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Obama rallies for Brown gov campaign President, Gov. O’Malley, County Executive among those at Upper Marlboro campaign rally By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer
president obama supported Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown in Upper Marlboro yesterday. james levin/the diamondback
Brown and attempt to increase voter turnout. T he event featu red speeches from Obama, Brown, Gov. Martin President Obama visited Prince O’Malley, Howard County ExecuGeorge’s County yesterday to rally tive Ken Ulman, Prince George’s s upp or t for Lt. G ov. A nt hony County Executive Rushern Baker
and state Democratic U.S. Reps. Donna Edwards, Steny Hoyer and Elijah Cummings. The purpose of the event was to fire up the high population of Democrats in Prince George’s County to participate in early voting, which starts Oct. 23. In the June primary elections, 95 percent of Prince George’s County voters chose the Democratic ticket, and 77 percent
of those voted for Brown, according to the county’s Board of Elections. In his speech, Brown decried this state’s 22 percent voter turnout in the primary. He recalled the Civil Rights Movement and the fight to earn black people the right to vote, calling it a “fundamental right and responsibility.” See obama, Page 2
Bullet hits woman in McDonald’s
TERPS 38, HAWKEYES 31
SHOWING UP WHEn IT COUNTS
By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow, @dbkcrime Senior staff writer A McDonald’s security guard accidentally shot a woman inside the restaurant after a confrontation with two men at 2:51 a.m. yesterday. The shot came after a group of men attacked the security guard working outside of the business located in the 8300 block of Route 1, Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Nicole Hubbard said. The guard used pepper spray and then fired his gun. The shot accidentally struck a woman inside who was not affiliated with the men. Her injuries were not life-threatening, and she is not affiliated with the university, police said. The security guard is not affiliated with county police, and it is not known whether the men are affiliated with the university, Hubbard said. The investigation is ongoing. Hubbard confirmed that the incident occurred outside a business in the 8300 block of Route 1 but would not confirm the restaurant was McDonald’s. That restaurant, however, is the only commercial establishment open there after 2 a.m.
Second-half touchdowns from Likely, Diggs key Terps’ homecoming win over Iowa By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins football team clung to a three-point lead over Iowa late in the third quarter Saturday at Byrd Stadium. With starting quarterback C.J. Brown sidelined with an upper back injury, third-string signal-caller Perry Hills suffered three-and-outs in his first two series after replacing Brown. But two plays during the next seven minutes of action, one defensive and one offensive, changed the complexion of the game and led the Terps to a 38-31 homecoming victory against the Hawkeyes. The first game-altering moment came with four minutes, 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter during Hills’ third drive. The redshirt See hawkeyes, Page 3
WIDE RECEIVER StEFON DIGGS turns upfield on a reverse during the Terps’ 38-31 victory over Iowa on Saturday at Byrd Stadium. Diggs finished the contest with nine receptions for 130 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown catch-and-run on a screen pass from third-string quarterback Perry Hills late in the third quarter. chester lam/the diamondback
Disaster bots add new focus to engineering programs
For graduate students, money worries continue to grow Families, homes up grad living expenses By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer
Specialty machines innovate disaster relief By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer For a brief time Friday morning, robots took over the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building’s lobby. A menagerie of machines — fish robots, flying robots, robots with electroad hesive feet — rol led, flapped, buzzed and whirred around the entrance of the engineering building as part of a showcase of disaster response robots in the Maryland Robotics Center. The event was part of Mpact Week, the second annual program highlighting research in the engineering school. Because of the prevalence of environmental and manmade disasters like Ebola, earthquakes, oil spills and Wednesday’s tornado warning, the engineering college decided to make disaster resilience this year’s theme, said
A quadcopter, which has a camera and can send video feedback during a forest fire, hovers in the Kim Engineering Building on Friday during the Mpact Disaster Resilience demonstrations. rachel george/the diamondback Darryll Pines, dean of the college and an aerospace engineering professor. In such situations, humans can help engineer solutions, and robots have the potential to aid response and rebuilding, said S.K. Gupta, director of the Maryland Robotics Center. “After a disaster, a lot of places become inaccessible and dangerous for humans to go to,” said Gupta, a mechanical engineering professor. “Robotics [can] play a big role in … situational awareness: what has happened, what the damage is, are there survivors?” The robots on display did not always have much in common with one
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another — they were large and small, flying and swimming, stationary and screwball-fast. But all the teams noted how their machines would be of use during a disaster scenario. The Tiny Terrestrial Robotic Platform, known as TinyTeRP, a stampsized machine that drove wildly back and forth, could help explore debris and small spaces that people can’t reach, said Matt Broczkowski, a junior mechanical engineering major. “The idea is a robot like this could go through earthquake rubble and stuff like that, so we can find survivors or See Robots, Page 3
Salvatore Cardile’s wife was expecting their first child when payment for his summer course in terrorism analysis was due in June. The class cost $2,166, and to pay this balance in full would require taking food or electricity away from his family. So when Cardile, who earned his bachelor’s degree from this university and graduated from law school at the University of Baltimore before returning to this campus to pursue a graduate certificate, didn’t qualify for a student payment plan, which is only offered for fall and spring semesters, he knew he’d have a problem. “I called [the bursar’s office] in May and said, ‘I simply just can’t afford it. I won’t have the money. I don’t have access to the money. I have a wife and a child on the way, and I’ve only been practicing for about a year and a half. I’m fresh
into the workforce,’” Cardile said. He was not able to pay his full balance when it was due, so Cardile was charged a late fee, which he appealed. The bursar’s office responded that it “could not justify to an auditor that there were valid reasons why your account was not paid by the appropriate due dates,” according to an email Cardile received from the office. “Being told that my family and my finances were not a valid reason to waive, not tuition, but to waive a late fee, was a real smack in the face,” Cardile said. His story represents a trend in higher education. While student loans, debt and financial stability are major concerns for undergraduate and graduate students, the latter often face additional financial challenges while pursuing their degrees. “There is a really big difference between grad students’ financial concerns versus the financial concerns of undergrads,” said Deborah Hemingway, Graduate Student Government president. “As you get older, your financial needs change.” In addition to paying for student debt, loans and the rising costs of See Loans, Page 3
SPORTS
OPINION
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STAFF EDITORIAL: Bonuses based on academics
The Terrapins men’s soccer team defeated No. 5 Indiana yesterday, 2-1, for its fourth straight victory and second over a Top 5 opponent since Oct. 12 P. 8
Coaches should value education more than athletics P. 4 DIVERSIONS
PIZZA OVERLOAD College Park could use some new nonpizza restaurants P. 6