THE DIAMONDBACK THE DIAMONDBACK DONE WITH Louisville ends Terps’ season with 4-2 win at Ludwig Field SPORTS | PAGE 10 WORDSMITHS Stylus literary journal aims to attract larger audience DIVERSIONS | PAGE 6 TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Showers/50s www.diamondbackonline.com INDEX NEWS . . . . . . . . . .2 OPINION . . . . . . . .4 FEATURES . . . . . .5 CLASSIFIED . . . . .6 DIVERSIONS . . . . .6 SPORTS . . . . . . . . .10 Our 102 ND Year, No. 61 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER Monday, November 28, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT Students submit policy extension Advocates hope U. Senate will extend Good Samaritan policy to include drug overdoses Real estate woes add to deficit County prepares for $133 million shortfall BY JIM BACH Staff writer Following the nationwide trend of struggling housing markets, Prince George’s County and the City of Col- lege Park are facing further economic uncertainty that can be attributed to ailing real estate. In addition to shouldering about a $700 million debt, the county faces a $133 million budget shortfall for the 2013 fiscal year, according to Thomas Himler, the county’s budget director. A struggling real estate market and lower assessed values on property Senate, SGA struggle to communicate A new kind of Full House Univ. alumnus co-writes webseries with former 1990s stars BY SARAH MEEHAN Senior staff writer University alumnus Jordan Rozan- sky grew up watching Full House, but never imagined that one day he’d work alongside the actors he once watched from his living room. But just two years after graduating with an English degree, the 2008 graduate found himself working as a script consultant for Ryan Reynolds’ production company, Dark Trick Films, and launching his own five- part web miniseries called Can’t Get Arrested. The show, which releases its final episode next week, follows unemployed ’90s actors — including Full House stars Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron and Saved by the Bell actor Dennis Hask- ins — through wild paparazzi schemes to regain the fame they see SHOW, page 2 Body leaders hope to resolve problem BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer After several student leaders claimed they were overpowered in the University Senate debate to imple- ment a plus-and-minus grading policy next fall, SGA officials and university senators said they plan to discuss how the two organizations can communi- cate more effectively going forward. Although Student Government Association members were adamantly opposed to approving a new grading policy — and the body voted to con- demn the policy Nov. 7, two days before the senate ultimately voted in favor of it — they did not inform the University alumna Katherine Imp (right) and two friends hiked the Appalachian Trail. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT LLC The tale of the trail Alumna films documentary on hiking the Appalachian Trail BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, they were known as the Traveling Circus — a name intended as criticism for university alumna Katherine “Ringleader” Imp, her brother Brandon “Monkey” Imp and best friend Emily “Lightning” Ginger, but one the extroverted group came to embrace. As it turns out, that Traveling Circus has quite the stor y to tell, and Katherine Imp, a 2006 graduate of this university now practicing law in Chicago, is hoping others will soon listen. Imp produced a documentary film called Beauty Beneath the Dirt, about hiking the 2,178.3 miles of the Appalachian Trail with her brother and Ginger. The film focuses on how the challenges of the hike affect the rela- tionships among the trio, a topic Katherine Imp said is different from most outdoor documentaries and will engage a wide variety of viewers. “The trail was an adventure, but the film was just as much of an adventure,” she said. “At first I just thought of it as a home video, like where you film your family opening Christmas gifts, but as it started to unfold, I realized there are so many aspects to making a documentary. … It’ll make people laugh and cr y and, at the end of the day, think about their own relationships and their own life.” Although she had never backpacked see TRAIL, page 7 BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer For many student activists, win- ning the four-year fight to implement a Good Samaritan policy in March was only the first half of the battle — they have officially begun the second round to extend the policy to include drug use. Undergraduate senators officially submitted a policy to the University Senate Nov. 18 to extend the Good Samaritan policy — which protects dangerously drunk students from university sanctions if they call 911 for themselves or a friend — so stu- dents are also protected if they over- dose on drugs. Although students pushed for an all-inclusive policy when they first began lobbying for Good Samaritan legislation four years ago, they ultimately focused on only getting an alcohol-related policy passed first. With a formal extension proposal now in hand, they are set- ting their sights again on establishing the policy they had once envisioned. Tomorrow, the Senate Executive Committee, the body’s most powerful committee, will review the proposal and vote whether to move the legisla- tion forward to the Student Conduct Committee for extensive review. Undergraduate student senator Bran- don Levey, who drafted the proposal, said student activists adjusted its wording in hopes of persuading older see POLICY, page 3 see BODIES, page 3 see DEFICIT, page 2 GRAPHIC BY VICKY LAI/THE DIAMONDBACK University alumnus Jordan Rozansky (left) co-wrote a web miniseries starring former Full House star Dave Coulier (right). PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN ROZANSKY
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Our 102ND Year, No. 61THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERMonday, November 28, 2011
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Students submit policy extensionAdvocates hope U. Senate will extend Good Samaritan policy to include drug overdoses
Real estatewoes addto deficitCounty prepares for$133 million shortfall
BY JIM BACHStaff writer
Following the nationwide trend ofstruggling housing markets, PrinceGeorge’s County and the City of Col-lege Park are facing further economicuncertainty that can be attributed toailing real estate.
In addition to shouldering about a$700 million debt, the county faces a$133 million budget shortfall for the2013 fiscal year, according to ThomasHimler, the county’s budget director. Astruggling real estate market andlower assessed values on property
Senate, SGAstruggle tocommunicate
A new kind of Full HouseUniv. alumnus co-writes webseries with former 1990s stars
BY SARAH MEEHANSenior staff writer
University alumnus Jordan Rozan-sky grew up watching Full House,but never imagined that one day he’dwork alongside the actors he oncewatched from his living room.
But just two years after graduatingwith an English degree, the 2008graduate found himself working as ascript consultant for Ryan Reynolds’production company, Dark TrickFilms, and launching his own five-part web miniseries called Can’t GetArrested. The show, which releasesits final episode next week, followsunemployed ’90s actors — includingFull House stars Dave Coulier, JodieSweetin and Candace Cameron andSaved by the Bell actor Dennis Hask-ins — through wild paparazzischemes to regain the fame they
see SHOW, page 2
Body leaders hopeto resolve problem
BY LEAH VILLANUEVASenior staff writer
After several student leadersclaimed they were overpowered in theUniversity Senate debate to imple-ment a plus-and-minus grading policynext fall, SGA officials and universitysenators said they plan to discuss howthe two organizations can communi-cate more effectively going forward.
Although Student GovernmentAssociation members were adamantlyopposed to approving a new gradingpolicy — and the body voted to con-demn the policy Nov. 7, two daysbefore the senate ultimately voted infavor of it — they did not inform the
University alumna Katherine Imp (right) and two friends hiked theAppalachian Trail. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT LLC
The tale of the trailAlumna films documentary on hiking the Appalachian Trail
BY LAUREN KIRKWOODStaff writer
While hiking the Appalachian Trailfrom Georgia to Maine, they were knownas the Traveling Circus — a nameintended as criticism for universityalumna Katherine “Ringleader” Imp, herbrother Brandon “Monkey” Imp and bestfriend Emily “Lightning” Ginger, but onethe extroverted group came to embrace.
As it turns out, that Traveling Circushas quite the story to tell, and Katherine
Imp, a 2006 graduate of this universitynow practicing law in Chicago, is hopingothers will soon listen.
Imp produced a documentary filmcalled Beauty Beneath the Dirt, abouthiking the 2,178.3 miles of theAppalachian Trail with her brother andGinger. The film focuses on how thechallenges of the hike affect the rela-tionships among the trio, a topicKatherine Imp said is different frommost outdoor documentaries and willengage a wide variety of viewers.
“The trail was an adventure, but thefilm was just as much of an adventure,”she said. “At first I just thought of it as ahome video, like where you film yourfamily opening Christmas gifts, but as itstarted to unfold, I realized there are somany aspects to making a documentary.… It’ll make people laugh and cry and, atthe end of the day, think about their ownrelationships and their own life.”
Although she had never backpacked
see TRAIL, page 7
BY YASMEEN ABUTALEBSenior staff writer
For many student activists, win-ning the four-year fight to implementa Good Samaritan policy in Marchwas only the first half of the battle —they have officially begun the secondround to extend the policy to includedrug use.
Undergraduate senators officiallysubmitted a policy to the UniversitySenate Nov. 18 to extend the GoodSamaritan policy — which protectsdangerously drunk students fromuniversity sanctions if they call 911for themselves or a friend — so stu-dents are also protected if they over-dose on drugs. Although studentspushed for an all-inclusive policy
when they first began lobbying forGood Samaritan legislation four yearsago, they ultimately focused on onlygetting an alcohol-related policypassed first. With a formal extensionproposal now in hand, they are set-ting their sights again on establishingthe policy they had once envisioned.
Tomorrow, the Senate ExecutiveCommittee, the body’s most powerful
committee, will review the proposaland vote whether to move the legisla-tion forward to the Student ConductCommittee for extensive review.Undergraduate student senator Bran-don Levey, who drafted the proposal,said student activists adjusted itswording in hopes of persuading older
see POLICY, page 3
see BODIES, page 3
see DEFICIT, page 2
GRAPHIC BY VICKY LAI/THE DIAMONDBACK
University alumnus JordanRozansky (left) co-wrote a webminiseries starring former Full Housestar Dave Coulier (right).PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN ROZANSKY
enjoyed nearly 20 years ago.“This was kind of capitaliz-
ing on me growing up on FullHouse,” Rozansky said of theseries. “It’s really strange andvery cool. … It’s the same peo-ple you grew up watching.”
Although Rozansky said henever knew what career pathhe wanted to take while hewas a student at this univer-sity, he never imagined he’done day be writing comedy ortweaking scripts with Coulier.
“I didn’t really think ofcomedy writing as a viableprofession,” Rozansky said.“It still seems kind of absurdto me that someone can getpaid to write comedy.”
Dan Fink, a friend whograduated with Rozansky,said he couldn’t see himworking in any other field.
“I’m not surprised that heended up doing somethinglike this because he wasalways a really funny guy;he’s a really good writer andhas a great sense of humor,”Fink said. “I don’t know what
else he’d be doing.”Before jetsetting to the
West Coast, Rozanskyreturned to his hometown ofMiami for a year, during whichhe spent his days working incommercial real estate and hisnights immersing himself inlate night talk show comedy.
As his interest in comedygrew, he began networkingin New York and Los Angelesand building his own portfo-lio, which consisted of stacksof notebooks filled with badjokes and mock scripts.
“The first few pages of thosenotebooks are 99 percent ter-rible jokes,” he said. “Themore you write, the more youunderstand how to write, andeventually it just became amatter of, ‘Gotta get to L.A.’”
By January 2010, Rozan-sky mustered the strength toleave the real estate busi-ness for a chance to minglewith movie stars.
“I spent a year just reallytaking it very seriously andwriting as fast as I could andfilling up notebooks withjokes, and eventually youjust have to make the move,”he said. “I jumped in a car
with a friend and drove fromMiami to L.A. and just triedto do whatever I could.”
That drive eventuallylanded Rozansky the job writ-ing and co-producing hisminiseries, which took aboutsix weeks to complete, hesaid, and provided him withplenty of laughs along the way.
“Everything the guys saidwas so funny,” Rozanskysaid. “We have so manyruined takes because peopleare laughing at what Denniswas saying.”
The comedy shows throughin the final product, Fink said.
“It’s pretty funny — it’sgood tongue-in-cheekhumor; it’s good stuff,” Finksaid. “It’s pretty cool know-ing Jordan is the guy whoproduced it.”
Because the team workedso well together, Rozanskysaid he hopes they will col-laborate again in the future.
“We don’t know what thenext thing is but we knowwe all want to work togetheragain, so I’m sure the wholeteam from Can’t GetArrested will be backtogether and working on
something in January orFebruary,” he said.
Although it took Rozanskyseveral months before hecould produce a show of hisown, he said the grunt workpaid off, noting that Holly-wood is not as exclusive as itoften seems.
“I think the entire indus-try gets a bit of a bad rep,and it’s looked at as a veryclosed off, very dif ficult toget into industry,” Rozanskysaid. “But I think if you’rewilling to take that jump andwork hard, it’s more accessi-ble than people realize.”
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are two contributing factors tothis gap in revenues andexpenses, Himler wrote in anemail. Many officials said theydo not see the problem fixingitself anytime soon.
Thus, the county will needto cut spending and explorenew options for raising rev-enue next year — dif ficultdecisions county officials willneed to make in the comingmonths, Himler wrote.
“We expect future budgetsto be challenging due to lim-ited revenue growth andexpanding service needs andcosts of providing such serv-ices,” he wrote.
Although the depreciationof housing values in the cityultimately af fects thecounty’s overall deficit, theuniversity’s presence — aswell as its large number ofemployees — has lent a handin assisting the area’s econ-omy, according to Himler.
Every three years, thestate’s Department of Assess-ments and Taxation assessesthe property values of homes— the city is in the secondyear of this cycle — and thecity will collect a small portionof that value through realproperty taxes. Real propertytax comprises 52 percent ofthe city’s revenue, cityFinance Director StephenGroh said.
Although the city expects topick up $262,000 in new rev-enue from The Varsity apart-ment complex’s propertyassessment, developmentprojects of this magnitude arefew and far between in thenear future.
“There’s nothing else in thepipeline,” he said. “There areno new projects anticipated toopen in the next two years.”
Clif f Rossi, a teaching fel-low at this university’s busi-ness school, said he does notexpect the housing market toget better anytime soon andanticipates further uncer-tainty in the coming years.
“We will continue to havevery, very weak home pricesfor quite some time,” he said.
An increase in the supply ofhousing due to foreclosurescombined with a decrease indemand due to uncertaintyfrom potential homebuyerswill further depreciate hous-ing values and make it harderfor the county to close the gapin the budget, he said.
“I wouldn’t look for thecounty to make up a shortfallanytime soon based on homeprice appreciation,” he said.
However, the city has a bal-anced budget for the upcom-ing fiscal year, according toGroh. He added that thecounty’s climbing expensesfor public safety and educa-tion make it harder to balancerevenue and expenses.
“The county is so big thatthey have a lot of costs that wedon’t have.”
CLARIFICATIONA map of India in Wednesday’s paper with the article,“Loh to leave for India on Friday with O’Malley,” did notinclude some disputed territory. The map was notintended as a political message about the disputedareas, but simply a visual representation of whereuniversity President Wallace Loh visited.
University alumnus Jordan Rozansky (right) co-wrote and co-produced the miniseries, Can’t Get Arrested, which features FullHouse actors Dave Coulier and Jodie Sweetin, as well as other 1990s sitcom stars. PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN ROZANSKY
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“We willcontinue to havevery, very weakhome prices forquite some time.... I wouldn’tlook for thecounty to makeup a shortfallanytime soon.”
CLIFF ROSSIBUSINESS SCHOOL TEACHINGFELLOW
“It still seemskind of absurdto me thatsomeone canget paid to writecomedy.”
JORDAN ROZANSKYDARK TRICK FILMS SCRIPTCONSULTANT
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senators to vote in favor of thelegislation. In the proposal,Levey recommends a policythat would not protect stu-dents who have been accusedof manufacturing or sellingdrugs, but rather, one thatwould only prevent punish-ment for students with “noprior disciplinary recordrelating to drugs.”
“The university’s not sanc-tioning drug use, but reallyjust trying to save lives,” Leveysaid. “Once we get throughthe SEC on Tuesday, we’rehoping the full senate will getto take it up later this year andarguments for it will outweigharguments against it.”
Senate Chair Eric Kasis-chke said because of the legalcomplexity such a policywould pose, senators willlikely seek input from outsidesources, which may mean itwill take months — or evenyears — for the senate to voteon the proposal.
“This is a complex and emo-tional issue and so just like thefirst amnesty policy, it took awhile, and I think this one’sgoing to take a while, too,”Kasischke said. “The otherthing about this one is we areprobably going to seek theopinion of university council …so there are some legal ramifi-cations we have to understand.”
Levey said he alreadyreached out to the Board ofRegents — a 17-member gov-erning body that oversees theUniversity System of Mary-land — and received approvalto propose such a policy.
“We’re hoping to do thisswiftly. The vast majority of stu-dent senators are on our side,but there are still some peoplewho don’t want to change [thepolicy] because they don’twant any problems with thestate … but we have an OKfrom the state to do something
like this,” said Lauren Mendel-sohn, president of Students forSensible Drug Policy and aDiamondback columnist.
About 50 universities nation-wide have adopted an all-inclu-sive Good Samaritan policy,including the University ofFlorida, Washington College inMaryland, University of Penn-sylvania, Columbia Universityand Cornell University, accord-ing to the SSDP national web-site. In his proposal, Levey alsopoints to states that havesigned the legislation into law,including New York, NewMexico and Washington.
Senate Chair-elect MarthaSmith said even though theproposal is contentious, she isopen to listening to argumentson all sides of the debate.
“I would think that wewould have to consult withuniversity lawyers becausethere are all sorts of liabili-ties, but the most importantthing is the health and welfareof our students,” Smith said.“I think that like any otherpiece of legislation, itdeserves a thorough airing,and we want to work to formu-late a policy that does pro-mote the health and welfare ofour students, even when itincludes something very com-plicated like this.”
senate of their stance on thegrading system until the dayof the body’s Nov. 9 vote.While the two organizationsdo not have a formal systemof exchanging information— which leaders said hasnot caused significant prob-lems in the past — SGAPresident Kaiyi Xie said heplans to meet with SenateChair Eric Kasischke andChair-elect Martha Smith todiscuss opening new chan-nels of communication andcollaboration between thetwo organizations — espe-cially on issues that directlyimpact students.
“There is always room forimprovement, but we’ve seenthe consequences of that mis-communication, so we wantto work together to improve itat this point,” Xie said.
The senate’s decision tomove forward with the newgrading system drew criti-cism from the SGA and sev-eral undergraduate studentsenators, who said facultysenate leaders did not solicitenough student input beforemaking their decision. Sen-ate leaders said they werelargely unaware of studentconcern regarding the grad-ing system until two daysafter the vote, when the SGAspearheaded a petition
opposing the policy that gar-nered hundreds of studentsignatures. And while theSGA often votes on whetherto support senate legislation— including a policy thatrequires all scooter riderswear a helmet — the bodydoes not formally send theresults of its final vote to thesenate, and many timesdoes not inform the senateat all of its stances on vari-ous issues.
The SGA has not sent thebody the results of any of itsvotes regarding senate legis-lation — including the reso-lution condemning the grad-ing policy — but SGA mem-bers also said the senatedoes not adequately informstudents of important issuesbefore the body votes.Although Kasischke said thesenate website providesinformation on all legislationto members of the universitycommunity, he noted thesenate does not typicallyreach out to students.
“We rely on people com-ing to us and informing us,”Kasischke said. “What wedo is provide a forum.Therefore the question thatI’m trying to focus on andtry to answer for people is: Ifpeople want to influencedecisions made by the sen-ate, when is the best time todo that? How can we facili-tate communicationbetween the two organiza-
tions to make sure we getthe information from theSGA in a timely fashion?”
Many student leaders saidthey believed the time forconversation should comelong before the final vote.Xie’s predecessor, SteveGlickman, said there werenever any significant mis-communications during histwo years as SGA president,but said this was mainlybecause he ensured a mem-ber of his cabinet sat on theSenate Executive Commit-tee — the body’s most pow-erful subcommittee —which the SGA has not donethis year.
But Xie said he believedthe senate should be thebody to take the initiative byreaching out to the SGA.
“I think actually being arepresentative bodyrequires engagement andoutreach,” Xie said. “I feelthey should be more proac-tive. Maybe we should keepa sharper eye on the senatewebsite, because it is a two-way street. But I do thinkthey have an obligation toreach out.”
Some undergraduate sen-ators said they also noticedthe barriers in communica-tion between the senate andthe SGA, especially in theaftermath of the grading pol-icy debate.
“It’s really disconnected onboth fronts,” said Alex
Miletich, an undergraduatesenator. “We aren’t getting anyof the SGA polls they do untilreally late, and vice versa; thesenate is probably not doingthe best job of informing thestudent body of these issuesuntil they are ready for thefinal debate, which is often-times too late because most ofthe work is already done inthe committees.”
Undergraduate senatorSeda Tolu said improvingcommunication with theSGA would help both organ-izations ensure the studentvoice is fully represented.
“Senators don’t have thatgreat collaboration, but wehave the voting power,”Tolu said. “It’s an issue Ithink needs to beaddressed, and it needsefforts from both sides.”
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“This is a complexand emotionalissue and so justlike the firstamnesty policy, ittook a while, and Ithink this one’sgoing to take awhile, too.”
ERIC KASISCHKEUNIVERSITY SENATE CHAIR
“It’s reallydisconnected onboth fronts. Wearen’t gettingany of the SGApolls they dountil really late,and vice versa.”
ALEX MILETICHUNDERGRADUATE SENATOR
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When sitting with my fam-ily at Thanksgiving, Inoticed the conversa-tion had died down a lit-
tle while I was busy getting stuffing,and soon realized more than half ofthe people seated were either tex-ting, searching the Web or somehowpreoccupied with their cell phones.My phone wasn’t even in the sameroom, because I figured nobodybesides the people with me wouldhave a reason to call me on a holiday.Conversation soon picked up again,but the topic had switched from mycousin’s trip to China to some of thenew iPhone apps. I felt left out of thediscussion, not because I don’t havean iPhone, but because our familytalk at this once-a-year occasion wasno longer focused on the family.
Technology is a wonderful thing:Machines and computers make itpossible to create things efficientlyand access information quickly, andcell phones can save lives in times ofcrisis. But we should not be so quickto dismiss the less positive influences
these tools have had on society.As I observed with my family,
we’ve become incredibly occupiedwith, and sometimes even depend-ent on, our cell phones. We tune outthe outside world and focus ourattention on that text message orvideo in our hands. Instead of talk-ing with the people around us, wetalk to people who are not there —who could very well be doing theexact same thing — and normal con-versation becomes less frequent andmore awkward. Face-to-face interac-tions in general become taxingbecause we’re used to textingthrough a machine that won’t showour facial expression or intonationto the other person. We even useour phones as distractions so newpeople don’t talk to us in the firstplace, which only perpetuates thecycle and worsens the damage toour social interaction skills.
Further, we’ve been brainwashedinto thinking we need a lot of unnec-essary gadgets. Sure, if you have acomputer-oriented job, travel often
or are trying to learn Portuguese onthe side, then an iPad is perfect foryou. But does a college student whoalready has a laptop computer, afunctioning cell phone and whohardly travels out of the area reallyneed one? It’s certainly possible, butwhat’s more likely is that it’s justwanted, rather than needed. Thanksto the media’s and technology com-panies’ bombardment with “newer,”“better,” “must-have” items, we’vefound it harder to distinguish thenecessary from the superfluous.
Perhaps one of instant technology’sworst effects on society is our loss ofinterest in hobbies and active groupactivities. The time that used to bespent riding bikes, playing chess orbaking a pie is now spent tweeting or
checking Facebook. Our generationhas little interest in learning to sew orreading classical novels for pleasure,often seeing such pastimes as “lame.”Young people are spending less timeplaying with friends outside and moretime playing games on their phones.This is not only damaging socially,because group activities help us learnhow to interact with others, but isdamaging to our health as well,because humans were not built for apurely sedentary lifestyle.
I realize people are not about toput down their smart phones foreverto go back to the “good old days,”especially because we’ve becomeaccustomed to having everything atour fingertips. What I do wish,though, is that people would realizethe disconnect between them andtheir environment, and that whenthey did, they would put down thephone and experience life.
Lauren Mendelsohn is a juniorpsychology major. She can be reachedat [email protected].
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Amidst university President Wallace Loh’s decision to cut eight varsity teamsin response to the athletics department’s budget troubles, the Intercolle-giate Athletics Commission’s suggestion to install steel rigging at ComcastCenter is perhaps the most promising recommendation.
The rigging is estimated to cost $500,000 and would allow lights and speaker systemscommonly used during concerts and other events to be hung from the arena’s ceiling.Despite the price tag, Randy Eaton, senior associate athletic di-rector for new revenue, facilities and operations, says the uni-versity could reach a deal with a promotions company to payfor the installation in exchange for event revenue. Even if theuniversity foots the bill, he estimates it would take less than ayear to recoup the installation costs. Eaton predicts the univer-sity would likely profit at least $500,000 per year from holdingmore outside events on the campus, which begs the question:Why are we not doing this already?
The steel rigging was actually part of the original plan forComcast Center — which cost $125 million and opened in2002 — but was phased out to save costs. Eaton explains: “Ifthere were things that were found during the constructionprocess, that were either left out or could have been improved to help our student-athletes, it probably was a no-brainer to value-engineer something out to improvethe atmosphere for our student athletes and our coaches.” In other words, the ath-letics department made a decision to avoid holding large-scale events at ComcastCenter — which houses facilities for men’s and women’s basketball, gymnastics,wrestling and volleyball — for fear they would interfere with the student-athlete ex-perience. That line of thinking is noble but shortsighted, and it’s partially to blamefor the department’s budget troubles.
Eaton says the university held talks with promoters as far back as 2004, and as recent-ly as this spring. It seems just two years after Comcast Center opened, the departmentrealized not installing the rigging was a mistake. But seven years later, nothing has beendone to correct the problem. If Eaton’s estimate is accurate, the university has lost outon at least $3.5 million in potential revenue the past seven years.
That number is probably conservative, because two other venues in the area areamong the most successful in the world. George Mason University’s Patriot Cen-
ter, which opened in 1985 and seats about 10,000, was the 18th highest grossingvenue in the world among those seating 10,001-15,000 in 2010, according to Bill-board. Verizon Center in Washington — which seats 20,000 — was ranked theninth-highest grossing venue of the decade.
Comcast Center seats 17,950 for basketball games, so seating for a concert would putit in line with Verizon Center. The university’s location — about two miles from the near-
est Metro station — certainly seems more convenient than thePatriot Center, which is almost six miles from the nearestMetro station. Although Verizon Center is in Washington’sbustling Chinatown neighborhood, the university has plenty ofparking and is located just inside the Capital Beltway.
This editorial board supports the installation of steel rig-ging at Comcast Center. In addition to bringing revenue forthe university, more concerts and other events on the campuswould be a welcome change of pace for students and couldhelp boost the economic viability of further development indowntown College Park. Since opening in 2002, ComcastCenter has welcomed more than 2 million fans, but that num-ber is dwarfed by the more than 30 million who have visited
Verizon Center since it opened in 1997. Concertgoers have to eat and drink, too, andholding events year-round could help local businesses withstand the summer rev-enue drought when students are away from the university.
Despite the potential benefits of holding more concerts, there could be some pit-falls: Students will have to move their cars more frequently, and the university will becompeting directly with Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which managesboth the Patriot Center and Verizon Center and has established a successful trackrecord in the area. The university shouldn’t expect such lofty attendance numbers asthose enjoyed by Verizon Center, but every little bit helps.
It’s time for the athletics department to stop dragging its feet: Whether the uni-versity signs a deal with a promoter or funds the installation itself, we need to beginholding more events at Comcast Center as soon as possible. Even the student-ath-letes, who may be inconvenienced from time-to-time, should support the effort.After all, if the athletics department continues to bleed money, some of those teamsmay not even be around in a few years.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe university should
install rigging to hold largeevents at Comcast Center,
as well as aggressivelymove to pursue additional
sources of revenue.
The social cost of technology
Perhaps I don’t give mypeers enough credit, andyou all have actuallyheard of Congressional
Bill HR 3261 — the “Stop OnlinePiracy Act” — currently making itsway through the House of Repre-sentatives. Its abbreviation, SOPA,showed up in a recent editorial car-toon here in The Diamondback, soI guess people are at least vaguelyaware of it, but the content of thecartoon made me wonder if any-one actually knows what it is.Though this bill is moving rapidlythrough the House (it was given ahearing not long ago), I havehardly heard a word spoken aboutit in a public forum. This is why Iam writing about it: SOPA is, ineffect, a firewall on the Internetuse of American citizens.
The bill is designed to do twomain things. First, it would make it afelony to stream copyrighted con-tent, carrying a sentence of up tofive years in prison. Ever torrent asong? Congratulations, you are nowa felon, and could potentially go tojail. The second part of the bill wouldgive the Department of Justice theright to block any domain it deemsdevoted to “infringing purposes,”and demand any and all searchengines or social networking sitesremove any hints of a blacklistedsite from their search results. A sitecan also be put on this blacklist dueto the content posted by its users, ifthe Justice Department deems itinfringing enough. Google execu-tive chairman Eric Schmidt hascalled the bill “draconian.”
To make this a little more relevantto some of us, consider this; somepeople make a Facebook fan groupdevoted to a particular band, andthey post videos and song links onthat group’s page. Because the mak-ers of the page are not the actualcopyright holders of that band’ssongs, their group could be deemedan infringement on copyright, andthe government would havegrounds to put up a firewall on theentire Facebook domain. BiggerInternet companies — such as Face-book, YouTube, etc. — with morerobust legal departments wouldlikely want to avoid that possibilityaltogether, and the only way theycould would be through personalcensorship. So, if a Facebook admin-istrator thinks something you postcould get the Justice Department’sattention, they would likely delete itor lock your account themselves tospare the rest of their website,which their Terms of Use alreadygives them the authority to do.
SOPA is the House incarnationof Senate bill S.968 “PROTECT IPAct,” which has been informallyreferred to as the “Justin BieberBill.” Under the constraints of thebill, the young pop star wouldhave been considered a felonbecause he made his fame and for-tune by singing copyrighted songson YouTube. Both of these billspave the way for an American fire-wall, the likes of which we’ve allheard of in countries like Chinaand Iran. Though this law onlyauthorizes censorship on thegrounds of copyright infringementand not political or moral views, itis still a step toward the restrictionof information that any Americanshould be appalled by. Please,write or email your Congressmen;tell them to oppose these bills. Iknow it seems like an exercise infutility, but if this government issupposed to work, we have tobelieve in the power of the con-stituents over our representatives.
Stephen Rane is a junior English andlinguistics major. He can be reachedat [email protected].
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SOPA willcreate afirewall
Editorial cartoon: Nathan Tucker
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We’re voting with our dollars
A s the season of holidayspending begins, youshould understand thatwhen you give the cashier
your dollar or credit card, you arecasting a vote. Many times you arecasting a vote against your own inter-ests or beliefs.
In January 2010, the SupremeCourt decided corporations are freeto spend as much money as theywant on advertisements to supportor trash candidates, or influenceother issues of public debate — theyjust cannot directly contribute tocampaigns. Money is power and thisdecision, which unraveled estab-lished precedent, has significantlyshifted the power from individual cit-izens to corporations.
So when you spend your money, youmay be filling the coffers of a corpora-tion and its owners, who will use yourmoney to promote organizations youmay consider evil, make contributionsto candidates you oppose or financepolitical advertisements which could,
at best, be described as deceptive.Of course, companies and their own-
ers have every right to support what-ever they want, but you might want toknow that eating a Chick-fil-A sandwichwill go to support a company and own-ers who are strongly opposed to gaymarriage. Going to Curves to work offthat Chick-fil-A will fill the bank accountof the owners’ strong support for anti-choice evangelical organizations andbuying at Home Depot will repair thebank accounts of Republican politicians.
Determining which company sup-ports what is no easy task. It’s notuncommon for companies, industriesor political affiliations to be writingthe scripts and providing thevoiceover for front groups portraying
themselves as grassroots. Forinstance, the Heartland Institute,which questions climate change, issupported by ExxonMobile, the Wal-ton Family Fund and various right-wing foundations. Then there is theCenter for Consumer Freedom —which defends the rights of con-sumers to choose to eat, drink andsmoke as they please — that’sfunded by the restaurant and alco-holic beverage industries. Thesegroups are numerous and theirnames (Americans for …, Citizensfor …, etc.) attempt to hide the ven-triloquist behind the curtain.
If you want to become more informed,I suggest: www.betterworldshopper.org(available as an app: Better World Shop-per) and www.sourcewatch.org. Pleasenote, the Better World Shopper app justgives companies a letter grade. If youwant more details behind the grade, youneed to go to their site.
In the meantime, if you really wantto do good while giving for the holi-days, you may want to consider shop-
ping online at fair trade sites such aswww.tenthousandvillages.com,www.serrv.org or www.thehungersite.com.Another alternative, one of myfavorites, is to go down to the Smith-sonian Museums in Washington.The gift shops are usually not ascrowded as the stores, they haveunique items and spending sometime in the museums is always fun,interesting and inspirational.
The shape and direction of the soci-ety you live in is not just decided bywho gets elected to office, but by whohas the money. Until laws are passedto make the funding of front groupsand political advertising more trans-parent, deciding who to spend yourmoney with will be a challenge. I hopeyou find the references I gave youhelpful. I believe the small decisionswe individually make can collectivelyhave a large impact.
Richard Zipper is a Golden ID studenttaking classes in biology. He can bereached at [email protected].
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Born today, you always seemto have more going on thanmeets the eye, and no mat-
ter how busy you may be there isan even greater current of activi-ty flowing beneath the surface:currents of planning, ambitionand ideology. In other words, nomatter what you may be doing atany given time you are alwaysworking on something else si-multaneously, in order to furtheryour own agenda, satisfy yourambition, and provide yourselfwith the kind of involvementthat you thrive on in your dailylife.
You are never one to shy awayfrom a clash with another, butyou are loath to engage in anykind of conflict with anyone whois not as experienced or knowl-edgeable as you are when itcomes to the subject at hand.Youenjoy a fair fight, surely.
Also born on this date are:Anna Nicole Smith, model and re-ality TV personality; Jon Stewart,comedian; Judd Nelson, actor; EdHarris, actor; Alexander Go-dunov, dancer and actor; PaulShaffer, musician and band-leader; Randy Newman, song-writer and composer.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21) — You will want to put yourfears behind you in order to dothat which only you can do.Others are surely dependingon you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— You may have something ofa relapse as you sink into a rutthat you thought you had
climbed out of for good. It’stemporary.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)— You’ll enjoy watching some-one else take the reins andsteer a project in the right di-rection on his or her own.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —What you’ve been teaching hascertainly been learned — atleast by a special few who willput their knowledge on dis-play.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —It’s time to open your home,and enjoy spreading cheer toothers in your neighborhood.You can’t remain isolated for-ever.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —You may feel left out as othersengage in group activities thatyou would no doubt take tovery quickly if you were invit-ed.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You’ll want to keep your eyesand ears open as you take ajourney through unfamiliarterritory. Many lessons can belearned.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —You may think that you’re in ahurry, but in fact, time is verymuch on your side. You can af-ford to take a little more time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —What comes across as astraightforward warning maydeserve a little closer exami-nation; a hidden meaningcomes through.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Take care that you don’t mis-interpret someone else’s casu-al behavior as meaning morethan it does. This may just bewishful thinking.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Ifyou share your complaintswith the right person, he or shewill surely be able to do some-thing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —You’ll want to complete onephase of a project before youmove on to the next; now is notthe time to attempt any multi-tasking.
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Luckily, this disorder is notreal, but it did make for anintriguing short story (“Squid-girl”) — something this univer-sity’s literary journal, Stylus,prides itself on publishing.
For 17 years, the editors ofStylus have published a yearlyissue in the spring, filled withselect art and literature pieceswritten by undergraduate stu-dents. Though editor in chiefDylan Bargteil estimated stu-dents submit more than 200pieces of poetry and a fairamount of prose each year, hebelieves few outside theJiménez-Porter Writers’ Houseknow of Stylus.
So this year, he and the othereditors are brainstorming betterways to advertise the journal,starting with an interactivechalking event Friday in front ofMcKeldin Library where stu-dents can write poems, para-graphs or just draw whateverthey come up with.
“I feel like there’s a lot ofroom for growth in the artscommunities on campus andso one of the things I’d like to
pursue is novel ways to engagethe student body in commu-nity arts,” Bargteil said.“Rather than just writing, ‘Sty-lus: Submit by Jan. 31’ every-where over campus, we’re hav-ing the students engage witheach other and us through thisdifferent medium.”
Last year’s issue of Stylus,which cameout in April,included fourprose, 15poetry and 12art piecesalong with thewinners of theCabrini ArtAward and thewinners andfinalists of theannualJiménez-Porter Liter-ary Prize.
The reviewprocess is extensive, with an edi-torial board for each sectionmeeting monthly to evaluateevery submission. After discus-sion, the board comes to one of
three verdicts: accept, reject orrevise and resubmit.
While the “revise and resub-mit” alternative may be a niceway to help those whose piecesaren’t quite ready to be pub-lished yet, prose editor NickLyle said his editorial boarduses this option too much.
“Though I end up explaining atevery meet-ing that we’renot a work-shop, duringthe discus-sion of apiece, peopleseem to fall inlove with theidea of sal-vaging apiece thatisn’t verygood,” Lylesaid. “I haveto reiteratethat we can
only revise and resubmit piecesthat are publishable as they arebut could use some small tinker-ing or improvement, not toimprove a piece that we would
otherwise reject.”Bargteil said the submissions
are judged mostly on choice oflanguage, characters and style— pieces that are too standardor experimental are turneddown — but the processchanges based on who holdsthe editor positions each year.Interestingly enough, the piecesthat are eventually publishedtend to revolve around a com-mon theme: Two years ago, itwas sexual frustration; last year,it was vulnerability.
“Creative writing is a way toshare different opinions,insights and details about real orfabricated obstacles,” said Styluspoetry editor Marlena Cher-tock. “It is an important waypeople share their voice, theirstruggles, their life with others.”
Yet several editors said theywished more diverse voiceswould submit their work to Sty-lus. Bargteil is a math and physicsmajor himself and hopes toencourage his peers in the “hardsciences” to express themselvesthrough different venues.
“It’s hard to take action
because you hear them rag onthe humanities, and it’s very dis-couraging because I identifywhat’s really at the core of thehard sciences and at the core ofthe humanities as a creativeact,” Bargteil said.
“Why would hard sciences feelcompelled to look down uponhumanities?” he asked. “I don’thave a good answer to that.”
For all writers, regardless ofwhether they choose to submitto Stylus or not, the journal is aresource to test their skills andsee how others respond totheir words.
Junior English major Jane
Cha, who submitted two piecesto Stylus for review this year,said her submission wasn’t tosee if she could write. Sheknows she can. It was moreabout simply speaking to othersthrough a different medium.
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“Creative writingis a way to sharedifferent opinions, insightsand details aboutreal or fabricatedobstacles.”
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK 7
Student causes solicit funds
before the trip, Katherine Impsaid she led canoeing tripswhile working for a wilder-ness organization called Out-ward Bound after graduatingwith a degree in criminologyand criminal justice.
“That’s kind of whatinspired me to do this tripeven though it was in a totallydif ferent realm,” she said.“I’ve always been interestedin film and outdoor adven-ture, and so sometime duringmy first year at law school Idecided to take those inter-ests and combine them andmake something out of it.”
In March 2010, the trio setout on the hike, which theycompleted five months later.About 2,000 people attempt a“thru-hike” of the trail everyyear, and one in five succeed,Katherine Imp said.
None of the hikers hadexperience with film and,because the group averaged20 miles a day, they said themost difficult part of the expe-rience was juggling the physi-cal aspect with the added taskof capturing the journey.
“We were physicallyexhausted all the time, and sotaking the time to stop hikingand set up a camera and do ashot was hard,” Brandon Impsaid. “Every single time we
would do a take, it could be 30seconds of filming but take anhour to set up and get every-thing ready.”
Jason Furrer, a friend of theImps who helped produce thefilm, said he hiked parts of thetrail with the group, teachingthem about film techniques.
“I had just graduated fromfilm school, and it soundedlike a very interesting project,one that would be a greatexperience for me,” he said.
Brandon Imp, who had justgraduated from college whenthe group set out, said the iso-lation from society for monthswas the most difficult thing tocope with.
“I was a recent college gradand I had my whole career setup ahead of me, but I decidedupon graduation to leave soci-ety and forget about all theconnections I made duringcollege in order to do thishike,” he said. “I think thatwas the hardest part, accept-ing the fact that I was forgoingopportunities to do this hike.”
However, Katherine Impsaid hiking the trail in a grouprather than alone made forshared memories that onlyadded to the experience.
“I really think this film isrelatable to everyone, not justpeople that live on the EastCoast or enjoy outdoor adven-ture, but anyone who has fam-ily or friends and experienceswith people they love will
enjoy this film and identifywith it,” she said.
She hopes to get the filmpicked up by a cable televi-sion station and is lookinginto distributors. Within thenext year, she hopes to hold ascreening of the documen-tary at the university.
Jamie Rowe, a 2007 universityalumna and friend of KatherineImp’s, said she visited the groupon the trail and got to witnessthe transformation from experi-ence to final product.
“For me, it was really coolto be there firsthand andthen to see how they turnedthat into the movie,” shesaid. “It’s a really excitingportrayal of what life is likeon the trail.”
New fundraising campaign, iMpact Maryland, allowsalumni to donate online to four student organizations
Univ. launches environmentalcouncil to solve global issuesNew coalition deviates from other similar groupsby focusing on broader issues, like climate change
BY MOLLY MARCOTStaff writer
Student groups strugglingto sustain their programshave found a new audience tohelp fund their causes: univer-sity alumni.
Although many alumni makeregular donations to the univer-sity, they previously have notbeen able to direct their moneyto specific student-led causes.But after the university’s alumniassociation office launchediMpact Maryland — an onlinefundraising campaign thatallows student groups to corralalumni for private donations —two weeks ago, student activistssaid they have found a new out-let to aid them in carrying outtheir campaigns in the face ofdwindling funds.
After the Student Govern-ment Association cut funding forseveral student groups lastsemester, leaders of these clubssaid they found it increasinglydifficult to find sources of rev-enue. While Alyson Goff, coordi-nator for student philanthropy,said iMpact Maryland did notdirectly stem from the SGA’scuts, it provides students with anopportunity to reach out to apreviously untapped audience.
“Our students and our youngalumni were telling us theywanted transparency,” Goffsaid. “They wanted to supportspecific causes instead of justdonating to the university and
not really knowing where theirmoney was going.”
Officials were inspired tostart the program after a 2009university study found manyalumni were interested in learn-ing about and contributing tostudent causes. Since iMpactMaryland is still a newendeavor, only four organiza-tions are participating in thepilot program: Terpoets, Mary-land Equestrian Club, Engi-neers Without Borders and thePublic Health Garden. Thegroups’ online donationrequests range from $500 to$5,000 to cover various costs,including a Public Health gar-den bioretention area and apedestrian bridge in Ethiopiafor Engineers Without Borders.
Student leaders said the ini-tiative allows interested alumnito learn more about theircauses, which may help themdevelop a solid support systemin the future.
“I know how important it is toconnect to alumni becausethey’re always so willing to helpstudent groups, especially ifthey were part of an organiza-tion,” said Maryland EquestrianClub fundraising Vice PresidentCourtney Feeley. “There wasn’treally a program or a way to dothat before, so I thought I woulddefinitely take advantage of thiswebsite and see how it went.”
Feeley said her club’srequest of $500 will go towardthe group’s operational costs,
which include caring for thehorses at the campus farm.
The website also providesstudents with a place to offermore information about theircauses by providing themlinks to individual group web-sites and social media profiles.One of the most excitingaspects of the program, stu-dent leaders said, is thegroups themselves determinetheir own campaign goals andmarketing strategies.
“We’re always looking foravenues for funding,” said Ter-poets Vice President JonahPotasznik, adding his group’sdonations will go toward payingfor future events. “This seemedlike a great way to personalizethose methods of funding.”
Although students said theywill not be able to determinehow successful their fundrais-ing efforts were before nextmonth, leaders said simplybeing a part of the program pro-vided them with another way topublicize their causes.
“We’re really looking for-ward to seeing how it pans outand hope that people who areunfamiliar with us will learnabout us through iMpact Mary-land,” said Terpoets presidentJihan Asher.
Student organizations cansubmit their applicationsthrough the websiteimpact.umd.edu.
Starting next semester, fac-ulty across the campus willunite in the university’s newCouncil on the Environmentto promote environmentalsustainability beyond thecampus borders.
Unlike other universityenvironmental initiatives thatlook to improve eco-friendli-ness on the campus, the newcouncil — which will draw onuniversity researchers andfaculty from dif ferent depart-ments — will work to solveglobal environmental issues,such as climate change.
The university announcedthe creation of the coalitionNov. 14, although no councilmembers have been selectedyet. Atmospheric and oceanicscience professor AntonioBusalacchi, who will chairthe body, said he is in theprocess of meeting with col-lege deans to determine whowill sit on the council, and hehopes its members will befinalized by January.
The council will provide aforum to incorporate the mul-tidisciplinary collaborationsthe university has to offer onenvironmental issues,Busalacchi said.
“The university has atremendous amount ofexpertise and excellenceacross the natural, physicaland social sciences as theypertain to the environment,”Busalacchi said. “It’s really tomake the whole greater thanthe sum of its parts.”
While the council willaddress some local and cam-pus-level environmentalissues, University Vice Presi-dent for Research PatrickO’Shea said it will be impor-tant for the council to ulti-mately focus on broad-based,
global environmental issues.“We all share a common
environment,” O’Shea said.“This council is not justfocused on the local issues forthe campus; it’s meant to beglobally engaged.”
In addition to bringingtogether researchers acrossthe campus, Busalacchi saidthe council will help the uni-versity better take advantageof existing partnerships withstate and federal agencieslooking to solve environmentalissues, such as NOAA and theU.S. Department of Energy.
“In some sense we have aresponsibility to utilize andnurture those relationships,”Busalacchi said.
The council will report toO’Shea and Provost Ann Wylie,and O’Shea said the combina-tion of federal agencies anduniversity experts would becritical in putting the universityat the forefront of global envi-ronmental initiatives.
“We’ve got broad-basedexpertise on campus, butnearby we have the largestconcentration of earth scien-tists in the world,” saidO’Shea. “We have someunique strengths at the uni-versity and in the region wewant to take advantage of.”
However, university andfederal experts will not be theonly ones involved with thenew council — Busalacchisaid students will also be criti-cal to its success.
One of the major goals ofthe council will be to assessgaps in dif ferent college cur-ricula to determine how toteach all students more aboutlocal and global environmen-tal issues, Busalacchi said.
“We want to look at whatprograms in terms of educa-tion we need to put in place soour students can be morecompetitive and conscien-
tious,” Busalacchi said.Busalacchi also said the
council will look into holdinga public lecture series toinvolve the university commu-nity in discussions about envi-ronmental issues and contro-versies.
“We want to raise the levelof discourse on environmen-tal issues across campus,”Busalacchi said.
Outside of the university,O’Shea said the council willplay a critical role in helpingsolve global environmentalissues that can’t be ignored.
“One thing for sure is theclimate and the environmentare changing, and we need tobe able to adapt,” O’Shea said.“The environment we live inis fundamentally importantfor our future.”
Busalacchi said the council’slaunch demonstrated the uni-versity’s strong commitmentto addressing problems associ-ated with the environment atboth local and global levels.
“It’s making a strong state-ment about the university’s com-mitment to the environment,”Busalacchi said. “The universitysees this as a serious issue forthe campus and going up andout of the campus to the state,nation and internationally.”
Katherine Imp (middle) and friends hiked the APPALACHIAN Trail and produced a documentary film about the experience. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT LLC
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A REAL CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERSarah Emoto decided to run across the
country “for fun.”Emoto, who graduated from the University
of Redlands in California last spring, ranthrough College Park along Route 1 Saturday.She’s made pitstops at a variety of police sta-tions along the way, this university’s included.
Read more at The Diamondback’s newsblog, Campus Drive.
“One thing forsure is theclimate and theenvironment arechanging, andwe need to beable to adapt.”
PATRICK O’SHEAVICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
“We werephysicallyexhausted allthe time, and sotaking the timeto stop hikingand set up acamera and do ashot was hard.”
BRANDON IMPAPPALACHIAN TRAIL HIKER
8 THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
rumbled for a 46-yard touch-down run early in the third quar-ter, the Terps’ remaining offen-sive drives ended in three punts,two interceptions and a fumble.
And for every offensive mis-
step, N.C. State had ananswer. Led by quarterbackMike Glennon (306 passingyards and six total touch-downs), the Wolfpack (7-5, 4-4)reeled off five unansweredtouchdowns to erase theTerps’ lead late in the fourthquarter and take an eight-point lead of their own.
As a fitting end to the game,the Terps’ final drive endedwith an interception by Wolf-pack cornerback C.J. Wilson,who went 59 yards down thesideline for a touchdown to capoff an extraordinary N.C. Statecomeback and nightmarishTerps season.
“Definitely probably one of the
worst feelings I have ever had asan athlete,” linebacker DemetriusHartsfield (18 tackles) toldreporters after the game. “Defi-nitely one of the worst.”
Only making matters worsefor what has become a wearyprogram and athletics depart-ment, the Wolfpack presentedlongtime Terps Athletic Direc-
tor Debbie Yow, who now holdsthe same position at N.C. State,with the game ball.
It was the Wolfpack’s firstwin over the Terps in eitherfootball or men’s basketballsince Yow’s departure in 2010.
And as Yow and N.C. State cel-ebrated the win and lookedahead to their bowl game assign-
ment, the Terps slunk off thefield for the last time this seasonto ponder the changes that mustbe made this offseason.
“It was really tough,”Edsall said of the game. “Weneeded to make the plays thatwe didn’t make.”
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Will Swaim, who hadn’trecorded a shutout since lateSeptember and was benchedbefore last Sunday’s match.
“We had to reshuffle someplayers and had a makeshiftbackline,” Cirovski said. “Andagainst two of the best forwardsin the country and a team that’sas experienced and efficient asLouisville, it was almost toomuch to ask for.”
The Terps’ inexperience ondefense began to show in the19th minute, when Cardinalsforward Colin Rolfe played athrough ball between twodefenders for midfielder NickDeLeon, who beat the onrush-ing Cardona for the early lead.
“Going over it in game film, wenoticed they played a pretty highline,” said Rolfe, who ledLouisville with three assists and agoal. “There was a bunch ofroom behind, and our guys in theback did a great job recognizingit and playing some good balls.”
Just six minutes afterDeLeon’s tally, the Terps’ back-line took another hit whendefender Marquez Fernandezleft with a leg injury. With two oftheir five regular startersremaining, the Terps’ defensemanaged to stymie Louisville forthe remainder of the first half.
Forward Casey Townsendheaded in a cross from mid-fielder Patrick Mullins in the34th minute to even the score at1-1 heading into halftime. Thegoal was Townsend’s 17th onthe year, and moved the seniorinto a third-place tie on theTerps’ career goals list with 43.
Cardona opened the secondperiod in style, delivering a div-ing save to maintain the tie.Costly errors, however, wouldsoon define the freshman’sfourth career start.
As Rolfe corralled KenneyWalker’s long ball in the 52ndminute, Cardona stayed rooted
to the end line. The forward’sensuing 20-yard bid seemedwell within Cardona’s grasp, buthe struggled to set his feet asRolfe’s ninth goal of the seasontrickled in off his gloves, leavingthe Terps with a 2-1 deficit.
“Keith made a couple saves inthe game that really kept us inthe game,” Cirovski said.“Unfortunately, we just gavehim too many opportunities. Hewasn’t the reason we losttonight. He’s a young man witha bright future.”
Forward Matt Oduaran’sclose-range strike secured thegame’s second tie in the 68thminute, but it would be fornaught. The Terps’ backlineappeared off-kilter and over-matched in the game’s finalmoments, and the senior-ladenCardinals capitalized.
Rolfe notched two assistswithin a five-minute span to helpcapture Louisville’s secondstraight appearance in the quar-terfinals. Defender Daniel Kellerconverted a Rolfe cross in the79th minute, and midfielderMichael Roman scored in the84th to give the Cardinals aninsurmountable 4-2 advantage.
“I thought we were going toscore again,” Townsend said.“We had them on their heels.They got that third goal, whichwas a little bit unfortunate forus. We had to force it, and theygot another one on the counter-attack. So … yeah.”
Louisville will play UCLA onSaturday for a chance to travel toHoover, Ala., for the College Cup.The Terps, meanwhile, must stayand reflect upon their fourthelimination at home in six years.
A team that once seemedpoised to capture each of itspreseason goals — ACC regu-lar season title, ACC tourna-ment title, NCAA champi-onship — will instead enter theoffseason empty-handed.
“Our time will come,”Cirovski said.
[email protected] Midfielder John Stertzer, second from left, reacts after losing the ball during the Terps’ loss last night. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Forward Matt Oduaran, left, celebrates his second-half goal, which evened the score at 2-2. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
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seconds as the Eagles slowly narrowedthe gap.
“I’ve never missed that many freethrows in my life,” said Stoglin, who went12-for-21 from the line. “We thought wehad the game because we were up somuch. But as I was telling guys in the hud-dle, ‘The game’s not over.’ They can comeback, and they showed that.”
Turgeon attributed Stoglin’s late misfiresto exhaustion, as the sophomore oftenlooked to dissect the press by dribblingthrough multiple defenders himself. But thefirst-year coach also said his team started tolose composure against the Eagles’ defense.
“Our guys lose confidence really fast andyou can see that in the course of a game,”Turgeon said. “We can have it one stretchand two minutes later we don’t have it.”
“We were just trying to get the ball past halfcourt instead of attacking them,” guard SeanMosley said. “We could’ve taken the lead up to20 or 30 points. We settled and didn’t attack.”
Florida Gulf Coast guard Brett Comerscored 14 of his 16 points in the second halfand closed the deficit to four with a reverselayup with less than a minute remaining.After two missed free throws by Stoglin, theEagles had a chance to draw even closer.
But guard Nick Faust made his third stealof the night and Stoglin hit a free throw toclose the contest.
“I’ll be honest with you, we built the leadand I was really proud of our team,” Turgeonsaid. “We guarded, we were executing, theywere changing their defenses and they werehandling. … If we had handled the press,we’re really, really happy right now.”
Forward James Padgett had 11 pointsand four rebounds, while Faust addedeight points, five rebounds, four assistsand two blocks. But Turgeon was mostpleased by walk-on-turned-scholarship for-ward John Auslander, who played a sea-son-high 20 minutes.
The 6-foot-7 forward scored six first-halfpoints and was rewarded with a second-half start.
“He’s in the right position, he knowsevery play, he knows where the holes are inthe zone,” Turgeon said. “He does every-thing right.”
Auslander’s time dwindled in the secondhalf as Turgeon turned to a guard-heavylineup to combat the Eagles’ press. The samedefense that plagued the Terps against Iona inPuerto Rico came back again, and forcefully.
To Turgeon and the Terps, it’s just anothersmall step in the learning process in a seasonthat’s sure to be full of them.
“We panic and we pick up the dribblewhen we don’t need to,” Stoglin said. “Wewere waiting for the double team to comeinstead of just going.”
two really good wins.” The Golden Panthers (3-3) stuck
with the Terps (7-0) through the firstpart of their game Friday, knotting thescore at 17 at the midway point of thefirst half. A 27-13 run by the Terps toclose the half ended any threat FloridaInternational posed, though, and theteam rolled to its third win by morethan 30 points this season.
The Roadrunners (2-5) saw similarearly success against the Terps, cut-ting their lead to just one as the gameneared the seven-minute mark of theopening half. But as halftime drewclose, it was clear CSU Bakersfielddidn’t have the firepower to keep upafter the break.
With only eight Roadrunners see-ing action in the game, the Terps’offense met little resistance in thesecond half, scoring a season-high 61points. Six players ended the game indouble figures, while the team’s com-manding size helped rack up 25offensive rebounds.
“We came out and we crashed theboards,” said guard Laurin Mincy,who finished the weekend with ateam-high 38 points, including acareer-high 23 against CSU Bakers-
field. “We did a great job pushingthe ball in transition. They only had[eight] players and we have a lot ofdepth, so we were able to wear themdown.”
For Frese, the true test this week-end was her team’s ability to playeffectively with games on back-to-back days, not necessarily the compe-tition itself.
“Playing at 6 o’clock the first nightthen a 2 o’clock [afternoon] turn-around [is tough],” Frese said. “Ithought they did just a terrific job interms of their recovery, gettingenough sleep, being prepared to playagainst a style of play that was reallyphysical, full-court pressure, activedefense and a run-and-gun style ofplay. I thought our depth was reallyable to wear out Bakersfield.”
The Terps will face Michigan in theBig Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednes-day night in Comcast Center. TheWolverines will be the team’s firstmajor-conference opponent since itswin over Georgetown on Nov. 13,offering the Terps one of their moredifficult tests of the young season.
“The Big Ten conference is obvi-ously an exciting matchup for us,”Frese said. “The competition contin-ues to get better.”
Day after day, the Terrapinswrestling squad has pinned downits competition this season. Thanks-giving weekend was no exception.
The Terps maintained their unde-feated record Saturday, overtakingCentral Michigan, Bucknell andNorthern Iowa at the NortheastDuals in Troy, N.Y.
The No. 12 Terps (6-0) won 25 oftheir 30 matches in their first unde-feated showing at the Northeast Dualscompetition in program history.
“It’s really exciting,” coach KerryMcCoy said. “Every time we step onthe mat, we want to win, and we’redoing the right thing and reallyshowing our competition. We’vealways had one loss at this event inthe past, so it was great to come outundefeated this time. We really dom-
inated the competition and that’swhat our expectations are.”
165-pound Josh Asper and 197-pound Christian Boley kept their indi-vidual undefeated records intact withthree wins each at the NortheastDuals. No. 2 Asper improved to 10-0while No. 20 Boley climbed to 9-0.
The team’s first contest in NewYork against Bucknell proved itsdominance. The Terps won all 10matches and defeated the Bison,40-0 — an indication of how the restof the day would go.
After back-to-back major decisionsfor 149-pound Ben Dorsay and 157-pound Kyle John, Asper pinnedBucknell’s Doug Kellermeyer tomove the Terps’ lead to 27-0.
The Terps then took nine of 10matches against Nothern Iowa,defeating the Panthers, 37-6.
Frank Goodwin, who was injuredfor the first three matches of the sea-
son, earned his first victory at 141pounds over the Panthers’ SethNoble, and increased the Terps’ leadto 12-0.
Dorsay earned a decision andJohn earned a major decision justbefore Asper defeated Rile Banach togive the Terps a 24-0 lead. No. 6heavyweight Spencer Myers closedthe competition with a major deci-sion over Panther Ryan Juach.
The Terps took their third compe-tition of the day over No. 21 CentralMichigan, 23-15, and won six of their10 matches.
“[Saturday] was the best we’vecompeted this year as a team,”McCoy said. “We definitely hadsome flashes of brilliance.”
And “brilliant” was the only way todescribe the conclusion of their dualwith Central Michigan.
After back-and-forth matches dur-ing which the lead jumped from
team to team, Boley clinched a Terpsvictory with a major decision overChad Friend.
“I knew that was a solid CentralMichigan guy but he wasn’t some-one that I didn’t feel like we couldn’tbeat,” McCoy said of Boley’s finalwin. “[Boley] started a little slow, butthen he started to open up. After thefirst period, he scored some bigpoints. That’s the thing withwrestling, anything can happen.”
The Terps will have their firsthome match of the season Fridaywhen they take on No. 14 Americanat Comcast Center.
“That’s going to be a big match,”McCoy said of the so-called “Battle ofthe Beltway.” “They’re ranked prettyhigh and they have some nationallyranked guys. We’re fired up about it.It’s always a battle.”
Coach Brenda Frese and the Terps are set to face an undefeatedMichigan team Wednesday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Complete collapse
MEN’S SOCCER
Cardinals leave Terps with nothing to play forBY CONNOR LETOURNEAU
Staff writer
It wasn’t supposed to end like this.A Terrapins men’s soccer season
that began with the best start in 43years expired suddenly last night aftera 4-2 loss to No. 12 seed Louisville inthe third round of the NCAA Tourna-ment, the squad’s lofty dreamsundone by a makeshift backline and apotent Cardinals attack.
The defeat at Ludwig Field markedthe earliest postseason exit since 2007for the fifth-seeded Terps, who wonjust one of their final six games afteran 11-0-1 start.
“I feel terrible for our guysbecause I think they’ve played somegreat soccer this year,” coach SashoCirovski said after the game. “Youknow, they played some of the best
soccer I’ve seen in years here. Butunfortunately, we just couldn’t puttogether a defensive performanceworthy of advancing.”
Cirovski’s troubles against lastyear’s national runner-up started longbefore opening kickoff. Defender AlexLee aggravated a nagging thigh injuryin the opening minutes of the Terps’(14-4-3) second-round win over WestVirginia last Sunday, sidelining thesenior captain for the Sweet 16 battle.Backup center back Kyle Roach wasalso unavailable after pulling a quadri-cep during warm-ups.
That forced Cirovski to slide mid-fielder Helge Leikvang to the back-line, where he lined up in front of goal-keeper Keith Cardona. Cirovski againstarted the true freshman over senior
Season of great promise ends unfulfilledwith 4-2 loss in Sweet 16 at Ludwig Field
BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer
It would be difficult to sum up theTerrapins football team’s abysmal firstseason under coach Randy Edsall anybetter than its second-half perform-ance did Saturday in Raleigh, N.C.
After building a 27-point lead overN.C. State early in the third quarter,the Terps appeared well on their wayto their first win in nearly two months.
But with three second-halfturnovers and a sudden inability tostop the Wolfpack’s offensive attack,the Terps fell apart.
N.C. State rattled off 42 points overthe game’s final 21:57 to finish theirregular season with a 56-41 victory— the second-largest comeback everin ACC history — that will likely godown as the Terps’ worst loss in aseason riddled with unsightly per-formances. The defeat marked theteam’s seventh straight by a double-digit margin.
“All of the sudden, we could notmake a play,” Edsall said after the game.
A positive result at Carter-FinleyStadium on Saturday would have donelittle to lessen the sting of the Terps’disappointing season.
It would have, however, at leastgiven them something to build offentering the offseason.
Entering halftime Saturday, it seemedthe Terps had finally put it all together.
Paced by three touchdowns fromquarterback C.J. Brown and defensivescores from defensive backs DexterMcDougle and A.J. Hendy, the Terps(2-10, 1-7 ACC) cruised into the lockerroom at halftime with a lead for thefirst time since Oct. 15.
But as they did that night againstClemson, the Terps lost their way inthe second half.
After running back Davin Meggett
A group of N.C. State players swarm running back Jeremiah Wilson during Saturday’s season finale. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN
MEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
Friday’s game against Florida GulfCoast offered the Terrapins men’sbasketball team a chance to returnhome and flee the lingering disap-pointment of last week’s Puerto RicoTip-Off.
And for some of Friday night, theyoung team seemed to leave it allbehind. Playing selflessly on offenseand with vigor defensively, the Terpsbuilt their largest lead of the seasonagainst any opponent.
But after a 16-point second halflead dwindled to just four in the finalminute of an eventual 73-67 win,coach Mark Turgeon addressed themedia afterward with measuredhappiness.
“It’s just like a day at the park,”Turgeon said. “Real easy for us.”
The Terps (3-2), with their fourthdifferent starting lineup in fivegames, needed nearly 10 minutes toclaim the lead against the Eagles (2-4).After walk-on guard JonathanThomas nailed a 3-pointer midwaythrough the first half, the Terps
seized the lead and held onto it forthe rest of the way.
Coasting with a double-digit advan-tage in the second half, the Terps sawFlorida Gulf Coast inch back into thegame with a disruptive full-courtpress. Turnovers and missed freethrows narrowed the Terps’ leadfrom as many as 16 to seven and thento four with just 47.6 seconds left.
Guard Terrell Stoglin, who led allscorers with 24 points, missed six ofhis eight free throws in the final 75
BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer
With two off days in Miamibefore the start of the Florida Inter-national Thanksgiving Classic, theTerrapins women’s basketball teamhad time to relax and celebrate theholiday weekend.
The vacation didn’t stop when thegames started, however.
The No. 8 Terps cruised to two vic-tories over the Thanksgiving week-end, defeating Florida International,
84-52, on Friday before their offenseexploded in a 114-83 rout of CSUBakersfield on Saturday. The team’s114 points marked its highest single-game scoring output since scoring118 against Appalachian State onDec. 1, 2005.
“Some great temperatures downhere, a chance to take the team to thebeach and just take their minds offschool and basketball,” coachBrenda Frese said. “And definitely
Terps fade but don’t fall to Eagles Unbeaten Terps add twomore blowouts in FloridaFlorida Gulf Coast comes within four points before losing, 73-67
