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Our 102ND Year, No. 27THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERFriday, October 7, 2011
BY LEAH VILLANUEVASenior staff writer
Thousands of students snagged free tick-ets to the Terrapins football game againstNavy last September, but watching the teamtake on Notre Dame University this year willcome with a much heftier price tag.
The Nov. 11 game will be held at FedExField in Washington, and the only ticketsavailable to students will be for 400-level seatsranging from $50 to $60. Lower level seatsare also available at $95 and top level seats forTerrapin Club members are available at $120.
Matt Monroe, assistant athletic director ofticket services, said in last year’s high-profilegame against Navy at M&T Bank Stadium —considered a home game for the Terps —the athletics department was able to negoti-ate 3,000 complementary student ticketsunder its contract with the stadium. How-ever, this year is a home game for NotreDame, which has a contract with FedExField. Monroe said the university onlyreceived a small number of complementarytickets, most of which were given to the play-ers’ families, football staff and the universitymarching band.
“The prices are pretty much laid out for
Students topay at least$50 for NotreDame game
VP of Univ. Relations will resignAfter 12 years, Brodie Remington announces he will leave post by end of 2012
BY REBECCA LURYEStaff writer
After overseeing the university’sfundraising efforts and alumni outreachfor the last 12 years, Vice President ofUniversity Relations Brodie Remingtonwill leave his position in 2012, heannounced yesterday.
Over the last dozen years, Remingtonhas been the point man on several univer-
sity fundraising initiatives, including theGreat Expectations campaign currentlyunderway that seeks to bring in $1 billionalone in gifts. Remington announced hisresignation in an email to the UniversityRelations department yesterday.
“The time is right for me, and, I think,for the University. … This great Univer-sity will need a vice president fully pre-pared to provide leadership for the nextsix to eight years or more. I am not,” he
wrote in the email.Remington said he will leave his posi-
tion once a new vice president is in place— which he said should happen by nextfall — although he will still serve in theuniversity relations office as an advisoruntil the end of 2012.
In the coming weeks, university Presi-dent Wallace Loh will charge a committee BRODIE
REMINGTONVP UNIVERSITY
RELATIONS
Athletics dept. unable toget free tickets for Nov.11 game at FedEx Field
The good ol’ daysDining halls used to double as bars
when drinking age lowered to 18
BY SPENCER ISRAELStaff writer
Today, dining halls and conveniencestores on the campus offer studentsanything from club sandwiches tosushi to soda. But 30 years ago, theywere serving students another staple inmany college students’ diets: alcohol.
In 1973 the state drinking age waslowered to 18, and with it came the
establishment of several on-campusbars that would go a long way toestablishing this university as one ofthe premier party schools in thecountry, according to universityarchivist Anne Turkos.
“I think students today would beastonished to know that we actuallyhad fairly available alcohol on campus,”
see BARS, page 3
Anorganic
endeavorStudents eat only
locally grown food for class project
BY CLAIRE SARAVIAStaff writer
While most students stress about writingpapers and studying for exams, one group ofuniversity students faced a different kind ofclassroom challenge this semester — whereto find their next locally sourced meal.
Along with attending lecture and readingfrom a textbook, students taking AMST498Q: Special Topics in American Studies:Advanced Material Culture took the “Lovo-core Challenge,” where they had to spendfour consecutive days eating nothing butfoods grown or produced within 150 miles ofCollege Park. The students began day one ofthe challenge last Thursday and usedsources like the city’s farmer’s market overthe weekend to get their meals.
American studies professor PsycheWilliams-Forson, who teaches the class, saidthe students will learn to appreciate the dif-ferent complex factors that go into eatingcloser to home through this experience.
“I want them to see food as an area or setof objects to study that are surrounded byissues of gender, race, class, region andtime,” Williams-Forson said. “You begin toreally have to think about the foods youconsume and the meanings attached tothose foods.”
Williams-Forson said many students don’texpect the challenge to be so difficult, withhurdles ranging from finding and preparingthe foods on a tight schedule to taking the
Newly packaged Four Lokowill hit shelves this springCans must accurately display alcohol content
BY JIM BACHStaff writer
The brightly colored metallic 23.5-ounce Four Loko cans have come underfire again from federal regulators whoare now claiming the beverage containsat least twice as much alcohol as theiradvertisements suggest.
The Federal Trade Commission saidPhusion Projects, the Chicago-basedmanufacturer of Four Loko, falselyadvertised their product as the equiva-lent of one to two beers and that it“could safely be consumed in itsentirety on a single occasion,” accord-ing to FTC documents. However, drink-ing one Four Loko is the same as down-
ing four to five beers, FTC spokes-woman Betsy Lordan wrote in an email.Although Phusion Projects denies theFTC’s claim, the packaging will changeto reflect this and will also be resealablestarting this spring.
Yet some students said the hard-hit-ting effects of the beverage — whichwas dubbed “blackout in a can” beforeenergy-boosting components werestripped from the can’s ingredient listlast fall — are already well known, andthe can’s new labeling won’t steer avidFour Loko drinkers away.
“People don’t drink it for the taste,they don’t drink it to enjoy it,” said
Four Loko drinks will hit liquor store shelves this spring withresealable containers. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
see REMINGTON, page 3
see TICKETS, page 2
see ORGANIC, page 2 see DRINK, page 3
In the ’70s, students flocked to on-campus bars housed in dininghalls and Stamp Student Union. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK.
INSET PHOTOS COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
JUST OFFENSIVETerps face YellowJackets team not
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awkward shopping trips.“Graduate students have
gone to grocery stores likeWhole Foods and asked forlocal things and said they feltvery uncomfortable doing it,”Williams-Forson said.
In addition to bloggingabout their experience, thestudents will write a paperthat describes one meal theyate and reflects on the dif fer-ent aspects associated withthat food, such as the chal-lenge in finding it or who soldit to them.
To beat the challenge,many students came up withcreative ways to get theirmeals.
Senior studio art majorSophia Smith said she met herquota by getting some of thelocal fruits and vegetablesroutinely delivered to hermother’s house.
“It made me think a lotabout how vir tually anythingI was eating before [the chal-lenge] wasn’t local,” she said.
Junior American studiesmajor Cain Jef fries traveledto a meat farm on the Eastern
Shore to get his local foods.He said the challenge helpedhim connect with his food ina whole new way.
However, he said he would-n’t be able to continue eatingthat way on his limited col-lege budget.
“It was very eye-openingand made the eating experi-ence more personal for me,”Jeffries said.
“It was definitely worth-while and I’m glad I did it, buteconomically it’s impossibleto do.”
In spite of the challenges,Williams-Forson said manystudents came out of theexperience with a betterappreciation and broaderknowledge of what local foodshave to offer.
She added it also forced stu-dents to interact with produc-ers such as local farmers andget a sense of the culturaldynamic between producersand consumers.
“It heightens their aware-ness of some of the foods theyhave not experienced,”Williams-Forson said. “It’s away for students to reallyengage food differently.”
Williams-Forson said evenif students didn’t continue to
eat exclusively local, shehopes the experience taughtthem valuable lessons theycould take with them outsidethe classroom.
“Students don’t realize theamount of time and energythat’s involved in puttingtogether meals and wherethey’re going to get the food,so you have to give a lot moretime and attention to plan-ning,” Williams-Forson said.“It moves them out of theircomfort zone.”
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ORGANICfrom page 1
American studies professor Psyche Williams-Forson required her students to take the Lovocorechallenge, where they ate nothing but locally grown foods for four straight days in order to gaina new appreciation for food grown close to home. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK
University officials had 3,000 free student tickets for last year’s football game against Navy. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
us,” Monroe said. “It’s just likewe’re going to the South Bendwhen FedEx Field is rightdown the street.”
Several students said theyare unwilling to pay the priceto snag a seat.
“If it was $60 for a seasonpass, that’d be cool, but no,it’s $60 for one game betweentwo athletic programs thatare not that good. … It’s notworth it at all,” said sopho-more microbiology majorChuka Udeze, who added hehad been “so pumped” for thegame until he learned theticket cost.
“Plus they’re 400-levelseats, so you’ll get nose-bleeds and pay $60.”
Sophomore letters and sci-ences major Brady Griffin agreed.
“You’re paying professionalprices for a college footballgame,” he said.
Monroe said the athletics
department made efforts toget students the best deal pos-sible, noting officials managedto reserve student seatsdirectly behind the universitymarching band that were orig-inally $95. Students can nowget these for $60.
“We are eating some of thecost, but this year and lastyear are very dif ferentgames,” he said.
Monroe added the athleticsdepartment is still discussingwith the Division of StudentAffairs whether they can pro-vide shuttle buses to and fromthe stadium for students.
But sophomore letters andsciences major DylanAmoroso said while the pricetag is high, he still expects agood student turnout.
“It’s against Notre Dame, soit will still be a good fun game,plus it’s in D.C., which is kindacool,” Amoroso said. “I’ll stillprobably go since I go to allthe sports.”
TICKETSfrom page 1
“It heightens theirawareness ofsome of thefoods they havenot experienced.It’s a way forstudents to reallyengage fooddifferently.”
PSYCHE WILLIAMS-FORSONAMERICAN STUDIES PROFESSOR
to conduct a national searchfor Remington’s successor,according to Loh’s Chief ofStaff Michelle Eastman.
With Remington at thehelm, University Relationscoined the term “Fear theTurtle,” and expanded theuniversity’s alumni base dra-matically. Under former uni-versity President Dan Mote,Remington also oversaw theBold Vision, Bright Futurecampaign, which fundraised$456 million — $100 millionmore than its original goal.
In the final year of histenure, Remington said he willreach the $1 billion fundrais-ing goal of his Great Expecta-tions campaign. The univer-sity still has $135 million to gobefore December 2012.
“Of course we have con-cerns about the darn econ-omy, and the stock marketgoes down, down, down, a lit-tle up and then down,” hesaid. “But we’re optimisticand determined.”
With the Great Expecta-tions campaign’s end on thehorizon, Remington said afresh face should help leadthe university into its nextera of fundraising.
“You know it when youfeel it. … I might not be in aposition to give 100 percent,and this is a job where youhave to give 100 percent oryou’re not going to be suc-
cessful,” Remington said.With Great Expectations
holding the title of the state’slargest public institutioncampaign, university offi-cials said Remington hascontributed more thanenough to the universityover the last decade.
“Not too many can saythey’ve completed a $1 bil-lion campaign to help a uni-versity, so he should beproud of that,” said univer-sity Marketing DirectorBrian Ullmann.
And money aside, Ull-mann said Remington had animpact on staff, students andthe university’s network ofmore than 300,000 alumnithat stretched far beyonddollars raised.
“He certainly values thefriendships he’s made,” Ull-mann said. “When you dealwith alumni the way Brodiedoes, you get with them on apersonal level, you knowabout their kids, where theywent to school. It really isabout relationship buildingand it’s a big part of whathe’s built here at Maryland.”
Additionally, during hislast several months at theuniversity, Remington saidhe will prepare a “frame-work” for the departmentthat will ultimately restorethe department’s staff andoperating budget to its pre-recession levels.
“The framework will be arough starting point fromwhich the new vice president
can decide how best to shapethe organization and deployresources in order to posi-tion [University Relations]for the challenges and oppor-tunities ahead,” he wrote tohis staff.
In an email to the univer-sity community, Loh thankedRemington for his success inleading fundraising cam-paigns during an unforgivingeconomic climate.
“He performed his mostimportant job with anenergy, a dedication, and acommitment that were rec-ognized and appreciated byall who worked with him,”Loh wrote.
Looking forward, Reming-ton said the universityshould not have any troubleattracting qualified and inno-vative candidates with thenecessary experience totake the university’sfundraising to the next level.
“People go to the Yankees,not someone at the bottom ofthe barrel. Now Marylandhas arrived, it is great and itcan be even greater … andit’s going to be a terrific pro-fessional opportunity for mysuccessor,” he said.
sophomore engineering majorKayla Park-Brouse. “Theydrink it for the effect that alco-hol has on them.”
Four Loko’s new packaging willhave additional label informationcomparing the 23.5-ounce can tothe average 12-ounce can of beer,according to a press release byJaisen Freeman, co-founder ofPhusion Projects.
“We initiated the action out ofconcern that the company wasengaging in deceptive market-ing,” Lordan wrote in an email.“Deceptive [marketing] about al-cohol content is dangerous toconsumers and a high priority forthe FTC.”
Last fall, the FTC and FederalDrug Administration required thecompany to remove caffeine from
the alcoholic beverage after a pub-lic outcry deemed the combina-tion dangerous to consumers.
“[The mixture of caffeine and al-cohol] affects your ability to tellhow drunk you are,” Arria said.“The perceived intoxicated feelingprevents you from engaging inrisky behavior.”
Several students said labelingaccurately can help students mod-erate their alcohol consumption.
“If a person’s going to drinkFour Loko, they should knowwhat’s in it,” said freshman engi-neering major Kevin Jones.
Additionally, the cans will fea-ture “new can closure technolo-gy” to make the cans resealable,according to the press release.The FTC sought to allow con-sumers to “save some for later ifthey want to,” Lordan wrote inan email.
The revamped resealable canswill help consumers realize that
the beverages should not be drankin one sitting, according to AmeliaArria, this university’s director forthe center on young adult healthand development.
“The FTC is asking for it to beresealable because four to fivedrinks is not one serving,” shesaid. “It would be understood bythe definition of binge drinking asone can.”
Despite the FTC’s claims aboutthe company’s misleading market-ing, Phusion Projects officials stat-ed in a press release that theynever marketed the product as“the equivalent of 1-2 beers.”
“We don’t share the FTC’s per-spective, and we disagree withtheir allegations,” the press re-lease stated. “We don’t believethere were any violations.”
Junior business major NinaShaw said people new to thedrink will not take such warn-ings to heart, and that they aremost vulnerable to the negativeside effects.
“I think the risk of Four Loko ismore pertinent toward peoplewho have never drank before, andthey think it’s just a can, which it’snot,” she said.
Phusion Projects declined tocomment further on the matter.Owners of Number 1 Liquors, Vil-lage Pump Liquors, ParkwaysLiquors, Town Hall Liquors andCollege Park Liquors could not bereached for comments last night.
This episode marks the secondtime in a year Phusion Projectshas taken heat from federal regula-tors for its product.
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Turkos said. With three on-campus bars,
“fairly available” is right. Students presented their
driver’s license and universityID to gain entry and signed apaper claiming responsibilityfor any guests with them —they could bring up to two.
Joe Mullineaux — a seniorassociate director for DiningServices who was first a patronand later an employee of sev-eral campus bars — saidalthough alcohol flowed freely,students generally did notbecome boisterous or belliger-ent because of the harsh con-sequences they would face.
“If you or your guests didanything wrong, you would bethe one going in front of thejudicial board,” he said. “Thejudicial board is a prettystrong punishment.”
However, The Pub quickly
established itself as the ram-bunctious bar, which onebouncer once described as“like the bar scene from StarWars only a lot wilder,”Mullineaux said. It consis-tently packed its doors withas many as 2,000 patrons pernight and went through 400kegs of beer in a weekend.
Originally located wheretoday’s suites are on the eastside of the Stamp StudentUnion, The Pub outgrew itssmall space and moved toLeFrak Hall a year later. In1975 it expanded to the SouthCampus Dining Hall, where itserved students for the nextnine years.
But the campus bar scenewas not just limited to The Pub.
Students looking for aclassy, date-night atmospherewould wine and dine in TheTerrabac Room — a nicer barwith a full kitchen and “fairlysophisticated wine list” locatedwhere today’s North CampusSnack ’n’ Shop and Cambridge
Community Center lie,Mullineaux said.
According to Mullineaux,the Terrabac Room was alsotransformed into a dinner the-atre for one month out of thesemester, where student-pro-duced plays and movie screen-ings were commonly showed.Here, students could use theirmeal plan to enjoy anythingfrom pizza and salads tocrepes and fondue and couldget a draft of Heineken for amere 85 cents.
Stamp was also home to TheChicago Room — or, as it wasknown to students, “The Holein the Wall.” Mullineaux esti-mated the bar stood nearwhere Panda Express liestoday. Because “The Hole inthe Wall” only had a maximumcapacity of 40 students, thevenue was in high demand,Mullineaux said.
“It was open from 8 a.m. to 8p.m. Monday through Friday,and it was packed from 8 a.m.until 8 p.m. Monday through
Friday,” Mullineaux said.“[Students] were waitingwhen you opened the door at 8a.m., and we had to kick themout at 8 p.m.”
On top of these bars, alcoholplayed a role in other univer-sity events. Nickel draft beerswere offered along with dinnerspecials, such as Oktoberfestor Thanksgiving in the dininghalls.Dining Services and Res-ident Life offered a keg of beerto the floor with the most votesin the Student GovernmentAssociation’s elections.
Dining Services made someof its space available — what iscurrently occupied by 251North — for student groupslooking to have mixers.
“We supplied the ice for thekegs,” Mullineaux said of theinformal events.
Once the drinking age wasincreased to 21 in 1982, univer-sity officials said stricterenforcement would beneeded, and it just wasn’tworth keeping bars on the
campus — despite the finan-cial hit.
“It cost us a good deal ofmoney because we were mak-ing a profit on all those places,which was subsidizing themeal plan,” Mullineaux said.“But it was more a case of,‘There aren’t enough studentsto justify being open, so we’renot going to risk serving any-body underage.’”
Although hotspots like ThePub are long gone, their rem-nants remain. The walk-inrefrigerator that could tap upto 200 kegs at once in theSouth Campus Dining Hall isnow used by the bakery, andthe lines that transported thebeer from the kegs to the barnow rest on the ceiling of Din-ing Services’ business offices.
Some students said they weresurprised to learn bars existedwhere they now eat their meals.
“That’s amazing,” said jun-ior finance major Chris Levywhen told of the campus barscene. “If they were here now,
I bet the nightlife would bethat much better.”
For Mullineaux, the yearshe spent as a student at thisuniversity and a Dining Ser-vices employee in the bars rep-resent a bygone era, and someof the best years.
“You bring back a lot ofgood memories,” he said. “Itwas a very fun eight years.”
REMINGTONfrom page 1
In 1975, the South Campus Dining Hall had a bar called The Pub, which served students who were 18 years and older beer for nine years. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
BARSfrom page 1
DRINK from page 1
“Not too manycan say they’vecompleted a $1billion campaignto help auniversity, so heshould be proudof that.”
BRIAN ULLMANNUNIVERSITY MARKETING DIRECTOR
“[Students] werewaiting whenyou opened thedoor at 8 a.m.,and we had tokick them out at8 p.m.”
JOE MULLINEAUXSENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FORDINING SERVICES
Nearly 40 years ago, the drinking age in the state was 18, and there were three bars onthe campus to supply legal students with the beverages. COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
A fter last year’s financial fiascoleft organizations such asWMUC on the verge of dis-banding, and this semester’s
secondary allocation process was can-celed due to a lack of funds, the StudentGovernment Association is finally tack-ling the student group funding crisis.The SGA’s single most important job isallocating the $1.5 million that comesfrom our $32 student activity fees. Howwell they carry the process out affectsevery student on the campus.
Props to the SGA for establishingthe Financial Reform Commission tofind solutions to this monster of aproblem, and for being transparentand inclusive enough to invite the stu-dent body’s participation.
Applications for the commission arenow closed; candidates are being inter-viewed and meetings will begin in thecoming weeks. According to GurseanSingh, SGA’s assistant vice presidentof finance and the man heading up thecommission, the group has a “verybroad mandate,” and “nothing is offthe table.”
Singh says the commission’s centralobjective is greater efficiency, asking:“How can we do more with what wealready have?”
Having led three student groups, Ican attest to several problems with thecurrent funding system. Some groupshave no funding source beyond theSGA, which puts extra pressure on thecommunal pot. A second problem isthat organizations frequently apply formuch more funding than they need inanticipation of the SGA making uniformcuts to groups’ allocations, regardlessof whether groups ask for a modestamount or a preposterous sum.
Yet, there is one problem thatabsolutely needs to be addressed: thelate April paradox.
Many of you will recall what hap-
pened on April 20, when 13 studentgroups submitted appeals requestingmore funding from the SGA (althoughsome of you, for different reasons, mayhave no recollection whatsoever of thatday). There was a limited pot of $50,000available, and the competitive tensionwas palpable as groups made desperatepleas and sat together in rows likedefendants awaiting their verdicts.
Despite the huge shortage forgroups’ 2011-12 budgets, there was anexcess of money student leaders werefrantically trying to spend before the2010-11 term ended. Much of thismoney was spent on programming thatwas not fully essential. As the yearwinds down, student leaders are some-times forced to circulate co-sponsorshiprequests saying things like, “in case youhave any last minute money you need toget rid of…”
Thus, in late April, the student groupcommunity is excessively rich and hope-lessly poor — simultaneously. Singhhopes his commission would addresswhat he calls a “frenzy to spend.”
I have two recommendations.
First, we need to squash the fearamong student group leaders that ifgroups have money left over, the SGAwill hold it against them next time. Thisis a huge misperception, and the SGAneeds to get the word out that it’sabsolutely natural (and actually good) ifgroups have leftovers, because excessmoney goes into the communal pot forsecondary funding.
Second, the SGA should implement apartial rollover system. If a group hasmoney left at the end of the spring termthey get, say, 25 percent of it back inSeptember. A new incentive structurewould allay fears and reward responsi-ble spending.
I hope the commission takes itsresponsibility seriously and that my pro-posal sparks some conversation. Wehave a huge challenge and opportunityto fix the system. After all, this is not$1.5 million of Monopoly money we’redealing with.
Ben Simon is a senior government andpolitics major. He can be reached [email protected].
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SGA funding: Solving the paradox
I t appears the City of College Park has taken a dumb approach tosmart growth. Although a formal vote won’t take place until Oct. 11,the City Council voiced its opposition to a proposed mixed-usedevelopment on the current site of the Maryland Book Exchange
during Tuesday’s work session. While the council’s decision isn’t binding,it’s sure to influence the Prince George’s County Planning Board, whichreports to the county council for a final vote.
The proposed development — a six-story buildingwith LEED Silver certification — would house morethan 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Inaddition to ground-floor retail space for the MarylandBook Exchange and other tenants, it would bringmore than 320 parking spaces below and within thecomplex. The site’s location places it directly acrossfrom the campus and within walking distance of down-town businesses.
In short, it’s a perfect antidote to problems such astraffic congestion, a graduate student housing shortageand the suburban sprawl that has plagued the Route 1corridor for decades.
But apparently the council and city’s planning and development staff aremore concerned about other matters, such as whether the building comple-ments the character of the surrounding neighborhood.
Officials claim the proposal doesn’t mesh with the non-binding Route 1Sector Plan because it doesn’t feature a tapered height — called a step-back— that will help the building transition into the surrounding area. To arguethe building’s appearance would negatively impact the character of theneighborhood is absurd.
The Book Exchange site, which currently features an unattractive park-ing lot with more than 100 spaces, is situated on a busy road directly acrossfrom the campus and surrounded by Fraternity Row, a police substation, achurch and a line of businesses, including Papa John’s and Wasabi Bistro.
The university, which owns the fraternity housing, supports the develop-ment. Furthermore, there is a building of similar footprint and height — aparking garage recently constructed by the city — located about one-tenthof a mile away.
“The community expressed they were not in favor of undergraduate hous-ing at that location as the primary use,” claims City Planning Director Terry
Schum. The “community” Schum refers to is probablythe Old Town Civic Association, which last fallreleased a hysterical letter opposing the development,claiming the group would “be completely marginalizedand without hope should this project go forward,” andthat “the influx of up to 1,000 more undergraduateswould symbolize ‘kiss of death,’ for College Park’sdowntown.”
It seems the 24 association members — yes, all twodozen of them — who unanimously opposed the devel-opment are most concerned about students“[swelling] the ranks of house parties that are alreadystraining our nerves.”
What’s most ironic is that the city’s rent control policy — which the citycode states is intended “to strengthen College Park neighborhoods byreducing the number of single-family homes that become rental properties”— is designed to force students out of rental homes and into apartmentcomplexes like the one being proposed. The city’s own strategic plan indi-cates a desire to “create more off-campus student housing adjacent to thecampus.”
This is the ultimate case of “Not in my backyard” syndrome. Residentsand city officials want students out of houses, but only if they move far awayfrom Old Town. It’s time for College Park residents and officials to realizethat smart-growth proposals like this one are good for all of College Park —not just students.
Maybe it’s the City Council that will be College Park’s kiss of death.
Staff editorial
Our ViewBuilding a student housing
complex at the Maryland BookExchange site makes practical
sense and would mitigate ahandful of persistent issues in
the community.
Accept the exchange
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going downtown have mostly diminished. Itseems like security has increased and it’s
dramatically more uptight.”
— Alex Shipp, freshman business
“I’ve been to the Barking Dog. It doesn’t haveas many people as Turtle did. Cornerstoneseems to be the bar with the most people,even if they are cracking down. Peoplealways find a way around that, but overall it’sgood the bars are stricter.”
— Frances Quick, senior behavioral andcommunity health
What do you think of the new downtown bar scene?“As someone not old enough to drink, it sucks
there are no longer bars I can get into. Assomeone who values the overall cleanliness
of the community and wants it to look nice,it’s good that sleazy and disgusting trash like
Turtle is no longer here.”
— Will Friedman, junior letters and sciences
“I don’t go to downtown College Park a lot. Ihave a car, so I go down to D.C. … Thereare so many other places than Route 1 to goto have fun. There should be places for justupperclassmen to go.”
— Paul Wlodkowski, freshman mechanicalengineering
Laura Frost — I won’t say Iagree with the opinionsespoused in your column,“The soundtrack for our
conformity,” yesterday, but hey, that’swhat opinions are all about. But thereare two facts in there that you arequite mistaken about.
First, you describe atheism as alack of a belief system. Your view ofatheism portrays (presumably, any-way — it’s a bit hard to tell whatyou’re talking about) belief in “God”as the default. Well, shucks, if atheistsdon’t believe in God, it must not be abelief system! Actually, atheism(specifically my own) is a rejection ofthe sacred and a belief in the equalityof all. Hmm, I’m no expert, but itseems I have a set of values on whichI guide my actions. Sounds a lot like abelief system to me, but like I said, I’mno expert.
Second, you say: “Legalizing mari-juana is not a ‘sensible drug policy.’” Itsounds as though you are referring tothe aims of Students for a SensibleDrug Policy — an organizationwhose goals include reducing harmto drug users. Don’t forget that alco-hol was once illegal, and thousands ofpeople lost their lives when exploita-tive criminal enterprises took overproduction and distribution of alcoholfrom legitimate businesses. WhenProhibition was repealed, guess whatstopped almost overnight? If youguessed violence related to illegalalcohol production, then give yourselfa nice pat on the back.
Why would the same not be true ofmarijuana? There is no reason itshouldn’t be legalized. Annually inthe United States, tobacco smoking isresponsible for 443,000 deaths,according to the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention; alcohol isresponsible for 79,000 deaths. How-ever, marijuana caused — drumrollplease — zero deaths. Not almostzero when compared to 400,000-plusdeaths, but zero — as in, nobody hasever died from smoking marijuana.
To me, that is a statistic that cannotbe ignored. So what I find to be not“sensible” is keeping a perfectlyharmless drug with proven medicinalbenefits illegal, while tobacco is soldon every street corner and in everygrocery store.
The rest of your column is, as theysay, your opinion, but please, I justwanted to get a couple of factsstraight. Thank you.
PATRICK HAYESJUNIOR
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Fact vs.fiction
“We come to you at a time whencorporations, which place profitover people, self-interest overjustice, and oppression over
equality, run our governments. Wehave peaceably assembled here, as isour right, to let these facts be known.”
With this excerpt from OccupyWall Street’s collective statement inmind, I am limited to responding onlyto those aspects of Joey Lockwood’sOct. 6 editorial cartoon that are justmature enough to deserve aresponse. It is clear he has no com-prehension of the Occupy movement.The Occupy group’s collective state-ment addresses issues from preda-tory banking practices, unjust wars,universal health care, a racist justicesystem, environmental health andmuch more. What all of these have incommon is that they show how theintrusion of corporate money into thepolitical process replaces the collec-tive will of democracy with an unjustsystem where the purchasing powerof only a very few people triumphs.
In his cartoon, Lockwood repeatsthe same rhetoric used by illegitimatecable news anchors to criticizeOccupy Wall Street: The protest isunorganized; the protest has no cleargoals. With every display of populardemocratic civil discourse comes theattempt by corporate elites to repelour First Amendment freedoms.
In claiming the protest is unorgan-ized, they ask us to reject real directdemocracy and to instead find an eas-ily targeted leader to brainwash his orher followers. This is also perfectlyexemplified by the tea party move-ment. In claiming that movement hasno clear goals, they ask us to summa-rize the global breach of freedoms bythe wealthy elite into one small news-cycle-friendly sound byte in order tosuppress our civil discourse. But theywill not undermine us that easily.
JONATHAN COHENSENIOR
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Born today, you have a way oflooking ahead to tomorrowwhile immersing yourself
completely in today’s affairs —and this will allow you to embraceall manner of opportunities in away that affords you a keen viewof what is, what was and what willbe. Indeed, you are able to amazethose around you with an uncannysense of events that have not eventranspired yet, and you are able toremain at least one step ahead ofothers as a result. You almost al-ways know what makes anotherperson tick.
You may be able to make quite abit of money in your lifetime, butyou had better associate yourselfwith someone who knows how tomanage it — or you will find thatwhat you make will slip throughyour fingers with remarkableswiftness.
Also born on this date are: Tay-lor Hicks, singer; Toni Braxton,singer; Simon Cowell, producer,critic, former “American Idol”judge; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; VladimirPutin, Russian president; John Mel-lencamp, rocker; Bishop DesmondTutu, equal rights advocate; JuneAllyson, actress; Niels Bohr, atomicphysicist.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —You’re in the mood to have somefun — and you feel as thoughyou haven’t had fun in quitesome time. You can go out andget what you want!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Even a minor error can havemajor repercussions, so be sureto take all necessary precau-
tions, and avoid carelessness.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21) — Happiness and sadnessmay be strangely commingledtoday — as a result of nearingthe end of a phase that hasbrought you contentment.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— You may not have any moreopportunities to enjoy whatyou’ve been imagining — butmuch depends on the willing-ness of another.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —What you can imagine you cantransform into a pleasing reality— provided you are workingwithin realistic expectations.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —You may find yourself beingjealous of one who enjoys nei-ther your position nor yourrecord of accomplishment.What is at work here?
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —You can put more on displaythan usual without the risk ofbeing overexposed in some way.Enjoy a little more freedom.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —You’re likely to be in the spot-
light, whether or not you chooseto be. Be ready to turn what youknow how to do into lessons forothers.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You’ll get a second chance ofsorts — so take care that youdon’t simply repeat yourselfand make the same mistakes.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —You may have overcome amajor emotional or psychologi-cal obstacle recently; today youcan demonstrate to others thatyou’re back to normal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —Someone may say no to you, butthat’s not the end of the story;you’ll have time to persuadehim or her that you are in theright.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —You will be able to acknowledgeanother’s achievement todaywithout minimizing your own.Now is the time to share thecredit.
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REVIEW | THE IDES OF MARCH & REAL STEEL
BY WARREN ZHANGStaff writer
At heart, The Ides of March isnothing more than a half-bakedmorality play about the corrupt-ibility of power in politics. Thewriters, including director-actorGeorge Clooney (TheAmerican) and playwright BeauWillimon, offer nothing new.The script explores themes thathave already been thoughtthrough ingreater detailin MikeNichols’ muchfunnier 1998film adaptationof Joe Klein’sPrimary Colorsand in Shake-speare’s JuliusCaesar.
That’s the bad news. Thegood news? The slick, sleekexterior around which thislame political exposé has beenwrapped is compelling stuff.
Clooney has assembled animpressive cast and equallyimpressive crew, all of whomexecute commendably. RyanGosling (Drive) stars as ayoung, idealistic media geniuscharged with handling thepresidential campaign of Gov.Mike Morris (Clooney) lead-ing into the Ohio primaries,Morris being the Obama
stand-in of the movie.Gosling’s character, pre-
dictably, suffers from a loss offaith and moral crisis when it isrevealed Morris isn’t thesqueaky clean, Christ-like fig-ure he appears to be. Exactlywhy Morris makes for such agreat candidate and person isnever really explained, thoughClooney handles his role’sduality quite well.
Gosling, working from arather pre-dictablecharacterarc, does agood-to-great job asthe impres-sionable butcharmingyoung lad,handling
himself well in front of themuch more experiencedPhillip Seymour Hoffman(Jack Goes Boating) and PaulGiamatti (Win Win).
Hoffman and Giamatti, as tworival, conniving and equally para-noid campaign managers, areboth excellent, as usual. It is,however, disappointing that themovie never actually features ahead-on confrontation betweenthe two acting giants.
All of this is captured beauti-fully on film by Clooney andcinematographer Phedon
Papamichael, and accompa-nied by Alexandre Desplat’s(The Tree of Life) atmosphericriff on patriotic music andmoody jazz.
The stellar cast and produc-tion values may have beenenough to keep the moviegoing if Clooney and his co-writers weren’t so assured ofthe depth and uniqueness oftheir insight.
Unfortunately, the moviefrequently devolves intopointed monologues onpower and trust or extremelyheavy-handed shots involvingAmerican flags.
The Ides of March has a sur-prising amount of profanity. It’s alittle off-putting — as if the writ-ers gleefully inserted every f-and s-bomb (especially follow-ing televised debates) to high-light the moral depravity andunctuousness of those highfa-lutin political types.
Perhaps the biggest issuewith The Ides of March is itstiming: We’re already in thecynical, dysphoric, post-“Yeswe can” era. Some Obama-likepresidential candidate withsecret, deep-rootedhypocrisies doesn’t strikeaudiences as novel or interest-ing anymore — it’s just busi-ness as usual.
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VERDICT:
BY WARREN ZHANGStaff writer
Put simply, Real Steel is anatrocious exercise in slappingrobots about, and has less over-all entertainment value thanplaying with Transformer actionfigures while taking a bath.
Admittedly, the boxingsequences are well thoughtout and exciting. Good sounddesign and skillful editingmake for fights as exciting asany from Rocky or Transform-ers. It’s a bit surprising, consid-ering director Shawn Levy’sprevious work (the Night atthe Museum franchise).
Watch any other scene,though, and you’ll find Levy’sgrubby mark all over the place.Real Steel follows the tale of adown on his luck former boxerturned robot boxer trainer(Hugh Jackman, X-Men Origins:Wolverine). After spectacularlylosing a fight and his last robotdue to excessive hubris, Jack-man comes into temporary cus-tody of his estranged son(Dakota Goyo, Thor).
Said son comes across arobot in a heavy-handedsequence in a junkyard (thinka biblical amount of torrentialrain) that the two eventuallyrepair and enter into a seriesof fights. Surprise, surprise —the trashed robot wins a few
matches, becoming the under-dog you’re supposed to rootfor in a sports film.
I suppose Jackman alsocounts as scrappy underdog,though you’ll more likely berooting for his son to be takenaway than for him to succeed.See, every one of the charac-ters in Real Steel share a glar-ing flaw: They’re all equallyand massively unlikable.
The relatives with legal cus-tody of Jack-man’s son areunlikablebecausethey’re bour-geois snobs.Jackman isunlikablebecause he isan insensitivejerk with thecommon sense of a mentallychallenged mole rat. You can’teven take sadistic pleasure inseeing Jackman’s character getbeaten down in the first halfbecause the villains are, some-how, even more unlikable.
The son is unlikable becauseGoyo leans on the precocious10-year-old throttle way toohard. The generic love interestis unlikable because she solelyexists to spout expository dia-logue developing Jackman’sunlikable character.
Real Steel is every bit as
ludicrous and overwrought asMichael Bay’s Transformersseries, but it doesn’t have thegood sense to take itself assuch. Whenever the charac-ters are being loathsome, themovie gets smothered in thesheer ridiculousness of itsconceit and how seriously thefilmmakers take themselves.
I didn’t know whether or notto laugh at the scene in whichthe movie intends for us to
root for Jack-man, previ-ously estab-lished as animmenselyirresponsibleand perma-nently in-debtfather, to takecustody of hisannoying
brat over rich, responsible andloving relatives.
The fights, though thrilling,lack any significance or valuewhen taken in context of thenauseatingly awful charactersand cliché-ridden storytelling.If robot-on-robot action is theonly thing you’re looking for,consider renting Real Steel onDVD and fast-forwarding tothe good bits. Otherwise, justgo play with some Voltronaction figures.
REAL DISAPPOINTMENTS
Effective only on a dra-matic level, The Ides of
March is a disappointinglyshallow meditation on cor-
ruption and politics.
Thanks to spectacularlyawful characterization,
Real Steel is less pleasantto endure than getting a
root canal.
VERDICT:
Lack of insight fails a pretty March Only robot violence uplifts Real Steel
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK 7
Running back Davin Meggett, right, and the Terps know they’ll face a tougher test than Towson tomorrow in Atlanta. No. 13Georgia Tech boasts one of the nation’s most explosive offenses and a capable defense. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Towson, it might be time to recon-sider your offensive approach.
Coach Randy Edsall andquarterback Danny O’Brienboth hinted at the possibilityof slowing down the break-neck speed of the offense, onethat has held onto the ball forless than 25 minutes a gamethis year.
Edsall wouldn’t comment fur-ther on the pace Thursday, butslowing down the Terps’ offensewould be a wise move. If theTerps want any chance againstthe Yellow Jackets, they’ll haveto eat up some clock.
And even if they move theball effectively, they’ll have theirhands full against GeorgiaTech’s rushing attack.
Flash back to the Terps’debacle against Temple. I’msure you’ll remember it as thegame in which the Owls wentfor nearly 300 yards on theground. The Terps knewexactly what was coming thatday: a smash-mouth, straight-forward power running attack.And they still couldn’t stop it.
Against Georgia Tech, itwon’t be any easier. Not onlyare the Yellow Jackets more tal-ented than Temple, but theirtriple option is much more com-plicated and difficult to slowthan what Temple used to blowout the Terps.
Edsall talked Thursday abouthow no one has been able tostop the triple-option offense
since it was invented. If theTerps hold Georgia Tech toaround 300 yards, Edsall said,they will have done “a prettygood job.”
Three hundred yards? Well,actually, as bad as it soundsand as horrific the Terps havebeen against the run this year,the smart money is on theover. The fact they’ve reactedto play action this year like it’ssome sort of trick play they’venever seen before doesn’tbode well, either.
But maybe, just maybe, theTerps can turn it around all of asudden. They should be ableto score a bit on the YellowJackets’ defense. And theTerps did handle the tripleoption well against Navy in lastyear’s season opener. But thatwas a year ago, with a muchbetter linebacking corps and alot more time to prepare.
This time around, the oddsare against them. The Terps’matchup against the YellowJackets is not a favorable one,and their offensive and defen-sive shortcomings play directlyinto Georgia Tech’s strengths.
The forecast for tomorrowafternoon in Atlanta is sunny,with temperatures in the 70s.But if you’re heading to BobbyDodd Stadium, you might wantto bring an umbrella.
Because as much as theTerps want to get their secondACC victory, the perfect stormfor a Georgia Tech blowoutseems to be brewing.
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BY CONNOR LETOURNEAUStaff writer
For John Stertzer, tonight’sgame at Virginia is more thananother heated matchup againstan ACC rival. It’s a reminder ofwhat could’ve been.
Growing up in Oakton, Va.,two hours from the Cavaliers’campus, the Terrapins men’ssoccer midfielder consideredthe possibility of him ultimatelywearing Virginia’s orange andnavy from an early age.
But when the time finallyarrived for colleges to startcontacting recruits, Stertzernever heard from the in-statepowerhouse. Stertzer, TheWashington Post’s 2007 All-MetVirginia Player of the Year anda teammate of two Cavaliers atFlint Hill School, even sent Vir-ginia several personal lettersof inquiry.
But Virginia never responded,and Stertzer ultimately took histalents up the Capital Beltway toplay for the defending nationalchampion Terps.
“I’ve always kind of won-dered why they neverrecruited me,” Stertzer saidWednesday. “But everythingworked out perfectly.”
Settling into coach SashoCirovski’s attacking midfieldslot, Stertzer has played a keyrole in the No. 2 Terps’ beststart since 1968. He is tied forthird in the ACC with nine goalsand has joined forwards PatrickMullins and Casey Townsend toform a lethal three-headedattack this season.
The Terps’ “big three,” asCirovski calls them, haveaccounted for more than 80percent of the goals of theACC’s top-ranked offense.
“Every time we have a freekick or a set piece, you alwaysthink Stertzer is going to get on
the end of it,” Townsend said.“He’s dangerous on a lot of setpieces, and he’s a dangerousscorer every game.”
That clinical finishing touchwas on display during theTerps’ last visit to Char-lottesville, Va., last fall. Makinghis first collegiate start in frontof friends and family, Stertzerhelped secure a 2-0 win in the48th minute when he headedmidfielder Matt Kassel’s freekick past Cavaliers goalkeeperDiego Restrepo.
“He didn’t let me know hewas going to be starting,” saidJohn’s father, David Stertzer,who was there with about fiveother family members. “He toldhis mom, but not me. I think hewas worried I’d make himmore nervous. But when he gotthat goal, that was just reallyexciting for all of us.”
Since that chilly night in lateOctober, Stertzer hasn’tmissed a single start. Theplayer once spurned by hishome state’s flagship univer-sity has developed into aleader on a team replete withMLS-caliber talent.
But Stertzer had to maturebefore he could get to that point.
Like many underclassmen,he struggled with his focusduring his first two seasons inCollege Park. He showednumerous flashes of theplayer who tallied 105 goals inhigh school, but he oftenrelied too heavily upon his tal-ent to carry him through prac-tices or games.
With the departure of sevenstarters from last season’s ACCChampionship team, however,Stertzer knew he’d play a sig-nificant role in the Terps’ plansthis year.
Losing focus didn’t fit in tothose plans.
“He didn’t always have the
highest [level] of concentration— not only through a full prac-tice, but also sometimesthrough a whole season,”Cirovski said. “And we chal-lenged him to grow up and bethe kind of player he can be. It’staken a few heart-to-hearts, buthe’s flourishing right now. He’stotally bought in.”
Cirovski demonstrated histrust in Stertzer momentsbefore an Aug. 29 win overWest Virginia. Recognizing thathe possessed the mental tough-
ness for such a pressurized sit-uation, the 19th-year coachasked Stertzer to take a penaltykick if one came up.
In the 54th minute of theTerps’ 3-1 win that night, thejunior calmly netted the firstpenalty kick of his career.
“When he told me that, itgave me a lot of confidence,”Stertzer said. “It showed methat he had that kind of confi-dence in me, and that’s helpedout a lot.”
Stertzer has found himself
in more than a few high-stakessituations since that early-sea-son night at Ludwig Field.After misfiring on a penaltykick in the first overtimeperiod against UMBC lastmonth, he headed in the gamewinner with just seven min-utes remaining in the secondsudden-death overtime.
And Tuesday, Stertzer cele-brated his 21st birthday bynotching another game win-ner during overtime of a 2-1win over Rutgers. It was his
second goal in little more thanan hour.
“It was a great birthday pres-ent he gave to the team,”Cirovski said after the game.
Now three years after thesurprising snubbing by hislocal state school, Stertzer feelsVirginia gave him a gift, as well.
“I couldn’t imagine being any-where else but Maryland rightnow,” Stertzer said, “so I’m gladthey didn’t [recruit me].”
MEN’S SOCCER
Midfielder John Stertzer, left, scored his eighth and ninth goals of the season Tuesday night in a 2-1 win against Rutgers.After a start to his career marred by immaturity, Stertzer has emerged as a star this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
From spurned to starringIn-state Stertzer showing Cavswhat they missed this season
BY DANIEL GALLENStaff writer
Eleven months ago today,the Terrapins women’s soccerteam walked off the field atWakeMed Soccer Park in Cary,N.C., having just lost the ACCTournament final on penaltykicks to Wake Forest.
The loss denied the Terpstheir first-ever ACC Champi-onship, stopped a five-gamewinning streak and markedyet another loss to theDemon Deacons.
But that doesn’t mean tomor-row night’s game at LudwigField has a revenge factor.
“We haven’t talked about itand, honestly, in my mind,there’s not a ton,” coach Brian
Pensky said. “Unfortunately forus, Wake won the ACC Cham-pionship. Winning Saturdaydoesn’t change that.”
The No. 17 Terps start thesecond leg of their ACC sched-ule with the No. 5 Demon Dea-cons, a game that has enoughsignificance to begin with forthe players. The matchup does-n’t need to be more than what italready is.
“It’s the ACC final, it’s toughto get there and just to lose on[penalty kicks] is unfortunate,”forward Jasmyne Spencer said.“But it’s no different than anyother team in the ACC. Everygame is like a rival game.”
A win tomorrow would bethe Terps’ marquee victory todate, but history is as much an
opponent as Wake Forest itself.The Terps (8-2-3, 2-2-1 ACC)haven’t defeated the DemonDeacons (11-1-1, 4-0-1) since2005, Pensky’s first season atthe helm in College Park.
“Our kids are very aware ofthat, especially our older kidswho have been around for someof those tough losses to Wake,”Pensky said. “Certainly, Wake’sa team we’d like to beat.”
And despite Wake Forest’shigh ranking, it’s the team,not a number, that motivatesthe Terps.
“Right now Wake is No. 5,but if you look two weeks ago,we were No. 3, so every gameat this point is just a big game,”Spencer said. “You’re just com-peting with the best teams in
the country at all times.” Added forward Hayley
Brock: “I think that always moti-vates people. It’s always easierto get up for a game against aUNC, BC, Wake Forest than anN.C. State game or a Clemsongame just because [of] who theyare, no disrespect.”
Wake Forest boasts some ofthe ACC’s top talent, particularlyforward Katie Stengel, wholeads the conference in goalsper game (1.0) and points pergame (2.31). GoalkeeperAubrey Bledsoe, who stifled theTerps in the ACC Championshipalmost a year ago, ranks third inthe conference in goals againstaverage, allowing 0.45 per game.
But despite the stars on theother side of the ball, the Terps
know they have talent and anadvantage they haven’t had inquite some time: rest. TheTerps last played Sept. 29, giv-ing them over a week betweengames and allowing them toactually practice instead of sim-ply preparing and recoveringfor games.
“I think people are starting tosmile again, to be honest,” Pen-sky said.
The Terps appeared to gettheir offense jump-started in a2-1 win against Clemson, butPensky and the players still seeroom for improvement. Whilerevenge seems to be far fromthe minds of some players, thehunger for a win remains.
“Even though we got the winlast week, some of us didn’treally feel like it felt like a win,”Brock said. “I think this timeoff is really going to help us re-focus and join together. I thinkwe also needed the rest. I justfeel like we’re going to do goodthings on Saturday.”
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Despite ACC Championship loss, Terps say revenge isn’t on mind vs. Deacons“It’s no differentthan any otherteam in the ACC.Every game is likea rival game.”
JASMYNE SPENCERTERRAPINS WOMEN’S SOCCER FORWARD
8 THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011
Sports
A fter an inconsistentand disappointingstart to its 2011 sea-son, maybe all the Ter-
rapins football team needs is toget away. Perhaps the pressureof ACC play will restore thesense of urgency we saw in theseason’s opening game againstMiami. Traveling to No. 13Georgia Tech could be whatkick-starts the Terps’ season.
Considering what the YellowJackets have done this year toascend the national polls,
that isn’t very likely.Tomorrow’s game
could be the perfectstorm for a Terps disas-
ter: one of the mostelectric offenses inthe country versus adefense that can’tstop the run. An
offense that eats up time ofpossession facing one thatcan’t give the ball back fastenough. A team that has hadsix plays go for 70 yards or
more, and 40 plays of 20 ormore yards, playing one thathasn’t had a huge play sincethe first game of the year.
And just to make things evenworse, Georgia Tech runs thetype of offense you hardly seein the college game anymore:the triple option.
Can the Terps keep up withthe Ramblin’ Wreck offense?The better question might be,will they even have the ball longenough to try?
The Terps are ranked 117thin the nation in time of posses-sion. One-hundred seven-teenth! That puts them in thesame breath as Idaho, AirForce and Tulsa. Not exactlywhat the Terps had in mindwhen they installed Gary Crow-ton as offensive coordinator.
His fast-paced offense lookedgood against Miami andmethodically moved down thefield, but it hasn’t found thesame success since. The Terpsare playing with fire, andthey’ve been burned. The styletires out the defense if it fails tofind a rhythm and pick up firstdowns. And when you lose thetime of possession battle to
The Yellow Jacketshaven’t scored fewer than35 points in any of their firstfive games of the season, and theyput up a staggering 66 againstKansas on Sept. 17. Nationally, theyrank second in points per game, firstin rushing yards per game and sec-ond in total offense.
HEAD
OFFENSE
PREDICTION
TERPSGAMEDAYWHEN: Tomorrow, noonWHERE: Bobby Dodd StadiumT.V.: ESPNULINE: Yellow Jackets by 15DATA: Georgia Tech has thrown at least twotouchdown passes in four games this season.They managed to do so just once last season.
THE MATCHUP
TERPTRACKER
TERPS GTPassing (YPG) 242.2 208.8Rushing (YPG) 145.5 378.2Total (YPG) 387.8 587.0Points per game 24.5 51.6Opponents’ PPG 25.5 25.8Avg. Time of Possession 24:40 31:42
2011 TEAM STATS
Maryland Terrapins
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
2-2 (1-0 ACC) 5-0 (2-0 ACC)
SERIES HISTORYALL-TIME SERIES Yellow Jackets lead 13-6LAST MEETING 2007
LAST MEETING2007 — (H)W, Terps 28, Yellow Jackets 26
While Georgia Tech doesn’thave the same firepower ondefense as it does on offense— but then again, who does? — theYellow Jackets are still better than theTerps, who allowed 31 first-half pointsto Temple two weeks ago. The Owlsscored just 13 the next week againstToledo at home.
DEFENSE
Terps kicker and punterNick Ferrara may be theunit’s lone bright spot thisseason. The junior is secondin the ACC with a 43.8-yard punt aver-age and has converted five of eightfield goal attempts. Neither team, tothis point, has shown a potent returngame this season.
SPECIAL TEAMSOne of the nation’s most
innovative offensive coaches,Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnsonhas found immediate success with histriple-option attack in the ACC. In hisfirst two seasons, Johnson compiled a20-7 record, and he now has the Yel-low Jackets at 5-0 and ranked in thetop 15.
COACHING
The Terps may be facing adivided locker room in thewake of one player’s deci-sion to speak out anony-mously against coach Randy Edsall inthe media this week. An energized Yel-low Jackets fan base certainly won’thelp smooth over any team conflicts atBobby Dodd Stadium tomorrow.
INTANGIBLES
KEY MATCHUPTERPS RUSH DEFENSE VS.
GT TRIPLE OPTIONRunning coach Paul Johnson’s triple-
option attack, Georgia Tech leads thenation in rushing offense and is second intotal offense.
Five Yellow Jackets have rushed for atleast 240 yards and three have scoredfour or more touchdowns on the groundin just five games.
A-back Orwin Smith, who has scoredseven touchdowns on 28 carries this sea-son, leads the Yellow Jackets and aver-ages a gaudy 15.1 yards per carry.
“They’re going to make plays on you,and when they do, you’re going to comeback and they’re going to run the samething,” defensive tackle Joe Vellano said.“There really isn’t too much trickery,it’s just assignment football.”
The Terps have struggleddefending the run all season,ranking next to last leaguewidein the category. They gave upa career-high, and MAC-record, five touchdowns toTemple’s Bernard Piercetwo weeks ago, sotomorrow could bedicey for linebackerDemetrius Hartsfield (right)and the Terps.
Georgia Tech B-back David Sims is part of a potent rush attack averaging close to 400 yards per game. PHOTO COURTESY OF AUSTIN FOOTE/TECHNIQUE
Stirring up aJacket’s nest
JEREMYSCHNEIDER
The Terps are certainly aware ofGeorgia Tech’s potent triple-optionattack, which coach Randy Edsall saidthe team would be happy to hold under300 yards rushing. But they also knowthe throwing ability of quarterbackTevin Washington.
Though Washington has guided theoffense with ease this season, amassinggaudy numbers on the ground, the jun-ior is also one of the ACC’s most effec-tive passers. He has a 10-to-1 touch-down-interception ratio this season andthe Yellow Jackets ranked No. 1 in thenation in passing efficiency.
“They get a lot of big plays off of theplay action,” Edsall said. “He isn’t thetypical triple-option quarterback. Hethrows the ball well and has goodreceivers who go up and get the ball.The biggest thing is for us to read ourkeys because he is a guy who can hurtus running and throwing the ball.”
TECH’S MAESTRO
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BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer
Georgia Tech’s offense can’t bestopped. Even Randy Edsall knows it.
With a vaunted triple-optionattack that has put up 51.6 pointsper game and run for a nation’s-best378.2 yards per game, the No. 13Yellow Jackets have proven thatthey’re going to move the ball andget their points.
All the Terrapins football team —and its coach — can do is hope to
contain it. “You’re not going to stop them.
Nobody’s stopped this offensesince it’s been invented,” Edsallsaid yesterday. “This is an
offense that you try to control it,but you don’t flat-out stop it. “If you can keep them under about
300 yards rushing, you’ve done apretty good job.”
The triple option is inherentlyunpredictable. With every snap,Georgia Tech quarterback TevinWashington can hand the ball off tohis fullback up the middle, pitch it toa wingback off the edge, run it him-self or drop back for a pass.
The offense feasts on confusion,forcing opposing defenders to stick
to their assignment and make one-on-one tackles in the open field — twothings the Terps have struggled withthis season.
It also grinds down the clock. TheYellow Jackets have kept the ball onthe ground 82 percent of the timethis season.
But perhaps most importantly, itthrives on the big play. The YellowJackets have scored eight touch-downs this season on the first play ofa drive, including three touchdownson their first play from scrimmage.
Many of the Terps aren’t strangersto the triple-option, having seen itagainst Navy to open last season.
The difference now — the YellowJackets’ more explosive potentialnotwithstanding — is that the Terpshave only a week, not an entire presea-son, to prepare for the unique attack.
“Everybody in the nation knowsthe triple option is one of the hard-est offenses to stop,” linebackerKenny Tate said. “We know thethings that we did last year, every-body knows what they’re going totry to do. It’s just all a matter of exe-cution. This is going to be a hardweek to prepare for.”
As they did in preparation for Navylast season, the Terps practiced Tues-
day without a ball to reinforce howimportant each individual defensiveassignment becomes against thetricky offense.
But with a sole week to prepareand a defense that has struggledagainst the run, ranking 11th in theACC with 177.5 rushing yardsallowed per game, the Terps are hop-ing they can turn things aroundagainst perhaps the most prolificattack they’ll see all season.
“I truly don’t think it’s that hard,you just have to do your job,” defen-sive tackle Joe Vellano said. “When itcomes your way, it comes your way.That’s what they try to do: get every-body out of position.”
Where the Terps may be able tocapitalize defensively is in forcingturnovers. While the Yellow Jacketshave controlled the ball for the mostpart, losing just six turnoversthrough five games, the triple optioncan be prone to changes in posses-sion. That could be good news for theTerps, who have the conference’sbest turnover margin.
“One thing I noticed about teamsthat have played them and been suc-cessful, they get them to turn the ballover a lot, and that’s one thing we’vedone as a defense pretty good, I
think,” linebacker Demetrius Harts-field said.
On the other side of the ball, theTerps may have another advantage.The Yellow Jackets rank 10th in theconference in scoring defense andsurrendered 35 points last weekendto a 2-3 N.C. State squad. And withthe possible absence of two GeorgiaTech starting linebackers, theTerps will look to get their offenseback to the level it was at againstMiami last month.
For the Terps to have a chance toimprove to 2-0 in conference play,they’ll need quarterback DannyO’Brien and the offense to find arhythm, control the ball and get onthe scoreboard.
Because if the Yellow Jackets haveshown one thing, it’s that they’regoing to score.
“You can hold them down and youcan control the ball and keep them offthe field, but you’ve got to scorepoints while you’re doing that,”Edsall said. “The conference gameshave a little bit more meaning tothem. … I think we’re prepared andwe’re ready to go and we just have togo out there and do it on Saturday.”
TRY AND STOP ITLIMITED RETURNSA consensus All-ACC preseason
selection at the beginning of the year,wide receiver and return specialist TonyLogan entered the season with highexpectations after a phenomenaljunior campaign.
Logan, right, provided someof the most exciting plays forthe Terps on special teamslast season, leading theconference and rankingthird in the nation with anaverage of 18.1 yards perpunt return. His 560 totalpunt return yards from lastseason stand as second alltime in Terps history.
The senior has struggledto break away this season,but he hasn’t had manyopportunities. Logan hasreturned just four punts this season fora total of 20 yards, a figure he sur-passed on his very first punt return aseason ago.
Terps’ Tate doubtful to playStarting Terps football linebacker Kenny Tate was
listed as “doubtful” to play on the team’s injury reportlast night. Check out the details at TerrapinTrail.com.
No one’s been able to halt Georgia Tech’s triple option this season. Can the Terps?