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Women’s basketball hands No. 2 UNC a third-straight loss

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ANNAPOLIS 2009

Budget deficit may threaten pricey bills Textbooks, long-term funding again among Annapolis legislation

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

As this year’s legislative session begins, a $2 billion state deficit means state senators and delegates are wary of any bills with steep price tags attached. But legislation sponsors are confident in a number of bills that would require little to no funding.

“I don’t know that many bills with additional funding are going to get passed,” said Del. Ben Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park. “We’re not going to give up, but we’re being realistic.”

Some bills this year are repeats from the last legislative session, including legislation that aims to lower textbook prices, another that seeks additional public safety funding for College Park and the resurrected Global Warming Solutions Act. New pieces of proposed legislation include a ban on the hallucinogenic plant salvia and a plan to guarantee funding for the university.

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O’Malley funds tuition freeze Legislators could cut higher education funding to curtail fiscal shortfall decades and calls for layoffs of at least 700 state employees in an effort to close a $2 billion gap in the state budget. However, the budget will likely be debated throughout the 90-day General Assembly session that began earlier this month.

To close the gap without raising taxes, O’Malley made drastic cuts but spared higher education and four other areas. A tuition freeze for this year seemed unlikely as

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) proposed 2010 budget allows for an instate tuition freeze and a slight increase in university funding, but some legislators have said the allocation should be slashed in an effort to close the state’s $2 billion deficit.

O’Malley’s proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, includes a total spending decrease for the first time in

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BUDGET BREAKDOWN To close a $2 billion budget deficit, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) proposed fiscal 2010 budget includes: 700 layoffs of state employees The elimination of 1,000 vacant state positions $900 million to be transferred from reserve and rainy day accounts $310 million cut from local government funding $50 million cut from community college funding Total, it will save $1.2 billion but leaves a $713 million shortfall for 2011.

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Textbook Affordability Act This bill is being resurrected after failing at the end of last session, when last-minute

Guard Greivis Vasquez inbounds the ball while being taunted by Cameron Crazies during Maryland's 85-44 loss to Duke Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Student robbed at gunpoint in Univ. Park Mayor says community usually quieter than nearby College Park

An utter embarrassment

Blue Devils hand Terps worst loss since 1944

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DURHAM, N.C. – he Terrapin men’s basketball team has officially welcomed you back to College Park for the spring semester.

Don’t feel too bad about such a rude greeting. I’m sure it was nothing personal.

The Terps’ 85-44 loss at No. 2 Duke on Saturday was a nightmare,

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DURHAM, N.C. – For two straight hours, Duke’s loyal Cameron Crazies never ceased chanting and cheering as their Blue Devils exhibited unblemished sideline-to-sideline play and made the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium progressively more troublesome by the minute.

“Let’s go Duke! Let’s Go Duke!” they began yelling.

A pair of Jon Scheyer threepointers and a couple Brian

Zoubek lay-ins, and just like that, the Blue Devils hopped out to a 12-3 start.

“Sweat Gary, sweat! Sweat Gary, sweat!”

Nine straight points from forward Kyle Singler, and before there was even time to perspire, Duke was already ahead by 20 points.

“Not our rivals!” (Clap-clap, clap-clap-clap.)

How could they be? The Terps were down 40-15 at the half.

“Down by 40! Down by 40!”

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CHANNING QUINICHETT, 1987-2009

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Police are still looking for two men who held a university student at gunpoint and stole his credit card and cell phone in University Park early Friday morning, officials said.

A male student was in the 6900 block of Route 1 at approximately 1 a.m. when he was approached by two men, according to a university crime alert. One of the suspects was armed with a handgun, but the student was not injured during the incident.

University Park police could not be reached for further comment. Both University Park and Prince George’s County police departments are conducting an investigation.

University Park Mayor John Tabori lauded the police’s investigation as well as the quick response time from a department that employs eight officers.

WMUC DJ killed in Senior, expecting mother New Year’s Day collision dies in bizarre accident

BY KYLE GOON Staff writer

Sophomore letters and sciences major Nina Maley, a WMUC radio host who was known for her passion for music and humor, died in a traffic collision early in the morning on New Year’s Day. The 19-year-old, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was driving eastbound on Route 108 in Howard County when her Toyota Camry ran off the road and crashed into a telephone pole,

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according to local media outlets and county police.

Friends remember Maley as a warm, sympathetic individual

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BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff writer

Channing Quinichett lived for brightening the days of her family and friends, but in the blink of

an eye, their lives changed forever.

Quinichett, 21, a senior early childhood development major, was driving on the outer loop of the Beltway Wednesday on her way to a prenatal massage — she was five months pregnant — when her car was struck by a stray tire, crushing the roof and windshield of her Honda Civic.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Unpaid fees mean city may challenge College Perk’s liquor license Challenge to long-closed coffeehouse’s license last year resulted in protest; Turtle, Fe licenses won’t be challenged

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

Hundreds of dollars in unpaid fees may prevent the College Perk coffeehouse from keeping its liquor license after a College Park city administrator recommended the council ask the county liquor board not to renew the license.

Though the Perk is under foreclosure and has remained closed by the county health department since a fire last summer, Bob Ryan, the city’s public services director, said the city should be prepared to object to the establishment renewing its liquor license if it does reopen.

The city council submits annual recommendations to the county liquor board on whether the board should renew the

liquor licenses of the city’s bars.

The College Perk was one of four establishments the city council chose to review last year, but it ultimately asked the liquor board to renew all the licenses when Perk owner Chris Gordon promised to pay the money he owed to the city for his liquor license and occupancy permit.

Dozens of placard-toting Perk patrons attended last year’s city hearing on the coffeehouse’s liquor license in support of the establishment and opposing the city practices one referred to as “unjust.”

“So you’re suggesting that we repeat the Perk Wars?” Mayor Steve Brayman asked Ryan Wednesday, referencing a protest last year by Perk patrons after the city challenged its license.

“So you’re suggesting that we repeat the Perk Wars?”

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“Yeah, maybe we can get a drum circle going,” Ryan replied.

Gordon did not respond to calls seeking comment.

Ryan did not recommend the council object to the other three bars it reviewed last year: Santa Fe Cafe, Thirsty Turtle and Town Hall, despite some transgressions in the last year.

Though Town Hall’s review last year was a result of a misunderstanding

about its food services, the Thirsty Turtle was called twice before the liquor board and fined thousands of dollars in the last year, and the city is pursuing litigation against Santa Fe owner Mark Srour.

Ryan said it was not the city’s place to voice an objection to the county about the Turtle’s violations: noncompliance with the required food-to-alcohol ratio of their license and refilling liquor bottles.

And although Santa Fe still lacks the sprinkler system called for in a property agreement with the city — one of the reasons the bar was reviewed last year — council members don’t seem to be inclined to object this time around.

Srour had told the council this past summer he would install a sprinkler system as soon as he had his lease re-

newed, a long-delayed process Srour says is still not complete. The council voted to sue Srour in August.

But District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn, who was among the first council members to call for the lawsuit, said he didn’t want to push Srour on the sprinklers in court and with the liquor board simultaneously.

And while District 3 Councilman Mark Cook said it would be nice to have the sprinkler system, he would give Srour time to settle with his landlord.

The city will hold a public hearing on whether or not to recommend the renewal of the Perk’s license before voting on the issue. The date of the hearing has yet to be decided. holtdbk@gmail.com

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Maley remembered for her fun-loving nature MALEY, from Page 1 with a flair for making her friends laugh and showing them the absurdity in everyday life.

“It seemed like when I was with Nina, we were always laughing,” high school friend Joanna Tomassoni said. “But she also was very empathetic and very supportive as a friend.”

Maley, born in 1989, was raised in Silver Spring and attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Montgomery County. She grew up learning to play piano as well as the guitar and clarinet, part of her lifelong interest in music.

Sophomore architecture major Lauryn Preller sat next to Maley in the clarinet section of their high school band and grew to adore Maley’s fun-loving nature.

“We would goof off all the time in class, but we didn’t care when we got in trouble,” Preller said. “Nina was really lively and always having fun.

We had a lot of inside jokes

“She was always listening to a thousand bands I’d never even heard of, and music, especially sharing it with other people, was so important to her.”

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normal people wouldn’t understand. She was an incredibly special person.”

Nina spent one year at Oberlin College in Ohio, but transferred to this university in the fall of 2008. She further pursued her interest in music by hosting her own show on student radio station WMUC 88.1 FM to publicize her eclectic taste in music, which ranged from Bob Dylan to David Bowie to A Tribe Called Quest.

“In her semester at Maryland, she was happy to score a position as a DJ for the UMD radio station and, chatting with her one night, I recall her telling me how she hoped to find people at Maryland who shared her passion for music,” sophomore English major Rachel Tucker wrote in an email. “She was always listening to a thousand bands I’d never even heard of, and music, especially sharing it with other people, was so important to her.”

High school friend and sophomore English and marketing major Seth Gorman said Maley was a free spirit who loved to laugh and create, and would have loved to inspire others to do the same.

“The thing about Nina is she never liked to be the center of attention, but she was a very artistic and expressive person,” he said. “I think she would want other people to create expression, and if she could influence anyone to do that, it would be the perfect tribute to her.” goondbk@gmail.com

Friends recall student’s loyalty, positive outlook QUINICHETT, from Page 1 According to a Maryland State Police press release, the wheel detached from a delivery truck while being towed on the Beltway. The wheel rolled across the lanes of the outer loop and bounced off of the cement divider, causing it to cross over to the other side of the highway.

The tire continued to roll across the inner loop until it hit the right front corner of a Freightliner tractor-trailer.

The impact caused the tire to fly back across the median and land on the roof of Quinichett’s car.

No charges have been filed in what police are calling a “weird series of events.”

Quinichett was born in Washington and raised in nearby Montgomery County.

She attended Col. Zadok Magruder High School where she was a member of the Pom Squad.

On this campus, Quinichett was an active member of the Alpha Theta

“She just emitted this positive light.

It really feels like a part of me has died. I think we lost a phenomenal person.”

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Gamma Multicultural Sorority Inc. Quinichett’s younger sister, Devin Quinichett, said after graduating from the university this May, she was going to be a teacher.

“I know she was interested in teaching preschool-aged children,” senior accounting major Minerva Garcia said.

Garcia had known Quinichett since high school and considered Quinichett to be her best friend.

Many of those close to Quinichett said her life was

taken too soon.

“She was my best friend,” Devin said. “She was my sister. She was the type of person to be there for anyone.

Every interaction she had with people was positive.”

Devin said she was the last person to talk to her sister before the accident, and that the two had decided on a name for the baby no more than five minutes before the collision. It was going to be Reagan Elizabeth, she said.

“I don’t really know how to describe her,” Garcia said.

“She just emitted this positive light. It really feels like a part of me has died. I think we lost a phenomenal person.”

Funeral services for Quinichett will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at the Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg. A candlelight vigil for Quinichett is being organized on the campus, though a date and time have not yet been determined. hamptondbk@gmail.com

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queezing through some of the tightest economic straits the state has states we are up against are already investing more in their schools.

Of course, with 700 real jobs and real people on the line, we can’t negotiated in decades, higher education emerged from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) proposed budget relatively unscathed. The Univer- ignore today’s job market, either. But it’s a false choice to suggest we sity System of Maryland’s budget saw a slight increase. A tuition have to. O’Malley’s budget is based on the state receiving $350 million in aid from a federal stimulus package pending in Congress, an amount freeze was also put on the table. he said is an estimate. However, the text of the proposed Some state lawmakers have accused O’Malley of playHouse bill includes $79 billion in direct aid for states, ing politics with education, especially when it comes to almost $1.5 billion of which would be earmarked for his highly popular tuition freeze. For example, State SenMaryland. There’s no guarantees this text won’t change, ate President Mike Miller (D) has proposed ditching the It is unnecessary to but it’s simply too soon to walk away on higher educafreeze in order to shore up funds to prevent the state from laying off 700 employees. But a short-term pinch is no end the tuition freeze in tion, especially when you consider that the Democrats proposed the bill in the House also control the Senexcuse for abandoning long-term dreams. Accessible order to protect state jobs. who ate and the White House. education is the key to economic development and equalIf that guarantee wasn’t enough, frustrated state lawity, and needs to be prioritized.

From the perspective of the state, an investment in higher education is makers hoping to save the jobs have also started a list with suggestions of an investment in its own economic future. Just two months ago, a state other possible cuts. The tuition freeze may be political, and in the realm commission recommended increased higher education funding as the solu- of possibilities, it may not even be the best way to spend on higher education to a state shortage of doctors, teachers and scientists. The state’s pop- tion. Academic departments contend they’re still underfunded, and the ulation is growing slower than the national average, and the current pop- state is only committing $1.5 million toward narrowing the achievement ulation alone may not be able to meet its employment demands. Especially gap between underprivileged students and their peers. But a tuition freeze as the state shifts more toward a knowledge-based economy, Maryland is still a viable way to ensure the affordability of higher education. Now is needs to be able to compete for qualified workers. Yet the fact is that the the worst time to be building a wall around it.

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Plagiarism: No matter who you are, it’s wrong

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f you’re an undergraduate, you probably remember last December as a stress-filled, caffeine-fueled endurance test. You studied for tests, read the assigned works and wrote papers. Hopefully, you did all of this without cutting any corners.

As shocking as this may be for you to hear, I have to report the unfortunate news that some of your fellow students chose to cheat. Some cheated on tests, but as a graduate student in the history department, what troubles me the most are students who cheated on written assignments. I do not think it is hyperbolic to say there is an epidemic of plagiarism on this and other campuses across the country.

Most plagiarizers fall into one of three categories.

The first type is the simple-minded ignoramus. A student submits some written work and truly and honestly

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SULLIVAN does not realize they are taking credit for a turn of phrase or a line of argument that needs to be attributed to someone else. The good news for a student in this category is they have a clean conscience and should be spared some of the harsh character assessments reserved for those who plagiarize intentionally. The bad news is such ignorance should be a source of embarrassment for any student enrolled at a reputable university like this one.

The second type of plagiarizer is the conflicted rationalizer. This is, I suspect, the most common plagia-

rizer. A student feels the end-ofsemester workload bearing down on them and simply doesn’t have the time to study for those finals and write that 15-page paper. They’re freaking out. They need to get at least a B in the class to keep their GPA high enough for law school, so they decide to lift a sentence here or a paragraph there from something they’ve found on the Internet. They know it’s wrong, but it’s not that big of a deal, and anyway, they don’t have a choice. They’ve got to get all their work done somehow, and this is the only way.

The third type is the smirking jerk.

This student knows his professor doesn’t even know how to e-mail, much less pull up a Wikipedia page. Besides, the prof has to grade dozens of these papers; they’re not going to actually read any of them that closely. As long as it holds up under a quick skim, it’ll be fine. It’s so much easier to copy and paste stuff from the Internet or from a

paper a buddy handed in three semesters ago than it is to spend hours working on something that doesn’t really matter anyway. Plus, slapping something together affords more time for the stuff that really matters: babes, bongs and beers.

It goes without saying — or, at least, it should go without saying — that plagiarism is a serious offense and undermines the very spirit of academic inquiry. The overworked administration and faculty are doing what they can to address this problem, but the truth of the matter is there is no better line of defense against plagiarizing than a students’ own conscience. No matter who you are, you shouldn’t plagiarize because it is wrong. So don’t do it.

Jeremy Sullivan is a doctoral candidate studying American history. He can be reached at sullivandbk@gmail.com.

Year in preview: Few surprises, fewer on-campus beds

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he beginning of a new semester always brings with it the promise of untold potential. Or, at least for you it might. Ever since I gained telekinetic superpowers in a nuclear waste accident, I know exactly what to expect. Peer with me into the crystal ball for spring 2009.

Jan. 26: Students across the campus are appalled and disgusted to see Rob Gindes still employed as a columnist.

Feb. 2: Easton Hall completely disappears into a vortex created by the unholy mixture of filth and depravity that has haunted it for untold years.

Feb. 10: Due to continued overcrowding, university officials tighten the rules about who can live on the campus and who can’t. The new criteria are only fit by a sophomore philosophy major named Ted, who will live alone in Montgomery Hall during the fall 2009 semester while thousands of other students live on the streets of College Park.

Feb. 14: Boyfriends across the campus are dragged to Confessions of a Shopaholic. Girlfriendless Rob Gindes spends

the day drinking alcohol and playing video games, scoffing that he would never allow himself to become so whipped. Alternately: Attractive girl who contacted Rob Gindes after reading his hilarious column and noticing his handsome picture drags him to Confessions of a Shopaholic.

Feb. 21: Freshman basketball player Jin-Soo Kim dominates heavily-favored North Carolina in a shocking upset win for the Terps, owing his breakout to what he thought was a large amount of crowd support. Afterward, he realizes that the crowd was not yelling, “Soo!” but instead booing Greivis Vasquez.

March 4: “Wild Wednesday” officially becomes a recognized night of the week, to be paired with “Thirsty Thursday.”

College students adhering to the new system decide that the weekend will now last from 3 p.m. on Wednesday until 1 a.m. on “Tasty Tuesday.” Area alcohol suppliers rejoice.

March 18: University staff has its hands full cleaning green vomit off of the streets and sidewalks.

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GINDES March 29: A campus-wide epidemic occurs when scientists realize too late that most major diseases are caused by fumes coming off from sidewalk chalk.

This poses a major threat to the movement to involve more students in student government. Experts had been predicting record turnout — some were bold enough to predict voter turnout in the double digits.

April 6: Candidates for student office write to The Diamondback, imploring the paper not to support their campaigns.

April 17: For an unprecedented 56th consecutive year, The Diamondback supports a candidate that will go on to lose the Student Government Association’s election.

April 18: The “Don’t Care” party sweeps the student elections in a landslide, running mainly on the platform of guaranteeing students that they would not accost people in the street, annoy people in their dorm rooms and generally force information on students that they don’t care about. A close second for SGA president is write-in candidate Barack Obama.

May 14: Final exams begin. Students weigh the options of cheating, failing and cramming with or without the use of prescription drugs. As always, miraculous curves save 75 percent of the student population from failing.

May 21: With final exams over, graduating seniors head off into the real world, equipped with $80,000 pieces of paper.

May 22: Students pitch tents on Route 1, hoping that setting up early will give them prime position to beat back-toschool traffic in August.

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major.

He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com.

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Welcome back to the university. I hope your break was enjoyable and relaxing. As always, the SGA is hard at work on your behalf and has accomplished several important initiatives this past fall.

This year’s Student Government Association has promised to stand up for student interests, establish unprecedented accessibility and transparency and improve campus life specifically in the areas of safety and the housing crisis. During the past semester, the SGA has made outstanding progress on these issues.

In standing up for your interests, the SGA has taken bold stances and produced tangible results. During the summer, the administration was considering ending the late-night study program in McKeldin Library. The SGA helped organized students and student groups to speak out against ending the program and successfully preserved late-night study. Additionally, the SGA has organized an extremely diverse coalition of student groups to support building the Purple Line on Campus Drive, which opposes the administration’s choice of the Preinkert/Chapel Drive alignment.

The SGA is also the most accessible and transparent it has ever been, thanks to utilization of new technology to help you keep your elected representatives accountable. Beginning last semester, SGA meetings were broadcast by student radio station WMUC 88.1 FM. The feed is also available on the new and improved SGA website, which features information about your representatives, an interactive legislative database and information about getting involved with campus activism.

The South Campus Commons 7 building and the University View Overlook are now under construction, and the SGA also advocated for the approval of the new Oakland Hall dorm on North Campus, which was approved by the governor and the Board of Public Works in November. These new buildings will relieve some of the student-housing crisis by the fall of 2010.

Safety has also been one of our top priorities. The first SGA initiative was SafetyUMD, an online tool to learn about safety on and around the campus, which was launched the first week of the 2008 fall semester.

The program is available on the SGA’s website, www.sga.umd.edu, and I encourage you to visit the site and send us your feedback. The annual safety walk, which gives administrators a chance to see the safety problem spots on the campus, has already yielded results such as added pedestrian safety installed near Hillel.

For the past six weeks, the SGA has been preparing to make our education more affordable during the state legislative session, which began on Jan. 14. Thanks to SGA advocacy and the governor’s commitment to higher education, the new budget includes a tuition freeze for the fourth year in a row. The SGA will be organizing students to travel to Annapolis each month to be sure that the legislature knows how important a freeze is to our abilities to afford an education at this university.

Everyone is encouraged to join the university for Terrapin Pride Day, our annual lobbying day, which will take place Monday, Feb. 9, with buses leaving for Annapolis in front of Cole Field House at 5 p.m.

The SGA is here to serve your interests and produce results for you. Please do not hesitate to contact me and, of course, please visit the SGA’s website often for updates.

Jonathan Sachs is the president of the Student Government Association. He can be reached at jjsachs@umd.edu.

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You try to avoid being aggressive whenever possible, in both professional and personal affairs.

When it comes to love, you would rather be pursued that be the pursuer, and when circumstances demand that you take a more active role, you do so with care and, often, stealth.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You are building up quite a head of steam at this time, and the momentum gained can serve you well almost immediately.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — New leadership can have you thinking of new ways to get things done and help those around you who do not know how to help themselves.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll want to be on the move, chasing those dreams and keeping the wheels oiled and turning. A standstill can be disastrous.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are feeling motivated and determined, and a good thing, too. Opportunity is knocking and waiting for you to answer, surely.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The news you receive from a friend or family member may prove sobering. Personal reflection can be quite beneficial to you at this time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll want to surround yourself with those who are excited about a current project. Say no to the naysayers, and cut them loose.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may run headlong into a problem associated with a past romantic entanglement. Remember, the past is the past — period.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The social scene may prove a welcome distraction, but that’s all. Remember that you have some very serious business to attend to.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Willpower and the ability to steer any course despite the prevailing winds will help you remain clear of dangerous obstacles.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll want to be directly involved in things as they develop. You’re in no mood to remain on the sidelines.

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City, county approve Varsity housing project Development will bring 901 student beds

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

Hundreds of additional student apartments are on their way to College Park after the city council and the county planning board approved a housing project to be built on Route 1 next to the University View.

The Varsity at College Park will offer 901 student beds in 258 units above 20,000 square feet of retail space arranged around a central enclosed plaza. Varsity developer Mark Vogel said he hopes to fill the retail space with a restaurant and small businesses for the tenants to use, such as a coffeehouse or a convenience store.

Vogel said requests from the

city repeatedly threatened to delay his project, and during one contentious council meeting, he whispered to one of his attorneys, “Before you leave, you’re going to have to give me a hug.” (He got one.)

Vogel and the council argued many times over the last few months about a variety of subjects, including the project’s intrusion into the Paint Branch stream buffer and the specific wording of a few clauses in their agreement. But the council went on to unanimously support the project’s detailed site plan earlier this month.

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There had also been some concern about the appearance of the building not fitting in with College Park — an issue the council has also raised with other student housing projects — but Mayor Steve Brayman brushed off those criticisms.

“I agree with you that the architecture does not look like the Town Hall [liquor store and bar], the car wash or the quick-lube there,” Brayman said, referring to the not-sopleasing aesthetics of buildings near the Varsity site.

The development ran into more resistance at the county level, where planning staff urged the planning board not to accept the project because of the environmental issues

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The county planning board eventually approved the development Thursday after a five-hour hearing, Davey said.

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Police send out several robbery-related alerts during break Univ. Police also looking for mail theft victims after charging former university mail room employee

BY KYLE GOON Staff writer

University Police released crime alerts for several local robberies during the holidays, up from three robbery alerts during winter break last year.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said the fluctuation is fairly typical from year to year, and police have not noticed any significant rise in incidents at the university from last year to this year.

A series of university-related mail thefts were also solved during winter break, and police are looking for students affected by the crimes.

Dec. 21 Two non-student victims were walking between Annapolis and Frederick halls when five men approached. The men threw them to the ground and began to kick one of the victims.

The victim being kicked then told

the attackers to take his possessions.

The men left with the first victim’s wallet and the second victim’s wallet and cell phone.

Police are looking for white males between 5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall. The case is still under investigation and no arrests have been made, Dillon said.

Dec. 24 Wayne Williams, a 69-year-old Greenbelt resident, had dropped off his wife for Christmas Eve service at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church on Berwyn Road when a man hit him around the head and face with a blunt object, possibly a baseball bat.

The man left the scene with the victim’s wallet, while Williams was left unconscious in the parking lot. He was hospitalized for several weeks because of serious trauma to his head.

On New Year’s Day, police arrested 28-year-old Shanon Washington of Capitol Heights based on Williams’ de-

scription and a surveillance video that caught Washington’s SUV in the area.

Police also found the victim’s credit cards in a hotel room Washington had rented shortly after the incident, according to The Washington Post.

Washington is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and robbery. He is being held without bond while awaiting his preliminary hearing later this month.

Jan. 10 At 2:30 a.m., a student was on Knox Road walking away from Route 1 when two men came up from behind him.

One man was holding a handgun at the victim while the other man told the student to get down on the ground.

The second man frisked the victim and pulled his wallet and phone from his pants. They fled the scene soon after.

County police are looking for two black men weighing about 160 pounds.

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The armed robber wore all black clothing and had braided hair. The second man had short hair and wore dark clothing. The case is still under investigation.

Jan. 18 Two students were walking on Norwich Road near Girard Avenue when three men approached them. One man asked for a cigarette. The students declined and kept walking, but the three men surrounded one of the students and the first man who had spoken to them drew a handgun.

The armed man demanded money and the victims complied. All three men left the scene on foot, going up Norwich Road toward Route 1.

County police are conducting the ongoing investigation. The armed suspect is described as a clean-shaven Hispanic male. The other two suspects are described as black males between 6-feet1-inch and 6-feet-2-inches in height,

weighing approximately 200 pounds.

Police looking for mail theft victims On Dec. 15, police charged 28-yearold John Williams-Carpenter of Fort Washington with theft and opening letters without permission.

Det. Raphael Moss had been investigating the theft of gift cards and money that were sent to the university via mail. Working with postal inspectors, Moss eventually found evidence to charge Williams-Carpenter, a former university mail facility employee.

Williams Carpenter surrendered to police Jan. 22, and his trial is set for March 17.

Police are looking for other victims of mail theft. People who believe their mail was compromised and are missing money or gift cards can e-mail Det. Moss at rmoss@umpd.umd.edu or call him at 301-405-6921. goondbk@gmail.com

University Park usually safe, residents say CRIME, from Page 1 After speaking to Police Chief Michael Wynnyk, Tabori said the victim was walking with a friend who fled before the suspects got close.

“This is the first time [crime has] really come down from College Park,” he said.

University Park is home to 2,300 people and has lower rates of violent or serious crime than those of neighboring College Park, residents said.

David A. Crocker, a 12-year University Park resident and senior research scholar for the university’s Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, said he isn’t concerned with crime spilling over from College Park. He said the town newsletter, which has crime reports and safety information from the police department, helps keep residents informed and added the conscientious nature of residents helps keep the town safe. He said the area has a

“This is the first time [crime has] really come down from College Park.”

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long-standing reputation of tranquility.

Like other residents, 30-year resident Connie Belfiore said she follows crime reports closely. Although she said crime “tries to” invade University Park, Belfiore maintained there is “remarkably low crime in the area.”

Tabori, who acknowledged the crime was unusual for the town, advised residents to stay safe and avoid walking in poorly lit areas at night. rhodesdbk@gmail.com

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Salvia ban bill proposed LEGISLATIVE, from Page 1 amendments prevented lawmakers from reaching a consensus. The bill would require professors to use at least half of the material in all textbooks they assign and to allow students to use earlier versions if there were no major revisions. University President Dan Mote, however, said the legislation is unnecessary because university and University System of Maryland officials have worked to address the problem by requiring professors to post book lists early and with ISBNs. “We have come a long way in handling these issues,” Mote said. “The actions we’ve already taken will hopefully replace the need for the state to get engaged.”

Bill to ban salvia The hallucinogenic drug Salvia divinorum, commonly referred to simply as salvia, would become illegal in the state if a bill proposed by state Sen. Richard Colburn (R-Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot and Wicomico) were to pass. Already illegal in 10 states, salvia is widely available for legal purchase online and is not addictive. Salvia’s powerful hallucinatory effects last only a few minutes, and there are few reports of overdoses or emergency room visits stemming from its use.

Some pharmacologists believe it could be useful in treating depression and addiction. Last year the federal government released data on salvia use for the first time, revealing that 1.8 million Americans have experimented with it.

Bohanan Commission bill The Bohanan Commission unveiled a new funding model for higher education in the state in December after two years of work.

State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DAnne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park, has introduced legislation to make their proposals law. Unfortunately, even Rosapepe acknowl-

edges the plan’s price tag — $785.3 million over ten years — means the legislation, which would put a permanent cap on tuition increases and guarantee a minimum level of funding for public colleges, has little chance of passing as the state deals with the deficit. Rosapepe is hoping to build a constituency over the next few years in support of the bill.

“There is a lot of understanding of the need for a long-term plan for tuition and funding,” he said. “But because of the state of the economy, we’re not going to be able to pass it in the next year.”

Increased funding for public safety in College Park A bill sponsored by Barnes could bring extra funding for law enforcement to College Park. Barnes is asking for $200,000 to $250,000 for extra contract police officers and equipment for the city and said he has a lot of support.

“It’s a real unique situation for a huge public research university to be positioned in a somewhat urban environment,” Barnes said. “We as a state have an obligation to ensure that not only the campus is free from crime but also the surrounding area.”

If the funding isn’t available this year, Barnes said, he hopes to position the bill to be on the top of the list when the economic outlook is more favorable.

Student voting rights For the second year in a row, Rosapepe will introduce a bill aimed at improving student accessibility to the electoral process. The bill requires state universities to actively promote student voting and to give students the proper tools to register from their college addresses, even if they are not from Maryland. While the Prince George’s County Board of Elections has traditionally overlooked college students, who may not have the same means of identifi-

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cation as other citizens, student voting scares during the 2008 presidential election season at Virginia Tech, at Furman University in South Carolina and elsewhere prompted the reintroduction of the bill.

Global Warming Solutions Act Another bill being revived is the Global Warming Solutions Act, which would seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 25 percent by 2020. The bill made it through the Senate but died in the House of Delegates after unions and manufacturers protested, fearing job losses, and legislators balked at the possible cost.

But after the climate change commission appointed by the governor found the goal was possible with laws already in place early this month and unions, environmentalists and legislators hammered out a few compromises, passage seems feasible, Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s) said.

“It’s going to be a change in practices; it’s not going to cost money,” he said. “We’re hoping with the need for clean energy, it might actually create jobs.”

Extra conservation measures that would have to be put in place include a reduction in driving miles, higher standards for emissions and supervision of electric- and coal-powered plants.

Police spying bill After last year’s revelation that state police wrongly labeled dozens of activists as terrorists in a police database, including members of the gay rights group Equality Maryland, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and opponents of the war in Iraq and capital punishment, legislators plan on introducing a bill next week that would curb police spying. The bill would require police to have reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before conducting surveillance. sticedbk@gmail.com

University, system see funding increases under O’Malley plan TUITION, from Page 1 state legislators grappled with the deficit, but O’Malley extended it for the fourth straight year. However, state Senate President Mike Miller (D-Calvert and Prince George’s) has said he thinks a small tuition increase is necessary to deal with rising university costs and to prevent the layoffs of state workers.

To balance the $2 billion deficit, O’Malley proposed layoffs, eliminating 1,000 vacant state jobs, freezing funding to community colleges and cutting some K-12 programs. He also transferred money from rainy day funds and budgeted for $350 million from the federal government stimulus package, which has yet to be passed. The University System of Maryland benefited from a modest increase in funding to make the tuition freeze possible, although out-of-state tuition will rise as a result.

“There had been a lot of back and forth of how this might happen,” said system Chancellor Brit Kirwan. “Our concern was to be certain that we didn’t end up with deficits and would have to cut our budget. When all of that got worked out, we were just thrilled and very, very pleased.”

Kirwan said the slight increase in funding is enough to cover increased costs due to inflation and the tuition freeze but not enough for salary increases or new programs.

O’Malley’s support for higher education, which Kirwan called “remarkable,” is linked to his vision of the state’s future economy being based around high- and biotechnology industries, which require highly educated workforces.

A tuition increase seemed likely because the state was searching for new revenue. O’Malley and state legislators viewed raising taxes as a non-starter after they raised numerous taxes during a special session less than two years ago, when they had to close a similarly sized deficit. In December, Warren Deschenaux, the state’s chief fiscal analyst, suggested ending the tuition freeze, but O’Malley was able to find $22 million to continue the freeze for the fourth straight year.

“The tuition freeze is a great

MORE OF THE BUDGET BREAKDOWN Other highlights of the state budget include: $40 million for two new state helicopters $25 million to a Chesapeake Bay trust fund $164.5 million in Bay restoration fund $774.3 million for teacher and librarian pension plans, costs some state legislators want to shift to counties $31.9 million to preserve open spaces The end of a program where school systems in high-cost areas like Prince George’s County and Baltimore receive extra money from the state $90 million to help low-income households pay energy costs Counting on $350 million from federal stimulus package

victory for the university and its students, and it’s very important to Gov. O’Malley,” said state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park. “He understands that most students at the university are middle class and working class and that tuition has gotten very expensive.”

University and system officials will have to defend the tuition freeze and funding increase throughout the session. University President Dan Mote said lobbying by student groups will be invaluable to make sure the General Assembly passes a university-friendly budget. The assembly is allowed to cut the governor’s budget, but it is not allowed to add to it.

“There’s a possibility that they will make budget cuts, and so we’re going to have to work hard to hold on to this budget,” Kirwan

said. “There’s also the uncertainty of what the economy will do over the next several months. It’s possible that there will be further declines. We have to all work very hard to do everything.”

Mote cited the university’s experience with mid-year budget cuts this year, which became necessary after the state’s revenue estimates decreased drastically due to the sluggish economy. The cuts were relatively small, but officials were worried about larger cuts this year.

“The budget is sort of never over. It’s a living thing,” Mote said.

Mote said the university will focus its efforts on convincing the legislature that the freeze will protect the state’s future economy by producing a well educated workforce. sticedbk@gmail.com

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University sets stipulations for Campus Drive alignment MTA: Meeting EMI, vibration stipulations ‘could be impossible’

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

The university will only accept a Campus Drive route for the Purple Line transitway if the MTA can prevent it from interfering with scientific experiments more than 100 feet away, a stipulation an MTA official said “could be impossible.”

While the university has long expressed concerns about the proposed Campus Drive route for the Purple Line, interim Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie formally announced the university’s desire to see the Purple Line follow Preinkert Drive and Chapel Drive late last month.

Both the Maryland Transit Administration and student groups favor the Campus Drive route and have criticized the Preinkert-Chapel alignment for squeaking through narrow spaces and passing close to the historic Memorial Chapel.

While the administration was previously concerned about the appearance of the Purple Line on Campus Drive, Wylie and faculty researchers are now primarily concerned about the possibility of vibration and electromagnetic interference generated by the light-rail train disrupting sensitive equipment in the university’s science buildings.

Wylie said the university would accept increased vibration and electromagnetic interference within 100 feet of the line but would not accept increased interference beyond that zone.

But Purple Line project manager Mike Madden said that condition, among others, was “unreasonable” and “could be impossible.”

The MTA will continue to negotiate the terms of the planned mitigation, Madden said. He said he’s confident that a light-rail train could be designed to emit no more EMI

“Just to make sure it’s very clear: The university strongly supports the Purple Line.”

Ann Wylie INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS

or vibration than the buses that already use Campus Drive and said the MTA’s plan to remove most traffic from the street would also help keep the university’s research buildings quiet.

The Purple Line is scheduled to connect the cities of Bethesda and New Carrollton by 2015, connecting the spokes of Washington’s Metro lines by either light rail or rapid bus.

The MTA wants the Purple Line to pass through the proposed East Campus development, cross Route 1 at Rossborough Drive, skirt the edge of the engineering fields, join Campus Drive at the M traffic circle, pass through Lot 1 past University of Maryland University College and then join University Boulevard. With this alignment, there would be stops at East Campus, the Stamp Student Union and UMUC. Campus Drive would be closed to non-transit traffic between the M and Union Lane.

Madden said the MTA prefers the Campus Drive alignment because it passes through “the heart of campus” and other transit agencies already use that route.

“Logically, you've got a transportation corridor today,” Madden said. “Why would you want to go over to something new that goes right next to the chapel?”

In the university’s preferred plan, the section of Campus Drive would be closed to all traffic, including buses, to promote a pedestrian-friendly

campus center.

Under this plan, the Purple Line would cut across Chapel Field to pick up Chapel Drive, cut between the South Campus Dining Hall and Lefrak Hall and join Preinkert Drive on its way to UMUC, with its main campus stop at the Preinkert Field House instead of the student union.

Other buses would also follow this route under the university’s plan, making Preinkert Field House the campus’s main transit hub, replacing the existing bus stops around the student union, Wylie said.

“Just to make sure it’s very clear: The university strongly supports the Purple Line,” Wylie said. But “we’d like to see Preinkert be the regional transit, not Campus Drive.”

“The student union is not the heart of the university,” Wylie added. “I consider the library to be the heart of the university,” and McKeldin Library is no farther from the Preinkert Field House than the student union, she said.

But even if the student union is considered the heart of the campus, Wylie said, it shouldn’t matter to the Purple Line’s route because commuters would not decide whether to drive or take transit to the campus based on whether the Purple Line stops on Campus Drive or Preinkert Drive.

The university’s EMI and vibration concerns come after the MTA was able to assuage the administration’s fears that the Purple Line would be an unattractive hazard to pedestrians on Campus Drive after showing renderings of a “plaza-style” transitway that Wylie recently described as “very nice.”

Madden said he expects the Purple Line to have its oncampus route selected by this summer. holtdbk@gmail.com

ROBERT GLUCKSTERN, 1924-2008

Former chancellor inspired many

BY DERBY COX Staff writer

More than 100 people gathered at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center yesterday to mourn the death of Robert Gluckstern, a former university chancellor and physics professor who died of cancer Dec. 17.

Gluckstern, whom friends and colleagues described as a brilliant physicist and an enthusiastic teacher, was 84.

He came to the university in 1975 to serve as chancellor, a position now known as president. During his sevenyear term, Gluckstern advocated for salary equality for female employees, oversaw the recruitment of minority faculty and established the Francis Scott Key/Banneker scholarship.

“His performance [as a physicist and administrator] exceeded even [the] very high expectations for him,” said Chancellor Brit Kirwan.

Gluckstern was born July 31, 1924, in Atlantic City, N.J. He grew up in Brooklyn and received an electrical engineering degree from the City College of New York in 1944.

He served in the Navy for two years before receiving his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1948, according to his resume.

In 1950, Gluckstern became a research associate at Yale University. He worked as an assistant and later associate professor at Yale before leaving to head the physics department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1964.

Gluckstern served as vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Amherst between 1970 and 1975 before coming to this university.

While he was chancellor, Gluckstern also worked as a

B.J. Greenspan, daughter of physics professor Robert Gluckstern, speaks at his memorial. JONATHAN BEYER / THE DIAMONDBACK

teaching assistant to keep in contact with students, physics department chairman Drew Baden said.

“There was a possibility of being intimidated by the person who was essentially the president, but he was just a very friendly guy,” said Victor Korenman, a former professor and adminstrator whom Gluckstern worked with as a teaching assistant.

Gluckstern stepped down from his position in 1982 to return to teaching and research. He made contributions to particle accelerator physics and published about 80 academic papers, according to his resumé.

“Some people who are very smart want to prove to you all the time that they are very smart,” professor Jordan Goodman said. “That was not his goal.”

After his retirement from teaching in 1997, Gluckstern tutored students in physics at the Slawsky Clinic at the university until his death,

Baden said.

In his free time, Gluckstern played the clarinet and saxophone and enjoyed watching sports, said Elizabeth Nuss, his second wife.

His love for sports was such that “I used to think he could watch Tiddlywinks,” Nuss said. “He was loyal to teams from his boyhood.

Always a Yankee fan; New York Giants fan; avid Terps fan.”

Even with his family, Gluckstern always seized an opportunity to teach, Nuss said.

“His children would tell you that there was always a lesson, and he could always be found scribbling on a napkin in a restaurant to show you something,” she said.

Gluckstern is survived by Nuss; his brother, Allan; his children, Steven, B.J. Greenspan and Amie Yabroff; and six grandchildren. coxdbk@gmail.com

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REVIEW | CHE

Two revolutions for the price of one Che looks past its titular revolutionary, examining the movements he fronted in Steven Soderbergh’s two part epic

BY ZACHARY HERRMANN Senior staff writer

After the success of The Motorcycle Diaries — an able and balanced telling of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s prerevolutionary travels — you have to wonder why anyone needs a four-and-a-halfhour depiction of Che’s better-documented years.

Steven Soderbergh’s (Ocean’s Thirteen) Che, a two-part epic, got off to a rocky start at last May’s Cannes Film Festival.

Despite taking the Best Actor award for Benicio Del Toro’s (Things We Lost in the Fire) stone-faced portrayal of the iconic revolutionary, the film faced a critical dismantling and an uphill battle to find distribution.

But now that the negative buzz has settled and Che has been trimmed closer to four hours, the comparisons to Entourage’s fictional Spanishlanguage bomb, MedellÌn, have largely proven faulty.

While the film hardly measures up to another widescreen epic that comes to mind, Lawrence of Arabia, Soderbergh has constructed a fascinating meditation on the technical side of revolution.

The title is almost misleading, especially Part One, in which Soderbergh’s camera work (he works under the cinematographer pseudonym Peter Andrews) either denies the audience close-ups of Guevara or deliberately fragments his visage. Both halves (and they are unmistakably two different films) shy away from the motivations behind Guevara’s career path and reserve judgment on his overall morality.

This could be seen as largely glossing over the subject. And while it’s reasonable to assume Guevara is the subject (he is certainly the main character), the opening militarized map images of Cuba and Bolivia in each respective film suggests a greater focus on the land and the revolution itself.

While it would be unfair to go as far as to say the successful revolution yields the successful film and the failed revolution the failed film, Part One is indisputably the more engaging portion of Che. Framed within Guevara’s 1964 visit to the United Nations (beautifully shot in a faux documentary black and white), the first half stretches

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from Guevara’s first encounter with Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir, American Visa) in Mexico through the 26th of July Movement’s defeat of Batista’s army in Santa Clara.

Using Spain as a stand-in for Cuba, Soderbergh’s super widescreen aspect ratio revels in the lush green jungles as Guevara wins the minds of his soldiers and hearts of the peasants. Outside of the principal players (Guevara, Castro and his brother, Raul) we are given very few individuals on whom to attach, which appears to have been the point.

Peter Buchman (both parts) and Benjamin A. van der Veen’s (Part Two) screenplays probe the revolution as a living mechanism: how the soldiers shape up from impoverished farmers and peasants to one well-oiled machine capable of overthrowing the Batista dictatorship. It’s all well and good in the Cuban portion of the tale, where everything builds up to the stunningly executed Santa Clara sequences.

The problem occurs in the quieter, slower Part Two. It’s not quite a cinematic quagmire, and it’s certainly admirable for being the much more difficult story to tell. But just as the disjointed Bolivian rebels failed to make their cause apparent to the poor masses they so desperately needed to win over, the filmmakers never convince us this is a group worth caring for.

Following a failed guerilla stint in the Congo, Guevara decides to make good on his

promise to bring the Revolution to Latin America, eying Bolivia as the best candidate.

With inconsistent supply lines from Cuba and fewer men to work with, Guevara’s work is cut out for him.

Measured in subtitles announcing the days into the revolution, Part Two staggers through the Bolivian wilderness with considerably less action (the occasional skirmish lights up the screen) than Part One. It’s the more reflective of the two, shot in a taller aspect ratio to emphasize the closer cut scenes.

Almost immediately, we got our previously denied full close-ups of Guevara’s face and continue to sit by his side as the murderous idealist deteriorates in health and spirit until his eventual capture and execution. Given no simple task, Del Toro embodies Guevara (those more familiar with different Hispanic dialects may notice the issues with many of the accents), although the load proves a bit too much to carry without much support in the Bolivian half of Che. But for all its imperfections, Che is the sort of chest-thumping cinema we rarely see anymore. Soderbergh’s clinical filmmaking saps a lot of the emotion, but the film has its fair share of marvels that beg to be viewed on the largest screen available. zherrm@gmail.com

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REVIEW | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Opening up Pandora’s Pavilion Baltimore’s Animal Collective unleashes a hoard of sounds on its latest full-length JON WOLPER Staff writer

Trying to adequately explain the music of Animal Collective is like trying to explain how Michael Jackson looks: You’ll never be quite right, because it’s constantly changing. Unlike Jackson, however, the changes in the

sonic palette of Animal Collective are both endearing and undeniably exciting.

The Baltimore-based group has tackled many different album ideas. Over time, the band has gone from a live take from a Maryland porch (Campfire Songs) to an acoustic-based weirdness (Sung Tongs), combining its

penchant for noise with more structured pop songs.

The presence was felt notably in 2005’s Feels, which contained the band’s first sing-along anthems (“Did You See the Words” and “The Purple Bottle”).

Animal Collective’s latest, Merriweather Post Pavilion (named for the concert venue in

ALBUM: Merriweather Post Pavilion | VERDICT:

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Animal Collective strives for more pip-minded sounds, such as the infectious lead single, “My Girls,” on the band’s new LP, Merriweather Post Pavilion. COURTESY OF DOMINO RECORDS

nearby Columbia) expands on the combination of two extremes. The album is easily the band’s most accessible effort to date. And while that

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may not be saying too much, the group’s dedication to pop structure is more evident than ever.

Still, though, the music is pretty much impossible to categorize.

Standout track “My Girls” begins with a sharp, arpeggiating synthesizer line, which is soon joined by the impeccable vocal harmonies of the Avey Tare (a.k.a. David Portner) and Panda Bear (a.k.a.

Noah Lennox). The two voices weave around and through each other, each filling any space the other leaves. Eventually, the track erupts into a happy-go-lucky orgy of synthesizer, drums, vocals and hand claps.

Outro “Brother Sport” continues the pop trend of the album, beginning with staccato stabs of synth, piling synthetic instruments and vocal harmonies on top of each other, dropping and raising intensity at just the right moments. It’s a testament to the songwriting talent of the band that by the end of the 6-minute finale, every surprise in the song was just as fresh and exciting as the one before it.

Special notice must go to “Lion in a Coma,” as well. The band takes their bouncy songwriting to new, literal heights by adding a cartoony bounce sample to permeate the track.

And here’s where Animal Collective’s eccentricities begin to make sense — on first listen, it seems an overlong lyric is awkwardly shoehorned in to finish off a verse. Of course, this was purposeful: A synth emerges from the background, following the lyric, as the rest of the instruments seem to wind and close up.

Then, the repetitive chanting of the title morphs into the more morbid lyric, “lying in a coma,” but you’ve probably

figured that out by now.

Even the songs less reigned in by structure — the ones more prone to the weirdness of past Animal Collective works — succeed effortlessly.

The muscular vocal performance fronting “Daily Routine” makes the whirlwind of electronics easier to digest upon first listen, and the same goes true for “Bluish,” where the line “I’m getting lost in your curls” sounds perfectly sung from within the pulsing mass of ambience.

Of course, a look through the band’s catalog points to the direction Merriweather Post Pavilion ultimately takes. The Beach Boys-esque harmonies of the short “College,” from Sung Tongs (which reminds us all: “You don’t have to go to college!”), Feels’ bouncing singalong “The Purple Bottle” and the drowning-inwateryambience feeling of last year’s Water Curses EP all seep into the new album.

In fact, the only things really missing from the new record are the sudden outbursts of screaming courtesy of Tare, whose wailings tend to highlight the emotional apex of a song. They’ve been sacrificed for more cohesive, cerebral songwriting and that’s a pretty fair trade-off.

With Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective has found the best parts of its recent output and combined them with a heightened sense of song craft. The soundscapes are lusher and fuller than anything the band has put together before. The harmonies are fantastic throughout, and really, there’s not much to look down upon.

It’s way too early into 2009 to make any brash album of the year proclamations, but suffice to say, the achievement here is undeniable. jwolper@umd.edu

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PIVEN’S MERCURY MELTDOWN Looks like there’s more than a little truth to that Ari Gold arrogance.

Jeremy Piven — who plays Hollywood super agent Gold in the HBO series Entourage — ruffled his feathers a bit during a September photo shoot for yesterday’s edition of New York Post’s Page Six Magazine . When asked to do a simple headshot, Piven said he could give “mediocre” and later proceeded to tear the sleeve off of a $350 Armani shirt. It could be on account because of Piven’s wellpublicized bout of Mercury poisoning — that, or the guy is just a serious jerk.

KELLY OSBOURNE’S REHAB: ROUND 2 Sharon Osbourne has confirmed her daughter, Kelly, is going back to rehab. In other, more depressing news, the matriarch also mentioned a new Osbourne family variety show in the works for the venerable Fox network.

If Ozzy were reached for a comment on either matter, we can only assume he answered incoherently.

JIM CARREY: AGAINST NATURE’S CALL In light of Jim Carrey’s role in Sundance flick I Love You Philip Morris, Carrey recently commented on dealing with some inborn homophobia. When considering taking the part in a gay love story (opposite Ewan McGregor), Carrey said “there was a homophobic voice that rose up” inside of him, although he eventually got over it. To be fair, he also quipped that he and McGregor had some “great sexual chemistry on screen.” Now that sounds like a real Yes Man.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2009

Terps control the boards UNC, from Page 18

The Terp defense shut down Nevada’s vaunted rushing attack in Boise.

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Terps ended season on high note FOOTBALL, from Page 18 his senior season seventh on the Terps’ all-time career passing yards list. “We’re all going to come back after the winter session feeling good about ourselves.”

For 30 seniors plus star wide receiver Darrius HeywardBey, who entered his name for the 2009 NFL Draft, and ultra athletic back-up quarterback Josh Portis, who is expected to transfer to California (Pa.) next season, their Terp careers ended with an 8-5 season and the sixth bowl berth in Friedgen’s eight seasons.

But it wasn’t complete until defensive coordinator Chris Cosh bolted for a similar position at Kansas State before the bowl game and the wild trip to Boise that featured a total of seven players, including five starters, benched for curfew violations. Earlier this month, Friedgen announced the hiring of former Massachusetts head coach Don Brown to replace Cosh bypassing interim coordinator and longtime linebackers coach Al Seamonsen.

“We’ve had some really good games and some really bad

games,” said defensive tackle Jeremy Navarre after beating Nevada. “I’m happy to end with a really good game.”

The head-scratching play was the season’s major theme.

It started in late August with a lackluster performance against FBS-Championship Subdivision Delaware. Fifth-year quarterback Jordan Steffy started the game after winning the job in preseason camp for the second straight year, but he didn’t see the field again all season after breaking his thumb against the Blue Hens.

With Turner under center, the Terps’ play ebbed and flowed with the opponents.

Losses at lowly Middle Tennessee and Virginia were quickly followed with wins against ranked foes California and Wake Forest. Turner’s personal winning streak against ranked opponents was finally stopped with a loss at then-No. 20 Boston College but not before the Terps knocked off four ranked teams and spent three weeks in the top 25.

Inconsistency doomed the Terps, even after taking control of their own destiny in the ACC Atlantic division late in

the season. A 37-3 dismantling by unranked Florida State at home Nov. 22 squashed the Terps’ ACC Championship dreams.

That left the final game, a consolation prize for a season that could have been. But even short-handed, the Terps came out strong and several reserves, such as running back Morgan Green and wide receiver Adrian Cannon, who supplied touchdowns, stepped in to fill the voids.

It provided Terp fans another glimmer of hope, the likes of which were quickly extinguished many times during this turbulent season.

But that’s good enough for the group of returning players faced with a conference that has lacked a dominant team in recent years.

“Even without [HeywardBey], we’re going to be deep and talented again at our skill positions,” said wide receiver Torrey Smith, who established a new ACC record for return yards in a season. “I think there’s a lot to look forward to next year.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

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game by scoring eight of the next 11 Tar Heels’ points.

The Terps held their own on the boards, mainly thanks to 15 rebounds from forward Dee Liles and nine from center Lynetta Kizer. As a team, they outrebounded North Carolina 51-38.

“When we were really successful was when we were dominating the glass,” Frese said. “They just stayed in each other’s ears.

I heard Marissa and [Toliver] talking to our bigs, just getting them focused. We really thought like it was going to be the difference, who was going to be able to secure the rebounds and get the second-chance opportunities.”

With 4:33 remaining and her team trailing 72-65, McCants fouled out and North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell was called for a technical foul. The Terps went on to hit three of four free throws and take a 10-point lead.

Hatchell was visibly frustrated with the officiating in the second half, even diving on the floor after a play she thought should have been a foul on the Terps. The Tar Heels were called for 23 personal fouls while the Terps were called for nine.

After the game, Hatchell alluded to the officials several times as a factor in her team’s loss but declined to elaborate.

“You can say whatever you wanna say,” Hatchell said. “But I’ll just say, in 34 years, I’ve never been in a game like this. In a game like tonight, some aspects were going backward.”

The Terps started the game on an 8-2 run thanks to two early Coleman 3pointers.

Hatchell was forced to use a 30-second

Freshman center Lynetta Kizer’s nine rebounds, along with a 15rebound effort from junior Dee Liles, helped the Terps to a 51-39 advantage on the boards. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

timeout with 17:02 remaining in the first half with the Terps surging and her team coming off back-to-back losses to No. 1 Connecticut and Georgia Tech.

“They had been through a tough stretch, and I thought we could really take their spirit out from them,” Frese said.

But after falling behind 19-7, the Tar Heels used their bench and size to go on a 14-0 run in 5:05 to take the lead. North Carolina essentially neutralized Toliver, who went 2-9 from

the field with five turnovers in the first half.

The Tar Heels used 13 players in the game while Frese kept to a smaller eight-player rotation.

Coleman finished with 22 points, meaning her and Toliver combined for 45 of the Terps 77 total points.

It was more than enough to outlast North Carolina’s balanced attack and enough to earn a big win over one of the team’s fiercest ACC rivals. akrautdbk@gmail.com

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THE TERPS The whole team deserves a down arrow after Saturday’s performance, which moved them to 2-3 in the conference.

LANDON MILBOURNE He was the one Terp to show up at Duke, scoring 19 of his team’s 44 points on an efficient 9-of-16 shooting.

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No. 2 DUKE (18-1, 5-0 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Singler 22 3-9 4-4 Henderson 23 7-8 1-3 Zoubek 18 4-7 1-2 Smith 19 2-6 2-2 Scheyer 24 4-13 0-0 Paulus 17 3-6 0-0 Pocius 11 1-4 0-0 Czyz 9 0-2 0-0 McClure 11 1-2 0-0 Williams 14 3-5 2-4 Plumlee 12 0-5 0-0 Thomas 17 3-6 1-4 Johnson 3 0-0 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 31-73 11-19

45 —————85 29 —————44 O-T A 3-7 2 2-8 4 7-9 3 1-2 4 1-5 3 1-5 4 1-2 1 0-1 1 0-4 0 0-1 1 2-5 0 2-3 0 0-0 0 1-4 21-56 23

PF TP 0 11 0 17 3 9 1 8 1 12 1 7 0 3 0 0 1 2 3 9 2 0 2 7 1 3 15 85

PERCENTAGES–FG: 42.5 FT: 57.9 3FG: 48.0 3-POINT GOALS–12-25 (Scheyer 4-8). TURNOVERS–10 (3 Tied, 2).

BLOCKED SHOTS–12 (Zoubek 4). STEALS–11 (3 Tied, 2).

TERRAPINS (13-6, 2-3 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 30 9-16 1-1 Neal 17 2-4 0-0 Hayes 20 1-6 0-0 Vasquez 28 2-10 0-0 Bowie 30 1-10 1-2 Dupree 8 1-5 1-3 Kim 5 0-3 0-0 Mosley 23 1-7 1-2 Pearman 3 0-1 0-0 Tucker 17 1-1 0-0 Goins 3 0-0 1-2 Gregory 16 0-1 1-2 Team TOTALS 200 18-64 6-12

O-T 2-5 0-1 0-1 0-1 2-5 1-1 0-1 2-5 0-1 1-2 2-2 1-4 4-9 15-38

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 28.1 FT: 50.0, 3FG: 16.7 3-POINT –2-12 (Neal, Mosley 1-2). TURNOVERS––17 (3 Tied, 4).

GOALS– BLOCKED SHOTS––6 (Gregory 3). STEALS––5 (Milbourne 2).

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TERPRECAP

DUKE 85, TERPS 44

Duke defense clamps down in easy victory DUKE, from Page 1 Yeah, the Duke faithful let the Terps know when it got that bad, too.

And by the end of the game, the Cameron Crazies were yelling, “No. 1!” as the No. 2 Blue Devils (18-1, 5-0 ACC) traumatized the Terps 85-44. The Blue Devils will likely be the top-ranked team in the country when the polls are released this afternoon.

“You could see it; they brought a lot more passion,” guard Adrian Bowie said. “They wanted the game, and they took it.”

For the Terps (13-6, 2-3), it was a giant step backward — the latest disappointment of an inconsistent and sometimes baffling season.

“I hope the rest of your day is better than my last two hours,” coach Gary Williams said while addressing the media after what seemed to be a hopeless game for the 20-year coach. “We didn’t do a good job today of matching Duke’s intensity.

That’s the key to playing here. ...

‘Can you match Duke’s intensity level?’ And we didn’t do it today.

And we certainly paid the price.”

The game produced enough superlatives to fill a high school yearbook. The problem for the Terps is they’re all negative.

It was Williams’ worst loss in 31 years as a head coach, anywhere. It was the fewest points a Williamscoached Terps team had ever scored. It was the most lopsided final score in the series’ 164 games,

BY THE NUMBERS Key stats from Saturday’s game

and it was the Terps’ worst loss since the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, when they fell to Army by 63 points in 1944.

The Terps couldn’t find a groove or even a level of competence offensively. Additionally, Duke played stingily on the perimeter and added another defensive wrinkle that confounded the Terps.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever faced a defense when they switched on every pick we set,” forward Dave Neal said. “They kind of caught us off-guard in the first couple minutes when they started switching and took us out of our flow.”

Duke’s goliath of a center, the 7foot-1 Zoubek, had four blocked shots, shutting the door on any Terp who dared to take the ball inside.

Zoubek was a load on the other end of the court, too, repeatedly giving his team second and third opportunities as he used his overwhelming size to seize seven offensive rebounds.

The only Terp who truly showed up was forward Landon Milbourne, who fought inside against the bigger Blue Devils and scored 19 of the Terps’ 44 points. The Terps’ typically reliable rotating point guards, Eric Hayes, Greivis Vasquez and Bowie, had four turnovers each.

Last year and the season prior, Vasquez had been marvelous in front of the blue-and-white-clad fans. But Saturday, the Crazies poignantly asked, “Where is Greivis?”

Duke center Brian Zoubek (left) celebrates with teammates Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer during his team’s beating of the Terps. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Vasquez, who earlier in the week called Cameron “my house,” scored four points on 2-10 shooting and watched the final 10:23 of the blowout with a crestfallen expression from the bench.

“You got to give [Duke] credit.

They play hard, and their intensity is tough,” Vasquez said. “We couldn’t score on them, and we couldn’t run our plays.”

When the score had long been out of hand, Duke continued toying with the smaller and less athletic Terps. Off a steal in the second half, the Blue Devils batted the ball to one another, four players touching it, before Gerald Henderson culminated the series with a layup that completed a 14-0 run.

It was one play in 40 minutes’ worth of what Duke coach Mike

Krzyzewski called “beautiful basketball.”

But beautiful is a relative term.

For the Terps, it was more like unsightly. That particular Henderson basket gave Duke its first 40point lead of the day.

“As far as the score goes, it doesn’t bother me to lose by 40 or 20,” Williams said. “It counts as one loss. People can say, well, that’s terrible, but [the Terps must focus on] getting ready for Tuesday night.”

While Williams’ forward thinking may temporarily minimize the blow, this was more than just a conference loss for the Terps.

“Nobody wants to come out here and lose by 40,” Bowie said. “It’s embarrassing.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

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The Terps’ shooting percentage against a suffocating Duke defense.

The Terps made 2-of-12 tries beyond the arc, as well.

Free throws the Terps attempted in the first half Saturday. They scored only 15 points before the break.

Margin of defeat in the 8544 clobbering. It is the largest deficit in the DukeMaryland 164-game history.

Offensive rebounds Duke gathered, giving them second and third chances they really didn't need in the first place.

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Loss says a lot about program’s slip SCHIMMEL, from Page 1 a debacle, a train wreck and an embarrassment all wrapped into one eye-opening package.

The Terps did nothing right; the Blue Devils could do no wrong; and coach Gary Williams and his boys were laughed out of Cameron Indoor Stadium in front of a national television audience.

It’s only one loss, and the Terps aren’t really any worse off in the ACC than they were three days ago. But the magnitude of this beatdown has broader implications than just one more defeat at the hands of an archrival.

If you hadn’t yet been convinced about how far this

program has fallen since its overwhelming success at the beginning of the decade, Saturday’s loss provides substantial proof.

“We didn’t do a good job today of coming out and matching Duke’s intensity, and I think that’s the key to playing here,” Williams said. “It’s ‘Can you match Duke’s intensity level?’

And we didn’t do it today, and we certainly paid the price.”

But intensity was only one of the Blue Devils’ many attributes to which the Terps couldn’t measure up. Duke was the more skilled, the betterrounded and the better-prepared team on Saturday. The Blue Devils deserve the No. 1 national ranking they will likely

have earned by the time you are reading this.

The gap between the two teams was massive, and it’s clear something has changed for at least one of them since the epic battles of recent years.

The Blue Devils have improved since the Terps swept them two seasons ago, but are they really that much better than the top-ranked teams the Terps used to battle evenly in their Final Four years or their ACC Championship year?

I don’t think they are, and if the difference doesn’t lie in Durham, then something must be going on in College Park. While Saturday’s loss shouldn’t feel like a sudden

discovery that something is amiss, it could serve as the culmination of increasingly mounting evidence.

Because if you’ve been watching the Terps this season, you almost had to have a feeling a game like this was coming.

The Terps were good enough to beat all but one of their weaker non-conference opponents, good enough to play very well and beat a slightly shorthanded Michigan State team and good enough to stick around with and even beat a couple of lower-echelon ACC teams.

But something about them has never completely added up, and a fear lingered about what might happen when they faced

one of the ACC heavyweights, a group of which the Terps recently were a part.

Saturday’s game justified that fear, throwing out any positively spun, force-fed reasoning that still tries to somehow put the Terps near the top of the conference.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do these next couple days getting ready for Boston College,” guard Eric Hayes said. “We can’t really dwell on this one too much.”

But maybe the Terps need to dwell on this one a little bit.

Maybe they need to think about how Saturday’s game was the most lopsided loss since Williams took over the program in 1989 and how the Terps’ 44 points was their lowest scoring output of the Williams era.

The best way for the Terps to try to turn it back around is to hold themselves accountable

“We didn’t do a good job today ... matching Duke’s intensity.”

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for their recent shortcomings.

Admitting that things are not going the way they want them to is more constructive than continuing to brush aside games like Saturday’s as just one more loss.

These are not the Terps we are used to seeing. If they want to get back to anything close to what they used to be — or at least avoid any more 41-point blowouts — things are going to have to change.

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Men’s basketball: Current record: 13-6 (2-3 ACC) Dec. 22 - W vs. American, 67-51 Dec. 27 - W vs. Bryant, 72-51 Dec. 30 - W vs. Elon, 76-50 Jan. 3 - W vs. Charlotte, 85-75 Jan. 7 - L vs. Morgan State, 66-65 Jan. 10 - W vs. Georgia Tech, 68-61 Jan. 14 - L @ Miami, 62-60 Jan. 17 - L @ Florida State, 76-73 Jan. 20 - W vs. Virginia, 84-78 Jan. 24 - L @ Duke, 85-44

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Women’s basketball: Current record: 16-3 (4-1 ACC) Dec. 21 - W @ Old Dominion, 74-65 Dec. 29 - W vs. UNC Asheville, 90-57 Dec. 30 - W vs. Mississippi, 80-73 Jan. 3 - W @ Richmond, 83-65 Jan. 8 - W vs. Wake Forest, 92-65 Jan. 12 - L @ Duke, 68-65 Jan. 15 - W @ Clemson, 65-56 Jan. 18 - W vs. Virginia Tech, 96-79 Jan. 25 - W vs. North Carolina, 77-71

Coleman, Toliver lead the way in win over No. 2 Tar Heels

Football: Final record: 8-5 Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho Dec. 30 - W vs. Nevada, 42-35

Gymnastics: Current record: 3-1 Jan. 9 - W vs. Kent State, 191.450188.700 Jan. 17 - L @ Ohio State - 194.750190.525 Jan. 23 - W vs. Denver, N.C. State 194.450-193.200-192.075

Men’s tennis: Current record: 1-0 Jan. 25 - L @ Louisville, 7-0

Track: Jan. 9-10 - Virginia Tech Invitational - No team score Jan. 17 - Maryland Invitational - No team score Jan. 24 - Navy Invitational (men in Annapolis, women in Fairfax, Va.) No team score

Men’s swimming: Current record: 5-5 Dec. 20-22 - Terrapin Cup - 2nd place Jan. 16-17 - W vs. Pitt, 185-161 Jan. 16-17 - L vs. Penn State, 225-115

Women’s swimming: Current record: 9-3 Dec. 20-22 - Terrapin Cup - 1st place Jan. 16-17 - W vs. Pitt, 213.5-138.5 Jan. 16-17 - W vs. Villanova, 250-102 Jan. 16-17 - L vs. Penn State, 224-126 Jan. 24 - W vs. Richmond, 149-144 Jan. 24 - W vs. Miami, 183-104

Wrestling: Current record: 6-7-1 (2-1 ACC) Dec. 29-30 - Midland Championships 9th place, 56 points Jan. 10 - “Shorty” Hitchcock Memorial Classic in Evanston, Ill. - No team score Jan. 11 - L vs. North Carolina, 19-15 Jan. 16 - L @ Oklahoma, 22-15 Jan. 17 - Messiah Open in Grantham, Pa. - No team score Jan. 18 - W vs. South Dakota State in Lincoln, Neb., 29-9 Jan. 18 - L @ Nebraska, 26-13 Jan. 24 - W @ N.C. State, 21-18 Jan. 24 - W @ Duke, 28-15

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

The statistics told of two teams with vastly different styles.

There was the No. 12 Terrapin women’s basketball team, whose success all season depended on the performance of its two senior stars — forward Marissa Coleman and guard Kristi Toliver.

Then there was visiting No. 2 North Carolina, a balanced team with multiple scoring options and eight players averaging between 15 and 29 minutes per game.

In the Terps 77-71 win over the Tar Heels last night at Comcast Center, the Terps’ two stars were able to overcome North Carolina’s considerable depth, earning the team’s most significant victory this season.

“A special win — to be led by our two seniors,” said Frese, whose bench was outscored 42-8 by the Tar Heels. “We even said, as coaches at halftime, our seniors were gonna win us this game.

They’re always going to stay in the game; they’re winners through and through.”

In the first half, Coleman took the lead, scoring 18 of the Terps’ 34 points and grabbing seven rebounds. In the second half, it was Toliver’s turn.

With more than 16 minutes remaining and the Terps (16-3, 41 ACC) trailing 42-41, the senior point guard caught fire, scoring 11 points — including three 3pointers — to help the Terps on a 13-0 run.

“In the first half, I just kind of had to change my shot a little bit,” said Toliver, who finished with 23 points. “I was fading, just getting away from the contact. Then I just wanted to go off into the lane, that’s really all I was thinking about.”

Tar Heels forward Rashanda McCants committed her fourth foul while fighting for a rebound with 12 minutes left, but 6-foot-3 forward Jessica Breland kept North Carolina (17-3, 3-2) in the

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Forward Marissa Coleman put up a double-double with 22 points and 10 rebounds last night.

TERRAPIN FOOTBALL 2008 SEASON RECAP

A roller coaster type of year

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Above: The Terps ended the season with a Humanitarian Bowl win against Nevada highlighted by a big performance from Da’Rel Scott, who had two touchdowns. Right (top to bottom): The Terps’ up-and down season included a loss at Middle Tennessee, a dominant performance against Wake Forest, an 31-0 blow up loss at Virginia and a big victory against North Carolina. PHOTOS BY ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Clutching a personal pizza box, Da’Rel Scott confidently walked into the Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl postgame press conference.

The Terrapin running back proceeded to answer questions about his 174-yard, twotouchdown performance during less than half a game of play in the Dec. 30 bowl.

For several minutes, the MVP of the Terps’ 42-35 win against Nevada solemnly answered questions about the curfew violation that kept him on the sidelines until midway through the third quarter. Scott, who became the first Terp to top 1,000 yards rushing since 2002, calmly thanked God for the opportunity and talked about how close he was to being sent home by coach Ralph Friedgen.

Finally, a reporter asked what Terp fans across the country were probably wondering: “How do you break curfew in Boise, Idaho?”

For a moment Scott looked

taken aback before offering, “No comment on that one.”

In all reality, it was the final unanswered question in a season full of them for the Terps (8-5, 4-4 ACC).

What fueled four straight wins against ranked opponents and a 4-2 ACC start?

How did the Terps play down to competition like Delaware, Middle Tennessee and Virginia? In a parity-filled conference, how did their conference championship dreams end so abruptly?

For one of the nation’s most inconsistent teams, a season finale against a quirky WAC team on the blue Bronco Stadium field was a fitting ending.

But with a win, highlighted by 456 yards of total offense and a defensive performance that held the Wolfpack more than 150 yards under their season rushing average, the Terps head into the offseason on a positive note.

“It makes next year look great,” said quarterback Chris Turner, who heads into

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WINTER BREAK-ING NEWS As the 2008 Terrapin football season came to a close, there was plenty of news coming out of Gosset Football Team House. Here’s a look at the major events in the past two months: Early Dec. 2008 – First-year special teams coordinator Danny Pearman leaves the program to accept a position at his alma mater, Clemson.

Dec. 5, 2008 – It is confirmed that defensive coordinator Chris Cosh has left the team to accept a similar position at Kansas State. Longtime linebackers coach Al Seamonson takes over on an interim basis.

Dec. 30, 2008 – Despite being one of seven Terps benched early because of curfew violations, Da’Rel Scott leads the way for a 42-35 Humanitarian Bowl win against Nevada.

Jan. 7, 2009 – Redshirt junior wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey announces he will forgo his senior season and enter his name in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Jan. 7, 2009 – ESPN.com reports junior quarterback Josh Portis will transfer to Division II California (Pa.).

Jan. 9, 2009 – Coach Ralph Friedgen announces he has hired Massachusetts head coach Don Brown to take over as defensive coordinator.

–Eric Detweiler

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