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Darryl Hill, fi rst-ever black college football player in ACC, honored at homecoming gameBy Jenny HottleSta� writer
As he entered Byrd Stadium for the 1963 opening football game against N.C. State, player Darryl Hill kept glancing up toward Ellicott Hall, the death threat he received earlier that morning still weighing on his mind.
An anonymous caller warned Hill someone would shoot him from the roof of Ellicott if he stepped out onto the fi eld, which at the time was not protected by the upper deck. So when the Terps cel-ebrated their fi rst points of the game with the traditional cannon fi ring, Hill dove to the ground, thinking someone had fi red a shot at him.
“My teammates — of course, they weren’t aware of what happened — were rolling on the ground, laughing,” Hill said. “I didn’t think it was so funny.”
Fifty years later at Saturday’s homecom-
ing football game, the Terps went up against N.C. State once again, but not before the athletic department took time to honor Hill for paving the way for future generations. As a college athlete, Hill became the fi rst black football player to break the color barrier at this university and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. At Saturday’s game, Hill walked back out onto the fi eld and was presented
By Fola AkinnibiSta� writer
The jury rendered its verdicts Friday in the trial of two county o� cers accused of beating a university student during the 2010 Duke riot, convicting one o� cer of second-degree assault and acquitting the other of all charges.
The verdict concluded the fi ve-day trial against Prince George’s County officers James Harrison and Reginald Baker in Upper Marlboro. Jurors found Harrison not guilty of misconduct in o� ce but con-victed him of second-degree assault, The Washington Post reported. Harrison, who is out on bond, is set to be sentenced Dec. 14 and could face up to 10 years in prison, according to The Post.
Baker was acquitted of all charges. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks told The Post jurors may have drawn a distinction between the two o� cers because it was legal to drive former university student John McKenna to the ground, as Baker did using his riot shield the night of March 3, 2010.
Originally, the two o� cers faced fi rst-degree assault charges, along with second-degree assault and misconduct in o� ce, in connection with their involvement in the March 2010 riot following a men’s basket-ball upset of then-No. 4 Duke.
The county had previously agreed to settle civil suits by paying McKenna $2 million and nine others involved in the postgame riot a total of $1.6 million, The Post reported. The other settlement recipients alleged police falsely arrested and physically assaulted them during the riot.
McKenna’s attorney, Christopher Griffiths, argued the payments suggest other county police aside from Harrison and Baker were engaged in misconduct.
“That’s an aspect of this case that the jury didn’t hear,” Gri� ths said to The Post.
O� cer in riot found guilty
kicker brad craddock lies in the turf after missing the game-winning 33-yard � eld goal. The Terps fell to N.C. State, 20-18, at their homecoming game Saturday. Quarterback Perry Hills endured a knee injury in the second quarter, leaving Devin Burns and Caleb Rowe to � ll in. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
alumnus Darryl hill, who was the � rst-ever black football player at this university and in the ACC, was honored at Saturday’s homecoming football game. On the � eld, he was presented with a new jersey with the number 50. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
By Savannah Doane-MalotteSta� writer
Denton Community resi-dents are unlikely to see a quad of their own, clear of con-struction tape and equipment, until Thanksgiving, nearly one month later than Facili-ties Management anticipated fi nishing the project.
Officials deferred the $3.65 million renovation from begin-ning on time because Facilities Management was unable to get the necessary building permits, according to Bill Olen, capital projects director. They then set the project’s new start date in June, pushing its expected completion back from early October. However, suspend-
Denton quad project behind scheduleRenovation will fi nish in November
Terps fall to N.C. State after missing � eld goal; Hills su� ers potential season-ending injury
Padgett convicted of reckless drivingBy Fola AkinnibiSta� writer
HYATTSVILLE — No criminal charges stand between senior James Padgett and the Terps men’s basketball home opener next week, after his DWI charge from a summer tra� c incident was thrown out of court Friday.
The men’s basketball forward pleaded guilty to a count of reckless driving in Prince George’s County District Court Friday afternoon. The charges stemmed from a June 16 incident in which University Police pulled Padgett over at 3:28 a.m. for allegedly driving without headlights, according to court documents. An o� cer smelled alcohol and administered a fi eld sobriety test, which Padgett failed, Uni-versity Police spokesman Marc Liman-sky said. O� cers subsequently charged Padgett with driving while intoxicated and failure to display headlights.
However, the Intoximeter test results that led to Padgett’s DWI charge were thrown out of court Friday due to an error: Padgett’s acid reflux condition caused mouth-alcohol contamination during the fi rst test, his lawyer said, and then o� cers waited only eight minutes to administer the second test, rather than the prescribed 20 minutes.
Padgett faces a year of unsupervised probation, a $250 fine and 48 hours of community service, and he must attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving victim impact panel meeting.
One of Padgett’s attorneys, Rick Jak-litsch, said the results of the trial were not surprising.
“The state wasn’t going to be able to prove any kind of alcohol violation,” Jak-litsch said.
Because Padgett was not convicted of an alcohol-related violation, he can play in the November 2 matchup against Indiana Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, according to Jaklitsch.
An athletic department spokesman confi rmed coach Mark Turgeon will not suspend him.
“We’re thrilled on behalf of Mr. Padgett,” Jaklitsch said. “I suspect the basketball team is going to be thrilled too.”
HEARTBREAKERBy Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
Brad Craddock walked onto the fi eld at Byrd Stadium on Saturday with just six seconds showing on the game clock. The Terrapins football team trailed N.C. State, 20-18, and the freshman kicker had a chance to win the game with his 33-yard fi eld goal attempt.
Craddock told himself to take his time and swing through, to treat it the same as any other kick. He took three calculated steps forward, swung his leg and sent the ball toward the uprights.
“I didn’t see it really,” Craddock said. “I just reacted to what everyone else reacted to.”
That reaction involved falling to the ground in disbelief as the Wolfpack celebrated around him. Craddock’s kick careened o� the left upright and fell to the turf, sending the Terps o� their home fi eld with a 20-18 loss.
“That was a very disappoint-ing and heartbreaking loss we had out there,” coach Randy Edsall said after the game. “They gave every-thing they had. We put ourselves in a position to win the game there at the end, but we just came up short.”
Two hours earlier, the Terps seemed to have little chance of notching their third straight confer-ence win. They trailed, 10-3, late in the second quarter, and quarterback Perry Hills had just been carted o� the fi eld with a knee injury.
But the Terps’ backups kept them in it. Second-string quarterback Devin Burns — aided by running back Wes Brown’s 121 rushing yards on 25 carries — led scoring drives of 44, 74 and 43 yards in the third and fourth quarters, giving the team an 18-17 lead
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with a new jersey with the number 50 on the back.
“He blazed the trail for other people to have those opportunities to go to school in the ACC and play football and get a good education,” coach Randy Edsall said of Hill at a news conference last Tuesday.
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ing plans didn’t cost the uni-versity much extra money, Olen said, because it did not involve purchasing additional supplies.
“The project has gone longer than we expected due to the delays in the beginning stages,” Olen said. “We started three months later than planned, so it was expected that we may fi nish later.”
The prolonged work will bring residents an updated and greener quad, replacing a large swatch of grass with scarce seating. It will present many new landscaping elements and plants, as well as sustainable features, such as site drains and eco-friendly bioretention areas built to decrease rainwater
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Honoring a 50-year legend
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STILL ON TOPMen’s soccer defeats No. 2 UNC in overtime p. 8
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runoff in the community, Olen said.
The area’s focal point will be a pergola, an outdoor structure that will shade students from sun and rain between Denton and Easton halls. In addition, the quad will feature more tables and chairs, as well as improved lighting, new pave-ment, the Elkton patio and a more accessible entrance for Denton Hall.
Com i n g on t he he e l s of constructing Oakland Hall and transforming the former Denton Dining Hall into 251 North, the renovations mark the final phase of Facilities Man-agement’s three-year project to improve that portion of North Campus, according to Facilities Management Associate Vice President Carlo Colella.
“T he qu ad h a s not been updated very much from when it was first constructed,” he said. “These renovations will signal the conclusion of the landscape enhancements of this area of campus.”
In addition, ongoing con-struction should not pose an inconvenience to students, because Facilities Management
has completed most of the work, Olen said.
A s t h e o n l y r e m a i n i n g aspects of construction are finishing the service parking on Denton Hall’s west side and a patio structure on Elkton Hall’s west side, the site is already ex-periencing less dust and noise.
“The construction that is currently being done is minor in comparison to the disruption of the previous work,” Olen said.
Though the construction has not been overly disrup-tive, said Denton Community resident Chris Leyh, an end to the ongoing work will be a relief.
“The construction has af-fected me, but not too badly,” sa id t he f resh m a n h istor y major. “It can be a little noisy in the morning now.”
Freshman architecture major Jack Byrnes said he is looking forward to enjoying the peace and quiet of North Campus when construction ends and the quad opens to students.
“Every other day, there’s jackhammering outside my window that wakes me up, and it’s really inconvenient to walk across the quad, since a lot of it’s marked off,” Byrnes said. “I’m excited for the construc-tion to be over.”
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got more and more motivated because I thought we needed to shake things up.”
The southern players them-selves were decently respectful, Hill said, but the fans were a dif-ferent story. He remembered his teammates leaving the stadium in a rush without even showering to avoid the threatening crowd sur-rounding the locker room.
Hill said his teammates always took his side and refused to stay in hotels that prohibited black people. The president of the university at the time, Wilson Elkins, also fought to keep Hill on the team when the Board of Trustees said he couldn’t put a black football player on the fi eld.
“He told them, ‘That’s not your call — it’s mine. You see me next year at contract nego-tiations,’” Hill said.
Within a decade, things had changed dramatically — black football players started for south-ern teams such as Clemson, where Hill’s own family was barred from the stadium during his football career.
“I think sports is the single most important factor to social togetherness that this nation has ever known,” Hill said. “When blacks began to play college sports, that changed the whole landscape.”
Hill’s story also inspired Eng l ish professor M ichael Olmert to write a play, Moving the Chains, which had a staged reading at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington in March 2011. The script recently evolved into a screenplay, Illegal Contact, and production of the fi lm is ex-
pected to begin late this year or early next year.
“[Hill] just electrified the team,” said Olmert, who gradu-ated from this university the year Hill enrolled. “He had good hands, and he was fast. And everybody loved him. He had a great personality.”
Today, Hill recognizes the impact he had on college football and seeks to fight against eco-nomic discrimination in youth sports with his foundation, Kids Can Play USA. The foundation helps low-income families meet the costs of league fees and charges and pay for equipment.
“The idea is to remove the eco-nomic barriers from sports so that all American children can play. The youth sports now come with a price, and less fortunate chil-dren are being left out,” Hill said. “Our vision is a return to the day where sports are free and open to all children.”
While Hill continues to enjoy watching the Terps play, the sound of the cannon still makes him jump.
“Some t h i ngs you never forget,” Hill said. “That cannon was one of them.”
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Athletic Director Kevin Ander-son also credited Hill with opening the doors for his own success.
“If it weren’t for pioneers l i ke Da r r yl, I wou ld n’t b e sitting here in this room,” An-derson said at the news confer-ence, which was held in Gossett Team House.
However, Hill said during his college football career he was more worried about fumbling the kicko� than being a pioneer.
“But then I started seeing the horrors in the South,” Hill said, adding his best games by far took place in the South, where his mother wasn’t allowed to enter stadiums and his family was booed in the stands. “I
Darryl Hill (right) helped integrate Terps and ACC football in 1962 after transferring from the U.S. Naval Academy. The university honored Hill at Saturday’s homecoming game against N.C. State, marking 50 years since breaking the conference’s color barrier. � le photo/the diamondback
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“...I started seeing the horrors in the south. I got more and more motivated because I thought we needed to shake things up.”
DARRYL HILLFirst black Terps and ACC football player
Take the time to isolate yourself from the world Our generation is defi ned by communication, at a level that has both revolutionized the world and destroyed our independence
JUSTIN DENT
South Campus Commons is one of the prime pieces of real estate on this campus.
Students often resort to begging or bartering to worm their way into the elite, on-campus apart-ment complexes. There are many aspects to Commons’ appeal, from its distance from North Campus to its two-to-a-bathroom amenities. Students who live in Commons pay at least $790 a month (for four bedrooms, two bathrooms), total-ing $9,480 a year. Comparatively, students living in on-campus resi-dence halls pay $2,959 a semester, totaling $5,918 a year.
Clearly, students are willing to pay for the supposed comfort of Commons’ high-end qualities. And for the most part, students living in the apartments are happy. They get their own bedrooms, have an easier time hosting parties and can quickly stumble home from Cornerstone. Is it really fair to ask for more?
This editorial board believes it is, especially when what we’re asking for would simply ensure residents’ health and safety are met at basic levels. Recently, South Campus Commons apartments have been having major issues.
At the beginning of this month, residents experienced a number of water outages. You went to the gym? Better find a friend in a dorm so you can shower in the communal bathroom there. That was a menial issue, but when you’re paying so much for a more private living space, you expect
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your amenities to be in working order. Widespread outages across Commons buildings cause huge, unfair problems.
Then things escalated. In early O c t o b e r, s e v e ra l s t u d e n t s i n Commons 7, the newest apartment building, discovered they had bedbugs in their apartments. Bedbugs have become such a prevalent problem in Commons that officials added a “bedbug clause” to the lease in May
2011 that states students must prove their rooms are bedbug-free when their leases end. The addendum also requires tenants take certain precau-tions against bedbugs, such as not bringing in furniture from off the street and notifying management if they believe there may be an infesta-tion in their apartment. But despite these precautions, the bugs are back and it’s freaking everyone out.
Then a Friday Diamondback article revealed Commons residents are finding mice in their apartments. Staff have received reports of rodents
in 20 apartments since the semester began, with some apartments having to report more than one incident. Many students have complained Commons is slow in reacting to its vermin problems (both bedbugs and mice), and more and more students are becoming wary of any slight movement in their apartments.
These problems are getting a bit ri-diculous. Though all the issues have been attributed to the construction occurring on Knox Road and the devel-opment of Prince Frederick Hall, these projects were planned well in advance. Commons o� cials should have antici-pated the possible consequences and addressed them preemptively.
But as they didn’t do that, there should be more timely, efficient re-sponses to complaints. Bedbugs and mice have been issues in previous years. Why isn’t there an effective system for handling these pests? Water outages are sometimes unavoidable, but they should be more controlled or concentrated and not leave residents incapable of handling them.
Students who live in the residence halls surrounding the quad aren’t having these same issues, and they are in close proximity to the construc-tion. Does the Department of Resident Life have a more e� ective way of han-dling these problems? And if so, why haven’t Commons o� cials realized it? They have more money from students, so it should have more resources.
Students love to live in Commons, and they pay for it dearly. In return, South Campus Commons should give students a reason to trust they will be taken care of under their roofs.
The Commons misconception
OUR VIEW
South Campus Commons should not have water
outages, bedbugs or mice; management needs to
� gure out how to e� ectively use the money
residents are forking over to � x these issues.
ASHLEY ZACHERY/the diamondback
EDITORIAL CARTOON
4 THE DIAMONDBACK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012
Opinion
The greatest moments of my child-hood were the moments I spent alone. Even when surrounded by those I loved and cherished most, I’d often escape larger gatherings to read, write or simply walk. In fact, I had such a habit of disap-pearing on long walks with little reason or provocation, it became commonplace in my household to automatically — and correctly — assume, when no one could fi nd me, that I was o� roaming some-where. Despite all these tendencies, most would have never have ventured to label me a loner; I enjoyed conversa-
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tion and company, openly cherished my friendships, actively sought new ones and was — by most measures — a friend-ly kid, despite my quirks. However, in a society growing increasingly concerned with constant contact and the number of words said per minute, such indepen-dence or introversion is undervalued, underexercised and, as a result, incor-rectly criticized or discouraged.
Our generation will be remembered for revolutionizing the ways in which we communicate. The rise, prominence and strength of social media have gone a long way to connect individuals, maintain friendships and expedite the transmission of information across the globe. Undoubtedly, this rise has brought with it certain positives, but it has also diminished our capacity for
Among the many questions on the ballot this November, Question 5 — regarding the congressional
redistricting plan — is important for all Marylanders. The issue has lacked publicity and the ballot wording is confusing, so it is important for voters to understand Question 5 will decide whether to ratify the new map — enacted by the General Assembly last year — for continued use in 2014-2020.
As a proud Democrat and Mary-lander, I urge my fellow Maryland-ers of both parties to vote against Question 5.
It’s one thing for the new map to provide one party with an advan-tage. But it’s deeply concerning how the new map harms and e� ectively disenfranchises certain rural and suburban Marylanders. Using thin ribbons, the redistricting plan ties together small population areas with distant and unrelated large popula-tion centers. In this manner, parts of Frederick and Carroll Counties were tied with a ribbon into the new 8th (mostly lower Montgomery County), central Anne Arundel County was
tied into the new 4th (mostly western Prince George’s County) and much of northern Baltimore County was tied into the new 7th (mostly Baltimore City). The new map can be seen on the state’s web site at http://www.mdp.state.md.us/redistricting/2010/congDist.shtml.
If we vote against Question 5 and reject the map, the governor and General Assembly will have to enact a new map — hopefully with more co-hesive districts — for use in our 2014-2020 elections. Please vote on Nov. 6 and vote against Question 5.
STEVE SHAPIRO [email protected]
With a hotly contested presiden-tial election, this university has made registering to vote much easier for stu-dents. Voting is a way to express our citizenship and make our voices heard, so it is fantastic to see so many fellow students signing up to vote. Whether someone identifi es with Democrats, Re-publicans, independents, Greens or any other party, voting is a vital part of the political process. However, the online
My name is Zipper — Dick Zipper. And as names go, I think that’s a pretty funny one.
As a kid, I learned how to laugh along and see how many variations of “Hey Richard, your zipper is open” kids could come up with. I would be-little those who were not original: “Egads! I have heard that one only 100 times before. Is that the best you can do?” When I started dating, it was a pretty good icebreaker. When I ran for University Senate at the State Uni-versity of New York at Albany many years ago, I believe the “Check your Zipper” signs got me elected. So the name has worked out for me.
Back in the day, when my parents named me, Richard was one of the top 10 baby names. I think most people back then associated the name with “King Richard the Lionheart”: a brave, wise and noble leader. However, the nickname Rick for Richard somehow evolved into Dick, which somehow became a street word for penis.
So some of us ended up with pretty funny names — and these are real people: Dick Face (Australian poli-tician charged with corruption), Dick Pole (a major league baseball player), Dick Finder (a urologist), Dick Trickle (a NASCAR driver), Dick Armey (a former congressman) and, according to whitepages.com, 195 Dick Heads in the U.S. (with 21 in Georgia alone).
Before I continue with this child-ish (but fun) name-related humor, I think we should take a break for the educational portion of the column; after all, we are in college. The word aptronym means “a name which relates to its owner’s profession or
personality, often in a humorous way.” The first part of the word, “apt,” was intentional.
So here are some aptronyms. Some of these make you wonder if these people chose their careers because of their names – or if they should con-sider changing professions. These are real people. Dr. Fingerhood (OB/GYN), Dr. I. Ball (optometrist), Dr. Looney (psychiatrist), Dr. Croke (cardiologist), Dr. Hacker (plastic surgeon) and of course Dr. Cockburn (urologist). Then there are the den-tists: Dr. Phil Wright, Dr. Les Plack and Dr. DeKay. Sue Yoo is a lawyer, Brad Slaughter a supermarket meat manager, Linda Toote a professional flutist, Sir Russell Brain a famous neurologist. A. Forest Burns is vice president at the American Forest Resource Council and, my personal favorite, Cardinal Sin, was head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
Then there are names that are just fun. After all, wouldn’t it be cool to go on a hike with Chip Monk or talk about the Civil War with A. Blinken? And while most of us would like to have everyone chanting our name in an athletic competition, Olympic pole-vaulter Kim Yoo-Suk may not.
What is in a name — especially an unusual name? They can be fun, and they can be a source of teasing. They certainly make you stand out in a crowd. So when you become a parent, if your last name is Lee, refrain from naming your kid Brock; if your last name is Baum, please stay away from Adam; if your last name is Bath, Anita may not be a good idea. Remember, although a rose by any other name is still a rose, roses do not have to attend elementary or middle school.
Richard Zipper is a Golden ID student taking classes in biology. He can be reached at [email protected].
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registration for students seems to have neglected Maryland law in fair voter reg-istration. Having been a registered voter since the summer of 2011, I decided to take a look at the online process to see what it was like. Much to my dismay, I noticed this university had left several small third parties o� the political party menu. It did leave a spot for “other,” but this puts these parties at a distinct dis-advantage when it comes to registration. My friend who registered at this univer-sity, but not online, saw the options to vote for third parties registered in the state of Maryland. I registered when I got my driver’s license and saw these same parties, such as the Green and Conservative parties.
Perhaps it was a mistake, but this university must show all registered parties — not just the major ones. Otherwise it is an unfair process of registering voters. Hopefully this can be corrected before the next election cycle so all parties have a chance to be heard in the political process.
MATT DRAGONETTEFRESHMAN
ACCOUNTING
meaningful human interaction. For many, the mere option to stay in
constant communication with their friends, followers and subscribers has turned into a necessity — dinners are full of tweets and short on substance; status updates are crafted for optimum ‘likes’; pictures and videos are taken to be posted, not remembered; and online back-and-forth replaces in-person banter. Our incentives for digital con-nectivity translate into the physical landscape, where a perverse motivation to say and share as much as possible dilutes the quality of what we have to say; the fear of not being connected dictates how we spend our time.
We are fl ies trapped in a web of in-terconnectivity. The notion of willingly breaking away, taking ourselves out of
the loop, has become increasingly dif-fi cult. Our constant connectivity causes us to sacrifi ce — willingly or unwillingly — our individuality, from our personali-ties to our preferences and behaviors. We slowly become products of group-think and the di� erentiation between ourselves and those around us becomes less and less. The stronger the group-think, the more di� cult it becomes to leave; when you break away, you’re the outsider, ostracized from the perpetual popularity contest that now occupies life. But for all the enjoyment you may derive from your online interactions and your constant communication with those around you, your independence is wholly more important.
To this day, those around me have criticized me for being too removed,
quiet or introverted — and I’m OK with that. The number of words that you say may defi ne your infl uence in some twisted calculation, but not your impact. The friends you make and maintain will give you great enjoyment, but your in-dependence will always give you more. Be mindful to take time for yourself, re-gardless of what others might have to say or think. In the end, your thoughts will be yours, your behaviors and pref-erences your own and your experiences and lessons yours to tell.
Justin Dent is a sophomore finance a n d g o v e r n m e n t a n d p o l i t i c s major and the director of student groups for the Student Government Association. He can be reached at [email protected].
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68 Mr. Baldwin 69 Molecule part 70 Liberty Bell peal 71 Poison-ivy symptom 72 Deviates 73 Travel tome
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55 Gee follower 57 Throat clearers 60 Soften 61 Europe-Asia range
62 La -- (weather worry) 63 Tavern inventory 66 Ms. Hagen of films
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citement to almost any social occasion. Indeed, others long for your company, and you usually find yourself surround-ed by admirers of one kind or another. What many may not know, however, is that you have a current of energy and passion that flows beneath the surface that informs almost everything you do, and you are often driven to challenge yourself in new ways, day after day. You are ambitious and hardworking, and you never seem to find yourself in a situation that is not of your making. You have a way of re-maining in control, even when circumstances do not favor your endeavors. You are a free spirit of sorts, though you are not one of those to scoff at authority or challenge it in any overt way -- unless, of course, doing so becomes absolutely necessary to your success or survival. You enjoy the company of those who are different from your-self. Also born on this date are: Annette Funicello, actress; Sarah Bernhardt, actress; Cath-erine Deneuve, actress; Jeff Goldblum, actor; Tony Roberts, actor; Timothy Leary, profes-sor; Brian Boitano, Olympic figure skater. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corre-sponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
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By Adam OffitzerStaff writer
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose. I capitalize each word because together they amount to far more than just a catchphrase for one of the greatest television shows of all time. To fans of Friday Night Lights, the words and the show itself represent, as Time television critic James Poniewozik put it, “a love letter to American character and community.”
As a result, the phrase has been used on the cam-paign trail — heavily by Mitt Romney, and once, as a Facebook photo caption, by Barack Obama. A little more than a week ago, the creator of the Friday Night Lights movie and TV show, Peter Berg, asked Romney to stop using the phrase in a biting open letter, saying Romney’s “politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series.” However, the writer of the original book, Buzz Bissinger, endorsed Romney in a Daily Beast column before the controversy broke out, then fired back at Berg, saying “he has no idea what and who Romney is about. I find his letter uninformed and offensive.”
For this article, in the spirit of the show, politics
must be put aside. In fact, it’s frustrating for me to even mention politics when discussing Friday Night Lights. Based on the movie and book of the same name, the show aimed to capture the high-intensity atmosphere of small-town Texas high school football. But, as any critic or fan will tell you, the show wasn’t about football at all. It was a celebration and sociological anal-ysis of all elements of life — motherhood, fa-therhood, growing up, adolescence, education, love, race and friendship.
Friday Night Lights, poorly advertised as a soap opera with football at its center, was always fighting for viewers. Poor ratings were fre-quent throughout its five-season run, as people looking for soap operas usually don’t want to watch a show about football, and vice versa. But those who did watch were treated to a sprawling cast of characters, some of the best
acting on network television, a beautiful soundtrack and a gor-geously filmed drama Poniewozik referred to as “daddy’s cry time” — this show could make even the most macho men cry.
The show’s cast rotated and re-mained true to the real-world stories
taking place. Specifically, high school seniors graduated and moved on, and the show caught up with them in later seasons while introducing new members of the high school. The glue holding the show together was the relationship between
Coach Eric Taylor and his wife Tami. The Taylor marriage felt so real that viewers
developed a personal relationship with them — it was as if we were
flies on the wall in an actual household. They had petty argu-ments over trivial things, serious conversations about moving and
sending their daughter to college, an amazing back-and-forth sarcas-
tic banter and an absolute love for each other that always rose above any disputes.
The acting from Kyle Chandler (which finally, in the fifth season, earned him
a deserved Emmy) and Connie Britton (who also played the coach’s wife in the movie) is filmed in a way that makes it feel unscripted, more like a documentary than a drama.
Their marriage aside, the two characters on their own were powerful, inspirational
figures. Tami Taylor became the school principal, a force for good and fairness in an unfair education system. And Coach? Well, Coach Taylor was just something to behold. The man could give as rousing a speech as anyone, but with just one glance, glare, scowl or smile, he spoke volumes.
While it sounds silly to say this about a fictional TV show, both Taylors were something of moral philosophers, always in deep thought, always grounded within their positions of power and always doing the right thing. Coach became a father figure to nearly all the team’s players, and it almost never felt cliched or forced.
I said I would put politics aside for this article, but it’s impossible for me to avoid sharing my belief that Coach and his wife would undoubtedly have been great friends with our current president and the first lady. Much of President Obama’s cool, thoughtful demeanor is Coach Taylor-esque, and Tami had a passion for education that would cer-tainly help her bond with Michelle.
But again, politics has nothing to do with this phenomenal show. Rather than featur-ing lengthy, preachy speeches, the series’ best moments often showcased shared silences and looks. So as I close this article, please picture me giving you a quiet, firm stare and a head nod implying you should immediately watch the entire series if you haven’t already.
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monday night fightAlthough Friday Night Lights ended in 2011, Mitt Romney’s use of its slogan has kept it relevant during debate season
LASTING IMPACT | FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
By Adam OffitzerStaff writer
“In a lot of ways, I think our live show is a lot
bigger than what’s on the record,” says Hey Mar-seilles lead singer Matt Bishop. And if that’s the case, the up-and-coming band is a must-watch tonight at DC9 when they open for Sea Wolf.
“A lot of bands who use some of the instruments we use don’t necessarily bring them to their live shows,” Bishop said. “But we absolutely bring a cello and a viola and an accordion, a clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, two guitars, a bass guitar and two sets of drums.”
The seven-piece, (at least) 12-instrument
band makes huge, orchestral pop rock — and they make sure the new fans they gain on tour as an opening act will hear every single song as it is intended to sound.
The band’s sprawling debut album, To Travels & Trunks, is
filled with lush strings, horns and percussion — most notably on the song “Rio,” which earned them an NPR “Song of the Day” spot back in 2010. The band has spent years promoting To Travels & Trunks — releasing it locally in 2008, then nation-ally again in 2010 — and is now looking to release its second full-length in February.
“The record as a whole is a bit more focused,” said Bishop of the next release. “But certainly a lot of the components that people were attracted to with our first record still remain with this one.”
Bishop and his bandmates are hoping to gain fans as they travel the U.S. with Sea Wolf this fall. They’re about a week into the tour and
will hit the Northeast, Midwest and California by the middle of November.
“In Seattle, we do really well, but we haven’t really seen that translate to any other places — and that’s essentially because we haven’t pushed our music to many other places,” Bishop said. This tour is one of the band’s first national trips, and they are looking forward to playing for new audiences.
“The joy of being an opening band,” Bishop said, is that “there’s a lot less pressure. You kind of relax, take it easy, and really just try to make new fans. So it’s a lot of fun for us.”
Bishop sees an opening in the pop music world for a rising rock band making big sounds. With the recent success of artists like Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers, Hey Marseilles is hoping they can follow the same path while remaining true to their roots.
“It feels like the pop landscape currently is really interested in the type of soft rock that we produce,” Bishop said. “There’s a lot of acoustic bands out there that are doing really well on the charts.”
Bishop hopes the band’s orchestral nature ends up setting them apart “because there isn’t a lot of that out there on the market, so we have a pretty unique niche to sell.”
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carried the Terps to the brink of a landmark victory.
Devin Burns, the former wide receiver who moved to quarter-back when Brown was lost for the year, came o� the bench to spark a stagnant o� ense over the game’s fi nal two quarters. He used his speed and decep-tiveness to open up lanes for running back Wes Brown, who fi nished with 25 carries for 121 yards — the fi rst time the Terps have had a 100-yard rusher in a game this season.
Before Saturday, Burns had only seen the field twice all season. The redshirt sophomore spelled Hills momentarily at West Virginia and entered briefl y at Virginia to o� er the Terps a change of pace under center.
But against the Wolfpack, he played with the poise and confi dence of a skilled veteran. Burns used a combination of option reads and screen passes to chip away at the N.C. State defense and engineer touch-down drives on his first two second-half series.
When he dashed 2 yards into the end zone on a bootleg with 3:33 remaining in the third quarter, the announced crowd of 40,217 burst into uproar, rejoicing as the Terps cut the Wolfpack’s lead to just 17-15.
Of course, Burns was merely part of the Terps’ shocking comeback. Wide receiver Marcus Leak found room to run on screen passes and fi nished with a season-high 94 receiving yards.
Tight end Dave Stinebaugh blocked a Wolfpack punt early in the third, allowing reserve wideout Levern Jacobs to recover the ball in N.C. State territory. And a makeshift o� ensive line, the same one that allowed fi ve first-half sacks, bulldozed the Wolfpack’s front seven for long stretches throughout the second half.
“We’ve been stressing that we need to get the run game
going to try and open up the pass game and vice versa, and I think the [o� ensive line] did a great job,” Burns said. “So I just came in and did what I could for the team.”
Caleb Rowe did much of the same. The freshman signal caller, who hadn’t seen a single collegiate snap before Satur-day, stepped on the fi eld in the game’s waning moments to or-chestrate the two-minute drill.
H e n e a rl y d i re c t e d t h e ga me-w i n n i ng d rive, too. Rowe found Kevin Dorsey for a 17-yard reception, scam-pered for an 11-yard gain and let wide receiver Nigel King — who hadn’t recorded a catch yet this season — turn a short dump pass into a 33-yard catch.
All in all, the second half was a breathtaking display of confi -dence and will. The best screen-writers in Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it any better: Two reserve quarterbacks come o� the bench and lead an inexpe-rienced group to the edge of a season-defi ning victory.
But there would be no story-book ending. Kicker Brad Crad-dock’s 33-yard fi eld goal attempt with six seconds remaining hit the left upright, sending N.C. State’s bench streaming onto the Byrd Stadium field with a two-point win.
Maybe that ball striking yellow iron will be the lasting image of Saturday’s heartbreak-ing defeat. Maybe it will be Hills writhing in pain on the Byrd Stadium field after an illegal block sent his knee wayward.
But Saturday was about far more than heartache. It was about a team that came togeth-er when it mattered most. It was about a group that refuses to break — even under the most trying of circumstances.
“We competed; we didn’t give up,” wide receiver Stefon Diggs said. “Things happen; can’t do much more than cheer on your teammates and keep your head up.”
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with less than 14 minutes remaining.“Everybody came up to me at halftime
and was just like, ‘Take advantage of the op-portunity. Be ready to go,’” said Burns, who fi nished the game with 47 passing yards and 50 rushing yards. “That kind of settled me down some, so after that, I was ready to go.”
Burns wasn’t the only signal caller who got a chance in Hills’ stead, though. After Niklas Sade’s 43-yard field goal gave N.C. State a two-point lead with 32 seconds remaining, Edsall called on true freshman Caleb Rowe to lead the team’s two-minute drill.
“They were telling me through the headset, ‘Be ready to play, be ready to go in,’” Rowe said. “During the week we would do a lot of two-minute situations against our defense, and they’re very good. It wasn’t really a surprise.”
He ran the two-minute to near perfec-tion. He hit wide receiver Kevin Dorsey for a 17-yard completion, scrambled for
an 11-yard gain and found wide receiver Nigel King down the right sideline for 33 yards, setting up Craddock at the 15-yard line with six seconds left.
But Craddock’s wayward kick ended the Terps’ comeback bid.
“It’s never good when you miss one. That’s being a kicker,” Craddock said. “You hit them and people love you. You miss them and people don’t like you. There’s no medium, really. That’s part of the game. You live through it.”
It might not be easy for the Terps to live through this one, though. Despite all the positives — Burns’ emergence, Rowe’s poise and Brown’s breakout per-formance — the team su� ered through a multitude of mistakes.
Defensive end A.J. Francis and cor-nerback Dexter McDougle both dropped would-be interceptions. A lapse in the secondary allowed Wolfpack receiver Bryan Underwood to take a Mike Glennon pass 68 yards for a third-quarter touch-down. And Wes Brown’s fourth-quarter fumble ended a drive that could have salted away the Terps’ victory.
“Since my bad shoulder had the ball in it, I tried to hurry up and cover it up. And by the time contact hit, I was too late,” Brown said. “If I didn’t fumble, we wouldn’t be in that predicament.”
The most crucial mistakes, though, came from Craddock’s right leg. Despite making fi eld goals from 36 and 48 yards, Craddock missed an extra point on the Terps’ fi rst touchdown — forcing them to try a two-point conversion on their second — and missed what would have been the game-winning kick.
Despite an injury to their starting quar-terback — Hills is scheduled to undergo an MRI today — and a number of mistakes on both sides of the ball, it’s the kicker’s fi nal errant attempt that will resonate with the Terps the most.
“Double the kicks, whatever it is you’ve got to do to make sure you get the job done,” Brown said he would tell Craddock. “So next time, we’ll have more confi dence in you. We won’t have to doubt or anything.”
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getting a corner kick chance all in the span of fi ve minutes.
Florida State defender Ines Jaurena sent a hard-hit ball toward the net, but Terps defender Shannon Collins jumped up on the goal line, connecting her head with the ball and knocking it out of bounds. Just a few seconds later, midfi elder Aubrey Baker stopped another shot from Jaurena just in front of the cage.
“It was really nerve-rack-ing,” Collins said. “We did have to defend a lot today, more than we would have liked. But we did hold our own. … Defensively, we did do pretty well today.”
In the end, though, the defense didn’t have enough to keep the Seminoles off the scoreboard any longer. McCar-ty’s game-winning tally ended the Terps’ regular season in
defeat, sending them into next weekend’s ACC Tournament losers of their past two games.
As far as Morgan is con-cerned, the loss is on him. He didn’t think his players were motivated enough to play their best soccer, a task he said is his responsibility.
But his team won’t put the blame solely on its coach. And when the conference tourna-ment gets underway Sunday, Collins said they’re going to do a better job of putting a bit more responsibility on themselves.
“[Morgan] takes a lot of things to heart. It doesn’t necessarily fall on his shoul-ders as much as he’s saying it does,” Collins said. “He does need to help us get pumped and ready before the game, but we need to take it upon ourselves to do so. If we can’t do it ourselves, then no one else can really do it for us.”
you’re kidding.’ But then Keith makes a great save, and we come through in overtime.”
Outside of a 2-2 draw with then-No. 11 UCLA on Aug. 31, the Terps faced perhaps their sti� est challenge of the season Saturday. Even when the Terps have struggled early, like they did against Rutgers on Oct. 9, they’ve been able to put teams away.
But it took North Caro-lina 99 minutes to give them the right chance to end it, a process made more di� cult by a waterlogged Ludwig Field. Bands of heavy rain moved through College Park before kicko� and throughout the fi rst half, causing puddles to form on the goal lines and in the midfi eld. The start of the second half was delayed as the grounds crew used pitchforks to drain some of the water.
“The fi eld did get a little too wet, a little hard to play on,” Cardona said. “But, I mean, rain is part of soccer. You go to England, half the games are played in conditions like this.”
In the end, though, the ra i n cou ld n’t wash away the Terps’ 12-game winning streak or 14-game unbeaten span. The scoreboard still read Terps 1, UNC 0.
A nd as Ci rovsk i stood on the soaked sod, he took a moment to reflect on his 20 years as coach and the battles he’s had with the Tar Heels. For a season full of looking forward — whether it’s to the next game, an ACC Championship or a national championship — it was a rare moment of retrospection.
“This was a real classic N o . 1 v s . N o . 2 g a m e ,” Cirovski said. “It had every-thing. This is one of these nights that I’ll treasure.”
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Sports FIELD HOCKEY FALLS TO UNCThe Terrapins � eld hockey team lost, 4-3, to No. 1 North Carolina
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STATLINE
Terps running back Wes Brown’s performance in a 20-18 loss to N.C. State on Saturday
1Touchdown
25Carries
121Rushing yards
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For Terps, Not as bad as it looks
Quarterback Perry Hills su� ered a game-ending knee injury in the second quarter. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Running Back Wes Brown totaled 121 rushing yards and a touchdown on 25 carries. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Despite disappointing homecoming loss to N.C. State on Saturday, team receives noteworthy contributions from host of reserves
Perry Hills wasn’t content watching the second half of Saturday’s home-coming matchup with N.C. State on a TV screen in the Terrapins football team’s training room. With his team down, 10-3, at halftime, the freshman quarterback approached coach Randy Edsall and asked to strap on a brace and continue competing.
Never mind that Wolfpack linebacker Rickey Dowdy’s illegal block from the back had just sent Hills’ knee backward. Never mind the rookie, who was thrust into the starting job after C.J. Brown su� ered a season-ending ACL tear in August, had to be carted o� the fi eld in the waning moments of the fi rst half of an eventual 20-18 Terps defeat.
Hills was willing to do whatever he could to help his team stay atop the ACC — even if it meant risking his own safety.
“That’s what you love about him,” Edsall said in his teleconference yes-terday. “You love that he’s competitive and all those things.”
That competitiveness hardly ends with Hills, though. It’s a trait pervasive throughout Gossett Team House, one that’s become this young squad’s defi n-ing characteristic more than halfway through Edsall’s second season in College Park. No matter the circumstances, it will play hard the full 60 minutes.
That mantra has perhaps never been more evident this season than during Saturday’s second half. While Hills grappled with a potentially sea-son-ending injury, a host of reserves
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Coach Jonathan Morgan’s Terps lost to No. 1 Florida State, 1-0, at Ludwig Field yesterday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
MEN’S SOCCER
Downpour doesn’t slow TerpsTeam notches rain-soaked win vs. North Carolina, 1-0, on Friday
Morgan on defeat: ‘It goes back to me’
By Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
Nearly all at once, 7,340 people went silent Friday night.
T he boisterous crowd — the second-largest in Maryland soccer history — was nowhere to be found. Gone was the festive atmosphere that percolated for 88 minutes in a torren-tial downpour. Gone were The Crew’s usual pleasantries for visiting North Carolina. Gone were the electric-ity and vibrancy that had persisted through the fi rst-half deluge.
And in that vacuum, the Terps’ undefeated start, their top national ranking and their ACC lead hung in the balance. North Carolina forward Rob Lovejoy was lining up for a penalty kick after Terps forward Schillo Tshuma fouled him on a run in the box in the 89th minute.
At the whistle, Lovejoy took two steps to his left, as if to shoot across the goal, but instead shot to his left. Goalkeeper Keith Cardona, nearly horizontal, was there.
“He kind of over-faked it,” Cardona said moments after the No. 1 Terps notched a 1-0 win over the No. 2 Tar Heels. “I’m not going to try to write a book on it. It was a pressure situation and with God and everyone behind me, I guessed right.”
By the time Cardona hauled in North Carolina midfi elder Verneri Valimaa’s subsequent rebound shot, the raucous crowd had returned. As a low fog rolled onto the fi eld and lightning brightened the sky over nearby Byrd Stadium, a chorus of chants and yells ensued when the game entered overtime.
In the 99th minute, Tshuma de-fl ected forward Patrick Mullins’ shot past North Carolina goalkeeper Scott Goodwin, sending the Terps’ bench storming onto the fi eld in celebration with a 1-0 victory over their archrivals.
“Patrick Mullins, when he gets the ball, you’ve got to make the runs through the boxes,” Tshuma said.
“He leads the team with assists, and I just knew if I made that run, I’d be lucky to get a piece of it. Thank God I was there in the right spot at the right time.”
In a way, Tshuma’s finish was preordained. After the Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, native fouled Lovejoy in the box, midfielder and captain John Stertzer pulled him aside and told him the Terps (13-0-1, 6-0-0 ACC) were going to need him if they hoped to take down the Tar Heels (11-2-1, 4-1-1).
Said Tshuma: “He goes, ‘Schillo, you’re going to score the winning goal. Just keep going.’”
As the Terps dogpiled on the far side of the fi eld, Tar Heels players simply laid down on the wet Ludwig Field turf in shock. North Carolina entered the night on a 15-match ACC unbeaten
streak, and Goodwin hadn’t allowed a goal since Sept. 28. When Tshuma found the back of the net, it had been more than 491 minutes since Goodwin had last allowed a goal.
It’s not like the Tar Heels didn’t have their chances against a Terps backline missing star defender Taylor Kemp for the fourth straight game. In the 63rd minute, Valimaa fi red from distance but hit the cross bar, and in the third minute of over-time, forward Andy Craven’s redi-rect bounced o� the left post.
“I thought we played a great game, but we kept coming up empty,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “I kept think-ing, ‘Are they going to steal it?’ With the last couple of minutes, when they get that chance, you’re going, ‘Oh no,
Forward Schillo Tshuma (in between teammates, center) celebrates after scoring the game-winning goalin the 99th minute. The team defeated No. 2 North Carolina, 1-0, in overtime Friday. elliot kim/for the diamondback
Terps fall to No. 1 Florida State, 1-0, yesterdayBy Erin EganSenior sta� writer
For 85 m i nutes, the Terrapi ns women’s soccer team kept No. 1 Florida State at bay. Despite facing 14 shots, the team’s defense held strong, keeping its victory hopes alive throughout the afternoon.
But the No. 7 Terps could only hold on for so long. Seminoles forward Ti� any McCarty fi nally broke through in the 86th minute, netting a goal past the outstretched hands of goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands to give her team a 1-0 victory at Ludwig Field.
Coach Jonathan Morgan could only watch on from the sideline. But when the game was over, he didn’t place blame on his defense or his goalkeeper. He put the weight of the loss on his shoulders.
“It’s on me because we need to be in-spired and confi dent going out onto the fi eld, and we weren’t,” he said. “I don’t think that was our best soccer. I don’t think it was even close to our best soccer. Something was missing today and we need to fi nd out what that missing piece
was, but I think it goes back to me.”That missing piece could have been
forward Hayley Brock. The team’s top o� ensive threat — she leads the team in shots (42) and goals (10) — received a red card and was ejected for fi ghting in Thursday’s loss to Miami, making her unavailable for yesterday’s contest.
Without her, the Terps managed just six shots in the game and lost their second consecutive game — the fi rst time this season they’ve lost two games in a row.
“I don’t know how confident we were going into [yesterday’s] game and I think that ultimately rides on me,” the fi rst-year coach said. “I don’t know if I did a good job inspiring them to play today. … We didn’t have the energy and the bite we’ve had in the past, and that’s on me.”
The Terps (11-5-2, 6-3-1 ACC) did seem to have some of that energy on the defensive end, though. The Seminoles (15-1-0, 8-1-0) came out fi ring midway through the second half, launching three shots in quick succession and
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