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Univ. prepares for long ACC legal process State files countersuit to lower $52 mil. exit fee

By Jenny Hottle Staff writer This university’s move to the Big Ten will be anything but quick and smooth after the state filed a lawsuit last week against the ACC to avoid paying a steep $52.26 million exit fee.

The countersuit comes nearly two months after the ACC announced it was suing the university to ensure it paid the entirety of its exit fee. State Attorney General Douglas Gansler announced Friday he had taken action to determine whether the conference violated this state’s antitrust laws. Additionally, he moved to dismiss the ACC’s court action in North Carolina by claiming the university is an entity of the state, meaning

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After nearly 60 years in the ACC, Loh announces the university will join the Big Ten in July 2014.

The conference files a lawsuit to ensure the university pays the entirety of its $52 mil. exit fee.

Loh forms a commission to prepare for the move to the Big Ten and take advantage of the opportunities.

State Attorney General Douglas Gansler files a lawsuit against the ACC for antitrust violations.

a “North Carolina court has no jurisdiction” over the state and its public universities, according to a news release.

The case’s first hearing will be on Feb.

18 in Greensboro, N.C., the site of ACC headquarters. As of Tuesday, the ACC had not received the state’s official lawsuit, said David Paulson, a spokesman for Gansler.

Although university officials said they don’t expect a quick resolution, legal See LAWSUIT, Page 9

Legislature faces jampacked ’13 session Gun control, medical marijuana among bills

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer

terrapin turf should open in the next four weeks, co-owner Salomeh Afshar said, if everything goes according to plan. The holdup has stemmed from issues acquiring permits and installing a sprinkler system. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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Fe Cafe — should be ready in the next four weeks.

“More than anything, we’re disappointed in ourselves for not being open,” she said. “We’re on the right path.”

The Afshars have been working to acquire a permit for the sprinklers since October.

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which resulted in 27 deaths — 20 children, six adults and the shooter — sparked campaigns for gun control laws nationwide, and this state has been no exception.

Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery) proposed legislation that

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After more than eight months of delay, Terrapin Turf owners say they’re within four weeks of opening

By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer Not much has gone according to plan for Terrapin Turf co-owner Salomeh Afshar, but after eight months of holdup, her bar is almost ready for its debut.

But Afshar and her co-owners, Mohammad and

Yasmine Afshar, are still hesitant to release an official opening date given the bar’s slew of setbacks in the last several months. Its initially planned May 2012 opening has been continually delayed mainly because of problems installing a new sprinkler system mandated by the city. If everything runs smoothly from here, Salomeh Afshar said, Terrapin Turf — taking the spot of the former Santa

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Univ. Police to update technology with grant Department plans to use entirety of $31K

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Alumnus returns to area as congressman

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer For Eric Swalwell, arriving at 9 Fraternity Row was a new beginning.

It was 2001, and the future U.S. representative had found housing for the summer at this university while he interned on Capitol Hill. As the California congressman prepares to take on his fi rst term in the most diverse

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After state voters upheld some of the most contentious laws this state has seen — including same-sex marriage, the state’s DREAM Act and an expansion of table games and casinos — legislators have spent the last two weeks gearing up for another busy General Assembly session.

Among the dozens of bills up in the air this year are tighter gun laws, gender equality measures, a repeal of the death penalty and the state’s operating and capital budgets.

REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CALIF.), a university alumnus, said his time as a member of the Student Government Association helped propel his political career. He is now a member of the most diverse Congress. photo courtesy of eric swalwell Congress on record, he remembers his days in College Park, which he said gave him his start in politics.

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For the second year in a row, University Police have received a nearly $31,000 grant to put toward new technology and enforcement — but this time, the department will be using every dollar, according to spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky.

The governor’s office awarded the department $30,973 to assist with the purchase of a Situational Awareness Management System, which allows police to monitor

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calls made to other agencies in realtime. For example, if Prince George’s County Police receive a robbery call, University Police can instantly pull up a map of the area and have an idea of where the suspect is, he said.

Through the system, the department can gather more information in the earliest stages of crime response, Limansky said. Because the technology is fairly new and requires a yearly licensing fee, the department couldn’t have afforded the purchase without outside funds. In

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Terrapin Turf is set to open in about four weeks, more than eight months behind schedule. Co-owner Salomeh Afshar said she was “disappointed” the bar’s opening has been stalled so far, in part due to complications in acquiring permits and installing a sprinkler system. Once the sprinklers are tested, Afshar said she will release an opening date. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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complete. Despite the setbacks, though, Afshar said she is excited to open the bar soon, From PAGE 1 adding she has already hired “That was really the biggest several employees.

Once the sprinkler system is holdup,” A fshar said. “We just need to work through and tested, Afshar plans to bring in complete the fi nal use and oc- the furniture — the bar’s “fi nal process” before it opens. cupancy permits.”

“Now it is just doing the Although many have been frustrated with the bar’s delays, cleanup and getting the kitchen they aren’t unusual and po- equipment in,” Afshar said.

Even though the opening has tential patrons shouldn’t be worried, said Michael Stief- been long anticipated, Afshar vater, College Park economic said, the wait will be worth it, as the owners plan to distindevelopment coordinator.

“They had a lot of work to guish their bar from the others get that building up to code in College Park. Terrapin Turf and ready to open,” Stief- will feature a variety of live vater said. “That’s not out of music to suit an array of tastes.

“You’re going to have one the norm — it happens — but I think most places may open a night at least a month that caters to what you’re into,” little quicker.”

T h e o w n e r s h a v e b e e n she said. “Because it’s such a working to pass electrical, diverse community, we want to plumbing and sprinkler in- have something for everybody.”

T he modern, more open spections, all of which took longer tha n a nticipated to layout of Terrapi n T u rf is

something students will come to love, Afshar said.

“We want to take of advantage of that … size-wise we’re just bigger,” Afshar said.

For students who still remember nights at Santa Fe, such as senior biochemistry major Paul Smyser, Terrapin Turf’s opening is long overdue.

“It’s essential. It needs to get done as soon as possible,” Smyser said. “We do have five bars on Route 1, I guess, but on the weekends, they’re always crowded. We’re a huge school. I think the fact that that building has just been sitting there, it’s kind of a shame.”

Terrapin Turf shouldn’t have any trouble finding talented bands to entertain its patrons, said Gary Hutson, co-owner of Starleigh Entertainment, who has been recruiting bands to play at local bars since the 1980s. “ B a n d s a b s olu te ly l o v e playing there — I will tell you

“They had a lot of work to get that building up to code and ready to open. ... I think most places may open a little quicker.”

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that without a question,” Hutson said. “Bands feed off of the crowds.”

Even though Juliet Morris, a freshman history major, said she typically doesn’t look to the bars for weekend plans, Terrapin Turf’s live music offerings are enticing.

“People are always looking for a new place to go, and this sounds different,” Morris said. “It seems like a fun thing to do with a group of friends.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

the citation; the officer reasonably believes that releasing the defendant will not pose a threat to public safety; the defendant is not subject to arrest for another criminal charge arising out of the same incident; and the defendant complies with all lawful orders by the officer,” he wrote in an email.

In the past, officers would have to transport an individual to Hyattsville for intake, processing and a meeting with the commissioner — even for minor offenses.

Students and officers will both benefit from the change, Limansky said. Students will not be transported to jail for committing minor crimes and officers will be saved time and energy.

The criminal penalties remain the same and, once cited, the individual must still appear in court, he said.

“I think police agencies in general are happy about it,” Limansky said.

Beyond the new technology and arrest procedures, police have no plans for changes in enforcement, Limansky said.

Ismail Biougnach, a junior business major, feels police have kept the university community safe, and there’s no need for changes as long as officers continue to patrol the campus and surrounding areas regularly.

Eli Shindell, a senior physiology and neurobiology major, agreed with Biougnach.

“I feel safe on campus for the most part,” Shindell said.

“There’s only so much the police can do anyway. People have to be smart.”

addition, police had to shell out for a new server to handle storing the increased data.

Last year, the department returned more than half of a $30,000 grant aimed at targeting students’ underage drinking.

However, this year’s funds should be utilized in their entirety.

“There’s no way we would have been able to buy this with our operating budget,” Limansky said. “[The grant] gives us enough to pay the licensing fee for a year.”

County police already use the technology, along with the Metropolitan Police Department, Metro Transit Police and the District of Columbia Fire Department, Limansky said.

“There are only a handful of agencies on it right now,” he said.

“It’s relatively new and I’m sure it will have benefits.”

Also beginning this semester, the department’s arrest procedures for minor infractions have changed to match new state regulations, Limansky said. According to the new policy, officers can release an individual after writing a criminal citation for offenses including but not limited to possession of marijuana, disturbing the peace, theft of less than $100 and trespassing, Limansky said.

The protocol would save officers the trouble of transporting individuals to jail, Limansky said, if they meet a set of criteria: “if the officer is satisfied with the defendant’s evidence of identity; the officer reasonably believes that the defendant will comply with newsumdbk@gmail.com

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and not a threesome, is the thing that will be in jeopardy.

NOAH ROBINSON

Your girlfriend of two years is telling you it’s OK if you cheat on her. Her “hall pass” is insurance on the trust she has for you; she can use it, if the situation arises, to justify your betrayal of the relationship.

If you want your relationship to last, you need to figure out why she thinks that you would cheat on her. Her fear is a barrier in your relationship, and if she can’t get past it, your relationship will continue to suffer. If you take a step back and look at the relationship, you will probably find some evidence of her lack of trust.

Maybe she is nervous when you go out with other friends or is constantly trying to figure out your whereabouts to see if you have the opportunity to cheat.

Whatever her mentality, one thing is clear: She has resorted to accepting the fact that you’ll cheat on her, and is dealing with it by giving you a hall pass.

This hall pass isn’t an excuse to cheat — it’s a reason to reexamine your relationship and figure out how to improve it. Before you can discuss threesomes, you need to have absolute trust with your girlfriend. Once she trusts you, her insecurity about seeing you with another girl will likely diminish. It is also possible, however, she will never be comfortable with threesomes. You’re reading her hall pass as a sign that she’s sexually open-minded, when in reality it’s a sign she’s afraid of losing you.

To help her trust you, figure out why she’s protecting herself with a hall pass.

Without that trust, your relationship,

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During my freshman year of high school, I played midfield for my school’s junior varsity field hockey team. Despite the fact I was utterly horrible at the sport and spent most of my time sitting on the bench and carrying jugs of water, I still ended up getting an award at season’s end. But then again, everyone on the team got an award — that was protocol.

After receiving the “Most Improved” award (aka the “Congratulations, You Don’t Suck As Much As You Did Before” award), I felt somewhat equal to my peers. I felt equal to the team captain, who worked out every morning and evening outside of practice, as well as our goalie, who was key to our undefeated record that fall. Even though I continuously broke the “no sugary drinks” rule and faked sick to get out of doing sit-ups, I ultimately felt on par with the successful members of our team. After all, didn’t we all get similar awards and recognition?

This month, the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles released its annual Freshman Survey, which showed some depressing statistics.

According to the study, more than half of college freshmen believe they are more driven and intelligent than their peers. Additionally, the proportion of college students who believe they are exceptional is at a 40-year high. All of this confidence and selffulfillment seems like a good trend — if only our feelings about ourselves matched the facts.

As academic author Jean Twenge notes, we members of Generation Y have unprecedented confidence in our own academic abilities, even though our standardized test scores are lower than those of our peers in the 1960s.

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“Dear Noah, Over the summer, I was at a concert with some of my friends from high school. Since we were all wasted, I proceeded to hook up with my friend ‘B,’ despite the fact I had never thought of him that way before. Since then, B and I have made out a few more times while drunk, but it’s been pretty sporadic. Even though we wouldn’t date, I now find B very attractive and want a more consistent friends with benefits relationship with him. Should I just suggest it by asking him up front, or would he find this strange and too direct? Please help!”

The first thing you need to do is to figure out why you wouldn’t date B. One possibility is that you’re both physically attracted to one another, but neither of you is interested in a relationship. If that is the case, you can just flirt with him, and your mutual attraction should take care of the rest. If you repeatedly hook up with him, your relationship will gradually morph into FWB. The other possibility is that he’s not interested in you. This could explain why your hookups have been sporadic, rather than consistent. He may be occasionally making out with you because he feels too guilty to flat-out reject you. If this is the case, you should focus your energy on finding someone who’s worth your time.

If there’s a potential for a FWB relationship, you shouldn’t need a formal conversation to initiate it. FWB relationships are extremely casual, and are fueled by a mutual attraction between two partners. It sounds like that mutual attraction is most likely missing, and you should move on before you waste more time chasing a guy who isn’t interested in you.

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Putting things into perspective YASMEEN ABUTALEB It’s easy to get hung up on the little things. As college students, we stress about our grades or how unfair our professors are. We stress about our looks. We even stress about relationships and our social lives.

But sometimes an experience forces us to put things in perspective. We realize the things in life that truly matter — the things we should get hung up on, treasure and remember never to take for granted.

I’ll be honest: By December — between a semester of serving as editor in chief and taking a full class load — I thought I had it tough and was ready for a break free of responsibility.

But I came home to something entirely different from the carefree atmosphere I anticipated.

Just a few hours after I put my last exam behind me, I found out my dad’s health was in jeopardy, and he needed to go through intensive surgery the following week.

That meant for the next month or so, I had to put everything else aside — myself included, which isn’t always easy for a 21-yearold — to be there for my dad and

other family members in whatever way they needed.

The funny thing is, I didn’t even care about anything else. It felt like time stopped as hours in the hospital waiting room melted into days. I sat unable to focus, simply hoping and praying my dad would be OK. I was tired and worn down, so many of those six days in the hospital are muddled, but one incident sticks out in my mind. At the hospital, I came to know a woman whose son had been shot in the neck. All the waiting room familiars knew her and knew the incident because police continually came in to try to piece together the crime.

Completely unprompted, a woman went over to the mother, hugged her and took her hands to let her know she was praying for her and her son.

They had never met each other and didn’t even know each other’s names, but there was a bond between them because they knew they were going through similar experiences.

The same woman hugged my mom and me, and it was one of the most comforting moments I had through the entire experience. Here was a complete stranger, undoubtedly going through a difficult time herself, making sure everyone else was OK and had someone to lean on.

Her selflessness was inspiring.

Before all of this, I thought I had a

lot to worry about this semester with this newspaper and schoolwork, but all of that paled in comparison to just wanting my dad to recover. Now the semester ahead doesn’t seem so daunting because I know everyone in my family is happy and healthy, and that’s all that matters.

We put this paper together every day hoping to give our readers the most important information. Right now, here’s what I want you all to know: There are a lot of things in life we have another chance at. If we don’t get the job we want, there will be another one waiting somewhere; we can retake a class; there will always be another party to go to.

But with other things, like being there for friends, family or strangers in a waiting room, we typically only get one shot — and if we blow it, that’s it.

My dad now has a second chance at life, one in which he’ll be much healthier and more able to live it to the fullest.

That’s not something anyone in my family is taking lightly; it’s why I’m striving to maintain the critical perspective and selflessness I had to learn this break from here on out. And with a new year and new semester ahead, I’m asking all of you — our readers, our community — to join me.

Yasmeen Abutaleb is a junior journalism and microbiology major. She can be reached at y.abutaleb7@gmail.com.

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Hump Day conversations “Dear Noah, About three months ago my girlfriend of almost two years gave me a hall pass. I don’t plan on using it, but I told her that I would rather have a threesome. She isn’t completely opposed to the idea, but I know she’s very insecure about seeing me with another girl. Is there any way I can help her with those insecurities and open her up to a threesome?”

YASMEEN ABUTALEB

From a sociological perspective, our inflated egos were created by a culture of “me” rather than “we,” and the belief that everyone deserves special recognition — a “participation trophy,” if you will.

Although our generation gets the perks of cool technology and social networking, we struggle to acknowledge instances in which others outperform us. We believe we should get equal appreciation merely for participating, despite expending minimal effort. While confidence rises from generation to generation, high-quality performances become less meaningful.

This extreme self-obsession and overconfidence harms American educational culture by letting ourselves feel we can work less for better grades. “Generation Me,” which prides itself on image and technology, sooner or later won’t have much prominence if we continue to hand out feel-good awards and reject fostering healthy competition.

Our generation needs a wakeup call.

Every positive action doesn’t warrant its own prize. Educational institutions, teachers and parents should promote and reward students who truly work the hardest, rather than inflate grades and praise students for completing minimal work.

Four years ago, I knew I shouldn’t have earned an award for my minimal contributions to the field hockey team.

But sadly, my “participation trophy” made me feel like there was no need to improve and become a better player. In the long run, this narcissistic mentality will ruin us. We’ll be too busy admiring our reflections from these meaningless trophies to actually improve ourselves and solve the world’s challenges.

Caroline Carlson is a sophomore government and politics and marketing major. She can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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The links that connect our lives JAKE DeVIRGILIIS Jorge Luis Borges packs more interesting ideas into fewer pages than any other writer I can think of. His thoughts on Franz Kafka — another master of the short story — in “Kafka and His Precursors” are among his most interesting. His thesis, packed into remarkably few paragraphs, is essentially: Works we can describe as Kafkaesque always resemble Kafka. However, the works don’t always resemble one another. Had Kafka never written, the peculiar sense we get from reading his works would exist in myriad unconnected works.

Borges goes on to suggest that a writer like Kafka creates his own precursors: “His work modifies our conception of the past.”

Kafka has always seemed to me like a rather singular figure in literature; his enigmatic works reflected in the twisted personal details one finds when beginning to research the man. It’s a curious reputation.

The best contemporary example I can think of an artist who so completely embodies an aesthetic that it seems impossible to think anyone else could have created it is one Mr. Bruce Springsteen. He does this so well that it has altered my personal experience of so many other artists.

From the early ’70s to the late ’80s, Springsteen released a series of albums to overwhelming levels of critical success — amazingly, even his recent work has gotten (occasionally superfluous) love from top music publications around the country. His lyrical themes are familiar to anyone who listens to music made here in the States. His musical styles are totally unlike anyone else’s, and his ability to transition from sprawling horn funk to one man and a guitar keeps you enthralled for 40 minutes.

It’s through the lens of Springsteen that artists before and after him make sense to me — he is the link between legends such as Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis (whom Springsteen once opened for on this campus in Cole Field House), and the alt-heroes of today such as The Mountain Goats and Arcade Fire. And I’m not going to say Adele wouldn’t exist without Nebraska, but “Someone Like You” is one of the greatest songs of all time and would fit right in on Born to Run or Born in the U.S.A. Other “seminal” classic rock artists such as The Beatles and Led Zeppelin got their starts essentially stealing other people’s music, while the first song on the first Springsteen album became a No. 1 hit for Manfred Mann, of all people. The former artists spawned annoying wannabes like Oasis and Jet. Bands like The Hold Steady and The Gaslight Anthem often sound like they couldn’t be trying any harder to

sound exactly like Springsteen, and yet there is something undeniably authentic and original about their music and lyrics. In fact, almost every lyricist I like, from Tomas Kalnoky to Ghostface Killah, in some way seems indebted to Springsteen, a musician whose aspirational and confessional lyrics are constant through a discography that has never needed someone else’s tunes.

Sure, Springsteen contemporaries Bob Dylan and Billy Joel — two vaguely similar artists forever connected in my mind by their similarity to the Boss — had an influence on American songwriting, but only Springsteen could be the centerpiece. Only Springsteen has the outlandish musical diversity that feels like driving across a distinctly American landscape with your friends or being alone in a distinctly American log cabin reflecting on your universally human personal experiences.

Read a little Kafka, and it will stick with you. You’ll recognize when it keeps showing up everywhere else.

No matter what you pick, it conveys an acutely modern sense of alienation and hopelessness. Listen to some Springsteen. Preferably all of it. Nearly 90 years after Kafka died describing a life of misunderstanding and loneliness, Springsteen is the soundtrack of why it’s worth living in spite of it.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at opinionumdbk@gmail.com.

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orn today, you put your heart into everything you do, and you will stick with a thing until hell freezes over -- or until you acknowledge to yourself that there is virtually no gain to be had by sticking with it.

You have a strong will, and you will not change course simply to please others; you will, however, change quickly and often if you have not yet found what pleases you and gives you true professional or personal contentment. For this reason, it may be difficult for you to have one single career; you may actually have several -- even simultaneously!

Those around you are not always going to like what you say or do -- and that’s all right with you! Indeed, there are those who like you very much, and those who do not like you at all. Rare indeed is that person who does not harbor some strong feeling about you one way or the other.

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ventional by some -- but others think that the time is just about right.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -One good turn deserves another today -- and after dark you’re likely to be surprised by someone who is returning a special favor.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You must be willing to go the distance today. Any time you do not follow through, you are threatening your own reputation, and another’s as well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Others may laugh at what you have to offer, but you know that your ideas are current and valuable.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You may want something from a certain someone today that he or she is at first unwilling or unable to give. All that will change soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -You must be willing to put more on the line than you have in the past; others are willing to support you only if you demonstrate confidence.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you are “entitled” today; take what

comes, and be grateful that you are your current position.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -You are feeling somewhat frisky today, and you must be sure that your behavior, while unusual, doesn’t become off-putting or unacceptable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- You will have to work hard today to reach your goals; the brass ring may be out of reach for quite a while, but you mustn’t give up hope.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- You aren’t the ranking expert today, and you must be willing to accept that fact. Indeed, you can learn a lot from an elder.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You may be eager to have more fun than usual today, but you mustn’t promote behavior that is unacceptable to the boss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You’ve narrowed down a certain issue to its most basic components, and now you should be able to discuss it in some detail.

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GAME OVER FOR ATARI

Having lost all its coins after decades of poor performance, Atari recently used up its final life and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. The maker of Pong and Asteroids is now hoping its mobile gaming and merchandising arms can help take it to the next level; other suggestions include turning the company off and on again and blowing on the cartridge.

REVIEW | WINTER MOVIES

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Winter saw the release of everything from critically and commercially successful best picture nominees to the brain-dead and incompetent Gangster Squad

Amour

By the Diversions staff

An entirely unromantic look at romance, Michael Haneke’s (The White Ribbon) Amour is as devastating as a love story can be. Emmanuelle Riva (Le Skylab) gives an astounding, mostly nonverbal performance as Anne, an elderly woman whose mind and body decay after a series of strokes while her husband Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Janis and John) struggles with his inability to assuage her pain. Many of Haneke’s films feel cold in their precision, but Amour is truly moving and ultimately sincere. The loving, naturalistic relationship between Anne and Georges gives the film its emotional heft — there are few things as heartbreaking as watching terrible things happen to decent people, and Haneke never flinches in depicting the myriad humiliations of old age. The way Georges and Anne embrace, almost as if dancing, as he helps her into her wheelchair says everything about the doomed tenderness of their marriage. This is one set of star-crossed lovers whose tragedy comes not from love’s dissolution but from the powerlessness of even the strongest bonds of affection in the face of death. — Robert Gifford

DJANGO UNCHAINED

Any hope that Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) has matured is quickly dashed by the gleefully anachronistic Django theme that blasts over the opening credits. But is that really such a bad thing? Django Unchained sees Tarantino mining slavery for his latest bloody spaghettiwestern genre pastiche. Django (Jamie Foxx, Horrible Bosses) is given his freedom by eccentric German dentist-turned-bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz, Carnage), and sets out to free his enslaved wife (Kerry Washington, A Thousand Words) from slimy slaveowner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar). Django Unchained succeeds wildly as a revenge flick; Tarantino, after all, knows how to mine humor from affected dialogue and craft compelling characters. The film does seek to portray cruelty toward slaves with harsh and shocking verisimilitude, if only so the white slavers’ comeuppance is that much more satisfying. Whether such violence is morally acceptable, on the other hand, is of no interest to Tarantino. — Warren Zhang

LES MISéRABLES Debating the merits of Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) adaptation of Les Misérables is, at the end of the day, pointless; you’ve probably already seen it, and it’s already gotten a boatload of Oscar nods.

The film converts Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s smash-hit musical into a Christmas blockbuster, telling a decadesspanning story of redemption and revolution. Hooper, fresh from his success at the Oscars, tackles the material as he’s always done: placing actors on the extreme edge of the frame in a wide-angle close-up. While this style worked in The King’s Speech, Hooper’s staging frequently gets in the way in Les Misérables, parphotos courtesy ticularly in more complicated musical numbers. The of screenrant.com film sorely lacks of a sense of visual continuity and panache, and fanpop.com which, coupled with uneven performances and a two-and-a-half hour run time, exacerbates the inherent artificiality of the musical and diminishes epic confrontations to stagelike curiosities. I can still hear the people sing, but I can’t help but dream a dream of better musicals gone by. — W.Z. See MOVIES, Page 7

GANGSTER SQUAD

The Joker … I mean, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn, This Must Be The Place) has invaded 1940s Los Angeles, and it’s up to the eponymous Gangster Squad, a renegade brigade of cop stereotypes, to shut him down.

Trouble is, no one seems to care, aside from a hammy Penn, a stoic Josh Brolin (Men in Black 3), a phlegmy Nick Nolte (The Company You Keep), Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man).

Ruben Fleischer (helmer of the much better 30 Minutes or Less) directs the film like a soulless music video — all gloss and all style, tonal consistency be damned. What emerges is a gleaming, anachronistic mess, an homage made by a man with no imagination and nothing to say that degrades the very thing it’s trying to preserve. Gangster Squad ends up feeling a lot like the adaptation of a video game version of Dick Tracy. Something vital is missing here, leaving an unpleasant, ugly mess in its stead. — W.Z.

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON

Roger Michell’s (Morning Glory) Hyde Park on Hudson is a featherweight little picture on the leisurely doings of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray, Moonrise Kingdom) at his New York estate in 1939. The story is narrated by his cousin and secret mistress Daisy (Laura Linney, The Details), who recounts a weekend of note when King George VI (Samuel West, Albert Schweitzer) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman, The Iron Lady) come to visit the Roosevelt family. Michell’s film daintily pokes its portly nose into a handful of harrowing topics — the Great Depression, marital dishonesty, incest — but hastily pulls away from any real thematic weight. Hyde Park on Hudson may be flawed in its blatant disregard for just how disturbing these themes can and should be, instead choosing to do its artistic bidding in a world where the question of whether eating a hot dog will ruin a monarch’s royal reputation is a fundamental plot point. But you could do much worse than spending 90 minutes in the company of such a film that starts jolly and ends jolly, stopping along the way here and there to whisper, rather aimlessly, about peril, only to snap you back into a cycle of pleasant obliviousness. — Dean Essner

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PROMISED LAND

Promised Land is almost a good movie.

Director Gus Van Sant (Restless) shoots the heck out of this middlebrow drama, deftly capturing gentle earth tones and the slowly encroaching decrepitude of America’s heartland. Matt Damon (We Bought a Zoo) stars as a natural gas representative dispatched to a rural Pennsylvanian town in order to purchase land to frack. Confl ict arrives in the form of a smarmy environmental activist, played by John Krasinski (Big Miracle), who slowly but surely turns the whole town against Damon.

For a long while, that’s good enough. The movie goes by at a leisurely pace, taking its time with its characters and offering up a biased but outwardly balanced debate on the merits of fracking. Unfortunately, things take a dramatic turn for the worse when a third-act plot twist

7 comes apropos of nothing and derails the entire project. The twist is a bit of an astonishing feat, managing to insult the viewer’s intelligence and negating the impact of everything leading up to it while accelerating, but not changing, the preordained ending to the story.

—W.Z.

rust and bone

Rust and Bone successfully obfuscates its real intentions with a surprising amount of a success. A stealth grow-the-bleep-up character study, Rust and Bone tells the intersecting stories of Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard, The Dark Knight Rises), a water park employee crippled by a freak Orca incident, and Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead), an impulsive drifter trying to support a son. Writerdirector Jacques Audiard doesn’t come close to matching the heights of his previous fi lm, A Prophet, but nonetheless imbues Rust and Bone with a surprising amount of heart and keenly observed insight. Carried by two impressive lead performances, Rust and Bone emerges as a counterargument/antidote to the cynicism and pessimism slowly encroaching modern pop culture. If nothing else, Rust and Bone will go down in history as featuring the greatest unironic use of a Katy Perry song ever. Suck on that, Glee.

—W.Z.

THIS IS 40

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Most films focus on life’s more dramatic moments — marriage, death, birth. It’s trickier to capture life’s banalities in an interesting fashion,

REVIEW | FULL KEE

but writer-director Judd Apatow (Funny People) attempts to do just that in This Is 40, which succeeds in making topics such as aging and parenting funny without ever finding a way to shape them into a real narrative. A kind-of sequel to Knocked Up, This Is 40 focuses on the sometimes-happily married couple of Leslie Mann (The Change-Up) and Paul Rudd’s (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) middle-aged Pete and Debbie. The film’s greatest strength lies in the casting. Rudd and Mann are perfect foils for each other, and their chemistry gives life to subplots that range from silly (Pete attempting to kick his cupcake-eating habit) to serious (Would they still be together if it weren’t for an unplanned pregnancy?). The ensemble is well-rounded, too, with Maude Apatow (Funny People) reprising her role as daughter Sadie and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Megan Fox (Friends with Kids) and Charlyne Yi (All About Steve) all making welcome supporting appearances. But where This Is 40 does well with relationships among characters and solid writing, it fails at giving the audience an interesting story line. To put it simply, not much happens. The few conflicts drag without reaching a satisfying resolution, and it’s difficult to sympathize with the financial problems of a family living in a giant house well outside its realistic price range. It’s easier to relate to the characters on a more basic level, such as Debbie’s refusal to accept her age and Sadie’s anger at her parents when they look through her Facebook messages. This Is 40 isn’t the most solid effort from the Apatow comedy powerhouse and isn’t as poignant as its predecessor, but it’s still an overall enjoyable film that shows both the highs and lows of getting older.

Maybe growing up isn’t so bad after all.

—Emily Thompson

the ones that are truly committed to bei ng bold and different.

Upon arrival at Full Kee, I was ushered down a Chinatown restaurant Full Kee provides nothing more than your standard American Chinese fare — go elsewhere sma l l corridor into the “dining Full Kee, a small hole-in-the-wall type

By Dean Essner establishment located in Washington’s Chi- room,” which felt somewhat secluded from the Senior staff writer natown, fails to separate itself from the rest of rest of the place. I ordered egg drop soup, roast There’s a hard and fast notion that most, if the Chinese food pack. It’s difficult to avoid a duck, pork lo mein, General Tso’s chicken and not all, American Chinese food is hardly fit vague image of one giant kitchen that cooks all a shrimp and scallop dish with mushrooms, for the refined palate. Instead, it’s famous the Chinese food in the world, sending it off to all American Chinese standards.

The egg drop soup, in all its salty glory, was for its simplicity and convenience as well as every eatery in the U.S. the moment we place its dingy packaging, greasy consistency and, our orders. Therefore, Full Kee’s mediocrity piping hot upon delivery, which was timely most importantly, its ability to incite a sense isn’t worthy of any critical scorn. To criticize given how cold it was outside. The roast of willful ignorance of every health code it it would be the same thing as condemning duck was bearable, perched above a moat of basically all Chinese restaurants, except for brown sauce even saltier than the soup, but may break while we devour it at 4 a.m.

MEDIOCRITY AT ITS FINEST

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ZERO DARK THIRTY

T he controversy surrounding director Kathryn Bigelow’s (The Hurt Locker) huntfor-Osama bin Laden epic Zero Dark Thirty, and its depiction of torture has been almost as exciting as the fi lm itself, resulting in a Senate investigation into the filmmaker’s real-life CIA sources. Amid all this chaos, however, it’s easy to forget how fantastic a film Zero Dark Thirty is. Jessica Chastain (Maya) gives an award-worthy performance, and the way in which Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) compressed a decade-long narrative into a two-and-a-half hour emotional thriller is nothing short of a master class in fi lmmaking. The real test for Zero Dark Thirty will come in the future, a generation removed from any fi rsthand experience of the events of 9/11. Will the fi lm still hit as hard with an audience not so closely attached to the tragedy?

Only time will tell, but at least for today, Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best fi lms of the year.

—Zachary Berman diversionsdbk@gmail.com

the portion was disappointingly small. The pork lo mein and seafood dish were both respectable yet instantly forgettable.

T he best of the bunch was the General Tso’s chicken. While my duck dish had consisted of a rather gaunt bird, the chicken chunks here were plump and delicious — fried to perfection.

In the end, to recommend Full Kee would be the same thing as recommending all Chinese food, which is something that, on certain occasions, I would certainly do. But smack dab in the middle of a bustling Chinatown, where you could have tastier food for a slightly higher price, there are better choices you could make. But then again, you could also do much worse. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Glen n (D-Ba lt i more Cit y) introduced a medical marijuana bill. It was amended From PAGE 1 to prov ide ca reg ivers who administer marijuana to pawould change state gun laws tients with a defense in court to decrease the nu mber of to assuage charges connected rounds detachable magazine with possession of the drug. clips can hold from 20 to 10.

It passed the House but never She first introduced the bill in made it to the Senate floor.

2011, following a shooting in As the lone physician in the Tucson, Ariz., that killed six General Assembly, Del. Dan and severely injured former Morhaim (D-Baltimore County) Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (Dsaid he would like to see a reA riz.). T he g u n ma n, Ja red sponsible law on the table. He Loughner, used a semiautosaid he will introduce legislamatic handgun. tion that creates a commission “If you’re using an assault to determine the appropriate MEDICAL MARIJUANA weapon that you can ... [use medical uses for the plant. t o] j u s t s p r a y a c r o w d — “There are people who are they’re much more lethal,” Medical marijuana legislashe sa id . “T he fact t h at a tion historically has moved suffering for whom that, after cartridge only has 10 would at a glacial pace in the state, e ve r y t h i n g e l s e h a s b e e n make that weapon itself less and proponents of such mea- tried, it’s the only thing that potentially lethal.” sures have come up short of helps them,” Morhaim said.

Marijuana can help people With a changing climate a legalization of the plant for suffering nausea and vommedicinal purposes. on gun control, Gutierrez beL a s t y e a r, D e l . C h e r y l it i ng f rom chemot herapy, lieves the bill will have a better chance than it did two years ago. At the time, fears of overly restrictive gun control laws held the bill up in committee.

Gov. Martin O’Malley also signaled his intent Friday to i ntroduce a more comprehensive slate of public safety measures that would, in addition to limiting magazine capacity, tighten licensing requ i rements a nd rest r ict possessions of guns and ammunition. This came just two days after President Obama signed 23 executive actions aimed at installing universal background checks, among other gun measures.

GENDER IDENTITY ANTI-DISCRIMINATION This state became the first to lega l i ze sa me-sex ma rriage at the hands of voters in November, and Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said she would like to see the state ta ke f u rther steps to promote gender equality.

Peña-Melnyk has, in prev ious leg islative sessions, introduced bills that would prohibit transgender discrimination in lending practices, employ ment a nd housi ng, but “people’s m isconceptions have kept it from going forward in the past,” she said.

Transgender individuals, Peña-Melnyk said, are “looked at differently and discriminated against.”

“It’s an anti-discrimination bill, very simply put,” PeñaMelnyk said.

DEATH PENALTY An ongoing battle to repeal the state’s death penalty may have the political backing to pass this year after O’Malley filed such legislation last week.

Previous attempts at repeal have died in the Judicial Proceedings Committee, where a perpetual 6-5 split has kept t he bi l l f rom a f loor vote.

However, the sca les cou ld tip in favor of repeal if Sen. Bobby Zirkin (D-Baltimore Cou nty) — considered the com m ittee’s sw i ng vote — buck s t rad it ion a nd helps push the bill through.

Additionally, if one-third of the Senate signs on to petition the bill to the floor, they could circumvent the committee process and bring it to a vote.

Sen. Jim Brochin (D-Baltimore County) said Senate President Mike Miller would l i kely be able to get t hose votes because there a re 19 co-sponsors.

“If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen this year,” Brochin said.

T he state has put five criminals to death since the penalty was put back on the books in 1977. The evidentiary requirements to sentence someone to death — including DNA ev idence, a v ideo con fession or footage of a murder — is “too restrictive,” said Baltimore County state’s attorney Scott Shellenberger.

“You could just name Oklahoma City; you could name the World Trade Center; you could name Aurora, Colo.; you could name Virginia Tech; you could name New town,

Conn. There’s some really bad people out there who don’t deserve to live in any society, including a prison society,” said Shellenberger, who supports the death penalty if it fits the crime.

B ro c h i n op p o s e s rep e a l because he said capital punishment can be used as a bargaining tool for prosecutors to ensu re the state’s most violent criminals stay behind bars for life if the defendant tries to enter a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty.

multiple sclerosis and muscle spasms from cerebral palsy, among other ailments, Morhaim said.

the same kind of scare, given t h at O’M a l ley’s prop osed b u d ge t i n c r e a s e s s y s t e m spending by about 10 percent and provides $5.8 billion to higher education.

BUDGET “For the governor to make In the final minutes of the th is kind of investment in 2012 legislative session, law- higher education is really quite makers failed to pass a revenue extraordinary,” Kirwan said, bill, forcing deep cuts to the adding that at a time when other state budget that came down states are slashing higher education budgets, the increased hard on higher education.

A lthoug h students were appropriation is “unheard of.”

The budget will also help staring down a possible 10 percent tuition hike, O’Malley expand educational opportucalled a special session for law- nities and capacity in high-demakers to reconvene and pass mand areas such as the STEM a series of tax hikes. That ul- program at this university. timately helped the University Additionally, cost-of-living System of Maryland escape increases and merit raises are budget-cutting measures with built into the budget.

“It’s just very good news all minimal harm; the Board of Regents voted to raise tuition around,” Kirwan said.

If the budget stays as is, a more modest 3 percent.

This year, system Chancel- tuition will likely increase lor Brit Kirwan doesn’t expect another 3 percent.

“there are people who are suffering for whom that, after everything else has been tried, [marijuana is] the only thing that helps them.”

DAN MORHAIM

State delegate (D-Baltimore County)

T he General Assembly is authorized to make cuts to the current budget, but Kirwan said he doesn’t expect higher education to take a big hit.

Many are concerned about t he per petu a l g r id lock on Capitol Hill, and with Republicans and Democrats expected to make cuts to the federal budget in the coming months, it is still unknown how such changes could trickle down to the state level. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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SWALWELL From PAGE 1 scholarship.

“I was a classic, stereotypical jock,” said Swalwell, 32. “I got injured and from there, I had to start focusing on a career.”

Then came the summer of 2001: Swalwell took up residence in College Park for what was supposed to be a three-month political jaunt, but his stay extended to two years after he applied to transfer to this university in July.

“Fortunately, I was accepted and I’m so glad I was — it changed the course of my life,” Swalwell said.

Campbell had been fine for government and politics, but he chose to attend that school for its full athletic scholarship and the opportunity to play Division I as a freshman — admittedly, he said, it had nothing to do with his career aspirations.

But politics was his calling. That call became louder during his time on this campus, and grew to a roar when terrorists hijacked American airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in western Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Swalwell joined the Student Government Association and worked long hours with school and state officials to help establish a scholarship fund for state

LAWSUIT From PAGE 1 experts said history shows the two sides will likely come to a settlement.

“The ACC is just playing hardball to strengthen their hand as much as possible,” said Bradley Shear, a Bethesda sports lawyer, adding the ACC is working to maintain stability and discourage other universities from leaving the conference.

To the surprise of many, university President Wallace Loh announced in November the university was leaving the ACC after helping found the conference nearly 60 years ago to join the Big Ten, a revenue-sharing

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students who had lost their parents to the attacks. The fund benefited 56 families throughout the state.

“Just knowing how hard it was for me to pay for my own tuition, and how my parents struggled, I could only imagine what would happen to someone whose parents died, who is losing an income source and a family,” Swalwell said.

Neither of his parents attended college, so when Swalwell, their eldest son, began looking at schools, the family sifted through brochures and applications together for the first time.

Swalwell often took unusual approaches to advocacy on campus issues. In response to state budget cuts on education, Swalwell led a mock funeral procession, hearse and police escort in tow. In all, 30 vehicles rode to Annapolis to symbolize the death of affordable education.

“I was addicted to the ability to help and to get things done,” he said. “I wanted to take on problems.”

In the spring, diplomacy called when city residents began to complain about student behavior. Following the university’s victory over Indiana in the 2002 NCAA Final Four, students took to the streets rioting.

Swalwell recognized the need to work with the community to repair not only the physical damage but also the school’s relationship with residents.

conference. The move came on the heels of the ACC Council of Presidents’ September meeting, in which it voted to bring in Notre Dame as its 15th member and hike its exit fee from $20 million to $50 million, more than three times the conference’s operating budget. Loh, citing “legal and philosophical” reasons, and Florida State President Eric Barron were the only two dissenting votes in increasing the fee more than 250 percent.

The state’s countersuit responds to a Dec. 14 letter, in which the ACC informed Athletic Director Kevin Anderson it had already begun withholding the university’s share of television revenue from the conference’s 15-year, $3.6 billion contract with

“I saw that there was this fracture,” he said. “The residents were rightfully upset over the way a small number of students acted. I thought if we created a student liaison position on the [College Park City Council], that would be a way to bridge that divide.”

Swalwell established the position and then served as the first city council student liaison. He called it the most educational experience he had — Swalwell learned about crafting legislation and negotiating the terms of his position.

District 3 Councilman Eric Olson, who also served at the time, remembered Swalwell’s efforts and the promise he showed at such a young age. Swalwell would add strong insights at council meetings and get out into the community, Olson said, and when he gave his word, he followed through.

“I’m extremely proud, but [Swalwell’s election] doesn’t surprise me. I knew 10 years ago that he was destined to go on to big things,” Olson said. “He really understood the issues and he worked very hard to bring the student body and the city of College Park together.”

After receiving both his bachelor’s degree and a law degree from this university, Swalwell returned to his hometown of Dublin, Calif., outside San Francisco. He went on to work in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, serve on the Dublin City Council

ESPN to begin paying for the university’s exit fee. That amounts to more than $3 million the university will not receive this year.

“Our lawsuit calls the ACC’s ‘exit fee’ what it really is — an antitrust violation and an illegal penalty,” Gansler said in a statement. “Our motion in North Carolina will ensure that a Maryland court will rule on the case.”

The university is projected to make more than $100 million more in the Big Ten than it would have in the ACC by 2020, according to documents obtained by Sports Illustrated. If the university is slapped with the record-breaking fee, the Big Ten could help in its payment, either through a loan or deferred payment, said Ellen Zavian, a sports law professor at

alumnus Eric Swalwell recently won a House seat in California. The 32-year-old Democrat got his political start in this city as an SGA member and the first College Park City Council student liaison. photo courtesy of eric swalwell and coach youth soccer before running for the House against 40-year incumbent Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.).

Running on a Democratic platform, Swalwell branded himself as part of a new generation of politicians. Then 31, he was a far cry from his 81-year-old opponent, and his youthful ambition drove his initiatives and his support.

Some local politicians canceled plans to run after Stark announced he would seek another term, but not Swalwell. He earned endorsements from a long list of local personalities and area newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle.

Swalwell advocates what he calls a “mobile Congress”: a social mediafriendly, interactive government that brings the congressional ear to the voice of the people.

Swalwell is proposing a complete technological overhaul, including remote

George Washington University.

The state claims the ACC violated its own bylaws by immediately enforcing the exit fee, which should not have gone into effect until July 1, 2013, according to the lawsuit. Since this school announced its exit in November 2012, the fee should not apply, the lawsuit argues.

The state also claims the ACC is excluding university officials from participating in conference meetings and preventing university coaches from participating in athletic scheduling and planning meetings, according to the lawsuit.

But an ACC source said university officials have been invited to attend every meeting regarding ACC matters until the university

voting, video conferencing and publishing congressional schedules online.

He also has ambitious plans for issues including education, the economy and national defense.

“He’s very down-to-earth, but in high school, he was ambitious, he was an overachiever, and I would say now that’s the same thing,” said Tim Sbranti, Dublin mayor and Swalwell’s high school economics teacher and tennis and mock trial coach, in the Chronicle.

Swalwell said he is looking forward to getting down to business in Washington.

He sees it as a homecoming, returning to the area where it all began.

“I went to College Park as a congressional intern and now, to be a member of Congress, it’s kind of fitting to be back,” he said. “It’s a reunion that I welcome.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

officially leaves the conference in July 2014, according to a Washington Post report.

Conference shifts and exit fees have become the norm in college athletics, but if the university pays its full exit fee, it would be the highest in NCAA history. Last year, West Virginia University paid about $20 million to expedite its exit from the Big East for the Big 12, and Pittsburgh and Syracuse each paid $7.5 million in exit fees.

The ACC’s withdrawal penalty “provides some measure of financial protection against potential damages and losses for members of the ACC that remain after withdrawal by one or more other members,” according to the ACC’s lawsuit.

It’s a high price to pay if a university leaves the ACC, Shear said.

But if the state can negotiate a settlement, other ACC members could follow this university’s lead and leave for other conferences, he said, adding the SEC could be appealing to football powerhouses Florida State and Clemson.

No matter what the university has to pay to exit, Loh said a potential $50 million fee was taken into account when considering the move.

Based on statements in the state’s lawsuit filing, “you start to realize Maryland has a legitimate complaint,” Shear said. “I think Maryland has a strong legal hand to play here.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Terps aren’t same team you left in December Expectations should be tempered as competition, adversity increases for Turgeon’s young squad JOSH VITALE When students handed in the last of their final exams and headed home for the holidays at the end of last semester, they left behind a Terrapins basketball team that had begun its season on a streak of near perfection.

After suffering a narrow 72-69 loss to then-No. 3 Kentucky in their season opener Nov. 9, the Terps rattled off nine consecutive victories. A 71-38 shellacking of Monmouth on Dec. 12 — the fi nal game of the fall term — gave the team a 9-1 record heading into the university’s winter break. They were living up to their preseason hype, even if the wins did come against a less-thandaunting nonconference slate.

But as the spring semester begins in College Park, the Terps are far from the same team that cruised through nonconference play. Their 13-game winning streak — the program’s longest since 2002 — seems like a distant memory, even though it ended

EAGLES From PAGE 14 started to hit some shots.”

Fo r w a r d J a k e L a y m a n was the catalyst. The freshman, who scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half, hit a couple timely buckets

just two weeks ago. The 9-1 team students left behind for the holidays sits at 15-4, has lost three of its last five and recently failed to top the 55point mark in three consecutive games for the first time since the 1981-82 season.

Sure, being 11 games over .500 is nothing to deride. The Terps were just 12-6 at this point last season, after all, and there’s no doubt this season’s team is miles ahead of where Terrell Stoglin and his parade of forced jump shots had them a year ago.

But after stumbling to a 3-3 start in ACC play, it’s clear coach Mark Turgeon’s team still isn’t quite ready for prime time.

At fi rst, it looked like there was a chance they might be.

After fi nishing off a cupcakeladen stretch of games against the likes of Maryland-Eastern Shore, South Carolina State and IUPUI, the Terps entered their ACC schedule as relative unknowns. They were 12-1, but no one really knew how good they were.

Was that record a product of an easy schedule? Or were they actually as good as their

to help spark the Terps down the stretch.

“We just knew we had to pick our energy back up,” Layman said of the second-half display.

“We just knew we had to grind it out and pull out the win.”

With the Terps still struggling to pull away from the Eagles, Layman hit the shot

record indicated?

Their performance in their ACC opener seemed to prove the latter. The Terps throttled Virginia Tech in Comcast Center on Jan. 5, using breakout performances from freshmen Seth Allen and Jake Layman to roll to a 94-71 victory. For a moment, it looked as though they were actually as good

as their nearly perfect early season results implied.

That moment proved brief, though. Four days later, the Terps blew a 12-point second-half lead in a 65-62 loss to Florida State.

And four days later, they hit rock bottom offensively, shooting less than 32 percent from the floor in a 54-47 loss at Miami.

Yes, they managed to scrape

past No. 14 N.C. State, 51-50, last week, upending a team that had upset then-No. 1 Duke just days earlier. The Terps were suddenly even in the ACC, students had a chance to rush the Comcast Center court and all was well again.

Only it wasn’t. The Terps shot 34.4 percent from the field, were 3-of-18 from beyond the arc and had just one player score in double fi gures. They blew multiple double-digit leads, and center Alex Len’s game-winning tip-in came on what appeared to be a Pe’Shon Howard airball, even if the point guard insisted after the game it was a pass.

The Terps snuck away with the v ictory, but they sti l l weren’t playing the way many expected them to perform.

That fact was evident Saturday. North Carolina ran them out of the Dean Dome, taking a 22-point lead into halftime and coasting to an easy 62-52 win.

Sure, their season is far from over. After defeating Boston College last night, the Terps are back to .500 in the ACC and are already halfway to their confer-

of the game with about nine minutes remaining. He shook of f h is defender, stepped beyond the arc and drained an open 3-pointer that gave the Terps a 48-43 lead.

Desperate to halt a 10-2 Terps run, Boston College coach Steve Donahue called a timeout. It was to little avail.

He was forced into another timeout 58 seconds later when center Alex Len, who fi nished with a team-high 16 points and 13 rebounds, extended the Terps’ edge to 52-44.

From there, the Terps were content trading buckets the remainder of the game. Last night, after all, was just about

getting back to the Terps’ winning form. With consecutive road trips to No. 1 Duke and Florida State, anything else could’ve been disastrous.

“Every game for us now is a big game,” Aronhalt said.

“I don’t think there’s any bad team in the league.”

T ERP S NO T E: T u rgeon em-

Coach Mark Turgeon’s Terps have lost three of their past five games. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

ence win total from last season.

Fans still have reason to expect success from the Terps.

Those expectations just should be tempered a bit.

This is not a team that can contend for an ACC crown this season, nor is it a team that’s guaranteed to be on the inside of the NCA A tou rn a ment bubble come March. As nice as it would be to see Len play like a future NBA Lottery pick, forward Dez Wells emerge as an explosive scorer and guard Nick Faust become the star many projected out of high school, that might not be in the cards this year.

No, this season, all fans can do is watch the Terps grow.

Len, Wells and Faust will continue to improve. The team’s four highly regarded freshmen will gain more experience.

And Turgeon will continue to recruit top talent.

2014 might be the Terps’ year.

Or maybe 2015. But as 2013 plays out in College Park, the 9-1 team from a month ago is little more than a distant memory.

ployed his eighth different starting lineup last night. He started Layman and forward Charles Mitchell alongside Len, guard Nick Faust and forward Dez Wells, replacing recent mainstays Seth Allen and Shaquille Cleare.

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Daunting winter slate leaves Terps in unfamiliar territory After loss to Navy, team at risk of dropping out of Top 25

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

For most students, winter break serves as a much-needed respite from a rigorous academic slate.

It has been anything but for the No. 23 Terrapins wrestling team.

A combination of untimely injuries, wavering confidence and inexperience has left the Terps reeling. Their 22-18 loss to Navy on Saturday marked the second defeat to an unranked opponent in two weeks — the Terps fell at Bloomsburg, 22-15, on Jan. 5 — and could lead to a drop from the Top 25 for the fi rst time this season.

Nonetheless, coach Kerry McCoy sees no reason to panic.

“I don’t think anything is wrong,” he said. “We’ve got to get better, train harder, fight harder and compete harder and that experience will come.”

No. 5 Josh Asper, the team’s topranked wrestler and captain, was sidelined six weeks with a neck injury he sustained at the Nittany Lion Open on

Dec. 2. The team compiled a 2-3 record during his absence and dropped from No. 16 to No. 23 nationally.

“Fr ust rat ion was t he biggest thing,” Asper said. “It was difficult watching the team suffer losses while having to sit on a sideline for the fi rst time in a long time.”

Since returning to the lineup Jan. 12 against Harvard and Stanford, Asper is 3-0, including a victory over No. 13 Mat Miller of Navy. “[Saturday] was a step in the right direction,” he said. “I was disappointed coming off the mat because I thought I had missed some opportunities, which just shows how I am still a little bit rusty. It’s not where I want to be, but I have to work hard to get back.”

No. 16 Geoffrey Alexander suffered a high ankle sprain in practice prior to the Grapple at the Garden, leaving him out of much-anticipated matchups with No. 6 Ohio State and No. 14 Nebraska.

The meet included a chance to face the Buckeyes’ Logan Stieber, the No. 1 wrestler in the nation at 133 pounds.

Forward Patrick Mullins led the Terps with 17 goals and 10 assists this season. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

At the time of the injury, Alexander was ranked No. 11 nationally, tied for first on the Terps in pins and second in dual wins and points scored.

Alexander suffered a surprising setback in his fi rst meet back, falling to unranked Bloomsburg wrestler Nick Wilcox.

The standout sophomore has responded, however, winning all four of his matches in the past four dual meets, including a pin of Navy’s Colton Rasche on Saturday.

“I needed some help and I needed to get refocused and the coaches were there for me,” Alexander said. “[Navy] was a big confidence boost. I just went out relaxed and went out to win for my team and myself. It felt great.”

No. 7 Jimmy Sheptock has continued to be a bright spot for the Terps at 184 pounds, fi nishing fi fth at the Midlands Championships on Dec. 30.

He remains undefeated in dual meets with a 13-0 record and leads the Terps with 50 dual points on the season.

The Terps will kick off their confer-

MULLINS From PAGE 14 could enjoy that honor.”

Mullins’ season ranks as one of the greatest all-around performances in the Terps’ storied history. His 17 goals tied for the program’s sixth-highest single-season total, and his 10 assists tied for the eighth-highest single-season mark. He also recorded the sixthmost points in a Terps season with 44.

Mullins is one of only two players in program history to record at least 15 goals and 10 assists in one season.

The other was Eberhard Klein, who tallied 17 goals and 13 assists in 1964.

Coach Kerry McCOY said there is no reason to panic after the Terps lost to two unranked opponents in a two-week span. The team fell to Bloomsburg on Jan. 5 and Navy on Saturday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback ence schedule against Virginia Tech on Friday. And with the postseason lurking in the not-so-distant future, Alexander knows it’s time to buckle down.

“It’s that time of year now,” he said.

“It’s a grind and we have to push.

Everybody has to do what it takes.

Whether you need to get help from the coaches or put some extra time in, it has to get done. We need to get it done.”

The MAC Hermann Trophy cements Mullins’ place in college soccer’s history books. He joins former forward Jason Garey as the only two Terps to win the award. Garey captured the honor in 2005 after leading the Terps to their second national championship.

“He came to the event, and he’s also from Louisiana like me,” said Mullins, a New Orleans native. “It was a little extra special for me to win it like that and having him in the audience.”

Mullins acknowledged that he took time to reflect on his historic season during winter break, but there’s still more to accomplish. The Terps fell short of their preseason goal of a national championship in Hoover, Ala.,

leading Mullins to forgo entering the MLS SuperDraft early for another chance to bring a national title to College Park. He’s the first MAC Hermann Trophy winner to return to school since 2007.

Odds are his ever-expanding list of accolades is far from complete.

“Honestly, I’m ready to move on from it and get ready to start working on the next [season],” Mullins said.

“I’ve enjoyed it and it’s been great receiving some of the recognition I’ve had. But I’m not one to live in the past.

I’m ready to get working on next season and improving more as a player.”

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Forward Tierney Pfirman dislocated her knee in Saturday’s practice and sat out during the Terps’ win at Georgia Tech. She will miss the next four weeks. file photo/the diamondback

Despite more injury troubles, Terps beat Georgia Tech, 66-57, on Sunday

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer Down yet another player Sunday afternoon at Georgia Tech and down on the scoreboard, the Terrapins women’s basketball team looked like it was fi nally succumbing to its mounting injury toll.

Forward Tierney Pfirman was the latest to go down. She dislocated her knee in a collision during in Saturday’s practice, and she’ll miss the next four weeks. So as the Terps battled the Yellow Jackets, she was back in College Park, leaving the Terps with just one player outside of the starting

five averaging more than 20 minutes per game.

For one game, though, it didn’t matter who was or wasn’t on the Terps’ bench or how big the bench was. Led by three players with double-doubles, the No. 10 Terps were able to dispatch Georgia Tech, 66-57, for their fifth-straight ACC win.

Forward A lyssa T homas continued her strong performance against conference foes and came close to recording her second triple-double of the season, finishing with a seasonhigh 28 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. Forward Tianna Hawkins had 16 points and 14 rebounds, and center Alicia

DeVaughn chipped in 11 points and 12 rebounds.

“Alyssa was magnificent,” coach Brenda Frese said. “She made plays on both ends of the floor, not only offensively and rebounding, but made plays for everybody else within the flow of the game.”

Early on, though, the Terps looked like a team missing its third-leading scorer — a player who had hit double figures in four of the past six games. The Terps turned the ball over seven times in the first seven minutes as Georgia Tech’s three-quarter court press rushed decisions and forced errant passes out of the backcourt.

An early 8-2 Georgia Tech run opened up a six-point lead, the Yellow Jackets’ largest of the game and a margin they would hold five times in the first 20 minutes. But soon the flow of the game would shift back to the Terps.

Trailing, 29-23, with 4:25 left in the fi rst half, the Terps scored the fi nal nine points of the first half to take a 32-29 lead into halftime. Then, after a Georgia Tech basket to open the second half, the Terps rattled off 15 straight points. In a 9:57 stretch spanning both halves, the Terps (15-3, 6-1 ACC) outscored Georgia Tech (8-10, 1-6), 24-2, swinging a six-point deficit into a 16-point lead.

Thomas took over early in the second half, scoring 10 of the Terps’ first 12 points.

She, along with Hawkins and DeVaughn, would score 22 of the Terps’ 24 points on the game-changing run.

“I just see the openings and the open players, and I just attack,” Thomas said. “We were down a player and I just had to step it up a little more.”

The Yellow Jackets clawed their way back into the game behind guard Tyaunna Mar-

shall’s 18 points and nine rebounds off the bench. An 11-2 run brought Georgia Tech within five points with 2:51 remaining, but Thomas and DeVaughn scored the Terps’ final eight points to seal the game.

The Terps were able to hold the Yellow Jackets to 35.9 percent shooting from the field while owning the boards with a 52-29 rebounding advantage, sparked by the double-digit rebound totals from Thomas, Hawkins and DeVaughn.

When Georgia Tech took the early fi rst-half lead, it was the first time the Terps had trailed since early in their eventual win over Miami on Jan. 10. And like in that game, the Terps overcame their slow start to distance themselves and get the win. “[I’m] really proud of this team,” Frese said. “I told them in the locker room: Of any team I’ve coached, the resiliency that we showed to be able to come into an environment with how many players, seven, and to play the way we played continues to show how much heart and character that this team has, and they continue to keep playing for each other.”

Now, the team has to continue that resiliency — a trait Frese rates as one of her team’s best — until Pfirman comes back in about a month.

They’ve already weathered the losses of guards Brene Moseley and Laurin Mincy and center Essence Townsend. For the Terps, nothing changes.

“Same mindset,” Thomas said. “But knowing that she wasn’t going to be there and short on numbers, we just really had to be smart and still play hard and have her in the back of our mind and play hard for her.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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A triumphant return Dodds posts career-best performance in first appearance after Achilles tear

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer Katy Dodds blocked out a boisterous crowd and prepared for takeoff when she stepped onto the vault runway at N.C. State on Jan. 11. After missing all of December with a torn left Achilles, Dodds was ready to prove her worth.

She didn’t disappoint. The Terrapins gymnast helped her squad tie the rival Wolfpack with a career-high 9.975 on the event, locking up an East Atlantic Gymnastics League Specialist of the Week award in the process.

It was quite the showing for someone who only returned to practice two weeks earlier.

“It definitely motivated me to work my butt off and get back out there and compete,” said Dodds, whose No. 14 Terps sit atop the EAGL standings and pace the conference on vault and beam.

Dodds, the national co-leader on vault, has been critical to the Terps’ early success. She followed up her noteworthy season-opening performance by tying senior Ally Krikorian for first place on vault at Pittsburgh on Saturday, scoring a 9.900.

The Terps swept the Panthers, Cornell and Temple in the quad meet with a 195.975, the 10thhighest score in program history.

Through two weeks of competition, Dodds scarcely resembles the junior relegated to cheerleading from the bench after tearing her Achilles in November.

Ever the fierce competitor, Dodds fought through the pain until her body wouldn’t let her any longer. After suffering the

injury while tumbling, Dodds said she felt pain in her Achilles for a couple weeks. Then one day she took off on a tumbling pass and knew something was wrong.

She was unable to walk, and a week later, an MRI finally revealed the tear.

Dodds’ injury arrived at an inopportune time. She was diagnosed after boot camp and right in the middle of preseason. With a little more than a month remaining until the season opener, Dodds became a prisoner of her own body.

“It was hard,” Dodds said.

“I felt like all of the work I put into preseason, including boot camp, was lost with [having to] sit out for that one month.”

After the holiday season came and went, the Gaithersburg native shed her boot, her limp and her place on the sideline for a spot in the Terps’ practice rotation.

After beginning work on bars, she didn’t start tumbling until a week before traveling to N.C. State. She wasn’t even able to review her floor routine in practice. Instead, she performed her first full routine since returning from injury at the fi rst meet. Dodds secured a 9.800, providing a muchneeded boost for the Terps.

“Having her back in the lineup gives us a dominant edge on floor and vault,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “It gives us the confidence to know that in any meet situation, we feel like we are the better floor and vault team, no matter who we are up against.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

STATLINE Terps men’s basketball center Alex Len’s performance in a 64-59 win vs. Boston College

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Center Alex Len scored a team-high 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as the Terps defeated Boston College, 64-59. The win puts the team back at .500 in ACC play. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Len leads Terps to much-needed victory over Boston College The Terrapins men’s basketball team was desperate last night. After dropping three of their past four contests, the Terps understood the importance of rediscovering their mojo before daunting road trips to two ACC powers.

A win over reeling Boston College would mean far more than a confidence boost. It would provide a significant spark toward getting back on track for a group that was enjoying a 13-1 start just two weeks earlier.

That’s precisely what the Terps earned. Playing with the tenacity of a group hungry for a much-needed win, coach Mark Turgeon’s squad withstood a pair of strong opposing performances last night to escape Comcast Center with a 64-59 victory before a crowd of 13,941.

“We gutted it out,” Turgeon said. “We figured out a way to win.”

That meant finding a way to overcome scrappy showings from forward Ryan And erson a nd g u a rd Ol iv ier Hanlan, who finished with 19 a nd 18 p oi nts, resp ectively. Each time the Terps seemed poised to run away with the blowout, Hanlan and Anderson sank a contested 3-pointer or slashed through the lane for a layup.

“Anderson was phenomenal,” Turgeon said. “He was really tough for us all night.”

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the net early, allowing the Terps (15-4, 3-3 ACC) to jump to a 7-2 lead. The two squads then traded buckets until the Eagles (9-9, 1-4) caught fire from beyond the arc.

They used a flurry of treys to string together an 18-6 run, taking a 29-24 lead with 2:05 remaining in the half. After missing its fi rst eight attempts from deep, Boston College connected on five straight 3-pointers during that pivotal fiveminute stretch.

W hen the Terps entered the locker room at halftime knotted at 29, Turgeon said he noticed his players hanging their heads. They were frustrated with the plethora of missed layups and wide-open 3-pointers they tallied in the first half. They felt they should have held a sizable edge over a squad many expect to miss the postseason for the fourth straight year.

But T u rgeon wasn’t too concerned. He told his team to buckle down and figure out a way to win by one.

The pointed speech helped spark a struggling offense over the fina l 20 m inutes.

The Terps, who didn’t shoot above 40 percent from the field in each of their previous three games, connected on 48.3 percent of their attempts in the second half. “ T h e re’s n o s e c re t o u r offense was struggling,” guard Logan Aronhalt said. “Tonight, we weren’t always great, but we See EAGLES, Page 10

MEN’S SOCCER

Mullins wins MAC Hermann Trophy Junior receives college soccer’s highest honor

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer The list just keeps getting longer and longer for Patrick Mullins.

T h e Te r ra p i n s m e n’s soccer forward was named the ACC Offensive Player of

the Year and ACC Championship Most Valuable Player in November. A month later, he was tabbed as an NSCAA First-Team All-American.

The junior made numerous all-conference and all-tournament teams as well.

Finally, Mullins capped his remarkable junior season Jan. 11 in St. Louis by winning the MAC Hermann Trophy, college soccer’s highest individual honor.

“It was definitely a very ex-

citing moment,” Mullins said last week. “I think it was just the culmination of some hard work throughout the year by myself and by my team to get to that point.”

Mullins led a Terps team that was ranked No. 1 nationally for most of the season in goals, assists, points and game-winning goals. The Terps won the ACC regularseason title, the ACC Tournament title and reached the NCAA tournament’s College

C up, wh e re t h e y lo s t to Georgetown in penalty kicks in the semifi nals.

And as he did all season long, Mullins was quick to credit his teammates for his individual success.

“I’d say that the fi rst time I got to speak, it was all to my teammates, the reason I was there,” Mullins said. “I definitely couldn’t do it without them. It was just great that we

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