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By Bradleigh ChanceSta� writer
With the task of enforcing helmet requirements now falling to state au-thorities rather than DOTS, scooter riders who forgo safety gear will soon face stricter regulations.
The new state helmet law, which goes into e� ect Oct. 1, requires scooter and moped riders to register their ve-hicles, purchase insurance and wear a helmet and eye protection. While the mandate will slap violators with higher fi nes than under the univer-sity’s planned helmet policy, several students and police said enforcement
is more realistic and could lead to im-proved safety on the campus’ streets.
“We’ve seen incidents involving students who were in severe accidents — even just falling from a seated po-sition onto the ground can seriously injure someone,” said University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Liman-sky. “This law change can potentially save lives.”
Beginning Sept. 24, state residents can register their scooter electroni-cally for $5 and will receive their title stickers from the Motor Vehicle As-sociation in the mail. And while non-jailable motor vehicle o� enses carry a maximum penalty of $500, Limansky See helmet, Page 3
By Lauren KirkwoodSta� writer
In a campaign to create a more safe and welcoming campus environment, university o� cials hope to communi-cate to students that there’s nothing casual about derogatory language.
Students who may have felt unsafe or unwelcome because of negative la ng uage ca n ta ke solace i n the fact that university officials are working to create a more comfort-able environment.
The Department of Resident Life and the Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy Office joined to organize the “Inclusive Lan-guage Campaign” to foster conversa-
Derogatory language put at forefront in new campaign
tion about hurtful and disparaging language and help educate students about its negative impact.
“We’re really focused on this idea and belief that when you let people tell their stories, you can dialogue around it and build a bridge to better understanding,” said Judy Martinez, MICA’s coordinator for Latino/a student involvement and community advocacy and one of the campaign’s organizers.
The idea for the Inclusive Language Campaign began last semester and came to fruition this fall with a fl urry of posters, buttons and decals and plans in the works for a banner in front
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By Savannah Doane-Malotte Sta� writer
To an increasingly exclusive group of students, the university’s progress in updating facilities on the campus amounts to a lot of hot air.
Students a re catch ing severa l dorms — i nclud i ng Centrev i l le, Bel Air, Elkton and the Cambridge Community dorms — in their fi nal years without air conditioning after Facilities Management completed the second of three phases to receive working heating and air systems, part of a slate of maintenance and construction from the summer.
Many residents said it was disap-pointing to be denied an amenity wildly available across the campus, though Facilities Management of-ficials said they are working at the fastest pace they can without displac-ing students.
Capital Projects Director Bill Olen said he understands the inconve-
nience of living in one of these dorms, which is why he said the university is spending $10 million a building to fi x the issue.
“It’s a necessity at this point to have AC so that the students can be comfortable in their resident halls,” Olen said.
However, freshman business major Alicia Arbaiza said a lack of communi-cation from the Department of Resi-dent Life led many students in Cent-reville Hall to believe they would have the amenity. After moving into the dorm, some students began circulat-ing theories that only half the build-ing had working air conditioning but the university was leaving it off out of fairness.
“I think people have started these rumors because there is such a lack of communication between the univer-sity sta� and the students,” Arbaiza said. “They never told us we weren’t
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Getting out the voteBy Sarah TincherSta� writer
SGA and the TerpsVote coalition are not willing to accept lackluster student attendance at the polls this November.
While past e� orts to galvanize student voter par-ticipation at the university have not signifi cantly improved turnout, this year the Student Govern-ment Association and TerpsVote have a new plan to make sure students are ready to participate in the election. With the ballots deciding the next presi-
dent, not to mention the state’s stances on same-sex marriage and the DREAM Act, group members said they will fully utilize new resources to make it easier than ever for students to get to the polls and make informed decisions.
The groups are reaching out to the Department of Resident Life, the Residence Hall Association, Greek life governing bodies and various cultural groups on campus to inform students how to regis-ter to vote. By also taking more personal initiatives,
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said he doubts a standard ticket will be as high.
“One of these tickets is going to be in the $25 to $60 range,” he said, compared to the $15 ticket the Department of Transportation Services would issue to o� enders. “Additionally, if someone already has a scooter, they have up to a year to get it titled before they are fi ned. There is a grace period.”
Sophomore government and politics major Katherine Powers said following up on helmet use was vital for the university community’s
State law mandates helmets
Some students stuck in dorms without AC
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o f S t a m p S t u d e n t U n i o n and displays on Shuttle-UM b u s e s , a c c o rd i n g to A m y M a r t i n , a co ord i n ator for the campaign and associate director for Resident Life.
Students’ stories about how l a n g u a ge i n t he residence halls and across the campus hindered some of their ex-periences at the university inspired organizers, Martin s a i d . O r g a n i z e r s w o r k e d to craft a theme that would spearhead open discussion about the issues surrounding language and identity.
“Students ta l ked about, ‘Would you say that if your mom was here? Would you say that in an interview?’” Martin said of some students’ stories in open forums.
T he t heme, “ Wou ld you say that if…?” emerged from those talks. Other campaign paraphernalia feature various words t hat ca n negat ively impact students’ well-being and demonstrate how those words a� ect individuals.
O ne sp e ech b ubble on a campaign poster says, “That exam just raped me!” Below it, another bubble asks, “Would you say that if you knew I was
a survivor of sexual assault?”The goal is not to control
what students say, but rather to start a conversation about t he u se of cer ta i n word s, Martin said.
“We didn’t want to become word police, or have people doing it out of political cor-rectness — we want people to think about the language they’re using,” she said. “It’s not really to wag our finger at people.”
Some students beg i n to learn the effects of their lan-guage after hearing personal stories, Martin and Marti-nez sa id, wh ich prompted MICA to launch a one-credit “spoken word” course this fall. It will enable students to share their stories with each other and learn about identity through lectures, speeches from classmates and other creative exercises.
Additionally, o� cials plan to create a series of YouTube v i d e o s , e a c h fe a t u r i n g a student sharing an experience with harmful language, for the
campaign’s upcoming website. “We really tried to think
about how can we keep this on people’s radar,” Martin said.
Amber Simmons, a Stamp Student Un ion i ntern who designed some of the cam-paign’s materials, said that, as a former La Plata resident assistant, she realized students don’t often take the time to think about their vocabulary.
“I think it’s so overlooked,” she said. “You don’t realize how certain things you say can be really hurtful. It’s one of those things people aren’t aware of.”
A l l of th is fa l l’s resident assistants learned about the campaign during their train-i ng prior to move-i n days, Martin said.
Sen ior neu robiology a nd psychology major Ami Jani, a community assistant in Queen Anne’s Hall, said she hopes the campaign helps students become more cog n iza nt of what they say.
“If you see it, it’ll connect i n you r m i nd that maybe I should think about what I’m going to say,” she said. “Our p ol icy i s, i f we se e some-thing, we say something. We want to make everyone feel comfortable.”
such as registering students attend i ng spor t i ng events or waiting in line at Student Entertainment Events, con-tacting students via email and making class announcements, the coalition hopes to get the message across to students that their votes matter.
However, getting students registered is only the fi rst part of the process — making sure students are well-informed about the election’s biggest issues and the candidates that will appear on the ballot in No-vember is just as crucial, SGA President Sam Zwerling said.
“Part of it is getting people reg istered to vote, but the ot her pa r t i s m a k i n g s u re people a re in formed,” Zw-erling said. “I’m personally invested in the idea of Terps helping Terps.”
Students have several new resources aimed at increasing voter participation at their dis-posal, including a new system the university is developing that will be connected to the registrar’s system, so students — both in-state and out-of-state — will be able to register online. The system is scheduled to be up and running by late
September, according to SGA Director of Communications Matt Arnstine.
“ We’re t h e f i r s t s c h o ol in the state to start this in-house system, and that says a lot about our commitment,” Zwerling said.
T he g roups a l so pl a n to
e m p l o y m o re-t ra d i t i o n a l methods of encouraging stu-dents to vote, such as setting up tables and voter registra-tion drives, according to RHA President Sasha A za r, who has also been involved in the TerpsVote coalition.
T he state is also offering online voter registration for the first time for anyone with a driver’s license.
Sophomore bioengineering major Pierce Radecki said he has already registered to vote because of the convenience of the state’s online system.
“A lot of people in our age range are socially liberal, so an online system could have a large impact on politics,” he added. “Having more voters
from a young crowd could really change the results.”
SGA Director of Govern-mental A� airs James Jalandoni met with a coalition of national non-partisan youth empower-ment organizations to discuss potential voting barriers in the upcoming election. He shared ideas with Rock the Vote, Politic365, and ourtime.org, along with Congressional of-fi cials on Capitol Hill.
“There’s a lot of confusion that students face on filling out voter registration,” Ja-la ndon i sa id. “T he enti re voter registration process is not as clear or easily ac-cessible to everybody.”
Jalandoni added he plans to do everything he can to make sure the student body is well-informed on how to register to vote, as well as on ballot initiatives and candi-dates’ platforms, before the November election, a goal Zwerling said she shares.
“A s t h e s t u d e n t b o d y p re s i d e n t , m y go a l i s to c r e a t e l i f e -l o n g v o t i n g habits in students,” Zwer-ling said. “If more college students voted ... we would be electing people who value higher education, and that’s important.”
safety.“There have been a lot of
scooter accidents, especially when car drivers on campus aren’t being alert,” she said, adding, “I’ve never heard or seen anyone get in trouble for not wearing a helmet. It doesn’t seem to be enforced.”
Prior to the mandate, DOTS had mapped out the imple-
mentation and enforcement of the university’s own helmet policy, which was passed by t he u n iversit y sen ate l a st October and was meant to go into effect this fall.
The department was plan-ning to have employees snap photos of v iol ators on t he campus and cross-reference l i c e n s e p l a t e s w i t h t h e i r registration l ist. However, many students said they had ex pected to see la x conse-quences this semester.
“There isn’t a plate on the
f ront, so t a k i n g a pic t u re would’ve been impractical,” sophomore computer science major Sundi Myint said. “Also DOTS doesn’t have enough staff. The way the authori-ties are planning to handle it seems much more effective.”
Even without the new law, My int sa id she wou ld have worn a helmet.
“But when I drive other people around, they typically don’t have one,” she said. “There isn’t enough space in my trunk for two, and they’re expensive.”
I n that event, L i m a nsk y said, both the driver and pas-senger would receive a ticket.
T o e n c o u r a g e h e l m e t u s e , t h e d e p a r t m e n t a l s o gave students the option of buying headgear with their registration this semester, pre-purchasing 109 visorless helmets that now fail to meet the state’s new regulations.
“I would never buy a helmet from DOTS because they‘re not practical when you think about the amount of money involved and what you’re still expected
to buy,” said Myint said. “They don’t come with eye protection, they don’t have a visor, and the law requires it.”
J o h n C h u r c h m a n , w h o co-owns local scooter store College Scooters, which pro-v ided DOTS w ith hel mets, sa id he has seen a spi ke i n purchases recently.
“But these helmets do not have the eye protection that will be required by law,” he sa id, add i ng that he hopes police educate drivers about t h e n e w l a w ’ s p o t e n t i a l
consequences. Limansky said police are
prepared for some drivers to question the rule initially and will work with the Depart-ment of Resident L i fe a nd D O T S to s pre a d t h e word leading up to October.
“There should be a level of understanding granted ini-tially to the students because t hey’re not a l l goi ng to be aware of the new law at first,” Churchman said.
“We didn’t want to become word police, or have people doing it out of political correctness.”
AMY MARTINAssociate Director for Resident Life
“the entire voter registration process is not as clear or easily accessible to everybody.”
JAMES JALANDONISGA Director of Governmental A� airs
While this year’s race to the White House may not be at the forefront
of every young voter’s mind, stu-dents are at the center of one the most contentious issues: how to distribute and fund federal student loans. President Obama signed a measure in July freezing the interest rate on student loans after months of Congressional gridlock, and Re-publican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has voiced his support for the legislation. Both sides seem to be using the matter in hopes of winning the youth vote, but will low rates on federal loans actually help us, or are they hurting us in the long run?
Romney has said, “I fully support the e� ort to extend the low interest rate on student loans,” according to an April Washington Post article. Obama reiterated a similar senti-ment and said, “In today’s economy, a higher education is the surest path to fi nding a good job and earning a good salary and making it into the middle class.”
Both candidates have made the same point: Student loan rates should stay around and they want to help more students receive govern-ment loans. That initiative, however, comes with a hefty price tag: It costs $6.7 billion — and deciding how to fund the measure was why Repub-licans and Democrats took months to ultimately pass the bill.
But it seems that everyone is only
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thinking in the short term. Obviously, nobody in Washington wants to turn away young voters by proposing to cut student loans leading up to the Novem-ber election. They want — and need — that voter demographic.
Many graduates, however, are already defaulting on their loans
because they can’t fi nd a job after grad-uation. Because the program enables the government to provide more loans, experts have suggested the initiative that’s supposed to help students has actually been a catalyst in fueling the rising cost of tuition. It’s extended loans to students who simply have no way to repay them after graduating. And because the program creates more demand for a college education, there are more students seeking jobs than there are jobs, Cli� Rossi, a teaching fellow at the university’s business school, told The Diamondback.
Default rates on loans jumped nearly 2 percent from 2008 to 2009, accord-ing to the most recent Department of Education data. Both Republicans and Democrats need to look at the facts and craft a better plan for the future — one that doesn’t leave students with such
limited options after graduating — rather than spending so much time squabbling on a temporary fix. Even university President Wallace Loh said if students continue defaulting, the problem will quickly get out of control.
Because of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s dedication to higher-education issues, the state is doing relatively well com-pared to the rest of the nation and has stayed below the national average for student debt. But that’s just one state — ultimately, should the federal gov-ernment continue on the path poli-ticians seem to have chosen, state lawmakers will have no choice but to continue to raise tuition and per-petuate a vicious cycle of trying to counterbalance rising default rates.
While it’s imperative students be able to obtain loans to get through school, federal loans are not the best way to go about it. The federal government issued just less than 93 percent of student loans in 2010-11, compared to about 75 percent between 2006 and 2008, according to College Board. The threat of students defaulting on their loans is higher than ever with this job market.
Defaulting on private loans is just as bad as government-subsidized loans for the individual, but it will a� ect banks rather than the federal government. Banks have already started to prepare for this, with the requirement for co-signers with any student loan. As the government is currently making such a mess out of the matter, private loans are the way to go.
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Opinion
Relevance on the fringe
After having taken an active interest in politics, it has been hard for me to escape its
tendency to permeate even the least controversial aspects of life. Politics often make people irritated, cynical and bored, which I think is a shame. Not to say that when thinking about the most complicated issues, I don’t feel the same way. Rather, politics are so pervasive and fundamental to even the simplest exchanges that to ignore them is to undercut your potential in a democratic society. The myriad of important issues is daunting, and it is surely impossible for anyone to tackle them all at once. That is why taking a political interest in your passion, no matter how obscure it may seem, can be so valuable.
Last January, websites across the In-ternet — in a show of cyber solidarity — “blacked out” in order to protest the House of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act and its partner in the Senate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Despite their seemingly benign titles, detractors of the bills — such as Wiki-pedia, Craigslist and Google — main-tained that SOPA and PIPA’s measures would do irreparable harm to their operating models and the Internet at large. The protesting sites were joined by a host of grassroots activists, who were infuriated, empowered and enor-mously e� ective. (SOPA and PIPA died shortly after the blackout.)
What laid at the heart of these bills? What destructive force was so egre-gious and exciting as to arouse the ire of a populist movement powerful enough to bring the Washington establishment to its knees? Put simply: copyright law, which is arguably one of the least inter-esting things to get passionate about. Yet it is of enormous relevance to one of
GUEST COLUMN
Joshua Dowling
After su� ering through the Repub-lican Party’s airing of wrongs at their national convention in Tampa, Fla., the American public is once again re-minded of how the party’s positions on LGBT and women’s rights, labor, the environment, science and welfare are downright uniformed, irrational, short-sighted and even cruel. The mainstream Republican establishment — including Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney — feigned surprise when Mis-souri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin spouted o� about “legitimate rape” and how he didn’t represent mainstream Republican values. But we see the Re-
Democrats: Try to uphold your moralspublican platform includes no excep-tions on abortion. No exceptions for rape, none for incest and none for the life of the mother. Did Americans expect any better from the Republicans? Prob-ably not, but they should expect better from the Democrats.
The Democrats have been nothing if not pragmatic, attacking the Repub-licans’ inexorable march rightward at every opportunity. In doing so, however, Democrats occupied and then sacrifi ced the middle ground. Much of Obama’s health care plan was lifted straight out of the Republican play-book from the ’90s, and we attempt to justify our party’s actions and ideas by noting some Republicans used to support them. But what happened to our vision? Instead of responding to Romney’s attacks on fi nancial aid for college kids, the Democrats should
speak about how we could make college truly accessible to all.
While the party has jumped on Akin for “legitimate rape,” the presi-dent and his leading surrogates have proudly owned Democratic support for women’s health, but we’re afraid to stand up for our core values. A woman should have the right to an abortion from day one; it’s her body, and it’s her choice. Our party has compromised its values in an e� ort to seem less radical and less liberal, but in doing so we’ve legitimized the Republican Party’s outlandish, inhumane and shockingly ignorant views of reproductive choice.
Democrats have sacrifi ced the middle ground and cozied up to Republicans on all issues in a vain e� ort to inoculate themselves from counterattack. I’m not entirely sure that we’re the pro-choice party anymore — just the party that
will make sure that you can get an abor-tion in the cases of rape, incest or the health of the mother. What happened to our courage? The health care law, which has come to defi ne Obama’s fi rst term, was actually based on a series of concessions designed to foster biparti-sanship and ensure Republicans would come to the table. The resulting bill would have made Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson weep. Obamacare is a huge, nauseating giveaway to the insurance companies. Worse still, it’s almost identical to the plan Romney enacted as governor of Massachusetts, and conservative alternatives to the Clinton administration’s health care plan. Even after that, the Republicans still manage to savage Obamacare as a great moral wrong.
Now, there are still stark differ-ences between Democrats and Re-
Matt Rice
Over the next week, as the Republi-can convention wraps up and the Dem-ocratic edition gets under way, my least favorite part of American politics will be on full display: political parties. I often wonder what our politics would be like if George Washington’s contemporaries had heeded his farewell address’ warn-ings about parties, but Washington’s wisdom is as valuable today as it was more than two centuries ago.
“One of the expedients of party to acquire infl uence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opin-
ions and aims of other districts,” he said. Parties are never content with arguing against each other’s actual positions; they always seem to give each other false motives. Listen to conservative talk radio and you’ll be “informed” that President Obama is secretly an evil communist, born in Kenya, who has a plot to ruin America. In a much more subtle case, a recent ad for Obama seems to insinuate Re-publican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would outlaw birth control in a scheme to send America back to the 1950s, certainly an exaggeration of the actual issue at hand.
As Washington said, “You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations;
they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal a� ection.” I experienced this bond this summer when I re-turned from abroad and saw Obama on a TV in the airport. I was fi lled with a healthy bout of patriotism: That is my president. I disagree with him on many issues, but that doesn’t change the fact that, as Washington noted, “with slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles.”
Washington also warned that parties could “make the public administra-tion the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction.” The federal budget, with all of its earmarks, certainly meets these criteria, but even within the parties’ platforms, inconsis-
tencies abound. I’m always somewhat disgusted by parties’ and politicians’ willingness to change their platform to appeal to various factions. Obama was carefully evolving until he decided a new position on marriage was safe, and Romney has fl ip-fl opped on several important issues to appeal to today’s tea party Republicans. Do any politicians actually believe in what they support?
As a Catholic, I long for a politi-cian who would support the rights and dignity of all people before and after they are born, even if they hap-pened to be born outside of the U.S. or have committed a felony. I long for someone with a consistent ideology. But alas, the Democrats support abor-tion, which truly is the worst thing in our country if you believe life begins
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George Washington said bye, the parties got highat conception, and the Republicans support capital punishment and in-discriminate deportation of illegal immigrants — both of which disre-spect human dignity.
Parties are here to stay, but as this election comes I hope Americans will carefully consider each issue and can-didate individually, weighing them against their beliefs and values, instead of blindly accepting the party line. Only when this happens can we hope to make the government “the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modifi ed by mutual interests.”
Matt Rice is a sophomore materials science major. He can be reached at [email protected].
the world’s fastest growing industries.Although the January protest was a
tremendous victory for opponents of SOPA and PIPA, its resonant e� ects go beyond one demonstration. The denizens of the Internet suddenly real-ized the distant world of Washington bore tremendous relevance to some-thing they cared deeply about. They also realized that if they did not act to preserve the object of their a� ection, it would be adversely altered.
I started gaining interest in tech policy last January, which led to an internship at the Computer and Communications Industry Associa-tion, one of the key players advocat-ing in Washington on behalf of the technology industry. It turned out that the CIA and its partners occupy a world of advocacy that existed long before the SOPA/PIPA blackouts; it was just waiting for its constituency to realize how important its relation-ship with elected o� cials really is. The massive outcry over SOPA and PIPA had far less to do with political interest than a basic desire to pre-serve something important.
There is turmoil, vitriol and absur-dity when it comes to deliberations over key issues. This has the capacity to turn off even the most interested people, but apathy is not the solution to enacting change. Getting interest-ed in politics can be about protecting the things you care about, and can be used as a tool for enormous positivity. Preventing powerful interests from disrupting the common good is the re-sponsibility of civil society. It’s yours. So do something about it.
Benjamin Cannon is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
publicans — namely on LGBT issues, the environment and, well, science — and those alone are probably reason enough to support the Democratic Party for me. This is especially true when you consider that the Republi-can platform backs a constitutional amendment barring marriage equal-ity, that Republicans would level whole mountains for minute natural gas deposits and that the Republican Party has soundly rejected not just climate change, but also evolution as frauds schemed up by liberal scientists and social engineers. Still, I can’t stop wishing for a hero to give Democrats a backbone. Until then — much like my party — I’m forced to compromise.
Joshua Dowling is a senior government and politics and history major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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The great crime novelist Elmore Leonard once de-scribed his editing process as such: “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.” By that standard, you would have to cut 95 percent of Cosmopolis, leaving little more than scenes of star Robert Pattinson (Bel Ami) silently staring out of windows, silently undergoing a medical exam, and urinating.
Adapted from a Don DeLillo novel by writer-director David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method), Cosmopolis follows Eric Packer (Pattinson), a fabulously wealthy, high-powered financial wunderkind, as he travels across Manhattan to get a haircut. Yes, a haircut. It’s a suitably insignifi cant destination for a fi lm so utterly unconcerned with character and the basics of human motivation.
Perpetually perched atop a black leather throne in the back of an imposing white limousine, surrounded by softly glowing touch screens endlessly fl ashing stock reports, Packer is the 1 percent personifi ed. He’s master of his universe, protected from the world’s uncertain-ties by a pane of tinted bulletproof glass and a trio of armed guards.
But, inevitably, the barriers — both literal and meta-phorical — separating him from the masses (many of whom are fond of throwing rats and shouting Marxist slogans at the wealthy) begin to degrade as Packer is confronted with riots, assassination attempts and, eventually, his own mortality.
Cronenberg does a fantastic job representing this journey visually, making ingenious use of the inher-ent awkwardness of rear-projection and framing his shots to highlight the partitions — be they windows, walls or fences — people put up around themselves to keep the world out.
If only Cosmopolis was half as well-written as it was directed. The fi lm is nothing if not ambitious, and it’s certainly convinced of its own weightiness. Characters monologue endlessly and inscrutably at one another, word-vomiting literary-sounding nonsense that seems excerpted from the most pretentious grad thesis ever written. It’s like listening to the ramblings of a stoned semiotics professor.
Strip away the SAT vocab, however, and it’s about as insightful as the average picket sign. The fi lm doesn’t
have much to say beyond, “Gee, Wall Street sure did screw things up!” It just takes two hours to say it, and does so in the most fl orid way possible. It tackles subjects as diverse as cybersecurity and hip-hop culture, but in trying to comment on everything, it says nothing.
The overwhelming monotony of the fi lm isn’t helped by its annoyingly repetitive structure. Each scene in-volves Packer having an extended conversation with one other person, and only two of these sounding boards (err … characters) show up in more than a single scene, which isn’t enough time for any of them to develop anything remotely like a personality (especially when there are overwritten speeches about currency manipulation to be given).
The performances are uniformly fl at, with the excep-tions of the terrifi c Juliette Binoche (Another Woman’s Life) as Packer’s art dealer, and Paul Giamatti (Rock of Ages) as a guy who wears a towel on his head for reasons unknown. The automaton-like acting does contribute to the fi lm’s frigid, threatening atmosphere, suggesting a world of humans reduced to cogs in a machine, but frankly, it also makes the movie damn tedious.
The fi lm has its moments of power; Cronenberg is too skilled a director for it to be a complete fl op. (He is, after all, the man who took a remake of a schlocky Vincent Price fi lm and turned it into one of the most visceral and meaningful horror movies of all time.) He’s able to maintain a consistent mood of creeping dread and a monologue near the end about, of all things, prostate exams and the yuan goes a long way toward clarifying the fi lm’s themes — and, for once, artfully expressing them.
There’s a particularly powerful scene around the midway point during which anarchists trash Packer’s limo while he and an advisor calmly carry on a conver-sation inside. It’s a disturbing, unforgettable moment that speaks to the disconnect between the wealthy and the world around them without overstating the point, and it shows off Cronenberg at his most dis-turbingly surreal.
It’s a reminder of the film Cosmopolis could have been, which makes the film as it is all the more dis-appointing. There’s a potent, relevant movie lurking somewhere inside, but it breaks through to the surface far too seldom.
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THE LAW WONAmidst its killer cast and backwoods gangster setting, Lawless does enough to be a good movie without ever being great, says senior staff writer Zachary Berman. Check out umdbk.com for the full review.
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TRIBEFrom PAGE 8
an ACL tear. With new offen-sive coordinator Mike Lock-sley installing his multi-set offense in College Park, the Terps are effectively starting over on offense.
To make matters even more dire, expected starting running back Brandon Ross will miss Satu rd ay’s ga me due to a hamstring injury. Freshman Albert Reid will get the start, and sophomore Justus Pickett should see plenty of carries in Locksley’s rushing committee.
So tomorrow will be the Terps’ fi rst chance to see what Reid, freshman quarterback
Perry Hills and freshman wide receiver Stefon Diggs can do on the fi eld during actual compe-tition — showings that could go a long way in determining the team’s chances this season.
“I’m expecting a lot of pres-sure o� the bat because I’m a freshman and they’re going to try to rattle me,” Hills said. “It’s going to be very exciting. I’ve worked very hard for this and I’m really looking forward to it. I think it’s going to be a great experience.”
The team’s matchup with the Tribe might be its fi rst and only chance to prepare the young roster for the season ahead. With 21 freshmen on the two-deep depth chart entering the game, Edsall doesn’t have long
to get them up to game speed with tough nonconference matchups against Temple, Connecticut and No. 11 West Virginia looming over the next few weeks.
But Edsall isn’t thinking about anything past William & Mary tomorrow. He’s not thinking back to last year, either. He’s just looking for a fresh start.
“I haven’t mentioned any-thing about last year. It’s a new year,” Edsall said. “The only thing we can do is go out and play on Saturday. We have a chance to go out and show who we are and what we are all about and take it from there.”
isn’t quite sure what to make of his roster. He sees talent and he likes the work ethic, but he can’t gauge any re-alistic expectations for the Terps this season. Any estimation would be a shot in the dark.
“Once you start playing, that’s when you know who you are and who the players are and how they handle situations,” defensive coordinator Brian Stewart said. “Without the game you don’t have a true measur-ing stick.”
That’s why tomorrow’s game is so important. It may not be against the likes of Florida State or Virginia
Tech, but it could be the most signif-icant contest the Terps have played in recent memory. It’l l provide a snapshot, something to give sup-porters an idea of what they have on their hands.
If the Terps lose tomorrow, the groans can begin. Fair-weather fans can start fi lling their Saturdays with daytrips and baseball games, and the
apologists can begin thinking about next season.
And if they win, hope will persist. At least for another week.
So which will it be? Honestly, it’s anyone’s g uess. With th is team, though, it’s probably best to expect the unexpected.
LETOURNEAUFrom PAGE 8
By Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
When the Terrapins men’s soccer team steps onto Ludwig Field to face UCLA tonight, it will be playing for more than an early season victory against a top-tier opponent.
The No. 6 Terps will be playing for bragging rights over the No. 11 Bruins.
“It’s one of the matchups I’ve been looking forward to since I fi rst came to Maryland,” forward Patrick Mullins said. “It’s something we take very se-riously. It’s a little East Coast-West Coast rivalry we’ve got going. We like to be on the upper half of that.”
If history is any indication, the game will be everything Mullins expects it to be — and possibly more.
The Terps (1-0) have met the Bruins (0-1) seven times since 2001 (inclu-sive), holding a 4-3 edge. The lowest one of the teams has ever been ranked entering a game is No. 19. Four of the matchups have been decided by one goal, and one went into overtime.
The Bruins have reached the NCAA Tournament every season since 1982. The Terps have been absent twice in coach Sasho Cirovski’s 19 years at the helm. The two teams played in the 2002 College Cup.
“When you’re a competitor, that’s what you want,” Cirovski said. “You want to be on center stage against
the best teams and programs you can be around. Our fans appreciate that because they’re going to pack the house. Ludwig will be bursting at the seams.”
Cirovski spoke glowingly of the Terps’ 2003 season-opening matchup with the Bruins, calling it “a day that raised the bar for college soccer.” The Bruins had defeated the Terps in the previous College Cup, just one game before a chance for the national title.
In front of a then-record 6,143 fans at Ludwig Field and with newly in-stalled bleachers behind each goal, the No. 2 Terps exacted revenge on the No. 1 Bruins, 1-0. It also marked the formation of The Crew, the Terps’ cheering section.
“That’s one of the magical moments in Maryland soccer history,” Cirovski said. “It was a moment that was not only great for all the Maryland players, but many of the UCLA players still call it the highlight of their college careers.”
For defender Taylor Kemp, the rivalry holds special meaning. He made his collegiate debut the last time the teams met in 2009, starting on the No. 1 Terps’ backline. The under-dog Bruins knocked o� the defending champion Terps, 2-0, snapping the team’s 16-game winning streak.
“It was a crowd I’d never played in front of that size, so I had a lot of
goi ng to have AC; we were never told t h at we shou ld bring a fan.”
Eight dorms still slated to receive air conditioning will a lso see new w i ndows a nd renovated lobbies in the final state of renovations. Facilities Management Director Carlo Colella said the three-phase construction should finish on Centreville, Bel Air and Elkton next summer.
“In this era of technology, the university should have been more diligent in provid-ing AC to everyone sooner,” sa id f resh m a n jou r n a l i sm major Demi Chang.
Arbaiza added it was frus-trating not to land in one of the newer or updated halls.
“We all pay the same rate — we should all have air condi-tioning in our rooms,” she said.
This summer, the university completed work to improve the roadways of North Gate, as well as completing several other projects, including the $2.5 million renovations of Byrd Stadium and the $13.7 million plan to renovate two sorority houses near College Ave n u e. T h e $7. 2 m i l l i o n renovations on the president’s residence are nearly complete, according to former Univer-sity Relations Vice President Brodie Remington.
“This has been the busiest s u m m e r , c o n s t r u c t i o n -w i se, t h at I’ve se en si nce I’ve worked here,” he said, adding that updating dorms has been a top priority. “We are always trying to respond to the university concerns and recommendations by making the university safer and better for students.”
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Terps prepared for West Coast rivalry
MEN’S SOCCER
Coach Sasho Cirovski and the Terps have beaten UCLA four times since 2001. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
DORMSFrom PAGE 1
adrenaline pumping, going a million miles per hour,” Kemp said. “I was just really excited to play. I was excited to get my career started there. A lot has changed since then and now.”
Kemp, defender London Woodberry and midfi elder John Stertzer are the lone holdovers from the 2009 team. The Bruins also bring four players back to College Park. It’s another early season test for the Terps, who defeated No. 7 Louisville on Sunday.
“We’re always excited when we play talented teams, especially when they’re on the other side of the country,” Kemp said. “We can measure ourselves against teams we don’t play so often
over there. It’ll be fun and a good mea-suring stick to see where we are.”
It’s not the only test for the Terps this weekend, though. Forty-eight hours after taking on UCLA, the Terps return to Ludwig Field for a matchup with No. 22 California (1-0).
But the Terps aren’t worried about fatigue or any effects of playing two games against di� cult competition in three days. They’re focused on extend-ing their lead over the Bruins.
“There is no other way,” Cirovski said. “There’s only one name on our board right now and it’s UCLA.”
Coach Randy Edsall and the Terps won’t have the season opening fanfare they had last year against Miami, but the William & Mary matchup o� ers a young team an interesting test to start the season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
TERPS GAMEDAYFRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012 page 8
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“I feel it, I’ve been through so much. Put so much e� ort to get to this point.” Sports
WHEN Saturday, 3:00 p.m.WHERE Capital One Field at Byrd StadiumTV ESPN3DATA The Tribe’s defense is among the best in the CAA, giving Terps quarterback Perry Hills a tough test in his � rst career start.
THE MATCHUP
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TERPS TRACKER2011 TEAM STATS
TERPS TRIBE
Passing (YPG) 210.3 168.5
Rushing (YPG) 169.3 166.3
Total 379.7 334.8
Points per game 23.1 18.4
Opponents’ PPG 34.3 22.2
PASSING SHUFFLE
William & Mary may be able to relate to the Ter-rapins football team’s injury woes.
Quarterback Michael Graham su� ered an ankle injury earlier this month, helping redshirt junior Brent Caprio secure the starting spot in tomorrow’s season opener. Graham started three games last season and was arguably Caprio’s chief competition under center.
“I feel like Brent deserves the opportunity to start,” Tribe coach Jimmye Laycock said in a Colonial Ath-letic Association teleconference. “He’s certainly done everything we’ve asked him to do in practice, and he knows what we’re doing. He’s handled himself well.”
Caprio, who also beat out sophomore Raphael Ortiz for the No. 1 job, started four of the Tribe’s � nal five games last season. He went 2-2, completed 63.6 percent of his pass attempts and threw for six touchdowns.
SERIES HISTORYALL TIME SERIES Tied, 2-2LAST MEETING Sept. 2, 2006
Win, Terrapins 27, Tribe 14
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The Terrapins’ wide receivers could have trouble against one of the CA A’s top secondar-ies tomorrow.
William & Mary features All-American corner-back B.W. Webb, who � nished 2011 with 40 tackles, three tackles for loss and two interceptions. Webb also earned a spot on this year’s Buck Buchanan Award Watch List, which consists of 20 of the FCS’s top defensive players.
The Terps will likely need contributions from seniors Kevin Dorsey (573 yards, three touchdowns in 2011) and Kerry Boykins (430 yards in 2011). Stefon Diggs, a top-10 recruit in the class of 2012, also � gures to see time Saturday. He impressed in the team’s public scrimmage earlier this month, notching three touchdowns.
However, with C.J. Brown su� ering a season-ending ACL injury, the performance of the Terps’ receivers is largely dependent upon freshman quarterback Perry Hills. Although he has never taken a snap for the Terps, Hills will be granted the important responsibility of pushing the unproven Terps’ receivers to their full potential.
TEAMS SET FOR WEEKEND SLATEThe Terps’ women’s soccer, � eld hockey and volleyball teams
are all in action this weekend. For more, visit umdbk.com.ON THEWEB
Looking toward the futureAgainst William & Mary, Terps hope to capitalize on arguably their best chance to win a game this season
By Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
A lot has changed in the past 12 months.
At this time last year, the Terrapins football team was preparing for its season opener with much fanfare. Randy Edsall was gearing up for his Terps coaching debut, a nationally televised matchup with ACC rival Miami. The lights were on, ESPN’s cameras were rolling and a raucous
crowd packed Byrd Stadium.One year later, though, that ex-
citement is little more than a distant memory. William & Mary is the op-ponent. Students aren’t walking around the campus with Tribe ver-sions of “Sucks to be U” T-shirts. ESPN3, hardly the network’s fl ag-ship channel, is broadcasting the game online.
Last season, the Terps’ opener was a chance to show o� their program to the entire country. Tomorrow, the
team’s matchup against the Tribe represents one of the few chances the Terps might have to win a game this season.
And even against a team from the middling Colonial Athletic Asso-ciation, winning won’t come easy to the Terps.
“William & Mary is a team that is extremely well coached defensively, who can create a lot of problems for you with their scheme,” Edsall said Tuesday. “We are going to have to
make sure that we are doing the things we are supposed to out there.”
Easier said than done. The Terps boast a roster that looks far di� erent than the one that went 2-10 a year ago, replacing players at nearly every position.
Former stars Danny O’Brien and Davin Meggett are no longer with the program, and incumbent quarterback C.J. Brown is out for the season with
See TRIBE, Page 7
CONNOR LETOURNEAU
Terps’ biggest opponent? ThemselvesFOOTBALL
When the Terrapins football team released its 2012 schedule in Febru-ary, it was easy to dismiss the season opener against William & Mary. It seemed a guaranteed blowout, a hand-wrapped gift before the on-slaught of power-conference tests.
The Tribe, after all, was coming o� a 3-5 fi nish in the unheralded Colonial Athletic Association. It was losing two FCS All Americans — running back Jonathan Grimes and tight end Alex Gottlieb — to graduation. And it was just 11-36 all-time against ACC opponents.
Surely, William & Mary couldn’t match up with the Terps’ speed and
athleticism, right?Not so fast. Yes, coach Randy Ed-
sall’s squad is probably more talented than the team it’ll face tomorrow. Its players were defi nitely more touted out of high school, at least.
But the truth is, the Terps aren’t competing against the Tribe when they step onto the Byrd Stadium fi eld tomorrow afternoon. They’re com-peting against themselves.
After finishing 2-10 last year, the Terps were one giant question mark. Thirteen players — including 2010 ACC Rookie of the Year Danny O’Brien — left the program. Line-backer Kenny Tate, arguably the team’s best player two years ago, was still recovering from a knee injury that sidelined him for eight games. Also, there was no clear replacement for Davin Meggett, the Terps’ top of- See LETOURNEAU, Page 7Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is just one of the freshmen who will play often for the Terps. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
fensive weapon last season.One of the few things that was
certain was C.J. Brown would start under center. After splitting time with O’Brien last season, the junior seemed poised to become the face of the program.
Of course, that didn’t exactly last long. Brown su� ered a season-end-ing ACL tear in practice earlier this month, forcing true freshman Perry Hills into the starting lineup.
It was the first major setback in a rash of injuries that will make 12 Terps miss Saturday. Forced to plug holes, Edsall will start seven true freshmen against William & Mary. In total, 14 rookies are listed on the fi rst or second string.
With that infl ux of youth, Edsall
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UPHILL BATTLE
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INSIDE
Perry Hills p. 2
C.J. Brown p. 3
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OFF THE MATHills draws upon wrestling experience to prepare for starting role with Terps
See HILLS, Page 4
By Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
Before the 2011-12 season, Sanshiro Abe handed out a sheet of paper to each of his wrestlers and asked them to list a set of goals they would like to accomplish on the mat: What kind of performance they want to have, what kind of heights they want to reach, what kind of records they want to set.
When the Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School coach sat down to read the papers, one wrestler’s desired aims seemed to stand out. Wanting an ex-planation for the response, he tracked down the person re-sponsible for writing it. The se-nior’s answer was unchanged.
I want to go undefeated, Perry Hills told Abe, and I want to win the state title.
It was a bold statement for a wrestler who had never before won a state championship. But for Hills, it was hardly unusual. That-self confi dence has always been his defi ning trait, the one characteristic that pervades his entire personality. He’s assured in his abilities, calm under pressure and unfazed when he’s the center of attention.
Hills will take that same fear-lessness onto Byrd Stadium’s Capital One Field tomorrow af-ternoon. The Terrapins football team’s newly anointed start-ing quarterback — pressed into action when incumbent starter
C.J. Brown tore his right ACL in practice two weeks ago — will take his fi rst-ever college snap against William & Mary.
But the freshman won’t be nervous. After years on the mat, Hills has little trouble dealing with pressure. The lights, the opponent, the crowd — they won’t a� ect him.
After all, Hills knows he’s capable of accomplishing his goals. He achieved his stated aims his senior season, com-piling an unblemished 35-0 record and finally capturing that state title.
And now that he’s reached the pinnacle in wrestling, he’s ready to try the same on the gridiron.
“In wrestling, you’re the only one on the mat. All eyes are on you,” Hills said. “Football, I don’t really get nervous for. Wrestling helped with that a lot. … I wake up and say, ‘I can’t wait for this game.’ Coach has prepared me the right way, and I just can’t wait to show people what I have.”
THE MAT
When Hills was 6 years old, he liked wrestling with his sisters. His mother, Lori Hills, wanted him to wrestle with kids his own age.
After seeing flyers advertis-ing Pittsburgh Junior Wres-tling, a local youth league, Lori Hills signed her son up. Three years later, Abe began
coaching Hills.“He was so talented,” Abe
said. “He was a great wrestler, even when he was little.”
It wa s n’t w it h o ut som e growing pains, though. The Ter ps qua r terback may be even keeled now, but he wasn’t always so calm under pressure.
“ W hen he wa s you nger, maybe a freshman or sopho-more in high school, he was well-known for being a crybaby. I don’t think Perry likes to hear that,” Abe said. “I told every-body, you wait until he gets mentally mature. He’s going to do well.”
It wasn’t immediate, though. During his final season in the Pittsburgh Junior Wrestling League, a 14-year-old Hills lost in the state quarterfi nals, ending his pursuit of a Junior Olympic state title.
Abe o� ered Hills a few choice words after the defeat.
“I told him, ‘Listen, you’re going to win the state tourna-ment in high school. You just have to believe in yourself and work hard,’” Abe said. “He kept believing in himself and he achieved that goal. Once he sets his goal, I think he’s going to strive to achieve whatever goal he sets. I think that’s his character.”
Hills heeded his coach’s advice. He impressed Abe with his matu-ration over the latter years of his high school career, and eventually became a one of the top wrestlers in a wrestling-crazed state.
“You just have to prepare harder than a lot of sports. Wrestling was a really tough sport physically,” Hills said. “The mental aspect of it really helped me a lot.”
THE FIELD
Wrestling was Hills’ fi rst sport, but football was his fi rst love.
He had just fi nished his fi rst full year of wrestling, and foot-ball season was beginning. It didn’t take him long to fi gure out exactly what he wanted to be.
“‘Mom,’” Lori Hills recalls her 6-year-old son saying after his fi rst day of practice, “‘I want to be a quarterback.’”
Hills played both quarterback and linebacker during his youth football career. And, partly due to his experience on the mat, he
excelled on both sides of the ball.“When you tackle someone,
it’s sort of like a shot in wres-tling, so it helped him with his defense,” Lori Hills said. “With his o� ense, it helped him become unfazed, un-rattled. … Walk all over the mat and let’s get down to business.”
Those tendencies have helped him become the quarterback he is today. No matter what he faces on the fi eld, Hills handles it. He uses the same approach he takes on the mat, and the game slows down for him.
It was evident in Hills’ soph-omore year at Central Catholic, the alma mater of former NFL quarterbacks Dan Marino and Marc Bulger. He spent the fi rst five games as a backup quar-terback to senior starter David Smyers, splitting reps with a junior, Tony Pompeo.
The team was 3-2, and Lori Hills said that Smyers was “struggling a little bit, but still doing some good things.”
Apparently, not good enough.
Freshman Quarterback Perry Hills will lean on his experience as a high school wrestler (top, right) and what he learned from coach Sanshiro Abe (bottom, right) when he starts in tomorrow’s season opener against William & Mary. charlie deboyace/the diamondback (left), photos courtesy of lori hills
After a 27-3 loss to Woodland Hills, Central Catholic football coach Terry Totten decided it was time for a change.
“It was evident he was the guy,” Totten said. “He just kept getting better every day, more confi dent and eventually we couldn’t hold him back anymore.”
Four days later, he led the Vikings to a 27-6 win.
“You know what? It doesn’t feel any different out there,” Lori Hills recalls her son saying after the game. “They’re a little bigger, I’m a little bigger.”
THE CHOICE
At the start of his junior year, Hills met with his coaches and parents. They wanted to know where he wanted to go to college, and they wanted to help him get there.
The first school on his list? Maryland.
Lori Hills said her son slowly
“In wrestling, you’re the only one on the mat. all eyes are on you. ... football, I don’t really get nervous for. Wrestling helped with that a lot.”
Perry HillsTerrapins quarterback
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All in. All games. All season.During the Terrapins football
team’s fi rst public scrimmage earlier this month, an injured C.J. Brown wore that slogan on the back of a red T-shirt. He hobbled up and down the sideline, occasionally adjust-ed his heavy knee brace and high-fi ved teammates as they stepped o� the fi eld.
It wa s a poig n a nt sig ht. Four days earlier, Brown was the face of a new era of Terps football. He was the starting quarterback. He was a team captain. And he was arguably the chief reason to watch a team hoping to move past last season’s 2-10 debacle.
By all accounts, he took the pressure in stride. He stayed late after spring practices, learning the finer points of offensive coordinator Mike Locksley’s multi-set o� ense. He talked reg-ularly with coach Randy Edsall about the future of the program. He ran as hard as anyone during summer workouts.
Then, an awkward cut in practice took it all away. Brown tore his right ACL during a noncontact drill and required surgery, ending his season before it ever really started.
The entire program was dev-astated. Not because it was left without a quarterback who had taken a college snap less than three weeks before the season
opener, but because Brown had given his all to an opportunity that never materialized. Like arriving at the restaurant only to realize your blind date didn’t show, he had been stood up.
Of course, even heartbreak can’t slow down a football season. With a game against William & Mary looming, the Terps were forced to move forward. Edsall named true freshman Perry Hills the team’s opening-day starter last week, and the 18-year-old has already exceeded some expectations.
“I’ve been very impressed with a kid that’s a true fresh-man to pick up all the things he’s picked up,” Edsall said. “I think he’s one of those guys that just goes and prepares very well. He’s always sitting in that fi lm room studying and trying to do exactly what Mike [Locksley] wants him to do.”
B ut wh at a b o ut B row n? While Hills prepares to take the fi eld in Saturday’s season opener, his fellow Pittsburgh-area native must watch from the sidelines. He must wonder what could’ve, would’ve and should’ve been.
And, sure, he’ll still have an impact. He’ll lead any way he can. He’ll travel on road trips, advise the younger guys and root for a winning season.
Yet that’s little solace for a player who already paid his dues. After redshirting 2009, Brown played only four snaps in 2010 before breaking his col-larbone and sitting out the rest of the season. He made it back,
learned o� ensive coordinator Gary Crowton’s spread attack and appeared in 10 games as a sophomore last year, starting fi ve. Then, when Danny O’Brien bolted i n Februa ry, Brow n settled into the spotlight.
It was supposed to be Brown’s moment, his chance to prove he’s capable of leading a program. Now who’s to say he’ll ever get
that opportunity again? After all, a reigning ACC Rookie of the Year had to struggle immensely for him to get it in the fi rst place. Chances like that don’t come around often.
Odds are decent Hills plays well — or at least holds his own — in the starting role this season. If he does, Brown would likely be greeted with a headset when he
returns from injury. He’d spend his remaining year or two of eli-gibility as an afterthought.
And even if the freshman does struggle this year, the speedy Ricardo Young is waiting in the wings. The former New Mexico Lobo is sitting out the season due to NCAA transfer guidelines, and could be a nice fi t in Locksley’s scheme when
Connor Letourneau
he’s eligible to play.That’s what makes Brown’s
story so heart wrenching. The man who went “all in” may end up leaving College Park empty-handed. All his hard work may have been for naught.
Brown might want to donate that T-shirt.
Quarterback C.J. Brown, once tabbed as the face of the new era of Terps football, will miss the entire 2012 season after tearing his right ACL in preseason practice. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
In preparation for the Terrapins football team’s season opener against William & Mary, sta� writer Daniel Popper analyzes each ACC team and how they stack up against the rest of the conference. To see where he picks the Terps, visit diamondbackonline.com.
MORE ONLINE C.J. BROWN’S CAREERTerrapins football quarterback C.J. Brown has had an up-and-down career since arriving in College Park in 2009. Below is a breakdown of his most pivotal moments.
REDSHIRTAugust 2009
With Chris Turner entrenched as the starter, coach Ralph Friedgen decides to redshirt Brown. The Pennsylvania native spends the season as the team’s No. 4 quarterback, and earns o� ensive scout team player of the week honors twice.
BROKEN COLLARBONESept. 11, 2010
Brown breaks his collarbone late in the Terps’ 62-3 win over Mor-gan State, and doesn’t play again the rest of the season. He was third on the depth chart — behind Jamarr Robinson and Danny O’Brien — before the injury.
POSITION BATTLE BEGINSSept. 24, 2011
With O’Brien struggling, Brown takes several snaps in a 38-7 loss to Temple. He completes all four of his pass attempts, and � nishes the game with a touchdown. It’s the beginning of his position battle with O’Brien.
FABULOUS STARTOct. 15, 2011
Brown gets the start over O’Brien and responds with the best game of his young career. He rushes for 162 yards and a touchdown in the Terps’ 56-45 loss to Clemson. He would start all but one game over the rest of the season.
ACL TEARAug. 15, 2012
Brown su� ers a season-ending ACL tear during a noncontact drill, leaving the Terps with no quarterbacks on their roster who has taken a college snap. Coach Randy Edsall names true freshman Perry Hills the starter a week later.
Over before it began
After going all in, Brown left out
4 THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012
fell in love with it throughout the recruiting process. He looked at it constantly — checking out the stadium, watching YouTube clips and visiting the campus.
Hills also considered Pitts-burgh, Michigan State, West Virginia and N.C. State, among others, but he always knew the Terps were his top choice. The only thing he didn’t know was exactly which sport he wanted to play.
He fi rst visited College Park as a football prospect, but Terps wrestling coach Kerry McCoy made his interest clear early. The recruiting period for the class of 2012 hadn’t officially begun, but Lori H ills said McCoy had already informed the Hills family it would receive a scholarship o� er as soon as it was allowed.
“He was a state champion, one of the most dominant kids in his weight class and we were looking to build some depth and prepare for our future,” McCoy said. “Anyone that reaches that level — especially a Pennsyl-vania state champion — is someone we’re going to be in-terested in.”
Though football was his fi rst choice, Hills remained open to wrestling. His top priority was competing at a major program, so if he didn’t receive a football o� er from one of the FBS schools he was considering, he would take a wrestling scholarship.
Lucky for Hills, Terps football coach Randy Edsall was inter-ested. The Terps coach and his sta� had been keeping an eye on the 6-foot-3, 205-pound passer, inviting him to a Terps football camp the summer before his junior year.
I t wa s o n l y o n e d a y o f football, but Edsall had seen enough. He offered Hills a scholarship that evening.
“His poise and presence are
what impressed me and the sta� ,” Edsall said. “Talking to the coaches he played against, they raved about him. I have always had good luck with guys who are wrestlers who play football.”
H ills had kept all of his options open up until that point. He held wrestling offers from Oklahoma and the Terps, and football o� ers from the likes of Kent State and Miami (Ohio).
But once he had Edsall’s offer, his decision was made. He committed to the Terps an hour later.
“When I said, ‘What about the
others?’ he said, ‘It’s my choice, my decision, I get to decide,’” Lori Hills recalls. “‘This is the next four years of my life and this is where I want to go.’”
THE OPPORTUNITY
Hills had only practiced with the Terps for eight days before the course of his college career changed dramatically.
In a Tuesday night practice, Brown — the incumbent starter and only quarterback on the Terps roster with game experi-ence — su� ered a season-ending ACL injury.
S u d d e n ly, H i l l s wa s n o longer fighting for the backup job with fellow freshman Caleb Rowe. With just a few weeks remaining before the Terps’ season opener, Hills was the starting quarterback.
“It’s terrible for C.J. I would never wish that upon him at all,” Hills said, “but I was ready to step in.”
H ills barely had time to tell his parents the news. His mom found out on the Inter-net, and — other than a brief text message late in the week — she wasn’t able to speak to him about it until Friday.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” Lori Hills said. “I fi gured he would, you know, get acclimated to the game [fi rst].”
Hills isn’t worried. Anything else would be out of charac-ter. He’s drawn rave reviews from coaches for his poise and command of the huddle, and Edsall said he expects him to perform well Saturday.
“If you go in there and look everyone in the eye and be confi dent about the play you’re saying, everyone’s going to trust you and believe in you,” said Hills, who will become the
first true freshman to start at quarterback for the Terps since Latrez Harrison in 1999.
Hills anticipates being blitzed early and often Saturday. The Tribe will want to rattle the freshman, to force him into costly mistakes.
No matter. He’ll line up under center the same way he ap-proached the mat in high school: confi dent he belongs.
“I don’t really look at it as I’m a true freshman,” Hills said. “I just go into the huddle as a fi fth-year senior would.”
Quarterback Perry Hills will start Saturday in place of last year’s starter C.J. Brown, who tore his ACL in o� season practice and will miss the entire season. Hills will be playing in his � rst college game. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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