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Liquor license requested for Santa Fe Café property Restaurateur to appear before county board for approval Feb. 28

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

A local restaurateur has requested a beer, wine and liquor license for the venue formerly named Santa Fe Café. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

When Cornerstone Grill and Loft owner Mark Srour walked down Knox Road several days ago, he noticed something different about the defunct building that housed Santa Fe Café: a small white piece of paper taped to the royal blue double doors.

The paper stated that another business owner is seeking a liquor and entertainment license in his old stomping grounds. Srour, who owned the

nomic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater.

While many students said they are hopeful the space will fill the live-music void Santa Fe Café left in the city when it shuttered in May 2010, several city officials said they had concerns. Srour closed Santa Fe Café after a county judge said that if he did not install a sprinkler system, he would be forced to permanently close his doors — the end to a seven-year back-and-forth

beloved Santa Fe Café for more than 25 years, said the sight of the paper filled him with bittersweet memories of throngs of students jamming out to live cover bands while enjoying food and drink specials until the early morning.

Mohammad R. Afshar, a restaurateur, requested a beer, wine and liquor license for the building. He will appear in front of the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners on Feb. 28 to gain approval to thrust the building into the College Park nightlife scene once again, according to Eco-

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Chem labs now stricter to prevent accidents

Department cracks down on safety after students injured in explosion last semester

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

After a small explosion injured two students during a routine chemistry lab procedure in September, chemistry officials crafted more stringent lab safety guidelines for this semester.

To prevent accidents and better protect students should they occur, students are now required to wear a lab coat — they no longer have the option of wearing a lab apron, which does not protect their arms — cannot wear shorts and must wear closed shoes.

Any student who violates any of these policies will be not be permitted to participate in the lab — which was true of old policies as well — officials said.

Though the explosion was investigated and labeled an accident with no individual at fault, updating safety guidelines can only help prevent future incidents, chemistry department Chairman Michael Doyle said.

“There’s been an enhancement in all aspects of safety training, from

graduate students to stockroom personnel, making possible a sense of advanced understanding of what kind of problems could happen,” he said.

The explosion in September occurred during a CHEM242: Organic Chemistry Laboratory II procedure involving a reaction between nitric and sulfuric acid. After pouring the solution into a waste container underneath a fume hood, a violent explosion occurred. Two students were treated for first- and seconddegree burns and the chemistry building was evacuated for the rest of that day.

While labs for this semester have not yet begun, Doyle said they will be more organized, with particular attention given to the handling of chemical waste. Simple measures such as colorcoding, labeling containers with large block letters and putting them in specified places can help prevent accidents, making it nearly impossible to

Plan would also apply to parents who adopt Staff writer

Faculty members may be able to soon receive up to six weeks of paid leave after having a child, after the University Senate’s most powerful subcommittee approved a plan Thursday that would create such a policy.

Now that the Senate Executive Committee has given its stamp of approval on potentially implementing a parental leave policy, the legislation’s future lays in the hands of the Faculty and Staff Affairs committees, which are now tasked with detailing how the measure would be carried out.

While the committee has yet to review the plan, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Juan Uriagereka said he would like to see faculty and staff who have either had a child or adopted one receive the benefits of this plan.

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A history returns Ten years after it first began, African-American art exhibition returns to David C. Driskell Center

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

After nearly 10 years on the road, a collection of African-American artwork will finally come full circle tonight and make its way back home to the university.

“Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection,” an exhibition made up of 62 pieces by 45 artists, will open tonight in the David C. Driskell Center with a reception open to

the public. The collection first appeared on the campus in April 2002, when it was housed at the Art Gallery in the Art and Sociology Building because the center did not yet have a gallery space.

It’s been traveling across the country since, this time returning to the university in a blaze of glory.

“It was the first exhibition the Driskell Center really supported. It was such a success — it was accepted in

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Senate to examine new parental leave measure

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Robert Steele has collected more than 1,000 pieces of art, 62 of which are now featured on the campus. PHOTO COURTESY OF YALE

“I can tell you for the first few weeks or six weeks [after having a child], you’re gone,” he said. “It’s constant attention.”

Additionally, Uriagereka said he hopes the plan would reduce the number of hours faculty and staff would have to work after returning from their paid leave period.

“These seem like common sense axioms that people will agree on,” Uriagereka said.

The policy was born out of ADVANCE, a National Science Foundation-funded program within this university committed to shaping family-friendly policy and advancing women on the campus, Uriagereka said. Betsy Beise, co-director of the group, said the policy would benefit younger faculty the most, who have to

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Parking, room and board fees to increase University officials announce expected $130 increase for food, $200 increase for on-campus housing at annual RHA meeting

BY FOLA AKINNIBI Staff writer

Students will likely see increased fees for parking on the campus and room and board next year, according to the budgets proposed by DOTS, Dining Services and Resident Life at Tuesday’s RHA meeting.

The planned budgets’ fee hikes — which officials said were unavoidable — stem in part from a projected drop in commuters and the rising costs of food and would result in students paying nearly $130 more for a standard meal plan and more than $200 more for on-campus housing.

Although the increases follow a year in which the Department of Transportation Services did not raise parking fees, department Director David Allen said he projects 1,130 fewer students will park on the campus next year — the greatest drop in parking permits he has seen in a decade, he said.

Allen said without increasing the parking permit fee by 5 percent — meaning commuters will pay $228 for

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a year-long parking permit and residents will pay $440 — DOTS would lose needed revenue, Allen said. “[Students] might think, ‘Well shoot, with fewer people parking

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won’t some of [DOTS’] costs go down?’” said Allen, adding that the department’s costs remain the same

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such a positive way in every community that it was presented,” said Dorit Yaron, the center’s deputy director. “It’s now making a comeback home.”

The center’s Executive Director Robert Steele — who owns an art collection with more than 1,000 works with his wife, Jean — contributed all 62 pieces of the exhibit.

In addition to famous artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, the collection includes works by local artists and artists who have a connection to the university, such as David Driskell and Margo Humphrey. Steele said the exhibition is titled “Successions” because it not only showcases different types of art, from realistic to abstract, but also because it includes works by “established masters,” midcareer artists and newcomers to the field.

“This exhibition represents three generations of teachers, their students and in turn, their students,” Steele said.

When the collection first debuted at the university, it was only on display for about a month. Steele said once other art directors and curators saw the exhibition, it quickly “took on a life of its own” and started touring nationally. However, this meant few members of the university and local community got a chance to view the works while on the campus.

Now that the exhibition is back at the university, Yaron said she hopes the exhibition will bring attention to art by blacks. Yaron herself — who got her master’s degree in art history at this university — said she was never exposed to African-American art until she took a specific course on it.

“I was just amazed at how interesting the art is, how beautiful it is, and so many people are not aware of this art,” Yaron said.

Dennis Doster, a graduate student who teaches AASP 202: Black Culture in the United States, said although blacks are widely represented in the music world, this is not always the case in the visual arts.

“African-American visual artists are unfortunately still underrepresented and underap-

preciated,” Doster said. “It will allow people in general — black, white, whatever racial group being represented — to be more aware of the work being done.”

Despite this, Steele said he has seen a dramatic increase in the representation of AfricanAmerican art in the more than 40 years he has been collecting.

“There has been an increase, an exponential increase, in numbers of exhibitions,” Steele said.

“The major art galleries now are collecting African-American art.

People have realized this was an area that was underappreciated, under-collected.”

Steele said he and his wife agreed to display part of their collection nearly 10 years ago because they believe in the mission of the center — “preserving the rich heritage of AfricanAmerican visual art and culture.”

“At the end of the day, when you talk about African-American art, it really is American art,” Steele said.

The exhibition will be on display until June 22. The opening reception is tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at the David C. Driskell Center. news@umdbk.com

regardless of how many students park on the campus.

Several students, such as sophomore behavioral and community health major Liz Akede, said the proposed $11 jump for commuter permits would be insignificant because it’s “such a small increase.”

While others weren’t thrilled about the cost increases, they said they understand many university departments need to compensate for tight budgets.

“It isn’t good, but I guess they have to [raise fees],” said sophomore biology major Ross Horstkamp.

Allen also suggested changing the parking permit system to include a hierarchy in which those who park closer to the center of the campus would pay more than those who choose to park on the edges.

Resident Life Director Deb Grandner also said her department had no choice but to propose increasing students’ housing fees by more

than 3 percent. Students would pay $205 more for a dorm and $214 more for an apartment to pay for projects such as the recently constructed Oakland Hall. The fee would more than double last year’s housing increase.

Although some Resident Life officials considered eliminating landlines in dorms last semester, Grandner said the department is no longer considering that option and faces a mandatory landline cost increase of $25,000 to cover long-distance calls.

In addition, Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva proposed raising the campus meal plan cost more than 3 percent next year. This would result in students paying $129 more for a meal plan in the upcoming school year, after students paid just $1 more under last year’s budget.

Wright-Riva cited rising food costs and the university’s underestimation of utility costs at 251 North, which opened last semester, as the main causes of the proposed increase, adding that “commodity prices are through the roof” across the country.

“The food isn’t even worth the $18 I pay. I could go to a better buffet for less money.”

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She added that Dining Ser vices hopes to see increased revenue after expanding the weekend hours for both the Commons Shop, which now opens earlier Saturdays and Sundays, and the Leonardtown Shop, which now is open on Saturdays.

However, many students said the added luxury of 251 North does not make up for paying higher fees.

“The food isn’t even worth the $18 I pay,” said sophomore studio art major Asa Winborne. “I could go to a better buffet for less money.” akinnibi@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, Tuesday’s article, “Students study in on-campus garden,” incorrectly identified the professor whose class will spend the semester testing different soil combinations. Ray Gless’ students will be studying these combinations.

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After two students were injured in an organic chemistry II laboratory last semester, officials updated lab safety policies to prevent another incident. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

CHEMISTRY from page 1 be careless, he added.

With the new regulations, “you can’t make a mistake unless you do it with malicious forethought,” he said.

Doyle said a meeting was held Friday to brief all faculty and graduate students working in the labs on the new policies.

“Everyone was represented,” he said. “All of that was taking place in a manner that I think our faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, are committed to keeping the University of Maryland a very safe environment for the conduct of chemical sciences.”

Some students said while the new lab policies are reasonable, the new rules will not make much of a difference if they are not enforced.

“The dress code seems rea-

sonable,” said sophomore physical sciences major Troy Thomas. “The problem isn’t changing the dress code or lab policies; I think it’s that the TAs need to enforce those policies.

I took [general chemistry] last semester and people wouldn’t be wearing goggles or would just dump stuff down the sink, so I think the TAs need to enforce the policies more.”

Others said last semester’s incident was a rare occasion, and the new policies are unnecessary.

“It’s not really that comforting [that they’re updating the policies] because stuff happens, and I don’t think people really care all that much,” sophomore biochemistry major Greg Lobe said. “Some people may be nervous or shaking during labs, so I guess it’s good for them, but for me I could care less.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

Mohammad R. Afshar requested a beer, wine and liquor license for the building that formerly housed Santa Fe Café, which closed in May 2010. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

LICENSE from page 1 with the city over adding the $90,000 system.

Because of the building’s history and glaring need for repairs, College Park District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said the building needs to comply with safety regulations.

“My first and immediate concern is I’m not sure what they’ve done with the safety concerns in making sure there’s a sprinkler system,” he said. “I’d like to see [the College Park City Council] do something where they would have to do that before they opened.”

Although Afshar would not be permitted to open a new wa-

tering hole until tenants upgrade the space to city and county regulations, Wojahn said he would be in favor of a venue that brings “diversity to the nightlife in College Park.”

Additionally, Stiefvater said Afshar has experience catering to students. He previously owned now-defunct Saloun, a Washington bar located within walking distance of Georgetown University. The bar, which closed in October, featured live music seven nights a week and was “known as the best local spot to catch a beer and listen to some tunes,” according to its Facebook page.

“It kind of catered to the Georgetown students, so it looks like it’s going to do that [here],” Stiefvater said.

Srour, who was paying nearly $18,000 per month for the building, said it is difficult for such a large-sized building that is subject to the confines of university schedules and student whims.

“Santa Fe’s a money pit,” he said. “I think it’s a neat venue; I just don’t think it’s worth all the headaches. … It’s been proven over and over again that a goodsized place just can’t make it.”

Junior early childhood major Mandi Funk said she hopes the new plan comes to fruition.

“I just hope it’s amazing, because we need something like that here,” Funk said.

“The Barking Dog’s cool, but it’s not like Fé.” foley@umdbk.com

The 2012 Erik B. Young, M.D.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL-STUDY AWARDS Alumnus Dr. Erik B. Young wishes to support international travel-study for a group of undergraduates each year. The purpose of the program is to give deserving junior and senior undergraduate students the opportunity to broaden their international horizons while they hone their academic skills. We invite all interested students to apply.

There will be five (5) International Travel-Study Abroad Awards with stipends of $2,500 each awarded for the 2012-13 year. Travel can be scheduled in summer 2012, fall 2012, winter term 2013 or spring 2013.

Eligible undergraduate students must be of Junior or Senior class standing by Fall 2012 and have declared a major.

Applications must be completed online at

www.studentaffairs.umd.edu/youngaward Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on February 24, 2012.

Contact Kathy Broady at kbroady@umd.edu with questions.

often balance the demand of the tenure process with family responsibilities.

“Parental leave is a big deal, especially for younger faculty starting their careers and trying to start a family,” she said.

The plan would be genderneutral and afford parental leave to all primary care-givers, Uriagereka said.

With the current policy, staff and faculty have limited options when it comes to taking off and generally opt to use their sick leave days, according to University Senate Chair Eric Kasichke.

“This recommendation was made based on the realization that when you have a child, either by natural childbirth or adoption, you need time to get yourself together,” he said.

Last spring, ADVANCE proposed crafting a parental leave policy and worked closely with the provost’s office to ensure the proposal went before the Senate Executive Committee.

Although the legislation has a long way to go before it can be voted on and implemented as a policy, many senators voiced their support for the concept of a parental leave policy and said they hope to see it advance in the coming weeks.

“It’s on our radar, but that’s it,” said Senate Director and Executive Secretar y Reka Montfort.

While the policy has yet to be formally decided upon, Uriagereka said it has garnered a lot of support and expects it will pass when it comes before the full body for a vote.

“The future, in my opinion, looks bright,” he said. bach@umdbk.com

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Barking up the wrong tree

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ince the university was founded more than 150 years ago, this institu- events. The buck just kept getting passed; no one wanted to take responsibility tion has seen its fair share of scandal — most notably the drug over- for not reporting the alleged incidents to the proper authorities. But this unidose of basketball legend Len Bias, which resulted in the resignation versity’s new policy accomplishes two things: It requires accountability from of the athletics director and men’s basketball coach at the time. both the person with knowledge of the crime of and the police — two things Penn State completely lacked.

Indeed, our history is anything but spotless.

If it comes out 10 years down the road that information regarding child The university has been fortunate to largely stay out of national headlines abuse was withheld, someone will be prosecuted — but recently, but other institutions haven’t been so lucky — the hope is we’ll never get that far. With this new policy, particularly Penn State, for its child sex abuse scandal. the university is encouraging people to come forward Several administrators are charged with not reporting and, so far, it’s working: In just one month since the polallegations that former assistant football coach Jerry Although the university icy was drafted, seven reports of alleged child abuse Sandusky molested 10 boys both on and off the campus. should be commended for have been made to Mitchell. In all instances, the The truth rocked the Penn State campus to its core. reported incident occurred off the campus.

Penn State President Graham Spanier resigned, along responding to other But Penn State isn’t the only institution officials have with Senior Vice President Gary Shultz. Athletics Direcscandals and adapting its been watching. On Nov. 18, Occupy protesters at the tor Tim Curley was placed on administrative leave and, of California, Davis clashed with university most importantly, beloved football coach Joe Paterno policies accordingly, more University police officers, who pepper sprayed the students while was fired, much to the outrage of the student body. they were sitting with their arms linked. The outraged The State College campus may be almost 200 miles can always be done. community demanded Chancellor Linda Katehi’s resaway, but even this university felt the magnitude of the scandal. In fact, it hit a little too close to home. According to former Athletics ignation (she refused), but once again this university reacted: The UniverDirector Andy Geiger, Sandusky was contacted by this university’s athletics sity Senate drafted a formal statement protecting students’ right to protest department in 1991 and 1996 for job openings. In an interview with The Wash- on the campus.

While such action is surely a step in the right direction, the senate’s motion ington Times, Geiger said he was “sitting in his living room shaking,” thinking seems to lack the teeth of the sexual abuse policy. It’s important for the univerof what could have been had Sandusky joined this university.

But instead of just watching the news and thinking, “Thank God that didn’t sity to reaffirm its commitment to protecting free speech, but what happens if happen here,” the university acted swiftly to ensure such that lack of reporting police clash with protesters at this university? After all, police brutality is somenever occurs on this campus. In November, university President Wallace Loh thing students are familiar with, thanks to the actions of Prince George’s drafted a six-page policy outlining the legal requirement to report such abuse County Police during the 2010 riot. The senate would accomplish more if, like to University Police Chief David Mitchell. Under the plan, Mitchell then imme- the child abuse policy, it outlined specific steps to be taken by the university.

Nonetheless, it’s encouraging to see officials reacting to national collediately assigns a detective to investigate a claim; if it occurred off the campus, giate scandals and adapting university policies accordingly. Now, if we could authorities in the proper jurisdiction will be notified.

This new system is all about accountability. As the truth about Penn State just stop talking about the $7.2 million president’s “mansion,” we could all began to unravel, it became increasingly difficult to follow the pattern of get on with our lives.

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Bad habits inhibit my success

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he semester is barely a week old and the distractions I swore off during finals week have already regained my undivided attention.

Between going outside with a basketball (or a soccer ball or a Frisbee or a tennis racket or a football), spending hours screaming at virtual characters for bad passes and terrible swordsmanship and simply wreaking havoc throughout my dorm with friends, it is a wonder I find time to eat and sleep, let alone be a student. Though none of these habits are dangerous or illegal, I cannot help but think they are still practices I should work to avoid because all they do is cause me to avoid work.

Moreover, I know I am not the only one with this problem. A few of my friends go out at least four nights a week. In general, they recognize they are not leading sustainable lifestyles, especially once the number of parties

RAJARSHI CHATTOPADHYAY and tests begin to pile up. However, even if they decide they should have different priorities in life, such as academics or not being hungover half the week, these people might only reduce their festivities to two or three nights per week (or, as an extreme measure, dedicate one week to school before gaudily rewarding themselves the following weekend).

Regardless of whether you describe such people as typical college students or alcoholics, one fact is undeniable — they keep going out because it has become habitual, and anything otherwise would seem unusual. Just as a pianist would feel

weird if he or she did not practice for a week, or a front-row student would find it unbearable to skip several lectures, partiers need to maintain their debaucherous routine.

An old idiom says our actions define our habits, and our habits define our characters. I agree with this completely — actions truly define a person. Therefore, any habit, including a bad one, is just a manifestation of some group of thoughts and actions that have importance to the person in question.

Try as I might to kick my bad habits and maximize my productivity, I find myself inevitably slipping back into those customs. Even though I feel there are better ways to spend my time, I also know I cannot completely replace these activities. Until I change myself as a person and become someone who no longer finds any of my procrastination methods fun, I will continue to push off my work in favor of

these activities. Sure, I could sit down every day at 3 p.m. and force myself to crank out problem sets and papers and go to sleep early. But I would be living a robotic lifestyle, simply going through the motions and avoiding many things I enjoy.

However, it is also possible I am merely using this reasoning as an excuse to justify my bad habits. Perhaps they are not that difficult to change, but I am too complacent and prideful to do anything about them.

Maybe I could change them now but ironically, by procrastinating, one of my worst fears will come to fruition and I will never change my bad habits.

Either way, I cannot worry about this any longer — it is gorgeous outside and LaPlata Beach calls.

Rajarshi Chattopadhyay is a sophomore aerospace engineering major. He can be reached at chattopadhyay@umdbk.com.

Facebook Experience: Online politics are old news

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iven that 2012 marks both the upcoming presidential election and the apocalypse, I suppose it makes sense people have embraced the “news” aspect of Facebook’s News Feed with doomsday fervency.

People are always eager to enlighten their friends to the political reality via links to articles such as “Mitt Romney Receives Money from Satan’s Corporation,” “Obama Pledges to Destroy Israel if Re-elected,” and “Rappers ‘Hoot for Newt.’”

OK, only the third headline was real (Rappers do love Newt Gingrich), but the ugly political rhetoric in which people often indulge themselves — especially in response to others’ articles — resembles the first two articles’ inflammatory tone.

Or at least that’s how it comes off to unsuspecting “friends” — people who maintain tenuous contact primarily through News Feed notifications.

The article posted by your liberal friend will portray Republicans as moronic, greedy villains, while your conservative friend will prove no less

inclined to deem Democratic leaders as weak, socialist liberty-killers.

All the while, you don’t care.

In the comments they’ll condemn our leaders in Washington for too easily devolving into partisan politics. Nevermind that if not the birthplace of partisan politics, the comments are certainly where they hit puberty.

I wonder how often Facebook political debates ever reach a reasonable conclusion. “You’re a dumbass” always seems to trump “Your opinion has merits and I will re-evaluate my beliefs.”

Eventually the humor of excessive article-sharing drifts into absurdity.

In addition to the usual bitter comments, a friend of mine actually received hate emails for frequently posting provocative political articles that were atypical of the opinions found in his group of friends. In one email he was accused of potentially contributing to a second Holocaust through his Facebook activity.

When friends start comparing each other to Hitler, hopefully we can all agree the Facebook news platform has produced strange results.

NADAV

KARASOV Yet one cannot dismiss the inundation of combative articles people share so easily. As of last year, roughly 50 percent of young Americans received their news from Facebook. Clearly, the nature of news shared through social media matters.

Not only does it matter, Facebook proves to be a much more effective news source than it may seem, thanks to all those random friends — fanatical or not.

In a study of more than 250 million users on Facebook released last month, researchers at the University of Michigan, in conjunction with Facebook itself, found that people absorb the most novel news stories from friends with whom they have “weak ties” — those from well outside someone’s inner circle.

This directly contradicts the conventional wisdom of Facebook as an echo chamber, a place that merely reaffirms previous convictions. Instead of relying on opinions and news from within insular and like-minded networks that could push to an extreme one’s beliefs and values, random friends actually provide an outside spark that encourages wellbalanced views.

In this election year of excessive partisanship, it’s exactly those people with wildly differing viewpoints who help the rest of us develop diverse and knowledgeable opinions.

Political discourse, both online and face-to-face, will never look pretty. If fired-up article-sharers cannot manage to show civility, take solace in the fact that, beyond all the irrational and viscously biased comments you may witness, innocent bystanders are gaining exposure to new ideas.

And every once in a while, those ideas may even make sense.

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

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he recent crackdown on underage drinking in College Park has become a common topic of conversation. While students are being assaulted and robbed in our own backyards, University Police are busy writing alcohol citations, which is nothing but a waste of our time and police effort.

The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention handed University Police a $30,000 grant to be used exclusively to fund efforts to curb underage drinking. Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said in September that police would spend the grant on overtime hours for officers to patrol on nights and weekends to investigate house parties and re-card patrons in bars and restaurants.

Let’s be honest here: This grant is going to do nothing to stop underage drinking, and it will only take away from the truly important matters at hand. If students can’t get into the bars anymore, they’ll find parties. If parties are being busted, they’ll find smaller parties. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that especially applies to a college student prowling for alcohol.

We, of course, can all agree drunk people, whether underage or legal, do stupid things; however, not a single alcohol-related death has been reported at the university this academic year. Meanwhile, from the first day of last semester until the first week of December, approximately 178 instances of assault with and without a deadly weapon, sexual assault, violent robbery and breaking and entering have been reported in the immediate area, according to www.umpd.umd.edu.

We all remember the armed robbery that took place on the campus just a few months ago: Everyone received the UMD Alert that delivered an unsettling message about two knife-wielding males robbing a student just outside of Cecil Hall on Nov. 17. That could have happened to any of us, which is a heavy thought to carry around in your back pocket all of the time, to say the least. I may not be able to speak for everyone, but this certainly makes me wonder whether that $30,000 is really being spent in the right place.

As a female, I refuse to walk around by myself at night anywhere in College Park, nor will I allow any of my friends to do so for fear of them getting hurt. Feeling unsafe in a place one considers to be his or her second home is not the way anyone should feel. If there is one thing I can be certain about, it’s that underage drinkers are definitely not causing such anxiety.

Promoting “Crime Time,” telling us how to call Nite Ride and re-carding people in the bars is not the best way to protect us. Instead, that $30,000 could be better spent patrolling other areas or perhaps keeping officers ready to respond to emergencies. Police officers will have a better chance to catch an assailant and provide assistance to a victim if they aren’t all congregated in the downtown bars or along Route 1.

The priorities of the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention and University Police are clearly skewed. Keeping students from drinking is not what this illreputed college town needs.

Rather, it needs a watchdog we can all trust.

Sarah Tincher is a sophomore journalism major. She can be reached at sarah.tincher18@gmail.com.

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THIS WEEK IN SNOOKI’S UTERUS: Yesterday Radaronline.com reported the newest issue of Star Magazine will reveal Jersey Shore’s Snooki is pregnant. This “scoop,” of course, was a complete and blatant lie, so Snooki quickly went on Sirius Radio to deny the rumors. If you’re still interested in this story, go outside.

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PREVIEW | LIGHT MOVES

LET THERE BE LIGHT Light Moves, a dance piece accompanied by live music, poetry and visual art, comes to CSPAC this weekend

BY BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN Staff writer

When multimedia artist Naomie Kremer’s works demonstrating the interconnection between flowing texts in art were showcased at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in 2001, she called the show “Text Moves.” When, in 2005, her set of paintings depicting animated visual art were exhibited in San Francisco, she called it “Paint Moves.”

So it’s no surprise that when her team of artists working on postmodern choreographer Margaret Jenkins’ new danceand-painting collaboration was searching for a name for the project, Kremer suggested Light Moves as a placeholder.

The name stuck.

“We wanted something that conveyed the visual possibilities created by the combination of dance and video,” said Jenkins, who is known for heading unique collaborations.

“It was quite a challenge.”

After a November premiere in San Francisco, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company will perform the show this weekend at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay Theatre.

The piece is a blend of four art forms — dance, music, poetry and visual art — centered by the perception of light. Jenkins’ choreography is accompanied by a moving set created by projections of Kremer’s art onto eight banners, accompanied by live music by composer Paul Dresher and poetry by Michael Palmer.

“I got very intrigued by the possibility of creating a moving set for a dance piece that would deal with the concepts of light and the way

that light changes and alters both within us and throughout the day,” Jenkins said.

Light Moves does not follow a narrative but frames the performance around emotions and experiences within the light cycle. The work has an abstract nature, so the takeaway is different for each viewer.

“At the end of the day, I want to create an open-ended experience that every viewer is able to enter in a different way,” Kremer said. “It is an experience that satisfies and stimulates and surprises, so that’s what we’re looking to do.”

Throughout the process of creating and producing the show, Light Moves has been a highly collaborative enterprise. The dancers created their responses to light through choreography. Then, Kremer developed images to combine paint and light, and Dresher and Palmer created music and language in response to the idea.

Kremer said her art demonstrates the capacity of collaboration, as it only makes sense with the entire Light Moves ensemble. The paintings and video take on a completely different

Light Moves fits a handful of artistic disciplines into one show.

meaning when viewed alone.

“People feel there’s a balance between the visual information and the physical information so that one is not more dominant than the other but that they come together to make a whole,” Jenkins said. “It’s charged with lots of meanings from daily life.”

Light Moves, performed by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company with live music by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, is Friday and Saturday at CSPAC’s Kay Theatre. Tickets are $9 for students, $35 for adults. raghavendran@umdbk.com

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SHOW PREVIEW: REPTAR AT THE GIBSON GUITAR SHOWROOM IN WASHINGTON When talking to members of a band called Reptar, the question needs to be asked — did the name come from Rugrats?

“Indirectly, yes, it came from Rugrats,” admitted drummer Andrew McFarland. But the band’s true namesake was a cat named Reptar who had belonged to Ryan Engleberger, the band’s bassist.

“The cat actually died when we started the band,” McFarland added. “And it was, like, a really ballin’ cat. So we decided to just do that for the cat.”

The young four-piece indie rock band makes energetic, optimistic, danceable music with shades of Vampire Weekend and the Talking Heads, brimming with looping guitars, group chants and afro-pop drum beats. It will perform at the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Washington on Saturday.

Since picking its goofy band title, the Georgiabased group has tried to keep the tradition of choosing strange names alive, calling its debut EP Oblangle Fizz Y’all.

Despite its strange title, the five-track EP made waves on the Internet after it was produced by Ben Allen, the wellrespected studio wizard best known for his work with Animal Collective on its album Merriweather Post Pavilion.

So with the band on the rise, developing a following and embarking on a nation-

wide tour, you might think they’d give their debut fulllength an easily marketable title.

“I can actually proudly tell you,” McFarland said, “we decided on the name of the album, after much deliberation. It’s called Mood Chew Chew Mood Choo Choo.”

Guess not.

Despite having yet another crazy name, McFarland said Mood Chew Chew will represent a departure from some of the sounds of the EP, a reflection of the time that’s passed.

Oblangle “definitely represented where we were at when we recorded the EP,” McFarland said, “and the album represents where we’re at now.”

The sound may change, but it will remain full of the youthful energy and sense of humor that McFarland believes defines the band’s music — which is perfectly captured by the name Reptar.

“We never thought anybody was gonna take the band seriously, ever,” McFarland said. “So we didn’t really see any harm in calling it Reptar, which is obviously a ridiculous name for a band.

“And, you know, sometimes, people take things seriously when you don’t expect them to.”

Reptar will be at the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Washington on Saturday at 7 p.m. The show is sold out.

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“We’ve already told Kenny he’s got to start recruiting those juniors, and he’s already done it,” Edsall said. “The same thing with Wes and Mike… sometimes, that’s all it takes.”

The Terps also found success in Pennsylvania, where they landed five recruits, and Georgia, where three incoming Terps hail from. The team also signed one player each from California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina and Virginia.

Tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator John Dunn noted that the team placed considerable attention on the “fourto-five-hour radius” around College Park, and both he and Edsall added they would likely reach out to Georgia and Florida more in coming years.

Still, some saw the class as a disappointment, especially after the team’s addition of lauded recruiter Mike Locksley to its coaching staff as offensive coordinator.

“I think that the expectation may be a bit unrealistic when Mike Locksley came in that he might rally and land some more four-star recruits,” said Dave Lomonico, who covers high school football and recruiting for MDHigh.Rivals.com. “From what I’ve heard, Locksley’s trying to sell the fact that there’s a ton of talent in Maryland, and you can go to your Alabamas and be another cog for an 18th championship, but at Maryland you can come here and you can be that proverbial big fish in the small pond.’

“I just don’t know if it’s worked.”

One giant question mark remains for the Terps, as Good Counsel star Stefon Diggs, Rivals.com’s No. 8 recruit nationally, remains uncommitted. Lomonico believes that Diggs, who reportedly won’t decide until Feb. 10, will choose between the Terps and Florida.

“He can instantly change a program and impact future recruiting classes,” Lomonico said. “Then this class, all of a sudden, becomes pretty darn good.”

Regardless of Diggs’ decision, the Terps’ class addressed several holes, most notably at running back, where their No. 2-ranked running-back class — according to Scout.com — will help take some of the pressure off the team’s only returning running back, rising sophomore Justus Pickett.

This class also marks what Edsall and his staff hope will be the start of a program-wide transformation under Edsall.

“We did have a tough season, but these guys see what the future holds and the program we’re establishing and the foundation that we’re building,” Dunn said.

“They can be the reason why we take this to the next level.”

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Eagles in question

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even get himself thrown out of the game, to get his team fired up.”

Turgeon, who addressed the media after the game in a sweat suit, said he couldn’t watch the game in the locker room but kept up with it on the radio and through text messages from his wife.

“I feel awful for them,” Turgeon said. “It obviously woke our guys up. They played inspired. I’m proud of them. I just wish we got over the hump.

It would have been a great win for us.”

Miami finished the first half on a 14-1 run to take a 34-23 lead into the break as the Terps fell apart offensively. In the final four minutes of the half, they missed all six of their shots to go along with a pair of turnovers. The Hurricanes built their advantage and held on despite the absent services of starting forward Kenny Kadji (head injury), who had four double-doubles in the previous nine games.

The loss means the Terps have yet to win on the road this season or at BankUnited Center all time. But no loss will sting more than the one they suffered last night.

“We came up short,” Mosley said. “It just doesn’t feel good to have another loss.”

A cloud of uncertainty seemed to hang over Alyssa Thomas as she stood outside the Terrapins women’s basketball locker room inside Comcast Center earlier this week, a bandage still wrapped heavily around her sprained left thumb.

“I did a little [practice] here and there, more biketype stuff,” the sophomore forward said. “I don’t know [my status] yet. Just taking it day by day.”

Coach Brenda Frese also wouldn’t speculate on the availability of her star player as the Terps prepared for tonight’s matchup with Boston College.

“She hasn’t practiced yet, so she’s still dayto-day,” she said. “She’s going to continue to be evaluated.”

It would seem that if the No. 9 Terps (18-3, 5-3 ACC) could afford to rest Thomas for one remaining opponent, it would be the Eagles (5-16, 0-8), the only team still winless in conference play. But with the team licking its wounds after an upset loss to Virginia Tech one week ago, Thomas’ return can’t come soon enough.

“Obviously, when you lose a player like Alyssa, you need everybody to make up for her absence,” Frese said. “We obviously didn’t have as many players who stepped up in her absence.”

In theory, Boston College shouldn’t pose much trouble for the Terps, as the Eagles rank in the bottom third of the conference in nearly every statistical category.

But after falling to the Hokies last week, a team that also ranks in the bottom third in the league by most metrics, Frese said the Terps are going to have to improve in all areas if they want to end their two-game losing streak, no matter whom their opponent is.

Or whether Thomas is on the floor.

“Her energy, the level of play she brings to us every day — it’s definitely frustrating not having that piece for us,” center Lynetta Kizer said. “But we have 11 other players who put their jersey on Thursday night, and there’s really no excuse.”

Though the last-place Eagles will be looking to hand the suddenly reeling Terps their third consecutive loss, the team has had a full week of practice to adjust to the potential of another game without arguably its most crucial playmaker.

Even if she’s forced to sit out again due to injury, Thomas seems confident tonight’s game won’t play out like last week’s did.

“It was hard for me to just sit there and watch [last week], knowing I couldn’t do anything but cheer them on,” Thomas said. “After practice this week, that’s going to be different. … We just have to bring the energy that we used to bring earlier in the season.”

Said Frese: “You’re only as good as your last game.”

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Miami forward DeQuan Jones was one of the few Hurricanes frontcourt players not to foul out during the team’s 90-86 win last night. PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH BEEKER/THE MIAMI HURRICANE

HURRICANES from page 8 fouls and an ejection, his first as Terps coach.

The Hurricanes were up 6246 moments later, all but assured of the game’s outcome. Fueled by their coach’s parting words, though, the Terps used a high-pressure, full-court defense to rip off 11 straight points.

“He really kind of lit the guys up,” said assistant Scott Spinelli, who assumed Turgeon’s position after his ejection. “When he got thrown out, obviously, our team responded quite well. We played with a lot more energy, a lot more focus and a lot more fire.

“I was just the substitute teacher, just trying to follow the lesson plan. The guys wanted to play for our head coach and it shows where our team is headed in the future.”

The Terps scored the last nine points of regulation, none more important than Stoglin’s off-balance 3-pointer at the top of the key that tied the game at 69 with 57.1 seconds left. After Miami missed a potential game winner, Stoglin followed with a miss from deep to push the game into overtime.

In a back-and-forth affair in the

first overtime that included a 30foot 3-pointer by Hurricanes guard Trey McKinney Jones at the shot-clock buzzer, the Terps had to fight back again.

Freshman center Alex Len (11 points), who had already scored two baskets in the fiveminute time frame, blocked Miami guard DeQuan Jones’ jumper to force a shot-clock violation with less than a minute left. On the next possession, Terps guard Pe’Shon Howard calmly sunk both his free-throw attempts with 39.1 seconds left to tie the game at 76 and eventually force a second overtime.

That’s when the Terps finally unraveled. A missed 3pointer by Stoglin, a turnover on a post feed to Len and a missed jumper by guard Sean Mosley led to an 83-76 Miami advantage with just more than two minutes left.

Stoglin sank another 3pointer with 2:01 left, but a charge call on Mosley on the next fast break ultimately put an end to the Terps’ comeback bid.

The Hurricanes hit their final six free throws in the final minute of the game to cap a marathon victory.

“None of us like to lose,” Spinelli said. “But I think this is something to build on at least knowing that the head coach is willing to put himself out there,

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More on Miami game Get men’s basketball columnist Conor Walsh’s take on the Terps’ exhausting loss to the ’Canes at TerrapinTrail.com.

HURRICANES 90, TERPS 86 (2OT)

FOOTBALL | NATIONAL SIGNING DAY

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Miami guard Shane Larkin, left, elevates for a jump shot over guard Terrell Stoglin during last night’s Terps loss. PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH BEEKER/THE MIAMI HURRICANE

After ejection, late comeback, Terps fall in ACC classic

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Wearied and hunched over, Terrell Stoglin shook his head before trying to somehow explain one of the most emotionally draining games of his career.

He had watched his coach get tossed for back-to-back technical fouls, witnessed his team battle back from a 16-point deficit, seen his own game-tying 3-pointer send the game to overtime.

But for all Stoglin and his young Terrapins men’s basketball team underwent, they also left BankUnited Center last night with a gutwrenching, 90-86 loss in double overtime. The Hurricanes (13-7, 4-3 ACC) scored the first seven points of the second overtime, and the Terps (13-8, 3-4) didn’t have enough to push it to a third.

“It doesn’t feel good to lose, especially after you work so hard to comeback,” said Stoglin, who scored a career-high 33 points.

“Everybody was just playing inspired. We thought it was unfair [coach Mark Turgeon] got [the two technical fouls]. We wanted to go back to the locker room [and] tell him we won the game.”

The madness started soon after guard Nick Faust stole a pass on a full-court press with 7:28 remaining and picked up a subsequent offensive foul. Bewildered, Turgeon jumped out onto the court and made clear his displeasure with the call. Within seconds, he picked up back-to-back technical

see HURRICANES, page 7

Coach Randy Edsall’s 24-man recruiting class includes five four-star recruits, including two from Good Counsel and another from Washington. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

With ’12 recruiting class, Terps looking to move on Haul ranked among top 50 in nation

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

Fresh off of a forgettable first season and in the midst of a tumultuous offseason, coach Randy Edsall took the first steps toward putting last season in the past with yesterday’s unveiling of the Terrapins football team’s 24-man recruiting class.

The class — the first Edsall has assembled in its entirety — includes five four-star recruits and no five-stars and ranks among the top 50 nationally by 247Sports.com (No. 45) and Scout.com (No. 47).

Though those rankings suggest a class that isn’t particularly program-changing, Edsall was certainly pleased with his haul, which includes 11 players from this state and Washington.

“One of the main things that we talked about is the fact that we really wanted to try to make endroads here in Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, Virginia,” Edsall said. “We wanted to keep

the local talent here in Maryland, and again, I think we’re on the right track with what we’ve done this year.”

Three local stars highlight the Terps’ recruiting class: Good Counsel (Olney) four-star recruits Wes Brown, a running back; and Mike Madaras, an offensive lineman; and Friendship Collegiate (Washington) running back Albert Reid. Massachusetts linebacker Abner Logan and Georgia offensive lineman Nick Brigham round out the Terps’ top recruits.

Perhaps most significant about the local signings for Edsall is where they come from. Good Counsel and Friendship Collegiate are two of the area’s most prestigious high school programs, and with the signing of running back Kenny Goins, who played at Baltimore power Gilman, Edsall feels he’s established himself with the area’s best.

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