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Our 102ND Year, No. 23THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERMonday, October 3, 2011

BY ERIN EGANStaff writer

A university student was robbed atgunpoint Friday evening at the OldKoons Ford Lot located near the Uni-versity View, police reported.

According to a University Policecrime alert disseminated to the cam-pus community Saturday, a femalestudent asked for a friend to arrangea ride from her apartment at 8301Baltimore Ave. to the Stamp StudentUnion Friday evening. Her phonerang at about 8 p.m., and the voice onthe other end of the line said her ridewas waiting outside, the alert stated.

When the student went outside,she was called over to a black andpurple Toyota Scion, the alertreported, and as she approached thevehicle, two males got out of the carand insisted she give them her purse.She refused, and one of the malespulled out a handgun, according tothe alert.

The female handed over her purse,and the men got back in the car anddrove north on Route 1, policereported. The student was not harmed.

Police reported the femaledescribed the driver of the Scion as a23-year-old black female. The malewho got into the front seat of the carwas described as a 20-year-old, 5-foot-9-inch black male wearing a greenand blue sweater; the man who gotinto the back of the car was describedas a 20-year-old black male, accord-ing to the alert.

The incident was reported toPrince George’s County police min-utes after it happened, police said.County Police did not have any fur-ther information yesterday.

District 1 Commander Maj. HectorVelez said the department is stillinvestigating the armed robbery.Velez said police are unsure if the vic-tim’s friend set up the off-campus

Studentrobbedby manwith gunPolice unsure ifvictim’s friend set upoff-campus robberyThe university’s Solar Decathlon team took first place in the international

competition Saturday for the first time. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEFANO PALTERA

University team winsits first Solar Decathlon‘WaterShed’ design takes first place

BY REBECCA LURYEStaff writer

This university took its first win inthe U.S. Department of Energy’sSolar Decathlon with its entry,WaterShed, a solar-powered homeinspired by the Chesapeake Bay.

A team of more than 200 univer-sity students and faculty, along withbuilding industry mentors, pouredtwo years of work and $250,000 intothe biennial sustainable design com-petition. The team beat out second-place Purdue University, third-place

New Zealand and 16 other nationaland international groups, U.S. Secre-tary of Energy Steven Chuannounced Saturday.

Team members drew inspirationfrom the environmental challengesfacing the bay to design and constructtheir entry — a solar-powered housecapable of collecting storm water andrecycling domestic wastewater.

Decathletes said this local focusmade WaterShed unique.

“Definitely one thing that set us

BY LAUREN HICKSStaff writer

It’s nearly impossible to know whenan earthquake will strike, but univer-sity doctorate student Lisa Walsh isone step closer to predicting these nat-ural disasters.

Walsh, a third-year doctorate stu-dent in active tectonics, uses com-puter simulations that show wherefault lines lie relative to earthquakeepicenters to understand how quakesdistribute pressure throughout tec-tonic plates. Seismic pressure doesnot just disappear after an earth-quake, Walsh said, and pinpointingthe stress that earthquakes leavebehind could help indicate the loca-tion of future rumbles.

“Earthquakes are very hard to pre-dict, they aren’t like the weather,”Walsh said. “The stuff I’m working on

gives some clues to places where wemight expect a future earthquake inparts of Maryland, but we can’t sayfor certain.”

She will present her research to theSeismological Society of America andthe American Geophysical Union laterthis semester.

Walsh exclusively focuses onWashington-area earthquakes,including the Gaithersburg, Md.,earthquake that struck July 16, 2010,as well as the Mineral, Va., quakeAug. 23 this year.

Earthquakes that affect the Washing-ton region are not everyday occur-rences because unlike many WestCoast localities, the area is not perchedon a fault line. Walsh said she hopes toexpand local earthquake knowledge.

“I’m hoping my research will be

Looney’s goes publicBY JIM BACH

Staff writer

The line for Looney’s Pub snakedoutside the door, down the front stepsof the Varsity and continued onto thesidewalk Friday night.

The pub opened its doors that

evening for the first time, and severalof-age students said it has the potentialto fill a much desired nightlife void. Thenew bar boasts state-of-the-art ID scan-ners that hold every patron’s informa-tion and a venue for live music -- some-thing upperclassmen said the city hasneeded since Santa Fe Café shuttered

more than a year ago.The establishment had initially

planned for a soft opening Wednesday,but bar owner Bill Larney said therestaurant did not receive the necessarycounty documents in time. However,

The art of timingearthquakes

Univ. student simulates quakes in research

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New pub opens its doors last Friday, enforces IDs strictly

Looney’s Pub employeesready the bar Sunday afterits first weekend open.GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Student Union continued Friday with the 30th annual All Niter. Thefree event, which ran from noon to 3 a.m., featured attractions in-cluding Drag Bingo, live student music and aerial acrobatics in thestamp food court.

Junior music major Garrett Gleason, whose band Soul Card per-formed Friday, said the All Niter opened students’ eyes to alternativenight life in College Park. Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guen-zler-Stevens agreed the event flaunted unique entertainment alterna-tives the university has to offer.

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Larney said he was able to securehis use of occupancy permit intime for the Friday night barcrowd, and the venue’s first week-end went off without a hitch.

The bar — which will hold itsgrand opening Oct. 11 —attracted an over-21-year-oldcrowd, according to patrons, andmany said they were excitedabout a new option in the city forweekend entertainment.

“Last year I was subjected todeal with the only two bars left[near the university],” said sen-ior mathematics major KevinVenner. “I see this as a light at theend of tunnel.”

Looney’s high-tech cardingsystem prints a wristband forbar patrons that holds all oftheir driver’s license informa-tion, enabling employees toremember unruly bar patronswith every visit. Larney saidthe system was put to good usefor the opening night after onepatron caused the only issue

for an otherwise tame night.“We had one problem, got him

out of here [and] took his wrist-band. He’ll never be back,” Lar-ney said, adding that most peoplewho act up will be given “onemore chance.”

The bar’s no-toleranceapproach toward underagedrinking will make it a hotspotfor the of-age crowd, accordingto Venner.

“They were very strict withtheir IDing, which I see as a goodasset,” Venner said. “[TheThirsty Turtle] was taking in thefreshman and sophomore crowdand that kind of took away what Iwas looking forward to my sen-ior year.”

Many students said Looney’sdiffers from the rest of the city’sbars and will create its own repu-tation that sets itself apart fromother competition, such as Cor-nerstone Grill and Loft, R.J. Bent-ley’s and The Barking Dog.

“This has a better vibe,” seniorwomen’s studies major KaraDeMilio said. “It just seems betterorganized. Service at the bar is alot better. The people are there

within 30 seconds, and you don’thave to push to the front. There’snot a huge line, and it’s not reallypacked inside, so I feel that theyactually monitor how many peo-ple are going in and out.”

Senior civil engineering majorHaley Puglia said the bar’s liveentertainment combined with $2drink specials will give it a leg upon other local competitors. Shesaid she visited the bar twicealready since its opening threedays ago and plans to make thevenue her new nighttime staple.

“There’s a nice dance floor, andeveryone was dancing and get-ting wild,” Puglia said. “Com-pared to The Barking Dog, I thinkthis will do really well.”

Larney said he is confident hisbusiness — which is also locatedin Bel Air, Canton and MapleLawn — will be successful withinthe scope of the city bar scene,especially after positive feedbackfrom the weekend crowd.

“Our food speaks for itself andour drink prices [are] across theboard,” Larney said.

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Looney’s Pub filled just minutes after opening Friday night. The bar is fully equipped with IDscanners and strictly prohibits underage drinking, officials said. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

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used in increasing our under-standing of earthquakes onthe East Coast,” Walsh said.“There isn’t a lot of data, andby studying them we can addto that base of knowledge.”

Walsh’s advisor Aaron Mar-tin, a university geology profes-sor, said studying earthquakesin areas that are not situated atthe intersection of tectonicplates is as important as study-ing those near fault lines.

“The boundaries are wherewe get most of the big earth-quakes, but the ones that hap-pen in the middle of the platesare much less understood,”Martin said. “That’s whereLisa’s research is trying to un-derstand why they happen andhow they happen.”

Walsh is still creating amodel for this summer’s Min-eral, Va., earthquake, but shehas more complete data on theGaithersburg, Md., quake,which she said led to an in-creased amount of tectonicstress in the center of the statearound Columbia, Md. Shenoted that although there is ahigher chance of futurequakes stemming from thisarea, it is still difficult to actual-ly predict when and where thenext one will hit.

Walsh will begin presentingher findings on the Gaithers-burg earthquake at the annualmeeting of the Eastern Sec-tion of the Seismological Soci-ety of America on Oct. 17 and18 at the University ofArkansas. Later this fall, shewill travel to San Francisco topresent at the American Geo-physical Union’s yearly meet-ing from Dec. 5 to Dec. 9.

But her forthcoming speechesto thousands of high-profile sci-entists had humble beginnings.

Walsh grew a “love of the

great outdoors” during herchildhood in Texas, where shespent warm afternoons search-ing for prehistoric snails, fossilsand bison teeth with friends. Shepursued her interest in the natu-ral world as an undergraduate atthe University of North Caroli-na, Asheville, where she ma-jored in environmental studies.

There, she discovered her pas-sion for earthquakes during anearth science class, and eventual-ly came to this university to earna master’s degree in geology.

Now as a doctorate student,Walsh is working toward helpingmetropolitan residents preparefor future seismic activity, whichshe said is critical because of theamount of nuclear power plantson the East Coast.

According to Martin, citiescan prepare for earthquakeson both domestic and publiclevels, but these precautionscome with a cost.

“Having everybody do thingsto get ready is expensive, so anykind of decision about doing thatat a policy level would be basedoff a long bunch of work wherethere is a consensus reached thatthis is something that is impor-tant,” Martin said. “And Lisa’s re-search is a step towards that.”

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EARTHQUAKEfrom page 1

This university placed first in the Solar Decathlon with its entry WaterShed (top), a green home inspired by the Chesapeake Bay.Team members celebrate the win around their faculty advisor, Amy Gardner (bottom center). PHOTOS COURTESY OF STEFANO PALTERA

robbery.“We’re certainly looking

into that, but at this point,we’re still investigating,”Velez said.

Since the incident occurredoutside of University Policejurisdiction, University PoliceChief David Mitchell said the

county police department willbe handling it. University

Police wanted students to beaware of the reported armedrobbery.

“We wanted to tell thecommunity about it, and wewanted to send out a crimealert because it was in sucha close proximity to cam-pus,” Mitchell said. “Thecase is under investigation,and we’re hoping it’ll end inan arrest.”

Some students, such as

Amanda Harouche, said thatincidents such as these promptthem to avoid that area ofRoute 1.

“I just feel like that area isn’ttoo safe,” said the junior crimi-nology and criminal justice andpsychology major. “And it’sreally scary because some-thing like this could definitelyhappen to anyone.”

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ROBBERYfrom page 1

University doctorate student Lisa Walsh studies the seismicremnants of local earthquakes to help determine when andwhere the next quake may strike. PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA WALSH

“The boundariesare where we getmost of the bigearthquakes, butthe ones thathappen in themiddle of theplates are muchless understood.”

AARON MARTINUNIVERSITY GEOLOGY PROFESSOR

apart is we picked this alter-nate agenda,” said BrittanyWilliams, a faculty advisorand architecture lecturer. “Wemade sure in all aspects of thehouse we highlighted water.”

The home features a patent-pending indoor waterfall andconstructed wetlands, as wellas a green roof with plants thatkeep the home’s interior cool.

Judges scored the 19entries across ten categories.WaterShed placed first inarchitecture, and tied for firstin the hot water and energybalance contests.

The team took first place Sat-urday by nearly 20 points, butmembers said it seemed like theoverall win was up in the air dur-ing the judgement week.

“It’s very subjective and it’shard to know what the jury’slooking for,” Williams said.“And it’s hard to know ifsomeone is going to like yourhouse if they only come in forhalf an hour.”

Solar Decathlon teams canprepare for some measuredrequirements — such as con-structing a water-heating sys-tem that supplies gallons ofboiling water — but teammembers said half of thejudging came down to juriedcriteria like architecture andmarket appeal. The teamworked to meet bothrequired benchmarks andmore subjective measures,members said.

“We also looked into aspectsof water conservation becausewe looked to our local environ-ment and the Chesapeake Bay,and the decisions we makeabout how we live really haveadverse effects on the bay andthe surrounding environ-

ment,” said architecture stu-dent leader Lynn Khuu, whograduated from this universitylast semester.

After countless hours ofpreparation, some team mem-bers said the win felt evensweeter because the groupgrew so close after workingon the project for two yearsreadying for last week’s com-petition in Washington.

“It just feels like a big fam-ily now,” Williams said. “Allthe sleepless nights we spenttogether working on thehouse, that camaraderie, it’ssuch an intense process.”

Others said they not onlyforged friendships, but alsogained knowledge and evenmet career milestones.

“Until [architects have] seensomething [they] draw onpaper actually be constructedinto a building, there’s some-thing missing. And once[they’ve] seen that, somethingclicks,” Williams said.

Khuu said working on thisuniversity’s team was unlike anyother project she’d experienced.

“This project exceeded myexpectations in all ways, thehands-on aspects of it, draw-ings, communications, every-thing,” she said. “I’ve beenthrust into new roles everyday and it’s a huge learningexperience, it’s fantastic.”

Williams said she was gladthe WaterShed — which hadabout 234,000 visitors in WestPotomac Park last week —helped educate people aboutthe importance of designingand living green.

“Even if they take awaysomething small, like theytake a shorter shower, there’sa gratification of why weshould do projects like this,”she said.

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DECATHLONfrom page 1

“The case is underinvestigation, andwe’re hoping it’llend in an arrest.”

DAVID MITCHELLUNIVERSITY POLICE CHIEF

When we go to war, weask our youth to giveup years of their livesand place themselves

in harm’s way for a relatively smallamount of money. We don’t call itage discrimination; we don’t call itgeneration class warfare. We askour youth to make these sacrificesbecause they are the most physi-cally capable in our population todefend the country. As a nation, wedo so with a heavy heart.

But now our country faces a dif-ferent type of danger. Last year,Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated, “ournational debt is our biggest nationalsecurity threat.” On that note, Ibelieve who we ask to fight this perilto our nation is the central debate ofthe upcoming 2012 elections.

If you get a chance to go toAnnapolis and look at the manyyachts sitting on the water, or todrive around the neighborhoods inBethesda, Chevy Chase or Potomac,

ask yourself: Should the govern-ment pay down its debt by increas-ing your tuition by $1,000 or by ask-ing those who have significantwealth to pay $1,000 more in taxes?Should we reduce our debt by cut-ting out programs that help those inthe working and middle classesattend college or by eliminating sub-sidies for the oil companies?

To me, the answer is obvious. Aswe send those physically fit to fight aphysical war, we should ask thosewho are fiscally fit to fight a financialwar. It is not class warfare; it is notout of meanness. It is out of need.

We should have clear goals, anexit strategy and respect for the con-tributions made. But the burden we

may ask of the wealthy individualsand corporations does not comeclose to the sacrifices we have askedof our youth during other times ofnational crisis. We can only hope thewealthy politicians and those intheir inner circle will carry them-selves half as well as our youth.

I’ve heard some say that raisingtaxes on the wealthy will kill job cre-ation. But if one uses commonsense, they will realize the wealthydo not hire and fire people based onhow much they are paying in taxes,but how much demand there is forthe products and services their fac-tories or consulting firms produce.

History also concurs that askingthe wealthy to contribute in times ofneed is a prudent course of action.At the height of the Great Depres-sion, the Revenue Act of 1932 raisedthe top tax rate from 25 percent to 63percent. By 1933, the free fall in thegross national product had slowed toa 2.1 percent drop, and by 1934 theGNP rose 7.7 percent.

We don’t even have to go that farback in history. In 1993, the GOPclaimed that Clinton’s tax plan,which increased taxes mainly on thewealthy, would “kill jobs” and “killthe current recovery.” Instead, weended up with one of the mostrobust economies of recent timesand a government surplus.

So as the 2012 election seasonkicks off, it is time to decide if youwant to vote for the GOP, whichwants to send you and other less-financially-stable individuals to thefront lines in this fiscal struggle, orfor the Democrats, who believewealthy individuals and corpora-tions — the soldiers of fortune —should fight this fiscal war.

Register to vote and plan to vote.Contribute and campaign, becausethis is your future.

Richard Zipper is a Golden IDstudent taking classes in biology. Hecan be reached atzipper@umdbk.com.

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This past Saturday, aftermonths of preparation andanxiety, I made my firstattempt at the dreaded

LSATs. In a perfect world wherehard work and dedication actuallypay off, it’ll be my only attempt —but that remains unknown until thescores come back.

In the meantime, I can finally sitback and reflect on the whole experi-ence, and as usual for overly analyti-cal people like myself, reflection usu-ally results in even more questionsand concerns.

The first big issue I have aboutthis whole graduate/professionalschool entrance testing process isthe amount of stress it places onundergraduates. True, stress isnothing new for college students,but add the stress of what is poten-tially the most important exam ofyour life to the regular stress ofclasses, projects, midterms andextracurricular involvement andyou’ve got a serious stress overload.

And let’s be honest — the majorityof students applying to law school are

probably those same students whoalready take a lot onto their plate tobegin with. Now they have to study forthis test — which is completely unre-lated to their courses — while stillstriving for an A on that paper, creat-ing meeting agendas for the organiza-tions they lead and writing rivetingcolumns for the school newspaper. Etcetera, et cetera.

Add to that the fact that the LSATsare only offered four times a year —three of which fall around typical col-lege midterm weeks — and it’senough to make you go crazy.

Now we all know that stress isn’thealthy. It can make you depressed,affect your appetite, damage yourrelationships, lead to sleep prob-lems and more. I realized somethingelse about stress, though: It seemslike students are either under a tonof it or none at all. So you have agroup of robust, healthy studentswhose only real worry is going toclass that day and another group ofstudents (ironically, usually the stu-dent leaders who are responsible fora lot around the campus) whose

health is compromised as a result oftheir good efforts. We’re essentiallyharming and disadvantaging our-selves in choosing to pursue thingsthat will (hopefully) benefit us —what a catch-22!

Another thing I realized after mywhole LSAT ordeal is how broke I’mgoing to be in a few years. You maybe thinking, “You won’t be broke;you’ll be a lawyer,” but unfortunately,that’s not the case. See, it costs apretty penny to even get that far.First, it costs more than $130 to eventake the LSATs. And many peopletake prep classes before the examthat can cost upward of $1,000. Youmight see that as superfluous, butwhen other young people are gettingan advantage from taking a course,you’d want that same advantage in

order to level the playing field.And we haven’t even reached the

expensive part yet: tuition. I had a bitof a heartbreaking moment at thelaw school fair a few weeks ago uponseeing the price of my “dream”school: $78,000. Per year. And that’sa public institution.

So again for law school, studentshave basically the same predica-ment they did when applying to col-lege. You can go somewhere youreally deserve and want to attendbased on your achievement but bein debt up to your eyeballs, or settlefor a scholarship to your “safetyschool” or something cheaper withless prestige.

Despite all these thoughts, I’m notangry for trying hard; I actually feelpretty satisfied with my efforts andconfident that I’ll make it into andthrough law school in one piece. Themoney part I’ll worry about later —as soon as I take a nap.

Lauren Mendelsohn is a juniorpsychology major. She can be reachedat mendelsohn@umdbk.com.

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Enlisting the soldiers of fortune

A sk any police department what its mission is and you’ll likely hear some-thing along the lines of: “To protect and serve.” While students weary ofUniversity Police’s recent efforts to combat underage drinking may takeissue with such a description, police officers still essentially exist to serve

the community. But in College Park, it isn’t always clear what that community is.University Police operate on the campus and in parts of College Park. While Prince

George’s County Police handle College Park, too, the CollegePark Metro Station is only policed by the Washington Metro-politan Area Transit Authority. Neighboring University Parkalso has its own police force, as does Hyattsville.

The lesson is this: While police departments may notadmit so publicly, they only really care about the specific com-munities they are charged with protecting and serving. Forpeople living and working in an area with such a patchworkof jurisdictional authorities, that can be problematic.

Take the Metro station. According to data recentlyreleased by WMATA, the station suffers from the sixth-high-est crime rate among 86 Metro stations in the region. Inresponse, Robert Pavlick, the Metro Transit Police’s deputy chief of patrol operations,said the station’s parking lots and garages will soon receive security cameras. Thedepartment also plans to hand out safety literature and wet wipes, so motorists canremove smudges left on their windshields by GPS units. Metro Police also plan togive SmarTrip cards to officers with other police departments so they can accessparking garages for additional patrols.

To this editorial board, that sounds like an expensive way to do a whole lot ofnothing. Security cameras are costly, and a grainy video of some thief running offwith a GPS doesn’t do much to deter crime. Officers handing out safety brochuresand wet napkins isn’t a great use of manpower, especially when a local studentwould probably do the same for minimum wage. Giving other departments accessto parking garages probably won’t hurt, but how much can it really help? Thosedepartments have their own jurisdictions to worry about, and it seems unlikely theywould pull officers from a neighborhood beat to patrol a Metro parking garagewhere they lack jurisdictional authority.

Metro Police should find ways to do more with less. Instead of airing system-widepublic service announcements, WMATA should play station-specific ones. Riders’ears might perk up if they’re told the College Park station is the sixth-most dangerousand that bicycle theft and automotive break-ins are recurring problems.

If the department notices a particular trend, it can partner with other agencies, as itdid when busting a ring of phone thieves this summer in Washington. Someone steal-

ing a bike probably doesn’t take it onto the Metro: They fleeinto the surrounding area. Because the area suffers from ahodgepodge of governmental and jurisdictional authorities,multiagency partnerships are crucial. But since Metro Policeonly cares about its own jurisdiction, that won’t happen unlesssomeone from a local agency or department steps up —someone like University Police Chief David Mitchell.

Last week, Mitchell announced the City Multiagency Ser-vice Team, which is a collaboration between University Policeand several area agencies — such as police and fire depart-ments, the State’s Attorney’s Office and the university’sOffice of Student Conduct — designed to identify recurring

problems and utilize a multiagency approach to tackle them. CMAST, as the group iscalled, will share existing information and resources without creating additionalexpenditures. It’s also the exact sort of approach Metro Police could use to take onthe College Park station’s high crime rate.

But Mitchell’s force is charged with protecting and serving the university commu-nity, not College Park. Students surely ride the Metro, but it would be a stretch forMitchell to focus on a Metro station located almost a mile from the campus.

Which is why city officials should see this as an opportunity to truly serve the city.With November’s College Park City Council elections rapidly approaching, a crimefighting initiative could go a long way with voters — you know, the community mem-bers candidates hope to serve.

If the city refuses to create its own police force, the least councilmembers can do isfoster collaborations between the disparate groups that police in and around CollegePark. Only then can the community hope to shed its image as a magnet for crime.

Here’s looking at you, candidates.

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around the College ParkMetro Station, city officialsshould step up to help local

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Stress for success

I’m writing about “Not letting goyet,” a Sept. 28 Diamondbackarticle about the candlelightvigil held in the wake of the mur-

der of university alumnus andemployee Gaurav Gopalan. Whilewell-written, the article was a bit nar-rowly framed, almost as though thevigil were an exclusively LGBT-focused event. This may have givensome readers a misimpression.

Luke Jensen, director of the Officeof LGBT Equity, organized the vigilnot as a statement of the LGBT com-munity, but because he recognizedthat Gopalan’s death has affectedmany in the university and greatercommunities, including those whodid or did not know Gopalan, andthose who do or do not affiliate withLGBT communities.

Although LGBT people and con-cerns were prominent, the candle-light vigil was not an LGBT “forum”per se, nor did it feel like one. Evenwhen I referred to “a community anda network” that should be developed,I was referencing the fact that ashumans we’re all very connected —not just LGBT people, but SouthAsians, engineers, thespians, etc. Atthe vigil, one person spoke of storiesin Hindu mythology. Another spokeabout Gopalan as an engineering stu-dent and later an employee. Anotherspoke about Gopalan as a former stu-dent in her theater classes. Shake-speare was read.

It was an LGBT-inclusive vigil thatrecognized that when a communitymember is slain, it affects us all. Andthat pain is not a purely private affair.We hold in our arms not only thosewho have died, but those who knewthem, and communities associatedwith the deceased. To not recognizethe pain of Gopalan’s death on thebroader community is to not recog-nize that his life also had an effect andgave inspiration beyond those whopersonally knew him.

I was taken aback to see an anony-mous comment posted on the onlineversion of the article that said, “Howmany of the people at this memorialactually cared about him or sup-ported him and his lifestyle? Howmany of them attended the memorialsimply to make a showy, self-servinggesture of ‘support?’ Just saying.” Iam understanding the use of the word“lifestyle” here and the overall pur-pose of the comment as a jab at andmisunderstanding of LGBT people,implying that people attended thevigil as a political stunt.

I have seen numerous anti-women,anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-peo-ple of color, anti-transgender and anti-gay comments on The Diamond-back’s website. And these wordswere some of the most vicious I haveseen because they effectively kick acommunity while it’s down. The com-menter fails to understand that talk-ing openly about our lives and draw-ing the connections between individu-als, communities and society is animportant part of the processes of life,death and supporting one another.These comments are both angeringand saddening at a time of mourning.

I hope The Diamondback will takenote and question whether a societybuilt on instant gratification and feed-back through anonymous channels issomething we want to support, or ifallowing these kinds of online com-ments without accountability is trulymeaningful and worth continuing.There must be a middle groundbetween having no space for dialogueand allowing chaos and anonymousattacks to reign, but how things standis unacceptable in my view.

Nicholas Sakurai is the associatedirector of the Office of LGBT Equity.He can be reached atsakurai@umd.edu.

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some wrinkles into his game plan thatcaught his team by surprise in the first half.

After the Terps (2-2) jumped out to anearly seven-point lead in front of a homecrowd of 35,573, the Tigers dominatedthe rest of the first half. The Terps gainedjust 56 first-half yards after their first pos-session, and their defense simply couldn’tget off the field. Towson had the ball for21:30 in the first half alone.

If not for a Terps goal-line stand toforce a field goal and poor clock man-agement that led to a fruitless red-zonetrip to end the half, the Tigers couldhave easily gone into halftime with acushion over the Terps.

The Terps held on, though, and aftertweaking their game plan at halftime,scored 21 unanswered points in the sec-ond half for the win.

“We just had to make some adjust-ments,” said wide receiver Kevin Dorsey,who finished with 44 receiving yards anda touchdown. “There was no concern.Halftime is there for a reason: It’s to makethose adjustments.”

Still, the win didn’t come in the dominantfashion the Terps expected. Coming off anembarrassing 38-7 drubbing by Templelast weekend, the Terps had hoped for amore resounding result Saturday.

But in getting back into the win column,their effort did little to erase the memoryof their struggles to start the season.

The Terps’ offensive attack still lacked thepotency it had in a season-opening win overMiami. Running backs Davin Meggett andJustus Pickett did combine for 184 yardsand a touchdown on the ground, but theteam’s passing attack was tame.

Quarterback Danny O’Brien threw forjust 123 yards and two touchdowns,despite the return of two of his favoritetargets, wide receivers Quintin McCreeand Ronnie Tyler, from suspension.

And while the Terps’ defense did forceturnovers on three consecutive posses-sions in the third quarter, it still surren-dered 378 total yards and a 47 percentthird-down conversion rate to an FCSopponent with its backup quarterback,Peter Athens, under center.

“I don’t think we won the game by asmuch as we wanted to or the way we wanted

to,” guard Andrew Gonnella said. “A win,however you can get it, is the best thing.”

With a date looming against one of thenation’s most prolific running attacks inundefeated No. 13 Georgia Tech, though,the Terps know they’re going to need amore complete effort than the one theyput forth Saturday.

“We know what’s ahead of us,” O’Briensaid. “We have a tough schedule and itwill be a tough eight more weeks. …Right now we’re focusing on GeorgiaTech and Georgia Tech only. They’re agreat top-25 team and it’s an ACC game.

“We’ll have to execute at a high level tobeat them.”

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until the third quarter. Theirfast-paced, hurry-up offensedidn’t sustain a drive longerthan 3:02 during that first half,while the Tigers made theTerps’ defense look ineptagainst the run.

Even with wide receivers Ron-nie Tyler and Quintin McCreeback, quarterback DannyO’Brien was once again off themark. Second-string quarter-back C.J. Brown took over forone drive, something Edsall said

was part of the game plan. Butconsidering how poorly thereigning ACC Rookie of the Yearhad played — he threw for feweryards than Towson’s backupquarterback — it seemed at thetime like a possible benching.

It might have been a completelydifferent game had the Tigers notdropped passes, racked up 77yards of penalties and telegraphedinterceptions to Terps defenders.Towson outgained the Terps onthe day, had the ball for 11 min-utes longer and was more effec-tive on third down.

Maybe the Terps did overlookthe Tigers, as one player sug-

gested after the game. That’s alaughable idea now. Pretty soon,it will be other teams overlook-ing the Terps.

At this point, there isn’t muchto see.

“We still have a long way togo,” Edsall said. “It’s my job asthe coach to make sure that ouryoung men understand that, yes,we did some good things today.But we still have to get better.”

Afterward, the team seemedto understand this: There’s noexcuse for letting a team likeTowson hang around as long asit did. But the fact that Edsallpointed to “new wrinkles” in theTigers’ playbook to explain theTerps’ early struggles isn’texactly reassuring. It shouldn’tmatter what Towson throws atany BCS team. It’s Towson.

Most worrying for Edsallshould be how flat the teamlooked — again. After gettingblown out the week beforeagainst Temple, the Terps stillslogged through this game.They had a chance to blow offsome steam against an inferiorteam, but as embarrassing asthat loss was, it didn’t look likethere was much there Saturday.

In the darkest days of theRalph Friedgen era — and therewere some bleak ones — theplayers never looked quite asdetached as they have thesepast two weeks.

So Friedgen can burn hisdiploma, fly a Georgia Tech flagand laugh for now — becausehis replacement hasn’t donemuch better than him this year.The whole purpose of firing lastyear’s ACC Coach of the Yearwas to take this team to the nextlevel. Four games into this sea-son, that hasn’t happened.

Though the final score didn’ttell the whole story, in the end,both teams assumed their roles.Towson is an FCS team, and yes,the Terps are a BCS squad.

Just not a very good one yet.

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Running back Justus Pickett celebrates a 5-yard rushing touchdown in the third quarter. The Terps finishedwith nearly 200 yards rushing in their 28-3 win Saturday against Towson. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

TOWSONfrom page 8

SCHNEIDERfrom page 8

streaking Townsend, who headedthe ball over onrushing Creightongoalkeeper Brian Holt and con-verted a one-touch shot into anempty net goal.

The goal, which was the MACHermann Trophy candidate’s 11thin 11 games, forced Creighton (8-1)to work from a deficit for the firsttime this season.

And after a dissatisfying defen-sive effort against No. 12 Charlotteon Tuesday, the Terps were intenton making that a difficult task forthe Bluejays. The Terps’ backlinenullified Creighton’s leadingscorer, Ethan Finlay, who failed totally a shot on goal for the first timethis season.

“I think the back four, we did atremendous job,” defender LondonWoodberry said. “We kind of justcame together and we just under-stood we had to stay focused andstay in tune for the rest of the gameto get the shutout. I mean, we don’tscore goals that much, so getting ashutout’s kind of like scoring a goalfor us.”

After notching nine shots in thefirst half, the Terps’ offense sput-tered in the final 45 minutes. Stillfeeling the effects of Tuesdaynight’s win, they struggled to keeppossession in the latter half, tally-ing a season-low two shots.

Creighton, meantime, emergedfrom halftime firing. Coming off anearly weeklong rest, the Bluejaysattacked the Terps’ defense at thestart of the second half and tallied sixshots. It was the first time this sea-son the Terps were outshot in a half.

Still, the team’s stingy backlineensured that goalkeeper WillSwaim had to grab only two savesto capture his 12th career shutout.Creighton’s best scoring opportu-nity came in the 73rd minute, whenmidfielder Bruno Castro’s freekick sailed over the net.

“The second half was just aboutgrinding it out and showing somegrit,” Cirovski said. “I was reallyimpressed with my guys. I was a lit-tle concerned about how theycould close out this game, but theydid a great job.”

Friday night’s win spelled the endof a trying stretch for the Terps.After hitting the road for three offour games, they closed out themonth in College Park with a pair ofwins against top-15 opponents.

But the Terps aren’t complain-ing. Cirovski’s affinity for toughschedules, after all, is the reasonmany of his players committed tothe program in the first place.

“These are the kind of gamesyou come here to play,” Townsendsaid. “I could barely sleep last nightjust thinking about coming out toplay today.”

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CREIGHTONfrom page 8

Forward Casey Townsend, second from right, scored his 11th goal in 11 games Friday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

behind again, 23-22, butrecovered with a kill, serv-ice ace and block to tie thematch. In the fifth and deci-sive set, the Terps trailed byfive early before going on arun that the Cavalierscouldn’t recover from, scor-ing eight of the final ninepoints to finish the match.

The differences in theteam’s resolve becameapparent in the Terps’ lossto Virginia Tech. Insteadof trailing, the Terps tooka commanding 2-0 setlead, including a second-set rally after they faced a24-20 deficit.

But the third set provedto be the one that turnedthe tide in the Hokies’favor. With the scoredeadlocked at 21-21 andthe Terps as close as fourpoints away from a three-match winning streak inACC play, the Hokiesmade a run to take the set,25-22. The Hokies usedsimilar runs in the lasttwo sets to stun the Terpswith a 3-2 win.

Their strong team-wideplay helped key the come-back. Virginia Tech had13 blocks in the match,along with a solid 27.2team hitting percentage.

“We didn’t deserve it,”Horsmon said. “We didn’tplay hard, we didn’t matchtheir intensity, and we did-n’t execute. We obviouslyneed to do a better job atthose things, and we needto make those plays.”

Despite the team’s break-down, some individual per-formances stood out.McBain tallied 46 assists,along with seven kills andnine digs. The junior had101 combined assists overthe span of the twomatches, moving her closerto becoming fifth all time inschool history. Cushmanachieved her second dou-ble-double on the weekendafter earning 16 kills and 17digs against the Hokies, andElliott continued her strongplay with 12 kills.

It just wasn’t enough fora second win in as manymatches.

“Our kids competedthroughout that matchagainst Virginia, and wenever gave up,” he said.“We looked tired againstVirginia Tech and came inill-prepared to play. WhileVirginia gave us opportuni-ties late, Virginia Tech gotbetter through the match.They just had a will to win,while we were hoping towin but didn’t earn it.”

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VOLLEYBALLfrom page 8

series with the Cavaliers (5-7, 0-2)and their eighth straight this sea-

son. The team’s six goalsmatched the Terps’ season highfor a single game this season —a feat they have accomplishedfour times now — and markedthe most goals Virginia has

given up this year. “We’re dangerous because

we’ve got such a variety of play-ers and type of shots that arebeing taken,” Meharg said. “I’mnot sure we really got into the

type of flow we’d like to get intoto build, but when you score sixgoals on a great team, we’repretty happy.”

Keying the Terps’ offensiveoutput was the play of their twoco-captains, Megan Frazer andBuckley. The two midfielderscombined to score the team’sfirst four goals, including theeventual game winner. For-wards Shelby Sydnor and Wit-mer added the final two goalsfor the Terps in the game’s wan-ing minutes.

“What Megan and I try to doout on the field is just lead byexample out on the field,” Buck-ley said. “Even if it’s just puttingthe goals in the net or justinspiring or encouraging othergirls to play the best they can.But by us finishing, I guess itjust sets a tone for the team tojust step it up.”

The Terps’ late score didn’tnecessarily decide the outcomeof the game, but it did providean important insurance goal forthe Terps. Three of the pastfour matchups in the seriesbetween the two programs hadgone into overtime, and Wit-mer’s efforts in the game’s finalminute made sure they would-n’t head there again.

“It just shut them down,” Wit-mer said. “It’s really important.[Virginia] is a good team, so itwas just another day we had tocome out and beat them.”

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Midfielder Megan Frazer, left, scored two of the No. 3 Terps’ first four goals in their win Fridayagainst Virginia, whom they have beaten 15 consecutive times. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

VIRGINIAfrom page 8

BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer

Clinging to a two-goal lead withjust more than a minute left in regula-tion Friday, the Terrapins fieldhockey team could only watch as Vir-ginia set up its offense for a crucialpenalty-corner opportunity.

A Cavaliers goal would haveoffered a bit of hope for their chancesin the game. What happened in aspan of 10 seconds soon after, how-ever, all but ended it.

With 58 seconds on the clock, Vir-ginia midfielder Elly Buckley rifled ashot at the Terps’ goal. But goalieMelissa Vassalotti made the save, giv-ing midfielder Jemma Buckley achance to clear the ball out of the cir-cle. Two passes later, the ball was atforward Jill Witmer’s stick.

Witmer handled the pass and, in aflash, sprinted past her defendertoward the top of the shooting circle

and ripped a shot toward the net. Vir-ginia goalie Adrienne Ostroff couldn’tget in front of it in time, and Wit-mer’s goal with 48 seconds remain-ing proved to be the clincher in a 6-3Terps victory.

“If you put a game within two, it’s agame. You can score two goals in aminute, no problem,” coach Missy

Meharg said. “I’m glad we were ableto make a brilliant counterattack pasttwo lanes for a goal. And once you’reback up to three goals, you’re in a dif-ferent position.”

It was the No. 3 Terps’ (10-1, 3-0ACC) 15th consecutive win in the

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Quarterback Danny O’Brien heads upfield during the Terps’ 28-3 win against Towson at Byrd Stadium on Saturday. The Terps, who resume ACC playthis Saturday at Georgia Tech, led by seven at halftime before distancing themselves with 21 unanswered points. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

TERPS 28, TIGERS 3

Good enoughMEN’S SOCCER

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAUStaff writer

One weighty figure hung over theTerrapins men’s soccer team as it trot-ted onto Ludwig Field to face No. 2Creighton on Friday night.

The Bluejays had not surrendered agoal for nearly 740 minutes, makingthem the only team in Division I not tohave been scored upon this season.And with each passing shutout, theaura around Creighton’s backline onlyintensified.

But the No. 3 Terps proved therewas another defense worth noting Fri-day. After getting just enough offensefrom their senior leader, they delivereda complete defensive effort to capturea 1-0 win over Creighton in front of acrowd of 5,648.

“Their front four or five are excel-lent, and we hadn’t played a potentattack like that for a while,” coachSasho Cirovski said. “So that was theNo. 1 thing, that we had to be the bet-ter defending team on the field, and Ithought we were today.”

The Terps (10-0-1) held Creighton toa season-low six shots and just twochances on goal. The Bluejays, whoentered the match averaging more thantwo goals a game, didn’t have a shotattempt for the first 48 minutes Friday.

That stalwart defensive effortensured that Casey Townsend’s goal inthe 14th minute was enough to keepthe Terps’ unbeaten streak alive.

From near midfield, forward PatrickMullins lobbed a looping pass to a

Terps acetheir bigtest, 1-0

Midfielder John Stertzer leaps for aheader during a 1-0 victory Fridaynight against No. 2 Creighton.CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

see CREIGHTON, page 7

BY NICHOLAS MUNSONStaff writer

For a moment yesterday, it lookedas if the Terrapins volleyball teamwould walk away from the weekendwith two conference victories under itsbelt. Then, in a matter of points, thathope slipped away.

Holding a 2-0 set lead over VirginiaTech with a 21-21 tie in the thirdframe, the Terps dropped the set, lostcontrol of the match and squandereda chance at a three-match conferencewinning streak. It also put a damperon the results of their earlier matchagainst Virginia, a five-set comebackvictory Friday.

“It was pretty disappointing,” coachTim Horsmon said. “Being up 2-0, andhaving an opportunity to put it away athome, it’s very disappointing that we

couldn’t take care of business.”Although the weekend ended on a

sour note, career highs and come-backs abounded when the Terps (9-8,3-2 ACC) faced Virginia (6-9, 0-5). Set-ter Remy McBain achieved her thirdcareer triple-double, tallying 11 kills,21 digs and 55 assists — just one shyaway from tying her career mark. ACCFreshman of the Week Adreene Elliottcontributed 17 kills and a 43.3 hittingpercentage. Outside hitter MaryCushman, quickly becoming theattacking leader of the Terps, notched18 kills, a career high, and 14 digs.

After trailing 2-1 after the third set,the Terps rallied in each of the finaltwo sets. Down 20-16 in the fourth set,they used a sudden offensive barrageto knot the score at 21. The Terps fell

Forward Jill Witmer’s goal late in the second half Friday clinched a 6-3win for the Terps over ACC rival Virginia. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

see VIRGINIA, page 7

VOLLEYBALL

Points away from weekendsweep, Terps lose control

see VOLLEYBALL, page 7

After rallying to upend Cavaliers on Friday,Terps can’t close out second win vs. Hokies

BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer

Saturday’s game againstTowson was supposed tooffer the Terrapins footballteam a final, painless opportu-nity to work out the kinks inits game before entering themeat of its schedule.

But with another lacklusterperformance, this time againstan FCS opponent, the Terps’flaws only became all the moreobvious — and worrying.

Though the Terps walkedoff Byrd Stadium smilingafter a 28-3 victory, the Tigersdid much more to lose Satur-day’s game than their hostsdid to win it. With four second-

half turnovers, a slew of penal-ties and an inability to capital-ize on the Terps’ sloppy firsthalf, Towson largely spoiledits chance at what could havebeen a landmark victory.

“I think the biggest thing isthat we got a win,” coachRandy Edsall said. “I thoughtthat we showed resiliency, Ithought we battled and Ithought that they played thegame for 60 minutes today.

“But, again, we just have tokeep getting better.”

Edsall explained afterwardthat Towson coach RobAmbrose, who coached underEdsall at Connecticut, threw

The final scorelooked how it wassupposed to — likea blowout, a 25-point

victory for the D-I programover its in-state fodder.

But until the Terrapins foot-ball team pulled away late inthe second half against Tow-son, it was hard to tell whichwas fighting for bowl eligibil-ity and which was gunning foran FCS playoff spot.

The 28-3 score doesn’t

show it, but against an FCSteam, in their own stadium,the Terps were outplayed formuch of the day.

Coach Randy Edsall and histeam can say that a win is a winall they want, but there is noway on earth they’re happy withthe circumstances of that vic-tory. Not against Towson. Notafter what happened againstTemple the week before. Itmight have been one of theTerps’ most underwhelming,unimpressive, unpromising 25-point wins in program history.

The Terps found the endzone on the game’s openingdrive, then didn’t score again

FIELD HOCKEY

No. 3 Terps close out 6-3 win in styleWitmer’s goal endsCavaliers’ chancesof comeback Friday

Defense keys victoryvs. No. 2 Creighton

ACC play beckonsafter middling win

see TOWSON, page 7

A blowout, butnot blown away

JEREMYSCHNEIDER

see SCHNEIDER, page 7

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