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USM: No coach bonus with low grades would link athletes’ scores on the Academic Progress Rate — a report released by the NCAA every year — to coaches’ contracts.

Should it pass, the policy would

By Darcy Costello and coaches would be denied contract Jake Eisenberg bonuses in accordance with a Univer- apply to all future coaches and ath@dctello, @JakeEisenberg_ sity System of Maryland policy that letic directors hired by university Senior staff writers passed through a Board of Regents system institutions that field Division I teams, including this unicommittee Tuesday.

The policy, which moves on to a versity, Towson University, Coppin If student-athletes fail to meet academic minimums and standards, full Board of Regents vote Oct. 24, State University and the University

Board of Regents committee passes policy tying coach bonuses to athlete academic performance

of Maryland Eastern Shore.

The measure would require a team to achieve minimum academic standards for its coach to be eligible for performance bonuses, university system spokesman Mike Lurie said.

These bonuses, often standard language in the contracts for athletic coaches across the nation, can See usm, Page 2

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Art Library talk stresses closing ire

$1.7 million NIH grant funds university BRAIN neural networks research

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer

Students, faculty share grievances with library consolidation

Fi rst, th is u n iversity’s researchers will train mice to lick when they hear a sound. Then they’ll take away that sound but light up the mice’s brains so they still lick. The mice will think they hear a sound when there’s nothing there.

Some might call it mind control.

Others might say the researchers just know how the neural networks of the brain work.

T he Nationa l I nstitutes of Health awarded the scientists a $1.7 million dollar grant to study how neural networks function in the brain, which could shed light on how memory is stored and could help researchers develop techniques to fight neurological conditions such as schizophrenia and epilepsy.

The project, which is headed by two university professors and one NIH researcher, aims to understand how collective neurons, electrically charged cells in the brain, work collectively in processing sensory information in the brain. It is funded as part of the BRAIN initiative, established

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer When Abby Eron was deciding where to go for graduate school, she had two offers on the table. She said the main reason she chose this university over the other was that the art department here had a designated branch library.

But after a 1.5 percent budget cut, Patricia Steele, this university’s libraries dean, announced June 18 that the Art Library would be closed and integrated into McKeldin Library within the next one to two years.

About 50 students and faculty like Eron met with Steele on Wednesday to explain that doing so would hurt the department’s reputation and sense of community as well as inconvenience those who use the collections.

Steele said she held the meeting to get a sense of the department’s needs as she, along with a task force of students and faculty, brainstorms new See LIBRARY, Page 3

BRAIN STORMING Patrick Kanold, biology professor, is part of a research team that has been awarded a three-year $1.7 million grant from the NIH through the BRAIN initiative. Their research focuses on understanding how groups of neurons in the brain interact to process information and drive subsequent behaviors. rachel george/the diamondback

New univ sexual assault policies, procedures receive praise from victims, advocates

U to partner in federally funded cyber study center

Education program will roll out by November

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer

USM participation will further business tools Joseph JaJa Electrical and computer engineering professor

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer University System of Maryland schools, including this university, will partner with the MITRE Corp. to work within in the first federally funded cybersecurity center — a move that will benefit the security of the industry, country and this campus as cyberattack threats increase, officials said.

The Rockville-based National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence awarded MITRE, a nonprofit that operates federally sponsored research and development centers, with the first Federally Funded Research and Development Center devoted solely to cybersecurity.

This is an area of concern and a national challenge as cyberattacks become more systemic, said Joseph JaJa, an electrical and computer engineering professor and member of the Institute

for Advanced Computer Studies.

“We’re all in this together,” JaJa said, “and everybody is confronting this issue of data being compromised and stolen. It’s very important that we all come together … to try to develop ways to confront this problem.”

Officials from the system, particularly those from this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will be on the FFRDC executive committee and help plan the center’s future, said Eric Chapman, this university’s assistant vice president for research and development. Faculty and researchers from these universities, including JaJa, will also participate in the research.

“We’ve been called the epicenter of cybersecurity,” said Anupam Joshi, a computer science and electrical engineering professor at UMBC. “We’re See CYBER, Page 3

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He asked her to go to his room.

She didn’t think much of it.

Before she knew what was happening, he “had his hands all over” her, and 10 seconds later, she said, he undressed and pushed her head down.

It took a moment for her to rea l i ze what was happen i ng before she said no. Then he tried to have sex with her. After she asked him to wear a condom, he grabbed one, but it broke while he was putting it on and he forced himself on her anyway.

“We had sex, and I remember just needing it to be over,” the female sophomore university student said. “Honestly, I knew something wasn’t right. I was crying when I left.”

However, she did not initially consider what happened rape, and once she realized what really happened, she still wasn’t sure “that it counted.”

With the university’s revised sexual misconduct policy and student procedures approved Tuesday night, survivors of sexual assault and advocates said they will not have to question whether something “counted.”

A m a nd ated on l i ne t ra i n i ng program will be implemented by the end of the month to educate students on what the policy is, what constitutes misconduct, the range of sanctions, bystander intervention and the confidential resources on the campus, among other topics, said Catherine Carroll, this university’s Title IX director.

Carroll said her goal is to link the training to student registration, so a student would not be able to register for classes if he or she did not complete the program. “[Training programs] can be extremely beneficial,” said Beatriz Menanteau, a staff attorney with the Women’s Human Rights Program for The Advocates for Human Rights.

“They can create this massive awareness in the student body as well as the teaching body on sexual assault and set the standard that it is not OK or acceptable.”

After Carroll was hired as the Title IX director in the spring, setting up this training program and revising

this university’s sexual misconduct policy and procedures were her top priorities, she said.

For more than 20 years, the university’s old procedures for sexual misconduct were the same procedures used for any violation of the Code of Student Conduct, including theft, assault, vandalism and disorderly conduct, said Andrea Goodwin, the director of student conduct.

This means that under the former procedures, the process for adjudication included a cross-examination as well as placing the survivor and assailant in the same room.

Last year, there were about 100 cases of sexual misconduct reported through Resident Life’s Rights and Responsibilities office and the Office of Student Conduct, Goodwin said.

There have been 10 cases so far this year, all of which are still under initial review, she said.

In the new procedures, a sexual assault survivor can choose not to see the assailant during the entire process and no cross-examination can occur. This is included, Carroll said, to make sure the survivor is not “re-traumatized” by the university’s process.

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usm From PAGE 1 be awarded for wins and tournament appearances, among other things, Lurie said. Some incentives are smaller, while others can top $500,000.

Both Terrapins football coach R a ndy Edsa l l a nd men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon have six-figure performance incentives written into their contracts, according to a Baltimore Sun article.

The new policy would also apply to system institutions’ athletic directors, whose academic benchmarks would be based on the average APRs of all their student-athletes.

Kevin Anderson, this university’s athletic director, has a contract with incentives related to athletes’ graduation rates and academic achieve-

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by President Obama in April 2013, to emphasize research on the brain.

“W hen you record from thousands or tens of thousands of neurons, you’d like to understand how the activity with these neurons are produced, how it comes about and what it means,” said Dietmar Plenz, the NIH researcher involved in the study and chief of the Section on Critical Brain Dynamics at the National Institute of Mental Health. “Usually what we find is that neurons are not active in isolation but they interact with each other.”

To understand how these neurons work as a system, Patrick Kanold, a member of the research team and a biology professor at this university, will examine the auditory cortex of mice.

To look at these systems, the

ments, athletic fundraising and team successes that can add up to $50,000, The Baltimore Sun reported.

A c c ord i n g to B oa rd of Regents member Tom McMillen, a former U.S. congressman and former Terps men’s basketball player, this state would be the fi rst to implement such a policy for all teams and coaches. He contended that although coaches are not present in classrooms, they have a large impact on academic success.

“I n my ex perience as a player, a coach is very important. A coach sets the discipline of a player; they do have a lot of input,” McMillen said.

“When a coach cares about education, players do well [academically].”

Un iversity President Wa l lace L oh echoed McMillen’s sentiments, adding

that coaches are educators for their student-athletes.

“T hey are student-athletes,” he said. “They should be successful in the classroom and hopefully successful on the playing fi eld. If they are successful in both, they will be successful in life.”

The bill passed unanimously through the university system’s Organization and Compensation Committee, headed

by David Kinkopf, on Tuesday.

McMillen said he fully expects the policy to pass through the Board of Regents.

The policy is intended to “ensure that each institution’s documents reflect the importance of the educational aspects of athletic programs,” according to the introduction to the Policy on Academic Achievement in Intercollegiate Athletics.

The NCAA standard, the

APR, is to be considered the “minimally acceptable academic achievement and performance standard,” according to the document, but the committee stressed “there should be higher expectations of student-athlete academic performance and achievement” within the institutions themselves.

For the 2014-15 season, the NCAA requires a four-year average APR of 930 or a 940 average over the most recent two years for a team to be eligible to participate in the postseason. For 2015-16 and beyond, teams will be required to obtain a four-year APR of 930 to compete, according to the NCAA’s website.

In 2011, prior to Edsall’s arrival, the NCAA penalized the Terps football team for its four-year APR of 922 — just short of the 925 minimum

researchers first create a hole in the skull of mice through which they can observe the brain with a microscope. Then, they use calcium imaging — a process that uses special dyes to light up neurons when calcium flows into them — to see which neurons are active, Kanold said.

Using this method, they are able to observe the neuronal activity in the mice when they hear a tone.

“We play with the tones and the stimulus and see what neurons, what population of neurons, becomes active, so you can characterize that pattern of activity,” Kanold said. “Then the idea is to really identify where the coding is, where is the information, and then have an animal actually behaving, and see if we can change their choice by activating these neurons.”

By conditioning the mice to lick or make another choice when they hear this tone, they can observe a physical sign of

these neural networks being activated, Kanold said. After they have done this, the researchers plan to use a laser to photostimulate these same neurons — in effect, making them go off even when no sound is present.

This research is dependent on the phenomenon known as neural avalanches, which Plenz discovered, whereby the activity of a system of neurons is comparable to that of earthquakes. There is one initial shock, followed by a series of aftershocks.

By looking at these aftershocks and the ensuing choices the mice make, they hope to understand how the brain processes these stimuli and responds with a behavior, Plenz said.

To u nd ersta nd t hese systems, Wolfgang Losert, physics professor and associate dean for research of the computer, mathematical and natural sciences college, will look into modeling how these

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“IN MY EXPERIENCE AS A PLAYER, A COACH IS VERY IMPORTANT. A COACH SETS THE DISCIPLINE OF A PLAYER; THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF INPUT. WHEN A COACH CARES ABOUT EDUCATION, PLAYERS DO WELL [ACADEMICALLY].”

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Former congressman and Terrapins men’s basketball player score — with the loss of three football scholarships.

In the 2010-11 season, the football team had an A PR of 972. It fell to 948 in the 2011-12 season before rising to 977 last year. In the 2011-12 academic school year, Turgeon’s basketball team had

an APR of 881, which rose to 1,000 the following season, according to the NCAA Division I Head Coach APR Portfolio database.

According to McMillen, te a m s at t h i s u n iversit y will be evaluated on a yearto-year basis, rather than using the team’s four-year rolling average, as the NCAA does. This way, he said, new coaches could not be affected, hypothetically, by any poor APR scores attributed to previous coaches.

“This idea that coaches shouldn’t get their bonus unless they hit m inimum academic performance makes sense,”McMillen said. “It’s a university; it’s crazy to spend hundreds of thousands in bonuses if the team isn’t performing well academically.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

AND MICE BRAINS ARE NOT THAT DIFFERENT, SO WE LEARN ABOUT THE BASIC PROCESSES.” PATRICK KANOLD University biology professor

neurons work together to make these mental processes happen.

“At the more physics level, the dream is to understand how information is encoded in the brain, that’s why we call the grant ‘crowd-coding’ — it’s essentially, you know, in a computer what carries the information are the bits, but in the brain what carries the information?”

Losert said. “So the hypothesis is that it’s groups of neurons and that collective activity that carries information.”

Using this system, the researchers can image hundreds of neurons at a time, Losert

Patrick Kanold, biology professor and neural researcher. said, far more than the previous method of observing one or two at a time. In this way, they can come to a far greater understanding of how the brain works, Losert said, which can help develop methods to control certain disorders in neural functioning.

“Human brains and mice

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brains are not that different, so we learn about the basic processes,” K a nold sa id.

“There are a lot of conditions in humans that involve abnormal perception. In schizophrenia, they hallucinate, they hear a sound that’s not there.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

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CYBER From PAGE 1 really excited as a campus and as a community to be a part of this important work.”

MITRE will be responsible for managing the FFRDC’s operations, aiming to streamline and improve cybersecurity through research and technologies. MITRE was also involved in investigating the cybersecurity breach at this university in February.

“Broad ly spea k i ng, the hopes for the center are to bring external stakeholders together to help forge common standards for difficult cybersecurity problems that are low-cost, scalable and easily adoptable,” Chapman said.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will fund the center with a $29 million contract, he said.

Though some standards and best practices already exist in the cybersecurity sector, they aren’t well-known or aren’t sha red wel l, sa id Ha rriet Goldman, director of advanced cyber at MITRE.

“If you read the newspapers alone, you’re very aware that cybersecurity is an increasing national security, economic prosperity and public safety problem, and it’s really affecting all federal agencies and the commercial sector as well as individuals,” Goldman said.

The FFRDC will focus on the business side, looking for cybersecurity solutions that are cost-effective and commercially viable and benefit from research, JaJa said. But he said he expects the partnership to benefit this university, predominantly with student and faculty involvement in the research and development of related technologies.

“It’s a national center,” JaJa said, “so it will help industry and corporations across the country, but it’s also an open process, so our university and other universities will be able to benefit from the best practices we develop there.”

Ca l l i ng th is reg ion the “Silicon Valley of cybersecurity” because of the government and academic institutions located here, Patrick O’Shea, the vice president and chief research officer of

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the division of research and an electrical and computer engineering professor, said the FFRDC will promote more involvement in cybersecurity on the campus.

“Cybersecurity is a discipline that’s rapidly evolving,” O’Shea said. “It’s not just something you read textbooks about. You have to have education and research, and that’s what we will have here.”

MITRE selected the system as a partner because of the proximity of its universities to the organization and because it is a leading research institution in the field, Goldman said. The choice was not related to February’s cyberattack, though the system’s Division of Information Technology plans to use this research to help prevent future breaches.

“The Division of IT will continue to work with UMD researchers who have an expertise in cybersecurity,” Gerry Sneeringer, the director of IT security and policy and chief IT security officer, wrote in an email. “The new NIST funded research and development center dedicated to enhancing cybersecurity and protecting national information systems will support UMD’s ongoing efforts to thwart future cyberattacks.”

Though the FFRDC will not directly work in fighting cyberattacks, officials said they hope research conducted there will help to prevent them at this university and elsewhere.

“We expect that no solution will be perfect, there will always be ways around security solutions,” Goldman said.

“We cannot stop all attackers.

But what we can do is improve cybersecurity and raise the bar to make it a lot harder, to make it so we can expose attackers for what they’re doing and also so we can reduce the impact of future attacks.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

library From PAGE 1 models for the Art Library’s future. She said they hope to have a feasible plan in place by January.

“It’s an issue of scholarship with emotions around it. The bottom line has to be that we find ways to make sure that scholarship is not ha mpered a nd does not diminish,” Bonnie Dill, dean of the arts and humanities college, told the group before the discussion began. “Whether the library can do that in the way they’ve always done is the issue that’s at stake.”

Nicole Riesenberger, a graduate student in the art history and archaeology department, presented Steele with a petition featuring 1,540 signatures requesting the library stay open.

R iesenberger, a mong others, cited that many of this university’s competitors — including all but

ASSAULT From PAGE 1 “Victims of sexual violence are afraid to come forward because they know they have to face the person they’ve been victimized by,” Goodwin said. “Going through the adjudication process is like living the assault all over again.”

However, the new policy and student procedures are not in place to safeguard either party. They are designed to be friendly, transparent and impartial, Carroll said.

Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said he hopes these revisions will make it easier

three Big Ten schools — have a dedicated art branch library.

Gary W hite, University Libraries associate dean for public services, said moving the collections to McKeldin Library would save on personnel costs, which account for 90 percent of the library’s budget outside of collections.

“To operate a branch library, when you take into account librarians, full-time staff members, part-time employees — it can cost a couple hundred thousand a year,” White said.

But McKeldin Library is not suited to the needs of artists and art historians, the group said.

“The Art Library is the place where I was introduced to all the people and ideas I studied, where I had the chance to sit down and explore the stacks, to go looking for one book on an artist but end up discovering a whole bunch of them,” doctoral candidate Abram Fox said. “There’s a different vibe in the Art Library than there is in McKeldin. In McKeldin, you go there and you get your stuff and you leave.”

Sophie Huget, a senior art history major, said she calls McKeldin Library “purgatory” because when she goes in, it feels as though she’ll never get out.

“Students come to McKeldin because they have a problem to solve, but it’s not like that in the art history department,” she said. “We have this curiosity and we need to talk to our peers.”

One person said it took him five to seven minutes to walk to McKeldin Library. This doesn’t work for students on a practical level, graduate student Hannah Schockmel said, as many students go down to the library multiple times a day.

Steele said is was helpful hearing the department’s concerns, and they will be taken into account as the problem is further debated.

“It’s never pleasant to think about cutting,” she said. “We have to find a balance together and try not to make it an awful. If not a win-win, it has to be a live with it-live with it.”

for survivors to come forward if they choose to do so. Ronk said the SGA is following the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign to educate the campus community on sexual misconduct, as well as the university’s “Rule of Thumb” campaign, which advocates affirmative consent.

Although this university was not on the U.S. Education Department Office for Civil Rights’ list of 76 universities under investigation for mishandling sexual assault and harassment complaints, Ronk said officials can do more.

He would like to see the mandatory sexual misconduct training take place in person for all students.

“The ultimate end goal is

no one being raped or sexually assaulted on-campus,” Ronk said.

Although the sophomore student never reported the assault, she said she wants to go into law and focus specifically on domestic violence and sexual assault and help survivors.

“So many people have had these things happen to them but may not know it because it doesn’t follow the textbook definition,” the sophomore said. “If you had asked me a few months ago, even, [about the rape], I probably would have given a little bit different of an answer.”

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help in planning the center’s future as well as determine the best practices and strategies when it comes to cybersecurity in different economic sectors, the partnership will be able to offer an unbiased look into cybersecurity techniques and standards.

OUR VIEW

The new partnership will elevate cybersecurity standards and establish this state as a flagship location for research.

As a federally funded project, the center will likely have stakeholders in corporate sectors; however, its research toward determining the best software or strategies will be done by the partnership’s researchers — those who won’t be influenced by a particular industry vertical.

This is one of the project’s strongest benefits. According to the 2014 Global State of Information Security Survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CSO Online, company executives held a biased view on the strength of their security initiatives, all skewing relatively confident. Let’s not forget, many executives and corporations aren’t even that familiar with cybersecurity practices. A 2014 report by the Lancope and Ponemon Institute determined that corporate leaders in the U.S. and

in the United Kingdom are generally “in the dark” on cybersecurity issues and responses.

Not only do we support this initiative because it will improve cybersecurity standards across industry sectors through providing an unbiased eye on research, but also because it will further establish this state as a noteworthy “hub” when it comes to cybersecurity studies.

This university currently houses the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, which partners with federal agencies to develop future talent in the cybersecurity workforce, as well as the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, which helps solve issues relating to national security, medicine and big data. With a new federal partnership, this university is rapidly growing in the cybersecurity arena, which will no doubt improve this university’s appeal to prospective students and partners as well as its reputation among other public research universities.

As a field that’s continually changing, the cybersecurity world needs a research center that addresses concerns rapidly and in an academic context, and what better way to do that than by partnering tech sectors with academia? We applaud this partnership and believe that solving issues involves looking into problems in a deep context, something we know this university is completely capable of doing.

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here’s no debate that one of the most attractive characteristics of this university is that we are only a short Metro ride away from the nation’s capital. Lying just northeast of Washington, College Park is a popular destination for graduating high school students, especially those who come to this university to be close to the political action.

Other than being located close to the seat of the country’s legislative, judicial and executive leadership, this campus is about to boost its reputation in another area: cybersecurity.

The University System of Maryland and the College Park campus have officially partnered in the nation’s first federally funded Cybersecurity Center. The research and development center contract, funded by the National Institute of Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, will be managed by the university system — particularly the College Park and Baltimore County campuses — along with the nonprofit MITRE Corp.

In a field that’s growing in regard to both employment numbers and news coverage, cybersecurity would be an excellent area in which this state could specialize. Though cybersecurity standards exist, the field is young enough that there’s still much room for improvement, which will hopefully be reached through third-party research.

While faculty and researchers will

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and didn’t speak much to his commitment to enforce the existing law.

Now for Brown. Brown consistently sought to portray the differences between himself and Hogan, particularly on issues such as the environment, education and women’s rights. Brown’s positives were that he went after Hogan on his opposition to the state’s stormwater management fee, also called the “rain tax,” and questioned Hogan’s commitment to protecting the Chesapeake Bay. Brown pointedly criticized Hogan’s placement of the blame on Pennsylvania and New York, stressing that this state needed to take real action to protect the bay. Brown was more specific with several of his policy initiatives than Hogan was, particularly on how to protect the environment and fund school construction.

Negatives of Brown’s debate were his responses to questions regarding his role in the creation of this state’s health exchange. Brown failed to give a straightforward answer and didn’t protect his credibility as a manager.

While Brown frequently stressed the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, he dodged responsibility for this state’s mismanagement of its ACA website.

Brown also made the very misleading statement that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranked the state No. 1 in small business and entrepreneurs. For clarification, the Chamber of Commerce ranks this state as the top “innovation and entrepreneurship” state, but the same report ranks this state the eighth-worst in the nation in the category of business climate.

If I had to pick a winner, Hogan would be my choice. He continually hit on Brown’s shortcomings and the dissatisfaction many state residents feel with the O’Malley-Brown administration. For what it’s worth, Brown made a variety of good points, and a number of writers are of the opinion that he put in the better performance.

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On Monday, this state’s gubernatorial candidates squared off in another televised debate. Republican Larry Hogan and Democratic Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown went head to head for the second time this month in a race that is becoming tighter every day.

So, what did each candidate do well? First off, Hogan worked hard to make the connection between Brown and the problems of the current administration, and he hit home on the main issues of his campaign: taxes and the economy.

Positives of Hogan’s performance were that he frequently made the fair criticism that Brown has been an active participant in an administration that has produced a poor business tax climate, and that Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration has increased taxes on state residents more than 40 times in eight years.

Hogan also made a point of stressing that it was Brown’s responsibility to handle this state’s botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, which has been constantly derided as one of the worst in the country.

Yet there came negative aspects: Hogan stepped around questions on social policies such as gun control, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Dream Act. While Hogan claimed he would uphold the referendum decisions made by state residents, he failed to adequately respond to Brown’s charge that he would gut these programs — specifically gun control — of funding and render them meaningless. Hogan’s response to Brown’s suggestion that the Republican wouldn’t enforce the Firearm Safety Act of 2013 focused Sam Wallace is a junior government on the importance of keeping guns and politics major. He can be reached out of the hands of the mentally ill, at swallacedbk@gmail.com.

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The undemocratic flaw in this state Gerrymandering negatively affects democracy DANIEL GALITSKY Looking at a map of this state, it’s clear that this is one of the weirdestshaped states in the nation. But a glance at a map of this state’s congressional districts is another thing entirely. The incomprehensible maze of borders is an embarrassing symptom of a nationwide problem.

Named after a 19th-century Massachusetts governor, gerrymandering has been an American tradition for two centuries. However, the upcoming midterm elections are a reminder that politically motivated lines of jurisdiction are an obstacle to democracy.

The idea of republican democracy is that a group of voters choose a representative. However, when districts are drawn by those already in power, politicians can choose their own constituencies. While millions will head to the polls in this and other gerrymandered states, their votes are mostly meaningless.

The goal of gerrymandering is to solidify one party’s control for the 10 years between censuses. In this state, Democrats strategically drew lines after 2010 in order to maximize their House of Representatives seats decided by uncompetitive elections.

Conservative areas in the western part of this state were split into Districts 6 and 8. Convoluted lines were drawn to dilute these areas with voters

from the densely populated Democratic stronghold of Montgomery County. Meanwhile, the Eastern Shore and the northeastern part of this state were packed into a single district to guarantee that the Republicans will hold only a single seat.

Even if you support the Democrats, gerrymandering is bad in the big picture. In many states, Republicans exert the same control. In others, incumbents work across party lines to maintain the status quo.

As information technology has improved in recent decades, politicians have been able to use data to pinpoint voting preferences down to individual houses. This maximizes the effectiveness of the district lines in creating uncompetitive elections.

One negative consequence of gerrymandering is that it divides states in ways that do not make geographic sense. In District 6, U.S. Rep. John Delaney represents a territory that stretches from Oakland and Deep Creek Lake to Potomac and Gaithersburg. The economic and cultural differences among these locales mean that the representative will have to neglect some areas when he votes in Washington.

Additionally, uncompetitive elections for House seats end up reducing voters’ engagement with politics.

When there is no serious threat to a candidate in an election, voters will not bother learning about the issues of importance. If every NFL game were a blowout that was fixed ahead of time, there wouldn’t be many fans.

Another problem with gerryman-

dering is that when districts are uncompetitive, representatives have no threat of being voted out and can tend toward less moderate stances.

This polarization contributes to the gridlock of the modern Congress, which leads to nothing getting done.

Representatives are less accountable when their chances of being booted are slim to none.

In California, a measure pushed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, called the Voters FIRST Act, passed in 2008. This law takes redistricting out of the hands of politicians and instead creates an independent commission to handle it in a politically neutral way. Several other states have passed similar laws. However, there exists no nationwide legislation to eradicate gerrymandering.

The problem is that the only people who can change the system are those who benefit from it the most: the incumbent members of Congress. A constitutional amendment to reform redistricting would require a two-thirds majority of Congress to vote to make its own re-election less convenient. That would never happen.

When you head to the polls to elect this state’s House representatives on Nov. 4, just remember that you are a dot on a map drawn by politicians who have planned your choice in advance. But you will never hear them admit it.

Daniel Galitsky is a junior economics and finance major. He can be reached at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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s a fraternity chapter member, former chapter president and current member of the Interfraternity Council Executive Board, I was disturbed by last week’s article in The Diamondback questioning fraternity culture at this university.

My concern lies not with the questioning of fraternity culture, but in what happened to Kristen.

First and foremost, Kristen, I and all true fraternity men at this university offer our most heartfelt apologies for your experience. I say “all true fraternity men” because those who could read your story and not feel compelled to apologize and take action are not real men; they are not only an affront to the values our organizations were founded on, but they also exacerbate the negative fraternity culture so often called into question.

To simply say that “Kristen’s experience is not representative of all fraternities” not only fails to scratch the surface of a satisfactory response, but is also highly dismissive of her experience. The idea that Kristen’s experience could be representative of even a single fraternity is unconscionable, and the cultural problems displayed in her account reach far beyond the attempted sexual assault itself.

The coercion and psychological violence behind anyone believing that someone else could owe them sexual gratification because of their fraternal association is not and will not be tolerated by the IFC Executive Board. It is misogyny and entitlement of the worst kind. While our capacity for punitive action is somewhat limited in these situations, I can promise that we will address the actionable information we receive to the fullest extent possible and work with the relevant decision-makers to ensure comprehensive action is taken.

For our part, we will re-evaluate

the IFC’s educational programming regarding sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention. As a freshman, one of my clearest memories from the new member educational events organized by the IFC was a story from a recent alumnus about the institutionalized sexual assault that used to take place in his chapter. I remember being incredulous that anything of the sort could have occurred and was confident that it was a distant, dark chapter in the history of Greek life at this university.

Until reading last week’s article, the idea that a university fraternity could be engaged in institutionalized and premeditated sexual assault seemed beyond the realm of possibility. Fraternities were founded to provide a safe space for men and women, and it is imperative that they fulfill that most basic mission.

Those engaged in the type of behavior in Kristen’s story only serve to erode the foundation of our existence and must not be allowed to remain members of the Greek life community. Any misogyny or sense of entitlement leading to pressure and coercion to perform sexual acts must be eradicated from fraternity culture. We, the IFC Executive Board, call on each IFC chapter to also re-evaluate and revamp their sexual assault educational programming to address the root of the problem.

While the Interfraternity Council will take appropriate internal action to ensure each and every one of our men buys into the positive culture of mutual respect and upholds our organizational values, we cannot operate in a bubble.

We welcome the constructive criticism, input and support of the larger university community in helping us determine our next steps and providing additional resources our chapters can implement in both the short and long term.

Ross Seidman is a senior government and politics major and chief justice of the Interfraternity Council. He can be reached at rseidman@terpmail.umd.

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THE NEW Dude AT NETFLIX Netflix recently inked a four-film deal with divisive comedy star Adam Sandler. Is this a good move for the beloved streaming service?

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We are living in a new era. Recently, Adam Sandler signed a deal to make four movies that will be available exclusively on Netflix, a deal that simultaneously breathed life into a slowing career and ripped the traditional movie theater to pieces. The news sent shockwaves throughout the film community: It’s largely unprecedented, the idea of a blockbuster movie skipping the theaters by choice. Also, Sandler seems like an odd choice as someone who has spent the 2010s getting torn apart by critics and, with the exception of the Grown Ups series, failing to turn a ton of profit.

But I like this deal for a couple of reasons. First off, it represents an intriguing new frontier. I love the movie theater more than most people, but the idea of more movies being made in different capacities on different platforms is exciting. I don’t think the conventional movie theater is going to die anytime

soon, so for now, deals like his only represent a broadening landscape of potentially great material. Netflix’s forays into original television have gone very well, with House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black in particular racking up Emmy nominations, so their original movies probably won’t be half bad.

The other reason I’m a fan of this deal is because of what it might mean for Sandler. I grew up a fan of the Sand-man, due mostly to the masterpiece that is Happy Gilmore. I’ll admit that his career since Happy has been a bit inconsistent, but there were a few gems in between the Spanglishes and Jack and Jills. Movies such as Punch-Drunk Love, The Wedding Singer and Funny People show that Sandler can act when he wants to, providing the perfect blend of funny guy and emotional wreck.

I’ve seen enough showbiz documentaries and episodes of Entourage to know the old actors’ adage “make one for them and one for you.” This means that actors do a hollow, money-grubbing studio

movie (like Grown Ups) in order to do a movie they actually enjoy, something with a nice script and an artistic director that might not make a ton of money (like PunchDrunk Love or, in theory, Men, Women & Children). This deal with Netflix should allow Sandler to do both.

There is no doubt that the money made by some of Sandler’s hollow hits is the reason the site chased him in the first place, but the streaming model is also a platform that allows for a lot of creativity. Hopefully Sandler utilizes the power he has in the deal to make at least one movie that doesn’t look, sound and feel like a paycheck.

This deal has the potential to break more than one established norm in the movie business: the idea that good movies only come in theaters and the notion that Adam Sandler can’t make a real film anymore. I think both will be broken in what will be a successful foray into the future of movies.

Let the streaming begin. merrigodbk@gmail.com

I have not bothered to see Jack and Jill, That’s My Boy, or Grown Ups and its ill-advised sequel. So I can only scratch my head at Netflix’s decision to strike a four-movie deal with Adam Sandler, given his recent unappealing track record at the theaters.

It might have been a good idea a decade ago before Sandler sold out. We can all wax nostalgic about Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and The Waterboy, but even Sandler diehards have to admit he hasn’t made anything close to that quality in a long time. I’m not dismissing Sandler: One of my favorite films is Big Daddy, which was regularly quoted in my household growing up. But over time, my faith in the comedic actor has been shaken by the drivel he’s put out lately.

Maybe it’s not fair that I haven’t given his recent films a chance, but Sandler doesn’t even seem to hide the fact that he’s been selling out. In Funny People, another less-than-stellar recent Sandler film, Sandler’s persona

as a comedy veteran releasing crappy movies for the paycheck is mocked, showing some selfawareness toward the perception of his career. But that somehow makes it worse: Sandler knows his movies will lack quality but perform well in the box office, so he stays the course.

Both Grown Ups films grossed more than $100 million in theaters, as did Just Go With It. But Sandler is not always reliable at the box office: His most recent film, Blended, underwhelmed with an opening weekend gross of just $14 million.

Business Insider points to the financial success of Sandler’s films overseas as the thinking behind Netflix’s four-movie deal. Netflix streams in more than 40 countries, so even his recent domestic box-office disasters didn’t deter Netflix. But it just feels like a relationship in which you can’t understand what one partner sees in the other. Netflix, you can do better!

In fact, I would argue that Sandler’s worst films really go against the grain of Netflix’s modus operandi. Netflix has built its success in original programming through producing quality content. House

of Cards and Orange Is the New Black might be the banner achievements, but less buzzy shows such as Lilyhammer and BoJack Horseman still earn critical praise. Judged by his most recent work, Sandler won’t be producing anything for Netflix that fits that quality mold.

Movies appear to be the next frontier Netflix is looking to conquer, but involving Sandler in the launch of Netflix original films is a bizarre choice. There are many other successful comedians who would creatively fit better with Netflix and make movies that I would watch for more than a few minutes.

Sandler’s response to the deal, according to a news release, is the perfect encapsulation of everything that makes the once-beloved comedian so polarizing and the Netflix deal so maddening.

“Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,” he said. “Let the streaming begin!!!!”

Can’t you just hear him saying that? Love him or hate him, it’s classic Sandler — now coming to any screen near you.

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goals in the final period.

“We really buried emotionally Princeton on the field,” Meharg said. “We wanted to dominate the beginning segments of each half, and we did.”

Less than three minutes into the second half, Fluharty recorded her first goal of the day on a shot from the right side of the circle.

Tigers goalkeeper Anya Gersoff — who made 11 saves in the contest — stopped Fluharty’s attempt at another goal five minutes later, but Luus was there to capitalize on the rebound for her second score of the day and

second of the season.

“Our tennis-hockey player had a breakout game,” Meharg said of Luus, wh o se rve d a s o n e - h a l f of the Terps tennis team’s No . 1 d o u b l e s u n i t l a s t season. “She was stellar.”

Princeton did manage to beat Cabrera once, though.

After the Terps went more than 100 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal, the Tigers broke the streak by scoring off a penalty corner.

The Terps were quick to bat away any hope of a Tigers comeback when they responded with two goals of their own. Midfielder Lein Holsboer and forward Katie Gerzabek extended the Terps’ lead to 6-1. With puddles forming on the field, play

was suspended for about 10 minutes shortly after Gerzabek’s goal.

When the game resumed, the Terps continued to dominate on offense. Fluharty scored on back-to-back penalty corners to earn her second career hat trick, which put her in sole possession of the team lead in goals with 11 this season.

Fluharty’s final goals capped another high-scoring game for a Terps offense that has recorded 30 goals in its past five games after scoring 25 through the first nine contests this season.

“I don’t know what to say,” Meharg said. “I’m still a little bit shocked by the result.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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HAWKS From PAGE 8 scoring third. Shinsky recorded two shots and nearly had several more.

Cirovski said the Terps (6-5-2) benefited from using the same starting lineup for the second consecutive game.

The Terps haven’t started any of their natural forwards in the past three games.

“We had a lot of forwards, and we tried to find two good forwards that could work together,” Eticha said. “And me and Shinsky tried. We started off the VCU game. And that’s what we’ve been working on, trying to get chemistry between the midfielders and the forwards together. Finally it’s coming along.”

Eticha’s goals were products of the Terps’ aggressive offensive approach. They outshot Lehigh 17-5, and the Mountain Hawks hardly possessed the ball in the scoring

third in the first half.

Goalkeeper Zack Steffen recorded his third consecutive shutout as the defense extended its scoreless streak to 270 minutes. The streak has coincided with defender Alex Crogale’s return to the lineup. “[Crognale] is getting a lot of confidence,” Cirovski said.

“He’s getting better with every game. But the guys in front of him are making it a little bit easier. The midfielders and forwards are doing a much better job, and we’re not leaving our backs exposed as much.”

After Eticha added the insurance goal in the 72nd minute, Cirovski emptied his bench. In addition to Johnson, Cirovski inserted scarcely used forward Jeroen Meefout and defenders Suli Dainkeh and Dakota Edwards.

The Terps have won five of their past seven games and appear confident as they prepare to play at Indiana on Sunday in search of their first road win this season.

“It’s a hardening process that we went through that got to an apex,” Cirovski said.

“Now the team has finally said it’s enough. That’s why you’re seeing a really tough team.

We’re competing hard on every ball. There’s no shortcuts being taken.”

But even in victory, the Terps’ desperate mentality remains. The Terps’ postgame news conferences are no longer marked by sullen tones and talk of missed opportunities.

After the past three victories, the Terps have acknowledged the positives strides they’ve made, yet they maintain that they need to stay focused if they hope to make a deep postseason run.

“Starting with the VCU game, we’ve been playing with the mentality that we’re in the playoffs already,” defender Mikey Ambrose said. “We’re not going to take anything less than a result.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Offense erupts in 2nd straight game Team scores eight goals vs Princeton en route to seventh straight victory

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer The game time was moved from 6 p.m. to 4 p.m. in an attempt to avoid inclement weather. The contest was stopped three times due to the storm. Inches of rain fell on the field. But none of the potentially impeding factors slowed the Terrapins field hockey team yesterday afternoon at Princeton.

Riding a six-game winning streak and three days after posting a season-high goal total in a 9-0 victory over Penn, the offense erupted again.

Midfielder Maxine Fluharty recorded the team’s first hat trick of the season to power the No. 2 Terps to an 8-1 rout of the Tigers at Bedford Field.

“I’m a bit surprised by the outcome in terms of the disparity,” coach Missy Meharg said. “On the road in a onetravel day — as student-athletes, I’m really impressed with them.”

The scoring took time to develop. The Terps (12-2) came up empty on their first seven shots of the game. The eighth shot, which came from forward Welma Luus, broke the scoreless tie 15 minutes into the contest for the senior’s first goal of the season.

After Luus’ score, Princeton

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Terrapins field hockey coach (3-9) was able to mount its first offense against the stout Terps defense, which held the Tigers without a shot for the first 16 minutes of action.

Princeton earned three penalty corners in a span of less than three minutes later in the half, but goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera kept Princeton off the board.

Despite minimal offensive opportunities for the Terps in the final 10 minutes of the first half, forward Alyssa Parker was able to capitalize on a Tigers turnover. Parker took the ball into Princeton’s circle and finished off the shot to mark her third straight game with a goal after enduring a 10-game scoreless drought.

The Terps carried the momentum from the late firsthalf goal out of the locker room and tallied a season-high six See TIGERS, Page 7

midfielder mikias eticha dribbles the ball with a defender on his heels during the Terps’ 2-0 win over Lehigh last night at Ludwig Field.

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Midfielder Mikias Eticha becomes latest Terp to carry scoring load in win over Lehigh

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer In the 81st minute of the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s game against Lehigh last night, Terps midfielder Daniel Johnson trotted onto the field.

Coach Sasho Cirovski put Johnson into the game to replace Mikias Eticha, who scored both goals in the Terps’ 2-0 win.

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from Cirovski. The senior wasn’t expected to be a scorer when the season began, but Cirovski appreciated Eticha’s part in extending the Terps’ winning streak to three matches.

“The nice thing about our team is we don’t know who’s going to score,” Cirovski said. “The bad thing for our team is we don’t know who’s going to score. We’re seeing the dividends of the hard work and continued belief in the process of what we do in training translating into games.”

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DUNN WITH DOUBTS Michael Dunn arrived in College Park as a walk-on. Two years later, he’s the starting left tackle.

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

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ichael Dunn sat in a team meeting on Aug. 19, 2013, his eyes fixed on Randy Edsall as the Terrapins football coach called out the names of players he wished to see in his office after the gathering.

The Terps’ season opener against Florida International was less than two weeks away, and summer training camp was drawing to a close. Dunn, then a walk-on redshirt freshman offensive lineman, had worked his way up the depth chart, claiming a spot on the two-deep as a backup right tackle. As long as he could hang on to that role, Dunn would travel with the team for the first time in his brief college career — one of his goals entering his second season in College Park.

What came next, though, exceeded his wildest expectations.

Edsall called out Dunn’s name, which was rather unexpected. Why would the head coach need to talk to a walk-on backup lineman? Nonetheless, the Bethesda native strolled into Edsall’s office.

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“That competitive nature is good for everybody,” Kuhn said. “If you feel like your job’s in jeopardy, you’re more likely to compete. Or if you’re someone like Michael who’s trying to get noticed or is trying to get on the field more, you’re going to compete at as high a level as possible to get the coach’s attention. So that level of competition every day in practice helps improve your skills. I’m sure it went a long way in helping Michael.”

Even so, Dunn admitted that, as a junior, he had yet to fully commit to football. He would go to the weight room to socialize. He said he wouldn’t really pay attention. He viewed it as a hobby.

“I wasn’t totally dedicated,” Dunn said.

After that season, Dunn joined the wrestling team to get in shape. But it wasn’t until later in the school year that his mentality changed forever.

From PAGE 1 Sitting in front of the then-thirdyear coach, Dunn was told he would be starting at right guard for the upcoming season, a position at which he received minimal reps during camp. And then Edsall informed the 6-foot-5, 300-pound lineman that he was granting him a scholarship to this university.

“It was one of the biggest moments of my entire life,” said Dunn, the starting left tackle for the Terps this season. “It changed everything for me.”

The impact of that meeting on Dunn, his family, his past coaches and all those who influenced the sophomore’s life cannot be quantified in the cost of tuition or playing time.

It meant the realization of a lifelong dream. It meant proving wrong countless college coaches who never returned his calls, never replied to his emails and never gave him a chance.

He was always too small. He was never athletic enough. He didn’t have the body of a Division I lineman.

Everywhere Dunn turned, people doubted him. But now he’s an integral part of an offensive line that’s helped the Terps to a 4-2 start entering Saturday’s homecoming game against Iowa.

“He’s a testament,” said Jim Kuhn, Dunn’s coach at Walt Whitman High School. “When you put up that poster of where can you get to [by] buying into the program and being in the weight room and busting your ass and dedicating yourself and persevering through some tough times — he’s that poster child.”

‘A LONG WAY TO GO’ Dunn started playing football as a 120-pound fifth-grader for Maplewood Pop Warner, a program based in the Bethesda area.

His relatively large build meant he played with older kids, per Pop Warner regulations. Dunn said he spent time on the defensive line and at fullback for the first three years of youth football before shifting to the offensive line in eighth grade.

“I never really just completely destroyed everybody because people

‘NEWFOUND DEDICATION’

LEFT tackle MICHAEL DUNN started all 13 games, nine at right guard and four at right tackle, for the Terps as a redshirt freshman in 2013. photo courtesy of hillel steinberg

“HE’S A TESTAMENT. WHEN YOU PUT UP THAT POSTER OF WHERE CAN YOU GET TO [BY] BUYING INTO THE PROGRAM AND BEING IN THE WEIGHT ROOM AND BUSTING YOUR ASS AND DEDICATING YOURSELF AND PERSEVERING THROUGH SOME TOUGH TIMES — HE’S THAT POSTER CHILD.” JIM KUHN

Walt Whitman High School football coach usually were years older than me,” Dunn said. “I was a solid player. I wasn’t anything special. But I had fun with it.”

Dunn arrived at Whitman as a freshman in 2008. He stood 5 feet, 9 inches and weighed 170 pounds.

That’s when he first met Kuhn, who is now in his eighth year as head coach.

“I felt like he could be a very good football player. He just had work to do,” Kuhn said. “He had a long way to go, a lot of developing to do.”

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because of a host of talented offensive lineman ahead of him, four of whom went on to play college football.

Kuhn said without those players on the roster, Dunn would have likely filled a starting role on the offensive line his junior season. But the quality in front of Dunn was also paramount to his progression.

Throughout his time at Whitman, Kuhn has been heavily involved in his players’ recruitment processes. He often holds meetings to gauge players’ interest in playing after college and to provide advice and guidance.

Kuhn held one of those meetings when the students returned from winter break during Dunn’s junior year.

“Right after the meeting, I kind of was thinking, ‘I know that I’ve never really started a varsity game yet, but I always loved football. Might as well see if I can go anywhere with it,’” Dunn said.

Dunn approached Kuhn after the meeting and asked the coach what he thought about his prospects of playing football at the next level.

Kuhn’s reply was the vote of confidence Dunn needed.

“He told me that he thought I had an opportunity to play at a potential D-1 AA school,” Dunn said. “I decided ‘OK, I don’t know for sure how this is going to work out, but I might as well try. And if it doesn’t work out, then I’ll just go to college, be a normal student, and I’ll be totally fine with it.

But I knew that I had to try.”

From that point on, Dunn didn’t miss a day in the weight room. In fact, he and several of his teammates would See dunn, Page 3

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DUNN From PAGE 2 also work out on Saturdays despite that being their lone day off each week.

The results were substantial. When he started wrestling season as a junior, he weighed in at 215 pounds. By the time he started his senior football season about six months later, he weighed close to 250 pounds. In the meantime, Dunn underwent a massive growth spurt, bringing his height from less than 6 feet to a towering 6 feet, 3 inches.

The Michael Dunn Terps fans currently see on the field was beginning to take form.

“My senior year — that’s when I dedicated [myself] to football. I would work hard every single day leading up to the fall,” Dunn said. “That really helped me going into my senior year: that newfound dedication I had.”

His hard work paid dividends, as he claimed the starting job at right tackle for his final football season at Whitman, during which the team compiled a 5-5 record but missed the playoffs.

Despite the disappointing result, Dunn had a tremendous season, allowing him to compile film he eventually sent out to colleges to spark interest in his recruitment.

“The biggest difference for him was he realized how good he could be,” Kuhn said. “He himself realized, ‘Hey, I can do this. I can be dominant. I can be a dominant player.’”

‘HELL PROCESS’ Dunn’s late start in the recruiting process appeared to prove detrimental.

Midway through his senior season, the offensive lineman had garnered interest from just two Football Championship Subdivision programs, Bryant and Lehigh. Dunn also received calls from several Division III programs, including Trinity, his dad’s alma mater, but he didn’t have any interest in attending those schools.

Quarterback C.J. Brown, right, and left tackle Michael Dunn, center, prepare for a snap in a 52-24 loss to then-No. 20 Ohio State on Oct. 4. Brown praised Dunn’s work ethic earlier this week. marquise mckine/the diamondback Dunn remained steadfast in his pursuit. He emailed and called more than 20 coaches to ask if they would consider looking at his highlight tape.

“I don’t think I got a single response from a single coach. Called up a bunch of coaches, not a single one answered or called back,” Dunn said.

“It was one of the toughest things for me in my entire life. It was really the first time in my entire life where I was being told that I wasn’t good enough.”

Kuhn was there for support, constantly reminding Dunn that his performance on the field would be the only thing to prompt more interest from coaches. He had to make plays

that would catch their attention when watching film.

Still, the level of rejection was hard for the coach to stomach.

“It is very hard,” Kuhn said. “The recruiting process, what you see on ESPN and stuff like that, and you see these kids with their five hats in front of them and they’re going to choose Florida State over Ohio State or something like that, I mean, that’s a very select couple kids. What people don’t understand is when you talk about college football recruiting, they think it’s glamour. It’s really a hell process.”

Dunn’s father, David, was by Michael’s side throughout the disheart-

ening ordeal, continuing to send out emails and highlight tapes. But he was forced to watch his son lose faith as the lack of response weighed more heavily with each passing attempt to connect with a coach.

“It was a lot [of] pressure on everybody,” David Dunn said. “It was pressure on him, pressure on the family that this was so completely out of our control. And it’s something that was going to have a lifelong effect on him.”

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to play football at Lehigh.

A Mountain Hawks recruiter came to Bethesda in January for an in-home visit with Dunn and his family, and Dunn scheduled his official visit with the Mountain Hawks for a week before National Signing Day, which fell on Feb. 2.

“The plan was to commit when I got up there,” Dunn said.

Later that month, Dunn and his dad hopped in the car and began the three-and-a-half hour drive to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dunn dozed off while his dad sat behind the wheel.

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Terps. While talking with Edsall, he made his official commitment.

“It was a real gamble for him to go to Maryland,” David Dunn said. “It’s just amazing how he pulled it together.”

‘HE EARNED IT’

LEFT tackle Michael dunn, right, and backup lineman Brendan Moore speak with teammates during the Terps’ loss to Ohio State.

DUNN From PAGE 3 He woke up to some exciting news.

His dad told him that Connecticut had just called and invited him to the campus for a visit to see about the possibility of Dunn becoming a preferred walk-on for the Huskies football team.

“My dad’s from Connecticut also, and we have a bunch of family and friends in Connecticut, so we were just like ‘Let’s not commit just yet.

Let’s see where this goes,’” Dunn said.

The chaos had just begun, though.

Dunn said 15 minutes after Connecticut called, while they were still in the car, he received a second call, this one from former Terps offensive line coach Tom Brattan, who made a similar pitch: Come for a visit, see the campus, and let’s discuss you coming to Maryland as a preferred walk-on.

After his Lehigh visit, Dunn went to Connecticut to take tours of both the academic and football facilities.

But what Dunn heard when he met with Huskies coaches ended up being a major factor in his decision.

“They told me that I would be able

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to go to the school, but I would be on scout team for five years and would never play,” Dunn said. “As soon as they told me that, I ruled Connecticut out of the equation.”

David Dunn said his son called Brattan from Connecticut’s student union to verbally inform him of his decision.

“He was so sold on Maryland that we couldn’t even get him to finish the tour at UConn,” David Dunn said.

A couple days later after meeting with Brattan at Whitman, Dunn and his dad drove the 27 minutes to College Park for his visit with the

Michael Dunn arrived on this campus in June 2012 to start summer school and workouts. He measured 6 feet, 5 inches and weighed 270 pounds.

“My expectations coming in were I’m going to do everything I can to play. But then when I finally arrived, the little freshman I was, and I came in and I saw everybody else, my goals completely changed. My goals went from trying to play to just stick it out and stay on the team and just enjoy myself,” Dunn said. “At that point, I did not think I was ever going to play here because just seeing the talent ahead of me.”

For the first time in his life during those summer workouts, Dunn couldn’t hold his own on a football field.

“I was getting beat on every single play. I was having trouble learning all the plays,” Dunn said. “That was really tough to handle for me. I knew that it was going to be like this. But just to finally have it come true, it definitely was tough. It was definitely really demoralizing.”

Dunn redshirted that year and spent the entire season on the scout team, and when he went home for winter break after the season, he barely thought about football.

Despite that, Dunn said he surprised himself with his performance when he returned to College Park for winter workouts. He held his own in areas he was dominated in during the summer.

“I just realized that I’m doing well after not really spending too much time conditioning and working out over winter,” Dunn said. “It just hit me that I have so much more room for improvement that I can make.”

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Dunn added another 15 pounds before the start of spring, bringing his weight to 285, and he earned his spot on the two-deep depth chart with two weeks of spring practices remaining. He put on 15 more pounds over the summer to put his weight at 300 pounds.

Then in late August 2013, as a redshirt freshman, Dunn stepped into Edsall’s office for the meeting that changed his life.

“Everyone said he earned it,” David Dunn said.

Dunn started all 13 games for the Terps last year, the first nine at right guard and the final four at right tackle. This season, he’s taken over perhaps the most important position on the line at left tackle, protecting the blind side of starting quarterback C.J. Brown.

“Each and every year, you know they’re trying to bring in someone to replace you,” Brown said in reference to Dunn’s determination. “They want to bring in people to beat you out.

And especially his situation, being a walk-on coming in, and to be able to do that and continue to fight and keep his spot shows a lot about his character.”

David Dunn said a large part of his son’s rapid rise to top of the Terps’ depth chart stems from his selfcritical mentality.

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Becoming a Division I starting left tackle hasn’t changed that.

“I proved to [Edsall] that I’m willing to work to get where I want to get to, and you never need to worry about me slacking off or doing anything like that,” Dunn said. “I just feel with my progression, he’s able to trust me more and more. I’ve just got to make sure that I keep his trust and keep playing well and doing everything I have to be doing.”

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In their 4-3 base defense, the Hawkeyes feature two experienced, large bodies at defensive tackle in seniors Carl Davis (6-foot-5, 315 pounds) and Louis Trinca-Pasat (6-foot-3, 290 pounds). Even so, Iowa’s run defense has been pedestrian this season, surrendering more than 130 yards per game — a total that ranks seventh in the Big Ten. The unit will match up with a Terps rushing attack that has been inconsistent all year and sits 11th in the conference at 140.3 yards per game. Quarterback C.J. Brown and running backs Brandon Ross and Wes Brown are likely to carry the load for the Terps on Saturday.

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BROADCAST: ESPN2 MOMENTUM: The Terps (4-2) are coming off a 52-24 loss to then-No. 20 Ohio State, while Iowa (5-1) is riding a threegame winning streak and beat Indiana, 45-29, on Saturday.

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DIGGS AND LONG VS. KING Terps wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Deon Long — a pair that entered the season with lofty expectations — excelled during their past two games, combining for a total of 329 yards on 29 catches in a win at Indiana and a loss to Ohio State.

But on Saturday, the duo will face off with one of the Big Ten’s more physical cornerbacks in sophomore Desmond King.

“He’s a guy that is very aggressive outside on the edge,” offensive coordinator Mike Locksley said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try to lock him on some of our better receivers and allow him to play some man because he has the skill set to do that.”

Wide receiver Stefon Diggs makes a move against Syracuse. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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212.0

RUSHING YARDS ALLOWED PG

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MONROE VS. SCHERFF

defensive end andre monroe chases Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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Terps defensive end Andre Monroe has emerged as one of the premiere pass rushers in the Big Ten. His five sacks are tied for second most in the conference, and he brought down Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett twice in an Oct. 4 loss.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | HOMECOMING FOOTBALL PREVIEW | THURSDAY, ThursDAY, octoBER 16, 2014

ABOUT TIME TO DECIDE Edsall enters second half of fourth season as Terps coach without a contract extension, but does he deserve one?

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coach randy edsall encourages his team during a 34-20 victory over Syracuse on Sept. 20. Edsall still hasn’t beaten a ranked team in his tenure as Terps coach. christian jenkins/the diamondback

AARON KASINITZ Andre Monroe sat tall in a chair in Glazer Auditorium after the Terrapins football team suffered a 52-24 loss to then-No. 20 Ohio State on Oct. 4 and explained he wasn’t slinking down into his seat because he thought his squad was making strides.

“We always improving, and that’s the goal,” the Terps defensive end said. “Improve every day, every game. Keeping walking forward, never walk backward.”

Monroe’s words seem to represent something deeper as the Terps begin the second half of a still undefined season with Saturday’s homecoming game against Iowa at Byrd Stadium.

The Terps have vowed to push the loss to Ohio State out of memory, but is the program walking forward or backward?

The answer might lie in the final six games of this season, and it’s likely to dictate Randy Edsall’s future in College Park.

Edsall is in the fourth year of a six-year deal he signed with this university in 2011, and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson should be contemplating whether to offer the coach

an extension soon. College administrators rarely let coaches reach the final year or two of their contracts because it makes it difficult to recruit players and hold members of the team accountable.

But Edsall’s tenure here has been as difficult to judge as Amanda Bynes’ personality.

On one hand, Edsall has never beaten a ranked team as Terps coach and has failed to properly prepare his team to play in some of its biggest games. The recent paltry performance against the Buckeyes and a 63-0 shellacking at the hands of Florida State last season are the first examples to come to mind.

On the other hand, Edsall has made progress in each of his first three seasons, and he has shown in the past that he can have success when given time to build a program.

After taking over as coach at Connecticut in 1999, the young sideline general failed to win more than four games in each of his first three seasons, but won at least eight games in six of his next nine seasons with the Huskies. Then he took the team to the Fiesta Bowl in 2010 before departing for College Park.

Edsall won four more games in his first three years with the Terps than he did in his first three with Connecticut, which he eventually took to

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a Bowl Championship Series game. So what’s his ceiling here?

Maybe with a more established program, Edsall can help the Terps reach national prominence and compete for conference titles. But maybe, especially considering he is 1-25 against ranked teams in his career, Edsall isn’t cut out for success in the Big Ten. That’s why these next two months will be so telling. With a home game against No. 8 Michigan State on the Terps’ slate, Edsall will have another chance to earn his second career win over a ranked foe. And visits to Wisconsin, Penn State and Michigan allow the Terps an opportunity to cement themselves as a dominant road team.

Of course, as with everything else in Edsall’s tenure, there is another side to the season’s second-half prospects.

The Terps’ schedule is tough, and it’s conceivable that they could stumble to a 1-5 conference finish, which would cause them to miss out on a bowl game and place Edsall firmly on the hot seat.

Perhaps that’s why Edsall is avoiding discussion centering on his first few years in College Park.

“I’ve got enough on my plate with Iowa that I’m not worried about anything else,” Edsall

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said Tuesday when asked to evaluate his time with the Terps. “If you want to talk about Iowa, let’s talk about Iowa.”

It’s not really Edsall who has to do the evaluating, anyway. It’s Anderson.

Shortly after taking the reigns of the athletic department, Anderson decided against renewing the contract of coach Ralph Friedgen and hired Edsall. The series of moves will always be tied to Anderson’s legacy with the Terps, and this offseason — with Edsall’s contract situation looming — he can make his next vital decision.

So I’ll try to make this difficult decision as easy as I can for Anderson. If the Terps win four or more of their final six regular-season games this season, Edsall should receive an extension. He’ll have improved in each of his seasons in College Park and will have tallied a winning record in his first Big Ten campaign.

If the team wins two or fewer conference games, Edsall shouldn’t receive an extension and Anderson should consider firing him. In that case, the Terps will have regressed in the win column despite bringing an experienced team into the season.

And if the Terps win exactly three games?

Well, let’s just give The Diamondback’s 2015 football columnist the chance to tackle that one. akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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