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Loh calls DOTS bus driver arrested after crash proposed tuition hike a fair trade

Driver found to be above legal blood alcohol limit, has no prior complaints or infractions ment of Transportation Ser vices bus facility on Greenhouse Road just before midnight when an officer smelled the “strong odor” of alcohol coming from the driver. Police arrested 40-year-old Renee LeShawn Robinson for being over the legal limit while operating a bus.

Police would not specify Robinson’s blood alcohol content at the time of the accident. No students were in either of the buses involved

BY BEN PRESENT AND LAUREN REDDING Senior staff writers

Says furloughs must be eliminated

University Police arrested a Shuttle-UM driver late Monday night after she crashed one bus into another and then failed a sobriety test in the middle of her shift.

University Police spokesman Ken Leonard said police responded to calls from the university’s Depart-

in the collision and nobody was hurt, police said.

“We’re obviously shocked that a driver who’s potentially carr ying students, staff and faculty members was under the influence at the time she was,” Leonard said. “Thankfully nobody was injured.”

DOTS Assistant Director Beverly Malone said the department is in the process of increasing the mandator y drug and alcohol testing

requirement for all Shuttle-UM drivers, who are subject to a drug and alcohol test before they are hired, as well as random spot-checks throughout their tenures. Robinson was not tested prior to her shift Monday night.

“This is something DOTS is taking ver y seriously,” Malone said.

Malone added nothing seemed

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BY ALISSA GULIN Senior staff writer

While even a 3 percent in-state tuition hike may prove to be a financial struggle for some students, university PresiWALLACE LOH dent Wallace UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Loh said the increase is the lesser of two evils.

As state officials review and debate Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed budget, which includes the modest tuition increase but is devoid of furlough days that state employees have bemoaned for the past three years, Loh is hoping the legislature opts to approve the plan.

O’Malley’s decision to raise tuition in lieu of the mandatory leave days, Loh said, reflects the governor’s commitment to preserving the quality of higher education in spite of a still-cloudy economic climate.

“If you want quality — and we all want quality — education, you have to pay a price for it,” Loh said. “You don’t get the outstanding worldclass faculty that we have unless you provide them with competitive salaries because if they’re that good they can go anywhere. ... I can tell you there are faculty who are receiving attractive offers every week, and they are getting stolen from us.”

But Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said the state never had to choose between raising tuition and instituting furloughs.

“Tuition doesn’t raise that much money for the university,” Rosapepe said. “Instead, the trade-off is

COSMIC CLUES Gold’s origins may lie in outer space

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but university researchers are arguing gold has a much richer— and more explosive — history.

Geology professor Richard Walker and former university professor James Day have been working for four years to understand why gold lies below Earth’s sur-

face. After developing a promising model that demonstrates how the precious metals landed on the planet, they may have finally found the billion-year-old answer.

By studying rock samples from Earth, its moon and Mars, Walker and Day — working with scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and

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Geology professor Richard Walker holds up a primitive meteorite used in his study.

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Senate committee advances Power goes out in College Park as snow continues to fall explode Samaritan policy proposal Transformers throughout the city New policy may face vote within semester

BY SPENCER ISRAEL AND BEN PRESENT Senior staff writers

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Staff writer

After months of debate and discussion, a University Senate committee unanimously voted yesterday to move forward with transforming a Good Samaritan protocol into an official policy.

Director of Student Conduct John Zacker presented the Student Conduct Committee with a less intimidating version of the Responsible Action Protocol, which seeks to protect students from university sanctions if they call 911 for a dangerously drunk friend or themselves.

This newest version, which Zacker said will be finalized and then presented to the Senate Executive Committee for debate next month, is consistent with a proposal by student leaders that removes Zacker’s ability to implement the protocol on a caseby-case basis.

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“The committee is moving forward with the recommendation from students that we should transform it into a policy,” Zacker said.

Student leaders first suggested a Good Samaritan policy in 2008, but due to time constraints and the proposal’s controversial nature, they settled for a protocol instead.

But after a year of implementing the protocol and discussing its effectiveness, the amnesty debate began again last semester. And for students and administrators in favor of adopting a policy, this vote was a monumental step in possibly ending a two-year battle once and for all.

“I feel really good about the direction this is moving in,” Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement said. “Students are telling me they want a policy, and I think

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Snow/30s

Hundreds of students living in South Campus Commons, along Knox Road and behind Route 1 found themselves without electricity last night as rolling power outages hit Prince George’s County and exploding transformers set multiple fires in College Park.

Pepco, the local electric service company, attributed the blackouts to transformer outages in the area but could not pinpoint the root cause of transformer explosions nor the damage that ensued.

“We are currently working to resolve the outages,” Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey said. “We advise people to treat all power lines as live and to report any more problems.”

As lights flickered on and off throughout the campus yesterday evening, a transformer on the corner of Knox Road and Hopkins Ave exploded at about 8 p.m. outside the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. A nearby tree caught fire following the

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A transformer on the corner of Knox Road and Hopkins Avenue exploded at about 8 p.m. last night near the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. Students streamed outside to take photos of the flames. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE BARRY

explosion. Power outages spread from the south edge of the campus to Hartwick Road and into Old Town.

Residents of the fraternity house said the explosions persisted about once every 10 minutes for about 30

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minutes. One minute-long stretch brought three blasts that had the residents taking cover.

“It was wild. It was like a frickin’

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awry when Robinson came into work Monday night and there had been no complaints about her driving throughout the evening.

“No one made any observations that she was unfit to drive,” Malone said. “There was no indication that there was a problem.”

Because each Shuttle-UM bus is equipped with a video camera that records the interior of the bus, DOTS officials were able to review the footage from Robinson’s shift and concluded that nothing was suspicious or seemed unusual.

Malone said DOTS officials are in the preliminary phases of the employee termination process and are working with university human resources personnel to settle the matter.

“As you can imagine, we all took this very seriously,” Malone said. “This is not a normal circumstance. We were all appalled, just appalled.”

Neither of the buses was totaled, but both will need “substantial repairs” before they return to operation, Malone said.

Students were shocked to hear a DOTS employee who may have driven them at one point would commit such an infraction.

“I’m shocked initially — you’re a driver taking care of students,” sophomore marketing major Julian Bryan said. “[Drunk driving] is irresponsible enough when you’re driving a car by yourself with other kids on the road, but when you’re driving a group of people as well as other drivers on the road — it’s just shocking somebody would do that.”

Other students agreed.

“It’s kind of disturbing,” freshman government and politics major Gillian Hutton said. “It’s frightening to know that we’re riding buses that the drivers are in accidents like that.

“When you sign on, you’re signing on to a responsibility when you’re driving around college students.”

After hearing the news, freshman journalism major Natalie Changlin said she would support efforts by DOTS to tighten employee screening measures when they report to work.

“It’s sad that something like this had to happen before any rules are implemented.”

the Southwest Research Institute — have concluded gold and platinum arrived 4.5 billion years ago when a small number of gold-rich meteorites collided with this planet.

“Our argument is these elements got added to Earth in one or two fell swoops,” Walker said. “The gold and platinum you have in your jewelr y was added to Earth through some pretty big and violent impacts.”

Although Walker said scientists have agreed for 30 years that Earth developed gold from collisions with meteorites containing the metal, the new study does a more thorough job of answering one big question: Why isn’t the moon also rich in gold?

Scientists have long tried to understand why Earth has high concentrations of gold in its mantle — the nearly 2,000 mile thick layer of rock separating the crust and core — while the moon’s mantle has virtually none.

Before this research, scientists believed Earth’s gold came from many small golden meteorites rather than a few large collisions.

“The problem with this model is you can get concentrations [of gold] in the Earth’s mantle by meteorites, but the moon would be getting hit by the same meteorites, so there should be similar abundances,” Walker said of the original idea.

“Instead of having lots of little tiny

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TUITION from page 1 between furloughs and layoffs in order to protect jobs.”

Retention of valuable faculty and staff prompted Loh to loudly oppose furloughs last semester; he said yesterday that he stands by his pledge to fight them.

Loh added any increase in tuition is never ideal, but the 3 percent jump is less than the university had anticipated — initially, university officials told the governor’s office they could withstand a 5 percent in-state tuition hike.

“The increase of 3 percent, which may be difficult for some students, overall it’s about as low of an increase anywhere,” Loh said. “So I think [O’Malley] has kept his commitment, and I certainly am very, very grateful — and I think the students should be grateful that they can continue to get

The core of an asteroid, a piece of the Earth's mantle and a primitive meteorite (from left to right) were all used in geology professor Richard Walker's study. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

impactors, you only need one or two about 3,000 km across,” said Day, who now works at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Day said this new research sheds invaluable light on the Earth’s formation during a tumultuous time.

“It’s an important puzzle because this is a period of time we know very

little about,” Day said. “These elements are intimately related to elements that form us, so this is a ver y early piece in the puzzle to see how our planet evolved.”

Walker added it is important to understand the histor y behind an element that plays such a large role in today’s society, from its presence

in technology, such as computers, to its value in jewelr y stores.

“You can think of a gold mine as being a product of a lot of different geological processes,” Walker said.

“If this didn’t happen to Earth, our society would be ver y different.”

the outstanding quality at a very reasonable price compared to our peer universities.”

The increase was announced shortly after Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine ranked the university No. 5 in the nation for best value. Striking that balance between affordability and quality, Loh said, is crucial to ensuring the university stays on an upward path to excellence that he said has characterized the past decade.

Rosapepe, who plans to reintroduce legislation that would prevent tuition from exceeding the growth in the average family’s annual income, said as much as universities trumpet keeping tuition low, they also stand to benefit when tuition is raised.

“I would still like to see our ranking in the U.S. for tuition to come down,” Rosapepe said. “I think the big picture is that Gov. Martin O’Malley went out of his way in the budget to try to protect the university, despite the difficult

economic situation.”

In an effort to generate additional revenue, the state launched its Voluntary Separation Program in December, which offers incentives for workers to retire early in exchange for compensation or benefits. But the University System of Maryland was not initially included in the state-wide initiative, leading the system to form a committee tasked with creating a similar program of its own.

If approved by the Board of Regents — a 17-member committee that governs the university system — the program would, in effect, allow faculty to retire early, Loh said.

Though these programs cost money initially, as employees leave and take with them bundles of cash, the idea is to save money in the long-term. University officials would then redistribute those salaries wherever they see fit.

“The biggest real benefit isn’t just in the savings,” Loh said. “It also is that

you bring in fresh blood. Let’s say you had one professor in English. ... Now you could hire one junior professor in, say, chemistry and one in English. You revitalize the university. It’s an incredibly powerful tool for reenergizing the university. It’s much more than a financial thing. It’s a win-win.”

And students seem to be on board with the university’s priorities. Student Government Association President Steve Glickman said the tuition hike is a realistic response to the financial obstacles legislators are facing in Annapolis, adding the SGA also took a “no furloughs” stance last semester. “[Furloughs and tuition increases] both affect students, one financially and the other affects us in terms of our quality of education,” Glickman said.

“Moderate increases in tuition tend to be necessary in order to maintain the quality of our education.”

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Three university water mains break City Council supports Pipe bursts left hundreds of on-campus students without water

Domain College Park would be built on Mowatt Lane, attract older residents

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Three university water mains broke during a nine-hour span Monday, resulting in water outages for several buildings on the campus and leaving hundreds of students without running water in their residences.

According to Facilities Operations and Maintenance Director Jack Baker, two of the breaks occurred outside Taliaferro Hall and the third happened outside the newly renovated Shoemaker Hall.

Baker said the two breaks outside Taliaferro probably occurred sometime in the early afternoon, while the break near Shoemaker happened at about 9 p.m.

Baker said the cause of the breaks was the recent stretch of cold weather that has descended on College Park.

“When the ground freezes repeatedly, it shifts, and that causes pipes to burst,” he said.

All three breaks occurred on the same pipeline — from Morrill Hall to Route 1 — and Baker said replacement of this particular line will begin over the summer due to its age and the growing number of recent pipe bursts.

Student complaints of lack of water pressure in Worcester and Somerset Halls at about 3 p.m. Monday alerted Facilities Management to the problem, and the breaks were discovered shortly thereafter.

Baker said the water pipes underground run in a loop-like fashion in which water is distributed to a string of buildings that branch off from a larger pipe, so in order to fix a break, water has to be shut off in the entire loop.

“In order to try and fix a break, you have to isolate it,” Baker said.

About 12 buildings were affected in all, though the problems were limited to parts of the North Hill and South Hill communities. A variety of effects were reported during the incident, including lack of water pressure, no hot or cold water, brown water and no water altogether.

Some residents faced water prob-

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

Facilities Management workers repair the broken water main in front of Shoemaker Hall on Tuesday. The burst left some students with brown water and others with none at all. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

lems for most of Monday afternoon, but maintenance crews who responded to the break at Shoemaker decided against shutting off the water at a time when most students would be at home, opting instead to deal with it in the morning when not as many people would be in their dorms.

Some students walking past Shoemaker Hall on Tuesday night stopped to take pictures and videos on their phones, noting the bizarre sight of water gushing out of the ground and onto the sidewalk. Among them was sophomore electrical engineering major Jason Arora, a resident of nearby Talbot Hall.

“We went a good portion of the day with no water for the toilet,” he said.

“It was brown when it came back.”

An e-mail was sent early Tuesday

Sexual healing with Dan Savage Columnist hopes to launch MTV show

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

College students want to talk about sex.

At least, that’s what relationship and sex advice columnist Dan Savage will be banking on when he hosts a Q&A session at Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union at 8 p.m. tonight.

Savage said he is returning to this university in hopes of finding a crowd as eager and lively as the students he spoke to the first time he visited in February of 2009.

“We wanted a big state school, in the interest of drawing all different types of people,” Savage said. “We just really want a cross-section of humanity and culture.”

While tonight marks Savage’s second trip to the university, this time around, the Q&A will be a part of the pilot episode of what Savage hopes will be a show airing soon on MTV. The Picture This production company is working to make the episode, and Savage was carted around the campus all of yesterday and today, talking to both student groups and individual students about sex.

Freshman government and politics major Ilana Avergun is one of the students who was chosen for an individual inter view because of her willingness to speak freely about her sex life on camera.

She said she expressed her interest in being inter viewed after hearing about the opportunity from one of her sorority sisters, and Picture This welcomed her with open arms.

“I guess I was comfortable ... because I feel like I’ve stuck to my own values and haven’t made any decisions that I’ve been ashamed of or embarrassed to share,” Avergun said.

And a relaxed atmosphere where students can talk about anything they want to know is exactly what Savage said he is aiming for. He said he wants to help students feel comfortable in their own skin and accept themselves.

“I really enjoy [helping people]. I get letters ever y day from people who have read my column for 10 years and now have healthy relationships, with active sex lives that they really enjoy. It’s thrilling that I get to do that for people, and it will be even better if I get to do it on TV.” While many students were unaware of the upcoming event, they expressed excitement and appreciation for Savage’s visit.

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morning to Calvert, Garret, Talbot, Kent and Cecil Halls alerting residents to a 10 a.m. water outage in order to fix the break at Shoemaker.

Pipes were repaired and water restored to the buildings by the afternoon.

But some were less than thrilled by the timing of the e-mail alert.

Jonathan Katz, a sophomore marketing major who lives in Calvert Hall, said one of his suite mates used the toilet in the morning without knowing the water had been shut off.

“It would have made a lot more sense [if the e-mail had been sent last night] because ever ybody would have been prepared, at least,” he said. news@umdbk.com

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Students nearby said police and fire marshalls inspected the exploded transformer on Knox Road and told them to keep their distance.

In Commons 1, glow sticks kept for emergencies were handed out in the main lobby. And several students had to be rescued from elevators throughout

College Park City Council members voted Tuesday night in support of a proposed Mowatt Lane apartment complex geared toward graduate students and faculty members.

Domain College Park, the newest in a series of city housing projects being developed or proposed, will include 256 units with more than 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, city officials said. It will be developed by the Houston-based Hanover Company.

Because 77 percent of units will have only one bedroom and the remainder will have just two, the complex will not target undergraduates, District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali said.

“It’s aimed more towards young professionals and visiting professors,” he said. “Lack of housing has been an issue [for these groups], so it’s really a necessary project.”

Stephen Powers, who serves as the Graduate Student Government’s elections committee chairman, agreed that finding reasonably priced housing has been a persistent problem for graduate students and that the new complex could offer relief to some.

“Grad students have had a hard time finding affordable housing in the city,” Powers said. “Anything trying to offer a solution for graduate students is welcome.”

City senior planner Elisa Vitale said the project’s proposed location is ideal for development.

“This is an emerging neighborhood,” she said. “It’s a gateway to campus and to the city.”

The council addressed several conditions before throwing support behind the plan.

The first, an annexation agreement between developers and the city, will allow College Park to claim taxes on the property even though it

the Commons buildings, according to Prince George’s County Fire spokesman Mark Brady.

A Prince George’s County fire department truck heading to the scene got stuck in the snow at the corner of Route 1 and Knox Road, Geiser said.

Brady said as many as six similar fires took place in College Park last night but could not immediately specify where.

Power outages persisted throughout College Park past midnight.

Brady said College Park bore the brunt of dozens of explosions and power outages that rolled through the county last night because of the heavy snowfall.

“Lack of housing has been an issue [for these groups], so it’s really a necessary project.”

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will be located outside city limits.

For the first five years, the owners of the Domain property will pay a rate of 70 percent of the applicable property taxes.

Additionally, the project will incorporate a $31,000 bike-sharing station in an attempt to create a pedestrian- and bicycle- friendly neighborhood by lessening traffic in the area.

“We want to push alternative transportation as much as possible,” Afzali said.

He added that bikes would be especially useful for visiting professors or those coming from other countries who might not bring vehicles to the campus.

“The clientele they want to attract, they’re not going to bring everything with them,” he said.

Afzali said the city had originally hoped for a $54,000 contribution for the bike station but eventually settled for the lower figure.

The council approved the plan 60-1, with District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle abstaining. The project is expected to go before the Prince George’s County Planning Board sometime next month, Vitale said.

She added that although it is uncertain when work will begin on the complex, developers hope to break ground by late 2011. kirkwood@umdbk.com

Although Pepco could not say why the transformers in the city blew out, Brady noted that it is not uncommon for them to do so during extreme weather.

He said when heavy snow weighs down on tree branches and power lines, eventually it reaches the transformer, which then sparks and trips a fuse somewhere on the power line.

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Syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage visits the campus.

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“I would go — it’s always good to get a different perspective,” said Vir Mirchandani, a sophomore mechanical engineering major. “You can always learn.”

He added that the university’s boisterous reputation may have something to do with Savage’s visits.

“He came here because we drink and party more than all the other schools,” he said.

Others came up with more creative reasons.

“Our diner food is an aphrodisiac,” joked freshman biology major Cerise Kleb.

But freshman animal science major Tina Francisco said talking about sex is simply the domain of all college students.

“Ever yone knows that ever yone does it, so we’re comfortable talking about it,” she said The pilot episode has no guarantee of ever making it onto TV, but Savage is crossing his fingers. He said he hopes to be able to reach a larger audience with the message he is trying to convey.

“TV makes sex out as something scary,” Savage said. “If it were really as scary as shows make it seem, people wouldn’t have sex. I’m just looking to have a show that can balance the scales a bit.” romas@umdbk.com

The Senate Conduct Committee meets yesterday to discuss transforming the Responsible Action Protocol into an established university policy after two years of debate and review. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

POLICY from page 1 we’ve had a good year to test this protocol and see what the results are going to be, and now we can move forward with results that are going to be more firm.”

Clement added she is confident members of the Student Conduct Committee will be able to strongly advocate for a policy when it comes up for debate next month.

“I think they’ll be able to speak forcefully when it comes up in the Senate Executive Committee, so I think this has a ver y good chance of passing when it’s up for vote,” she said.

Zacker said while changing the protocol into policy won’t affect how staff members have operated in previous situations, the committee believes the change could possibly save lives if students would feel more comfortable calling for medical help.

“If adopting a policy will help students clearly understand that the safety and welfare of students on the campus is important and that they

should seek out medical help in these situations without reprisal, then let’s adopt it,” he said. “The students have convinced [the committee] that the policy will be more clear in that regard.”

Undergraduate student senator Lisa Crisalli, who sits on the Senate Executive Committee, said a policy is crucial to keeping students safe.

“It’s a wonderful feeling seeing some closure on what you’ve been working on for so long and really seeing something we all believe would benefit the student body coming to fruition,” she said. “I think the Responsible Action Protocol would be an extremely important part of our code of student conduct, and it’s really just sending a very clear message that student safety is what’s put first, and that message needs to be as clear as possible.”

Crisalli added having students give testimonies and tell stories at the senate meeting, as well as simply being present, is the most powerful thing students can do to ensure a victorious vote. Based on past discussions, she’s optimistic the protocol will soon become policy, she said.

“It’s a wonderful feeling seeing some closure on what you’ve been working on for so long and really seeing something we all believe would benefit the student body coming to fruition.”

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“We have an understanding [Senate Executive Committee], who really just wants to have this benefit the student body, do what’s right for members of our university community, and having a strict policy in the book would facilitate that,” Crisalli said. “I’m very hopeful that this will go well.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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ith 10 weeks left in the state’s annual legislative session, Stu- impact on the student body’s quality-of-life, the SGA is wasting valuable dent Government Association leaders have committed them- time and resources that could be spent ensuring the state does not vote to increase the financial burden placed on students and this university. selves to increasing the power of the lobbying voice of stuMoreover, by taking a firm stance on debates that have long fueled this dents in Annapolis. countr y’s culture wars, the SGA risks making itself look like a par tisan, And to that end, SGA President Steve Glickman and SGA Director of political organization — an image that will cer tainly not help it persuade Governmental Affairs Summer Raza have recently unveiled a new lobbydelegates and senators to vote for SGA-supported bills that would actually ing strategy for the organization, one which they hope will engage more impact students. students with the issues and encourage them to lobby their representaFur thermore, by choosing to enter the fray of controversial social tives, thus increasing the collective power of the student voice. issues, the SGA is ef fectively decreasing its power in Annapolis. SGA Instead of taking positions and lobbying solely on issues related to members lack any of the qualifications necessar y to higher education — such as textbook af fordability speak on policies such as the legalization of mariand the cost of tuition — the SGA now plans to juana, and they were not elected to do so. tackle a broader variety of bills that cover such hotThe SGA must refocus its After all, in last year’s SGA elections, the matters button topics as same-sex marriage, capital punishment and the legalization of marijuana. lobbying efforts in Annapolis the SGA now proposes to take positions and lobby on were not included in any of the three par ties’ platWhile it is a smar t move to recognize a dif ferent more toward issues of forms and were not discussed during any debates. It advocacy approach — especially in light of last year’s is hard to imagine what elected state legislator would less-than-stellar accomplishments — the path chosen consequence for students. care in the least what the SGA’s position is on sameby the SGA is one that will weaken, rather than sex marriage or other such issues. strengthen, the influence of students.

Instead, by channeling their significant resources and stature as the As representatives of the student body, SGA leaders’ first and foremost responsibility should be to address issues that affect the lives of students voice of undergraduates to galvanize the student body on issues that at this university. While many students may have strong feelings about directly relate to higher education and student access, SGA leaders could policies such as capital punishment, they do not directly affect the average make strides toward fulfilling the mission of the organization they ser ve.

SGA leaders cannot write statutes. They cannot enact social change. At student’s life. And when they are held up against issues such as the rising cost of tuition, textbook af fordability and the amount of money allocated its core, the organization’s biggest power is to influence, and that power should not be wasted on matters of little consequence to students and the to this institution, the matter becomes almost inconsequential.

By spending time lobbying for or against legislation that has little university at large.

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Tragedy: The search for explanations

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terrible tragedy occurred over winter break. Well, rather, a tragic act was allegedly committed by a 22year-old man in an effort to advance — what exactly?

If you listen to some liberal politicians, some of the media and even the local sheriff in Tucson, the man was tr ying to advance the views of — or at least was influenced by — conser vative political leaders. But those advancing this theor y seemingly ignore the facts and go merely on opinion.

So let’s look at the facts.

Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter, seemed to worship at a skull in his backyard. Loughner’s professor identified him as unstable. Students in that same professor’s class noticed odd traits in Loughner’s personality that made them uncomfortable. He did not reference Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh or any other conservative leader in his writings.

LAURA FROST And, perhaps most incriminatingly, he is smiling in his mugshot. That’s right, after being arrested on the charges of killing six and injuring many more, the guy’s got a grin on his face.

Looking at these facts, I’m led to believe that his was the act of an unbalanced mind. The man was most likely mentally unstable, and it is entirely possible his true motivation will never be known.

Six people were killed. The aftermath of the shooting was not a time to question motives or assign blame.

Rather, it was a time to mourn. It was a time to honor the fallen. And it was a time to consider why authorities and mental health professionals didn’t

catch a man so clearly unstable and out of control.

In a way not dissimilar from university student Justin DeSha-Overcash’s slaying and resulting controversy earlier this month, the uproar immediately following the shooting dishonored the fallen. It brought even more darkness when there was already so little light. DeSha-Overcash’s mother pled for her son’s honor back, and President Barack Obama, in his speech at the memorial for the shooting victims, did the same for the tragedy in Tucson.

“Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath,” Obama cautioned in his speech. He called on people to be kinder to one another and not to use the tragedy as yet another reason to battle.

There is a time and a place for dissection of tragedies such as the shooting in Tucson and the loss of DeSha-Overcash, but the time is not

immediately after the events happen.

Tragedies, as both Prince George’s County Deputy Police Chief Kevin Davis and Obama suggested, can end up helping people by making them more aware of problems and accelerating necessar y change. But the time for that type of help comes after the help the families, friends and victims themselves need in the wake of the horrific events they are forced to endure.

Overall, we need to get past our petty desire to “know” things and to find scapegoats. People were murdered. A mentally unstable man somehow got his hands on a large-capacity bullet magazine weapon. A congresswoman was shot and a federal judge was killed. These are the things we should focus on, and in the future, I hope we will.

Laura Frost is a sophomore government and politics major. She can be reached at frost@umdbk.com.

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s this country still reels from the violence in Tucson, Ariz., the community in College Park is facing yet another, similarly appalling circumstance. And while the Arizona shootings have attracted as much useless speculation over what forces influenced Jared Lee Loughner — frivolously accusing the supposedly vitriolic nature of American partisan debate — the local story of Justin DeSha-Overcash has the public guessing at the more realistic and often re-occurring conundrums that characterize such events, such as drug-related violence.

Evidently, a precarious but definite connection with the killing has been made to drug trafficking, though the specifics of this are being disputed — including whether the victim had any involvement. In any case, this connection draws an uneasy comparison between potentially inconsistent regulatory policies, as well as a touch of irony.

Drug prohibition has been a continuous source of contention in American

politics over the past three decades.

Instead of significantly reducing the abuse of illicit substances, strict regulation policies have increased violence and overcrowding in prisons, all while any increase in the price of drugs has been mitigated by the seemingly inelastic demand for it. In short, it has created a market dependent on gangsterism and manipulation.

And yet, despite having such disastrous consequences, the government maintains relatively lax gun policies based on domestically-oriented libertarian constitutionalism. It thus seems that there is a mismatch in government priorities. That is, if the U.S. government were to continue the war on drugs, gun regulation would need to be stepped up. On the other hand, if it wishes to retain a lax gun policy, then it must ease the violence-inducing drug war.

An additional consideration, however, is the smuggling of American weapons internationally — to countries with historically high murder rates that are fueled by American guns. This is true, for example, in the Caribbean, as

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RODENHOUSE is painfully obvious in Jamaica, a country whose government is unable to regulate the influx of guns on its own.

Indeed, it appears that even U.S. authorities are unable to regulate the outflow of their own weapons. Regulation, then, must happen within the country, before weapons have a chance to be illegally exported.

And yet, while the U.S. government would undoubtedly have more success in regulating weapons than it has had regulating drugs, a total ban does not seem feasible. The obvious answer, then, is to decriminalize or liberalize drugs while simultaneously increasing domestic gun regulations — for example, by limiting the size of bullet magazines and the weapons themselves, as well as limiting who can buy and sell them. New York

City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked that the president touch on gun control in his State of the Union address, and, even former Vice President Dick Cheney, an ardent advocate of second amendment rights, has expressed that America’s gun policy needs to be reconsidered.

Indeed, it is necessary to compare these two issues, not only because of how interrelated their effects and causes are but also because their respective policies betray a fundamental inconsistency in certain aspects of American law. Effective gun regulation, predicated by effective drug policy, has failed to materialize, and, as a result, there are no “victimless” crimes. It is unfortunate that commentators have missed the point regarding what is to blame for the Tucson shootings, and it is even more unfortunate that there continue to be casualties claimed by this tragic mishandling of government priorities, including this university’s Justin DeSha-Overcash.

Ian Rodenhouse is a junior economics major. He can be reached at rodenhouse@umdbk.com.

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nd the pendulum swings from one end to the other: In the name of fighting extremism and inaccuracy, the guest column “False Assertions,” published in The Diamondback on Dec. 13, has provided a deluge of spurious clichés and platitudes notoriously used by anti-Israel advocates.

Israel is not an occupying foreign power — modern international law and thousands of years of Jewish presence in the land both vouch for Israel’s legitimacy. The article equates the attitude of the Facts and Logic About the Middle East advertisement with the attitude of the Israeli government itself; this apocr yphal extrapolation heavily distorts the Israeli government’s firm commitment to tolerance of all people and most importantly, its commitment to creating a lasting peace.

While Israel has eagerly participated in various peace conferences and helped construct plans for a Palestinian state throughout the decades, it has been met with an onslaught of Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians, a cruel indicator of Palestinian distaste for the peace process. For example, the 2000 Camp David Summit, an attempt to reach a peace agreement, was met with the start of the Second Intifada, and the disengagement from Gaza in 2005 was rewarded with an increase in the launching of Qassam rockets on Israeli civilian centers. Despite these disheartening responses, Israel still has the courage and desire to partake in the peace process.

Restrictions in the West Bank, such as the separate system of roads, checkpoints, road blocks and the security fence are all temporar y security initiatives necessar y to protect Israeli citizens from attacks during the Second Intifada. Israel, according to Israeli militar y sources, currently has its lowest level of troops in the West Bank since the First Intifada began in the late 1980s.

Israel has significantly reduced its militar y presence in the West Bank and has cooperated with the Palestinians in allowing their security forces to take control of major Palestinian cities. Additionally, if Palestinians suffering is really the issue at hand, then Hamas, which the United States classifies as a terrorist organization and creates a culture of extreme censorship and forced martyrdom, must be discussed.

While the founder of FLAME may have stated that “all Arab Muslims may not a bunch of fanatics, but I’ve never met one who isn’t,” Israel has a much different approach toward the minority that constitutes 20 percent of its population. Arabs are formally able to be full participants in Israeli society and ser ve in the Knesset, Israel’s legislature. There are many cities where Arabs and Jews peacefully coexist and interact with each other on a daily basis. Tel Aviv boasts the largest Arab gay community in the Middle East due to Israel’s free and democratic society.

Many Americans support Israel, and with good reason — it is the bastion of freedom and democracy in a region other wise lacking basic human rights.

Ahuva Sunshine is a freshman government and politics major. She can be reached at asunsh@umd.edu.

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The renegade songsmith Ari Hest signed to a major label, left and never wants to go back

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Ari Hest is somewhat of a rebel in the music industry: At age 25, he gained the attention of Columbia Records with two independently released albums and an EP. Four years later, he left the major label and returned to his indie roots.

“I wanted to move on and do my own thing — either completely do my own thing or find a small label,” Hest said. “I was tired of the waiting game, of not knowing when they’re going to release my music and how much of it you have to get approved. It was just exhausting. Obviously they have a lot of money, but they don’t always use it correctly.”

The now-liberated Hest, who will perform at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., tonight, writes songs that can be best described as a blending of acoustic rock and romantic pop.

“I prefer to come from a more factual place,” Hest

said. “If you don’t really know what you’re talking about, you have to piece things together and make sense of it. Sometimes it’s fun to do, but it’s more difficult.”

Hest currently releases music under his own independent label, Project 4. His first project after the split with Columbia was 52, an ambitious plan in which Hest would complete a song each week, for all 52 weeks in a year, and release the music to those who subscribed via his website.

“I wanted to see if I could do it,” Hest said. “When I was with a big label, I wasn’t able to get a lot of music out to the public. I had written a lot more than I had released. There were 30 or so clips that were sitting on my computer that I didn’t do anything with. I was thinking, ‘What’s the point of finishing these songs if I can’t put them out until I’m off the label?’”

52 proved to be a smashing success for Hest, earning him praise and publicity from both subscribers and the press.

Though he still hasn’t quite hit it big, Hest has created a substantial and devoted fan base.

Tonight’s show at Wolf Trap will feature unique twists for Hest fans — he will perform mainly on a keyboard instead of his usual instrumentation of

guitar and will be accompanied by a drummer with both a drum kit and a cajon.

“It’s a small production with big sound,” Hest said.

Among the songs to be featured in the show are some previews from his upcoming album, Sunset Over Hope Street.

The album, according to Hest, will be released on March 1 and be accompanied by another tour across both North America and Europe.

The busy artist relies on a group of fans, known as the ATeam, to spread the word about his work.

“The A-Team is, in a way, an Internet based group that helps me promote shows and promote my music,” he said. “It’s less about the computer part of things as much as it’s about the physical advertising.”

Reflecting upon his career, Hest views his years spent with Columbia as a bit of a mistake.

“I don’t think I will ever do it again,” he said. Even so, his career with the major labels has taught him some valuable lessons.

“The most important thing is to learn how to use things for yourself and not rely on someone else to create your music and promote your music,” Hest said. “It’s a lot more difficult these days to just join a label and hope they know what to do to further your career.”

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SHOOTING from page 8 percentage, at 63 percent, and eighth in 3-point percentage, at 34 percent.

Poor free-throw shooting contributed to early-season losses against Pittsburgh and Boston College, and the Terps have struggled to find a deep threat to stretch opposing defenses. As forward Jordan Williams continues to tally impressive statistics, opponents continue to double- or triple-team him in the post, forcing other Terps to step up.

That problem hit a new low against then-No. 7 Villanova on Jan. 15, when the Terps tried to put the Wildcats away with outside shooting. Instead, a 12-point second-half lead evaporated during a 19-0 Villanova run in which the Terps generally opted to pull up for bad shots instead of looking inside or for the smart play.

“Sometimes we’re a little too unselfish trying to make that next pass when we should be shooting the ball,” Jordan Williams said last week. “We’ve worked on that in practice. Instead of pumpfaking, just shoot the ball. We really do have good perimeter shooters when they’ve got a shot.”

Guards Cliff Tucker, Adrian Bowie and Terrell Stoglin have all shown the ability to score in stretches but not the consistency to warrant special defensive attention.

Their fortunes changed against Clemson.

“We still had 3s, we took 14 3-pointers, which for this team is probably about right,” Williams said. “We made

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eight of them and shot very well, and a lot of them came from a result of taking the ball towards the basket.”

The Terps made more 3pointers against the Tigers than they had in any of their previous four games. But shooting from outside has never been a priority for Williams — his team ranks last in the ACC and No. 308 in the nation in 3-point attempts.

Still, the coach knows the importance of having an established perimeter scorer.

“If you have one guy that’s really shooting well, it gets [other] guys open shots,” Williams said. “The other team has to worry about that.

We need one player from the perimeter we can really go to [whom] they have to guard.”

Against Clemson, Tucker and Stoglin combined to shoot 6-for-9 from behind the arc. Add in Tucker’s torrid 11point second-half streak against the Hokies, and the Terps may have solved some of their questions heading into the middle of their conference slate.

Even with the newfound scoring, Williams is quick to keep his team level-headed, especially before an opportunity to win an important road conference game against a rival.

“I told the team after the game that we did a great job of not getting too down after the Virginia Tech game,” Williams said. “Now we have to do a good job of not getting too excited after the Clemson game. You have to be tough.

That’s what we were able to do last year. Hopefully we can do that from now on.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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day of the team’s quad meet Jan. 15.

“He totally called me out and said I was an age-grouper freshman year,” Glover said.

“But looking back, I was. I was so naive. I didn’t know anything about lifting or dry land or doing power circuits in the water with power equipment to work on strength.”

Most collegiate swimmers arrive at a university having competed on a high-school team or a competitive club team beforehand. Glover had neither luxury, as her high school, Wilde Lake in Columbia, did not have a swim team.

Rather, she built her swimming repertoire by training at the Catonsville YMCA four or five times a week.

“It was huge,” Glover said of the transition. “I was exhausted all freshman year.

I just remember being tired all the time. At least the first semester, whenever I could, I’d just take a 10-minute nap, just conk out between classes.”

“Everything was just new to me. Swimming the amount of yards, swimming twice a day, swimming on Saturdays, swim meets where people are really fast. In the YMCA world, you swim these fast kids maybe once or twice a year and then in college everyone’s that fast.

Everyone can beat you.”

As a recruit under theninterim coach Jarod Schroeder and his staff, Glover didn’t have a problem with committing to College Park despite the inherent lack of stability that accompanied Schroeder’s interim title.

“In the YMCA world, you swim these fast kids maybe once or twice a year.”

GINNY GLOVER TERRAPIN SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM

“I really liked their coaching staff, and I really liked their team atmosphere with the girl’s team,” Glover said. “I knew, going into college swimming, he was the interim coach, and I know just with any college sport, you pick the school, not the coach, because coaches leave.”

Today, the 6-foot-2 communications major has a far loftier goal than she likely anticipated three years ago: qualifying for the 2012 Olympic trials next June.

“The plan is I’m staying here this summer to train and go to meets and train with [coach] Sean [Schimmel] and John Pontz and the other coaches so I can try to make a trials cut,” she said. “That’s the goal.”

Glover, an optimistic realist, acknowledges the odds of her landing a spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team are “very slim.”

“I just want to go to the meet and experience being surrounded by Olympians and future Olympians and former Olympians and just be in the atmosphere to say I did it and made it,” she said.

Considering how far the former age-grouper has come, it’s near impossible to say just how far Glover can go. castello@umdbk.com

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Full of newcomers, Terps start spring season vs. Navy

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

Second-year Terrapin women’s tennis coach Howard Joffe has described his squad as a “new-look team.”

And despite years and years of losing in the powerful ACC, he has laid the groundwork for what might finally be a successful turnaround in the next several years. His first chance to chart that progress will be today against Navy.

The match will offer an opportunity to take a glimpse at the future of his young program. There are four freshmen on the squad, and Joffe has said they all will get their chance to start immediately. Each hails from a different reach of the globe: Cristina Stancu is from Romania, Jordaan Sanford from California, Megan Dailey from Missouri and Welma Luus from South Africa.

Two transfers will make their debuts for the Terps. Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar, a junior from Spain, will play after sitting out last year due to NCAA transfer rules. Ana Belzunce, a sophomore newcomer from Spain, will join her.

The lone senior, Julia Huschke, and the only junior nontransfer, Jordan Hansbrough, round out the starting lineup and will head the roster with experience and leadership. Joffe hopes the freshmen can acclimate quickly to the tennis season with their help.

“I expect it to be a challenge,” Joffe said of the upcoming match. “The players are very excited to begin the season. ... I expect them to fight very hard with a good attitude and go about our business in the right way, and we’ll live with the results.” munson@umdbk.com

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Vasquez to be honored?

Former Terp Greivis Vasquez could have his jersey honored Feb. 20 during the Terps’ game vs. NC State. Read more at TerrapinTrail.com.

TERPGAMEDAY

THE MATCHUP

Maryland Terrapins

Virginia Cavaliers

12-7 (2-3 ACC)

11-8 (2-3 ACC)

WHEN: Tonight, 7 p.m.

WHERE: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Va. TV: Comcast SportsNet DATA: This year’s Terp team is without guard Greivis Vasquez, who scored 25 of his 30 points in the first half of an 85-66 win at home against the Cavaliers last year.

TERPTRACKER 2010-11 TEAM STATS Average PPG Field Goal % 3-Point % Free Throw % Rebounds/G Assists/G Turnovers/G

TERPS

UVA

77.3 47.7 33.7 63.3 40.8 17.1 14.3

64.2 42.8 38.8 71.3 31.8 11.6 11.1

INDIVIDUAL STATS

Guard Terrell Stoglin has been one of the few effective 3-point shooting threats for the Terps this season.

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TERPS POS

MIN PTS REB AST

G G G F F

19.0 25.4 24.9 27.6 31.8

T. Stoglin A. Bowie S. Mosley D. Gregory J. Williams

9.5 1.1 2.6 9.3 3.1 3.7 8.3 3.9 2.5 7.8 5.5 0.8 17.6 12.1 0.5

CAVALIERS

After season-long struggles, Terps enjoyed breakthrough performance vs. Tigers

BY CHRIS ECKARD

POS

MIN PTS REB AST

G G G G C

29.6 25.1 26.1 27.9 18.4

M. Farrakhan K. Harrell J. Harris J. Evans A. Sene

LONG-DISTANCE DIFFICULTIES

13.0 10.5 10.3 5.6 3.5

2.6 2.1 2.6 0.9 3.6 1.0 2.5 3.8 4.5 0.1

Senior staff writer

The Terrapin men’s basketball team enjoyed what has often been a rare luxur y against Clemson on Jan. 22: a soft shooting touch.

All season, the Terps have struggled when firing outside the

painted area. Their inability to hit late free throws or key jump shots has hurt them in several losses to ranked teams.

But following a historic loss to Virginia Tech on Jan. 20, the Terps (12-7, 2-3 ACC) rebounded with one of their best shooting performances of the season in a win

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Ginny Glover will train with assistant John Pontz, left, and coach Sean Schimmel in preparation for the 2012 Olympic qualifying trials this summer. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

‘Age-grouper’ grows up Glover charted unusual path to prominence ovation for her efforts.

Evident to all in attendance was how far the junior — once an unschooled freshman who did not know how to The roar rippled through cavproperly warm up before a meet — ernous Eppley Recreation Center had come.

Natatorium like smooth stones skipIn the swimming community, an ping across a lake. The salvo greeted “age-grouper” describes a young Terrapin swimmer Ginny Glover no swimmer who knows little about the more than a moment after she sport or its intricacies, not to mentouched the wall following her best tion the training regimen necessar y event, the 200 back.

It was Nov. 20, 2010, the final day of GINNY GLOVER for success.

Glover, as she will readily admit, fell the 2010 Terrapin Cup, when Glover TERRAPIN SWIMMING into that category when she first came posted a time of 1:56.02 in the 200 AND DIVING TEAM to College Park, a truth assistant back, registering a NCAA ‘B’ cut time in the process. Despite falling three-hundredths coach John Pontz repeated before the second of a second shy of tying her school record, a see GLOVER, page 7 throng of Terp supporters rose and delivered an

BY MATT CASTELLO Staff writer

against the Tigers.

Tonight, the Terps hope that momentum can travel with them to Charlottesville, Va., for a clash with Virginia (11-8, 2-3).

“We shot great down the stretch in pressure situations,” coach Gary Williams said of the Clemson game. “I think that’s where we are

right now.”

Although the Terps rank second in the ACC in overall field-goal percentage, they haven’t had much success from the free-throw line or behind the 3-point arc. The Terps rank last in the league in free-throw

see SHOOTING, page 7