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Student Conduct, which they said was an expected jump because of the new policy. But there have been a total of 97 nonacademic misconBy Teddy Amenabar first weeks of the fall semester, duct referrals overall between June 1 @TeddyAmen they’re still waiting to see how and Oct. 4, down from 116 referrals Senior staff writer the changes will affect off-campus during the same period in 2012. “[The number of referrals] has student behavior. to do something with the signifiOne month into the semester, University officials implementcant outreach efforts,” said Tamara university offi cials received 56 off ed an expanded Code of Student Conduct in May, but during the campus referrals to the Office of Saunders, student conduct office

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Over the past two months, university officials worked to address the conduct code expansion by attending city civic association meetings, discussing it with students during “knock and talks,” emailing parents about the new policy and advertising the changes online, Saunders said.

All of the referrals this year come from a “spectrum” of violations

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Nestled next to TerpZone in Stamp Student Union is a hidden creative outlet where students can express their creativity through paint, dance, photographs or even pottery: the Art and Learning Center.

The ALC offers noncredit classes taught by members of the College Park community in addition to providing open studio time for students not looking for instruction.

“The ALC is unique in that it really gives students a place to come and do things they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise,” said senior art history and economics major Rich McCauley, who works at the ALC’s front desk. “If you aren’t a studio art major, there isn’t always a place for you.”

The ALC has had a presence on campus for decades and was “huge in the ’80s,” McCauley said.

“They had an incredible number of students coming in and taking classes — crazy classes like knitting, stained glass making, woodworking and sewing,” McCauley said.

“You can still see the remnants of

Student loan default rates are continuing to rise, and experts said that may indicate students are borrowing at a higher rate than they can repay in the post-graduate job market.

Default rates on student loans have increased for borrowers entering their second year of repayment for the sixth year in a row.

This year’s rate is about 10 percent, up from 4.6 percent in 1005, according to the most recent Department of Education report, released in September. Experts said that could indicate students aren’t fi nding quality jobs after college to repay the money they borrow.

“The growing number of students who have defaulted on their federal student loans is troubling,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a release.

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practice film strips hang in the darkroom of Stamp Student Union’s Art and Learning Center, a longtime site for art courses.

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Staff writer turtles race as part of a 1981 homecoming celebration. This year, the university will host a pre-party and pep rally on McKeldin Mall instead of the annual homecoming parade, a staple since 1923. file photo/the diamondback The event aims to attract more students and alumni to homecoming than in past years, said Matt Supple, Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life director.

“It’s a neat opportunity to bring the whole campus community together and bring our alumni back,” Supple said.

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This year, the university is breaking from tradition and revamping homecoming to draw more students and younger alumni while raising their sense of school spirit.

Rather than holding the annual homecoming parade, a tradition that began in 1923, the university will host a pre-party and pep rally on McKeldin Mall, featuring games, food and performances lasting into the night.

against the code — not just underage drinking or illegal drug possession, student conduct coordinator Vanessa Taft said.

Anyone — university officials, students, police or residents — can refer an incident to the office if he or she believes a student’s actions violate the conduct code, Saunders said.

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The festivities, which will last from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, will feature a step show from this university’s historically black fraternities and sororities, as well as performances by the winners of the Greek life skit competition.

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The archive was curated and collected by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, an umbrella organization for 57 U.S. labor unions that repBy Jenny Hottle @JennyHottle resent more than 12 million workers.

Senior staff writer It joins several other universityhoused collections of labor history, In the days following a massive making this university among the donation of historical labor materials largest union research sites on the to the university archives, the collec- East Coast, said Patricia Steele, dean tion is creating buzz not only on the of the university libraries. campus, but also around the world.

The university received the colFilling up six miles of shelv- lection on Oct. 1 after it was transing, the George Meany Memorial ferred from the National Labor AFL-CIO Archive is the largest College in Silver Spring. Since single donation to the university then, history classes, as well as a libraries ever, said Lauren Brown, researcher from Melbourne, Austramanager of special collections. It is lia, have visited Hornbake Library to valued at $25 million and contains view available materials, and other more than 40 million artifacts and departments are planning to use the documents ranging from campaign archive in coursework. buttons and photographs to books and even a pair of old work boots.

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equipment from the classes left over in storage. We have giant glass-cutting machines still.”

Since then, the center has faded somewhat from student consciousness, but the center’s staff is seeking to change that in coming semesters, Graduate Assistant Coordinator Neal McKinney said.

The courses, which students and faculty members can take at a discounted price, typically last either five or 10 weeks a semester, offering students an opportunity to explore interests outside of their majors.

The most popular classes i nclude sa lsa a nd cera mics, McKinney said. Yoga, samba, digital photography and Photoshop classes have also drawn large numbers this semester.

A m a nd a Bogd a n sa id she was always interested in taking ALC classes, but whenever she went to sign up, classes were full. Finally, this semester, Bogdan, the Department of Resident Life’s assistant coordinator of North Campus Administrative Operations, is enrolled in open studio ceramics.

“I don’t really know what I’m doi n g, but it’s f u n,” Bogdan said as she kneaded clay. “I took art classes in high school, but I didn’t really take anything since then. It’s awesome to get back into it.”

Another participant in open studio time, Lela Stanley, an environmental science and technology graduate student, said she goes to the ALC opportunity to create art for fun. “ I t’s n i c e t h a t i t’s a n option to come and do art,” Stanley said as she spun clay on a ceramics wheel. “I just do it for fun, for myself, so this is a great place to have on campus.”

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“We have a number of really wonderful special collections, but I don’t think I’ve seen a buzz around anything like this on the campus,” Steele said. “Calls are coming in from all over. It’s not just historians that are interested in it — sociologists, anthropologists, people in women’s studies, gender studies, all kinds of disciplines that have an interest in labor.”

Philip Soergel, professor and history department chair, said many faculty members are interested in this aspect of American history. Recently, university researchers completed an almost 40-year-long project of editing and publishing 12 volumes of speeches, recordings and documents relating to Samuel Gompers, a labor spokesma n a nd founder of the American Federation of Labor.

“We have a number of prominent labor historians in the department, so we were quite anxious to get [the archive],” Soergel said.

“The history department has a long tradition, reaching back into the 1960s and ’70s, of having a number of specialists who study U.S. labor history.”

Faculty and administrators wrote letters of support in 2012 to bring the archive to the campus when they learned the AFL-CIO was interested in fi nding a new

Students can try their hand at making pottery and ceramic sculptures at the Art and Learning Center in Stamp Student Union. The center offers open time pottery wheel, structured ceramics classes and photography instrucution. kelsey hughes/the diamondback the student body, the center has pa rtnered w ith other groups, including Student Entertainment Events. The A LC co-sponsored one of SEE’s Ma ngo Mondays, a regular do-it-yourself event in the Baltimore Room in Stamp, and gave students the opportu n ity to try spin art. In the future, the sta ff pla ns to su r vey the student body to get an idea of programs students would

be interested in attending at the ALC. McKinney said t hey a re a l ready look i ng into introducing sewing and cooking classes.

“We have what we have already, but that’s not all we want to do,” McKinney said.

“We’re very open to planning new things and giving the students classes they want to take.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

wallace loh, university president, at Hornbake Library on Oct. 1. rebecca rainey/for the diamondback location for the materials. By fall of that year, they learned the AFL-CIO was interested in negotiating an agreement.

“There was a tremendous level of interest expressed by faculty and faculty administrators on campus, seeing if we could make this happen, which I think made the library staff even more motivated,” Brown said.

The archive’s contents date back to the 19th century, offering researchers a long chronological span of documented events and issues in American workforce history, Brown said.

Some groups, such as the history department, have sent students to the library for research projects and are planning to study the collection in future courses.

The history department plans to develop a course on the labor archives for undergraduate students and appoint graduate research assistants to work in the collections.

Faculty members have also discussed plans to hold a conference this month and invited labor leaders, historians and scholars to use the archive, Soergel said. “[We’ll use] labor history

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as a lens for understanding what’s going on with the problems in the labor movements at the present,” Soergel said. “We hope it will be televised through something like C-SPAN, or we’ll webcast it.”

In the meantime, university archivists and librarians are working on transferring the archives and preparing documents for preservation.

Some items are already available through the Maryland Room in Hornbake, but other boxes remain in commercial storage facilities or in McKeldin Library, Steele said.

The AFL-CIO collection was already well maintained and organized, Brown said, but university archivists have been digitizing materials to make them more readily available to the public, one of Steele’s ultimate goals for the special collections.

“You could get a big collection like this and put it in storage and have it beautifully preserved forever,” Steele said. “But if [people] don’t see what’s out there, then you haven’t done your job.” jhottledbk@gmail.com

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“I JUST HOPE THAT PEOPLE GET A SENSE OF HOMECOMING AND REALIZE WHAT MARYLAND IS ABOUT. IT’S ABOUT COMING TOGETHER, HAVING FUN AND JUST ENJOYING BEING A TERP.” DANIELA NEVO

Student Homecoming Committee president 43 percent of students didn’t even know there was a parade, Nevo said.

“One of our biggest goals as the homecoming committee is to bring the members of the University of Maryland together,” she said. “We felt that the parade wasn’t doing that at all.”

The committee may organize students celebrate during the 1982 homecoming. The university won’t have a parade during this year’s homecoming, which starts the weekend of Oct. 20. file photo/the diamondback a parade in future years, but for nity this year, he said, because alumni, said Daniela Nevo, and Spanish major, hopes now, members want to reevaluit is the 100th anniversary of Student Homecoming Com- more students will be in- ate how the campus community volved in homecoming events celebrates homecoming, espemittee president.

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From PAGE 1 At the end of the night, the and activities. Although she’s cially the upcoming move to the During the day, activities “It will be great to showcase will be geared toward fami- university’s marching band enjoyed the homecom i ng Big Ten, Nevo said.

Homecoming committee some of the things fraterni- lies, with inflatables, food and will lead a pep rally to pump up parade in past years, Nevo said staff members will travel to she noticed it wasn’t popular the crowd for the homecoming games.

A beer garden will open ties and sororities have been other Big Ten schools, such at 6 p.m. for those who are at football game, and fireworks among most students. working on,” Supple said.

A survey the committee as Penn State, to look at their Homecoming is especially least 21 years old to provide will follow. conducted last year showed homecoming events and bring Nevo, a senior economics a sort of “night out” feel for exciting for the Greek commu-

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DEFAULT From PAGE 1 These rates are based on students who entered repayment between Oct. 1, 2010, and Sept. 30, 2011 — the 2011 fiscal year — and who defaulted in the next fiscal year.

However, it may be too early to assume a full-blown crisis in the student loa n market, said economics professor Cindy Clement.

“The fact that they go up from one year to the next could be for a lot of different reasons,” Clement said. “We need a lot more information before we can assess what that means.”

Students who entered repayment in the 2011 fiscal year were doing it at a time when the job market was still reeling from the effects of a slow-growing post-recession economy — the “deepest recession” since the Great Depression, Clement said — and businesses weren’t hiring new college-educated workers at the same pace they were graduating.

“You can sort of see that generally in this time period, lots of people a re hav i ng trouble finding employment,” Clement said. “If you’re not employed, are you able to pay back loans? Not necessarily …

That’s part of what’s going on.”

All in all, Clement said a lot is happening in labor markets underneath the student loan default rate figures.

“We need a lot more information than just the simple observation that the cohort rate went up from one year to the next,” Clement said.

“There are definitely problems here, and not to say that we should make light of them, but it’s not yet a crisis.”

Duncan views these rates

fordable,” Duncan said. “We remain committed to building a shared partnership with states, local governments, institutions and students — as well as the business, labor and philanthropic leaders — to improve college affordability for millions of students and families.”

President Obama unveiled a plan this year that seeks to rein in the rising costs of tuition by holding schools accountable for student perforBY THE NUMBERS mances after graduation.

But Clement said tuition is increasing for several reasons, such as rising costs for tech2005 student loan default rate nology, high faculty salaries and lower state investment in public education.

However, students do play 2013 student loan default rate an important role in easing the burden of college costs, Clement said, and should not be “passive consumers” in the number of students who market. defaulted on their rates two “This particular market years into their repayment works differently than a lot during the 2012 fiscal year of other markets,” Clement said. “The consumer — the as a part of a bigger problem: student — is an active part of na mely the risi ng cost of the production team.

“In many instances, stucollege, which ultimately forces borrowers to take out dents can play a role in not more loans and pay interest necessa ri ly cha ng i ng the tuition that they pay, but in on a larger principal. “ T h e D ep a r t m e nt w i l l thinking about their role in continue to work with in- education.” stitutions and borrowers to ensure that student debt is af- jbachdbk@gmail.com

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CONDUCT From PAGE 1 University officials then decide whether the evidence provided is “clear and convincing” to charge a student with misconduct. An administrator or the University Student Judiciary will decide the case, Taft said.

“The majority of cases, students are probably found responsible,” Saunders said.

Officials hope the expanded code will eventually foster stronger ties between the city and the university and boost the university’s reputation, Taft said. In developing plans for the expansion, Saunders said, officials looked at other University System of Maryland institutions, such as Towson University, to understand how they expanded their student conduct codes.

Despite what some students might believe, most charges incurred through the university exist on disciplinary records, not academic records, Saunders said. Usually, suspension or expulsion is the only notation placed on an academic record, she said.

“We’re not the big bad wolf,” Taft said. “We are here to educate you about your decision making.”

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new ideas back to this university, she said. “[The party] seems more interactive,” said Jenna Conaty, a sophomore criminology and criminal justice and psychology major. “[Parades] are kind of boring; you just stand there.”

Ultimately, Nevo hopes the change in homecoming events increases interactions among students, faculty, alumni and families.

“I just hope that people get a sense of homecoming and realize what Maryland is about,” she said. “It’s about com i ng toget her, h av i ng fun and just enjoying being a Terp.”

University Police saw an 18 percent increase in the use of referring incidents to the Office of Student Conduct instead of citing or arresting a student, University Police Chief David Mitchell said.

It may be too early to tell,

Marc limansky, former University Police spokesman, attended a Sept. 16 ceremony where officials explained the expansion of the Code of Student Conduct. james levin/the diamondback Mitchell said, but the trend suggests that referrals to the university will be used more often.

“University Police officers enjoy this because it’s another tool in the kit that we can use,” he said.

Overall, Mitchell said he is pleased with how the beginning of the semester has gone in terms of student safety. The expansion has also brought along further collaboration between the university and city officials, which could help with future initiatives, he said.

STUDENT OFFICIAL RESPONSE In the long term, the code’s expansion will become a cultural change in how students behave off the campus, said Josh Ratner, Student Government Association student affairs vice president.

“As opposed to getting students in trouble, it will make them think a little more before

doing something,” Ratner said.

Catherine Thompson, University Student Judiciary Executive Board chairwoman, said she has heard differing opinions regarding the expansion from students and judiciary members. But in general, she said, most seem to support the new policy.

Expanding the code places the university on the same level as many other Big Ten schools that have off-campus jurisdiction for misconduct, Thompson said.

In the end, Thompson said, the ex pa nsion a l lows the university to get involved in student sexual assault cases and other serious offenses.

“All that this is doing is encouraging students to be smarter about the decisions they are making,” Thompson said. “You’re a Terp wherever you go.” tamenabardbk@gmail.com

HungerU teaches students about global hunger, agriculture

By Talia Richman @talirichman Staff writer On Wednesday, the sidewalk in front of Cole Field House is reserved for organic fruits and vegetables at the weekly farmers market. Yesterday, however, the HungerU Tour occupied the space in the name of food scarcity.

The HungerU Tour is a mobile classroom with interactive displays that travels to college campuses to educate students about global hunger and agriculture. The project is part of the Farm Journal Foundation’s Farmers Feeding the World campaign and made its debut on this campus yesterday through a partnership with the agricultural college.

“Our goal is to engage with students about the world hunger crisis,” said Malorie Bankhead, a HungerU member. “We want to make it a relevant cause and inspire action.”

The second part of the tour is planned for today, starting at 9 a.m.

Although yesterday’s event ended early because of inclement weather, students

have been very receptive to the message so far, Bankhead said.

“I always look forward to interacting with international students,” Bankhead said. “You never know what stories they’ll tell you. One girl stopped by who was from the Philippines and told me about how she had witnessed hunger firsthand.”

The HungerU campaign originally reached out to the university, and agricultural college officials thought it would supplement work students were already doing, said Leon Slaughter, associate dean of the agricultural college. The issues discussed relate heavily to the sustainability studies minor, one of this university’s most popular minor programs, Slaughter said.

“It is already a challenge to feed our current population, so we need to educate people that world hunger needs to be solved,” Slaughter said.

“When you go to the grocery store and see there is an abundance of food, I hope people realize other places aren’t so lucky.”

HungerU stresses that hunger isn’t

only a problem overseas. The exhibit prominently displays the fact that one in six people in the United States is fighting hunger.

“The truck has definitely made me more aware of the issue,” said junior education major Sean Rotter. “If I see a food drive, I would be more likely to help now.”

But Ashli, a junior community health major whose last name was withheld for privacy reasons, said the information isn’t new to her.

When Ashli was 9 years old, her mother and stepfather got divorced.

For months, rent was hard to come by, and Ashli’s mother had to choose which bills to pay. Ashli remembers the moment she realized something wasn’t right: She was telling her mother she wanted to bake a cake and make a fancy meal for her mother’s birthday, and she simply got “We’ll see” as a response.

“We ate less of the food we had and just tried to ration it,” she said.

“It’s tough for a child to go through.

Children shouldn’t be thinking about whether or not they’re going to eat.”

Ashli hopes the HungerU Tour

THE HUNGERU TOUR BUS, parked outside Cole Field House yesterday, travels to college campuses across the country to educate students about global hunger and agriculture. sung-min kim/for the diamondback will help her peers realize the magnitude of the issue.

“Hopefully, seeing the exhibit will put the hunger crisis on people’s radars, which is the first step to fixing it,” she said.

According to the HungerU website, the world’s population is projected to grow to 9 billion people by 2050.

Hunger is already the world’s number one health risk, killing more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. With about 2

billion more mouths to feed expected by 2050, Bankhead said this generation has to start figuring out an answer.

“Hunger awareness is key because we have to be the generation that’s part of the solution,” she said. “To fight a problem, you have to be aware it exists.”

The Diamondback’s Jeremy Snow contributed to this report. trichmandbk@gmail.com

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t looks like the DOTS is actually taking a step toward helping students avoid parking violations — something that, in recent years, members of this editorial board never thought we would be able to say seriously.

With Parkmobile, a new phone app connected to the metered campus parking lots, the Department of Transportation Services is attempting to make it easier to pay your meter.

The app is free and lets you skip any lines to pay for parking — a big plus if you’re running late. But its best features are that users can receive alerts when the meter is 15 minutes from expiring, reload meters remotely and track their cars after forgetting their parking space numbers.

This simple, logical app appears to be addressing many of the complaints students, faculty and staff have made about paid campus parking for years.

But what’s to make this attempt at reaching out to students more effective than any other DOTS initiatives?

Officials claim this new system will be incredibly convenient for all those using meters — but wasn’t the story the same with the PayByPhone

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app? That offered the same convenience of extending meter times remotely — but often, the payment wouldn’t process before a DOTS truck had come and ticketed those vehicles. Essentially, nothing was fixed. Students were simply paying for parking and receiving tickets.

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DOTS seems to be making a real effort to help drivers avoid parking tickets with the new Parkmobile app.

While we’re excited to see what this app could do to help those who use meters and to improve relations between car owners and DOTS, we aren’t fully ready to jump behind this idea.

Yes, people such as senior mechanical engineering major Skyler Dean, who have used the app on o t h e r ca m p u se s, a re h o p e f u l , because they have seen the initiative effectively employed elsewhere. And this app is available in more than 500 locations over 35 states, including 15 other universities. There is

reason to hope this new system will go well and DOTS will stop handing out so many tickets.

So students: It’s time to make moves toward helping DOTS, too.

The department is clearly trying here, and we have to make sure we attempt to meet them halfway. Obviously, we don’t want to pay obscene fines for parking in the wrong spot or getting to our cars a minute too late.

Now that DOTS is providing a viable alternative, let’s make the best of it.

If you think you’re going to be even 30 seconds late, use your smartphone (or text messaging — another option DOTS is providing to extend your parking time) to pay for that extra minute. Make the effort to park in your designated spaces. It will save you anywhere from $15 to $75 in the long run, and with the Parkmobile app as an available option — and apparently one that works — we can’t just sit back and complain about DOTS anymore. They are trying.

We will still have to move our cars for basketball games and jump through other slightly ridiculous hoops under the DOTS rules. But we now have the means to avoid stupid parking tickets.

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On Dining Services your-own pasta since North Campus adapted the pizza station Luigi’s to accommodate pasta requests. And while nothing can compare to the South Campus stir-fry, North Campus’ vegan-friendly Sprouts now allows made-to-order stir-fry using selected salad bar vegetables. Still, inequality persists as North Campus offers no substitute to South Campus’ delicious burrito and taco station, Jalapeño Grill.

Paradoxically, the relative victories of North Campus over South Campus go relatively unnoticed. North Campus’ Korean barbecue, sadly, has no Southern counterpart. This already excellent station has even improved just in the past year by offering more options. It introduced lo mein and noodles to the usual white rice monopoly and offers a strong variety of vegetable and meat combinations to tickle every palate.

South Hill residents could certainly benefit from having a Korean barbecue station of their own.

While large projects such as South Campus’ recent late-night dining option are welcome additions to Dining Services, sometimes it’s the little things, such as the new dishes, that make a meal great. Previously, students eating in the dining halls struggled with plates that were too small and did not hold slippery food like pasta very well. Often, these students simply opted for the carry-out container to guard against an embarrassing spill. Now, especially at South Campus, students are given plates shaped like shallow bowls, which do a better job of keeping food off of the floor and promoting sustainability.

While Dining Services has done much to accommodate students’ needs, an area that could use further reform is 251 North. Perhaps unused swipes could carry over to new weeks in future dining plans, or there could be an ice cream option for dessert. And although many students eventually move off campus and have little contact with dining facilities, it is important to keep bringing ideas forward to improve our university for prospective students.

TIFFANY BURBA

While many on-campus residents complain about dining plans, dining hall food and dining facilities, Dining Services has enacted beneficial changes within the past few semesters to make our experience more bearable.

One of my favorite Dining Services initiatives is the Green Tidings food truck, introduced in June.

Parked at a different location on the campus each day, Green Tidings provides sustainable, locally grown cuisine. Dining Services reports that the food truck’s executive chef, Will Rogers, collaborates with local farmers to show off their culinary and agricultural skills. Because the menu changes every two weeks, food from Green Tidings is never mundane, and you can always find a refreshing dish to spice up your day. Recently, the food truck began accepting not only cash and credit cards, but Terrapin Express. You can stay informed of menu items and locations through the chef’s blog or Green Tidings’ Twitter feed or Facebook page.

A major problem for Dining Services in the past few years has been the vast food disparity between the North and South Campus dining halls. The former has long paled in comparison to its southern counterpart, which is complete with specialty stations like the Jalapeño Grill, an expansive and diverse salad bar and a pasta station. Luckily, governing organizations on the campus, such as the Residence Hall Association, lobbied Dining Services in the past few semesters to place the North Campus Dining Hall on a more even playing field.

While South Campus used to be exclusive in its Salad Sensations station, North Campus now offers a made-to-order salad station during the day at its former late-night sandwich joint, the New Yorker. Tiffany Burba is a senior government Furthermore, South Campus no and politics major. She can be reached longer holds a monopoly on create- at tburbadbk@gmail.com.

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Stop stigmatizing men’s mental health MARIA ROMAS My favorite topic to write about, as pretty much anyone who has read my columns can see, is feminism. But this time, I want to focus on another aspect of equality. Though a number of feminists champion this issue themselves, it’s something that can often be overshadowed by the push for equality for women.

Women are often encouraged to seek mental health services, especially after experiencing something traumatic. In movies, it’s almost always the woman pushing her husband to go to couple’s therapy. In pop culture, women are the ones often going to rehab strictly for mental health issues, whereas men go for drug or alcohol abuse without acknowledging any potential mental health issues attached to those addictions. Women are the ones encouraged to get help after being sexually assaulted or when dealing with depression and other emotional issues. Society doesn’t seem to afford men the same courtesy.

There doesn’t ever seem to be recognition for the men who need mental health assistance. Sure, it’s often acknowledged that women are affected by mental illness at a higher rate than men — but is that realistic, or do men simply not recognize their mental illnesses because of the stigma against them seeking help? It’s common knowledge that men don’t like to feel vulnerable.

But why does it have to be this way?

Four times as many men as women commit suicide in the U.S., according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Guardian published an article in

June about Men’s Health Week, which was held June 10 to 16 this year and aims to “tackle stigma in men’s mental health and promote mental well-being and help-seeking in men,” according to its website. The article emphasized that men are reluctant to seek help, and that “underlying many of these [mental health] experiences are complex psychological problems, but rarely do we empathise with their causes. Men are more often portrayed as villains, perpetrators and the causes of problems.”

These numbers and beliefs should emphasize the need for more mental health resources for men and combat society’s continual decision to stigmatize those who need these services as “weak” or “vulnerable.”

Researchers estimate that at least 6 million men in the U.S. suffer from depression. But are all of those men getting help? No. The infamous AskMen.com website even acknowledges the problem. The site’s health correspondent wrote, “Perhaps most influential [to men not seeking mental health services] are perceptions around male masculinity. As it is seen [as] unmanly to discuss weakness, mental issues become masked and often go undiagnosed.” Even a site that touts the motto “Become a better man” and can come off as degrading toward both men and women in its various forms of advice recognizes the issue.

The National Institute of Mental Health conducted a study to gauge depression awareness in men in 2010.

It found that most men described the symptoms of depression without labeling themselves as “depressed.” They also expressed a concern for labeling themselves as having a mental illness, as they feared it would have a negative impact on job security, promotion

potential or health insurance benefits.

The study found these men considered having a mental illness would cost them the respect of their peers — something they weren’t willing to handle.

Now, I’m not a man (clearly), but I have been able to observe men who have been forced to staunch and silence any reaction they have to stresses in their lives that may be attributed to a mental illness. And it hurts my heart as well as my moral compass to see that these men could have things so much easier if they could just throw out the stigmas their families or cultures have assigned to them and seek assistance through therapy or any other means of mental health help.

In no way am I saying the focus on women’s mental health takes away from men’s ability to get help. Everyone should be able to access the same resources. In this case, though, being female (or “effeminate”) seems to excuse you from the stigma.

AskMen.com wrote, in reference to men addressing their mental health issues, “No, this doesn’t mean that males are becoming more effeminate, just simply more aware … Battling the mind can be one of the most hardfought contests, but a win against it commands the ultimate esteem. In times of mental hardship, your greatest enemy is silence.” It is incredibly important to seek help if you need it.

There is no reason men should feel the need to be silent.

Mental illnesses are no less legitimate than any other disease. The world needs to recognize this so we can move forward and help all people equally.

Maria Romas is a senior English m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t mromasdbk@gmail.com.

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evastating wildfires in California. Superstorm Sandy ravaging New York. Fifty million environmental refugees displaced by 2020. What is happening?

Climate change.

Whether you are an expert on the subject or do not know much, we have all become familiar with that term. But what does “climate change” really mean? Basically, our planet is changing. The historical climate patterns we have observed across the world for thousands of years are shifting, and as a result, the planet is seeing devastating effects.

What is causing this shift?

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human activities are most likely to blame for the climate crisis. Our society has an addiction to fossil fuels.

Burning fossil fuels emits gases that sit in the Earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping as it normally would. This process is almost certainly the root cause of rising global temperatures.

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are essential to our lifestyle, and this dependency is quickly killing the planet and everything on it, including us.

Now, we have the solution to heal our ailing planet: clean and renewable energy. We have the technology, the resources and the desire to build a clean and renewable future, but the trillion-dollar fossil fuel industry will not go down without a fight.

That is where you come in. If our generation does not start taking action, it is our future that will be lost. Though fighting climate change is far from an easy task, our generation must come together as a unified movement to create the change we want. But how do we do that?

Power Shift.

Power Shift is an environmental youth conference that will take place from Oct. 18 to 21 in Pittsburgh.

The conference will unite more

than 10,000 students from across the country for one weekend of speakers and hands-on training. Students will learn about a range of environmental problems and how to fight them. Power Shift is designed to empower our generation by giving us the tools we need to make our voices heard.

University students are tired of the constant pollution. Students are ready for a change. That is why a diverse group of Terps is coming together to attend the conference. There are already 53 passionate students registered. The more students who go to Power Shift, the better we can ensure that our university is part of the solution — and not part of the problem.

While our university has made sustainability a focus, there is still so much more we must do to fight the fossil fuel industry.

For instance, in 2010, clean and renewable sources provided only about 2 percent of the campus’s energy. The university has millions of dollars directly invested in the fossil fuel industry. We have a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, but our plans of getting there are far from complete.

In order to make these changes, we will need all the help we can get. So I am calling on you to get involved.

The potential to make a difference and to be a leader is already within you; it just needs to be brought out.

Power Shift is the tool that will help you do that.

By reading this column, you have just become a part of this movement. But that is not enough. It’s just the beginning. Where you go and what you do from here has the potential to change the world.

So, what will you do?

For any questions about the column, climate change or Power Shift. To sign up for Power Shift, visit wearepowershift.org/register.

Ori Gutin is the Student Government Association’s sustainability director. He can be contacted at omgutin@gmail.com.

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Miley Cyrus’ onstage antics are attention-grabbing, but how is her music? New album Bangerz is hit-or-miss, torn between party anthems and emotional ballads

By Jennifer Linkins @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback M i l ey Cy r u s h a s c e r ta i n ly changed since her departure from her Hannah Montana alter ego. The starlet has been catching criticism after a radical image change and her infamous performance on MTV’s Video Music Awards. Cyrus has been branching out in recent years just like many teen idols before her, such as Britney Spears.

Her music career, however, has made improvements since her previous album, Can’t Be Tamed, in 2010.

Cyrus’s new album Bangerz offers an intriguing combination of passionate ballads and some good — and some not so good — party songs. The singer has developed her vocal skills and deserves some praise.

Her single “Wrecking Ball” is currently third on the iTunes charts and many of the album’s other ballads may well join it. The soulful opener, “Adore You,” features a nice, steady beat and Cyrus demonstrates good control over her voice throughout.

Other passionate tracks such as “My Darlin’” and “Maybe You’re Right” are hardly terrific, but there is a degree of originality that holds the listener’s interest. Behind “Wrecking Ball,” the beat-driven ballad “Drive” is Cyrus’ best showcase as a singer on Bangerz.

Closing track “Someone Else” falls flat. The song’s lyrics address the new relationship between Cyrus and her fans, expressing her insecurity about the criticism she has faced. Still, it does very little to give the album a sense of closure — by the end, you’re very ready for it to be over, and not in a good way.

Some of the dance-music tracks rise above the hype and provocation surrounding them, but just as many are tough to make it through in one sitting. “We Can’t Stop,” despite its popularity as a summer jam, is a mess of shifting beats wed to a half-baked melody. Similarly, on bluegrass-tinged “4x4” and “SMS (Bangerz),” featuring Britney Spears, Cyrus simply seems to be trying too hard.

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PARTYING WITH MILEY occasionally sounds like fun — at least when she isn’t ruining good beats with awful rapping — but her voice is what keeps the uneven Bangerz from tanking. Her singing is the best part of both the album’s sincere balladry and its house-party bangers. photo courtesy of billboard.com My Thang” have the kind of party-ready beats that should ensure their popularity, but they also have Cyrus attempting to rap — an unnatural fit for her talents that spoils the tracks. One of the album’s few feel-good tracks, “#GetItRight” is fun, positive, earnest and nicely leads to the album’s true climax, “FU.” The burlesque-style song

exhibits true vocal talent and the chorus will be stuck in your head long after you’ve set the album aside. Despite French Montana’s unnecessary presence, “FU” is a testament to Cyrus’s deserved place at the top of the charts.

While there are some belowaverage performances on Bangerz, Cyrus’ abilities are generally im-

REVIEW | OLD

tion and replaces disturbing memories with rhymes about partying and getting drunk and high, the kind of songs you would hear blasting from a car crammed full of teens. These are what his post-fame fans want: reckless, concert-ready songs to which they can party.

By themselves, the songs are just that. But his latest album into two sides. Side A is when listening to the album as a whole, these classic “old” Danny Brown, but also darker songs can be just as dark as the first half of the album. Even after rapping about how than anything he’s previously released. drugs ruined his childhood, Brown The beats are progressive but continues to drown his troubles similar to those found on his in alcohol, weed, ecstasy and earlier mixtapes. He raps countless other mind-almainly about his broken tering substances. childhood and drug-relatAt the end of “Smokin ed experiences that have & D r i n k i n ,” a s e e m shaped who he is today. ingly fun ode to life’s In “Torture,” Brown vices, Brown raps that he talks about the horrors “hope[s] that these probhe has seen while dealing lems just go away” and that crack, including watching he smokes “to escape.” During a crack addict nearly burn “Kush Coma,” a love letter to his top lip off with a stove when photo courtesy of stasheverything.com marijuana, Brown drops the line Brown was seven. On “Clean Up,” he talks about crushing and snorting pills “Been smoking blunts since high school/ instead of seeing his daughter. His voice is Now look at all the bullshit I been through.”

Lines such as these hint that Brown knows slower than normal and full of regret.

Side B features more electronic produc- he’s still screwing up his life, yet he continues

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By Cory Blair @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Rapper Danny Brown is one of the last true rock stars. He’s a chipped-toothed, crazyhaired wild man who received unplanned fellatio while performing live and didn’t miss a beat. An avid drug user, Brown also raps about his depression and mental problems. His albums, especially his excellent prior outing, XXX, come off as bipolar, as he juggles party anthems and dark introspective analyses over out-of-left-field beats.

Old, Brown’s latest LP, is his most varied release yet. He straddles a line between those fans who want him to return to his “old Danny Brown style” of his earlier mixtapes and those more “mainstream” fans who want more of his recent party anthems.

In order to please both groups, Brown split

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“Float On,” the album closer, melds the two sides together as Brown remembers how music pulled him out of poverty. Now that he has found success, the stress is higher than ever, and he ironically drowns it in more illicit substances. But at the end of the day, “nothing else matters except [his] next rhyme,” as music is one of the most important things in his life.

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All in all, Old is a profound listen that’s entertaining from start to finish. Come in expecting a fun ode to partying the night away and you’ll be disappointed. But when listened to with an open mind, this story of how poverty, drugs and gangs molded one of the most interesting personalities in pop culture makes for the most powerful and satisfying rap album of the year. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Winston From PAGE 8 Edsall said. “We looked back at the quarterback instead of plastering on the receivers, and they got some big plays that way.”

Winston never eased up, either. He was playing in the fourth quarter and threw his

Pride From PAGE 8 were flexible and ready to change the game plan when needed,” defender Ali McEvoy said. “I think we did a great job with that.”

Meharg had a hunch the Terps would respond well to her adjustment after a late timeout.

The Terps typically play more aggressively than they did for the majority of Saturday’s game, and the 26th-year coach finally let her team loose with the game on the line.

“We spent the whole game falling away,” Meharg said.

“This was our opportunity to completely pressure every single player, every single pass and make them cough it up.”

While the Terps’ late-match aggressiveness proved vital,

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fifth touchdown to wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin on his final play to extend the lead to 49-0.

“It didn’t faze me one bit,” Edsall said. “You play the game and you got 60 minutes to play the game. That’s what I tell our kids. You got to play the game for 60 minutes. It doesn’t matter who’s out there or anything like that. You got

to play the game. I have no problem with it.”

Winston was the first quarterback to test the Terps stout defense this season, and he passed easily.

He kept things in perspective, too. Despite a national television audience, Winston just related the game to simpler times. And he made things look

just as simple on the field.

“I’m going to enjoy this day right here because it felt like a Little League football game out there,” Winston said. “Twelve o’clock, the sun was out. I don’t think I saw a cloud in the sky.

It was a beautiful day, so I’m going to enjoy this day.”

Meharg said the defense and midfield’s play throughout the contest was just as important.

The Terps held a Tar Heels team that entered the contest averaging 4.36 goals per match to a lone tally and kept a balanced North Carolina attack in check.

The Tar Heels can be tough to game plan against because none of their players entered the match in the top eight of the ACC in goals scored, yet the team still ranks as the second-highest-scoring offense in the conference.

Saturday, the Terps chose to focus on stopping North Carolina’s midfield.

“I’m very proud of the team and the staff for putting together a different kind of fall-away press which worked very good against North Carolina’s very strong midfield,”

Meharg said. “Our midfield matched their midfield very comfortably.”

The Terps’ defensive assignment was made more difficult, as they didn’t get much help from a typically explosive offense. The Tar Heels outshot the Terps, 9-6, and Meharg’s team only put four shots on target.

That’s unusual for a group that averages nearly five goals per game.

As a result, McEvoy said, the Terps defense had to adjust and be more prepared to make plays against North Carolina’s forwards, as the Tar Heels had more offensive opportunities throughout the game.

“We made sure that we were ready to intercept or ready to make the tackle as soon as their eyes went down,” McEvoy said.

The Terps’ preparedness

helped the team hold the Tar Heels to their lowest scoring output of the season.

Tonight, the Terps appear primed to sustain that solid defensive play against Hofstra. The Pride is 0-4 this season against ranked opponents and scored five total goals in those matches.

And if the Terps can add a consistently stifling defense to complement Witmer and the ACC’s best offense moving forward, it’ll only strengthen their hold on the nation’s top spot. The performance in Chapel Hill, N.C., proved the Terps’ defenders are capable of doing just that.

“We were being strong and being tough and hard-headed as a unit,” McEvoy said, “We were able to focus on getting the ball back.”

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Mistakes From PAGE 8 go a l s i n t h e p a s t fo u r matches, and five started with giveaways in the defensive half. The Terps are 1-3 in those matches.

In each of the three losses, a Terps giveaway has resulted in the opponent’s gamewinning goal. The mistakes range from misplaced passes to defenders holding onto the ball too long, like Pratt did Sunday.

Defenders aren’t the only ones who have committed these costly mistakes. Midfielder Kristen Schmidbauer’s intercepted pass led to a Virginia goal Sept. 29 in a 1-0 loss. Central defenders, however, have been the primary culprits of the key miscues that have plauged a still young team.

Four games ago, at the beginning of this stretch, Morgan said his team gifted Notre Dame three goals in a 5-0 blowout.

Schmidbauer’s wayward pass against Virginia and Pratt’s turnover Sunday also led to goals.

“It’s really disappointing right now,” Morgan said.

“We are addressing trying to be clean at the back. The

irish From PAGE 8 Dominion, Pittsburgh, Tulsa and the Eagles, but netted just seven goals.

“We’ll score more, I can promise you that,” forward Patrick Mullins said. “It’s an attitude and I know we have it within us. They’re going to drop. They’re going to come. We know, with our attitudes as finishers, we’re going to put the ball in the back of the net.”

Unlike the first quarter of the season, though, the Terps forwards and attacking midfielders feel less pressure to score as a result of improved play from the backline and goalkeeper Zack Steffen.

The young group has allowed only four goals over the past five games — it surrendered 12 goals in the first five games of the season — and the Terps had their first shutout since Oct. 19, 2012 in a 2-0 victory over the Panthers on Sept. 27.

The backline, now more experienced with midfielder Jereme Raley at right back instead of defender Chris Odoi-Atsem, has also relieved attacking players of some of the pressure involved with the possession game.

To begin the season, the youthful Terps defenders made it difficult to facilitate possession through the 11-man formation. Passing

blockers From PAGE 8 think she impacted the game defensively as much as anyone in the match. [She’s] a shutdown blocker.”

And while Hrebenach blocked another six attacks Sunday, MacGregor also shone. Not only did the freshman contribute on the defensive end with five blocks, but she also had 12 kills and a .391 hitting percentage.

“Ashlyn MacGregor is getting better every week,” Horsmon said. “She was, to be honest, a non-factor offensively the beginning of the year. Now she’s becoming someone we’re becoming comfortable setting.”

MacGregor was instrumental to the Terps’ comeback effort. She had four kills in the Terps’ dramatic 25-23 fourth-frame win. With the Terps trailing, 18-17, MacGregor sent a shot to the court to tie the frame.

only thing we can do is coach them and eliminate those mistakes at the back.”

Defenders in Morgan’s system have to balance beginning attack movements with short passes to midfielders with their role as the last line of defense between opponents’ forwards and goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands.

Morgan wants his team to possess the ball better, especially against toughminded conference opponents. Sunday, he said the Terps had a difficult time keeping possession throughout most of the match. Still, there are times when Morgan just wants his defenders to boom the ball forward to release pressure.

Defender Megan Gibbons, a redshirt senior, understands after five years that miscues will often happen during a season, and with the ACC tournament less than a month away, the Terps must learn from their missteps to avoid repeating Sunday’s struggles.

“People make mistakes,” Gibbons said. “We just have to keep going forward and know when to play safe and kick it out and when to go forward.” psuitts@gmail.com

“WE JUST WANT TO GO AND OUTPLAY THEM AND GET RESULTS. WE AREN’T GOING TO SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT.” SUNNY JANE

Terrapins men’s soccer midfielder sequences often stalled, resulting in turnovers and quick counterattacks for opposing teams.

But over the past four games, the Terps’ possession game has gone from nonexistent to fluid and dynamic, helping them mount their win streak.

The team is finally starting to gel and Cirovski finally has a solid rotation — featuring midfielders David Kabelik and Mikias Eticha and forward Jake Pace off the bench — to keep players fresh and to catch opponents off guard. Pace has contributed late goals several times this season and has taken to his reserve role.

And the improved posession play couldn’t be happening at a better time for the Terps as a challenging week awaits. “ We j u s t wa n t to go and outplay them and get results,” midfielder Sunny Jane said. “We aren’t going to settle for anything less than that.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

“For me, personally, it feels nice,” MacGregor said.

“But then again, it wasn’t enough because we did come out with the loss.”

While MacGregor won the award this week, she has provided consistency for the Terps all season, leading the team with 64 blocks.

Injuries have forced the Terps to switch up their depth chart, but Horsmon can be confident in his middle blockers’ play. In addition, the increased production from the middle might make the Terps a more complete team once they get healthy.

“Over this whole weekend I feel like we developed as a blocking team,” Hrebenach said. “In the beginning of the season, we started out like we’re going to be known as a blocking team. It kind of got hidden when we went to Michigan. This weekend, we brought it up.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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FOOTBALL

VOLLEYBALL

Blockers provide big boost Hrebenach, MacGregor lead defense in split of matches with UVa., VT

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer

“It makes a big difference getting a hand on him, being able to slow him down is not good enough because he still has the ability to make a big play,” nose tackle Darius Kilgo said. “As we see, he was still able to throw a couple touchdowns, so when we get back there, we definitely have to get him on the ground.”

Winston explained after the game that he botched the designed play by holding the ball too long. His receivers worked to get open, though, and made something happen.

His ability to extend plays broke down the Terps defensive backs — minus injured starters Jeremiah Johnson and Dexter McDougle — causing more things to go wrong for the Terps.

“As he started to come out of there, our eye discipline in the secondary wasn’t very good,”

Kelsey Hrebenach was checking Twitter after the Terrapins volleyball team’s 3-1 victory over Virginia on Friday when she learned she had earned a new nickname.

The name the Terps volleyball Twitter account gave her — “Hreben-block” — is appropriate considering the middle blocker’s performance this weekend. She blocked 18 attacks over two matches, teaming with fellow middle blocker Ashlyn MacGregor to regularly stymie the Cavaliers and Virginia Tech.

MacGregor blocked 11 attacks and pounded 20 kills this weekend en route to earning ACC Freshman of the Week honors. The duo has provided quality play for the Terps in the middle while teammates’ injuries have forced incumbent starter Adreené Elliott to transition to outside hitter.

“We knew that while [outside hitter] Ashleigh [Crutcher] was out, we couldn’t be so pin dominant,” coach Tim Horsmon said. “If we were going to be good, we’d have to establish our middles and do a better job there. Once we got Kelsey back, and Ashlyn. … It makes us a more balanced team.”

Hrebenach was dominant around the net Friday, blocking 12 attacks, the highest single-match mark for a Terp since Caitlin Adams had the same total on Sept. 10, 2011.

Six of Hrebenach’s blocks came in the decisive fourth frame, which the Terps won, 25-21. With the set still hanging in the balance, the Terps led, 20-18. Hrebenach blocked the next two attempts, however, padding the lead.

“It was huge,” Horsmon said. “I

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QUARTERBACK JAMEIS WINSTON threw five touchdowns for Florida State in its 63-0 victory over the Terps. Winston was 23-of-32 through the air and completed his first five passes. photo courtesy of riley shaaber/fsview

Claim To Fame

Florida State redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston throws for 393 yards in 63-0 win over Terps

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — He was already seen as a Heisman Trophy candidate, the player with the best chance of becoming the second consecutive redshirt freshman to win the prestigious award.

His numbers backed him up, and he already had a highlight reel moment on a Hail Mary against Boston College.

But on Saturday, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston etched his name atop the Heisman Trophy leaderboard in the No. 6 Seminoles’ 63-0 victory over the Terrapins. He completed his first five passes of the game and would finish 23-of-32 for a career-high 393 yards and five touchdowns in one of the most impressive quarterback performances of the season.

“He’s an outstanding football player,” coach Randy Edsall said. “We had him a couple times, and one of the things we worked on all week was to say to tackle him low, wrap him low, tackle his legs, and we didn’t do that. We were up high, and he made some really good plays.”

At 6-foot-4 and 228 pounds, Winston performed as advertised in nearly every matchup problem he created. The Terps pass rushers, effective in the team’s 4-0 start, sacked him once.

Other times, they got a hand on him, but he was strong enough to scramble away and find receivers.

The most notable example came in the third quarter, when Winston eluded outside linebacker Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil to throw a 12-yard strike to tight end Nick O’Leary in the end zone to give the Seminoles a 42-0 lead. The play instantly hit highlight reels and has since been on a loop, whether on TV or in animated GIFs.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

Mistakes prove costly at UNC

Morgan says backline turnovers are ‘changing complexion of games’

By Phillip Suitts @Phillip Suitts Staff writer The Terrapins women’s soccer team was repelling a North Carolina attack that features two of the ACC’s top 15 scorers for most of Sunday’s match. Then, in the 58th minute, with the game tied 1-1, Terps defender Shade Pratt, standing near the team’s penalty box, received a back pass from midfielder Sarah Fichtner.

Pratt dribbled forward, trying to elude Tar Heels midfielder Crystal

Dunn, but Dunn stole the ball from the junior. Seconds later, Dunn assisted forward Kealia Ohai on the decisive goal in the Terps’ 3-1 loss.

It was a familiar story for the Terps, whose turnovers in their defensive half have led to opponents’ goals in three of the last four games.

“They are changing the momentum of games; they are changing the complexion of games,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “Kids are making unnecessary mistakes.”

Before Ohai’s goal, the Terps were keeping North Carolina from domi-

nating on offense. Even when the Tar Heels first scored, it didn’t appear to be because of a defensive breakdown.

A shot from outside the box hit Terps defender Erika Nelson’s left hand before she could move out of the way.

After the second tally, Morgan said the Terps were forced to change their game plan as they searched for a second goal. With the Terps pushing more players forward, UNC added an insurance goal in the 73rd minute.

The Terps have conceded nine See Mistakes, Page 7

Midfielder Sunny Jane, left, and Forward Patrick Mullins have helped the Terps win three straight games, most recently a 2-1 victory over Boston College on Friday night at Ludwig Field. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Tough road trip begins tonight at Notre Dame Terps then travel to play rival Virginia on Friday

FIELD HOCKEY

Versatile defense proves key for Terps After taming No. 3 Tar Heels on Saturday, team hosts Hofstra tonight ByAaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer It’s logical to cast All-American forward Jill Witmer as the hero of the Terrapins field hockey team’s 2-1 victory over North Carolina on Saturday, considering she scored both of the Terps’ goals, including the game-winner in overtime.

But while Witmer and the offense stalled against the Tar Heels for the first 62 minutes Saturday, it was the Terps’ defense that kept the team afloat. The

Terps held North Carolina well below its goals per game average and made several defensive plays late in the contest that gave Witmer a chance to deliver those crucial scores.

That performance points to improvements on the No. 1 Terps’ defense, which has allowed the fifth most goals in the ACC. So as the season continues, starting with tonight’s home match against Hofstra (5-8), the Terps (11-0) know they can rely on more than just a high-powered offense.

The defense’s versatility was a key

aspect of it potency at No. 3 North Carolina. For much of the game, coach Missy Meharg instructed her team to drop back on defense to keep the game close while the offense was stagnant.

Once the Terps found themselves trailing 1-0 with 10 minutes left, though, Meharg ramped up the pressure, and they were able to force a North Carolina turnover that led to Witmer’s first goal.

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By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer The Terrapins men’s soccer team understands the grueling nature of road trips.

After all, the No. 8 Terps opened their 2013 campaign with a 3-3 draw at Stanford and a 3-2 overtime loss at California in a West Coast swing that put the squad’s youth and inexperience to the test.

This week, though, the Terps could face an even more daunting challenge: two conference road games in four days, including a matchup at No. 2 Notre Dame tonight and a trip to Sandra D. Thompson Field on Friday to take on Virginia.

“I think our guys will be very focused,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.

“We have a lot of respect for Notre Dame. They’ve shown to be one of the elite teams in the nation year-in and year-out.”

The Terps — who earned their third straight victory Friday night in a 2-1 win over Boston College — will be looking to hand the Fighting Irish their first loss of the season, but it won’t be an easy task. Notre Dame boasts the fifth-best goals against average in the nation (.52), having surrendered just five goals in nine games this season.

That strong defensive presence does not bode well for Cirovski’s squad, which struggled mightily to finish scoring chances during its four-game home stand. The Terps recorded 80 total shots against Old See irish, Page 7