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Council may expand enforcement Stullich wants to crack down on noisy parties during summer

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

The city of College Park may expand its nighttime noise enforcement over the summer to crack down on student parties.

The city’s code enforcement officers already have their schedules structured largely around student schedules — they

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patrol less during the summer and winter and focus on Friday and Saturday nights during the spring and fall, and they are put on duty after sporting events.

“Due primarily to university studentoccupied rental properties, noise complaints have been proven to peak significantly during the fair-weather months that the university is in full session,” City

Public Services Director Bob Ryan wrote in a memo to the city council.

But District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said she’s concerned the scaleddown nighttime code enforcement during the summer months is keeping residents awake.

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Blades of golden glory Freshman wins top medal at novice national championship

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Although he was skating across ice, Travis Mager noticed the air inside Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena was warm and dry. For 15 long minutes, the freshman art history major smiled through the heat as he was presented a gold medal, a crystal trophy, flowers and a pin.

Police arrest students for Dec. robbery One suspect already nabbed for Knox Road crime in Jan.

BY KYLE GOON Staff writer

University Police charged three university students, including one who is already in jail, in connection with a December robbery on the campus, and still may be looking for more suspects.

Police arrested Brandon Darnell Benston, a 19-year-old from Suitland, and Joshua Shaine Harris, a 20-year-old from College Park, on Monday in connection with the robbery, charging each with multiple counts of robbery, theft, assault and credit card violations. Both are identified in the university directory as students.

Antuane Lamont Allen, a 20year-old from College Park, is already incarcerated after he

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was arrested by Prince George’s County Police for a separate Knox Road robbery on Jan. 10. Although his warrant has not yet been served, Allen will face robbery, theft, misdemeanor assault and illegal credit card use counts, as well.

The three men are accused of

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SGA amends group funding guidelines Finance Committee allows money to be spent on events for individual members

BY DERBY COX Staff writer

Revising an earlier policy, the SGA Finance Committee voted last night to allow student groups to request money for individuals to enter events.

Previously, funding from the Student Government Association was available to pay for group entry fees, but not individual ones. Now, provided the entry fees are “essential” to the student group’s mission, funding may be made available.

Under the older regulations, Terp Runners and Ballroom at Maryland were denied funding for their members to enter com-

“It was just really special to be on top of the podium and share it with my family and everyone.”

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petitions by the Finance Committee last semester. Both successfully appealed to the SGA’s legislature to get the funds.

“The legislature spoke; we need to move on this,” said Jason Hofberg, chair of the committee, when opening discussion on the rules.

After debating more specific wording, the committee members opted to keep the guidelines vague so they could judge group requests on a case-bycase basis.

“These guidelines are pretty broad, and the reason they’re broad is that we might be faced

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Slot revenues lower than anticipated; stimulus package help still unknown

Dining Services names first exec. chef in 30 years

BY MICHELLE CLEVELAND Staff writer

The university’s new executive chef has already cooked the circle of life, but don’t anticipate lion, snake, bear or beaver to be gracing the dining halls’ menus anytime soon.

Instead, John Gray, who started at the beginning of the semester, just wants to improve the dining halls’ food.

Gray, who was previously the assistant executive chef at Harrah’s Hotel and

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But while the all-you-can-eat buffets and fine dining restaurants in your average casino may not seem to have much in common with The Diner or South Campus Dining Hall, Gray said he’s not worried about making the shift from cooking for gamblers feeding slot machines to students lugging books.

“It’s a whole different world, so coming

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State legislators yesterday mulled over how to craft a budget without key pieces of information: updated state revenue estimates, federal stimulus money and profits from slots.

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state’s economic outlook and the enormous uncertainty regarding state revenue.

“I don’t see how we can act on the budget without knowing … what our revenue outlook is come March,” said Warren Deschenaux, the state’s top fiscal analyst. “The governor crafts the budget without knowing what the federal government will do.”

While updated revenue

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BRIEFS Water mains in College Park ‘have reached the end of their useful life’ Many of College Park’s pipes “have reached the end of their useful life,” and are increasingly prone to failing, according to a Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission manager.

The 1950s-era “ductile iron” water mains in the city and throughout the region get brittle with age as they react to the acidity in the soil, said manager Mark Behe, who spoke last night to the College Park City Council.

WSSC officials are planning to spend about $8 million to replace eight miles of College Park’s water mains starting late this summer, and also plan to install new linings in three miles of sewers, which are under less pressure than water mains and remain in relatively good shape, officials said.

“The water mains that were put in were probably the best that were known to man at the time,” Behe said, but newer designs are more resistant to breakage.

College Park and the rest of the Washington area have seen serious damage from water main failures this winter.

A main that burst in Montgomery County made national news in December when commuters had to be rescued from a flooded road.

But although WSSC officials do not expect anything on that level in College Park, they acknowledge smaller breaks have been a continuous problem.

A water main break last month flooded eight College Park homes, and WSSC manager Felicia James said the mains that will be replaced have each suffered two to three breakages in the past five years.

WSSC will replace water mains along most streets in southeast College Park, College Park Woods and Hollywood.

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Police also release names of two previously arrested suspects

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

Prince George’s County Police arrested the final suspect Tuesday afternoon in connection to last week’s robbery of the CD/Game Exchange.

Police have also released the names of all three suspects, none of whom are university students. The arrest was the result of investigative police work and information from the employee present during the robbery, said District 1 Assistant Commander Daniel Lipsey.

Sabrina Weissman-Haga, 21, and Marvin Bernard Carter, 17, both of College Park, were arrested this past weekend, but their names were not released due to

the investigation of the third party.

Omari Rubin Braxton, 21, whose last known address was in Washington, was arrested yesterday on College Avenue in College Park after investigators got information that led them to believe he would be in the area, Lipsey said.

The arrests are all linked to a robbery on Jan. 29. At about 6:45 p.m., two people entered the CD/Game Exchange store on Lehigh Road. While two suspects distracted employees, a third suspect entered and started to open the register. While employees noticed the man at the register and tried to stop him, the three fled the scene with a still undisclosed sum of money.

approaching two non-student victims at 1:30 a.m. between Annapolis and Frederick Halls on Dec. 21 and knocking them to the ground. The suspects kicked one victim until he surrendered his wallet, and then took the second victim’s wallet and cell phone.

The original crime alert sent

by University Police reported that there were five suspects involved in the crime. University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said investigators are looking into the possibility that more people were involved, but no one is currently under suspicion.

“It’s not rocket science — you make more arrests, there’s less crime.”

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University Police were able to get pictures of Allen and Benston after they used one of the victim’s credit cards at a McDonald’s and were caught on surveillance. At that time, police had no way of identifying the names of the people seen on the footage, Dillon said.

On Jan. 16, university officers photographed Allen and recorded his name after he was involved in a fight in downtown College Park. Investigators initially gave his information to county police after recognizing him from county-obtained surveillance images related to the Knox Road robbery. Following Allen’s arrest, police also identified him as one of the men in their own surveillance images.

On Jan. 26, University Police detectives went to the county detention center where Allen was being held on bond and interviewed him.

In the interview, he admitted to using the credit cards, and also implicated Benston and Harris.

All three are now in jail, and University Police have made ar-

rests in seven out of the 10 oncampus robberies that occurred in 2008.

“It’s a relief to get these guys off the street,” Dillon said. “One of those guys is responsible for multiple robberies, and hopefully he’ll be held accountable for that.”

Dillon said the work of University Police has been more aggressive, and the closure rate is up. In 2007, only four out of nine robbery cases were closed.

Arrests are also up in general, Dillon said. Although 2008 data has not yet been compiled, liquor-related arrests and illegal weapons arrests were on the rise for the second consecutive year in 2007, according to police statistics published in the department’s annual report.

“It’s not rocket science — you make more arrests, there’s less crime,” Dillon said. “If criminals know they get caught in College Park, they’re not going to want to come here.”

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Police can’t issue city noise fines CODE, from Page 1 The city maintains a 24hour noise hotline even when it does not have code enforcement officers on the streets, instead dispatching contract police officers to break up noisy parties.

However, the contract police officers cannot issue the city’s fine for noise violations — $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for any subsequent offense within six months. Expanding the code enforcement program would allow the city to collect more fines, Ryan said.

“The consequences would be different if instead of just having a police officer come to quiet you down [the officer was] accompanied by a code enforcement officer,” he said.

Stullich said she thought that would be best, offering the gravity of a police officer plus the cash deterrent of the city fine, but Ryan would not go so far as to endorse the idea.

The city pays its six fulltime code enforcement officers about $50,000 per year, he said, and the revenue generated by issuing noise citations isn’t enough to recoup salaries and administrative costs.

And with code enforce-

ment officers already covering College Park’s noisiest hours, he added, extra hours would offer “diminishing returns.”

Stullich said she’d like to see more data on complaints to the noise hotline, but said initial figures suggest the city needs to have its code enforcement officers active in June and July.

“A lot of kids are here in the summer, and they still have parties,” Stullich said.

The Student Government Association lobbied heavily against Stullich last year when she tried to toughen the city’s anti-noise code.

Stullich had proposed a change to the city code that would charge noise offenders the double fine of $1,000 for any repeat violation within a year instead of six months.

She backed off that plan after students said it would force new student tenants to pay for previous tenants’ violations, but Stullich said she’s still committed to the idea of keeping College Park quiet.

“We need to have noise enforcement to protect our quality of life for people of all ages,” Stullich said. holtdbk@gmail.com

New chef may bring new tastes CHEF, from Page 1 here — I think the knowledge I gained at the casino with large buffets and some different-type fine dining restaurants — this just became a great opportunity,” Gray said.

Adorned with his white chef’s jacket from Harrah’s, Gray said he has come to the university looking for a new opportunity to practice his passion for food through hands-on cooking. His passion is so strong that he can’t imagine having another job, and when asked what other occupation he would have if he weren’t a chef, Gray — who describes his cooking style as a fusion of Southwest, Midwest and Northeast cuisine — laughed.

His response? “A chef.”

Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said Gray will be in charge of developing new recipes and ensuring the quality of the dining halls’ food.

“The food will be better and the students will be happier,” Hipple said, adding that students can also expect to see some new dishes from Gray.

“We think we have very satisfactory menus, but we would like to be better than that.”

Students may even get a taste

of Rhode Island wieners, Gray’s favorite food.

“It’s just a hot dog with this meat sauce on it, and you can’t get it anywhere else in the world,” Gray said.

Gray began his culinary career while growing up in Rhode Island, when helping his mother prepare dinner, and knew by the time he was 11 years old that he wanted to be a chef, he said.

After attending a vocational high school where he studied culinary arts, Gray then went on to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America. He then worked in the kitchens of national hotels before landing at Harrah’s, where he worked at the buffets and restaurants in the casino and planned largescale parties and events.

Gray said he was also looking forward to having a more informed customer base.

“Now, I get to work with students who watch Food Network, know about food, talk about food, go out and experience food,” he said about his new job, adding, “younger people nowadays have more knowledge about food than the clientele we had at Harrah’s.” clevelanddbk@gmail.com

Prince George’s County Police are looking for a man who attempted to rob a student on College Avenue early yesterday morning.

A male student left a party and was walking down the 4600 block of College Avenue toward a bus stop at about 1:30 a.m. when he came upon a man fighting with an unknown individual, according to the student and a crime alert sent yesterday by University Police.

The man then approached the victim, brandished a knife and demanded his wallet while pressing the knife to his chest. The victim threw his cell phone on the ground

and fled once the perpetrator went to retrieve it. The perpetrator then fled toward the College Park Metro Station without the cell phone. The phone was later returned to the victim by a witness.

The victim was intoxicated, so the story is still hazy and some details remain unclear, said District 1 Assistant Commander Daniel Lipsey.

Lipsey said the victim called police and university patrol units from the campus responded. The victim suffered minor cuts on his chest, but was treated at the scene.

It is unknown who the perpetrator was fighting with, what caused the fight or where the unknown individual went during the attempted robbery.

Lipsey said police have some leads in the case, but are still checking security cameras and canvassing the neighborhood. Lipsey also said the police generally recommend people cooperate in dangerous situations. But he added that if given the opportunity to run, it’s not always a bad idea, and each situation is different.

Witnesses are encouraged to call the Prince George’s County Police with any details on the incident. The suspect is described as Hispanic, about 21 years old, 5’6” and 140 pounds with black hair. He was wearing a black hat, a black puffy coat and dark jeans.

Despite the attempted robbery and other recent incidents, stu-

dents living in the area say they feel there is a tentative air of safety in the area. But they still understand the importance of being aware.

A sign posted near where the crime took place advises students to “Be Smart ... Be Safe.”

Senior economics major Will Berkis said he’s never run into any problems at his house just a block away from College Avenue, but he is still wary.

“I feel like it’s coming,” Berkis said, referring to crime affecting him personally. If the police patrolled the area more frequently to intimidate potential criminals, there would be less crime, he said. rhodesdbk@gmail.com

SGA plans to audit student group spending SGA, from Page 1 with circumstances that we can’t foresee,” Hofberg said at the meeting.

“We need a guideline that will allow us to pay for things like Terp Runners and Ballroom, but give us reason to deny things like [trips to] Disney World,” he added later.

The new rules are necessary to make funding opportunities equal for a variety of groups, Terp Runners President Mary Larson said earlier in the day.

“Because of the nature of our sport, there’s no other way for us to enter [but individually],” she said. “The nature of our sport shouldn’t make [our fund-

ing] different from soccer or lacrosse or another sports team.”

SGA President Jonathan Sachs, who attended the meeting, said the rule change was positive.

“I think that it shows that the finance process is working,” he said. “I think the change is good, and it’s going to help students and student groups access that money.”

The committee also added wording that would prevent groups from receiving funding for “giveaways” such as gift bags given out at events unless they are essential to the groups’ missions.

Finally, the committee added

a 13th item to the 12-part financing guidelines that would make student groups aware of the SGA’s auditing process. The SGA has the ability to audit group spending, but the process has not been used recently, Hofberg said, something he plans to change. The process is needed to ensure that funds are spent responsibly, Hofberg added.

“We’re not going to give you the money and let you do anything you want with it,” Hofberg said. “There has to be some sort of oversight.”

Hofberg said members of the committee would pick groups at random and attend their meetings to ensure that group funds are being spent correctly.

Committee member Andrew Steinberg is currently working on a bill that would create a separate auditing committee, but it will likely not be ready until the end of the semester.

The guidelines can still be amended by the SGA’s legislature, but Hofberg, a senior accounting and government and politics major, said the legislature had not edited the committee’s proposed rules any year during his time with the SGA. “I foresee a pretty smooth approval,” he said.

The legislature will likely vote on the guidelines during its Feb. 11 meeting. coxdbk@gmail.com

Ice skaters work hard at their relationship and skills SKATER, from Page 1 Flanked by his ice dancing partner, Lauri Bonacorsi, atop the medal stand, Mager silently crossed off one of the major goals from a mental list of skating dreams: Win a national championship.

Less than a year after forming their partnership, Mager and Bonacorsi won the novice dance event at the 2009 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships on Jan. 21. The pair won the third of five skill levels at the competition and now move up to the junior division, where they hope to be selected for the U.S. national team.

“I still don’t think it’s hit me yet,” Mager said recently in the lounge of the Denton Hall floor where he lives. “It was just really special to be on top of the podium and share it with my family and everyone.”

The biggest obstacle for the team along the way was getting to know each other in such a short time. In fact, the 18-yearold Mager’s coach, Greg Maddalone, said such a quick transition is “unprecedented.”

Mager began looking for a new partner at the beginning of last year when his old partner, Lauren Ely, retired to focus on college at the University of Virginia.

After Mager posted a profile on Ice Partner Search, Bonacorsi came up from Dallas, Texas,

for a tryout.

Bonacorsi, who is originally from St. Louis, was willing to move to excel in a sport where good male skaters are hard to come by.

When she arrived at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel for the initial tryout in February 2008, she had never been to Maryland. By June, Bonacorsi and her mother, Lisa Brown, were living there full-time.

“I saw Travis at my first nationals, and I always thought he was a really, really good skater,” said Bonacorsi, a 16-year-old sophomore at River Hill High School in Clarksville. “When I found out about the tryout, I was really excited.”

Mager compares the partnership to a marriage: Each partner has good days and bad days, and there’s plenty of give and take. For example, Mager calls the diminutive brunette “mature for her age,” while Bonacorsi describes her slender, brown-haired partner as “sensitive” and “supportive.”

But this marriage involves perfectly synched spins and even a lift that has Bonacorsi wrap her legs around Mager’s waist while suspending her face inches above the ice.

In the beginning, Mager described it as being “put in a pressure cooker” with the amount of work that needed to be done to be ready for competition in a short time.

“We were asked to skate with each other three hours a day, five days a week; be with each other constantly; know what each other was thinking; try to feel each other out,” Mager said. “A partnership isn’t just about one person.”

But Mager was willing to put in the time to make it work, balancing skating with his first dose of college life.

During his first semester at the university, Mager drove 20 minutes up I-95 to the Gardens Ice House each weekday afternoon to train with Bonacorsi.

Eventually, the schedule grew to include a weekly trip to the Philadelphia area to train with another coach, Robbie Kaine, on Saturdays.

During the Christmas holiday, Mager went with Bonacorsi when she visited her family in St. Louis so that the pair wouldn’t miss valuable practice time.

“I think it works because they both have like goals,” said Maddalone, who worked with a handful of other coaches to prep the pair for nationals. “They were both willing to make sacrifices.”

After winning their sectional competition in Arizona to qualify for nationals, Mager and Bonacorsi went into the competition without expectations. But the pair thrived on the role of underdog and used it as an advantage, Maddalone said.

“We just wanted to skate our best, make a splash,” Mager said.

“We wanted to get our names out there and get noticed.”

In Cleveland, they were in first place after the first day’s pair of compulsory dances, yet they were still wary of the second-place team.

But Mager and Bonacorsi brought home the gold by a wide margin after winning the free dance portion of the competition while dancing to a medley of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and “The Last Emperor.”

Mager said the win validated his skating career and the sacrifices he has had to make.

Now the pair will make the jump to the junior level, and then eventually on to the Olympics after three years at the junior level. According to Maddalone, the 2018 Games would be the pair’s best shot.

For now, they’re focused on short-term goals, such as representing their country and placing at nationals next year.

Mager said the process of moving on started atop the medal stand.

“It was like, ‘Yay, we won — but we have a lot of work to do next season,’” Mager said. “I’m excited to keep going forward.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

Deschenaux: Federal money can’t be used for Purple Line BUDGET, from Page 1 estimates won’t be available until mid-March, one flow to the general fund that will almost certainly be lower than expected are profits from slots.

Slots licenses garnered little interest in Annapolis yesterday, with officials announcing that only six companies had bid on 6,550 of 15,000 allowed slot machines. Two of those bidders appear to be disqualified for failing to pay a multimilliondollar upfront fee, including the Maryland Jockey Club that bid on machines for the Laurel Park racetrack.

State legislators are also waiting for the saving grace of federal bailout money, which is estimated to be in the range of $3 billion over the next two years.

Without a real idea of when it will come or how big it will be when it does, lawmakers are tapping further and further into the state reserve funds, although they have not tapped into the 5 percent of the general fund allocated to the rainy day fund.

“What happens with this proposal if federal money doesn’t come?” Del. James King (RAnne Arundel) asked Deschenaux.

Deschenaux replied that because O’Malley only planned

for $350 million from the federal government, in an emergency that money would be available in the rainy day fund.

“But that would mean a heck of a 2011,” Deschenaux added.

Deschenaux broke down the budget for the House Economic Matters committee yesterday, highlighting the state’s $1 billion-and-growing structural deficit — which arises from long-term spending items created without a specific plan to pay for them — and the worsening short-term budget deficit, caused by lower tax revenues than expected. He also re-examined the 700 state employee jobs and 1,000 vacant posts that Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) chopped out of the general fund.

Deschenaux identified several hazards in the proposal, namely the reduced payout to community colleges; O’Malley’s proposed budget got rid of a planned increase in aid and cut existing aid by $8.1 million.

He also noted the reduced funding appropriated to the Department of Transportation, which O’Malley cut by $46 million. The budget forecast assumes the department will be able to reign in operating costs, which typically grow at 5 per-

cent per year. If they can’t do that, construction could be adversely affected, Deschenaux said.

Calling federal stimulus money “the big X factor,” Deschenaux noted that the money will be temporary and must be put to work immediately, a portion of it within 90 days and the rest within the first year, meaning all but shovel-ready projects would receive no benefit.

“We’re not getting a line of any color out of this money,” he said, referring to the Purple Line railway project.

Federal money from the stimulus bill is also expected to go toward environmental reforms and infrastructure, which could include transportation projects.

Across the street in the state Senate building, more analysts continued the push to find more possible cuts. They agreed with O’Malley’s decision to transfer $63 million in Intercounty Connector funding to general obligation bonds, signifying that the state assumes that revenue from ICC tolls will pay back construction costs.

They also recommended cutting even more money distributed to the counties, which already took a cut in the gover-

nor’s proposal. Budget analyst David Juppe presented suggestions to reduce or get rid of a disparity grant program, which helps counties where local income tax revenues are lower.

He also recommended transferring certain employee retirement costs back to local governments.

One of the most drastic of the four options Juppe presented for cutting aid to local governments was cutting the disparity grant by $45.7 million, which would eliminate funding due to this grant from Prince George’s County altogether in 2010, Juppe said. In 2009, the county received $21.7 million under this grant from the state. Other options include redistributing local income tax revenues equally among counties to prevent disparities, cutting all aid equally by 25 percent and abolishing the mandated disparity grant aid to local governments entirely.

“My colleagues and I will fight for more funding for Prince George’s County and Prince George’s County schools,” said Del. Ben Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park. “We don’t think that’s equitable.” sticedbk@gmail.com

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t’s that time of year again in College Park. The weatherman is rais- idea). The regents also urge professors not to assign books that will only ing false hopes with one-inch snow predictions. The men’s basket- be read sparsely — unless the professors really want to.

And these proposals suffer from the same fatal flaw that troubled lawball team is floundering. And, like clockwork, state officials are makers last legislative session. How do you determine whether a new once again dangling promises of textbook reform.

We’ve heard it all before from state lawmakers, who last year could not edition is really necessary? Who decides whether professors are fairly arrive at a compromise to control textbook costs. And while the Board of assigning bundled book packages? Can you quantify whether a significant portion of a book is being taught?

Regents is now saying such legislation is “overly prescripOn the other hand, State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (Dtive” and unnecessary, the alternative they proposed MonAnne Arundel and Prince George’s) has proposed legday provides little hope for real change.

Many of the 10 points the regents put forward are There must be a concrete islation that would require professors to teach at least half a textbook’s material. We do sympathize with the holdovers from last year’s legislation. But the regents fail proposal to make textregents’ concern that this would constrain professors to provide concrete, enforceable terms, instead using weak books more affordable. and limit learning. But that doesn’t change the fact language suggesting that faculty “order course materials that real change won’t happen without measurable judiciously” and avoid extra costs “to the extent practicable and educationally sound.” Such bureaucratic jumble might make for standards. The answer to the textbook dilemma might mean revising a fine faculty memo, but it hardly provides standards to guide professors’ Rosapepe’s bill. The re-negotiation of Barnes and Noble’s contract with the University Book Center might provide another answer for reducing booklists.

The regents recommend that faculty shouldn’t order new editions of textbook costs. The truth is, students, administrators and faculty need to textbooks (unless they think it’s necessary), and also caution against be active on all fronts. Otherwise, next winter promises to look an awful requiring bundled book packages (unless professors think it’s a good lot like this one.

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A tuition increase: Do your part to save the state

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lashing local government funding by $310 million. Firing 700 state employees. Raiding the state’s rainy day fund.

As reported in The Diamondback last week, these are just some of the steps Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is prepared to take in order to close a $2 billion budget shortfall.

If you could do something to help, would you?

Let’s take a step back. In the former Baltimore mayor’s 2006 campaign for governor, one of O’Malley’s signature issues was higher education. After two years of university budget cuts under former Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s (R) administration, O’Malley campaigned vigorously to fund universities and keep college costs in check.

Lo and behold, O’Malley defeated Ehrlich and, true to his word, has proposed a tuition freeze for the state’s public universities for the fourthstraight-year.

But the problem with campaign promises is that circumstances change. Campaign promises need to meet reality.

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COHEN O’Malley first proposed this issue more than three years ago, before the recession, before the financial meltdown, before the housing bust, before the government bailout of pretty much everything.

As an in-state student, I should be thrilled that I will be paying the same tuition as a senior that I paid as a freshman. But, it is important to take a step back and view the consequences of this action.

As a lifelong Maryland resident and a potential future resident, I am terrified of the ramifications of this action.

What will happen to the 700 people who will lose their jobs? What will happen to the state’s reserves? What will happen to the already fragile state economy if we cut funding rather than

increase fees?

A Jan. 26 Diamondback editorial argued that the tuition freeze is worthwhile, partially because the federal stimulus package Congress is debating could potentially cover other costs O’Malley has proposed to cut. But things change faster on Capitol Hill than President Barack Obama can say the word “change.” Furthermore, if the U.S. Congress does in fact pass the bill, do we really want the federal government bailing out our education system? As The Baltimore Sun correctly points out in a Jan. 30 editorial, this sets a very dangerous precedent.

What happens with next year’s budget if we are in the same economic environment, with no hint of a federal bailout?

I don’t fault The Diamondback’s editorial board for defending the tuition freeze — after all, it is a student newspaper. I don’t fault O’Malley for proposing the tuition freeze — after all, it was a campaign promise. And I don’t fault the Student Government Association for lobbying to implement the tuition freeze — after all, it is their job

to fight on behalf of students.

But these groups are missing the big picture. In tough economic times, everyone should make sacrifices — including every in-state university student. It is not right — and it’s not practical, either — to force certain segments of society to suffer (state workers and local governments) while allowing others to prosper (students and universities). A small tuition increase could potentially save many jobs and put the state in a better financial position for the future.

Sure, the proposed tuition freeze would benefit me. But would it benefit the state as a whole? No. Would it benefit my future? No. Will there be fewer jobs available for me when I graduate? Yes. Over the next three months, the General Assembly will attempt to close a $2 billion budget shortfall. If you could do something to help, would you?

Joel Cohen is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at jcohendbk@gmail.com.

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f you’re looking for an alternative to the football-and-bar scene in College Park, you’re out of luck.

At least, you have been since College Perk, our city’s lone coffeehouse, closed abruptly seven months ago, its reopening mired in unresolved insurance claims and hundreds of dollars in unpaid fees.

In a college town, coffeehouses are to the intellectual and artistic community what the football stadium is to the athletic community. As I wrote in a column last semester, coffeehouses bring people together, whether for a morning bagel or for an evening jam session, and they encourage civic involvement. It’s where people go to meet and talk, to produce or consume art and music and to feel a part of something greater than themselves.

Without places like coffeeshops, a huge chunk of campus culture is lost for lack of a place to grow and develop. Even worse, it says to potential students, residents

and employers that College Park just isn’t a place for creative types.

During the winter break, I spent a week in Denver for the AIAS Forum, a yearly conference of architecture students. While I fell in love with that city, it was Boulder, 30 miles to the northwest, that really got my attention.

Boulder is a college town, home to the University of Colorado at Boulder, a state school with about the same undergraduate population as ours. It’s also a town where art galleries featuring prints of President Barack Obama rub elbows with stores selling macramé wallets, and everyone looks as if they just stepped out of a skateboard catalog. Boulder’s liberal politics aren’t for everyone, but judging from the numerous hotels and condos sprouting up downtown, it looks like a city full of hippies and hipsters might be good for the economy.

That’s more or less what economist Richard Florida says in his theory of the

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REED “creative class.” He proposes that there’s a vast segment of the population — from architects and artists to computer programmers and scientists — driving the American economy through the production of ideas, not goods, and demanding to live in places that nurture their intellectual and creative development.

Not surprisingly, Boulder and its big brother to the south have plenty of coffeehouses, which have yielded a thriving music and slam poetry scene. While rhythm and verse don’t bring in a lot of money, they send a strong message to businesses that there are creative, talent-

ed people who can work for them. As a result, Boulder has become what author Ben Casnocha called a “serious technology hub,” home to hundreds of start-up companies. Florida holds up cities such as Boulder, Austin and our own Washington as havens for the creative class because they translated artistic innovation into technological advances.

You would think that the Washington area’s only true college town would be the engine driving that progress, but we’re not, and that should be an embarrassment. Small as a coffeehouse may be, it’s one step toward creating a community that’s not only socially vibrant, but also has a strong economy. The kind of tech firms we want here won’t come if they don’t see that innovation is brewing in College Park.

Dan Reed is a senior architecture and English major. He can be reached at reeddbk@gmail.com.

POLICY: The signed letters, columns and cartoon represent only the opinions of the authors. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Diamondback’s editorial board and is the responsibility of the editor in chief.

MATT LYONS In his column “The SGA: Real leadership wanted,” Malcolm Harris makes serious accusations that the SGA has failed to represent the interests of the student body and simply looks for politically expedient solutions to students’ problems.

While it may be easy to fall into clichéd college contempt for all things political, the truth of the matter is the Student Government Association has and continues to work diligently on behalf of the student body. Activities such as lobbying Annapolis, voter registration and safety awareness may seem trivial to Harris, but freezing tuition, increasing student representation in the state and keeping students safe are far from “pothole fixing.” These are real issues that affect students in real ways.

Solutions require a combination of mobilizing students and working behind the scenes. Harris criticizes the SGA for its role in the campaign to keep late-night study at McKeldin Library as “a fluke,” yet the campaign represents a perfect partnership of organizing the student voice while working with deans and administrators to preserve the service. These two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but rather can work together to achieve the student interest.

Any good advocate knows that the most effective way to achieve results is building relationships based on respect and trust. Burning bridges for the sake of watching them burn will get student leaders nowhere with administrators and officials. Harris claims what is required is a “combative SGA.” This logic only alienates students from the people we try to influence.

Too often we assume that all faculty members, administrators, delegates and senators are automatically our enemies, but the truth is there is much we can achieve by extending a hand rather than slapping one away. Harris argues the SGA does not find out about enough issues on the campus, but opening up channels of communication with administration rather than isolating ourselves is the way to improve on that problem. For example, one simple call from SGA President Jonathan Sachs to Department of Transportation Services Director David Allen allowed all students access to the University View commuter bus shuttle that had just a week before been restricted to University View residents for a number of its runs.

With that said, there is a time and a place to resort to more drastic action. For example, this spring, the SGA will be organizing thousands of students from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences to protest the consistent lack of funding that has plagued the college for the past 15 years. Earlier this year, the SGA joined a coalition of student groups standing against administrators to fight for the Campus Drive alignment of the Purple Line.

The point, however, is not to resort to the nuclear option before reaching out through peaceful means. As representatives of the student body, the SGA is charged with handling itself in a demeanor that is reflective of students at the university. We are college students who often find ourselves working in a professional world quite foreign to us. While screaming for blood may attract more headlines, to be taken seriously we must show respect to those we demand it from.

Matthew Lyons is the SGA Speaker of the Legislature. He can be reached at mlyons123187@gmail.com.

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You are so charismatic that others are likely to talk about you a great deal, even as you talk about them. You attract attention wherever you go, and if you want to enjoy some privacy, peace and quiet, you’re going to have to work at it, for they don’t come naturally to one such as you.

Also born on this date are: Rosa Parks, civil-rights activist; Ida Lupino, actress; Natalie Imbruglia, actress and singer; Isabel Peron, Argentine president; Charles Lindbergh, aviator; Dan Quayle, U.S. vice president; Alice Cooper, musician.

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arts. music. living. movies. weekend. music notes BEST. LINEUP. EVER. OK, so we know a single note hasn’t been played yet, and there are still additions to be made, but the lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival might be the best initial announcement in the festival’s eightyear history. Scoring a reunited Phish and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was both rumored and expected, but adding David Byrne, Wilco, Al Green and a solo set by Elvis Costello is just ridiculous. Oh yeah, and the Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg and Nine Inch Nails doesn’t hurt, either.

Not only may this be the Manchester, Tenn., festival’s best lineup, but it’s once again more diverse than the previous year.

While at the moment it’s lacking a bit on hip-hop and electronic — as well as comedy, for which none of the acts have been announced yet — the festival seems to cover every other genre it caters to.

Indie rock is almost over-represented: TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Andrew Bird, MGMT, The Decemberists, Girl Talk, Bon Iver, of Montreal, Animal Collective, Neko Case, Grizzly Bear and Jenny Lewis all make up the bill’s undercard. Whew.

Jam gets fair billing, too, with sets by Ben Harper and his new project, Relentless7, moe. and Gov’t Mule.

Then there’s also the random acts, such as Erykah Badu and Paul Oakenfold.

Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon and range from $224.50 to $249.50, along with a $23.10 fee. Bonnaroo is June 11 to 14.

In related festival news, Langerado, scheduled for March 6 to 8 in Miami, announced it will be canceling 2009’s festival due to the economic downturn. It also may have something to do with Phish playing its first shows since 2004 in Hampton, Va., that same weekend.

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INTERVIEW | THE BLACK KEYS

No nonsense, no apologies The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney speaks on the gratification of home recordings and playing what you know best

BY ZACHARY HERRMANN Senior staff writer

Please don’t cancel on Patrick Carney — he takes his music very seriously.

The Black Keys drummer and his bandmate, Dan Auerbach, were all set to back ZZ Top in the studio for the Texas legend’s new, Rick Rubin-produced album. Then, ZZ dropped out to play casino shows. Twice.

“If they want to do it, then we’ll give it our all,” Carney said. “I don’t like when shit gets canceled last second for shit we should have known about.

It’s kind of f------ annoying.”

When The Black Keys tear through Rams Head Live in Baltimore on Feb. 4, expect plenty of nononsense rock — since the band’s blistering 2002 debut, The Big Come Up, the group has built a reputation on solid album work and knockout live performances.

Although the duo is known for its amps-to-11 approach to rock, rhythm and blues, its last LP, the stellar Attack & Release threw a few variables into the mix. Outside producer Brian Burton (better known as Danger Mouse) helped shape the sound from behind the boards. The Keys recruited Marc Ribot (“an awesome musician” by Carney’s account) and Carney’s uncle, Ralph Carney, both mainstays from Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs years on.

Frankly, Carney said he doesn’t “give a f---” whether the album was divisive among fans. He made no apologies for the shift in sound.

“We want to make records that people like, but at the same time, we have to make records that we want to

The Black Keys plan to start recording a new album in August, after singer Dan Auerbach, right, finishes a solo tour. COURTESY OF JOHN PEETS

make,” he said.

“I think if a band is making records that kind of divide people, there’s at least something that’s going on there that’s interesting,” Carney added later. “Maybe it’s not always the right choice in terms of becoming as popular as you can. But if a band is making a decision, it’s usually because they want to.”

Still, as a music consumer with selfprofessed “eclectic” tastes, Carney admitted he has been on the other side of things, when a band he loved altered its sound. For him, that band was Pavement, which threw him for a

loop with its polished album, Brighten the Corners.

“By the time Terror Twilight came out, I didn’t really care — didn’t buy it, didn’t listen to it, didn’t go see them,” Carney said. “And then, I just re-listened to that record a couple months ago, and it’s awesome. It’s a really f----- good record.”

Of whether the next Keys album will have the band expanding its instudio lineup, Carney said he was unsure. But come August, when the band plans to record its follow-up, the approach will be fairly similar to Attack & Release — the two musicians,

an engineer and maybe a producer.

Before then, Carney will have some time off while Auerbach tours behind his forthcoming solo debut, Keep It Hid. Aside from taking some vacation time in Mexico, Carney said he may pencil in some recording time.

“I’m constantly recording stuff on my own,” the drummer added. “I never really considered putting out anything, I guess.”

Like Auerbach, Carney has his own studio and record label, Audio Eagle Records (home to Royal Bangs and Other Girls), but his personal recordings only really see the light of day on his MySpace page. He insists the home recordings — there are five brooding instrumentals currently available on the page — are “all just for fun, really.”

“I want to do some side shit, but at the same time ... when you’re in a band that sells lots of records and is really popular, you really feel content,” Carney said.

His basement tinkering does seem to have a place in relation to his day job, however. Before the Attack & Release sessions began, Carney said he played around recording with drum machines a lot, trying to “tighten up” his drumming and develop a little more control in his style.

“It ended up helping,” he added.

“Every time you do something, even if it’s worse than the thing you did before, you’re learning something.”

The Black Keys will play tonight at Rams Head Live in Baltimore with Patrick Sweany opening. Tickets are $25 and doors open at 7 p.m. zherrm@gmail.com

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THE UPS & THE DOWNS DEFENSE North Carolina shot 16-of-25 from 3-point range over the Terps' frail D.

Mosley and Cliff Tucker led the team with season-bests of 19 and 18 points, respectively.

But in the midst of a rousing pace, the Terps looked like a steady Toyota Camry trying to race an opponent that more closely resembled a shimmering Tar Heel Blue Ferrari. With six potential future pros in the lineup, North Carolina had far too much manpower.

In the first 16 minutes of the game, it appeared as if North Carolina (20-2, 6-2) was shooting into an ocean-sized hoop, as 11 3-pointers splashed through the net for Tar Heels scores, while only three went off beam.

“It was going to be hard for us to beat them the way they played today,” guard Greivis Vasquez said. “That was the first time I’ve played anybody who shot that well from outside the 3point line.”

A man-to-man defense couldn’t quiet the Tar Heels’ shooters, and when the Terps switched to a sagging 3-2 zone, nothing changed.

“We switched to zone with the idea that maybe we’d get them out of their rhythm,” Williams said. “We’ve done that before this year and it’s worked, but they continued to make [the shots]. Whether it was man or zone, we didn’t fly at shooters. We kind of stayed on the floor when you have to get up in their face. They’re too good to give them those kind of looks.”

The result was 60 first-half points for the Tar Heels. And after the break, the highlight reel continued.

The play of the game came in the second half with 10:31 on the clock.

Tar Heel forward Danny Green made a lay-up-thwarting block, guard Bobby Frasor saved it from touching out-of-bounds, then on the other end, speedster Ty Lawson allied to Deon Thompson for an emphatic oop.

Among all the sparkling Tar Heel plays, guard Wayne Ellington was the

It deserves to be mentioned twice: After all, the Terps gave up 108 total points.

CLIFF TUCKER The sophomore forward played one minute in the past two games combined, but scored 18 points last night.

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47———————91 48 ——————108

TERRAPINS (14-8, 3-5 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 26 4-7 1-2 Bowie 23 3-4 0-1 Vasquez 28 5-13 2-2 Mosley 29 6-10 7-7 Neal 22 3-7 4-4 Hayes 19 4-10 1-1 Dupree 9 3-5 0-1 Pearman 1 0-0 0-0 Tucker 20 8-14 1-1 Gregory 12 0-1 0-2 Kim 11 0-4 0-0 TEAM TOTALS 200 36-75 16-21

O-T A 3-3 1 1-4 4 0-2 2 1-3 4 1-4 0 2-3 5 3-3 0 0-0 1 2-4 4 2-4 1 1-5 0 0-4 18-39 22

PF 3 3 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 4 2

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 48 FT: 76.2 3FG: 30 3-POINT GOALS- 3-10 (Tucker 1-1, Vasquez 1-3, Hayes 1-4, Neal 0-1, Kim 0-1).

TURNOVERS–16 (Vasquez, Mosley 4). BLOCKED SHOTS–4 (Neal 2). STEALS–8 (Tucker 3).

No. 3 NORTH CAROLINA (20-2, 6-2 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT O-T A Ellington 29 12-15 3-3 7-9 0 Thompson 21 2-5 2-2 1-7 2 Lawson 25 6-10 5-6 0-1 6 Green 29 6-12 0-0 0-1 5 Hansbrough 30 7-16 9-10 5-6 2 Tanner 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 Frasor 18 1-2 0-0 0-2 3 Campbell 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 Watts 3 0-0 0-2 0-1 0 Wooten 1 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 Davis 19 1-4 1-4 3-7 1 Moody 1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 Copeland 7 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 Drew II 15 0-1 0-0 0-0 4 TEAM 0-2 TOTALS 200 36-70 20-27 16-39 24

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PF 2 1 1 3 1 0 3 1 1 0 4 0 0 0

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 51.4 FT: 74.1, 3FG: 64 3-POINT GOALS––16-25 (Ellington 7-9, Lawson 4-5, Green 4-6, Hansbrough 1-1, Tanner 0-1, Frasor 0-1, Campbell 0-1, Watts 0-1, Drew II 0-1).

TURNOVERS––16 (Green 3). BLOCKED SHOTS-- 4 (Green 3).

–10 (Lawson 4).

STEALS–

Despite 91 points from the Terps, North Carolina forward Danny Green (left) and the Tar Heels took control of last night’s game early and never looked back. Guard Greivis Vasquez struggled, shooting five- of-13 from the field. COURTESY OF THE DAILY TAR HEEL

star of the show, scoring 34 on sevenof-nine shooting from 3-point range.

Forward Tyler Hansbrough poured in 24 points, hitting an uncharacteristic 3-pointer of his own. Lawson and Green knocked down four triples each, tallying 21 and 16 points, respectively.

The Terps, who wore new black uniforms for the first time, surrendered their most points since 2005, when the Tar Heels put up 109 on

60 Points by the Tar Heels in the first half last night

them in the same building.

They have now lost five of their last seven games.

“We’re not able to win any games if we don’t play defense, no matter how many points we score,” forward Landon Milbourne said. “We can’t go back and forth, back and forth. At some point we have to decide that we’re gonna stop our men.”

Added Dave Neal: “We got away from communicating. We didn’t talk

11 Three-pointers North Carolina hit in those first 20 minutes

like we should have.”

The undersized Terps equaled North Carolina’s rebound total and shot a quality 48 percent from the field. But neither could overcome their openhanded defense against the Tar Heel express.

“At the ACC level, you can’t leave guys open,” Milbourne said. “Especially against shooters like that.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

9 Points by Landon Milbourne, after scoring in double digits in his previous five games.

34 Points by Tar Heel guard Wayne Ellington — a season high.

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North Carolina outguns, outshines Terps JOSEPH, from Page 10 taking the final step coach Roy Williams’ previous two teams have been unable to make. No, the No. 3 Tar Heels (20-2, 6-2 ACC) didn’t beat the Terps quite as thoroughly as archrival Duke did on Jan. 24. But that game was largely the product of the Terps’ own inadequacies.

Last night’s 108-91 dismantling of any semblance of a Terp defense was simply one team being better than the other — and, quite possibly, anyone in the country.

The Tar Heels were 11-of-15 from 3-point range in the first half alone. Guard Wayne Ellington, the team’s third-leading scorer, went off for 34 points, and it wasn’t even his career high.

On one play, Terp center Braxton Dupree stole the ball from North Carolina’s Bobby Frasor.

Dupree got the ball to teammate Cliff Tucker, who flew down court for an easy lay-up. Well, easy until Green emerged out of nowhere, flew across the paint and sent Tucker’s shot flying.

Frasor grabbed the ball and sent an outlet pass to point guard Ty Lawson.

Tar Heel center Deon Thompson finished Lawson’s alley-oop pass. In seven seconds, what could have been a 15-point deficit for the Terps, a part of a six-point mini-run, became a 19-point Tar Heel lead.

It was over when ... every Tar Heel was in the right place at the right time.

Guard Wayne Ellington torched the Terps for 34 points on 12-of-15 shooting, including seven-of-nine from beyond the arc. COURTESY OF THE DAILY TAR HEEL

It was over when ... one team was vastly bigger and more athletic than the other.

It was over when ...

“Against a team like North Carolina, you show any inkling that you’re not ready to play, and they just go after you,” Terp coach Gary Williams said.

The Tar Heels are the type of team that gives opponents absolutely no breathing room. Even in a game in which their defense allowed the Terps to shoot 48 percent from the field, even in a

game in which they turned the ball over 16 times and allowed the Terps to match them on the boards (39-39), North Carolina emerged with a 17-point win.

Tar Heel coach Roy Williams offered an analysis for the blind: “We’re pretty gifted.”

What’s even scarier about this Tar Heel team is how little they seemed to appreciate scoring 108 points against an ACC opponent.

Green seemed genuinely dejected about the defensive performance. Lawson noted that the team

needed to take serious strides if they were to get back to the Final Four. Hansbrough sullenly answered questions in the same way he would if his team had barely slipped past the underdog Terps.

Roy Williams? He was practically angry.

“I don’t like giving up 91 points, to say the least,” the 58-year-old coach said. “I was frustrated at the end, and I did the smartest thing I’ve ever done with my team and told them I wasn’t going to say much. Because right now, I’m a little too frustrated.”

Yeah, coach — what a horrible performance.

Look, Roy Williams is too good a coach and North Carolina is too experienced — they returned all but third-string guard Quentin Thomas and backup forward Alex Stephenson from last year’s Final Four rotation — to allow midseason defensive frustrations to carry into the stretch run. This team has more talent than any other in the country, despite injuries to lockdown defender Marcus Ginyard and 7-foot freshman Tyler Zeller and the suspension of reserve guard William Graves.

Whether they want to hear it or not, and with all regards to Duke and Connecticut and Pittsburgh and Oklahoma, North Carolina is the best team I’ve seen this year in college basketball. And, if you’re wearing Carolina blue, that’s something truly worth a standing ovation. ajosephdbk@gmail.com

ACC parity toughens slate ACC, from Page 10 significant win against Duke or North Carolina to create some momentum, the Terps rebounded from their blown 13-point lead against the Cavaliers right away.

“We could have hung our heads after the UVA game,” coach Brenda Frese said. “It just says a lot about the character and the competitiveness that we have on this team — that we were willing to bounce back in three days and battle like we did.”

Guard Kristi Toliver’s presence in the postgame press conference after both the loss on Friday night and the win Monday night displayed the full range of emotions the Terps went through in that span.

After losing to Virginia, Toliver looked drained of energy at the podium, giving a brief answer to a question before gazing into space.

After the win on Monday, Toliver was back to her usual engaging self, smiling and joking with reporters.

Toliver’s renewed spirit was not just due to her gamewinning buzzer beater, but also because she realized the Terps could ill afford a second consecutive conference loss.

“It was a big game for us; we knew that just coming off our loss versus UVA,”

Toliver said. “We knew that Florida State was undefeated in the league, coming off a big win against Duke, and we had our work cut out for us.”

Florida State’s assumption of the target role, and the Terps’ position as the underdog going into the game, were both signs of just how much the ACC has improved.

“They were the ones screaming and jumping onto the court,” said Seminole senior guard Mara Freshour, referring to the Terps’ celebration after the referees confirmed Toliver’s 3pointer was let go before the buzzer. “In my time here, Maryland has never done that. If they beat us, they’re not surprised. They’re not excited.”

Frese said she actually enjoys the emergence of teams like Florida State, Virginia, Georgia Tech and Boston College. The Eagles currently share third place in the standings with the Terps, and all four of those teams have been ranked or received votes in the AP Poll.

“The league’s been fun,” Frese said. “There’s great balance and great depth. On any given night, anyone can beat anyone every game from here on out. There are no easy games left on our schedule.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

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Tar Heels hit 16 shots from beyond the arc

After struggling against Virginia, guard Kristi Toliver bounced back with the game-winning 3-pointer against Florida State on Monday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps rebound from tough loss

BY AARON KRAUT Senior Staff Writer

After the Terrapin women’s basketball team lost to No. 17 Virginia last Friday night, it seemed the improved depth of the ACC could put a serious damper on the Terps’ season.

Monday night’s looming matchup with No. 15 Florida State, who at the time were 6-0 in the conference and alone in first place, put the Terps’

chances of competing for the league’s top spot in serious doubt before having even reached the midway point of their ACC schedule.

But the No. 13 Terps (174, 5-2 ACC) proved that the conference’s depth can be a positive as well as a negative with Monday’s 72-71 win in Tallahassee, Fla. Instead of having to wait for an opportunity for a

BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

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ith eight minutes and 19 seconds remaining in North Carolina’s dominant win against the Terrapin men’s basketball team last night, the Dean Smith Center crowd stood in applause.

The play was a pretty one — an alley-oop dunk for Tar Heel forward Danny Green from center Tyler Hansbrough. But the rousing ovation wasn’t just for one highlight-reel dunk.

The Tar Heel faithful were watching something truly worth cheering for, a team capable of win- Coach Gary Williams and the Terps couldn’t catch up to the Tar Heels ning a National Championship, on the perimeter last night. North Carolina shot 16-of-25 from 3-point range.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Last night, the No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels put 108 points on the Dean Smith Center scoreboard and essentially told the Terrapins men’s basketball team, “It’s not you, it’s us.”

As in: “Yeah, we’re that good.”

The Terps (14-8, 3-5 ACC) didn’t play poorly like they did two weekends ago in a grotesque 41-point loss at Duke. But, because of a defense that coach Gary Williams said “wasn’t ready to play,” the Terps once again fell to an ACC power.

“We had a couple times where I thought we’d be able to get on a run, but they always made a play,” Williams said.

The Terps’ offense was sharp, scoring a season-high 91 points, as swingmen freshman Sean Please See UNC, Page 8