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Our 102ND Year, No. 36THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, October 20, 2011

BY LEAH VILLANUEVASenior staff writer

Students who need transcript copies toapply for internships, jobs or graduateschool may be unpleasantly surprised tolearn those once free documents nowcome with a hefty price tag.

As of Oct. 4, the Office of the Registrarnow charges students an $8 fee for eachofficial transcript request, although thefirst transcript printed will not be chargedfor current students. Last night, StudentGovernment Association legislatorsunanimously passed a resolution con-demning the fee. Some members calledthe fee an unfair financial burden on stu-dents that was imposed without notifyingstudents or consulting student leaders.

“It’s just really unnecessary; it’s sud-den and excessive, and we weren’t givenany warning and didn’t give any input,”

CMNS legislator Godly Jack, who spon-sored the resolution, said in an interviewyesterday. “Even if there were budgetcuts and even if there was some hole thatneeded to be filled, we would still like toknow and give input into it.”

Budget cuts ultimately forced officialsto begin charging students for access totheir transcripts, according to Chuck Wil-son, Associate Vice President for Records,Registration and Extended Studies.

“What it came down to is that we couldno longer provide this free service or sus-tain this free service with the ever-increasing costs of supplies and labor,” hesaid. “We researched what other institu-tions were doing and this universitydecided that the $8 was a fair fee.”

Wilson said the decision to not send outa notification to students was standard

$8 transcript fee now implemented SGA condemns fee amount; students not consulted before charge imposed

Student Government Association legislator GodlyJack speaks at last night’s meeting about the university’s new $8 fee for all transcript requests.MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK see FEE, page 2

County policecharge one withKnox Box theftsWashington resident chargedwith burglary, trespassing

BY ERIN EGANStaff writer

One of the two menhandcuffed on Knox Roadat about 9 p.m. Tuesdaynight was charged withfourth degree burglaryand two counts of trespass-ing, according to courtdocuments.

Andre Gore, 32, wasarrested and has a bondset for $25,000, PrinceGeorge’s County PoliceSpokesman Cpl. LarryJohnson said. He is sched-uled to appear in courtDec. 9. The other manhandcuffed at the scene,who police declined toname, was not arrested orcharged.

Gore, a Washington resi-dent, was arrested after astudent recognized him

from wanted posters hang-ing in the area in connec-tion with several recentKnox Box burglaries. Thestudent called police whenhe saw Gore trying to enteran apartment through awindow Tuesday.

County police originallysuspected Gore because ofhis record with burglaries,Sgt. Trevell Watson said.

“Gore was definitely theperson of interest in thiscase,” Johnson said.

According to court docu-ments, Gore has beencharged 18 separate timesfor criminal cases. Sixteenof the cases are closed.The most recent beforeTuesday’s arrest involvedcharges of third degreeburglary, fourth degree

see ARREST, page 2

Groups mobilize to protect Pell GrantsHouse committee threatens toput loans on chopping block

BY MARIA ROMASStaff writer

As Republicans threatento construct a plan that cutsfunds for Pell Grants, theSGA and MaryPIRG arelobbying to ensure thesecrucial loans for highereducation remain a staplefor future generations.

After this summer’sdebt ceiling debacle, fund-ing for Pell Grantsincreased by $17 billion,leading many to believethat the grants that awardup to $5,550 a year to low-income students for col-lege tuition were saved.

But a House Appropria-tions Committeeannouncement Sept. 29has put these loans on thechopping block onceagain, Businessweekreports. Student Govern-ment Association mem-bers and members of thisuniversity’s chapter ofMaryPIRG said they will

fight the proposeddecrease.

SGA President Kaiyi Xieand Samantha Zwerling,MaryPIRG president, co-signed a letter Tuesday toRep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — a member of theso-called supercommittee,a special 12-person deficitcutting panel.

The House Appropria-tions Committee’s planwould cut $3.6 billionfrom Pell Grants, elimi-nate eligibility for thosewho did not receive a highschool diploma and cutthe semesters studentscan receive money from18 to 12, according toBusinessweek.

The letter sent yester-day asks Van Hollen to usehis power on the JointSelect Committee onDeficit Reduction, whichtakes into considerationrecommendations from

see GRANTS, page 2

Downtown College Park may soon feature more recycling receptacles if the city council votes in favor of a new program next week. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY LAUREN KIRKWOODStaff writer

Students strolling around down-town College Park may soon havemore places to recycle, as the Col-lege Park City Council will likelysupport an almost entirely cost-freerecycling program.

At Tuesday night’s work session,council members discussed the pos-

sibility of paying a one-time $10 feeto Creative Outdoor Advertising ofAmerica, a on-street amenity ven-dor, to set up one or more recyclingstations that the city would control.Although the council won’t vote onthe matter until next week, severalcouncil members expressed sup-port for the proposal and said itwould help increase the city’s sus-tainability, as College Park currently

only has one public recycling bin.The new recycling stations would

consist of either two or three recepta-cles, at least one of which would be atrash can to minimize contaminationof recyclables, said city Director ofPublic Works Robert Stumpff, whospoke at Tuesday’s council meeting.

According to city documents, the

see RECYCLING, page 3

BY REBECCA LURYEStaff writer

Stefanie Williams has been publicizing hersearch for the right man since she was a student atthis university, sharing her dating woes and tri-umphs with friends and coworkers. But today, hersearch hits the national stage.

Although Williams has made a career out of shar-ing her love life experiences by creating a blog and e-Book, the 2008 university alumna took her searchfor love to another level this summer after being cho-sen to compete on the second season of the realitydating show Sweet Home Alabama, which airstonight on CMT. But Williams said she was not look-ing for love on the show — she was just looking forsome time for herself after a rough breakup.

“I went through some typical horrible girldepression, like, ‘I’m never getting married,nobody’s gonna want me, I’m the only single one ofmy friends,’” Williams said.

With some encouragement from her mom andfriends, Williams applied online for the show’s sec-ond season, hoping the experience would provideher with a hilarious blog post at the least. And whileWilliams said she worried about getting along withthe other women on the show or looking bad on TV,she said her previous experiences prepared her foranything thrown her way.

“With all the stuff written about me, this was awalk in the park at the end of the day,” she said.

After Williams was chosen for the show, shetraveled to Alabama to compete with 21 otherwomen for the heart of an unknown bachelor, whothe women later learned to be former Clemson

Univ. alumna competes onCMT’s Sweet Home

Alabama dating show

SWEET HOMEMARYLAND

Council likely to support increasing recyclingNext week’s vote could bring more receptacles to downtown

see WILLIAMS, page 3

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burglary, trespassing and afalse statement or identitygiven to police. This case isstill open and active.

Gore has also beencharged with 10 separateincidents of fourth degreeburglary, two incidents ofsecond degree burglary andone incident of first degreeburglary, according to offi-cial court documents.

He has also been chargedwith two counts of first degree

assault, two counts of seconddegree assault, attemptedfirst degree murder, twocounts of malicious destruc-tion of property, two counts ofa concealed and dangerousweapon, motor vehicle theft,possession of controlled dan-gerous substances and alco-hol in unauthorized areas,unauthorized use of a motorvehicle, seven counts of falseidentification or informationprovided to police and ninecounts of trespassing.

Watson said another per-son was arrested on Fridayalso in connection with break-

ing and entering in CollegePark. According to Johnson,that arrest was not related tobreak-ins at the Knox Boxapartments; it was made forburglaries in Northern Col-lege Park.

More information on thatarrest could not be releasedas the case is still being inves-tigated, Johnson said.

Although Gore’s arrest isassociated with the recentstring of Knox Box burgla-ries, some residents saidthey are still nervous aboutfuture break-ins.

Junior economics major and

Knox Box resident MichaelWojciechowicz said he’s notsure whether this arrest willstop crime in the area.

“I’m glad that [police]caught someone with such along rap sheet, but the crimesare still going to happen,”Wojciechowicz said. “If crimi-nals know the police are onlyon the lookout for underagedrinkers and parties, and ifthe police isn’t doing its joband protecting us, criminalsand robbers are still going tobreak into people’s houses.”

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$1M agreement awarded to team tomake technologies easier to use

BY CLAIRE SARAVIAStaff writer

As cars and buildingsbecome increasingly advanced,university researchers areworking to make these struc-tures simpler to use.

A $1 million agreement,which was announced lastweek, between National Insti-tute of Standards and Technol-ogy and the Institute for Sys-tems Research in the engineer-ing school will help the engi-neering firm create ways toimprove communicationbetween cars and buildings andtheir computer systems, similarto how limbs respond to thebrain. Officials said the agree-ment will promote universityresearch as well as help NISTdevelop new standards andmeasurement tools that compa-nies can use to design futuresmart systems more efficiently.

Smart systems are tailored toperform specific functions,such as operate a GPS in a caror electronically control win-dows in a building, said MarkAustin, an engineering profes-sor and co-principal investiga-tor for the project.

University officials said thecollaboration between this uni-versity and NIST will helpadvance both universityresearch and smart systemstechnology as a whole.

“Future engineering systemswill depend on our ability tomarry computation with physi-cal design,” ISR Director RezaGhodssi wrote in an email. “Allof these systems have an indi-rect effect on our economy andtherefore, this new collabora-tion between the University ofMaryland’s Institute for Sys-tems Research and NIST will bequite significant.”

The research, which will beconducted by university facultyand students, will serve as alaunching point for companies

to develop more complex smartsystems in the future.

“It’s really providing the under-pinning foundation for manufac-turers to create these systems,”said NIST engineering labora-tory director Shyam Sunder.

The agreement grant will beadministered over three yearsand enable manufacturers, whodon’t know enough about thesmart systems, to make themreliable and allow them todesign better systems, saidengineering professor JohnBaras, who founded ISR.

“The complexity of thesekinds of systems is great,”Baras said. “Because there’s notgoing to be any one platform forthese systems, we have to makethem interoperable so theywork together.”

If university researchers andNIST develop successful mod-els companies can use to buildmore efficient smart systems,Austin said, the agreementwould create opportunities forcompanies to create even moreinnovative and progressivemodels in the future — such asmore energy-efficient buildingsor technologies that can moni-tor diseases in the body.

“These systems cover awhole bunch of smart things,but we want to build smarterdevices,” Austin said.

Some of the specific projectproposals made by universityresearchers include creating asystem that can save energy bysensing human activity inrooms, as well as a system thatcan generate energy for a build-ing without relying on powergrids, officials said.

“A lot of what we have to do isfigure out how to model thesesystems,” Austin said. “Part ofthe research is to figure out whatkinds of models will allow thecyber and physical systems to bedesigned on the same footing.”

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The Student Government Association passed a resolution condemning a new mandatory fee for transcript requests. On Oct. 4, the Office of theRegistrar instituted the new $8 fee for transcripts. Students could previously ask for them without a fee. MAYA MUNOZ/THE DIAMONDBACK

practice at other universities,noting that doing so mighthave caused an influx of tran-script requests before the dead-line that the office may nothave been able to fulfill all ofthem in a timely manner.

“Again, we consulted witha lot of universities about thebest ways to roll this out,”Wilson said. “We found thatthe rate was very compara-ble and, in fact, more reason-able than some.”

The financial cost of pro-viding copies of official tran-scripts is not as simple asbuying copy paper, ink andstamps, Wilson said. The

university’s Office of Infor-mation Technology providesthe technology to transferonline requests to the Officeof the Registrar, which arethen processed by staffmembers. Additionally, offi-cials have to pay for mailingcosts and security paper forthe transcripts.

The money generated bythe fee would go toward thevarious academic affairsservices throughout univer-sity, which have had theirbudgets slashed during thepast four years, Wilson said.

However, Jack said offi-cials still should have con-sulted student leaders beforeimplementing this fee andhopes to discuss and negoti-ate the fee with administra-

tors, a prospect Wilson saidofficials are very open to.

Even if other universitiesare charging similar fees,Jack said $8 is too steep for

students and may even dis-courage some from applyingto multiple internships, jobsor post-undergraduate pro-grams.

“It’s unfair to us students,”Jack said. “It’s so muchmoney coming out of stu-dents’ pockets.”

And to several students,the news of the fee came as ahuge surprise.

“I think that’s ridiculous,”said sophomore finance andaccounting major NickSpringmann. “Students arealready charged enough as itis. It’s not going to preventme from applying for jobsbecause I have to do it, but Ithink the school loses credi-bility when they make stu-dents pay more and more

money for little, petty thingslike this.”

Junior biology majorDavis Abongwa said this feepresents an extra financialburden for him because heplans to go to medical schoolupon graduation. He notedthat pre-med students haveto apply to about 20 dif ferentschools — which is already avery expensive process — inorder to have a decent shotat acceptance. Each applica-tion requires a copy of histranscript, he said.

“I don’t think that’s fair atall,” Abongwa said. “Twentytimes eight, that’s $160 ontop of other expenses. …It’snot a logical fee.”

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FEEfrom page 1

Eight Prince George’s County police vehicles respond to a call from Knox Box residents Tuesday night, which resultedin the arrest of one man in connection with recent burglaries in the area. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

ARRESTfrom page 1

other committees, to maintain thesame level of funding for the pro-gram.

“We heard testimony lastyear from various people —even if you cut a program’sfunding by only a few hundreddollars, some students stillwon’t be able to come here,”Xie said. “That’s what we wantto prevent.”

Pell Grants have helped putmillions of students throughcollege annually, a fact the letterserves to highlight.

“If this Congress is seriousabout job recovery, reducingaccess to college is the wrongapproach, yet several proposalsin Congress seek to cut PellGrants and student loan bene-fits,” the letter states. “Now isthe time to invest in Pell Grantsas well as keep the cost of stu-dent loans low, enabling morequalified students to stay inschool, graduate, and enter theworkforce with the skills thatour economy demands.”

Bridgett Frey, a spokes-woman for Van Hollen’s office,said he is a staunch supporterof the program and will careful-ly weigh all options before mak-ing a decision.

“Congressman Van Hollen islooking at all of the recommen-dations he receives for the JointCommittee and appreciatesinput from students in thisprocess,” Frey wrote in anemail. “He is a long-time sup-porter of Pell Grants and stu-dent assistance.”

Members of both the SGAand MaryPIRG said they hopethe committee can develop adeficit reduction plan thatspares funding for higher edu-cation loans.

“The main idea is to keep stu-dent aid off the negotiationtable,” Zwerling said. “In gener-al, when the government is talk-ing about cutting things, it’seasy to say we will cut [fundingfor higher education] ratherthan Medicare or Medicaid. Butwe kind of need to look at it asan investment in our future andas making sure America stayson top and can continue to com-pete in the global economy.”

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GRANTSfrom page 1

“I think the schoolloses credibilitywhen they makestudents paymore and moremoney for littlepetty things likethis.”

NICK SPRINGMANNSOPHOMORE FINANCE ANDACCOUNTING MAJOR

Univ. researcherswork to advancesmart systems

BY SPENCER ISRAELStaff writer

While students may not thinkabout what happens to theirfood after throwing it in thetrash, a group of Dining Ser-vices officials and student volun-teers are hoping to help the envi-ronment by promoting efficientwaste disposal.

Officials launched a volunteerprogram last week aimed atteaching students how to best

dispose of their waste in thecampus’ dining halls. After Din-ing Services Sustainability Co-ordinator Allison Lilly learnedlast semester that neither thekitchen staff nor students knewproper waste disposal tech-niques, she was inspired to cre-ate the program to promote bet-ter sustainability practices.

“It’s about helping to get thestudent community involvedwith educating each other,” Lillysaid. “If people are telling othercommunity members, that’s awhole different level of supportthan a [sign on a table].”

The program, which runsuntil mid-November, stationsstudent volunteers in each cam-pus dining hall twice a week,where they work to encouragestudents to pick up a tray in-stead of carrying out. If studentschoose to take their food to go,volunteers inform them of howto properly dispose of theirwaste in a compost or recyclingbin, rather than simply throwingit all away in the trash.

Because Dining Services gen-erates more waste than mostother departments on the cam-pus, Lilly said she has workedhard to promote a culture ofgreen dining, which began witheducating the kitchen staff.Many of her efforts, she said,have been focused on educatingthe kitchen staff and evaluatingthe efficiency of waste separa-tion in the kitchens.

After the staff better under-stood efficient waste disposal,she said the next logical stepwas to engage students.

Although volunteers aim to in-form students and promote moresustainable dining practices, Lillysaid it’s easiest to simply eat in,since the dining staff separatesthe waste on trays for students.

“The best way to have yourstuff separated is to just get a

tray and let the kitchen do [theseparating],” Lilly said. “Wewant to remind students thatthey’re paying a fee [for a carry-out container].”

Dining Services officials saidone of the biggest challenges inpromoting sustainability ischanging student behavior.Many students, they said, optfor bagasse carryout contain-ers, only to eat their food in thedining room and throw awaytheir leftovers in the trash.

“It’s about very simple ac-tions,” said Dining Servicesspokesman Bart Hipple. “Putyour tray on the tray returnbelt and then we will do therest for you.”

Julia Carbonetti, a junior Eng-lish and environmental policymajor who is a program volun-teer, said she’s seen varying stu-dent attitudes so far.

“Some people don’t seem tocare, while others stand thereand read the signs so they knowwhat goes where,” she said.“Some people just toss [theirtrash] in one of the holes andhope for the best.”

Lilly said it’s still too early togauge the program’s success,but she is looking to spread theprogram to other areas on thecampus, such as Stamp StudentUnion’s food court and DiningServices’ catering business.

“It’s very clear that this uni-versity has a lot of people thatare into sustainability,” she said.“This is just part of a communityand campus effort.”

But Hipple said the success ofany dining initiative ultimatelycomes down to students activelyresponding to the program.

“We can only do so much,”he said. “We have to get thestudents to buy in and to wantto do this.”

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city would have complete con-trol of the program. Each sta-tion would bear the City of Col-lege Park seal to create “a highprofile and very public demon-stration of its support of the re-cycling message.”

Stumpff, who first spoke tothe council about the proposalin February, said vendor repre-sentatives would work with cityofficials to designate locationsthat would benefit most fromthe stations.

“We’re looking at differentplaces in the city,” he said.“We’re looking at not just down-town, but in the North CollegePark area, also.”

District 2 Councilman BobCatlin said the need for moreavailable recycling in the citywas especially apparent duringlast weekend, when hundreds

of Terps fans flooded the city forthe homecoming football game.

“I was [downtown] Satur-day and I saw hundreds andhundreds of beer cans andbottles by The Varsity and theUniversity View,” he said,adding putting out temporaryrecycling cans on game daysis also something the cityshould look into.

“The reality is that theamount of cans and bottles thatwere thrown out were 10 timesgreater than the capacity of thecontainers around,” he said.“It’s not an everyday problem,but homecoming was huge. …If I were up Sunday, I could havemade more money picking upcans and bottles than I make inmy salary here in a year.”

Student Government Associ-ation Director of SustainabilityMichelle Kim said the city’ssupport of the program showsit is making an effort to bringmore sustainable practices into

the community.“I think the city is definitely try-

ing,” she said. “I think it’s reallygreat that they’re trying and thatmaybe students could be moreengaged in terms of driving thosesustainability initiatives.”

Because the university’s sus-tainability fund — which comesfrom the student sustainabilityfee — is limited to on-campusproject proposals, it can be diffi-cult for students to launch proj-ects within the city, Kim said.She added that students shouldlook into extending projectguidelines to include the sur-rounding community.

But Kim said she believesmany people will take advantageof the cost-free recycling sta-tions once they are in the city.

“I think that if they’re every-where and if they’re singlestream, people will use them,”she said.

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quarterback Tribble Reese.“I definitely played up the

Clemson-Maryland thing a lotand I had no trouble giving himgrief for being a Clemson foot-ball player,” Williams said. “I’msure Maryland’s not pumpedthey’re getting acknowledgedon this dating show.”

And although friends saidthey were eager to watchWilliams on the show, they saidshe stopped surprising themyears ago.

“She’s dated celebrities intheir own rights; she’s slept withHollywood stars I see on TV liter-ally every day,” said MelissaWeiss, a friend and former copyeditor at The Diamondback.“There’s nothing she could do toshock me anymore.”

Williams said she’s no onenew to fame. She began datingathletes — or “chasing the jer-sey” — and receiving atten-tion for her online writing as astudent and opinion editor forThe Diamondback.

She said she experienced herfirst instances of backlash on-and-offline after she used hersemester-long experience as amember of Kappa Alpha Thetato write a few scathing columnsabout pledging.

“I was like the antichrist; they

still don’t like thinking aboutme,” Williams said of her for-mer sorority sisters. “After I didthat [column], I think I lost 90friends on Facebook like that.”

Williams said she gained an-other taste of notoriety duringthe 2006 Duke lacrosse rapehoax, when she wrote columnsdefending the players, one ofwhich was later published in thebook Until Proven Innocent.

“She’d been doing a lot ofwriting supporting the guys,and not even as some sort ofweird groupie, but she studiedthe case and I think somethingin it resonated,” Weiss said.

Williams added that her out-spokenness about the case alsocame from loyalty to the Terrapinmen’s lacrosse team, which shemanaged as a freshman.

In fact, friends said her col-umn, blog and book have al-ways been more than funny sto-ries about one woman’s hapless,but star-studded, love life.

“She’s admirable in a way thatshe takes a taboo subject andputs it out there,” said VirginiaZint, a friend of Williams whofirst encouraged her to apply tobe on Sweet Home Alabama.

Williams wouldn’t exactly callherself a champion of women’srights — she said she hates“getting all feminist on you be-cause really, that’s gross. Ishave my legs, I get waxed, Iwear makeup, I own only bras

that have enough padding to bebullet proof” in a Monday blogpost. But Zint said her writinghas helped spark a new kind ofdialogue about sex — that itshould empower women.

“Being sexual as a womenisn’t something a lot of peoplereally talk about, and she justcomes out and says ‘This is howit is and you shouldn’t be afraidto talk about it,’” Zint said. “Theblog, the book, I think they real-ly started a conversation aboutsex and that it’s OK to talk aboutit; that people all over the worldare having it and it’s fine.”

But some readers, throughonline comments and even onewho made an angry phone callduring a radio show, accuseWilliams of being fake or super-ficial based on her affinity forathletes — and for bloggingabout the juicy details of hersexual exploits with them.

“Really, she’s very much her-self and she knows who that isand she makes no apologiesabout it,” Weiss said. “She’svery sure of herself and it mayjust not be in a way that peopleare accepting about.”

Williams said now thatSweet Home Alabama is finallyairing, she can begin to settleback into her old routine,which consists of bartending,working on a fiction piece in-spired by the same breakupthat brought her to Alabama

and jet-setting to Los Angelesto visit a few friends — and anew man.

And as Williams jumps backinto blogging and dating, hercoworker Jen Gargano said she

is not surprised a taste of realityTV did not faze her friend.

“I don’t think much wouldchange Stef; she is who sheis,” she said. “Even if one dayher book or blog blows up and

she becomes famous, she’svery grounded and humbleand I don’t think she’d everchange.”

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WILLIAMSfrom page 1

University alumna Stefanie Williams was chosen to compete on Sweet Home Alabama,which airs tonight, for a chance at love. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEFANIE WILLIAMS

RECYCLINGfrom page 1

At last night’s work session, the College Park City Council heard a proposal to installmore recycling bins around the city for a one-time $10 fee. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

On Sunday, I headed toWashington’s McPhersonSquare to observe theOccupy DC movement

because I wanted to form my ownopinion of the group rather than relyon media depictions or other people’sstereotypes. Although I enjoyed therelaxing environment of urban camp-ing on a beautiful day, my attentionwas soon diverted when someone sug-gested I check out the Right2Knowmarch taking place at nearbyLafayette Park, in front of the WhiteHouse. “Quick, new column material,”I thought, as I followed my curiousnose to the demonstration.

As it turns out, the Right2Knowgroup had just arrived after a two-week300-mile march from New York toWashington. Their cause: to mobilizepolicy efforts for labeling geneticallymodified organisms on products.Their message: As Americans, wehave the right to know what’s in ourfood and to choose safe, healthy foodfor our families and ourselves.

You probably know about thetrendy push toward organic foods, but

did you know the push against GMOsis at the core of the movement? GMOsare engineered organisms whosegenetic material has been changed ina way that does not occur naturally.They can make our tomatoes plumper,increase crop yields and make plantsresistant to pesticides or herbicides.GMOs are intended to improve ourlives, but we don’t have any idea whatlong-term affect GMOs will have onour bodies or the environment.

The United States is the world’slargest commercial grower of GMOcrops. More than 70 percent ofprocessed foods here contain geneti-cally engineered ingredients, andunlike the European Union, we don’tmandate the labeling of geneticallymodified food.

The Right2Know rally was symboli-

cally coordinated with Sunday’s WorldFood Day, but it was also part of thecoordinated effort Millions AgainstMonsanto. Monsanto is a multina-tional biotechnology corporation andthe largest agricultural seed companyin the world. I first learned of Mon-santo from the documentary FoodInc., which villainizes the corporationfor putting small farmers out of busi-ness by monopolizing the agriculturalfood market.

Monsanto has also spread GMOs toAfrica, Asia and South America, butmore startling is talk about how thecompany collaborated with the U.S.Department of Agriculture when con-ducting an environmental assessmenton its own Roundup herbicide prod-uct. Although the general public over-whelmingly supports GMO labels forfood products, Monsanto hasmounted a successful lobbying cam-paign, so it remains to be seenwhether Congress will take action. Ifthe past is any indication, money willprobably speak louder than the voiceof the people — but at least there’shope for reform.

Back at the Occupy DC group inMcPherson Square, a sign postedaround the central monument explainedone person’s justification for joining themovement. It read, “I wanted to registermy support for the protest of the corrup-tion in our country’s financial system andthe policies that enable such corruption.”To me, that statement summarizes theoverarching theme of a movement thatlacks specific goals. But just down thestreet, the Right2Know rally was makingspecific demands while protesting thecorruption of Monsanto and the govern-ment that enables such corruption.

GMO labeling is a specific exampleof the broad grievances held byOccupy DC protesters across thecountry. It’s time for the occupiers torealize Washington is where politi-cians and lobbyists operate. It’s timefor the national Occupy movement tobegin the march on Washington —then true change can begin.

Jennifer Schwarz is a seniorenvironmental science and policy major.She can be reached atschwarz@umdbk.com.

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cornered halfway out the door of theparty, as a blonde with astonishinglylarge hair said the most dangeroussentence in our generation’s vocab-ulary: “So, I noticed that we’re notfriends on Facebook anymore.”

The brunette’s eyes grew widerthan Bambi’s. She knew all was lostand she may as well give up now.

“Well, um,” she began, but to noavail.

“I mean, I just like, I didn’t do any-thing to you,” asserted Amber, thebig-haired blonde, as she crossedher arms. “So I don’t get what I didto deserve this, like, behavior.”

It was too much to watch; the bru-tality had gone on long enough, so Ipushed the brunette out the doorand said goodbye to big-hairedAmber as I hurried out. When thebrunette thanked me for white-

knighting her, I asked her to explainthe predicament as compensation. Itwas explained that Big Hair andBrunette had grown apart. Afterrepeated efforts to patch the friend-ship, Brunette de-friended Big Hairon Facebook.

I gasped — such bravery andaudacity. I admired her boldness,and asked what led her to pull thetrigger (or click the button, as itwere).

Brunette (named Jane) explainedshe didn’t want to be insincere. Shejust felt the word “friends” no longerreflected the true state of her rela-tionship with Big Hair. Jane hadgrown tired of Amber’s statusupdates such as “Neeeed coffeesoooo tired,” “Out with the girlzzz!”and “Omgggg dayyyglowwww,”especially considering they were nolonger close enough to share suchintimate details in person (a recentphoto album quoting that KennyChesney song about summer and

wine was particularly egregious).I nodded my head in understand-

ing. It is a sad thing when Facebookfriendship and real friendship do notline up anymore, but I think Janeclearly did the right thing. Everyoneknows if something happens in reallife, it isn’t real until you make it“official” on Facebook.

For the fairness of the “friend-ship,” Jane had to end things.

Unfortunately, we made the mis-take of standing directly outside theparty while discussing these issues.Before long, Big Hair overcame thewind drag of her luscious locks andwas standing right beside us.

“Look,” she began, while waving a

red cup wildly, barely missing herexplosive curls. “It’s just like, Imean, I just can’t, like, tag you any-more. So like, can we just be Face-book friends again?”

“But we’re not in picturestogether anymore because we’re notfriends in real life,” Jane slowlyexplained. “So why would you needto tag me?”

“What?” said Big Hair. “Real life?I’m just talking about Facebook.”

It was time for me to go. My work,as far as I could tell, was done. Janeclearly doesn’t understand the coreissue — that real friendships andconnections have been replaced byinteraction via social networks. Ihope Jane sees the light some day,for her own good. And before BigHair’s big hair takes her out.

Laura Frost is a junior governmentand politics and journalism major.She can be reached atfrost@umdbk.com.

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Earlier this month, the Office of the Registrar began charging students $8for each official transcript request — without informing the studentbody of this decision. Although the first document is free under the newsystem, students could previously request the documents without incur-

ring any expense. It must have been an unpleasant slap in the face for anyone whocalled or walked into the Office of the Registrar hoping to quickly knock out one oftheir graduate school application chores and learned theyowed even more money for an already costly process.

Last night, the Student Government Association unani-mously passed a resolution condemning the $8 fee as“unnecessary” and “excessive.” We agree with SGA legis-lators and other students who argue the fee will likelytranslate to a hefty financial burden on students applyingto more than a handful of graduate programs. Out of con-cern for these students, we feel the $8 fee is high, but notunreasonable. We’re more concerned with the way offi-cials implemented it.

Officials said they instituted the fee in the face ofimmense budget cuts and that they felt the amount wasappropriate because it was on par or less than what otherinstitutions charge. Indeed, students at the University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, pay $9.25 for each document; University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles students pay $10. We understand this rationale — everyone ison a fairly equal playing field if everyone pays a similar fee.

Nevertheless, making choices simply based on the decisions of others is notan ideal way to formulate policy. Some of our peer institutions and several otherschools in the state do not, in fact, charge a transcript request fee. Towson Uni-versity and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for example, only charge stu-dents for rush-processing or delivery services.

This editorial board fully understands the incredible strain budget cuts canhave on departments — our own finances were slashed dramatically this year.Sending transcripts involves plenty of expenses: paper, ink, stamps, technologyto process online requests, mailing costs and labor, to name a few. The money has

to come from somewhere, and often, no solution is particularly attractive. We’remore troubled, however, by administrators’ surreptitious decision-makingprocess, both in choosing the amount of the fee and in deliberately not informingstudents of their action.

Officials should have emailed students explaining why they needed to imple-ment the new policy. Chuck Wilson, associate vice president for records, registra-

tion and extended studies, said he was worried that if theyhad sent such a message before the fee became effective,the office would have been flooded with more requeststhan it could handle, as mass numbers of students tried tododge the fee by submitting requests earlier than they oth-erwise would have. This justification makes sense; officescan only process a certain amount of work. But that choiceobviously stemmed from not wanting to lose the revenue— it’s a sneaky maneuver, but one we can accept. What’sproblematic is that officials didn’t inform students at all;they should have at least sent a message the day the feewent into effect.

Although SGA representatives bemoaned the lack ofstudent input in the decision, this editorial board sympa-thizes with officials for wanting to address this financial

issue quickly and efficiently. We don’t believe student approval was necessaryfor this action, but officials shouldn’t have neglected to inform them of thedecision they ultimately came to.

Even if officials ultimately decided to charge the same amount, involving stu-dents — via the SGA, at the very least — would have gone a long way towardreducing student frustration at this unexpected fee.

A shrinking budget is one of the most difficult issues facing our university. Ser-vices cost money. Fees happen. Students understand that, but they are not out ofline in asking they not be kept in the dark about the reasoning behind decisionsthat so directly affect them. In the future, officials should be more upfront and nottry to hide the bad news. We won’t kill the messenger.

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Bonjour! Today I continue toexplore clichés about thecivilizations on every conti-nent of this planet. But

instead of exploitation, let me takethis opportunity to disabuse you of acliché that hails from the fifth conti-nent. This cliché is about the auk.

In cartoons, we see auks and pen-guins sharing the same ice, but inreality, they do not. First, auks live inthe northern hemisphere and pen-guins in the southern hemisphere.Second, auks can fly and penguinscannot. It’s a great example of how weare born full of assumptions. It’s as ifyou, the American, are traveling inEurope and someone asks if you’reCanadian. You might be upset andanswer, “Hey, guy! I’m not a lumber-jack. Do I look like I’m wearing a plaidshirt and pants with suspenders? Fur-thermore, I don’t wrestle bears.”

Actually, I suppose I was born in acabbage patch inside a garden full ofclichés. In one little corner, I can findclichés about Asian civilizations, inanother, African and in the middle,America is separated from Mexicanclichés by a fence. It’s a veritable gar-den of clichés, and certainly no utopia.

However, I’m not pretentiousenough to lecture you, even if myego is bigger than Greece’s debtload. You’re free to question thingsyourself.

Let’s talk for a moment about poli-tics. In fact, I was wondering about ourancestral heritage. At first sight, youmay think absolute monarchy andcurrent democracy are totally differ-ent. Gad! (Bollocks!) Think again.Plenty of democracies have seriousproblems with corruption. Indeed,most political parties are illegally sub-sidized by arms sales. We can’t butwonder if democracy didn’t create cor-ruption. Indeed, absolute monarchiesnever have problems of corruption.Just ask Caesar. Okay, you can't talk toCaesar, but if you could, he may haveanswered, “I already stole all ofEurope’s money. Why would I stealmy own cash? You’re crazy, buddy.”By the way, I know Caesar was anemperor, not a king. How many kingsdo you know except Burger King andAragorn from The Lord of the Rings?

Then, the right of cuissage (“law ofthe first night”) isn’t a bygone idea, Idon’t think. Take the DominiqueStrauss-Kahn story, for example. Itbears a striking similarity to Molière’s“Don Juan,” no? Buckle up and followme. Don Juan wants to practice theancient right of cuissage; he hunts forprey, which eventually gives in. Herenders her defenseless with hisseductive political and financialpower. Does Don Juan not remindyou of the erstwhile IMF boss?

Concerning the United States, I’dlike to discuss the first Western moviethat I watched, My Name is Nobody. Isuppose these were my first imagesof America. Today, I ask myself, couldAmerica still exist in such a rusticstate? Suburban gangs don’t ridehorses, but they do drive roaring cars(which, incidentally, have horse-power). Was the Gold Rush simplysupplanted by the conquest for oil?The sheriff is still here to maintainorder in the county.

To conclude, we can’t ignore ourheritage, we can’t forget our past. Theonly thing we know is that tomorrowis born in the garden of yesterday,laden with yesterday’s mistakes butinfused with accomplishments. Wecan only hope that the larvae of utopiawill transform into a butterfly ofaccomplishments, because as Ialways say: The greatest accomplish-ments are born of utopian dreams.

Sebastien Vilfayeau is an intern in thefire protection engineering department.He can be reached atsebastien.vilfayeau@gmail.com.

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Born today, you are alwayswilling to share yourself,your talents and the rewards

they win for you with thosearound you, and you are so liberalin your generosity that there aresure to be some who do not trustyour motives, thinking that youare being somehow self-servingrather than genuine in your appar-ent concern for others. The truth isthat while you are always sincerewhen it comes to helping thosearound you, you are always willingto accept recognition for the goodthat you do.You are confident thatthis recognition can help yourshape your career — and you areconfident, too, that your careersuccess will enable you to helpothers all the more.

It would be untrue to suggestthat you do not have your own pri-vate demons to contend with —but because you keep your darkerside very much to yourself, othersmay not be aware of it when yousuccumb to sadness, frustration ordepression. Fortunately, suchphases do not usually last for long.

Also born on this date are:Snoop Dogg, rapper; ViggoMortensen, actor; Danny Boyle,filmmaker;Tom Petty, rocker; JerryOrbach, actor; Mickey Mantle,baseball player; Art Buchwald, hu-morist; Bela Lugosi, actor; Christo-pher Wren, architect.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —You can put a little more spice

into your routine simply byinviting someone new to theparty. He or she offers morethan fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21) — You may want to considerthe possible meaning of anydreams you remember fromlast night. Today, symbolism iskey.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— Once you get started you’relikely to feel swept along by acurrent that you cannot inde-pendently control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —You will be able to serve othersby serving yourself, and viceversa. This seeming paradox islikely to carry over to tomorrow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —Others are sure to respect youfor the way you are doingthings, even if they don’t agreewith your motives. Informationcomes to you quickly.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) —A poor decision need not affectyou for long; once you realizethat you made the wrongchoice, you can reverse itquickly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —It may seem a fiction, but whatyou perceive is likely to be facttoday — no matter what othersmay think of it. Your reactionsare key.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You can get out of an undesir-able situation the same way yougot into it — and your own will islikely to prove your greateststrength.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) —Take care that you don’t mis-take what you see for what is re-ally happening — for your ownperception may, at first, be mis-leading.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Oth-ers are likely to need you help atregular intervals today. It won’tbe more than you can give —and you’ll want to give more.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —You are a natural leader, buttoday it may not be your turn;indeed, someone else is likely tojump at the chance to tell youwhat must be done.

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The VelocityDC Dance Festivalwill bring together a melting pot ofworld-class dancers to celebratethe art form’s growth in the area.Following two sold-out seasons,the third annual festival, whichruns today through Sunday atShakespeare Theatre Company’sSidney Harmon Hall in Washing-ton, presents four days of multiplegenres of dance.

VelocityDC is presenting threeprograms, each featuring a di-verse mix of dance genres. High-lights include a Sri Lankan danceby Asanga Domask and piecesfrom VelocityDC veterans includ-ing the Washington Ballet, UrbanArtistry, Edgeworks Dance The-ater and Flamenco Aparicio.

Daniel Burkholder/The Play-Ground, a Washington companythat combines the formalism ofchoreography with improvisa-tion, will present a piece, “Green”— in which company membersinnovatively dance with grass —45 minutes before curtain in anupper lobby of Harman Halltoday, tomorrow and Sunday.This is one of several pre-showsthroughout the weekend.

Urban Artistry founder and ex-ecutive director Junious Brick-house said Washington’s diversityis accurately reflected in the lineup.

“D.C. is built on diversity, andto have a festival talking about artand to not have that kind of diver-sity would be criminal,” Brick-house said.

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The festival also encourageswider awareness of different danceforms in the dance community it-self; Helanius Wilkins, the artisticdirector, founder and choreogra-pher of Edgeworks Dance Theater,said companies take advantage ofthe collaborative festival to workwith other styles of dance.

“There are very few opportuni-ties where we are able to crosspathways and share this samestage space and come together foran event, so there is a wonderfulenergy around that that we verymuch enjoy being a part of,”Wilkins said.

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“It doesn’t matter whetheryou’re doing flamenco or ballet orhip-hop or breakdancing,” Brick-house said. “They say, ‘This isD.C., this is art, this is dance;come one, come all.’”

The VelocityDC Dance Festivaltakes place tonight and tomorrow at8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. atShakespeare Theatre Company’sSidney Harman Hall in Washing-ton. Tickets cost $18. For more in-formation, go towww.velocitydc.org.

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BY ANDREW FREEDMANSenior staff writer

Science and technology are notcommon aspects of dance; move-ment and people are. To explorehow, through dance, technology isaffecting our lives, Nathan Andaryis bringing them all together.

Andary, a choreographer andgraduate student in dance, willdebut his new project, GoingViral, in a joint Master of FineArts Thesis concert today in theClarice Smith Performing Arts

Center. It will take place on thesame bill as Vaudevival: Old is thenew New, a separate performancechoreographed by graduate stu-dent Emily Oleson.

“The piece itself started withmy interest in how technologyand dance would interact,”Andary said. “Because danceuses a human form, the humanbody for its mode of expression.Inherently, it’s organic, and that iscounterintuitive to somethingthat becomes technological.”

Andary said he was inspired by

research on HeLa cells, whichhave been used for research ondiseases, chemical and toxin reac-tions and a number of other tests.

“[The] cells were taken andused to understand more aboutwhat she was going through andto understand more about thehuman condition from a cellularperspective,” Andary said. “Thatsame kind of process is what’sbeing employed with this idea ofGoing Viral. That’s why we’relooking at the human conditionthrough a technological lens.”

The choreography will be a mixof both human dancers and ani-mated images. Andary found apartner in recent university grad-uate Charlie Pinnix, a digitalmedia artist.

“Charlie is a collaborator,”Andary said. “It’s not a matter oftelling him what to do and he justmakes it. He and I have come to-gether and symbiotically havebeen evolving this piece together.”

The performance will includethe use of various pieces ofequipment including computers,

projectors and infrared cameras— some of which neither thedance department nor CSPACcould provide, as the use of tech-nology in a dance piece “isn’tready for the mainstream yet,”Andary said.

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Maryland, we were always anunderdog, but we’ve found someway to get through and use it asmotivation to work hard each andevery day at practice.”

Still, Turgeon will lead a teamfeaturing no proven post threatsand just one player who has startedmore than 15 games.

“I’ve taken over programs thatwere in bad shape,” Turgeon said.“This program is not in bad shape.OK, it’s not. It’s not where we wantit to be and it’s not where it was 10years ago, but it’s not in bad shape.So we’re closer to where we needto be.”

With forward Jordan Williamsoff to the NBA, no Terps earnedpreseason All-ACC honors. NorthCarolina led the way with presea-son Player of the Year HarrisonBarnes, along with fellow presea-son All-ACC members John Hen-son and Tyler Zeller. Duke guardSeth Curry, Miami guard Mal-colm Grant and Virginia forwardMike Scott filled out the presea-son All-ACC list.

Terps freshman guard NickFaust, a highly touted recruit whodecided to stay with Turgeon thisspring despite Gary Williams’retirement, received one vote forpreseason rookie of the year.Duke guard Austin Rivers won thenewcomer honor handily, with 57of the 59 votes.

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did, and I think they’re starting to figureout that it needs to come from them if theywant to be good at the level that they wantto play.”

McBain, the team’s primary setter, isdoing all she can to fill that role. Sherecently ascended to fifth all time in assistsin school history, a testament to how cru-cial she is in the offensive flow.

Off the court, McBain, along with Leeand other returning players, developedways to acclimate the freshmen to theteam before the season began.

“We made them earn their practiceshirts so they understood what it meant tobe on our team,” she said. “We did manyteam-bonding experiences, as well.”

Only three upperclassmen might not beenough, however. Senior setter SharonStrizak has been sidelined with a kneeinjury this season, and the Terps’ lack ofdepth became painfully obvious whenfreshman outside hitter AshleighCrutcher sat out two weeks ago with con-cussion symptoms.

“I think they’re feeling a lot of pressurefrom [the injuries],” Horsmon said.“They’re feeling like they need to do a lit-tle bit more than what they’re comfort-able of doing. You got players playing a lit-tle out of position and doing some thingsthat they shouldn’t have to do, but that’spart of the game. There are a lot of teamsgoing through this, and we need to bebetter for it.”

The team’s razor-thin lineup is, however,opening doors for freshmen. FreshmanCatie Coyle, who had appeared in just onematch beforehand, saw the floor againstDuke on Saturday. The middle blockerrecorded three kills and three blocks afterhaving accumulated little game experiencebefore the match, perhaps hinting at thepotential that lies on the team’s bench.

“We have a lot of good, young kids onour team that we’re building,” Horsmonsaid. “The upperclassmen and the youngkids are all part of that, so whether they’relearning from them or those opportunitiesarise for the young kids, they need to takeadvantage of them and execute.”

Experience still leads the way in guidingthe younger players. McBain and Lee, theonly active players on the squad to haveplayed more than one year in a Terp uni-form, understand the importance of theirroles on the team.

“Being upperclassmen, we’re expectedto make the bigger players and take thepressure off the younger girls,” Lee said.“It’s part of our job description to do that.”

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BY DANIEL GALLENStaff writer

Only six weeks ago, expectations— not desperation — had come todefine the Terrapins women’s soccerteam’s season.

After posting the best record inprogram history and earning theirfirst No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tourna-ment in 2010, the Terps had theirsights set on advancing beyond theNCAA Tournament’s second roundand Sweet 16, where their previoustwo seasons had ended. After ascoreless tie with No. 1 Stanford inlate August, the Terps were rankedas high as No. 3 nationally.

But a spell of injuries and bad luckhas plagued the No. 15 Terps since,sending them tumbling down therankings and miring them in themiddle of a competitive ACC. Sun-day’s game at No. 6 Duke and Oct. 27’sdate with No. 8 North Carolina,which only a month ago could havebeen seen as preparation for theACC Tournament, now might deter-mine whether the Terps’ seasonstretches beyond this month.

“Right now, we’re desperate,” for-ward Ashley Grove said. “That’s theonly feeling we should be feeling rightnow. … If we don’t get at least a pointor two out of these last two games, wecould be done for the ACC Tourna-ment. If we don’t make the ACC Tour-nament, who knows if we’re going tomake the NCAA Tournament.”

Coach Brian Pensky has talkedabout desperation at other pointsduring the year, but now it’s a neces-sity for the Terps. Where it onceapplied to end-of-game situations, itnow applies to, potentially, the end ofthe Terps’ season.

“Whether or not we’ve been play-ing absolutely in desperation, I thinksometimes we have, and sometimeswe haven’t,” Pensky said. “We’re at astage where everything we do needsto be a little bit desperate.”

The team’s situation warrants thatattitude and thought process. TheTerps are in sixth place in the ACC,and only the top eight teams in the

conference advance to the postsea-son tournament. But the Terps’ lossto Miami on Sunday allowed the Hur-ricanes back into the race, creating asituation where nine teams are vyingfor eight spots.

“All of us, our backs are againstthe wall,” defender Remi Kriz said.“We don’t want our backs to beagainst the wall, so we’re going tofight and we’re going to be desper-

ate. We want it. That desire is there.” Grove, a senior, has seen the

Terps evolve from a mediocre teamat the bottom of the ACC to one ofthe top teams in the nation. But shesaid Tuesday that she feels the teamgot comfortable with its No. 3 rank-ing and lost some of its edge.

“Every year, except for this year,we’ve always been the underdogs,”Grove said. “We’ve been that team

trying to get to the top and right nowwe’re back at the bottom. We’re thatteam trying to get to the top again. Ithink our team performs and ourteam works together and our teamlives and breathes soccer the bestwhen we’re coming from behind, andright now that’s what we’re doing.”

Although playing with their backsagainst the wall might be how theTerps prefer to play, the Blue Devilswon’t make it any easier. Duke goal-keeper Tara Campbell has 10 shutoutsand boasts a 0.39 goals-against aver-age. On offense, forward Kelly Cobbhas five game-winning goals on theyear, tied for first in the ACC.

The Terps have shown up againsttop competition this year, but theirpostseason uncertainty heightenstheir urgency heading into the Dukematch. In the latest update to the RPIreleased yesterday, an important cri-terion in the NCAA Tournamentselection process, the Terps are No. 28.Duke and North Carolina are Nos. 4and 6, respectively. Wins in either oftheir final two games would all butsolidify the Terps’ third straight tour-nament appearance.

“Really, from here on out, it’s forreal,” Pensky said. “These last twogames, as it relates to our ACC Tour-nament hopes and, therefore, ourNCAA Tournament hopes, everygame matters. Hopefully, then we’replaying in the ACC Tournament andthat matters, and then the NCAATournament.”

The players are confident they willbe playing into November. Grovesaid she knows the team has the tal-ent to win the ACC and NCAA tour-naments. It just comes down to theplay on the field.

“The fire under our butts, I thinkthat’s what desperation is,” Kriz said.“We’re all soccer players. We’re all ath-letes. We’re at the level right nowwhere we know what we need to do towin. We know how to pass. We knowhow to shoot. We know the fundamen-tals. It’s all what’s in our hearts and allwhat’s in our heads at this point.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

With two games left, ‘desperation’ reigns

month. “The first game I wasasked to start, I was a littlenervous. I wasn’t as confidentas I should have been, justlooking at the crowd and stuff.I’ve never played in anythinglike that.”

The freshman trio has beenfar from perfect, of course, aslast weekend’s matchup withNo. 8 Clemson demonstrated.While Goree led the Terpswith 12 tackles and a sack, andhis linebacker accompliceswere plenty serviceable, theteam’s defense was porousand surrendered 49 points tothe vaunted Tigers attack.

The Tigers’ explosion can’tbe pinned entirely on thefreshmen; the defense, as awhole, was overmatched. Butthe young Terps learned thehard way what can come ofmissed tackles and blownassignments.

“It’s not testing their athleti-cism, it’s just testing their foot-

ball IQs,” Vellano said. “Stuffhappens fast out there. Youcan rewind game film all youwant, but it’s a different gamewhen you’re playing. I thinkthey’ve done a great job, andgetting that game experienceis key.”

And although it’s no secretthe Terps will welcome thereturn of their more seasonedlinebackers, the experiencebeing gained by Goree, Row-son and Twine should proveinvaluable to their future.

“Those kids are giving useverything that they have …and we’ve already got somethings going in our mind onwhat we do when those [origi-nal starters] come back,”coach Randy Edsall said Tues-day. “The one thing that Iknow is while Kenny,Demetrius and Darin aren’t inthere, we’re getting somevaluable experience and play-ing time for some young menwho are going to be aroundhere for a long, long time.”

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reached five times in 15 games. Theteam got nearly all of its playersinvolved, as six different Terpsscored in the game. Forward LindseyPuckett and midfielder DanielleKauffman each netted their first goalof the season.

“We’re starting to jell,” Mehargsaid. “Having six different goal scor-ers is exciting and it’s what we needright now.”

“It was really special since it hasn’thappened yet this year. It’s a goodfeeling,” Puckett said of her goal.“We had a lot of good energy comingout from everybody.”

Perhaps more impressive than thesix goals was the team’s continuedstrong defensive play. The Tigers’offense had averaged 11.4 shots pergame coming into last night’s game,but the Terps’ defense stifled theirattack, holding it to just one shot in ashutout.

Another low-scoring effort from aTerps opponent pointed to a positivetrend in the team’s backline success.After allowing five goals on 14 shots in

a loss to No. 1 Old Dominion this pastFriday, the Terps have now allowedjust one goal on eight shots in theirpast two games.

“Those are the statistics that we’relooking for that show that we’re organ-ized back there and dominating,”Meharg said. “You’ve got to fight foryourself, fight for your teammates andindividual defense is the first step. …They’ve really made it personal.”

“The defense really stepped uptoday,” defender Hayley Turner said.“Communication-wise, it was just spot-on and this is what we’ve been work-ing on. … It was just really good for itto finally come together.”

The win tonight is another step for-ward for the Terps after their loss to theLady Monarchs last week, but they willhave little time to dwell on their victory.A tough matchup at No. 2 North Car-olina awaits the team Saturday, butwhat the team learned against theTigers last night will make the road tripwith them.

“What we did [yesterday] is defi-nitely what we’re going to step up toUNC,” Turner said. “Try to make itbetter and just keep building from it.”

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Linebacker Lorne Goree finished with a team-high 12 tackles Saturday in a 56-45 loss toClemson. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps may need win vs. Duke or North Carolina to secure place in ACC Tournament

Defender Megan Gibbons and the Terps were ranked as high as No. 3after an early-season draw with Stanford. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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After a long wait, Terps fans will get a lookat the football team’s white helmets Saturday.For more, check out TerrapinTrail.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps arevoted ninthin ACC poll

Freshman linebackers Lorne Goree, far left, Alex Twine, second from right, and Mario Rowson tackle Clemson tight end Dwayne Allen duringthe Terps’ 56-45 loss Saturday. All three of the team’s original starting linebackers are out with injuries. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer

Following the only coach to bring anational championship to College Park ispressure enough for new Terrapinsmen’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon.

And given the roster he inherited fromhis predecessor, Turgeon won’t face manyof the same high expectations often sad-dled on Gary Williams’ former teams.

The Terps were picked to finishninth in the ACC’s preseason poll yes-terday, the lowest ranking for the pro-gram in the 42-year history of the poll.North Carolina garnered the top spotalmost unanimously, with Duke trailingright behind.

Only Georgia Tech, Wake Forest andBoston College, all programs in the mid-dle of massive rebuilding projects underrelatively new coaches, were picked tofinish worse than the Terps.

Turgeon, of course, is already used tothe little respect the Terps have receivedacross the country.

“I’ve heard it a lot,” Turgeon said at theteam’s Media Day last week. “And thenyou pick up the [preseason college-bas-ketball] magazines and they seem toagree with everyone. … What the maga-zines have come out and said hasn’t hurtour recruiting.”

“I don’t care where we’re ranked; atthe end of the day, it’s where you finish,”guard Sean Mosley said at yesterday’sACC Media Day in Charlotte, N.C. “A lotof teams that are underdogs usually fin-ish on the top, like my freshman andsophomore year. Ever since I’ve been at

In with the newLOW ON THE POLL

The Terps were voted ninth inthe preseason ACC poll, theirlowest finish in the history ofthe poll. Parentheses indicatenumber of first-place votes.

1. North Carolina (57)2. Duke (2)3. Florida State4. Virginia5. Miami6. Virginia Tech7. Clemson8. N.C. State9. Terps10.Georgia Tech11. Wake Forest12. Boston College

BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer

The rain poured downunabated for much of lastnight, soaking the playingsurface at the FieldHockey & Lacrosse Com-plex and leaving many ofthe 212 in attendancesearching for cover.

But almost nothing fromabove or in front of it couldslow down a torrid Terrap-

ins field hockey attack. TheNo. 3 Terps unleashed anoffensive barrage againstin-state rival Towson, scor-ing three first-half goalsunder a sometimes-con-stant rainfall en route to adecisive 6-0 victory. Theteam is now 27-0-2 againstthe Tigers, having won 24straight in the series.

“I think the rain and themist and everything fromthe beginning of the game

really made the field justplay beautifully,” coachMissy Meharg said. “All inall, I thought we played con-sistently for 70 minutes,and that’s what we’re look-ing for.”

The Terps’ (13-2) sixgoals against Towson (8-8)last night matched theirhighest offensive output ofthe season, which they’ve

No. 3 Terps blank Towson, 6-0Despite rain, team matches season-high mark

Forward Jill Witmer had one goal during the Terps’ 6-0 win against Towson last night.The team plays No. 2 North Carolina on Saturday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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BY NICHOLAS MUNSONStaff writer

The Terrapins volleyballteam is stuck in a deep rut.Mired in a five-match los-ing streak as their rosterhas dwindled to only 12active players, the Terpshave won just three of theirlast 11 matches. The near-future doesn’t look muchbetter, either: Matchesagainst ACC heavyweightsFlorida State and Miamiloom this weekend.

Coach Tim Horsmon,however, believes his team’sstruggles all stem from oneissue: youth.

“It’s all about these kidslearning how to win,because they don’t have thatexperience,” he said. “Wehave a lot of young players,and not many upperclass-men to lead them.”

The Terps (9-12, 3-6 ACC)have just three available

upperclassmen on the rosterin senior outside hitterMaddi Lee, junior setterRemy McBain and juniormiddle blocker CaitlinAdams. Adams is also in herfirst year as a Terp, havingtransferred from TexasA&M last year. Three sopho-mores and six freshmencomprise the other nineavailable players.

With his team’s makeup,Horsmon said, the lack ofexperience points to a needfor leadership.

“The leaders and the cap-tains on this team, and theupperclassmen, are trying tofigure out how to lead,”Horsmon said. “They wantto make this program theirown, and they have thoseexpectations to do so. Butthat can’t always come fromthe coaches. I think the firstcouple of years [for them], it

FIELD HOCKEYVOLLEYBALL

Upperclassmen helplead youth movement

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BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer

Even as the Terrapins footballteam came into this season notice-ably thin at linebacker, it could atleast take solace in the top-heavy tal-ent available at the position.

With proven playmakers inKenny Tate and Demetrius Harts-field joined by Darin Drakeford —who had 36 tackles last season, themost by a non-starter — it seemed agiven that the linebacker corpswould carry on the ever-dependabletradition of past units.

That proved true in the team’s sea-son-opening win over Miami, whenTate, Hartsfield and Drakeford com-bined for 38 tackles, a forced fumble,a sack and an interception.

But that was also the last time thetrio would be together for an entiregame. Drakeford has made just twotackles since suffering an ankleinjury against the Hurricanes, andhe hasn’t appeared in a game sinceSept. 24.

And with Tate and Hartsfield each

going down in recent weeks, theTerps have been left with whatwould have been a worst-case sce-nario for the coaching staff entering

the season: three freshman startinglinebackers.

With Lorne Goree, Mario Row-son and Alex Twine all now

plugged into the starting lineup,though, things haven’t been as badas initially foreseen.

“That was kind of a depth concernat the beginning of the year,” defen-sive tackle Joe Vellano said. “Theyprobably never thought they’d be sit-ting here starting these games likethat. I thought they’ve truly done agreat job just learning, adapting.They’ve still got to go to school; it’snot just football transition, it’s kind ofa life transition, really.”

The freshman corps has beentogether since midway through thethird quarter Oct. 8 against No. 20Georgia Tech, when Hartsfield leftthe game with an undisclosed injury.

With their help, the Terps held theYellow Jackets’ high-octane offensescoreless after Hartsfield’s injury, adefensive effort that nearly allowedthe Terps to engineer a remarkablesecond-half comeback.

“I do feel like I’m getting morecomfortable,” Goree said after theteam’s win over Towson earlier this

North Carolina, Dukepicked to finish on top

FOOTBALL

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DIAMONDBACK

As inexperienced team struggles,trio pitches in on and off court

With linebacking corps depleted, Terps turn to three freshman starters at position

Linebacker Darin Drakeford is carted off the field during the Terps’game against Miami on Sept. 5. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

see FRESHMEN, page 7GARY EXCLUSIVEFor the highlights of a wide-ranging,hour-long interview with formerTerps men’s basketball coach GaryWilliams, go to TerrapinTrail.com.