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Our 102ND Year, No. 60THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERWednesday, November 23, 2011
BY JEREMY SCHNEIDERSenior staff writer
The Terrapins athletics departmentis in the process of planning upgradesto Comcast Center in hopes of generat-ing additional revenue amid growingdebt problems, a university officialsaid last week.
Most notably, the department is con-sidering constructing steel riggingalong the campus basketball arena’sroof, which would enable large con-certs to be held at the venue. The proj-ect would cost about $500,000, accord-ing to Randy Eaton, the senior associ-ate athletics director for new revenue,facilities and operations. The depart-ment is currently discussing dealswith promotion companies that wouldoffer to cover the cost of installation inexchange for the right to host events atthe venue.
“We’re looking at different options,how to fund the construction that itwould cost to put the rigging in,” Eatonsaid. “We do have an estimate that wethink is feasible.”
Meetings were held with promoters
Loh to leave for India onFriday with O’Malley
Steel rigging couldlead to more concerts,additional revenue
OfficialsdiscussComcastupgrade
University President Wallace Loh and Gov. Martin O’Malley will visit fourschools in India. They leave Friday. GRAPHIC BY VICKY LAI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY YASMEEN ABUTALEBSenior staff writer
As most students are recoveringfrom a post-Thanksgiving dinnercoma Friday, university PresidentWallace Loh will board a plane for asix-day visit to India with Gov. Mar-tin O’Malley to create partnershipsand collaborations abroad.
Loh and a group of universityofficials — including Vice Presi-dent for Research Pat O’Shea, busi-ness school Dean G. Anan-dalingam and Office of TechnologyCommercialization Director Gaya-tri Varma — will visit four Indianuniversities to further existingrelationships and explore potential
partnerships. Loh said the trip’saim is to gain a better understand-ing of Indian culture in order tocreate more jobs and opportunitiesfor students, staff and faculty inthat country.
O’Malley’s delegation will visitthe Indian School of Business inHyderabad, the Indian Institute ofTechnology in Mumbai, the Uni-versity of Delhi — India’s top uni-versity, according to a Nielsenranking — and the Indian Instituteof Tropical Meteorology in Pune,as well as several “importantresearch and commercial cen-ters,” according to Jon Wilkenfeld,
Team to visit four schools in six-day trip
BY REBECCA LURYEStaff writer
While most women on this campus strug-gle to find the right necklace or earrings topair with their outfits every day, dozens ofwomen donned a new accessory yesterday:paisley, metallic, animal print and floralscarves that they hoped would reveal a sliverof life as a Muslim woman.
More than 100 students participated in thisuniversity’s first-ever Undercover as a Mus-lim Woman event, which invited students towear a headscarf — also known as a hijab —for one day to understand what Muslimwomen who cover their hair experience on aday-to-day basis. Although many studentswho took part in yesterday’s event said they“felt pretty” while wearing the hijab, others
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Proposal fornew Americanstudies minoralmost readyNative Americanstudies minor severalyears in the making
BY REBECCA LURYEStaff writer
For Native American students whosay they are often reminded on thiscampus of how little their peers knowabout indigenous culture and history,recent progress toward creating aNative American studies minor meansmore than new classes.
After a nearly decade-long push for aNative Peoples of the Americas minor,proponents of such a program havecleared the first hurdle in seeing thisidea come to fruition. Advocates’ pushled to American studies professorNancy Struna volunteering to draft aformal proposal, which she will pres-ent to several university officials by theend of the semester.
The 15-credit Native Peoples of theAmericas minor program would edu-cate students on a broad range ofindigenous experiences of North andSouth America, according to the draftproposal. Once Struna completes theproposal, it will go before the College ofArts and Humanities, an undergraduate
RHA to develop parking spot allocation planDOTS charges body with creating solution to parkingshortage from construction of Prince Frederick Hall
DOTS Director David Allen recently charged theResidence Hall Association with developing a parkingpermit allocation plan. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY SPENCER ISRAELStaff writer
With a parking shortage looming in the com-ing years, Department of Transportation Ser-vices officials have turned to the RHA to comeup with a system for determining which under-classmen can take the limited available on-cam-pus spaces.
The construction of the new Prince FrederickHall — which will replace Wicomico, Carolineand Carroll Halls and is slated for completion in2014 — is expected to take away hundreds ofspaces in parking Lot U5 next to Mowatt Lane
Garage. While DOTS does not currentlyenforce its rule prohibiting freshmen and soph-omores from parking on the campus, DOTSDirector David Allen said this shortage willforce officials to set strict rules on which under-classmen can take those spaces.
Rather than have department officials form auniform policy and deal with multiple exemp-tion requests, Allen charged the Residence HallAssociation earlier this month with developing asystem that best serves students.
RHA Oakland Hall senator Omer Kaufman,
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Loh’s stops in India
Felicia Davenport (right) speaks at yesterday’s event, where morethan 100 students wore hijabs. PHOTOS BY JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
A new kind of accessory
Students don Muslimheadscarves at event
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studies committee and a UniversitySenate subcommittee for review.
“There are a lot of students on [the]campus who want to know about nativepeoples, and student support hasstayed strong,” Struna said. “I’m takingmy time now to talk with departmentsthat have had courses, and trying to geta sense of when and how often they willcontinue to offer them.”
Some Native American students, in-cluding sophomore art educationmajor Jacquelyn Grissett, said they feelstudents have little to no understand-ing of their culture and history.
“When it comes down to it, [stu-dents] don’t know real information,”said Grissett. “They go off the typicalpicture in their heads of cowboys andIndians. It’s a confused area in peo-
ple’s minds.”Since there are limited resources re-
lating to Native American history, Gris-sett said students are presented withfew opportunities to learn about andunderstand the culture.
“The minor would clarify any kind ofthinking of Native Americans as mainlyhistorical,” she said. “It would make [theculture] more realistic and less of a fairytale, and help people understand more.”
When they first proposed imple-menting a minor several years ago, theprogram’s proponents faced some am-bivalence from university officials.However, the university made invest-ments to help fund classes relating toNative American studies. Theprovost’s office has given $11,000 to theanthropology department since 2009,and last year both the provost’s officeand the College of Arts and Humani-ties donated $2,500 to the AmericanStudies department.
And although many officials saidthey are optimistic they will soon see aminor offered, Associate Provost forAcademic Planning and ProgramsElizabeth Beise said long-term supportfrom the university will depend on suffi-cient student demand and enrollment.
“There needs to be a large enoughsuite of courses to make the minor at-tractive to a large enough group of stu-dents,” Beise wrote in an email. “Andthey have to make a coherent, high-quality program.”
Although only 32 students identifyas Native American or Alaskan Indianon their applications to this university,current courses — including AMST498L: Native Americans and U.S. Cine-ma and AMST 498K: IndigenousThought in the Americas — are nearlyfilled up each semester.
“I think a lot of people will take [theminor], not necessarily being NativeAmerican, just as a general interest,”
said Javier Vaca, vice president of theAmerican Indian Student Union.
Dottie Chicquelo, an assistant direc-tor in the Office of Multi-Ethnic Stu-dent Education, who also works withNative American students and initia-tives on the campus, said she wouldlike to see community elders and story-tellers serve as adjunct faculty to teachthe courses.
Although Struna said she cannotspeculate whether officials will chooseto move forward with implementingthe minor, some staff and students saidthey are more confident.
“I’m not even thinking that this isn’tgoing to happen,” Chicquelo said.“Hopefully with this minor, their truthwill be told and people will be educatedabout falsehoods, as well as the bless-ings that come out of knowing what Na-tive people really stand for.”
said they learned firsthand howsome people negatively perceivethe headscarf.
The event was organized byMuslim Women of Maryland mem-ber Sarah Mostafa, along withmembers of Community Roots, theSisterhood of Unity and Love andthe Nyumburu Cultural Center.
About 130 students filled theStamp Student Union Atrium toshare and listen to participants’ ex-periences. Although Mostafa, whocovers her hair, said this campuswas an ideal site for the event be-cause of its diversity and its stu-dents’ open-mindedness, mosthave misconceptions about what itmeans to wear a headscarf andpractice modesty.
“Definitely we don’t mean to sim-plify [a Muslim woman’s] life in apiece of fabric, but … I think it’smore interactive than if I were tojust tell someone about how it is tobe a Muslim woman,” said Mostafa,a senior environmental science andpolicy major.
Although students said theytook part in the event to better un-derstand the cultural and reli-gious practices of Muslimwomen, the scarf also proved tobe a flattering accessory.
“As soon as I put it on, I don’tknow why but today I just felt pret-ty,” said Ashley Evangelista, a juniorChinese and philosophy major. “Iput it on and I put my cardigan on
and started taking pictures of my-self in the mirror.”
But nearly every student whospoke said they felt a deep sense ofunity and sisterhood after seeingothers on the campus wear head-scarves. Senior Arabic studies andlinguistics major Emily Perry saidshe feels closer to many of herfriends who cover their hair.
“Faith is a part of who we are, andif I don’t understand that, I don’t un-derstand my friends,” Perry said.
But for some students, such assenior Arabic studies major SafiaLatif — who first began wearing aheadscarf in third grade and took itoff nearly four years ago — yester-day’s event provided them with anopportunity to wear the hijab in amore accepting environment. Latifsaid she took her hijab off after expe-riencing a series of traumatizing in-stances while growing up — includ-ing a girl who ripped off her head-scarf, which left her in tears, and aclassmate who flushed her shirtdown the toilet during gym class.
“Today was the first time in a longtime I wore it all day,” Latif said. “Iwas a little nervous, but it just feltcompletely natural. It was a com-pletely different experience and Ihope to put it on in the future andwear it for good.”
Junior anthropology major Nilou-far Jebelli, who no longer wears ahijab, provided the audience withanother perspective as a womanwho grew up in Iran, where the gov-ernment forces women to cover upin public.
“Things get harsh if you didn’t
wear it the right way, so that makesyou not want to do it, and there’s stilla part of me that doesn’t want to doit,” she said. “And it is beautiful, butwhen it’s not forced on you.”
Mostafa said while the campus isa relatively comfortable place forMuslim women to assert “modestyas an attitude,” many of thesewomen face new challenges whengraduating and pursuing profes-sional careers.
“A lot of girls I know take offtheir headscarves because they’retired of being judged by it,” shesaid. “They say they only want peo-ple to see them, and people onlysee the scarf.”
To give those students some in-spiration, Mostafa invited universityalumna Zakia Mahasa, who be-came the first Muslim woman topreside over an American court,which she accomplished while cov-ering her hair.
“Knowing I was trying to do it theright way was a strength becausetrying to do it any other way meant inmy mind I would ultimately fail,” Ma-hasa said. “[Wearing a headscarf] isa statement that you’re secure inwhat you’re doing, so people maynot understand — they may noteven like it — but they will respect it.”
More than 100 students wore headscarves for a day to glimpse theeveryday experiences of Muslim women. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
who chairs the body’s Transportation Ad-visory Committee, said he expects hiscommittee to discuss the best plan of ac-tion for addressing the parking shortagestarting as early as next semester.
“It can be anything from forming acommittee, to creating general guide-lines to determine qualification, to doingnothing at all,” Kaufman said. “Consid-ering this has a tremendous impact onstudents, this is something we need toconsider carefully.”
Kaufman added he is determined to getas much student feedback — throughfocus groups, forums or informal inter-views with students — before the bodylays out concrete ideas for a new system.
“I think it’s important for us to delin-eate how to create a fair system in deter-mining who is allowed parking,” Kauf-man said. “This is a crucial issue, and soit is a top priority for us to make sureevery student has their voice heardthroughout this process.”
This is not the first time the RHA hasbeen entrusted with figuring out whichstudents are allowed to park on the cam-pus. During parking shortages within thelast 10 years, the body was responsible forhanding out permits for underclassmenwho needed them in special circum-stances, including jobs or disabilities, ac-cording to RHA President Corie Stretton.
“Because they have their finger on thepulse of the students, they would be thebest people to make this decision,” Allensaid. “I have every faith in RHA that theywill come up with a good plan. They areamong the most responsible studentgroups on campus.”
Many students said while they wereconcerned about the upcoming parkingshortage, they were glad to hear the deci-sion of who will be allowed to park will beleft up to students.
“I like that at least other students are in-volved, so hopefully they can make it asfair as possible,” sophomore businessmajor Cody Allison said. “I’d like if theydealt with people on a case-by-case basis,since I drive my car way more than mostseniors, but I have to park next to [the Ep-pley Recreation Center] because I’m onlya sophomore.”
And while RHA members said comingup with a fair system will take a lot of work,they see this as a unique chance to impactthe student experience.
“This is going to be one of those issuesthat goes down in campus history andthat RHA will be remembered for — ei-ther in a good or bad way,” Stretton said.“This is really an opportunity for us toshow how we are representative of thecampus population.”
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In an effort to make frequent-ly used bus stops more inviting,the RHA, DOTS and FacilitiesManagement have teamed up toinstall three new bus shelters onthe campus.
Facilities Management crewsbuilt one shelter in front of Elk-ton Hall several weeks ago, andthe department plans to intro-duce two more — one outsideCambridge Hall and anothernear Annapolis Hall — withinthe next month.
Creating a larger, safer spacefor students to wait for buses wasa “recurring concern” studentshave voiced to the Residence HallAssociation throughout the lastseveral years, said Omer Kauf-man, chair of the RHA’s Trans-portation Advisory Committee.
After the RHA notified the De-partment of Transportation Ser-vices of the student requests,DOTS purchased two $5,000 shel-ters and the RHA bought one, ac-cording to DOTS Senior Associ-ate Director David Davitaia.
“[Students] really encour-aged us to get more space sothat it’s not as intimidating tostand in a dark, cold corner,”
Kaufman said. “The primaryconcern was to make sure thatthere is enough space, and thatthe spaces are inviting.”
Because Shuttle-UM is a wide-ly used service, university offi-cials took the opportunity tomake students’ overall riding ex-periences more comfortable,Kaufman added. After RHAbrought DOTS’ attention to theneed for the shelters, DOTS offi-cials determined where to placethe new shelters based on whichstops were most frequently used.
“Considering that Shuttle-UM is such an integral part ofcampus, it’s obviously a priorityto make sure students enjoy it,”Kaufman said. “It’s nicer to ridea bus where you have a shelter.”
The shelters are made of alu-minum and glass, and were in-stalled with “permeable paversto allow water runoff,” accord-ing to Bill Monan, FacilitiesManagement’s assistant direc-tor of landscape services.
Several students said the newshelter provides a designated spotto wait for a bus, and that it elimi-nates overcrowding at the stop, es-pecially during the weekends.
“I remember Friday and Sat-urday nights there would bewhole mobs of people just
crowding around,” said sopho-more letters and sciences majorKetty Cho. “I think it gives itmore structure and organiza-tion. … It’s convenient.”
DOTS Assistant Director Bev-erly Malone said that while therevamped bus stops have been inthe works for several years, theresult is worth the wait.
“A shelter’s more comfort-able,” Malone said. “Yes, it takesa while, but it’s a good thing.”
Sophomore government andpolitics and marketing majorAbby Dickes said the sheltercame at a crucial time as tempera-tures are beginning to plummet.
“We all like it. It’s nice on thosecold Friday nights when tryingto get to Route 1,” Dickes said.
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CORRECTIONDue to an editing error, yesterday’s article “Forum ad-
dresses vacancies” incorrectly identified when CollegePark will receive money from the Community Legacy Pro-gram. It will be awarded the money in 2012.
Facilities Management officials built the first of three bus shelters to provide students with asafe and dry place to stand while waiting for Shuttle-UM buses. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
RHA, DOTS, Facilities Management build new bus sheltersAfter repeated student requests, departments purchase three shelters; one already installed at Elkton Hall
Dining Services tooffer students new,reusable containersIn sustainability effort, officialshope to reduce dining hall waste
BY SPENCER ISRAELStaff writer
A new Dining Services ini-tiative will allow students tobuy a takeout container theycan bring back in.
The North and SouthCampus dining halls willdebut a test set of 1,000reusable plastic containersduring the next few weeks.Officials said they are eagerto see whether studentsreduce their use of currentdisposable boxes in favor ofthese environmentallyfriendly counterparts.
Planning for the programbegan more than a year ago,Dining Services spokesmanBart Hipple said. After gaug-ing student interest andlearning from schools withsimilar programs, such asEmerson College and theUniversity of Vermont, hesaid this university decidedto give it a shot. If successful,this university will be the firstof its size to offer reusablecarryout containers.
“We do pilot programs thatwe’re confident in, and we’redoing a pilot just to makesure,” he said.
The two dining halls gothrough more than one mil-lion containers each year, andDining Services officials saidthey hope the eco-friendlyalternative — which cost$4,750 out of the department’scapital fund to purchase theinitial 1,000 containers, Hipplesaid — will greatly decreasedining hall waste.
“Takeout containers makeup a lot of waste in the dininghalls and around the rest ofcampus,” said Allison Lilly,Dining Services sustainabil-ity coordinator. “This is agreat opportunity for every-one to work together tochange that.”
This week, the depart-ment has been advertisingthe option by sending infor-mational postcards to eachstudent with a dining plan.Students can redeem thesepostcards for a free con-tainer; those without diningplans can purchase contain-ers for a one-time fee of $5.The non-reusable carryoutcontainers used by dininghalls cost $0.25 each.
The new plastic containers
are similar to Tupperwareproducts and durableenough to last more than ayear, Hipple said.
With the new system, stu-dents can return these con-tainers to the two main din-ing halls and place them in a$6,000 collection machine inexchange for a token. Stu-dents can then redeem thesetokens at any food line for aclean containers.
“I think each student isgoing to figure out their ownway to deal with this,” Hipplesaid. “I think some studentsjust won’t want to be both-ered with it at all; I thinksome students will use itevery time they get carry-out; I think most studentswill be somewhere inbetween.”
Some students said theywere looking forward to try-ing the new containersbecause they are both inex-pensive and better for theenvironment.
“I’d definitely use them; it’smore eco-friendly,” sopho-more letters and sciencesmajor Peter Raia said. “Thatwould make it a lot easierbecause the university would-n’t have to keep buying dispos-able containers each year.”
Sophomore hearing andspeech sciences major LauraFriedman predicted the pro-gram would be successful ifDining Services makes itknown to students.
“I think if it’s advertisedwell, people will use it,”Friedman said. “It’d be reallyawesome if it works.”
However, other studentssaid they feel the projectmight not catch on.
“I think it’s a good idea,but people are just too lazy,”sophomore psychologymajor Nick Smith said.“Everyone likes to say theycare about the environment,but nobody likes to do any-thing about it.”
Dining Services officialssaid they designed theprocess as simply as possibleto encourage student use.
“I think from a student’sperspective it should be realeasy to use,” Lilly said. “Wereally hope people will wantto use them.”
as early as 2004, and the most re-cent major meetings took placethis spring. Should the depart-ment end up subsidizing thecost of installation, Eaton said itwould be “very safe to say” thedepartment could recoup its ex-penses from the project within ayear, although he said it was un-clear at this point exactly howmuch revenue could be earnedfrom hosting concerts.
The department hopes todecide on the project’s nextstep by Jan. 1.
“We’ve got to be ready to rollright as spring semester begins toget this thing rolling in order to hitour window,” said Eaton, whoadded that completing the renova-tion between August and Septem-ber next year was also possible.
When Comcast Center wasbuilt in 2002, it was originally de-signed to include steel riggingalong the roof. But the featurewas phased out as constructionprogressed, making the build-ing a less attractive venue forlarge-scale events. Withoutproper rigging, lights andspeakers cannot be hung fromthe roof, as they are at popularconcert venues such as VerizonCenter and Patriot Center.
While the building can holdconcerts as currently construct-ed, it cannot accommodate thetype of event that could maximizerevenue for the department. Ad-ditionally, department officials inthe past have voiced opposition to
holding large numbers of eventsat the arena because of fears theywould interfere with athleticsteams’ schedules.
“The idea at the time obvious-ly was to be able to utilize this fa-cility for major outside events,”Eaton said. “But, that beingsaid, this was a facility that wasconstructed for student-ath-letes. So that had to be our pri-mary focus going into it.”
Rigging the arena, Eatonsaid, is a four-to-six-weekprocess that would require thecomplete shutdown of ComcastCenter. Given the schedule ofthe school’s men’s and women’sbasketball teams, finding thetime to take on such a projectwould prove difficult. The mostideal window for the process,Eaton said, would be betweenApril and May next year.
Comcast Center’s score-board also poses an obstacle forpossible renovations. Thescoreboard, which cost $1 mil-lion, was not designed to be re-located after its installation, andEaton said it could collapse ifmoved onto a platform. If notmoved, it would be vulnerableto debris from construction.
Still, the added revenue couldbe a boon for a cash-strapped de-partment that this week an-nounced it was cutting eightteams unless fundraising wassecured to sustain them. Withan $83 million debt and hopes ofmaintaining a financially viablemodel with a smaller array ofvarsity teams, it may have nobetter option than to begin whatmay be a risky construction.
“The Commission believesthat the Comcast Center, ByrdStadium and other athletic ven-ues are viable locations that canbe used to enhance revenue aswell as provide venues for stu-dent entertainment,” the Presi-dent’s Commission on Intercolle-giate Athletics wrote in its reportto university President WallaceLoh. “An infrastructure shouldbe put in place to maximize theuse of these facilities as venuesfor concerts and other large-scalemeetings and performances.”
Athletic Director Kevin An-derson, who was not availablefor comment, supports thetransformation of ComcastCenter into a multi-use facility,
according to Eaton.“Kevin is committed to mak-
ing this happen and using thisfacility and has said that fromday one,” Eaton said.
Eaton said he expects the rig-ging project to be completed byno later than 2013, explainingthat the department’s debt cri-sis has only heightened the im-portance of the initiative. Still,the department knows the im-portance of following throughon construction properly.
“We want to make sure whenwe start this, we do it right fromthe start,” Eaton said. “We don’twant to rush into anything.”
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assistant vice president of inter-national programs.
This will be Loh and O’Mal-ley’s second trip to Asia thisyear. Nearly 70 university andstate officials traveled to Chinathis summer in a 10-day mis-sion that cost taxpayers$164,000, but O’Malley esti-mated the trip netted $85 mil-lion in business deals, accord-ing to The Baltimore Sun.
Loh said he’s optimistic this tripwill yield similar results at both thestate and university levels.
“It’s all about three things:trade — meaning jobs — edu-cation and social and culturalrelations and exchanges,” Lohsaid in an interview Friday.
Although India sends hun-dreds of its students to study atthis university — 948 Indian
students traveled to study atthis university this year, abouttwo-thirds of whom are gradu-ate students — few Americanstudents choose to study there,Wilkenfeld said.
“We’re exploring ways inwhich we could increase theflow of students from us toIndia, because India is already amajor Asian power, and weneed to have our students andpeople in general more aware oftheir unique culture,” he said.“We need to have a better ideaas we accommodate manymore of their students and getinto more research and indus-trial relations with them that weunderstand more of their cul-ture, just like they make an ef-fort to understand ours.”
And Loh said this universityhas a lot to learn from India.While most out-of-state studentspay nearly $30,000 for tuition,Loh said Indian students pay
only $300 per year in tuition.“If they’re able to do that, I
want to learn from that,” Lohsaid. “It’s a totally different envi-ronment. We have the samegoals, the same talent of stu-dents, but we have to learn howthey’re delivering education,and they want to learn abouthow we deliver education.”
O’Malley will be the first sittinggovernor from this state to travelto India, which poses a challengefor officials as well as an opportuni-ty to discover an entirely new jobmarket, O’Malley’s spokespersonTakirra Winfield said.
“India is actually a growingmarket in terms of education, interms of a growing middleclass, and we’d like to see howMaryland can learn from thethings they’re doing in Indiaand learn ways to partner withIndia when it comes to educa-tion,” Winfield said. “We believein order to create a strong econ-
omy in Maryland, we have totap into investments both hereand abroad, especially in agrowing market such as India.”
Additionally, Loh said thegrowth of India’s middle class— he estimated several hun-dred million people have beenlifted out of poverty into themiddle class in the last 10 years— provides this university withan opportunity to take advan-tage of that market.
“We want to explore opportu-nities and tap into this middleclass market,” Loh said. “That isa way for the University ofMaryland to be involved in a re-search partnership that can po-tentially be commercialized,and create new products andnew jobs. It’s not just a researchuniversity — it’s the innovationand entrepreneurship universi-ty that is the future.”
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“We all like it. It’snice on thosecold Friday nightswhen trying toget to Route 1.”
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The athletics department may upgrade Comcast Center tohelp generate more revenue. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
OCCUPY PROTESTERS WALK 200 MILES, EAT AT CO-OPA traveling contingent of Occupy Wall Street protesters came
through the campus yesterday as part of their two-week odyssey fromNew York City to Washington, D.C., stopping at the Maryland Food Co-op to eat and speak with students from this university.
The 25 “Occupy the Highway” marchers are cobbled togetherfrom various protests on the 230-plus mile trek from Zuccotti Park,the now-famous square in Manhattan’s Financial District thatplayed host to the genesis of the grassroots anti-corporatism move-ment that has now spread across the country. Two students joinedthe group at the Co-op and continued on with them.
“I find it really amazing that they would take the energy — it’s a lo-gistical nightmare to walk over 230 miles,” said sophomore geogra-phy major Jordan Tessler, a member of Occupy UMD. “Especially inthe middle of November, it’s just really inspiring.”
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A lthough the word “entre-preneur” denotes innova-tor, self-motivator and ini-tiator, I think sometimes
it’s too narrowly defined. To be anentrepreneur is to be an inventor,the creator of some form ofacknowledged, exclusive intellect.Therefore, the author or thefounder of a volunteer organizationis as much an entrepreneur as is thebusinessperson. And these days,more and more students are hopingto one day achieve this accom-plished title themselves.
Amy Reinink notes in The Wash-ington Post Magazine how today’s“sour economy … makes traditionalemployment seem just as risky asstarting a business.” An insecurefinancial future is undoubtedly thedriving force behind the growingnumber of students skipping theconventional path of finding a job.Nonetheless, skipping over to theunconventional route could verywell entail skipping some schooltime, as well, to develop an extracur-ricular venture. But that’s the notionof risk. It’s analyzing the opportunity
costs of advancing a well-thought-out idea instead of going to lecture.
And surely there are tools, namelyentrepreneurial classes, out there tohelp people harness their hopes forentrepreneurial success and self-pro-ductivity. The notion of teaching peo-ple how to start a business is nobleand great in theory, but the problemwith these types of courses — whichare appearing more and more at uni-versities around the country — isthat they lack a crucial aspect of trulystarting a business: actually letting anidea grow. Depending entirely onthese classes to gain all the neces-sary tools for entrepreneurialism is abet not worth making. A lot of stu-dents may in fact be entrepreneurialidealists — they want to initiate some-thing, and they might even make theeffort to sign up for some of thesecourses. And that’s definitely the firststep. But I think placing this muchfocus on instruction designed toteach students about entrepreneurialspirit is a waste of time. These les-sons are better built outside the class-room, even if it means skipping someclass time. Too many entrepreneur-
ship classes could indeed go againstthe focus of acting on this principle.
Aside from this, the concept ofbeing too centered on business guid-ance, such as that given in entrepre-neurship centers, might create thedesire to have a pitch approvedbefore acting upon it. Was LawrenceSummers, the former secretary ofthe Treasury and ex-president ofHarvard, correct in 2004 when hedismissed the idea of Facebook everbecoming a profitable concept? Andwhat if Frederick Smith, the founderof FedEx, had listened to the eco-nomics professor who gave him a“C” on a paper that outlined the con-cept of overnight delivery servicesin a more technologically advancedage? Self-creativity can indeed beevaluated and given constructivecriticism, but it can’t be taught and
shouldn’t be altered. Again, it’s thatwilling notion of pursuing risk in anon-classroom setting that createsthe entrepreneur.
Thus, entrepreneurial classes aregreat beginning tools, but too muchinvolvement in them diverts focusfrom the message that should beconveyed. Entrepreneurs are suc-cessful because they chase an ideathey’re confident can work; theyhave to follow their individual pathsoutside the classroom. Advice isgreat and could be taken from any-one with experience. But by givingtoo much value to the opinions andlessons given in these classes, youend up in a situation where you’rebeing taught entrepreneurism —and I don’t think entrepreneurismcan be taught. It’s a trait that canonly be built through self-instiga-tion. Indeed, it seems the most suc-cessful entrepreneurs are those whodid less learning of it in class andmore doing it out of class.
Ariel Dosetareh is a freshman Jewishstudies major. He can be reached [email protected].
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About six years after the university commissioned consulting firmAnderson Strickler to assess the local student housing market, itrecently spent $68,500 on another study by — you guessed it —Anderson Strickler, to assess the — you guessed it — local student
housing market. And after an extensive process including student and par-ent surveys, focus groups, interviews of key stakeholders and an analysis ofthe housing situation at peer and competing institu-tions, the company’s latest report, released Nov. 11,reaches some pretty predictable conclusions: Stu-dents want air conditioning, on-site laundry, a qualityWi-Fi connection and safety measures such as cardaccess and security cameras.
But what’s surprising is the report’s recommendationto build even more student housing on the campus,despite the addition of more than 5,000 student beds inthe area since 2006, and another 2,300 currently in thepipeline. Even accounting for those numbers, the reportconcludes the university’s housing options are not meet-ing the demands of students. For undergraduates, there’san oversupply of 2,050 beds in traditional rooms — which feature double-occu-pancy dorm rooms and communal bathrooms — but an undersupply of morethan 4,700 beds in semi-suites, suites and apartments. Another 684 beds areneeded for graduate students.
In response, the report concludes the university should plan for a new resi-dence hall with room for 500 students — in addition to the already-plannedPrince Frederick Hall, which will replace three smaller dorms by fall 2014. Otherrecommendations include renovating existing dorms to include extra amenitiesand more desirable layouts.
If the Anderson Strickler data is correct, the university should consider inte-grating the recommendations into its comprehensive housing plan. The surveyand focus group results indicate there is a strong desire to live on the campus.
Safety and proximity to classes are two oft-cited reasons, but there’s also some-thing to be said for the camaraderie of living on or near the campus. Encourag-ing students to live in high-density buildings on the campus and along Route 1will help College Park become the great college town university President Wal-lace Loh envisions.
But the university should also be cautious. The large apartment complexesalong Route 1 — The Enclave, Mazza GrandMarc, Univer-sity View and The Varsity — currently feature a vacancyrate of more than 14 percent, which far exceeds the area-wide vacancy rate of 3.1 percent. The report doesn’tinclude housing in the planned East Campus development— sure to be a big draw — in its estimate of 2,300 addi-tional beds planned for construction.
Fancy dorms are nice, but we all know what happenswhen a university overestimates demand for a new con-struction project — just look at the vacant luxury suites inthe $50.8 million Tyser Tower addition to Byrd Stadium.Further, there are many factors affecting the housing situ-ation that are difficult to account for, such as the planned
Purple Line light rail network, or the city’s rent control policy, which recentlywent into effect. Loh and his administration should also realize many upperclass-men will always want to live off campus, even if the population included in thesurvey indicates otherwise.
If developers and local landlords are still willing to invest in additional studenthousing developments, it’s another sign the university isn’t meeting the housingdemands of its students. But letting the private sector meet the demand keepsthe university from taking on additional financial risks. As we’ve all seen withcuts to the athletics department, prudent financial planning is sometimes moreimportant than accepting projections — guesses, really — about what the futuremay hold. As the university develops its comprehensive housing plan, it may bewise to err on the side of caution.
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administration should becareful when considering
additional costs.
The effective entrepreneur
Several weeks before itsrelease, a friend taught mehow to activate Facebook’sTimeline feature early.
Being the nerd I am, I took the fiveminutes to go ahead and activatethe new features. At first I simplymulled over the Timeline, notingchanges I both liked and disliked.Scrolling to the side, I skippeddown to my Facebook activitiesfrom 2007, where I saw a note frommy friend Jeremy that made myheart stop for a moment.
Jeremy was a longtime friend ofmine, the same age as my olderbrother. Over the course of my lifeI’d seen him hundreds, if not thou-sands, of times. In January 2010,Jeremy was killed in Afghanistan bya suicide bomber. He was one of themost caring individuals I ever hadthe honor of meeting. He enlisted inthe Marines to help protect those heloved, as well as to follow in the foot-steps of his father. I was 18 at thetime, and the loss of a friend wasdevastating. Nearly two years later,though, I had put much of that painbehind me. Despite this, I wassilenced by this sudden rediscoveryof an old “goodbye” letter he postedon Facebook before he left for hisfirst round of basic training.
My experience is far fromunique — many people will stum-ble across a long-forgotten friend’sprofile. Over several years of oper-ation, the process of archiving adeceased individual’s profile hasevolved into memorial pages,which allow friends to still post onhis or her wall but locks away somepersonal information. It’s an inter-esting concept — in the past,records of the deceased could cropup in a variety of different ways,such as mail still sent to the individ-ual’s home address after his or herdeath. Nowadays, when people’slives are neatly organized in what’sessentially an online socialRolodex, we leave more than justold magazine subscriptions afterwe pass on. These social networksare more than just the sum of theirparts; they’re a collection of every-thing an individual wishes to put upthere. Photo albums are scrap-books for the lazy. Status updatesare one-line diary entries.
I’m sure this viewpoint will bemet with skepticism. There arethose who would say Facebook ismerely a waste of time, that it’s notas important as face-to-face interac-tion, that these online interactionsare merely extraneous efforts bestspent on other endeavors — such asactual interaction. I once held thisviewpoint as well, and even though Isunk my fair share of time into thewebsite, I sometimes felt the actwas meaningless. It was nothing buta portal of personal information,compiled in a nice package viacountless algorithms far beyond myscope of understanding but stillvery much based in logic and math.
Despite my previous conclusions,my interaction with Jeremy’s pagemore than a year after his deathcaused me to reevaluate Facebook’spurpose and potential. I no longersee the site as an ultimately unnec-essary social medium. Now I see itas a panoramic snapshot of an indi-vidual’s life and interactions withthose they love. Diaries and jour-nals have persisted for thousands ofyears, yet Facebook allows users tochronicle even the smallest aspectsof their lives. The secret joy of main-taining these journals lies in the factthat they will continue on for ourloved ones to read forever.
Alex Krefetz is a sophomoreenvironmental science and policymajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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A smile a day should be here to stay
Have you ever taken a labclass in which you workedclosely with a few class-mates for the entire
semester? How about a group projecton which you collaborated for a fewweeks with a small group of peers?Most of you would answer “yes,” and Iexpect you’ve also subsequently seenthose classmates around the campus,yet they’ve acted like you’d never evenmet. It’s like they’re deliberately avoid-ing interaction with you for some inex-plicable reason.
Personally, I’ve experienced plentyof unanswered “hellos” from old class-mates and seen way too many pull outtheir phones and pretend to text toavoid eye contact as we pass on thesidewalk. But I can understand thisphenomenon — we don’t usuallybecome good friends after workingtogether in a single class, and at sucha large university, it’s inevitable stu-dents will fragment into smallergroups based on mutual interests. Infact, I’ve been doing that myself ever
since my first semester. It’s the onlyway to really make this large campusfeel like home.
But for our university’s campus tostart feeling like an actual community,we need members of different groupsto step out of their bubbles and inter-act with each other. This begins bymaintaining cordial relationships, atleast, with our classmates after weleave the academic buildings.
In college, we focus so much onworking hard to pursue our dreams,which is great. But we often forget thatour very first dreams — the ones wehad well before starting college —were not to be fancy doctors or glori-fied civil servants. Broadcast journalistJosh Levs insightfully notes that our
first dreams as kids were “to be held.And loved. And to explore this amazingworld with love in our lives.”
Though I’m not looking for love frommy classmates, I think we as a commu-nity can really benefit from somefriendly “hellos.” Every time we smileat someone, we help make them feel abit more loved, which helps both par-ties achieve our most basic humangoal: to feel acknowledged and appreci-ated. This sense of personal satisfactioncan, by extension, help us all be moreproductive in pursuing our individualgoals simply because we feel better.And when we feel good, we’re betterequipped to tackle our challenges.
On the other hand, every time wedecline to salute a fellow Terp, ouractions only serve to reinforce the arti-ficial boundaries formed by the dis-tinct circles that make up our campus.Sure, we agree these different circlesare necessary to make this universityfeel a bit more homey. And by nature,these circles are often defined by cer-tain social, ideological or cultural com-
monalities. But if we play up theseboundaries too much by minimizingour relationships with people outsideour circles, we risk compromising ourdiversity. We try to avoid some senseof discomfort that we think will accom-pany reaching out to others, but that isa misplaced concern.
We understand diversity as not themere presence of these variousgroups but as the positive interac-tions of their members’ ideas. Everytime we smile and say “hello” tosomeone outside our circle, weextend a bridge from our group totheirs. And through that smile, wecan actually help the diversity on ourcampus grow and flourish.
So next time you see a fellow class-mate, be sure to look up with a friendlysmile and greeting so you can bothhave a more fulfilling experience atthis university.
Osama Eshera is a juniorbioengineering major. He can bereached at [email protected].
EESSHHEERRAAOOSSAAMMAA
Born today, you are not al-ways as decisive as youmight be — or, rather, when
you make a decision you can al-most be counted on to changeyour mind once, twice or eventhree times before you finally set-tle on what you really want. Andsometimes you may not evenmake that final choice, but fateand circumstances may sometimesdecide for you. It is fortunate thatyou have a kind of Midas touch,and are able to make the best outof situations that seem to developaround you — otherwise youwould be buffeted about by thewinds of fate so dramatically thatyou may never find contentment.
You are perhaps not as con-cerned with the opinions of othersas you might be, and at times youcan be found doing things thatsimply go against the grain or rubothers the wrong way. What’swrong with that? Especially sinceyou never strive to do anyone elsewrong.
Also born on this date are: MileyCyrus, singer and actress; BruceHornsby, musician, singer, song-writer; Harpo Marx, comedian andactor; Boris Karloff, actor; Billy theKid, Old West outlaw; FranklinPierce, U.S. president.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21) — A clarification may be re-quired today before you and acohort come to common termsand decide on a course of actiongood enough for both of you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— Put yourself in another’sshoes today and you’ll learn agreat deal about yourself in the
process. The best is yet to come.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) —The sooner you can admit thatthere are things you do notknow how to do, the sooner youwill be prepared to learn how todo them.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —You have a deadline looming,but you may not be feeling in-spired today. Still, you’ll have toget it done — so find a way.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —You can welcome warmer feel-ings today instead of focusingon the negative as you havebeen doing over the past fewdays.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —What you know and what youbelieve may be two very differ-ent things — but one is far morecompelling. The unknownreaches out to you today.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You may feel as though you’vebeen trying to move forwardwith your eyes closed — buttoday you must open them andtake it all in.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —You have much to offer, but youmay be feeling as though youare being thwarted by a certaininfluence that is overpoweringyou.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Youmay not know whether it is aphysical ill or emotional painthat is truly bothering you —and the experts may not know,either.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —That about which you haveheard good things may not beavailable to you until later inthe day — and you’ll want tomake room for it, surely.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Begin at the top and work yourway to the bottom, and you’lldiscover that getting throughyour entire list is not too formi-dable today.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Routine may be the best thingfor you; anything out of the ordi-nary may challenge you in away that is hazardous — butonly temporarily.
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REVIEW | THE MUPPETS
It’s time tolight the lights
First Muppets series film in more than a decade is a success
BY ROBERT GIFFORDSenior staff writer
Nobody hates the Muppets. Thereare probably people who don’t care forthem, who ignore them, who don’treally have an opinion one way or theother or who live in remote areas of theAmazon rainforest and have neverheard of Kermit the Frog and company(although it’s probable they’ve heardsomeone humming “Rainbow Connec-tion” at least once or twice). But toactively despise the Muppets, one ofthe most inherently un-hateable cul-tural institutions we have, is probably asign of extreme mental distress orincurable crankiness.
Thankfully The Muppets, the firstMuppet feature film since 1999’s lack-luster Muppets from Space — whichwas the first film in the series madeafter the death of creator and univer-sity alumnus Jim Henson — doesnothing to tarnish the show’s legacyand should serve as a fine introductionto the series for younger children, aswell as a welcome reminder to olderfans of what made it so appealing inthe first place.
The film centers on two brothers:Gary, a man (played by Jason Segel ofHow I Met Your Mother, who also co-wrote the film), and Walter, a Muppet(voiced by Peter Linz, 30 Rock). Themovie doesn’t explain how one set ofparents produced both a flesh-and-blood child and a felt-and-string one,and it probably shouldn’t, either.
Walter, an ardent fan of The MuppetShow, tags along on a trip to Los Ange-les with Gary and his long-term girl-friend (Amy Adams, The Fighter,exactly as charming as she usually is),but he finds Muppet Studios in disre-pair and about to be demolished by agreedy oil executive (Chris Cooper,The Tempest).
With that setup, the “Let’s put on ashow!” narrative falls nicely into placeas the brothers, joined by a reluc-tantly retired Kermit, travel aroundthe country, getting the gang backtogether for one last blowout.(“May I suggest we save timeand pick up the rest of thecrew via montage?” offersone character.)
It’s not a groundbreakingnarrative, but Segel anddirector James Bobin(Flight of the Conchords) nailits execution. It’s impossi-ble to resist a movie over-flowing with great throw-away gags such as a signdescribing Reno as “TheBiggest Little City in the
World” or a robot from the 1980s thatoffers Tab and New Coke as beverages.
What really separates the Mup-pets from the crowd of children’sentertainment is that it seems to
have been made with a genuinesense of joy. When so many
movies pander to kidswith crassjokes andlame pop-culturename-checking,thewarmth and aw-shuckspurity Segel and com-pany bring to the film isdeeply refreshing andeven moving. (It helps
that the senti-mentality istempered
with witand gentle
self-deprecation.)That’s why a scene like the one in
which Cooper’s oil tycoon characterstarts rapping at the Muppets seemsawesome rather than forced. It’sdispiriting when Al Pacino raps inJack and Jill or Neil Patrick Harrisjams on Guitar Hero in The Smurfs,
but it’s greatwhen Coopershows off hisless-than-stellarflow here. Why?Because Pacinoand Harris are
clearly thinking about their pay-checks, while Cooper seems to beenjoying the hell out of it.
That’s what separates The Muppetsfrom nearly everything else targetedat younger audiences: It’s not abovepop-culture references, “fart shoes”and general silliness, but it’s all donewith unadulterated enthusiasm andheart, with the best kind of winking,self-aware humor to boot.
VVEERRDDIICCTT::Sweet, funny and smart, TheMuppets is a great kids moviethat can be enjoyed at any age.
“I had a lot of stuffed bearswhen I was younger, so FozzyBear reminds me of mychildhood.”– Samantha Ammons,sophomore, psychology
“I like Gonzo because he’s aquirky oddball. He can’t reallybe defined.”– Andrea Hubbell, freshman,letters and sciences
“There’s a nice Kermit the Frogstatue beside Stamp. I like thevalues Kermit stands for, likebeing yourself.”– Ryan Harshman, sophomore,accounting
“‘I’m not Jimmy-Jim-Jimmy-Jim-Jim-Jim-Jim.’ Gonzo’s reac-tions in Muppet Treasure Islandmade for perfect punchlineswith perfect deliveries. That’swhy he’s awesome.”– Josh Koehler, sophomore,computer engineering
“Miss Piggy [is my favorite]because she is spunky andsassy.”– Tenbeete Solomon, sophomore,business
“[I like] Rizzo the Rat be-cause he’s very social. He hashis own little group or posse.He’s a leader, and he knows howto find adventure.”– Maya Fromme, freshman,economics
STUDENT MUPPET FAVORITESThis university’s students have more
reason to be excited for The Muppets thanjust about anyone else. After all, the univer-sity is the alma mater of Jim Henson, theman responsible for creating Kermit, MissPiggy and the rest of the Muppet gang.
Not surprisingly, many students havefond childhood memories of the Muppetsand their adventures on film and television.To the right is a sampling of students’ fa-vorite felt freaks.— Joshua Axelrod
maryland muppet fever
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season had been absent in recentweeks.
Swaim amassed five shutoutsthrough his first 12 appearancesthis season. He has zero in his pastfive. The Ellicott City native surren-dered multiple goals in three ofthose outings, including a road lossto Clemson, which has the ACC’sthird-worst offense.
“When you’re 0-2-2, you look tomake a little change for the psycheof the team,” Cirovski said.
This isn’t new to Swaim.He made 12 starts as a true fresh-
man in 2007, surrendering less thana goal a game. His main competitionin the net transferred the followingoffseason, leaving him the pre-sumptive starter.
Then Zac MacMath, the top goal-keeping prospect in the country,arrived on the campus. Swaimfended off the eventual MLS first-round selection throughout thesummer and preseason, and hestarted six of the Terps’ first 10games that year. But he playedinconsistently, and after surrender-ing three goals in an eventual 5-3loss to an unranked Clemson squadon the road, MacMath became thefull-time starter midway throughthe regular season.
With MacMath between theposts, the Terps went on a 16-gamewinning streak en route to the pro-gram’s third national title. Swaimredshirted the following yearwhen MacMath returned, hopingto have a shot during his redshirtsenior year.
This season, for the first time inhis career, things were goingaccording to plan. Swaim finishedthe regular season with the second-fewest goals allowed of any goal-keeper in the ACC, surrenderingjust two more than North Carolinagoalkeeper Scott Goodwin. Heseemed poised to help lead theTerps’ chase of a fourth nationalchampionship.
That may no longer be a possibil-ity, however. Although Cirovskihas not indicated who will start inthe Terps’ third-round matchupagainst No. 12 seed Louisville onSunday, Cardona seems to be theman of the moment.
“We put our faith in [Keith], andit’s paying off,” Kemp said. “He didwell, and I expect him to do noth-ing but grow and get better fromthis point on.”
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enough in mid-November to beat OldDominion and Carolina,” Meharg said.“That was a long shot in my mind.”
But after the final loss in thatseven-game stretch — a 2-1 defeatagainst Duke in the ACC Tourna-ment — something clicked for theTerps. Just as a midseason loss toPrinceton propelled them to an unde-feated run to the national champi-onship in 2010, their loss to the BlueDevils marked a game many on theteam described as the starting pointof a potent finishing flourish.
“The way we trained from theminute we got knocked out by Duke, itwas evident to me that there wassomething very deep in their intangi-bles, in their gut,” Meharg said. “Theway they performed was just unbeliev-able. From that morning on, everytime we trained and played a hockeymatch, we got better and better. It wascrazy contagious. I’ve never seen agroup like that.”
The Terps continued to use theirearly exit as fuel throughout thenational tournament. Even though itwas unseeded, the team blewthrough its first-round opponentIowa, 4-2, before knocking No. 3seed Syracuse out in overtime toadvance to the Final Four for a fourthstraight year.
Awaiting the Terps there, how-ever, were the two teams thataccounted for all of the team’s threeregular season losses: Old Dominionand North Carolina. The teamavenged both of those losses soonenough, first dismantling the No. 2seed Lady Monarchs, 4-0, and thencompleting a furious comebackagainst the No. 1 Tar Heels. Jill Wit-mer’s overtime goal — her first scoresince Oct. 19 — made the Terps thefirst unseeded team in the tourna-ment’s history to capture the title.
“Did we overachieve with theteams in the field? Yes,” Mehargsaid. “If you look at both those teamsthat we beat this weekend, statisti-cally, both teams had a lot of opportu-nities. We were just better with our
opportunities.” While the underdog role suited the
Terps well in their postseason run thisseason, they won’t have that luxury intheir title defense. Among starters,only senior goalkeeper Melissa Vassa-lotti and senior midfielder Jemma Buck-ley are not expected to return, leavingthe Terps with very few changes tomake to a newly crowned roster.
Inserting a new backstop in thecage will be a mostly seamless transi-tion for the Terps, who saw sopho-more Natalie Hunter gain a wealth ofexperience playing alongside Vassa-lotti this season. The two keepersalternated starts in goal in Septem-ber — each started five of the team’sfirst 10 games — offering Hunterample time to prepare for a featurerole in her junior season.
“I learned from [Melissa] just bywatching her play and that definitelyhelps me out. She’s a winner and she’sa mentor,” said Hunter, who totaled 10saves and allowed seven goals in thegames she started. “It’s always been adream to play on the Maryland field,and any opportunity I get to do that …
I’m excited and ready.”Replacing Buckley, however, will
likely be more difficult. The All-American was an attacking force forthe Terps throughout the season,leading the Terps with 22 goalsscored, including four in the NCAATournament and five game winnersthis year.
“It opens up the opportunity forother goal scorers on the squad to bemore prolific,” Meharg said. “We’vegot players on the team right nowthat have been corner-hitters theirwhole lives, so we’re going to takethis spring, start to develop them andsee where we are.”
With a fully intact roster and a sec-ond straight trophy under their belts,the Terps will begin next season asthe prohibitive favorites to win it allagain. If the team didn’t enter thisseason with postseason aspirations,it certainly will in 2012.
“Winning the national champi-onship,” midfielder Megan Frazer said.“That’s always going to be the goal.”
REVIEWfrom page 8
what anybody had envisioned, espe-cially considering the Terps finished9-4 last year.
But given inherited limits on schol-arships and practice time and theteam’s plague of injuries this season,Edsall hasn’t had it easy.
“We’ve talked about [the shortenedpractice time] as a staff,” Edsall said,“and going into the season, I don’t thinkany of us realized how much of animpact that was going to have, especiallywhen you’re coming into a new situa-tion and you’re installing new systems.
“That was something that proba-bly had a bigger impact than weanticipated.”
MACKALL DONE?
The future of defensive end DavidMackall has been up in the air sinceEdsall announced earlier this monththe sophomore would miss the rest ofthe season after being suspended for aviolation of team rules.
Edsall offered a grim update yester-day when asked about the likelihood ofMackall returning to the team nextseason.
“I don’t think that looks real promis-ing right now,” Edsall said.
A converted linebacker, Mackallstarted the first seven games of the
season at defensive end for the Terps,racking up 30 tackles and three sacks.
FULPER, TYLER OUT
For very different reasons, the Terpswill make the trip to Raleigh, N.C., onSaturday without center Bennett Fulperand wide receiver Ronnie Tyler.
Edsall announced yesterday thatFulper’s hamstring injury, which kepthim out of uniform for last Saturday’sloss to Wake Forest, is more seriousthan first thought and will keep himfrom making the trip. Fulper’s injuryis expected to take six to eight weeksto heal, Edsall said.
Tyler, meanwhile, won’t make the
trip due to academic problems. Thiswill be the third game this season thesenior will have missed while servinga suspension. He also missed two Sep-tember games after being arrestedand charged with second-degreeassault Sept. 16.
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Wide receiver Ronnie Tyler, left, will miss his third game of the season Saturday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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SportsKizer dominates in win
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Coach Randy Edsall and the Terps face N.C. State on Saturday in their regular-season finale. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer
As Randy Edsall’s frustratingfirst season in College Parknears its conclusion Saturdayat N.C. State, the first-year Ter-rapins football coach’s reflec-tions on his inaugural cam-paign yesterday weren’t alto-gether novel or surprising.
Yes, the Terps’ 2-9 record tothis point is a disappointment,Edsall acknowledged. No, he
said, it shouldn’t be seen asmuch more than growing painsas he puts his own mark on theprogram.
For the first time this season,however, he spoke out againstcritics of his straightlacedexpectations for his players.
“I care about these youngpeople,” Edsall said, “and Iwant them to be successfulnot only today, not only threeyears from now, 10 years, 15.I want them to be successful
30, 40 years down the road. Ifpeople want to be critical ofme and what I stand for,that’s fine.”
The Terps’ on-field producthas yet to reflect the transfor-mation Edsall insists is takingplace within his locker room.
Still, he said, he has neverwavered on his morals.
“I had a parent call me thismorning … and ask me aboutsome things about her son,”Edsall said, “She goes,
‘Coach, you just keep doingwhat you’re doing. I appreci-ate everything you’re doingfor my son.’ That’s the onlyverification I need. I knowwhat I’m doing is right forthese young people.
“I think, unfairly, I havebeen criticized for that, buteveryone’s entitled to theirown opinion.”
This season’s been far from
FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK
‘Unfair’ criticism?Edsall addresses complaints about expectations for players at presser
see NOTEBOOK, page 7
MEN’S SOCCER
After a season ofSwaim, Cardonacould be next up
FIELD HOCKEY | SEASON IN REVIEW
The Terps won their second straight national championshipSunday after coming back to knock off North Carolina inovertime. PHOTO COURTESY OF JEFF CAMARATI/UNC ATHLETICS
A familiarending to anunusual year
BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer
When asked whether herTerrapins field hockey teamhad reached all of its goalsthis season just days after win-ning its eighth national cham-pionship, Missy Mehargcould do little but let out asmall laugh.
“It’s hard to say whether wedid or didn’t beat them,” thelongtime coach said, “becausewe didn’t really make them.”
Turns out they didn’t needto. The unseeded Terps madean improbable run throughtheir NCAA Tournamentgauntlet, ending their seasonby scoring three unanswered
goals in less than 15 minutesagainst top-seeded North Car-olina to clinch the 2011 nationalchampionship with a 3-2 over-time victory Sunday.
Their journey there wasn’twithout difficulties, however.As the Terps neared the post-season, the fact that they hadn’tset any title goals looked like agood thing. The team lost threeof its last seven games enteringthe national tournament and atthat point, a second straightnational championship seemedunlikely, even to Meharg.
“Halfway through the sea-son, I would not have thoughtthat we were going to be good
see REVIEW, page 7
BY CONNOR LETOURNEAUStaff writer
Standing on the Terrapinsmen’s soccer team’s practicefield in August, Will Swaimhad a simple analogy todescribe his college career.
“It’s definitely been a rollercoaster,” the redshirt seniorgoalkeeper said. “It’s been up,and it’s been down.”
On Sunday, that ride wentfor a loop.
As his starters lined up for asecond-round matchupagainst West Virginia in theNCAA Tournament, coachSasho Cirovski called onfreshman Keith Cardona toman the goal. Swaim, who’dbeen the starter throughoutthe season, sat and watchedas the No. 5 seed Terps routedthe Mountaineers, 4-0.
In his first action against anelite opponent, Cardonabreezed to his third careershutout in as many games, fin-ishing with just one save asthe Terps ended a four-gamewinless streak, their longestrut in seven years.
“I thought Keith did awe-some,” defender TaylorKemp said after the Terpsclinched their 10th straightSweet 16 appearance. “Helooked confident. I’m proudof him, and it felt good to geta shutout because it’s been a
little while.”In fact, it had been more
than a month. The Terps lastblanked a team Oct. 11, whenthey beat Adelphi, 2-0. Thegoalkeeper that night? Car-dona. The former under-18U.S. National Team memberstarted against the unher-alded Panthers to give Swaimsome much-needed rest.
But Swaim’s benching Sun-day wasn’t about fatigue. The12-day break leading up to thegame ensured that. It wasabout performance. Thegame-changing saves thatmarked the first half of the
see GOALIES, page 7
Cirovski opts for freshman goaliein NCAA Tournament opener Sun.
Goalkeeper Keith Cardonahas three shutouts in threegames this season. CHARLIE
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