October 22, 2014

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Forecasters call for wet local winter El Niño system less likely to bring snow days, extreme cold

Monument complex to appeal to young working professionals, graduates

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After last year’s wintry mix of one-digit temperatures and aboveaverage snowfall, forecasters are again predicting a wet winter for the Interstate 95 corridor, but a less severe one, according to a longterm forecast released Thursday.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s College Park-based Climate Prediction Center released their seasonal forecast detailing a more typical winter pattern for the area compared to last year’s chill, which lasted through April.

This area is in for a slightly wetter-than-average winter, though temperatures have equal chances of being above average, on par or below average, said Mike Halpert, acting director of the Climate Prediction Center.

The forecast suggests a slightly wetter-than-normal winter for the Eastern Shore, while the western part of the state has equal chances of being above, at or below the norm in terms of precipitation.

“A wetter winter doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be snow; it could be rain, too,” Halpert said.

An El Niño weather system, which is predicted to form in the Pacific Ocean this winter, will keep the southern U.S. in the cold and the northern U.S. warm, Halpert said. This makes forecasting for this state more difficult, because it straddles the country’s latitudinal halves, he said.

A nd though the long-term winter weather forecast is likely

richard saul wurman speaks to a large audience in Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom about his path to success last night. tom hausman/the diamondback

TALKING ABOUT TED TED Talks founder shares life experiences that inspired lecture series

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer Ignorance, failure and terror might actually be crucial components of achieving success, according to author and TED Talks founder Richard Saul Wurman.

Wurman, who is best known for his work with the TED conference series, focused on his life experiences and beliefs in a talk to university students and faculty last night titled “The Next Great Solutions to our World’s Social Challenges,” as part of the Voices of Social Change series.

“I am personally not interested in spreading ideas, I am personally deeply and passionately committed to doing good work, and it is all I care about,” Wurman said.

Wurman created the TED conference in 1984, ran it for 18 years and then sold it. When he was involved with TED, it was just a hobby, he said. It was not his life.

He has published 83 books and has organized conferences around the world. But Wurman, driven by curiosity, said he only takes on projects that he does See wurman, Page 2

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Council members seek to up city LGBT friendliness ratings

Water bottle filling station project sets new goals

Wojahn, Brennan offer inclusive policies to best 2013 ranking

Grants will help Terps Heart the Tap expand

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer

In 2013, College Park ranked third among five cities in this state in the Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index, which grades cities based on LGBT inclusiveness.

T his year, the College Park City Council plans to score even higher.

“T here’s va lue for the city in having a h igh score,” said District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn. “People look to Human R i g h t s C a m p a i g n to b e t h e measure for LGBT equality on a number of issues.”

T he city scored a 62 out of 100 in 2013, losing points in the “mu n icipa l ity as employer,” “municipal services” and “municipality as law enforcement” categories. The national average was 57, Brennan said.

At the City Council worksession Tuesday, Wojahn and Dis-

If Terps Heart the Tap has its way, filling water bottles on the campus will be easier than ever.

The project, which encourages students to reuse and refill bottles, aims to get a bottle-filling station installed in every building on the campus by the end of the school year.

There have been many requests by the campus community to get filling stations in buildings that don’t have them, said junior environmental science and policy major Ori Gutin, the Student Government Association’s sustainability director.

Aynsley Toews, project manager at the Office of Sustainability, said undergraduate students started asking the University Sustainability Council to work toward reducing bottled water consumption on the

visitors at McKeldin Library refill their water bottles at the filling station on the first floor. The station is one of several from the original project in 2013, and officials hope more will follow. rachel george/the diamondback campus in spring 2011.

T he pu rchase a nd consu mption of purified or filtered water in plastic bottles has become an issue of concern on college campuses and elsewhere, she said, especially where potable public water supplies are available.

“Bottled water has become a touchstone issue related to sustainability practices globally, since it focuses on the nature of water for human consumption and whether it should be provided as a high-priced, economic commodity or as a cheaper, publicly provided essential substance

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Developer Monu ment Rea lty broke ground Oct. 8 on its first project in Prince George’s County — an apartment building tailored to young professionals and recent college graduates.

The retail and residential building under construction at 9122 Baltimore Ave. is slated to contain 235 residential units above 4,800 square feet of retail space, which could appeal to young people in the area, said College Park District 4 Councilman Alan Hew. “This is an award-winning developer,” Hew said. “It’s as big a deal for the county as it is for the city to receive the attention of a developer of this caliber, and I look forward to the product that they bring.”

The units will be a combination of studios, one-bedroom and twobedroom units, with amenities such as a community room, media room, busi ness center, outdoor pool, bicycle storage and repair room and dog wash station.

“Young professionals and recent graduates who are familiar with this area and like this area might want to be more independent than sharing a house, but might find D.C. too competitive and expensive to live in,” Hew said. “Now they don’t have to live in high-rises with undergraduates anymore.”

City officials anticipate easy access to public transportation and the complex’s close proximity to this university and the M Square Research Park in Riverdale Park

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for which there is no substitute,” Toews said.

With the issues and environmental consequences of bottled water in mind, the sustainability council created a bottled water committee.

After students, faculty and staff examined the issue, surveyed the campus and discussed options, they presented recommendations to the sustainability council, one of which was to install bottle-filling stations around the campus.

Locations for filling stations were See tap, Page 3

trict 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan presented recommendations for bringing the city’s score up to 83.

Both men have identified themselves as gay. “ We c a n a lway s do b et ter,” Wojahn said. “If you look at the score we got last year, as a grade at UMD, we would be failing. Not to say we are doing poorly, but there are some very simple steps we can take to increase that.”

Wo j a h n p r o p o s e d t h e c i t y cha rter be a mended to i nclude nond iscrim ination policies for gender identity and sexual orientation, which would earn five points for the city.

“It’s not only about the score,” Brennan said. “It sends a message — if you’re someone who wants to live in an inclusive community, College Park is the place to come.”

On a recent trip to Montreal, Wojahn said he saw the city’s nondiscrimination policy enshrined in a stone sculpture outside of City Hall.

“It’s so important they’ve engraved it,” he said. “W hile I’m not suggesting we do that here, at minimum we should put it in our city charter.”

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THE DIAMONDBACK | news | wednesday, october 22, 2014

weather forecasters predict a wet winter for this season. The announcement came after last year’s winter produced lower temperatures and more snowfall. file photo/the diamondback

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ted talks founder Richard Saul Wurman (right) sits with Dean Chang, associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship, during his lecture last night as part of Voices of Social Change in Stamp Student Union. Hundreds of attendees came to listen to Wurman discuss ideologies and personal experiences. tom hausman/the diamondback

wurman From PAGE 1 not understand, giving him an unlimited capacity to think and grow.

“I worship at the foot of my ignorance. I am so proud to be more ignorant than anybody else in this room,” Wurman said. “The terror, the absolute terror of not knowing is my friend and comfort is not my friend.”

Wu r m a n sa id he loves lea r n i ng about d i f ferent aspects of the world and discovering how they are connected. But he said the current education system does not foster this kind of knowledge.

“Most of people’s lives are: You memorize something you’re not interested in, get tested on it, forget it, then memorize something you’re not interested in, get tested on it, forget it,” he said.

Instead, education should b e ap proa c h e d f rom t h e “bottom up,” rather than the “top down,” he said.

Wurman’s work is often described as “innovative,” he said, but that word has lost its meaning after being overused.

He defined innovation with the acronym ANOSE: addition, need, opposites, subtraction and epiphany.

Wurman graduated at the top of his class from the University of Pennsylvania, but he faced challenges in the real world after graduating.

“I was not successful, and I later became less successful, and I was not certainly taken seriously, and it was a struggle,” Wurman said. “You have to accept that you’re going to fail, and I fail a lot, and I have failed and I’ll still fail.”

Wurman stressed that he was not espousing a way of life or trying to attract followers, but rather explaining what approaches he has taken in his life. He emphasized the importance of listening, asking thoughtful questions and surrounding oneself with people who are more intelligent to achieve goals.

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“I AM PERSONALLY NOT INTERESTED IN SPREADING IDEAS, I AM PERSONALLY DEEPLY AND PASSIONATELY COMMITTED TO DOING GOOD WORK, AND IT IS ALL I CARE ABOUT.” RICHARD SAUL WURMAN

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Union’s Leadership and Community Service Learning director, said he hopes Wurman’s ideas about mindset and resiliency resonate with university students.

“You have so many failures before you hit on success, so how does resiliency come into play to help me continue to move forward?“ Slack said.

Several students attended Wurman’s lecture because of their familiarity with TED. Junior elementary education major Ann Marie Huisentruit said she attended Wurman’s lecture because TED Talks encouraged her to “dream bigger.” She was not disappointed that Wurman did not focus on the series, however.

“It was really inspiring to hear what his experience has been, and I really appre-

ciated his honesty in a lot of things because he didn’t just try to sugarcoat everything,” Huisentruit said.

Jonas Okafor, a junior enrolled in letters and sciences, said he came to the talk to receive extra credit for a class, but ended up staying the entire time because he was so interested i n what Wu rma n was saying.

“I feel like we already k n o w a b o u t T E D,” Okafor said. “We watch the videos, we know the fo r m a t, w e k n o w h o w it work s. I t h i n k wh at matters, or what I appreciate, is that we can draw from his experiences and learn from his lessons.” lschapitldbk@gmail.com

environmental planner. “Especially in this area where walking and driving are of primary importance to students, we need a low-risk approach.”

During an average winter i n Col lege Pa rk, snow re m ova l te a m s m o b i l i z e five times, but last winter, the snow removal teams went out 12 times, said Bill Monan, associate director of landscape services.

This university spent about $1 million last winter on snow removal, equipment, materials, contractors and as many as 300 clean-up personnel at a time, among other expenses, Monan said.

Although last winter seemed to follow a cold, snowy pattern, the NOAA prediction center could not foresee it when releasing its long-term winter forecast around this time last year, Halpert said.

“There was no indication that we were going to see the very extreme weather like we did, but unfortunately our tools aren’t at that level yet,” Halpert said.

Only time will reveal what kind of weather we will have this winter, Halpert said.

“If it’s going to be cold, then it might as well snow, but if it doesn’t snow, then I just want it to be 70 degrees,” said Melissa Patel, a senior biology and psychology major.

to cha nge as the weather systems develop f u rther, Halpert said, the prediction model suggests College Park will most likely experience a wetter winter.

T wo other winter forecasts released last week had differing predictions from NOAA for the mid-Atlantic region. Accord ing to T he Weather Channel, the chill this winter will be focused on the East Coast and Gulf Coast. AccuWeather forecasters agreed, predicting a considerable amount of snow for the mid-Atlantic region, with a surge of cold air starting in November and lasting through February.

“I didn’t think that last w i nter wa s so bad,” sa id Zachary Weinstein, a junior economics and government a nd p ol it ic s m ajor. “B ut I had friends stock i ng up on suppl ies because they thought it was going to be a bad storm.”

To prepare for the colder and wetter winter, Facilities Management officials said they will use reliable materials and strive to avoid being overly cautious.

“It’s a very tough balance between not using too much salt and maintaining pedestrian and driver safety,” said Stephen Reid, this university’s mhorndbk@gmail.com

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Study: 47 percent of former students wonder if college was worth the loan Citizens Financial Group online survey reached more than 1,500 parents, students

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer For Bet h a ny Ca r mel l a, taking out loans has played a significant role in her academic choices. Attending this university wasn’t the senior’s first choice, but because of financial complications, she settled for it.

Financial issues aren’t uncommon among students who have taken out loans. A study released Oct. 7 by Citizens Financial Group revealed that

47 percent of former students said they might not have gone to college if they’d known the negative effect loans would have on their lives.

The report was based on an online survey distributed to 1,562 people, including 500 current college students with student loans, 544 parents of college students with student loans and 518 former students who are paying off their student loans.

The survey found 77 percent of former college students feel they should have had a differ-

ent plan to pay off their own debt and that 76 percent are unaware of the options they have to do so.

It a lso reported that 23 percent of the former students surveyed are not able to make their loan payments.

Carmella started at Montgomery College, then tra nsferred to the Ma r yl a nd I nst itute Col lege of Art in Baltimore, which she said was her dream school but was unaffordable. Her tuition there totaled $35,000 per year, and the financial aid office gave her $9,000 in grants and $3,000 in federal loans, but it wasn’t enough, the studio art major said.

Carmella said the Free Application for Federal Student Aid did not allow her to label herself as an independent — she couldn’t until she turned 24 — even though she was paying for school. Because of this, she could not receive any more grants. And she couldn’t get any federal loans because her parents weren’t financially stable enough to assist her.

“Nobody wanted to give a 21-year-old with OK credit and no co-signer a loan,” she said.

After taking two years off, Carmella is now attending this university as her third school.

She said she is fortunate that most of her tuition was covered by grants from the previous semester, but the financial aid office seems unpredictable.

“For whatever reason, they have given me less than half in what I received for grant

AROUND THE B1G Ebola fear in Ohio; partying culture in Iowa

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer Believe it or not, there’s a B1G world outside this university’s campus.

From Ebola scares to urinating on squad cars, here are some of the most eye-catching stories we’ve seen this month from student newspapers around the conference.

THE LONE SCARE STATE THE LANTERN In light of recent news that at least three people have been diagnosed with Ebola in Texas, some Ohio State University students from the state are wondering if they should consider going elsewhere for holiday breaks.

Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern, reported Monday that Texas natives at the university expressed mixed feelings about their personal safety should they return, despite the small number of confirmed cases and that the virus can only be spread by coming into contact with the bodily fluids of an infected human or animal.

“I kinda didn’t want to go back [home] for Thanksgiving break, so we’re going to go to Virginia, but I think I’m still going to go back for Christmas,” Chris Estridge, a sophomore chemical engineering major who lives east of Dallas, told The Lantern.

Senior Andrew Braun, however, noted a sense of hysteria surrounding Ebola in this country.

“Only one person in America has died because of Ebola,” Braun, an international studies and microbiology major, told The Lantern, “and 600,000 people die every year from cardiovascular disease and CVD is currently the No. 1 killer of women globally.”

NOT YOUR TYPICAL BATHROOM THE BADGER HERALD Police in Madison, Wisconsin, arrested a 21-year-old this weekend after he allegedly urinated on a police car parked on a public street.

The man, identified as Chase Royal Martin in an article by the University of Wisconsin’s student newspaper, The Badger Herald, was found urinating on the squad car outside of a bar just before midnight Saturday.

Though bystanders tried to alert him of a patrolling officer’s arrival, Martin continued to urinate on the vehicle.

When the officer tried to apprehend him, Martin resisted arrest and hid behind a building. The officer then took him into custody after a brief struggle, according to The Badger Herald.

Martin was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting police, damage to property and depositing human waste, the article stated.

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THE DAILY IOWAN If a survey’s results are accurate, the University of Iowa might be tamer than previously thought.

T hou g h T he P r inceton Re v ie w ranked it as the No. 2 party school in the nation this year, university-conducted research released this month found that nearly 40 percent of Hawkeyes don’t spend any time partying.

About 3,000 undergraduates out of more than 20,000 responded to the university’s survey — called the 2014 Student Experience in the Research University survey — which included more than 150 questions ranging in topic from study habits to peer interactions, according to an article last week in The Daily Iowan, the university’s student newspaper.

Of the students asked, more than 39 percent said they didn’t party.

T hese resu lts wou ld place the University of Iowa far from the top in terms of partying at U.S. universities. According to an official at the University of Florida, the national average of college students who do not drink or party stands at roughly 33 percent, the article stated.

“I think they’re lying,” freshman Rachel Boothroyd told T he Daily Iowan. “It’s just the atmosphere, and I feel like it’s just too much to avoid. I feel like it has to be fewer than 40 percent of people. That’s a big percentage.”

University officials have expressed a desire in recent years to lower alcohol usage and heavy partying, according to the article. Last year, The Princeton Review ranked the University of Iowa as the top party school in the nation.

money last year,” Carmella “I was just appalled by how said. “It’s very stressful having much I’ve had to pay to catch to pay for school yourself as up to where I’m supposed to well, and it’s not fun knowing be,” Sandoval said. “The stress that after school, you’re going was already bad with chalto have to pay back things.” lenging courses, and then I had After multiple requests, the to worry about subsidized and financial aid office declined unsubsidized loans and what to comment, and would not they mean.” release loan information from Sandoval said the process of this university because of its applying for loans is difficult, sensitivity. but he tries to do it efficiently.

Hussein Al-Khafaji, a senior Ca r m e l l a s a i d s h e h a s biology major, said he’s lucky thought school isn’t worth it he hasn’t felt stressed out by because of the expenses, but his loans. in the long run, she hopes it “It will be worth it in the turns out to be. end,” he said. “I don’t think I “There are definitely times will be having problems paying when I stop and say, ‘I can’t do my loans back after I graduate this,’” Carmella said. “But I and start working.” have to push through and keep But sophomore geography going, and know the end result major Juan Sandoval said he is going to be worth it. Or at considered dropping out of least I hope so anyways.” school because of the stress his loan payments caused. rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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“I CANNOT FORESEE A NEGATIVE IMPACT THIS DEVELOPMENT From PAGE 1 WILL HAVE ON THE cou ld d raw people to the COMMUNITY … THERE development.

“It’s so close to the Beltway, WAS SO MUCH DONE I-95, the Green Line and soon the Purple Line, which will be completed not long after it’s finished being built, not to mention the university and M Square,” Hew said. “There’s going to be a demand for a certain kind of housing that’s not single-family homes.”

Hew said a different developer, JPI Development Services, eyed the site in 2007. The company worked for nearly three years to develop a Detailed Site Plan that met the demands of other residents and business owners in the area, but when the economy crashed, the company went bankrupt. The approved plans were abandoned until Monument showed interest in the site, moving to pick up where the other developer left off.

Terry Fortune, senior vice president of Monument Realty, said one result of the negotiations was Monument’s agreement to restore a local stream.

By implementing a series of pipes and boulders, runoff from the surrounding neighborhood will be successfully carried off.

“I cannot foresee a negative impact this development will have on the community,” said College Park District 4 Coun-

ON THE FRONT END.” DENISE MITCHELL

District 4 Councilwoman cilwoman Denise Mitchell.

“There was so much done on the front end to ensure that the project was not only designed to fit in the scheme of College Park, but to fit into what residents would like to see.”

Fortune said other recent developments breaking ground in different parts of the city compelled the company to choose Route 1 as the location for its first project in the county. Other projects developing in the area, such as Metropolitan Development, College Park Place and The Hotel at University of Maryland, are all being built on a large scale and are unique for the city, and they will “serve the community well,” she said.

“I think it’s an exciting time for the city to have this project, especially in District 4,” Mitchell said. “It will bring opportunities to have people move into College Park who aren’t looking for housing but market-rate apartments with amenities — it’s a whole different vision for College Park.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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Filtered water stations, such as this one in Tawes Hall, allow students to refill water bottles. They feature a counter to keep track of bottles saved. rachel george/the diamondback

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second grant of $44,200, and 37 filling stations were purchased. Many of those are From PAGE 1 still being installed.

Stamp Student Union’s determined from a bottled water committee survey, f a c i l i t i e s d e p a r t m e n t b u i l d i n g u s e d at a f ro m noticed a “clear increase” the Office of the Registrar, in students filling up water student input and building bottles at water fountains occupant input, Toews said. years ago, and soon afterThe Sustainability Fund ward installed a bottleless awarded the first Terps Heart water-cooler filling station the Tap project $71,284, and near the food court and the 64 filling stations were in- Hoff Theater, said Dan Wray, sta l led i n su m mer 2013, assistant director for faciliToews said. T he success ties at Stamp.

“Establishing a campus led the project to receive a

sta nd a rd a nd i n sta l l i ng water stations everywhere from academic buildings to residence halls is no small task, and we commend the working group, spearheaded by the Office of Sustainability, which made it happen,” Wray said.

More tha n 70 stations are currently installed, and each station has a counter that shows how many plastic bottles’ worth of water have b e en saved by st ud ents filling up there, Toews said.

Toews added that a count

conducted in May showed the stations have saved more than 623,000 plastic bottles.

“Students were instrumenta l i n gett i ng Ter ps Heart the Tap off the ground, and students have been instrumental in the program’s success,” Toews said. “The Office of Sustainability is now running an awareness campaign about using the fou nta i ns a nd reg u la rly rewards Terps for choosing to refill their own bottles.” rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

Other recommendations for improvement included establishing an LGBT liaison w ith both the Un iversity Police and Prince George’s County Police, which would add eight points for the city.

Wojahn and Brennan also recommended that the council appoint a staff member to serve as the city manager’s LGBT community liaison.

However, District 3 Councilman Robert Day said doing so could be a start down a slippery slope.

“We need to be careful when we create liaisons for certain groups of people,” Day said. “I can name 10 groups who would want their own liaison. We need to be fair to everyone. We need to be careful how we go down this road. I don’t want to do this just for points.”

District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said she agrees with Day and that liaisons don’t seem necessary in College Park. She said citizens with concerns could simply approach the council members, who reflect the city’s diversity with a mix of sexualities, races and ethnicities.

“While large cities like Annapolis and Baltimore have these positions, it might not make sense for a small city like ourselves,” Stullich said.

“We are a welcoming and inclusive city, and I think we can and will continue to be without a liaison.”

P.J. Brennan, District 2 councilman, pushed improving College Park’s LGBT inclusiveness index rating last night . file photo /the diamondback Brennan, however, said it was important for the council to be intentional with the public message it wants to send the LGBT community.

Beyond the liaisons, Wojahn is also looking into the feasibility of adding trans-inclusive health benefits to the city’s insurance plan.

“This would be an added expense for the city so we won’t bring it up now,” he said. “We’ll have further discussion around budget time, when we discuss benefits and health insurance.”

The council will continue the discussion and vote on the nondiscrimination policy addition at next week’s meeting.

“The purpose of reviewing the MEI scorecard is to get an understanding of where the city of College Park stands and where it can go in regards to improving policies that affect the LGBT community,” Brennan said. trichmandbk@gmail.com

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A hefty price to be green

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Refund Program, proposed by state Sen. Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery), aims to further incentivize recycling by offering a 5 cent deposit to state residents who return bottles and cans at to-beestablished redemption centers.

OUR VIEW

Though the proposed “bottle bill” has good intentions, the state cannot afford to add another expense to its budget.

Frosh introduced a similar bill in 2013, but it died in committee without reaching a vote after encountering widespread opposition from this state’s county governments. The county councils’ pushback holds weight.

They claim overseeing redemption centers would place them at the helm of another costly business model. The bottle-deposit program would task them with finding or constructing a suitable building, hiring and paying staff and acquiring insurance.

In this county, which staggers under a $59 million deficit and is in the midst of slashing funding to various community programs and emergency services, adding another budget consideration seems foolish.

Moreover, the bottle bill would undercut existing single-stream recycling programs that this state’s counties have already invested in heavily.

Single-stream recycling allows people to place all plastic, glass, metal

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e take sustainability initiatives for granted.

That’s by no means a slight on this university’s green leaders, but at a university that relentlessly pushes sustainable practices, it’s all but impossible for the rest of us not to grow complacent.

New bottle-filling stations? Thanks, Sustainability Council. Waste-sorting signage in Stamp Student Union?

Sure, bring it on. A Paint Branch Creek cleanup outing? Just the nation’s 13thgreenest university doing its thing.

The seemingly inexhaustible, student fee-supported University Sustainability Fund — $350,000 is available this year — and the sheer number of green organizations on the campus contribute to this attitude.

Lofty goals such as a zero-waste campus seem achievable; after all, when this university has set a sustainability benchmark in its sights, it has historically achieved it.

A target campus recycling rate of 75 percent by 2012 has led to a 78 percent mark today. Compare that with the state’s 45.4 percent recycling rate, and it’s easy for this university’s students to pat themselves on the back.

But subsidizing green initiatives is a big-budget affair, something many students benefiting from built-in sustainability funding might have difficulty wrapping their heads around.

And nowhere is that lack of awareness more prevalent at the moment than attitudes toward this state’s proposed “bottle bill.”

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and paper products curbside for pickup in the same container on the same day.

It’s by far the most convenient form of recycling available in this state.

If state residents aren’t recycling now, there’s little reason to believe they will change for a paltry 5 cents per bottle or can.

Let’s imagine a South Campus Commons apartment’s worth of students drank their way through three cases of National Bohemian this past homecoming weekend. At 5 cents a pop, that’s $1.50 a case for a not-inconsiderable total of $4.50.

Sure, that’s a decent rebate on dirtcheap beer, but these students would hardly be likely to drive to a collection center outside of College Park (all the less so after such a booze-fueled weekend). Why should we expect other state residents to do so?

Because the bill would require distributors and retailers to pay the deposits to the redemption centers with each beverage sale, it also could end up hurting this state’s poorest residents — those who don’t have the disposable income to drop twenties on cases of Natty Boh — if stores raise their prices accordingly.

Yes, less than 25 percent of this state’s cans and bottles are being recycled. But there’s a reason no state (barring Hawaii) has passed a bottledeposit bill since the ’80s, and there’s a host of reasons the Maryland Association of Counties vehemently opposed the bill last year. Let’s hope students, Frosh and the General Assembly alike were taking notes.

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Larry Hogan: The right choice

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ith early voting starting this week, state voters have an important choice ahead of them in the race for governor. In many ways, midterm elections impact the daily lives of state residents far more than the presidential elections do.

In this dark blue Democratic state, it is unusual to see a competitive race for governor, but this year seems to be different.

Nonpartisan polls have shown Republican nominee Larry Hogan quickly closing the gap against Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to as little as 3 percentage points.

Following Hogan’s dominant performance against the lieutenant governor in the most recent debate, many pundits and political scientists are calling this race a toss-up.

While Brown has attempted to make this a partisan race, Hogan has taken a bipartisan approach to the campaign. He has strictly focused on pocketbook issues that affect state residents every day.

Hogan has promised not to change settled state laws such as same-sex marriage, abortion rights or gun control. Meanwhile, these are the only issues Brown wants to talk about as he hides from his disastrous record on the economy, taxes and college affordability.

The Gov. Martin O’MalleyBrown administration has raised taxes and fees more than 40 times in the past seven years. These taxes have been some of the most regressive in state history and have affected college students every day. Brown has raised the sales tax, gas tax and tolls. Not

only has he hurt students by raising regressive taxes, but he also has driven up the cost of college tuition and fees in the past four years.

Talk is cheap and action matters.

Students at this university deserve a governor who cares about students and their families. I have gotten to know Hogan over the past year, and I am proud to support him in his race for governor. He has promised to take a balanced approach to government, bring parity to the state capital, lower taxes and focus on bringing back the jobs that have left this state in droves.

Engineering students who dream of working at Bechtel will be forced to leave our state to do so, as the company is moving 1,100 jobs.

Supply chain management students who have always wanted to work at McCormick & Co. will soon be forced to do the same. Business students who want to stay in this state and work at Under Armour will be disappointed to know that the company has chosen to expand in Tennessee instead. These are three large companies in this state that we all know, but they only tell part of the story.

Eight thousand small businesses have left our state, taking thousands of jobs with them as unemployment has skyrocketed. We need a bipartisan businessman to run our state, not a partisan career politician with a failed economic record. Luckily, in this election we have that opportunity with Larry Hogan.

I encourage you to get out and vote for Larry Hogan for governor of this state on Nov. 4.

Joshua St onko is a senior economics major. He can be reached at jstonko@umd.edu.

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The high cost of prohibition CHARLIE BULMAN Last week, a group of farmers from Iguala, Mexico, approached a scattering of clearings near where 43 students disappeared last month following a confrontation with local police. Fishing out human bone fragments at multiple mass burial sites, the farmers — a volunteer arm of the massive search team of government officials and civilians scouring nearby trails for signs of the students — identified multiple bodies. None matched anyone on the list of missing students. This grim scene, courtesy of a report by The New York Times, underscores the extent of the violence and terror generated by the drug war.

After local law enforcement officials, who were allegedly working with a drug gang, killed six people in late September, dozens of young people — student protesters from a famously radical teachers’ college called Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos — vanished after surrendering to police.

The town’s mayor and police chief are now fugitives wanted on organized crime charges, another reminder of the disastrous collusion between local governments and cartels in Mexico.

This gruesome episode is symptomatic of the narco-politics that have paralyzed Mexican communities and institutions. The ubiquity of organized crime, the widespread penetration of government offices by cartels and the staggering sum of young lives lost make

it impossible to ignore the social costs of a drug war generated and sustained

by U.S. policy.

U.S. culpability in the crisis is clear.

According to the State Department, more than 90 percent of cocaine that enters the United States travels through Central America and Mexico. Indeed, U.S. demand is integral to a trade that has killed about 70,000 people from 2007 to April 2013. Prohibition of a wide range of narcotics drives up drug prices, facilitates a criminal cross-fertilization along the U.S.-Mexican border and pumps billions of dollars into the coffers of sociopathic, politically savvy cartels.

The surge of crime and corruption is easily explained by the logic of the market. Prohibition and the intensity of anti-trafficking efforts have created a risk-premium on the delivery of cannabinoids, opioids and amphetamines.

Many young Mexicans have been affected by the economic dislocation accompanying the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent importation of traditionally Mexican agricultural staples. In a country where a kilo of illicit drugs is worth hundreds of times as much as a kilo of maize, joining the ranks of the cartels is entirely consistent with the calculated pursuit of economic self-interest. Similarly, just as U.S. multinationals expend enormous resources lobbying for favorable tax policies, cartels’ infiltration, corruption and co-option of government agents and organs can be interpreted as just another creative strategy for profit maximization.

The solution isn’t to categorically

condemn the “logic of the market;” rather, it’s to recognize the economic roots of Mexico’s political crisis and adjust our institutions to the overlapping realities of prohibition economics and Mexican poverty. This means questioning the absolute sanctity of our own prohibitions on drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Even considering the astronomical domestic costs of prohibition, the prospect of wholesale legalization is political taboo within the United States. The image of addicts strolling into convenience stores and legally purchasing dangerous, debilitating drugs is so alarming it often precludes any discussion of legalization.

Easy access to deadly and addicting drugs is horrible. But addicts still have that access, even if it’s not as easy as walking into CVS. Despite the more than $40 billion spent annually on drug enforcement in the U.S., illicit drugs are cheaper and purer than they’ve ever been, suggesting an increase in supply, according to a study from the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy.

Taking into account the consequences of U.S. prohibition in Mexico, we need to ask ourselves: Are the benefits of making dangerous drugs somewhat harder to acquire worth the disappearances, deaths and democratic decay currently gripping our southern neighbors?

Charlie Bulman is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.

cold, hard facts about students living on the campus, it seems pretty obvious that the students who most recently left the nest for College Park would fare better in on-campus housing than off-campus housing.

Transitioning from a senior in high school to a freshman in college is a life-altering move, and it just doesn’t seem smart to isolate newly freed students in off-campus housing without the watchful eyes of resident assistants and the rules of Resident Life. There is also the factor of being better equipped to make friends in on-campus housing. However, that is not to say students cannot create meaningful friendships by bonding in off-campus housing.

Understandably, Resident Life provides housing to juniors and seniors who sincerely need oncampus accommodations. But to put it bluntly, juniors and seniors should have their acts together by the time they reach this stage in their academic careers and adult lives. Resident Life should not need to hold their hands as tightly as it did in their formative college years.

Freshmen and sophomores of this university should not be left to their own devices to scour the area for off-campus housing. Instead, Resident Life should provide housing to all freshmen.

H o p e f u l ly, t h e O n - C a m p u s Student Housing Strategic Plan will eventually permit a larger amount of students, ranging from freshmen to seniors, to live on the campus without worry. But for now, Resident Life should focus on finding housing for underclassmen and realize that it would be more beneficial for these students, especially so Freshmen Connection students don’t panic when trying to find housing so soon after receiving their high school diplomas.

This is to all those students who, like me, received their halfacceptance letters to this university. I’m sure you remember the moment you read the word “congratulations” and thought that you were accepted into this university, only to read the fine print that offered you a spot with a major stipulation. After that hollow congratulations, the letter basically read like this: “Good job on getting into this university. We will let you take classes at inconvenient times, and hey, you can’t live on the campus with the rest of the students. But you can try again in the spring!”

Ah, the glorious mar of Freshmen Connection. Luckily for me, I was able to study abroad instead of living off-campus or commuting from home to inconvenient class times.

But I distinctly remember my friends who got exiled to the University View or University Club apartments during their freshman year saying they felt incredibly isolated from the oncampus residential community.

But these students wanted so badly to attend this university that they chose to forgo the traditional dorm life for their freshman year, choosing to go to the unmonitored and unsupervised halls of off-campus housing.

Luckily, students now in Freshmen Connection might be able to live on-campus with the rest of their freshmen peers. A study

by Joann Prosser, Department of Resident Life director of research and assessment, revealed that students benefit from oncampus housing during their first Maggie Cassidy is a junior English major and opinion editor. She can be two years as students.

Even though the study revealed reached at mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | UBER

riding with uber ease Ride-sharing app Uber brings quick and efficient car rides to university students’ fingertips, but DOTS isn’t seeing any effects

By Mel DeCandia @melephant11 Staff writer Several transportation trends have made tidal waves through the campus community, from longboards to Zipcar and now to Uber.

The ride-sharing service, which uses a free app available for download on Apple and Android phones, curates private transportation for its users — or “riders,” as the company refers to them. The app uses location services for on-the-spot pickups. It also connects riders’ credit cards to accounts for virtual (and supposedly safer) transactions.

After registering their Uber accounts, riders tap the map to set pickup locations, request a ride and wait for a driver to accept.

Upon pickup, the rider can enter the address or name of his or her destination and Uber will show the driver the route, as well as the estimated length of the trip.

The app has quickly picked up significant traction worldwide; in the five years since its founding in 2009, Uber has spread to 200 cites around the globe. In June, the company was valued at $18.2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Uber launched in Washington in 2011 and has been growing in popularity in the area ever since.

College Park residents are starting to follow the trend.

Freshman communication and journalism major Catalina Mejia first used Uber this summer, both in her native Colombia and in Washington, after hearing about it from a friend at American University.

“The drivers I’ve had have all been friendly — they let me choose the music and some of them even offer me candy and water,” Mejia said.

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Uber conducts extensive background checks before hiring drivers, according to the service’s website.

“The best thing about Uber is that it is a reasonably priced service that’s very effective and reliable,” Mejia said.

Junior journalism major Alicia McElhaney echoed those sentiments.

“I like Uber because if you share the app and rides, you can get a lot of freebies,” McElhaney said. “My driver was prompt and gave me a $20-off coupon for my next ride.”

McElhaney, too, heard about the app from a friend, and the two were awarded a free ride — an Uber promotion used to attract more clients.

Uber is far from the only transportation option on and around the campus. This university’s Department of Transportation Services offers free and frequent shuttle services. Still, McElhaney said, at least sometimes, she prefers Uber to using DOTS shuttles, the Metro or local taxi companies.

“I can’t walk, like, four miles with groceries,” McElhaney said.

“Taxis are more expensive from what I can see, especially if you take advantage of coupons. And while DOTS is great, sometimes waiting one hour for the Hyattsville bus is too much.”

Uber has sparked controversy through its use of dynamic pricing — which means higher rates during busy hours — and in its competition with taxi services in metropolitan areas. But Uber’s growing popularity doesn’t have DOTS concerned, according to assistant director Anna McLaughlin, who said there is no evidence it has had any effect on DOTS operations.

“There’s nothing that we can point to right now that we can say is a direct correlation with increased Uber use,” McLaughlin said. “I actually think we would say that having

uber’s app allows riders to find drivers, get to destinations and pay with credit cards synced to their accounts.

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Mejia said she liked Uber because of the personal attention she received, as well as its safety. She said she especially liked how the app gives its riders their drivers’ vehicle and contact information, and that it lets her

track the driver as he or she arrives to pick her up.

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VOLLEYBALL | TERPS 3, SCARLET KNIGHTS 2

Crutcher sparks win over Rutgers Performance leaves Terps unsatisfied despite victory, outside hitter’s 22 kills

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer In its only match featured on the Big Ten Network, the Terrapins volleyball team beat Rutgers, 3-2, behind o u ts i d e h i t te r A s h l e i g h C r u tc h e r ’s 2 2 k i l l s l a s t night in a battle of squads at the bottom of the Big Ten standings.

Before an announced 1,215, the Terps and Scarlet Knights played into a fifth set before Crutcher slammed home a match-winning kill to secure the Terps’ first conference triumph.

Despite the Terps’ victory, which snapped an 11-match losing skid, the team remained adamant that its level of play — not its record — is what defines its season.

“I didn’t think we played very well,” coach Steve Aird said. “I was happy that they won. I’m happy for the kids.

… But we need better performances from the team.”

The Terps (8-12, 1-8 Big Ten) jumped ahead early but let Rutgers (7-15, 0-9) back into the first set after leading by as much as 18-13. The Terps would end up dropping the frame, as Rutgers earned its first set win in the Big Ten. “It’s not the product we wanted to put out there,” libero Amy Dion said.

The second set played out much like the first. The Terps built a 10-4 advantage, but Rutgers later tied it at 20.

After the teams split the next two points, however, Crutcher was subbed back in and pushed the Terps out to a 23-22 lead with a kill and solo block.

Rutgers then played itself out of the set with two consecutive attacks that went long of the baseline, sending the teams to the locker room tied at one set apiece.

“We could’ve played a lot better,” said Crutcher, who re t u r n e d f ro m a n a n k l e sprain after missing three matches.

Rutgers came out of the break strongly, forcing the Terps into a 13-8 hole. But the teams again ended up even as the set wore on. Eventually, a 5-2 run by the Terps capped by a block from middle blocker Chavi St. Hill helped secure the win, as the Terps pulled ahead 2-1 in the match.

Rather than polish off the victory in the fourth set, though, the Terps allowed Rutgers to stick around. After another back-and-forth set, Rutgers went on a 8-2 run to win the fourth frame, 25-20, and force a fifth set.

But in the final set, Rutgers fell apart. It put the Terps in an early hole, but Aird stalled to let the team recuperate and swing the momentum in the Terps’ favor.

“We were down 3-1 in the

fifth,” Aird said. “There was a judgment call on a backrow attack. I just tried to slow the match down, talk to the ref. Then the girl missed her serve, and we kind of got back into it that way. I don’t like being smoke and mirrors in matches, but a lot of it this year is about finding ways to be a little bit more successful.”

Miscues buried the Scarlet Knights at the end. The Terps closed out the victory, 15-8, in the final set.

And though pleased with t h e o u tc o m e , t h e Te r p s remain unsatisfied with what they displayed on national television.

“It’s nice to have a win,” Dion said. “But a win isn’t all that we care about. We say that after losses, we say it after wins too. It’s, ‘Are we getting better?’ And through that match we didn’t.” jmwalkerdbk@gmail.com

OUTSIDE HITTER AShLEIGH CRUTCHER leaps to smack an attack in the Terps’ 3-2 victory over Rutgers last night. Crutcher finished with a team-high 22 kills. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

FIELD HOCKEY

Terps change penalty-corner strategy in home games Turf surface at Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex lessens chance of bad hops, allows Meharg to take risks

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer When the Terrapins field hockey team lines up for an offensive penalty corner at home, coach Missy Meharg is playing a numbers game. After using seven players on the set play last season, Meharg has added an eighth around the circle.

Defenses are only allowed four positional players inside half on penalty corners, so the Terps have double the attackers the opposition can defend. The additional player paid dividends against Rutgers on Sunday as midfielder Maxine Fluharty corralled a rebound on a corner and flipped it into the back of the cage.

The goal was one of three in the game that came off a corner in the Terps’ 4-0 win over the Scarlet Knights. Meharg’s new tactic does leave room for a counterattack, though, which is why

the coach only uses it on surfaces she trusts, like the Terps’ Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex.

“I’m comfortable with our field, meaning that it’s not bumpy,” Meharg said. “We aren’t going to mistrap a ball.”

The eight players on or within the opponent’s 16-yard circle means the Terps only have two defenders — Kasey Tapman and Rachel Frusher — and goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera covering the rest of the field. If the Terps don’t settle the corner, then the other team has a 6-on-2 break.

It’s a situation that has the opportunity to occur many times during a game. The Terps average more than eight penalty corners per contest, which ranks sixth in the nation.

So when the Terps line up along the opponent’s circle, they are thinking about what they need to do if a shot is blocked or a stopper fails to trap the ball.

“We always have to be aware of our

counterstructure, and what’s going to happen if something goes wrong and the ball gets popped out,” Fluharty said. “We know that we have to keep it wide and just try to buy as much time as we can.”

Despite the chance for odd-man counterattacks, it hasn’t proven costly for the Terps. Of the Terps’ 14 penalty corners Sunday, just one resulted in a quick counterattack, and the Terps were able to prevent Rutgers from scoring at the other end.

The Terps rely heavily on Tapman and Frusher to make the appropriate decisions if a counterattack does present itself. And Cabrera has proven this season she isn’t afraid to be aggressive on breakaway chances.

“With Brooke in the back, those three, they know what to do,” defender Sarah Sprink said. “They know how to organize and then talk to the people.”

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“WE ALWAYS HAVE TO BE AWARE OF OUR COUNTERSTRUCTURE, AND WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THE BALL GETS POPPED OUT. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP IT WIDE AND JUST TRY TO BUY AS MUCH TIME AS WE CAN.” MAXINE FLUHARTY

Terrapins field hockey midfielder defense, Meharg is comfortable taking the chance on offense. It allows assistant coach Joppe de Vries an additional player when forming plays. Plus, the likelihood of the Terps getting a stick on a potential rebound increases.

The strategy has helped the Terps dominate penalty corners this season. The Terps have scored on 22 corners this season, which is more than double Michigan State’s nine goals — good enough for second best in the Big Ten. “When you have those numbers and those advantages, that’s why I

keep saying get penalty corners and don’t give them up,” Meharg said.

The Terps have done just that this season, taking 121 corners compared to the 67 they have allowed. And with all four of the Terps’ potential NCAA tournament games likely being played at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex, Meharg will continue to utilize the extra attacker knowing her defense can handle it.

“It’s a risk,” Sprink said, “but it’s a risk we are willing to take.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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score. It was 14-0 before 10 minutes had elapsed in the contest.

That’s when Brown turned to his greatest asset: his legs.

He scampered past Hawkeyes defenders on a combination of scrambles and designed runs over the next few series, compiling 88 first-half rushing yards, 84 of which came after the first two drives. The Terps, meanwhile, charged back to score 17 unanswered points before the close of the half.

“You’ve got to be mentally tough to play this position,” Brown said, “especially in a league like this.”

The focus on running the ball, though, ultimately led to Brown’s injury early in the second half.

And with backup Caleb Rowe out for the season with a torn ACL he suffered earlier that week in practice, third-string quarterback Perry Hills was forced into the contest.

Hills struggled in his first two series, leading the Terps to three-and-outs on back-toback series despite a muffed punt from the Hawkeyes.

“I kind of went out there t r y i n g n o t to m a ke a n y mistakes,” Hills said. “And whenever you do that, you tend to overthink and actually make more mistakes, trying to look at everything when you should be focusing on one thing.”

Still, Hills — who didn’t get any repetitions with the offense until Wednesday, the day after

as reporters fired off question after question. Terps veterans, such as guard Dez Wells, the team’s leading scorer the past two seasons, pointed to the promise of the team’s young players as reason for optimism as the Nov. 14 season-opener against Wagner sits about three weeks away.

Freshman point guard Melo Trimble, ESPN’s No. 29-ranked rookie, mentioned that he’s been able to lean on four senior rotational players for support.

Last season, the Terps didn’t have a single senior earning significant playing time.

As for Turgeon, he’s encouraged by the renewed commitment and coachability of his squad.

“We have a group of guys coming back that are very determined to be successful,” Turgeon said. “Then we have a group of new guys coming that are good basketball players but also very humble.”

Veteran players said they’ve enjoyed the team’s new dynamic. Wells even likes that the Terps were picked to finish in the bottom half of their new conference.

“We can exceed everyone’s expectations of our team,” said Wells, who averaged 14.9 points per game last season. “Nobody thinks we’ll be good. So when people think like that about you, you can’t let anybody down.”

Wells is one of three starters Turgeon has settled on entering the season, along

quarterback perry hills looks downfield during his appearance in Saturday’s victory over Iowa after C.J. Brown left the game with an upper back injury. alexander jonesi/the diamondback Rowe’s injury — settled in, and on his third drive he connected with wide receiver Stefon Diggs for a 53-yard touchdown off a screen pass.

“It’s tough, but the coaches did a great job always telling me to mentally be into it,” Hills said.

“Once I’m at practice, watching our offense go, I’m supposed to be taking mental reps, reading whoever the quarterback out there is reading.”

Saturday marked the third time this season Brown has been forced to leave a contest because of health concerns.

On Sept. 13 against West Virginia, Brown was sidelined for the last minute of the first half after exiting with a possible head injury. Two weeks later at Indiana, he missed the final two quarters because of a sprained left wrist, for which he continues to wear a brace.

Brown displayed his ability to rebound from injury against the Mountaineers, when he returned to action for the second half and on the first play dashed 75 yards for a touchdown as part of a 22point comeback that eventually fell short.

But Saturday against the Hawkeyes, Brown returned from injury to lead his team to victory.

And that means something to his teammates.

“Our guys have a tremendous amount of respect for him, and he’s a tough cookie,” Edsall said. ”He gets criticized, but the guy’s a winner. The guy’s a winner, and he’s going to compete and do everything he can. He went out there and put it on the line.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

Coach mark turgeon answers questions during his news conference yesterday at the Terps’ media day. The team begins its regular season Nov. 14. christian jenkins/the diamondback with Trimble and forward Jake Layman. With forward Evan Smotrycz expected to be out four to six weeks after having ankle surgery yesterday, the other two spots are left open, though Turgeon said Damonte Dodd would start at center if the season began today.

The Terps have options as to how they want to fill the fifth spot in the lineup. Turgeon might move Layman, a junior who led the team in minutes played last season, from the small forward to the power forward position, which would give the Terps a smaller look and allow three guards to play at the same time.

But the Terps could play forwards Michal Cekovsky or Jon Graham in the frontcourt, which would keep Layman from guarding interior players.

E i t h e r wa y, T u rge o n assured media members yesterday that the Terps can find success while Smotrycz returns to full health.

Tu rge o n i s e s p e c i a l ly excited to have Trimble

manning the point, a position the Terps have struggled to adequately fill over the past few seasons. The sideline general said the highly touted recruit has been better than advertised in practice.

“I’m going to lead the team and have the ball in my hand and I’m going to be very coachable,” Trimble said. “I just want to win.”

Turgeon does too, and he understands the Terps were picked to finish so low in the Big Ten because they didn’t win enough last season.

That’s why the coach is itching for this season to start. Turgeon used yesterday’s media day to suggest his team can sidestep its recent struggles and outdo expectations.

He’s hoping to use the season to prove it.

“It’s never fun what we went through,” Turgeon said.

“Chip on our shoulder, whatever you want to call it, we’re pretty determined.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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Brown bounces back from injury in victory Quarterback leaves game in third quarter, re-enters to help finish off win over Iowa

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

Guard Melo trimble, a freshman, talks with reporters during the Terps’ media day yesterday on the Xfinity Center main floor. christian jenkins/the diamondback

CALM confidence Terps shrug off lessened expectations at annual media day

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Everyone around the Terrapins men’s basketball team knows it was picked by a group of writers to finish 10th in its first Big Ten season. The players saw the story in The Columbus Dispatch. Coach Mark Turgeon did, too.

Yet the Terps, who lost five players to transfer this offseason after a disappointing 17-15 campaign, are hardly bothered by the low expectations. Instead, they’re eager for a shot to prove the pundits wrong.

“Being we’re in a new league and what transpired in the past, it’s probably hard to have a lot of confidence

that we’re going to be one of the top teams in the Big Ten,” said Turgeon, whose Terps haven’t reached the NCAA tournament since he took over in College Park.

“But we have some good talent, we have some good players, and I do think there’s a little extra in us.”

Such was the dominant theme of yesterday’s media day, Turgeon’s fourth at the helm of the program. With a four-member recruiting class ranked in the nation’s top 10 replacing the five departed players, the Terps avoided looking back at the past or lamenting on experts’ prognostications.

Rather, each Terps player expressed calm confidence See MEDIA, Page 7

It was a scene Terrapins football fans have witnessed many times over the past four seasons.

C.J. Brown lay facedown on the turf at Byrd Stadium, his body motionless. On third-and-7 early in the third quarter against Iowa on Saturday, the sixth-year quarterback rolled out to his right on a bootleg.

When nothing opened up downfield, he took off scrambling along the sideline until linebacker Quinton Alston tripped him up short of the first-down marker.

Moments after Brown hit the ground, cornerback Desmond King delivered a vicious hit to the signalcaller’s upper body. Coach Randy Edsall ran across the field to tend to his quarterback, as did several members of the Terps’ training staff.

After several minutes, Brown walked off under his own power.

On the sideline, though, Brown was in visible pain. He later jogged into the locker room for further evaluation of what was eventually deemed an upper back injury. But Brown returned to the field early in the fourth quarter, and in his second series he led the Terps on a 54-yard touchdown drive that sealed the team’s first home Big Ten victory.

“C.J. understands that how he handles himself and how he presents himself to the other guys on the team, they’re going to feed off of that,” Edsall said. “And when you see

Quarterback C.J. Brown scampers past Iowa defenders Saturday in the Terps’ 38-31 win over Iowa on homecoming. chester lam/the diamondback a guy take the shot that he took and then comes back in there, I’ll tell you one thing, if you can’t go out there and play hard and do a little bit more … then man, you don’t have a lot of respect for who he is.”

Brown’s day was far from perfect, though. On the first play from scrimmage, he failed to recognize a disguised blitz in which the Hawkeyes defensive ends dropped back into coverage, and he threw his fifth interception of the season.

The turnover gave Iowa a short field, and it punched in the touchdown to take a seven-point lead. Then, after the Terps’ second offensive possession stalled just past midfield, the Hawkeyes drove 80 yards for another See BROWN, Page 7