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District 3 council incumbents, mayor re-electedUno� cial results keep incumbents in o� ce

By Teddy Amenabar@teddyamenSta� writer

Despite two contested districts and the first competitive mayoral race since 1989, the uno� cial results for the College Park mayor and City Council election favored the incumbents.

It was a disheartening loss for Dis-trict 3 candidate Matthew Popkin,

Mobile app club creates finals toolSGA helps Mobile App Developers Club make central scheduling hub

By Josh Logue@jmlogueSta� writer

Information for finals schedules and activities is scattered across mul-tiple websites and organizations, but a new app could help stressed stu-dents plan their days in one place.

With the Student Government As-sociation-sponsored mobile applica-tion Finals App UMD, users will be able to input course titles to fi nd the date, time and room of exams while also scheduling downtime with activities such as the popular Puppy Palooza.

“Students need a centralized place to fi nd all the resources available to them during fi nals week,” said Meenu Singh, SGA academic affairs vice president. “Ultimately, not having all this information in a centralized place takes time away from students.”

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mayor andy fellows (center-left) was re-elected alongside District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich (center-right) in yesterday’s city elections. Student Matthew Popkin (left) lost in District 3. james levin/the diamondback

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a university graduate student, who lost to incumbent council members Robert Day and Stephanie Stullich.

“Certainly myself and everyone on the campaign was fairly disappointed with the results,” Popkin said.

Both Day and Stullich said Pop-kin’s campaign addressed a need to bridge the gap between students and permanent residents.

“Matthew showed there is very much

an interest from students, and we need to take advantage of that,” Day added.

Stullich said she wants to move past what some may have seen as oppositional relationship between residents and students during this year’s campaign.

“I know I want to move beyond that,” Stullich said.

In the next two years, Stullich said she wants to continue work with the Neighborhood Stabilization and

Students make Hotdrop app using Startup Shell

By Darcy Costello@dctelloSta� writer

Spies and secret agents have used the “dead drop” for years. Roll up a little note, then stick it in the ground for another person to pick up. Essen-tially, hide the message in plain sight to share information with desired re-spondents — the idea is nothing new.

Combine that with a mobile hot spot, though, and it’s something unique: a Hotdrop.

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the mobile application — set to pre-miere next year — will allow users to leave a piece of content, such as

a photo or message, for later pass-ersby who walk through the same area, said Je� Hilnbrand, Hotdrop

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co-founder and junior mechanical engineering major.

“With the app, users can make connections through spaces,” Hilnbrand said. “Anything from messages for a pickup basketball game, scavenger hunts or event invites for students in a certain location — it’s a way of allowing people to communicate based on where they are in the world.”

Hilnbrand and two other uni-versity students, Richard Higgins and Daniel Gillespie, came up with the idea at the University of Pennsylvania’s PennApps hack-athon in early September. Since

Vehicle lab to develop hybrid technologiesStudents will be among nation’s fi rst in research

By Erin Serpico@thedbkSta� writer

By next fall, students may get the chance to work in one of the nation’s fi rst educational labs focused on hybrid electric and plug-in electric vehicles.

With the help of the National Science Foundation and the univer-sity’s sustainability fund, electrical and computer engineering professor Alireza Khaligh is creating the lab to educate students about electric vehicles and prepare them to work in the industry.

“The auto industry is going through

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Charting a B1G futureShirley Povich Symposium panelists discuss university’s future amid move to Big Ten conference

By Ellie Silverman@esilverman11Sta� writer

While the university’s move from the ACC to the Big Ten athletic con-ference has prompted backlash, speakers at last night’s Shirley Povich Symposium said the move could be a step toward reinvigorat-ing the university’s fan base.

T he panelists at the annual event, this year titled “Maryland to the Big Ten: Charting the Future; Remembering the Past,” included See POVICH, Page 2

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany; Athletic Director Kevin Anderson; university alumna Bonnie Bern-stein of sports network Campus Insiders; university alumnus Tom McMillen, chairman and CEO of Timios National Corporation and University System of Maryland regent; and Scott Van Pelt, uni-versity alumnus and ESPN com-mentator and reporter.

“Your father’s Big Ten is not going to be your children’s Big Ten,” Delany said. “People understand that the need to change, the need

to expand, the need to associate with peer institutions, the need to build, outweighs the memories of the past. I think we’ve gained more than we’ve given up.”

Born and raised a Terps fan, freshman journalism major Michael Errigo said he was saddened by the university’s decision to move to the Big Ten, and he attended the sym-posium seeking an explanation.

“I’m hoping to get something that is satisfying and makes sense and isn’t just, ‘We wanted more money,’” Errigo said. “I kind of

want them to appeal to the fans that care about tradition and loyalty to your school, loyalty to your confer-ence, loyalty to the East Coast.”

As a 1992 alumna, Bernstein said she could relate to students like Errigo who love the tradition of Terps sports and thought the move to the Big Ten seemed to neglect that rich history.

“It’s hard to get rid of how much we despise Duke,” she said. “Who am I going to hate in the Big Ten as

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much as I hate Duke? While I t h i n k we i n genera l, a s a society, a re hesita nt to embrace change because it’s difficult and it’s different, it can be awkward, but if we are going to change, I think we’re changing to the right place.”

For Brooke Silard, a 1991 alumna, the move to the Big Ten is bittersweet. Some fans may believe the move will decrease fan support at away games, she said, but she’s de-termined to support the Terps, both at home and away.

“The ACC that I know and love and grew up with has changed,” Silard said. “[The Big Ten is] a good change for us, and maybe it re-energizes and rejuvenates the fan base.”

Anderson discussed the mon-etary benefits of membership in the Big Ten Network, including the possibility of bringing back one or more of the seven sports teams that were cut in 2012.

“We would be able to not only have a direct balanc-ing, but will also be able to be putting money away and doing things that we weren’t able to do in the past,” Anderson said.

McMillen acknowledged the advantages of the move but said increased travel for student-athletes could be an issue.

“We’re putting these confer-ences in Minneapolis, Iowa City [Iowa], and this is tough,” Mc-Millen said. “If I wanted to be a doctor, I couldn’t be an athlete and do this today. … We, as uni-versities, have to look around and say what are we all about.”

Wendy Bersbach, a 1972 alumna wearing a red Terps shirt, said her family history at this university is linked to its allegiance to the ACC, making the move to the Big Ten a dif-ficult adjustment.

“It is really hard for me to think about not being in the ACC,” Bersbach said. “The old rivalries were special. Any opportunity to beat Duke brings joy to my life.”

However, Van Pelt said the Big Ten move will bring fresh vigor to Terps sports.

“On my radio show, I said I can’t summon sadness to hold a funeral that for something — in my opinion, the ACC really died in 2004. Things changed dras-tically then,” Van Pelt said. “I’ll always remember fondly what the ACC was, but I’m optimistic about what the future is.”

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a h u g e i n f r a s t r u c t u r e ch a nge,” K h a l ig h sa id. “T hey a re i n d i re need for electrical engineers … because most of the people who have been trained in the auto industry were me-chanical engineers.”

Although the lab has not yet been built, Khaligh has a plan for setting it up for u se nex t fa l l. Students w i l l work w it h veh ic le components but not with the actual cars, K haligh said, because the vehicles have too much power and voltage to be secure in a laboratory setting.

“They will have the energy storage system, the electric machine,” he said. “It’s going to be a smaller, scaled-down version of a car.”

During hands-on labo-

ratory experiments, students will learn how battery chargers are incorporated into vehicles, and work with energy storage in the vehicles and regen-erative braking, or testing the brakes without a loss of energy, Khaligh said. A poten-tial experiment, he said, could involve students emulating typical drive cycles while studying the average number of times the driver uses the brakes, along with how often the vehicle accelerates.

“The main objective is to train students, either for the industry or for academia,” Khaligh said.

Initially, the NSF grant Khaligh received was to be used in collaboration with the Illinois Institute of Technol-ogy and IIT professor Uma-maheshwar Krishnamurthy. Instead, Khaligh, a former IIT professor, decided to bring his plans for the lab to this university, along with some

of the NSF funding and an ap-plication to the sustainability fund, so each institution will have its own lab.

Electric vehicles, which don’t produce greenhouse gas emissions like other cars, are a “huge market for the auto i ndu s t r y,” K h a l i g h sa id . Several students said the op-portunity to learn more about them in a lab setting would be a valuable experience.

“I think a lab like that would be amazing, and I would be highly interested,” said Seung Choe, a sophomore chemical engineering major.

Choe, who i s m i nor i ng i n susta i nabi l ity stud ies, said the creation of an edu-cational lab like Khaligh’s would mark an important step toward teaching about “responsible” engineering.

W h i l e m a ny u n ive rs i-ties have educational labs, all the elements of Khaligh’s will essentially be built from

scratch. Khaligh said he has high hopes for the success of the lab, largely because of the budding interest his students have already shown.

Steven Verovsky, a junior electrical engineering major, said he was initially drawn to the hands-on aspect of Kha-ligh’s lab.

“Just having another lab that would give undergrad-uates a chance to work in is important,” Verovsky said. “By having this lab, we’re doing the research and learn-ing more. … It would benefit everybody.”

Because t he l ab’s work will focus on alternative fuel sources, it could boost the prominence of the univer-sity’s research and appeal to consumers at the same time, Verovsky said.

“It contributes to the bet-tering of society,” he said.

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Hodak and forward Danielle Hubka — played in that game, and although Jonathan Morgan will show his players the tape, it’s not something he wants his seniors dwelling on.

“The majority of these kids didn’t play in that match, so those revenge feelings don’t really carry over,” the first-year coach said. “But this is a tournament, and if it goes to PKs, you want to be prepared for it. We haven’t put a lot of time into them in the past, and I think we put a little more of an emphasis on PKs this week because the level of each team is so similar and going into a PK shootout is pretty likely.”

On paper, the teams are

nearly identical. Wake Forest (13-4-3, 6-3-1 ACC) and the Terps (12-5-2, 6-3-1) each finished the regular season with 19 points, and they rank Nos. 4 and 5 in the confer-ence, respectively, in goals a l lowed t h i s sea son. T he Terps defeated the Demon Deacons, 2-1, in their only meeting of the year.

It’s that likeness that could create the need for just what Bea n la nds a nd her tea m-mates were practicing earlier this week.

“We are the higher seed and we were able to beat Wake Forest before, but this is the ACC,” Morgan said. “These games really can go either way. You’re always at risk, but I do like the way our team is playing. I like our motiva-tion and our excitement for

this game, so I feel confi dent in our group for Friday night.”

That’s why the Terps spent time this week practicing penalty kicks. The winner of tomorrow’s game will face either No. 1-seed Florida State or No. 5-seed Virginia in the fi nals Sunday, and, based on the Terps’ history with Wake Forest, they might need a shootout to get there.

“I think we have a great op-portunity to win the title, and there are six or seven girls I feel confi dent in for taking penalty shots,” Morgan said. “There are four teams in the semifi nal, and we’ve beaten two, so I feel great about our chances, but we have to take it one game at a time and we need to get past Wake Forest fi rst.”

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entered the fourth quarter of a Sept. 1 season opener against lowly William & Mary down, 6-0, they didn’t simply crumble under the pressure of a poten-tially embarrassing home loss. They strung together a touch-down drive, and escaped with the narrow victory.

Heck, even in losses the Terps have shown they’re a far cry from the disenchanted group that stag-gered through a 2-10 nightmare last season.

There was that Sept. 22 matchup at unforgiving West Virginia when the Terps arrived four-touchdown underdogs, and tested the then-No. 8 Mountaineers until the latter stages of the second half.

There was also last week, when the Rowe-led Terps managed to climb out of a 13-0 third-quarter defi cit. Freshman miscues ultimate-ly resulted in a 20-17 heartbreaker, but the statement had already been made: This team is unfazed.

“ T h e y a r e d o i n g a l l t h e things that we are asking them to do,” Edsall said after losing to the Eagles.

This week has been no di¤ erent. The Terps have rallied around their latest answer under center, fresh-man Shawn Petty, since they sat slack-jawed during a team meeting and learned they were suddenly without a scholarship quarterback.

The four sidelined signal callers have helped reintroduce Petty to a side of the ball that, up until two weeks ago, he thought he was done with completely. Defen-sive players have kept tabs on the o¤ ense, making sure practices are running smoothly. And, falling in line with Diggs’ Sunday soliloquy, the Terps have expressed support and unity via Twitter.

“Everything that we want is still in front of us,” wide receiver Nigel King said Wednesday. “We can’t worry about the past.”

Diggs is right. No matter what happens on the fi eld tomorrow, this team has bought in.

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Brown tomorrow.Brown has established himself

as the team’s only real feature back over the past two weeks. He rushed for a career-high 121 yards in a 20-18 loss to N.C. State two weeks ago and he was the only running back to record a carry in the Terps’ 20-17 loss to Boston College last week.

“He’s a beast. I love blocking for him,” center Evan Mulrooney said. “It’s just really great to see a young guy step up to the plate like he has.”

Edsall wouldn’t go into any specifi cs on the game plan, but it looks as though the Terps — like the Yellow Jackets — will feature the run game heavily. Petty averaged fewer than 20 throws a game in high school and likely won’t top that number tomorrow.

And when he does take to the air, the passes should be short ones. Offensive coordinator

Mike Locklsey praised the Terps’ improvement in the screen game and, without the benefit of a downfi eld passing game, could make a concerted effort to get the ball in the hands of playmak-ing wide receiver Stefon Diggs.

“It’s always great when you can count on having a guy back there that has the ability to make something out of nothing,” Locksley said.

Even if the Terps do throw, it won’t be a lot. With the Petty-led offense taking on Georgia Tech’s triple-option attack, tomorrow’s contest is bound to stick close to the ground.

It’s someth i ng the Ter ps haven’t been accustomed to this season. But with four quarter-backs out for the season because of injury and a converted line-backer starting under center, the unexpected has become com-monplace in College Park.

“It will be a little bit di¤ erent,” Edsall said. “It will give everyone something to talk about.”

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With a one-goal victory, they will now face No. 2-seed Virginia in tomorrow’s semifi nal round.

Frazer broke the early dead-lock with a backhanded goal from the top of the circle in the ninth minute. The Terps (15-4, 3-2 ACC) dominated posses-sion throughout the half, not allowing No. 6-seed Duke (7-11, 0-5) to register a shot until the 30th minute.

But Cabrera, the second-stri ng goa l keeper beh i nd Natalie Hunter, was hit with an onslaught of attempts in the last fi ve minutes of the half. The Blue Devils shot fi ve times in that span, three of them on target, and Cabrera stood fi rm to maintain a precarious one-goal advantage

entering the locker room.“It was a little nerve-rack-

ing to know that I was going i n aga i nst [a n ACC tea m] because I haven’t been put up against those teams before,” the redshirt sophomore said. “But after I made those saves, I felt really good about it. My confi dence defi nitely built up.”

The squad tried to remain composed after Gagliardi scored. Duke was now putting together longer possessions, and the Terps’ o¤ ensive sets were break-ing down. But right when things looked bleak, defender Harriet Tibble fed the ball straight into the circle, where Witmer depos-ited the go-ahead score.

“ T h e re wa s no t i m e to think – just collect it and shoot it,” Meharg said. “I was telling them to dig deeper, work hard, play more disciplined and fi nish.

That’s exactly what we needed.”Now the Terps will face the

Cavaliers, who handed them their second loss of the year Sept. 28. In that contest, the Terps held a 2-1 lead with 17 minutes left. It disappeared, though, when two Olympians, Michelle Vittese and Paige Sel-enski, scored two consecutive goals o¤ breakaways.

But with an ACC tourna-ment win already secured, the Terps aren’t planning to leave Chapel Hill early. They intend to stay until Sunday, when they just might have a shot to avenge their loss to the Tar Heels in the title game.

“I’m excited. I’m ready for revenge,” Frazer said. “We all know what happened last time. We’re ready for a battle.”

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thought we were in control of the match and played well.”That momentum would come to a halt in the

second half. Wake Forest’s three-goal e¤ ort started when Tomaselli beat a diving goalkeeper Keith Cardona, and forward Luca Gimenez gathered a long cross from defender Chris Duvall three minutes after Woodberry’s red card. Reserve defender Danny Wenzel iced the game for the Demon Deacons (11-3-4, 4-1-3) in the 77th minute, beating Cardona on a penalty kick after Cyrus committed a foul in the box.

The four goals were the most the Terps had given up all season. In their fi rst 16 games, they had allowed two goals four times. The Demon Deacons also outshot the Terps, 13-11, marking the fi rst time the Terps had been outshot this season.

But while it was an uncharacteristic performance for the Terps, Cirovski tried to keep perspective.

“Our goal was never to go undefeated during the regular season,” Cirovski said. “We accomplished our fi rst goal and now we’re focused on our second goal, which is the ACC tournament.”

TERPS NOTE: Defender Taylor Kemp subbed into the game after Woodberry’s ejection. It was the fi rst time he had played since being sidelined Oct. 5 with a sports hernia.

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The SGA is working with the Mobile App Developers club, a student group that builds smartphone apps for university students. MAD is tackling the programming side of the project, and the SGA polled students about the information they want during finals and organized donations from Bagel Place and Pizza Kingdom for the hackers during a marathon day of coding.

Consolidating information is only one of the app’s core fea-tures, Singh said. It will also come with finals week dis-counts — Bagel Place and Pizza Kingdom have agreed to give a discount to students who have the app, and Singh is working to involve as many local res-taurants and shops as possible.

MAD is hoping to make a version of the app available this

semester, said Bori Oludemi, one of the development group’s co-founders. Finals dates and locations, changes in dining and library hours and the local discounts are the priorities.

Eventually, the app will have a calendar function so students can schedule study time around events such as Puppy Palooza or a free massage, as well as a reminder feature that would go o� before the exam time.

Singh said they also plan to include information about health and wellness services that are available, including the hours and contact in-formation for the University Health Center, and a trans-portation section that would explain changes to bus routes and hours. Other ideas include a motivational page, possibly connected with Twitter, where students can share experiences and tips or commiserate with one another, she said.

“We know finals week is a really stressful time,” Singh

said. “We see this as an op-portunity to make finals week something that should be celebrating the end of the se-mester rather than something students dread.”

T he app w i l l b e ava i l-able for iPhone and Android. Nine students in MAD are working on the app, seven on the iPhone version and two on the Android.

The iPhone work has been particularly di�cult, Oludemi said, because his group doesn’t have a lot of experience pro-gramming for the iPhone. Also, the tools required to make iPhone apps are only available on Apple computers, which only three of them have.

M AD has released three Android apps since the group’s creation. The UMD Trivia app shares interesting facts about this campus, and the beta version of Shellp combines that trivia feature with a map that shows students the shortest routes around the campus. The

club also released an infor-mational app about MAD in February. Both trivia apps were released in September.

“We’re just trying to make life easier on campus with apps,” Oludemi said.

Nikida Levy, a senior ki-nesiology major, said having all the relevant information in one place would be a plus for finals week.

“During finals week, I’m cooped up somewhere, so I have no idea what’s going on,” Levy said. “I feel like that info isn’t provided for you unless you actually go look for it.”

Levy suggested the infor-mation be available in one place online, such as the MyUM portal, as not every-one has a phone compatible with the two working ver-sions of the app.

“The screen on my phone is kind of sucky,” she added.

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then, they’ve founded the Hotdrop company and have been developing the mobile application.

The concept stemmed from the idea of a “local chat” — a way to communicate with people nearby in real time, whether at a riot, protest or other large gathering. The startup snowballed from there, transforming into the idea of “dead drops” and “hot spots” for social purposes. A user could leave a picture of a place from 10 years ago or construct some-thing silly revolving around the space, Hilnbrand said.

T he team has “Hotdrop time” three nights a week in the university’s Startup Shell, a student-run innovation space that o�ers technological and re-sources to entrepreneurial stu-dents. And though members set their meetings from 6 to 10 p.m., the team will often stay until the early morning, sometimes until 4 a.m. to iron out kinks and develop the project.

Hotdrop is one of about 30 active startups in the Shell, Hilnbrand said. Other active groups revolve around en-tertainment installations, a collaborative music app, an educational app for entrepre-neurship and new hardware for 3-D printing technology.

The Hotdrop team developed an early version of its app at the University of Pennsylvania’s hackathon with a fourth team member, Evan Wang, and chose to continue to develop it follow-ing the competition after receiv-ing positive feedback from cor-porate sponsors and developers.

“Location services and mes-saging have been around, but combining them in a usable way would really be an avenue to new experiences,” Hilnbrand said. “I won’t say we aren’t tin-kering and playing around with other projects, though.”

The team members have

already developed early alpha prototypes of the application, and they plan to make a “private alpha” version available to fellow students at Startup Shell in the next week. They expect to release a public beta version to the uni-versity community by 2014.

“That’s the interesting thing about app development — you can create something you think is awesome, and every-one might hate it,” Hilnbrand said. “We’re building and setting parameters for what we think is best, but we’re definitely excited to get more opinions from people outside of our team.”

In the spirit of the Shell, Hotdrop hopes to make its app collaborative and organic. The team plans to open an application programming interface, which would allow programmers to build on Hotdrop’s platform.

“Let’s say someone wants to use our code and make it so every time someone walks through a space, they im-mediately call their parents,” Hilnbrand said. “They could program o� of it and make the app different and better than what we could think of.”

Working together to improve plans and bounce ideas o� one another is nothing new to Hiln-brand and the rest of the Startup Shell members. The space is an incubator for ideas and an ideal collaboration space, said Brent Bovenzi,a member of the student team that focuses on areas of op-eration within the Shell.

“It’s a place where you want to go to work on something — maybe on a project, maybe on a company — and other people are, as well. That in itself, having feedback from others immediately, makes every-thing better,” said Bovenzi, a junior electrical engineering and government and politics major. “It’s different skills coming to the same space and contributing their own strengths to every project.”

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Quality of Life Committee, which was formed in Sep-tember to address issues in residential areas.

“We are really looking at these issues in a much more creative and collaborative way,” she said.

Though the student candidate in District 3 lost, Day — who was supported by the Student Gov-ernment Association — said stu-dents’ voices must be heard. And residents are realizing that stu-dents are trying to get involved in community issues, he said.

In the mayoral race, early unofficial results showed Mayor Andy Fellows ahead of

challenger Robert McCeney, a middle school teacher and doctoral candidate at George Washington University.

In District 1, council members Fazlul Kabir and Patrick Wojahn defeated Benjamin Mellman, a senior aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering major at this university. Uno�-cial results listed Kabir with 472 votes, Wojahn with 443 votes and Mellman with 125 votes.

Speaking in front of a crowd at City Hall last night, Wojahn said he was humbled to be re-elected and was excited to con-tinue developing the city’s re-lationship with the university.

“There’s a lot that we can build on,” Wojahn said. Sopho-more government and politics major Alexander Sharp came

to City Hall to do his part as a citizen, he said after voting.

“I’d like to do as much as I can,” Sharp said. “If you’re goi n g to compl a i n ab out [politics], you might as well do something to change it.”

Sharp’s roommate, fresh-man computer engineering major Frank Pogoda, said this was the first election in which he was eligible to vote.

“I wanted to exercise my right as a member of the voting electorate,” Pogoda said. “I was excited to do it.”

Berwyn resident and edu-cation psychology doctoral candidate Lily Fountain said she has never missed an elec-tion. But despite attempts to keep updated with local news, Fountain said she believes the

candidates failed to present clear platforms.

“I h ave to say t h at I wasn’t completely aware of their stand on some of the issues,” she said.

With so many incum-bents projected to return to their seats, Fellows said there will be less of a learning curve when the new council begins sessions in January 2014. In return, the council members will be able to work e�ciently on new develop-ment projects, quality of life issues and economic devel-opment around the city.

“We kind of want to ac-celerate what we’re doing,” Fellows said.

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CORRECTIONThe reporter of Tuesday’s article, “Student group o�ers custom 3-D printing, design,” was incorrectly identified. The reporter was Joelle Lang.

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TIFFANY BURBA

This university prides itself on innovation, technological advances and its increasing

embrace of online education. But its digital infrastructure is feeble.

With class registration opening this week, thousands of students will be flocking to the Office of the Registrar’s website, Testudo. And what they find will likely mirror the experience of the thousands before them.

Fr u s t ra t i o n , c o n f u s i o n a n d general discouragement.

The site boasts “interactive Web services,” and “find it fast” in capi-talized, italicized letters above all else. But the words carry more irony than truth.

Seven of the 11 links along the site’s left margin take users to un-familiar new layouts without the same navigation tools. Some still use Testudo’s old look — one that screamed 1990s basic HTML. We’re glad that one is being phased out. Click on the left links on the old Testudo sites, and a wacky redi-rect process flashes pages before your eyes as it leads you to the new version of, say, “Schedule of Classes.”

Some open new tabs, others don’t. The one link everyone is going to be looking for — “Regis-tration (Drop/Add)” — is in small

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font, at the bottom of a box in the body of the site.

Additionally, half of Testudo’s services are not available during many students’ most productive hours: the late-night grind. Stu-dents hoping simply to view their schedules or transcripts are not able to do so after 11 p.m. on any given night. Consider the frustrations of the many students who apply for internships or jobs that require unofficial or official transcripts, sometimes at odd hours because, well, college students do things at odd hours.

While the price tag for adding hours might be higher, it’s hard to see a legitimate reason class regis-tration can’t be open 24 hours a day when services such as community assistants and the 24 Shop are.

And the problems don’t end with Testudo. The office offers an innovative “24-hour” service, Venus, in which students can plug in all of their intended courses

and view their scheduling options. It’s simple and certainly should be promoted outside of the main Testudo page.

But students looking to find Venus using their address bars won’t find it under a logical URL: not www.venus.umd.edu or even www.testudo.umd.edu /venus.

Instead, Venus is hidden at the following URL: www.sis.umd.edu /bin /venus. Naturally.

A d d t h a t to T E R P m a i l , t h e new ELMS — run by educational technology company Canvas — separate sites for South Campus Commons and Courtyards resi-dents, the athletic department’s ticket service site and the confus-ingly titled MyUM, and living on our digital campus becomes even less appealing.

The 2013-14 Student Govern-ment Association presidential candidate Noah Robinson and his Time Party had a plank in their platform in the spring regarding consolidation of the university’s online services.

And though Robinson didn’t get the position, we can’t help but agree that such consolidation is a good idea, one that SGA President Sa-mantha Zwerling should look into. The group’s outstanding social media initiative, WTF UMD, has

Testudo and Venus and ELMS, oh myOUR VIEW

Online registration should be simple. Instead, students

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EDITORIAL CARTOON BY ANNA DOTTLE/the diamondback

Christmas decorations have been displayed in stores since I went Halloween costume shop-ping in early October. For those Christmas enthusiasts who listen to holiday jingles all year long and keep outdoor lights up until June, this isn’t a problem. However, for those who promote careful sea-sonal segregation, these Christ-mas displays step on Halloween’s toes and completely overshadow Thanksgiving.

Tu rkeys a re n o m a tc h fo r 12-foot conifers, and Santa would take The Great Pumpkin in any gifting competition. Regard-less, autumn holidays deserve more than 15 minutes of fame and should not be subject to the tyranny of Christmas materialism.

Of course, many families who celebrate Christmas do so exten-sively. Gifts are planned and pur-chased months ahead of time to guarantee their arrival by Christ-mas morning. Wrapping paper starts fl ying o£ the shelves in No-vember to ensure that the perfect seasonal print will adorn the pres-ents. Ornaments and outdoor dec-orations are often a fi ve-year com-mitment and must be researched accordingly.

Halloween, by contrast, requires less planning. Even costume shop-ping can be completed one day before a Halloween party without compromising the entire experi-ence. However, this does not give Christmas the right to unduly in-fl uence the atmosphere of fall.

For students, autumn is a time to refl ect on new beginnings at school and happy endings as the leaves slowly change colors and fall to make way for winter. Fall is a time to celebrate leggings, boots and

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scarves to the fullest. Fall is not the time to yearn for frigid weather, snow and gingerbread houses. I don’t want to think about peppermint mochas when ordering a pumpkin spice latte to start the season, and I don’t want to be reminded of nippy winter days when fall is showing us its best weather in weeks.

There are many clearly egregious problems associated with early onset Christmas fever. The neutral, matte tones of fall simply do not match the frosted tinsel tones of winter. Turkeys are underappreciated thanks to their fl ying antlered counterparts. Decora-tive spider webs get mixed with cotton snow and terrible confusion ensues. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the home goods section of any depart-ment store assaults your nose with the horrifi c hybrid of pumpkin spice and winter evergreen candles. These belong in entirely separate spheres.

This problem is much more than just the face-value issue of pump-kins clashing with reindeer — it may refl ect our society’s tendency to live in the future rather than enjoy the present. In nearly all aspects of life, we are pushed to think about the future and look toward the next stage. While keeping our long-term goals in mind is important in decision-making, we often get too caught up in next week or next year to appreciate truly our ordinary experiences each day. In 10 years, I want to remember en-joying my time at this university. I don’t want my memories to be full of waiting, anticipating or hoping for the next day to come.

So the next time you’re walking around the mall and get a bout of early onset Christmas fever, take some time to smell the pumpkins — or perhaps the turkey — before you begin your quest for the perfect Christmas ac-cessory. Enjoy fall while it lasts.

Ti� any Burba is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at [email protected].

As November rears its ugly head, it’s all too easy to get lost in our routines. Our minds drum the

beat of: “Go to class, attend club meetings, study.”

The weekends o£ er a brief respite but not variety. Sure, apartment parties and bars are fun, but an oc-casional change-up would be nice.

It was with this in mind that I agreed this past weekend to go to Punkin Chunkin, a rural ritual com-plete with beer, pickup trucks and really large cannons. As a New Jersey suburbanite with a taste for Aber-crombie and Express, I’m not exactly familiar with the country scene.

In cushy Manalapan, N.J., after all, Volkswagen Jettas and Toyota Priuses are far more common than Ford F-150s. But as we ventured deeper and deeper into Delmarva, the roads became clogged with these formidable vehicles. Approaching our campsite, I grew concerned that I just wouldn’t fit in.

What was with all of those camou-fl age jackets, anyway?

After laughing o£ a few campsite malfunctions, though, I started to enjoy myself and get assimilated into the local scene. I curiously watched a game of stump, a risky contest in-volving a hammer and nails that my Jewish mother certainly wouldn’t approve of. Beers fi rmly in hand, we made our way to the main attraction and watched small orange dots being fi red from long-range cannons yards away. I didn’t understand the whole pumpkin thing when this was fi rst described to me two weeks earlier, but now it all made sense.

As day turned to evening, we decided to head back to our campsite. But before night festivities got un-derway, I needed to undergo the ul-timate rite of passage and buy a cam-ouflage hat. With my new country swag, I was now a certifi ed redneck. Campfires and more beer into the early morning confirmed that yes, this was awesome, and I needed to return next year. Maybe I would even shake things up and buy a camoufl age jacket. Or I could at least try to work

By now, most of my friends know I’m a columnist for The Diamondback. And whenever I’m asking for help, whether it’s because I have a dead-line coming up and no inspiration or while having a casual conversation with them, they’ll often o£ er me ideas for column topics. Very often, these will be excellent ideas that would make excellent columns. And yet I almost never write about them.

I would love to write every one of those suggestions. I would love to work for a paper that publishes columns with a wide range of views on every topic that would interest a college student. But I can’t. Even among the 17 of us who are columnists, we don’t have a wide enough range of views and opinions to do that. There’s just too much to write about and not enough of us.

So, when I get these great ideas that I can’t write about, I always ask my friends, “Why don’t you write about it?” Sometimes they will. But most of the time, they’ll just shrug, say they don’t have enough time or skill, and change the subject. And then, a few days later, they’ll

complain about how The Diamond-back won’t cover topics they feel are important or that a columnist said something they disagree with. Usually, they’ll also add that they wish The Diamondback was more representative of their interests as college students, instead of just the interests of a few columnists who always say the same things.

The thing is, they’re right. The Diamondback as it stands does not represent most Terps’ interests. It is just a collection of a few people’s opinions — and it has to be, because no one ever writes in. We publish guest columns whenever we can, but we don’t get many of them — and so the guest column slots get fi lled with extra submissions from the staff colum-nists (like the extra column I wrote for Monday’s edition).

This is relatively easy to fi x, though. All it takes is a few people with opin-ions actually writing in. If we received just a few more guest columns every week, The Diamondback’s diversity of opinions would balloon. It’s that simple.

You, the person reading this column, are probably someone with an opinion about something. If you aren’t, then you probably have at least one friend who is. Between the two of you, you can easily sit down

and fi gure out 500 to 600 words to say about that topic. If you make it interesting and show you care, we will publish it. If you really don’t feel confi dent in your writing, you can go to the Writing Center in Tawes Hall; they’ll be thrilled to help you.

If everyone starts doing this, The Diamondback will stop being a collection of a few people (like me) talking a lot. If you’re an avid reader, you’ll know by now exactly how each of us feels about any given topic — so help us change things up. The Diamondback is intended to be this university’s student body’s newspaper; the only way we’ll ever live up to that is if the student body actually contributes.

So the next time you see some-thing in The Diamondback you don’t like, or have a strong opinion and want everyone to know about it, write us a guest column at [email protected]. It’ll save me the extra work, impress your friends and loved ones and, most im-portantly, make The Diamondback a better paper.

Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting and fi nance major. He can be reached at efi [email protected].

See something, say something

Punkin Chunkin: A rural ritual

EZRA FISHMAN

4 THE DIAMONDBACK | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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seen complaints on these subjects and should seek ways to enhance students’ experiences.

It seems as if MyUM was once an attempt to offer such a consoli-dated service for students. But the site, which has been “experienc-ing some technical difficulties” for more than a week now, is one

that quickly fades from students’ memories after enrollment and orientation.

To b e g i n to m a ke s t u d e n ts ’ digital experiences at this univer-sity match their physical experi-ences, consolidating and improv-ing these sites by any degree would go a long way.

Multiple registration websites lead to unnecessary confusion for students

If you don’t like Diamondback columns, don’t be shy — write back

on my Southern twang.For now, though, it’s back to the

good ol’ routine. I’ll tackle a slew of problem sets in the next few days and fi nish o£ the week at Cornerstone Grill and Loft. Routines like this are crucial for a sense of stability and well-being, but it’s also important to get outside of one’s comfort zone.

If you’re always looking for a con-ventional experience that involves a bar or club, then a rural festival like Punkin Chunkin is not the place to be. But if you’re in the mood to try something new every once in a while, what could be better than campfi res and drunken hillbillies?

If you’re a prep like me, go to Punkin next year. If you’re a hillbilly, go to New York City and enjoy some pretentious beers with hipsters. Meet new friends, explore new places and try more brews. I dare you.

R o s s M a r c h a n d i s a s e n i o r economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].

An unfortunate holiday tradition

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playing it coolIce Cube promotes his new movie, Ride Along and discusses his experiences in both �lm and music during a pre-screening interview and a Q-and-A session

COVERAGE | RIDE ALONG STAR ICE CUBE COMES TO THE CAMPUS

By Beena Raghavendran@thebeensterSenior sta� writer

Ice Cube sat on the Hoff Theater stage in Stamp Student Union yesterday at about 9:30 p.m., sporting a Los Angeles Dodgers hat and sunglasses.

He’s done rap. He’s done movies. So how, asked Will Packer, the producer of his new movie Ride Along, has he managed to stay rel-evant in both mediums?

Ice Cube was ready with an answer.“It’s just really about you being true to

yourself, having confidence in yourself,” he said. “The people have blessed me with lon-gevity because they can sense I’m not just throwing out trash.”

“That’s real,” Packer replied, and the audi-ence applauded.

Throughout the day, smatterings of whispers were heard in hallways across the campus: Did you hear Ice Cube is going to be here tonight?

He was visiting this university alongside Packer to promote their new comedy film Ride Along in a screening and question-and-answer session sponsored by Student Entertainment Events.

The line for the screening stretched past the Baltimore Room at about 6:50 p.m. when SEE started letting people into the theater — 20 minutes after the scheduled door opening at 6:30 p.m. Shadia Weeks, SEE

public relations director, said doors opened late for the screening because SEE wanted to ensure the meet-and-greet winners had time with Ice Cube, who was running late because of traffic.

The Q-and-A session was fairly short, with the audience asking questions including what was it like for Ice Cube to work with actor Laurence Fishburne in Ride Along after their work in Boyz n the Hood, Ice Cube’s first film appearance, and about how to make it in the entertainment field today.

The movie itself follows protagonist Ben (Kevin Hart, This Is The End) as he tries to prove himself a worthy match for Angela, the sister of Ice Cube’s character, James. But t h e re ’s a t w i s t — James is a cop, so Ben tags along on a patrol of Atlanta.

Ride Along speaks to college students by ad-dressing relationships in a humorous fashion, Packer said. He added that there’s also a great dynamic between Ice Cube and Hart.

“I think movies at their best are escapism and they allow you to come in, put your worries aside and have fun for an hour and a half, two hours,” Packer said in a pre-

screening interview held at WMUC.Music and film make up Ice Cube’s resume,

which originated in West Coast gangsta rap in the 1980s and 1990s. Since his tenure in land-mark group N.W.A. and a stint as a solo act, he’s starred in several movies, most notably Boyz n the Hood in 1991, the Friday series from the ’90s and 2000s, 2005’s Are We There Yet? and Are We Done Yet?, its 2007 sequel.

More recently, Ice Cube had a role op-posite Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street and plans to reprise it for the sequel, 22 Jump Street.

“I’m a better producer and actor and a better storyteller than I was back then.”

he said in the pre-screening in-terview, referring to his earlier

films. “Hopefully I have a lot of room to grow in all aspects.”

“It’s really about getting better,” he continued. “Once you think you’re the best and

you’ve made it, you’re prob-ably on your way back down

to earth. So I think it’s always having that hunger to be better

than I was last time. It’s kept me here for all these years.”When senior communication major Mark

Watson was growing up in California, every-one listened to Ice Cube, he said while waiting in line for the screening.

“He’s definitely one of the top — if not

the most — influential West Coast rappers,” Watson said.

Ice Cube’s music discusses issues of race, class and society, so his raps are easily relat-able, said Miles Blount, a senior criminology and criminal justice major also waiting in line for the screening.

“It’s raw,” he said. “It’s just real. You can connect to it.”

Thomas Jahanbakhsh-Tehran, a senior Persian studies major also in line, said that while Ice Cube’s music isn’t his favorite, he appreciates its boldness. Ice Cube’s style con-trasted with those of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., Jahanbakhsh-Tehran said, because Ice Cube was freer with his content.

Ice Cube will soon team up with Friday direc-tor F. Gary Gray for an N.W.A. biopic “that’s worthy of the world’s most dangerous group,” he said. He said his album Everythang’s Corrupt will be released sometime after the Ride Alongfrenzy settles.

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school a few hours away.As a child, Harper frequent-

ly attended her older sister’s volleyball tournaments. Soon enough, she declared her desire to play college volleyball, pref-erably in the ACC. She obses-sively dedicated herself to the sport. At times, her mother would catch her bouncing a ball against the house late into the night, the porch light il-luminating the dark night sky.

But Harper still had her doubters.

“I hate to say this,” Jack Harper said. “You can quote me. As short as she is, I never thought she’d be [playing] volleyball.”

Fast-forward past that day in her family’s kitchen to the present. Sarah Harper has achieved her goal of playing in the ACC and is on the verge of accomplishing more than she ever imagined.

She originally joined the team as a walk-on, and this university’s tuition nearly forced her to leave. She likely could have committed to a less prestigious program, but she wanted to play in the ACC.

Now the Terps’ unques-tioned leader, Harper is on pace to break the program’s c a re e r d i gs re c o rd t h i s weekend when the team plays Duke and Wake Forest, as she sits 42 digs behind Nicole Lantagne on the all-time list.

“She’s just a kid that never gives up,” Swartz said.

LATE NIGHTS

When most teenagers get in trouble with their parents, it’s because they threw a house party or earned poor grades. Sarah Harper was fre-quently sent to her room by her mother, but she wasn’t guilty of either of those transgressions.

She just played too much volleyball.

Harper spent countless nights in front of her home, volleyball in hand. Tucked b e t w e e n h e r b e d r o o m

window and the front door was a perfect spot for Harper to practice her serves.

She’d sneak outside, think-ing her mother couldn’t hear her. A few times, Swartz found her bouncing the ball as late as 11 p.m.

“Thank gosh we have a brick house,” Swartz said. “I don’t think she broke any windows. I said, ‘If you break a window, that’s it.’”

Harper added, “I hit a couple windows. She probably wasn’t very happy about it.”

Inspired by her older sister and her teammates, Harper would perform drills inside the house. One routine called for her to jump as high as she could and touch the top of the net. Her family didn’t have a net, though, so the tops of doorways had to su� ce.

“ I wo u l d b e j u m p i n g through the house, touching all the doorways,” Harper said. “There was dirt all above the top of the doorways.”

RISING UP

Despite her athletic ability and passion for the sport, it ap-peared Harper wouldn’t be able to continue playing volleyball at a high level after high school.

Her high school coach, who placed Harper on varsity when she was in the eighth grade, suggested that because of Harper’s size, she would be a good fit at a Division II or Division III program.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “My dream had been Division I. When I heard that, I was just like ‘I’ll prove you wrong.’”

Harper’s late nights hitting volleyballs against her house finally paid off when she got asked to play for U-TURN after her junior year of high school.

U-TURN is a club team based in Richmond, Va., that receives national exposure and has a reputation for churning out high-level college players. Donald Gresham, the club’s director of volleyball, fi rst saw Harper when his team played her lower-level club team.

“We were wondering who in the world that child was,” Gresham said. “We found out

and went and got her.”So in the summer before

her senior year, Harper would drive an hour from Charlot-tesville to Gresham’s gym in Richmond five days a week after her shift at a local co� ee shop. She spent fi ve hours each day training with Gresham.

There, Gresham’s staff “remade her volleyball game.”

They worked on her de-fensive passing style, swing, serve and conditioning.

G re s h a m sa i d H a r p e r gained five or six inches on her vertical leap.

“Sarah’s a rabbit anyway,” Gresham said. “If Sarah Harper was 6 feet tall, she’d be on the Olympic team. She’s fast. If you look at the way she’s built, she’s got heavy legs, heavy thighs and a jumper’s butt, and her arms are really, really quick.”

Despite the improvements, Gresham tried to temper Harper’s expectations of playing Division I. Still, Harp-er’s aspirations didn’t budge.

“I’ve been doing this 35 years. I’ve coached a whole bunch of high school All-Americans, a bunch of college All-Americans,” Gresham said. “I have never met a child who was more determined to play Division I college volley-ball in my life.”

TEARS OF JOY

One of U-TURN’s gradu-ates, Brittney Grove, was a junior middle blocker for the Terps four years ago. When Grove came back to visit one

day, she noticed the 5-foot-4 outside hitter with the tire-less work ethic.

Grove told Terps coach Tim Horsmon about Harper, so Horsmon told an assis-tant coach to scout her. And the Terps’ staff agreed that Harper would be a good fi t in College Park.

Upon visiting, Harper was set on attending this university.

“If we can work it out for me to be walk-on the first year,” Harper told her mother, “then I’ll work as hard as I can to get a scholarship.”

Harper joined the Terps as a walk-on in 2010. While she wasn’t a regular starter, Harper made an impact for the Terps in her rookie campaign as a defensive specialist. She ranked fi fth in the ACC with 0.29 service aces per set, and she was named to the Villa-nova Classic All-Tournament team after securing 32 digs over three matches.

“I was like ‘I’d just love to be able to travel,’” Harper said. “Like practice the whole time. I was thinking I was going to be shagging balls.”

Still, the thought of earning a scholarship to help her family loomed large in her mind.

Finally, during the Terps’ annual summer camp in 2011, Harper was sitting i n t h e c a m p s to re w i t h Horsmon when the coach delivered the news Harper never thought she’d hear.

“So, I found you a scholar-ship,” Horsmon said.

Harper started crying and

immediately called her mother.“ S h e wa s s q u ea l i n g ,”

Swartz said with a chuckle.Still, the scholarship would

only pay for Harper’s sopho-more and senior seasons.

But in her fi rst scholarship season, the then-sophomore played, started and recorded 569 digs, breaking the pro-gram’s single-season record.

Horsmon and the uni-versity rewarded Harper by extending her scholarship to cover her junior season.

“[Leaving] would have been horrible,” Harper said. “Luckily, everything happens for a reason.”

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From sneaking out past her bedtime to practice serves to spending the summer before her senior year of high school driving to Richmond, Harper has worked at her sport. That mentality has carried over to College Park.

“If there’s a ball going towards to the bleachers, she’s going to dive into the bleachers,” outside hitter Mary Cushman said. “She’s the one diving into walls. She changes shirts pretty much every practice because she’s sweating so much.”

Harper will soon gather her belongings from Comcast Pavilion, clear her locker and stash her jersey for safekeeping.

The match against North Carolina on Nov. 24 will be the last time she dons her No. 1 Terps jersey at home and steps onto the court where she trans-formed into a leader. But if she records 42 more digs this year, her name will be etched into the Terps’ history books forever.

“You’ve got to understand, all the odds are stacked against her,” Gresham said. “Every last thing is stacked against her — her size, where she came from, the high school she came out of, her family’s economic situ-ation. And this kid succeeds even though all this stu� that’s pushing in the opposite direc-tion. She wants it bad.”

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post a 22-13 record. Down the stretch, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Boston College and N.C. State are a combined 17-16 with a 7-12 conference mark. The Hokies are the Terps’ lone remaining op-ponent with a winning record.

Bowl eligibility and the op-portunity to move up in the ACC standings are there for the Terps. They know they just need to rebound from two consecutive losses and regain their early season form.

“The last four games we went 1-3,” Riser said. “So once you do get that break you’re like, ‘OK, now that section of the schedule is over.’ I think it gives us, like, a fresh start.”

The signifi cance and place-ment of the two bye weeks isn’t lost on the Terps. In the past two years, they had to play eight and 11 games in a row to fi nish out their seasons.

The Terps now just look to string together a series of per-formances similar to those at the beginning of the season when they were rolling through op-ponents. The conference slate is still di� cult, but the Terps can clinch bowl eligibility and elevate themselves in the conference.

They’re set up for it.“Having three four-game

seasons, I think it’s ideal,” Brown said. “Being our last year in the ACC, to look at it, I think they helped us out a little bit — which is surprising — but to have three four-game seasons, play four, have a bye week, play another four, have a bye, it’s set us up well.”

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coming up big5-foot-4 Harper de�es odds, nears program’s digs records

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelmanSta� writer

Sarah Harper desperately wanted to be a few inches taller. She was 15 years old when she was at the kitchen table in her Charlot-tesville, Va., home seven years ago and let loose on her mother, Becky Swartz.

“Why couldn’t you and Dad [have] been taller?” Harper screamed.

Her father, Jack Harper, is 6 feet tall, her mother is 5-feet-2 and Harper is just 5-feet-4. While Harper’s work ethic and talent

had landed her a spot as an outside hitter on Western Albemarle High School’s varsity vol-leyball team when she was in the eighth grade, her relatively diminutive height had seemingly cast her as unworthy of playing in college.

Before Harper became a standout libero for the Terrapins volleyball team, she idly watched as her peers committed to Division I colleges before they began their junior year of high school, but her coach said she likely wouldn’t fit in a Division I school and that perhaps she should call Ferrum College, a Division III

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After bye week, Terps ready for ‘third season’Healthier team looks to rebound down final stretch

By Daniel Gallen@danieljtgallenSenior sta� writer

As the Terrapins foot-ball team filed out of Byrd Stadium more than a week ago after a 40-27 loss to then-No. 9 Clemson, it closed the second third of the season, a four-game stretch that dra-matically altered the outlook on the team’s season.

After a 4-0 start, the Terps dropped three of their next four — including blowout losses at Florida State and Wake Forest — leaving the team still on the edge of bowl eligibility.

But after their second bye week, the Terps said they’ve reset and filed everything away. The final third of the season not only lends the team the opportunity to clinch a bowl appearance but also a better bowl, as each win the rest of the way could thrust them further up the postseason pecking order.

“Whenever I first came here, I saw we basically had three four-week seasons,” de-fensive end Zeke Riser said. “I didn’t know how it was going to play out exactly, but going from 4-0 to 1-3 the next section, I don’t think this bye week could come at a better time to kind of get us rejuve-nated from the injuries we’ve

had and stu� like that.”After a generally healthy and

undefeated first third of the season — the only key players to su�er significant injuries were cornerbacks Jeremiah Johnson and Dexter McDougle — injuries riddled the Terps through their past four games. Quarterback C.J. Brown started only two games in the stretch and didn’t finish either. The Terps took the field against Clemson without five key starters on o�ense.

But Brown is now healthy after a trunk injury sidelined him against the Tigers, and the Terps have the opportu-nity to start fresh Saturday against Syracuse.

“It came at a good time,”

coach Randy Edsall said. “You’re fortunate. Usually you don’t get two byes in a season, but we did, so we tried to use it to get as healthy as we could, but then also take some time. We took time to practice some things that we need to get better at that we thought we’d have to do here in the stretch run as we get into the final third of the season.”

The Terps’ final third looks drastically di�erent from the previous four games, too. No. 3 Florida State, No. 7 Clemson, Wake Forest and Virginia have combined to

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Running back albert reid and the Terps are coming o� their second bye week of the season. After a 4-0 start, they went 1-3 between bye weeks. james levin/the diamondback

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