Hannah Bruchman; Photo Assignment 3

Alex Wahlberg, a sophomore dietetics major, cuddles with her favorite stuffed shark.


Alex Wahlberg plays the piano, an instrument she has been playing for five years.


Alex Wahlberg, 19, giggles as her roommate instructs her to please seriously pose for the camera.

Photo Assignment No. 3 --Aaron Kraut

Maggie Levy, the business manager at The Diamondback, sits at her desk at the paper's office on the campus of the University of Maryland.

Photo Assignment #2- Karisse Carmack

Attendees walk down the aisle on Oct. 21 to make an offering during the third and final night of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church's fall revival in Northwest Washington.

Guest preacher Rev. Larry P. McCray of Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church of Temple Hills greets Mt. Carmel member Delores Pettus at the end of the Oct. 21 revival service in Northwest Washington as fellow Mt. Carmelite Cynthia Greenwood looks on.

Mt. Carmel Baptist Church member Karisse Carmack flips through the program for the Oct. 21 fall revival service in Northwest Washington.

Hannah Bruchman; Photo Assignment 2

Lane Wood from the organization Charity:Water speaks to students gathered at the University of Maryland, College Park on Oct. 22. He came to raise support for ‘Quench,’ a student group on campus determined to raise $5,000 for a new water system at an African school.


Sophomores Alex Wahlberg and Kate Luxner listen raptly to Wood from their seats in the audience. The presentation focused on the horrendous water conditions in Third World Africa and what Charity:Water is doing to help.


After the presentation, members of the audience were invited to donate money from laptops placed near the exit. Quench has raised more than $500 since the beginning of the semester.

Event Photos- Anna Eisenberg

Lane Wood, the Director of Water for Schools at Charity: Water, speaks to a group of Maryland students in the Stamp Student Union on October 22, 2009.








Jackie Vouthouris, the student president of Quench, prepares for her event about the world water crisis.







An audience member looks at a Water for Schools brochure.

Photo Assignment No. 2--Mina Dixon

Intramural flag football teams mill about the practice fields at Comcast Center on Wednesday, Oct. 21, before the games start at 9:30 p.m. Students interested in intramural sport choose among flag football, soccer and basketball for the fall semester.

Moments before Team AA plays against Team Purple People eaters, junior kinesiology major Candace Receno gets a feel for the ball. Both teams are part of the co-ed, recreational league that requires a female player for every male player.
Team AA huddles for some inspirational words from team captain Kashyap Alur, a senior electrical engineering major, before charging the field. Team AA trounced the Purple People Eaters 30-12, keeping them in the running for the Terrapin Gold Medal, the official UMD Intramural Sports Award since 1931.

Blood Drive by Rachel Roubein

Small talk, laid back music and quiet concentration characterizes the Red Cross blood drive at the University of Maryland. Many students came out to donate blood on Thursday in the Stamp Student Union.


Freshman biology and psychology major Matt calmly watches as blood and platelets are drawn from his arm. Many University of Maryland students donated blood at the Red Cross drive in the Stamp Student Union on Thursday.



To ease his nerves, freshman biology and psychology major Matt laughs with the nurse before donating blood. He was one of many University of Maryland students who came out to the Red Cross's blood drive held at the Stamp Student Union on Thursday.