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WHO YOU GONNA CALL? University Police launch new M-Urgency app result of a collaborative effort by the computer science department, the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Information Technology.

Although it has not yet been used in an emergency situation, University Police spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky said the app will revolutionize the number of and ways in which crimes are solved.

It was slated to be released in September but was delayed After five months of delays, University Police due to technological troubles, launched a new Android app in January. About 40

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Want to tour a house on the market hundreds of miles away? There’s an app for that.

Want to see what the traffic patterns are like for the morning’s commute to work?

There’s an app for that.

Want to video connect to emergency 911 dispatchers to report a crime? Thanks to university computer science professor Ashok Agrawala, there’s now an app for that, too.

University Police officially launched the free application M-Urgency in January — a

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Plans unveiled for East Campus Officials announce first phase Tuesday; construction set to begin spring 2013

BY CHAD SINCLAIR Staff writer

Officials released the latest plans for the East Campus development Tuesday as the once-stagnant project inches closer to breaking ground.

Although the project has been discussed for nearly a dozen years, Vice President for Administrative Affairs Rob Specter has drafted multiple plans for the development — a proposed 38-acre project that would help revitalize the city of College Park — since taking the helm in July.

The plan calls for a “4-star, significant quality hotel,” graduate student housing complexes and upscale restaurants, among other amenities.

“The idea of this is to make it a welcoming place for pedestrians, guests who are staying at the hotel, students and faculty,” Specter said.

While construction is not slated to begin until next spring, Specter said he and a team have set multi-

ple small construction phases for the project.

Phase “1A” of the plan — which includes construction on land between the corner of Paint Branch Parkway and Route 1 — will include building a hotel with about 265 beds and 20,000-25,000 square feet of conference space, Specter said.

The plans also include a 30,000square-foot bookstore, three subsidized graduate student high-rise apartment buildings and 58,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space that wraps around an “open air, park-like town center,” Specter said.

As plans have rapidly progressed over the last several months, several city officials have voiced their support for the project.

District 3 Councilman Robert Day commended the project’s leaders for continuing the development plans amid an overhaul to

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PHASE 1A OF EAST CAMPUS On Tuesday, officials unveiled concrete plans for the first phase of East Campus, a 38-acre development project that has been in the works for more than a decade.

The first construction phase, which will begin next spring between the corner of Paint Branch Parkway and Route 1, includes the following: A hotel with 265 beds, up to 25,000 square feet of conference space A 30,000 square-foot bookstore Three subsidized graduate student apartment complexes 58,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space

MaryPIRG rallies for plastic bag tax Local councilwoman’s representative spoke to group last night

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Although it may mean paying slightly more for groceries, student activists have rallied behind legislation that would place a 5-cent surcharge on plastic bags.

As the fate of a plastic bag tax hinges on the votes of 23 county delegation lawmakers, students have begun mobilizing in hopes of persuading undecided delegates to vote in favor of the bill. To

ensure students are prepared to lobby legislators, MaryPIRG hosted Matt Dernoga, policy analyst for District 1 Councilwoman Mary Lehman, at its meeting last night, who stressed the potential influence students can have toward on-the-fence lawmakers.

“Unfortunately, the Prince George’s County delegation is not as progressive on this issue as we would like them to be,” Dernoga, a former Diamondback columnist, said. “If you’re a student it really does matter.”

The bill needs to garner support from at least 12 of the county’s 23 House of Delegates members to be signed into law. The vote will “come down to the wire,” Dernoga said, and he expects a decision to be made by the end of this month.

The proposed legislation was born out of an effort to clean waterways and lessen the financial burden of county trash pickup, which Dernoga said runs

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Project replacing 2,000 feet of piping completed

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Van Munching, architecture buildings targeted in $4 million restoration

Artist commissions Chapel piece

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In more than three decades of designing wood and textile artworks, artist Catherine Kapikian said she has never once set needle to canvas.

Instead, she invites volunteers to stitch together her community-based projects,

and yesterday more than a dozen university students, faculty and staff members signed on to create a 254square-foot Tree of Life to be installed at the Memorial Chapel next semester.

Each volunteer will follow a detailed guide to hand-stitch a

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After multiple leaks caused heating and cooling problems in two university buildings, Facilities Management officials completed a $4 million project last weekend to replace 2,000 feet of piping.

Facilities workers are just wrapping up the final stage of the project, which began in June, to lay in new pipes between Van Munching Hall

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and the architecture building. While the previous piping was only 20 years old, leaks had forced workers to shut off heating and air conditioning to those buildings numerous times to repair them, according to Facilities officials.

Once this replacement is complete, officials will be able to check one more project off their backlog of deferred maintenance issues,

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PLASTIC from page 1 the county a hefty price tag of $1.2 million a year.

Dernoga pointed to the success of Washington — the first city to implement the tax — which has seen a significant reduction in plastic bag use. Additionally, the city raised $3.5 million from the additional tax, of which $1.5 million has been reinvested in environmental initiatives.

Montgomer y County followed suit by implementing similar bag fee legislation last month.

Since current state law does not give the county proper taxing authority to levy the bag fee, it is up to county delegates to vote the legislation into law. Without this bill, Dernoga said, it will be difficult for the county to keep up with Washington and Montgomer y County in its plastic bag reduction efforts.

“If we don’t have the ability to do it, we’re in a tough spot,” Dernoga said.

Student support for the effort could help push lawmakers in favor of the measure in what is expected to be a close vote, said James Jalandoni, the plastic bags cam-

paign coordinator for Mar yPIRG. “The student support, I think, can really tip the scales,” he said.

Students should consider the environmental impact of plastic bag use, Mar yPIRG President Sam Zwerling said, noting the group decided to support this legislation because it is an issue that greatly affects students.

“They need to make a decision every time they buy something,” she said. “I think it’s important for students to make that decision each time.”

But some said the legislation would harm the economy and displace hundreds of workers. Instead, said Donna Dempsey, a spokeswoman for the American Progressive Bag Alliance — a nonprofit organization that represents plastic bag manufacturers — students should tailor their efforts toward increasing recycling measures.

“I certainly applaud students for wanting to do the right thing,” she said. “We are for implementing a reduce, reuse and recycling strategy.”

Dempsey added that bag fee legislation could increase grocer y costs for low-income earners.

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“They need to make a decision every time they buy something. I think it’s important for students to make that decision each time.”

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“I think that the consumers will take a financial hit,” she said. “This is a tax that will add to their grocer y bill.”

But Dernoga said he doesn’t think the tax will negatively impact jobs in Prince George’s County, and said some sacrifices need to be made to move for ward with green practices.

“The only jobs plastic bags are generating in our county are government jobs picking them up,” he said. “There’s always going to be winners and losers when it comes to these kind of changes.” bach@umdbk.com

Limansky added.

“This is really changing the way we think about how 911 calls are initiated and the information that they carry,” Limansky said. “First, it was just voice, and now we’re getting location information, the voice, the phone, the video, the name, everything.

It’s really great.”

About 30 to 40 people have downloaded the Android app — which is only available to students and faculty — Agrawala said, and it will be available for iPhone users in two to four weeks. It is similar to Skype: When the user clicks the app, police dispatchers are able to view a live video of the user’s location.

“This is the starting point for more capabilities to be added,” Agrawala said of his new app. “The video goes from your cell phone to the dispatcher. In the next phase, the dispatcher will be able to forward that to the responding officers.”

The app will make a radical difference in the accuracy of reports and deterring offenders from actually committing crimes, according to Limansky. The funding

came from the computer science department and from private donors, Agrawala said.

“When the caller tries to remember the description, sometimes it’s skewed. But this eliminates the guessing.

Police can start sizing it up much earlier in the game,” Limansky said. “The other advantage is it can act as a deterrent. Anyone walking around on campus could potentially have a camera linked directly to the police, so offenders might not commit that crime.”

Senior economics major Avinash Mangar agreed with Limansky, adding that M-Urgency could make a difference on this campus.

“It could really take the guesswork out of reporting the crime,” Mangar, an Android user, said. “As long as the app gets marketed right, this could make a huge impact.”

Thus far, Agrawala said the product has only been marketed through word-ofmouth, but he hopes everyone with video capabilities on their cell phone will ultimately download M-Urgency.

Delays to its release, he added, were related to communication issues between the caller and the dispatcher.

“We went through a much, much more exhaustive process than we originally thought to make sure it’s bulletproof,” Agrawala, a university professor of 41 years, said. “All of the problems are now worked out.”

Mangar said that despite the innovativeness of the product, he’s unsure whether it will catch on.

“I’d definitely consider downloading it because I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t know how effective it's going to be,” Mangar said.

“In an emergency, my first reaction is to call 911, not open up an app.”

But, Limansky said, the app — which can be downloaded from m-urgency.umd.edu — is essentially calling 911.

He added that police don’t anticipate the app to activate in someone’s pocket or backpack, but the department will investigate any calls dispatchers receive.

Agrawala added that despite all of his work and effort that went into the creation of M-Urgency, he hopes the emergency situations for which it’s intended are few and far between.

“If no one ever has to use M-Urgency, then that is the best possible outcome.” egan@umdbk.com

ON THE BLOG campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com PHOTOS OF SUSPECT RELEASED University Police released photos of the suspect wanted for allegedly assaulting and robbing a female student Sunday evening.

The photos of the suspect — described as a darkskinned black male, wearing a black and green striped shirt and dark pants — were uploaded to University Police’s website last night. He allegedly forcibly stole the victim’s cell phone and scratched her face — although she was not seriously injured — outside McKeldin Library at about 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

There were no weapons involved in the incident, said Limansky, who added this was the first on-campus robbery of the year.

Police also released a surveillance video of the suspect recorded before the robbery, which can be found on University Police’s website. For more, check out The Diamondback’s Campus Drive blog.

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Motion sensors installed in classrooms to save energy Nearly 300 devices turn off unused lights

BY ALLISON GRAY Staff writer

While walking around the campus late at night, Matthew Popkin said he noticed the lights were left on and TVs were flashing in many classrooms.

“It just seemed like a waste of energy,” said Popkin, a junior government and politics major and undergraduate representative on the University Sustainability Council. “Not only was it a waste of energy, but it presented the appearance of unsustainability.”

In the past two weeks, Facilities Management workers have made progress on a studentsuggested project that started in July — to turn off lights in classrooms when they aren’t in use, according to Susan Corr y, project administrator and conser vation manager for Facilities Management.

Nearly all of the campus’ 300 general-purpose classrooms have been wired with occupancy sensors, which will turn off lights 30 minutes after there is no motion in the room, Corr y said.

The project will reduce energy consumption by 30 percent and save the university $100,000 annu-

ally, according to its sustainability website.

Popkin, the SGA senior vice president, and two other students pitched the idea to then-university President Dan Mote’s cabinet in April 2010.

Last May, they presented the idea to university President Wallace Loh, which Popkin said he believes was “definitely a push” for the sensors’ installation, as was the 16member Sustainability Council’s endorsement of the proposal.

“It was a seal of approval from the Sustainability Council to encourage Dr. Loh to encourage the rest of the university to put money into [the project],” Popkin said.

Installing the occupancy sensors and light fixtures cost $200,000 and was funded by the Mar yland Energy Administration State Agency Loan Program and PEPCO rebates. The university will continue to apply for additional grants and rebates to extend the project to more classrooms, a project planned for the next two summers, according to the sustainability website.

“It’s just an excellent project all around,” said Jack Baker, Facilities

“[The sensors] will save money and make it a greener campus.”

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Management’s director of operations and maintenance. “The whole intent is to certainly save the university money and to be sustainable, which is one of the huge objectives of the campus.”

Many students, such as Chris Masino, a sophomore biology and education major, said the project was a smart decision.

“They will save money and make it a greener campus,” he said.

However, Popkin said there may be one small — yet humorous — downside to going green: The sensor can automatically turn of f if there hasn’t been much motion in a classroom, even if it’s occupied.

“If that’s the only impact then I think it’s a surefire success,” he said. gray@umdbk.com Facilities Management workers replaced 2,000 feet of piping that provided air conditioning and heating to Van Munching Hall and the architecture building. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

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“They could have dropped the ball and said, ‘We’ll look at this another time,’” Day said.

“They’re still being realistic by not looking at this as a mass project, but as one with the bits and pieces needed to move forward in the right direction.”

Although university officials initially anticipated receiving the $5 million state funds for the project in increments, the College Park City Council unanimously approved a letter to Gov. Martin O’Malley and state officials in support of granting the university the remaining $3.3 million in one payment to ensure the project stays on track.

“We want to know whether [the plan] fits the university’s character.”

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Facilities Management Associate Vice President Carlo Colella said the funds will be used to help vacate any buildings that remain occupied on allocated stretches of land. Additionally, they may be used for infrastructure work, depending on final agreements with the developer.

As College Park takes steps in its revitalization proj-

ect, some students said they would like to see more than bars and clubs added among East Campus vendors.

“Right now, there is not a hub for sober fun,” freshman journalism major Zoe King said. “I would like to see a movie theater or at least an area where kids can have fun without drinking.”

In the coming months, Specter said he expects to hold public forums where students and community members can share ideas of what type of retail, food and beverage places should come to the new development.

“It’s important to do this outreach early in the process so we have time to respond to it,” Specter said. “We want to know whether this fits the university’s character.” sinclair@umdbk.com

PIPES from page 1 which is estimated to total $750 million worth of repairs.

“It’s replacing a section of pipe that over the years certainly failed faster than anyone expected it to,” Facilities Operations and Maintenance Director Jack Baker said. “There are certainly projects identified basically for the next 10 years that deal with our underground piping system.”

While this recent project came with a hefty price tag — about $2,000 for each foot of piping — Facilities Management Capital Projects Director Bill Olen said the repairs will translate into greater savings in the long run.

“This will reduce the waste of water when the leaks

occur,” Olen said. “So even with the ongoing leak, there was additional water usage. So it’s energy saving.”

Facilities officials have already made plans to repair similar piping next year behind Stamp Student Union, which provides heating and cooling to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Some students who had classes in Van Munching Hall said they were glad to hear the building’s heating and cooling problems may now be solved.

“Certain rooms would be quite hot,” senior finance major Daniel LaRock said.

“Then I’d move to a room actually on the other side of the building … but that side would be presumably cold.”

Freshman business major Rathi Vinod, however, questioned whether the replacement was worth the cost.

“There are certainly projects identified basically for the next 10 years that deal with our underground piping system.”

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“I think $4 million is a lot of money,” Vinod said. “I mean if there were enough complaints maybe it was necessary, but I didn’t have like bad enough experiences for it to really be a problem for me.” amenabar@umdbk.com

ARTIST from page 1 leaf pattern on canvas, and Kapikian, who presented a model of the design at Stamp Student Union yesterday, said the experience is often moving for participants.

“People who’ve participated … are very surprised in the end at feeling enormous pride over what they have created, and they want to keep coming back to bring their friends, their family,” she said. “That, I think, is probably the most enduring part of it.”

Stamp Student Union Director Marsha GuenzlerStevens said she approached Kapikian about two years ago to commission the piece, which was funded entirely by a “generous gift” from Lutheran Campus Ministr y Chaplain Rev. Elizabeth Platz. Platz, the Lutheran Church’s first-ever female pastor, will be retiring this semester after ser ving more than 40 years in her post.

“The piece will be in honor of her work and dedication to the university,” GuenzlerStevens said.

Some students said yesterday’s display caught their attention and inspired them to volunteer despite having little to no experience with needlepoint or stitching.

“It’s just really pretty, and it would be nice to say I made a part of it,” freshman biology major Judy Li said.

Others said they connected with the deeper meaning behind the design, which university officials said should help foster community on the campus because it embraces symbols present in multiple religions.

As Kapikian explained, the 52-needlepoint panels comprising the tree’s

Officials commissioned artist Catherine Kapikian to design a 254-square-foot Tree of Life installation for the Memorial Chapel.

leaves represent that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

“It’s the same for people,” senior biology and Persian major Aviva Khaldar said.

“People who work together can do more than they do individually, and in the end you have something beautiful.”

But following three informational sessions on the Tree of Life of project, Stamp

officials still face the challenging task of recruiting enough students and members of the university community to stitch all 52 panels.

“I just hope we get enough volunteers to help make it happen,” said Donna Lim, Stamp’s senior assistant director of programs. “I feel like we’ll be doing a piece during our staff meetings or something.”

Some staff members said

they were immediately drawn to the project — which will be installed in the West Chapel — because its location holds special meaning for them.

Facilities Management Human Resources Manager Mariellen Clarke, for instance, held her wedding at the West Chapel two years after she graduated from this university.

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“I like the idea of leaving a lasting mark there,” she said. “And it will be something fun to do.”

And although the Memorial Chapel was updated more than two years ago with the construction of a labyrinth and the Garden of Reflection and Remembrance, some staff members said the West Chapel has been neglected until now.

“I just feel dragged down when I’m in there, and other people might feel that way and not even know why,” said Karen Rowe, the music director of the Episcopal/Anglican Campus Ministry. “It has been such a dull space, and this is going to make it so much more beautiful.” lurye@umdbk.com

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College Park Mayor Andy Fellows echoed the sentiment noting, “[Loh] ven before he was inaugurated as university president, Wallace Loh began implementing his vision to turn College Park into a top- really listens and really understands the value of the community to the uni20 college town. First, he held listening sessions with different on versity so that it’s not two sets of common interests.” District 1 Councilman and off-campus constituencies to familiarize himself with problems Patrick Wojahn called the approach “a breath of fresh air.”

A quick glance at a map of the surrounding area is all it takes to underfacing the university and surrounding community. Then, after months of listening, Loh last summer appointed numerous talking groups to address the stand Loh’s desire to stockpile goodwill with local governments. This institution is surrounded by a disjointed array of small and issues he found. Those groups began reporting back medium-sized communities: College Park borders last fall, and now, in his fourth semester as university most of the university, but University Park, Riverdale president, Loh has begun reaching out to surrounding Park, New Carrollton, Greenbelt and Ber wyn Heights communities with that vision.

University President are all populated by students and located close enough The pace could be described as, well … glacial. But like the monoliths of ice that eventually flattened parts Wallace Loh’s emphasis on to impede — or benefit from — Loh’s plans. The unistudent population alone exceeds that of any of this continent during the last ice age, Loh’s connections with several versity’s one community, but combined, area officials wield approach might be working. cities surrounding College enough power to stymie Loh’s vision.

Local officials swooned after Loh spoke at a “Four Which is why it is wise to bring local officials — espeCities Meeting” earlier this week, which brought Park is a smart move for cially those in College Park — into the fold. The city together officials from College Park and the neighboring towns of Berwyn Heights, Greenbelt and New Carrollton. the institution as a whole. council doesn’t exactly proffer a pro-student perspective, and other towns are primarily concerned with their “I like the fact that we have this opportunity to come together and share ideas,” said Greenbelt Councilman Emmett Jordan. “We own fiefdoms. If Loh can convince area officials to share his vision, maybe he have so many mutual interests that it’s important to all of our communities.” can actually get something accomplished. Better late than never.

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Tales from Europe: Patriotism in France

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hey just don’t get it. Europeans, American students abroad in Europe, people following my journey on social networking sites and even my own family members — including my father, who took me to Super Bowl XLII — don’t realize that no matter where in the world you place me, no matter how many women you surround me with and no matter how beautiful the French Riveria may be, I am watching every New England Patriots football game — so help me God. On the day of the AFC championship game between the Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens, my study abroad program had taken a day trip to Monaco, one of the smallest and richest countries in the world.

Yours truly hit a hot streak at the Casino Monte Carlo (see my Facebook profile picture for further information).

In lieu of buying dinner for my whole program, I promised several girls I would pay for their all-youcan-drink passes at a bar in Cannes that evening — if they could convince the proprietor to broadcast the game between the Patriots and the Ravens.

It seemed a worthwhile gamble

GREG NASIF because a local school staffer had recently told me, “Only the Super Bowl is televised in France. No semifinals.”

So it was with humility and disappointment that, after having spent a good part of the previous day preaching the ills of SOPA (the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act), I searched for a website from which to illegally watch the AFC Championship online (Dear U.S. Marshall’s office: Just kidding).

Precisely 14 minutes before the scheduled kickoff time — 9:14 p.m. local time — one of the girls called me: “Greg, they’re showing your game! Come to Morrison’s.”

“Shut up. That’s not funny.”

“We’re not joking,” she said. “It’s the Patriots game. There are other Americans here to watch it. Come buy us our drinks!”

“Seriously, stop. Put someone else on.”

Ten seconds later: “This is the

barkeep,” said an Irish girl’s voice.

“We’re showing the American football game.”

I wasn’t convinced.

The thought of enjoying a football game with beer and human contact was far more tempting than a shoddy feed in the dark dorm room, but time was short: Could I really trust these girls? Because, when you think of the demographic at hand — American collegiate females studying abroad in France — you realize they usually aren’t into sports and find the obsession with playoff football to be somewhat comical. Something, perhaps, to marginalize.

Considering this, I pondered whether the girls would actually toy with my passions for a laugh. Then I wondered if I was just being cheap and paranoid.

I called them back.

“Let me make this clear. If I go all the way across Cannes to a bar that isn’t showing the New England Patriots play the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship, heads will roll.”

“Okay, Greg.”

Six minutes until kickoff. So I ran.

Outside the school, I encountered some girls waiting for a bus that I

had never taken. They told me it’s the fastest way to the bar. Normally I’d take my chances sprinting, but today was different: Like Tom Brady trusts his receivers to be where he throws the ball, I trusted the Cannes Public Transportation system. Exercising a newfound level of patience, I waited for the bus. And waited. And waited.

It came. Within minutes, I was sprinting a couple blocks towards Morrison’s Irish Pub in downtown Cannes — past Europeans judging me for wearing an American football jersey in public, past Europeans asking for change and past more Europeans who just don’t understand that if Tom Brady does it, it must be witnessed.

After bursting through the doorway at 9:14 p.m. on the dot, I was greeted by a loud roar and a massive projection screen showing the British broadcast of the game, still in pregame warmups.

A large man from Sudbury, Mass. passed me a beer. “I’ve been waitin for ya,” he said in a thick Boston accent. I was home.

Greg Nasif is a senior history major.

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The technological generation: Stop rushing life

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t’s funny how just about everything is acceptable, even beneficial, in moderation. Enjoying a glass of red wine, taking antibiotics — perfectly harmless if not done too often. Multitasking falls in the same category. What started as a practical skill has gotten totally out of hand.

Hmm. Actually, the opposite is true. The problem is nestled in our ver y palms.

With the increasing prevalence of gadgets that do everything but take out the garbage, it’s no longer enough to walk and chew gum at the same time. We’re expected to check our email, download music, navigate cross-countr y and form better words than our friends — simultaneously. As the distractible, clumsy owner of a cell phone manufactured circa 1980, I’m not happy about this.

Sometimes, multitasking works.

Singing in the shower, for instance, should be encouraged. It shouldn’t be the default approach to everything, though, but that’s what it’s become. When we don’t give important tasks 100 percent attention, we deprive them of the effort they

deserve and wind up with watereddown results. By dividing our concentration between multiple tasks, we compromise our ability to excel at any of them.

This diffusion of quality leads others to expect less from us and lowers the standards we strive to reach ourselves. Chronic multitasking leaves us unsatisfied by things that used to make us happy on their own.

Whatever happened to watching football without tweeting or posting status updates after every play?

Diagnoses of attention deficit disorder among both children and adults have risen steadily over the past decade. Experts partially attribute the trend to inflated watchfulness among parents and less stigma surrounding mental health disorders, but I think the increase reveals a troubling new reality about modern life.

Kids use technology earlier than ever before, and each new gadget promises greater capabilities, inundating youngsters with more and more distractions both in and out of the classroom. Of course they have an attention deficit — there’s too much to read, too many photos to

ALISSA GULIN tag, too many ’villes to farm and too many scowling birds to launch.

Smartphones make it nearly impossible to resist the urge to multitask, and they allow us to blend work with leisure — to the detriment of both. We can access our fantasy teams during the workday and read an email from the boss before bedtime — so we do. It may seem efficient to merge both worlds, but it’s a false satisfaction.

Work creeps into our personal lives, erasing any boundaries between the two.

Contrast today’s lifestyle to that of generations past. Eighty years ago, families gathered around their radios to hear then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt deliver his “fireside chats” to a nation gripped by the Great Depression and World War II. To occupy their hands, maybe the mothers would knit and the fathers puff

cigars, but they were fully engaged — they actively listened.

Now, such a thing seems hard to fathom. I’m not arguing against maximizing our time, but we should pick our battles. Let’s aim to do as much as plausible — not as much as possible — within a time window. Giving a half-assed effort to eight tasks isn’t preferable to doing outstanding work on four.

Multitasking might seem like the only way to shred through daunting to-do lists, but it causes us to cut corners. If we have to revisit tasks to tidy up the edges, are we really saving any time?

The problem isn’t out of our hands — it’s sitting in them. The solution, then, must also be within our grasp. Remember that scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall where Paul Rudd tries teaching Jason Segel to surf? The same lesson applies. Chronic multitaskers, take it from the quintessential stonersurfer dude: “Just do less!”

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was very disturbed by last week’s news about the departure of women’s soccer coach Brian Pensky, who left the university to take the same position at the University of Tennessee. Pensky is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet — and one whom any parent would love to have his or her daughter play for in college. He is a loyal dog and sweat through some rough, injury-riddled seasons during his seven years at this university to build a program that now consistently ranks in the top 20. I do not hold his decision against him; Pensky deserves to go where he will be properly compensated for his worth, which has become considerable. Ultimately, after Soccer America magazine recognized him as its 2010 National Coach of the Year, his value went up significantly.

When it came time to negotiate his contract, Tennessee stepped up to the plate and made Pensky an offer he couldn’t refuse. This university couldn’t — or wouldn’t — respond to the challenge. This is just an example of what we have become: a financial basket case that has cut non-revenue sports and is now starting to lose coaches. The fact that the head coach of the men’s track and field team, Andrew Valmon, is also head coach of the USA track and field team, which will compete in the Olympics in London this summer, did not save the sport from the chopping block. This trend, if it continues, will change the face of Terps athletics.

Pensky is a rising star in American soccer; he proved that another ACC squad can go toeto-toe with traditional league powers North Carolina and Duke. It would only have been a matter of time before Pensky would have helped this university reach the Final Four — a fact I am certain was not lost on Tennessee. And while the ACC is still widely considered the best soccer conference in the countr y on both the women’s and men’s sides, evidence now suggests ACC prominence in soccer is not enough to keep someone like Pensky here. His departure indicates the university is turning into a stepping stone for coaches to punch their tickets and then move on elsewhere; in this budgetar y environment it is only going to get harder to hold onto the best.

Tennessee has a huge fan base and a ton of money, thanks largely to its successful football program.

The Volunteers play in the cavernous Neyland Stadium — the third-largest non-racing stadium in the country with a capacity of 102,455 — and they usually have little problem filling it up.

Contrast this to the situation here, where our football team plays in 54,000-seat Byrd Stadium and was only able to average 42,355 fans per home game last year. The Terps’ biggest crowd was 53,627 against West Virginia. At this point, with football in the tank, the athletics department is now depending on a first-year men’s basketball coach, Mark Turgeon, to pay the bills around here. The men’s basketball team has been as good as the football team has been bad. Terp fans should be grateful Turgeon is employed here or things would be worse — far worse than they are now.

Unless there is a quick turnaround in the football team’s fortunes, it is difficult to see light at the end of the financial tunnel.

When revenue sports catch a cold, the non-revenue sports get pneumonia. It’s as simple as that.

If this university can lose a coach like Pensky, then it is reasonable to ask who else might leave in the future. We won’t have to wait long to find out. In any given two-to-three year period, a fair number of coaches’ contracts come up for negotiation. At that point, we will find out whether Athletics Director Kevin Anderson is serious about matching the offers of rival schools and holding onto his best coaches. In these circumstances, I cannot fault coaches for making decisions that are right for them and their families.

Mike Fekula is a 1984 university alumnus. He can be reached at fmtico8@hotmail.com.

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The movie doesn’t try to break horror With the announcement of The Woman conventions. In fact, The Woman in Black in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry revels in old-school scare tactics.

All the boos and ahs come straight off Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2), the public’s curiosity did not concern the film’s the stereotypical horror shortlist of ways plot or other details. We wondered whether to frighten audiences. There are sudden Radcliffe could escape his public image as loud noises, shifting shapes in the backHarry Potter and the franchise that has ground and inexplicably unmanned rocking chairs all throughout the film. The key controlled his life for the past decade.

The supernatural horror genre may not difference is the surrounding atmosphere seem like such a big leap from the wizarding doesn’t feel contrived at all.

A prime example of this is the film’s world, but the two worlds do indeed exist separately. Even with plenty of old-fashioned shining centerpiece, a wordless 25-minute cloaks and ghosts, the similarities between tour in and around the ghostly manor’s the worlds of The Woman in Black and Harry shadows, as Kipps tries to survive a night alone in the house, a Potter end there. theme that loosely If you’re hoping Radcliffe will references the 1959 draw his magic wand and dispel VERDICT: classic, House on the blasted ghoul back to hell, Daniel Radcliffe distances Haunted Hill. prepare for disappointment. himself from Harry Potter Using the audiFor everyone else, The Woman with The Woman in Black, a ence’s imagination in Black is a somber salute to the refreshing throwback to against them, the most complex accomplishment in horror movie classics. constant tension in horror cinema: creating an

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The movie’s plot is brain-dead simple, leaving room for the visuals to speak for themselves. Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) is a lawyer sent to a remote (and foggy) seaside town to finish closing out the estate on a mysterious mansion that can only be

this long, bloodless scene bridges the gap between the slowmoving first act and the third act, which loses sight of why the middle was so unnerving.

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on the day-to-day advantages of having super powers and gives its likable lead actors room to play around. It’s genuinely fun to watch as the trio does what any high school guys with super powers would do: Play pranks, cheat at beer pong and shoot Jackass-style videos in their backyards. DeHaan, Russell and Jordan have a nice chemistry, and their One night after a party, three friendship feels lived-in and authentic.

Though they could have easily fallen teenagers — depressed social outcast Andrew (Dane DeHaan, True Blood), into high school stereotypes, all three his philosophy-spouting cousin Matt add impressive depth to their characters.

(Alex Russell, Almost Kings) and popu- However, when the film takes a late detour into action movie lar jock Steve melodrama, it feels (Michael B. Jordan, V E R D I C T : cheesy and forced; the Friday Night Lights) — stumble upon a Grounded but fun, Chronicle realistic, grounded peris a welcome entry into the formances of the leads strange cave in the superhero canon. get thrown out the winmiddle of a forest. dow in favor of shouting Soon after, the three friends develop telekinetic powers. The and comic book cliché.

It’s during the big action set pieces film follows them as they try to get a handle on their newfound abilities and that the film’s handheld, amateur style their lives, both of which quickly start to feels both the most immersive and the most restrictive. Director Joshua Trank’s spiral out of control.

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The latest in the recent spate of “found footage” films to hit theaters (a genre that has spawned Cloverfield, The Third Kind and the Paranormal Activity films, amongst others), Chronicle is an ambitious attempt to add new depth to the superhero genre.

The film, which is shot as if it were footage edited together from the main characters’ video cameras (“I’m filming everything now,” one explains at the beginning), tries to ground the grand stories of superheroes and villains in the reality of everyday life. For the most part, it works.

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EAGLES from page 8 good. It didn’t seem to bother me out there,” Thomas said.

“It just felt good to be back on the court with my team.”

“She brings so much to our team,” said guard Laurin Mincy, who finished with 13 points, equaling Boston College’s first-half output. “She brings a lot of energy, she picks us up. When she’s doing her thing, we just follow her lead, so it was good having her [back].”

Any chance the Eagles (5-17, 0-9) had at upending the Terps was dispelled just five minutes in. After a 3-pointer from Kat Cooper cut its deficit to three points at the 15-minute mark, Boston College went ice-cold from the field, making just one more field goal before halftime.

The Terps held the Eagles to a mere three points in that stretch, entering the break in the midst of a 38-3 run.

tonight was encouraging,” Frese said. “I like when we can play our bench and show our depth.”

As effective as the Terps’ offense was, their defense was arguably better. The Eagles shot a paltry 21 percent from the field in the game and worse than 13 percent in the first half.

“We were really locked in,” Frese said. “Our ball pressure was really good, our help-side defense was tremendous, we communicated really well. …

We took pride in terms of making them take difficult shots.”

With losses in three of their past five entering last night’s game, a blowout victory was a welcome development for the Terps.

Having Thomas back on the court didn’t hurt, either.

“I thought we were extremely inspired and played really hard,” Frese said. “It showed a lot of character from our last time out.”

“The first half was by far the most inspired, best effort and intensity that we’ve given up to date,” Frese said. “For this team, this season, that was one of the most dominating first halves we’ve had. It’s encouraging. If we can start putting together 40 minutes like that, that’s a scary thought.”

Holding a 38-point lead exiting the locker room, Frese gave her bench extended run in the second half and allowed the starting five ample rest over the game’s final 20 minutes.

The second unit didn’t disappoint. Led by guards Brene Moseley (16 points) and Sequoia Austin (seven points), the Terps’ bench accounted for 44 of the team’s 86 points and tied Boston College’s total scoring output, keeping the hapless Eagles well in the rearview mirror as the Terps cruised to their biggest ACC victory since Jan. 6, 2008, a span of 70 games.

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Turgeon coached under Williams for the next three years, helping the Jayhawks win back-to-back Big Eight Conference titles in 1991 and 1992.

“Mark was fantastic for me,” Williams said. “He worked his tail off. … He took the suggestions that I made for what he should be doing each and every day in the office and ran with it, and I expanded his role every year.”

Turgeon, though, decided to part ways in 1992 to become the top assistant for former Kansas assistant Jerry Green at Oregon. The two kept in close contact through the years, as Williams built a national powerhouse in Lawrence and Turgeon worked his way up the coaching ladder.

The two never occupied opposing sidelines during Turgeon’s previous 13 years as a coach. On the eve of their first matchup, Turgeon has Williams to thank for finally getting the chance to do so in an ACC game.

“He has a lot to do with me being here,” Turgeon said at his introductory press conference in May. “He said, ‘I’m on your side, no matter what you do.’ But 25 times he said, ‘It’s one of the top 10 jobs in the country, Mark, and you deserve one of these jobs.

You’d be foolish not to take it.’”

With the push from his former mentor, Turgeon moved his family to College Park.

“He’s one of the bright, young coaches that just does an phenomenal job,” Williams said. “I thought it was a win-win for everybody.”

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Few in college basketball could match the intensity of former coach Gary Williams during his 22 years on the sideline with the Terps.

His replacement, though, might come close. Turgeon picked up his first two technical fouls as Terps coach within a 10-second span in the second half against the Hurricanes. The first-year coach could be seen yelling and motioning at referee Brian Dorsey after Faust was called for an offensive foul.

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Coach Mark Turgeon left Roy Williams and Kansas to take assistant jobs at Oregon and in the NBA before getting his own head coaching job. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

years after the two first met.

North Carolina, of course, holds an overwhelming advantage in terms of talent. The Tar Heels entered the season as the nation’s preseason No. 1 team, led by a frontcourt trio of Harrison Barnes, John Henson and Tyler Zeller — all projected NBA first-round picks.

They’ve lost just three times this season.

The Terps, meanwhile, are coming off their most emotional game of the season, a

geon is on the sidelines, Spinelli — his right-hand man the past six years at Wichita State, Texas A&M and now in College Park — couldn’t recall a time when he got tossed.

“You never want the head coach to get thrown out of a game,” Spinelli said. “It happens, and I think Coach Turgeon did it for great purpose, to be quite honest with you. It wasn’t done because he’s a hothead or anything. He did it to get his team fired up, and he left it with us assistant coaches to get our guys rallied and they rallied for their head coach.”

Williams received only two ejections during his career, once at Florida State in the 1996-97 season and then again at Duke the next year.

“I wasn’t trying to get kicked out,” Turgeon said afterward. “I apologize for doing that.”

Turgeon will be allowed back on the sideline against North Carolina tomorrow, the ACC

double-overtime, 90-86 loss at Miami on Wednesday night, and have lost four of their past five.

Still, Turgeon likely won’t be intimidated, not even against the man who trained him.

“The only place I fear Coach Williams,” Turgeon said in May, “is on the golf course.”

Senior staff writer Jeremy Schneider contributed to this report. ceckard@umdbk.com

announced yesterday.

LEN BREAKS OUT A big reason for the Terps’ 16-point comeback Wednesday night was the second-half play of freshman center Alex Len. The Ukrainian finished with 11 points and eight rebounds, totals that surpassed his production in the previous four games combined. Len started the second half in place of forward Ashton Pankey and scored two quick baskets and blocked a Miami shot that led to a Terrell Stoglin 3-pointer.

He also took advantage of Miami’s foul trouble down the stretch. Miami forwards Reggie Johnson and Raphael Akpejiori both fouled out before the end of regulation, leaving Len towering over the remaining Hurricanes for both overtime periods. ceckard@umdbk.com

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More on Turgeon, Williams Basketball beat writer Chris Eckard speaks with Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings, who also worked under Roy Williams at Kansas, at TerrapinTrail.com.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

With Thomas back, so are Terps Forward returns from injury to help snap losing streak in 86-44 win

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

Seconds after the opening tip in Comcast Center last night, Alyssa Thomas took a pass on the left wing from point guard Anjale Barrett, dribbled twice, split two defenders in the lane and floated in an easy layup.

Just like that, order was restored for the Terrapins

women’s basketball team.

After sitting out last week’s upset loss to Virginia Tech with a sprained left thumb, Thomas returned in triumphant fashion last night against Boston College.

Fueled in part by their star’s return, the No. 9 Terps embarrassed the last-place Eagles, ending their two-game skid with an 86-44 victory.

“First and foremost, the

energy [Thomas] brings gives our team great confidence when she’s on the floor,” coach Brenda Frese said.

“You know she’s going to go hard every possession. Defensively, offensively, the way she’s going to rebound the basketball — obviously a critical piece for us.”

Though she wore a small brace to protect her injured shooting hand, nothing

would slow down Thomas in her torrid return to the Terps’ (19-3, 6-3 ACC) lineup. The star forward showed no ill effects from her one-game absence, posting 14 points, eight rebounds and three assists in just 19 minutes while shooting nearly 55 percent from the floor. “[My thumb] felt really

see EAGLES, page 7

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Despite playing with a cast on her shooting hand, forward Alyssa Thomas finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and three assists in a Terps blowout win last night. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

MEN’S BASKETBALL | NOTEBOOK

Full-court pressure could offer Terps a new defensive look Turgeon apologizes for technical fouls vs. Miami, will be allowed to coach Sat.

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon knew his team needed a boost with his team’s game against Miami quickly slipping away Wednesday night.

Hurricanes guard Rion Brown nailed a corner 3-pointer to give Miami a double-digit lead, and Terps point guard Pe’Shon Howard lost control of the ball on the next possession to give it right back with less than eight minutes remaining.

In the ensuing media timeout, Turgeon elected for a full-court press. He had no way of knowing what would transpire next.

Trailing by 11 with 7:32 left in the game, the Terps lined up with a man mirroring the inbounds passer, and two others flanking Hurricanes guards, for one of the first times this season. Guards Sean Mosley and Nick Faust trapped a Hurricanes ball handler in the corner, and Faust came up

with a steal.

The freshman turned around, made a hard move to the basket but picked up an offensive foul as he went up for a layup. Turgeon would get ejected moments later for arguing the call, and Miami soon seized a 16point lead.

But the press, and the coach’s technical fouls, proved to be just what the Terps needed. Assistant Scott Spinelli maintained the pressure for the rest of the way, leading to a 23-7 run to end regulation and force overtime.

“They got flustered down at the end,” Mosley said. “We almost got a couple 10-second calls on them. It decreased the shot clock.

We were just trying to speed them up and get stops to get back in the game.”

Down nine with just more than three minutes to play, the Terps forced a bad 3-point attempt and then three consecutive turnovers.

The extra defensive pressure led

see NOTEBOOK, page 7

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Terps’ meet could be last in teams’ history Coach Mark Turgeon said North Carolina coach Roy Williams, under whom he worked as an assistant at Kansas, encouraged him to accept the offer to coach in College Park. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Together again Years after their careers intersected at Kansas, Turgeon and Williams set to meet in College Park

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Every night that North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams tunes into ESPN’s SportsCenter, he scours the ticker with one specific team in mind.

Through the years, it’s changed — first it was Jacksonville State, then it was Wichita State, then Texas A&M. There was always one constant, though: the man at the helm of those programs, Mark Turgeon.

Turgeon may now be in charge of the Terps, one of North Carolina’s ACC rivals, but Williams’ tradition hasn’t changed. And for the first time in his career, Williams will face off head to head with Turgeon, his former assistant at Kansas in the early 1990s, tomorrow at Comcast Center. He brings his No. 5 Tar Heels (19-3, 6-1 ACC) to College Park to face the Terps (13-8, 3-4) in a nationally televised game.

WHO: Terrapins vs. North Carolina WHEN: Tomorrow, 4 p.m.

WHERE: Comcast Center TV: ESPN

At Kansas, North Carolina coach Roy Williams worked with a young Mark Turgeon. PHOTO COURTESY OF JARRARD COLE/DAILY TAR HEEL

“I’ve wanted him to win every single game he’s been involved with,” Williams said earlier this week. “He was a great asset to me and he was a big part of the success that we had while we were together at Kansas.

He’s just a fantastic coach that is going to be difficult to coach against.”

Their relationship began in 1988, when Williams took his first collegiate head coaching job with the Jayhawks after being an assistant under Dean Smith at North Carolina for a decade. Turgeon had already been in Lawrence for five years, his first four as a player and the fifth as a graduate assistant.

Williams took the reins from Larry Brown, who had just won a national championship before bolting for the NBA. The new coach decided to keep Turgeon around, allowing the young fireball to run the junior-varsity squad and serve as an assistant on

see WILLIAMS, page 7

Program’s near future still uncertain

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

Tomorrow’s meet against Georgetown was going to be bittersweet to begin with for the Terrapins men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.

Senior Day, after all, often elicits emotions from all ends of the spectrum, offering a time to reflect and look forward.

But tomorrow is different, because tomorrow might be the final time a Terps team hits the pool deck for a meet at Eppley Recreation Center.

The specter of last semester’s report by the President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, recommending the teams be eliminated, has loomed over the pool constantly this winter. It will be no different tomorrow.

The teams’ seniors are leaving programs that they helped build, not knowing their place in the university’s future. The underclassmen are left to wonder whether they will have a team to swim for at all. But the Terps have maintained a positive attitude that borders on defiance, and they won’t lose it now.

“The general mood is that this isn’t our last home meet as a team,” co-captain and senior Ginny Glover said. “Most of the underclassmen are planning on returning to the UMD swim

team next year.”

As far as the teams are concerned, there is nothing out of the ordinary about tomorrow’s meet. It is a late-season matchup with a nearby school that has potential postseason implications. But to everyone outside this tight-knit community, the meet itself will take a backseat to the story that surrounds it.

The teams’ ups and downs have become as intertwined in the season’s saga as the support the Terps received in the wake of their program’s near-death sentence. Opponents that came to College Park brought supportive signs and chants with them, and others from as far away as the West Coast took to social media to show their love, something Glover called “amazing to see.”

Glover said the team-wide sentiment is the support the Terps have received is one more indication they will in fact be back next year.

While that remains to be determined, swimmers are proceeding as if their future has been solidified. The ACC and NCAA Championships are fast approaching, and Glover will be training for Olympic trials after that.

The teams’ days after tomorrow, Glover said, are just “one more obstacle that we will overcome as a team.” benscher@umdbk.com