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Not everyone sat on their couch this break — two students walked across Taiwan instead

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Conflict over bars brewing Underage service, fire safety may prompt liquor license challenge

BY BRADY HOLT Staff writer

ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACK

Thirsty Turtle may see its liquor license renewal challenged by city officials.

The College Park City Council signaled two weeks ago that the city may challenge the liquor license renewals for four downtown bars and restaurants, citing concerns about overcrowding and fire safety among other problems Santa Fe Café, College Perk, Town Hall

Burglary spree hits 20 student residences

and The Thirsty Turtle could face reviews from the liquor board after the city staff and a council member introduced the concerns at a Jan. 15 meeting.

In a presentation to the council, City Manager Joe Nagro said that Santa Fe is frequently over capacity and uses an unlicensed stage of unknown structural integrity. The bar also did not follow a fire inspector’s order to remove fire hazards

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He added that College Perk maintains unlicensed apartments and has not paid for city approval for its liquor license. District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin noted that the Thirsty Turtle and Town Hall lacked the food requirements their licenses call for, and they too will be evaluated by the city.

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Second half leaves Terps feeling Blue Duke overcomes first-half deficit to topple men’s basketball Sunday

BY ANDREW ZUCKERMAN Senior staff writer

Police arrest student, three others during crimes

Inside the Comcast Center tunnel at halftime, the Terrapin men’s basketball team huddled, pumping themselves up and getting ready to come back on the court with a ninepoint lead.

“ONE, TWO, THREE, HARD WORK!” the players bellowed, before jogging onto the floor.

But it was Duke that worked harder than the Terps in the final 20 minutes, and it was Duke that escaped with a win.

Playing through foul trouble and a hostile crowd, the No. 4-ranked Blue Devils beat the Terps 93-84 last night. After

BY STEVEN OVERLY Senior staff writer

Burglars entered 20 off-campus student residences in downtown College Park during winter break in a crime spree that netted televisions, iPods and other electronics, Prince George’s County Police said.

Police arrested three men and issued a warrant for a fourth in connection with the crimes after District 1 Commander Maj. Kevin Davis assigned more than 20 investigators and officers to the area. All three of the men arrested were caught in the act, Davis said.

Please See DUKE, Page 22

An opening tip to the semester

Please See SPREE, Page 10

Tuition freeze not a sure thing O’Malley’s proposal likely to face legislative hurdles

BY MEGAN ECKSTEIN Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to freeze in-state tuition for the third year in a row could face obstacles during the 90-day legislative session that began this month.

O’Malley’s 2009 budget proposal, which he unveiled Jan. 16, includes enough higher-education funding to stave off any increase in tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities.

But state legislators and school officials haven’t started celebrating yet. The General Assembly will consider the budget in the coming weeks and could end up slashing higher

Please See TUITION, Page 11

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Move-in weekend usually means it’s time to buy textbooks and prepare for early morning lectures, but an earlier-than-normal date for last night’s basketball contest against Duke made the start of this semester unique.

The Duke game has a special spot in the hearts of Terp fans. The unusual timing has harbored differing opinions.

“The game being on the first weekend back is a little inconvenient because there are people that are moving in into the week and on the day of the game,” said sophomore ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACK

Please See FANS, Page 17

In spite of James Gist’s 26 points and Bambale Osby’s 20 points and 15 rebounds, the Terps lost control in the second half and suffered a 93-84 defeat at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils.

Working to save an imperiled mascot Gemstone students brainstorm ways to grow the state’s dwindling diamondback terrapin population

BY BRADY HOLT Staff writer

You can’t fear a turtle that doesn’t exist.

That’s why one group of students in the Gemstone research program have formed Saving Testudo, an effort to help bolster the population of water-dwelling diamondback terrapins — a species listed as endangered in some areas.

The group of 13 juniors has been researching ways to protect the terrapin’s natural

habitat since their sophomore year. Specifically, the group is studying the effect of enclosing terrapin nesting areas with electric fencing to deter predators from eating the turtle eggs.

“This is completely different from almost any other team in Gemstone,” said team member Jessica White, a junior cell biology and genetics major. “Most people just end up doing some kind of survey on a social

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COURTESY OF SAVING TESTUDO

Terrapin eggs face threats from other animals. Students have put up electric fences to protect the nests.

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Lawmakers say this year’s bills aimed at saving students money will focus on placing more regulations on professors | PAGE 12

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Lauer stunts Clinton’s attacks Antoin Rezko, the Chicago landlord indicted last year by the feds for illegally influencing the Illinois governor’s administration and for business fraud, has been at the center of attacks on presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama levied by rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama defended Rezko when he was a Chicago lawyer and donated funds to his campaign. But Clinton’s attacks appeared to be blunted Friday after NBC’s Matt Lauer produced a photo of Rezko with his arms around Clinton and her husband when he was president.

Florida gov. to endorse McCain Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will endorse John McCain, The Associated Press has learned, a move likely to give the Republican presidential candidate a critical boost ahead of tomorrow’s primary.

The Arizona senator is locked in a tight race with Mitt Romney, with Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee trailing. All sought Crist's endorsement.

- Compiled from wire reports

Michael Moore’s Sicko

Stalker Awareness Week

The music school will host Spring 2008 choir auditions, noon to 6 p.m., CSPAC.

Beyond the Classroom presents Michael Moore’s film Sicko, 7 p.m., South Campus Commons Building 1.

University Health Center will offer resources to prevent stalking, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Stamp Student Union.

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Univ. researchers aim to make deep impact

BY CHRIS YU Staff writer

A team of university researchers is sending a recycled spacecraft to a nearby comet in order to better understand the building blocks of the solar system.

The mission, known as The Deep Impact Extended Mission, picks up where astronomy professor Michael A’Hearn left off about two years ago and will propel an unmanned vessel within the solar system to learn how planetary systems are created.

A’Hearn’s previous mission, Deep Impact, for the first time ever exposed the insides of a comet, making national headlines and raising new questions about how these icy solar bodies evolved. It was the biggest mission the school had done.

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Artist Pat Rawlings recreates the spacecraft’s landing on a comet.

NASA to send the spacecraft to a more distant comet called Hartley 2, hoping to compare it with the comet from the previous mission.

Comparing the geological features of the two comets can yield information on how they have evolved, said Jessica Sunshine, a university

researcher and an investigator on the team. Also, by comparing the atmospheres and surface compositions of Hartley 2 and Tempel 1 — the first comet visited — scientists can see how comets are put together and how they have changed, Sunshine added.

If scientists understand how comets are made, they can better understand the formation of the solar system, said Carey Lisse, instrument scientist on the mission team and a university researcher.

The original target comet for this mission was not Hartley 2; it was a comet called Boethin. But Boethin was too difficult to find, so Hartley 2 became the target.

The mission is divided into two legs, Sunshine said. The first, which began last week, sends the spacecraft to look for rocky planets similiar in mass to Earth around six different stars.

Learning about these types

of planets can help explain how planetary systems are formed, A’Hearn said.

During the second leg of the mission, which won’t be completed until 2010, the spacecraft will do a flyby of Hartley 2 and examine it in great detail, Sunshine said, adding that this mission will only be the fifth time ever that scientists are able to view a comet up close.

One of the hardest parts of the mission is taking the actual data collected and interpreting what they mean, A’Hearn said.

Throughout both legs, Sunshine said, mission data will be available to students.

“It is an example of how the University of Maryland is going into the 21st century,” Lisse said. “There is a lot of prestige involved and it has certainly put Maryland on the map.” yudbk@gmail.com

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Officials push new Purple Line option State funding drives

BY BRADY HOLT Staff writer

University administrators are lobbying state transportation planners to consider a third alternate route that would take the planned Purple Line transitway through the campus, renewing a battle to keep Purple Line off of Campus Drive.

University officials are now recommending the proposed transitway — which will be either light rail or bus-rapid transit — follow Preinkert and Chapel drives on the south side of the campus rather than the northern Stadium Drive as they had previously suggested. Maryland Transit Administration officials disagree, saying the best route is one that is nearby pedestrian hubs,

such as the Stamp Student Union.

But the MTA has been more receptive to laying down tracks on Preinkert Drive rather than on Stadium Drive, which they say is a more technically difficult location and too far from pedestrian traffic.

“Our experience tells us that the best alignment is the place with the most people. And that’s still Campus Drive. That’s not to say that this other alignment can’t work, and it’s much better than Stadium Drive,” said Mike Madden, the MTA’s Purple Line project manager. He added, “there are some concerns with this new alignment that could arise,” including “visual impacts to the vista of the [Memorial] Chapel.”

“Our experience tells us that the best alignment is the place with the most people.”

–Mike Madden MTA PROJECT MANAGER

But pedestrian traffic is what concerns administrators most. University President Dan Mote has said laying down light rails along Campus Drive — which will eventually close to all vehicle traffic aside from Shuttle-UM buses and emergency vehicles — would be disruptive.

“We don’t feel that the Purple Line down Campus Drive fits in with the master plan,” university Vice President for Administrative Affairs Doug Duncan said. He said the university plans to move the transit center of the campus from

in front of the student union to the Preinkert Field House, with buses following a roadway that would be constructed for the Purple Line.

Madden said the extra time spent studying the differences between the Campus Drive and Preinkert Drive alignments should not delay the project, which is scheduled to begin construction in 2012. Although Gov. Martin O’Malley recently pledged $100 million to the Purple Line, it could still require up to $1.7 billion more in federal funding. Madden said administrators’ new proposal wouldn’t have much impact on the overall price tag.

“So far, it looks like the cost would be the same, very much the same. And the travel time would be very similar” between the Preinkert and Campus Drive alignments, Madden said. It also would allow for the line to travel through the center of the planned East Campus retail development, rather than just along the northern edge. holtdbk@gmail.com

local transit projects

BY KEN PITTS Staff writer

Some grease has been added to the wheels of two major College Park transportation concerns after the state set aside millions of dollars for Route 1 reconstruction and the proposed Purple Line transitway.

The funding, announced by Gov. Martin O’Malley on Jan. 17, came bundled with nearly $460 million in transportation improvements for Prince George’s County as part of the state’s six-year Consolidated Transportation Program. Route 1 received $7 million and the engineering of the Purple Line received $100 million.

The money comes from a transportation trust, not from the state’s recently imperiled General Fund, according to a press release announcing the investments.

The $7 million will allow the State Highway Administration to begin widening Route 1 into a four-lane road. The funding plan also includes bus pull-off areas and acceleration and deceleration lanes. Both sides of the road will have sidewalks and landscaped space, possibly including trees, according to highway administration documents.

One of the project’s main goals is to ease congestion in the area by consolidating access points between U.S. Route 1 and MD Route 193, said Charlie Gischler, a public information officer for the highway administration.

This upgrade could prove a blessing to future commuters, as last year’s average daily traffic of 59,000 vehicles is projected to increase to nearly 72,000 vehicles by 2030, according to highway administration data.

The span between College Avenue and Route 193 will be the first of three segments of the road to see improvements, with similar reconstruction planned to extend north to Sunnyside Avenue, just beyond the Capitol Beltway.

The $100 million for the Purple Line, a proposed bus or light rail connection between the

New Carrollton and Bethesda Metrorail stations, is intended for the project’s final design, said Michael Madden, project manager for the Maryland Transit Administration. The initial planning process is fully funded, he said, but the line must pass through environmental impact evaluations and federal approval before conclusive plans can be drawn for construction.

While progress on the line remains stalled amid debate about its placement — including its path through the campus — the size of the state’s investment suggests that the governor intends to see the project through to its end.

“I believe the governor wanted to show a strong commitment on the part of the state for the project,” Madden said.

“It’s clearly one of the top transportation priorities.”

Purple Line construction is scheduled to begin in 2012 at the earliest, with three to five years required for completion, at a cost ranging from $450 million to nearly $1.8 billion.

For some members of the College Park community, the funding allocations come as a much desired sign of progress.

“It’s great news,” said Graduate Student Government President Laura Moore. “The state of Route 1 is holding us back as a university, so I think any improvements are welcome.”

However, others will remain skeptical of the state’s generosity until funding is made for projects to begin actual construction.

District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said that in his 38 years as a city resident the state has managed to produce money for studies, but few major improvements were ever made to local transit, especially Route 1.

“So, they’re going to go into engineering, and we’re going to wait ... how many more months and years before we get any construction money?” Perry said. “I like to see bricks and mortar, and concrete, and real work done.” pittsdbk@gmail.com

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Achievements and aspirations

“There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.” - Shirley Chisholm

Lauren Effron is a senior journalism major and is the SGA director of communication.

She can be reached at lauren.effron@gmail.com.

Scan and bleed

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The Athletics Department hopes to remedy the oyalty.

Tireless attendance, head-to-toe body paint, impromptu renditions of “Rock problem by advertising the tickets available at will call and Roll, Part II.” However it manifests for students left out of the lottery, but they're missing itself, loyalty here matters when our reputa- the point: when games are sold out, students who scan tion, for better or for worse, is tied so closely and leave take the seats of die-hard fans who stick with the team through devastating losses and meanto the performance of our athletics teams.

Our basketball players attest to the crowd’s ability ingless blowouts.

What a bankrupt definition of loyalty. to energize the team to wins against long odds over The scan and leave loophole has existed for six top-ranked and bitter rivals North Carolina and Duke over the years. Most recently, poor fan attendance has years and yet nothing substantial has been done to fix contributed to muted crowds during what should have it.

PR campaigns have not been working. been easy games against American University and Shame has not been working.

Ohio. Both ended in losses.

This is a systemic problem and it For the last few seasons, while the must be addressed as one. team has been mired in the dolWe have used this space twice drums, unable to attain its past It is time for students already — once four years ago and prominence on the national sporting and administrators again two years ago — suggesting stage, spirit at home games has taken to work together ways to fix the system. The possible on unprecedented importance solutions are numerous and simple: because winning them is critical for a to fix the loyalty put boxes near the exits for students trip to the NCAA tournament. points system. to drop their tickets into when leavAnd yet the stands have been ing to get credit for sticking through empty. When we played Hampton earlier this season, the wall was half-full. We barely the game; store ticket information on ID cards and have students swipe on their way out. Students and won.

Maybe we’re getting soft. Few current undegradu- administrators could easily meet to select and impleates can recall braving long lines in the bitter cold for ment the best solution.

The time for action is now. Members of the SGA can a chance to get tickets to games against our biggest and should work with administrators to tackle this rivals.

Instead of an endurance contest for tickets, we now contentious issue and implement a solution just in have an odd ritual where “loyalty” can be earned by time to list it on their accomplishments before elecscanning tickets at Comcast and leaving without actu- tions roll around.

Rare are the opportunities where small solutions ally supporting the team. Testudo’s troops have suffered countless casualties through this recipe for self- can have such a large impact on the university. destruction.

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Editorial Cartoon: Mike O’Brien

The Lite Fare

Manic Monday As we struggle to buy our books, sleep away the last of our winter-break hangovers and get off the waitlist to that coveted Human Sexuality class (good luck with that), there is an obvious sense of confusion and bewilderment around the campus, particularly among the upperclassmen. Many of us might have thought we read the calendar wrong when we were scheduling our trips back to the campus, and a collective question came from all of us: Monday? Classes start on a MONDAY? It threw us off, confused us, possibly even threw our Monday-night plans out of whack. What other effects did this subtle but painful change have on us?

Don’t you have school tomorrow?

Normally, you might have rolled out of bed the last Sunday before the spring semester, thought about packing and planned for a great Monday night at Cornerstone, having all day Tuesday to buy your books and plan your schedule. But as you visit Testudo and realize you have class in 12 hours, you begin to panic. You haphazardly throw clothes into a laundry basket and chuck pillows in the backseat of your car, running out of the house without ever telling your family where you’re going, and, causing 13 accidents on I-95, you race to get back to College Park not even in time to enjoy a beer with your buds at Cornerstone.

Five days before the weekend?

Getting back into the swing of school can take some time.

A full day of classes, dealing with the roommate and moving back in can all be a hassle; we hear you. It’s good to take it slow, and two or three days of classes followed by a weekend to regroup is a great transition. So who in his right mind thought that throwing us back into a full five days of classes was the best way to help us readjust? We’re just not ready for this kind of intense commitment. Or four days of intensive intermediate French at 10 a.m. when we haven’t woken up before noon all break.

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Lauren Effron

inter break can be a great time to relax, and for most of us, that’s exactly what we used it for. But thankfully our Student Government Association president kept busy advocating tirelessly for our interests.

In Annapolis, he has been working with state senators and delegates on a student-voter rights bill that is expected to be introduced in both the state senate and the House of Delegates.

On Jan. 10, Andrew Friedson testified at a textbook briefing to discuss how certain policies affect students. His testimony and subsequent meetings have helped lead to comprehensive textbook legislation that is being introduced in the state house.

Separately, he has also been working with Del. Ben Barnes (D - Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) to introduce a bill on textbook disclosure. The bill, which our City Council Liaison Danielle Kogut has also been working on, would require publishers to disclose more information to professors when they select their textbooks. He has also worked with Del. Marvin Holmes, Jr. (DPrince George’s) regarding House Bill 3 — a bill focused on ISBN, which are universally unique identification numbers for every book.

The bill would require universities to publish and release ISBN numbers for every book in every offered course. Friedson will be testifying tomorrow in favor of the bill with an amendment. The amendment would require universities to enable faculty to indicate whether previous editions of textbooks are sufficient for courses. Because previous editions can be dramatically cheaper, students could potentially save a substantial amount of money.

He also testified in favor of Senate Bill 1 — a bill to fund and organize the Maryland Legislative Youth Advisory Legislative Council, which would help high school and college students become involved in state politics.

Friedson attended Gov. Martin O’Malley’s higher education budget unveiling two weeks ago and met with the governor’s office to discuss higher education funding and the tuition cap.

On Capitol Hill, Friedson continued his work and discussion with lawmakers and influential individuals on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in Congress.

Back on the home front, Friedson met with developers and university administrators to discuss new housing projects to help ease the ongoing housing crisis and worked behind the scenes and at public meetings on the East Campus project. He also continued discussion with the administration and Maryland Transit Administration on the Purple Line.

Friedson met with area student government leaders to discuss moving forward with several projects, including safety on the campus, and how to better collaborate and coordinate our efforts.

Friedson signed on to a letter to urge the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for a college student discount for Metro and bus fares. The SGA continues to work with other student governments to lobby the D.C. City Council and other Councils, including the WMATA Board of Directors to fight for this cause.

These are significant efforts and the SGA is encouraged by the progress we are making. However, your student government wants to hear from you to find out what you want us to advocate for. The best way for us to serve you is for you to raise your concerns at our meetings, in our office, over e-mail or face-toface with your representatives. Our weekly general meetings are held in the Banneker Room on the second floor of the Stamp Student Union every Wednesday at 6 p.m. Also, I hope you seek out your legislators and get to know them so they can better serve you. You can look up your legislator on our website, www.sga.umd.edu, and you can always e-mail us with questions or concerns at sga@umd.edu. We’re working hard to represent you, and we plan to keep pushing forward.

NICOLE VAN BERKUM

Not so thirsty on Wednesday morning Many of us would be willing to trade the first class of the semester for the first power hour of the semester. We just know that, hey, we can grab that syllabus next week; first day of class, no big deal. But third day of class? Can we really justify missing the third day of class for the first power hour of the semester? It seems a little riskier, a little more rebellious.

Hey, maybe this is a good thing — maybe we’ll actually be able to get in the Thirsty Turtle without having to wait outside Potbelly for an hour.

Like teacher, like student Don’t think it’s just the students who are irritated at being asked to be productive human beings for a full five days right off the bat. Secretly, you know the professors and teaching assistants are dreading having to explain the same concept two or three times in the same week without any sign of a break to memorize some names and revamp their schedule. If your professor is a little on the crabby side, don’t automatically assume he or she isn’t the friendliest of folks. Give him or her the benefit of the doubt and figure they’re longing for the weekend just as much as you are.

More work, less play It’s hard to give any big assignments with only one or two classes under the belt. But with an entire week, it’s there’s a high probability that your first weekend back will revolve around some sort of writing assignment and a load of reading. Enough class time to actually have a lecture means enough down time to assign work we wouldn’t normally be asked to do the first weekend back. Particularly distressing is the fact that it’s Super Bowl weekend. Plan accordingly, kids.

MATTHEW JOHN PHILLIPS

Defining diversity

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o issue is more talked about within the Department of Resident Life than that of multiculturalism and diversity. I say this as a Resident Assistant with almost two years of experience. For the most part, this intense focus works.

“Rightful place” is a phrase that resides at the heart of the department’s multicultural philosophy. It captures the efforts of the Resident Life staff to give each citizen of the dorms a place to live where they feel welcome, personally challenged and ultimately safe. The staff of Resident Life wants to create a place free of harassment or abuse on account of any characteristic of residents’ identity — so long as those residents respect the rightful place of other students.

However, is it truly possible to end all forms of discrimination? Can we ever live as a society — whether on the micro level of Dorchester Hall or in the macro scale of the Earth as a whole — free of intolerance and unfair prejudices? Is the idea of a “human” race just a wave of naively sticking our heads in the ground to ignore situations that cannot be mitigated?

A fellow RA expressed to me her discomfort about putting up fliers relating to Black History Month. As a person of African heritage, she worried that it would come off as all too much, coming from her. Too much “angry black woman” trying to shove diversity down the collective throats of residents. What this led to was a very interesting discussing about how far discrimination can dig itself.

A question had been nagging me since my sophomore sociology class. Because she is half-Filipino, half-Ethiopian, I asked her, “Do you consider yourself black, African American or African?”

What she told me was that she considered herself mixed African, if pressed. However, even though she was aware that people who do not know her might perceive her as an African American, she could never accept that label, because she is not one. As we talked differences that were small and internal between the two racial subgroups began to reveal themselves. As an immigrant, she said she never understood the African-American idea of oppression. She could sympathize with, but never truly understand, the history of the descendants of black slaves. And in turn, she remarked about a certain amount of resentment she feels from African Americans because of this.

Those frequent readers of my columns know that I am a proud queer student. And almost all of my queer peers will agree that the LGBT community has its own forms of internalized oppression. Gay men are often “rewarded” for being perceived by the general, heterosexual public for being “straight-acting.” That is, it is considered more desirable to be stereotypically “heterosexuallike” in all of its hyper-masculine, sportsand-beer glory. Those who scream gay are somehow less worthy. And that’s not even touching on the lesbians.

And no matter how far along the women’s movement comes, it is impossible to shake of the bonds of social conditioning. My mother told me during the break that she could never vote for Hillary Clinton because she was not sure she could trust a woman to run the government. Something about PMS, tears and nuclear arms. Because, clearly, women are too emotional to be slated any positions of power. Every show on television it seems — Sex and the City, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle, Big Shots — seems to grapple with these questions. How much can women really deal with? Do women have to become like men — ruthless and cold — to deal with positions of authority?

Those ignorant enough might blame a “majority” group (otherwise known as white, heterosexual men) for this. They’ll say, “It’s not really our fault, just the society we grew up in.” However, I feel it is wrong to blame anybody and almost impossible to get away from these ideas about identity.

I’m not here to propose any sort of answer to all of the questions or concerns I have raised. Society has changed a lot, but we are talking about hundreds of years of conditioning that we have to combat. We all have our prejudiced inclinations, and it is important we recognize that. Where you go from there is your own decision.

Matthew John Phillips is a junior English major. He can be reached at mjphilli@umd.edu.

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Best of the week “I'm counting on the university to not present any stum- “They came...because they were drawn by his message of bringing Americans of all backgrounds bling blocks. We need the Purple Line. We want the Purtogether.” ple Line.”

- College Park Mayor Stephen Brayman on the need for traffic relief.

From the Jan. 27 Washington Post

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- Maryland center Bambale Osby on Maryland’s win over UNC..

- Alec MacGillis on South Carolina’s support of Sen. Barack From the Jan. 27 Washington Post Obama.

From the Jan. 27 Washington Post

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wice a year, my house becomes a battleground. My father glares at the TV, occasionally yelling “bullshit!” and my mother forgoes real words and just screams. For two hours they try their best not to talk to each other — the exception being when the referee makes a call that causes my dad to mumble, “Carolina ref” and my mom to respond, “Oh please — he was practically punched” — and every conversation ends abruptly when someone inbounds the ball.

Twice a year my parents watch the Maryland vs. Duke game; my dad in red and my mom in blue.

My trip into this world of craziness began in my prenatal days at Cole Field House. I don’t remember much from this era of my life, but this was the time immediately following the death of Len Bias, so there were better times to be a Terps fan. There are hardly words to describe how bad the Terps were back then. Bob Wade was the coach, and we had a perfect conference record of 0-14. But don’t worry, we got better. By the time Wade left, we were 1-13. Meanwhile, Duke was only in year four of their seven-consecutive NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances (six Final Fours, four championship games, and two titles). Needless to say, my mother was feeling rather smug. Born into such a world, how could her firstborn child become anything other than a Duke fan? But then came Gary Williams.

We were extremely lucky to get Gary to come here. Our program was terrible, and he was doing well for himself as the coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Still, he wanted to coach at his alma mater, and he was hired.

After being forced to deal with various sanctions imposed on the team as a result of mistakes made during Bob Wade’s stint with the Terps, Gary, with a little help from Walt Williams, began to bring the team back into national prominence yet again.

I cheered for both schools in my younger days. Forgive me, I didn’t know any better. At that point I thought of basketball games as little more than opportunities to eat soft pretzels and drink soda. Then, in 1994, the hand of fate intervened and three things all happened at once: I became interested in basketball, Duke was terrible, and Joe Smith was dominating. Say what you want about Smith’s professional career, but he’s the first Terp I can remember specifically — I still and for good reason. He was big, cheered for he was strong, he Duke could shoot, he could block and he was unstop- when they pable. If it weren’t weren’t for him and Keith Booth, I might playing have become a Duke fan, or Maryland. never become inI was far terested in basketball at all. too scared Even so, I still of my cheered for Duke when they weren’t playing mother to the Terps — I was do far too scared of my mother to do otherwise. otherwise — but following the 2000 win at Cameron Indoor Stadium, that became increasingly difficult. After that game, Duke was our rival, and liking them was unacceptable. The rivalry made perfect sense to me. In fact, I was surprised people were only just then picking up on it. After all, the tension in my house during Terps vs Blue Devils games was tangible. The hatred of Duke, however, put me in a more awkward position. With championships won by both teams over the next two years and awe-inspiring games played at Comcast, Cole and Cameron, the rivalry grew, and with it the necessary hatred of all things Blue Devil.

My sympathy for Duke was causing me all kinds of problems, so I made a an ultimatum my senior year of high school: I would apply to both Duke and Maryland, and whichever school I attended would receive my exclusive support. Needless to say, both schools fought over me viciously, but in the end, I was persuaded by some scholarship money. I guess that makes me a whore. Anyway, here’s to another twenty years of the most notorious rivalry in college basketball, or at least in my house.

“It opened up a new door, a new

’m not going to lie; packing up my car on Friday for the last time was a little devastating. After three and a half years of making the now-familiar trek from Long Island down I-95 South to College Park, it’s a scary realization that this is the final stretch.

It’s sad, but having only four months left has really put so much in perspective. How many more nights do I have to crawl home from the bar and order D.P. Dough at three in the morning with my friends? How many more days do I have to wake up and decide I don’t feel like rolling out of bed that morning? How many more days do I have to hang out with my roommates in one bed eating cereal and talking about marriage and breakups? That stuff, sadly, has become a huge part of my life, and in a few months it will be gone. Time to grow up — or at least pretend to.

So here’s my advice to seniors in my position and to freshmen who think they have all the time in the world before they get here, too. I have a bad feeling this might come off as a “Sunscreen Song” knockoff, but I’ll do my best to, at the very least, put my own twist on it.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: College, no matter which major you are, is about more than a GPA. It’s about more than labs, classes and papers. The best moments of my college career absolutely came outside of the classroom.

The greatest lessons I learned came not from professors or textbooks, but rather from my best friends and, surprisingly, from strangers. Whether you have three years or three months left here, make the most of it. Make some stupid mis-

year high school reunion. Be happy with who you are, not who people made you out to be when you were 17.

Finally, I think the most important thing I learned at the university in my three and a half years here is that I am exceptionally privileged to be where I am, and because of this, I should give back. I used to hate volunteer work in high school because the projects I was a part of never let me see the real impact I could have. Realize how lucky you are to have all these options in front of you and give a little back.

Something as small as being polite to the people you order your food from, to something as demanding as signing up to work for projects like Big Brothers Big Sisters or the American Red Cross will actually have a huge impact on someone else’s life. If nothing else, leave college knowing you changed someone’s life, even if it’s in the smallest way possible.

I am not a college guru. I am not an expert and trust me, my grades probably don’t reflect those of the most studious of people. But I know what I’ve learned here, and I know where those lessons have come from. And most of them are unconventional. And if nothing else, I hope that whether you’re a freshman stressing over your first internship or a senior cruising this semester to your job at JP Morgan, don’t lose the time you have here. It’s last call, kids. Make it count.

takes, tell some ridiculous jokes, go on trips, kiss some people, eat something sketchy from Ratsie’s, get lost on the Metro and have fun with your friends.

Don’t spend your entire collegiate career locked in the back room of a library.

Spend time, make memories, share stories. Trust me, the friends you make here will be around way longer than an A in Intro to Macroeconomics.

As random as it sounds, find ways to include your family in your experience here. It may sound weird, and a lot of you probably already do, but so many people never even mention their family once they make the transition to college.

My biggest regret in life is that my father passed away before he could see what I’ve accomplished here, before he could see me walk at graduation. You may think it’s dorky to show your folks around the campus, or grab a beer at Cornerstone with your dad or brother or sister, but believe it or not, your experience here is a big deal to them. Don’t miss out on sharing it with them.

Figure out how much better you are than people in high school allowed you to believe. This sounds pretentious, but I know that a lot of you guys know exactly what I’m talking about. You were put down in high school because you weren’t “popular,” “cool,” pretty, thin or trendy. Time to step up. There are so many options open to you to prove you were and are better than what you were pigeon-holed to be. Taking initiative to prove myself to be more than what I was in high school came to be my biggest accomplishment in college, and I’m actually counting down to my five-

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Letters to the Editor RHA achievements The Residence Hall Association, as the “Voice of the on-campus population,” has been outspoken regarding an unprecedented situation: the housing crisis. Last semester, our members continually met with department heads and state officials, working to address this issue. We made it our number-one priority to craft recommendations in the best interest of all on-campus students. In fact, before the fall semester had even begun, the RHA had already invested countless hours into finding a solution to this grave problem.

In addition to the housing crunch, the RHA addressed other issues pertaining to on-campus students. We have seen mixed-gender housing, the brainchild of the RHA, come to fruition this semester with more than 100 students signing up for the trial, 40 of whom will live in mixed-gender apartments starting this fall. The renovations to the Washington Quad, which the RHA advocated, are in full swing. Completion is expected this spring. Wireless Internet installation in the dorms has been completed, and peepholes are slated to be fully installed in dorms by next semester. Recently, there was uproar from students about changes to the terms of Lot 1 permits, terms that would have blocked permit holders from parking there overnight. The RHA acted immediately, networking with other student groups including the Off-Campus Student Association, and initiating discussions with the Department of Transportation Services that led to the reversal of that decision.

All of the aforementioned achievements would not have been possible were it not for the determined RHA senate. Our senate, comprised mostly of young students new to the RHA, has worked tirelessly to craft and debate solutions. Late-night senate meetings and overtime committee sessions have shown that this year’s RHA is committed to finding solutions to the housing issue, among others.

The RHA believes the best way to promote positive change for students is to work productively with the university administration. Our positive relationship with the four on-campus departments and the university administration since the RHA’s inception has allowed us to be one of the most effective bodies in promoting improvements for the on-campus community. The RHA has and always will be an advocate for more housing and an improved quality of life for on-campus students, and we value cooperation throughout the process.

Every decision the RHA makes is made on behalf of the students living on the campus. Each senator represents 250 students in his or her on-campus community.

We strongly encourage you to seek out and get to know your RHA senators; they are always ready and willing to take input from you, their constituents. We also encourage everybody to come to our open biweekly senate meetings. The legislation we debate and discuss is pertinent to each of you. Our first senate meeting this semester will take place tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the

Jimenez Room of the Stamp Student Union.

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SETH SALVER RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION RELATIONS AND OUTREACH OFFICER

Unintentional insults For ten years, The Maryland Cow Nipple has done its best to entertain the university community. Humor is often provocative and sometimes pushes boundaries. In our December issue, we crossed the boundary with two items. Although there was no ill intent behind either item, we realize now that they were inappropriate and hurtful. Unfortunately, we cannot travel back in time to remove the items from our printed newspaper, but we have stopped distributing the newspaper and removed the items from our website. We also would like to formally apologize to anyone who took offense. Our goal is to entertain, not to hurt, and we let our readers and ourselves down when we fell short of that goal.

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Stranded by NITE Ride I’d like to express how disappointed I am in NITE Ride. I find them to be really inconsistent with when and where they will agree to pick a person up. My friends and I have requested a NITE Ride escort multiple times from the corner of Knox and Guilford roads to the College Park Metro Station. However, when I made the phone call on Friday night to have my friend and me picked up, not only did they refuse, but they also tried to convince me that I was lying when I told them I had been picked up many times at that intersection. Then, when I called back to request Terp Taxi out of desperation, and the operator tried to convince me to wait for the Shuttle-UM bus. I just felt the whole system seemed to be uninterested in making sure students are safe, regardless of whether they are paying.

Isn’t the point of NITE Ride and Terp Taxi to give students safer options to get around College Park? Or are they simply there to market and encourage the use of the Shuttle-UM? I don’t mind if NITE Ride refuses to pick up at certain locations, and I understand their reasoning. But I think it’s annoying and unfair that they are never consistent with the pickup locations and that the service tends to be hit or miss. For a while I thought they weren’t agreeing to pick me up because I was a girl or because I didn’t sound confident enough, because they had always agreed to pick up from the same location when my boyfriend made the call. Be consistent, make one rule and stop accusing students of lying simply because NITE Ride doesn’t have any standards for their operators to follow.

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ALI ADLER Personal sacrifices

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ere’s a true story: My hometown friend Theresa comes from a family of modest means. She has four younger siblings, and the youngest is severely developmentally delayed. For as long as I’ve known her, she’s been laden with family responsibilities, but, lately, her role as the eldest of five has grown substantially. Why? Theresa’s father has been in Iraq for the past eight months, and he will stay there for the next five months. After two weeks leave he will then ship off for another six months overseas.

A May 2007 report by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress reads, “[A]ccording to the Department of Defense, in September 2006, approximately 230,000 children had a parent in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Horn of Africa.”

Where are all of the young volunteers without children ready to serve our country? I’m not saying the lives of these soldiers are any less valuable, but when Theresa’s dad had to leave his family behind to serve in Iraq, alongside the countless fathers and mothers whose families have been broken by this war, I started to wonder whether there is something wrong with our system of voluntary service.

Here’s another true story: When I spent nine months in Israel last year, I rarely got to spend time with my cousin Noa because, at age 18, she was busy serving in an intelligence unit in the Israeli Defense Force. No, she’s not serving as a combat soldier like many of her peers, but Noa is doing her part to serve her country along with nearly every Israeli between the ages of 18 and 21.

Israelis our age may not be crazy about their army tenure, but they graciously accept their mandatory service, as it is unequivocally vital to the survival and prosperity of their homeland. The need is easier for them to see, as their conflicts are right in their backyard. There are Israelis who do not serve in the IDF for religious or other reasons, but many of them complete at least one year of national service, serving their country by volunteering in youth villages, kibbutzim and schools across the country.

Our wars are thousands of miles away, so unless we feel personally threatened, of course it’s hard for many of us — myself included — to feel the urgency of joining the military. But what about when we see our cities and towns gray and dirty, and littered with poverty, homelessness, drugs and crime? When we witness our schools understaffed and financially neglected? Those are wars to be fought at home, not with guns, tanks and bombs, but with our precious time and energy.

Yes, many young Americans are joining up after college with organizations like Teach for America, and it’s great.

We should all consider committing time, whether by serving in the military or by joining service programs like AmeriCorps or the Peace Corps to do each of our small parts in protecting and improving the country and the world we live in.

And for those understandably concerned about how they would afford serving — a real daily fear for thousands of servicemen and women — most programs like AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps provide loan deferment, a stipend, health benefits while you serve, as well as a monetary education award after service is completed.

Could it take a mandate to make us realize the importance of voluntary national service?

We should not need our government to force us to stop taking our freedom, safety and prosperity for granted. Each day children see their parents off to wars that should never have been started, people here and all over the world suffer from poverty and homelessness, our national parks become more littered and our cities become dirtier.

A year or two of service, whether military or otherwise, should not be made mandatory for young Americans. But military families like Theresa’s and those who volunteer in service programs cannot be the only ones who make sacrifices.

John F. Kennedy had the right idea: Each day, as citizens of this country and the world, we should all take a step back and consider not what we could do, but what each of us personally plans to do about the challenges we face while we have the privilege to do so voluntarily.

Ali Adler is a freshman journalism major. She can be reached at aliadler@umd.edu.

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orn today, you are always aware of your own status and self-image, and you are always comparing yourself to the way you have performed in the past. Of course, this simply means that you are out to match yourself in all endeavors at the very least, and to top yourself at every turn if you can. You are one for following the rules whenever you can, and you are loathe to break or bend them to suit yourself. Indeed, you are far more likely to change the rules to enable someone else to succeed, rather than do any such thing to benefit yourself only. You are fair, generous and always willing to make a sacrifice to benefit a friend.

You enjoy working with others on occasion, though you are far more successful when pursuing solitary goals on your own. Ironically, however, you demand an audience in order to be truly fulfilled; so no matter how solitary you wish to be, you do crave the presence of others in your life.

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CRIME | BLOTTER transported to a hospital.

Student beaten, robbed on Princeton Avenue Two charged in robbery of university employee A student was beaten and robbed by four men on the 7400 block of Princeton Avenue on Dec. 20, Prince George’s County Police said.

According to police, the victim was walking along College Avenue about 9:30 p.m. when he was approached by four men who told the victim to come with them. After walking about 50 feet down Princeton Avenue, the suspects punched the student several times before they fled with a book bag.

District 1 Commander Maj. Kevin Davis said the book bag contained a laptop, a digital camera and an iPod. The suspects also took the victim’s cell phone.

Davis said police have not made any arrests and do not believe the robbery was related to other area crimes.

Student fights off suspects in attempted robbery A student was injured after an attempted robbery Jan. 10 on the 7400 block of Dickinson Avenue, Prince George’s County Police said.

Police said the attempted robbery occurred about 2:30 a.m. as the victim was walking north on Dickinson Avenue. The victim was approached by three men, one of whom asked the victim for a cigarette. One of the men then struck the student on the head and said, “Give me what you have,” District 1 Commander Maj. Kevin Davis said. The victim fought off the suspects and fled, Davis said.

Police responded and searched for the men with police dogs but made no arrests, Davis said. The victim was treated on the scene and declined to be

University Police detectives charged two men in connection with a Jan. 2 robbery that occurred outside Worcester Hall, University Police said.

Police identified the men charged as Jose Cruz, 21, of Hyattsville and Angel Garcia, 20, of Riverdale. They were both charged with robbery, second-degree assault and conspiracy, among other charges.

Police said they are still searching for a third suspect they believe was involved.

The victim of the robbery, a female university employee, was hit in the head and had her purse stolen. She was treated at a local hospital for a contusion to the head.

Man points gun at university staff member University Police said the passenger of a car pointed a gun from the window of a vehicle while the car was stopped in front of the Computer and Space Sciences Building on Jan. 12.

The staff member was standing outside of the building talking on a cell phone when a gold fourdoor sedan stopped at a nearby stop sign. The passenger revealed a blackhandled gun and pointed it at the victim, police said.

The car drove away and neither of the two suspects in the car exited the vehicle or caused any physical harm.

The car was described as a Nissan Maxima with Maryland tags reading JSD 842.

– Compiled from staff reports

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Council split on liquor license reviews BARS, from Page 1 Nagro stressed the considerations did not mean the bars face closure. The city will hold a public hearing next month before it decides whether it will bring its complaints to the liquor board, which holds the sole authority to revoke licenses.

The city has mailed notifications to the four bars, but Thirsty Turtle owner Alan Wanuck said he did not know about the council’s plans Sunday night. Santa Fe owner Mark Srour did not return calls for comment.

But without actual liquor violations, the city is divided on how to proceed. Some see the threat of liquor board intervention as more of a wake-up call to offending

bar-owners than an actual plan to get their liquor licenses revoked.

“I’d be very surprised if we challenged all four licenses,” District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin said. Nonetheless, “I think all four are worthy of review.”

“I think we should push the fire safety issue when we have a chance to do it,” said District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich.

Mayor Stephen Brayman seemed skeptical of such an approach, however, doubting the liquor board would consider their complaints. He rather suggested the city bring its disputes to court.

“The place to do that battle is contract law and not in this. I don’t think we have a very good track record with

these things,” he said, explaining that the liquor board would see this as another “college town kicking the bar owners in the shins.”

As city officials and council members met increasing resistance from Brayman and from city attorney Suellen Ferguson, District 2 Councilman Jack Perry finally exploded, capping an evening’s worth of back-andforth with the mayor.

“You know what, I’m going to withdraw my suggestion [that the four establishments go under review] and say there is no underage drinking in College Park, and the city doesn’t give a damn,” he said A person who answered the phone at the liquor board

— who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to reporters — said that monthly inspections of every licensee had found no underage drinking violations in the past year, and none since the spring of 2006 when Los Cabos was fined $5,000 for serving a 14-year-old.

Does that mean there is no underage drinking in College Park?

With a laugh, the person replied carefully: “It means the establishments are doing a good job in the board’s opinion, that the establishments are doing a very good job of checking people’s IDs and verifying that they’re old enough to drink.” holtbdk@gmail.com

Suspected burglars spotted electronics during parties SPREE, from Page 1 Police charged Jordan Xavier Herrera and Younatan Habtu Gobezai, both 18, in connection with four of the burglaries earlier this month. Court records show Gobezai was arrested for robbing someone on a College Park street in September and was out on bond when he was arrested for the burglaries.

Police have not yet arrested a third man who Davis said was working as a team with Herrera and Gobezai.

Police also arrested Omololu Majekodunmi, 20, who Davis identified as a university student and charged him in connection with one of the burglaries.

Since the arrests, Davis said the burglaries have more or less “fallen off the map,” with four of the 20 being reported after the suspects were detained. Many of the burglaries were reported long after they occurred

because students were away on break and did not know their homes had been broken into.

Ten of the 20 burglaries occurred on Knox Road, including six at a 12-unit apartment complex at the intersection of Knox and Guilford Roads, Davis said.

Four of the burglarized homes were on Guilford Road, two on Hartwick Road, and one each on Norwich Road, Calvert Road, Princeton Avenue and Rhode Island Avenue.

Davis said the arrested men told police during interrogation that they had attended parties at some of the burglarized homes and apartments during the fall semester. That’s when they spotted the electronics.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that winter break starts in midDecember and the off-campus Knox Boxes are going to be vacant for a month,” Davis said.

He added that students

need to take precautions when leaving College Park for extended periods of time by locking windows and doors, closing blinds and taking expensive items home.

According to Davis, seven of the burglaries involved forced entry, but the rest of the residences were entered through unlocked windows and doors.

The apartment of juniors Michael Levitan and Neil Swerdlow was among those hit by the burglars, who stole about $800 worth of electronics, including a plasma flat screen television, an Xbox and an iPod. Swerdlow, a junior economics major, said the burglars must have entered through a window that may have been unlocked, because there was no sign of forced entry and the front door was locked.

“No one would have been here to let them in [the building], so they would have had to come in through the balcony,” Swerdlow said.

Levitan, a junior finance

major, is no stranger to College Park crime. Last semester, he and two friends were hit on the head with a crowbar and robbed in the stairwell of their building.

“It just seems unlucky and annoying, but there was nothing we could have done about either situation,” Levitan said.

Levitan’s roommate from last semester, who was one of the robbed students, had about $4,000 worth of items stolen, Levitan said. His former roommate is now studying abroad and was unavailable for comment.

One floor below Levitan and Swerdlow, senior communication major Robyn Reiss had more than $100 worth of gold and silver jewelry stolen from her apartment. She returned from a trip abroad to an e-mail saying her apartment had been broken into.

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Tuition freeze may face fight in session TUITION, from Page 1 education funding to fund other projects.

O’Malley acknowledged that “Senate President [Thomas V. ‘Mike’] Miller [Jr.] and I have a disagreement about,” the budget proposal, but added, “I’m going to do everything in my power ... to fight for at least another year of zero percent increases in college tuition.”

Sen. Jim Rosapepe, who represents the district that includes College Park, said the General Assembly seemed receptive to O’Malley’s higher-education funding, giving him a loud round of applause when he announced the tuition freeze.

But he confirmed that Miller doesn’t necessarily see a tuition freeze as the best way to spend state money.

Rosapepe said some legislators may push to raise tuition and use the money to fund other projects unrelated to higher education.

“I’m strongly supportive of the

governor’s budget,” Rosapepe said. “The governor’s proposal is very responsible. [Higher education is] fully funded … it doesn’t make sense to raise tuition if the governor has it fully funded.”

Maryland’s public colleges and universities have seen dramatic tuition increases since 2000. Tuition and mandatory fees rose by about 11 percent in 2003 and 2005 and by 16 percent in 2004. O’Malley has managed to freeze tuition for the last two years and said he would like to continue the trend.

This year’s in-state undergraduate tuition and fees for most of the colleges and universities in the system fall above the national average of $6,185 per year. This university’s tuition and fees add up to just under $8,000, according to information provided by the governor’s office, and tuition and fees at University of Maryland, Baltimore County totaled well above $8,000.

O’Malley’s budget provides $16.3 million from the Higher Education Investment Fund to

hold down tuition.

“We have come to reject the notion that college can be funded simply as a user fee-based system,” O’Malley told reporters at a Jan. 14 press conference to announce the tuition freeze. “We all benefit from better-skilled neighbors. We all benefit when there’s more opportunities for more people, when the first in a generation can actually go to college and get that degree.”

Maryland University System Chancellor Brit Kirwan lauded O’Malley’s record on keeping a lid on tuition during the governor’s press conference.

“In-state undergraduate students who entered a system institution in fall 2005 and graduate four years later in the spring of 2009 will not have experienced a tuition increase during the course of their study,” Kirwan said. “I challenge anyone to find another state where the same assertion can be made.” ecksteindbk@gmail.com

Group hopes conservation is replicated TERRAPINS, from Page 1 problem, or doing lab work.”

Saving Testudo conducted months of field experimentation in southern Maryland last summer, enclosing six 25-square-meter sections of beach and daily examining the beach’s nests.

Saving Testudo members credit physiology and neurobiology and Spanish major Lacy Gilmer with the idea.

White said she helped flesh out the basic idea of terrapin research by citing her high school experience with field study of marine life, and within a year the group had its specific research topic: “The Effect of Electric Fences on Excluding Mammalian Predators from Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Beaches.”

The vast majority of diamondback terrapin nests suffer from predation, primarily by foxes and raccoons, one group member said.

Although neither the federal nor Maryland state government officially recognizes the diamond-

back terrapin as threatened or endangered, two other states — Rhode Island and Massachusetts — do.

Members of the Saving Testudo group say evidence is pointing to a continued decline in the terrapin population, but that the numbers are difficult to track.

Protecting nests with electric fencing is not a new concept. Conservationists have used the technique to enclose individual sea turtle nests.

But constructing fences around each of the 48 nests team member Marjorie Clemens found on the Mechanicsville beach would have been impractical. The group studied the area last summer, following turtle tracks from the water to locate and document the nests.

The group hopes its success — no eggs were taken from any nests made in the six protected areas, while most of the control nests were attacked by predators — will lead to replication nationwide.

The group plans to test multiple beaches and to improve the elec-

tric fence so their work this spring and summer will build on their initial “promising” results.

Members of the group are also quick to point out that their electric fence design delivers only a minor shock intended to “deter” predators rather than harm them. (“Trust me, I tried it out,” Gilmer said.)

The terrapin eggs are also “more of a treat” for predators than a food staple, group members said, so the food chain won’t be disrupted.

The Saving Testudo project has already received over $7,000 in funding from Gemstone, the Washington Biologists’ Field Club, the university’s Fear the Turtle Fund and the agriculture school.

However, the group members are still hoping for more, in part to give some money to the students who will be sacrificing the opportunity of a summer job by “living in a cabin, waking up at 5 a.m. and checking fences.” holtdbk@gmail.com

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Legislators hopeful textbook bill will pass despite past failures

BY MEGAN ECKSTEIN Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS – State lawmakers are renewing a push this year to impose student-friendly regulations on textbooks, and many say they are unusually optimistic about passage despite a string of failures over the past several years.

Lawmakers in the House of Delegates and the Senate have several bills that will address a range of issues, including making it easier for students to compare prices online. Among the measures the legislation attempts to accomplish: n Requiring university officials to disclose books’ unique ISBN identifier, which allows students to match up assigned books online or at other bookstores. n Requiring professors to allow students to purchase older textbook editions, unless

significant content changes have been made. n Prohibiting faculty from accepting kickbacks and referral fees that encourage the use of one publisher’s textbook over another.

The only bill that has been introduced so far, the Textbook Fairness Act sponsored by Del. Marvin Holmes (D-Prince George’s), addresses the ISBN and faculty kickback issues.

But a more comprehensive bill being planned by Del. Craig Rice (D-Montgomery) will seek to close loopholes that could exempt academic materials such as novels, CDs, study guides and books bundled with extra materials.

Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who will introduce a companion bill in the Senate, said he and Rice are concerned that textbook companies could dodge the law by bundling

extra materials with books that would require students to buy the materials new. Rice’s bill will also provide guidelines that outline how much content in a textbook must be changed before a previous edition can be considered outdated.

Student Government Association President Andrew Friedson has been working with lawmakers to draft the textbook legislation, and said he would like to see a bill pass that does more than just provide students with ISBNs. “Having older editions available and knowing which ones are OK will have a much more substantial impact than ISBN disclosure,” Friedson said. He added that he is confident a textbook bill will pass this year, but passing a bill that regulates ISBN identifiers alone “is one small piece of the puzzle.”

Friedson is scheduled to testify before a House committee

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tomorrow about the Textbook Fairness Act. This year marks the second in a row that Rice has attempted to push passage of a textbook bill.

Last year, he introduced a bill that sought to provide a $500 tax credit to students who had to buy textbooks for college. The bill failed to pass, Rice said, because “a tax credit wouldn’t fix the problem — it would allow it to manifest and it would just throw money at it.”

Although the state cannot legally make publishers provide prices or book information because they do not operate exclusively in Maryland, Rice said a bill could require teachers to make an effort to assign appropriately priced materials.

The tax credit bill led the state to spend the past year studying textbook issues, and a report on the study will be released in the next few weeks. The General Assembly held a hearing two

weeks ago to review the study’s findings and to hear testimony from students, faculty, publishers, bookstores and others about buying and selling practices.

“It was truly enlightening for everyone in the room,” Rice said of the hearing. During testimony, Rice said he got the impression that professors are often uninformed about textbook prices and the content changes between editions.

Friedson said it appeared during the hearing that no one opposes allowing older versions of textbooks, calling the issue “one of the least controversial things I’ve pushed for in Annapolis.”

But he said that providing ISBNs might cause a stir among university bookstores, which have to go through the teachers’ booklists and look up the ISBNs themselves before they can place their textbook orders.

Friedson said booksellers claim

it is “fundamentally unfair and a competitive disadvantage to put in the man hours to check and log the ISBNs” only to then allow students to take those numbers and use them to buy books elsewhere.

Of the bill’s chances, Rice said, “I remain confident that we will pass textbook legislation this year, there is no doubt in my mind.” He added that even Gov. Martin O’Malley has shown support for a textbook bill.

Rosapepe said the bill’s chances are also better because lawmakers are taking a more effective approach than last year’s, which attempted to make the schools and the state take on part of the cost of textbooks.

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A walk on ethnic lines Forgoing a traditional break, two seniors spent their winter trekking across Taiwan

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It was 3:50 a.m. when a wakeup call stirred seniors Jeff Chen and Stephen Fleg from sleep. By 4:20 a.m., they had a begun a twohour session of prayer, after which they spent the rest of the day shoveling cement, making chocolate candy and mopping the temple floor. Following a vegetarian meal and another prayer, the two headed back to bed so they would be ready for the morning and another early start.

For Chen and Fleg, the firsthand look into the lifestyle at a Buddhist monastery was just one

“We use our feet every day, and it’s cool to have journeys along the way.”

–Jeff Chen SENIOR JOURNALISM AND MUSIC MAJOR

of the many highlights from their unique winter-break endeavor: a 260-mile trek down the east coast of Taiwan.

The 18-day journey began Jan. 1 in the capital city of Taipei, where the two students broke in the new year by witnessing a dazzling fireworks display launched from Taipei 101, the world’s tallest — from ground level to roof — functional building. The next morning, the pair embarked on their trip with two backpacks, one tent and little idea of what they would see any given day or where they would spend any given night.

“We have a starting point and an endpoint, and we have no idea what’s going to happen in between,” Fleg said. “It’s kind of like life.”

The idea for the endeavor came when Chen, a journalism and music major, decided he wanted to achieve a better understanding of his ethnic background. The first of his family not born in Taiwan (his parents moved to the United States shortly before his birth), Chen believes he understands neither of the cultures in which he lives,

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Senior Stephen Fleg sleeps in an elementary school pavilion in Taiwan. Fleg and senior Jeff Chen walked Taiwan’s 260-mile eastern coast during winter break. and, conversely, that neither culture truly understands him.

Fascinated by the simple human ability to walk wherever one’s heart desires, the self-described journeyman decided there was no better use for that talent than to explore his roots.

“I figured it would be a good

way to take a look into the other half of my ethnicity,” Chen said.

“We use our feet every day, and it’s cool to have journeys along the way. You can see everything, and you’re going at a slow enough pace that you can absorb everything that’s happening.”

When Fleg decided to join

Chen on the walk, he was not without motivation of his own. A government and politics major, Fleg had been interested in the independence conflict between Taiwan and China when he heard about his longtime friend’s idea.

Realizing he could never get a better chance to learn about the

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east-coast Taiwanese people,” Fleg said. “I think getting primary research data is one of the most interesting things you can do to get a good perspective of what the people are thinking.”

As the days passed, Chen and Fleg found themselves with quite a few intriguing stories to tell. From almost getting crushed by a train on their first day to peacefully resting amid several waterfalls in beautiful Taroko National Park on another, every moment of the trip contributed to the memorable experience, the two said. Both travelers wrote regular blog entries to ensure those memories were well documented, and one of Chen’s was even selected for use on a National Geographic website.

The key to the journey, though, was the hospitality of the Taiwanese people, with whom Chen communicated in Mandarin and Taiwanese. Families enjoying a meal

“It’s amazing, the amount of love that can be passed from one person to another.”

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outside would wave the backpackers down and invite them to join in, and drivers were constantly stopping to offer rides. Even sleeping arrangements were readily available, as the monastery, police stations, universities and even people who were essentially strangers (Chen’s aunt’s coworker’s son’s friend, for example) were willing to provide the walkers with shelter.

“It’s amazing, the amount of love that can be passed from one person to another,” Chen said. “That’s something I really experienced on the walk. People were willing to help wherever possible, and that’s an attitude that I’ll definitely try to relive in my life in the States.”

Chen and Fleg agree that the most memorable person they encountered was a monk named William. After offering them a ride to a safe sleeping location one night, William explained his motivations by handing Chen a card that read, “All for one, one for all.” Two days later, chance had it that William’s van once again crossed their paths. The pair was happy to see the monk, who treated them to a meal followed by a dip in the local hot springs.

“William was a character, and I am better for having met him,” Fleg said. “It seemed as if it were by fate that we met up again. He was always so eager to show us what we could do or to bring us places that he knew about so that we could enjoy ourselves more.”

Shortly before the walk began, Chen opened a fortune cookie that fittingly proclaimed, “There is a true and sincere

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Chen, however, has not spent much time dwelling on the achievement; in fact, his eyes are already set on yet another ambitious challenge.

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RECAP | WINTER BREAK MOVIES

Aliens, monsters and a whole lotta dresses So, you lived under a rock and missed the winter’s biggest movies. Don’t worry, Diversions has got you covered

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR — REQUIEM Let’s be honest: It’s not like Alien vs. Predator — Requiem had a particularly high bar to clear. But even when compared with its idiotic 2004 predecessor, Alien vs. Predator, this film is a disappointment. Basically Halloween with the Aliens as Michael Myers and the Predator as Dr.

Loomis, AVPR is too moronic even to enjoy as trashy entertainment.

Longtime visual effects specialists the Brothers Strause (who have previously worked on films such as 300 and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer) somehow seem to make their actors worse. As a result, there is a uniformity to all the performances in AVPR, a sort of storm of bad soap opera-style acting and bad noir-style acting in which no one shines.

One of the few merits of AVPRis its liberal dispensation of murder — no one is safe from a violent death. While this treatment may veer off the sick end, particularly one bit with a pregnant woman, it does provide AVPRwith some very low-brow fun, which you’ll be happy to encounter at all while wading through Shane Salerno’s (Shaft) embarrassment of a writing credit.

When the Alien has the best dialogue, you know you’re in trouble.

But the Alien and Predator fight, right? Sure they do. However, the fight is choreographed with all the creativity and grace of a bar fight, which would probably be more fun to watch than this monstrosity. In fact, save your money and buy a sandwich; chances are it will be more entertaining.

ated by the mysterious trailer and an elaborate marketing campaign, the brainchild of producer J.J. Abrams (the mastermind behind Alias and Lost) has become one of the most anticipated films of the year.

Cloverfield’s premise is that a devastating attack on New York City was captured via a camcorder found in “the area formerly known as ‘Central Park.’” The footage shows that the omnipresent cameraman, Hud (T.J. Miller, Carpoolers), was recording testimonials at his best friend’s (Michael Stahl-David, The Black Donnellys) farewell party when he suddenly found himself in the middle of the fateful catastrophe.

The innovative idea from Abrams and director Matt Reeves, childhood friends who co-created Felicity, marks a triumphant revisit to the monster movie genre. The anonymous cast and realistic dialogue sell the documentary-style presentation, as does Hud’s character, who is portrayed as a bit naïve in order to justify his unenviable role in the narrative.

Cloverfield’s suspenseful sequences, woven with the creature’s measured unveiling, captivate from beginning to end, while Drew Goddard’s (Lost) script even incorporates some believable characters. The Kevin, a cynic trying to win Jane’s naturally romantic heart. The only problem? Kevin is a reporter, and according to chick-flick history (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Never Been Kissed) he must be writing a story about her. Shockingly, the cliché doesn’t disappoint: Kevin is trying to develop a story on Jane and her freakish bridesmaid history.

Although 27 Dresses’ plot is a little more than slightly ridiculous, Heigl holds the audience’s attention with her quirky facial humor and well-delivered one-liners, while Marsden is similarly witty and charming. And hey, he’s prettier to look at than Seth Rogen.

— Staff writer Courtney Pomeroy; courtney.pomeroy@yahoo.com origin of the terrifying monster is left shrouded in doubt, but there are cryptic hints that, like in any self-respecting Abrams work, can only be caught by the sharpest of eyes. Considering the enigmatic nature of Cloverfield, though, it couldn’t have been better any other way.

— Staff writer Thomas Floyd; tfloyd1@umd.edu

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— Staff writer Dan Benamor; dan.benamor@gmail.com

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CLOVERFIELD When audiences packed theaters this past July to take in Transformers, the most substantial reaction from many wasn’t triggered by Michael Bay’s shallow, special effects-laden blockbuster. Instead, the buzz came from a compelling preview: homemade footage of a party in New York interrupted by a tremor, an explosion and the Statue of Liberty’s head being hurled across the streets of Manhattan. The trailer didn’t even give a title — just a Jan. 18 release date.

Six months later, Cloverfield has finally arrived. With the hype gener-

In case you were wondering, it’s official: Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up) is now a movie star. As the leading lady of the romantic comedy of the month, 27 Dresses, and of last year’s Knocked Up, Heigl has proven herself to be a chick-flick actress of substance.

A rare Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan type, capable of taking a merely average film to better-than-expected heights, Heigl has worked her magic with her latest film, centered on a girl who is always, always, always a bridesmaid.

Just like any romantic comedy, 27 Dresses begins with a ridiculous premise. Jane, a still-single twenty-something, has been a bridesmaid 27 times in her short life, with no hope of her own wedding any time soon. She is hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with her boss, and that doesn’t change when her little sister comes to town and sweeps him off his feet.

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Give some actors a whole screen to fill by themselves, and the results can be spectacular (see Tom Hanks, Cast Away). Will Smith is similarly impressive in I Am Legend, but it’s all for naught — the film just ain’t so hot.

In I Am Legend, Smith plays Robert Neville, the last human left in New York City in 2012 after a 2009 outbreak of the virus meant to cure cancer mutates and kills more than 90 percent of the world’s population.

For three years, Neville and his dog Sam have traversed the ruined streets of Manhattan, hunting deer and gathering vegetables from a Times Square garden.

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MOVIES, from Page 15 But Neville and Sam are always mindful of the setting sun, because the virus didn’t kill every human: It mutated some into creatures of the night. Sunlight burns the mutants, and they bear little resemblance to humans, other than sharing their basic shape. Unfortunately for I Am Legend, the use of CGI to create the humanoid creatures makes them feel artificial through the whole film. Ultimately, the characters aren’t believable, and they detract from what could have been a strong film.

The shots of New York City as a crumbling shell of its former vibrant self (Times Square overgrown with vines, for example) are awesome, so it’s a shame that the CGI used on the city wasn’t also used for the creatures. Without better effects, I Am Legend ends up as a cross between Cast Away and a garden-variety zombie movie. Smith’s acting talent is superbly displayed, both in the scenes with his family and when he is utterly alone, hiding in his apartment. It’s a shame the rest of the movie doesn’t match up.

— Staff writer Tripp Laino; tripp.laino@yahoo.com

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The musical, about a murderous barber out for revenge in London, uses lyricist-composer Stephen Sondheim (the Broadway legend who did the original Todd); however, his music and lyrics are chatty to begin with, and Depp and the other actors only make the music talkier. Sometimes, it sounds like the actors are just talking in rhythm, a not-so-pleasant listening experience.

A musical without good music is close to being a comedy without laughs: It’s an impossible mountain to overcome. Had the film incarnation of Todd not been a musical, it probably would have been better.

The acting is top-notch, with villain-playing veteran Alan Rickman as the horrible Judge Turpin, Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) as the screw-loose baker Mrs. Lovett and Depp in glorious psycho-mode as Todd. Burton revels in the dark settings and bleak subject matter. John Logan’s script is about as good as you could ask for.

But if only they could sing! Todd could have been a hell of a movie: dark, tragic and strange. Instead it’s dull, over-long and tiresome.

— Staff writer Dan Benamor; dan.benamor@gmail.com

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THE ORPHANAGE Let this be shouted from the mountaintops: Guillermo del Toro is a cinematic visionary. See: The Devil’s Backbone, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth. Ignore: Blade II. And, true, he didn’t direct The Orphanage, the latest scary Spanish-language film; he just produced it. Nevertheless, the film reeks of del Toro’s touch — adorable kids who flirt with a made-up world (or is it?), devoted mother figures and horribly creepy imagery — and, as a result, The Orphanage flourishes.

The film centers on a woman, Laura (Belén Rueda), who returns with her husband Carlos (Fernando Cayo) and son Simón (Roger Príncep) to the orphanage in which she grew up. Laura and Carlos plan to transform the orphanage into a home for sick children, but before they can even start taking care of one child, tragedy strikes: Simón disappears. Laura,

wracked with grief, blames herself and becomes convinced that Simón’s imaginary friends — including a boy named Tomás (Óscar Casas), who Simón described as wearing a cloth mask terrifying in its simplicity — have kidnapped him and are keeping him in the house. Carlos, who doesn’t share Laura’s other-wordly belief, begins to withdraw from his wife as she grows more and more obsessed with tracking down Simón — and her own supernatural leanings. Plot twists, intriguing character development and lots of goosebump-worthiness ensue.

Unlike American horror (which gravitates toward the gore-gasms of films such as Hostel, Saw, etc.) the Spanish horror movement dwells more on the mental, and del Toro works with director Juan Antonio Bayona to set up as much suspense as possible. The film’s dark tone permeates, and a convincing performance from Rueda drives home a mother’s desperation for her lost son. And the ending? As unexpected — and satisfying — as you could imagine.

— Senior staff writer Roxana Hadadi; roxanadbk@gmail.com

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Taylor continues strong run WRESTLING, from Page 19 Letters has won his last five matches, while sophomore Mike Letts has won 10 of his last 12 matches and has earned a No. 9 ranking in the 174-pound weight class.

Redshirt sophomore Hudson Taylor was perfect as well, winning against N.C. State after his opponent succumbed to injury under the brute force of his attacks, and winning against Duke’s Dan Tulley 11-1 in a major decision, earning four points for the Terps.

Taylor has been named ACC Wrestler of the Week four times this season, including last week after the Terps’ 33-8 win over Virginia Tech Jan. 19, in which he pinned Hokie Kevin

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Duke scored six easy points off three Terp turnovers in the first 61 seconds of the second half, and a few minutes later, the Blue Devils regained the lead.

“That’s Duke — it’s the No. 3 team[according to a ESPN/USA Today poll] in the nation,” senior forward James Gist said. “We gotta expect it. We come in the locker room at halftime, and everyone’s kind of happy that we went on a nice run and we maintained our play in the first half, but you gotta know that they’re over there probably getting cussed out in the locker room, YUCHEN NIE–THE DIAMONDBACK and that they’re going to come out and play like the No. 3 team Sophomore forward Gerald Henderson and the Blue Devils were too much for senior forward Bambale Osby (50) Terps last night at Comcast Center. that they are.

“Everybody has to expect that. I think we took that for granted, and we didn’t come out as tough, and they took advantage of that. They did what they’re supposed to do.”

Both teams traded blows and took turns holding the lead until Duke pulled away with about six minutes left. Leading 84-78 with 4:21 remaining, the Blue Devils were able to maintain the lead due to their rebounding.

They scooped eight of 11 rebounds in the waning minutes to secure the victory.

“We were still in position with about four minutes left, I thought, where we could have won the game,” coach Gary Williams said. “But they got a

couple possessions they shouldn’t have had, and there’s the game.”

Like in the win against then-No. 1 North Carolina, the Terps played their best basketball inside. Gist (26 points) and Bambale Osby (20 points) had no trouble scoring easy layups and dunks, and Greivis Vasquez (15 points) was able to penetrate all night.

But the Terps could not hit many baskets from the outside, while the Blue Devils’ guards were on fire — especially in the second half. Gerald Henderson and DeMarcus Nelson combined for 50 points on 19-of-31 shooting in the game.

“It’s the most impressive half of the season,” Krzyzewski said of his team. “We had some adversity, and whenever a team handles adversity in a positive way and turns it into a victory, it’s always very gratifying.”

The Terps did not help themselves by turning the ball over 22 times and only hitting 18-of-27 free throws. But even with the offensive miscues, the Terps agreed that they lost this game on the other end of the court during a rough second half.

“We could have won this game on the defensive end,” Gist said.

“I mean, defense wins games. It was just a matter of us coming out here and getting the stops that we need. We gave up some key rebounds and some loose balls, and that was the difference from the first half and the second half.”

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start off the year,” freshman biochemistry major Saul Krosnick said. “But it’s kind of a late game and I’m concerned about the first day of classes [today].”

Others saw it as a positive way to start off the semester.

“I’m actually more excited because everyone has been getting ready to go to the game over winter break and to blow off some steam before the first day of classes,” sophomore accounting major Ankit Bhalla said. “I think it’s more fun this way.”

For the last three years, the Duke game has been on the second weekend of February, but the conference and its television partners determined this year’s game would be at the end of January.

Yesterday’s contest was the earliest the game had been held since 2004, when the No. 1 ranked Blue Devils beat the Terps on Jan. 21 during winter break.

“Maryland has virtually no input in the process,” said Senior Associate Athletics Director Brian Ullmann on the scheduling.

Still, the Athletics Department did not see a drop off in the number of student tickets requested and claimed.

“This game went to lottery again, meaning the date had little effect on demand,” Ullmann said.

About 100 fans were lined up outside Comcast Center by noon yesterday to get the best seats, and the student section was full well before game time, showing that the scheduling had little impact on students.

“People can move in, in time for the game and it’s not like it’s during the break when people are at home,” said sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Cody Mizell before last night’s game. “It’s a nice thing to do just before classes and it’ll be a good way to start off the semester.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

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GEREMY BASS

Growing Terps ready to make a March run

Halftime revitalized Duke

SELIG, from Page 22 compete with most teams in America. College basketball fans who have watched the Terps’ last two nationally televised games have to wonder how that mediocre 12-8 record came about.

“We know we’re capable of playing with the top teams in the nation,” senior James Gist said. “I strongly believe that we could be a top team in the nation, but we have to want it every night. We gotta want to come out and play hard every night, and that’s the difference between us and the top teams in the nation.”

Gist has been the main reason for the Terps’ miniturnaround, as he has had career games against two of the country’s elite teams.

He had 26 points last night, and played the part of a dominant go-to-guy, just as he did last weekend in Chapel Hill.

Gist’s frontcourt mate Bambale Osby was also impressive in both big games. He was the catalyst of the Terps’ stirring start against Duke and along with Gist, drew big praise from a very notable coach.

“Osby and Gist gave us, and will give a lot of people, problems,” Mike Krzyzewski said. “They’re very poised ... A lot of people have trouble with them, and we’ll continue to have trouble with them because they’re good.”

Sophomore forward Landon Milbourne said the Terps’ inspired play all stems from senior leaders Osby and Gist. When they put it all out there on the court — like they have been doing lately — the younger players respond. For a team with so many of those younger guys, the example the two big men have set is huge.

“I definitely think we’re a different team,” Milbourne said, comparing the current Terps to the November/December ver-

sion. “I think we’re a lot more mature.”

It would have to be a different team to score 51 in the first half against a highpressure Duke defense which hadn’t allowed as many points to any other team this year. We’re talking about a Terps team that scored in the 50s for a complete game against the likes of Ohio and American.

Even the often dissatisfied Gary Williams was intrigued by his team’s performance.

“We played great for most of the game tonight,” coach Williams said. “That’s how we played against North Carolina: just like that.”

As they exited the court, Terps players received a well-deserved applause from the fans — a far cry from when they were being booed off the court earlier in the season.

With a presumably different team taking the court, it will be interesting to see how the 2008 Terps finish out the season. But with eight losses just 20 games in, any late-season push will have to be remarkable for them to be NCAA-tournament bound.

If the Terps end up playing a home NIT game in March instead of one on the floor of the big dance, it probably won’t be indicative of the way they played their ACC schedule. They will have sub-par outings against sub-par teams to blame for that, certainly not losses like last night’s.

At the rate of their improvement and the way they’ve played their last two games, the Terps certainly seem capable of putting together the type of big run they’ll need. “By the time March comes around we’re gonna be a real great team,” Milbourne said.

But the question that remains: What kind of postseason tournament will that “great team” be playing in? mseligdbk@gmail.com

BASS, from Page 22 way through the second half.”

The initial minute of the second half morphed an atmosphere from frenzied and raucous to one muddled by a foreboding feeling of dread. Chants became grumbles, and screams became groans.

“They were struggling in the first half and it gives them confidence that they can play,” head coach Gary Williams said. “They’re a good team and that’s all they need. If you let up a little bit, that’s all it takes.”

The pressure Duke mounted in that opening minute continued to build until the momentum had completely switched sides. After the game, several Terps said that even with 19 minutes remaining and a three-point lead still intact, the feeling that the game was already slipping out of their hands began to creep into their heads.

The foreshadowing of the second half ’s first minute turned out to be right on target.

In the second half, the talented Blue Devils outscored the Terps 51-33, out-rebounded them 22-17 and forced nine turnovers.

“In that first 30 seconds they were just up and flying and that really got them going,” said Osby, who recorded career highs with 20 points and 15 rebounds in the loss. “When they made their run, we didn’t do a good job of handling the run. We were still up, but we were still the team that was rushing and we panicked a little bit. You just can’t do that.”

The Terps were eventually able to slow the pace, but couldn’t keep up with Duke’s energy on defense and in the paint. The teams exchanged blows until Gerald Henderson’s three-point play put the Blue Devils ahead by three with 8:34 left in the game.

Duke outscored the Terps 2115 over the final eight and a half minutes, and when the final buzzer sounded, the Terps’ first-half momentum seemed to be nothing more than a distant memory.

“That was real tough,” forward Cliff Tucker said. “We came out of the locker room excited but I don’t know what happened. We have to settle down more and just take our time. I think we got out of control and people got anxious

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Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said the final 20 minutes of the game made up his team’s “most impressive half of the season.” And in

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Wrestling pins ACC opponents Loss to UMBC still lingers for Terps TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE SEASON PREVIEW

Terps blow out Duke, N.C. State to continue 8-match winning streak

BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer

The weather may be cold, but the No. 21 Terrapin wrestling team is burning up the mats.

The Terps defeated N.C. State 27-12 and Duke 33-5 in back-to-back home matches Saturday, asserting dominance in the ACC and continuing an eight-match winning streak that began Dec. 2 against Lehigh.

However, the path to victory was not an easy one.

“We didn’t play as well as we wanted,” admitted freshman Eric Medina, who lost against N.C. State before rebounding against the Blue Devils. “Our team was a little flat, but we won.”

He began his day with a match against the Wolfpack’s Darrion Caldwell, No. 10 in the 149-pound weight class.

He lost 7-5 in a close match, allowing the Wolfpack to draw within three points of the Terps, 9-6.

Three other Terps shared his troubles against N.C. State, which boasts two top-10 wrestlers, Caldwell and Joe Caramanica, No. 7 at 141 pounds.

Sophomore Jon Kohler lost to Carimanica 128 in the first loss for the Terps, and redshirt junior Josh Haines, No. 17 at 184 pounds and redshirt freshman Patrick Gilmore also suffered defeats.

However, behind the play of redshirt sophomore Brendan Byrne, who pinned Taylor Cummings for the six-point fall to start the day, and two injury-default forfeits by the Wolfpack, the team was able to begin the ACC doubleheader with a 27-12 victory, their third win in as many

conference matches.

“Coach gave us a great pep talk, so we were fired up and excited, especially for conference matches,” Medina said.

But despite the struggles the team experienced against N.C. State, the Terrapins always bring their best against Duke. The team won definitively, 33-5.

Medina led the Terps, avenging the loss only an hour before by pinning Michael Degli Obizzi and earning the six-point fall.

“It was a quick match, so I was happy,” Medina said.

“That’s how I like to get all my matches. It’s always good; it shows that I was doing well.”

Redshirt sophomore Mike McGill was in the most fiercely contested match of the day at 165 pounds, an overtime bout with Duke’s Addison Nuding in which McGill received three cautions, ceding Duke a point, and Nuding received a warning of his own.

The audience’s cheers propelled McGill to victory as he dominated much of the oneminute overtime, finally scoring a two-point takedown with two seconds left to win 8-6.

Duke only won one of ten individual matches. The one Terp loss was in Bradley Nielson’s match against Duke’s John Barone at 184 pounds.

Nielson, however, was a lastminute substitute for Josh Haines, who was beaten up in his upset loss against No. 20 Ryan Goodman of N.C. State.

Five Terps won their matches against Duke to be perfect on the day. Several of these wrestlers have been maintaining winning streaks of their own; freshman Brian

Please See WRESTLING, Page 17

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Terrapin men’s lacrosse senior attackman Max Ritz called his team’s home loss to UMBC in the first round of last season’s NCAA Tournament a shock.

Sophomore goalie Brian Phipps said the abrupt ending to the seventh-seeded Terps’ season was totally unexpected.

And both said they want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“We were very disappointed, and I thought the end left a bad taste in our mouths, so we’re using that as motivation for this year,” Phipps said.

The Terps, ranked sixth in the Inside LacrosseFace-Off Yearbook’s preseason poll, return more than just that memory. Four of their top six scorers from last season are back, and they’ve added a recruiting class that was rated No. 2 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse.

Coach Dave Cottle said his team is in position to succeed, partly because of last season’s events. The Terps were hit hard by injuries throughout the season, and although Cottle said they might have “ran out of gas” toward the end of the season, it forced young players into playing time right away, which should pay dividends this season.

He also said four freshmen could be starting as the season goes along and that five freshmen will definitely contribute right away.

Grant Catalino, Travis Reed, Brett Weiss and Ryan Young are highly rated attackmen who should bolster the Terp offense.

“We have some really talented young players,” Cottle said. “How soon they grow up will determine the success we have.”

Ritz agreed, saying it is up

PHOTOGRAPHER–THE DIAMONDBACK

Senior attackman Max Ritz and the Terps ended last season on a disappointing, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament to unseeded UMBC. to the older players to lead by example. Ritz, who led the Terps in goals last season, said he’s been impressed by the newcomers and thinks players will have to work hard to earn playing time.

“I don’t think I’ve been a part of a team this deep in a long time,” Ritz said. “I guess that could create problems for some people, but it’s definitely going to be exciting.”

The defense lost All-America defenders Ray Megill and Steve Whittenberg, but Cottle said he expects seniors Joe Cinosky and Ryne Adolph to pick up the slack.

The Terps also have to sort out their goalie situation. Last season, injuries to Harry Alford and Jason Carter

forced Phipps into action as a freshman, and he earned ACC Freshman of the Year honors and guided the Terps to eight wins in his 13 starts. Cottle said he thought Phipps was one of the best keepers in the country by the end of the season, but Carter is back and playing outstanding in practice, according to Cottle, who has declared an open competition between the two entering the season.

Phipps said the two are good friends and will support each other throughout the season. Ritz said the team will be in good shape no matter who emerges to get the most playing time.

“All I know is in practice, neither of them is easy to

score on,” Ritz said.

The Terps’ regular season kicks off Feb. 23 at Georgetown, the first challenge on a tough schedule. Sophomore midfielder Dan Groot, who was a third-team All-American last season after finishing third on the team in goals and points, is optimistic that he and his teammates will adjust quickly to their new roles and be ready for a run deep into the NCAA Tournament by season’s end.

“We’re young. We’re going to make mistakes, especially early,” Groot said. “As the season goes on and we get more experience, we should be all right.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

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Perry, Harper foul out in loss to No. 3 Tar Heels Women’s basketball falls in second overtime at Chapel Hill

BY GREG SCHIMMEL Senior staff writer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Going into Saturday’s game against No. 3 North Carolina, the No. 4 Terrapin women’s basketball team knew it would have its hands full trying to stop the Tar Heels’ senior forwards LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins.

The Terps couldn’t have known they would have to slow down the duo through two overtime periods, and with two of their own three frontcourt stars — and arguably their two best defenders — on the bench with five fouls at the end.

Pringle and Larkins combined to score 16 of the Tar Heels’ 18 points in the second overtime after Terps senior forwards Laura Harper and Jade Perry had fouled out, and the Tar Heels outlasted the Terps 97-86 in double overtime.

Pringle finished with 31 points, and Larkins had 25 points and 18 rebounds.

The loss comes six days after the Terps needed two overtimes to beat Georgia Tech 99-95 on Jan. 20.

“I don’t know that we were tired in the second overtime,” assistant coach Daron Park said. “I thought our energy was still good, our conditioning was still good… You hope you don’t have to play every game for 50 minutes, but we had to today, so we did the best we could.”

Harper picked up her fifth foul with 1:52 left in the first overtime, and Perry got called for her fifth just five seconds into the second overtime.

Park, filling in for pregnant head coach Brenda Frese, who no longer travels to road games, decided to replace Perry with senior guard Ashleigh Newman, preferring experience over size and a

three-guard lineup to a more conventional alignment that likely would have included freshman forward Drey Mingo, who had not seen any playing time in the game before then.

Pringle and Larkins took advantage.

“As you can see from the stats, we didn’t do too well against them,” said senior forward Crystal Langhorne, the Terps’ lone remaining post player in the second overtime. “It was tough, of course, without Laura and Jade.”

Early on, it looked like the Terps would do well just to stay in the game.

The Terps (22-2, 6-1 ACC) looked rushed offensively in their first possessions of the game and shot just 2-for-7 as the Tar Heels (18-2, 5-0) jumped out to an early 13-5 lead.

Shot selection was questionable for the Terps throughout the game, and they shot just 5-for-27 from three-point range.

“Our team was built this year to basically take what defenses give us,” Park said.

“We’ve got five really, really good players on the floor at any time that all understand that philosophy. It has been very successful to date. So to look at ‘was this a quick shot, a bad shot,’ the film maybe could tell us that. But every single one of our kids has the green light.”

The Terps began to come back late in the first half when Larkins herself got in foul trouble.

The Tar Heels led 29-23 when Larkins picked up her third foul on a blocking call committed against Terps junior forward Marissa Coleman with 4:31 remaining in the first half, and Larkins sat out the rest of the half.

The Terps immediately went on an 8-2 run, capped

by Coleman’s fast-break layup off a great pass by junior guard Kristi Toliver.

The Terps had tied the game for the first time since the Tar Heels’ opening basket, and now controlled momentum.

“We showed great composure from the opening tip, getting down early and keeping our heads about us,” Park said.

The Tar Heels regrouped and took a 37-33 lead into halftime.

After the break the Terps remained close, and when Harper gave the Terps their first lead of the game at 46-44 with 14:28 remaining, the Terps’ bench erupted.

When Langhorne bulldozed her way to a transition lay-up in traffic, extending the Terps’ lead to 52-46 with 12:49 remaining and drawing a foul in the process, the Heels looked to be on their heels.

“The key for us was obviously getting stops at one end, because when we got stops, then we could run,” Park said.

“I love our transition game.”

The Terps led by as much as seven before the Tar Heels came back, and a jumper by freshman guard Cetera DeGraffenreid put the Tar Heels back on top 62-61 with 6:53 remaining.

Toliver quickly responded with a three to put the Terps back on top, her trademark smirk reappearing.

After several minutes of stagnant offense on both sides, it appeared the Terps might be able to let the clock wind down with a 71-68 lead.

But Pringle tied the game with a layup and free throw with 46 seconds remaining.

“I just kept telling them to go to ’em,” Tar Heels coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “Go to ’em, go to ’em, go to ’em.”

After the Terps failed to score on their next posses-

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YUCHEN NIE–THE DIAMONDBACK

Junior guard Kristi Toliver and the Terps lost their second game of the season, falling to No. 3North Carolina. sion, the Tar Heels had a final opportunity with 18 seconds left to win it in regulation. But a three-point attempt by junior forward Rashanda McCants and a putback

by Pringle both rimmed out, forcing the first overtime.

“We talked about having a chance to win down the

stretch,” Park said, “and we had that chance to win.”

After the teams traded baskets for most of the first overtime, it was the Terps’ turn to take the last shot, with the game tied 79-79 with 30 seconds remaining.

Toliver let the clock run nearly all the way down, and when her jumper in traffic

bounced off the rim, it turned out to be the Terps’ last chance as Pringle and Larkins took over for good in the final five minutes.

“It’s all things we can learn from,” Coleman said. “It’s better for this loss to happen now than in March.” schimmeldk@gmail.com

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Men’s lacrosse looking to rebound from last season

Sports THE UPS THE& DOWNS

The Terrapin men’s lacrosse team ended the 2007 season with an upset loss to unseeded UMBC in the NCAA tournament. The Terps are looking to rebound this year with a strong freshman class. Read men’s lacrosse beat reporter Eric Detweiler’s season preview of the Terps on page 19.

TERPS CAN’T HANG ON FOR WIN DUKE, from Page 1

FOUL SHOTS The Terps were 18-of-27 from the line, and they missed the front end of oneon-ones during crucial moments in the second half.

JAMES GIST The senior forward has turned a corner and is undoubtedly the Terps’ go-to guy. Gist led the team for the second straight game, with 26 points on 9-of-17 shooting.

THE BENCH Shane Walker, Adrian Bowie, Cliff Tucker and Dave Neal didn’t give the Terps much. How badly is Braxton Dupree in the doghouse? The freshman didn’t even take his warm-ups off.

BAMBALE OSBY He had his way inside, giving Duke’s big guys trouble all night.

Osby hit 7-of-9 shots for 20 points, and pulled down 15 rebounds.

KYLE SINGLER Duke’s heralded freshman disappeared last night. His stat line: Seven points on 2-of-10 shooting, three rebounds, three turnovers and five fouls.

DUKE TERRAPINS

42 51

51 —————————93 33 —————————84

DUKE (17-1, 5-0 ACC) PLAYER Singler Thomas Paulus Henderson Nelson Smith McClure King Scheyer Team TOTALS

MIN FG FT O-T 31 2-10 2-2 1-3 18 2-3 2-4 1-2 19 3-7 4-4 0-1 33 9-12 4-6 1-5 38 10-19 6-8 3-7 20 4-6 5-5 3-6 8 0-2 0-0 0-2 5 0-2 0-0 0-0 28 2-7 0-0 1-2 5-8 200 32-68 23-29 15-36

A 1 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 0

PF 5 4 4 2 3 0 1 1 3 1 9 24

TP 7 6 12 23 27 14 0 0 4 93

PERCENTAGES–FG: 47.1 FT: 79.3 3FG: 33.3 3-POINT GOALS–6-18 (Singler 1-5, Paulus 2-3, Henderson 1-2, Nelson 1-2, Smith 1-2, King 0-2, Scheyer 0-2). TURNOVERS–10 (Singler 3). BLOCKED SHOTS–3 (Henderson 3). STEALS–13 (Nelson, Paulus 4).

TERRAPINS (12-8, 2-3 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 20 3-4 0-0 Gist 37 9-17 7-11 Osby 31 7-9 6-9 Hayes 35 2-6 3-4 Vasquez 36 6-14 2-3 Walker 4 0-0 0-0 Bowie 12 1-1 0-0 Tucker 18 2-3 0-0 Neal 7 2-3 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 31-57 18-27

O-T 0-0 3-5 4-15 0-5 0-4 0-1 0-1 2-3 1-1 1-2 11-37

A 0 2 1 9 7 0 1 3 1

PF 4 3 2 2 4 1 1 1 2

TP 7 26 20 8 15 0 2 4 2

ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACK

Guard Eric Hayes (5) and the Terps couldn’t hold off the Blue Devils at Comcast Center despite taking a nine-point lead into the second half. The Terps committed 22 turnovers in the loss.

arguably playing their best first half of the season, the Terps wilted in a second half where they were outscored 51-33. And when it mattered most down the stretch, the Terps were unable to come away with crucial defensive stops.

“I think we got a little bit satisfied with our lead,” sophomore Landon Milbourne said. “I know we were pretty confident that we were gonna keep scoring, but we had a couple turnovers, they got a couple loose balls that we shoulda had, and they just took advantage of it. We just need to hustle more.

Plain and simple — we got outhustled.”

The Terps (12-8, 2-3 ACC) certainly played well enough to win, cutting a late nine-point deficit down to one possession.

If nothing else, they can now look forward to a favorable conference schedule after back-toback games against top-5 teams.

And there is reason to be optimistic about the Terps, a thought that was far-fetched before winter break, after home losses to Ohio and American.

But even so, the Terps came into this game a confident team, expecting to come away with a better result.

“It ain’t a good feeling at all,” freshman forward Cliff Tucker said. “We had a really good chance of winning, and we didn’t. It’s a hard feeling losing to Duke.”

The Terps played smarter than Duke (17-1, 5-0) in the first half, and it showed on the scoreboard, as they took a 51-42 lead into the locker room. Amidst the loudest home crowd of the year, the Terps played with more adrenaline, and it appeared as if the Blue Devils couldn’t handle it.

Duke committed 13 fouls in the first half, and coach Mike Krzyzewski was assessed a technical foul toward the end of the first half. But in the second

Please See DUKE, Page 17

Gone in 61 seconds

24 20 84

PERCENTAGES–FG: 54.4 FT: 66.7, 3FG: 33.3 3-POINT GOALS––4-12 (Milbourne 1-1, Gist 1-2, Hayes 1-3, Vasquez 1-5, Neal 0-1).

–22 (Osby 5). BLOCKED SHOTS––5 (Milbourne 3).

TURNOVERS– STEALS––4 (Hayes 2).

TECHNICAL FOULS––Duke 1. ATTENDANCE––17,950 (17,950).

BY THE NUMBERS Consecutive wins against ACC teams from the state of North Carolina before last night.

Terp turnovers, 12 more than they committed in the win over top-ranked North Carolina.

Minutes for Eric Hayes, who started for the first time since Jan. 5 after being nagged by a sprained ankle.

Terp losses at Comcast Center so far this season, two more than all of last season.

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GEREMY BASS

T

he Terps used the entirety of their energetic first half to storm out to a commanding nine-point lead last night. The No. 4 Blue Devils were reeling, Comcast Center was electric, and the Terps looked poised to snatch another huge win over a top-four team.

But what they built in 20 minutes crumbled in one.

With fans back in their seats and the volume cranked up, the Terps opened the second half with the ball at half court. Bambale Osby lost control and Lance Thomas hit a short jumper on Duke’s ensuing possession.

Four seconds later, Duke regained control off a James Gist turnover on the inbound pass, and Terp-killer DeMarcus Nelson laid in another easy basket.

Kyle Singler stripped Osby of the ball shortly after, and a Nelson offensive rebound and put-back layup capped the Blue Devil outburst.

It took 61 seconds for the Terps ninepoint lead to disintegrate into a meager three-point edge.

“It kind of took the wind out of us when they just came out and cut it right to three,” said sophomore guard Eric Hayes, who set a career high with nine assists. “We had a hard time getting that momentum back and it just stayed that

Please See BASS, Page 18

ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACK

Senior forward James Gist and the Terps have been impressive since disappointing losses to Ohio and American.

Terps turn the corner

R MARK SELIG

emember when the Terrapins men’s basketball team was embarrassed by midmajors Ohio and American in consecutive home games in December?

It’s difficult to believe that’s the same group of players that so confidently traveled to North Carolina and upset the No. 1 Tar Heels, then gave No. 4 Duke everything it could handle last

night at an electric Comcast Center.

The post-game mood in the locker room didn’t reflect it, and the standings won’t show it, but dominating the Blue Devils for a half, and coming up just short of another stunner should be very encouraging to the Terps.

It proves that last week’s win was not a fluke, and confirms that this team can

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