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Senate to review plus/minus GPA grading system

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Senators expect favorable vote at next month’s full body meeting

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

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University students are one step closer to facing a grading system that calculates grade point averages based on a plus-and-minus system after a University Senate subcommittee voted in favor of such a policy change yesterday.

Although the senate initially voted to approve this legislation in December 2005, the provost’s office delayed its implementation because the university was in the midst of completely overhauling its general education program.

But after a student asked the legislation to be reviewed again a year ago, the senate’s Academic Procedures and Standards Committee revised the policy and approved it yesterday. The senate’s most powerful committee will vote on the legislation at its meeting later this month and the full body will vote on the policy next month.

Senators said implementing such a policy would help make

this university more competitive with its peer institutions, since most colleges nationwide adjust GPAs based on plus-and-minus grades. The current GPA scale gives students the same number of points for each letter grade, regardless of whether it is a plus or minus.

“We felt [the change] was consistent with what most major universities are doing, and we did do a rather extensive review of how other universities have their GPAs calculated,” chair of the Academic Procedures and Standards Committee Robert Buchanan said. “This gets us more in line with what else is going on in the United States.”

While the initial legislation stipulated an A+ be awarded a 4.3, Provost Ann Wylie recommended an A+ be calculated as a 4.0, which is consistent with the grading systems of this university’s peer institutions.

The subcommittee responsible for the legislation voted to

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Student Affairs launches three new committees Officials work to make internships more accessible, community closer

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

Student Affairs officials have taken steps this semester to connect students with topnotch internship opportunities and to create a tighter-knit campus community.

To accomplish these goals, officials created three new committees, each with a specific task — enhancing the university’s internship tools, increas-

ing various departments’ social media presence and fostering campus-wide diversity.

One of the committees aims to create a one-stop, online location for students to browse available internships, according to Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement. The new website — which does not yet have a launch date because the project is just beginning — would link material from the Career Center to information

from each academic program at the university, some of which require students to have an internship under their belt before they graduate.

After speaking with employers at this fall’s Career Fair, which garnered about 4,950 attendees, up 16 percent from the past two years, Clement said she wanted to improve the university’s internship networking system year-round, as these opportunities are essen-

tial to finding a job.

“A lot of students have this information and a lot don’t, so this lays out the territory so students can see what they can do. It would be one place you can go to navigate the campus from the internship perspective,” said Student Affairs Internship Task Force co-chair Donna Hamilton.

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see COMMITTEES, page 3 North Campus’ newest coffee shop, Cool Beans, has not seen much business this semester. MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

Waking up the SGA In first State of the Campus, Xie calls for change within the body

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Rather than tout his organization’s accomplishments, SGA President Kaiyi Xie turned his State of the Campus address into a wakeup call for members to stay true to their campaign promises and reach out more vigorously to the student body.

Xie introduced his speech last night as more of a “state of the organization” address than a state of the campus and posed one overarching question to Student Government Association members: Are they engaging themselves as visibly and as ardently with their constituencies as they had when they ran for their positions last semester?

In his speech last night, Xie said executives would soon take tangible steps toward transforming the organization into a more “galvanizing body.” He, along with Speaker

of the Legislature Carson McDonald, will soon charge a committee to discuss internal reform in the organization.

“With little hard power, and in recent times, little funding, the organization needs to focus more on being a catalyst for students instead of waiting for them to join us in our plans for change,” Xie said.

Thus far, Xie said, the body has fallen short of its potential.

After the organization went three weeks without proposing any bills, several members voiced frustration at the body’s slow start this semester.

“I think our constituents deserve more than promises and self-praise,” Xie said.

“These are not sufficient to justify why people should trust our organization. We have taken missteps this year and have had challenging, but productive, growing pains, and I am happy to admit it. If

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

New coffee shop sees few customers Cool Beans struggles with business as students flock to 251 North diner

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie gives his State of the Campus address. MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

While 251 North attracts droves of students each night, the university’s newest oncampus shop has struggled to garner a solid customer base — and Dining Services officials said the slow business has them worried.

Although officials said they thought Cool Beans, the coffee and ice cream shop sandwiched between 251 North and the 24 Shop in the Denton Community, would attract students just leaving the diner, they have seen little business since the

see SPEECH, page 3 Storms/60s

shop opened at the start of the semester. While some students said they often leave 251 North — an all-you-can-eat diner that recently garnered national attention in The Washington Post for its innovative spin on student dining — officials said they plan to host social events such as open mic nights and extend the shop’s hours in hopes of luring more students starting next week.

Cool Beans’ purpose is to provide another option for students who cannot go to 251 North — since North Campus residents are only allotted one meal there per week — and

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Robert H. Smith’s dying wish was for his donation to this university to be used for renovations to Rudy’s Cafe so that students could enjoy an upscale dining experience. The cafe reopened last Monday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Rudy’s Cafe reopens in business school Newly renovated cafe offers gourmet-style food, dining for students

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

After providing the university with a sizable donation, Robert H. Smith had one final wish for the building that holds his namesake — for students to enjoy meals at a gourmet-style cafe.

Dining Ser vices of ficials were able to renovate Rudy’s Cafe, which sits in the business school, because of a private donation from Smith himself, who insisted before his death in 2009 that the money be used explicitly to improve the cafe. The revamped eater y — which reopened last Monday — now boasts an expanded menu, including pre-made sandwiches, snacks, madeto-order entrees and a salad bar, according to Dining Ser-

vices officials. “[The Smith family] really wants things to be done properly in the two Smith buildings,” said Dining Services Spokesman Bart Hipple. “When they realized that Rudy’s needed remodeling, they supported that.”

Although the Smith family declined to disclose the amount of the donation, they took charge of the renovations, which began last spring. They consulted Dining Ser vices officials on what kinds of equipment to purchase, the cafe’s spatial limitations and necessar y health department regulations.

While the project was delayed for a multitude of reasons, including late equipment, officials said they are pleased with the final product. Rudy’s is one of the cam-

pus’ largest and most popular cafes, according to Dining Ser vices officials; students can use Terp Bucks, Terrapin Express, cash or credit to pay for the food at the cafe.

“We certainly hope that [Rudy’s] will help change the image of the cafes on campus,” Hipple said. “Our goal is that our ser vice live up to the facility, because it’s a beautiful facility.”

But some students said they are less than impressed and don’t see much of a difference in the cafe before and after renovations.

Chris Johnson, a business graduate student, said the food isn’t worth the lines and crowds customers have to face during the cafe’s busiest hours.

“It’s fine when it’s not crowded, but at noon when everyone’s here, it’s a bit

crazy,” he said. “I’m not sure what they were going for really; the food is similar quality.”

But other students said the redesigned cafe surpassed their expectations.

“There’s a lot more fresh food than I expected,” senior accounting major Stephanie Vara said.

“And if you want something, they’ll make it for you.”

Officials said they expect Rudy’s to continue operating successfully and remain a popular eating venue for students.

“It has been one of our more successful shops because of the location, because of the convenience and because of the size and organization of the physical space,” Hipple said. “We’re able to do things there that we cannot do at other places.” israel@umdbk.com

semester, the team will present recommendations to Provost Ann Wylie and Clement, according to Hamilton, who is also the undergraduate studies dean.

And as social media continues to be of increasing importance to higher education, the Student Affairs new social media team is making strides to help departments across the campus improve their online presences, according to Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Warren Kelley.

“We see how important social media is to how students engage and are social with each other, and we also know large numbers of students still have difficulty finding their place on this campus and finding others to interact and engage with,” said Kelley, who created the team in July.

Student Affairs coordinator Zimri Diaz, who is now heading the effort, said all the division’s departments should mimic the avid social presence of Stamp Student Union, the Department of Transportation Services and Dining Services.

“We feel a lot of departments are doing a great job. … They have a great social media presence,” Diaz said. “And we recognize a lot of students are utilizing those social media platforms, and we want to be reaching out to them where they are.”

And as the division focuses on “setting goals” for various departments’ use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, some students said they are noticing social media’s influence on their education.

Freshman letters and sciences major André Artis said one of his professors opts to use Skype and ooVoo — free video messaging ser vices — to communicate one-on-one with students.

“If I have a question, you can have a discussion [over Skype] instead of just sending emails back and forth, and with that, you can really learn more,” Artis said.

However, another student in

Artis’ class, letters and sciences major RaVaughn Green, said he hasn’t quite gotten used to the idea of communicating with professors online.

“People are not used to older people knowing too much about this social Internet networking,” he said, adding, “It’s weird, cause [our professor] would just be in his house, Skyping me.”

Corresponding with Kumea Shorter-Gooden’s appointment as the new chief diversity officer, Kelley also charged a Student Affairs Diversity Committee with exploring ways for the division to help support university-wide communitybuilding.

“We see how important social media is to how students engage and are social with each other.”

WARREN KELLEY ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS

“What we want to do is … work harder to create connections between communities and lower barriers and foster connections between students who are different,” he said.

“Most of us here are very proud of where the campus has come in terms of diversity,” Kelley said. “In some ways, it’s fabulous for people like me to be here and see where it used to be and where it is now.”

Several students, such as sophomore English major Anne Richard, said they are unsure what measures this committee could talk to unite the student population.

“Even if we have the diversity in numbers, we still have a lot of self-segregation on the campus,” she said.

“Maybe if they gave groups more opportunities to step out of that, it’d be cool. But I don’t know how they’d go about doing that.” lurye@umdbk.com

SPEECH from page 1

Even though Cool Beans, a coffee and ice cream shop next to 251 North, offers ice cream, 19 toppings and gourmet coffee, the store has seen little business . MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

COFFEE from page 1 want more than what the 24 Shop has to offer, according to Dining Services Director of Communications Bart Hipple. Students can use Terp Bucks, Terrapin Express, cash or credit at the shop, but they cannot use their dining points.

Hipple said he thought students would enjoy the shop since its menu offers what the buffet lacks: gourmet coffee, ice cream, additional desserts and six flavors of ice cream from The Dairy with 19 topping options.

“We thought there would be an additional demand in that community,” Hipple said. “But, so far, students just are not going.”

Though officials said they aren’t sure why Cool Beans hasn’t enjoyed a steady flow of business, they said students may see it as an unnecessary service.

“The experience at 251 North is pretty comprehensive,” Director of Dining Services Colleen Wright-Riva said. “[Students] are coming out of there full and not wanting any ice cream.”

“If you don’t want to spend the $18 [for an extra 251 North trip] you can still get a sandwich for a reasonable price here,” Hipple said.

But because the location and existing menu haven’t been enough to attract students, officials have revamped their ef-

forts by extending the shop’s operating hours and using it as a venue for social gatherings.

“I imagined it being more like the coffee shop in ‘Friends,’ a place where people can come and hang out,” Wright-Riva said.

“We probably need to survey some students and get feedback from them.”

Wright-Riva also said officials may have to spice up the menu to jumpstart the business.

“Sushi has been suggested, crepes have been suggested and so has adding more ice cream,” she said. “It may morph into something else; we’ll just have to listen to what students tell us.”

Some students said between the 24-hour convenience store and all-you-can-eat buffet, they see little need for an additional shop.

“I think that it’s competing with the buffet,” said junior English and French major Lauren Daly. “More people want to go to that since it has more options.”

Other students said longer business hours may increase the customer base since students will have more time to go.

“It just never occurred to me to come here,” sophomore government and politics major Lindy Bernhardt said while passing through to enter 251 North. “If people come here at night and see they have ice cream, that might help.” israel@umdbk.com

we are being honest with ourselves, for too long, we have not fully met our obligations.”

SGA Speaker Pro Tempore Andrea Marcin said Kaiyi’s message could not be more timely.

“I think it was something legislators really needed to hear,” she said. “There’s a lot of passion and talent in the legislature and as a legislative leader I’m always thrilled to hear about it, but we’ve had some growing pains as Kaiyi said, and I think it’s something legislators really took to heart tonight.”

Additionally, Xie said the organization has often been viewed as closed off and inaccessible to students, a perception members can only change if they reach out to their constituencies with the same energy they had during their campaigns.

“If there is any standard of success that we may use to measure ourselves, let it be the visibility of our organization, the urgency we show in engaging students on issues that are more often than not time sensitive and the passion we exude in how we carr y ourselves as representatives first, and legislators second,” Xie said. “If we don’t represent students first, our legislation and actions will be out of touch and void of credibility, much like the administrations that came before us.”

SGA members must create a unified front in order to accomplish its university-

GRADING from page 1 approve Wylie’s recommendation at its meeting yesterday.

Although the legislation must still go through two more senate votes before it makes its way to the president’s desk, members of the subcommittee said they expect the full body to vote in favor of the legislation next month. If approved, the policy will be in place for the fall of 2012 and will affect all students still at the university.

The committee conducted studies that show the new grading system will minimally affect students’ GPAs — the average undergraduate GPA would only be

In addition to voting on bills, the Student Government Associationi listened to President Kaiyi Xie’s State of the Campus address. MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

wide and state-wide goals, according to Xie. Next semester, the organization plans to lobby the state legislature in Annapolis and also plans to weigh in on key federal issues, such as Pell Grants and subsidizing loans for higher education. One university issue Xie said needs strong student input is the ongoing study of a possible merger between this university and the University of Mar yland, Baltimore.

“This is an incredibly exciting prospect, and students should be an integral part of the discussion,” Xie said.

But that voice is only as

strong as the members’ efforts to actively reach out and listen to the needs and opinions of the students they represent.

“We cannot expect them to come to us with their ideas, and for too long this organization has relied on the false premise that it is solely contingent on them to do so,” Xie said. “What appears as apathy could simply be the lack of an adequate forum to air their views, and it is our ultimate responsibility, over perhaps any other, to go to them instead of sitting in wait for them to come to us.”

Leonardtown legislator Robert DiMauro noted how

reduced by three one-hundredths of a GPA point, and the study also showed that there are no differences based on race or ethnicity.

The main source of lowered GPAs results from an Agrade, which is calculated as a 3.7, rather than a 4.0, according to the legislation.

Student senators said because GPAs will be minimally affected, there are no drawbacks to implementing the policy.

“It’s a more fair system,” biology graduate student Brian Coyle said. “I think it will be good for students. All our peer institutions have had the same plus/minus system for a long time and we’re one of the few schools that haven’t had it.”

Because graduate schools, including medical schools and law schools, already recalculate each prospective student’s GPA based on plus/minus grades, members of the subcommittee said they were comfortable voting in favor of the legislation, Buchanan said.

Undergraduate student senator Alex Chafitz, who serves on the subcommittee, said the new policy will allow students to have a better idea of how their GPAs stack up for graduate school.

“We’re almost in a way lying to ourselves with our GPAs because they’re not an accurate representation of how graduate schools calculate it,” he said. “Students may be annoyed about it, but

different Xie’s speech was from his predecessor, Steve Glickman’s, state of the campus address last year, which focused chiefly on the organizations’ accomplishments and highlighted longterm goals.

“He wanted to speak a little bit more of the responsibilities of legislators, and I think he’s absolutely right,” he said. “The responsibility is on us to get out there and meet our constituents and address the concerns of the constituents and be a bit more involved with the students’ interests rather than highlight our successes.” villanueva@umdbk.com

when you look at the issue, all of our peer institutions have it and we’re putting ourselves at a disadvantage by having this archaic system.”

The new grading system will also better reflect student achievement in a course, senators said.

“Virtually all leading universities use plus/minus grading,” said Chelsea Benincasa, the subcommittee’s senior coordinator. “The principal benefit is that it provides a more accurate representation of student achievement, so that’s an important factor we looked at. We are sort of unique in that we have not implemented this system already.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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s the university launches its search for a new journalism college etary shortfalls. And without a satisfactory explanation or visible monetary dean, Student Government Association representatives and stu- figures showing why the layoffs were necessary, community members said dents enrolled in the school are calling for increased transparency they still remain unconvinced.

In light of those discrepancies, administrators need to go above and beyond in in the process. Given the perceived lack of openness and student making the search process as transparent and inclusive as possible. The college’s input in past decisions, this editorial board stands behind that request.

While administrators frequently assert their commitment to keeping deci- conduct now will set the tone for how effectively it will address transparency concerns in the future. In a field fundamentally based on open sion-making processes open and accessible, several communication and access to information, officials in the changes in the journalism school in particular have department must conduct themselves accordingly; anytested that claim. As the college moves into a new era of leadership — and away from that of Dean Kevin Klose, As journalism college officials thing less would be disingenuous and a mockery of the principles taught in journalism classes every day. who announced his resignation last month — journalprepare to search for a new Provost Ann Wylie said the search committee will ism administrators need to ensure more than ever that include representatives, but we anticipate it will the school is as transparent as Knight Hall’s glass walls dean, they should prioritize be up tostudent the other committee members to ensure this would make it seem. transparency to ensure the voice is given adequate weight in deliberations. At this Over his three years as dean, Klose presided over a point of transition for the college, journalism commucollege that enjoyed great progress — including a move next era of leadership begins nity members need to hold administrators and college into its state-of-the-art new facility and an overhaul of its officials accountable for the promises they make. And curriculum — yet was plagued by a handful of controverthe right way. once a new dean is selected, a high expectation should sies that diminished its reputation among both current be set that his or her tenure will meet standards that Klose’s did not. students and alumni.

The journalism school has made great strides in recent years toward In his former position as president of National Public Radio, Klose raised $400 million for the station. University administrators had hoped he would preparing its students for the evolving demands and challenges of a field in bring that knack for fundraising to the college, which was struggling finan- flux. And although some of the issues that surfaced under Klose were not cially. But faculty members and students have accused him of being too resolved, they don’t have to permanently taint the school’s image among its tightlipped about budgetary and fundraising details, causing some to specu- students or potential donors.

If, however, the issues persist under new leadership, student and faculty late that figures are lower than they hoped.

Last August, Klose also laid off four employees in the department — dis- morale will continue to plunge. Additionally, the department could lose favor missals that sparked an outcry from those in the journalism community, who with alumni and fundraising could take a further hit. With those stakes in accused the dean of making rash personnel decisions as a remedy for budg- mind, let the search begin — and leave the door open.

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Editorial cartoon: Ben Stryker

The rise of the ‘murse’

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o we even need men?” This was the question posed in a CNN article last week, “Why Men Are in Trouble.”

Both the presumptuous article and its primar y reference, Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men,” found in The Atlantic, forcefully predict the dawn of a new age: the rise of the planet of the women. The two articles’ major premise is that jobs of the 21st centur y will require skills and natural qualities that men dramatically lack compared to women.

Jobs requiring nurturing instincts and more open communication, such as home health aides, customer ser vice representatives and nurses, already make up the three largest growing job sectors in the countr y. Meanwhile, the articles accurately point out that the clear male advantage in the workplace — physical strength — has become increasingly irrelevant in our postindustrial society.

Yet the articles suggest, or rather insist, that men will be utterly unable to adapt in the competitive market for jobs, and women will dominate.

NADAV

KARASOV Now, I was a bit aggravated by this claim.

It’s true a decent amount of evidence supports the theor y of a female-dominated future: Men lost three-quarters of the 8 million jobs claimed by the recent recession.

Plus, for ever y two men who earn their bachelor’s degree this year, three women will earn theirs. Looking only at those statistics, prospects certainly look brighter for women.

But the undertone of these two articles creates the impression that men are brutes who are incapable of adapting and competing in a more sophisticated and advanced world. It put my Y chromosome on edge. Just because men have lost jobs in the recession does not mean we cannot find new paths to employment. We just need a new outlook.

So what should men do? What

outlook should we adopt? I’d say in this ser vice-driven economy, one thing in particular could help bring men out of their slump. We need more “murses.”

Women have broken into the workforce by tearing down gender stereotypes and embracing traditionally male roles. For men to rebound and adjust to a shifting workplace, we will need to follow suit and embrace traditionally female roles.

Yes, male nurses — and other professions of that mold — hold the key.

The baby boomer retirement onslaught has already begun, and the need for people to take care of the elderly will only continue to skyrocket. Home health aides and nurses will thrive in the shifting demographic landscape. Currently, men make up only 5.8 percent of all registered nurses.

Despite the untapped potential for job growth in this field and others, men have generally failed to pursue careers in “unmanly” industries.

According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs that highlight strengths traditionally attributed to women will only continue to boom.

To keep up, men need to begin highlighting their nurturing side.

But obviously, it’s more than just male nurses; it’s a broader shift in perspective on what a man’s job should look like. In “The End of Men,” Rosin points to three attributes that will allow women to establish a new socioeconomic order: “social intelligence, open communication, the ability to sit still and focus.”

Men do possess all of these characteristics and have the capacity to thrive as “murses.” We are not socially inept, mute buffoons who need tranquilizers to sit still, like Rosin implies. We just need to stop pretending that in order to work like a man you either need to wear boots and a hard cap or a suit and tie. With some creativity and the toppling of traditional gender roles, men will have their jobs back.

Women in suits changed the 20th centur y; men in scrubs should change the 21st.

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

Homework: Making time to make time

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t is that time of year again. The hype of the new school year has finally started to diminish.

Replacing it is the growing angst toward a series of midterms taking place over the next two weeks. Leading up to the midterms, an overload of homework has taken over students’ free time, or should I say “time” in general.

Like many of you striving for a decent grade in a class, I have taken time away from relaxing, sleeping and working out to fulfill the demands of the pending assignments. In addition, I have begun to skip class simply because I need to finish the homework I did not have enough time to do the previous evening.

But is not doing homework worse than missing sleep or stuffing your mouth with junk food and caffeine to stay up those extra hours? Studies have shown that stress from work overload can induce depression,

sleep deprivation and, last but not least, weight gain. Would you sacrifice these facets of your health for a WebAssign? I’m not saying that you should not do your homework, I just believe that there should be alternatives to homework.

The idea is admittedly a bit radical, but the university should consider changing class lengths to accommodate the work we end up doing on the second floor of McKeldin Librar y during the early hours of the morning. The extra time could be effectively utilized by incorporating homework into classwork.

Most of you can agree that you are more efficient when being forced to do work. It is due to the negative side effects of homeworkrelated stress that I propose lengthening 50 minute classes to 90 minutes each as a solution. Although it sounds unappealing at first glance, adding 40 minutes to each class

JESSICA JIMENEZ beats spending three hours per subject on homework.

Another seemingly extreme proposition is to increase the frequency of discussion sections.

There seems to be a consensus that students can concentrate better and get more work done in smaller classes, which is why discussion sections exist in the first place. Raising the frequency of discussion sections per course to at least two times a week would further that goal.

Moreover, it could reduce stressrelated depression, binge eating, etc. After all, shouldn’t the main goal be effectively learning class material?

So even if these ideas seem a bit out-of-the-box, they shouldn’t be discarded, because pedagogy should always be evolving. Burnt-out students with over whelming amounts of homework don’t learn as much and make professors’ jobs much harder. Implementing changes that improve learning would also reflect positively on our university as a whole.

Homework overload is a common virus that too frequently plagues college campuses like this one. To reduce its negative effects on students, changes such as lengthening class periods or adding discussion sections are necessar y to increase efficiency in learning and improve the college atmosphere in a way that isn’t detrimental to students’ health and well-being.

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

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aving read up on the candidates involved in the upcoming 2012 presidential election, I could not help but be struck by an over whelming disconnect between their social stances and their political philosophies — a discrepancy I had noticed before but had not stopped to think about.

While I understand there is no “one size fits all” representation of the two major political parties in this countr y today, I also believe no one would argue with me if I said that generally, when it comes to social issues, Republicans subscribe to the pro-life, anti-homosexual marriage viewpoint and that more often than not, Democrats are pro-choice and support homosexual rights.

That is common knowledge, though, or at least it’s the common perception. The interesting part is when one contrasts those moral ideals with the candidates’ actual political platforms. Republicans support lower taxes and spending cuts and oppose social welfare programs. They essentially support the idea that the federal government should be as small and unobtrusive into our lives as possible.

Democrats, on the other hand, favor higher tax rates, federal spending, social welfare programs and essentially ever ything that will make the government as big and useful as possible.

Republicans want to be left alone. Democrats want to be helped. (Political fanatics, forgive my generalizations; I have to be succinct).

What I honestly do not understand is why those in favor of less government involvement in personal life (Republicans) are generally in favor of passing anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion laws that invade people’s personal lives, virtually kicking down the front doors of Americans.

And meanwhile, “let’s get involved in ever y part of their lives” Democrats support a hands-off approach to the above social issues, essentially letting the people run amok.

The answer I am always given for this is that Republicans are Jesus freaks and Democrats are blasphemous devils (purposeful exaggerations, ever ybody, let’s calm down), and that is where these moral stances come from — their faith, or lack thereof.

However, as anyone who is even mildly knowledgeable of Christianity knows, Jesus taught his followers to help those in need as much as possible; to be incredibly involved in making the world a better place. This is the role Democrats, the blasphemous devils, would like the government to embrace, but it’s an idea that seems repulsively “socialist” to the Christian Republicans.

I just don’t get it; there is a fundamental dissidence between the values that our political parties hold and the practices their members preach. It occurs on both sides of the aisle, and it bothers me, as it would be nice for consistency and rationality to be a part of our political system.

But — surprise, surprise — it’s not.

Samuel Gaffigan is a freshman English major. He can be reached at sam.gaffigan@hotmail.com.

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Many actors end up playing nearly the same role over and over again throughout their entire career. Nicolas Cage always plays a crazy guy, Zooey Deschanel is always a “manic pixie dream girl,” etc. But while this may seem like laziness, it’s not — it’s playing to an actor’s strength.

There’s a reason a lot of actors don’t stretch: Because they can’t. They’ve got their niche, and they’re wasted outside of it. Consider Michael Cera, who’s been playing the same role — and playing it well — for a decade.

He tried coloring outside the lines in 2009’s Youth in Revolt, which saw him playing not only his usual nebbish dweeb, but also an alterego: a countercultural type with a pencil-thin moustache and a French New Wave fashion sense.

He was laughably unconvincing. Dressing him up like Jean-Paul Belmondo couldn’t hide the fact that it was little George Michael Bluth under there. Cast him as a stammering nerd, and he’ll make it work; ask him to play a rakish tough guy, and it suddenly seems like playacting.

Ever y actor, even great ones, has his or her limits. There’s a reason Robert De Niro isn't known for playing outgoing eccentrics — it's outside his range. Even relatively versatile actors such as De Niro can only go so far, and asking them to push themselves beyond it is a recipe for disaster. Matthew McConaughey would be about as convincing as a frumpy ever yman as Dustin Hoffman would be as a bodybuilder or Vin Diesel would be as a Nobel laureate.

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And most actors get typecast in a certain role because they’re so damn good at playing it. Who would even want to see a restrained, evenkeeled Cage performance? Give the man his bailiwick; let him scream and hoot and howl at the moon. He’s good at it. The man doesn’t just chew scenery, he eviscerates it.

Good actors can find variations within their persona, too. Being cast in a similar role doesn’t necessarily require repeating the same performance. The Bill Murray of Ghostbusters and the Bill Murray of Rushmore are broadly similar — deadpan, sardonic, underplayed, witty — yet totally different in the specifics.

The former is a caddish smart-ass, the latter an achingly sad tycoon.

They’re both examples of Murray’s “type,” but played once for comedy, once for tragedy.

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It’s hard for an actor to show his or her versatility after being pigeonholed into a particular role, but there’s a way audiences can help them escape the shackles of typecasting.

Zooey Deschanel has captivated America with her big blue eyes, approachable cuteness and impeccable comedic timing. The recent obsession with her is probably due to the success of New Girl, her new Fox sitcom, where she plays Summer Finn, a quirky free spirit who helps a greeting card writer find the joy in life.

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to (500) Days of Summer. In New Girl, Deschanel plays Jess Day, a quirky free spirit who helps her three male roommates find joy in life. Can you see where someone might confuse those two characters?

Hollywood is overflowing with hopelessly typecast actors like Deschanel. Has Samuel L. Jackson ever played a character who isn’t a cool badass with a knack for swearing? What about Michelle Rodriguez, who is always the tough tomboy with an affinity for guns?

Even George Clooney, a respected member of the Hollywood elite, is rarely anything but a smug charmer whose charisma is usually a front for deeper emotional issues.

Even if an actor shows promise playing a particular role, typecasting can only occur if the project makes money. Jim Carrey tried to branch out from his usual goofy persona in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but it grossed only $34 million. In contrast, audiences flocked to theaters to see him make funny faces and noises in Bruce Almighty, which made $243 million.

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This is the reason that some people think Hollywood is losing its creative edge; it keeps churning out entertainment that the studios know will play well with audiences based on their expectations of the people involved.

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KRIZ from page 8 of two players that didn’t play in the N.C. State game and I didn’t realize that. I think she was, in a good way, inspired, not pleased, but inspired by it.”

Pensky, as he described it, “threw her into the fire” in the Terps’ Sept. 29 win, playing Kriz for the full 90 minutes.

While pleased with her individual play, he was disappointed overall with the defense’s play, which had become fatigued from its early schedule and had not had an opportunity to train together.

But the game against an ACC bottom feeder was just the warm-up to Kriz’s second start against then-No. 5 Wake Forest, one of the best teams in the ACC featuring one of the best players in the nation.

“Petrified. I was absolutely petrified,” she said. “Those girls are so good and they have such a good rep and they play at such high levels. I was really, really nervous. I think it showed the first 15 minutes. But playing with our team, they’re so supportive and so encouraging that once I got settled in and settled down, it felt natural again.”

Pensky later applauded Kriz, who played all 110 minutes in the scoreless tie and helped prevent a would-be game winner late into overtime. In the 103rd minute, Demon Deacons star forward Katie Stengel made a run at the goal before Kriz slid in deep inside the box to stop Wake Forest’s last serious scoring chance.

“We’re really pleased with her, but now she’s got to maintain that consistency,” Pensky said. “That can’t be a one-game wonder. She’s got to be that good all the time.”

Until recently, Kriz’s most substantial playing time for the Terps came Sept. 7 against American, when she played 53 minutes, mostly at left back. Pensky originally considered starting Kriz at that position and moving fellow defender Lydia Hastings to midfield, but injuries to starter Mallory Baker and backup Kristen McAfee forced Pensky to turn to Kriz.

“I think that was a bit of a turning point for me, knowing there’s Remi,” Pensky said. “That’s the kind of player she can be for us.”

As Kriz accumulates more time in the starting lineup and out on the field, Pensky said he’ll look to incorporate her more into offensive sets, harnessing her ability to attack

“That can’t be a one-game wonder. She’s got to be that good all the time.”

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balls in the air and using her long-range passing on free kicks and restarts.

Kriz’s eventual role in the offense could play a crucial part for a team that has scored only six goals in six ACC games this season.

Florida State (9-5-0, 2-4-0), the Terps’ opponent tonight, has averaged almost two goals per game in ACC play.

While Pensky is excited for Kriz’s immediate impact on his team, he also knows she can help the team in the future, long after her time as a Terp is over.

“Literally everyone knows Remi,” Pensky said. “She just kind of has that outgoing personality, kind of boisterous, gregarious personality with a big smile on her face. Over the years, she’s helped train some local teams. Everyone knows Remi, and now everyone knows Remi’s back home.”

Kriz’s presence in the soccer-rich Washington area could help boost Pensky’s recruiting efforts, especially as prospective players see that she transferred to be close to home after initially wanting to get away.

“As a junior in high school, I was just crazy and stupid,” Kriz said. “I wanted to get away from home, and I didn’t realize how close I was to my brothers and so close to my mom.”

And now Kriz is back home, both geographically and on the soccer field, as the Terps look to rebound from a rough stretch earlier in the season. The Terps hope that Saturday’s result against Wake Forest was a step in the right direction, and Kriz hopes to expand on what she’s been able to do during her first year in a Terps uniform.

“I’m obviously not maximizing my potential yet, but I feel like I’m working for something, whereas before I never had to do that because I was just getting away with things,” Kriz said. “It feels so good to be on a team where not only do I have to work for it, but it’s a great team.”

MEDIA from page 8 of people think,” Pankey said.

“I’m excited to prove what we’re able to do.”

“My bigs aren’t as bad as everyone thought,” Turgeon said, “and my guards aren’t as good as everyone thought.”

Still, if the team is to return to the postseason this year, Turgeon will have to rely on those guards — namely Mosley, sophomores Terrell Stoglin and Pe’Shon Howard and prized freshman recruit Nick Faust.

Mosley, who didn’t have the type of season he expected a year ago, vowed yesterday he would be “a new Sean Mosley this year.” Stoglin and Howard quickly became mainstays in Williams’ lineup last season, and the two sophomores should make for an up-tempo backcourt under Turgeon.

“At the core, we’re going to be really good,” Howard said.

“It’s going to take time. At the end of the day, we’re still sophomores. We’re still learning how to play. A lot of people expect great things right away. We’re going to be fine, but we’re still going to make mistakes.”

KIENE from page 8 that winning mentality to a program that hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1971.

“While recruiting Tim, we learned a lot of things under the surface about him that separated him from a lot of players,” said Dan Burton, the Terps’ recruiting coordinator. “It was sort of like it was in Timmy’s blood to come to a program like Maryland in a power conference, to help us turn this place into a national powerhouse.”

Unfortunately for the Terps, Kiene’s arrival didn’t trigger an immediate increase in wins last season. Despite notching wins over several elite programs, the Terps ended the year in an all-too-familiar position: last place in the ACC. And it hadn’t helped that Kiene, a player Bakich hoped could fill the fourth slot in the lineup, struggled to produce early on. Kiene’s batting aver-

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In four of them, they were a set win away from victory. And on an extreme level, they held a 2-0 lead over Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia Tech in matches earlier this season before faltering.

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Despite the questions surrounding the program, Howard and the Terps said they’re ready to move on from last season’s disappointments and reach the postseason once more.

“The bar is the usual bar at Mar yland,” Howard said.

“Just because it’s a new program, a younger team, doesn’t mean we’re going to settle for anything less than usual.

We’re tr ying to get to the tournament, we’re tr ying to be one of the top teams in the ACC and we’re tr ying to compete for championships.

“This is a new team. A new era.”

TERPS NOTE: Len is still waiting to hear from the NCAA Clearinghouse regarding his status for this season. The Ukranian freshman, who was unavailable to comment

Wednesday, will likely be deemed ineligible Friday, according to Turgeon. Regardless, the Clearinghouse committee will re-examine the decision within the next week and determine how many games Len would sit out to start the year. Still, Turgeon seemed confident the 7-foot-1 center would play this season.

age was well below .200 during the opening weeks of the season, and Bakich soon dropped his starting first baseman to seventh in the batting order.

“His statistics were worse than his performance [at the start of the season],” Bakich said. “He was hitting the ball and putting the ball in play fairly regularly, he just wasn’t getting the hits to fall. So we kept playing him and continued to put him in the lineup because we knew there was a lot of potential there.”

That decision ultimately paid off for Bakich. About halfway through the season, Kiene started proving why pro scouts left his high school games drooling. He hit .352 against ACC competition and finished the season with the sixth-highest interleague batting average.

Between April 2 and the Terps’ last game on May 21, Kiene raised his average 161 points — from .118 to .279.

And while Bakich and his staff attribute Kiene’s sudden emergence to their favorite trait, toughness, Kiene said he owed the turnaround to his teammates.

“Everybody was just there for me,” he said. “We’re a team, and if one guy’s hurting or something’s wrong with him, then we all pick him up.

So that’s what happened with me, and it paid off.”

And it has continued to pay off. This summer, Kiene starred for the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, widely considered one of the premier summer collegiate baseball conferences in the country.

Through 37 games with the Gulls, including playoffs, Kiene hit .318 with 10 home runs and 31 RBIs. Those numbers earned him spots on the All-NECBL first team and Perfect Game USA’s Summer-Collegiate All-American Team.

But perhaps most importantly, Newport provided Kiene

with something he’d missed dearly since arriving in College Park: wins. The Gulls finished atop the NECBL’s Eastern Division with a 29-13 record, and Kiene will draw upon that success as he tries to lead the Terps to their first postseason appearance in four decades.

“People are winners or nonwinners,” Kiene said. “But me being a winner, and our team being a whole bunch of winners, we’re going to make sure we win this season.”

The first major step in that process will come during the Terps’ annual Red-Black World Series in two weeks.

If Kiene can once again stay true to his word this spring, he’ll likely receive another phone call from an MLB club this June.

“As cool as it was for Timmy to get drafted,” Burton said with a chuckle, “I don’t think he’ll have any problems getting drafted again.”

So what exactly is plaguing the Terps when they get out in front? Outside hitter Mary Cushman pointed to a lack of mental toughness as a possibility.

“We need to go into that fifth set with a strong mentality,” Cushman said. “We work hard enough in the gym to be physically prepared for these five-set matches, but our focus needs to be high. Right now we’re just

making too many mental errors.”

What could also be behind their mental errors is the lack of experience on the roster.

With just one senior, outside hitter Maddi Lee, and two juniors, primary setter Remy McBain and middle blocker Caitlin Adams, regularly playing for the Terps, the Terps’ underclassmen are struggling to acquire the killer instinct nec-

essary to finish off opponents.

“I think it is a product of youth, and most of this season has been about them learning how to win,” Horsmon said.

“They need to become comfortable and get used to being in those situations. We need to find go-to hitters late in these matches.”

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Freshman guard Nick Faust was just one of several new faces on hand at the Terps’ Media Day yesterday.

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As good as new At Terps’ Media Day, both team and Turgeon anxious to move on from last season

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

As they spoke with reporters following a loss to Duke in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament last March, members of the Terrapins men’s basketball team sat with their heads to the ground, shoulders visibly slumped and words short and filled with disappointment.

There would be no next game. For the first time in 18 years, after failing to receive an NCAA Tournament bid and getting snubbed by the NIT, the program was absent from postseason play.

Afterward, guard Sean Mosley expressed confidence, or at least hope, in the year to come.

He had no idea what would happen next.

Within months, star sophomore forward Jordan Williams bolted to the NBA, longtime coach Gary Williams retired, two of the team’s three recruits left for other schools and the program had a new face in former Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon.

Recalling the roller-coaster offseason Wednesday on the floor of Comcast Center, Mosley exhaled a long sigh.

“It was extremely hard,” the senior said at the team’s annual Media Day. “I just want to play a game and get it off my shoulders.”

Mosley isn’t alone in the sentiment.

While the team faces low expectations as it returns a roster barren of frontcourt depth and with just eight total

Coach Mark Turgeon addressed the media at Comcast Center yesterday for the first time since he was hired to replace coach Gary Williams. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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scholarship players, the Terps are ready to put the past year behind them and move on under Turgeon.

Standing at a podium in Heritage Hall in Comcast Center yesterday, the first-year coach made it clear he’s just as ready to start, too.

“I have eight players on scholarship … but all eight think they’re going to start,” Turgeon said. “They are all working their tails off for me. … These next four or five weeks are exciting for me.”

The biggest issue facing Turgeon is his lightly regarded and reworked frontcourt, which lost two starters in Williams and Dino Gregory (graduation). Powered by Williams’ routine double-doubles, the pair averaged a combined 26 points per game and had nearly half of the team’s total rebounds per game.

With both gone — and the departure of forward Hawk Palsson back home to Iceland in August — Turgeon will rely on junior forward James Padgett, senior center Berend Weijs and redshirt freshman Ashton Pankey.

The murky future of freshman center Alex Len, who Turgeon said could know Friday about his eligibility for this season, has added only another variable to a frontcourt that last season averaged a combined 5.1 points and 3.0 rebounds per game.

“A lot of people don’t think our frontcourt is very good, but I think we’re definitely better than what a lot

see MEDIA, page 7

BASEBALL

With Terps, a higher calling After rejecting professional offers, Kiene looking to continue scorching play in team’s preseason

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

As the Terrapins baseball team heads into the heart of fall practice this week, much of its hopes for the season to come will rest upon the broad shoulders of Tim Kiene.

Those hopes sprouted more than 16 months ago when Kiene, now a sophomore first baseman, proved he’s a man of his word.

Kiene had the rare opportunity to sign with his favorite MLB franchise when the phone rang at his Connecticut home in June 2010.

It was the Boston Red Sox. They wanted to pick Kiene, a three-time

high school All-American, in the seventh round of the 2010 MLB Draft.

But Kiene had already verbally committed to play at this university, and he was set on keeping his promise. He turned down the Red Sox’s offer, and his 30thround selection by the Washington Nationals didn’t change his mind either.

“Right when I turned down the Red Sox, I made my decision to come to Maryland,” Kiene said. “I wanted to come here and make a difference. I wanted to make this program another winning program like it used to be.”

Kiene’s decision that summer

afternoon was a pivotal moment for a program desperate to contend in the highly competitive ACC. He was the centerpiece of then-second year coach Erik Bakich’s 2010 recruiting class, the first in program history to be ranked in the top 25 by Baseball America.

Bakich hoped Kiene — the son of former NHL player Chris Kiene — could bring a much-needed toughness to a team trying to learn how to win. Kiene had led his high school to three league championships and a regional championship, and was intent on bringing

see KIENE, page 7

First baseman Tim Kiene earned several honors for his play this summer with the Newport Gulls. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Remi Kriz was a natural.

That much was obvious as she dominated competition while at St. John’s College High School in Washington, earning All-Met Player of the Year honors from The Washington Post after her senior year in 2008. When she went to Purdue, where she started 11 games as a freshman in 2009 and scored a goal for the Boilermakers, it seemed not much had changed.

But after not playing in 2010, and then transferring back home to become a member of the Terrapins women’s soccer team, she found herself in a strange new place: buried on the depth chart.

Soon enough, something clicked.

“I got away with a lot growing up,” said Kriz, who’s expected to start her third straight game tonight for the No. 16 Terps (8-2-4, 2-2-2 ACC) at No. 17 Florida State after playing only sparingly earlier this season. “I got away with relying on just being athletic and being talented, and for the first time in my life I was challenged to work hard here and it’s really, really paying off.”

The results of her hard work came to fruition two weeks ago, when coach Brian Pensky took the junior aside before the team’s game at Clemson and told her she would be starting at center back against the Tigers.

“I just pulled her in the day before we left for Clemson in and said, ‘We’re going to go with you,’” said Pensky, who’d seen his two previous starters at the position suffer injuries. “At the time, she was not happy with me because she was one

see KRIZ, page 7

VOLLEYBALL

In five sets, issues arise Youth could explain team’s 3-2 defeats

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

A loss to Clemson on Saturday was enough to finish off the Terrapins volleyball team’s first winless weekend in more than a month, but it was the crushing and hauntingly familiar manner in which the Terps fell that stood out afterward.

The team’s third straight loss marked another setback to the Terps in finishing off five-set matches. The team is now 2-5 when pushed to a final and decisive set, and hasn’t won a fiveset match away from College Park.

With another road trip to Wake Forest and Duke ahead this weekend, coach Tim Horsmon is stressing the importance of execution to reverse the trend as quickly as possible.

“We’ve shown how we can compete in those matches,” Horsmon said. “But the cleaner you play, the less errors you make. If we had more playmaking and less errors up to this point, we would be at the top of the ACC.” After losing an early 2-1 lead at Clemson, the Terps were looking for answers for yet another late-match failure. But instead of being overpowered, it was attack errors, service errors, ball-handling errors and block errors that spelled the Terps’ demise. The last two sets featured 11 in total, and their mistakes certainly swung the balance.

In the final set, an attack error by outside hitter Ashleigh Crutcher gave the Tigers a lead they would not relinquish until the Terps came back to tie it at 1414. Then, down 15-14 at match point, an attack error by outside hitter Carlisle Abele ended the match.

The Terps (9-10, 3-4 ACC) have been prone to late-match errors. In all five of their five-set losses, they held a

see SETS, page 7