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U alum Eun Yang to speak at graduation Winter commencement speaker, NBC news anchor graduated with journalism degree in 1995

By Talia Richman and Ellie Silverman @TaliRichman, @esilverman11 Senior staff writers Although NBC New York offered Eun Yang a reporting position, she

ing grounds.

“This is my hometown. I have so much to offer in terms of how much I care about this community,” said turned it down to for a job at NBC4 Yang, who graduated from this university in 1995. “When you’re from in Washington.

The morning news anchor and here, you know and care about the member of the journalism school’s issues affecting each county.”

Her commitment to this state Board of Visitors will speak at the campus-wide graduation ceremony makes her the right choice for DeDec. 20, returning to her old stomp- cember’s commencement speaker,

said Louis Schiavone, a member of the Senior Council and the student chair of the commencement speaker selection committee.

“We wanted someone to have a connection to Maryland — this state and this university,” the senior communication major said. “She fit the bill.”

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Wallace Loh (left) with Courtney Pastrick (center) and Robert Fischell (right) at the groundbreaking ceremony Friday. tom hausman/the diamondback

Univ breaks ground on bioengineer complex

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A. James Clark Hall to host bioengineering department in 2017

After facing criticism all week, Brown leads Terps to victory at Michigan

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Staff writer As the sound of a pile driver at the Edward St. John’s Learning and Teaching Center construction site boomed across Campus Drive, officials broke ground F r i d ay m o r n i n g o n a n o t h e r project: a bioengineering building aimed at forwarding research in a relatively new field.

A. James Clark Hall, which will be located on the former site of the Paint Branch Parking Lot behind the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, will be a center for the bioengineering department.

The department began in 2006, but university officials said this field of study would increase in importance for the university and the state in the near future.

“Our state has been a bioscience, See clark, Page 3

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Terrapins football offense and quarterback C.J. Brown faced a third-and-6 from their own 26-yard line Saturday at Michigan with less than nine minutes remaining in a tie game. The drive had just started, but it seemed as though the Terps’ chance at a go-ahead touchdown was slipping away.

The offense set up in shotgun formation as the announced 101,717 at The Big House came to life. Brown took the snap and dropped back four steps before scrambling to his left.

As the sixth-year signal-caller approached Wolverines defenders, he

After Cole revamp approval, Edsall recalls personal history

Kids get look at college life with U tours, motivation

Football coach spent summers at camp

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

Sixth-graders could be first-generation students

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Staff writer A group of Prince George’s County elementary students visited the university Friday as part of an effort to inspire the children’s learning and interest in the college environment.

The sixth-grade students, who would all be first-generation college students, were participating in Carole Highlands Elementary School’s Kids2College week, a program designed to motivate students to attend

marcia shofner lectures to university students and Carole Highlands Elementary School students Friday, as part of a Kids2College week program to foster interest in higher education. james levin/the diamondback higher-education institutions when they get older.

The students attended Marcia Shofner’s BSCI106: Principles of Biology II class and buddied up with university students who guided them through the course material.

Shofner conducted the lecture as she normally would, discussing the differences between amoebocytes

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and choanocytes, two types of cells in sponges.

“I don’t want my students to feel like I’m giving up a day of instruction,” Shofner said. “That’s why we’re doing the buddy system, to engage both parties.”

Despite the college-level course

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For four straight summers in the 1970s, Randy Edsall traveled from his home in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, to attend Lefty Driesell’s basketball camp at Cole Field House.

And in 2002, Edsall’s brother, Duke Edsall, refereed the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s final game at Cole.

Though Randy Edsall — now in his fourth season as Terrapins football coach — is “extremely excited” about a proposal to repurpose Cole as a $155 million indoor football practice facility, he acknowledged the importance

of honoring the building’s history last week.

Edsall, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson and former men’s basketball coach Gary Williams have all said if the Board of Regents passes the plan for the renovations Dec. 12, the facility will include an exhibition honoring events that have taken place at Cole.

“They’re going to preserve the history, and they’re going to have displays in there to celebrate the years in the ACC and celebrate the things that took place there in Cole,” Edsall said. “I give the leadership credit for coming up with this concept to do that.”

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From PAGE 1 which would include a clinic open to the public.

But university officials said they are confident they would find a part of the new facility to use as a nod to the past.

Cole, which sits at the heart of the campus and is currently used as a student activities center, hosted the famous 1966 NCAA championship game in which Texas Western became the first team to win a title with an all-black starting five. The “ping-pong diplomacy” match between this country and China unfolded in Cole in 1972, and Elvis Presley performed in the 14,000-seat arena in 1974.

Plus, the Terps men’s basketball teams played at Cole from 1955 to 2002, and the women’s team played there from the 1970s to 2002. The first televised women’s basketball game was played at Cole in 1975.

The proposed changes to Cole also include keeping the building’s name, and Anderson said the addition of a football practice facility would add to the building’s prominence.

“What it does now, it restores, it refurbishes and it revitalizes what Cole Field House stands for,” Anderson said.

Williams played for the Terps men’s basketball team in Cole in the late ’60s, coached the team there from 1989 to 2002 and led the Terps to their only national title in the

employees set up cole field house for the Maryland Madness basketball showcase last October. A plan approved by the Board of Regents would renovate the historic building to contain indoor football practice fields and an innovation lab. file photo/the diamondback building’s last year housing the program. The iconic coach, who was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame yesterday, said he is pleased with the plans in store for the building he calls “my area.”

“Cole’s one of those buildings that’s special in the history of college basketball,” Williams said. “The great players that have played there, the two final fours, the Texas Western-Kentucky game. All those things. I played in it, coached in it. To me, it was just kind of sitting there; it wasn’t part of the sports landscape, really.

This way it’s back, and they’re not going to change the name.

It’s going to be a great building on campus once again.”

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Williams, who now works with the school in a fundraising position, said not everyone shares his feelings about the building because of his connection to it. But through fan interactions, he can tell Cole’s history means a lot to the university community, and he expects to play a role in deciding how it would be honored in the proposed upgraded facility.

A n d t h o u g h A n d e rs o n wasn’t immersed in Terps basketball before arriving in College Park, he has known about Cole’s legacy.

“I have a lot of uncles that through my youth and growing up used to talk to me about the [Texas Western] and Kentucky basketball game and that it did

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happen in Cole Field House,” Anderson said. “The history of Cole Field House has farreaching tentacles throughout the United States.”

Anderson and Edsall are spearheading efforts to gain support for the proposed changes to Cole, but both made it clear the building’s historical implications will be taken into consideration with each decision.

“It’s exciting for me to be able to be part of a team that’s going to be able to do this and to bring [Cole] up to current standards,” Anderson said, “and have it be one of the jewels of the university again.”

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a b ro a d c a s t n e w s o ut l e t on the u n iversity’s cable From PAGE 1 channel at which she said she learned broadcast style and Un iversity P resident how to write stories.

Wallace Loh said that he Ya ng sa id she wa nts to is glad a Terp will be the inspire graduating students commencement speaker to work hard toward their and that she is a regional goals and make the most out personality and the stu- of any job opportunity they dents’ choice. are presented.

The last alumnus who “I hope the g radu ati ng spoke at a December com- class can see that you have to mencement ceremony was forge your own path,” Yang NASA astronaut Richard said. “You just have to focus Arnold II in 2011. Schia- and want it so bad that you’ll vone said the committee put in those extra hours and looked for a speaker with a extra work, and if you do, connection to the univer- you can achieve any goal you sity and an inspiring story. have. I really believe that.”

Ya ng sa id she cred its A s a r e p o r t e r, Ya n g her career to her journey covered the presidential inat this university. A flier augurations of presidents for an internship with a George W. Bush in 2005 and local CBS station posted Barack Obama in both 2009 on a wall in the journal- and 2013. She also anchored ism building caught Yang’s the first snowfall during the eye when she was an un- 2009 blizzards and covered dergraduate. She scored the 2002 Washington-area the internship, which led sn iper shoot i ngs, a mong to her first job as a pro- other notable events. duction assistant while Choosi ng a jou r n a l i sm she was a senior at this school alumna reaffirms the university. profession’s significance, Her d ays b ega n w it h journalism Dean Lucy Dalcl a sses i n t he mor n i ng glish said. and concluded with work “It proves that journalin the afternoon, as she ism is relevant to everyone was a student and a profes- in society,” Dalglish said. sional. Yang said she spent “Most i mporta ntly, what any free time she had prac- this says is that contrary to ticing standups, speaking popular belief, journalism is on camera to narrate a part far from dead. All you have of a story, and putting to- to do to figure that out is to gether video packages with walk into Knight Hall.” her friends in journalism.

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college From PAGE 1 material, many Carole Highlands students participated in the lecture and answered questions.

“My lab buddy was really active and answered a few questions and got them right,” said David Millner, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences.

University students worked with the elementary school children on a handout explor i ng t he evolut ion a r y histories of various animal groups. One of Carole Highlands’ counselors, Cassandra T homas, noticed her students’ engagement.

“The event was very successful,” Thomas said. “[The students] were independently looking for assistance; they w a n te d to c o m p l e te t h e

Louis ayala, 11, (left) sits with class buddy Emma Williams, a freshman physiology and neurobiology major, in a university class Friday.

Students came with Kids2College, a program that helps would-be first-generation college students succeed. james levin / the diamondback worksheet.”

Not all of Shofner’s students had elementary buddies, but those who did, such as sophomore Maninder Matharu, a biology major, found the experience helpful and rewarding.

“It was fun. I paid more

a t te n t i o n to t h e l e c t u re and focused on my buddy,” Matharu said. “I wanted to be a good role model and look smart in front of these students.”

Shofner also hosted a visit from Carole Highlands sixthgrade students last year. The

amount of participation has kindled a developing partnership between the university and the elementary school.

“We’re going to do this visit annually,” Thomas said. “It’s sparking their future. They’ll be working on STEM proj-

ects and this is giving them a glimpse of college life.”

Thomas conducted a survey with the participating elementary students before they came to this university for last year’s event, asking them if they thought a college education was an important step toward achieving their goals. Fortysix percent of students agreed that it was, while 24 percent disagreed and 30 percent remained neutral.

After that year’s Kids2College v isit, T homas recollected the data and found 80 percent of participants a g re e d t h a t c o l l e ge w a s important to their future goals, while only 4 percent disagreed and 16 percent remained neutral.

Thomas and Shofner will be meeting in December with Carole Highlands’ principal to discuss forming an after-

school homework club for university students to assist elementary schoolers.

Sarah Miller, a freshman cell biology and genetics major, witnessed many of these students’ newfound aspirations to attend a college one day.

“I’ve had so many of them ask me about college,” Miller said. “It’s letting them know it’s an attainable goal and that it’s not as hard as it seems.”

This inspiration to attend college aligns exactly with the event’s purpose: to encourage students to begin thinking about their futures early, Shofner said.

After the lecture, the elementary students were already talking more about college and science with their buddies.

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clark From PAGE 1 bioengineering state for a long time,” engineering Dean Darryll Pines said.

With the nearby National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration and other research centers, universities and hospitals conducting bioengineering research in the area, the engineering department decided it was time to launch a bioengineering major a few years ago. Since then, it has rapidly expanded, Pines said.

“We realized that it was moving so quickly that we needed special laboratories and special environments like this building to really do the next level of research and development,” he said.

Set to open in 2017, the Clark Building will have 184,000 square feet of floor space, which will include a lecture hall, six other classrooms, labs, office space, a “makerspace” for 3-D printing and a vivarium for animal research.

All of this will bring together students and researchers from medicine, public health, engineering and science to work on the next generation of biomedical devices, Pines said.

“This will be a transformative, world-class facility, where world-class research and innovation will be performed by the world-class students, faculty and staff

of the A. James Clark School of Engineering,” university President Wallace Loh said at the groundbreaking ceremony.

Noting that this was not “presidential hyperbole,” L oh sa id the eng i neeri ng school was ranked No. 22 among engineering schools in U.S. News & World Report this year. The Fischell Bioengineering Department was ranked No. 34 among bioengineering programs.

U. S. R ep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) agreed the new facility would help better the fields of bioengineering and health care after he praised the engineering that kept the ceremonial tent warm on the cold late-autumn morning.

“Not only will this university be better, but … this u n iversity w i l l m a ke l i fe different for people here in this country and around the world,” Hoyer said.

Brit Kirwan, who soon will step down from his post as University System of Maryland chancellor, said the building was made possible by the generosity of A. James Clark and Robert E. Fischell, who donated $15 million and $6 million to Clark Hall, respectively.

“If this is, in fact, my last groundbreaking ceremony, I could not have asked for one that meant more to me because of the two people we honor here today,” Kirwan said, noting his friendship with Clark and Fischell.

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Cla rk, a 1950 a lu m nus, founded Clark Construction Group, which is responsible for projects such as Camden Yards, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Inter-County Connector.

Additionally, they have led 27 projects around the campus, including Oakland and Prince Frederick halls a n d t h e C l a rk B u i l d i n g, for wh ich they have been awarded through a public a u c t io n , s a i d D ave Ta cchetti, the project manager for the construction of the Clark Building.

Fischell, whose $31 million donation in 2005 established this university’s bioengineering department in his name, invents biomedical devices, including a Food and Drug Administration-approved device that sends out magnetic pulses and eliminates pain. He said the building will greatly improve the bioengineering department.

“The opportunity that we have with this new building is even greater than what we’ve already had,” Fischell said. “Now we’re going to have space for even smarter students, better faculty, et cetera, to carry on some of the new ideas that we created there, and a few of them also that I have imparted to them.”

William Bentley, chairman of the bioengineering department, said it is difficult for researchers to forge a community when they don’t have a central space. He said the building will bring great changes, bringing more researchers to the university and the ones already here closer together.

“It’s on the order of starting a department,” he said.

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wolverines From PAGE 1 took a hit to his right hip.

Fa lling to the grou nd and out of bounds, Brown extended the ball forward with his right arm, reaching for the first down. The referees originally ruled him down short of the marker, but after reviewing the play, they overturned the call and provided the Terps with a fresh set of downs.

Brown then led his team the final 68 yards for the eventual game-winning touchdown. And after a week in which his starting job was in jeopardy for the first time all season because of underwhelming play, Brown responded with a clutch performance that sparked a 23-16 win in Ann Arbor.

“A lot was being put into question, and we had to go out there and make a statement, not only personally, but offensively,” Brown said Saturday. “We called ourselves out. We knew we put a lot of pressure on ourselves this week to go out there and execute. And we were able to do that today.”

Later in the drive as the Terps approached midfield, thanks to a 10-yard rush from running back Brandon Ross, Brow n completed back-to-back passes.

First, on second-and-8 from his own 44-yard line, Brown rolled to his right on a bootleg and fired on the run to Jacquille Veii.

On the next play, offensive coordinator Mike Locksley called a fake bubble screen.

The Wolverines bit, and Amba Etta-Tawo broke free down the sideline. Brown delivered a smooth long ball right into the hands of the sophomore wide receiver for a 36-yard pickup.

Two plays later, running back Wes Brown powered

“WE HAD TO GO OUT THERE AND MAKE A STATEMENT, NOT ONLY PERSONALLY, BUT OFFENSIVELY. ...WE PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON OURSELVES THIS WEEK TO GO OUT THERE AND EXECUTE. AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT TODAY.” C.J.BROWN

Terrapins football quarterback into the end zone from 1 yard out to give the Terps a seven-point lead they never relinquished.

But that score would not have been possible without the Terps’ previous possession, a 11-play, 68-yard drive that Brown capped off with an 8-yard touchdown run.

“He’s a competitor, and he came out today and did all the things that [he] needed to do,” coach Randy Edsall said of Brown. “He was a warrior today. He was a great leader out there in the huddles and on the sideline.”

A big factor in Brown’s resurgence was his willingness to move outside the pocket, just as he did during that crucial third-and-6 in the final quarter.

Brown finished with 87 rushing yards on 18 carries i n t he ga me, t he b u l k of wh ich ca me on a 30-ya rd scramble in the first quarter.

Locksley also sprinkled in a fair number of zone-read plays, two of which Brown kept for more than 10 yards on the touchdown drive that tied the game at 16.

“If it wasn’t there, I was just going to use my athletic ability to make plays,” Brown said. “I wasn’t going to hold anything back. And it helped today.”

That mindset nearly cost Brown his afternoon early in the second quarter, though. On a third-and-2 from the Michigan 20-yard line, Brown took the snap, rolled out to his right on a bootleg and tried to run for the first down before he was tackled short of the marker.

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W hile being tackled, Brown’s helmet came off.

And at the bottom of the pile with no protection, the quarterback said he took a shot to his head near the corner of his eye. Brown stayed down as trainers sprinted onto the field to tend to him.

“I got a little blurry,” Brown said. “I didn’t really know what was going on.”

But as he did previously this season against West Virginia in September, Brown didn’t let an injury prevent him from staying on the field.

He returned for the Terps’ next series and played the rest of the game.

“When C.J. went back on there, it just showed that when he said we have to lay everything on the line, he meant it,” said Wes Brown, who finished with 39 rushing yards. “So if he’s putting it on the line, we have to protect him — do the same thing that he’s doing and put our bodies on the line.”

In a loss to Michigan State two weekends ago under the lights at Byrd Stadium, Brown threw three interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown, and led an ineffective offense all night.

The next day, Edsall hinted at the possibility of a quarterback switch.

Brown’s response was a virtually mistake-free game Saturday against the Wolverines and several important plays down the stretch.

And with two games left in a career in which he’s accounted for more touchdowns than any player in program history, Brown captured a historic victory for the Terps while quieting conversation about a potential switch under center.

“As a quarterback and a head coach, you get too much credit when you win and you take too much blame when you lose,” Edsall said. “I know that he’s feeling good. And he should, because he played a whale of a game.”

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indoor practice space, which puts it at a recruiting disadvantage. With a new practice facility and health clinic, this university could draw an extensive network of potential football recruits, showing that this university is as good as any other Big Ten school.

OUR VIEW

In the long run, the potential Cole Field House renovations would better the entire university community.

Ever since this university decided to join the Big Ten in November 2012, university athletics — and the big-money operations surrounding it — have appeared to be more of a primary concern for the university, as they should be.

There is an extensive business side to university athletics that affects the entire university community, not just student-athletes.

Being privy to the Big Ten’s television revenue is a moneymaking opportunity for this university that must be exercised to its fullest potential. According to a report in the Lafayette Journal & Courier, 12 of the 14 universities in the Big Ten will bring in an estimated $44.5 million in television revenue for

the 2017-18 academic year. This university and Rutgers, the two schools newest to the conference, won’t bring in that kind of money until they’ve been part of the conference for six years.

It is not a secret that this university’s athletic department has run up an extensive debt, which reportedly is on track to be repaid by 2018.

Athletic Director Kevin Anderson assured the university community that the debt repayment would still be on track even if construction on Cole began.

Howeve r, t h e re i s a lways a chance that Anderson’s goals could go off course. If the road to repayment takes a little longer, the athletic department and university should wisely use any revenue generated from being in the Big Ten to repay their debt so the entire university community can benefit from the projected profits.

Even though this university won’t see $44.5 million annually for at least another six years, the fact that the university has the opportunity to make that amount of money someday is satisfying.

Cole’s potential renovation, complete with the indoor football practice field, would be the best way to show that this university is ready to compete with the rest of the Big Ten schools.

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ts iconic red brick facade supported by four white pillars serves to remind the university community of Cole Field House’s lasting impact. The hallowed hall has seen celebrities, basketball championships and a collection of memories for those who have ever set foot inside.

However, the legendary building will most likely experience an extensive face-lift.

It was announced Thursday that the University System of Maryland Finance Committee had approved plans to revamp Cole into an extensive multipurpose complex that will include an indoor football practice field, a center for entrepreneurship and innovation and a sports health research clinic. The fate of the renovations now rests on approval from the Board of Regents; members will cast their votes Dec. 12.

These renovations will largely benefit the Terrapins football team and those involved with the entrepreneurship center and health clinic. Individuals in the university community unaffiliated with any of those ventures might not be as interested or excited for these potential additions to the university.

But in the long run, these changes to Cole could greatly enhance this university’s value.

This university is the only Big Ten school that does not have an

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t was an inconspicuous weekday when my friend discovered the unintended science ex p e r i m e n t t h a t wa s in my kitchen. Blissfully unaware of the horror within, my friend entered my apartment for what he thought would be a calm night of studying.

Instead, he was met with my catastrophe of a kitchen: plates that had been sitting out for weeks, perishable food that had been room temperature for a good part of the day and an overflowing trash can that resembled an anthill in the making. Safe to say, it looked as though I hadn’t done my chores in weeks.

We had a good laugh about it, but I swore to him that when I graduate and have my own place, it will be immaculate. Then he mentioned what could be a terrifying truth: The habits you have now might be the habits you have for your lifetime.

He was taking a gerontology (the study of aging) class, and he referenced a study that suggested the habits we have in our early 20s are extremely hard to break come adulthood. So my idealistically impeccable future might be nothing more than a pipe dream; I’m already a slob and there’s no changing that, according to this study.

So do we college students give up the idea that one day, we’ll suddenly stop procrastinating, binge drinking and being a general mess and accept that we’ll be engaging in the same debauchery when we’re 40? Or can we fight this?

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If I want to be an immaculate

person in the future, the best time to start is now. We are at our physical and mental peak in our 20s, so this is the time when we can put the most effort into our behavior and have the most success. Many studies and even common knowledge tell us that starting a habit in your 30s or later is considerably harder.

The consequences of not trying to change our habits might be dire.

We don’t often think about 40-yearolds procrastinating on their legal reports until the morning they’re due, leaving their dishes out for weeks and not taking out the trash, but those people exist, and there’s probably a show on TLC about them.

Assuming that when you graduate, the adulthood fairies will sprinkle their magical grow-up dust on you and you’ll go on to suddenly check your mailbox on a regular basis is as far-fetched as this hyperbole.

If we want to have any hope of being functional adults, we have to start building on the basics now.

Dedicating 20 minutes of your day to chores is underwhelming enough not to be a burden but still be effective. Doing two paragraphs of that 15-page essay at a time will not only save you stress on the due date, but also will create positive feelings of accomplishment that will encourage you to continue that habit. Quitting your immoral self-indulgence cold turkey doesn’t just happen; you have to slowly trick yourself into becoming a normal human being.

It’s hard, and there’s definitely money in showing off the alien species growing in your fridge to a camera crew, but we can all agree that these habits need to die before we move on, kind of like that plant you haven’t watered since you got it.

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

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Don’t take food for granted Not everyone gets to feast the way you will this Thanksgiving KATIE STULLER

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here’s no denying that our student body looks pretty darn good. This year, this university was ranked No. 35 on The Active Times’ list of fittest colleges. From attending group fitness classes at Eppley Recreation Center to grabbing a healthy wrap at the Maryland Food Co-op, Terps invest a ton of time in staying fit.

But as winter approaches, we begin to feel guiltier and guiltier each day we don’t hit the gym. The fat rolls for hibernation start to find their ways to our stomachs, and everything tastes so much better than usual. Instead of enjoying our hot cocoa, we drink it with the foreboding regret that we will have to run for an hour to burn it off.

Here is my proposition: Don’t sweat it. This year, instead of worrying about working out after Thanksgiving, just indulge. In Mean Girls, they say, “Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it.” Well, here is my new motto: Thanksgiving is the

one day a year when a Terp can eat like a total fatty and no other Terps can say anything about it.

As college students, we barely have the time — or more importantly, the money — to enjoy a feast of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, carbs and more carbs, pies, desserts and expensive wines. Therefore, it is only right that we stop running ourselves into the ground and take a look at the reasons we should indulge.

First, the food is free (for the most part). For many of us, our parents and relatives will be doing the cooking, and we’ll be doing the mooching. After a semester of buying groceries and sobbing over the expensive prices at Chick-fil-A, we have the opportunity to feast our hearts out without having to swipe our cards or frantically check our bank accounts.

Second, you do not want to offend your relatives. When you stare down the juicy dark meat and take only one piece because you want to watch your bod, Aunt Whatsherface is going to take that to heart and hold it against you for the next 40 years until she dies.

No wedding gifts for you.

But most importantly, indulge because it reminds us of the gifts

we often take for granted.

In 2012, 16.2 percent of state residents did not have the income or resources to provide food for themselves or for their families at some point during the year. Some of those residents might be on this campus.

Although it is important to avoid gluttony and follow health guidelines, it is a slap in the face to those less fortunate when you are given the opportunity to eat heartily, and you turn it down because you “don’t want to eat carbs.”

There are thousands of people who struggle to buy even a piece of bread, and we have the audacity to say, “I can’t eat that! I need to lose 3 pounds!”

We must use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to reflect on how we view our bodies. Is eating stressful? Do we eat too much? Do we eat too little? Do we take food for granted? All I hope is if you turn down a second plate because you want to watch your weight, you’ll be considerate enough to give some of the leftovers to a person who truly needs them this winter season.

Katie Stuller is a junior English m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t kstullerdbk@gmail.com.

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he Diamondback published an article Nov. 17 detailing the university’s proposal to renovate Cole Field House into an indoor football facility. This reconstruction would destroy the historic building, displace the tennis courts and take away many Lot 1 parking spots.

Not only is this an expensive undertaking, but it is also a project that takes up prime campus space and benefits only a small proportion of the university.

It takes many North Campus residents at least 10 minutes to walk to most of their classes.

If officials renovate the area by Cole, it would be much smarter for the university to benefit a larger percentage of the student population by converting the space into something like an academic building.

For example, the Department of Resident Life’s On-Campus Housing Strategic Plan reveals plans to build a residential community across from the Ellicott Community, moving the varsity practice field closer to the Xfinity Center. This is a much smarter decision because only Division one athletes can use the practice field, but it is close to residence hall communities that house many freshmen.

Additionally, this football facility will remove many parking

spots in Lot 1. If the university wants to create a greener campus by reducing the number of available parking spots for students, it needs to improve its public transit system in order to properly serve its students.

Last year, I took a bus to the Target at Beltway Plaza Mall. The round trip took about two hours. Had I driven, it would have taken me 20 minutes. Students at this university are hardworking, involved scholars who have little time to waste, and if their access to private vehicles is limited severely, improving the quality of the university bus system is imperative.

While it is understandable that athletics are a large part of this university, ultimately, this school is a place for academics. This must be reflected in the layout of our campus and our prioritization of large projects. Cole has held many events that were open to all students, including the Crab Feast, homecoming comedy show and Terp Thon.

When considering such drastic renovations to this campus, university officials should keep the interests and well-being of the larger student population in mind.

This university is more than just its sports teams.

Lara Fu is a sophomore government and politics major. She can be reached at larajfu@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | POKÉMON LEAGUE

you teach me and i’ll teach you The Pokémon League brings together college students who’ve bonded over love spanning decades for catching ’em all

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer From Route 1, the GameStop at the College Park Shopping Center looked empty at about 8 p.m. Thursday. However, upon entering the store, it was hard to miss the cluster of people in the back corner intently playing their Nintendo 3DSs. “Is this the front of the line?” a newcomer asked.

The seven players earliest to arrive helpfully pointed him to the end of their row. The gamers at the front of the line had arrived at about 7 p.m. in anticipation of the midnight release of the newest Pokémon games, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire — though the line grew drastically throughout the night as other gamers from the College Park area flocked to the store to be among the first to get their hands on the updated versions of 2003’s Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, as well as Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. A m o n g t h ose wa i t i n g we re members of the UMD Pokémon League, an unofficial club for Pokémon fans in and around the campus community. A group of students, including Douglas Eber, a senior geographical sciences major, and Alexander Ryan, who graduated from the university this spring, founded the club last fall.

Members meet Wednesdays and Sundays in the Baltimore Room of Stamp Student Union.

Eber said the group’s idea arose as people on the campus came together around the release of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y last year. The league was founded to create a community based around the beloved RPGs. “We knew people here and there who played Pokémon together,” Eber said. “We just grabbed a group of

pokÉmon league’s members love the world of the digital animals and battle one another over local DS connections. photo illustration by kelsey sutton/the diamondback people and said, ‘Hey, we should do this.’”

While some of those in the Pokémon League are relatively new to the franchise, most players have been involved with Pokémon since childhood. Eber and senior English major Jonathan Johnson were introduced to the series with Pokémon Silver, which was released for the Game Boy Color in 2000. However, the series — and its players — have changed since then, and Eber and Johnson appreciate the group that has grown around the series at this university.

“It’s a welcoming community for something that was once seen as childish,” Johnson said. “Clearly this is not the case anymore, as you can do so much with your Pokémon now.”

Johnson’s lengthy break from the series while growing up helped him develop a new enthusiasm for it when he played Pokémon Black and White in 2011 — he “got back into it with a vengeance,” he said.

“We’ve definitely evolved from the children who had to swing around from cords on their Game Boys,” Johnson said.

With that idea in mind, Ryan focused on channeling the social aspect of the games many players experienced in childhood, especially with the 3DS system, which allows players from around the world to interact through WiFi. “Most of the Pokémon community now exists on online forums and battle simulators, so I definitely wanted to bring back the

face-to-face interaction of the old days, trading between Game Boys with a link cable,” Ryan said.

These face-to-face interactions among members allows them to discuss game strategies with other players without some of the hostility and narrow-mindedness that come from online forums, Johnson said.

“Doing things in person gives me the opportunity to actually communicate,” Johnson said. “This gives you more than one way.”

One of the more interesting perks of a large Pokémon community at the university is the ability to run a Pokémon gym league, which is a childhood dream come true for many lifelong Pokémon fans. The Pokémon League on the campus has created a gym challenge similar to

the gyms in the games, in which students and campus community members train their Pokémon with powerful teams of one type of Pokémon to serve as gym leaders.

Eber said the leader and challengers meet on the campus, and leaders can add rules or puzzles to the battle before challengers fight over local DS connections.

Ryan was inspired to run the gym league on the campus after hearing about a similar league at Penn State in which players seek and battle gym leaders for badges.

“I wanted to replicate that at UMD but wasn’t sure if there was suitable interest until X and Y came out,” Ryan said. “My goal is that we run a gym league with unique leaders at least once a year, ideally twice.”

After a successful gym challenge last year, the group hopes to run another one this year, and Johnson is serving as the Normal-type gym leader. Johnson also helped lead a tournament for Pokémon fans waiting in line for the midnight release of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, complete with a new set of rules to balance casual and more intense players.

“WE’VE DEFINITELY EVOLVED FROM THE CHILDREN WHO HAD TO SWING AROUND FROM CORDS ON THEIR GAME BOYS.” JONATHAN JOHNSON

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RETRIEVERS From PAGE 8 “It’s a tough way to go out,” Cirovski said. “But I’m proud of the way we handled ourselves after the final whistle blew. Our players handled it with great dignity and class.”

The loss marks the first time the Terps (13-6-3) failed to advance past the second round since 2001. It also snaps the program’s two-year streak of playing in the College Cup. When the Terps and UMBC played to a scoreless draw in early September, Cirovski’s team was stuck in a rut.

Lacking a primary scorer, the offense sputtered and the

pack From PAGE 8 Thursday’s win over Fordham.

“He’s our glue guy. He’s someone you can count on in any situation.”

Pack played for North Carolina A&T last season, averaging 17 points per game for a Mid Eastern Athletic Conference team that finished 9-23. This year, he’s playing for a more prominent program and has taken on several roles he didn’t fill for the Aggies.

One new challenge Pack faces is guarding the opponent’s best perimeter player each game, and Turgeon said it’s a spot in which the senior has excelled.

“I tried to play a lot more defense last year, but it was harder because I had to put so much energy into offense,” Pack said. “This year, with so many offense options, I think it takes a load off some of our players … with me guarding the best player on the other team.”

And Pack, who also spent

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saved yesterday. The Terps registered two more shots in the opening 45 minutes but failed to connect.

Yet for all of their offensive struggles, the Terps backline continually prevented the Retrievers from gaining traction in the scoring third after promising runs off counterattacks. Defenders Jereme Raley and Chris Odoi-Atsem broke up several potential shots.

In the second half, the Retrievers (13-5-4) picked up the pace, controlling possession and stymieing the Terps attack. Finally, in the 70th minute, a Retriever sent a ball to wide-open forward Kay Banjo inside the box.

losses piled up. During the Terps’ winning streak, though, Cirovski relied on a balanced offensive attack to overwhelm opponents. Scoring came from everywhere.

But yesterday, the Terps failed to produce offensively.

“Sometimes when you don’t have a go-to guy that can be your threat in tough games like this, you see it really come back to bite you,” Cirovski said.

The Terps had several scoring chances in the first half. Midfielder Mael Corboz, who scored the game-winning goal off a free kick in the Big Ten title game, smashed two free kicks that UMBC goalkeeper Billy Heavner

time at Florida International, especially likes guarding opposing stars because it affords him a chance to prove he belongs in a power conference.

No Arizona State (3-0) players average more than 11 points per game, but Pack is likely to match up with guard Bo Barnes or 6-foot5 small forward Shaquielle McKissic. The Terps (3-0) will also play either Alabama or Iowa State tomorrow night, meaning Pack will have another opportunity to stifle a heralded opponent.

“Richaud has a lot of confidence in himself to play at any level,” Layman said.

“Anybody that comes from that level up to this level is going to want to show that they can hang.”

Pack’s provided more to the team than just defense, t h o u g h . H e ’s s h o o t i n g 55.6 percent from the field and .571 on 3-pointers while adjusting to his role as a fill-in point guard.

The Detroit native hasn’t played the position since high school, but with the help of

Turgeon — a point guard at Kansas in the 1980s — Pack’s grown more at ease with the ball-handling duties.

“I’m getting much more comfortable each game,” Pack said. “It’s just experience. You can get told certain stuff and get wisdom from Coach, who’s played the point guard position, but the more I play it, the better feel I get for it.”

While Pack’s play, particularly his rebounding and playmaking, has been reflected by personal statistics, he’s also been the p l a ye r w h o s e p re s e n c e on the floor has led to the Terps’ greatest success.

In each game this season, Pack has had the team’s best plus-minus ratio, which measures the team’s scoring margin while a particular player is on the floor.

After starring on a ninewin squad last season, Pack finds himself in a new position with the Terps. And to Turgeon, Pack’s been the most important piece to his new team’s hot start.

“He’s really unselfish,”

Goalkeeper Zack Steffen blocked Banjo’s shot, but the ball quickly trickled to the feet of midfielder Malcolm Harris.

Harris sent a left-footed shot into the bottom-left corner of the net. The Retrievers took a 1-0 lead.

“We didn’t expect anyone to outplay each other. It was pretty much even throughout the game,” midfielder Dan Metzger said. “They fought for that scrappy goal, and they got it.”

About 20 minutes later, the game clock ran out and the fans rushed the field.

As Cirovski’s postgame press conference drew to a close, Metzger, a senior, took a seat next to Cirovski and briefly put his arm over his coach’s shoul-

goalkeeper zack steffen shakes a fan’s hand after the loss to UMBC, which ends the Terps’ season short of the College Cup for the first time in two years. christian jenkins/the diamondback der. Then they left together, walking toward the locker room for the final time.

“We’re not used to losing in the second round of the NCAA

tournament. It’s new to all of us,” Cirovski said. “But it’s part of the cycle.”

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Still, the Terps were able to overcome poor rebounding by switching to a zone defense in the second half.

With a new-look defense, the Terps held George Washington to 38.5 percent shooting from the floor in the final period.

“The zone in the second half impacted them quite a bit,” Frese said. “That wrinkle helped us in terms of getting stops.”

Th e improved defense allowed the Terps to avoid an early-season upset in their first road contest of the season, but they realize the array of problems they had in the first half.

A winless Loyola team that doesn’t have any players taller than 6 feet won’t provide the level of competition the Terps will face later in the season, but it will provide an opportunity for the post players to regain some confidence after allowing the Colonials to control the paint.

“We got it together in the second half,” Brown said, “but against better competition, we won’t have time to do that.”

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guard richaud pack shoots a jump shot in an exhibition victory over San Francisco State on Nov. 1. chester lam/the diamondback Turgeon said. “You’re talking about a guy … who led his team in scoring last year, shot most of the balls, every play was ran for him. … He’s just a solid, solid player and a great kid. I think he’s having a lot of fun.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

the Terps 38-36 in the paint.

Coach Brenda Frese’s squad averaged 30 more points per game in the paint than its opponents entering the matchup.

“Just an area, again, we got to improve on,” Frese said.

With forward Aja Ellison sitting out for the second straight game with a sore shoulder, the Terps were shorthanded with their bigs.

Frese often went to a smaller lineup when either center Malina Howard or center Brionna Jones rested.

As a result, the Terps struggled to keep the Colonials off the offensive glass. George Washington pulled down 14 offensive rebounds and outrebounded the Terps 39-36 in the game.

“The team had a great mentality of rebounding,” Jones said.

“Everybody was trying to go to the boards and trying to crash them. It was a great team effort.”

Eight of the 10 Colonials players who saw action grabbed at least one offensive rebound.

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MEN’S SOCCER | RETRIEVERS 1, NO. 4-SEED TERPS 0

A RUSHED ENDING

Midfielder mael corboz sits on Ludwig Field as UMBC fans celebrate the Retrievers’ 1-0 victory in the second round of the NCAA tournament yesterday. Corboz, the Terps’ leading goal-scorer, had two free kicks saved in the defeat.

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UMBC ends Terps’ season, 11-match winning streak with upset win in second round of NCAA tournament

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer They came in packs, jumping guardrails and streaming onto the Ludwig Field pitch to celebrate with the team that just advanced to the third round of the NCAA tournament.

Yesterday, UMBC fans made up a chunk of the announced

3,776 who witnessed the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s season end at the hands of the Retrievers. So after the final whistle blew on the No. 4-seed Terps’ 1-0 defeat, scores of UMBC supporters rushed the field, sprinting past dejected Terps players to celebrate the upset.

“That’s one of the biggest wins in our school history and, I think, in any sport,” UMBC coach Pete Caringi said.

As the pandemonium played out around midfield, several

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Terps players sunk to the ground, pulling their jerseys over their heads. For coach Sasho Cirovski’s squad, it marked a crushing end to a season that began with disappointment and eventually gave way to an 11-game winning streak.

A week after the Terps raised the first Big Ten tournament trophy in school history, they squandered a shot at an NCAA title run.

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Frese sees teaching points in win at GW Terps aim to use lessons from narrow victory over Colonials in game against Greyhounds

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WASHINGTON — T h e Te r ra p i n s

GUARD Richaud Pack dribbles by a defender in the Terps’ win over Wagner on Nov. 8. Pack leads the Terps in rebounds and assists. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Pack proves worth as ‘glue guy’ Turgeon calls guard his ‘best player’ entering tilt with Arizona St

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Veterans Dez Wells and Jake Layman are the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s leading scorers through two games. Freshman guards Melo Trimble and Dion Wiley, meanwhile, have infused the program with energy early on.

But while speaking to his team this weekend in preparation for the College Basketball Experience Hall of Fame Classic tournament

in Kansas City, Missouri, which begins tonight with a game against Arizona State, coach Mark Turgeon didn’t give his heftiest praise to any of those players.

Instead, the fourth-year coach reserved that recognition for graduate transfer guard Richaud Pack.

“He’s been our best player,” Turgeon said Saturday. “He’s playing point guard, he’s shooting the [third]-best percentage, he’s guarding the best player. He does almost everything right.”

Pack started each of the Terps’

first three games at shooting guard and has relieved Trimble of his floorgeneral duties. He leads the team with six rebounds and three assists per game and is fourth on the team with 8.3 points per game.

Turgeon and teammates, though, have said Pack’s greatest attribution is his stability. He’s turned the ball over twice this year and rarely gets caught out of position on defense.

“Richaud has just been solid all around for us,” Layman said after See PACK, Page 7

women’s basketball team had led by at least 17 points at halftime in its first three games of the season, but the Terps entered the locker room trailing George Washington on Saturday.

It was an uncharacteristic first half for the Terps in several facets.

They turned the ball over 13 times, shot 2 of 6 from the free-throw line and allowed the Colonials to shoot 50 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes of action.

While guard Laurin M incy’s 21 second-half points helped the No. 9 Terps escape the Charles E. Smith Center with a 75-65 win, the contest provided the team with plenty of areas to work on tonight when it returns to Xfinity Center to play Loyola (0-3).

“We can’t come to any games relaxed,” guard Lexie Brown said Saturday. “We do respect George Washington as a basketball team, but today was just one of those days when we weren’t on the same page to come out.”

The Terps’ first three opponents didn’t have the size down low to match up against the Terps’ post players, but that wasn’t the case Saturday. The Terps (4-0) had a hard time slowing the combination

guard laurin mincy drives to the rim in Saturday’s win at George Washington. The No. 9 Terps host Loyola tonight at Xfinity Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback of 6-foot-4 forward Jonquel Jones and 6-foot-5 forward Kelli Prange.

Jones, who missed the Colonials’ first three games, was the only Atlantic 10 player to average a doubledouble a season ago. And the junior, who led George Washington with 18 points and 10 rebounds, caused problems for the Terps.

Prange and Jones were a major reason why the Colonials outscored See HOUNDS, Page 7