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Amnesty USM textbook policy proposed Lobbyist, senator clash on need discussion for state law to minimize prices takes on univ. focus BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

After stalling last year, Good Samaritan policy topic of working group

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Proposed state legislation aiming to lower the cost of textbooks is “overly prescriptive” and unnecessary because universities are doing enough to lower costs, a key university system official said yesterday. P.J. Hogan, a lobbyist and policy advisor for the University System of Maryland, told the education policy committee of the Board of Regents, which oversees the uni-

versity system, that a proposed 10-point textbook policy was sufficient to lower costs. The committee voted to approve the plan “in principle” because some members expressed concern with vague wording in the document. Most of the 10 points in the proposed policy require universities to inform faculty members about textbook prices, ask universities to list ISBN numbers for books no later than May 1 for

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Lifting their voices

A working group comprised of students and faculty met for the first time yesterday to discuss their plans to shed light on what impact a Good Samaritan policy would have at this university, officials said. The working group was organized by the University Senate — the university’s highest legislative body that directly advises university President Dan Mote on policy matters — to take a closer look at the Good Samaritan issue after the proposed policy stalled in the senate’s committee system last year. The senate did not put the policy, which would protect alcohol- or drug-using students from punishment in emergency situations, up

Keynote speaker Baruch Ben-Yahudah talks to those in attendance about health and wellness. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Black History Month commences with event at Nyumburu

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BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff writer

The voices of students and faculty members echoed off the walls of the NyumburuMultipurpose Rooms they sang “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” the Black National Anthem, at the Black History Month kick-off celebration Monday night.

The night, which started with the words of Martin Luther King Jr., focused on both the rich history and future of black Americans. A Pan-African flag adorned with red, black and green stripes hung on the stage as more than 100 university students and faculty members gathered at the event, which was co-sponsored by a number of cultural organizations, including the Nyumburu Cul-

tural Center, Black Student Union, African Student Association, Caribbean Student Association and the university’s chapter of the NAACP, to celebrate their unity. The key-note speaker of the night was Baruch Ben-Yehudah, who talked about health and wellness in the black community.

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NSA assistant director speaks on agency’s role in the information age BY MARISSA LANG Staff writer

The National Security Agency doesn’t exist. Or at least that is the image its employees are instructed to give off, said NSA Assistant Director Tony Stramella, who has worked for the agency for almost 35 years. Stramella led a presentation on the agency last night in Anne Arundel Hall that more than 50 students attended. “People used to joke that NSA actually stood for ‘No Such Agency,’” Stramella said. “It’s interesting the spin people give on an

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Economy continues to rattle univ. endowment BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

Echoing a nationwide trend, the university’s endowment has been battered by the declining stock market, losing 23 percent of its value during 2008. Still, the endowment is doing better than others nationally. A recent study by the National Asso-

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Though faring better than most, university endowment fell 23 percent during 2008 ciation of College and University Business Officers found the average endowment decreased by 23 percent during a five-month period last year, the worst performance since the 1970s. The uni-

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versity’s endowment lost the same percentage over the entire year. The current value of the endowment is slightly more than $400 million, according to Vice President of University Relations

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Brodie Remington. “I wish I could say differently, but we are right on trend,” Remington said, who runs the university’s fundraising operations as well as the University of Maryland College Park Foundation. The major cause of the losses are so-called “underwater donations,”

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NEWSMAKERS Gregg will only be commerce secretary if replacement is Republican WASHINGTON – Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) says he would only agree to become President Barack Obama’s commerce secretary if New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) appoints a Republican to serve out the rest of his term. An emerging deal would allow Republicans to keep the seat for two years and deny Democrats a filibuster-proof majority of 60 senators. Democrats, meanwhile, appear to stand a better chance of flipping the seat into their ranks in 2010 than if Gregg stayed and ran for a fourth term.

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BRIEFS Goucher professor accused of involvement in Rwandan genocide BALTIMORE – The president of a liberal arts college north of Baltimore has removed a French professor from Rwanda from the classroom while accusations about his involvement in genocide are investigated. Goucher College President Sanford Ungar sent an e-mail Saturday to students and faculty, telling them about concern over claims that professor Leopold Munyakazi “participated directly in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.” Munyakazi was indicted on genocide charges in Rwanda, and Interpol issued an advisory, asking for help in finding him. Ungar says in the e-mail he had not been aware of the Interpol advisory. Munyakazi was contracted to teach at the Towson school for two semesters under the auspices of the Scholar Rescue Fund, which provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries.

Surgeons remove donated kidney through vagina BALTIMORE – Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University say they have removed a donor kidney through a 48year-old woman’s vagina, eliminating the need for an abdominal incision that normally leaves a 5- to 6-inch scar. Hospital officials say the operation, which they believe is the first ever, was performed Jan. 29, and the unidentified Lexington Park donor and her niece, who received the kidney, are both doing well. Hospital officials say transvaginal kidney removals have been done before to remove cancerous or nonfunctioning kidneys but not for healthy kidney donation. Other diseased organs have also been removed through the mouth and other orifices. The operation left three pea-size scars on the donor’s abdomen, one hidden in her navel, and surgeons are hopeful the procedure will prompt more people to become donors.

Lt. gov. backing new domestic violence gun rules BALTIMORE – Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown says he will urge lawmakers to pass Gov. Martin O’Malley’s domestic violence initiatives. Brown says after his cousin was killed last year by her estranged boyfriend, he was left with a new urgency to protect domestic violence victims. O’Malley wants judges to be allowed to confiscate guns from the subjects of temporary protective orders. He also wants judges to be required to take them after final protective orders are issued.

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‘I like to call it a black history lifetime’ CELEBRATION, from Page 1 “When you don’t have your health, your Timberlands and rims don’t matter,” Ben-Yehudah said, noting there are things the black community can do to better the quality of their lives. “The topic today is living healthy before we become history.” He specifically referred to popular fast food chains as key contributors to poor diets, referring to them as “Chokers,” “Murder King,” “Wing Disease” and “Crack Donalds.” In his presentation, Ben-Yehudah stressed the key to good health and living a better life is having a strong sense of self-worth and avoiding the consumption of unorganic meat. “We’re choosing appetite over our bodily organs,” he said. “You have to look at yourself as a Rolls Royce.” But Ben-Yehudah also pointed fingers at the federal government, pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors, refuting the premise that heart disease and diabetes were related to genetics. Audience members voiced The Black History Month kick-off inspired students to sing, dance and participate in the festivities. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK their opposition and shock to some of Ben-Yehudah’s student Rhonda Hogan said. from slavery. The night, however, did not claims, causing a brief disrup- “I just wanted to see the programs from a student’s per- place any specific emphasis tion in the night’s events. on President Barack Obama, “I thought he was good,” spective.” Junior family science despite many people’s porfreshman communications major Levon Coachman said. major Andi Chase stood trayal of him as an answer to “But I also thought he went onstage and sang a gospel some of the many issues black medley, while Office of communities face. overboard a bit.” Participants at the kick-off Freshman psychology and Human Relations staff memgovernment and politics ber Angie Bass brought audi- event said more work can be major Anna Avalone under- ence members to their feet done when it comes to universtood Ben-Yehudah’s point as she swaggered around the sal tolerance and understandthat the black community can room, microphone in hand, ing. “Black history is not just and should learn to take bet- belting “At Last” and “I Go to confined to one month,” the Rock.” ter care of its health. The evening ended with Nyumburu Assistant Direc“We agreed with his overall prayer and a buffet of soul tor of Student Involvement message,” she said. Public Relations The night continued with food as fried fish, baked and macaroni and Solomon Comissiong said. “I many interactive programs chicken, such as poetry readings, cheese, yams and peach cob- like to call it a black history bler filled tables aligned lifetime.” gospel music and trivia. “Maryland has a strong under a mural illustrating the Angie Bass of the Human Relations Office sang several musical black community,” graduate emergence of black America hamptondbk@gmail.com selections. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Number of transfer students on the rise, report says BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

The number of transfer students across the university system has climbed in the last five years, and its demographics are changing, according to statistics presented at a Board of Regents committee meeting. The report shows the number of Maryland students transferring from community colleges to four-year, state schools has climbed 16 percent over the last five years. Last year, almost 18,000 students transferred to one of the USM institutions. Roughly half of those students came from an in-state community college. The five-year increase includes a 31 percent rise in the number of black transfer students and 19 percent increase in the number of Hispanic transfer students, though the study also shows smaller percentages of black transfer students enroll full-time than the total Maryland transfer-student population. The study found shifts in the geographic regions students are from, as well. Four of the 16 two-year public colleges have supplied more than two-thirds of Maryland transfer students to USM institutions in fiscal year 2008: Montgomery College, Baltimore County Community College, Anne Arundel Community College and Prince George’s Community College. However, the report also shows Howard and Harford community colleges are producing more transfer students than in past years. “Howard and Harford are now coming into the game,” Gayle Fink, the systems director of institutional research, said, adding the results mean the uni-

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versity system may need to reevaluate how it recruits at both of those community colleges. The study also shows less than half of transfer students who entered the USM system in fiscal year 2005 graduated within four years, as more students are entering four-year institutions as juniors. Financial reasons and not

being prepared for a four-year institution are the two main reasons students are taking longer to graduate, said Baltimore County Regent Mike Gill. The study also found a large age difference between transfer students and new, incoming freshmen. The average age of a transfer student is 26, while the average incoming fresh-

men is 19. While almost 60 percent of transfer students were 20 to 24 years old, Gill said some adult students typically attend University of Maryland University College, so the age difference of transfer students doesn’t tend to be a problem. Less students are also transferring with undeclared majors.

Between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2008, the number of undeclared majors decreased by 21 percent. “We continue to have a lot of transfer students,” Gill said. “It was all very encouraging. I give the state of transfers in the university system a solid B.” taustindbk@gmail.com

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‘Well, I can’t really say anything about that...’ NSA, from Page 1 organization that operates on classified information. But [the government] tells us to keep it buttoned.” Founded in 1952 by President Harry Truman, the NSA began as a secret organization intended to protect and collect information that could otherwise jeopardize the security of the United States. But a lot has changed since 1952. “Today we are so dependent on information systems and technologies that [the country] can’t function without it,” Stramella said, noting his laptop and cell phone. “By 2015, there will be more Internet hosts on the planet than people. ... Instead of shooting a gun or bomb, harm can be done today by creating a computer coded with ones and zeroes.” During the event, which was sponsored by the Honors program,

Stramella addressed the issue of what the NSA does — or attempted to, stopping every now and then to say, “Well, I can’t really say anything about that...” Ultimately, he said, the NSA is responsible for keeping classified military secrets out of the hands of “adversaries,” as well as for gathering information from hostile countries and organizations. “America’s adversaries do not hide on many secret networks anymore,” he said. “They hide in the same networks we use everyday. That’s why in this information age, NSA matters more than ever.” Throughout the presentation, students questioned Stramella on the ethics of his job, often alluding to the controversial wire-tapping methods that Stramella claimed NSA has nothing to do with. “Newspapers and Hollywood tell you that we listen to your phone calls and zoom in on what toothpaste

you’re using from satellites,” Stramella said. “But I couldn’t even listen to my daughter’s phone calls if I wanted to. It’s against the law. We abide by the law.” Although more than 50 students attended the event, about 20 said they were required to attend the event for a class. Attendees had a variety of different reactions to Stramella’s presentation, they said. “It was very entertaining,” senior English major Evan Rosenthal said. “It was a pretty glossy presentation of what the NSA really does, but I found it interesting, more or less. But I think he sort of peppered over some of the real issues.” Many students said they left feeling cynical despite Stramella’s best efforts to convince them the government did not read their e-mails or tap their phone calls. “You hear all this talk about ‘Big Brother listening’ and let me tell you, we ain’t listening,” Stramella said.

“We have to make sure we fall within the boundaries of the law. This agency would have been taken out a long time ago if we’d been doing a lot of illegal things to our own citizens.” He added that though the government does not spend its time reading through the virtual trail left by college students, other people — future employers, friends, strangers and so on — will try to. “When I was your age, I did a lot of stupid stuff,” Stramella said. “But I never made a record of it. You know what YouTube should be called? A permanent record. There is no delete button in cyberspace.” He told students to be careful of what they put online, because search engines such as Google make it extremely easy to access information. Stramella also said students should not only own, but use and regularly update, anti-virus software to help add an extra layer of security to

their personal data and information. “Always think that every time you send an e-mail, it’s a postcard,” he said. “You have to be careful of how you use technology, because in the end, it could come back to haunt you. Everything is vulnerable to interception and exploitation. There is no such thing as perfect security.” The challenges of building virtual protection, Stramella said, is the same regardless of whether a person is dealing with a personal computer or the United States’ military network. “Today’s attacks are happening in milliseconds or less,” Stramella said. “Not only can we not see them all, we can’t count them all. What scares us is what we don’t know, and the fact that we don’t know what we don’t know. We just have to be prepared for whatever new technology they’re going to come out with next.” langdbk@gmail.com

Floods sideline Aero Squadron restaurant Samaritan One of city’s few upscale restaurants closes, but will reopen, manager says policy may be solved by end of semester BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

Two unrelated floods have left the 94th Aero Squadron restaurant by the College Park Airport indefinitely closed, the restaurant’s office manager said. A pipe in the restaurant froze and burst in mid-January, and a defect in its sprinkler system left the building with two feet of standing water Sunday and “severe water damage,” office manager Erin Keegan said. The restaurant, one of the few upscale dining establishments in

the city, is located on Paint Branch Parkway. College Park City Council members frequently bemoan the lack of non-chain, sit-down restaurants in the city, which is dominated by student-friendly chain, fast food and takeout restaurants. “It’s a unique place in College Park to eat, in that it has such pleasant surroundings,” District 3 Councilwoman Mary Cook said. Keegan said the restaurant would definitely reopen. “We’re undergoing restoration at this time,” Keegan said. “We don’t have a date at this time for reopening, but we are reopening.”

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She added it would be at least two weeks before the restaurant’s management can even determine the extent of the damage from the flooding and estimate when renova-

tions will be complete. The restaurant, which is a popular venue for groups and events, had not updated its website to reflect the closure. Keegan said management put a sign on the restaurant’s front door to inform customers of the damage but said the website is controlled only at the restaurant chain’s corporate level. Calls to the California-based Specialty Restaurants Corporation, which owns the 94th Aero Squadron chain, were not returned yesterday.

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Endowment drop follows stock market declines ENDOWMENT, from Page 1 gifts that, after being invested in the stock market, have decreased in value. Last year, the three major stock market indexes — the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ — all lost at least one-third of their value, affecting underwater donations. The university typically spends a portion of the earnings from an endowment gift, but it is illegal to do so once the current value of the donation is less than the original value. “We invest with the idea, the hope, the expectation that it will grow

every year,” Remington said. “The reality is it doesn’t grow every year, and last year there was a big drop.” The market’s decline has primarily affected recent donations, while older ones have had time to grow sizably. The university has raised more than $500 million since Oct. 2006, when the Great Expectations fundraising campaign began. The campaign aims to raise $1 billion by 2011. “If somebody gave us $100,000 20 years ago, it’s worth maybe $300,000 today,” Remington said. “If someone gave us that two years ago, that $100,000 is probably worth $80,000.” Endowment gifts are typically

used to fund long-term needs, such as scholarships and endowed professorships. “Endowments are forever, even more so than diamonds,” university President Dan Mote said. “As the markets have decreased, there have been a couple of implications, namely that payouts are reduced. Therefore the operations that run from these funds decrease.” Across the country, universities have had to make severe cutbacks due to steep drops in the value of their endowments. Cornell University is facing a 10 percent budget shortfall, and Brandeis University is considering selling the holdings of its

critically acclaimed Rose Art Museum to make up for its financial losses. Nothing will be affected before July 1, Remington said, but in preparation for increasingly dismal numbers, fundraisers have taken a new approach by asking for smaller gifts. Instead of larger sums, donors are being asked to give as little as $5,000. “We’re just starting to do that, a few people that we’ve talked to have been understanding,” Remington said. “Will it make up all the lost income? Probably not.” sticedbk@gmail.com

Some regents concerned about vague nature of policy TEXTBOOKS, from Page 1 fall semesters and Dec. 1 for spring semesters and encourage faculty to take steps to allow students to use older, used textbooks or access course materials online. State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park, reviewed the policy and said it was too general, calling it “pretty rhetorical” and “not very detailed.” Rosapepe, a former member of the Board of Regents, said a more detailed state law was necessary. “Clearly, the state ought to enact policy,” Rosapepe said. “The issue is protecting students from overpriced books. There is a need for state law in this area.” “Having nice statements doesn’t solve problems,” he added. While Rosapepe commended the regents for showing leadership on the issue, he said state legislation is also necessary to help students outside the university system’s umbrella. Some regents also expressed concerns about whether the guidelines could be enforced. For example, the guidelines ask university bookstores to inform professors of the costs of their textbooks, a daunting task, considering the sheer number of courses offered. But Regent David Nevins, a chairman from Baltimore County who introduced the policy over the phone, said students will be able to regulate and audit professors’ compliance with the new rules. “The policy will be audited by

University System of Maryland lobbyist P.J. Hogan answers questions about the textbook policy from the Board of Regents. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

over 100,000 people that represent the students,” Nevins said. “And when faculty aren’t using it correctly, I have no doubt that students will make us aware.” The 10-point policy also encourages students to seek creative ways to lessen the financial hardship textbooks can create, and asks institutions and faculty members to only

use bundled versions of textbooks, which are frequently more expensive and harder to return, if it is absolutely necessary. University of Maryland, Baltimore County student Josh Michaels, the Board of Regents’ student member, said he wanted to make several amendments to the policy, including recommending

that students be allowed to evaluate their textbooks in course evaluations. “We are dedicated to seeing we do something about [the rise in textbooks] through system policy,” Michaels said. “It is the clearest and most appropriate way.” taustindbk@gmail.com

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for a vote before the close of the session last year, citing inadequate research and information as the main reason it was unable to make a recommendation on how to address the issue. The main problem, said Senate Chair Ken Holum, was that the data the senate had collected was based only on national statistics, not university ones. This time around, the senate established a working group that will look at more campus-centric information by surveying police officers, resident assistants, Greek life officials and students. “It’s going to be a lot of hard work, but I’m confident that all the people in a position to make it happen want to see action taken on this issue this semester,” said Brad Docherty, an undergraduate representative in the senate who is also chairing the Good Samaritan Working Group. “There’s a lot of things we’re trying to measure and take into account that don’t show up in statistics.” The proposed Good Samaritan policy would grant amnesty to students who call 911 with concerns about the health or safety of their friends who may be dangerously impaired by drugs or alcohol, thereby removing a significant deterrence to underage students calling for help. In a two-part questionnaire given to students at the end of last year during the Student Government Association elections, students were asked if they would support a Good Samaritan policy. Voters responded in favor of the measure by a 3,319-to-199 ratio. They were also asked if they would be more likely to call for help if such a policy existed, and again, the answer was a resounding “yes” — 3,123 students said they would be more likely to call for help, while 255 said the policy would not impact their decision to call. Senior communication major Stacia Cosner, who was president of student activist group Students for Sensible Drug Policy last year and has been a vocal supporter of the Good Samaritan policy, noted that by voting on the questions posed in the SGA referenda, students voiced their opinions on the policy, and should be taken into consideration by the senate. “The biggest obstacle this issue faced last year was that people would sort of generalize and weren’t very open-minded about the whole thing,” Cosner said. “Then we put the question on the SGA ballot and it passed. Clearly students support it. On the whole, I think more and more people seem to be more or less receptive to the idea.” Holum said many administrators, including Mote and Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement, have expressed sympathy for students’ concerns and understood the need to investigate the issue further. Mote signed the Amethyst Initiative — a petition that urges university administrators to examine alcohol-related issues among college students and the effectiveness of the legal drinking age — over the summer, a decision, Holum said, that was meant to encourage the discussion and investigation of issues like the Good Samaritan policy. “It’s a nationwide issue,” Holum said. “But it’s very much at home on our campus. It affects our students; it affects all of us. [Mote] was trying to point out that this is a big problematic issue that causes people to die. We should obviously look at it and see what we can do to help the situation.” Regardless of the senate’s recent push to resolve the long-standing issue, student advocates intend to continue advocating for the policy’s passage. “It’s all about harm reduction,” said Cosner, who served as an undergraduate senator last year before being banned from running again because she had been caught using marijuana her freshman year. “And I’m not leaving this university without leaving behind some kind of policy change.” langdbk@gmail.com

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courses rely on the lessons of ethos, pathos and logos without justification for the e don’t yet live in a post-racial America. While President Barack Obama’s election is a tremendous mile- preferential treatment of Western sources. Introductory-level philosophy courses stone in the ongoing struggle for racial equality, it would be foolish don’t delve beyond the West into the ideas of Islamic or Asian thinkers. Teaching diversity should mean teaching diversity in every class, not just a select few. and harmful to suggest disparities between races no longer exist. Thankfully, the university is well positioned to address this problem. The strateAs reported in the Jan. 30 issue of The Diamondback, a study appearing in the Journal of Public Economic Theory found eliminating affirmative action policies gic plan calls for an overhaul of the CORE program while also proclaiming, “The at universities and colleges would reduce minority student enrollment by 35 per- university has embraced diversity as a central driver in all its activities and has supported and promoted pioneering scholarship of diversity cent. in academic programs.” What this means will largely be up to Race-driven admission policies, though imperfect, provide debate and interpretation, but history professor Ira Berlin, underrepresented students greater access to higher education, the chair of the University Senate committee overhauling which in turn serves an important role in the advancement of Diversity in education general education, has recognized mandating a single diverunderrepresented communities. relies on more than sity credit undermines its significance. He said it does not In fact, the diversity affirmative action ensures improves stupromote important courses “that address head-on the comdents’ college experiences. With a vast array of racial and cultural affirmative action. plex question of human difference and the various ways men groups, this university’s diverse population offers an educational experience no classroom can replicate. Last night’s Black History Month celebra- and women deal with it.” We agree entirely. Diversity needs to be a current running through every tion is a prime example. But these events don’t reach every student, and it’s the university’s responsibil- course, not a token nod to those who are “different” but a serious effort to provide ity to highlight the importance of diversity where it can impact students most: the students a complete understanding of the world. Introductory-level art classes need to teach beyond Europe. Science courses could talk about medical issues in classroom. The token “diversity” course all undergraduates are required to complete as the third world, or how other countries approach problems in engineering or techpart of the university’s existing CORE program does little to reflect the varied nology. The fact is, the world is getting smaller. Our student body is changing to perspectives contained within our own student body. Supposedly generic writing reflect that. Our classes should, too.

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DOTS: Lowering emissions has a high price

or the last year, a group of students, faculty members and administrators have been outlining a plan for the university to reduce its carbon footprint. I’ve sat in on some of their meetings, and though the group has proposed several innovative initiatives to make the university more eco-friendly, the group has consistently run into one seemingly insurmountable challenge: Transportation makes up 33 percent of campus’ emissions. The working group aimed to solve this problem by instituting new car pooling programs, increasing shuttle bus access, and adding more local transit options. They also talked about giving out cheaper permits for fuel-efficient cars, and having faculty and staff telecommute. All these solutions would mean less cars on the road. But they’d also mean a drastic reduction in the number of parking

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DERNOGA permits the Department of Transportation Services sells. The problem? DOTS gets a big chunk of its money from selling parking permits and parking garage receipts. So, in trying to cut transportation emissions and oncampus driving, the department’s revenue will plummet — and probably faster than the stock portfolio of someone who invested in Bernie Madoff ’s Ponzi scheme (sorry, Hillel). There’s obviously something counterintuitive about how this works. For the campus to successfully reduce transportation emis-

sions, we need to dramatically reduce the number of permits issued. It’s the department’s job to successfully implement this program, but DOTS has incentive to give more parking permits, not fewer. Asking DOTS to reduce parking permits would be like asking the oil companies to manage drilling permits for environmentally sensitive areas or relying on the coal companies to design a national plan to fight global warming. None of it passes the laugh test unless you’ve been given laughing gas. I don’t trust DOTS to actually do anything meaningful to reduce the number of parking permits it gives out as long as it needs permits as its revenue source. The source of funding for DOTS has to change. I propose the parking permits’ revenue goes straight to the university’s budget. Then, each fiscal year DOTS can submit

its budget request to the university, which would have to approve it. This way, DOTS is going to get the money it needs ,regardless of how many permits it sell. We could even create an incentive by guaranteeing DOTS a larger budget for each permit they reduce. We’re inevitably headed toward reforming the department’s budget. The number of parking permits has already been going down over the past few years, thanks to building construction. Commuters have noticed the giant spike in permit prices. This is only headed in one direction. I say we change how DOTS gets its money sooner rather than late and witness the emissions reductions that follow. If not, pass me the laughing gas. Matt Dernoga is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at mdernoga@umd.edu.

Study abroad: It can happen here, too

h, the beginning of another semester. The shortcomings and stresses of exams behind me. The tedium of winter break endured. The exciting prospect of finding new excuses for ditching class and new schemes to maintain my GPA just ahead. Most importantly, however, this is the time to chill with my friends, sneak into bars and triumph over friends through the graceful art of tossing a white ball into a red cup. Spring semester 2009 is truly upon us. Oh wait — literally all of my friends are abroad. Scratch those plans; this semester may very well be quite different. Yes, it is that time of year. It seems like half the university — or at least the junior class — has taken up the tall task of embarking upon foreign travels. And whether you had no

interest in going abroad this semester or things just didn’t work out (thanks a lot, university scholarships), the fact of the matter is that a good number of students this semester are finding themselves suddenly with fewer friends. So, what to do? You could conceivably drown your sorrows in 30-packs and a number of different handles. But rather than start down a dangerous path toward alcoholism, a friend of mine advocated another course of action: He suggested I study abroad at the university. Study abroad here, you say? On this campus? How can that be possible? Think about it: The university has an array of clubs, activities and events the average student rarely explores. After freshman year, most students have solidified their group of friends, and then they’re set.

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LAINYONU But those people are missing out on meeting others out there with similar interests. Here’s a thought for those still here on the campus: Push yourself to try and join another club (or a single club, if you are not involved in any already). The university offers a multi-day club fair in the Stamp Student Union at the beginning of the semester. Maybe participate in some sort of club-level sport, or get a job in a field of your interest. Aside from expanding your social circle, go out and enjoy a show or a lecture. Go see a play at Clarice

Smith Performing Arts Center; most are free or cost just $7 for students with a university ID. Instead of scanning your ticket and leaving the Terps game, here’s a crazy thought: Stay! Enjoy the atmosphere! The point is there are so many things that go on at the university that we just do not go out and seek. Try something new at the university. Who knows? You just might like it. I, for one, will be trying to work over at CSPAC, building scenery for its newest plays. Maybe I can find some drinking buddies and a new beer pong partner over there to salvage this semester — and maybe I’ll find a meaningful hobby at the same time. Ope Lainyonu is a junior international business and marketing major. He can be reached at lainyonudbk@gmail.com.

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ZACH WHITE Just about every history class I have taken since elementary school has started with the same story. John Smith helped found Jamestown in Virginia. Smith is captured, but who comes to the rescue but the United States’ favorite Native American princess, Pocahontas. The classes all ended in a similar style. Spoiler alert: The Berlin Wall falls and the Cold War ends (for the moment, at least). Many classes overran the allotted time, so you were lucky if you got to the Vietnam War, which was probably a whole other chapter in your history book. The three years of required history at my high school included United States history and world history. The world history class focused mainly on the countries that the United States traded with or, in many cases, went to war with. When I arrived at this university, it seemed to be more of the same. While looking over the CORE requirements needed for my government and politics major, I had the choice between two history classes: U.S. history before the Civil War or U.S. history after the Civil War. The United States is in love with preaching its own history. Today, the world is a much smaller place than it was 20, or even 10, years ago. Businesses are global. What happens to the Chinese stock market foreshadows what will happen on Wall Street. New technology is imported from Japan daily. The United States is no longer the isolationist state it was for a brief period following World War I, nor is it possible to return to that state. U.S. students need to learn regional history from around the world. After graduation, I hope to become a foreign news correspondent for a major news corporation in the Middle East. The current state of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are mostly the result of a complete misunders t a n d i n g b e t w e e n nations and cultures. I admit, I have little knowledge of ZACH why the diviWHITE sion between FRESHMAN the Shiites and Sunnis is as intense as it is. But even Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) confused the two religious divisions while giving a speech in Jordan and had to be corrected by Sen. Joe Lieberman (DConn.). I do not want this complete ignorance to continue, so I decided to enroll in a history course on the Middle East and North Africa this semester. While some departments do not require its students to study world history, I would advise students to take the initiative and allow time for regional history classes. It applies to just about every major. It is time to step away from egocentric learning.

“The United States is in love with preaching its own history. ... U.S. students need to learn regional history from around the world.”

Zach White is a freshman government and politics major. He can be reached at zwhite13@earthlink.net.

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Best of the week “Without [university President Dan Mote’s] relationship [with the Chinese government], we would have never gotten them here.” - Entomology professor Michael Ma on bringing Chinese photographs to the campus From the Jan. 29 edition of The Diamondback

Professor’s Perspective

Let’s talk about sex ROBIN SAWYER [Editors’ note: Every other week, The Diamondback will publish a column from a member of the faculty that connects a professor’s expertise to an issue important to the university.] So I’m eavesdropping on a few young women in the Stamp Student Union’s food court. Allison is finishing a burrito when her friend Jackie stops by and asks, “Hey girl, you hook up with Danny last night?” Allison, glancing around to make sure no one is listening and whispers, “We so hooked up. ... It was insane!” The problem is, I’m so confused! Although today’s college students have more communication devices than NASA’s earliest space shuttles, when it comes to talking about sex, meanings aren’t always so obvious. Just as those of us “mature” folks witnessed the social revolution of the 1960s, this current generation has also redefined sexuality to such a great extent that deciphering the behavior and sexual language of our young adult sons and daughters has become an art form. In my recent research on sexual lexicons, discovering a consensus on the meaning of a universal term such as “hooking up” proved to be impossible. Undergraduate definitions ranged from “hanging out” (another incredibly precise term), to fooling around, to everything but sex, to my favorite response, “random oral sex.” Some researchers, though, suggest that using an imprecise term such as “hooking up” might actually serve a useful purpose, as it allows males to infer to their testosterone-laden buddies that much more sexual action occurred than actually transpired, and in a sexist world that tends to punish women who exhibit a traditionally “male” enthusiasm for sex, simply saying that you hooked up seems so much more civilized and acceptable than “I had oral sex with a couple of guys I just met.” Adding to the confusion of communication is the difficulty of defining what I used to think was a straightforward term: sex. About eight years before Monica Lewinsky’s name became synonymous with former President Bill Clinton’s Oval Office and cigars were still for smoking, data were collected and findings published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association clearly establishing that college students did not consider oral sex to be, well, sex. My own more recent research confirms this finding, so an obvious question is, if oral-genital contact isn’t sex, what is it? A metaphorical handshake? A get-to-know-you activity? Also, come to think of it, what is oral sex? Here’s a hypothetical: What if Jamie performs oral sex on Jess? Which one had oral sex? Both? In my research, 20 percent of students stated that Jamie, the “provider,” had not had oral sex. So despite potentially having provided oral gratification to half the population of the East Coast, when completing a questionnaire on sexual behavior that could even influence public health policy, such an individual might report that he or she has never had oral sex. You see the problem. Finally, if you want to get a glimpse into some confusing aspects of non-verbal communication, you’ve got to love the style of dancing that’s romantically known as “grinding.” A woman pretty much bends over on the dance floor, rotates her rear end and, before she can even touch her toes, a random male has appeared out of nowhere, attaching his genitalia to her gyrating cheeks. No words are spoken, and without performing a neck-twisting move of Olympic proportions, the woman can’t even identify whether or not the male now firmly attached to her nether regions is worthy of continued contact. Now, when I was in college, we called that sex. Think about it — oral sex isn’t sex; hooking up is random; grinding is dancing; and we haven’t even talked about friends with benefits or booty calls. It’s a confusing, brave new world out there ... take me back to Woodstock, please! Robin G. Sawyer is the associate chair of the public and community health department. He can be reached at sawyer@umd.edu.

“... Imagine William Shatner as a shapeless blob of atoms.” - Physics professor Chris Monroe, on the difficulty of teleporting people. From the Jan. 30 edition of The Diamondback

“When you see evil, hopefully it puts you in a better perspective.” - Rabbi Ari Israel, on Hillel’s losses resulting from the Bernie Madoff investment scandal. From the Jan. 27 edition of The Diamondback

The SGA: Real leadership wanted

ast Monday, I read with interest SGA President Jonathan Sachs’ Jan. 26 column, “Your SGA.” In it, Sachs detailed what exactly the Student Government Association has been doing to represent students during the past semester and what the SGA plans to do this year. The first accomplishment Sachs brought up is the one for which I think every member of the SGA should be proud. Saving late-night study at McKeldin Library was a triumph of student power and a real demonstration of what we can do when we’re represented well. Unfortunately, it was a fluke. The student and SGA victory came about because of a number of lucky coincidences, and there’s no indication that if the same thing happened again, the SGA would be in a position to stop it. Sachs and the rest of the SGA heard about the possible closing of late-night study not because administration officials are bound to consult student representatives on decisions of this magnitude, but because a former late-night employee got an e-mail by mistake and took it up with her student activist group. College Park Students for a Democratic Society mobilized the campus, creating a Facebook group, holding strategy sessions, writing e-mails and demanding a public forum. The group then contacted Sachs and the SGA and worked with them to schedule a meeting with administration representatives. After the

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HARRIS forum, the administration caved, and late-night study was rescued. I don’t have a problem with Sachs and the SGA taking credit for saving late-night study. Creditclaiming is what politicians do, and they have every reason to be proud of the role they played in saving this valuable student service. Here’s my problem: If it happened again tomorrow, there’s no indication that the SGA would even know. After the late-night study victory, a number of students involved (including me) pushed the SGA to recognize that the administration’s attempt to make this decision without substantial student input, or even notification, was not isolated. After catching the administration red-handed, the SGA needed to push for institutional safeguards that would prevent decisions on student services being made without public notification and input. This was never attempted. It’s not enough to just chalk up late night under the “W” column and move on. The SGA currently depends on lucky leaks and dedicated and diligent student groups to find out what’s wrong on the campus. If these groups are lucky or are able to kick up enough dirt, the SGA might get involved. This is not

the model of leadership we need. University students already have a number of governments. We have the federal government, the state government, the Board of Regents and the university administration. All of these groups make decisions in our name. In our student leadership, we don’t need another legislature. We don’t need a giant lobbying group to go to Annapolis. Instead, what we do need is a union, a representative organization whose job it is to hold the rest of these governing bodies accountable to the interests of students. Going for safety walks or organizing a voting contest are the campus equivalents of pothole fixing. They look good, make the SGA look busy and most importantly, don’t bother anyone in charge. But university students need a combative SGA that will be willing to fight to make sure students — every one of them — have a voice in every administration decision that affects them. The SGA must realize that it’s not a conduit between the students and the administration; it is a representative organization for student interests. At the end of the day, it’s our responsibility to make sure our representatives really do represent our interests. In the current SGA, I don’t think we have a structure that’s capable of that.

Thomas Jarrell Freshman Letters and sciences

India Savage Sophomore Communication

“Not necessarily in all cases is affirmative action is needed, but it’s very fair. ... Opportunities in this country aren’t equal for all, and this is a Katherine Manfred way to make it a Freshman little more fair.” Chemistry and physics

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RICHMOND on our school’s architecture serves as a reminder that our state is indeed south of the Mason-Dixon line — hence its nickname as the “Old Line State.” It’s a fact easy to forget when so many of our students are from New Jersey. The use of red bricks is another feature that distinguishes the university’s buildings. It differentiates our Georgian architecture from other Greek Revival buildings. At the time the school was built, the majority of this country’s bricks were manufactured using the red clay of the Southeast, and to this very day, the Southeast still manufactures more red bricks than any other region of the country. Using materials from our own region not only lowered shipping costs, but it added to the regional character of our buildings. It goes without saying that the most noticeable element of our

Ari Gore is a junior government and politics major writing this semester from Jordan. He can be reached at goredbk@gmail.com.

Lauren Phelps Sophomore Economics

Josh Malamud Freshman Government and politics

“I don’t think it’s needed. It’s kind of ingrained in American culture that we need more equality. We don’t need the government to institute that anymore.”

“I think affirmative action should be based more on socioeconomic strata than on ethnicity or gender.”

Georgian architecture: Worth the price ast week, The Diamondback reported that our older buildings on the campus are expensive to maintain (“A pretty penny for beautiful buildings”). Gee, I’m not sure how I am supposed to react to this. Am I supposed to be outraged at how much money is going to our buildings as opposed to more important things, such as landscaping? Or am I supposed to develop a distaste for Georgian architecture? Despite all the panic that I am sure is consuming the university community, I don’t think anyone has to worry about McKeldin Library being bulldozed due to expensive maintenance costs. The yearly maintenance costs are nothing compared to the school’s overall budget. Furthermore, our school’s architecture has historical and symbolic significance that has value far beyond any monetary costs. With architecture similar to Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia campus, our buildings were the trendiest buildings any university could want at the time. You can find the Grecian columns all over the South, in old mansions, schools and city halls. The obvious Southern influence

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Jonah Richmond is a senior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at jrichmon@umd.edu.

“ “ “ “ “ “ “I think it should be based on social class. I think the purpose of affirmative action should be to let underprivileged people go to college.”

“Integration is an openly accepted thing now.”

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buildings is the white columns. It always makes me giggly inside when someone is trying to give someone directions to their South Campus apartment and they tell the person to look for the building with the pillars. Also, as a columnist for The Diamondback, I am particularly compelled to note that the text of our newspaper was put into columns just to emulate our fine buildings. (Sadly, my columns are not worth $100,000 each.) The article mentioned the sustainability issues behind maintaining older buildings, but failed to go into greater detail. For me, the issue goes well beyond sustainability. We have a beautiful campus, and we should take more pride in it. In the future, I would love to see more talk about the beauty and uniqueness of our school, not how expensive it is to maintain. I don’t know about you, but when I graduate, I’m going to make darn sure there are red bricks and white columns wherever I may be living.

Malcolm Harris is a sophomore English and government and politics major. He can be reached at harrisdbk@gmail.com.

Is affirmative action fair?

Cathryn Mudrick Sophomore Community health

Jordan: A country of contrasts

y mother constantly worries about me. After all, worry is an integral part of a Jewish family’s dynamics. So when I told her that I wanted to spend my junior year studying abroad in Amman, Jordan, she naturally grew quite nervous. But even I was surprised when she told me that she had been reassured of my safety by the Israeli Ambassador to Jordan himself. She simply called the Israeli Embassy and found him on the other line. “He says you’re invited over anytime for bagels,” my mother told me a week before I left. Sparked by my interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict, I spent a year in Israel after graduating from high school. In search of new perspectives, I’ve returned to the Middle East. I came to Amman, Jordan’s capital, to strengthen my Arabic and learn first-hand about Arab culture, society and history. I am finding my experience on the east side of the Jordan River to be just as valuable as my experience on the west side. Above all, firsthand experience has brought home the complexities and contradictions that are all too often lost from afar. I didn’t even set foot in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan before I got a taste of the county. H a l f w a y through the flight I got in line for the bathroom. Waiting for my turn, I struck up a conversation with one of the flight attendants, explaining who I was and why I was traveling to Jordan. In ARI the spirit of GORE genuine Jor- JUNIOR danian hospitality, she offered me her home number in Amman and told me to call her if I had any problems or needed any help. Then, in a low voice, she whispered, “Don’t tell anyone, but I’ll let you use the first-class bathroom; you’ve been waiting too long. I don’t normally do this but because you’re new to the area I’ll let you go.” In addition to the usual in-flight facts and figures displayed on televisions throughout the plane, one of the screens indicated our location in relation to the Qa’ba in Mecca, updating in real-time our distance to the holiest site for Muslims in the world. I relished this additional screen, seeing it as something “authentically Jordanian.” As I was enjoying this specific part of another culture, I was shocked to see the drink cart passing by. In it, to my amusement, was a large bottle of rum (alcohol is haram, or illegal, according to general Islamic belief). I couldn’t help but chuckle as I acknowledged another distinctly Jordanian attribute: contrasting beliefs here live side-by-side. Some people joke that Jordan is stuck between “Iraq and a hard place.” As corny as that phrase might sound, I believe there is a lot of truth to it. Jordan is a modernizing country in the Middle East that’s being tugged in all directions. On one side yanks the conservatism of Saudi Arabia, on the other, the liberalism of Lebanon and Israel. On any given Friday night, you can hear the Muezzin’s call to prayer in your left ear and American hip-hop belting from a house party in your right. After a semester here, I am slowly beginning to appreciate the complexities of a country as diverse as Jordan, and the beauty of its contradictions.

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REVIEW | THE BRIGHTON PORT AUTHORITY

LOST AND FOUND Norman Cook — better known as Fatboy Slim — returns with a new project of pop-minded songs featuring guest vocalists, such as David Byrne and Iggy Pop BY ALEX RUSH Senior staff writer

Supergroup The Brighton Port Authority’s I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat has a mythical backstory, but the album is exciting even without a tall tale. According to musical legend, forgotten recordings from the 1970s were recently discovered by the ensemble’s producer Norman Cook (a.k.a. the British DJ Fatboy Slim of “Praise You” and “The Rockafeller Skank” fame) and engineer Simon Thornton. The songs are collaborations with pop music legends, such as Iggy Pop and Talking Heads’ David Byrne, as well as up-andcoming singer-songwriters such as Jamie T, who — despite the legend — wasn’t even born until 1986. Luckily, Cook’s music is much more carefully constructed than his ill-conceived yarn. The 45-year-old veteran masters punk, pop, electronica, grime, blues, folk and ska sounds while emphasizing the strengths of more than a dozen featured artists. Cook hasn’t released a studio album with new material since 2004, but on the album, he shows he hasn’t lost his touch for infectious melodies and foot-tapping rhythms. The catchy, rhythmic guitars of “He’s Frank (Slight Return)” have a bit of a country feel, and Iggy Pop compliments the beat with froggy, yet properly

For The Brighton Port Authority’s I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, Norman Cook assembled an all-star ensemble, as well as a fictitious backstory explaining the project’s unlikely players. COURTESY OF FLICKR

restrained, vocals. Cook tames the typically wild and thrashing Stooges’ frontman to make him more listenerfriendly. “Should I Stay or Should I Blow,” featuring techno DJ

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Ashley Beedle, is another gem. Lyrics conveying sexual frustration are layered over a mash of a ’60s pop beat and wailing, scratching digital effects. The song really gets pumping with the hook, “Every day it’s yeah,

yeah, yeah/ Every night it’s no, no, no.” The other standouts are as fun as the aforementioned

tracks. Smooth, breezy harmonies and acoustic guitars make “Seattle,” featuring singer Emma Lee Moss, a

light and pleasing treat, while a piano melody, handclaps and the soulful vocals of Olly Hite give “So It Goes” an uplifting, gospellike quality. “Toe Jam,” with Byrne and London grime superstar Dizzee Rascal, is the kookiest track of the bunch. The skapop anthem’s lyrics are delightfully silly as Byrne — who is currently working on a full-length musical with Cook — sings, “A boy looks at a girl and a girl looks like a pony/ She gallops all day long in between my toes.” Rascal brings his swagger to this horn-filled joint by adding a verse of brash, slightly off-beat and rapidfire raps about scoring with a girl at a club. But occasionally Cook piles too much cargo on I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat. “Island” is a sloppy electronica dirge that unsuccessfully blends melancholy lyrics with double-time percussion, while “Jumps the Fence” is a skittish track made even more awkward with babbling, spoken-word verses. Aside from those missteps, The BPA’s project is a party from beginning to end. Cook utilizes enough genres to please most musical palates, making I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat a cruise worth taking. arush@umd.edu

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REVIEW | THE FRAY

THE FLAMING LIPS KNOW THEIR MUSHROOMS Some collaborations just make too much sense. This is one of them: independent filmmaker Ron Mann has locked up The Flaming Lips to score his documentary film, Know Your Mushrooms, an exploration of the fungi and its dedicated followers. To listen to one of the tracks, “Anything You Say Now I Believe,” head over to the Lips’ MySpace page. Here’s a spoiler: It’s trippy as hell.

MCCREADY GOES TO WASHINGTON (STATE) Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has asked Washington state lawmakers to pass a bill granting those who suffer from Crohn’s and other gastrointestinal diseases permission to use private businesses’ bathrooms in the event of an emergency. The longtime rocker admitted he had to let one go during a solo once, which, while no laughing matter, is pretty remarkable. Say what you will about the man’s music, but McCready is after a pretty noble cause.

THE PHALLOCENTRIC PARADE MARCHES ON Never fear — for those of you who missed Of Montreal’s whackedout, psychedelic performance at the 9:30 Club this past October, the band has announced new tour dates. Included in Kevin Barnes and Company’s crosscontinent trek is a stop at Baltimore’s Sonar on April 14, which is good news for people who like good live music. We know we do.

The Fray scored a hit with “How to Save a Life” and keep to the same formula on its second album.

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Sticking to the script The Fray’s self-titled sophomore album sounds just like its first — gloomy and predictable BY MATT LOVE For The Diamondback

Unlike most bands, The Fray’s greatest flaw is widely known: The group works with a serious lack of variety. This seems to have been the most recurring criticism of the group’s debut album, How to Save a Life, and it is again the biggest problem on the band’s selftitled sophomore effort. The Fray should have been a redefining album for a band with some promise, but instead it plays as another humdrum collection of bittersweet anthems. There is practically no thematic contrast between The Fray and How to Save a Life. This is perhaps no more evident than in the first single, “You Found Me” — a track built on formula. Just like previous Fray singles, it starts with a piano intro quickly followed by electric guitar riffs and drums that wind up to anthemlike choruses always marked by cymbal crashes. At some point, the song works its way to a climax, breaks down to just piano and vocals and then hits the final chorus with even more melancholic vigor.

In fact, this is pretty much the formula for the entire album, give or take a few details. The songs aren’t bad — in fact, the band is pretty talented at laying down intricate melodies and constructing catchy riffs. But the group’s elaborate anthems lose context amid predictability and monotony, and eventually the entire album becomes tiresome. And it isn’t just the physical sound that seems mechanical. The Fray also employs the same themes and lyrical style as How to Save a Life. Lead singer Isaac Slade is still crooning about longing and friendship in the same breathy vocals and melancholic tone. When he sings, “Lost and insecure/ You found me/ You found me,” he might as well be singing, “Everyone knows I’m in/ Over my head/ Over my head,” or any other vague go-to phrase from a sorrowful list. It really doesn’t make a difference. Perhaps it’s because The Fray simply cannot strike up a tone other than bittersweet. Even the album’s final song, ironically titled “Happiness,” is melancholy. Slade sings, “Happiness

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feels a lot like sorrow/ Let it be, you can’t make it come or go/ But you are gone, not for good, but for now/ And gone for now feels a lot like gone for good.” Some happiness. So The Fray has made very little progress since its debut, but this isn’t the real tragedy. No, the problem comes in the lack of deviation from form throughout the album, save for a few rare moments. In the slow, swinging “Ungodly Hour,” The Fray abandons its obsession with the sensational and creates a beautifully bare and honest song. Slade even loses his breathy whine for clear vocals, while drums roll smoothly in the background and the guitar lightly plucks out riffs. The song never builds and feels more natural than any of the album’s previous power anthems. The effect is mesmerizing and reveals a band with a great potential for songwriting. But this realization just makes the album’s failure even more evident. It really is hard to blame The Fray, though. The band has found its winning combination, which may be enough to capture American airwaves for a time — but it’s not enough to sustain a full-length record. mjlove12@gmail.com

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Terps confident against UNC UNC, from Page 10

Forward Marissa Coleman scored 15 points in the Terps’ win at Florida State. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps hand FSU first ACC loss SEMINOLES, from Page 10 to a rousing 72-71 road win against the ACC’s first place team. “It’s a tremendous win,” Frese said. “Anytime you can go on the road and win in the ACC — and to be able to give them their first loss in ACC play — I’m just proud of the fact that we could have hung our heads after the UVA game, [but] we were willing to bounce back.” It wasn’t the Terps’ most impressive effort, but it was a closely fought affair that featured 14 lead changes and 14 ties. After a Coleman lay-up drew the Terps (17-4, 5-2 ACC) within two points with 49 seconds left, Toliver stole an inbounds pass after a Florida State timeout and was fouled. She hit both free throws, tying the game with 24.6 remaining. Seminole center Cierra Bravard grabbed an offensive rebound and converted a putback lay-up on Florida State’s next possession. But Toliver dribbled down the floor to almost the exact same spot where she hit her famous game-tying 3-pointer against Duke, this time slipping with her right foot

before regaining her balance and converting. The referees watched the replay to ensure Toliver, who finished with 15 points, had gotten the shot off in time. Replays clearly showed the ball came out of her hand well before the buzzer. “That was better than the Super Bowl last night,” Frese said. “The way the game went down to the wire [with] two great teams competing. Fortunately, it went our way down the stretch.” The Terps were able to fend off Florida State’s size advantage down low — the Seminoles (18-5, 6-1) often played 6-foot-4 centers Bravard and Jacinta Monroe together — and held their own on the boards until the start of the second half. Monroe, the Seminoles leading scorer this season, grabbed two offensive rebounds and scored two baskets on Florida State’s first two possessions of the half, stretching her team’s lead to 44-39. “Between [Monroe and Bravard], it was definitely a pretty physical game,” said Terp center Lynetta Kizer, who scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds before fouling out. “We were just taking shots,

just going back and forth.” The Terps would respond to Monroe’s charge, hanging around until forward Dee Liles hit a baseline jumper with more than 12 minutes remaining to give the Terps a 52-51 lead. During the next nine minutes, the scoring pace slowed, and the two teams traded baskets until the Seminoles hit consecutive 3-pointers to take a 6865 lead with two minutes remaining. After a free throw by Florida State, the final sequence began and Toliver overcame a mostly quiet night by her standards to push the Terps to a much-needed win after Friday night’s lost lead at No. 17 Virginia. “It was a big game for us, we knew that,” Toliver said. “Coming off the loss versus UVA, [this was] one that we definitely didn’t wanna give away. ... We played well together as a team, and that was our biggest thing. That definitely showed today.” The Terps showed something else last night: With the clock running down and the team in need of a clutch shot, Toliver is going to take it, even if she claims she was thinking otherwise. akrautdbk@gmail.com

various facts and figures about his Terps’ historical standings within the ACC and nation. Indeed, the Tar Heels are 0-2 versus the Terps since the junior, Milbourne, arrived at the university. Tonight, the Tar Heels will have another chance to beat the Terps at the Dean Smith Center, the setting of the Terps’ improbable 82-80 stunner of then-No. 1 North Carolina last year. This year, the No. 3 Tar Heels are the overwhelming favorites again. But the Terps, coming off a much-needed win against Miami, embody a team with great confidence heading into Chapel Hill, N.C. “Sometimes teams go in there — if you’re not ranked and [they are] — you might come in there and think, ‘We’re the underdog, and we have to do certain things differently,’” Milbourne said. “Coach tells us all the time, we don’t have to change that much about our game. We just have to play hard. When we play hard, we’re pretty tough to beat. If we come out with the intensity we came out with the other night, I think it will be a pretty good game for us.” The Tar Heels reached the Final Four last season, where they were defeated by eventual champion Kansas, and returned the top six scorers on their roster (though senior Marcus Ginyard has been limited to three games due to a foot injury and won’t be available tonight). While not much has changed for the Tar Heels, the Terps lost two senior big men from last year — Bambale Osby and James Gist — who where the driving forces behind the team’s unexpected victory last season. They combined for 34 points, with Osby scoring the game winner while limiting National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough to just 17. The Terps’ lone senior this year is amped to play the same role. “If you can’t get excited to play down in the Dean Dome against Carolina … I don’t know what’s going to get you excited,” forward Dave Neal said. “Here’s my chance to play against a threetime college All-American. We’ll

Junior forward Landon Milbourne has not lost to North Carolina in his career as a Terp. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

see what I can do. Just gonna play my game, use my strength, use my intelligence and try to shut him down.” Last time the Terps hit the road, they were just 10 miles northeast of Chapel Hill, playing at Duke. The Terps, who have yet to win on an opponent’s home court, need this road show to be miles better than the last, when they lost by 41 points to the Blue Devils. But with Williams’ previous squads — including last year’s — pulling off fine road wins in the past, the Terps are still confident they can get the job done away from Comcast Center. “The way you approach it is: This is a very good team, you admit to yourself that you’re playing a very good team, and you know you have to play well,” Williams said. “You depend on the fact that you can execute well enough to beat good teams. That’s

Terps vs. North Carolina Where: Chapel Hill, N.C. When: Tonight, 8 p.m. TV: Raycom how we’ve gone in there; that’s how we’ve gone other places and won big road games.” Neal, the only current Terp to have lost to North Carolina, added: “We’ve got nothing to lose. [If] we go down there, play hard and win, people are going to be shocked. If we lose, people are gonna be like, ‘Well, Carolina’s [third] in the country.’” mseligdbk@gmail.com

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Statement comes at crucial time SCHIMMEL, from Page 10 Department needs to go about its business. It needs to present a unified public front with its teams and its coaches, and if something comes up that somebody doesn’t like, that person should call a meeting about it in an office somewhere behind the scenes at Comcast Center. Yow obviously knows there’s a right way to do things and a wrong way, and the way she handled things yesterday showed why she is the one who is in charge and why certain other people are not. She says Williams has her “personal, full support” and added she would extend his contract if necessary when the remaining 3.5 years are almost up. So until further

notice — even though Yow and Williams never really looked at each other and their handshake seemed forced — we need to take her at her word. We also need to stick with Williams because, whether you’re still behind him or not, he’s not going anywhere. And he’s still going to be Gary. After Yow finished her approximately three-minutelong monologue, she offered Williams that handshake and a pat on the back and took her leave. When a reporter asked Williams what Yow’s comments meant to him, instead of just politely stopping with his initial statement, “It’s nice she said those things,” the proud-to-a-fault Williams still felt compelled to show how defensive he is about his

coaching record. “I’ve never felt threatened by anything,” Williams said. “I know what I’ve done this decade alone.” And in case anyone had forgotten, Williams delivered a year-by-year rundown of the accomplishments of every team he’s coached since the first Final Four team in 2001. It didn’t seem to bother him that the accomplishments got less and less impressive as he found his way to the current day. But while Williams is still in a slightly combative mood, yesterday’s lasting importance is Yow’s success at regaining at least some sense of order around the Terps. There’s a reason why this university’s teams have done so well. schimmeldbk@gmail.com

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Toliver buries Seminoles Senior guard hits game-winning 3-pointer in final seconds to knock off No. 15 Florida State to go up.” Coach Brenda Frese and the rest of the Terrapin women’s TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Kristi basketball team had certainly Toliver sat at the podium after seen Toliver take similar shots her game-winning 3-pointer before last night’s game and, after her latest clutch against Florida State performance, wouldMonday night and said n’t have wanted it any with a straight face other way. she actually considWOMEN’S After falling behind ered passing the ball BASKETBALL the No. 15 Seminoles to teammate Marissa Coleman with her No. 13 Terps. . . . . . . . 72 by two points with just team down by two No. 15 Florida State. . . 71 4.9 seconds remaining, Toliver — hero of points and the clock the 2006 NCAA Chamapproaching zero. Then, she admitted the truth. pionship game with a fadeaway “Well, I mean let’s be real 3-pointer to force overtime here,” Toliver said. “As soon as against Duke — led the Terps I was around the 3-point line, I knew that it was going to have Please See SEMINOLES, Page 9 BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Kristi Toliver (left) hugs Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood after scoring the game-winner last night. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

Guard Greivis Vasquez, shown here after the 2007 win, and the Terps have knocked off a favored North Carolina team each of the last two seasons. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Yow takes important stance

Terps have two-game winning streak against UNC

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Dating back to the start of the 2006-07 men’s college basketball season, the North Carolina Tar Heels have won a whopping 86 games, the second most in that time span. In those roughly two and a half seasons, 46 different schools have bit the dust, courtesy of the Tar Heel blue. All of North Carolina’s ACC opponents have succumbed at least once to Roy Williams’ bunch during that time. Except for one team. “I’ve been here for three years, and we haven’t lost to North Carolina yet,” forward Landon Milbourne said with a slight smirk. When asked about Milbourne’s remark, coach Gary Williams paused for a second and raised an eyebrow. “I didn’t even think about that,” said the coach who himself often endulges the media with

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ebbie Yow needed to do this. Gone for the past week to mourn the death of her sister, Kay Yow, the longtime director of athletics stepped in yesterday to rectify the fractious situation that had arisen during her absence between Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams and one of Yow’s subordinate officials.

Each of the past two seasons, former Terp center Bambale Osby (right) stepped up with strong defense against North Carolina star Tyler Hansbrough. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Yow said she was there to “lay to rest any of these crazy rumors that are floating around relating to the job security of Coach Williams.” And while she certainly accomplished that, she also took an important step in fixing what had been a rapidly deteriorating public perception of the state of the men’s basketball program. Saturday’s emotional win over Miami had calmed things down a little, but the situation still needed to be addressed. Yow spoke calmly, respectfully and eloquently, and her unannounced speech giving her full support to Williams should put last week’s turbu-

lence firmly in the past. Everybody can once again, for better or for worse, focus only on what the Terps are doing on the court. Yow pulled off this reconciliation nine days after her sister died and two days after Kay, the Hall-of-Fame former N.C. State women’s basketball coach, was buried. “I’m adjusting like any of you would be adjusting if you’d lost a close family member,” Yow said. “So I have my good moments and my bad moments, but I’m having a pretty good day today.” This is the way the Athletics

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