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Prince George’s crime levels hit 35-year low Fall echoes national trend; only burglaries have increased since ’05

BY DARREN BOTELHO Staff writer

Although burglaries remain a problem, crime in Prince George’s County is the lowest it has been in 35 years, a milestone police officials chalk up to increased safety programs, more patrolling officers and a change in county strategy.

The drop-off mirrors a national trend of decreased crime, criminology experts said. But county police emphasized the local change has been in part brought on by a concentrated effort to pinpoint prob-

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Compromise keeps Hoff Theater open on weekends, but alternatives continue to threaten landmark’s future

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

After Stamp officials said last semester that the Hoff Theater would likely end its run as an independent theater by January 2010, a compromise measure is keeping the campus landmark afloat — for now.

Movies now play Thursday through Saturday at just $3 for students and at newly standardized times. Although this abbreviated schedule is a downsized version of last semester’s, Stamp Student Union officials previously considered shutting down the theater entirely to rent the space out to university-based groups seven days a week.

With the change in plans, student groups can rent the space for their own functions all day Sunday

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History professor studied the south Professor Louis Harlan was expert on Booker T. Washington the iconic black leader and the portrait it painted of black Americans living in a Louis R. Harlan, a histo- segregated nation. As his rian and university professor life’s work, the two-volume biography took emeritus who dediHarlan nearly three cated his life to decades to comchronicling the turplete. bulence of south“It was the first ern race relations really three-dimenand spent more sional work that than 25 years went into the secret teaching at this unilife, the private versity, died Jan. world, of the most 22, of liver failure. famous black man He was 87.

LOUIS of his time,” RayBest known as an HARLAN mond Smock, who expert on southern DISTINGUISHED histor y and race UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR helped Harlan edit the biography, told relations, Harlan’s definitive biography of The New York Times.

Born near West Point, Booker T. Washington won both the Pulitzer Prize and Miss. in 1922, Harlan grew the Bancroft Prize for its complex look into the life of see HARLAN, page 3

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through Wednesday.

“It was never going to be closed,” student union director Gretchen Metzelaars said. “We just talked about operating it differently, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Metzelaars noted that the theater struggled to compete against multiplexes and Netflix, failing to break even for the past several years. The unprofitable on-campus theater cost the student union $233,000 a year to operate and was given $150,000 in student activity fees.

The Hoff’s drain on the university’s resources became especially clear when the student union faced major losses after renewing the University Book Center’s contract with Barnes and Noble for

see HOFF, page 3

lematic areas in the region.

At an awards ceremony last Wednesday, County Executive Jack Johnson presented proclamations commemorating a countywide drop in crime from 2005 figures. In every area except burglaries, crime dropped at least 25 percent — county burglary rates have increased by 2 percent since 2005, said District 1 Commander Maj. Daniel Dusseau, who oversees county police in College Park.

In 2005, crime rates in the

see CRIME, page 2

Activists work to build city coalitions

BY DANA CETRONE Staff writer

Despite recent disagreements and points of contention between the university and the city of College Park, student activists still hope to benefit from a positive relationship with the city.

Mike Martin, an alumnus and former chairman of the Maryland state chapter of the Sierra Club — a grassroots environmentalist organization that advocates preservation and eco-friendly policies — spoke last night to more than 30 students in the Stamp Student Union. Throughout his talk, he told students how he succeeded in affecting sustain-

able change as a student activist by reaching out to key stakeholders, including the city.

Student activists said they hope their own coalition building with the city will help them achieve their environmental goals for both the university and the surrounding area.

“We’re talking to the city to see where they stand on East Campus and their own relocation needs,” said Matt Dernoga, campaign coordinator for UMD for Clean Energy, who is a columnist at The Diamondback. “They can have some leverage with the council representative [to the university]

see ACTIVISM, page 2

Chicken Rico first downtown restaurant to close this semester Revolving door on Rt. 1 continues with Peruvian eatery’s shutdown

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

Just one week into the spring semester, downtown College Park has suffered its first restaurant casualty: Chicken Rico.

Known for ser ving traditional Peruvian food like pollo a la brasa — commonly known as Peruvian chicken — as well as chicken fried rice, fried plantains and yucca, Chicken Rico offered unique choices in an area saturated with fried chicken and buffalo wing eateries.

But the beloved restaurant shut its doors for good Sunday, and a moving van picked up Chicken Rico’s brightly colored tables, chairs and couches. Now, all that remains inside are the muddy boot prints made by those who hastily removed the furniture Sunday night.

Chicken Rico’s owners could not be reached for comment.

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“That’s too bad,” the city’s Director of Planning Terr y Schum said upon hearing the news. Schum said she would often hold night meetings at Chicken Rico and have the restaurant cater events.

While the reason for Chicken Rico’s departure remains unclear, Schum said that restaurants in the area often struggle with high rents.

“Unfortunately, in these times businesses sometimes have trouble making the high rents, and if they’re unable to negotiate other terms with their landlord, they have to go,” she said.

Representatives from Greenhill Capital Corporation, which owns Terrapin Station, the stretch of stores that housed Chicken Rico and includes Vito’s Pizzeria and Wata-Wing, declined to comment.

The restaurant’s closure A sign hangs in the window of the recently closed Chicken

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CRIME from page 1 county soared.

During that year, the county saw 161 homicides and 15,188 auto thefts — in 2009, there were 92 homicides and 6,106 auto thefts in the county — according to police statistics.

Dusseau said police buckled down on crime by targeting neighborhoods where certain criminal activities would happen regularly.

This police work was necessary, he said, to prevent “five incidents from becoming 10.”

Crime prevention is not a novel idea, Dusseau said.

“I have a meeting every day about crime patterns,” Dusseau said. “People who do certain types of crimes, like burglary, do it multiple times. … If we see a pattern we move additional resources to the area, sometimes from other parts of the county.”

Most recently resources were reallocated to District 1, which had 20 or more patrolling officers from all over the county driving the College Park streets following a rash of break-ins this past winter break.

But District 1, which includes College Park, led the county in decreased auto thefts, which criminal justice and criminology professor Charles Wellford said could be attributed to several factors.

In the last few years, Wellford said, police have been enforcing laws to keep early morning commuters from warming their

about what provisions he’ll support. He also has some financial pull as well as political pull.”

UMD for Clean Energy is advocating to make the upcoming East Campus the “most ambitious green development,” and is still collaborating with the city on an energy loan fund — a pool of money to be loaned out to city residents to make environmentally friendly upgrades in their homes. Some student activists also went to Annapolis to meet with state legislators about legalizing the loan program.

This sort of grassroots advocacy and coalition building works, Martin said.

During his time as a stu-

car in the driveway while they get ready for work, inviting carjackers to drive away with their vehicle. When patrolling officers find an unattended car running they issue a warning first, then a fine for a second offense.

“Increased enforcement has stepped up in the last couple of years, and there has been a decrease in the number of stolen vehicles in Prince George’s County,” Wellford said.

He added other factors, including a relative stabilization of the drug trade, less fighting between drug dealers and an aging generation of criminals who pose less of a threat have also attributed to the drop in crime rate, though it is unclear by how much.

“Research says all of those reasons play a factor, but trying to provide a precise estimate of what all of those things have contributed has not been achieved,” Wellford said.

“Nationally, crime rates have declined for whatever reason.”

Although crime rates have decreased across the board, police are still receiving the same number of emergency calls, Dusseau said.

“Police in the county receive 182,000 calls for service per year, which is not down from 2005,” he said. “But crime is down, so that means people are calling the police for things they wouldn’t have before. ... In this day and age, people will call the police for anything. But we encourage that.” botelho@umdbk.com

CRIME STATISTICS 2005 Criminal homicide: 161 Rape: 266 Theft: 24,001 Auto theft: 15,188 Aggravated assault: 3,365 Robbery: 4,446 Total crime: 53, 789

2009 Criminal homicide: 92 Rape: 181 Theft: 17,962 Auto theft: 6,106 Aggravated assault: 2,388 Robbery: 2,680 Total crime: 35,913

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to create change or pressure the university,” Martin said.

“We were able to change the physical makeup of the campus and change the course of the university.”

During his fight for the wetlands, Martin and other student activists worked with the city, who sued the university over the issue but lost.

Martin said city officials helped put them in contact with stakeholders and attracted the attention of former Gov. Parris Glendening, who helped them put pressure on the university by appealing to university President Dan Mote.

Martin was also a part of a Sustainability committee under Facilities Management, whose issues he and other committee members brought to the attention of the university community.

dent, Martin struggled with the university’s attempt to build a road through a forested area that is now occupied by Comcast Center and to relocate greenhouses to wetlands in the same area.

Martin said it was through reaching out to the city and other stakeholders like the Sierra Club and the US Army Corps of Engineers that his Sierra Student Coalition was able to prevent the university from tampering with the wetlands.

Some UMD for Clean Energy members said this story mirrored their continuing outreach to the city in regards to the East Campus development and the Student Sustainability Committee’s progress in saving the Wooded Hillock from development.

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As a student, Mike Martin, former chairman of the Maryland state chapter of the Sierra Club, worked with the city to save wetlands from development. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

“We reworked the Sustainability committee to be responsible to the community, which made a difference

in the long run for the campus,” Martin said. cetrone@umdbk.com

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Although many students complained about the lack of salters and snow plows on roads, some university employees, such as this one, removed snow from sidewalks on the campus Saturday night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Letting it snow

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University students bemoan the slow response to first heavy snowfall of the semester

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

Cars slipped and slid down city roads Saturday morning in the second biggest snowfall of the season as drivers complained of dangerous conditions and poorly-plowed roads.

“The roads were icy and dangerous — [Authorities] should have taken measures to prevent it especially with all of the campus activity from make-up finals,” senior government and politics major Sharon Goldsmith said.

Many students drove to the university Saturday to take make-up final exams. Snow continued to plague these students whose original fall semester exams were canceled due to a snowstorm in December that left the city and university under two feet of snow.

Sophomore French major Julianne McAndrews drove to the university Saturday for sorority recruitment, an event that also brought many students to the roads in the snowy weather. McAndrews said both the university roads and city roads were hard to navigate.

“I’m from Connecticut, and I was

shocked to see how slow they were to clean up the snow,” McAndrews said. “I don’t understand how the area can be so unprepared. It happens ever y year.”

The city’s Director of Public Works Bob Stumpff said the city is not responsible for all of the roads in the area, with many falling under county and state jurisdiction. Parts of Greenbelt and Paint Branch Parkway are the responsibility of Prince George’s County and the state is in charge of Route 1. The university is responsible for grooming its own roads.

Stumpff also said the situation becomes complicated as the county and state do not want the city clearing their roads.

The city had ever y snowplow out by 10 a.m. and worked through the day to ensure all streets would be open and clear by early Sunday, Stumpff said.

Saturday night into Sunday morning, some streets, including Route 1, did still have snow on them, but the city streets were cleared, Stumpff said.

“We felt we did a good job,” Stumpff said. “If students expect ever y street to be cleared an hour later, it won’t — we’re just not

geared to do that.”

Students, however, were still concerned and worried as they braved the weather to drive through the city. Goldsmith said the going was slow and the snow on the roads made it hard to drive.

“Walking down Route 1, drivers didn’t seem to have much control at all over their cars, it was terrifying,” Goldsmith said. “I’m lucky to have an SUV, but it still took me 15 minutes to get from Stamp [Student Union] to my house, and I had ver y little control the whole way.”

Senior kinesiology major Sarah Wenzel said she “fish-tailed in first gear at least four times” while driving from the campus to her house on College Avenue.

And it was not just a journey to take a final or get to the university.

That was only half the battle as students faced the roads again to travel back home. In what would normally be a few-minute trip to her sorority house on Frat Row, Goldsmith struggled to make it back from the university.

“It was the longest 15 minutes of my life driving home,” Goldsmith said. farrell@umdbk.com

has many upset students cr ying “fowl.”

“I liked that it was authentic,” senior geography major Sophie Tullier said. “It was just real food. It wasn’t like Chipotle.”

Others agreed it added some ethnic flare to an other wise chain-riddled downtown area.

“It’s the only real Hispanic restaurant in the area,” junior sociology and Spanish major Meaghan Mallari said.

Chicken Rico’s departure is “bad for businesses” in the area, Vito Riccio, owner of Vito’s Pizzeria, said.

He also stressed the need for variety in downtown College Park, and praised Chicken Rico and nearby Kiyoko Express, all independently owned restaurants.

“As a business owner, I didn’t want to see them leave,” Riccio said.

“I wanted to see the three of us succeed. To see them go, it makes me ner vous. But I’ve been getting support.”

Riccio said places like his pizzeria and Chicken Rico are able to give personal touches that chains like

from page 1 up in a suburb of Atlanta. After graduating from Emor y University, Harlan enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and ser ved in World War II. During his deployment, Harlan stormed the beach at Normandy before being stationed at Enewetak Atoll, a group of small islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Leaving the Navy with the rank of lieutenant, Harlan received his master’s degree in histor y from Vanderbilt University in 1948 and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1955.

From there, Harlan turned to teaching.Before accepting a fulltime professorship at this university in 1966, Harlan taught at East Texas State College and the University of Cincinnati.

It was during his time as a professor at this university that Harlan began his research into the life of Washington, analyzing more than 1 million archival materials from the Librar y of Congress.

“Washington’s life and thought were layered into public, private, and secret and also segmented according to which subgroup of black or white he confronted,” Harlan once wrote. “For each group, he played a different role, wore a different mask.”

A man with a strikingly bushy mustache, Harlan became a univer-

“It’s disappointing to see the real good stuff that’s reasonably priced [go out of business].”

VITO RICCIO UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS AND OWNER OF VITO’S PIZZERIA

Domino’s and Quiznos can’t. Students agree.

“It was casual, and the ladies were always really nice, chopping up the chicken,” junior environmental science and policy major Jenny Azarian said. “It’s just hard for small familyowned places to pay the rent because it’s probably through the roof.”

But despite student outcr y and just months after installing a neon sign above their door, Chicken Rico has flown the coop.

“It’s disappointing to see the real good stuff that’s reasonably priced [go out of business],” Riccio said.

“I’m worried about us all.” rhodes@umdbk.com

“[Booker T.] Washington’s life and thought were layered into public, private, and secret and also segmented according to which subgroup of black or white he confronted.

For each group, he played a different role, wore a different mask.”

LOUIS HARLAN DECEASED DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS

sity professor EMERITUS in 1985 and retired in 1992, later moving to Virginia with his wife Sadie.

Harlan was a Distinguished University Professor — the highest honor the university bestows on faculty.

Attempts to contact colleagues in the history department for comment were unsuccessful.

In addition to his wife, Harlan is sur vived by his sister, two sons and a grandchild. hampton@umdbk.com

Students will be able to continue seeing movies, like Precious and Whip It, at the Hoff Theater this semester after university officials backed off their plans to shut it down last month. The movie theater is only open for students to see movies on Thursday through Saturday. PHOTOS BY JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

HOFF from page 1 $1.4 million less than past agreements.

Operating the Hoff for a partial week will allow the student union to spend $30,000 to $40,000 less on the theater, Metzelaars said.

Students were relieved to hear the decades-old Hoff was not gone for good.

“It’s a good compromise,” junior criminology and criminal justice major Robert Elzein said. “I think it would be a good idea to keep it around for people who don’t go out drinking at night, and

would rather just stay in and watch a movie.”

Others liked that student groups now had an opportunity to utilize the space on days when the theater would sometimes show films to an empty auditorium.

“I think it’s probably better this way, so that students are able to take advantage of having a nice stage,” sophomore communication major Angel Schlogel said. “I know we’ve had theatrical groups perform in upstairs rooms in Stamp, and I think it’s better to use a theater for that.”

The Hoff’s student employees said the new schedule will help bring in more people to

see movies.

Thursday through Saturday were the theater’s highest grossing days, and the Hoff has also restricted show times to the popular 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 10 p.m. slots.

One employee, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t sure if student union employees were authorized to talk to the press, said he thinks the changes are going to be a success.

“We’re keeping costs low and showing more recent movies,” he said. “We’ve only been open one weekend this semester, but I noticed a lot more people came out.”

Although Metzelaars said

she has accepted that Hoff will never be a profit-making venture, she hopes the theater will finally break even.

But, Metzelaars said, she couldn’t promise that allowing the Hoff Theater to remain open for movies, even on a more limited schedule, would be a risk-free gamble.

If students continue to leave the theater empty and opt instead for rentals or seeing movies at off-campus movie theaters, the Hoff might still be in danger of being shut down in the future.

“We continue to question whether movies are still a viable piece [of the student

union], whether students watch them here when they have RedBox or can just download them onto their computers,” Metzelaars said.

“We watch ever ything in the

Union ver y closely, like the TerpZone and the theater, to make sure people want them.” apino@umdbk.com

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The key to the ’lock

Grouping together

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he fracas about the Wooded Hillock has consumed parts of this univer- particular often find themselves naturally averse to any and all things proposed sity community for about a year — and with news Thursday that the by the administration.

But this year, many of the loudest activist voices were joined by students who site may yet be saved with the university’s purchase of The Washington Post Company’s College Park plant site, the controversy might only have become disconcerted with the back-and-forth over the hillock, added to the now be coming to a head. Yet, even as new issues arise, we would be remiss to ever-present flow of student criticism about things like budget transparency. The not recognize the current situation as already being a major victory for adminis- administration has, in this instance, shown that it is listening. It’s safe to say that the university has thrown students a bone. tration-student relations.

We apologize for the following pun, but we’re not out of the Few issues have garnered such strong student support. woods yet.

Both the Student Government Association and the Graduate Despite the university’s new efforts to avoid building over Student Government have overwhelmingly passed resolutions in support of saving the hillock, in addition to student The university is extending the hillock site, student leaders are still frustrated because they were barred from the discussion about buying the old groups that have been vocal since news broke last year that the proposed East Campus development threatened the 22.4 an olive branch to students Post plant. To some, this shows yet another instance where acre forest. in their attempt to relocate the university has acted on the behalf of students without with students and is another demonstration of the Yet for a long time, it seemed the university would eschew development away from working disconnect between university officials and student leaders. these strained voices coming from the student populace, the Wooded Hillock.

But to simply dismiss the university’s pending acquisition instead pushing forward with the $900 million project that of the site as a halfhearted attempt to silence student critics would wipe out the hillock with 38 acres of new development.

Administrators may have had their reasons for building over the hillock site, would be missing the point.

Yes, the relationship between administrators and student leaders could and indeed those reasons could very well have been justified. And even now, the deal could fall through, leaving nothing but pavement and environmentalists improve, as it always could. But in this instance at least, the university was willing to get creative and reorganize an almost-billion-dollar project, in no small shedding silent tears outside the newest College Park Wendy’s location.

But no matter what happens from now on, we should look at the univer- part because of the views of students. We consider the olive branch extended, if sity’s attempt as a mark of good faith by administrators to legitimize the only for a moment.

The administration and students here have had somewhat of a rocky year, but voices of students.

It’s no secret that the relationship between many students and the adminis- credit should be given where it is due. To call this gesture an insignificant one tration is strained, and probably much of that is by design: Student activists in would be a case of not seeing the forest through all the trees.

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Editorial cartoon: Jenna Brager

Solar backpacks: Yes, they are awesome

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’m walking up Campus Drive toward the Stamp Student Union. I hear a voice behind me exclaim, “Hey, excuse me, can I ask you a question?” Knowing full well what it is, I say sure.

“Are those solar panels on your backpack?”

Why yes, they are.

“Wow, what do they power?”

Small electronics like my cell phone and my iPod. “That is so cool!”

Yes, it’s pretty awesome.

Ever since I won a solar powered backpack on Earth Day in 2008, this has happened to me a few times a day, everywhere I go.

My backpack comes with a ton of adapters for all sorts of different electronic devices to hook up to the panels, as well as a lithium ion battery to store the energy for later use. You can find it on www.VoltaicSystems.com for $250.

MATT

DERNOGA There have definitely been some memorable moments: One time a friend of mine was taken to the emergency room, and when I went to the hospital, the doctors stopped while treating him to ask me about the backpack. Good thing he survived.

Another time I was at a youth environmental summit with 12,000 activists and was getting stopped every 30 seconds to the contempt of my friends.

When I table at the First Look Fair for the environmental group I’m in, I just sit the backpack on the table and draw the unsuspecting freshmen in. It’s

like shooting fish in a barrel with a bazooka.

The best was the prank I pulled on a friend who gripes all the time that I won the backpack instead of him (he was right behind me in line for the raffle).

The following year, I had the organizers of the raffle for the 2009 Earth Day send him a fake e-mail announcing I had won another backpack for the second year in a row, the odds of which were a large, made-up number. When asked if I would share, I was quoted as saying “God gave me two shoulders for a reason.” He flipped.

There is actually an argument to be made here. If ordinary college students are so intrigued by this technology on a backpack, imagine what would happen if a few kids in each school around the country won these backpacks through essay contests.

Our education system is trying to tackle a major challenge: getting kids

interested in fields such as math, science and engineering. Our main shortcoming has been a failure to make it cool and make it resonate. If we show kids at a young age how renewable energy technologies can apply to charging their iPods and their cell phones, they’ll be hooked.

Alas, this backpack came too late for me. My high school scared me away from math and science ate my lunch (I didn’t know frogs like peanut butter).

But until our schools decide to use my idea to save the children, I’m the only game in town. The guy who won last year doesn’t count.

So yes, if you see a guy walking in front of you and you think you see solar panels, they are. Yes, it’s pretty awesome. Try it.

Matt Dernoga is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at dernoga@umdbk.com.

Birthdays: The dawn of a new age

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turn 20 today. Yessir, yours truly is leaving the teens behind (finally) and moving on to the beginning of her third decade here on this wonderful world of ours.

Birthdays are a good time. They mean cake and presents and parties and family and friends and the one day a year that belongs to you — unless you’re a twin, in which case you have to share. And if you’re a triplet, well, don’t even bother. But as you get older, they also mean realizing you’re getting older. There’s that faint voice in your head that keeps reminding you that you ain’t getting any younger; you should be out there having adventures, making moves, curing cancer, doing something.

I don’t know when birthdays are supposed to become a day of mourning instead of celebration. Most of us

probably haven’t hit it yet, but I’ve already had twinges: heading back to high school football games, trolling the mall, watching Olympic gymnastics, looking at R. Kelly’s girlfriends.

When I think of the number 20, I start to get a little panicky. After all, 20 years is a long time, and what have I done with it? Taylor Swift became more popular than Jesus.

Joan of Arc led the French army to victory, heard the call of God, got a king crowned, was sold to the English, was burned at the stake and set herself on the path to sainthood, all by age 19. And don’t even get me started on Stewie Griffin. Let’s just say that kid is going places.

Have I done anything that incredible? Have any of us? Probably not.

We don’t need to. You don’t have to be a star to make your corner of the world a little brighter. But I still don’t

BETHANY

OFFUTT want to turn 30 and look back and see an empty decade.

My grandfather was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in October. He was given days or maybe weeks to live. He made it three months, and in those three months he was given a second chance to reconnect with his family, make amends for bad memories and create more good ones. I thank God for it and for the lesson it imparted: Don’t wait until your time is up to start using it like you should. Stop looking toward tomorrow and wishing for

yesterday, and start living for today.

Sometimes today is all you’ve got.

You’ve probably heard this saying spoken by my man Abe Lincoln, but I’ll tell it anyway: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.” It’s the people, the places, the good times and bad, that make a life. We’ve been given a gift — as corny as it sounds, let’s not forget to take the wrapping off.

We’ve got two options: Stop time from advancing or view its passage as an accomplishment, a point of pride. How do we do this? By living life as we want to live it, as we envisioned living it back when we were kids. I’ll start today.

Bethany Offutt is a sophomore criminology and criminal justice and psychology major. She can be reached at offutt@umdbk.com.

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n the beginning of the school year, the Student Government Association and the Residence Hall Association set goals to increase their collaboration. After all, the two organizations have influence over nearly every aspect of student life on the campus, and collaboration would only serve to help improve the lives of the 26,000 undergraduate students.

This goal has been set before by previous administrations of both organizations, but this year we are proud to say we have taken positive, tangible steps toward a greater level of teamwork, setting the groundwork for future collaboration on important initiatives.

For the first time since the 2005 - 2006 academic year, the SGA president has appointed an RHA representative to serve on the Committee for the Review of Student Fees.

It is vital to have proper student representation on this committee, especially this spring, as the committee reviews fee proposals from the Departments of Dining Services, Resident Life, Facilities Management, and Transportation Services. These departments that affect both resident and commuter students.

The decision to include an RHA representative allows for the most appropriate insight into the complex and important job of setting student fees.

But the collaboration doesn’t stop there. In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, we are proud of how students have joined together to help in any way they can. Groups such as University of Maryland Students Helping Haiti have shown what we are able to accomplish when we come together.

In that light, the SGA and RHA are working with Dining Services to hold a dining points drive. Since 2007, Dining Services has allowed for philanthropic meal point drives as long as they are endorsed by the RHA. For the first time ever, the SGA and the RHA will be working together to run this drive with proceeds benefiting earthquake victims in Haiti.

The one-day drive is set to take place on Feb. 12, exactly one month after the initial earthquake as part of the campus-wide Hearts for Haiti Week. Students on dining plans will be able to donate their points as part of the larger effort to pull our collective resources to help Haiti. To keep up to date on other ambitious Haiti-related relief projects at the university, be sure to check out http://www.facebook.com/UMDhelpingHaiti.

As we look forward to the rest of the semester, we will continue collaborating to ensure your voice is heard and you are properly represented in all areas of this university.

Recent events have shown the change we can implement when we come together. And that’s exactly what we intend to continue doing.

Steve Glickman is the president of the Student Government Association. Josef Mensah is the president of the Residence Hall Association. They can be reached at SGAcommunications@gmail.com and Voice@MarylandRHA.com, respectively.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’ll want to balance feelings and thoughts throughout the day. You may find yourself in a social situation that is unfamiliar.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A family squabble mustn’t be allowed to mushroom into something that cannot be easily controlled. You can’t afford to break these valuable ties.

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Despite plenty of lyrics indicating a progressive state of mind, most of Lil Wayne’s overall compositions on Rebirth — his latest studio album — utilize played out musical clichés.

The album, on which the self-described “best rapper alive” embraces rock music, has been in the works for a while. It has had a seemingly endless number of changes to its release date since Wayne announced its concept last year. So although Wayne had plenty of time to work on Rebirth and craft an innovative hip-hop-rock hybrid, he ended up falling back on mostly weak impersonations of emo-punk, grunge, blues rock, ’90s-style alternative rock and nu metal.

But the worse part is, Lil Wayne tries to mask his strained, raspy voice with Auto-Tune.

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Unfortunately, Lil Wayne’s manipulated vocals sound forced, like a bad acting job.

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But for all of Wayne’s wackness, killas stay” and “My ancestors were himself a bit when he calms down and decides to rap more introspec- the Martian spits a few rhymes that slaves in the U.S.A./ But not today” show that Wayne accepts his rough tive verses, such as “Call me crazy, are out of this world.

He consistently refers to Re- upbringing and is ready to musicalI’ve been called worse/ It’s like I birth’s theme of a musical and per- ly motivate. have it all, but what’s it all worth?”

He gets even more political on And on “The Price is Wrong,” sonal transformation. On “Drop the Wayne throws a temper tantrum World,” the most traditional hip- “Ground Zero,” which contains eleabout a break-up with a high school hop track of the LP, Wayne kicks ments of 1980s punk and new wave. girlfriend. His extreme teenage raps that are strong enough to in- The Clash would be proud of angst would even seem out of place spire frustrated workers go on Wayne’s rant raps about governat a Starting Line show in New Jer- strike. He proclaims he will “pick ment corruption, though perhaps up the world and drop it on your not as proud of the pseudo-English sey in 2001.

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BYRD from page 8 54,000, while Ludwig Field sits 6,000 for soccer games, and a significant amount less for lacrosse. “[I] definitely like Byrd 100 times more than Ludwig,” attackman Ryan Young said. “I think a lot of people came to Maryland because of being able to play at Byrd.

It’s just a perk of being a Terp.”

Players noted the lacrosse histor y of Byrd Stadium, which was home to the 1973 and 1975 Terp national championship teams as well as numerous All-Americans, adds to the excitement of playing there.

Byrd Stadium has also hosted historic games and final fours, including the 1995 and 1997 national title

games, in which the Terps lost before crowds of more than 25,000 people.

“I think just the legacy of Byrd, being around so long and having a tradition behind Mar yland lacrosse [makes it more exciting],” goalkeeper Brian Phipps said. “The whole aura of the football stadium, the huge stadium, just gives it a whole new level of intensity.”

The prospect of having a larger crowd isn’t missed by the Terps, who said they feed off the fans’ energy.

“It’s just a bigger stage when you play at Byrd, so ever yone gets more excited for the games,” Young said.

“It’s probably intimidating for some schools to come in and see the huge stadium,” Phipps said. “And it gives us more of a sense of pride knowing it’s our home field.”

The Terps enter this sea-

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son with their usual heavy share of expectations and are ranked preseason No. 8 by Inside Lacrosse.

The team is hoping to rebound from an up-anddown campaign a year ago, and it starts with winning at home.

The Terps have a light home schedule, with five regular season games scheduled. They will host the ACC Tournament, which includes two rounds, in April.

“We can’t wait to get back in there and start it up,” said Phipps, a senior captain.

“We’re coming into Byrd, and our goal is to be undefeated at home. Right now, it’s our home turf. We missed it last year, so this year we’re gonna have to come in and play well at home and defend our turf.” engelke@umdbk.com

Center Lynetta Kizer has anchored the Terps in the ACC.

TERRAPIN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Bjork, Kizer, leading Terps in conference play

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

TERPS from page 8 today.”

The Terps (14-6, 4-2 ACC) showed that grit rallying from an 11-point second-half deficit to take the lead in what was by far their worst offensive showing of the ACC season. But in a game in which the teams combined to shoot just 33 percent while committing 47 turnovers, the Terps couldn’t close out the comeback win that would’ve kept them alone atop the conference standings.

Clemson hit just two field goals — including a key 3pointer by for ward Trevor Booker — in the final five minutes, but they salted away the win at the foul line by the holding the Terps scoreless in the final 4:06.

“We’re going to have more of those games coming up,” guard Eric Hayes said.

“We’re going to have a tough game at Florida State [on Thursday], so this is something we can learn from.”

The Terps, who were coming off two of their most lopsided

“We’re going to have more of those games coming up. We’re going to have a tough game at Florida State [on Thursday], so this is something we can learn from.”

ERIC HAYES TERPS MEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR GUARD

home conference wins in Comcast Center history, haven’t played too many tight games this season. As Williams pointed out, they were playing too well in winning six of seven games before Sunday to think about grinding.

The final margin against Clemson became nine when for ward Landon Milbourne fouled Booker 90 feet from the basket in the closing sec-

onds. Booker went on to hit a pair of free throws. The Terps’ lone ACC game decided by fewer points was an 85-83 overtime defeat at Wake Forest on Jan. 12.

But on a night when Vasquez and Milbourne combined to shoot 4-for-19, staying within striking distance proved an accomplishment.

Williams said he expected his team would have to shoot well to have a shot against a Tigers squad that has been nationally ranked for much of the season.

They didn’t and missed a big chance to steal a road win.

But playing in a conference in which ever y team has at least two wins and two losses, it’s likely they’ll have other chances.

“Today, we didn’t play as well,” Williams said. “I look at it as we were able to stay in there not playing well, and we had an opportunity to win it at the end of the game, which is the positive for us.

That’s what we’ll go for and make corrections on why we didn’t play better.” edetweiler@umdbk.com

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Once again, the ACC has proven to be a powerhouse in women’s basketball. Whether that will help or hurt the Terrapin women’s basketball team’s shot for a NCAA Tournament bid remains to be seen.

With all 12 teams ranked in the top 100 of CollegeRPI.com creator Jerry Palm’s latest Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) standings, the conference currently ranks as the third strongest in the nation. And while the league doesn’t sport the top-heavy might of the Big 12, which has four teams ranked inside the RPI’s top 10, it could be poised to send as many as seven teams to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.

Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia and the Terps all project as tournament teams, according to Palm’s latest bracket projection, updated last Wednesday.

The Terps’ standing may be the least sound of the group.

With a middling RPI and average strength of schedule, Palm has the Terps as among the last four teams in, a precarious position for any bubble team.

They won’t have to wait long to see how they stack up. The Terps kick off the last of their seven conference games with home contests against two likely tournament-bound teams in Georgia Tech and Virginia. If

they can sweep that home stand, the Terps (16-6, 3-4 ACC) may need only two wins in the remaining five games to secure the program’s seventh straight tournament appearance.

EXPERIENCE SHOWS

Thursday inside Cassell Coliseum, guard Lori Bjork and center Lynetta Kizer could hardly miss.

The duo went a combined 16-for-24 in a 60-44 dismantling of Virginia Tech, accounting for two-thirds of the team’s total scoring in the Terps’ crucial conference victory. It didn’t matter that they took almost half of the shots against the Hokies because that night, like most others in conference play this season, the duo with the most experience on the team carried the Terps.

Not including Bjork and Kizer, the team shot just 25 percent from the field Thursday, a mark only slightly worse than average for the team’s assortment of role players.

While Bjork and Kizer — the only two players on the roster scoring in double digits in conference play — have combined for 55 percent shooting this year in the ACC, the rest of the team is under 37 percent.

When reserve forward Tianna Hawkins’ 51 percent mark is excluded, the rate drops to 33.3 percent.

Other Terps have stepped up in other areas — guard Jackie Nared had eight rebounds in just 19 minutes

against the Hokies, while guard Dara Taylor led all players with nine assists. But the freshmen tandem combined for 3-for-11 shooting Thursday.

“We always talk about be ready when your number’s called,” coach Brenda Frese said. “You’ve got to be able to have that within your team.”

SHELL SHUFFLE

After more than a half-season of shuffling, the Terps may have finally found some consistency in their starting five.

The starting lineup of Kim Rodgers, Diandra Tchatchouang, Taylor, Bjork and Kizer that Frese trotted out Sunday against Longwood became the first such outfit to start more than three games in a row for the Terps this season. The lineup is 3-2 together.

Frese has experimented with bigger lineups in conference play, including a three-forward look with Hawkins as a starter, but the diversity of starters has diminished recently as Rodgers has worked her way back from a hand injury and the play of Taylor as the team’s point guard has improved.

“I think everybody understands that we can’t make the mistakes that we were making [at the start of the season],” said Rodgers, who has started 11 games this season. “We’re all really focused. We’re taking it seriously.” shaffer@umdbk.com

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Terps couldn’t breakthrough late at Clemson Men’s basketball faltered in Sunday comeback attempt in rare close call

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

CLEMSON, S.C. — With the Terrapin men’s basketball team in desperate need of an offensive spark, guard Greivis Vasquez moved toward the Clemson basket late in Sunday’s game.

A basket would’ve made it a one-possession contest in the final two minutes. Instead, when Vasquez’s outstretched left arm sent Clemson’s Tanner Smith tumbling to the floor, the senior star’s offensive foul became the Terps’ 26th turnover of the evening.

In a mistake-filled but highly competitive contest, the play was one of the final straws in a disappointing 6253 loss — and an informal welcome to what this year’s ACC has been.

For weeks, the conference schedule has been littered with low-scoring, close finishes as teams have failed to differentiate themselves from the parity-filled pack.

The Terps, by averaging more than 80 points per game and shooting nearly 48 percent en route to a 4-1 ACC start, had been largely immune to the tests faced by

their conference brethren.

They got a rude introduction to the less-than-beautiful brand of basketball at a hostile Littlejohn Coliseum.

If the Terps hope to make a

run at a conference crown, especially this season, they’ll likely have to gut out some ugly wins along the way.

“We didn’t shoot the ball at all like we’ve been shooting it,

and we were still there at the end of the game with a chance, so that part was good,” coach Gar y Williams said. “But just in terms of getting beat to the ball, you

1:21: Vasquez is called for an offensive foul.

3:02: Sean Mosley misses a jumper.

TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE SEASON PREVIEW

Last season, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team constantly tried to establish its identity, striving to live up to the lofty expectations set by an unexpected run to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals the previous year.

Yet plagued by inconsistency, the Terps never could.

Through the up-and-down season, they never had a winning streak longer than two games or scored a signature win. Their regular season results were mirrored by their postseason effort — the Terps overcame an unseeded tournament berth to upset Notre Dame 7-3, then lost to eventual national champion Syracuse 11-6 in a deflating end to a disappointing year.

“We lost games early and we became disappointed because in our minds, in the rankings, we weren’t supposed to lose,” coach Dave Cottle said. “We started worrying about outside influences and became distracted.”

The Terps will not have to contend with that problem this time around — the Terps are No. 8 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse preseason media poll, the team’s least impressive preseason ranking in nine years.

They plan to build off the best parts of last season while avoiding pitfalls that come from outside pressures.

“Being an underdog pumps us up,” junior attackman Ryan Young said. “We have a little chip on our shoulder. This kind of feels more like when I was a freshman, with a preseason rank in the lower top 10. It just gives us a little attitude to start the season, which is a good thing, always. We’re trying to prove people wrong.”

Their shot at success will rest largely on their upperclassmen.

For the first time in three years, the Terps have more juniors and seniors than freshmen and sophomores, and Cottle said the team will rely on the veterans to give

the team the upper hand.

That experience is most clearly visible in the highly touted attacking unit, especially Young and fellow juniors Travis Reed and Grant Catalino, last year’s goals and assists leader, as well as senior Will Yeatman, a transfer who came to the Terps last season.

All four were starters last year but were still establishing their roles on the team.

The Terps ended the season ranked an underwhelming 20th in the country in scoring offense with a goal per game average just barely in the double digits, at 10 scores per game.

To change that, Cottle said he plans to have all four players on the field as much as possible. He’ll also rotate them into one of three midfield spots to increase the potency of the attack.

Another reason Cottle will rotate attackmen to the midfield is the lack of experience in that group, especially when compared to the other, upperclassmen-laden units.

Senior Bryn Holmes will continue to take face-offs for the team, but after losing three important senior contributors in Dan Groot, Jeff Reynolds and Jeremy Sieverts, most midfield positions remain question marks.

“I think we have some numbers,” Cottle said. “Our look at it is we’re going to start off playing nine to 12 kids on offense, and those kids will all give us something different, and hopefully somebody will take advantage of that and take control.”

The defense should provide the midfield some support on the back end.

Junior midfielders Max and Brett Schmidt, who are not related, both will return to the starting lineup, and long pole Brian Farrell will make his return from injury hiatus.

The redshirt junior, who played in only the first three games of last season before going down with an injury, specializes in feeding the ball up the field and will bring

0:17 and 0:13 Young hits two more free throws followed by a Vasquez miss.

0:34 and 0:25 Hayes misses a 3-pointer followed by a Mosley missed jumper on the same possession.

0:03: Booker makes two free throws to make the score 62-53.

Men’s lacrosse returning home

Terps just fine under the radar Senior staff writer

see TERPS, page 7

0:39: Clemson’s Andre Young makes a foul shot to make the score 58-53.

0:48: Booker blocks a shot from Adrian Bowie.

2:14: Greivis Vasquez misses a jumper.

3:23: Trevor Booker hits a 3-pointer to give Clemson a 57-53 lead.

BY KATE YANCHULIS

know, all those little hustle plays, I thought Clemson had the edge today. We were doing those things before

After an Eric Hayes 3-pointer got the Terps within one point of Clemson with 4:06 remaining in Sunday’s game, the Terps did not score:

FAILURE IN THE CLUTCH 4:07: Clemson leads 54-53 after Hayes’ 3-pointer.

Coach Gary Williams, pictured earlier this season, saw his team go scoreless during the final 4:06 of Sunday’s 62-53 loss at Clemson. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Team to play at Byrd after relocating to Ludwig Field

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Staff writer

Attackman Grant Catalino (right) and the Terps enter the season with their least impressive preseason ranking in nine years. Coach Dave Cottle said the team’s more muted expectations could help the Terps steer clear of any outside distractions this season. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

“It’s frustrating when you always come up short.

But hopefully we can resurrect it this year. At Maryland, you come here to be the best.”

BRIAN PHIPPS TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE SENIOR GOALKEEPER

back the transition game the Terps sorely lacked during his absence.

“He’s just the spark and energy of the defense and he can go play offense too,” senior goalkeeper Brian Phipps said. “So we’re going to have that surprise factor this year having him on defense and also able to go and score on offense, so it’s going to be a lot of fun to have him back.”

Phipps, too, is returning from an injury, a torn ACL he sustained during the team’s final game of the year against Syracuse when he jumped in the air to protest a call and landed awkwardly.

Yet despite missing the fall season, he comes into the year as the sole starter for the first time in his career.

He split time in the cage the past two seasons with

Jason Carter before winning the full starting job in the postseason with a nine-save performance against Notre Dame.

Still, while Phipps said a secure spot in the starting lineup is comforting, it hasn’t stopped his competitive drive.

The sting of last year’s inconsistent performance and disappointing finish remain fresh in his mind, and he will not let his final year as a Terp end the same way.

“It’s frustrating when you always come up short,” Phipps said. “But hopefully we can resurrect it this year.

At Maryland, you come here to be the best.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

Sophomore attackman Joe Cummings remembers growing up and watching the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team play at Byrd Stadium.

He can remember the players running through the tunnel and touching Testudo’s nose as they stormed the field in front of thousands of fans.

He says it’s something he’s wanted to do his whole life.

“I grew up in the Mar yland area,” Cummings said.

“That’s one of the images, growing up, I remember seeing all the time and it was pretty cool.”

Despite an impressive freshman season, which included 12 goals and a nod on the 2009 ACC All-Tournament team, Cummings has never actually stepped foot on the field at Byrd Stadium.

Instead, the Towson native has only played at neighboring Ludwig Field, traditionally home to the men’s and women’s soccer teams.

Ludwig Field became the lacrosse team’s home away from home during the renovation of Tyser Tower and the addition of 64 suites and 440 mezzanine seats to the south side of the stadium.

The Terps played all of their home games at Ludwig Field last season and four of their seven home games there in 2008.

This year, the Terps will play all their home games at Byrd Stadium.

The two stadiums have their obvious differences.

Byrd Stadium can seat up to

see BYRD, page 3