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ISSUE NO. 33
Our 103rd Year
MONDAY, october 15, 2012 TOMORROW 60S / Cloudy
Jane Goodall speaks to about 600 on wildlife protection
By Jenny HottleSta� writer
She came without a fl ashy Power-Point presentation or musical accom-paniment — only a stu� ed toy monkey with a banana.
But when the 78-year-old woman stepped onstage and greeted her audi-ence in chimpanzee, the Dekelboum Concert Hall fell silent.
About 600 people packed into the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Saturday to meet the world’s most famous primatologist, Jane Goodall. The U.N. messenger of peace spent
more than 45 years studying chim-panzee social behavior in Tanzania and she now travels 300 or more days each year to advocate for environmental conversation and wildlife protection across the globe.
Students of all ages came from as far as halfway across the country to meet the woman they said inspired
See goodall, Page 3
Police arrest robbery suspectArrest on heels of three robberies last week
‘Madness’ as usualDespite hype, annual Maryland Madness proves to be same as every other year
By Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
A group of reporters surrounded Mark Turgeon in the media room inside Comcast Center late Friday night, waiting to ask him questions about Maryland Madness, the Ter-rapins men’s basketball team’s new uniforms and Shaquille Cleare’s dance moves.
But before he fi elded those ques-tions, the second-year coach at-tended to more pressing matters. He wanted to know the score of the Washington Nationals game and whether or not the Baltimore Orioles had beaten the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the American League Division Series.
Considering the festivities that had just taken place on Gary Williams
Court, the inquiries seemed fi tting. Maryland Madness is an annual
event that’s supposed to introduce this year’s squad, kick off the new season and whip fans into a frenzy. And it fi gured to be bigger than ever Friday. The Terps were showcasing their new jerseys, top recruits Aaron and Andrew Harrison were reportedly
See madness, Page 3
men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon, who said he doesn’t like a lot of attention, greets the crowd in Comcast Center on Friday during Maryland Madness, which marked the o� cial start of the basketball season. Both the men’s and women’s teams performed dances. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
jane goodall spoke to about 600 people Saturday afternoon in CSPAC. christian jenkins/for the diamondback
Prince George’s County Police ar-rested a suspect allegedly involved in last week’s string of robberies that in-volved three students.
On Saturday, police arrested a 17-year-old Greenbelt male, who was charged with two counts of fi rst-degree assault, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of robbery, second-degree assault and theft less than $1,000, ac-cording to court documents. His pre-liminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 29 in Upper Marlboro.
The arrest comes on the heels of three robberies reported last week. At about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, a male student was allegedly punched in the face and robbed on Route 1 near University Bou-levard. He su� ered minor injuries.
Later that night, at about 10:30, a female student handed over her cell phone after reportedly being held at gunpoint behind the University View apartments. Around the same time, a suspect approached another male student, but the student did not comply.
Dist. 1 Commander Maj. Robert Brewer said police believe the suspect in custody was involved in at least two of the three robberies.
“It was a quick turnaround for a robbery,” Brewer said. “We were able to get some information from video and from the victims [to help identify a suspect].”
City rolls out eco-friendly initiativesBy Nick FoleySta� writer
By conquering two major initia-tives, forming a sustainability team and gaining EPA certifi cation, College Park officials have moved one step closer to fostering a more environmentally-friendly city.
College Park City Council members first proposed two goals directed at sustainability earlier this year and managed to complete both on sched-ule: forming a Sustainable Maryland Certifi ed Green Team — a 14-person crew including representatives from city government, business, the univer-sity, area schools and the Committee for a Better Environment — and be-coming an Environmental Protection Agency-certifi ed Green Power Com-munity, which encourages residents and business owners to purchase re-newable energy credits that are used to create wind power in other areas.
The EPA designated the city a Green Power Community last month, follow-ing a community-wide e� ort launched in January. City o� cials sent out letters galvanizing business owners and resi-dents to purchase renewable energy that would exceed the EPA’s minimum purchase requirement. The city’s re-newable energy now accounts for 3 percent of its energy output.
“The Green Power Community [des-ignation] is showing a commitment from the entire city toward purchasing and promoting renewable energy,” said Chantal Cotton, assistant to the city manager. “It really just has been an act of e� ort over time.”
The city also realized its mission this summer to create a Sustainable Mary-land Certifi ed Green Team. The team, which met for the first time in early August, will collaborate to brainstorm sustainability measures for the city,
See green, Page 3
By Laura BlaseySta� writer
From a distance, it looked like the beginning of a medieval-style angry mob: a crowd of people shouting and waving bound clusters of bristles could look ominous in any other context. See quidditch, PagE 3
But it was a beautiful Sunday morning and this was Turtle Cup 2012, the univer-sity’s annual fall Quidditch tournament, and 16 teams from schools up and down the East Coast assembled to compete on the home turf of the top Quidditch team in the mid-Atlantic. The university’s Flying Wizard Turtles are ranked second in the
TAKING IT ALL HOMEUniversity Quidditch team, ranked second worldwide, wins annual Turtle Cup on home turf
� fteen regional quidditch teams visited the campus yesterday to play in the Turtle Cup, a yearly university Quidditch tournament. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
world of more than 1,000 o� cial and non-o� cial teams. Present to challenge them were Johns Hopkins University’s Hopkins Hallows, Kutztown University’s Kutz-town Kedavras, University of Richmond’s Acromantulas, University of Virginia’s
A chimp on her
shoulder
A TWIN ACTTwins Max and Spencer Ernst, part of The Walking Sticks, perform in College Park p. 6
STILL THE SAMETerps win, but offensive struggles haven’t changed p. 8
SPORTS DIVERSIONS
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planning to attend and there were even rumors that rappers Wale or Rick Ross would perform.
But when the night conclud-ed less than two hours after it started, it was clear the event was no different than it had been in years past. The jerseys were dif-ferent, but the level of excitement was the same. The Harrison twins, who committed to Ken-tucky two weeks ago, were at Big Blue Madness in Lexington, and the only musical performances came from a loudspeaker.
The university’s Gymkana Troupe did the same perfor-mance they always do, the student dunk contest — in which the least lackluster dunk deter-mined the winner — silenced the less-than-capacity crowd and the Terps women’s basket-ball team did a choreographed routine at midcourt wearing
matching cargo shorts.For the main event, the men’s
squad donned black jumpsuits and Jabbawockeez-style white masks for its team dance, “un-veiled” new uniforms — which were already being sold in the University Book Center — and played a 12-minute scrimmage that resembled an NBA All-Star Game dunk contest more than a basketball exhibition.
“Tonight’s about the players having fun. I think they had a good time,” Turgeon said. “You don’t get anything out of the game part, but I did get a feel that our guys have some dance moves, which is encouraging.”
The players’ dance moves were the night’s biggest story. Fans ap-plauded the team’s routine, and each player got to showcase his individual talents during player introductions. Turgeon even got into the action, doing his own impression of Cleare as he poked fun at the freshman center during his crowd address.
“He ain’t got no shake in him,” Cleare said of Turgeon’s dancing. “This was for the young people to do.”
“[The dancing was] probably a C-minus,” forward Charles Mitchell said. “But we just did it to have fun with it for the fans. It wasn’t serious. We just wanted everyone to laugh at us.”
W hen it ended, Turgeon seemed relieved. He said he ap-preciated the crowd showing up despite the fact the area’s two baseball teams were both playing series-deciding playo� games. And now that the spectacle was over, he was ready for what he considered the real main event.
“I got into the wrong busi-ness. I don’t like drawing atten-tion to myself, but unfortunate-ly, that’s part of it,” Turgeon said. “I just can’t wait until 11 o’clock [Saturday] morning when we practice. That’s really what I’m excited about.”
forward jake layman dunks during his introduction at Maryland Madness on Friday night. Later in the event, which kicks o� the basketball season, the men’s team wore black jumpsuits and Jabbawockeez-style white masks for a team dance. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
according to City Planner Jona-than Brown.
Its fi rst goal is to become cer-tifi ed by Sustainable Maryland, which stipulates that they fi rst create an action plan.
Improving sustainability o� the campus is as important as advancing green causes at the university, said junior commu-nication major Hayley Keeney.
“As the younger generation, it’s our responsibility to take care of the planet in order for generations after us to be able to thrive as well,” she said.
“The state has specific re-quirements to be considered
a green community, and it’s looking like we have enough to qualify,” Brown said.
S u s t a i n a b l e M a r y l a n d hosted its yearly Certified Recognition luncheon last Thursday — an event Brown hopes city representatives will be attending next year.
“We will continue plug-ging in all the current [green] actions College Park currently does, and then we’ll add in the action plan,” Brown said.
Other city organizations have also adopted plans to go green. The College Park Committee for a Better Environment is con-ducting research that addresses recycling in the city in an e� ort to expand its presence. The city council emphasizes sustainabil-
ity in its strategic plan, and will continue creating new initiatives, Cotton said.
“It’s something that’s really important to them, and I think the community is completely on board,” she said.
However, junior government and politics and physics major Jordan Hill said the city is still far behind the university in some regards, including pushing recycling.
“To be honest, I haven’t really noticed much of their attempts to do anything,” Hill said. “I see none in the city. … It wouldn’t be a bad thing to have a recy-cling container next to the trash container.”
was a weight o� his chest, he said, and allowed him to be more honest in his life – in-cluding in his music.
For Spencer, the transition came from an accident. During his sophomore year in high school, he was weight lifting when another bar rolled off a machine and hit him. He was stuck at home for a bit and had double vision for a month.
More and more, he had time to start thinking about new songs, di� erent directions.
The twins juggled school and the band. They traveled the country frequently while attending all-male Gonzaga College High School in Wash-ington, missing school for trips to Virginia or New York. Their
teachers were understanding.At the end of high school,
when there was a deal on the table with Epic Records, the twins were told they could either defer from college or forget the deal. That was the turning point, Max and Spencer said.
They deferred until spring semester.
The deal didn’t go through.“It was pretty shady,” Spencer
said. “Up until that point, we were being told by management to write songs to sign for the label.”
Max and Spencer sat in the tables outside Stamp Student Union, one of the last late-Sep-tember suns spreading a warm glow over them. They glanced at each other as they talked. Two identical coffee travel cups sat on the table. Max faced the sun.
“We’ll just sit there and say, ‘If we didn’t play music, what
the hell would we do with the time?’” Spencer said.
“ We c a n’t re m e m b e r a time when we haven’t played music,” Max added. “It’s a part of our identity.”
After graduation, the pos-sibilities are endless. They’ve decided they’ll go where the music takes them and pin down part-time jobs to make it work.
“We’re not chasing after something with the music that we’re playing,” Max said. “We’re doing it because we love it.”
When they played Friday in an autumn sunshine, Spencer sported a red and black check-ered shirt while Max wore blue plaid. Spencer’s hair was pulled back in a ponytail; Max’s was cut short. At the end of the concert, they looked out at the audience, bearing the same wide smile.
their fascination with wildlife.“We’ve been planning this trip
for months,” said Teri Santucci, who brought her sixth-grade son, Kenneth, from Hamilton, N.J. “She’s somebody he’s always wanted to see.”
Like some audience members, Goodall discovered her love for animals at a young age and spent hours rereading Tarzan of the Apes by a tree in her garden.
“I fell in love with Tarzan,” Goodall said. “But he married the wrong Jane.”
However, Goodall could not a� ord to go to college and was told she would never have the chance to do research. Still, her mother told her she would find a way, and eventually Goodall saved up enough money from a waitressing job to travel to Africa.
Archaeologist and anthropol-ogist Louis Leakey sent Goodall a nd her mot her to G ombe Stream National Park in Tan-zania, and it was there Goodall began venturing off into the forest in search of chimpanzees.
“I wasn’t having that great of a time,” Goodall said about the fi rst few months. “I would get back in the evening disheart-ened. If I didn’t see anything exciting in the fi rst six months, that would be the end.”
But then came the moment Goodall referred to as, “the Great Observation” — she saw a chim-panzee using grass stems to clear termites from a hole.
“He was a toolmaker — what
we thought set us apart [from other animals],” Goodall said. “It was very exciting to see this.”
Despite having no o� cial sci-entific training, Goodall con-tinued her work by naming the chimpanzees and studying their personalities and emotions.
“[The chimps] had the same dark side as we do,” she said. “They also have characteristics of love, compassion and altruism.”
However, in order for her to continue as a credible researcher, Goodall left Africa to work toward a doctorate degree from the Uni-versity of Cambridge. Afterward, she headed right back out to the forest and began to build her own research team, which marked the start of her famous chimpanzee research project.
“It was the life I dreamed of and more,” Goodall said.
Goodall would later learn that the habitats of her beloved chimpanzees were threatened by man-made developments. While flying over the national park where she worked for so long, she saw complete deforestation and overuse of the land. Goodall realized it was important not only to advocate for wildlife protec-tion, but to teach conservation and development to the African people, which led her to found the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977.
“How could we even try to save these chimpanzees if these people are having such a struggle to survive?” Goodall said.
Through her institute, Goodall also established a youth program called Roots & Shoots, which enables young students to discuss troubling environmental prob-
lems and come up with potential solutions. Hundreds of thou-sands of students around the world are now involved in the program, Goodall said.
“It’s using the methods we use in Africa and then getting the children to do the same sort of mapping of their own community and learning so much,” she said.
Will iam Holland, a fifth grader from Chevy Chase, said he hoped to follow in Goodall’s footsteps and study wildlife conservation in college. He had begged his dad to take him to hear Goodall speak after seeing the tour dates on her website.
“We got our tickets in July,” said Kent Holland, William’s father. “We planned our whole weekend around this.”
University students who at-tended the event said Goodall had also inspired them to seek to make a di� erence.
“Dr. Goodall’s been a hero of mine for a long time,” junior biology major Spencer Brodsky said. “She’s revolutionized and advocated for observational biology and observing the world around us.”
As for Goodall, there’s no sign of stopping. Her loyal companion Mr. H — the 16-year-old stu� ed monkey — will accompany her to Antarctica this winter for its 60th trip. She said she hopes to continue encouraging young people, who she believes can solve world issues.
“We can do it,” she said. “And if we care about it … we must jump in and do our part every single day.”
Acromantulas and Virginia Com-monwealth University’s Wizenga-mots, among others.
At 8:30 a.m., before the fi rst game of the day, the captains met to determine the tourna-ment bracket. The fi rst round of matches can be the most tense — how a team does in the pre-liminary rounds can make or break the day.
There’s a ritual to how these games start. The captains shake hands and game balls are laid on the fi eld. Each team lines up before their goals and bows, with eyes closed, as the golden snitch, contained in the waistband of the snitch runner, gets a head start. On the referee’s cue, the players lunge for the balls.
But through the fi erce compe-tition is a sense of community. Players referee games for other teams and snitches volunteer to run when a match-up lacks that player. Support comes from within in the still-young sport.
“I will give everyone 5 seconds before I start making annoying noises! We need help — we can’t do these tournaments alone!” Maryland Quidditch’s captain, sophomore Josh Marks, called out over the speakers, before unleash-ing an ambulance-like wail.
Within minutes, a full team of referees and snitches assemble at the administration table.
Make no mistake, they are ath-letes, as committed to their sport as any others. It’s violent and dif-fi cult — several sidelined players sported casts, crutches and braces as they cheered.
EMTs stood by and last year, the team even splurged on a full ambulance.
“This is so stressful, I can’t even watch this,” team President and tournament Director Sarah Woolsey said, watching as the Hoth Rebels and the University of Pittsburgh went into overtime after a close match. The Rebels went on to win, 110-80.
“We haven’t really had any major crises or issues aside from injuries, and people really seem to be enjoying themselves, so it’s a good day,” she added.
But it’s athletics with a sense of humor — operating under three key International Quidditch As-sociation values: competition, creativity and community.
Team jerseys feature fractions and symbols, and each team has their own set of cheers. They ac-cessorize their uniforms with neon socks and bandanas. In one
of the preliminary rounds, seven Philly Honey Badgers broke into the “Gangnam Style” dance on the fi eld.
“Dooh!” Sasha Azar exclaimed as a snitch runner with a can of shaving cream tackled the Chest-nut Hill seeker in a match against the UVA Whomping Wahoos.
He and his wife Chris drove down from Philadelphia to cheer on their son, a University of Pittsburgh junior.
“It’s hard to watch at first because there is so much going on and it’s hard to keep track of everything,” Chris Azar said. “We’ve been watching Quidditch for the last few years. It’s nice to see the teams getting better and the equipment is improving. It’s getting to be a bigger sport.”
The concept of Quidditch emerged in 1997, when the first of the books in award-winning author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series hit bookstores in the United Kingdom. It was the story of a meek orphan who discovers he has a penchant for magic and has ensuing adventures in the wizard-ing world, which include discover-ing a sport called Quidditch.
While many may dismiss today’s players as geeky or im-mature, it takes courage and skill to flagrantly place a broomstick between your legs and run. To the untrained eye, it looks like madness. But it’s an organized madness, with rules and a history and a charm to it. Even the two EMTs on duty, who were fi rst-time Quidditch spectators, were getting into the game.
“I think it’s awesome that people can come together for a made-up sport,” said University of Pennsylvania chaser sophomore
Molly Markell, “and be so intense about it and have a great time.”
Though there’s often a wide disparity in the skill levels present on any Quidditch team, and some teams are visibly newer to the game than others, this university’s members carry a rigorous training schedule to maintain their reputa-tion. Flying Wizard Turtles train for two hours Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays with 90-minute strength and conditioning sessions Tuesdays and Fridays. Beaters can opt for an additional 90-minute practice Wednesday nights.
The championship match came down to the 72nd-ranked Penn State and Maryland. Both fi elded their best players, such as universi-ty graduate James Hicks, who trav-eled to London this summer for the Olympic Quidditch scrimmages.
At times, the competition was intense and players were reduced to piles of limbs and broomsticks.
Maryland won 150 to 60 when seeker Harry Greenhouse cap-tured the snitch. After singing the Maryland fight song, Marks accepted a homemade fi rst-place trophy. Penn State took home the silver trophy and Salisbury won the sportsmanship award.
“I’m really proud of Mary-land Quidditch,” said chaser and junior journalism major Saman-tha Medney. “We really joined to-gether and proved we could play together for the victory.”
As the day wore on and the eliminated teams packed up to leave one by one, they weren’t quite so sad.
“Even though we didn’t do very well, it was still a lot of fun,” Markell said.
The Maryland Flying Wizard Turtles, the university’s Quidditch team, beat out 15 teams to win the annual Turtle Cup, held on the campus on Sunday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
DIVERSIONS
English is not a luxury,
but a necessitySTEM and humanities should work together
MARC PRIESTER
It’s been a long, seemingly nev-er-ending saga over the last two years. The circular debate
began when developers proposed transforming the Maryland Book Exchange into a mixed-use apart-ment complex that would add 1,000 beds off the campus. The College Park City Council and residents opposed the plan, citing concerns that it would interfere with Old Town College Park and clash with the Route 1 Sector Plan, which outlines architectural plans for the city’s future. When devel-opers come back with a revised plan, the council and residents oppose it, basically reiterating the same reasons. And the cycle repeats itself, over and over.
At Tu e sd ay ’s c i ty co u n c i l meeting, R&J Company presented yet another revision of its plans for the development to compromise with the council and hopefully avoid a city lawsuit. The council will vote on the new plan at its meeting tomorrow.
One of the biggest complaints throughout this arduous process has been that the proposed de-velopment’s architecture would clash with Old Town College Park, which residents desperately want to preserve, and bring an infl ux of
STAFF EDITORIAL
students. According to the newest plan, half of the building’s front will be made of brick instead of the metal material initially proposed, along with several other changes meant to gain the council and residents’ support.
It appears the developers are des-perately trying to compromise with the city council, and this time, the council should move ahead to support the development. This is a college town — there are always going to
be students, and adding more off-campus beds won’t change how many there are, just where they’re living.
Additionally, university President Wallace Loh and the council have both continuously said they’re hoping to transform College Park into a top-20 college town. There are plenty of ideas and plans in the works, but the Book
Exchange redevelopment is one that could feasibly happen relatively soon.
And the remade Book Exchange wouldn’t just be more student housing — it would also bring ground fl oor retail space, something that’s sorely needed to help revitalize the city. While it’s understandable city residents want to maintain part of the history of College Park, it’s also im-perative we continue to move forward. If you look around the rest of the city, dozens of restaurants have come and gone — we’ve moved from restau-rants that typically serve burgers and sandwiches to places that o� er unique Middle Eastern dishes and specialize in dumplings. It’s time for the rest of the city to upgrade and catch up.
It’s important to preserve history, but for the city to thrive, it’s also critical to move into the future. College Park itself doesn’t exactly lure students to want to attend this university, and it doesn’t have the reputation of being a nice place to live. Filing a lawsuit would simply be a waste of money, especially when the developers have worked so hard to compromise with the council.
There are also plenty of other im-portant issues the council needs to address and should be taking up — there’s no need to waste any more time on this issue.
Square the pointless circle
OUR VIEW
The Maryland Book Exchange argument
between the College Park City Council and developers has gone on long enough;
it’s time to compromise.
ASHLEY ZACHERY/the diamondback
EDITORIAL CARTOON
4 THE DIAMONDBACK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
Opinion
It’s no secret the arts and humani-ties departments across the nation have been at the forefront of a cultural and fi scal war. Budgetary issues have left departments malnourished of funds and su� ering egregious harms from a culture quickly diminish-ing the value of certain programs. However, even more perversely, the
English major itself has been labeled as a joke. We’ve all heard the rally-ing call, “English is not a real major.” English, moreover, is the misunder-stood major; one that has been iron-ically mocked and crucified maybe more than any other. The problem is, society does not understand the self-infl icted damages we will incur if we continually mitigate this department’s fi nances and dignity.
This university has constricted funding toward the department, forcing itself to become aggressively selective with the Ph.D. applicant pool — to the point of admission be-coming damn near impossible. The master’s program no longer subsidizes the studies of candidates (buying books for research, etc.), which clearly discourages registration.
English professor Martha Nell Smith gives a fantastic analysis of why these cuts are unwarranted. The department is low-cost, because the provisions necessary to function ef-fi ciently span only textbooks, novels and possibly computers for research. The department essentially pays for itself, unlike engineering and natural sciences, which command an inor-dinate amount of wealth because of the necessity of lab equipment and high-tech gear.
The only thing worse than fi nan-cially devaluing the worth of the department is degrading the integ-rity of the major. Students, faculty, politicians and parents have fl ogged English as “useless”; we hear anec-dotal horror stories about, “English student from [insert prestigious university here] working at Outback Steakhouse.”
Professor Smith told me the story of her father attempting to scare her away from being an English major.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
What if he had succeeded? Losing such a brilliant mind would signifi -cantly deprive this university’s intel-lectual capacity.
Professor Smith, per usual, has disproved all the skeptics by assert-ing for years that English majors go beyond teaching; they dominate fi elds ranging from various business indus-tries to law, to volunteer work and leadership fi elds, all because of their ability to analyze. The overall problem with school is it teaches one how to be a student, not a thinker. Students become accustomed to using “equa-tion x” or “method y” in order to solve homework problems.
However, the problems of life are non-linear, and hold an inordinate amount of unpredictability, vari-ability and nuanced, unforeseen consequences and externalities. The ability to carefully dissect and analyze every situation as unique is not only learned as an English major, but required.
Looking at a variety of texts in new and distinct ways allows the creative mind to flourish, and this applica-tion to the real world keeps businesses maximizing profi ts, interpretation of law and legal precedence evolving and our country strong. China, the country that has become the quintes-sential example of STEM emphasis, is beginning to highlight the humani-ties, realizing the imperative of cre-ativity to success of a nation. STEM and humanities are not polarized nemeses; they need each other.
English serves a purpose beyond employment or prestige — it gives our lives subjective value. I recog-nize business, economics, science and engineering are important to make life more comfortable, but they fail to answer the question of why we live. The aesthetic beauty contained is lavish diction; the morals and values we ascertain from heroic stories and tragic tales, and the introspection incentivizing reformation of our fl aws and personalities are derivative of the art of literature. Living without the magnificence of literary art, in my opinion the pinnacle of art, is a life not worth living.
M a rc P r i e s t e r i s a s o p h o m o re economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
President Obama has failed America with his domestic economic poli-cies and inability to stem this
country’s massive debt, soaring un-employment and high energy prices.
Obama has promoted big govern-ment dependency that borders on so-cialism and conveys weakness to the world; we cannot be a military super-power abroad without a flourishing economy at home.
Obama has failed America and Israel with his fl awed foreign policy in the Middle East, eroding our support for Israel and showing lack of resolve in stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. All of this is happening as our citizens are killed and our embas-sies attacked.
Maybe people of faith, along with Obama’s radical mentors and associates, such as the late alleged communist Frank
Marshall Davis and controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, can rationalize these failures, but will they ignore the moral component that all religions teach?
Obama favors same-sex mar-riage and the legality of abortions. Forcing institutions a� liated with the Catholic Church — hospitals, schools, universities, etc. — to violate Church doctrine and provide birth control to women is yet another attack on freedom of religion by the govern-ment. At the Democratic National Convention in September, delegates wanted to vote God and Jerusalem out of the party platform.
How will people of faith vote in the most important election in our coun-try’s history? “In God We Trust.”
JOE WIBLE SR.CLASS OF 1968 ALUMNUS
October: To be honest, all anyone really cares about this month is Hal-loween. But in order to get there, they must overcome something so horrible it barely warrants saying: midterms. There, I said it.
Midterms are like the Titanic. No matter how much you prepare, you’re going to get hit with a giant iceberg of questions you never saw coming. Now, imagine fi ve separate icebergs getting ready to sink your ship, over and over again. And then it starts to fl ood, and there aren’t enough lifeboats, so you have to share a plank of wood to survive, and … you get the point.
Every semester, I’ve had the same issue all other college stu-dents inevitably have to handle: test after test after test. Almost every week, each class has some kind of huge assignment due.
While these can’t necessarily be avoided — we are in college, after all — midterm exams could be scheduled all within a week, similar to fi nal exams.
Wouldn’t it be easier if all your midterms occurred during the same week? All of the stress could be lifted from your shoulders. Your time could be better spent enjoying yourself instead of studying week after week. Just one week of hell, and then that crazy amount of stress is all over. Until fi nals, that is.
Now, I know some of you are probably reading this and thinking I’m insane. If extra studying time could be benefi cial, why add stress just for the sake of being fi nished? I don’t know about you, but in my experience, I end up doing better on my fi nal exams than my midterms.
I don’t know if it’s my ability to cram in times of struggle, if it has just taken a whole semester for me to truly understand the material or if it’s just luck. I like to think it’s the format of the testing. Everyone bands together to study. No one cares how much you’ve been to class or how well
you’ve done on anything else. It has (excuse my juvenile reference) a High School Musical, “We’re All in This Together” type of feel. Sorry if it’s now stuck in your head (it’s in mine).
While people gather to study for midterms, it’s not the same. Everyone’s schedule is different, so a lot of the time you’re going to end up studying alone. In a group, it’s much more likely someone took notes on something you might not have and will ultimately help your test-taking experience.
Unfortunately, the academic cal-endar at this university has been set in stone for quite some time, and it’s probably not going to change any time soon. So for now, sit back, crack open that textbook and hope for the best — but prepare for the worst.
Well, I’ve procrastinated enough writing this instead of studying for my midterms, so I wish you the best of luck on yours.
D a v i d O l i v e r i s a j u n i o r journalism major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Twins Max and Spencer Ernst have ridden the ups and downs of music and finally found their solace in The Walking Sticks
SPOTLIGHT | THE WALKING STICKS
Max and Spencer Ernst speak in a rhythm of unconscious give-and-takes, push-and-pulls.
“We’re so on the same page that people won’t even know sometimes what we’re saying,” Spencer said of their relationship. “It’s hard to explain, but it’s almost like we’re in the zone together. When we’re writing, Max will say something, and he doesn’t even have to finish the sentence.”
Spencer turned to his identical twin brother, who shares his same tannish-blonde hair, his same love for music.
“What else are you thinking about?” he asked.
“That’s what I’m thinking about,” Max replied.
Their exteriors are carbon copies, save Spencer’s almost shoulder-length hair. Their history is exten-sive: They’ve played at the 9:30 Club and worked with producer Stacy Jones
(Plain White T’s, American Hi-Fi), among other accomplishments.
The twin senior environmental science majors have played music since they can remember, evolving through songs about Santa Claus to poppy hits to a natural sound closer to home in the four-member Walking Sticks, which released its first album World So Bright in June. The Walking Sticks played as a part of the Stamp Friday Showcase at Nyumburu Amphitheater Friday afternoon and Looney’s Pub Saturday night, officially announcing their re-leases to the city of College Park, where the band was born.
And they have no plans of slowing down after graduation.
Max and Spencer are from Silver Spring, but the woodsy part of Silver Spring, near the Northwest Branch Anacostia River. They grew up hiking
there with their father and dog. Their father would collect walking sticks. The concept stuck.
“It’s an important thing for us,” Spencer said. “It’s a simple thing to have on a walk, and it makes a big difference.”
It’s always silent back there, they said. No distractions. The perfect chance to talk about music. Stevie, their pit bull mix, would accompa-ny them. The twins, who commute from home, still go on hikes with their dog.
When they were younger, the twins’ musical moniker was Spax (a combina-tion of their names), then Time-Out and Code Red (which they changed after the sniper attacks hit Washing-ton), Upslide in middle school years and Trust Fall in high school. The Walking Sticks is their college form.
They said they don’t like describing their music; that type of classification puts them in a box. But their sound trends toward an acoustic, experimen-tal feeling that emphasizes three-part harmonies, creating a natural sound inspired by the woods.
It’s so important to them that they came into college as business majors hoping to make the Walking Sticks their business one day. But the classes didn’t appeal to them, so they switched to a more interesting science major.
Max and Spencer started out playing the Washington-area Catholic school circuit.
That was the time of Upslide, one of their earlier bands, which they formed with teenage friends. They once played on a float in a Kensington parade. The twins call their adolescent years their creative time, when they could experi-
ment with all kinds of music.The tides turned in high school
when the twins were discovered by a New York management company. They became Trust Fall, a duo with a new streamlined focus: writing songs for the label. Getting a record deal. Becoming famous.
They wrote from their hearts, they said, but with a more poppy element and an increased pressure to make it big. As a result, they weren’t as free.
“We just got pigeonholed when we were younger because we were twins,” Max said. “People tried to box us into that.”
The twins are almost exactly alike in every way, Max said. Yet their sources of musical growth — their de-fining moments — have been different.
Max is gay. Coming out to Spencer
MAX (above) and Spencer released their first album in June but debuted their music in the city this past weekend, playing at both Looney’s Pub and the Nyumburu Amphitheater.
SPENCER (above) and Max Ernst played in several different bands before forming The Walking Sticks, including Spax, Time-Out, Code Red and Upslide. photos courtesy of max and spencer ernst
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14 minutes later to give Old Do-minion a 2-1 advantage.
After Pope’s goal tied the game moments before half-time, the Terps played pos-sessed. M id f ielder Mega n F ra z er score d i n t he 41s t minute, and defender Sarah Sprink provided an insurance goal 15 minutes later.
F l u h a r t y n o t c h e d h e r second goal of the game with less than a minute remaining, giving the Terps a three-goal cushion.
“I think that we just got really fired up and wanted to go out there and prove that we can play better than we were playing,” forward Alyssa Parker said. “Even though we weren’t playing bad, we just knew that we could play better.”
T h i n g s got eve n b e t te r Sunday. Back in College Park,
the Terps blew out UC Davis (6-9), 7-0. The team will now play its four remaining regular-season games at home against unranked opponents.
O f c o u r s e , t h a t h a rd l y means it’s too soon for the Terps to start considering a
return to Norfolk, Va.“It’s a beautiful stadium,
and it’s where the Final Four is being held this year,” Meharg said. “So we’re hoping that we can make it back there.”
yet again, owning a 19-8 ad-vantage, but Cirovski expressed some displeasure at the Terps’ ability to finish. Only four of
those shots were placed on goal. The Terps were able to get the last they needed to put Duke away, though, when Francois tapped a low cross from defend-er Jordan Cyrus past Belshaw.
“It’s less frustrating when you know that you keep creat-
ing those chances and you see mistakes that are easily cor-rectable,” Cirovski said. “It’s more frustrating if you’re not creating the chances. It’s some-thing we’ve addressed, and I think when you score two goals on the road in an ACC game, you
have a chance to win.”As the schedule has worn on,
the Terps have seen their oppo-nents tighten up. In their fi rst seven victories, only one — a 3-2 win Sept. 14 at N.C. State — was by a one-goal margin. In their past four, though, the Terps’
combined margin of victory is four.
But it’s been enough. Three of the Terps’ five ACC vic-tories have come by virtue of shutout. And the way the defense is playing, the o� ense doesn’t need to worry about
putting up four goals like it was earlier this season. The wins are still coming.
“I think we’re in a good place,” Cirovski said. “We want to just keep getting better.”
Forward Alyssa Parker, who scored a goal yesterday, said the Terps “got really � red up andwanted to go out there and prove that we can play better.” alexis jenkins/the diamondback
be the Terps’ last score until early in the fourth quarter. Virginia’s o� ense — aided by a rushing attack that totaled 168 yards against the Terps’ then-No. 7-ranked rush defense — scored 13 unanswered points in the second and third quarters, cutting their defi cit to just four to start the fi nal frame.
“Defi nitely, the fi rst half, they ran the ball on us,” linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield said. “They got too many runs in the fi rst half, and I feel like we came in the second half and played a little better. They did have that one drive, but our overall defense I think we held up and did what we needed to do.”
T he Terps did what they needed to do, just like they did in victories against William & Mary, Temple and Wake Forest. Hills’ 6-yard touchdown scamper on the team’s fi rst drive of the fourth quarter pushed its lead back to double-digits, and Craddock’s second fi eld goal two possessions later made it 27-13 with just more than six minutes remaining in the game.
C a v a l i e r s q u a r t e r b a c k Michael Rocco, who replaced a struggl i ng Si ms m idway through the fourth quarter, led a touchdown drive that cut the Terps’ lead to seven.
It proved too little, too late. T he Terps’ (4-2, 2-0 ACC) defense forced Rocco into four consecutive incompletions on Virginia’s (2-5, 0-3) fi nal drive of the game, sealing a 27-20 win
over their border rival.“We have a two-minute drill
that we do, and our defense has been really successful in it,” de-fensive end Joe Vellano said. “A lot of guys take a lot of pride in winning the two-minute drill, so we just had a ‘don’t lose two-minute’ kind of mentality.”
The victory came despite arguably the Terps’ worst of-fensive effort of the season. Hills threw for 237 yards and a touchdow n on 1 4-of-26 passing, and the team’s 27 points were the second-most it has scored this season, but the rushing attack — now ranked No. 118 out of 120 — was at its worst. Hills led the way with just seven yards rushing and starter Justus Pickett ran for minus-8 yards on 15 carries as the Terps combined to total minus-2 yards on the day.
“It’s just something we’ve got to work on, week in and week out,” guard Justin Gilbert said. “At the end of the day, a win’s a win. That’s what we were happy about. We just got to keep working every week and establish ourselves on the run.”
No matter what the stat sheet may have looked like, the rest of the Terps likely agreed with Gilbert’s sentiment. A win is a win, and their victory Saturday made them the league’s only remaining unbeaten team.
“It’s a big jump from last season, so everybody’s happy. We’re on a good track,” Diggs said. “Everybody makes mis-takes, but we found a way to pull through.”
mind-boggling minus-2 yards rushing against the ACC’s second-worst scoring defense. Starting running back Justus Pickett totaled minus-8 yards on 15 carries and quarterback Perry Hills led the team with 7 yards rushing.
It was nothing new for a group that ranks last in the ACC in yards per game. Despite typically having four backfi eld options, the Terps have struggled to establish an identity in the run game. Midway through the season, there’s no clear starting running back and there’s not necessarily anyone who has shown enough to warrant a starting nod.
“We’ve got to be better in the run game,” coach Randy Edsall said. “There’s no doubt about it. Believe me, we’re
working really, really hard. We’ll get better. I’m confi dent we will.”
For quarterback Perry Hills’ sake, that promise better be fulfi lled. With no reli-able run game, the true freshman has been forced to make things happen out of the pocket. That, of course, is a tall order for a player who fi gured to take limited snaps as C.J. Brown’s backup this season.
Hills has missed wide-open receivers, absorbed an ACC-leading 20 sacks and continuously struggled to capitalize early in possessions. He regularly faces 3rd and 10, and still lacks the pinpoint accuracy to consistently move the chains.
The one time he has proven successful? The fourth quarter. The Terps have out-scored opponents by 23 over the fi nal 15 minutes this season, regularly stringing together a drive to secure the narrow win.
Saturday was no different. When a fourth-quarter play disintegrated, Hills
bulldozed through Cavaliers defenders and scored what proved to be the deciding points with a six-yard touchdown run.
“Perry’s getting better,” Edsall said. “We see it because we know what he’s doing.”
Maybe so. But the bottom line is, winning teams have a semblance of balance. The o� ense helps the defense, and the defense aides the o� ense. If the Terps hope to get one win closer to a bowl berth this Saturday, Hills and company will need to take some of the burden o� the front seven. They’ll need to break routine.
After all, counting to four may be nice for a group still new to winning. But this group has higher aims. This group has its sights set on an Orange Bowl appearance.
“Every win is sweet,” linebacker De-metrius Hartsfi eld said. “We just want to be able to count up higher and higher.”
The Terps had reason to celebrate after their 27-20 win over Virginia on Saturday, but their continued o� ensive woes still leave reason for concern. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
By Nicholas MunsonSta� writer
The Terrapins fi eld hockey team may have experienced deja vu during the first 30 minutes of its Friday matchup at rival Old Dominion.
Despite a strong second half, the Terps lost their Aug. 31 home opener to the Lady Monarchs, 2-1. The No. 6 Terps seemed headed for a similar fate six weeks later. With halftime approaching, they trailed No. 8 Old Dominion, 2-1.
Luckily for the Terps, however, the deja vu wore o� . Midfi elder Janessa Pope scored a goal before halftime and coach Missy Meharg’s squad tallied three consecutive scores in the second half to notch a 5-2 win.
“Last year, when we played them at their place, we didn’t play so well,” Meharg said after the Terps recorded their fi rst victory over a top-10 team this season. “It was an opportunity
for us to prove to ourselves that we could play well on that field. We know that we can play well there now, so that’s a great feeling.”
T he Ter ps (11-3), who d id n’t score during the first half in the late August matchup, took just 63 seconds to net a goal on Friday. Midfielder Maxine Fluharty slid past Lady Monarchs (10-4) goal-keeper Marla Petriello to tally her
second goal of the season.But that early lead soon evaporated.
Eight and a half minutes later, Old Do-minion forward Nicole Go� scrambled past several defenders — including goalkeeper Natalie Hunter — to score the game-tying goal. Lady Monarchs forward Rosario Villagra converted on a wide-open opportunity about
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In breakthrough win, nothing newTerps use fast start to defeat rival Virginia, go 2-0 in
conference play for � rst time since 2001Despite notching fourth victory Saturday, Terps unable
to remedy season-long shortcomings
By Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Stefon Diggs caught the opening kickoff 5 yards deep in the endzone and turned his eyes downfi eld, checking his block-ers. He took two steps forward before nearly freezing at the goal line, seem-ingly unsure of whether he should take the ball out or simply take a knee.
“I hesitated a little at fi rst because they were telling me to ‘stay in, stay in,’” the Terrapins football wide re-ceiver said. “But I was thinking, ‘No, we’re going to take this one out.’”
Diggs sprinted right into the teeth of Virginia’s coverage team. One hundred yards later, the precocious freshman jogged across the goal line untouched for the game’s opening score.
The play took just 13 seconds. And when the game clock hit all zeros 59:47 later, it proved the difference. The Terps reached the 2-0 mark in ACC play for the first time since 2001, defeating Virginia, 27-20, at Scott Stadium.
“Someone told me it was 5 yards deep in the end zone and I fi gure he’s going to go down, and then I see him start and I go, ‘No, no, no. Go, go, go! Yeah!’” coach Randy Edsall said after the game. “As I said to the team today at the hotel, the one thing we have to do is start fast and fi nish strong. I just didn’t know we were going to start that fast.”
The fast start wouldn’t stop there, either. Safety Anthony Nixon inter-cepted Cavaliers quarterback Phillip Sims on Virginia’s opening drive to set up quarterback Perry Hills’ 20-yard touchdown pass to running back Justus Pickett. Kicker Brad Craddock added a 33-yard fi eld goal on the team’s next drive, pushing the Terps’ lead to 17-0 through 10 minutes of play — already their highest fi rst-quarter scoring output of the season.
That early momentum wouldn’t last, though. The Terps listened to their coach when he told them to start fast and fi nish strong, but Edsall said he “forgot to tell them to play in between the start and the fi nish.”
Craddock’s fi rst-quarter kick would
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Terrapins football team barreled down the Scott Stadium hallway belting the univer-sity’s fi ght song and burst into the vis-iting locker room with a collective glee it hasn’t felt in more than a decade.
S e n i o r s h o p p e d o n c h a i r s o r lockers — anything to get a good view of their teammates — and began a chant that echoed through the cinder-block walls: “One! Two! Three! Four!”
“We were pretty excited w it h this one,” guard Justin Gilbert said moments after the Terps finished celebrating a gutsy 27-20 win over rival Virginia.
It was an understandable reaction for a squad that has hardly forgotten last season’s 2-10 debacle. Saturday’s showing gave the Terps four wins, just two victories shy of a previously un-thinkable bowl bid. They are suddenly the lone unbeaten team in ACC play, and are now 2-0 for the fi rst time in 11 years.
But outside of the especially raucous postgame chants, the Terps’ latest win felt all too familiar.
For the fourth time this season, the defense provided a game-clinching stop in the contest’s waning minutes. For the fourth time this season, an in-e� cient o� ense mustered just enough points out of its few quality posses-sions to secure the victory. And for the fourth time this season, do-everything freshman Stefon Diggs carried the load for a mistake-prone quarterback and a nonexistent run game.
So, sure, Saturday was a landmark day for a team still learning how to win. But it also came with its share of pitfalls, the same shortcomings that have plagued this group all season.
If the Terps hope to compete with N.C. State this weekend, they’ll need to start correcting the mis-takes. They’ll need a young offense to start taking some of the burden o� a senior-laden defense that arrived in Virginia ranked No. 7 nationally in yards allowed per game.
And the Terps might want to start from the ground up. They managed a
Wide receiveR Stefon Diggs’ (top) opening game kicko� return for a touchdown got the Terps’ o� ense o� to a fast start in their 27-20 win over Virginia on Saturday. RandyEdsall’s (bottom) team still struggled, though, su� ering through o� ensive lulls and totaling minus-2 rushing yards on 29 carries in the game. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
FIELD HOCKEY MEN’S SOCCER
Mid� elder Maxine Fluharty notched two goals and an assist in the Terps’ 5-2 win at Old Dominion onFriday. She also had two assists in the team’s 7-0 win vs. UC Davis yesterday. alexis jenkins/the diamondback
Timely scoring, stingy D sets tone for TerpsTeam notches 2-1 road win at Duke on FridayBy Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
The sequence Friday night played out like so many of the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s goals this year. The bounces, the timing and the ex-ecution all fell right into place.
One-third of the way through the fi rst half, forward Sunny Jane’s shot from the right side defl ected into the midfi eld and onto the foot of defender Mikey Ambrose. The freshman took o� down the left side, leaving Duke midfielder Riley Wolfe in his wake. Just inside the 18, Ambrose lofted a bending cross o� his left foot a split second before Wolfe slid at his feet.
Wolfe could only watch from the ground as midfielder John Stertzer out-leapt three Blue Devils defenders in the center of the box and headed Ambrose’s perfect pass past Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw into the back-left corner of the net.
And while that goal didn’t net the di� erence — forward Christiano Fran-cois’ tally provided the game-winner in the 42nd minute — it set the tone early for the No. 1 Terps in their 2-1
win over Duke at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
“We got dynamic guys,” defender London Woodberry said. “It was just one of those days where we were kind of fl ying and we got a couple of early chances in the fi rst fi ve minutes, so I feel like that put them on their heels.”
The Terps (11-0-1, 5-0-0 ACC) dis-patched the Blue Devils like they have other teams all season: using timely goals from players like Stertzer and su� ocating defense at the other end.
Duke (4-6-1, 2-3-1) did manage to make things interesting, though. The Blue Devils mounted a few attacks in the first half, taking five shots, and midfi elder Nat Eggleston put a header past goalkeeper Keith Cardona o� of a corner kick.
But the Terps never wavered. Their o� ense put Belshaw under siege for the full 90 minutes, and Stertzer and fellow midfi elder Dan Metzger helped quell any o� ensive opportunities.
“I never felt like we were not in control of the match,” Cirovski said.
The Terps outshot their opponent
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