urge you to talk to students at other schools with allcalling for help in an emergency if it doesn’t cover drugs policy but implore them not inclusive polices to find out how they accomplished it. as well as alcohol. At about half the universities with Good what an undertaking this fight will be, anticipate Samaritan policies, emergencies involving drug overto downplay the difficulty of Realize the objections and fire back with an arsenal of well-develdoses are covered in addition to those involving alcohol. oped counterarguments. Be ready to get turned away, but Our university is not one of them. A couple toughachieving that goal. be just as ready to come back for more. minded students are looking to change that and this ediPast student activists have enlisted help from a wide variety of groups and poptorial board implores them to fight long and fight hard until that happens.

Emerging as the new student leader in the push for the policy’s expansion ulations on the campus. We commend SSDP and the SGA for forming a coalition is senior Brandon Levey, an undergraduate senator and former co-president to tackle this issue together, but they can’t stop there. Student advocates need to of SSDP — the organization most instrumental in pushing the original policy secure as many allies from as many corners of the campus and as many levels of through. Levey is preparing to bring the issue once again to the senate, enlist- the administration as they can.

It took three years for this university to join the ranks of other institutions that ing the help of Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie. We admire their enthusiasm and dedication to the cause, but have a few recom- long ago recognized the policy’s incredible potential to save lives. It could take just as long, or longer, to convince them once again. mendations, as well.

Hopefully, we’re wrong. The current alcohol policy passed only months after The actual process of winning over university officials and gaining the necessary amount of support to see a policy through took years. Advocates encoun- university President Wallace Loh voiced his support for the measure. Appartered hurdle after hurdle, and at points, it seemed possible the measure would ently, his confident stamp of approval was the needed catalyst. Maybe under his new leadership, officials will be more receptive, or at least come to a decision — continue to languish in the senate indefinitely.

Though students could finally rejoice when the alcohol policy became official hopefully a favorable one — quickly.

But if not, man your battle stations and dig in deep, SSDP. It’s going to be a in March, the road ahead to expand it to drug use will likely be even bumpier. long fight.

This new crop of energetic, hopeful advocates needs to brace for that.

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Student-teacher friendships: Not in cyberspace

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y the time you began preparing for college, you probably read in about 10 different places a suggestion that goes a little something like this: Get to know your professors, catch up with them after class yada, yada, yada. Following this advice will generally be a testimonial from a college senior explaining how he and his professor became friends and now go out for drinks from time to time. Sounds fantastic.

Today, the epicenter of student interaction is Facebook, where student-student or student-teacher relationships can thrive through the Internet. Adding your professor as a friend can spawn a new relationship that will also grow in life outside of cyberspace.

But after the passage of a new law in Missouri, the future of student-teacher Facebook interaction is in doubt.

The Missouri law that went into effect Aug. 28 bans public school teachers from interacting with students via social networking sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, unless the communications are accessible to administrators

JESSICA JIMENEZ and parents. The mandate is one part of a bill, SB 54, intended to decrease the level of sexual misconduct between students and employees of the state’s school districts.

The bill doesn’t concern the state’s college students, and so far Missouri is the only state to enact such legislation, but it’s troubling nonetheless: If Missouri legislators think it’s a good idea to limit communication between teachers and 18-year-old high school seniors, what’s to keep them from trying to limit communication between teachers and 18-year-old college freshmen? How many other lawmakers across the country will see the Missouri legislation and attempt to pass similar measures?

SB 54 is misguided because it is uneven in its scope and demonstrates a

poor understanding of student-teacher relationships.

First, why only ban communication via social networking? If someone wants to commit sexual misconduct he or she has many avenues of communication — phone calls, emails, letters, text messages and, you know, good, old-fashioned talking. “Liking” a picture of your teacher’s new pet iguana isn’t a precursor to sexual misconduct any more than talking about that pet iguana in class.

Second, placing awkward limitations on student-teacher communication needlessly hinders the development of healthy, proper relationships. Being comfortable with a professor or teacher is likely to improve a student’s grade in the class. Students will be more comfortable asking for help studying for that upcoming physics exam, and if they’re having trouble with the material, students are more likely to ask for help if they know their teacher well. Teachers are just like other people. They can use humor and experience to help mentor students through tough times.

There are other problems with the

bill. It allows students and teachers to formulate Facebook groups to communicate solely about class material. How can students develop solid relationships with professors on public pages that can be accessed by the entire class?

How will the government know whether a student and teacher are friends on a social networking site without hacking into someone’s profile?

Think about someone scouring your entire Facebook wall, looking for a comment on that pet iguana.

Sure, the bill might force a sexual deviant to use other means of communication. But it won’t prevent people from misbehaving, and it will negatively affect student-teacher relationships in Missouri. I shudder to think of other states enacting similar legislation, or legislation aimed at college students.

So I guess if you really like your professors, it might be best to befriend them using means other than cyberspace.

Jessica Jimenez is a freshman journalism major. She can be reached at jimenez@umdbk.com.

The hypocritical hookup culture

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ecently, as I was enjoying yet another late night with drunken friends and belligerent strangers in College Park, something troubling happened.

Just a few feet from a group of people carrying on an ordinary conversation, some guy was pulverizing, with vicious gyrations, a half-exposed girl up against the wall. Or as my friends explained to me, “They’re dancing.”

I’m not new to college, nor is this the worst case of “sloppy people getting with sloppy people” that I’ve encountered.

But for some reason, this particular Animal Planet moment didn’t feature the sort of comic relief usually provided by close encounters of the slutty kind. Taking into account the indifference of those around the “dancers,” I wondered: Is this really what passes for normal?

But it goes beyond that. Despite the gross danger of ricocheted body fluids, what worried me most was how that couple would feel about themselves if given the opportunity to reflect.

I mean that not in any moral or reli-

gious sense (fear not: there was no shame to be had), but in the sense that there’s a gulf between what people want and what people do.

It seems there is a general disconnect between how people view the culture of promiscuity and the reality of how they partake in it. So many people say they hate it: the degradation, the uncertainty, the emotional damage and, of course, the syphilis that may accompany a cheap, bestial sexcapade. Yet these same people all too often fail to prevent themselves from perpetuating the cycle of sleaze.

The conversation on college dating is a familiar one. People complain about how they hate the hook-up culture or how sometimes they wish the party scene had a higher sense of class. Then, the same people go out on the weekend and have random sex with casual acquaintances.

Of course, not everyone professes a disdain for the cycle. Last year, I met a guy who bragged he’d slept with 17 girls his first semester in college. He seemed

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KARASOV satisfied with his life choices, so I congratulated him and wished him all the best in keeping his herpes under control.

But I find that in times of sobriety, most people (or at least those falling somewhere between a chaste nun and “Mr. 17”) quietly yearn for something beyond the constant random hookups that can subtly transform our perceptions of relationships.

I’m not arguing sex with new people deserves condemnation — if people want to spend their youth living a carefree lifestyle, spreading their seed like their name is Johnny, more power to them. But for the people who get those feelings of self-doubt and still engage in Deuce Bigalow-esque behavior, this hypocrisy will only cause disappoint-

ment and self-loathing. Everyone makes mistakes, and college provides the perfect place to make them. However, when you keep making the same mistakes, eventually those mistakes will define you.

I get that people enjoy hooking up, but it does not mean you have to run wild at night like you’ve just escaped a convent.

I’m sure both members of the dancing duo I encountered at the party are fine people, but I doubt they’re fine with the image they were projecting.

Consummating love, hooking up, humping each other mercilessly — whatever you want to call it — isn’t the way to go about starting a relationship.

A disdain for degrading sexual experiences means nothing unless one also accepts the responsibility of self-determination and decency. In other words, lose the hypocrisy: If you don’t want to view yourself as a slut, stop acting like one.

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics and psychology major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

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our weeks ago, the editorial board commended the university’s public safety officials for prompt and effective use of technology to communicate hazards to the university. Thank you for acknowledging our recent successes with the text alert system for Hurricane Irene; we work very hard to make sure our community is notified of potential hazards. The community expects and deserves prompt and timely notification in the event of an emergency.

Let me now address the delay in notification to the university community Monday following the explosion in the chemistry building. In this case, our delay was too long. Our notifications could have and should have been timelier.

University Police officers arrived on scene within two minutes of receiving the first 911 call. They immediately initiated first aid treatment for the injured victims and then started an orderly evacuation and containment of the scene after realizing hazardous materials were involved. Once the scene was contained and danger to the community subsided, we continued to direct communication between responding agencies and set up Unified Command Systems with the College Park Fire Department.

I’m very proud of the extraordinary work by our personnel and allied agencies in treating the injured, protecting the community and bringing the proper resources to bear to resolve the incident. The building was locked down and the incident was contained quickly. Where we fell short was the larger notification to the community.

The university alert system is a campus-wide notification system that involves immediate alerts followed up by more information. The sirens, text messages and email messages advise the community of an incident and give direction regarding steps the community members can take for their immediate safety. We then provide as much information to other media sources and university networks as possible. We are committed to making sure the information we provide is timely and accurate.

More than 30,000 people are registered in our telephone text messaging system and more than 100,000 unique email addresses exist in our email alert database.

Text messages are proven to be the most efficient means of delivering campus messages. If you haven’t already, please go to www.alert.umd.edu to sign up and register your cell phone number to receive the information alerts via text.

We will continue to work diligently to make sure that our communication efforts are timely, accurate and useful to the university community.

David Mitchell University Police Chief

Unite for rights

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very time I visit The Diamondback’s website or pick up a newspaper, I read stories about excessive fines for parties, harsher penalties for underage drinking and more ways police are cracking down on the supposed problems of College Park. Students are having their rights removed without any say in the policies being passed.

Many students, who are residents of College Park, are having their rights violated by police officers who are unlawfully entering their houses, checking IDs inside the bars and detaining students without proper cause.

But now we are fighting back, and we will not stop until we have change. One organization, UMD Student Rights, which can be found on Facebook, is starting to speak out. The organization, founded by senior Ar y Manzhuch, is uniting students to have our voices heard. Our feelings, thoughts and words need to be known.

Students need to know they are not alone. Every single student resident of the College Park community feels the effects of the authorities’ actions. We all have our voices, but they are scattered.

Joshua Snider Sophomore Behavioral and community health

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INTERVIEW | JULIANNE HOUGH

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BY JOSHUA AXELROD For The Diamondback

Julianne Hough is trying to prove she can do anything.

She has released multiple commercially successful and critically acclaimed country albums, was half of a winning team — twice — on Dancing With The Stars and is in the process of taming Ryan Seacrest (the couple has been dating since April 2010).

With those achievements behind her, Hough wants audiences to embrace her new passion: acting. After a small role in the 2010 musical Burlesque, the world is about to get its first real look at Hough the actress with the Oct. 14 release of Footloose, a remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon film.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but I’ve been singing, dancing and acting my whole life,” said the 23-year-old Salt Lake

City native. “With the momentum that I have now in the film world, I’m just going to be focusing on that. I’m really hoping that [Footloose] will open doors to more dramatic things, comedic roles and just a whole wide range of characters.”

Footloose is the story of Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormald, Center Stage: Turn it Up), a city kid who moves to a small town where dancing and rock ‘n’ roll have been banned and then sets out to destroy the law. Hough plays Ariel, Ren’s love interest and the daughter of the strict Rev. Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid, Soul Surfer).

“When I first found out they were doing a remake of a movie as iconic as Footloose, I thought, ‘Ugh, remakes, they suck!’”

Hough said. “But there wouldn’t have been a better choice to do this film other than [director] Craig Brewer. I think that people who saw the original are going to be impressed and those that haven’t seen it will be surprised.”

While we all know Hough

can dance, was she able to hold her own opposite a veteran actor like Quaid?

“A lot of the scenes that I really loved doing were the ones that challenged my acting,” Hough said. “Obviously the dancing was really fun, but some of my favorite scenes were the Dennis Quaid scenes. I just loved everything about this movie.”

Making the film may have been the time of Hough’s life, but could she live in a world where dancing was taboo? The answer is obvious, but Hough went deeper in describing the impact she hopes the film will have.

“It would be horrific for me if I couldn’t dance,” Hough said emphatically. “But that’s what this movie’s about: Ren coming into this town and fighting for something that he believes. In this moment in time, we need to do the same. Hopefully it motivates people to show the heart and drive the kids [in this movie] have.” diversions@umdbk.com

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Due to an editing error, yesterday’s article “Dancing Queen” incorrectly identified a date of performance.

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MOVIE THEATER REVIEW: WEST END CINEMA West End Cinema is a theater that will inspire nothing less than fierce admiration or extreme indifference.

It’s an art-house theater that plays host to the more obscure kind of indie flick. The listings are a mix of underexposed films (e.g. Bobby Fischer Against The World) and second-run “big” arthouse films (e.g. Beginners).

Despite the new, permanent sign off the street, West End — which is on the corner of 23rd and M streets in Washington — is still hard to find. The interior is an agreeable mix of sleek and clean furniture and an assortment of marquee posters.

The film offerings and your ability to deal with the tiny screens and questionable seating will determine your fondness for the theater. For moviegoers with a more adventurous taste, the place is a godsend.

Last year, West End was the only place in Washington to show Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, along with many other celebrated but obscure works, frequently including special introductions recorded by directors and writers.

For those looking for a more mainstream brand of entertainment, West End’s first-run showings will disappoint while the full-priced tickets for the second-run movies will seem exorbitant given the small screens.

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CULTURE from page 8 become his.

At his first team meeting in January, Edsall told players to take off their hats and do-rags.

The changes didn’t stop there.

Players are expected to be cleancut and presentable. Flashy jewelry must be removed for team activities. Tardiness is met with strict punishment. And jerseys, in an effort to promote a teamfirst attitude, no longer display players’ names.

Growing pains have accompanied Edsall’s culture shift, highlighted by four suspensions this season. Tyler and McCree each missed two games for their involvement in an off-campus altercation that left Tyler charged with second-degree assault after allegedly punching a man in the face and subsequently fleeing from police.

Before that, running back D.J. Adams and offensive lineman Cody Blue were suspended for the Terps’ season opener for undisclosed rules violations.

“It’s just a change. Everybody’s used to one thing and everybody just has to adapt,” defensive tackle Joe Vellano said. “I think everybody’s bought into it at this point. Right now, everybody’s good. We have no problems. Grades-wise, everybody’s doing good.”

“He wants everyone to do the right thing,” linebacker Kenny Tate added. “He’s definitely a notolerance guy. Once we get everybody on board, which we have now, and we can focus as a team, I feel like that’s when we start moving forward.”

There seems to be a disconnect, however, between the discipline and passion Edsall has

“There’s a process coming in and establishing a program.”

from page 8 we’re all ready for a win.”

That first league matchup, a 4-1 loss at Virginia, has been the defense’s only significant blemish on the year. The Terps (7-2-3, 1-2-1) have managed eight shutouts over the course of the season, an impressive number considering the Terps have twice dipped into their reserves to reinforce their defense.

“Last Thursday when Kristen stepped in, she wasn’t surprised by responsibilities that she had, and Bailey wasn’t surprised either,” coach Brian Pensky said. “The difference is they haven’t played in X number of weeks, and they haven’t played in an ACC game so all those things, the speed of it, that’s

NOTEBOOK from page 8 TORRID TOWNSEND When forward Casey Townsend netted his 10th goal of the season Tuesday, he inched closer to another place in the Terps’ record books.

His first-half score marked the senior forward’s 36th career goal, making him the seventh-leading scorer in program history.

He’s just three scores shy of tying Rocco Morelli, who starred for the Terps in the late 1960s, and breaking into the top five.

Outside of cementing his name among the Terps’ all-time greats, Townsend has also made a strong case for this year’s Hermann Trophy, the annual award given to the top male and female college soccer players in the country.

Powering the nation’s third-highest scoring offense, he is tied with Duke forward Andrew Wenger for the secondmost goals in Division I. “He’s doing exactly what I said he was going to do,” Cirovski said. “He’s that good, and I expect that from him. I’m really happy for him and really proud of him.”

RANDY EDSALL TERRAPINS FOOTBALL COACH

preached and the product the Terps have put on the field.

They’ve lacked fire since their season-opening win over Miami, coming out flat in losses to West Virginia and Temple.

And although struggles are expected anytime a new coaching staff is hired, the frustration of the past two games has left Edsall looking for answers.

“You work very, very hard to play 12 Saturdays,” Edsall said.

“And the expectations are, when you play that game you go out and play it with great enthusiasm and great passion. I don’t know what was expected before, I just know what I expect.”

So far, the Terps have put forth a 60-minute effort on only one of three Saturdays. Their performance on the next nine will likely lay the foundation for the rest of Edsall’s time on the sideline at Byrd Stadium.

“There’s a process coming in and establishing a program,” Edsall said. “You’re not establishing a team. At least I’m not, because to me a team is just from year to year and what you have to do is you have to establish a protocol for how ever ything is done.

“If you don’t ever establish the process and establish the footings and the foundation, you’re never going to be where you want to be.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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more the challenge.”

And while a defense giving up 0.67 goals per game, good for fourth in the ACC, would seemingly be full of players who have cut their teeth on the backline during their careers, only Bodell arrived in College Park as a defender. The rest — including McAfee, Anderson and Lydia Hastings — all come from attacking or midfield backgrounds.

“It helps them in a little bit of their individual defending,” Pensky said. “They’re used to being attacking players so they have the mind of their attacking players so they understand some of the nuances that some of the attacking players have.”

A prime example of the Terps’ success in positional relocation came last year with since-graduated Caitlin McDowell.

FOR THE RECORD BOOKS While Townsend continues to cement his legacy, his Terps team is quickly putting together one of the greatest seasons in program history.

After beating the 49ers on Tuesday, the Terps are off to their best start since 1968.

That squad, which was led by the aforementioned Morelli, won 14 straight games before ultimately capturing the program’s first-ever national championship.

But Cirovski, who’s never been one for comparisons, said he’s not willing to focus on such feats with eight games still remaining in the regular season.

“I have no thoughts on that,” he said.

“I’m getting the guys recovered for a big game on Friday [against No. 2 Creighton]. I didn’t even know that.”

Coach Randy Edsall announced Sunday the reinstatement of suspended wide receivers Quintin McCree and Ronnie Tyler. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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McDowell played her first three seasons with the Terps in the midfield, where she accumulated ample playing time and modest statistics. But in her senior year, the Terps moved her to right back — “I thought they were joking,” McDowell said of her initial reaction to the change — and she became a force.

McDowell recorded 12 assists and 18 points, a figure equaling her career total for her first three years.

Pensky’s system, as evidenced by McDowell’s point totals, calls for his defenders, particularly outside backs, to play a role on offense. McDowell said the more time players get on the backline, the more natural the mentality and gameplay becomes. That could be the case for a player such as Hastings, who is playing defender for the first time in her career.

This year, she and Megan Gibbons have a combined four points, and none in ACC play.

Not surprisingly, the Terps have only four goals in four conference games so far.

That could change tonight for a defense looking for more goals as it sports fewer able bodies.

Last season, the Terps defeated Clemson, 4-0, at Ludwig Field, and the Terps are expecting that offense to carry over.

“We deserve a win,” Anderson said. “We work way too hard to not win so we’re going into it expecting a win. It’s going to be challenging because every team in the ACC is good, but we’re expecting to win because that’s the type of standard we set for ourselves every time.”

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doing very well.”

After totaling more than four scores just once in the team’s first five contests, the Terps (9-1) have scored at least four goals in each of their past five, averaging five goals per game in that stretch. The half-dozen they scored against the Tigers on Tuesday were the most Princeton had allowed all season.

“Generally, I think they prepare pretty well, much better than they did a month ago,” Meharg said.

“They really struggled with that, and they’ve evolved comfortably.”

It’s also been a balanced effort for the Terps so far this season. Of the 15 players who have played in all 10 of the team’s games, eight have scored goals. The team’s youth has made an impact in the scoring column, as well: Of the Terps’ 39 goals this season, 13 have been scored by freshmen.

“One of the things we work on is just goal-shooting and making sure the ball ends up in the back of the net,” midfielder Jemma Buckley said. “It’s just the end result of good teamwork.”

One area of improvement that has helped the Terps’ offense grow has been their increased success on penalty corners. The Terps struggled mightily on corners in the Terrapin Invitational tournament earlier this month, amassing 29 penalty-corner chances in two games and scoring on just five.

There has been a noticeable improvement in the team’s past four contests, however. The Terps have scored nine goals on 33 penalty-corner attempts since the Terrapin Invitational, improving their shooting percentage on those chances by 10 percent in that span.

“Our ratio has been a little bit lower than it has been in the past at this time of the year, so I’m pleased with that,” Meharg said. “We’ve been practicing our set pieces and corners much better with more discipline.”

The Terps’ attack could see continued success when they host Virginia on Friday. The Cavaliers allow an ACC-worst 3.4 goals per game, so the Terps will likely get plenty of opportunities to refine their newfound offensive prowess.

“When you compete like that and you’re a good athlete and you just are in that flow, it’s just great and the game is beautiful,” Meharg said. “All and all, we’re very pleased.”

double-double during the year. The most impressive statistic, however, was her 1,179 assists for the season, which rank ninth in school history.

Just how does McBain rack up such gaudy stats? In the traditional 5-1 rotation used in volleyball, in which just one remains setter on the floor, the junior stabilizes the Terps’ attack. This season, if you were to witness a spike by outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher or a kill by outside hitter Mary Cushman, it was likely made possible by McBain.

“I have to be able to run every play, know where everybody is and basically run the offense,” McBain said. “It’s challenging at times, but I like the pressure.”

Although her role hasn’t always been the same for the Terps, it was apparent early on how McBain could be best used.

“In her freshman year, she set some, but had other roles as well,” Horsmon said. “Last year was her first year being the primary setter, and after that season, our expectations are much more different for her. We feel good about her being in this position.”

This season has gone to plan for McBain, who is ranked sixth in the ACC in assists. Just recently, McBain amassed 54 assists in two matches over the past weekend against ACC foes North Carolina and N.C. State, and her total of 542 thus far in the 2011 season has put McBain sixth in school history.

McBain, though, isn’t eyeing her place in the record books. She’s hoping to lead the Terps to a breakthrough season of their own.

“For my career, I hope I can reach the level of All-American, hopefully AllACC [this season], as well,” McBain said. “But I care most about our team goals, which includes getting to the NCAA Tournament.”

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Terps to wear red jerseys The Terps football team will wear black helmets, red jerseys and black pants Saturday vs. Towson.

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MEN’S SOCCER | NOTEBOOK FOOTBALL

Making good on promise, Forbess returns as starter Streaking Townsend, Terps make moves up program’s record books

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

After notching two assists in a 2-0 win at Virginia Tech on Sept. 24, the typically quiet Kaoru Forbess made his intentions loud and clear.

“I definitely want to get my starting spot back,” he said.

And he got it. The senior Terrapins men’s soccer midfielder, who lost his starting job after suffering an ankle injury during a 4-0 rout of Stanford on Sept. 2, was back in the team’s starting 11 for its 3-1 win against No. 12 Charlotte on Tuesday.

The promotion followed a strong stretch of play for Forbess, who, after ceding his spot to redshirt freshman Jeremy Raley, added to his assists total and climbed to fourth in the ACC in the categor y.

“Kaoru played very well in the Virginia Tech match,” Cirovski said Tuesday. “His performance in that match warranted a start against Charlotte.”

Forbess had one shot against the 49ers, while Raley finished with an assist.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Defense looking for offense, not injuries Ailing unit set for Clemson tonight

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Coach Randy Edsall said Tuesday that “it takes time, especially if young people aren’t used to being held accountable,” for the Terps to become the team he envisions on and off the field. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Culture shock

The onset of ACC play for the Terrapins women’s soccer team has brought anticipated matchups with topranked teams, upper-tier talents and games in hostile environments. But it has also brought one thing the Terps could not have foreseen: an injur y bug that has plagued one of the conference’s top defenses.

On Sept. 22 against Boston College, Mallory Baker went down with an injury. On Sunday against N.C. State, Kristen

McAfee, Baker’s replacement, suffered an apparent knee injury. That meant considerable time for third-string center-back Bailey Bodell.

Entering tonight’s league contest at Clemson (5-5, 0-3 ACC), though, the No. 18 Terps aren’t worried about their defense, or even who comprises it.

“It is a must-win,” defender Skyy Anderson said. “I know we’ve had a couple of games that we should have won, and our first ACC game didn’t go out as planned, but I think

see DEFENSE, page 7

For Edsall, overhaul of team’s philosophy won’t ‘happen overnight’

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

In describing members of the Terrapins football team, coach Randy Edsall invariably comes back to two words: young men.

Nine months into the first-year coach’s inaugural season in College Park, though, the Terps have shown that, as a whole, they haven’t yet fully embodied Edsall’s ideal of model citizenry.

Even as most of the Terps have embraced his no-nonsense philosophy, there have been hiccups along

the way.

“When you come in with the type of program you’re going to run, it takes time, especially if young people aren’t used to being held accountable,” Edsall said Tuesday, just two days after announcing the reinstatement of suspended wide receivers Quintin McCree and Ronnie Tyler. “It’s not just what happens on the football field. It’s what happens each and every day that you’re around these young men.

“The process doesn’t happen overnight because people don’t just change overnight. And you have to go

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through the process. This is the first time we’re going through a season here and these kids are seeing exactly what we’re doing.”

That process started his first day on the job. After inheriting a team that had lost three scholarships for poor academic performance and 12.5 percent of its weekly practice time for practice violations under former coach Ralph Friedgen, the straight-laced Edsall knew he’d have to initiate wholesale change before the program could truly

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VOLLEYBALL

For Terp, it’s set and forget

Terps hitting offensive stride in recent games Six goals vs. Tigers ties season high

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

Even before the 2011 season began, Terrapins field hockey coach Missy Meharg figured it would take time for a new-look offense to jell. A 4-0 loss to Old Dominion on Sept. 2, the Terps’ first blanking in nearly four years, only showed how far the Terps were from the attacking force they had been in seasons past.

With a half-dozen goals from five different players in a 6-2 victory over Princeton on Tuesday night, though, the Terps seem to be all but on their way back to their old offensive glory.

Without the benefit of a true go-to star on offense, the No. 3

Megan Gibbons, left, is one of several defenders with prior offensive experience. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

Terps have been forced to take an offense-by-committee approach, rotating players in and out of the lineup and spreading the goal-scoring opportunities all over the field.

It took some time for the offense to click, but now that they’re comfortable on the field, the Terps are seeing continued improvement on their attack.

“I’m impressed with the way the women are just stepping out and staying present. They’re really eager to play hockey, and a good brand of hockey,” Meharg said after Tuesday’s game. “This is still a very, very new team in so many ways, and I think they’re

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Setter Remy McBain is sixth in the ACC with 9.68 assists per game this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

There was no hesitation from Tim Horsmon.

“She is the center of our program,” the fourth-year Terrapins volleyball coach said.

Ask anyone else on the team to name the face of the Terps, and you get the same response: junior setter Remy McBain. Since arriving in College Park as a freshman in 2009, McBain has done nothing but succeed.

At her position, that has to be the case. As the catalyst for the Terps’ offense, nearly every scoring opportunity — good or bad — goes through her.

“Your setter is like the quarterback of your team,” Horsmon said. “She has to be

the leader out there, as well as be the smartest player on the court. She’s worked hard to get to and be in that position.”

The impact that the Leonia, N.J., native could make was evident midway through her freshman year, when the Terps played Virginia.

McBain posted eight digs and four kills, but it was another statistic that would distinguish her Terps career: assists. She tallied a team high that match with 18, and would go on to record a total of 262 that season.

Next year proved how special and important she had become to the team. McBain recorded her first-ever tripledouble against Duke and earned her seventh career

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