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female students in this university’s rotc program could find themselves alongside men on the frontline after a 1994 decision restricting women from fighting on the ground was overturned last week. Officials said they don’t anticipate the university’s ROTC program changing because of the new legislation. fatimah waseem/the diamondback

Female students able to enter combat in wake of new law

By Jenny Hottle Senior staff writer EDITOR’S NOTE: A student’s name has been withheld to protect her status as a cadet.

Despite her family’s proud history of serving in the Army, junior Kaitlin Tullis never felt any pressure to follow the same path.

The linguistics major, born overseas on an Army post, didn’t even consider the idea until her senior year of high

school. In college, she joined the ROTC and began training with the goal of becoming a chaplain in the Army. And while women’s roles in the military have traditionally been noncombative, others like Tullis could now find themselves at the center of the action after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week the military would lift a ban on women in direct combat roles — a policy change some said will enable more women to advance their military careers.

The decision overturns the 1994 Pentagon policy restricting women from fighting on the ground in units such as infantry, armor and artillery.

Now, the military’s more than 230,000 combat positions could be opened to women, giving them the opportunity to fight alongside male soldiers in small combat units below the brigade level.

“It’s a generally accepted feeling in the Army that in order to get promoted See rotc, Page 2

While legislators in Annapolis hope to boost state higher education funding this year, lawmakers in Washington working to rein in spending could stymie those efforts.

With the best budget outlook in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s more than six years in office — the state will not have to make drastic cuts or tax hikes to finish in the black — O’Malley’s proposed budget pours billions into higher education. Additionally, it invests in STEM programs, technology-driven course redesign and university research programs, drawing praise from higher education officials, including University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan and university President Wallace Loh. The university system alone boasts nearly $5 billion in expected revenue this year — a 7.5-percent increase from last year — from its various funding sources including tuition and fees, grants and state appropriations.

“This budget is an investment in higher education and it’s an investment in students — that is, human

capital,” said Zach Cohen, University System of Maryland Student Council chairman. “This is a big deal.”

But the state will still be bound by the terms set on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are still working to remedy the fiscal cliff, a slate of tax hikes and spending cuts built into law in 2011.

After what has become an almost two-year battle between Republicans and Democrats in Congress to negotiate a sustainable budget trajectory, legislators officially put a revenue solution on the table to help close the budget gap. However, they punted automatic spending cuts until March 1, leaving it uncertain what line items Congressional lawmakers will trim and how that will trickle down to the state.

This state and Virginia could be gearing up for a big hit if Congress makes sizable reductions. Both states’ workforces are tied heavily to the U.S. government through federal jobs and contracting. If cuts threaten job loss in those sectors, the state could lose a hefty revenue base.

“That could trickle back in everything from property tax values to sales and income tax collections,” said public policy school Dean Don Kettl. “The fiscal cliff negotiations have a direct See budget, Page 3

Crime decreases in 2012 Police say increased safety because of initiatives, tech

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer Students were a little bit safer on the campus in 2012, with police officials seeing a 4-percent reduction in crime from 2011, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report data.

Among the report’s highlights were decreases in aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft.

While police saw nine aggravated assaults, 59 burglaries and 41 motor vehicle thefts in 2011, those numbers declined by seven, 13 and 13, respectively. Nationwide, however, crime increased in numerous categories for the first time in four years, but University Police spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky said it’s because the data also comes from big cities.

“It’s hard to compare to a university,” Limansky said. “[National data] is good for a snapshot.”

Police did not see reduced crime in every category, though. Arson incidents increased by one, robberies increased by two and thefts by 12, according to the report.

But the slight increase isn’t foreboding, Limansky said. The number of thefts in 2012 was 362, down significantly from a peak of 787 in 2002.

The decreases in on-campus crime likely stemmed from University Police’s See ucr, Page 3

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GAME TIME City bars, liquor stores anticipating increased business over weekend with Ravens in Super Bowl

By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer EDITOR’S NOTE: Some students’ names have been withheld because they discuss underage drinking.

Regardless of whether the Ravens live up the mantra “crab cakes and football — that’s what Maryland does,” city bar and liquor store owners are prepared

for a spike in business.

As the city of New Orleans gets ready to host the Super Bowl, businesses in College Park are gearing up for the Sunday matchup and the possibility of a second championship win for the Ravens.

At Number 1 Liquors, manager Danny Douglas said the store could see up to a 40-percent increase in sales just because the state’s team is playing in

the Super Bowl.

“It’s been a little more busy,” Douglas said Thursday. “For Saturday, we’re definitely going to be stocked up on Bud Light because they’re with the NFL.” Employees at the local liquor store will stock their inventory based on the most prominent advertisements shown See ravens, Page 3

Several student fees could see hikes next year

By Sarah Sexton Staff writer Increased student fees for on-campus housing, dining plans and parking next year are unavoidable, the directors of Resident Life, Dining Services and

DOTS said at RHA’s first meeting of the semester Tuesday.

If the proposed budgets are approved, students would pay $234 to $244 more for on-campus housing, $152 more for a standard meal plan and $23 more for resident parking spaces.

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Although students may have to shell out more next year, Resident Life Director Deb Grandner said officials try to keep student fees low by increasing

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AN ROTC CADET reflects during a campus Veteran’s Day ceremony on Nov. 11. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week a policy change that will lift the ban on women in combat, allowing them to serve alongside male soldiers in small combat units below the brigade level and opening up higher-ranking job opportunities for women. fatimah waseem/the diamondback

rotc From PAGE 1 to the highest levels of service, officers need to have served in combat,” said Mike Johnson, an Army ROTC spokesman.

University ROTC programs are not expected to be impacted by the policy changes, Johnson said.

“We’re still going to recruit the same type of kids, and the program and instruction is not going to change,” he said.

And while the minimum physical fitness standards required for ROTC eligibility differ between men and women, standards for combat roles likely will not be lowered to accommodate women, said Mady Segal, a sociology professor whose research focuses on military personnel issues.

“Standards will have to be systematically valid as required for the job,” Segal said. “Military training will be aimed at enabling qualified service members to succeed.”

Women have demonstrated their abilities in recent years, with some serving in offensive combat

positions as fighter pilots, on Navy ships or in combat support jobs on the ground, she said. Alumna Mariya Golotyuk was named the top U.S. Army ROTC cadet in 2011.

“Last year, she couldn’t have gone into the infantry if she wanted to,” Tullis said. “There are a lot of females who can do incredible things.”

It shouldn’t matter if it’s a man or woman shooting next to you, Tullis said, as long as they can carry out their duties.

“If you get injured, you want someone who will be able to carry you,” she added. “If a woman can’t carry a man on her back, then she shouldn’t be there.”

Though Jane — whose name has been changed to protect her status as a cadet — doesn’t see herself working in combat, she said some female ROTC cadets are as strong as their male peers.

“I don’t think women are any less capable — my squad leader could kick the butts of any guy out there,” Jane said.

Women in combat roles could bring a new perspective to solving issues, she added, because they have a different style of leadership

— men focus more on “getting things done efficiently,” while a woman may place more emphasis on the end goal and how things can be improved.

Sam Metz, a junior biology major and ROTC cadet, had only one concern — that the military could develop a double standard for physical ability among men and women in combat.

“The front lines of an armed conflict are life and death, and what it really comes down to is if you’re out there and get hit, you absolutely need to rely on the men or women out there with you to be able to come to your aid — including picking you, and the potentially 80-plus pounds of equipment on you, up — and moving you out of the line of fire,” Metz said. “As someone who wants to branch into a combat arms branch, it’s important to me to know that training standards for any set of individuals won’t be relaxed due to some misplaced sense of political correctness.”

However, the recent policy change represents significant strides toward gender equality

within the military, Metz said, adding it alleviates the idea that the Army is old-fashioned or backward and should boost the rate at which women gain top military positions.

But there is still work to be done — Jane said sexual harassment continues to be an issue, though the topic is addressed with cadets during training.

“It seems like people are becoming more open-minded now,” Jane said. “As we progress through the ranks, the overall opinion toward women might change.”

Advancement must occur at every level of military organizations, Segal said, adding leaders must “publicly and privately speak and behave in support of fairness.”

But the overall attitude toward women is changing for the better, Tullis said.

“Some people say women are too soft. But we’re all warriors.

We’re all together in training,” she said. “As long as the standards are upheld, [women] can still be an asset to battle.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

animals, and it just trickles down through the system and makes food more expensive.”

Proteins will be the largest contributing factor to the increased expenses, Wright-Riva said.

Pointing to the price of beef as an example, she said the university paid $2.59 per pound last year and pays $2.98 this year.

“We buy 51,000 pounds of beef,” Wright-Riva said. “And that’s just one item. Then you’ve got the chicken, pork, turkey and even some of the vegetarian protein options. Proteins are just expensive.”

Directors did offer some positive notes. The $23 increase for resident parking spaces and $12 increase for commuter parking — a modest increase, said David Allen, Department of Transportation Services director — may indicate the number of cars on the campus is decreasing, which is line with the university’s sustainability goals.

Fewer cars would mean less traffic and a greener campus, but it also means fewer people to share the expenses for parking, leading to the increase in the cost per person.

“All of the departments are very aggressive in trying to keep the prices down for students,” Grandner said. “We want to provide the best facilities and services we can, but we also need to be sure to cover the expenses.”

The RHA Senate will spend next week reviewing the budgets before its next meeting on February 12, when University Senate members will give feedback and vote in favor or against the proposed budgets.

“We will divide up into our committees and make sure that the increased fees are justified,” RHA Public Relations and Outreach Officer Meenu Singh said.

“We want to make sure that we look at the budgets carefully and make sure everything is streamlined and the money is used effectively.”

them only enough to cover mandatory expenses, including housekeeping staff wages and health care benefits, landscaping and building upkeep, and trash removal.

Part of the increased fees, however, will not go toward mandatory expenses, Grandner said.

Instead, housing officials proposed spending $150,386 of the yearly fees to fund a program that would renew South Hill suites and apartments, which would include bathroom and kitchen renovations and replacing air conditioning equipment.

“This [fee] is one that we put in because we want to give residents in those South Hill apartments and suites a better living environment,” Grandner said.

The overall cost of the project would be $2.6 million, said Jon Dooley, resident facilities director.

Officials will spend about $150,000 a year on the project, meaning it will last at least a decade, he added.

“This is the first year we’re asking for new money,” Dooley said.

A senior living in Allegany Hall, one of the buildings on South Hill that would be included in the renewal program, said she has noticed areas where her apartment would benefit from renovation.

“The biggest thing they should consider spending money on is the bathrooms, because they — or at least the one in my apartment — are pretty awful,” said Britni Cunningham, an education and history major. “And more counter space and storage in the kitchen would be awesome, too.”

The $152 increase for a standard meal plan is in part due to last year’s drought that severely impacted U.S. agriculture and prompted spikes in food product costs nationwide, said Colleen Wright-Riva, dining facilities director.

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Students, officials partner on bag campaign ucr BySandra Müller For The Diamondback With the help of the university’s newest green effort, officials hope students will tote their purchases from university shops in a backpack or their hands — anything but a plastic bag.

The Resident Hall Association, together with the Student Government Association and Dining Services, launched “Bag the Bag” this semester with a poster campaign aimed at reminding students and staff in the university’s convenience stores that every transaction is a chance to make a difference. On Wednesday, SGA voted to support the effort throughout the semester.

Although the SGA had scheduled the bill for its first reading, meaning it would then be assigned to a committee for further review, public health school representative Tali Brown made the push to move the bill to the second reading calendar. There, it was approved with 88 percent of the vote.

ravens From PAGE 1 during Super Bowl commercial breaks, Douglas said, since they can affect store sales.

“We’re definitely going to be paying attention to [the ads shown during the game],” Douglas said.

Last year, when commercials introduced Bud Light Platinum, Douglas said Number 1 Liquors saw an increased d e m a n d fo r t h e n ew b e e r during and after the game.

Area bars also hope to draw crowds, with Cornerstone and Bentley’s offering Ravensthemed prizes and meal discounts during the game.

“It’s always great for business when it’s a local team involved,” Cornerstone manager Brian Lambert said.

Even some non-Ravens fans, such as sophomore business major Mitchell, plan to get the full Super Bowl experience at the local bars.

budget From PAGE 1 connection to Maryland, to Maryland’s economy, to the Maryland state budget and all the way of course to the university.”

Since pulling out of a nationwide recession that ended in 2009, higher education has faced the chopping block in several states. While this state’s investment in higher education has managed relatively well, Kirwan said this may be the first time in a while that it is seeing more investments instead of absorbing cuts and trying to limit the bleeding.

“When you look at what is taking place around the country and how higher education is being decimated — budgets for higher education are being cut in so many states — for the governor to make this kind of investment in higher education is really quite extraordinary,” Kirwan said.

While the system’s Board of Regents will still need to come to a vote on tuition increases after the legislative session ends, it is likely tuition bills will once again rise by 3 percent for in-state students.

The state is swelling its budget for yet another year, and

“We want to change the culture on campus of buying an apple and Snickers and taking a plastic bag for these small things,” Brown said.

In recent years, the General Assembly has also worked on regulations to reduce the thousands of tons of landfill waste plastic bags create. Each semester, this university alone orders 180,000 disposable plastic bags, said Allison Lilly, Dining Services’ sustainability and wellness coordinator.

A law took effect one year ago in neighboring Montgomery County that enforces a 5-cent tax on disposable bags to grow revenue for the county’s Water Quality Protection Fund. In Washington, a similar tax has reduced the usage of plastic bags by at least 50 percent, according to state House of Delegates materials.

However, similar bills in this county addressing either a bag fee or in-store bag recycling programs have failed several times over the past few years. It fell short in part due to concerns the fee wouldn’t

“I’m really excited and if we win it’s going to be nuts,” Mitchell said.

“Last year when the Super Bowl happened nobody was there ... even though it’s not my team, it’s still exciting to be there.”

Post game, University Police will be on the lookout for drunken drivers, said Sgt. Aaron Davis, even though they have not had any major issues with previous Super Bowl games.

“When people get out, we monitor walking out of the bars, walking back to the cars,”he said.

Looney’s Pub, which always offers game-day specials revolving around Ravens players, will provide a shuttle service for patrons as an alternative to driving themselves back after the game, said Nick Creed, the Baltimore-based sports bar’s general manager.

While University Police will be prepared for Super Bowl celebrations after the final whistle, Davis isn’t worried about any riots, win or lose for the state’s team.

“From the general feeling of

“for the governor to make this kind of investment in higher education is really quite extraordinary.”

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University System of Maryland chancellor despite criticism that O’Malley has been a big spender, a slowgrowing economy and a series of revenue-raising measures have given O’Malley a bigger blank check to work with in writing this year’s budget.

“The economy has been recovering slowly, very slowly, but has been recovering enough to be able generate good revenues and that’s helped us stabilize a floor underneath the budget,” Kettl said.

The state has also been making reductions over the year to remedy what had been an almost $2 billion structural deficit, the likes of which forced the state to hold back on bigticket investments.

“This is the year that everybody hopes that that structural deficit will finally go away,” Kettl said, adding that it helps “put the state back on a more sustained path and to be able to get back to thinking long-term.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

change people’s behavior and may disproportionately hurt the poor.

Wednesday’s SGA meeting also featured a 30-minute address by Provost Mary Ann Rankin. Two of the 24 representatives in attendance opposed the bill and one abstained in the “Bag The Bag” vote.

“Although I am a strong advocate for a greener University of Maryland, I don’t believe this initiative is going to have the intended outcome,” said Jennifer Winders, an education college representative who voted against the bill. “It’s very difficult to change a culture through posters and fliers.”

Instead, she said, the funds should be used in other ways, such as giving all freshmen a reusable bag as part of their orientation package.

So far, no money has been spent on the campaign, Lilly said. RHA will fund a “Bag the Bag” event with the support of SGA and Dining Services on Feb. 18. The event will include different activities,a screening of the documentary Bag It, food and a raffle of environ-

“I expect [the bars] to be filled with Baltimoreans,” Will said. “I am more excited for the atmosphere.”

effort to implement patrol sectors, which allows officers to become more familiar with a single area, Limansky said, as well as from the City Multiagency Service Team, a collaboration among University Police, Prince George’s County Police, the Office of Student Conduct and other city agencies. Increased use of technology and alerts also contributed to less crime, he said.

David Mitchell, University Police chief, commended officers and the communtiy for their prevention efforts throughout the campus.

“Their awareness of personal safety measures and vigilance in keeping residences and offices locked and secure has certainly made a difference in 2012,” he said.

Some students, such as Eddie Yacynych, said they were surprised to hear on-campus crime decreased. While the junior mathematics major feels safe on the campus and has never experienced any danger, he said the number of University Police alerts seemed to indicate crime was up.

“I feel like I’ve gotten more alerts this year,” Yacynych said.

“Maybe [the number of alerts] is the reason there’s a decrease.”

The crime drop corresponds with data the university received in October from the Clery Act, a federally mandated school security report, even though UCR and Clery Act numbers are collected in different ways. Clery Act data includes certain off-campus areas and reports from the Department of Resident Life, the Office of Student Conduct and other university departments, while the UCR data is restricted to oncampus areas and reports only from University Police.

This difference explains why some UCR numbers are higher than the corresponding Clery Act numbers, Limansky said.

To continue achieving positive results, officers must remain diligent and determined, he said.

“We always want to see a reduction. We would prefer to not see a robbery,” he said. “There’s always more work to do.”

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plastic bags are at the center of a new campaign by the Resident Hall Association, Student Government Association and Dining Services. photo courtesy of umd green dining mentally friendly prizes, including a bike, said Sree Sinha, RHA Sustainability Committee chairwoman.

Only the six convenience stores on the campus feature fliers, but Lilly wants to expand, possibly to The Dairy or smaller cafes.

“We want the staff at the stores to ask the students if they really need a bag instead of just assuming that they do,” she said.

The legislature sent four other bills to committees on Wednesday, including a resolution urging

the University Senate to expand the Good Samaritan policy to protect students from university sanctions if they call 911 for a friend or themselves in the event of excessive drug use.

The Senate Executive Committee is scheduled to decide today whether or not the full body of the senate will vote on alumnus Brandon Levey’s proposal. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Looney’s pub always offers game-day specials revolving around Ravens players. The bar will be offering shuttle service for patrons this Sunday as an alternative to driving home after the Super Bowl, said general manager Nick Creed. file photo/the diamondback the area, it doesn’t seem like there would be [a riot],” Davis said, adding officers have been monitoring social media sites but haven’t seen anything indicating planned riots.

But for some students, a win for the Ravens could be bigger than defeating Duke in men’s basketball, said sophomore business major Will, who plans to celebrate the game at Bentley’s.

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New clinical psychology master’s program to enroll students in fall

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer A master’s degree emphasizing clinical psychology, to be offered completely online, is now open for applications and enrollment for fall 2013.

The belief that psychology is a clinical science that can be supported by research and experiments is relatively recent and still extremely controversial among psychologists, said Julia Felton, Masters in Clinical Psychological Science director. But extending students the opportunity to understand the science can only benefit their psychology knowledge and skill, Felton said.

“In the past, there has been less of an evidence-based practice in psychology, and clinical psychology is still shockingly new to the field,” Felton said. “We saw this area where the field needed to provide something, and we wanted to convey to students that they can help people in ways based in science.”

The almost year-and-a-half program takes place through Adobe Connect, which will provide students with live, inter-

active lectures supplying training in clinical psychology, in addition to groundbreaking research methods and critical thinking skills. The curriculum was based off the university’s clinical psychology doctorate program, which is enormously popular and brings in hundreds of applications per year, said Jack Blanchard, psychology professor and department chairman.

“A lot of the students who were rejected for the doctorate program just weren’t ready for it and needed a stepping stone between the levels,” he said. “There was no program in the area addressing this need, and we received a lot of student inquiries requesting this type of master’s program.”

Aimed at attracting working professionals, the master’s lectures will be in the evenings, after typical work hours, to accommodate those with full-time jobs who wish to expand their careers in the mental health field.

The program will also focus on preparing psychology students to apply for and obtain their doctorate degrees, as gaining enrollment in these types of programs is considered more difficult than

for medical school, Felton said.

“We saw many psychology undergraduates that didn’t have the type of preparation to pursue these types of degrees,” she said.

“We want this program to be the launching pad for students to further themselves in their careers and get them ready for the next level: grad school.”

Applicants of all majors, with no previous psychology background or a GRE required, can apply to the program by its June 1 deadline.

“The master’s program design is targeted for people with diverse backgrounds and majors,” such as sociology and family science, he said. “The classes can address wide, diverse needs, especially for those who have studied related fields.”

Though officials did not disclose the total cost of the program, Blanchard said it will support itself through its tuition cost.

The program does not require the use of facilities and the department plans to hire only one new full-time faculty member, and all students will be charged in-state tuition, Felton said.

“Something we are committed to is making sure that our program

is worth the money, and is affordable for students,” she said. “We wanted the price to be reasonable and help further students in the psychology field.”

Monica Kearney, who is currently in the process of applying to doctorate and master’s programs, said she appreciates the department’s concern for students as the procedure is already difficult.

“Applying wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but it is a lot to take on,” the senior family science and psychology major said. “If I get in, I hope that these programs will advance my skills and make myself competitive in the job market.”

Though Kearney does not plan to apply for this university’s program, she said it will help students attempting to make the shift into graduate school.

“I think the program will get a lot of students who are in a transitional phase in their life, which I think is a good thing,” she said.

“These students are impressionable and are critical and active thinkers who can bring a new perspective to the university.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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up for when they moved here, and if they don’t like it they should move, because the university isn’t going anywhere.

Transcending this old dichotomy between students and residents will require each side to recognize its own flaws and embrace the needs of their counterparts. With greater communication and compromise, hopefully this committee will help facilitate that growth.

OUR VIEW

If we want College Park to improve, student renters and permanent residents need to work together.

Students shouldn’t need a reminder that living in a house off the campus doesn’t give you carte blanche for doing everything and anything in and around your house. You have neighbors who deserve to be treated with respect.

But driving up rent prices for students and limiting their housing options is not the solution. Students shouldn’t be forced to pay exorbitant prices to live in the View or The Varsity, nor should the only alternative to on-campus housing be squalid apartments on Knox Road. Community members shouldn’t allow the poor conduct of a select group of students to stifle the possibility of future cooperation.

Just as significantly, ostracizing homeowners would be disastrous for

the city and the university’s interest.

This university’s most recent mantra has been to improve the city of College Park. We can’t do that without these homeowners; the sooner we realize this, the sooner we can get back on track to revitalizing the university’s surrounding area. Owner-occupied housing in the city dropped by 11 percent from 2004-2010, and shows few signs of rebounding. As students, we depend on these residents to help bolster businesses and to sustain a viable community — we cannot afford to lose any more permanent residents.

In any successful college town — think Ann Arbor, Mich., or Austin, Texas — the identities and aspirations of residents and students are directly intertwined, each side taking pride in what the other has to offer. In order for College Park to ever reach that ultimate distinction of “top-20 college town,” students and residents must resolve their long-standing tenuous relationship. This starts with open dialogue and direct engagement between the two sides.

Each team needs to continue to take an active role in the city’s newly formed work group and follow up with further collaborative initiatives. The Student Government Association and the university should continue to encourage greater student engagement with the community at large, just as permanent residents should take this opportunity to put the past behind them. We all want the same end goal: a greater city. Let’s work together to get there.

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Ideas of God and evolution ANDREW DO There is undoubtedly scientific evidence that the existence of bacteria, fungi and animals stem from evolution.

But many also believe in Adam and Eve and the narrative of how the Earth came to be as written in the Book of Genesis.

Can these two “theories” coexist?

Many have heavily debated the question of evolution versus creationism, even in the 21st century as many in the Republican Party do not believe in evolution. In certain public school systems, evolution is even banned from even being taught.

Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of the Catholic Church, has said, “This clash [between creationism and evolution] is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”

But what the church fails to do is explain the details of how both theories can coexist. Let’s go through the facts.

Evolution is the change in inherited biological characteristics across generations. And these changes and modifications occurred through evolving

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he time-tested battle between longterm College Park residents and student renters continues in bitter disharmony, the long-awaited solution far from sight. Neither side can survive without the other, and yet, like a soured married couple trapped in a loveless marriage, reconciling their differences appears to be an impossible task.

But as neither side is likely to disappear anytime soon, we’re hopeful the two warring entities might just be starting a new chapter in their relationship.

City Hall played host for yet another first step in the effort to diffuse tensions between College Park’s permanent residents and their student neighbors Tuesday night. The Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Workgroup hosted its first of two public forums hoping to bridge the gap that’s plagued the College Park community for years. City leaders, students and community members on this committee aim to tackle four key issues: neighborhood relations, rent stabilization, diversity of housing and, of course, noise violations.

Placing the onus entirely on one side in this conflict would be foolhardy. On one side, you have long-term homeowners who see students treading on their community with little regard for their neighbors’ public welfare and with little invested in the future of the city; the other composed of students who say this is a college town for college students — not a bunch of old people who prefer a quiet lifestyle. Some students say homeowners knew what they signed

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from a common ancestor, giving rise to a phylogenetic tree. In layman’s terms, we have a shared common ancestor with all the species surrounding us. From this common ancestor came a diversification of species.

We diversified to what we call “human” from a common ancestor shared with chimps. Looking at shared physical structures, behavioral characteristics and common biological processes that humans share with many other species, there is strong scientific evidence of such a process.

Creationism is the belief that the universe, the Earth and the life on it, was created by a supernatural being: God. This theory can coincide with the theory of evolution; I can say that God created the Earth and the life on it, which over generations evolved, giving rise to the theory of evolution.

Where it gets complicated is how the beginning of life is portrayed in the Book of Genesis, the first book in Judeo-Christian texts. Genesis 1:21 states, “So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.”

And we all know the story of the creation of man and woman through Adam and Eve. This gives the sense

that God created each individual creature and animal. Evolution says otherwise — that all species found today had evolved from a common ancestor.

So, is the story of creation suppose to be taken literally? Was the world created in that particular manner, or is it an interpretation and narrative, that the meaning behind the story is more important than the literal details? If literal, we can see why one would not believe in evolution if he, too, believes God created every individual being.

There are probably many explanations for this, but I’ve never thought about it in much detail — even though I believe in both the written word of God and evolution. I am not insinuating Genesis is literal or a narrative, but am instead leaving the question out in the open. Politicians like to throw around words such as evolution and creationism without fully analyzing the facts or their own faith. Saying you don’t believe in evolution because of your religious beliefs when there is overwhelming scientific evidence is pure ignorance. Instead, you should be trying to bridge what you know with what you believe.

Andrew Do is a senior b i o c h e m i s t ry m a j o r. He ca n b e reached at doandy09@yahoo.com.

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People are great;

humanity is questionable JAKE DeVIRGILIIS Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek is constantly saying interesting things, so I am constantly googling his name. Last summer, he remarked, “Humanity? Yes, it’s OK – some great talks, some great arts.

Concrete people? No, 99 percent are boring idiots.”

Sometimes, it seems hard to disagree with him. Looking at Twitter on Dec. 16 after President Obama went on television to give a speech about the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and interrupted football or on January 14 when his last firstterm press conference interrupted The Price is Right was one of the most discouraging things I have ever seen (seriously). If you missed the response, I’ll give you the CliffsNotes version: People are very racist and seem to value the words of Drew Carey above all else.

Yet, somehow, this behavior seems more reflective of humanity than it does of these individuals.

We’ve created a medium for communicating those (bad) ideas, made laws protecting that (abhorrent) speech and apparently created communities that foster that kind of (idiotic) thinking. Then, BuzzFeed (or as I like to call it, The Apex of Journalism) finds a way to create a snappy headline, aggregates the worst 24, and turns it into thousands of hits (potentially referencing how great the ‘90s were in the process).

Or, there are always those who attempt to create a Tumblr outing racist Internet people in hopes that other, more self-righteous Internet people will be mean to the aforementioned mean people. If that confused you, good, because that type of behavior is completely counterintuitive (and counterproductive).

Realistically, humanity seems to be a bigger problem than any of these tiny individuals. Humanity is totally encouraging them to achieve superficial goals of fame, material wealth and Taco Bell, all while not reprimanding anyone for stopping at

nothing to achieve these goals. It’s easy to blame the individuals who created today’s popular trash television like Jersey Shore, Basketball Wives or The Big Bang Theory for making such terrible programming, but clearly, humanity created the demand for it — cut it out, humanity.

Granted, a lot of what I’m talking about is a distinctly American brand of vapid, pop culture humanity (in a Dorito shell). But humanity is encouraging bad behavior all around the world; just look at police brutality in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning European Union, gang rape in India, or North Korea in general.

Don’t get me wrong, humanity, Argo was great but I’m not sure the arts are making up for some of this other stuff we’ve been doing.

Within humanity, though, are a lot of really cool individual people. Yeah, I guess there are some boring idiots out there, but I only notice them when they’re trying to act like boring idiots to fit in with some larger group.

On a one-on-one basis, everyone I’ve met has almost always been rad.

Individual people tend to be unique and have compelling life stories. In fact, I almost never find myself disliking someone unless I am part of a group of haters intent on talking about how much they dislike someone. (A lot of the time this person is Nicolas Cage, and I don’t think the fact that people don’t actually know him in person makes this more acceptable — he has been in more good movies than most actors I can think of.)

I’ve tried to surround myself with people who don’t constantly feel the need to malign others, and I think I’ve done a pretty good job — shoutout to my friends for being nice to people.

Giving yourself a chance to actually like strangers instead of automatically thinking they have stupid opinions is an almost surefire way to actually like them. Here, I have to agree with Thich Nhat Hanh, who knows that “You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.” Humanity’s got some work to do.

But, you, reader, you my boy or girl.

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

Love in the time of Clinton JOSHUA DOWLING When I first saw Hillary Clinton in person almost six years ago, she was launching her campaign for president. Today, she is ending her time as secretary of state.

As the nation’s top diplomat, Clinton has visited more nations than any of her predecessors in an effort to make the world a safer, brighter place. She’s done this not just for the American people whom she represents, but for all people — especially the young girls and women for whom she has labored tirelessly since her tenure as first lady.

Much has been said lately about Clinton, from people haranguing her for her decision to stick with her philandering husband, to those who have derided her as ambitious, cold and calculating.

Lately her political opponents have attacked her for the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, but it mustn’t be forgotten that Clinton is a dedicated public servant who has directed all of her efforts to secure a better future for this world.

Clinton made history when she became the one former first lady to run for national elected office by running in, and winning, the 2000 race for U.S. Senate in New York.

Clinton made history when she won the New Hampshire primary and came within striking distance of winning the Democratic nomination for the presidency. She made history when she became the nation’s third female secretary of state. She made history in her efforts to ensure girls and young

women throughout the world are provided with opportunity, equality and progress. She made history when she stood before the United Nations and declared gays and lesbians were free and equal in dignity and rights.

Clinton is not just living history, but making and shaping it.

I often feel like I owe Clinton a great deal for her work in the Senate and her trailblazing 2008 campaign. It was those two things, coupled with her enthusiasm and intensity, that first led me to be interested in politics and have helped transform a passive interest into a passion.

I am not alone in my support of Hillary Clinton. In the last 20 years, she has been ranked the most admired woman in the U.S. 17 times. She has done an incredible job showing little girls throughout the world that no dream is too bold, and no ceiling limits the success an individual with strength, intelligence and integrity can achieve.

After Clinton passes the title of secretary of state to John Kerry today, she will leave behind a legacy of dedicated service and a commitment to the dignity and rights of all people.

As she leaves office, America will be without a Clinton in government for the first time in more than 20 years, and much worse off for it.

With the secretary moving into retirement, it is up to everyday Americans to take up her cause and do our best to make our world a more inclusive, open place. We need to make America a paragon of liberty, equality and justice, instead of letting it lapse back into a pariah ensconced in its own self-importance.

Joshua Dowling is a senior government and politics and history major. He can be reached at dowlingj@terpmail.umd.edu.

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By Dean Essner Staff writer Laurie Anderson is a woman of many guises: performance artist, avant-pop pioneer, poet, violinist, linguistic deconstructionist and social commentator.

What makes her work so endlessly fascinating is its unpredictability; you never quite know which mask she’ll don and when.

Her events tonight and tomorrow night at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay T heatre a re sh rouded i n her tradema rk mystery. Little is known about the nature of the performance, “Scenes from My New Novel,” which will eventually lead into a mini-tour around the globe. Even her main collaborator for the show — classical music ensemble Kronos Quartet — has watched pieces of the production morph from their initial forms in a constant evolutionary process that will likely continue until the curtain drops and the performance begins.

“It’s like we’re turning the pages and finding out the storyline as we speak, and some of these elements are even being d e c i d e d n o w,” s a i d K ro n o s Quartet founder and violinist David Harrington.

A nderson is the master of ceremonies and is responsible for the performance’s story and musical score, which has been in the works for many months.

Harrington and his ensemble are her creative partners, expanding on ideas and providing feedback to help her vision become a reality.

“It’s pretty seamless, her involvement and Kronos’ involvement,” Harrington said. “But it’s her piece and we’re helping to shape it.”

The pairing was suggested by Paul Brohan, director of artistic initiatives at CSPAC, who had seen each artist perform at the center separately — Anderson in 2010 and Kronos multiple times throughout the past few years.

He approached them at the same time, noticing conceptual and aesthetic links between their music. They had never collaborated before, but both had expressed interest in partnering.

And putting on their finished work at CSPAC was a natural decision.

“I can’t think of where there’s a better place for this work to gestate and develop, there’s no place like it,” said Harrington.

“T he enti re Cla rice Sm it h center, you just feel you’re being

really taken care of and the work is just allowed to develop here.”

What will result from such gestation is still unknown. But part of the excitement is watching this enigma slowly reveal itself for the very first time in front of our eyes.

By keeping most details under wraps, Anderson is tapping into the idea of theater as a communal ritual. It harkens back to an earlier, simpler time, when audience members were unassuming and vulnerable to the element of surprise without media overload and Internet spoilers.

“She i s a n a r t i st who h a s someth i ng to ref lect back about who we are as a society in America, the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century,” Brohan said. “Whether you agree with that or whether it speaks to you as entertainment or not is up to you, but I think that she has something very important and vital to share with the people.”

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VITALE From PAGE 8 the game. “I didn’t even recognize him.”

The half dozen or so NBA scouts in attendance probably didn’t either. They had traveled to the Donald L. Tucker Center to see the 7-foot-1 center who many still project as a top-10 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft.

Instead, they got treated to what was arguably Len’s worst college game to date.

He committed his second foul late in the first half and spent the final 6:29 on the bench. He didn’t score his first points of the night until the 7:44 mark of the second half. And he even missed an alley-oop dunk late in the game that would have given the Terps a three-point cushion.

In fact, Len performed so poorly that Turgeon praised

DEACONS From PAGE 8 cut the Seminoles’ deficit to 62-60 on Wednesday, the Terps appeared intent on avoiding a similar fate. It seemed the time had arrived when they’d finally notch that first road win, when they’d gain some momentum heading into a soft February slate.

But, once again, no victory arrived. Just as they have done much of the season, the Terps struggled to capitalize down the stretch. They committed costly turnovers, were whistled for unnecessary fouls and stood still too long on ball screens.

“We played hard and it came down to the wire,” forward James Padgett said. “Florida

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backup forward James Padgett for his efforts against the Seminoles — he said the senior “played his tail off” to the tune of six points and three rebounds in 31 minutes — and said he was going to start playing to the team’s depth in the frontcourt.

Padgett is a serviceable backup, and Charles Mitchell and Shaquille Cleare are both having solid freshman campaigns, even if they are a little inconsistent. But relying on that trio over Len up front?

It’s a notion that seemed implausible just weeks ago.

But recent games have shown Len isn’t quite ready to be a go-to guy. As his defenders have gotten bigger and stronger, he’s played smaller and weaker.

So while it was easy for him to dominate the undersized centers who manned the middle for the Terps’ nonconference opponents, it hasn’t been so easy for

him to adjust to playing against the likes of Florida State’s trio of 7-footers inside.

“We were just begging Alex: ‘You’ve got to give us something, you have to play better. If you play better, we’re going to win the game,’” Turgeon said.

“And he didn’t.”

He might not for the rest of the season, either. Wednesday’s performance should prove an outlier in what will still end up being a solid campaign, but Len simply isn’t going to have the breakout season many expected entering this year.

NBA teams value potential over performance, so Len still looks like a future lottery pick. But, now that the Terps are in the thick of ACC play, we’re probably not going to see him play like it anymore.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

State made some tough shots, and they ended up winning the game. It was just tough.”

Perhaps the Terps’ biggest shortfall Wednesday was their continued inability to capitalize on key offensive opportunities in the game’s waning moments.

Of course, no such chance was more striking than the one Len botched in the final minute.

After Snaer hit a running hook to cut Florida State’s deficit to 71-70, coach Mark Turgeon called a timeout and drew up a play for the Terps’ leading scorer. Guard Logan Aronhalt screened and rescreened for Len, and the Ukrainian big man cut to the basket for an alley oop. But after grabbing a crisp lob from guard Nick Faust midair, Len’s

attempt ricocheted off the back iron. The misfire led to a Florida State jump ball, allowing coach Leonard Hamilton to call a timeout and draw up the final play for Snaer.

“We’re just not quite good enough yet,” Turgeon said.

“It’s a fine line, and we got to figure it out.”

The Terps should be able to work out some of those kinks tomorrow against the Demon Deacons. On paper. Wake Forest seems the ideal matchup for a win-starved group desperate to inch back toward .500 in conference play. It ranks at or near the bottom of the ACC in almost every major offensive category and boasts the conference’s second-worst scoring defense.

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3-5 ACC) are also last in assistto-turnover ratio, which could help render the Terps’ knack for giveaways moot come tipoff. They rank second to last in rebounding margin, a stark contrast to a Terps (15-6, 3-5) team that is a distant first on the boards. Len, Padgett and fellow big men Shaquille Cleare and Charles Mitchell should have little trouble enforcing their will down low.

If that happens, the Terps

can finally move past Wednesday’s heartache. They can regain their confidence and start feasting on a February schedule that includes the entire bottom half of the ACC. “You can say all that,” Wells said when asked if his team can take away any positives from Wednesday’s defeat. “But if you don’t win, it doesn’t really matter to me.”

league in scoring offense (61.8 points per game) and are in the middle in scoring defense (61.6 points per game).

It’s a far cry from the Terps (17-3, 8-1), who rank second in both categories. The Terps have beaten their opponents by an average score of 76.5 to 52.3 this season, the second-largest scoring margin in the conference behind Duke, which is currently undefeated in conference play.

Despite the small numbers o n t h e b e n c h , t h e Te r ps aren’t surprised they rank among the best in the conference in a number of statistical categories. It’s part of a complete game.

“We try to play a 40-minute game every game,” Rutan said.

“It doesn’t matter who we’re playing, whether it’s a good team or a bad team. If we play

a 40-minute game, we’ll be prepared for the games we have against UConn and other top-ranked teams. We just take it as we use every game to work on ourselves and not our opponent.”

The respite from the schedule should be both a mental and physical boost, both Frese and Rutan said, and the team expects to pick up right where it left off, just like it has all season long.

“I think we’re fortunate because we have a mature group when you talk about our upperclassmen, and then our freshmen are kind of poised beyond our years,” Frese said.

“I think the group we have, we’re very fortunate to have.

Not every team could do what this group is doing.”

to 2006 and was a finalist for the Mackey Award, given to the nation’s top tight end, his junior season.

Smith arrived in College Park in 2008 and had a similarly impactful stint. His 5,264 career all-purpose yards are the most in school history.

Another former Terp, Ravens backup receiver LaQuan Williams, might have appeared in the big game if he hadn’t suffered a season-ending hamstring injury in the regularseason finale. Nevertheless, after suffering back-to-back losing seasons, current Terps gain plenty of satisfaction from the simple fact three alumni are on Super Bowl rosters.

“I feel a lot of honor and pride to have two guys that went here playing in the Super Bowl,” cornerback Dexter McDougle said.

“Whether or not we’ve been going to bowl games lately, we can be prideful of this.”

That pride can serve as a talking point for the Terps’ coaches as they aim to polish off this year’s recruiting class before National Signing Day on Wednesday. Carter chose to attend this university with eyes toward an NFL future, after all, so why wouldn’t other recruits?

“College recruiters make a point of that stuff when they are sending mail to the kids,” said Bob Milloy, coach at Good Counsel High School in Olney, which has produced numerous Division-I recruits. “They’ll say, ‘Hey, look at Vernon Davis, or look at Torrey Smith.’ It’s got to have an impact on the student-athletes.”

Incoming recruit M ilan Collins, a safety and dual-threat quarterback at Forestville’s Bishop McNamara High School, said his decision to attend this university had little to do with the program’s NFL pedigree.

Still, Collins said, it doesn’t hurt to watch Smith and Davis battle for a Super Bowl championship.

“It’s a cool thing to see Maryland succeed at any level,” Collins said. “It makes me excited to know that if things work out, I might have opportunities after graduating.”

Davis, Smith and Williams all took advantage of their NFL opportunities. And for a recruit like Carter, who hopes to one day reach the Super Bowl himself, they’re a reason to believe his childhood dream isn’t far out of reach.

“It’ll be cool seeing Vernon Davis and Torrey Smith in the Super Bowl,” Carter said, “and knowing that by coming to Maryland, I could be there too.”

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Guard Katie Rutan said the Terps’ week off came at the perfect time. The team will resume its ACC schedule when they host Boston College on Sunday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

RECRUITS

Tournament begins in early March.

But right now, the focus is on the health of a team with just eight players available on game days.

“We all want to play games,” guard Katie Rutan said. “But b e c a u s e we ’re d ow n o n numbers, I think this bye week really came at a good time so we could really regroup and just rest our bodies as much as we needed and have them rested enough so we can finish this long-term stretch we have left.”

Sunday’s opponent, Boston College (8-11, 2-6 ACC), currently sits in eighth place in the conference. The Eagles rank near the bottom of the

Center Alex Len scored a season-low four points and grabbed just five rebounds in 17 minutes in the Terps’ heartbreaking 73-71 loss at Florida State on Wednesday. file photo/the diamondback

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WRESTLING

GYMNASTICS

For Boley, a return to form

Terps ready for rematch with rival North Carolina

Terps host Virginia to end homestand

After nearly two decades in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League, the Terrapins gymnastics team is set to move — along with the rest of this university’s athletic programs — to the Big 10 in less than two years. And while the Terps may be on their way out, they haven’t forgotten how sweet it feels to beat rival North Carolina.

“Everyone wants to beat Carolina,” said coach Brett Nelligan, whose Terps face the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, N.C., tomorrow.

The No. 15 Terps proved their depth against North Carolina on Saturday, overcoming late falls on floor from senior Kesley Cofsky and sophomore Stephanie Giameo to defeat the Tar Heels, 195.300-194.425.

“The team relaxed at the end,” Nelligan said. “You need to finish with high intensity. We’ve talked about it all week.

If we can do that, we’ll be fine.”

The Terps’ hot start helped make up for the late miscues Saturday. Katy Dodds, the national vault leader at the time, began the night with a 9.900 vault en route to securing a

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By Daniel Popper Staff writer After a sudden drop from the top 25 earlier this month, things could finally be looking up for the Terrapins wrestling team.

No. 5 Josh Asper and No. 16 Geoffrey Alexander have both overcome their respective injuries, and No. 15 Christian Boley has returned to form after an inconsistent first half. The Terps are coming off a convincing victory over North Carolina, and a narrow onepoint loss to No. 8 Virginia Tech is their only loss in conference play.

But the Terps still have work to do if they want to climb back into the polls, and their schedule isn’t getting easier. Tonight, they’ll host border rival Virginia, a team that features six wrestlers ranked in the top 20.

“We’re in a place to peak at the right time,” coach Kerry McCoy

Wrestler Christian Boley struggled through what he called a “tough first semester,” but he’s undefeated in his past seven dual matches at 197 pounds, racking up 28 dual points in that span. file photo/the diamondback said. “We have to wrestle hard, and we have to wrestle smart because [Virginia] is always a battle.”

The Terps (10-6, 1-1 ACC) should continue to receive a boost from Boley, who has been perfect in the past month of dual competition.

After dropping from the individual ranking at 197 pounds when he lost to Ohio State’s then-No. 10 Andrew Campolattano at the Grapple at the Garden on Dec. 16, the junior won seven consecutive dual matches, tallying 28 dual points during the winning streak.

“I had a tough first semester,” Boley said. “But mentally I’m back and now

Josh is back and we’re ready.”

Following a loss to Bloomsburg on Jan. 5, the Terps entered a sevenmatch homestand that ends with Virginia on Friday. During the stretch, the Terps have won four matches and turned their disappointing season around.

“It’s awesome for the fans and it’s awesome for the guys,” McCoy said.

“Not having to travel and being able to sleep in your own bed are huge. On the road, you get battle-tested and road weary and it’s tough on you. But it has made us stronger.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

first-place tie with teammate Ally Krikorian on the event.

“We beat them last week; we killed them,” said Dodds, who is tied for fifth nationally on vault. “If we can beat them again this week, hopefully it’ll set us up better to win the EAGL championship this year.”

But Terps victories over North Carolina have not always come so easily. The Tar Heels have won the EAGL championship four times in the past 10 years. In 18 years of EAGL competition, the Terps have never brought home the championship trophy.

“This is our last year in [the EAGL],” Krikorian said. “We want everyone to know we are the best team. We are done losing out by a little bit. We are here to show everybody what Maryland is all about.”

Despite Saturday’s victory, the Terps fell a spot in the national rankings this week. The squad plans to use the slight as motivation, Nelligan said.

“It’s still early in the season,” Nelligan said. “We just need to keep doing what we are doing. Our goal is to score 196 or better, and we know we can.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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FRIDAY, February 1, 2013

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps hope to move past heartbreak vs. Deacons

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Terrapins men’s

Center Shaquille Cleare and the Terps suffered a heartbreaking 73-71 loss at Florida State on Wednesday. They‘ll look to rebound from that defeat tomorrow when they host Wake Forest at Comcast Center. photo courtesy of bob myers

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Night off comes at right time

basketball team has experienced its share of heartbreak this season.

There was the season opener against then-No. 3 Kentucky, when costly errors down the stretch resulted in a threepoint defeat. There was the Jan. 9 home loss to Florida State, when the Seminoles erased the Terps’ 12-point secondhalf lead. Then there was the defensive battle at Miami four nights later, when a 14-point first half ultimately doomed

the Terps in a 54-47 loss.

But none of those letdowns rivaled the heartache the Terps felt moments after Seminoles guard Michael Snaer hit a wide-open 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to steal a 73-71 win Wednesday night. The Terps, who will host Wake Forest tomorrow, struggled to figure out where they went wrong. Players wept in the visitors’ locker room, grappling with the reality of their fourth ACC road loss in less than three weeks.

After all, a win seemed in hand much of the game. After an eight-point lead evaporated into a tie entering the

break, the Terps managed a 17-9 run midway through the second half. And when center Alex Len hammered down a Dez Wells feed with 6:56 remaining to capture a 62-54 lead, the Terps seemed destined for a much-needed road victory.

It was nothing new. Just a few weeks earlier, a sizable Terps lead disappeared in the second half when Seminoles forward Okaro White erupted for 15 straight points.

But when a Kiel Turpin jumper cut See DEACONS, Page 7

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HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN

Terps host Boston College on Sunday

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer Last night, while 10 ACC foes were locked in crucial conference contests, the Terrapins women’s basketball team finally had the chance to rest.

It marked the end of a four-week stretch in which the Terps played at least two games a week in a daunting league schedule. For a team beset by injuries and high minute counts for the majority of its players, last night couldn’t have come at a better time.

The No. 10 Terps’ bye week came exactly halfway through the conference slate and just more than one month away from the postseason. They’ll begin the second half of league play Sunday, hosting Boston College at Comcast Center.

“Perfect timing right smack dab in the middle of the season when you’re talking halfway through,” coach Brenda Frese said. “With the intensity of conference play and how much more physical it is and obviously, mentally, physically, emotionally in playing these types of games in the ACC, it definitely allows you to kind of take a breath and recover and then get ready for the second half.”

The second half of a daunting, 18-game ACC slate features two matchups against No. 5 Duke and another at No. 20 Florida State in the final nine games before the ACC See EAGLES, Page 7

Center Alex Len has struggled over the Terps’ past five games, averaging 9.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per contest. He was averaging 13.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks before. file photo/the diamondback

Despite entering season with a lot of hype, Len fails to live up to expectations in recent slump JOSH VITALE Remember when Alex Len was good at basketball?

It shouldn’t be that hard. After all, it was only four months ago when Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon stood in front of the media and gushed about his new and improved center. After weathering a difficult first year in the States, the Ukrainian big man had fully grasped the

English language and added 30 pounds of muscle.

He was finally comfortable, and Turgeon was ready to coach him into one of the ACC’s best players.

Through the first 16 games of the season, that’s exactly who Len was. The sophomore was averaging 13.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game — all team-highs by a wide margin — and shooting better than 55 percent from the field.

But when the regular season officially moved past the halfway point a little less than three weeks ago, Len seemed to lose his footing. He’s averaging a pedestrian 9.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 0.8

TERPS IN SUPER BOWL XLVII Before sitting down to watch Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, get to know San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis and Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith. The two former Terrapins football standouts have emerged as top NFL receiving threats, and should have a significant impact on their sport’s biggest stage. Ravens backup wide receiver LaQuan Williams, who was on the Terps’ roster from 2006 to 2010, suffered a season-ending hamstring injury during the Ravens’ Dec. 30 loss at Cincinnati and will not appear in Sunday’s game.

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Davis finished his Terps career ranked in the top 20 in school history in receptions (83), receiving yards (1,371) and receiving touchdowns (9).

In his junior year, the studio art major recorded 51 receptions for 871 yards and was selected to the All-ACC first team. Davis decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 2006 NFL draft, where the 49ers selected him with the sixth overall pick.

After a relatively strong start to the 2012 season, Davis struggled when dual-threat quarterback Colin Kaepernick took the starting job in Week 11.

The Washington native finished the regular season with just 41 receptions, his lowest total since 2008. Davis, though, has notched at least 100 receiving yards in three of four career playoff contests, including 106 yards and a touchdown in the NFC Championship.

Despite playing just three seasons, Smith’s excellence as a kick return specialist and receiver helped him break the school record for career all-purpose yards with 5,264. During his junior year, the criminology and criminal justice major became just the second Terp to top 1,000 receiving yards in a single season. The following spring, the Ravens selected Smith in the second round (58th overall) of the 2011 NFL draft.

Smith had a stellar 2012 regular season, notching 49 catches for 855 yards. But his Week 3 performance against the New England Patriots stands out in particular. In that game, the heavy-hearted now-24year-old hauled in six catches for 127 yards and two touchdowns, propelling his team to a 31-30 victory one night after learning his 19-year-old brother, Tevin, died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash.

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blocks over the team’s past five games, and he’s made just 46 percent of his shots in that stretch.

And on Wednesday night in Tallahassee, Fla., Len hit rock bottom. He scored four points, grabbed five rebounds and blocked one shot in 17 foul-plagued minutes, and was essentially a nonfactor down the stretch as the Terps suffered a heartbreaking 73-71 defeat at Florida State.

So what happened?

“I don’t have an answer,” Turgeon said after See VITALE, Page 7

FOOTBALL

Alums in Super Bowl help boost recruiting

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer For as long as he can remember, Jermaine Carter has aspired to play in the NFL. So when the heavily recruited high school linebacker committed to the Terrapins football team in July, he had bigger plans than playing on Saturdays.

Carter can’t be sure his decision to come to College Park next fall will lead to an NFL future. But when the Friendship Collegiate Academy senior gathers with his family at their Washington home to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, he expects to feel reassured about his choice.

And why wouldn’t he? The Terps will be one of seven programs with alumni — San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon

Davis and Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith — starting on both teams in the sport’s biggest game.

“That’s going to be really big for me to see,” Carter said. “It’s a big part of the reason why I picked Maryland, knowing guys have done good things in the NFL, so it’s really exciting to see them in the Super Bowl.”

Carter likely won’t have to wait long to see the two former Terps’ impact in Sunday’s contest. Both Davis and Smith are established NFL receiving threats, and both rank second on their respective teams in receiving yardage.

That NFL success shouldn’t surprise anyone who followed the two receivers during their careers in College Park.

Davis played at this university from 2003 See RECRUITS, Page 7