November 10, 2014

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Senate passes stricter academic integrity code Changes include disciplinary conference, students allowed to have outside representative

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer The University Senate passed an amendment to this university’s Code of Academic Integrity on Wednesday to create a stricter pol icy a nd rei n force students’ rights in the adjudication process.

The approval of the amendment, which passed by a 76-0 vote with five abstentions, did not come as a surprise to many of its proponents, said Austin Trupp, undergraduate senator and chairman of the Student Judiciary Executive Board.

Because it was a fairly tame bill, it was expected to pass, he said.

“This has been seen as a natural

move by most [student judiciary] members, so there hasn’t been strong reactions either way — it was just expected and supported,” the senior business student and government and politics major said.

One functional change to the code is the implementation of a disciplinary conference, at which students will be permitted assistance and support from an outside representative. Undergraduate senator president loh addresses the University Senate on Wednesday. After Loh’s State of the Campus See SENATE, Page 3 speech, members voted to amend the student academic integrity policies. tom hausman/the diamondback

BREAKING DOWN THE BOXES

Noise from construction projects draws student ire Pile driving at Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center to end mid-December

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer

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Construction crews began demolishing the Knox Boxes on Friday. About 22 of the 29 units will come down to make way for Terrapin

Loud bangs and dings will continue to accompany students’ walks along Campus Drive for the next month, accord i ng to Faci l ities Management officials.

Bill Olen, director of Capital Projects, said this noise is from pile driving at the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center construction site, a process of putting poles into the ground when constructing a building’s foundation, that began the first week of November and is expected to last up to four weeks.

The pile drivers are creating a temporary wall while the excavation for the ground floor and basement of the building begin, Olen said.

Row, a new residential development aimed at students. The property’s sale closed in August and displaced hundreds of student residents.

Activist, author, filmmaker shows work in College Park

JOHN LIAM GODFREY, 1993-2014

‘Literally just always there for us’

Rothchild advocates peace in Israel

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer

Senior was known for writing passion, giving personality

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer As he stood surrounded by hundreds of supporters at Friday night’s vigil in front of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house, John Godfrey began to realize the mark his son had left on so many lives.

“I re a l ly d id n’t h ave a hu ge insight into that world and the mag-

jack godfrey (center) was a senior journalism major known for his interest in writing. He was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He died Thursday in his off-campus home. photo courtesy of shady mostafa nitude of the impact that [Jack] had on so many individuals,” Godfrey said. “It was very moving, very gratifying for me to see that, and for his mother as well. … The fact that Jack touched so many lives in such a profound way is what we’re

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all clinging to.”

For those who knew and loved John “Jack” Liam Godfrey — a university student who always wanted to know, “What’s good?” — it is a See GODFREY, Page 2

Having been raised Jewish, Alice Rothchild said she grew up with a deep love for Israel.

“This was a part of my genetics, and I later began to look at it through different political perspectives,” she said.

T he physicia n, f i l m m a ker and author began studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in depth in 1997. Last summer, she spent time in Israel and the West Bank, which led to the release of her second book, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve

of the 2014 Gaza Invasion.

On Sunday, Rothchild brought her speaking, book and film tour to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in College Park, where she talked about this new work and showed her documentary, Voices Across the Divide.

Shane James, president of Students for Justice in Palestine at this university, said Rothchild’s work brought a fresh perspective to College Park.

“It looks like she’s done a lot to illuminate the realities of discrimination against Palestinians on the ground and is invested in an antiracist, pro-equality position about Palestine,” the sophomore secondary education major said.

Rothchild spent 10 days in Israel See rothchild, Page 3

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GODFREY From PAGE 1 twist of irony that life was taken from a person who could only give to others. “ H e w a s l i t e ra l l y j u s t always there for us, and he never wanted to take. Give, g i v e , g i v e ,” s a i d S h a d y Mosta fa, a sen ior supply chain management and international business major and fellow fraternity member.

Godfrey’s roommates found the 21-year-old, of Ardsley, New York, dead in his Hopkins Av e n u e h o m e T h u r s d a y evening, according to a fraternity member. Police said no foul play was suspected. Autopsy results and cause of death will not be known for another six to eight weeks, John Godfrey said.

Jack Godfrey, who planned to graduate in December 2015, was a journalism major and, according to his close friends, a very passionate writer.

“When we were thinking of [The Diamondback] writing [an obituary] for him, we were all like, ‘He’s the one who’s supposed to write it. … he’s our writer,’” Mostafa said. “He loved to write.”

John Godfrey said his son was in the process of exploring different avenues — from sports writing for the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism to creative storytelling to an advertising internship last summer in San Francisco — in an effort to find the path that excited him the most.

Fellow fraternity member a n d s e n i o r m a n a ge m e n t major Justin Shapiro said Jack entertained the idea of someday working as a journalist for ESPN. G od f rey’s passion a lso carried over into sports. He was a huge San Diego Chargers fan and also supported the New York Yankees and New York Knicks. He often was seen

sporting a San Diego Padres hat.

“He never took his San Diego Padres hat off,” Shapiro said.

“You could spot him a mile away in it.”

But above a l l, G od f rey dedicated the most time and energy to baseball. Godfrey, born Sept. 6, 1993, played v a r s i t y b a s e b a l l fo r t h e Ardsley High School team, and although Godfrey did not play for the university’s team, Mostafa said he dominated fraternity league softball.

“He was our pitcher for softball. He played softball every Friday; he’d be on the mound, pitching, leading strikeouts.

He was the one who took it the most seriously out of all of us,” Mostafa said. “We just played the game for him.”

Shapiro said Godfrey was also involved in his fraternity in other ways, including taking on the positions of new member educator and historian for the fraternity for the past two years. “[Jack] just really, really loved [the fraternity] and everyone in it,” Shapiro said. “He was always up for anything, wanted to be with people all of the time, loved to have fun.”

But the legacy Godfrey leaves behind goes much deeper than any of his passions or hobbies; it is the type of person that he was and what he gave to others that those closest to Godfrey say will never be forgotten.

“I was proud of Jack for being a great son, a great brother to his younger brother [Owen] — he has special needs and [Jack] was always there for him — and in all honesty for being the guy that everyone loves,” John Godfrey said.

John Godfrey’s words were broken, many of them slightly more forced than the ones before. But the sentiment could not have been clearer: a father’s pride toward his son.

“I had 10 kids tell me that Jack was his best friend, and I believe that he was a best

friends and family mourn at a candlelight vigil for 21-year-old student Jack Godfrey on Friday in front of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. Godfrey, who previously served as the fraternity’s new member educator and historian, was found dead in his Hopkins Avenue home Thursday evening. Police said no foul play was suspected. stephanie natoli/the diamondback friend for a lot of people,” John Godfrey said. “That’s what I’m most proud of.”

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by his father, of Ardsley; his mother, Nicola Bridges, of Ramona, California; and his brother, Owen Godfrey, 19,

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From PAGE 1 and the West Bank co-leading a health and human rights delegation, fou r days exploring the medical system in the region and meeting with Jewish and Palestinian Israeli citizens and one week doing personal research.

She said she visited refugee camps and screened in her documentary in Israel and the West Bank.

But her activism has been a challenge, Rothchild said, adding that plenty of negative attention comes from within the Jewish community due to her criticism of how Israel chooses to self-defend.

Rothchild said that when she was young, she saw Israel as a “magical place,” but as she began to study the confl ict, her views have changed over the years.

“The mainstream Jewish community fi nds people like me completely unacceptable,” Rothchild said. “It’s very normal for a rabbi to refuse to talk to me or cancel one of my events. Jews like me who acknowledge imperfections are not welcomed, and we’re labeled as self-hating Jews.”

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Alice rothchild speaks about her new documentary, Voices Across the Divide, which looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through personal stories, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church yesterday afternoon. stephanie natoli/the diamondback Rothchild said students from the John Carroll University Hillel tried to cancel her event at their campus because they said her opinion made them uncomfortable. At a different book reading, a woman yelled “You’re a disservice to your people.”

Rothchild said she was sympathetic of Israelis living with the fear of rockets striking, but she described the destruction of Gaza as “incredibly painful,” especially because schools were targeted. “ I i n te r v i e w e d p e o p l e in Gaza, and one area was completely leveled — it was devastating,” Rothchild said.

“You were thinking, ‘How do we make it stop?’”

Rothchild said she hopes people w i l l become more open to conversation about the complicated process of peace in the region.

Sahar Khamis, a communication professor at this university, said people need to provide a space for activism similar to Rothchild’s because “the mainstream media doesn’t address it.”

“It’s important to listen to all the different narratives,” Khamis said. “I saw her documentary, and the storytelling is very compelling. It was enlightening and informative

because it presented different views.”

Peter Hawley, a member of the Jerusalem Partnership Committee, also said Rothchild’s work showed balance.

“A s a phy sic i a n , she combines genuine empathy for human suffering with an unflinching ability to diagnose its source,” he said. “These characteristics were evident in her first book, in which she explored the traumas experienced on both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian confl ict.” rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

In addition to the senate and the student judiciary, the Student G overn ment A sso ci at ion a l so heav i ly supported the legislation, casting a 24-1 vote of approval in October. Belcher, also the SGA’s director of sh a re d gover n a nce, sa id fellow SGA member Charmaine Wilson-Jones worked with the student conduct office and advocated student representation in the disciplinary conferences.

T he Co de of Ac adem ic Integrity has not changed significantly since the early 1990s, according to t he proposa l. B ut sen ate Chairman Donald Webster sa id these cha nges a re due, and he applauded the Student Conduct Committee and governing bodies for pushing for them.

“To me, sh a red governance is a team,” he said.

“T hey a l l bri ng d i fferent perspectives and stronger d e c i s i o n s . T h e [s t u d e n t conduct] committee did an excellent job.”

The proposal will be sent to university President Wallace Loh for approval before the changes are made official.

Ryan Belcher said the change is valuable, as it will help students grasp their situations. “ H av i n g c o d i f ie d l a ng uage that a l lows that person to be there is really important because it allows students to understand the severity of these charges,” the senior environmental science and government and politics major said. “Having someone there as a backup or to vet things through is really useful.”

Students who are accused of less severe acts of acad e m ic d i shon e s t y m i g ht have their cases quickly adjudicated by a member in the Office of Student Conduct.

According to the proposal, the committee also aims to cl a r i f y wh at qu a l i f ies a s academ ic d ishonesty a nd plans to make the definition of cheating more inclusive so students don’t get away with actions not punishable under the current code.

“W hen you are charged with academic dishonesty, it’s a ser iou s ch a rge a nd should be treated as such,” Belcher said. kmaakedbk@gmail.com

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class near the Biology-Psychology Building.

“I don’t really hear it once I’m inside the building, so it hasn’t affected any of my classes really,” Cusick said.

“On T hu rsday, one of my professors made a comment during class like, ‘What is that noise?’ a nd then everyone answered, and we moved on.”

B u t M e l i s s a Fa r z i n , a senior biology major, said it’s not just the noise that’s bothering her.

“It’s just frustrating that the school is always under renovation or construction, especially since the physical appearance is not very appealing to visitors,” she said.

“The fact that they cut off a certain area is really inconvenient [when] getting to one part of campus to the other.

I think the building will turn out to be a nice one, but I just feel like we’re constantly constr ucti ng someth i ng, which is not a bad thing but still inconvenient.”

The contractor is ahead of schedule for this phase of work.

E x c avat ion b e g a n t h i s week for the lower levels of the building, a construct ion ph a se t h at w i l l ta ke several months, according to Olen. The bottom of the excavation will be 30 to 40 feet below Campus Drive, he said.

During that process, the installation of underground utility lines, which are set to impact current buildings, will continue Olen said.

“Some of the significance of this activity will be new chilled water lines that will tie in the mechanical systems from the new building to H.J. Patterson and Jimenez,” he said. “Ultimately, this will provide a more energy efficient source of air conditioning to those buildings.”

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GUEST COLUMN

Working for the future

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his university is experiencing an upward trend, as evidenced by its No. 9 ranking on a Business Insider list of the smartest public colleges in America.

Adding to the university’s success is the largest donation in university history, given by Brendan Iribe, to transform the computer science department, and construction projects such as the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center and the recently completed Prince Frederick Hall.

But trending upward always means the possibility of a plateau, or even worse, going downhill.

On Wednesday, university President Wallace Loh gave his annual State of the Campus address to the University Senate, highlighting this university’s success and how it can keep its momentum.

Last year, Loh’s address focused on his goal to transform undergraduate education, “to educate more, educate better, educate cheaper,” whereas this year, Loh’s overarching agenda is to have this school become a top-tier research university.

Loh’s vision of creating a topranked research university should be shared by everyone in the campus

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community. Officials should be doing everything in their power to make sure that the title of “research university” is not a hollow and mislabeled one.

OUR VIEW

The entire campus community must work with President Loh to maintain and expand this university’s success.

Loh insisted that for this university to hone its research status, it must help retain more of its recent graduates for in-state jobs, much as its peers in North Carolina and California do.

Postgraduate employment is constantly on students’ minds, and Loh’s goal for this state to recruit more Terps should be taken seriously, as it could save a large number of students from the crushing world of unemployment.

Another avenue Loh said can increase this university’s research prowess is continued partnerships, especially with University of Maryland, Baltimore. The MPowering the

State partnership, a collaborative effort between this university and UMB, enables the two schools to work together on projects.

This collaborative effort needs to be cultivated for it to produce truly significant outcomes. The resulting synergy from combining forces hopefully will attract prominent academics to this institution, promote research at both universities and lead to the success of students, faculty and the campus as a whole.

MPowering the State and other collaborative initiatives should be at the forefront of this university’s mind to up the ante in the research department.

Loh, university officials, faculty, staff and students must work together to ensure this university is making decisions that will achieve continuous success. There is no room for missteps.

It is Loh’s duty to lead toward future achievements and to ensure the 2015 State of the Campus address is even more hopeful and successful than this year’s, but it is our duty as a university community to come together and make Loh’s goals, and ours, reality.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

An embarrassment in Happy Valley

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y husband and I love this university. We are lifetime Alumni Association members and football season ticket holders. Our four children have either attended or currently attend this university; our youngest is a junior engineering major, and our oldest, who holds two degrees, returns regularly to critique student architecture projects. Between us, we have eight brothers and sisters who attended this university. We support Maryland Day, attend events at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and have made donations to various programs.

But I am writing to share our disappointment in the conduct of the three Terrapins football captains during the Terps-Penn State game on Nov. 1.

My husband and I traveled to Penn State that weekend as guests of our friends whose son played football for Penn State. From the start of our tailgating in the surrounding fields, we felt welcomed by the Nittany Lions’ fan base, who were proud of their team but respectful to us visitors.

Like so many others, we were shocked and disappointed at our captains’ refusals to shake hands with the opposing team at the coin toss. It cast a shadow on our exciting win at the game and in the days since, as media coverage shows. Their actions embarrassed me as a Terp and hurt public perception of the school I love.

These players, and Terps fans in general, could learn much from the conduct of those we met in the hours after the game. Back at our tailgate, profoundly disappointed Nittany Lions congratulated us on the Terps’ victory and reviewed the game on its merits.

Later in town, the dozens of people we met — fans of all ages — went out of their way to congratulate the Terps, often seeking us out in large gatherings to make the point.

The students were completely welcoming — asking if this was our first trip to the campus and appearing genuinely interested in how we were enjoying our time in Happy Valley.

They truly could not have been more gracious, which made our captains’ conduct all the more glaring and embarrassing.

As a nurse working with teens at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, I understand the nuances of adolescent development that sometimes lead to poor decisions.

But I also know that every poor choice is a learning opportunity. I sincerely hope the university makes the most of this unfortunate occasion, reinforcing that studentathletes should reflect the values of the institution and understand the consequences of actions taken, no matter their emotions at the time.

Kathy Tomaszewski is an adolescent nurse coordinator at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and a member of the Alumni Association. She can be reached at ktomasz1@jhmi.edu.

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MARGARET ZELENSKI

GUEST COLUMN

The strange humanity in atheism How becoming an atheist changed my view on the death penalty

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here is this perception of the a t h e i s t a s a n a m o ra l ty p e , someone whose compassion for other human beings is as limited as his or her faith. So when it comes to capital punishment, you might expect an atheist to be either indifferent or supportive. Well, as an atheist myself, I vehemently oppose few things more than capital punishment, and this opposition is motivated solely by my compassion for other human beings.

I understand why someone would want a death row inmate dead. These are people who are often guilty of society’s most appalling crimes. These are rapists and murderers. They have ravaged bodies and destroyed families. Why shouldn’t they die? It’s only fair that their lives be treated with the same level of callousness they have shown to others.

For a long time, I struggled over the question of capital punishment.

It didn’t seem right to end a person’s life, but it was often for that very reason these people were condemned to die. Being raised Catholic, I had grown up in a culture of moral absolutism. There was no gray area, because God clearly dictated what was good and what was bad.

And while I was taught to separate the sin from the man, I would have been ill-advised to express any

kind of pity for a serial rapist, for example, outside the context of Mass or Sunday school.

I noticed that in Mass, people would nod eagerly when the priest spoke of redemption and forgiveness, but when it came to murderers, rapists and similar offenders, these people who had so vigorously nodded their heads in Mass often refused to extend forgiveness. And I was the same way.

I believed people should be given a second chance, but I felt there were some people who were beyond redemption. I believed all humans should have a chance to repent, but the kind of people who were being executed, I reasoned, were something other than human. They were monsters who had sacrificed their humanity when they committed their heinous crime.

I can’t explain exactly how it happened, but somewhere along the line, I lost my faith in God and Catholicism. It’s not that my belief had been shaken dramatically and never recovered; as I got older, I just drifted away from the faith. It happens. What I found most surprising about my loss of faith was how it impacted my perspective on capital punishment.

Divorced from the moral absolutism I had grown up with, I started

to see the world in shades of gray.

There was no evil; there was no good.

There was no heaven; there was no hell. All there was to me were people, and people can’t be monsters. When the world was black and white, it was so easy to condemn people. The God and faith I subscribed to gave me a rigid sense of morality, and that made it difficult to forgive those who had so grievously offended that sense of morality.

But I began operating under the idea that morality was fluid. Actions like murder were simultaneously right and wrong, good and bad. It all depended on the person perceiving it. For the first time in my life, I truly could separate the sin from the man because the sin was no longer something that provoked such extreme emotional contempt.

Don’t misunderstand me: I think that acts of murder and rape are wrong, but that’s just the thing — I think murder and rape are intolerable, not the people who commit them. I don’t think a human life can lose its value through even the most egregious of actions. The only thing that can rob a life of value is to take the life itself.

Tristan Madden is a freshman journalism major. He can be reached at trmadden@terpmail.umd.edu.

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h my god, your boyfriend is so crazy; why are you even with him?” said every friend ever. Isn’t it kind of odd that we think there’s so much wrong with our friends’ partners?

“Why are you still with him? I totally would have left him if he ever acted that way to me.” Well you most likely have had someone act that “crazy” way to you too, and you accepted it, just as your friend is accepting it now. That’s because there’s so much more to your friend’s relationship than what he or she tells you. And you not realizing that is messing with your mind.

Somewhere, a psychologist could explain why we only talk about the bad stuff when we talk about relationships. But for now, I’ll just attribute it to excitement.

Telling your friends about how awesome, romantic and attractive your partner is just comes off as bragging, and no one wants to hear that. We want to sympathize with one another, and complaining is easily the best way. That’s why 150 percent of posts on Yik Yak are complaints about class instead of excitement over good grades. Complaining is fun to do in a group, so let’s just accept that.

But accepting it won’t enlighten you. You have to apply it to your way of thinking. The next time you think about sitting your friend

down for an intervention about his or her partner, remember that complaining is fun. You most likely only hear the bad stories about his or her partner, and that’s what is fueling your judgments. Consider that your friend is a rational being and is with this person because this person has good qualities, too. Consider that you don’t hear about the good stuff because it’s not nearly as fun to say. Remember that you do the exact same thing.

Of course, there are times when a friend’s complaining about his or her partner is a sign of a dysfunctional relationship and laughing it off isn’t the best answer. It’s difficult to tell where the line is between good fun and actual problems.

I’d recommend sitting down with your friend once, asking him or her whether all of the complaining is actually in good fun and letting him or her know that this concept of “fun complaining” is a real thing. Once everyone is aware that the complaining is a part of the relationship that friends share, the line becomes bold and easy to distinguish.

So next time you judge your friend for having what seems to be the worst relationship ever, stop and think about the good things he or she might not be telling you. Ask your friend to talk about the good things, just to even it out in your head. Because even being conscious of the “fun complaining” phenomenon doesn’t prevent the constant stream of grievances from messing with your mind.

Margaret Zelenski is a senior criminology and criminal justice and English major. She can be reached at mzelenskidbk@gmail.com.

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throwdown at bobby flay’s Bobby’s Burger Palace holds its second annual fry-eating contest, getting participants to eat three orders of fries as quickly as possible

the challenge: Eat french fries, sweet potato fries and onion rings as fast as possible the winner: University alumnus Ian Hickman, who finished in about three minutes the prize: A Bobby Flay cookbook and a $25 Bobby’s Burger Palace gift card

the fry-eating contest tested competitors to quickly eat french fries, sweet potato fries and onion rings. photo courtesy of bobby’s burger palace - college park’s facebook

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The rules were simple: Eat an order each of French fries, sweet potato fries and onion rings as fast as you can.

“Last year it was, like, how many fries you could fit in your mouth,” said Carley Sinert, a senior marketing major and Bobby’s Burger Palace intern. “This year, we thought we’d change it up a little bit.”

The interns brought out the food for the waiting contestants.

“Are you guys excited?” the interns asked the contestants before the competition. “Are you nervous?”

One yelled back his concern regarding the onion rings.

“That’s where I’m going to throw up,” he replied nervously.

After a 10-second countdown, the contest began and the scene inside the restaurant descended into chaos.

Contestants had different competitive eating tactics. Some immediately

At 2:15 p.m. Friday, Bobby’s Burger Palace was quiet; only three parties were seated, eating a late lunch. The bar at the front of the restaurant was empty except for a few scattered papers. They all read the same thing: “Reserved for fry contest.”

Just 15 minutes later, the scene inside the burger franchise was drastically different. At the bar, the papers were gone, replaced by a group of 10 ambitious individuals. They excitedly swiveled back and forth on cushioned green barstools. That day, none of them were here for burgers.

This was Bobby’s Burger Palace’s second annual Fry Eating Contest, held exclusively at the burger joint’s College Park location and run by Bobby’s Burger Palace University

shoved entire handfuls of fries into their mouths; a few began with the onion rings, folding them in half; others favored a slow and steady approach, drenching individual fries in dipping sauces.

Friends lingered, snapping photos on smartphones and offering encouragement. Seated patrons looked on, too.

Just a few seconds after the three-minute mark, 2005 university alumnus Ian Hickman finished in first place, taking home a signed Bobby Flay cookbook and a $25 Bobby’s Burger Palace gift card.

Hickman said this was his first time at a Bobby’s Burger Palace, though he had been in other eating competitions.

“I’ve done a couple over the years, but this is the first time I’ve done French fries or onion rings, so this was kind of new,” he said. “It was a lot more challenging than I thought it was going to be.”

Hickman said his original plan was to mash the fries into balls, but they didn’t break on impact as he thought they would.

“I was like ‘OK, new strategy, change the game,’” Hickman said. “I had to try to eat them like, say you’re grabbing a Snickers bar, like a fistful with it pointed vertically. I had to do that with each bite.”

Hickman said his main goals were to have fun and win the signed cookbook for his brother.

“He doesn’t know — this is going to be a surprise Christmas gift,” he said.

As for the gift card: “I think next time, I’m going to come and enjoy the burgers and maybe not the fries or the onion rings,” he said.

As time passed and more fries and onion rings were consumed, several contestants slowed their paces. Junior history major Freddy Whitney finally finished second after 15 minutes.

Whitney also won a cookbook signed

by Flay, as well as a Bobby’s Burger Palace baseball cap.

Third place became the most heated bid. A sudden resurgence of energy had four contestants vying for the title. Junior accounting major Edan Guter took it, winning a Bobby’s Burger Palace T-shirt and a jar of fry sauce.

After the third and final prizewinner had been declared, some contestants stuck around to finish their food. One cook offered them leftover fries — a proposition met with satiated groans.

“I think this year actually kind of worked out better [than last year],” Sinert said after the event.

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MIDFIELDER MAEL CORBOZ rears back before his penalty-kick goal in the Terps’ win over Rutgers yesterday. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

knights From PAGE 8 three games, and the S c a r l e t K n i g h t s re g i s tered just four shots. They didn’t record their first

shot until the 45th minute.

“The midfielders and forwards put pressure on them, which helps us a lot,” Steffen said. “As a team, we defended very well and defended very hard.”

Rutgers seemed to pick

up the pace after allowing the second goal, penetrating the scoring third and putting pressure on Steffen.

But the Terps backline held strong to withstand an eager Rutgers offense.

The aggression resulted

wildcats From PAGE 8 The Terps finally mustered some offense a few minutes later when they earned their first penalty corner of the game. Sprink stopped midfielder Anna Dessoye’s pass, took one touch and buried a shot in the bottom left corner for a quick answer that tied the game.

After taking two shots in the first half, the Terps equaled that in the first two minutes of the second half, but none were on target. The Terps entered the game averaging 66 percent of their shots on goal, but seven of their 13 shots yesterday never tested goalkeeper Maddy Carpenter.

With the offense unable to

DEFENDER SARAH SPRINK whips a shot in yesterday’s loss to Northwestern in the Big Ten final. Sprink scored the team’s first goal. photo courtesy of daryl marshke/michigan photography score, the defense continued to give up penalty corners in the second half. After Cabrera made a kick save on the Wildcats’ first corner, midfielder Isabel Flens sent her shot out of Cabrera’s diving reach

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in several fouls. The officials issued seven yellow cards, five against Rutgers.

After the final whistle blew, Corboz, who was spelled by midfielder Daniel Johnson in the 89th minute, walked back onto the field and embraced several Rutgers players.

The game likely marks the end of the Scarlet Knights’ season. The team entered the contest with the No. 94 RPI in the country.

Corboz’s former teammates walked off the pitch and headed to the team bus for the trek back to New Jersey.

Corboz, meanwhile, joined his Terps teammates in the locker room with a Big Ten semifinals contest looming next weekend.

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more sent the ball to the near post past Cabrera’s outstretched leg.

“There is no question we have to work on our defensive penalty corner unit and getting the ball out and not giving up multiple corners,” Meharg said.

The 27th-year coach pulled Cabrera for an extra attacker, but Carpenter made three saves in the final five minutes to prevent the comeback.

The Terps were confident they were going to avenge their early-season loss to the Wildcats, but Northwestern was the team hoisting the trophy after the match.

“We came in expecting to win, and that’s always a dangerous place to be in,” Meharg said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

forward Jake Layman defends Bowie State forward Miles Jackson on Saturday. Coach Mark Turgeon lauded Layman’s defensive play after the game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

BULLDOGS From PAGE 8 the motion, and it’s kind of up to us to make the right decisions … and I think our offense is looking a lot more fluid.”

Layman often took advantage of his offensive freedom to find open spots on the perimeter or to slice through the lane.

He also flashed his athleticism with a pair of transition dunks.

Turgeon was impressed by more than Layman’s scoring touch, though. Layman also had his hand in a dominating defensive effort in which the Terps held Bowie State to 22.2 percent shooting from the field.

“About a year ago, he was not a good defender,” Turgeon said.

“Now I’m not afraid to put him on anybody on the court. He’s really, really improved.”

Layman’s commitment to defense has seemed to rub off on a four-member freshman class that figures to play a significant part in the Terps’ season. As forward Evan Smotrycz remains sidelined while recovering from a fractured foot, Layman and Wells are the only two healthy Terps

who started more than two games for the team last season.

“I can go to them for anything,” freshman guard Jared Nickens said of Layman and Wells. “They always have my back and give me advice for things to do on the court and off the court.”

After Saturday, Layman has a solid performance of his own to point to while he’s mentoring Nickens and the team’s other freshmen. But the lanky forward was quick to say his hot shooting night won’t really impact his approach moving into the regular season.

I n fa c t , L ay m a n s a i d : “Even if I was 0-for-7 today, I’d come in with the same mindset next Friday.”

Turgeon wasn’t overly interested in Layman’s shooting numbers either. He simply was happy to see one of his leaders play more aggressively and confidently after several discouraging performances over the past week.

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FIELD HOCKEY | No. 3-SEED WILDCATS 3, No. 1-SEED TERPS 1

Northwestern beats Terps in Big Ten championship Loss ends 13-game winning streak entering NCAA tournament

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

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Goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera lay face down on the blue turf of Ocker Field yesterday. The ball rolled back toward her after it ricocheted off the board in the back of the net. The 40thminute Northwestern goal left the Terrapins field hockey team trailing in the second half for the first time since September.

And just like in that Sept. 20 matchup, which also came against the Wildcats, the Terps couldn’t mount a comeback. Cabrera made six more saves than she did during the regularseason match, but it wasn’t enough.

Powe re d by t h re e goa l s o f f penalty corners, No. 3-seed North-

western defeated the No. 1-seed Terps, 3-1, in the championship game of the Big Ten tournament. “ Ce r ta i n ly a d i sa p p o i n t i n g outcome,” coach Missy Meharg said.

“Northwestern played with a vengeance and at a championship level.”

The Terps sought redemption against the only Big Ten team that beat them during the regular season.

But the Terps failed to extend their 13-game winning streak against the same team that found a way to win despite being outshot 23-5 in the regular-season bout.

Since that loss to the Wildcats, the Terps had outscored opponents by a combined total of 66-11, but they failed to sustain that success yesterday.

“We had a lack of that energy today,” defender Sarah Sprink said.

“We didn’t trust our plan that much, which made us have a lot of errors.”

Northwestern’s defense stymied the Terps attack and didn’t allow them to take a shot for the first 26 minutes of the contest.

The Terps hadn’t allowed a goal in more than 160 minutes entering the game. The Wildcats ended that streak with 11 minutes remaining in the first half, when midfielder Lisa McCarthy gathered the ball at the near post on a rebound off a corner and slotted the ball into the back of the net.

“We were falling away from the one-on-one battles and then getting corners against us,” Meharg said. “Our structure was off. Our passing was off.”

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Terps beat Rutgers for ninth straight win, advance to Big Ten semifinals

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Last season, midfielder Mael Corboz and goalkeeper David Greczek were teammates on a Rutgers squad that saw its season end with a 2-1 loss to South Florida in the American Athletic Conference tournament semifinals.

The duo found itself in a vastly different situation yesterday afternoon. Corboz, who transferred to this university last spring, stared down Greczek in front of an announced 1,071 at Ludwig Field during the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals, separated by 12 yards of green turf and a soccer ball.

Corboz approached the ball, swung his right foot back and rocketed a shot past a diving Greczek. The penalty-kick goal gave the top-seeded Terrapins men’s soccer team a one-goal lead in the 32nd minute.

The No. 8–seed Scarlet Knights, who defeated No. 9-seed Wisconsin in a play-in game Saturday, never answered. And the Terps captured a 2-0 win to extend their winning streak to nine games and advance to a semifinal tilt against No. 5-seed Michigan State on Friday.

“I give Rutgers a lot of credit for their effort today after playing yesterday,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “They made it tough on us. They competed very hard. But our quality came through. I was very pleased with the overall effort defensively.”

Yesterday’s game also came four days after Rutgers (6-12-1, 1-6-1 Big Ten) fell to the Terps, 3-2, in the teams’ regular-season finale. Corboz scored against his former squad in that contest as well.

“Thankfully it’s done and we get to move on,” Cirovski said.“But [Corboz] handled himself with great class and humility throughout the process.”

“THEY MADE IT TOUGH ON US. THEY COMPETED VERY HARD. BUT OUR QUALITY CAME THROUGH. I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE OVERALL EFFORT DEFENSIVELY.” SASHO CIROVSKI

Terrapins men’s soccer coach Corboz’s 32nd-minute goal was a welcome sign for the Terps (12-5-2, 5-2-1), who haven’t lost after scoring first all season. Not to mention, during its nine-game winning streak, Cirovski’s squad has never trailed after building a lead.

But the Terps’ road to a Big Ten Championship might be more difficult with Michigan State visiting College Park. The Spartans dealt the Terps a 1-0 loss in the conference home opener at Ludwig Field on Sept. 19.

Cirovski maintains that the Terps are a different team now, though. George Campbell, who scored the Terps’ second goal in the 75th minute, has found the back of the net in three consecutive games after struggling to find his scoring touch early on in his rookie season.

“Really any point during the game, we can score on the counters,” Campbell said. “When we’re building and we’re really moving the ball quick and doing the two-touch like Coach always says, if we get to the spots, if we get to the end line, there’s always an opportunity for us to score.”

Goalkeeper Zack Steffen, meanwhile, led another dominant defensive effort. He made two saves to complete his second shutout in FORWARD GEorGE CAMPBELL (6) celebrates his goal in the second half of the Terps’ win over Rutgers with midfielders Tsubasa Endoh (10) See knights, Page 7 and Mikias Eticha that helped the team secure its ninth straight victory and move into the Big Ten semifinals. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

MEN’S BASKETBALL | TERPS 89, BULLDOGS 47

Layman leads win over Bowie State in final exhibition Turgeon says junior forward looks more comfortable in victory

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Jake Layman had what Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon called a “tough practice” on Thursday. Several days before that, the forward committed six turnovers in the Terps’ exhibition-opening win over San Francisco State.

“I was worried about him,” Turgeon said.

But in Saturday’s exhibition against Bowie State, the Terps’ final tuneup before the regular season begins Friday, Layman buried a 3-pointer from the corner about four minutes in. Two minutes later, he tipped in a Michal Cekovsky miss to push his team’s lead to 11-3. And if that wasn’t enough to alleviate his coach’s concerns, the 6-foot-9 junior threw down a dunk, hit a free

throw and drained another 3-pointer in a three-minute span later in the first half.

Layman wound up scoring a gamehigh 18 points and grabbing seven rebounds to lead the Terps to an 89-47 victory over the Division II Bulldogs.

“He was definitely different today,” Turgeon said. “He got some good looks early, and that got him going.”

The Massachusetts native made 7 of 8 shots from the field and 3 of 3 from beyond the arc. And along with senior guard Dez Wells, he helped the team snap out of an offensive funk early in the contest.

He also dished out two assists to one turnover.

Layman credits some of his success to the recently debuted motion offense, which allows the team to space the floor. San Francisco State played a 2-3 zone throughout their contest with the Terps, so Saturday’s bout with Bowie

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Layman scored in the Terps’ win over Bowie State.

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Layman grabbed in the Terps’ win over Bowie State

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Layman shot on 3-pointers in the Terps’ win over Bowie State.

State was the first time the Terps ran their new offense against a man-toman defense in public.

“We have an offense in place, but Coach is kind of letting us play,” Layman said. “There’s not really many sets that we run. We just call See Bulldogs, Page 7