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ISSUE NO. 29
Our 103rd Year
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 TOMORROW 60S / Sunny
Res Life improving rooming surveyBy Teddy AmenabarSta� writer
Finding a perfect roommate match and avoiding unpleasant surprises after move-in day may be easier once the Department of Resident Life launches a new roommate compatibility survey this spring.
According to Resident Life Assis-tant Director Scott Young, the depart-ment has been working with indepen-dent company RoomSync since last semester to give students access to more advanced roommate-matching technology. Young said he anticipates about 500 students will try RoomSync, which develops matches using Face-book, when it’s made available for the fi rst time next semester.
“The Residence Hall Association
has been very interested in having a program like RoomSync for many years,” Resident Life Director Deb Grandner said. “I think we’re par-ticularly excited about this program because it seems to be one that would be well suited to Maryland.”
Students who use the application will answer 10 questions about sleep-ing habits, views on having guests over and how social they are on the week- See ROOMsync, Page 2
ends, Young said. RHA President Sasha Azar said the program is similar to a dating site — the application will take information from users’ Facebook ac-counts, such as their listed interests, activities and “likes,” and work from those details along with the survey to fi nd similar students.
“It’s kind of a new endeavor for us,”
By Alex KirshnerFor The Diamondback
After a grim summer, a jobs report released Friday showed the national unemployment rate had dropped below 8 percent for the fi rst time in 43 months, indicating an upswing in the job market — but that doesn’t necessarily imply improved pros-pects for college graduates.
The data in the Bureau of Labor
College grads una� ected by new job report
NEW AND IMPROVEDAfter seven months of construction, president’s residence open to host dozens of university events
By Quinn KelleySenior sta� writer
Guests to the president’s residence were used to an unwelcoming arrival — pulling up to the top of the hill, being greeted by the back of an aging home and, if they were joining a group of more than 100 people, being shepherded to a tent pitched in the backyard.
While many donors said it was a beautiful home, the atmosphere it created for large events was a far cry from the one university officials decided they would craft in design-ing a new president’s residence. Now open and already the location of dozens of planned events over the next two months, the building embodies the signifi cant “power of the house” of a university community, said university President Wallace Loh.
Staff are still carrying out some fi nishing touches on the $7.5 million facility, which president’s residence
manager Stephen Oetken said is a “work in progress” as it’s still missing some draperies, floor coverings and furniture. But after about seven months of construction, Loh has
opened the doors of the new residence and event center.
“Dr. Loh wants to include everyone, to provide access to everyone,” said president’s assistant Sapienza Barone. “Every group on campus can have an opportunity to enjoy the house and Dr. Loh to host them.”
Loh said he will still keep his personal residence in a College Park neighbor-hood, both to maintain his privacy and to send a signal by paying taxes that he is committed to College Park. But there is something to be said for inviting people to a building that holds more prestige than the Riggs Alumni Center or a res-taurant in Washington, which Loh often used to host prominent guests to a nice meal, he said. The event center overlooks some of the main areas where students find their own homes on the campus, from freshman high-rise dorms to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
See HOUSE, Page 2
the new president’s residence, funded entirely by private donors, cost $7.5 million to build over seven months. Aside from lacking some furniture and decor, the house is mostly done, as university President Wallace Loh has already hosted several events at the new home and has dozens planned for the next two months. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
the department of resident life has been working with RoomSync, an independent company, since last semester to provide more advanced roommate-matching technology to students. � le photo/the diamondback
By Savannah Doane-MalotteSta� writer
As the foundation of Prince Fred-erick Hall develops, the next phase of construction may bring increased noise and vibrations to North Hill and South Campus Commons resi-dents, o� cials said.
It’s unlikely the vibrations will be disruptive to students, said Resident Life Associate Director Cindy Felice. According to an email she sent resi-dents of the potentially a� ected areas, “the noise involved in the process is not expected to be any noisier than what you are hearing now around the site.” After breaking ground in July, o� cials plan to wrap up construction and open the new dorm to residents in the fall 2014 semester.
This foundation process requires the installation of 500 structures called geopiers, which are “shafts that are fi lled with rammed stone or aggregate,” Felice said. Vibrations are a product of pushing stones into the geopiers, a practice commonly
Construction on new dorm on target so farNext phase will increase noise, vibrations
used in construction projects such as Oakland Hall, said Capital Projects Di-rector Bill Olen.
“Our hope is that by keeping students up to date with the construction, we
NEWS 2 OPINION 4 FEATURES 5 DIVERSIONS 6 CLASSIFIED 6 SPORTS 8INDEX Submit tips to The Diamondback at [email protected] For breaking news, alerts and more, follow us on Twitter @thedbk © 2012 THE DIAMONDBACK
DIVERSIONS A.C. Newman’s Shut Down the Streets pleasant but boring p. 6ROOKIE MISTAKESStefon Diggs’ con� dence leading to costly errors p. 8 OPINION The SGA’s new polling e� ort will help improve communication p. 4
See FREDERICK, Page 3
See jobs, Page 3
Statistics’s report showed several inconsistencies, said fi nance profes-sor Michael Faulkender, meaning the economy may not be recovering as strongly as the numbers suggest. While it showed 114,000 more citizens had jobs in September than in the previ-ous month, Faulkender said much of the growth could have stemmed from part-time positions in small businesses,
Long-term benefi ts outweigh potential costs
By Jim BachSenior sta� writer
Enabling undocumented stu-dents to receive in-state tuition at state universities would provide long-term benefits for the state over several decades, according to a University of Maryland, Baltimore County study.
The state’s DREAM Act will help 163 more students attend state universities each year, the study found, because more students will be fi nancially able to pursue higher education. Residents who would not otherwise have been able to go to college could receive higher-paying jobs, which the study concluded will help the economy because more people will have a source of income and will pay property and sales taxes. Each new wave of students benefitting from this law has the potential to contribute an eventual See DREAM, Page 3
DREAM Act would help state economy, study finds
$66 million to the nation’s economy, $7.8 million of which would go toward the state.
“Will it make a big difference in the impact on the economy? No, not really,” said university economist Je� rey Werling, adding the “benefi ts far out-weigh the cost.”
While opponents have argued passing the act — which undocumented students qualify for if they graduate from a state high school, receive 60 community college credits and prove they or their parents have filed state taxes for at least three years — will place the burden of fi nancing the bill on state residents, supporters believe the benefi ts would more than o� set the costs of accommodating the infl ux of students to community colleges and public universities.
“The more people are educated, the less of a fi scal burden they are,” Werling said.
prince frederick hall’s construction has been on target since it began in July. � le photo/the diamondback
ISSUE NO. 29
Our 103rd Year
visitors are more welcome at the new president’s residence since it faces out to North Campus, so people can pull up front. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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to Byrd Stadium and academic buildings — “if you crane your neck,” Loh said.
Based off an idea from Loh’s wife, student artwork will provide pops of color against the home’s light tan walls and golden accents.
While the home serves as a private residence upstairs, nearly every room on the main fl oor will serve as a work space away from the Main Admin-istration Building to help Loh recruit new administrators, donors, athletes and coaches, he said, from the dining room to the living room lined with the words of the Maryland alma mater, to small private o� ces.
“There is an aura to being in University House that just cannot be captured by having lunch or an event in the Stamp Union or in a conference room in the library,” he said. “If I’m trying to recruit somebody … it is quite di� erent to say I’d like to welcome the parents and recruit and have coffee and tea in the president’s house as opposed to, ‘I’ll meet you at Comcast.’”
The University of Maryland College Park Foundation, a private fundraising organiza-tion led by the university’s vice president of university relations, raised the total cost of the project in pledges by the end of May, ac-cording to Marketing Director Brian Ullmann.
The foundation had about $2 million in hand and should see
the remaining pledges in cash within fi ve years. Additionally, several modifi cations were made to the house to make it more cost-e� ective; for example, the light-weight faux slate roof was less expensive than real slate and has a 50-year warranty, said former Vice President of University Re-lations Brodie Remington.
Officials are also working toward Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certifi cation, Oetken said.
The building includes eco-friendly features such as a geo-thermal heating and cooling system, energy-efficient light bulbs and domestic water heated by solar panels. The facility will also be handicap-accessible — unlike the previous president’s residence — pending a permit for the house’s elevator, he said.
“I was really excited about all the sustainability initiatives there,” said Student Government Association President Saman-tha Zwerling, who attended an event for student leaders. “It showed that our university’s commitment to sustainability also transferred over to the Uni-versity House.”
While visitors would pull up to the previous home from the back, the rebuilt home faces North Campus so they can pull up to the front, and the floor plan is open and conducive to holding large events, Oetken said. For example, once visitors enter the front doors, they can walk straight through to the back onto the courtyard. The recep-tion room, which holds about 200 to 250 people standing, has
large windows overlooking North Campus, he said.
“The house is situated in a way that is much more welcoming to campus,” he said. “We feel that that presents a much more wel-coming facade. The fl ow really improved, and logistically, for events that’s really helpful.”
Student Entertainment Events President Seth Backer, who also attended an event at the house, said it should work well for serving both a family and the thousands of people who will pass through it each semester.
“I thought the house was defi -nitely welcoming and pristine,” he said. “I do like what it stands for … It’s defi nitely a good repre-sentation of the progress Mary-land is willing to make.”
There are 25 events scheduled this semester, Barone wrote in an email, but others are in the works, and she predicted there would be 40 events in the house by the end of the year. The former president’s residence, demol-ished last winter, had not been the site of an event since June 1, 2010, she wrote.
Zwerling said she appreciated Loh hosting student groups at the house, and that she also hoped it would help draw attention and funding to the university.
“I think it shows that we are a top research institution and a lot of the times, the university house will be used for prospective donors,” she said. “It’s a place where the whole campus can feel proud, and it’s really helping get resources on our campus.”
university president Wallace Loh hosted an open house on Friday at the president’s residence. Although the house still needs additional drapes, � oor coverings and furniture, Loh has begun holding events at the new house, located on North Campus. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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photo courtesy of macmillero� cial.com
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Young said. “It gives people a little more depth and detail — not a tre-mendous amount.”
Using RoomSync will be op-tional, and students who don’t have a Facebook account or who choose not to use it will still answer the five questions Resident Life currently uses to pair students with random roommates, o� cials said. If the RoomSync Facebook application matches students, they will be able to request each other through the application rather than by submitting a separate request to Resident Life.
Additionally, students can use RoomSync to meet new friends, Azar said. Though students of the opposite sex cannot room to-gether in dorms, they can befriend each other after seeing similar characteristics on the application.
More than 35 colleges already use RoomSync, including the University of Florida, East Caro-lina University and Temple Uni-versity, according to the com-pany’s website. Resident Life has a contract to pay RoomSync $4,900 each year until 2015 for the service, Young said.
A Michigan State University study from last year, cited on the RoomSync website, found roommate conflicts can be one of the contributing factors to students dropping out of school. Having a compatible roommate can determine how a year goes for a student, Azar said, and she encouraged students to take ad-vantage of the free service.
“If you don’t feel comfortable at home, then where are you going to feel comfortable?” Azar said.
By starting this program in the spring, Resident Life o� cials will be able to gauge its popularity among a smaller group of stu-dents before more than 7,000 freshman potentially use the application next fall. Resident Life officials will send an email to students accepted in the spring with an access code for RoomSync on Nov. 16, the day after the fresh-man confirmation deadline for undergraduate admission.
“Students will feel that they have a little more control over who they are going to live with, and for many freshmen, they are worried about that,” Grandner said.
Junior communication major Bria James said the application could limit people from meeting other students who are di� erent from themselves.
“One of the things people say about going to college is you meet a whole bunch of diverse people and Maryland is a diverse school,” she said, adding rooming with someone who has identical in-terests discourages people from stepping out of their comfort zones and meeting new people.
But when it comes to living with someone, similar interests are im-portant, said senior communica-tion major Jennifer Nakavuma. If she were choosing a freshman year roommate next fall, she said she would leave it to RoomSync.
“It helps you do the job already,” she said. “It kind of helps you fi nd similarities with people that you can live with.”
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which largely won’t help grad-uates’ prospects after earning a degree.
“There are too many insti-tutions, in my view, that offer pieces of paper that don’t corre-spond to skill sets that are valued in the workplace,” Faulkender said. “For those people, their investment is not realized.”
Although Faulkender said a majority of this university’s stu-dents obtain degrees that give them a viable chance at fi nding jobs, 45 percent of last May’s computer, mathematical, and natural sciences school gradu-ates had accepted full-time employment by the summer — relatively in line with the national employment average — according to Career Center data released last month. Na-tionwide, a Rutgers University survey found that, over five years, about half of graduates could not secure full-time work.
Additionally, the two surveys the BLS uses to calculate job grow th — the employment s u r vey, wh ich b u si ne sse s respond to, and the household survey, which asks citizens whether they are employed — showed wide discrepancies. W hile the employer survey
showed 114,000 more people found jobs, the household survey showed 873,000 additional jobs. The disparity may come from uncounted new small busi-nesses, which create additional part-time positions, though the government isn’t always aware of them, Faulkender said. Such hires could still be included on the household survey, though, which would explain the 759,000-job gap between the two data sets.
“That’s not a great number,” Faulkender said of the 114,000 new jobs. “That barely covers population growth. That’s gen-erally not indicative of a strong, healthy labor market.”
True job growth might lie somewhere in the middle — or unemployment could creep back up — Faulkender said, but conclu-sions can’t be drawn until future months’ data are available.
Part-time, rather than full-time, jobs are likely behind the unemployment rate drop, Faulk-ender said, leaving little solace for students looking for full-time jobs.
Senior communication major Lexie Neaman said finding the right work — not just any work — is a daunting task.
“The competition is so high right now that people are taking any job they can get,” Neaman said, “even if it’s not exactly what they want to do.”
While prospects are grim in
many fields, students gradu-ating from business, science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields may have more luck finding a full-time position, Faulkender said.
“There is a great deal of unmet
College Graduates may not be seeing an improved job market, though the national unemployment rate dropped below 8 percent for the � rst time in 43 months, according to a jobs report released Friday. Most of the growth may re� ect an increase in part-time positions in small businesses, said � nance professor Michael Faulkender. photo courtesy of maureen david
JOBsFrom PAGE 1
demand,” Faulkender said of the STEM, business and fi nance fi elds. “It’s that rigorous education that’s going to allow [university students] to take advantage of the kinds of technical jobs that are available in the workplace.”
However, without a per-manent federal law to ensure undocumented graduates can secu re docu mentat ion for higher-paying jobs, passage of the state DREAM Act would fall short of long-term economic expectations, said state Sen. Ed Reilly (R-Anne Arundel).
“Until the federal govern-ment steps up and does the right thing, all we’re doing is giving out hollow promises,” Reilly said. “This is not the time or the place until the federal government gets their act together.”
The study works to quell the opposition’s narrative that the law would bring an overwhelm-ing influx of students, to the detriment of the state budget. Because the additional number of students transferring from community colleges to public universities would be about 102 students — about 0.1 percent of the total student population in state public universities — all of the state’s university budgets will lose about $1.8 million a year, which constitutes about 0.1 percent of the total tuition and fees for 12 state universities, according to the UMBC study.
After graduation, the corpo-rate and professional jobs with
the biggest paychecks — and the higher tax revenues that would follow — wouldn’t be there for students without the proper federal mechanisms allowing them to fill those positions. That would mean the students wouldn’t provide a return on investment to cover the state costs, Reilly said.
“It would be detrimental to the taxpayers because their invest-ment in a child’s education won’t pay any benefi ts because [the un-documented students] can’t get a real job,” Reilly said.
President Obama’s summer directive allowing DREAM Act-eligible individuals to apply for a work permit helped further the supporters’ cause, but it has fallen short of substantial immigration reform. Opponents and support-ers of the law typically agree the federal government is slow to act on immigration issues, said Kristin Ford, a spokeswoman for Educating Maryland Kids, but that doesn’t mean the state should also be dragging its feet.
“ We cer ta i n ly wa nt t he federal government to tackle this problem as soon as possi-ble,” Ford said. “I think there’s no reason to suggest that we should stop educating these students or put our plans on hold until the federal government acts.”
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will make students feel better about the process,” Felice said. “Yes, there are always incon-veniences with construction, but at least we can help them understand the project.”
Creating a foundation with this method also allows workers to avoid making too much noise, Olen said.
“It can sound like a thump-ing bass sound, but we never had a complaint when we used this with Oakland,” he said. “No one really seems to feel it that much.”
In addition, Facilities Man-agement is using recycled ma-terial to help garner Prince Frederick a high Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifi cation.
T h is u n iversity a i ms for a gold rat i ng, t he second-highest status, which Oakland Hall and Commons 7 received, Felice said.
“In such a large university, we use a lot of energy,” freshman international business major Lucia Rizzo said. “I think that any way that we can conserve will be benefi cial to students.”
The $7.1 million residential building will house primarily
freshmen and sophomores in living-learning communities, with two o� ces for such pro-grams already integrated into the design.
The seven-f loor building will replace the aging Caroline, Carroll and Wicomico halls, which will be demolished once Prince Frederick is completed in April 2014.
“We really need housing, and we wanted bigger and di� erent types of rooms than the ones provided in other dorms,” Felice said. “I think that this building will be really nice, and that stu-dents will really like it.”
Prince Frederick is set to house 462 students in a com-bination of singles, doubles and four-person suites, with 40 percent of students living in those suites, according to the building’s website.
T he dorm w i l l a lso have other features students may enjoy, including lounge and study spaces on each f loor, air conditioning and carpeted hallways. Additionally, there will be laundry facilities and gender-neutral bathrooms.
“I would defi nitely consider living there in future years,” Rizzo says. “The features of this building sound ideal.”
FREDERICKFrom PAGE 1
For alumni dissatisfi ed with their work situation after leaving the university, the Career Center allows graduates struggling to fi nd full-time work to come back and receive free help.
“If you’re underemployed…
you can still try to fi nd something within your general career,” said Career Center Associate Director William Jones. “You never know what door may open up.”
The silencing of contrarians
Embrace outsiders and set free thought free
JUSTIN DENT
Every year, the Student Govern-ment Association seems to take up issues other students on the
campus don’t have much interest in, whether it’s transparency in the University Senate or voting in favor of or against state measures entirely in the hands of legislators. Week after week, most students, frankly, seem disinterested in what the SGA has done or has vowed to do and stop paying attention to the body’s work altogether.
This year’s SGA legislators, however, seem motivated to change that. The SGA recently began implementing a new polling ini-tiative, which requires legislators to go around the campus and poll students on various university issues. Representatives must poll 25 students a week within their constituencies on campus issues and issues specifi c to their constit-uents — a method that will result in about 1,000 students being polled a week.
If executed and used properly, it seems the initiative will truly help the SGA become a body that serves its constituencies. Students have complained over the years that the SGA takes on self-fulfi lling issues or ones students simply don’t care about, but if the body has a method in place to actively reach out to students — and acts according to student responses — it seems this
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body is poised to aid students better than ever before.
The polling will certainly help close the gap between the body and the rest of the campus community — or at least let students know the SGA exists. In a Monday Diamondback article, senior computer engineering major Patrick Benton said, “I have never talked to anyone in the SGA. I don’t really know what they do,” adding, “I’m complete-ly uninformed.”
Additionally, if the SGA also takes
the initiative in garnering student input for various university admin-istrators, sta� members and depart-ments, it could help officials craft university policy or make decisions more in line with what students are willing to support. At the very least, student opinion will become more of a consideration. Last year’s debacles surrounding a stricter smoking policy — which required smokers to stand at least 25 feet, rather than 15 feet, from campus buildings — and a plus-minus
grading policy were prime examples of students fi nding out about potential policies too late.
So far, it seems this year will see its fair share of policies and projects that could change the scope of the university and surrounding area for years to come. O� cials have said they hope to break ground on East Campus — a proposed 38-acre development that would ramp up College Park by bringing a hotel, upscale restaurants, improved graduate student housing, a movie theater and other amenities — which has been in the works for more than a dozen years.
With the developing strategic al-liance between this university and University of Maryland, Baltimore, faculty members from both universi-ties have vowed to create programs to increase opportunities for students. There are also many students fi ghting to expand a Good Samaritan policy — which would allow students to call 911 for a dangerously drunk friend or themselves without university sanc-tions — to include drugs. And that’s just naming a few.
If SGA representatives use the polling initiative to its full capabili-ties, they could come a long way in helping students infl uence university policy more. The e� ort doesn’t need to just be for the body’s benefi t or to bring the SGA and students closer together — it could also help better connect the entire university community.
Communication at its best
OUR VIEW
Using a polling system will allow the SGA to stay better attuned to student interests
and will likely broaden campus engagement.
JAKE STEINER/the diamondback
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Opinion
For those of us who had the privi-lege of growing up in a country that parades free speech as one of its crowning achievements, it’s easy to take words and thoughts for granted. As a result of our upbringings, which encouraged us to think freely and speak our minds, it’s not uncom-mon for us to lose sight of what free speech represents and why it has been such an integral part of our nation’s history.
While there is no clear legal affront to our freedom of speech, the exist-ing threat is perhaps far worse; it is substantively less noticeable and equally destructive to the quality of dialogue of which we’re capable. The threat is one born out of our compla-cency and an all-too-wrong sense of intellectual elitism that allows many to feel superior as they chide the beliefs of others with no more of an explanation than “you’re wrong, and I’m right.”
This mentality has become in-creasingly prevalent across our campus as we find ourselves in the midst of election season. Many people I interact with, when pre-sented with ideologies in which they find fault, find it far easier to affix a label to those with whom they disagree than to respectfully accept differences or engage in any level of meaningful conversation. The labels assigned are often given in order to convey the notion that the assignees
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have little ability to actually think on their own or are somehow worse off because of their beliefs. Undoubt-edly, whether intentional or unin-tentional, such behaviors amount to a soft suppression of thought and word which prompts a growing discomfort of many to express their beliefs for fear of peer-initiated taunts.
For those who think they fi nd them-selves on the “right side of history” on any given issue, there is often a sense of quiet pride as vocal opposition begins to disappear, regardless of the cause. However, as a community, ostraciz-ing those with certain beliefs or simply scoffing at remarks does nothing to advance the trajectory of society as a whole. Instead, it severely diminishes the cultivation of new ideas or the de-velopment of better arguments, thus limiting the possibilities for future advancement. This is a heavy task for some: realizing our convictions may have fl aws or our opponents may have opinions of merit.
When we encounter beliefs or ide-ologies with which we take issue, we should keep in mind that as we silence others, we are no better than those who have silenced in the past the ideas we might hold fi rmly today. As we allow silence to grow for what we might see as our best interests, we allow for the creation of a culture wherein thoughts that may advance us can similarly be silenced and never come to light.
Justin Dent is a sophomore fi nance and government and politics major and the Director of Student Groups for the Student Government Association. He can be reached at [email protected].
Recent concerns regarding the waiting period before students can receive services at the Coun-
seling Center indicate a need to clarify the center’s wide range of available services. I’d like to take this time to describe how counselors work to match each student with the most appropriate service.
The Counseling Center, which is composed of the counseling service, learning assistance service, disabil-ity support service and testing and research unit, places a high priority on student support and success. We have a team of highly trained, hard-working and dedicated professionals who support academic, emotional, psychological and career developmen-tal needs of students on the campus.
Psychologists and counselors in the counseling service division provide individual, group and couples coun-seling; respond to walk-in emergen-cies; consult with parents, faculty and staff; provide outreach and consul-tation services to student organiza-tions; and employ crisis intervention services following critical incidents on the campus.
As is common with most univer-sity counseling centers, the counsel-ing students receive at the center is time-limited and targeted at problems typical of most college-aged individu-als. Most clients benefit from four to fi ve sessions before ending treatment. Demand is high for this free and confi -dential service and, similar to counseling centers across the country, more stu-dents are now seeking these services for a variety of emotional, psychological and career-related concerns. During times of especially high demand, part-time counselors are hired to assist.
The wait time for an initial appoint-ment is brief — depending on their
class schedules, most students can be seen within a week or two of contact-ing the Counseling Center. Students may wait longer to be matched with an available therapist if they cannot schedule weekly appointments, prefer a particular counselor or would rather not work with a supervised graduate-level trainee.
The time from the initial appoint-ment to the first counseling session may be longer during periods of peak demand, but provisions are in place for students seeking help in emergency situations. These students are seen immediately or within a few hours of contacting the Counseling Center. Also, referrals to community practi-tioners are provided to students who wish to start counseling immediately or who are dealing with issues requir-ing long-term treatment. In addition to individual counseling, the center provides a variety of psychotherapy and support groups for students. Fol-lowing the initial assessment, these small therapeutic groups are frequently the treatment of choice for many of our clients.
Our goal as part of the university community is to work in collaboration with the student affairs vice presi-dent and campus partners to maxi-mize overall student success and the healthy development of future schol-ars and leaders.
The Counseling Center, located in Shoemaker Building, is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Extended hours are o� ered on Wednesdays during summer months and over winter break.
Sharon Kirkland is the Counseling Center director. She can be reached at [email protected].
Lately, when I tell people my college career is coming to an end, they always respond: “Oh, you’re a senior? That’s so sad!” But I’m not so sure. Yes, I’ll have to be a real person next year, but that’s … next year. For now, I feel like a freshman again, experiencing everything as though it were my fi rst time. Take last Saturday night, for example, when I finally discovered the real city of Washington.
I often wonder why I haven’t visited more often. Washington is only a 25-minute Metro ride away from College Park. It is the home of the most powerful government in the world. Top-notch museums, iconic memorials and stately buildings line the National Mall. By God, it has a 100-foot statue of Abraham Lincoln. It seems I should be in Washington every weekend, soaking in great American traditions as much as any NASCAR fan.
But some things about the city just don’t sit right with me. The wide
streets, designed after the famous Parisian avenues, seem deserted and lifeless. Buildings in Washington are not allowed to be taller than 130 feet, so the scenery sorely lacks the striking contours that define so many classic urban skylines. Where is the grit of New York, the charm of Boston or the soul of Chicago? And where can I eat? The best food option near the National Mall is a $15 bison burger from the National Museum of the American Indian, but I gave up eating endangered species as part of my new diet.
Then, sometime around my 21st birthday, I came to the signifi cant re-alization that Washington comprises a bit more area than the National Mall and two surrounding blocks. There’s Georgetown, with gourmet cupcakes. There’s Dupont Circle and the new exhibit on 19th century Chesapeake Bay moss specimens at the Natural History Museum — this was a revelation.
So a few friends and I bid adieu to the monuments and decided to see what the rest of Washington had to o� er. One Saturday night, we ventured to Adams Morgan, a hip neighborhood only fi ve stops down the Metro with plenty of restaurants and bars to explore. We then conducted an intricate procedure
known as “bar hopping,” when the fi ve of us went from place to place talking, people-watching and attempting to dance. Late night food came by way of Jumbo Slice — a chunk of pizza large enough to give the Man vs. Food guy the shivers.
So this is Washington. It’s as vibrant as any city I’ve been to and 400 steps up from the College Park nightlife scene. One bar, Madam’s Organ, stood out from the rest with eccentric decor, three floors (each with a different theme), live music and a crowd as diverse as the cover of this university’s brochure.
But soon it was time to go home. Having long since missed the last run of the Metro, we hopped in a cab belonging to a nice guy named Mo-hammed from Mauritania for what turned out to be a roller coaster of a ride home. I’m sure Mauritania is a lovely country, but might I suggest it promote speed limits? I don’t think you’re supposed to be going 70 past the president’s front lawn. And in that moment, I understood the magic of Washington. I was going 70 past the president’s front lawn.
Neal Freyman is a senior history major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Carl Newman’s third solo record under the name A.C. Newman, Shut Down The Streets, is a pleasant exercise in subdued indie pop. Like much of his work with The New Por-nographers, it lacks the substance to spur repeated listens. This is celery-chopping music: atmospheric enough to fill headspace while you’re cooking dinner, but so slightly it barely registers as more than pleasurable background noise.
It’s immediately ap-parent, as generic synth bubbles open first track “ I ’m N o t Ta l k i n g,” t h a t Newman lacks a genuine inspi-ration for Shut Down The Streets. Instead, it flops all over the place in search of a concise direction, with odes to divergent musical concepts such as laptop pop and early ’90s twee.
Sometimes he pens a solid folk song, such as “There’s Money In New Wave,” which is ren-dered more robust and lively by Neko Case’s always-welcome vocals. Yet it remains, with an unfortunate effortlessness, within the garden variety. You could even make a case
that with a track such as the airy, baroque “You Could Get Lost Out Here,” Newman is actually sleepwalking through this record.
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Unfortunately, the rest of Newman’s new record is middling background fodder: pleas-ant, but devoid of the cohesion or flare to keep you coming back.
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a first down — a miscue ulti-mately negated by a Demon Deacons penalty.
But just as he did in a 36-27 win at Temple on Sept. 8 — when he recorded a key 38-yard reception less than six minutes after muffing a punt — Diggs rebounded when it counted. Late in the fourth quarter, he took an underneath route 63 yards, dodging and twisting past myriad white jerseys. The fourth-quarter sprint set up running back Justus Pickett’s game-winning, 1-yard touch-down run and energized a stag-nant Terps o� ense.
“I had a couple catches in the beginning, but that dropped pass is still in my mind, that punt is still in my mind,” said
Diggs, who earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors yesterday. “You’ve got to push through. When you go through adver-sity, you don’t harp on the bad stu� . You just keep pushing.”
On that mu� ed punt, Diggs said he glanced at the onrush-ing Demon Deacons and took his eye off the ball. He was desperate to make the big play and lost sight of what mattered most: securing possession.
It was a mature statement, but hardly a surprising one. In Diggs’ fi rst fi ve college games, he demonstrated a desire to pursue a highlight-caliber play when-ever he gets an opportunity. That has been especially notable on special teams, with the rookie regularly forgoing the fair catch for a chance to test his speed.
“I think one of the things Stefon has to understand now that he is here is that he cannot
make a big play all the time,” coach Randy Edsall said. “He has the ability to make the big plays, but sometimes he hurts himself more than he helps himself.”
Diggs got the message Satur-day. He called his Wake Forest performance “probably the worst game” of his life, adding he made mistakes he doesn’t normally make.
But when the fi nal whistle sounded at Byrd Stadium, the Terps had their first confer-ence win in more than a year, and Diggs had yet another impressive stat l ine — five catches for 105 yards.
Not too bad for what Diggs thoug ht was a forgettable showing.
“It’s exciting,” wide receiver Kevin Dorsey said. “You never know what he’s going to do.”
DIGGSFrom PAGE 8
Wide receiver Stefon Diggs has emerged as a top playmaker this season, but he also has four turnovers. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
advantage (17-4), but put just one ball past Cavaliers goalkeeper Spencer LaCivita, who made six saves.
“They were a tough, stout defense, and they’re physical,” said forward Patrick Mullins, who scored the Terps’ lone goal. “It’s a typical ACC game. We were ex-pecting that a little bit, but obviously we would have liked to put the ball in the net a couple more times.”
Despite not netting a second-half goal — 19 of the Terps’ 31 goals this season have come in the latter 45 minutes — the Terps were buoyed by a player whose presence wasn’t necessarily evident on the stat sheet. Forward Sunny Jane reemerged Friday, setting up teammates and frus-trating Virginia midfi elders with his de-fensive pressure.
“I challenged Sunny at halftime,” Cirovski said. “He got o� to a slow start in the fi rst half. Second half, that’s what I want from Sunny Jane. … He played with tremendous tenacity, and I want to see more of that from Sunny. He makes us better when he does that.”
Jane notched two assists in the Terps’
first four games but hasn’t recorded a point since a 4-0 win at Boston College on Sept. 7. He led the team with eight assists last season.
“He’s obviously a very important player for us,” Mullins said. “He creates a lot of chances and — probably my own fault — I haven’t fi nished a lot of them for him. He should probably have four or fi ve more assists on the sheet. It’s coming into the tough part of the season, so I think he’s ready to go into it.”
On a team in which 12 players have scored goals and 18 have recorded points, Cirovski knows he has options. Having an established player such as Jane return to a high level of play can only bode well for his Terps.
“Whoever has to step in at the given moment,” Mullins said, “it’s their job to step in and be ready to contribute to the team.”
Forward Sunny Jane played a pivotal role in the Terps’ 1-0 victory over Virginia on Friday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
OFFENSEFrom PAGE 8
game, a mark much higher than they had posted in any other game this season.
Prior to Sunday, the most shots the Terps had put on cage was 14, a mark they reached just once in a 5-0 win over Towson on Sept. 2. They also totaled 13 twice — once in a 1-0 loss to Fordham on Sept. 9 and again in a 5-1 victory over Francis Marion on Wednesday.
But those were the only three games in which the Terps’ shots on goal have reached double digits. And even in those con-tests, they accounted for less than 60 percent of the Terps’ total number of shots.
“I think that defi nitely shows that we have been preparing for this,” defender Erika Nelson said. “T hings are winding down to the end and we just want to keep pushing.”
Before Sunday, the Terps had placed just 97 of their 216
shots on goal — a clip of 45 percent. After Sunday’s game, the team raised that number to 49 percent.
It’s a trend Morgan would like to see continue, but it’s not going to be easy. The Terps have only three games remain-ing in the regular season, and they come against No. 13 Boston College, Miami and No. 1 Florida State — three teams allowing less than 1.3 goals per game.
But Morgan’s not worried about where the Terps’ com-petitors rank statistically. He knows if his team continues to focus its shots on frame and challenge opposing goalkeep-ers, the Terps have a chance to replicate the lofty numbers they posted against N.C. State.
“We were good and we were dangerous and we made their goalkeeper make saves,” he said. “We were creative and made a lot of opportunities, and if we keep playing like this, we’ll be in control.”
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By Erin EganSenior sta� writer
The Terrapins women’s soccer team has built up an impressive statistical resume so far this season.
Its 240 shots rank fourth in the ACC. Its 34 goals through 15 games place the team third in the conference. And Duke is the only team in the league with more assists than the Terps’ 43.
But arguably no number they have posted this year was more impressive than what they did Sunday. By the time the No. 12 Terps walked o� Dail Soccer Field after defeating N.C. State, 3-0, their stat sheet was stronger than in any other game this season.
Through their first 14 games, the Terps averaged fewer than seven shots on goal. Against the Wolfpack, they had 20.
“That’s a really high number,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “We’ve been working on taking shots on frame. We always say you have to make the goalkeeper make a save, make them be special, make them make a play. Shots on frame are great opportunities for second chances, too.”
It was a surprising number for a team not accustomed to being that accurate on the o� ensive end. The 20 shots on goal accounted for more than 83 percent of the Terps’ 24 shots in the
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Accuracykeys Terps in victoryTeam sets season best with 20 shots on goal
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By Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
Sasho Cirovski could have been dis-couraged Friday night.
His Terrapins men’s soccer team had just scored its fewest number of goals this season in a 1-0 win over Virginia at Ludwig Field. It squandered a number of chances near the Cavaliers’ net. Some of the shots the team had converted earlier in the year fl ew wide or over the goal.
Stil l, the 20th-year coach was upbeat. Halfway through their ACC schedule, the Terps remain undefeat-ed, passing another sti� conference test. They now have the opportunity to continue their 10-game unbeaten streak tonight against Rutgers.
“I th i n k th is is ty pica l ly what happens once you get to the second half of the season,” Cirovski said. “It’s hard to average three-and-a-half goals per game. I think teams, they scout you and things get a little more tighter defensively.”
Cirovski’s logic is sound. Before Friday night, the Terps had only scored fewer than three goals in two games this season — a 2-2 tie with then-No. 11 UCLA on Aug. 31 and a 2-0 win over Virginia Tech on Sept. 21. Keeping up that torrid pace was perhaps an unre-alistic expectation.
The Terps owned a substantial shot
MEN’S SOCCER
One-score output not concerningEven after slim 1-0 win, Cirovski stays confi dent
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FOOTBALL
Wide receiver Stefon Diggs � nished Saturday’s 19-14 win over Wake Forest with 105 yards on � ve catches, but he also fumbled a punt. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Trial and errorDiggs providing Terps potent mix of highlight-caliber plays, costly mistakesBy Connor LetourneauSenior sta� writer
Stefon Diggs rarely plays it safe. It’s not in the Terrapins football wide receiver’s nature.
He thrives in the spotlight, be-lieves he can score a touchdown every time he touches the ball and almost never signals for a fair catch on punt returns.
Most of the time, the freshman’s
boldness is among the Terps’ top assets. Diggs, after all, has already earned a reputation as the team’s most talented playmaker. He’s amassed 218 yards on just eight catches over the past two games, and his 364 receiving yards, three receiving touchdowns and 774 all-purpose yards easily pace the Terps.
Occasionally, though, Diggs’ supreme confi dence is a liability. Saturday’s 19-14 win over Wake
Forest showcased as much.Diggs fumbled a punt return in
the third quarter, setting up Demon Deacons quarterback Tanner Price for a 7-yard touchdown pass to fullback Tommy Bohanon, which gave Wake Forest a 14-13 lead. The Gaithersburg native also dropped a wide-open catch early in the third quarter that would have resulted in
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