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By Quinn KelleySenior sta� writer
EDITOR’S NOTE: An employee’s name was withheld to protect his job.
With a growing Spanish-speaking workforce and diverse campus commu-nity, university employees sometimes experience di� culty communicating with one another, prompting o� cials to increase supervisor training and English as a second language courses.
More than 100 employees, 44 of whom are enrolled this semester, have participated in ESL classes since the spring semester as part of a nine-step plan developed nearly a year and a half ago to address alleged workplace abuse, said Human Resources Direc-tor Dale Anderson. Because workers can now nominate themselves for the classes, there is a waiting list of about 35 to 40 people, and the program will likely take about 60 people in the spring, Anderson said.
“People are extremely grateful for the opportunity and believe that this is making a significant difference in their lives,” he said.
Although workplace tension and confl icts are inevitable, ESL classes and supervisor training are the fi rst steps in fostering a more inclusive workplace environment, university President Wallace Loh said.
“We are really making a lot of prog-ress, and we’ve made signifi cant invest-ments in funding to make these classes available,” he said. “I think it’s a very important factor.”
However, Loh said the ability to speak English “is not the silver bullet” in resolving confl icts, and other factors contribute to issues in the workplace — factors university o� cials are also working toward alleviating.
By Savannah Doane-MalotteSta� writer
After noticing strange bites on their bodies, several students in South Campus Commons 7 dis-covered they had bedbugs in their apartments.
Bedbugs have plagued Commons
apartments for the last couple of years. They became such a promi-nent problem that Commons o� cials added a bedbug clause to the lease in May 2011, which states students must prove their rooms are bedbug-free when their leases end. While the addendum also requires tenants take certain precautions against bedbugs,
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Counseling Center wait times draw concernsBy Sarah TincherSta� writer
EDITOR’S NOTE: A student’s name has been withheld due to the sensitive nature of her comments and to protect her privacy.
While the Counseling Center aims to provide valuable support to students in need, long wait times may hinder its capabilities, students said.
For some, the lag in booking an ap-pointment can aggravate a dangerous situ-ation. Last spring, Ashli was suffering from a prior condition she’d kept under control for a while. And one day, in the middle of class, the sophomore community health major suffered a “mental breakdown.”
“It came back full force and I didn’t
Admin. addresslang. barriersEnrollment in ESL classes increases
all you can eatSome students wish university dining plan expanded bu� et-style, gourmet options like other schools
By Bradleigh ChanceSta� writer
Drawn in by a feast of whole Maine lobster, crab bisque and cheesecake, students flocked to the North Campus Diner and South Campus Dining Hall yesterday —
a rare sight since the university opened its newest facility last year.
But today, some customers will go back to asking why every meal can’t be all-you-can-eat, students said. 251 North’s gourmet options have students trekking from as far as the edge of South Campus to cash
in on one of their few all-you-can-eat meals, though Dining Services o� cials said the other dining halls still showcase an important side of dining on this campus — a la carte.
Some students shuffle along in double-wide lines to customize their own stir-fry, pasta or wrap. See DINING, Page 2
elms has stopped working several times over the past week during prime study hours, leaving students frustrated because they could not access or turn assignments in on time. photo courtesy of elms.umd.edu
Site down during prime study hoursBy Lily HuaSta� writer
ELMS website outages during prime -time study hours throughout the past week have left many students frus-trated, and although o� cials attempted to determine and resolve the problem yesterday morning, it is still unclear whether the glitches will persist.
Division of Information Technology o� cials said they could not confi rm why the university’s Enterprise Learn-ing Management System, powered by Blackboard at two data centers in Vir-ginia, has been experiencing interrup-
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SPORTS Edsall changes up o� ensive line after continuous Hills sacks p. 8 DIVERSIONS AFI Latin American Film Fest showcases emotional dramas p. 6
See workplace, Page 3
Students report several bedbug infestations in Commons 7Tenants frustrated with Commons sta� for delaying inspections
See counseling, Page 2
ELMS has site outages
tions, primarily between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Blackboard engineers attributed the interruptions to database issues they are currently trying to resolve,
Communications and Marketing Director Phyllis Dickerson Johnson
know how to cope with it,” said Ashli. “I had never had professional help before.”
When she tried to make an appoint-ment with the Counseling Center, sta� considered her an emergency case but still scheduled her appointment for a week later, Ashli said.
“It was the longest week of my life,” she added.
After the wait was up, Ashli said, the initial appointment experience was dis-appointing. It seemed more like a casual conversation than a therapy session until the fi nal 15 minutes, she said, and though the center encouraged her to seek long-term treatment, it could not ac-commodate her. The center established
See ELMS, Page 3
See BEDBUGS, Page 3
Virginia Tech
Roasted leg of lamb
Peach Barbequed Shrimp
Roasted vegetable and baba ganoush calzone
Garlic mashed potatoes
North Carolina State University
Teriyaki Mini Ribs
Jumbo Ravioli w/ Wild Mushroom Sauce
Mac and Cheese Bar
Greek Salad
Assorted Cakes, Pies & Soft Serve
Jumbo Ravioli w/ Wild
& Soft Serve
University of Maryland
Ziti Pasta in a creamy tomato meat sauce
Greek Style Roasted Summer Vegetables
Grilled Beef Soft Taco with Tomatillo Salsa
Roasted Tomatoes
Chocolate Mint Brownie orFresh Fruit
Customers can stop at di� erent sta-tions to recreate a hefty Thanksgiv-ing meal from Cluckers or an Italian family dinner at Luigi’s. Other stu-dents, driven by a sense of adventure or thriftiness, sample the daily value
such as not bringing in furniture from o� the street and notifying manage-ment if they believe there may be an infestation in their apartment, stu-dents have still found themselves facing the same problems this year.
Commons Director Gina Brasty did
photo illustration by shinduk seo/the diamondback
BEDBUG PROCEDURESeveral students in Commons 7 complained of bedbugs in their apartments.
If a room is being inspected:
1. Commons sta� schedules three inspections, each one to two weeks apart2. All clothes and linens must be packed3. Furniture must be moved away from the walls4. Residents must vacate their apartments for � ve hours
meals, through which Dining Ser-vices draws on a variety of cuisines to create a different pairing every day of the week — sesame chicken wings and lemon meringue pie; Kentucky breaded basa fish and shrimp jambalaya rice with chocolate cake; sloppy joe sliders and fruit.
But since last fall, the advent of an all-you-can-eat facility has often overshadowed many of those options, students said, despite Dining Servic-es’ efforts to make the older, a la carte dining halls as appealing as possible.
“All of the dining halls should be like 251,” said freshman journalism major Emily Goldman. “I’m sure there would be ways for Dining Services to figure it out.”
It wasn’t always a struggle, said Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple. Though dining plans were ex-clusively all-you-care-to-eat in 1985, a two-year experiment with introducing the option of a la carte meals reduced the number of students choosing a buffet-style option to less than 10 percent, he said.
Those individuals were the more frequent, heavier eaters, Hipple said, meaning the lighter eaters were sub-sidizing their dining.
But with students once again clam-oring for more variety, the department made its first major change in years with the addition of 251 North, follow-
ing a trend in universities fine-tuning their dining systems. For example, Vir-ginia Tech, ranked first out of 52 top schools for campus dining by The Daily Meal, opened a new dining center this semester, boasting a Bruegger’s Bagels walk-up window, full-service sushi counter and fresh crepes and gelatos.
While both schools offer a la carte options, some institutions’ dining plans are driven by the all-you-can-eat system. North Carolina State Uni-versity gives its students a set number of buffet-style meals per week and “equivalency points” to spend on convenience shop goods, quick-serve restaurants on campus and takeout orders at any of its dining halls.
Daniel Ahern, a sophomore engi-neering major at North Carolina State University, said he wouldn’t change a thing about his dining plan.
“If you want just a regular dining hall meal, you can just swipe in and get whatever you want,” Ahern said. “We have these things called equivalences, which allow us to buy a certain amount of food at fast food places on campus without spending money outside of our plans.”
But what works for some universi-ties is not always the best option for others, Hipple said.
“We’re in a big city,” he said. “It’d be different if we were surrounded by a smaller town, like Georgia Tech.”
While some students may want all dining halls to mimic 251 North, Hipple said the majority appreciate
having a variety of options, including the freedom to get their meal to go.
“If we were to only do all-you-can-eat all the time, we couldn’t do carry out,” Hipple said.
Sophomore Nick Ruiz, enrolled in letters and sciences, said he has found the best of both worlds in the all-cam-pus plan, which allows students in at least their third semester to spend their dining points at dining halls, Adele’s, convenience shops, cafes and Stamp Student Union.
“The biggest perceived benefit of the all-campus dining plans is that none of the points are tied to any particular location,” Hipple said. “If the student is willing to accept points with variable value, the student can choose to eat at any Dining Services venue.”
Ruiz said he prefers the all-campus plan after spending his freshman year short on enough points to eat a full lunch or dinner throughout the week.
“I don’t know why they don’t give the option to the freshmen,” Ruiz said. “I guess they assume kids won’t know how to budget their points when they’re first starting out.”
City gets 24-hour shipping stationShopping center one of first locations of USPS initiative, gopostBy Lily HuaStaff writer
The U.S. Postal Service brought its latest innovation to College Park last week with “gopost,” a kiosk that allows people to mail packages while bypassing the hassle of restrictive store hours and long lines.
The city’s gopost station, one of only three in the state, is open 24 hours a day at its location across from The Varsity and University View apart-ment buildings in the Campus Village Shopping Center. Customers can both deliver and retrieve packages by using the station’s touchscreen to access its locker, providing students and area residents an alternative to the post office or Stamp Student Union’s Ter-rapin Shipping and Mailing store.
Customers can register online for a gopost account and then use their account number or access card and a PIN to use an individual locker at any
gopost station. People can either leave packages with prepaid postage and a barcode in a secure box or have pack-ages shipped to the unit, according to the USPS website. The system also uses email and text notifications.
USPS launched its pilot program in Virginia and has since expanded the concept to Montgomery and Prince George’s counties late last month.
The city became one of the program’s first locations because postal service of-ficials knew there would be many students in the area, said USPS acting communica-tions specialist Andrea Burrows, and that it would be a test of its popularity.
“It’s innovative, cutting-edge, and convenient,” she added.
Though the kiosk is about a 20-minute walk from Stamp, it may fill a gap for stu-dents looking to send out parcels over the weekend, when some facilities such as Terrapin Shipping and Mailing are closed, manager Rico Ashab said.
“I can see the convenience in it, but I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary,” Ashab said. “We’re open until 7 and that’s later than most postal offices.”
Many people, especially students and professors, are still too pressed for time to do their mailing at Stamp between classes, said senior kinesiology major Jeffery Ung.
“Students have classes until 6 or 7, which means they wouldn’t be able to go until after classes,” Ung said.
The gopost location’s proximity to
several apartment buildings and shopping centers was an extra draw, students said.
“It’d be beneficial for upperclassmen and graduate students off campus because it’s a hike to walk to Stamp,” said senior psychology major Roma Rajput.
Montrose Crossing Shopping Center and 154 Congressional Lane in Rock-ville also feature new gopost units. While many students rarely send physical mail, Ung said, the gopost could prove to be a good investment.
“I don’t use [traditional] mail anymore; I pay most of my bills online,” said Rajput, “but for those who are still using [tradi-tional] mail, it’d be beneficial.”
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Muslims Without Borders starts second CANpaignGroup aims to spread awareness, fight poverty and homelessness in Washington area
By Lucy WestcottFor The Diamondback
As it kicks off its first semester as an official group on the campus, this univer-sity’s Muslims Without Borders chapter is on a mission to help feed the hungry and raise awareness about local poverty.
Tuesday night, the group launched the second campuswide CANpaign food drive with a screening in Stamp Student Union of Baltimore, We Love You, a docu-mentary highlighting poverty, sex traf-ficking, human rights and homelessness in Baltimore. Attendees were invited to bring donated cans of food if they wished, all of which would go toward the Wash-ington- and Virginia-based Capital Area Food Bank. That night, the group col-lected a total of 20 cans.
“The event was great, we had a great turnout and people from UMBC and local community colleges came as well,” said community health and psychology major Aisha Hussain, who serves as the chapter’s president. “We hope to raise awareness about poverty within our own community, as Balti-more is essentially our own backyard.”
The Muslims Without Borders chapter grew out of the Muslim Students As-sociation, which ran the first CANpaign drive last year and donated more than 10
tons of food to East Africa. While most of the MSA’s past fundraising efforts were focused toward international issues, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Syrian and Libyan revolutions, Dania Shafei, Muslims Without Borders vice presi-dent and sophomore biology major, said members of her chapter are “thinking globally, working locally.”
“We want people to see how they are changing the world,” Shafei said.
Mawish Raza, a co-director of Balti-more, We Love You and a recent gradu-ate of UMBC, was present for Tues-day’s screening. She said the purpose behind the film was to empower student groups like Muslims Without Borders to take action to address issues in their own communities.
“Poverty is a toxic disease that impacts most urban cities,” Raza said. “The hope for this film is to have it be
used as a tool to bring student orga-nizations and established non-profits together as well as help identify a suit-able policy solution.”
Starting today, the group will set up boxes outside the North Campus Snack ‘n’ Shop, 24 Hour Shop and the Commons Shop to collect food donations from students through next Thursday.
Muslims Without Borders made sandwiches for members of the Washington community for Project Downtown. Tuesday night, the group started the second campuswide CANpaign food drive by screening a film on poverty, human rights and homelessness in Baltimore, bringing in 20 cans. photo courtesy of aisha hussain
her as non-suicidal, and though staff encouraged her to seek long-term treatment, she said the center could not offer her weekly appoint-ments for 12 months.
Securing a follow-up appoint-ment after the first meeting can take anywhere from a week to a month, Counseling Center Director Sharon Kirkland said. Wait times may fluctuate because of time of year, the students’ availability or his or her preference in therapist, but the center strives to provide quality counseling to each student who comes through its doors, she said.
“I wasn’t suicidal anymore,” Ashli said. “I was only considering dropping out of college, which isn’t an emergen-cy, apparently. … The wait times have deterred me from wanting to go back to that, and it seemed like things that were important to me weren’t neces-sarily as important to them.”
The center has seen a 12 percent increase in students seeking services from last year, Kirkland said, but they have no additional staff members to account for the extra services, which include career counseling and services for emergencies, academics, disabili-ties, testing and research. Kirkland is currently in the process of working with the student affairs vice president to hire more counselors.
“We really work to make sure we’re meeting the needs of the students here,” said Kirkland. “I don’t want students to feel the minute they come in here they’re put on a waitlist.”
Others who turned to the resource reported they had better luck — senior criminology and criminal justice major Zahra Ahmed said she had “a good experience overall.”
As with Ashli, the center consid-ered Ahmed an emergency patient when she called for the first time this February, and she had her intake ap-pointment within a week of the call. She, too, came off emergency status after her initial appointment.
Unlike Ashli, though, Ahmed began seeking a therapist weekly within only two weeks of her initial appointment.
“All students who come in are given an intake appointment within two weeks,” Kirkland said. The intake appointment would give them a de-termination of whether the student needs further counseling or therapy.
Active Minds co-President Jen Robinson said the university should place more emphasis “on the mental health services and getting people the help that they need.”
Senior psychology major and Active Minds member Molly Brown agreed.
“They’re doing the best they can with the resources they have,” she said. “I just wish they had more resources.”
But Ashli said a wealth of resources is not helpful if students cannot access them, either in initial evaluations or long-term therapy.
“I think the execution of it could be better,” Ashli said.
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A dining services employee serves up a lobster to a waiting student at the South Campus Dining Hall. Although a variety of options and regularly scheduled themed dinners draw crowds of students, many still said they prefer the all-you-can-eat system at the one-year-old 251 North. christian jenkins/for the diamondback
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Gopost, a U.S. Postal Service program that allows customers to send and receive packages 24-7, is piloting one of its first locations in the city: in Campus Village Shopping Center acoss from the Varsity and View apartment buildings. The free locker system requires an account number and PIN. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
“We’re in a big city. It’d be different if we were surrounded by a smaller town, like Georgia Tech.”
BART HIPPLEDining Services spokesman
Researchers work to improve hearing implant design$130,000 auditory lab in Morrill Hall one of few of its kind worldwide; focuses on sharpening device’s sound qualityBy Savannah Doane-MalotteStaff writer
University researchers are working toward improving the lives of people with cochlear implants, specifically those with two, in an on-campus lab, one of the few labs of its kind in the world.
The research conducted in the ap-proximately $130,000 Auditory Percep-tion and Modeling Lab in Morrill Hall focuses on further improving the hearing of people with cochlear implants, which are surgically implanted devices that provide the ability to perceive sounds to
deaf and hard of hearing people. Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Matthew Goupell, who heads the research, said his goal is to try to solve problems such as difficulty hearing in certain environments and issues with sound quality.
“We have one of the best collections of researchers in the U.S.,” Hearing and Speech Sciences Department Chairwom-an Nan Bernstein Ratner said. “Cochlear implants are a tremendous invention, but we’re trying to fix their flukes.”
Much of the research entails refining how the two implants communicate with each other in order to give patients better
sound quality. People with cochlear im-plants also have difficulties hearing in certain environments, Goupell said.
“Hearing with a cochlear implant is much different from normal hearing,” he said. “[The implants] are far from perfect and need to be improved greatly.”
The Hearing and Speech Sciences Department completed construction in June on the lab, which is one of the few in the world specializing in dual cochlear implant research. The research facility, which was sponsored by the National Institute of Health and the university, took a year to build; construction began
“Just because you both speak the same language … doesn’t mean that all of your normal human conflicts are going to dis-appear,” he said.
Loh and Solomon Comissiong, the president of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, both said issues that may arise from cultural or language barriers are not unique to the state or the university. Instead, it is a rising trend as the country becomes more diverse and accumulates more native Spanish speakers.
“These kinds of workplace issues, what I call the normal conflicts among human beings that come from differ-ent backgrounds, just permeates all of society,” Loh said.
Comissiong said he has spoken to workers who have been subjected to “xenophobic attacks” and racial- and cultural-based epithets.
“I know for a fact that countless members of our campus community that are low-wage workers that are also immigrants have complained about this,” he said.
Loh said a source of tension in the workplace could stem from work ethic. He said many immigrants tend to work more hours than other employees because they generally want to make a new life for themselves and their children in America, which could cause bitterness among employees who do not consis-tently work 12- to 14-hour days.
“They work hard. They are good workers. And sometimes that causes resentment,” Loh said.
The solution to conflicts that come from language, racial or cultural dif-ferences, Comissiong said, is to work as a campus toward a more inclusive community, which means workers, administrators and students need to cultivate an atmosphere of apprecia-tion and understanding.
“Because those courses are still not widespread, it is a step. It is a step in the right direction towards meeting one of the demands that the Black Faculty and Staff Association put out there,” he said. “It’s important that [ESL] courses are provided so that these individuals not just maneuver better on campus, but can go certain places in society.”
A Dining Services employee said although he has seen minor commu-nication issues arise in the workplace, there are not significant difficulties that result from cultural differences or language barriers.
“You will always find that there will be misunderstandings,” he said. “They’re not major problems.”
The burden shouldn’t rest entirely on Spanish-speaking employees, Co-missiong said — native English speakers should also work on learning or improv-ing their Spanish or other additional languages to improve communication.
“Language is the cornerstone to any-one’s culture,” he said. “That’s one of those ways for us to take progressive steps.”
Residential Facilities employee and Justice at Maryland coalition member Don Mitchell said he had not recently seen any issues stemming from race, culture or language, but he believed these issues still occurred on the campus.
“Many things that I’ve seen personally occur haven’t been recent, but I have no reason to believe anything they’ve done has changed that,” he said.
Commons Shop supervisor Vicky Mendez said communication can some-times be difficult, because many of her employees are from Ethiopia, El Sal-vador, Guatemala and Haiti, and both their and her second language is English. While it can be hard to always commu-nicate in English rather than Spanish, French and Amharic, they try to explain things to each other as best they can, she said.
“We always try to understand each other,” she said.
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not respond to requests for comment. Brasty sent an email to Commons resi-dents at about 10:45 p.m. last night to let them know there have been reports of bedbugs and to submit a work order if they suspect a problem.
Joe Oudin, a junior criminology and criminal justice and government and politics major, said he and his room-mates first realized their room was in-fested during the second week of school, when they discovered mysterious bites on their bodies.
“It was kind of shocking to think that we could have this problem,” Oudin said. “I didn’t feel comfortable being in my own apartment.”
He and his roommates immediately reported the problem to Commons staff, but were disappointed when they did not receive a response until three days later. Once the staff sent in an exterminator, Oudin said he was discouraged when the worker refused to answer questions regarding the extermination, instead referring the students to Commons staff for answers.
“I think there has been a big lack of communication between the students and Commons,” he said. “They haven’t really been able to tell us anything.”
Senior physiology and neurobiology major Raevathi Ramadorai had a similar experience in her Commons 7 apart-ment. She said she reported the problem Sept. 17 after her roommate had been noticing bug bites since the beginning of the semester. After exterminators failed to find anything in their first two inspections, Ramadorai later found and
captured a bedbug in her apartment to prove it was infested.
“I was really mad when I first found out,” she said. “I still don’t understand why it took Commons staff so long to discover this; I’m really surprised at how poorly they dealt with it.”
Once a bedbug problem has been con-firmed, Commons staff schedules three exterminations — each one to two weeks apart. For exterminators to carry out the extermination, all clothes and linens must be packed, furniture has to be moved away from the walls and residents must vacate their apartments for five hours, Oudin said.
“The exterminators were pretty much on their own schedules,” said Evan Schro-eder, a junior architecture major whose
apartment was also infested. “It was very inconvenient — my room-mates and I basically had to live out of garbage bags for three weeks.”
Students also said they had never directly been told the cause of the bedbugs and Commons staff members have blamed students for the problem, saying they were bring-ing pests from their homes.
“They have tried to play this issue down as isolated but I really don’t think it is,” Oudin said. “The staff just doesn’t want to accept any responsibility.”
Students said they have been trying to receive compensation for the problems the bedbugs have
several students living in South Campus Commons 7 said they have experienced bedbug problems in their apartments this semester. christian jenkins/the diamondback
wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, this was an un-
planned outage, so we weren’t able to make any prior notifications,” Johnson wrote. “Our ELMS, powered by Black-board, has not experienced a service dis-ruption of this kind for about two years.”
Blackboard engineers were notified of the first service interruption on the evening of Sept. 23 and began trying to identify and resolve the issues, Johnson said. However, problems with logging in and loading pages remained, and stu-dents continued to face periodic outages and glitches on the evenings of Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.
“There is no excuse for ELMS to be down, especially after it was down a few
days ago,” said sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Ben Sandberg.
Although the university has utilized Blackboard for several years, officials decided to transition from Blackboard to Canvas, a cloud-based learning-management platform, before these incidents. Cloud-based services often better accommodate a varied number of users at any given time, which would avoid a great number of service inter-ruptions, Johnson said.
“We are hopeful that transitioning to Canvas in January 2013 will alleviate some of these service interruptions,” she wrote.
Blackboard held a scheduled emer-gency server maintenance yesterday morning at about 2 a.m. to attempt to resolve the website’s issues. However, students said they were wary of whether the server maintenance will permanently
fix the glitches, since the first attempt hadn’t yielded any positive results.
“They will continue to reassure us that it will be fixed, but I’m pretty sure that it will get worse before it gets better,” said Sonny Maeng, a junior business and psychology major.
Because ELMS hasn’t experienced such a widespread problem for a few years, many students were caught off-guard by the continuation of the outage from night to night. Some also said the timing was especially unfor-tunate, as many students are preparing for midterm exams.
“I was hit blindsided by it,” said Sand-berg. “If I had known, I would have downloaded [course documents] to my computer beforehand.”
Because ELMS is an integral part of student learning, where professors upload course documents, assign online
photo courtesy of chavia groveman
christian groups come together for religious revival
With more than 35 different Christian groups on the campus, it’s not uncommon for the various ministries to find themselves isolated from one another. However, several religious leaders sought to change that last week, and over the course of three nights, about 250 students from at least 12 campus ministries gathered together for a campuswide religious revival.
For more of Timothy Ryan’s story, check out www.diamondbackonline.com.
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in the summer of 2011 in Morrill Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the campus.
The research is attracting participants both locally and nationally, with the lab already observing and conducting tests on 20 volunteers. More than 188,000 people worldwide have cochlear im-plants, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. Goupell said he believes about 2 percent of the nation’s population with cochlear implants has two implants.
“I think that cochlear implant re-search is a very important contribution to hearing science,” Bernstein Ratner
said. “This is very cutting edge, and I’m very happy that the university gets to be a part of that.”
Goupell said he hopes the research will ultimately help deaf or hearing-impaired people to no longer be handicapped by their disability.
“Not being able to have a conversa-tion in a restaurant because it’s so noisy is far from ideal,” he said. “We’re trying to improve quality of life, and we want people to be able to do what normal people do.”
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caused, but staff has maintained it will not receive any, students said. Students were not required to pay for the exterminator.
Since bedbugs spread quickly, students said they hope the extermi-nations will end the outbreak before they’ve spread to other Commons apartments or campus buildings. The tenants who have seen exter-minators said the situation has im-proved in their apartments.
“Since the ending of the treat-ments, we have not had any more bedbugs — knock on wood,” Schro-eder said.
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homework and provide lecture slides, students were quick to notice the problems the site was experienc-ing. Many students were forced to adjust their study schedules to ac-commodate the sporadic windows where ELMS was running properly.
“The fact that it happens means that someone, much like myself, will have to stay up later until the outage is over to do an assignment,” Maeng said.
Johnson said students should im-mediately contact ELMS support or call OIT when the system malfunc-tions to expedite service restoration.
“When we become aware of sustained service disruptions, we usually alert faculty members as soon as possible,” she wrote.
A life full of passion and focus
With limited time, prioritize your pursuits
NADAV KARASOV
The immediate future of athletics at this university depends on the whims of a couple of twins in
Houston. By the end of the night, Aaron and Andrew Harrison will have fi nally decided whether they will play at Comcast Center next season, with John Calipari at the University of Kentucky or surprise the basketball world and choose Southern Methodist University. If they commit to playing in College Park, it could completely transform the program — and the fan base.
But the long-term future — of not just the men’s basketball team, but the entire athletic department — hinges on much larger issues: lagging attendance, lackluster per-formance and strained funds. The narrative has been well-chronicled by both this editorial board and the athletic department itself: The de-partment has not been able to gen-erate the broad support and success — financially or athletically — it needs and expects to sustain itself.
Instead of relying solely on the impulses of teenagers and 20-some-things, it fi nally looks like the uni-versity has put forth a clearer plan for the future.
On Sept. 27, the university re-leased a fi ve-year strategic plan for the athletic department, featuring a 36-page interactive multimedia version online. A few noteworthy goals in the plan include e� orts to increase the Terrapin Club Annual Fund and major gift fundraising, broaden the career development program for student-athletes and
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formalize an o� cial student fan club.The first two proposals seem
straightforward — balancing the budget and improving the educational oppor-tunities for student-athletes should defi nitely be priorities. Of course, these plans bear no weight if there is no fol-low-through in all of these grand plans.
Which leads us to the third proposal: creating an official student fan club. The university hopes to develop the student fan base into an organized club
to support varsity sports, in particular football and men’s basketball.
Modeled after similar groups at other universities, the club could mobilize students toward committing them-selves more wholeheartedly to attending athletic events — boosting attendance and school pride in the process. With proper execution and marketing by the department, there’s reason to believe this can work.
Based on initial feedback from members of UMD Crew (the Maryland soccer fan club) and other students in-terviewed in a Diamondback article yes-terday, this specifi c plan has generated tempered enthusiasm at best. Students may doubt whether it’s possible to du-
plicate the passion of a few dedicated fans for a much larger club or convince students to spread their passion across multiple sports.
What’s the downside? Worst-case scenario, the club has a marginal e� ect on attendance.
But if o� cials could garner enough students to form a substantial fan club, it could transform the way students view football, basketball and other less-popular sports. Byrd Stadium hasn’t averaged more than 50,000 fans in fi ve years, while attendance at men’s basketball games has decreased every year during that same stretch of time. If this university hopes to retain its reputation as a campus featuring some of the most passionate fans in the country, those numbers need to change. For students claiming an or-ganized club would hamper student enthusiasm for varsity sports, right now it’s questionable whether we have any in the fi rst place.
The proposed club — along with the entire fi ve-year plan — is necessary, but not a su� cient step toward improving athletic performance and culture at this university. O� cials should continue to seek alternative solutions to encour-age greater fan support and prove its strategy is more than a series of empty talking points.
For numerous reasons, fans don’t come out to athletic events like they did in the past. But if the elimination of seven varsity programs was the low point for athletics at this university, hopefully today — and this strategic plan — will mark the beginning of a new era.
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The � ve-year strategic plan — and the speci� c proposal of a club for student fans —
will help lead the athletic department into a better era.
JOEY LOCKWOOD/the diamondback
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Rest assured, you’ve got prospects. At no other time in life can you so fluidly choose professional inter-ests, new friends, sexual partners or random activities to fi ll your schedule. It’s precious time because if life is like a poker game, eventually you have to go for it with the hand you’re dealt. The freedom to do whatever you want will slowly erode and before you know it you’ll have kids, a gut and a bunch of work tying you down.
If you hate poker analogies, I’ll put it like this: At some point or another, you need to defi ne what you want to get out of college. This could mean taking the most challenging route possible or enjoying the freedom available all around us. If you prefer shenanigans with friends, getting drunk and having time to spend af-ternoons napping on the mall, do these things with full confi dence — a passionless nap is hardly a nap at all.
You might prefer spending your time planning your future career rather than scheduling naps. For those ambitious students out there, you have a decision to make: You can diversify your interests and pursue the Renaissance man/woman lifestyle or fi nd your jam and pour your passion into a single endeavor. If you want to succeed, choose the latter.
Trying out new clubs and activi-ties is a critical part of the personal growth and exploration necessary for people to find what inspires them. Freshmen and sophomores unsure of what they want out of college should especially seek out as many opportu-nities as possible — it’s unlikely you
entered college with your life plan already laid out.
Diversifying your interests is great, but at a certain point you limit your-self to only skimming the surface of what you’re capable of accomplishing.
Passion is a limited reservoir, so deciding how to dedicate your time and energy is key. It’s a terrible mis-conception to think of life as a giant resume — you are not defi ned by what you can say you did, but what you’re capable of doing in the future. Rather than stuffing your resume, leave college with tangible, applicable and direct experience for your future, whatever that might entail.
This means immersing yourself in your unique college experience. If you have a designated number of hours for extracurricular activities, divvying up your time between various groups and projects could theoretically lead to tremendous success in everything you do. More likely, you’ll spread your-self thin and fail to obtain the type of success you could have reached if you had fully committed to one pursuit.
Dedicating yourself to one project — whether it’s intensive research with a professor, joining an improvisation troupe, starting a new student group or creating a business — will leave you with a stronger narrative than if you sprinkle your cover letters with as many activities as possible.
To borrow a cliche sports analogy, if you want to perform at the next level, you have to separate yourself from the competition with one elite skill or talent. Rather than trying to be good at everything, work to excel at one thing.
N a d a v K a r a s o v i s a j u n i o r economics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
I’m from Howard County, where we choose civility and everyone attends Friday night football games under our $1.1 million lights with near-religious regularity. We’re pushed with militant authority that we must be the best at all times, starting when our parents choose where we’re going to preschool, which, based on their attitudes, you would think directly determines if we go to an Ivy League college or not. We’re trained to shoot for perfec-tion every time, and when we don’t meet those lofty goals, we’re losers. We have failed. We have not met the expectations set before us by society, by our parents and, over time, by our own perceptions. I don’t live on some remote island — this happens in counties all over the U.S., to which I’m sure plenty of students at this university can attest.
Some time last year, I was hanging out with a friend taking organic chem-istry, a class I had passed with a “C” the semester before. He, too, was on the cusp of getting a “C,” which among science majors is on par with
contracting leprosy. He anxiously ex-plained to me that if he were to get a “C” in this class, he would never be able to fulfill his dreams of going to medical school and becoming a doctor. I posed the question: Did he really think every single licensed doctor who has ever practiced modern medicine never earned a “C” as an undergraduate? It is as if one strike means you’re out, and getting a “C” in “orgo” — arguably the most di� cult class o� ered in the biology major — equates to the destruction of all his dreams.
If this sounds like an overreaction, don’t be fooled. It isn’t, and it certainly isn’t particular to science majors. But this is what we’ve been taught — anything less than perfection means you better start looking for a cardboard box on some street corner on which to settle down.
J.K. Rowling gave an amazing com-mencement speech to Harvard’s 2008 graduating class, titled “The Fringe Benefi ts of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” She talked about her pre-Harry Potter life, in which she struggled every day to find enough money to feed herself and her daugh-ter. But if she had achieved fame and glory without the struggle preceding it, she would have taken her success for granted. Rowling was not born a celebrity. She took a path less trav-eled, one she likely never expected or
wanted. Her successes were dependent on her failures. In her speech, she said, “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. … I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daugh-ter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
We use the word failure to describe nearly our every move. Any time we don’t fulfi ll our goals and expectations, we mark it as a failure. Relationships, new hobbies, classes, sports — the list goes on. But as educated people living in the 21st century, we are more powerful and capable than we can ever know. We are more than the sum of our mistakes, misfortunes and stumbles. Perhaps we should start to see mistakes as human and normal. If we were to excel at ev-erything all the time, we would lose our compassion. We would forsake our ability to empathize with those who aren’t able to succeed as well or as quickly as we do. We would no longer be able to laugh at ourselves and see our foibles as humorous. Is the price of “success” really worth that?
Sarah Gordon is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Failure is a beautiful thing Falling short of your goals is not a character fl aw; it’s part of the
process of ultimately achieving greater success.
SARAH GORDON
Loss of controlBlocking out your feelings will only lead to unhealthy obsessions and dissatisfaction
CAMILLA YANUSHEVSKY
We call ourselves daredevils, con-vince ourselves we are fearless and rewatch the same motivational speech-es. To an extent, we love hearing about tragedies because the sense of catharsis is uplifting.
But in reality, we are a country of alcoholics, drug addicts, hoarders, gamblers, compulsive shoppers and binge-ers — all battling obsession.
Some engulf themselves in their work 24/7, while others spend endless hours in the gym perfecting their phy-sique. Some silence their conscience with alcohol, while others infl ate their lungs trying to avoid another sleepless night. And there are quite a few taking on more extreme measures — starving, cutting and even suicide.
We stopped listening to news. With our little free time, we’d rather tune into The Real Housewives of New Jerseyor The Bachelorette. Ironically enough, these let us temporarily disengage with reality.
We retreat to the manipulation of our memories. We are drawn to the comfort of control — of the information we receive and, ultimately, what we do to our bodies. For some, the process can be quite addicting. It can involve exert-ing authority over family and friends, whether by deciding how to spend their money or whom they talk to.
And we are all guilty of it, to varying degrees.
Humans have always and will always need control. For certain people, it is a means to freedom; for others, it is a defense mechanism for feelings of pow-erlessness. In reality, the control we do
fi nd is a substitute for the loss we’ve en-countered in our lives — the person who broke our heart, the best friend who passed away or our crushed dreams. It’s a substitute for our emotions.
We have become so adept at masking our insecurities, putting on the Vase-line smiles and giving those feeble hugs. Whether it is due to evolution or to cultural norms, this adeptness has reached the point where the idea of vulnerability — the risk of showing sadness, anger or frustration — is taboo.
I suppose vulnerability means you might seem human.
Real freedom means losing the control we perceive we have. It means recognizing we are not perfect, we make mistakes and what might seem pleasing in the short-term can create a vicious cycle in the long-term.
Drinking, doping, hoarding, gam-bling, shopping and binging all create failed illusions of life. Time scares us, and having nothing to do leaves us with our thoughts. For some bizarre reason, having time to resolve our inner con-fl icts is a bad thing.
We shouldn’t be obsessing over cheating our emotions. We should be seeking the stability self-disclosure presents. Practically speaking, a life without superfi ciality does not exist. So, escape.
Go away from the world and first acknowledge the feelings to yourself. Second, strive to live a life not of restraint or indulgence, but of moderation.
My older sister has this expression, which has stuck with me: Your body is a temple, so treat it as such.
Camilla Yanushevsky is a junior fi nance major. She can be reached at [email protected].
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PREVIEW | AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
By Warren ZhangSenior staff writer
The American Film Institute’s Latin American Film Festival has offered Washingtonians a taste of modern Latino cinema for the past 23 years. AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, the host of the festival, has screened selected films from the lineup for us in advance of their festival premieres.
La Sirga
The howling wind has a near constant pres-ence in La Sirga, a haunting portrait of an im-poverished community in the Andes Moun-tains. La Sirga is a challenging film; its austere direction and deliberate pace seek to create and sustain a mood rather than tell a story.
Debut director William Vega possesses
an impressive knack for capturing the tex-tures and feel of a setting. The film is packed with precisely composed shots of dilapidated housing and gray wilderness, like some-thing out of an Andrei Tarkovsky or Terrence Malick film.
Much like those influences, Vega takes a rather oblique approach to storytelling. The plot is threadbare – Alicia flees her destroyed village, seeking refuge with her uncle and bringing with her sexual tension and emo-tional baggage.
Rather than drive the film forward through plot, Vega presents an increasingly sinister procession of images and revelations. La Sirga’s greatest strength lies in this flow, offering an almost dream-like (or perhaps nightmare-like) mood and tone alongside its simple but affecting story of war and trauma.
A heartwarming film this ain’t, but La Sirga
is made with compassion and respect for the inhabitants of its Colombian hell.
La Sirga will play at AFI Silver on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12.
The Delay
As a study of the ravages of age and a depic-tion of one woman’s attempts to keep her family together, The Delay is frequently moving and heartbreaking.
Director Rodrigo Pla (The Desert Within) shoots the film thoughtfully and with an eye for gor-geous framing. Pla makes good use of setting and ambient sound effects to communicate interior moods and frustrations efficiently and effectively. At times, The Delay evokes the calculated cold-ness and precision of a Michael Haneke film, with similarly desperate characters to boot.
Unfortunately, some convoluted writing
holds T he Delay back from masterpiece status. Though the dialogue may play better in Spanish, the English translation is frus-tratingly bland. There’s no real eloquence or flow to the often repetitive and redundant conversations, doubtlessly compounded by the actors’ rather monotonous line reading.
The plot, which follows a harried single mother struggling to manage her family while keeping her elderly, senile father safe, moves along nicely until a plot twist threatens to spiral the film toward wholly melodramatic territory.
Pla, however, has the gumption to never push things too far and manages to keep The Delay grounded in enough emotional reality throughout to make a lasting impression.
The Delay will play at AFI Silver on Sunday at 7:15 p.m. and Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.
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By Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
During wins over Virginia Tech and Georgia State, the Terrapins men’s soccer team was missing a key member of its stingy backline.
Defender Taylor Kemp was side-lined during those two late-Septem-ber victories with a nagging leg injury, forcing the Terps to start Jordan Cyrus — who had played forward at times this year — on the backline. The defense didn’t miss a beat, record-ing shutouts in both contests.
When Kemp returned at College of Charleston on Saturday, though, he made his presence known. The senior captain notched two assists in the 3-2 come-from-behind victory. In the 66th minute, he tallied an assist on reserve forward David Kabelik’s fi rst collegiate goal. Kemp also set up defender London Woodberry’s game-winning goal in the 84th minute on a free kick.
“It was good,” Woodberry said of Kemp’s return. “Taylor is a quality player.”
It’s not the first time this season Kemp has helped pace a Terps come-
back. The team fell behind N.C. State in the fi fth minute Sept. 14 before re-cording three straight goals over a 20-minute span starting near the end of the fi rst half. Kemp assisted two of those goals, too, as the Terps defeated the Wolfpack, 3-2.
Kemp ranks second on the team with fi ve assists, trailing only forward Patrick Mullins’ team-leading six. Kemp also ranks fifth nationally in assists per game (0.71).
STILL NO. 1
Despite receiving a scare from unranked College of Charleston, the Terps retained their No. 1 ranking in this week’s NSCAA top-25 poll.
The Terps garnered 21 of a possible 23 fi rst-place votes, with No. 2 Con-necticut receiving the other two. In the previous two polls, the Terps re-ceived 22 such votes.
The Terps are one of three ACC teams ranked in the poll. North Caro-lina checks in at No. 6, while Wake Forest is No. 15. Tomorrow night’s opponent, Virginia, is receiving votes.
“You always take pride in being No. 1,” coach Sasho Cirovski said Sept.
21. “But you learn over time to keep it in perspective and to recognize the pressure that comes with it, but also the insignifi cance of it.”
As the No. 1 team, the Terps know they have a target on their backs. Des-perate to unseat the nation’s top-ranked team, the Cougars jumped to an early lead and forced the Terps to notch their second comeback win of the year.
“You feel good about it,” Cirovski said of the No. 1 ranking after the Terps’ 2-0 victory over Virginia Tech on Sept. 21. “You feel warm and fuzzy, but you know that’s not the endgame.”
HOLDING STRONG
Mullins said last week the Terps aspired to have a top-10 nationally ranked defense. While allowing two goals — one of which Cirovski called an “uncharacteristic, soft” goal — at College of Charleston on Saturday night hurt their national standing in some categories, the Terps are still in good position to achieve that goal.
Through last weekend’s games, the Terps were tied with Monmouth for 29th in goals-against average (0.76), a mark that is third in the ACC behind
North Carolina and Wake Forest. The Tar Heels rank second nationally with a 0.32 goals-against average.
With goalkeepers Keith Cardona and Jordan Tatum combining for fi ve shutouts in nine games this season, the Terps rank No. 13 in shutout
percentage (0.56) in a tie with Ap-palachian State and Missouri State. Cardona is No. 44 in goals against average (0.83), a mark that ranks fourth in the ACC.
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Terps tallies in the first half before taking seats on the bench.
With the Terps (9-3-2) holding a comfortable cushion, little-used role players saw major minutes in the second half.
In the 53rd minute, junior midfi elder Kristen Schmidbauer launched a corner kick into the 18-yard box. Freshman midfi elder Maisie McCune headed the ball over Patriots (5-6-1) goalkeeper Taylor O’Berry’s reach, scoring her fi rst goal of the season.
“It was awesome that I had a chance
to go in and play,” said McCune, who had played just 40 total minutes enter-ing last night’s game. “It felt so natural. Schmidbauer played literally the most perfect corner ever to my head and it went right in. It felt so good.”
Freshman midfi elder Erika Joab also contributed to the fi nal tally, scoring her fi rst career goal in the 67th minute o� a more than 30-yard strike. Like McCune, Joab had only played 40 total minutes for the Terps before last night.
The Patriots’ lone goal came when goalkeeper Shannon Zickler — who only played the second half — fumbled the ball before it crossed the threshold, giving Francis Marion forward Yasmin Bunter her fi fth goal of the season.
Even though the Terps’ second- and third-stringers saw a lot of time last night, the team held Francis Marion to just three shots. The Terps, in contrast, recorded 23 shots.
With ACC contests fi lling the Terps’ remaining regular-season schedule, that complete team effort may not occur again this season. But there’s always next year.
“We’ve been talking since August about how great the depth on our team is,” Morgan said. “We’ve got a lot of talent within this team, and I think you might have got a little glimpse of what the future looks like.”
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Kemp strong in return from injuryTerps stay at No. 1 in polls; defense in position to achieve goals
through its first four games, coach Randy Edsall decided to shake up his starting lineup.
True freshman Mike Madaras will take over for junior Nick Klemm at left tackle, and red-shirt freshman Andrew Zeller will start at right guard in place of De’Onte Arnett.
“Just by taking a look at some of the things that transpired in the games and in practice this past week,” Edsall said, “I felt that this was the best move for us, as a team, to be the best that we can be.”
Neither of the two fresh-men have started a college ga me, but t hey h ave bot h gained rotational experience. Madaras has appeared in four games, and Zeller made a key block in his Terps debut at No. 8 West Virginia on Sept. 22 that helped spring wide re-
ceiver Stefon Diggs for one of his two touchdowns in the team’s 31-21 loss.
“They are athletic, they play with a physical toughness and they are guys who play to the whistle,” Edsall said. “They will get downfi eld and make blocks and do the things that I expect out of an o� ensive lineman.”
Those traits haven’t gone un-noticed in practice. The Terps’ bye last week gave the o� ensive line a few extra chances to face o� against the team’s No. 8-ranked defense, a unit Fulper said “ain’t no slouch.”
“Zeller is one of those guys that’s annoying as hell,” de-fensive end A.J. Francis said. “Even if you beat him off the line of scrimmage, he’s still going to keep hitting you and won’t leave you the hell alone.”
That’s probably good news for the Terps. Hills has made strides in his short time in College Park, but he’ll have to stay on his feet if he hopes to build upon his
three-touchdown performance against the Mountaineers.
A nd if that happens, the percentage on that unforced errors chart should decline this weekend.
“The main thing is just guys not being on the same page,” Fulper said. “As soon as ev-erybody gets on the same page with communication, we’re going to be pretty good.”
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Mid� elder Erika Joab scored her � rst-career goal for the Terps last night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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Terps o� ensive linemen stand around quarterback Perry Hills after he took a hit from the West Virginia defense in a 31-21 loss on Sept. 22. Hills has been sacked 16 times this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
on shaky groundAfter watching opposing defenses sack quarterback Hills 16 times through four games, Edsall changes up o� ensive lineBy Josh VitaleSenior sta� writer
The Terrapins football team has a chart of how many unforced errors it makes every game. Every penalty they commit, every ball they fumble and every sack they allow, the Terps record it.
At the end of each game, they calculate the percentage of plays those errors mar.
What hurts their percentage the most? Sacks.Quarterback Perry Hills has been sacked
16 times through four games this season — the sixth-highest number among FBS signal callers. Overall, the freshman has fi nished a play on his back twice as many times as he’s crossed the goal line.
“Being on the o� ensive line, you never like that your quarterback gets hit that much. The
more hits he’s taking, the more opportunity there is for him to get hurt,” guard Bennett Fulper said Tuesday. “We just need to do the best we can to keep people o� him.”
The group charged with that task will look a bit di� erent this week, though. After seeing his team rank second nationally in sacks allowed
WOMEN’S SOCCER
By Erin EganSenior sta� writer
Terrapins women’s soccer seniors Olivia Wagner, Becky Kaplan and Daniella Hubka played a new position last night. They rode the bench.
The three veterans didn’t even take o� their warm-ups as they watched the No. 12 Terps dominate Francis Marion, 5-1, at Ludwig Field in their fi nal non-conference matchup.
Senior defender Domineca Hodak, who started against the Patriots, joined them on the sideline in the 30th minute and never re-turned to the game.
“We just wanted to give some kids some rest,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “On the calen-dar, we’ve always had the intention of resting those kids.”
The starting 11 players, with the exception of Hodak, resembled a possible starting lineup for next season. They included seven freshmen, two sophomores and one junior.
But even those 10 younger starters didn’t stay in too long. All 11 eligible freshmen saw time in a game that was never a contest for the No. 12 Terps.
“It was important for us to put a game like this on the schedule,” Morgan said. “It’s hard when you get into ACC league play, it’s hard to get all the kids minutes and it’s hard to get all the kids who work their tails o� minutes. A game like this allows everyone to get out there and play.”
Regular starting forwards Ashley Spivey (one goal) and Hayley Brock (two goals) had all three
Bench fuels shellacking of PatriotsStarters rest in Terps’ 5-1 blowout of Francis Marion
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The Terps women’s soccer team’s performance in a 5-1 rout of Francis Marion last night
5Goals
23Shots
13Shots on goal
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